1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
393 
Publisher’s Desk. 
On Wecmesday of last week the final 
shipment of roses was made to every¬ 
one who had applied for them up to that 
time. There are some applications 
being made daily since, which will be 
filled promptly. If anyone who applied 
sev ral weeks ago has not received it, 
tnere is an oversight somewhere. Pos¬ 
sibly an occasional one will be lost in 
the mails. If you have made the appli¬ 
cation, and have not received the rose, 
drop us a card at once, and we will see 
that you get one. We want every sub¬ 
scriber for this year to have thib new 
rose, if he care for it. 
Everyone who receives the rose 
should read what was said last week 
about Glass-Grown Plants on page 370. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
IIIGH-PRICED LEMONS—It is said that 
a box of lemons recently shipped to a min¬ 
ing camp in the Alaskan gold fields brought 
over $100—about $1 per lemon. They were 
sold to men who were suffering from 
scurvy. 
CHEAP MILK.—The lowest retail price 
that I have seen made in this city is in a 
Harlem grocery, where two quarts are sold 
for seven cents. The milk is all right, but 
of course, it is not Jersey. This low price 
is made to draw trade, the idea being that 
families which buy their milk there will be 
likely to get groceries also. 
JAPAN AS A COTTON BUYER.—The 
representative of a company operating 80 
cotton mills in Japan is now in this coun¬ 
try. He states that they have found 
American cotton to be the best in the 
world, and that they expect to buy 1,000,000 
bales from us for use during the coming 
season. This will be shipped direct by 
steamers from New Orleans to Japan. 
COTTON.—On May 23 there was a big 
break in the market here. July cotton 
dropped from 9.16 cents to 8.82. There was 
a rush to sell, and not far from 500,000 
bales changed hands. Some of the causes 
of this stampede were more favorable 
crop conditions in various sections, par¬ 
ticularly in Egypt, where the Nile is re¬ 
ported rising, and the dullness in cotton 
goods. 
THE BEST USE FOR A BEER KEG.— 
Two men were engaged in placing a heavy 
stone slab on a step in front of a store in 
this city. It had to be lifted and moved 
three or four feet, and they had no roller 
at hand. An empty beer keg stood in 
front of a saloon nearby. It was borrowed, 
and proved to be just the thing, as on it 
the men were able to turn the stone 
around and move it to the exact place de¬ 
sired. 
PLENTY OF ONIONS.—The largest car¬ 
go ever received from Bermuda, 65,000 
crates, came In this week. This big sup¬ 
ply forced the price down 10 cents at once, 
and a further reduction of five cents was 
. necessary before buyers would take hold 
much, so that most of the sales have been 
made at $1.35 per bushel crate. Large ar¬ 
rivals have also come in from the South, 
and these have dropped in price still more, 
most of them going at $2 to $2.25 per barrel. 
There is no surplus of Egyptian onions, and 
the price remains pi’oportionately high. 
STRAWBERRIES.—Prices have dropped, 
and a good many very fair berries are sell¬ 
ing at 10 cents per quart. Considerable 
poor stuff has been received from North 
Carolina. While good berries have been 
wholesaling at nine cents, some went for 
four, and a portion had to be thrown away 
as unsalable. The heavy rains are re¬ 
sponsible for the poor quality. The North 
Carolina crop did not turn out nearly so 
large as was expected. It is thought that 
the farmers who shipped here direct have 
made a fair profit, but some of the specu¬ 
lators who bought up the last lots have 
lost heavily. 
OATS WASTED.—Most of the city truck 
horses eat their noon meal with their head 
in a bag and their harness on. The prin¬ 
cipal feed Is oats, and enough are wasted 
each day to keep a farmer’s team for some 
time. I have seen two quarts wasted by 
a single horse. A nose bag is not a con¬ 
venient thing to eat from. It works well 
for a few mouthfuls, and then the most 
natural thing for a horse to do is to give 
his head a toss to throw the oats within 
reach. The grain then flies out of the bag, 
and lies around the street until it is swept 
up and carted away with other garbage. 
Some horses are worse than others about 
this, and often the trouble is in the way 
the driver fastens on the bag. One ex¬ 
plained to me how by tying the string well 
down on the back of the neck, six inches or 
more behind the ears, the motion of the 
neck in eating would gradually work up 
the bag so as to keep the oats within 
reach. 
THE WOOL TRADE is generally dull. 
There is a somewhat better feeling than 
for some time, yet dealers are cautious. 
Holders are rather more confident, believ¬ 
ing that bottom prices for the season have 
been reached. The demand for carpet 
wools has been constantly increasing. Bet¬ 
ter prices are obtained, and the outlook is 
favorable. The attendance at the London 
auction sales continues good. English and 
Continental buyers are taking most of the 
offerings, but American representatives 
have been buying occasionally, in some 
cases paying a slight premium for stock 
specially wanted. The mills show no dis¬ 
position to raise prices by stocking up 
heavily, and are taking only what they re¬ 
quire for immediate needs. 
THE CANADIAN FISHERIES employ 
nearly 100,000 men, and the value of the 
boats, nets and other fishing implements is 
nearly $10,000,000. The lobster industry 
employs 16,000 men, and comprises over 800 
canneries. The government is making 
plans to aid the fishing industry by estab¬ 
lishing cold storage places along the coast 
where fresh bait may be kept. The fisher¬ 
men often have difficulty in getting proper 
bait when it is most needed, and it is 
hoped that this new arrangement will be 
of great service. The government appro¬ 
priates half the amount of money neces¬ 
sary, and the local associations furnish 
the remainder. Each association has a 
certain number of shares, and is entitled 
to a proportionate amount of bait. 
JUNE BUTTER.—For flavor and keep¬ 
ing qualities this is usually supposed to be 
the best of the season, and there is always 
more or less speculative interest shown in 
it by dealers here. Last year the condi¬ 
tions for speculative buying were favor¬ 
able. Over 250,000 tubs were received dur¬ 
ing the month, and the prevailing price 
was 18 cents. Afterward the shortage in 
the English market, owing to droughts and 
other causes which cut short the Austra¬ 
lian and Continental supply, made a big 
demand for American butter, and good 
prices for dealers. The conditions are en¬ 
tirely different this year. There is said 
to be plenty of Australian butter in cold 
storage, and there are no signs of a 
scarcity on the Continent. With 20 cents 
as the ruling price, there is not much to 
encourage buying for storage. Of late 
considerable butter has passed out of the 
hands of the wholesale trade here, as many 
retail grocers dealing largely in eggs and 
dairy supplies now send buyers to the pro¬ 
ducers, and thus get their supplies direct. 
They are sometimes able to pay the pro¬ 
ducers more than they get through the 
jobbers, and still get their own stock at a 
lower figure. _ w. w. h. 
THE MILK SITUATION. 
There has been a lively week in the milk 
market. Mr. Wm. Graves, the agent of 
the Five States Milk Producers’ Associa¬ 
tion, endeavored to secure the price for 
milk demanded by the farmers. An 
amount of milk variously estimated at 
from 1,200 to 2,600 cans was held back by 
members of the Association. The dealers 
endeavored to overcome this by shipping 
milk from Philadelphia and from other 
places, and also borrowing from the con- 
denserles. Some of the condenserles ship¬ 
ped their milk directly to the market in 
order to beat the farmers. Both sides 
claim a partial victory, but the dealers 
say that they have had no trouble in ob¬ 
taining their usual supply of milk, al¬ 
though it is evident there was a shortage 
on several days. On the other hand, it is 
claimed that the dealers were forced to 
pay two cents a quart, or the farmers’ 
price, for much of the milk they did re¬ 
ceive. Of course, if the farmers again be¬ 
gin shipping to the city, the dealers will 
be able to buy at their own figure. The 
Five States Milk Producers’ Association 
met at Binghamton on May 23, holding the 
largest meeting with the largest attend¬ 
ance they have ever had. After much dis¬ 
cussion, the following resolution was 
adopted: o VSVS- 
“Resolved, That the state committee be 
given until July 1 to make a satisfactory 
sale of the Association’s milk. In case 
they do not succeed by July 1, the commit¬ 
tee is to notify the producers and New 
York dealers that unless the price agreed 
upon by the Five States Milk Producers’ 
Association be accepted by August 1, the 
milk will be withheld from the market.” 
This we think is just the right course to 
take. The dealers are given two months’ 
notice, and unless proper arrangements 
can be made in that time, if the farmers 
hold their milk away from this market, 
they will certainly carry their point. In 
the meantime, they can make arrange¬ 
ments with the creameries and cheese fac¬ 
tories, to use the milk, in case they decide 
not to ship to the city. This we believe 
to be just the plan for the farmers to 
\J 
adopt. All these efforts, while seemingly 
defeats, are mere skirmishes, and they 
show to the farmers that they must get 
together with ways and means for hand¬ 
ling their milk. Let them once get con¬ 
trol of it, with some way of turning it to 
account, in case they decide to hold it 
away from the city, and they will certain¬ 
ly succeed in getting a fair price for it. 
We may state here that Price, McCormick 
& Co., the firm of brokers that was back 
of tho Pure Milk Company, failed last 
week in consequence of the drop in the 
price of cotton. They were rated at be¬ 
tween $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. This con¬ 
cern was to furnish the money to float tho 
Pure Milk Company. All these things go 
to show that the way out for the milk 
farmers is eventually to take hold of this 
matter themselves, and run it with their 
own capital, and thus control the business 
for their own interest. They may be 
obliged to start in a comparatively small 
way, but let them once get a footing in the 
city, and they can build up a business that 
will control the market, and yield to the 
man on the farm a much fairer share of 
his milk money than he now obtains. 
An exchange says that for personal ap¬ 
plication a porous plaster takes the lead. 
David Harum.— Many who have read 
this book will be interested in the follow¬ 
ing statement made by D. Appleton & Co. 
“David Ilarum is now selling in its 425th 
thousand. To print that number of copies 
5,000 pounds of ink have been consumed, 
about 1,900 miles of thread have been used 
in the binding, and 5,865 reams of paper, 
weighing 87 pounds a ream, have been 
needed for the books. The 425,000 copies 
represent 2,932,500 papermakers’ sheets, 
each measuring 30^x41 inches. If placed 
end to end the books would extend over a 
horizontal route for about 50 miles. If 
placed one upon the other they would 
make a tower seven miles high.” 
Speaking of the suggestion of some one 
that farmers should organize for the pur¬ 
pose of securing legislation in their inter¬ 
est, and that the cities should take the 
matter up and help the farmers and thus 
help themselves, Texas Farm and Ranch 
says that, if farmers wait for help from 
any commercial center, the millennium 
and help will probably arrive on the same 
train. Also, that the cities don’t know 
on which side their bread is buttered, 
and it seems to be hard to teach them, 
as they want nothing to do with outsiders 
unless they come with bags of money in 
their hands; that, while an agricultural 
association would not be prohibited from 
meeting in a city, they would find no co¬ 
operation from the citizens, but that if 
they have any money to spend it will be 
gladly received, as that is what city peo¬ 
ple seem to think the Lord made farm¬ 
ers for. 
W I had female trouble for eight 
years,” writes Mrs. L. J. Dennis, of 
828 East College St., Jacksonville, 
Ills. w Words cannot express what I 
suffered. I sought relief among the 
medical profession and found none. 
Friends urged me to try Dr. Pierce’s 
Favorite Prescription. When I com¬ 
menced taking this medicine I weigh¬ 
ed. ninety-five pounds. Now I weigh 
one hundred and fifty-six pounds— 
more than I ever weighed before. I 
was so bad I would Tie from day to 
day and long for death to come and 
relieve my suffering. I had internal 
inflammation, a disagreeable drain, 
bearing down pain, and such distress 
every month but now I never have 
a pain—do all my own work and am 
a strong and healthy woman.” 
®ick women are invited to consult Dr. 
Pierce by letter free. Correspondence pri¬ 
vate. Address Dr. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
NEW YORK. 
