1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
569 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, Ntw York 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
POTATOI6S have dropped 25 cents per bar¬ 
rel since last report, and a further decline 
is likely. The nearby crop is being rushed 
in a little too rapidly, and trade at this 
season is rather light on account of so 
many people being out of the city. Sweet 
potatoes, both yellow and red, are selling 
well. 
A RUSH OP ONIONS from Orange 
County has upset the market. On August 
8 the Erie dock was blocked with onions, 
and 15 carloads could not be unloaded for 
lack of room. These conditions, however, 
will soon right themselves, as shipments 
will be held back until this surplus is 
cleaned up. 
PEACHES.—While the daily receipts are 
large, trade has increased so that the mar¬ 
ket keeps cleaned up in fair shape. Georgia 
peaches have advanced, and some from 
Arkansas have sold as high as $2.25 per 18- 
quart crate. The Delaware and Maryland 
crop is now coming in freely. A good many 
are very small, however, and go at 25 to 50 
cents per half-bushel basket. 
A USE FOR EVERYTHING.—Even a 
hole in the sidewalk may make a good ad¬ 
vertising medium. On Duane street, near 
Broadway, there was a cave-in on the 
outer edge of the walk in front of a tobacco 
store. A piece of board was stuck into the 
opening as a temporary warning. On thir 
the cigar man quickly tacked a sign read¬ 
ing: “Don’t Step In Here; Go In The Cigar 
Store.” 
THE TUG BOAT is well named. It is a 
regular kingbird among boats, and does not 
hesitate to take hold of anything afloat. 
I saw one going up the East River, hitched 
between three lighters containing 40 freight 
cars. There were 16 cars of coal, between 
250 and 300 tons, on one lighter, and 12 box 
cars on each of the others; probably 500 
tons of cargo, exclusive of the weight of 
cars and lighters. 
WANTS TO LEARN FARM WORK.—H. 
E. Little, a young man living at 1239 Pacific 
street, Brooklyn, N. Y., has a notice in our 
want column. He wishes to learn how to 
do all sorts of farm work, and expects but 
little pay beyond the experience. Knowing 
something about the poultry business, he 
would be of most service on a place where 
this is made a specialty, yet with enough 
general farming to give him a wide range 
of practical knowledge. The matter is 
mentioned here, as It seems to be of more 
than ordinary interest. Who will help him 
out? 
NO RHEUMATICS THERE.—Some men 
seem able for a long time to dodge the va¬ 
rious infirmities of age. On a down-town 
elevated train in the morning I often see a 
man about 70 years old, a mechanic em¬ 
ployed in the Navy Yard. When the train 
nears his station, he gets out by the gate 
ready to be the first one off. He goes down 
the steps to the street sideways, often two 
at a time; starts off on a run for half a 
block, and then settles down to the stiffest 
kind of a walk for half a mile, sometimes 
passing on the trip 50 people who are going 
the same way. He is in no particular 
hurry; it is merely a habit, and he does 
the same thing day after day. 
GOOD EGGS IN POOR PACKAGES.—In 
the commission house of Wm. II. Cohen & 
Co., who make a specialty of the fancy egg 
trade, attention was called to one 30-dozen 
crate. The eggs were white, perfectly 
clean, of uniform size, and had that pe¬ 
culiar fresh look, showing that they had 
not been laid more than two or three days. 
The crate, however, was made of rough, 
warped lumber, with torn pasteboard par¬ 
titions. The eggs that this shipper sends 
are worthy of better cases. A neat crate 
will not sell mixed or cheap eggs for a big 
price, but it will help draw attention to the 
fancy ones, and thus dispose of them more 
quickly. This is more important than most 
shippers think. Goods in commission 
houses are usually sold from the original 
packages. They are displayed as well as 
possible in the stores. Buyers visit the 
market district and look around until they 
find what they want. An attractive pack¬ 
age often catches the eye and leads to a 
sale. 
THE ATLANTIC BASIN, Brooklyn, is 
an arm of New York Bay near Governor’s 
Island, all enclosed by wharves except a 
small inlet. Here ships from different parts 
of the world load and unload, and a variety 
of products may be seen in just the shape 
that they come from their native countries. 
I saw a large quantity of cork in the rough. 
This is the bark of a species of oak grow¬ 
ing in southern Europe, and comes in bales 
bound with flat iron hoops. The pieces are 
of all sizes, some two feet long and a foot 
wide. The weight of an average bale is 140 
pounds. In contrast with this light stuff 
was a lot of lignum vitae, probably 50 cords, 
about the heaviest wood known. The 
sticks were six inches to a foot in diameter, 
and four to six feet long. Half an inch on 
the outside is white and sappy, and the 
remainder is black, hard as a rock, and al¬ 
most as heavy as iron. There were also 
mahogany logs, 15 to 30 feet long and hewn 
square. An odd sight was a lot of licorice 
root, baled like hay. The pieces, about two 
feet long, were laid lengthwise of the bale, 
and, although handled considerably, there 
was not much waste. Near these wharves 
the Lowry press people have a plant to re¬ 
bale hay for export. This press makes a 
round bale, and puts the hay in about half 
the bulk as usually pressed, thus making 
a saving in freight on shipboard. The 
danger from tire is also much less than in 
the loose square bale. The hay seems to 
be wound up in something the same man¬ 
ner as thread is put on a spool. Pour wires 
are used, running lengthwise of the bale 
instead of around it. In the specimens that 
I saw the stems and heads were pressed 
down as flat as paper, but the hay was not 
torn to pieces nearly so much as one would 
suppose from being handled over from other 
bales and put under such tremendous 
pressure. w. w. h. 
FARMERS AND THE HESSIAN FLY. 
What practical means for preventing the 
ravages of the Hessian fly do farmers of 
your section think of adopting? Frequently 
scientific suggestions do not meet with the 
greatest favor among practical farmers. 
We would like to know what the practical 
men of your community will try to do to 
prevent damage from this pest. 
The wheat crop in this county and also 
adjoining counties this year was almost an 
entire failure, but very little was seeded 
last Fall on account of the extremely dry 
weather. The failure was not attributed to 
the fly, but to drought, at and after seed¬ 
ing and severe weather in March. 
Casey, Ill. w. s. E. 
Three years ago I sowed my wheat Sep¬ 
tember 15, and the fly nearly ruined it. For 
the last two years I have sown late, about 
September 27, with good results. Last year 
two of my neighbors sowed their wheat 
September 12, and lost their crop. This 
year they say they will not sow until the 
last of September. L'Re-sown wheat does 
the best with us. m. l. h. 
Toledo, O. 
Wheat growers here consider that late 
sowing is the best way to head off the Hes¬ 
sian fly. My own experience has been that 
good preparation of the land has a great 
deal to do with the success of the crop, 
whether sown early or late. I make it a 
rule to sow from September 15 to October 
10. I have never had any trouble to speak 
of with the fly. h. h. b. 
Livingston Co., Ill. 
The farmers in this section are adopting 
late sowing as the only means of checking 
the ravages of this pest. Many farmers 
plant as late as September 25 to 30. All 
progressive farmers are interested in what 
the experiment station is doing for us, but 
I find that few know of the experiments 
which are being conducted. I for one will 
watch the experiments with interest. 
Marlboro, Ohio. w. J. v. 
So far as I know the practical wheat 
growers of this community use as pre¬ 
ventive measures against the ravages of 
the Hessian fly, a thorough preparation of 
the soil and late sowing. However, last 
year, these preventive measures failed to 
have any appreciable effect. The sowing 
of early strips of wheat to trap the flies 
has not been practiced much in this sec¬ 
tion, but probably will be the coming sea¬ 
son. w. B. A. 
Otwell, Ind. 
I would myself suggest, first of all, not 
to sow any more wheat than necessarily 
must be for sake of rotation. Second, the 
small acreage I would recommend farmers 
to sow should be manured and fertilized 
very heavily, ground plowed and fitted and 
sow say one bushel per acre about Sep¬ 
tember 1 or before, and let the fly ply his 
vocation on this to about October 1 to 5, 
When I wouhl again plow very deeply and 
fit ground for regular wheat crop. I would 
advise farmers to sow rye for straw for 
farm use. I think if farmers would take 
this course generally a good fight could be 
put up to the fly and its ravages, f. a. b. 
Norwalk, Ohio. 
As near as I can ascertain the farmers 
will try no remedies for the prevention of 
the ravages of the Hessian fly in this vi¬ 
cinity. It is generally agreed that the fly 
does not injure the late-sown wheat as 
much as it does that which is sown early. 
There are several good pieces of wheat in 
this vicinity yielding 22 to 29 bushels per 
acre. They were grown on good soil and 
the land was thoroughly worked and what 
we call firmed, before seeding. The wheat 
failures in this section were caused more 
by poor soil and poor cultivation than by 
the ravages of the fly. The fly destroyed 
more or less grain in every field, whether 
good or poor. Not much thrashing done at 
present; most farmers preferring to thrash 
♦heir wheat and oats at the same time. 
When the wheat yield is good many farm¬ 
ers thrash from the field. Very little wheat 
will be thrashed from the field this year. 
Ravenna, Ohio. k. s. w. 
A western exchange tells of a farmer 
who recently had a whole flock of sheep 
stolen. The thief disposed of them at the 
stockyards. 
The following from Texas Farm and 
Ranch is good advice to general farmers, 
as well as cotton raisers: “Farmers should 
not worry about the square bale vs. round 
bale fight, nor about the nondescript bale 
vs. the standard bale. Let the press- 
makers and the bale-makers fight it out. 
Ultimately the fittest will survive, and that 
is what the cotton grower wants The 
farmers want their cotton to go as directly 
as possible from the farm to the factory. 
passing through as few hands as possible, 
and as few processes as possible, thus cur¬ 
tailing expense of marketing, which the 
producer always pays.” 
A farmer is known by his furrow as 
" the carpenter is known by his chips.” It 
takes a firm hand and a true eye to turn 
a straight furrow. No wonder the farmer 
wears out, spite of exercise and fresh air. 
One day’s work on the farm would tire 
many a trained athlete. And the farmer 
works hardest of all. The first up and 
the last to bed, feeding his team before 
he feeds himseif, his work is practically 
never done. Why does not the farmer 
treat his own body as he treats the land 
he cultivates? He puts back in phos- 
{ ihate what he takes out in crops, or the 
and would grow poor. The farmer 
should put back into his body the vital 
elements exhausted by labor. If he does 
not, he will soon complain of "poor 
health.” The great value of Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery is in its vital¬ 
izing power. It gives strength to the 
stomach, life to the lungs, purity to the 
blood. It supplies Nature with the sub¬ 
stances by which she builds up the body, 
just as the farmer supplies Nature with 
the substances that build up the crops. 
"I write to tell you of the great benefit I re¬ 
ceived from the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med¬ 
ical Discovery,” writes Mr. G. II. Bird, of Byrn- 
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nor work but very little. The little that I ate 
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life was a misery to me. I wrote to Dr. Pierce 
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He advised me to try the * Golden Medical Dis¬ 
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four bottles I felt so well that I went to work; 
but soon got worse, so I again began the use of it 
and used it about eight weeks longer, when I 
was permanently cured.” 
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