1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
841 
Now Is the Time. 
Those club-raisers who wish to get a 
share of that prize money January 15 
next, should get out now and work up a 
club. There are thousands of subscrip¬ 
tions expiring this month and next 
month, and this is the time to get the 
renewals. Then we have voluntary in¬ 
quiries every day for samples and prices. 
Farmers are looking more and more every 
year for a thoroughly reliable paper. 
They want it Tell them about it, and 
you will get their subscriptions. Club- 
raisers have done little yet this season. 
Now is just the right time for it. Here 
are the $2 premium winners for last 
week. 
Dec. 3. N. J. Kent, New Jersey. 
Dec. 4. Aaron Low, Massachusetts. 
Dec. 5. J. Allis, New York. 
Dec. 6. S. S. Thorniley, Ohio. 
Dec. 7. R. German, Michigan. 
Dec. 8. S. S. Thorniley, Ohio. 
Some days there were two, and we 
decided it by the first order opened on 
that day. It was as fair as any method 
we could adopt. If any of the other two 
had included one more name he would 
have won We give a clubbing list on 
another page; you can save money by 
ordering other papers from us. If you 
send list of what you want we will quote 
prices. Club-raisers may use this list for 
their customers also. Any person sending 
four subscriptions and $4, may have his 
own subscription extended one year free. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
NEW YORK. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
A HANDY DOG.—A man came into the 
Erie Railroad station. He opened his grip¬ 
sack, fished out a small dog, and let him 
run around the floor until the train was 
ready. Then he chucked him into the 
sachel again, shut it with a snap,, and went 
for the train. The other passengers were 
rather amused. It was difficult to see what 
such a dog could be good for, though there 
was evidently an advantage in having an 
animal that could be so easily adjusted to 
all kinds of circumstances. 
THE QUOTATIONS given in market re¬ 
ports are in nearly all cases wholesale 
figures. A reader writes us that he wishes 
to buy a small quantity of live poultry at 
the prices quoted. Of course, we could not 
get them for him without paying consider¬ 
ably more, enough, at any rate, to give a 
profit to all handlers after taking out the 
cost of cartage and storage. It would not 
be possible in a small space to give quota¬ 
tions that would cover the retail market 
for country produce in a large city in any 
satisfactory way. There is no regularity 
about this, the same grade of stuff retail¬ 
ing at greatly varying prices sometimes on 
the same street. 
PLEASANT DREAMS is the name of a 
brand of prepared mincemeat that a New 
York wholesale grocer has recently put on 
the market. Mince pie has been unduly 
slandered. There is no reason why a com¬ 
bination of meat and apples with a reason¬ 
able amount of seasoning should be un¬ 
wholesome. The trouble is that people 
usually eat all they ought before they get 
to the dessert. But what is the use of pie, 
anyway? It is an idol worshipped in some 
families to such an extent that the women 
are practically slaves to the rolling pin 
and oven. Somebody has described apple 
pie as apple sauce in a box. Why not use 
it without the box, substituting bread for 
the piecrust? 
HARNESSING THE OCEAN.—In this 
age of commercialism, an effort is made 
to utilize all sorts of what have been con¬ 
sidered waste products. Anyone who has 
stood on the seashore and watched the 
constant movement of the water even in 
calm weather, must have been impressed 
with the fact that there is power enough 
going to waste there to run a great many 
mills, factories, electric railroads, etc. 
The problem is to change this irregular 
movement of the waves into power that 
can be transmitted where desired. With 
improvements in methods of conducting 
electric power long distances, so that the 
present large percentage of waste may be 
avoided, the difficulties in the way of 
utilizing the sea will be greatly lessened. 
There is no doubt that motors sufficient 
to generate an enormous quantity of elec¬ 
tric power could be operated, though 
plants of this kind would necessarily be 
expensive on account of the strength re¬ 
quired to stand the storms which sweep 
the coast. It is reported that a company 
with capital of $500,000 has been incorpor¬ 
ated to build and operate motors by ocean 
power, so it may be only a few years when 
the ocean will take an active part in all 
kinds of industries on land. 
CANNED CAULIFLOWER.—Large 
quantities of this vegetable are grown on 
the eastern end of Long Island. Last year 
some experiments were made in canning 
cauliflower, and the results were so satis¬ 
factory that preparations were made for 
extensive business this year. It is said 
that one concern at Mattituck will turn 
out over 300,000 cans, they having contract¬ 
ed with many farmers for their whole 
crop. At first one might think that this 
would make a big difference in the New 
York market for fresh cauliflower, but it 
probably will not, except to avoid an oc¬ 
casional glut, for when the fresh vegetable 
gets scarce and high, consumers will fall 
back on the canned article. 
THE APPLE TRADE is settling down to 
a regular steady business now, and for 
the remainder of the Winter Messrs. Apple, 
Orange & Banana will have a practical 
monopoly of the fruit trade. The pears 
and grapes that remain do not cut much 
figure. The offerings of prime apples are 
not heavy, but most dealers are burdened 
with a surplus of low grades. More Lady 
apples than usual are seen this season. 
They always bring high prices, and retail 
at present at $7 per barrel. Extra selected 
lots in half-barrels bring $4.50, and bushel 
boxes, $3. The flavor, keeping quality, and 
appearance of these little apples are all In 
their favor. It is probably no exaggeration 
to say that they are the- finest-looking 
fruit seen in this market. The sunshine 
gives them delicate shades of yellow and 
pink that put them ahead of the peach at 
its best. 
EGG AND POULTRY TALK.—“I offered 
22 cents a dozen for 60 cases of cold-storage 
eggs at Binghamton yesterday,” said a 
New York egg man, "but did not get them. 
The holder had paid about 18 cents, but 
naturally was not satisfied with a margin 
of four cents, so long as he believed they 
were going higher. In the meantime the 
market may go to pieces suddenly as it 
sometimes does, but he is willing to take 
the chances. As soon as the poultrymen 
who are accustomed to getting Winter eggs 
get their hens into the harness, look out 
for a drop in storage eggs.” The same man 
showed me the finest turkey I have seen 
this Winter. It was a Spring bird, fresh- 
killed, very fat, and a look at him was 
enough to make one hungry. He evidently 
had had good treatment from the time he 
left the shell until he said his last gobble. 
It is easy enough to get weight on a year¬ 
ling turkey, but to bring a Spring bird up 
to this standard, he must be kept growing 
all the time and free from any attacks of 
the tired feeling so common to young turks 
two or three weeks old. Whoever gets that 
bird will have to pay a big price, and he is 
really worth four or five cents a pound 
more than ordinary poultry. 
COTTON.—There are conflicting reports, 
but the general indications are that prices 
will keep up to a high figure until next sea¬ 
son. The demand for cotton for manufac¬ 
turing purposes in Central Asia and India 
is increasing. It is said that Central Asia 
will have to import at least half of the 
amount it will consume in manufactures, 
and the demand for India mills alone has 
increased 400 per cent in the past 20 years. 
The circular of a Mississippi crop expert 
places the yield of this country at 9,500,000 
bales. One point against the arguments of 
those who claim a much larger yield is the 
comparatively small movement to market 
considering the present high prices. There 
are numerous prophecies that, taking the 
amount consumed last year as a standard, 
this year’s supply will not be enough to 
keep the same number of spindles busy. 
However, the most of these statements are 
made by those who are directly interested 
in the market one way or another, and no 
great dependence can be put on such re¬ 
ports. Current prices are: Middling Gulf, 
10 7-16 cents, and Middling Uplands, 10 3-16. 
There is a better feeling in the mills at the 
South. New factories are proposed, and the 
capacity of some existing plants is being 
increased. The disturbance in China has 
greatly interfered with our trade, and the 
prospect that this unsettled state of affairs 
will not continue very much longer, is en¬ 
couraging to southern mill men. One of the 
dangers in a season of high prices like the 
present is that planters are quite likely to 
go into the business so heavily the next 
year that there will be no profit in it. 
w. w. H. 
Hay is scarce, bringing about $11 to $12 
a ton. Cows are cheaper this year than 
one year ago. There has been a large 
amount of corn fodder raised, and I think 
that there will be more hay to sell in April 
than now. r. q. w. 
Mexico, N. Y. 
THE GEORGIA INTERSTATE FAIR. 
This was one of the most successful fairs 
ever held in the State. The association 
acted very wisely in paying the largest 
premiums ever paid by any fair associa¬ 
tion, which had a tendency to bring out a 
large number of competitors. One exhibit 
shown by Mr. McCormick, of Bartow 
County, had 30 bushels of sweet potatoes, 
20 bushels of Irish potatoes, 20 bushels of 
wheat, 28 bushels of corn, including sev¬ 
eral varieties, and on one ear I counted 
1,155 grains. All of the above were as fine 
as could be grown in any country. In this 
collection were 23 different sorts of wine 
and a large lot of canned and preserved 
fruit, all of which the exhibitor told me 
were produced on his own farm. A. Man- 
gets, of Cobb County, also had a very fine 
exhibit, including four varieties of wheat, 
two varieties of rye, two of oats, three of 
corn, 19 varieties of hay, Irish potatoes, 
upland rice, two varieties, and second 
crop Irish potatoes. Mrs. Mangets told 
me all these numerous articles were grown 
on their own little farm of 30 acres, and 
when she told me they had been taking 
The R. N.-Y. for several years, I could 
easily account for this fine exhibit. 
The cattle show was a very creditable 
one. A lot of Short-horn bullocks shown 
by Mr. Sawtell, and fed on cotton-seed 
hulls and meal at a cost of 10 cents per 
day gained 1,155 pounds in 12 months. The 
swine show was very good, and shows 
that this branch of husbandry is coming 
to the front. I met persons while attend¬ 
ing this fair from Maine to California, and 
some from the far-off North. w. p. t. 
Farmers’ Institutes; New York State. 
Jan., 1901. 
Geneva, Ontario .2- 3 
Ithaca, Tompkins . 4 
Spencer, Tioga . 7- ° 
Ira, Cayuga .7- 8 
Riverhead, Suffolk . 7- 8 
Camden, Oneida .7-8 
Lockwood, Tioga . 9 
Lysander, Onondaga . 9 
Southold, Suffolk . 9 
Central Square, Oswego. 9-10 
Strait’s Corners, Tioga. 10 
Southampton, Suffolk .10 
Hannibal, Oswego .10-11 
Northport, Suffolk . H 
Alpine, Schuyler .11-12 
Wolcott, Wayne .H-12 
Fulton, Oswego .11-12 
Williamson, Wayne . 14 
Tyrone, Schuyler .14-15 
Spring Valley, Rockland.14-15 
Skaneateles, Onondaga .14-15 
Lakeside, Wayne . 15 
Penn Yan, Yates .16-17 
Bloomingburg, Sullivan .16-17 
Stockbridge, Madison .16-17 
Webster, Monroe .16-17 
Halls Corners, Ontario .18-19 
Hilton, Monroe .18-19 
Pine Bush, Orange .18-19 
Norwich, Chenango .18-19 
Canandaigua, Ontario .21-22 
Pittsford, Monroe .21-22 
Monticelio, Sullivan .21-22 
Sidney Centre, Delaware.21-22 
Treadwell, Delaware . 23 
Bristol Springs, Ontario.23-24 
Rochester, W. N. Y. H. S., Monroe.23-24 
Unionville, Orange .23-24 
Laurens, Otsego . 24 
East Bloomfield, Ontario.25-26 
Albion, Orleans .25-26 
Washingtonville, Orange .25-26 
Schenevus, Otsego .25-26 
North Harpersfield, Delaware. 28 
Mumford, Monroe .28-29 
Lyndonville, Orleans .28-29 
Marlboro, Ulster .28-29 
Jefferson, Schoharie . 29 
Breakabeen, Schoharie . 30 
West Henrietta, Monroe.30-31 
Johnsons Creek, Niagara.30-31 
Millbrook, Dutchess .30-31 
Jelliffe, Wright & Co., 284 Washington 
st., New York, say: In the poultry market 
we have not yet recovered from the 
Thanksgiving rush. The warm unfavorable 
weather compelled dealers to put their 
supply in cold storage in hopes of bringing 
it out this week. But, as it was not in per¬ 
fect condition, there has been no chance to 
do so, and as for the Christmas trade buy¬ 
ers will want fancy stock, we see little 
show to move it until after Christmas, ex¬ 
cept to a cheap class of buyers. There will 
be no scarcity of turkeys for Christmas, 
but shippers write that the supply of ducks 
and geese is not large. Prime stock will 
probably bring good prices, but poor stock 
will be unsalable. Prime fresh made dairy 
butter is wanted, but Summer dairies are 
neglected. Eggs are selling better; fresh- 
laid not plenty. 
Washington Co., N. Y.—November 24, at 
about 7 P. M., commenced the first real 
snowstorm of the season, although snow 
has been visible on the hills for two weeks. 
November 25 dawned with about four 
inches of snow and the weather slightly 
warmer, with rain. The Fall has been fine 
for rounding up the farm work, although 
until recently the soil was too dry to plow 
well. Hay, loose, brings from $12 to $15 per 
ton; apples, $1 to $1.50 per barrel; potatoes, 
50 cents per bushel; oats, 38 cents per 
bushel. Corn about 60 cents; not much sold 
by the producers. Pork from $7.50 to $8 per 
hundredweight, dressed; fowls, 16 cents per 
pound; turkeys, 16 to 18 cents; eggs scarce, 
and fresh laid bring 30 cents per dozen. 
Butter has kept well up in price, not going 
lower than 20 cents the past season; now 
brings 28 to 30 cents per pound. Some time 
since a subscriber asked about sowing 
Sweet clover for permanent pasture or 
meadow. It would be permanent, sure, but 
if he could know it as the pest that we 
do here, he would not gow any. u. t. w. 
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