1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
8o9 
Absolute Reliability. 
Many words of praise for The R. N.-Y. come to us in one form 
or another from readers and friends. I am frank enough to say 
that they make pleasant reading. I like the occasional kindly 
criticisms, telling us what we could do to make the paper more 
valuable in one feature or another. We feel grateful for such evi¬ 
dences of good will, and yet, I believe, there is nothing that so 
pleases me as a recognition and acknowledgment of the reliable 
character of the paper such as Mr. Sears expresses in the following 
extract of a recent letter : 
To make The R. N.-Y. recognized as a trustworthy and reliable 
farm paper has been the great ambition of its editors and owners for 
more than a half century. The recognition of this feature by agricul 
tural interests has been and still is their greatest pride outside of the 
home circle. It is an element in the building up of the paper that 
has cost a great many thousands of dollars and years of watchfulness 
and care and anxiety. It is far from our purpose to claim perfection 
in this feature of the paper. Absolute reliability, it is true, is our 
standard, our ideal, but anyone who has battled with the problems 
and incidents of a publishing office must know how difficult it is to 
even approach this ideal—how utterly impossible for the most per¬ 
sistent human zeal to fully attain it. But it is a great comfort to 
know that our efforts in this direction are being recognized. 
Club Raisers. 
Reports for the last week were : 
November 19. F. E. Van Epa, New York. Nine yearlies. 
November 20. None. 
November 21. J. C. Grossman, Indiana. One yearly. 
November 22. I. B. Scarlott, Missouri. Three yearlies. 
November 23. Bell D. Heeter, Pennsylvania. Five yearlies. 
November 24. None. 
In about six weeks the 50 cash premiums will be distributed to 
the 50 largest clubs received before January 15. The largest premium 
is $100; second, $75; third, $50, and so on. December is the best 
month in the whole year for subscription work. Shall we send you 
samples and supplies to help you work up a little club ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
(DE) GRADING APPLES.—A corre¬ 
spondent in England thinks that, after tak¬ 
ing freight and all other expenses into 
consideration, there is too much difference 
between the prices quoted on apples in the 
New York market, and what he has to pay 
for them in that country. We are sorry 
to be obliged to tell him that many apples 
which are sold in New York as first quality 
would not come up to anywhere near the 
requix-ements for this grade in his market. 
Men who are shipping fruit to England 
have learned by experience, and sometimes 
through severe loss, that the majority of 
buyers there who pay for good fruit do 
not propose to have rubbish palmed off on 
them. Suppose a wholesale dealer puts a 
few pairs of good shoes on the top of each 
case, the remainder being filled with odd 
lots and sizes of shop-worn and inferior 
goods. He would soon have to go out of 
the shoe business for lack of trade, if, in¬ 
deed, he should escape being locked up as 
a lunatic, yet this is practically what many 
do who ship apples to New York. They 
appear to think that there ought to be 
enough virtue in a bushel of good apples 
to help at least half the quantity of in¬ 
ferior stuff slide through at a high price. 
Those who would scorn to cheat a man out 
of a penny or rob a neighbor’s henroost, 
will put up the biggest kind of a sham in 
the fruit they market, and think it is all 
right. 
FRAUD BUTTERED OVER.—There are 
some cases in which the swindle is de¬ 
tected at once; the mixed lot of apples 
goes for less than the good ones alone 
would have brought; and thus the dis¬ 
honest packer gets his just desert. But 
more often it works in another way. The 
commission merchant naturally dislikes to 
offend the shipper; the retail grocer who 
sells the fruit in two or three-quart lots 
mixes the inferior stuff in with each sale, 
and chai-ges enough so that he makes a 
good profit; the consumer gx-owls at the 
poor stuff and high prices, but submits to 
it as something that can’t be helped, for 
those who live in small apartments in the 
city have no place to store extra supplies, 
must get small lots, and a large part of 
the buying is done by incompetent ser- 
vants anyway. 
APPLE DISCOUNT.—There is a sort of 
silent understanding between many grow- 
ers, middlemen and retail grocers. A 
grower writes to his agent here: “I ship 
10 barrels of prime apples.” The receiver 
mentally discounts the word “prime” 25 
per cent or more. The l’etail gx-ocer comes 
to buy, and is told that that is “prime” 
fruit. He, having had experience, smiles 
to himself, and goes through the same 
process of mental discounting. I have 
been amused to see how fruit men some¬ 
times “show up” a barrel of apples. The 
head is removed, and, of course, those on 
top are large and fair. “Ain’t they fine? 
says the seller, at the same time look¬ 
ing sideways at the barrel as though afraid 
some one might look below the top layer. 
The buyer knows that he can work them 
off all right, and doesn’t care to make a 
row, so the sale is made with this silent 
understanding on both sides, though 
neither would admit it if questioned. This 
sounds ridiculous and childish, but just 
such instances may be seen any day. 
There is an astonishing lack of sincerity in 
trade of all kinds. People say practically: 
“You say so-and-so, but I know that you 
don't mean it, and you know that you don’t 
either, and you know that I know you 
don’t, but it's all right anyway, and we’ll 
let it go so.” 
EXCEPTIONS.— Of course there are ex¬ 
ceptions. Some consumers rightly refuse 
to be buncoed in this way; some grocers in¬ 
sist on seeing what they buy, knowing 
that their trade will not be trifled with; 
and some commission merchants will not 
meaningly misrepresent an article; but 
there is no doubt that a great amount of 
stuff is disposed of in the dishonest way 
mentioned; and it is nothing more than 
right that this shady side of trade should 
be brought to light now and then. Con¬ 
sumers have it in their power to change 
this, and bring rascally growers and mid¬ 
dlemen to tei-ms. 
“DO YOU MEAN ME?”—Those whom 
the shoe fits are meant. The difficulty is 
that people who need such plain talk are 
singulaxly impervious to the truth. Their 
consciences are tanned and calloused in¬ 
side and out, and fire and water proof; 
while some fellow who has been doing the 
best he knew, dodges every time anything 
like this is said, and feels that he is the 
one meant. 
“But my neighbor got just as much for 
his apples as I did. Mine were sorted 
carefully and the scrubs left at home, 
while all of his inferior ones were worked 
in.” 
Yes, but that does not pi-ove that his 
methods are right, or that he will come 
out ahead in the long run. It takes more 
than one day to grow a hill of corn. Sup¬ 
pose you try it again and again. There are 
commission mei'chants and buyers who 
would appreciate and cooperate with 
straight methods after a time. This is not 
a guess. It works in other lines. Take a 
certain brand of hams for instance. Ai. 
that an experienced buyer cares for is to 
see the brand, and the same is true of 
canned goods, soaps and groceries. Or 
take a certain well-known make of shoes. 
The pi’ice is reasonable; they fit; they are 
easy the first day you put them on; they 
don’t rip; they wear like Portland cement; 
they look well; and, so long as that stand¬ 
ard is kept up and 1 wear shoes, I don’t 
wish any other make. It is not claimed 
that a farmer with only a small amount 
of any one kind of produce to sell, can 
work up such a reputation as a great fac¬ 
tory that is turning out goods all the time; 
but the principle is exactly the same, and 
the only difference is in degree. The shoe 
man named above has had to go through 
all kinds of difficulties, and the reason he 
has succeeded so well is because he gives 
honest value and keeps right at it. Even 
though the financial results of a man’s 
work may not be all that he could desire, 
it is worth something to him to so carry 
on his affairs that his neighbors and all 
who deal with him may truly say, “He’s 
stx-aight,” and this is not a bad sort of 
legacy to leave to his children and grand¬ 
children. w. w. H. 
American Institute Chrysanthemums 
The annual Chrysanthemum show of the 
American Institute of New York was held 
in the Berkeley Lyceum November 14 and 
15. It was a brilliant success, the quality 
of the exhibits being very high. The at¬ 
tendance on both days was large and ap¬ 
preciative. The exhibition room is small, 
but well lighted, and the immense and per¬ 
fect blooms showed off to good advantage. 
The best new variety shown was Timothy 
Eaton, a grand and perfect white with a 
tinge of sulphur in the center. It not only 
captured the highest prize, but was highly 
commended by all visitors. It was raised 
in Canada, and is a seedling of Minnie 
Wanamaker, long a standard and popular 
yellow. Timothy Eaton, as shown here, 
has an immense and perfectly-foi-med 
flower, seven or eight inches in diameter, 
carried on a strong stem furnished with 
ample dark foliage. The best yellow shown 
was undoubtedly Golden Wedding. Some 
of the blooms reached nearly 10 inches in 
diameter. Helen Bloodgood is a finely-fin¬ 
ished lilac incurved variety, and was shown 
in good condition. Mme. Carnot was the 
largest white, and was truly an immense 
flower. G. L. Warren, corn yellow, was 
very large and highly finished. In other 
shades and types the older varieties ap¬ 
peared most satisfactory. Many new car¬ 
nations were shown. The much-boomed 
$30,000 variety, Mrs. T. W. Lawson, was 
staged in large and well-developed blooms, 
but it is difficult to say wherein lies its 
great superiority to many well-known 
kinds. While large and of a fine, deep, 
pink color, the blooms seem to lack the 
necessary finish. Goethe is a new blush 
pink, very fresh and delicate. It is more 
pleasing than the standard Daybreak, long 
the ideal of a shell-pink variety. Maceo is 
a very dusky magenta colored carnation; 
too dark, we should think to become popu¬ 
lar. The display of flowering orchids was 
most excellent. Some of the varieties are 
rare and beautiful. Orchids are undoubt¬ 
edly growing in popularity, notwithstand¬ 
ing the difficulties in their culture. A col¬ 
lection of potted bamboos from Japan ex¬ 
cited much interest. They had been used 
as household decorations for several 
months, but were in good condition, giv¬ 
ing evidence of considerable staying power. 
Their light and airy character makes them 
very well suited for decorative culture. A 
small display of fruits and vegetables and 
some late hardy flowers proved of interest. 
Some bright yellow Cosmos flowers were 
the best we have yet seen in this color. 
Among the cut blooms of roses the always 
popular American Beauty and Liberty were 
most admired. w. v. r. 
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