1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER] 
601 
It Is Up to You! 
When we told you about that $2 that we were going to send to 
club-raisers every day, you thought that you could not get the larg¬ 
est club any way, so let it go. You saw the report last week for 
the first four days. Here is the report for last week : 
August 20. C. S. Spaulding, Connecticut. One Yearly. 
August 21. R. C. Trowbridge, New York. Ten Trials. 
August 22. S. S. Chandler, Wisconsin. Two Yearlies. 
August 23. N. W. Stone, Georgia. One Yearly. 
August 24. R. C. Trowbridge, New York. Twelve Trials. 
August 26. Henry Allen, New York. Three Yearlies. 
When Mr. Trowbridge got his first $2-bill, he writes, he was 
surprised, and went right out and got 12 more, and sent them right 
in. In this way he captured two premiums this week. There is the 
record in plain figures. We are going to keep this up until January 
15 next, no matter what the result. The $2 goes to the largest club 
received each day. Renewals will count just the same as new 
names for all the premiums in this contest. Now it’s up to you for 
a $2 bill. THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
POTATOES.—Market conditions are con¬ 
siderably improved. The low prices of two 
or three weeks ago showed shippers the 
need of going a little slower, and receipts 
have fallen off considerably. The best 
Long Island potatoes are now bringing 
$1.87 per barrel. Prime sweets have also 
advanced. 
PLUMS.—Some shipments of excellent 
quality have been received from nearby 
points recently. Most of them come in 
eight-pound baskets similar to those used 
for grapes. On account of the great va¬ 
riety of other fruits offered, however, they 
do not attract the attention deserved. 
Ruling wholesale prices are 15 to 20 cents 
per basket. 
SOUR GRAPES.—This would be an ap¬ 
propriate label for many that are now seen 
in this max-ket. Consumers who have had 
experience in buying are cautious about 
getting grapes so early in the season, es¬ 
pecially when the black varieties show so 
many red-sided ones. I have seen some of 
the little three-pound baskets offered at 10 
to 15 cents, but nobody seemed to want 
them. There is not much demand for 
grapes until toward the middle of Septem¬ 
ber, when they are thoroughly ripe, and 
the price is within the reach of all. 
USING THE ODDS AND ENDS.—A 
western paper states that a company cap¬ 
italized at $5,000,000 will soon begin opera¬ 
tions near Fresno, Cal, to utilize the vari¬ 
ous wastes and refuse matters of cream¬ 
eries, wineries, and raisin-seeding plants. 
Grape seeds yield oil and tannin; cream of 
tartar may be made from winery refuse, 
and prussic acid from the pits of apricots. 
It is a law of nature that, while the form 
may be changed, not an atom of matter or 
force is destroyed. The efforts of men to 
utilize all these wastes are, in a way, sim¬ 
ply a getting back to the methods of Na¬ 
ture, who puts her waste vegetation under 
pressure and changes it into coal, turns her 
waste carbon into diamonds; and uses the 
idle gravel and sand to filter the water 
which flows from the hillside spring. 
SWEET POTATOES FOR EUROPE.—On 
account of the difficulties in shipping 
across the ocean, but few sweet potatoes 
have been sent from this country to Eu¬ 
rope. They cannot be kept in cold storage, 
extreme dryness and a certain degree of 
warmth being necessary. Last March the 
Department of Agriculture sent a trial 
shipment of 20 barrels of Jersey sweet po¬ 
tatoes to London and Paris. The barrels 
were lined with tar paper to keep out the 
moisture, and each tuber wrapped in light 
parchment paper. Dr. W. H. Wray, In¬ 
spector of the Bureau at London, to whom 
10 barrels were sent, reported that most of 
them arrived in very fair condition. Seven 
barrels were sent to grocery stores in dif¬ 
ferent localities and distributed in small 
parcels to private families, with a request 
for their opinion after trial. Some had 
never eaten sweet potatoes, and did not 
like them at first. The majority, however, 
spoke of them favorably, and Dr. Wray 
thinks that if sweet potatoes are intro¬ 
duced through the proper channels, an ex¬ 
cellent trade may be worked up in the Eng¬ 
lish market. The remaining 10 barrels 
were sent to Wm. M. Taylor, Assistant 
United States Pomologist, who was at the 
Paris Exposition. There was some diffi¬ 
culty in getting the potatoes into France 
at all, as an official decree forbids the im¬ 
portation of America* potatoes. Finally 
an arrangement was made to have them 
entered as yams. The delay of about 15 
days had worked considerable damage to 
the shipment, and many of the tubers were 
rotten. Enough, however, were saved to 
make a fair exhibit, which attracted great 
attention. The French market for novel¬ 
ties in the line of fruits and vegetables is 
said to be excellent, and it is believed that 
if small shipments of prime sweet potatoes, 
packed in such a manner as to ensure ar¬ 
rival in good condition, were made regu¬ 
larly, an excellent business would result. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS’ WOES.— 
“Just look at these pears,” said a fruit 
man. “What the shipper sent them for is 
more than I can tell, unless he has been 
beaten by some scalawag, and has a grudge 
against all commission merchants.” The 
pears (probably 10 bushels) were inferior 
natural fruit, a trifle larger than crab ap¬ 
ples. They would do fairly well for pick¬ 
ling or stewing with molasses if a person 
had no other fruit; but a few go a long 
way, especially in a flush pear season, 
when there is a surplus of really good va¬ 
rieties. To make It still worse these little 
pears were so ripe that many were nearly 
fit for the garbage wagon, and doubtless 
that was where the bulk of them finally 
landed. When this shipper gets the re¬ 
turns, he will make an awful fuss, and de¬ 
clare that he has been swindled, yet the 
commission merchant was one of the most 
responsible dealers in the city. This is 
only one illustration. The same storv in 
other forms might be told every week. It 
is hard to imagine a more contemptible 
scoundrel than a man who will receive the 
goods a farmer has worked hard to pro¬ 
duce and then swindle him out of the 
money they bring; but it is only fair that 
incidents like the above should be men¬ 
tioned to show that receivers are not al¬ 
ways to blame for poor returns. 
STIR UP HOME TRADE.—A New Jersey 
farmer living about 20 miles from New 
York said the other day: “I noticed that 
the grocers in my part of the county all 
send to New York for their potatoes, or 
drive to their market town, sometimes go¬ 
ing 10 miles right through a fine farming 
country to buy these goods. It struck me 
that this market was being neglected, so 
I approached some of these grocers and 
asked them for their potato trade. They 
were glad to make arrangements with me 
to bring potatoes to them in lots of two 
barrels at a time. They agreed to pay the 
market price in New York and 20 cents ad¬ 
ditional, as it cost them about that to 
have the potatoes sent out.” No doubt 
this man’s experience might be duplicated 
by many others if they would just get 
around among their local grocers and see 
what was wanted. There are dozens of 
these little grocery stores scattered through 
the country, and most of them are glad to 
make such arrangements. Cases have been 
reported where farmers have hauled sweet 
corn and cabbage to market a dozen or 15 
miles, and on the way out have met grocers 
from their own county town coming back 
from the city with some of the very pro¬ 
duce that they had hauled out the day be¬ 
fore. There are producers in every locality 
who could work off many of their goods in 
this way, if they would only keep their 
eyes open and make inquiries. w. w. h. 
PROSPECTS FOR POTATOES. 
The potato crop here, up to the present 
time, promises to be fairly good. Early po¬ 
tatoes were damaged by the drought, but 
these will be a good crop of the late va¬ 
rieties; no damage as yet to the late crop. 
Syracuse, N. Y. w. b. stoppard & co. 
The acreage is about the same as last 
year. The condition of growth stands 
higher; while we have had the hottest week 
in many years, we have not had the long 
continued drought of last season. The po¬ 
tato crop is looking very satisfactory here 
at this writing. In Wayne County the crop 
looks poor, uneven stand and small growth. 
The apple crop is a bumper one clear 
through to Lake Ontario, and I have met 
growers who have sold their apples for 10 
cents per bushel on the trees. Cabbage Is 
loking fine, in keeping with apples; sugar 
beets promise a good crop, many being 
grown for the new Lyons factory which is 
nearing completion. c. w. burnett. 
Phelps, N. Y. 
The present outlook is not very encour¬ 
aging. We have had it very wet through¬ 
out the season, therefore the tubers set a 
great many in the hill. Now tiny are rust¬ 
ing quite badly, and there will be a great 
many under-sized tubers that will have to 
go to the factories for starch. 
Maine. the geo. w. p. jerrard co. 
While the crop is better in this locality 
than last year, we hardly think it an aver¬ 
age one. The crop has been shortened 
somewhat by blight, bugs and an imperfect 
stand. The prevailing idea is that the 
price will be low, because the people think 
the crop, to take the country over, will be 
large. geo. w. mace. 
Greenville, Ohio. 
The crop of early potatoes in this vicinity 
is a light one, on account of the drought 
in the fore part of the season. The late 
potatoes bid fair now for an average crop 
if blight does not set in. To sum up, I 
predict that the whole crop, early and late, 
will fall below the average, and this is 
verified by reports of correspondents in 
Oneida County. f. h. Thompson. 
Holland Patent, N. Y. 
The potato crop in this part of the State 
(northwestern Pennsylvania), looks the 
best that It has for a number of years. 
We think now that there will be a full crop 
of late potatoes. With one-third more 
acreage than usual, the crop of early pota¬ 
toes is almost double what it was In former 
years, but the yield has been cut down 
about one-half by the drought we had here 
in May and June, so that it is only an 
average crop now. geo. l. siegel. 
Erie, Pa. _ 
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 
The sixteenth annual convention of this 
Society was held in New York City August 
21-24. A very large attendance was pres¬ 
ent, representing every State in the Union, 
and the Dominion of Canada also. A good 
many women who are actively engaged in 
the trade were present, and there were 
many feminine visitors. The meeting hall 
in the Grand Central Palace was lavishly 
decorated, the celling being masked by oak 
leaves, while the walls and pillars were 
covered with Southern smilax, brightened 
by great bunches of scarlet Gladiolus. 
Niches in the wall were filled with Hy¬ 
drangea and Poker plant (Kniphofla) in 
showy masses. In addition to the regular 
business of the convention, a number of 
interesting addresses were given. The 
legislative committee of the Society is 
working to make express companies pay 
the revenue tax on receipts; to get a par- 
cels-post system; and to obtain a uniform 
freight classification. Through the efforts 
of this committee, the Dominion of Canada 
has exempted greenhouse stock from the 
law's applying to nursery stock, and its in¬ 
spection; efforts are also being maue to 
amend the tariff laws applying to green¬ 
house plants. The Florists’ Hail Associa¬ 
tion reported 934 members, with 13,025,762 
feet of glass insured. 
The trade and horticultural exhibit was 
the finest ever held by the Society. In ad¬ 
dition to the trade exhibit, which included 
plants, cut flowers, seeds, tools, florists’ 
supplies, heating and ventilating appara¬ 
tus, and greenhouse building, there was a 
fine display from private gardens. This 
included magnificent specimen plants, fruit 
trees in pots, vegetables, greenhouse 
grapes and cut flowers. The aquatics 
shown in tanks by the H. A. Dreer Co., of 
Philadelphia, attracted special attention, 
as they always do. 
Two magnificent displays of Gladiolus 
blooms attracted much attention. One was 
by J. L. Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., and 
the other, which captured the certificate of 
merit, by Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y. 
The many fine orchids blooming among the 
different exhibits paled before the splendor 
of the Gladioli and Tritomas when seen in 
such profusion. Space does not permit 
mention of the many showy Gladioli seen, 
but in wmte Lady, exhibited by Mr. 
Cowee, we have a pure white form, free 
from any stain of yellow or purple, and 
possessing size and shape which make it 
far in advance of anything else among so- 
called white Gladiolus, White Lady being 
the only variety so far seen which may 
truly be called white. Among foliage 
plants the beautiful Crotons from Robert 
Craig & Son, Philadelphia, Pa., were a 
revelation to many in fresh and delicate 
beauty. A great collection of geraniums, 
said to be the most extensive in America, 
was shown by the Cottage Gardens of 
Queens, N. Y., and fine Canna blooms by 
Conard & Jones, of West Grove, Pa. The 
horticultural exhibition was quite large 
considering the membership of the con¬ 
vention is made up almost exclusively of 
florists. The fruits and vegetables were 
generally of excellent quality. An enor¬ 
mous bunch of hothouse grapes, weighing 
a fraction less than 10 pounds, was ex¬ 
hibited by the gardens of a Hudson River 
capitalist, and was naturally much ad¬ 
mired. Some shapely plum and Bismarck 
apple trees in pots from the same source 
were well loaded with perfect fruits. Mr. 
Withers, of American Gardening, exhibited 
a cross-bred tomato of much merit, receiv¬ 
ing a certificate of merit. Each yearly con¬ 
vention of the Society of Florists witnesses 
a great increase in the development of the 
business of producing flowers and orna¬ 
mental plants. The amount of capital in¬ 
vested increases by leaps and bounds, as 
well as the number of individuals finding 
employment therein. The next meeting of 
the Society will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., 
in August, 1901. The new president is Pat¬ 
rick O’Mara, of New York; the secretary, 
W. J. Stewart, of Boston, and treasurer, 
H. B. Beatty, of Oil City, Pa., being re¬ 
elected. 
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