1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
793 
Cash Still Begging. 
Here are the reports of clubs for last 
week: 
Nov. 12. S. S. Thornlley, O.12 t. 
Nov. 13. None. 
Nov. 14. Aaron Low, Mass.5 y. 
Nov. 15. Mrs. C. B. Curtis, N. Y.6 y. 
Nov. 16. A. B. Howard, Mass.1 y. 
Nov. 17. Ronson German, Mich.1 y.; It. 
Nothing more need be said. If you 
can find any use for a $2 bill, a little club 
almost any day will secure it. We will 
send samples if you want them. Do you? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
New York. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
JAMAICA ORANGES.—Something over 
10,000 packages were disposed of here this 
week. Most of them come in barrels venti¬ 
lated with auger holes, and the fruit 
wrapped in paper. They are of medium 
size, and wholesale at $6 to $7 per barrel of 
about 250 oranges each. 
HENS ON A STRIKE.—Fresh eggs are 
extremely scarce. Prices have advanced 
two cents per dozen, with indications of a 
still further rise. Egg men say that hens 
in producing sections all over the country 
are moulting about the same time this 
year. This is an unusual thing. Ordi¬ 
narily the hens in different parts of the 
country take their annual vacation at dif¬ 
ferent times, so that the shortage is not 
so noticeable. Holders of cold-storage eggs 
are making a harvest now, and, if the 
market did not have this surplus stock to 
draw on, prices would jump to a wild 
figure. 
SOUTHERN VEGETABLES.—Shipments 
of tomatoes, egg plants, peppers, green 
beans and peas, cucumbers and spinach, 
are coming in from Florida and the Caro- 
linas; but no high prices are received for 
anything except fancy quality, as there is 
still so much northern-grown green stuff 
on hand, and some of the southern pro¬ 
ducts have arrived in such poor shape that 
they scarcely paid freight charges. Com¬ 
mission men here do not generally en¬ 
courage shipments of southern products 
to this market until the latter part of 
November. It gives trade a healthy tone 
to have an actual scarcity of green vege¬ 
tables now and then, as buyers take hold 
so much better afterwards. 
JAPAN PERSIMMONS have been plant¬ 
ed quite largely in Florida and other south¬ 
ern States, and a small quantity of the 
fruit reaches this market. I saw 20 cases 
which were put up in fine shape. There 
were 32 in a case, each wrapped and in a 
separate compartment like eggs in a crate. 
The price asked was 75 cents per case, 
nearly 2^ cents each. Two varieties as to 
shape are noticed, one like a long plum, 
and the other flat like a tomato, which 
they resemble in color. They are much 
larger than our native varieties, some be¬ 
ing three inches in diameter, but the 
quality is inferior. They taste like sweet¬ 
ened mucilage, and are about as sticky. 
It is needless to say that one’s taste must 
be cultivated before he will care much for 
them. They are too soft when ripe to be 
shipped to advantage, and it is doubtful 
whether they would ever sell, except as 
curiosities, in a market where consumers 
are used to apples and other tart fruits. 
NAVAL STORES of tar, pitch, rosin and 
turpentine form an important part of the 
industries of North Carolina and other of 
the pine States of the South. It is said 
that the production for the last year was 
larger than ever before. This was largely 
on account of the number of new places 
established, as the average yield was less 
than usual on account of bad weather. 
For several reasons the business is not so 
profitable as formerly. Barrel supplies are 
higher, and labor scarce. The general re¬ 
ports are that there was unusual difficulty 
in getting sufficient labor properly to at¬ 
tend the trees the past season, on account 
of the increased call for help in the phos¬ 
phate mines. Present wholesale prices are: 
Tar, $2.50 per barrel; rosin, common to 
graded, $1.60 to $1.85, and turpentine, 4” 
cents per gallon. The total stocks of these 
stores on hand at New York and Wilming¬ 
ton, N. C., November 13, were 1,214 barrels 
turpentine; 57,500 barrels rosin, and 1,4:u 
of tar. The British steamship Sirda, which 
recently sailed from Charleston for Liver¬ 
pool, lost in a storm nearly 500 barrels of 
rosin which were piled up on the deck. 
ADULTERATED VINEGAR.—Many peo¬ 
ple seem to be in doubt as to just what 
this means. The New York State law cov¬ 
ering this matter is very strict. It states 
that cider vinegar must be made exclu¬ 
sively from pure apple juice. It must con¬ 
tain 4% P»r cent of acetic acid, and two 
per cent of cider-vinegar solids. A less 
quantity of acid or solids or the presence 
of any other substance In cider vinegar is 
deemed an adulteration. Also, before of¬ 
fering for sale, every barrel or other pack¬ 
age of cider vinegar, must be branded 
with the name and place of business of the 
producer, and the words "Cider Vinegar.” 
Vinegar made from other substances than 
apple juice must test 4% per cent of acetic 
acid, and not contain any substance In¬ 
jurious to health, or any artificial color¬ 
ing matter. The penalty for each viola¬ 
tion of this law Is $100. A man who makes 
cider vinegar honestly, however, need have 
but little fear of its falling below the legal 
standard. A practical and inexpensive 
tester used by the State Department of 
Agriculture in trials of suspected vinegar 
is made by the Genesee Fruit Co., 497 West 
Street, New York. With this anyone can 
tell the acidity of his own vinegar. The 
test for solids in cider vinegar is made 
with a hydrometer, an instrument used to 
find its density as compared with water. 
Provision for testing vinegar are made 
by the State Department of Agriculture. 
Their appropriations, however, are not 
sufficierft to employ men enough to cover 
every part of the State, so It often hap¬ 
pens that a man wishing his vinegar tested 
officially must pay the traveling expenses 
of the inspector, or send him several sam¬ 
ples in bottles express paid. The head of¬ 
fice at Albany will notify any inquirer in 
this State where to write to reach the in¬ 
spector nearest to his place. w. w. h. 
A MEETING OF AGRICULTURAL 
SCIENTISTS. 
The annual convention of the Association 
of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 
Stations was held at New Haven, Conn., 
November 13-15. The attendance was large, 
comprising some distinguished visitors 
from foreign countries as well as delegates 
from all the American experiment stations 
and the National Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. Many valuable papers were read, 
most of them being of a somewhat techni¬ 
cal character. Papers on the following 
subjects were read and discussed before 
the section of horticulture and botany: 
The Function of the Station Botanist, Dr. 
George E. Stone, Amherst, Mass.; Plant 
Physiology in its Relation to Agriculture 
and Horticulture, Albert F. Woods, Chief 
Division of Vegetable Physiology and 
Pathology, Washington, D. C.; Grasses and 
Forage Investigation in Experiment Sta¬ 
tions and the Division of Agrostology, 
Thomas A. Williams, Division of Agros¬ 
tology, Washington, D. C. Instructional 
Work: Laboratory and Field Work for 
Students in Horticulture, Prof. E. S. Goff, 
Madison, WIs.; The Nature Study Move¬ 
ment, Prof. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y.; 
The Educational Status of Horticulture, 
Prof. Fred W. Card, Kingston, R. I. Va¬ 
riety Testing and Plant Breeding: Progress 
of Variety Testing in Experiment Station 
Work, Prof. F. William Rane, Durham, N. 
H.; What Our Experiment Stations have 
done in Originating Varieties of Plants by 
Crossing and Selection, Dr. B. D. Halsted, 
New Brunswick, N. J.; The Relation of 
the Section of Seed and Plant Introduc¬ 
tion to Experiment Stations, Jared G. 
Smith, Section of Seed and Plant Intro¬ 
duction, Washington, D. C.; A Vegetation 
House Arranged for Pot Experiments, W. 
E. Britton, New Haven, Conn. 
On Wednesday, November 14, the sessions 
of the convention were held at the Wes¬ 
leyan University in Middletown, Conn., the 
especial occasion being the celebration of 
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the estab¬ 
lishment of the Connecticut Experiment 
Station, the first of all official agricultural 
experiment stations. Now 56 stations 
have been established by the National and 
State governments in every State and Ter¬ 
ritory, including Alaska and Hawaii. Sta¬ 
tions are now in contemplation in Porto 
Rico and the Philippines. It will be re¬ 
membered that The R. N.-Y. Trial Grounds 
were established some years previous to 
1875 at River Edge, N. J., for the purpose 
of testing new varieties of ornamental and 
economic plants, as well as methods of cul¬ 
ture and fertilization. To Mr. Carman’s 
teachings and example may justly be 
credited something of the rapid expansion 
of the experiment station idea. 
An Interesting feature of the visit to 
Middletown was the inspection of Prof. 
Atwater’s respiration calorimeter, by which 
the working value of human food is deter¬ 
mined. The calorimeter consists of a 
metal and wooden room, made up of sev¬ 
eral separate shells, constructed so that 
the combined walls and air-spaces form a 
perfect bar to the transmission of heat 
and air. Within this cell, shut out from 
all communication with the world except 
by telephone, the air pump, and the vari¬ 
ous recording instruments, a man, gener¬ 
ally one of the University students, lives 
from six to 12 days at a time, eating, sleep¬ 
ing, reading or exercising, as the case max 
be. The food is carefully selected, weighed 
and is passed in through ingenious trap 
doors when needed. The theoretical food 
value of every grain of its weight is known 
and compared at the end of the test with 
the results recorded by various instru¬ 
ments. So sensitive are the thermometers 
that the almost incalculable increase of 
temperature caused by the occupant rising 
from his chair or couch is at once indicated 
to the watcher outside and recorded. 
Every cubic inch of air that passes through 
the chamber is analyzed. No bad results 
nor special inconvenience has yet resulted 
from this lonely and rather ghastly con¬ 
finement. Problems of great practical 
value concerning food for human beings 
and animals are thus being worked out. 
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Manila, Erie . “ 3-4 
Preston Hollow, Albany. “ 3- 4 
Durham, Greene . “ 5 
Winthrop, St. Lawrence. “ 5- 6 
North Collins, Erie. " 5- 6 
Briar Hill, St. Lawrence. “ 7 
Hensonville, Greene . “ 6-7 
Plessis, Jefferson . " 8 
Cottage, Catteraugus . " 7-8 
Lexington, Greene . " 8 
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Cherry Creek, Chautauqua. “ 10-11 
Fleischman’s, Delaware . “ 10-11 
Watertown, N. Y. S. D. A., 
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Clymer, Chautauqua . " 12 
Halcottsvllle, Delaware . “ 12-13 
Panama, Chautauqua . " 13 
Pulaski, Oswego . “ 14-15 
Mayville, Chautauqua . “ 14-15 
Grand Gorge, Delaware. “ 14-15 
Fayetteville, Onondaga . “ 17-18 
Stockton, Chautauqua . “ 17-18 
Walton, Delaware . “ 17-18 
South Onondaga, Onondaga. " 19-20 
Ellington, Chautauqua . " 19-20 
Gilbertsville, Otsego . “ 19-20 
South New Berlin, Chenango. “ 21 
Cortland, Cortland . “ 21-22 
Otto, Catteraugus . “ 21-22 
New Berlin, Chenango. " 22 
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Russia, Herkimer . “ 26 
Vernon, Oneida . " 26-27 
Newport, Herkimer . “ 27 
Clinton, Oneida . “ 28-29 
Frankfort, Herkimer . “ 28-29 
Connecticut Notes.— Prices for fruits 
are not half what they were six years ago. 
Strawberries were sold as low as three 
cents per quart in Danbury last Summer; 
average price six cents. Blackberries less, 
black raspberries average price eight 
cents; can hardly give grapes away. The 
dry Summer caused less than half a crop 
of potatoes. The first few years of fruit 
growing I used to get 10 to 18 cents for 
fruit, 10 cents per pound for grapes; then 
there was money in the business. The 
hatters are earning less than half; im¬ 
proved machinery is the chief cause. 
o. H. p. 
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business man. His business cares 
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life. The common sign of the busi¬ 
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ach,” the natural consequence of the 
rapid eating, the indigestible pastry, 
the coffee and pie or doughnuts, 
with which many a man stuffs his 
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