1900 
Publisher’s Desk. 
We have a number of applications for 
the new rose that will not be filled for 
about two or three weeks. The plants 
need a little more growth before remov¬ 
ing, and those who have not yet re¬ 
ceived it will please suspend anxiety, 
and it will reach them a little later. 
There are enough to supply all who have 
yet applied. 
I should like to have every man and 
boy who wants a good strong watch to 
carry on the farm or at other rough 
work, look up that 75 cent watch offer 
on page 344. It is the greatest bargain 
ever offered in a watch. You can get it 
only for the month of May at these 
terms. 
“I consider The R. N.-Y. the best farm 
paper,” a bright young farmer said to 
me last week. “Do you read it now?” 
“No.” “How is that?” “Well, a fellow 
came around and wanted me to take the 
-. I did it to help him. Then I 
had two. I did not want both. When 
The R. N.-Y. run out it stopped. The 
other kept coming, and I let it go by de¬ 
fault. I liked The R. N.-Y. because it 
is always reliable. The other is pretty 
fakey, and meanly printed, but it is hard 
to get it stopped.” I have done some 
mighty hard thinking over that con¬ 
versation since. I want to find a way to 
prevent that “fakey, meanly-printed” 
paper from stealing one of our custom¬ 
ers, who really prefers to remain with 
us. A neighbor of the young farmer, 
who overheard the conversation, has 
been a life-long subscriber of The R. 
N.-Y., and while subject to the same 
temptation, resisted it. He yet reads his 
favorite. There are probably many 
others like our young friend. Our prob¬ 
lem is to prevent their being led astray. 
How shall we do it? Are we too strict 
in cutting off names when time expires? 
It pleases some and displeases others. It 
evidently loses some, like the young man 
referred to above, who have no strong 
preferences either way. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
EGYPTIAN ONIONS.—The steamer Bo- 
vic, from Liverpool, England, recently 
brought 1,787 bags of onions from Egypt. 
They are quoted in the market here at 
$2.50 to $2.75 per bag wholesale. 
POISON BY THE WHOLESALE.—It is 
interesting to note the variety and quan¬ 
tity of odd stuff that comes to the large 
storage warehouses. I recently noticed 100 
small barrels of white arsenic from Eng¬ 
land awaiting storage at one of those 
places. 
A BIG CORK DEAL.—It is said that a 
cork manufacturing firm in Pittsburg, Pa., 
has an order from a western brewing com¬ 
pany for 100,000,000 corks. The value of 
these corks at the factory will be not far 
from $450,000, and nearly two years will be 
required to fill the order. 
MINNESOTA FLOUR TRADE.—This 
great industry has been practically built 
up within the past 30 years, and less than 
50 years ago there was but little wheat 
grown in Minnesota for grinding purposes. 
Last year the Minneapolis mills made over 
14,000,000 barrels of flour, 4,000,000 of which 
were shipped to foreign countries. In 1870 
the best flour was made in Hungary, 
Europe. One of the proprietors of the first 
Minneapolis mill went to Europe to study 
up the matter. On his return he directed 
the erection of the largest flouring mill in 
the world. & 
SHORT SMALL-FRUIT PACKAGES.- 
Some shippers are living up to the strict 
letter of this law, which went into effect 
January 1, 1900. I saw one lot of straw¬ 
berry baskets holding less than a pint 
marked ‘’Short” in black letters three- 
quarters of an inch long. All that the 
law requires is one-half inch. A good 
many short baskets offered for sale are not 
marked. Of course, these are all straw¬ 
berries now, most of them in original pack¬ 
ages from the South, and the general 
opinion seems to be that the law is not 
binding on them. In many cases where 
the word “Short” is printed .on the basket, 
the marks are concealed by those who of¬ 
fer them for sale, and some are marked 
on the edges so illegibly that no one would 
know what it was intended for. Until 
small fruits grown and packed in this State 
come into market, it will be difficult to get 
a very definite idea as to just how this law 
is going to work, and there seems to be 
some doubt as to who has the authority to 
enforce it. 
COLD STORAGE OF CELERY.—A read¬ 
er wishes to know whether celery can be 
kept for any length of time in this way. 
Dealers here say that large quantities of 
it are stored in refrigerators. The process 
is not much different from handling apples 
or other fruits. The temperature is kept 
about two degrees above freezing. Of 
course, the length of time that celery can 
be kept in this manner will depend largely 
upon the quality. The tips of the leaves 
will dry up and the appearance will be in¬ 
jured more or less anyway. It could not 
be expected to save so long as apples, and 
should be watched quite carefully. 
FISH FROM LAKE ERIE.—The United 
States Fish Commission reports that the 
number of men employed in the fisheries 
on this lake alone is 3,728, and that the 
total capital, including the value of shore 
property, is $2,710,654. The yield of fish 
from Lake Erie during the past year was 
58,393,364 pounds, valued at $1,150,890. There 
were seven times as many herring taken 
as any other one kind. Next In order 
came Blue pike, carp, perch, sauger, white- 
fish and catfish, about 67,000 pounds of tur¬ 
tles and 1,000 pounds of frogs. In the local 
market shad have been very plentiful this 
season. Large ones have been retailing at 
25 cents each, and I have seen some very 
fair-looking ones sold from the peddlers’ 
wagons on the street for 10 cents. 
ROUGH ON THE COTTON GROWERS. 
—Bagging and hoops, two necessary fac¬ 
tors in marketing cotton, are so thoroughly 
controlled by combines that the growers 
must either pay advanced prices for these 
two materials or use some substitute. 
Heretofore there have been numerous com¬ 
petitors in both lines, but this year one 
concern practically controls the bagging 
and another the ties. The price of the 
bagging has already been raised 2% cents 
per yard, and a further Increase is expect¬ 
ed in a month. The cost of hoops has 
more than doubled. These combines know 
that the cotton farmers have been more 
than usually prosperous the past season, 
and seem determined to put on the screws 
as tightly as possible. 
LIVE STOCK.—The total receipts for the 
first three days of this week were 6,365 
cattle, 201 cows, 14,155 calves, 16,325 sheep, 
and 20,249 hogs. Trade in steers and fat 
cows was active. Steers sold at $4.80 to 
$5.55; bulls, $3 to $4.15, and cows, $2 to $4. 
There were some miserable specimens of 
cows, both dry and milch, and it is a mys¬ 
tery why people send such animals to 
market. I saw some that were not much 
but skin and bones, and so weak that it 
seemed as though a good gust of wind 
would blow them over, and others with 
the hair nearly all off through vermin or 
some skin disease. The demand for calves 
was fair, and the pens were cleared. Veals 
sold at $3.50 to $5.60, with a few extra choice 
lots as high as $6.25 to $6.50. Little calves 
and buttermilks brought $2.50 to $3.75. Com¬ 
mon to choice sheep with wool brought 
$4.50 to $6; clipped, $3.50 to $5. Lambs with 
wool sold at $6 to $7.75; clipped, $5 to $7. 
A lot of Maryland Spring lambs brought 
$5.25 per head. The market for live hogs 
was weak. State were quoted at $5.75, and 
western mixed $5.45 to $5.60. w. w. h. 
and prosecute the oleo rogues. If they do 
this they will quickly stop the fraudulent 
business, and the whole thing will have a 
strong effect upon National legislation. 
Subscribers are inquiring whether I. T. 
Hunter & Co., produce dealers, of Duane 
and Washington Sts., New York City, are 
reliable. The firm is sending circular let¬ 
ters to farmers offering to buy all your 
eggs and all your butter at a fixed price- 
no commission. I. T. Hunter recently went 
through bankruptcy proceedings. We have 
refused advertising from the house with 
which he was formerly connected, and 
would certainly ship him no goods unless 
after receiving cash in advance for his or¬ 
ders. 
Congressmen Need Attention.— The fol¬ 
lowing Congressmen seem to need attention 
from their constituents. They are mem¬ 
bers of the Ways and Means Committee 
of the House of Representatives: John 
Dalzeli, Pittsburg, Pa.; Albert J. Hopkins, 
Aurora, Ill.; Chester I. Long, Hutchinson, 
Kans.; Samuel W. McCall, Winchester, 
Mass.; George B. McClellan, New York 
City; Francis G. Newlands, Reno, Nev.; 
Sereno E. Payne, Auburn, N. Y.; James 
D. Richardson, Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Claude 
A. Swanson, Chatham, Va.; O. W. Under 
wood, Birmingham, Ala. A short time ago 
Representative Tawney, of Minnesota, of¬ 
fered a resolution asking the Secretary of 
the Treasury to tell the public just what 
ingredients are used in making bogus but¬ 
ter. It has been claimed that inferior fats 
produced at the stockyards are worked 
over and smuggled into the factories where 
this stuff is made. Formerly it was 
claimed that only the very best of fats 
were used for this purpose. It is said 
that this inferior stuff is used on the sly. 
I'he honest butter people wanted to know 
just what the manufacturers claimed for 
their product, and they called for this of¬ 
ficial statement. The Ways and Means 
Committee refused to consider it, and they 
thus rendered themselves liable to the sus¬ 
picion that they are in favor of oleo. Their 
farmer constituents should lose no time 
in writing to tell them just what they think 
of such business. 
Fruit and Nursery Trade.— If the fruit¬ 
ing trees at the Orange County Nurseries 
at Cornwall, N. Y., are any indication of 
the fruit prospects of the Hudson River 
Valley, that section Is in for a heavy fruit 
crop this season. Peaches, pears, plums 
and cherries show a promise that I never 
observed before. It is early yet to make 
confident predictions, but the prospects at 
the present time are most encouraging 
Pointing to an average-sized tree, Mr. 
Dwyer remarked tnat last year it bore 13 
barrels of marketable Baldwins. I asked 
him whether he sprayed his trees. Every 
tree on the place, he said, had already 
been sprayed. A man was sent right up 
into the tree with a knapsack sprayer, so 
that he could make sure of reaching every 
part of the tree. The trees are carefully 
trimmed, which facilitates this kind of 
work. A day or two around this place 
convinced me, as never before, what a 
difficult task a nurseryman has before him 
at shipping time. Orders have been com¬ 
ing in for months back with instructions 
to ship at a certain time. The weather 
opens up warm a little earlier than these 
customers expected. Hence they revise 
their instructions, and say ship at once. 
In the meantime, other orders are coming 
in by every mail for immediate shipment, 
and still other customers drive in from a 
radius of 2o miles to get some stock and 
carry it back with them. These must be 
attended to at once. 
Oleo in Pennsylvania.— The oleo situa¬ 
tion in Pennsylvania has become even more 
interesting. We have told our readers 
about the investigation made by the North 
American. The State Department of Agri¬ 
culture has been censured because it per¬ 
mitted this business to continue, but Sec¬ 
retary John Hamilton says that the De¬ 
partment has done all it possibly could, 
and will now force the war against the 
oleo dealers. It has been waiting because 
the Superior Court held up a decision on 
what is known as the color law. Suits 
were pending under the law, and until the 
Superior Court, decided nothing could be 
done. The court has now decided that the 
color law is constitutional, and that the 
selling of colored oleo is illegal. This 
clears the matter and the State authorities 
have now nothing to do but to go ahead 
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