1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
777 
Election Week 
favored our club raisers. Six of them 
snatched up $2 each without much effort. 
Here is the record: 
Nov. 5. S. S. Thorniley, O..15 t. 
Nov. 7. Belle Heeter, Pa.5 y. 
Nov. 8. S. H. Dudley, N. J.1 y. 
Nov. 9. S. S. Thorniley. O.lit. 
Nov. 10. G. Guenther, N. J.2 y. 
Now that the election is over and 
affairs are settling - down to a regular 
business basis, we expect our friends to 
take hold of this work with more energy. 
The weather, too, from this time on will 
he more favorable for the work. Take 
hold now before the December rush. 
Some confusion seems to exist about 
the Ruby Queen rose for this year. We 
have no stock to send out now. This is 
not the time to send it, if we had. Orders 
are booked as fast as received, and plants 
will be sent out April next Application 
for it must be made when ordering sub¬ 
scription. Yearly subscribers who did 
not have one last year are entitled to it. 
Application for it may be made to the 
club-raiser. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
New York 
MARKET BRIEFS . 
Picked Up Here and There, 
INSURANCE NOTES.—For the month of 
October the total reported losses by fire in 
the United States amounted to $6,094,000. 
The heaviest loss was from the explosion 
in the Tarrant building in New York— 
$750,000. Next comes a shoe factory at 
Williamsport, Pa., $300,000. There are nine 
other losses ranging from $100,000 to $275,000, 
and 80 running from $20,000 to $90,000. The 
total losses since January 1, 1900, amount 
to over $140,000,000, an excess of $30,000,000 
over the same period last year. 
FRUITS.—There is a good steady busi¬ 
ness going on in apples. Extra grades are 
not at all plentiful. I have seen but few 
choice quinces. Most that are offered go 
for $1 to $1.75 per barrel, and some of the 
little scrubby ones received here are not 
worth these prices. Second-quality grapes 
are going slowly and at low prices. 
Choice Catawbas are rather weak, but 
the conditions for fancy lots of other sorts 
are quite favorable. People who wish to 
remove the seeds from grapes shun Cataw¬ 
bas on account of the extreme toughness 
of the pulp, and this limits their sale de¬ 
cidedly so long as there are plenty of the 
other varieties, like Niagara, Salem or 
ripe Concord, in which the seeds are 
easily separated from the pulp. 
EXPORT NOTES.—The value of the 
exports from the port of New York for 
the week ending November 6, was $9,800,000. 
More than one-third went to Great Brit¬ 
ain and British possessions; to ports of 
Germany, $1,700,000; to states of South and 
Central America, about $500,000, and to 
Cuba, $398,000. Among the larger items 
noted other than grain are 1,136,508 pounds 
of bacon and 213,690 of cheese to Liverpool; 
364,800 gallons of petroleum, and 67,800 
pieces of roofing slate to Australia; 7,665 
pounds of whalebone, and 89,375 pounds of 
oil cake to Havre, France; 39,904 cases of 
dried fruit, 83,638 bushels of flaxseed, and 
33,000 pounds of cottolene to Hamburg, 
Germany; 309,445 pounds of lard, and 110,472 
pounds of bacon to Cuba, and 11,089 pounds 
of codfish and 332,426 pounds of wax to 
Mexico. 
THANKSGIVING POULTRY.—Shippers 
should remember that all poultry for 
Thanksgiving week ought to be here on 
Monday, in order to catch the best trade. 
Retailers begin to stock up the first of the 
week, and, unless there happens to be a 
scarcity, which is not usual at Thanks¬ 
giving time, late shipments' are likely to 
be left over. The chief call is for prime, 
medium-weight turkeys. Those weigh¬ 
ing 10 or 11 pounds, or a trifle over, sell 
the best. There is also some demand for 
extra large turkeys for presents, but this 
item does not cut much of a figure in the 
market. Also there are many who prefer 
chicken to turkey, so there is usually a 
good sale for prime chickens for this holi¬ 
day. If the weather happens to be cool 
and dry, scalded poultry will sell all right, 
though dry-picked is preferable, as it is 
not so likely to get sticky and become 
mussy in appearance from handling. In 
regard to packing and preparing for mar¬ 
ket, it is always best to get definite in¬ 
structions from the dealer to whom one 
proposes to ship, as different markets have 
various requirements. There are a few 
general rules, however, that hold good in 
nearly all places. Don’t mix the turkeys; 
put the prime in one package, the second 
quality in another, and let the others live' 
and have a chance to get fat for the later 
holidays. Where one is shipping quite a 
large quantity, it will usually pay to put 
the hens and toms in separate packages; 
turkeys generally come out in the best 
shape when packed in boxes; care in 
handling to avoid bruising the birds, and 
neatness in packing are absolutely neces¬ 
sary if the highest prices are to be ob¬ 
tained. Every year there are people who 
race the poultry around and make as 
much fuss in killing it as though they 
were hunting wildcats; chunks of skin are 
pulled off in picking; it is slung into some 
old box that has been kicking around the 
barn for a year, possibly with a lot of 
phosphate sacks piled on it; gets to mar¬ 
ket in such miserable shape that it cannot 
be sold at a fair price; and then the ship¬ 
per raises a terrible row, placing the blame 
everywhere except where it belongs—on 
his own carelessness. This is no exagger¬ 
ation. While such recklessness is not 
common, there are enough cases each year 
to make it necessary to call attention to 
the matter. The weather thus far has 
been too warm to fatten Thanksgiving 
poultry to advantage, and the reports are 
that there will be an unusual quantity of 
inferior stuff offered. A number of poul- 
trymen are prophesying that the top price 
for Thanksgiving turkeys will not exceed 
12 cents. No great dependence is to be put 
on this, however, as there may be decided 
changes in conditions during the next two 
weeks, and what is least expected often 
occurs in the market for perishable prod¬ 
ucts. w. w. H. 
LONG ISLAND NOTES. 
City Lots in the Wilderness.— For 40 
miles or more in the central part of the 
Island the railroad runs through a deso¬ 
late-looking section of white sand and 
gravel, covered with scrub oak and pine. 
Here and there Is a little settlement like 
an oasis, and between these places are oc¬ 
casional clearings, where some venturesome 
man has built a house, but the trip as a 
whole would not suggest that one was 
very near to the second largest city in the 
world. Considerable of this wilderness 
has been laid out in city lots, showing the 
great faith of some people in the future 
of New York. It Is amusing to see, 40 
miles east of Brooklyn, posts bearing the 
names of streets and avenues sticking up 
among the scrub oaks, and many of the 
signs are hidden by the bushes. 
Employment for Lunatics.— On an ele¬ 
vation a little toward the south the Nassau 
County insane asylum Is seen. Some of 
the harmless lunatics, instead of being 
confined, as they would have to be in an 
institution in the city, are allowed to 
amuse themselves about the grounds. 
There are a lot of dirt wheelbarrows and 
a big heap of gravel, which they move 
around as they see fit. They do this in 
the forenoon, and passers-by later In the 
day may see them sitting around to rest 
after their work. Of course, it does not 
amount to anything. If regular work were 
given to an insane person he would be 
just as likely to spoil it as to do it prop¬ 
erly, but it gives them something to do, 
and there is no doubt that some of these 
unfortunates who have lost their minds 
through business difficulties or excessive 
mental labor, have forgotten their troubles 
for a time at least, and perhaps been per¬ 
manently benefited. 
A Wholesale Cemetery.— A company 
with large ideas bought some of this bar¬ 
ren land and laid out two or three ceme¬ 
teries. Their scheme was to get cheap 
rates on the railroad and run funeral 
trains from the city. The expense of get¬ 
ting there is too great, however, and the 
plan has not yet been successful. It is only 
a matter of time, though, when the grave¬ 
yards now surrounding New York and 
Brooklyn will either have to be moved or 
their growth checked, and this long-dis¬ 
tance cemetery plan may work after all. 
Deer Hunting.— It is supposed that there 
are a few deer left in the wilderness in the 
central part of the Island. Railroad men 
tell about seeing them cross the tracks, 
and every year there is a batch of reports 
about the damage done to the crops. Of 
course the farmers dare not shoot them, 
and they are said to become so bold as to 
go into the kitchen in the absence of the 
housewife and help themselves to eatables 
from the table. When the three days of 
open season come, the hunters from far 
and near hasten to the Island. After load¬ 
ing up with beer and other similar stuff 
at the saloons, which are well equipped for 
thirsty hunters, and make their annual 
harvest at this time, some get into such 
a condition that they cannot tell a deer 
from a man, and blaze away at anything 
that moves. Hence it usually happens that 
more men are shot than deer. 
Pickles and Kraut.— Through the fertile 
places in the central section the cueumber 
pickle business has been a great industry, 
but the vines blight so badly that there is 
not much chance of getting a fair crop 
unless thorough spraying is practiced. If 
some chemical genius would invent a plan 
for charging the atmosphere with copper 
sulphate, so that It would rain Bordeaux 
Mixture about once a week during the 
growing season, he would have a first 
mortgage on the gratitude of the farmers. 
Where cucumbers are scarce the salting 
houses have gone into the sauerkraut busi¬ 
ness, and I saw numerous loads of cabbage 
waiting their turn to be transformed into 
that wholesome, if somewhat malodorous, 
food product. 
The Indian’s Legacy.— The red men who 
formerly lived on Long Island will long be 
remembered on account of the astonishing 
names of many of the towns. A few of 
the more striking examples are: Quogue, 
Potunk, Nissaquag, Aquebogue, Ronkon- 
koma, Pattersquash, Ketcaboneck and 
Arshamomaque. w. w. h. 
HUSKING CORN IN LARGE FIELDS. 
The usual method is the old way, gath¬ 
ering as soon as dry enough to crib. 
After several frosts, or if the weather 
should be very dry. it is ready sooner than 
if wet and frosty. Corn is hauled direct to 
cribs, except when husking fodder; it is 
sometimes thrown on the ground and 
hauled after In a more convenient time. 
The general rule is that as soon as it can 
be cribbed without any molding it is gath¬ 
ered. Most of the stalks are left in the 
field, and the stock turned in when the 
ground is dry or frozen, the latter if grain 
is sown in the corn. Many cut up for fod¬ 
der, particularly in seasons when the hay 
crop is scarce, and some put In silos; not 
many of them about here. A good hand 
is supposed to husk and crib 70 to 80 bush¬ 
els of good corn in a day. No shredders 
in this vicinity; only one was ever used, 
and it was dispensed with after one sea¬ 
son’s work. Cost too much to get corn 
cut and husked over the old way. The 
general method is to have three hands to 
a wagon. Two take the two standing rows 
on each side of the wagon, and one takes 
the down row. Many have an extra man 
to drive in and unload, and return team, 
having two teams and two wagons; this 
is the most satisfactory way. 
All corn Is divided in the row; five rows 
each if rented on grain rent, taking the 
rows as they come, long or short. The 
general way is to let in hogs to eat the 
shelled corn and corn on the ground, 
horses and cattle eating nubbins and 
blades. In the Spring, when the ground is 
frozen quite hard, a team is used to break 
the remaining stalks by putting a horse 
to each end of the pole; this snaps them 
off close to the ground. Some use a cut¬ 
ter. and all is plowed under. When this 
is not done the stalks are at plowing time 
raked and burnt. This "is the most com¬ 
mon method in this vicinity; not that it is 
always the best, but the quickest way to 
get rid of them, so as to get to planting 
early. Most of the corn is fed to cattle 
and hogs; some taken to elevators. A good 
season averages 60 to 80 bushels per acre; 
poor seasons as low as 15 to 30 bushels. 
Preston, O. _ c. h. s. 
Improving Railroaders.— The Seaboard 
Air Line Railroad runs from Norfolk, Va., 
down through North Carolina and Georgia. 
It is quite a famous outlet for the cotton 
and other products produced in the Gulf 
States, but It runs through a section much 
of which is dry and barren. For miles 
along this road the country is thinly popu¬ 
lated, with but little produce for export. 
This railroad has tried to induce emi¬ 
grants to settle along its line, but a good 
deal of the territory that it passes through 
is not attractive in its present shape to 
northern people. It seems certain that the 
population could not be largely increased, 
and so the railroad turned its attention to 
the work of improving and increasing the 
natural products of the country. Travel¬ 
ing libraries and schools were organized, 
and excellent specimens of the different 
breeds of live stock were purchased, and 
sent along the line to various places, for 
the benefit of farmers. In some cases a 
special train is sent through the country 
carrying speakers and specimens of good 
farm products. When the train stops at 
some wayside station, a meeting is or¬ 
ganized, the farmers frequently traveling 
miles to attend’it. The speakers talk in 
plain and simple language to the farmers, 
and their families, and usually a picnic or 
barbecue is gotten up as a feature of the 
meeting. Breeding animals of well-known 
breeds are driven from place to place along 
the road, and are, we understand, largely 
patronized by the farmers. During the 
past few months the railroad has actually 
added poultry to its traveling stock, and 
we are told that the cattle as well as the 
farms along the railroad show distinct evi¬ 
dence of improvement and Increased value. 
It seems to us that this is very effective 
work, well worth the attention of other 
railroads who wish to increase exports 
from farms along their route, and who de¬ 
sire to add to the appearance and value of 
their territory. 
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