1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
45 
MARKET NOTES 
MARKET FORECASTS.—We often re¬ 
ceive inquiries similar to this: “What is 
the outlook for such and such a product, 
and when would be a favorable time to 
sell?" These inquiries can be answered 
only in a general way. The prophecies of 
those who have been in closest touch with 
this trade for years often fail to come to 
pass, and it is not unusual to hear an old- 
timer, when asked what is the probable 
outlook for a certain product, say that he 
doesn’t know which way the market will 
turn. He has seen the unexpected happen 
so many times when he had felt sure that 
the result would be opposite that he is cer¬ 
tain only of the present, and realizes that 
such predictions are quite similar to an at¬ 
tempt to tell just where lightning will 
strike. Any quantity of people are prophe¬ 
sying that prices will go up or down, and. 
of course, they stand an oven chance in 
this with weather prophets and other prog¬ 
nosticators. If it comes out as they say, 
they crow tremendously: but if the other 
way no one hears a word from them about 
it. This is no attempt to discount the 
value of experience and observation, but 
merely to show that in matters of this 
sort the uncertainty is so great that those 
who might be expected to know all about 
it go astray. Produce dealers are often 
accused of wilfully misrepresenting market 
conditions in order to get shipments. 
Doubtless some of them do this, hut they 
are sometimes unjustly accused by those 
who think that their judgment in such 
matters ought to be infallible. 
CAR FAMINES.—These are usually of 
brief duration in the more thickly settled 
parts of the country, as it is possible to 
hustle out cars from the great centers and 
quickly relieve the shortage. It is folly to 
accuse the railroad companies of desiring 
to cause these conditions. They surely 
want to do as much business as possible, 
and their apparent indifference to the ap¬ 
peals of shippers is often the result of their 
inability to handle the matter as they 
would like. The great lines have agents 
traveling through the producing sections 
to make estimates of the probable amount 
of transportation that will be needed. 
Farmers should do all in their power to 
give these men the fullest information; and 
at places they do not reach the station 
agents should be kept thoroughly in¬ 
formed. A station agent who takes any in¬ 
terest in his business will keep in close 
touch with the shippers in his vicinity. All 
of these little matters are of importance. 
In the thinly settled sections of the West, 
however, conditions are different. Reports 
from North Dakota state that the car 
famine in the wheat belt still continues. 
Grain elevators are full, and thousands of 
bushels of wheat and flaxseed arc stored in 
temporary bins and vacant buildings. Of 
course, it is plain that the railroad com¬ 
panies have not enough cars. They deny 
this, laying the blame on the delay of re¬ 
ceivers in unloading; and it is quite nat¬ 
ural that they should not want a large 
sum tied up in rolling stock that would be 
idle part of the year. When such a car 
shortage continues for two months how¬ 
ever. something is radically wrong in the 
handling of the traffic details, and would- 
be shippers are justified in making as big 
a row as possible. w. w. h. 
THE OHIO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Part IV. 
F. P. Vergon's paper. “Apple Culture in 
Central Ohio,” was equally interesting, as 
his methods are radically different in some 
respects. His orchards are planted on sod 
land, which had been in pasture so long 
that it was practically virgin soil. His 
idea as to frost drainage coincides with 
that of Dr. Chamberlain; but his method 
of planting is different. Stakes are first 
driven and, during the Fall and Winter, 
the holes are dug by removing a circular 
piece of sod three feet in diameter. The 
soil, one spade deep, is placed by itself, 
while another spade deep of subsoil, is 
thrown in a separate pile. The sod is then 
inverted and placed in the bottom of the 
hole. In the Spring the trees are planted 
upon this; the rich soil being worked 
among the roots with the subsoil on top. 
The trees are headed low—three feet being 
his favorite height. The sod is not broken 
by the plow, nor would he have it done for 
$1,000 per acre, he declared; however, the 
trees are by no means neglected. He does 
not “stick them in the sod and let them 
go.” They are at once mulched with stable 
manure—one load to eight or nine trees, 
'•'bis is raked away in the Spring, and the 
ground stirred about the tree with shovel 
or hoe. His plan thereafter is to mow, and 
mulch with the grass. Well-rotted saw¬ 
dust is also used when it can be obtained. 
Not a thing is hauled from his orchard 
but fruit. Even the ashes from burned 
pi unings are returned to the soil. He has 
never cultivated, and does not purpose to 
do so. Mr. Vcrgon is an ardent advocate 
of thorough spraying, and says he can af¬ 
ford to have no check trees for purposes 
of comparison. The past season the few 
apples that dropped were sorted and sold 
for $3.25 per barrel. But there were very 
few that dropped. Under his methods he 
considers his ^.pple crop the safest grown, 
and a drought that ruins the corn crop 
does not affect his well-mulched orchard. 
With his low-headed trees he picks more 
than half of the crop from the ground. 
Even women found pleasant and profitable 
employment, and picked from 35 to 40 
bushels each per day. Mr. Vergon stated 
that he had, upon his farm, an orchard 
of 70 trees, 41 years old, in which but one 
tree was missing. From these he picked, 
this year, 1,212% bushels. An old veteran 
planted in 1834, has surely borne 1,000 bush¬ 
els of apples. Mr. Vergon uses iy 2 -bushel 
crates for handling his entire crop. These 
are packed solidly into his own cold stor¬ 
age building, and are sorted and barreled 
as ordered. 
Prof. Lazenby read a paper on “How to 
Combat the Codling Moth,” in which he 
discussed the mechanical appliances that 
may be employed to entrap them, such as 
paper bands around the tree, under which 
the moths will hide, and where they 
may be destroyed. In the after dis¬ 
cussion, however, it was declared by Prof. 
Webster that thorough spraying with ad¬ 
hesive poison would be the most efficacious. 
Prof. Green, in his “Notes,” told of Ijis 
campaign against the canker worm. Al¬ 
most daily rains and as frequent sprayings 
held in check not only his own canker 
worms, but those that came trooping over 
the fence from a neighboring orchard. He 
declared that if he had to provide for his 
own cankers and those of his neighbors, he 
would rather have the San Jos6 scale 
three to one. These pests combined are 
destroying more orchards than are being 
planted, and he predicts that it will not 
be long until Ohio will be drawing her sup¬ 
ply of Winter apples from other States. 
He spoke of the importance of water in 
fruit culture, and of the benefits of mulch¬ 
ing for large fruits and irrigation of the 
small fruits. Sufficient moisture retards 
ripening of tree fruits; therefore they stay 
on longer. Plenty of water—though not 
too much—is necessary for properly color¬ 
ing the fruit. Trees often suffer from dry 
weather, and a cold Winter frequently 
completes the work of the drought. 
Officers for the coming year were elected 
as follows: President, William Miller, 
Gypsum; vice-president, W. N. Scarff, 
New Carlisle; secretary, W. W. Farns¬ 
worth, Waterville; treasurer, N. Ohmer, 
Dayton. f. h. ballotj. 
Not one half the patients supposed to be suffering 
from Consumption really have that distressing dis¬ 
ease—though ofttlmes the symptoms from wh ch 
they are suffering lead to it. Nearly every case of 
this kind Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant would cure.— 
Adv. 
AN OHIOAN’S GOOD LOOK. 
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Method of steaming the poisons out of the Blood. 
Enormous Sales of Vapor Bath Cabinets—Getting rich are hundreds of men and women selling them. 
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It has remained for a pronmieni business 
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plication of Hoi Air to the skin and its result¬ 
ant perspiration lies the secret of good health, 
vigot, freedom from disease and beauty. He 
proved beyond the question of a doubt that 
the Romans and Greeks had 
No Physicians for 500 Years 
but Hot Air and Vapor Baths, and that they 
owed their splendid health, fine physique, 
strength and beauty to vaporized air or “ sweat 
baths/' and so he'set to work to invent a method 
by which the American people could secure all 
the marvelous benefits of thes'e baths without 
expensive apparatus, bath rooms and at small¬ 
est expense. 
The now famous' Quaker Bath Cabinet was 
the result of his efforts, 
An Enormous Business. 
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Thousands of remarkable letters have been 
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Rheumatism, La Grippe and Kidney 
Troubles 
Will be interesting 10. those who suffer from 
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inflammation and rheumatism.' 1 Hon. A. B. 
Strickland, of Bloomington, writes: that the 
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doctoring, cured him of catarrh, gravel, kidney 
trouble and dropsy, with which he had long 
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hundreds of Ministers 
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enough.” U. S. Senator. Hon Chauncey M. 
Depew, Congressman John J. Eentz, John T. 
Brown, Editor “Christian Guide;” Rev. C M. 
Keith, Editor “Holiness Advocate,” as well as 
hundreds of clergymen, bankers, governors, 
physicians and influential people recommend 
it highly. 
Physicians are unanimous in claiming that 
colds, lagrippe, fevers, kidney troubles, 
Bright’s disease, cancer ; in fact, such 
Marvelous Eliminative Power 
has this Cabinet that no disease can gain a 
foothold in .your body if you take these hot 
Thermal Baths weekly. Scientific reasons are 
brought out in a very instructive little book 
issued by the makers. 
To Cure Blood and Skin Diseases 
this Cabinet "has marvelous pqwer. Dr. Shep¬ 
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failed to draw out the deadlv poison of snake 
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and congestion which causes much of the pain 
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m which The face, head and neck are given 
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Whatever Will Hasten Profuse 
Perspiration 
everyone knows is beneficial, but other meth¬ 
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drugs are dangerous to health. Nature's own 
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rubber lined. A heavy steel frame supports it, 
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medicated baths and ailments, plain directions 
and a 100-page “Guide Book to Health and 
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not in use. Easily carried. Weighs 10 lbs. 
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years. Seems to satisfy and delight every 
user, and the 
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It Will Cure a Hard Cold 
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and curative properties.' 
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