1902 
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MARKET NOTES 
POTATOES.—Old tubers are being rushed 
in rapidly. 38,613 barrels of domestic stock 
having arrived during the week ending 
May 27. The market is a trifle more firm 
than of late, however, as the European 
receipts are much lighter, and it is thought 
that but few more will be shipped this 
Spring. Arrivals of southern potatoes are 
so heavy that prices have taken a drop, but 
few sales exceeding $3,' and culls as low 
as SI. 
LARGE AND VARIED CARGO.—The 
Hamburg-American steamer Bulgaria, 
which recently left the port of Baltimore, 
had on board a quantity of products suf¬ 
ficient to fill 100 railroad cars. Among 
other items were 176.000 bushels of wheat; 
160 Black walnut logs; 13,491 feet of other 
logs; 9,650 feet of walnut squares; 25,900 
feet of lumber; 3,015 packages of agricul¬ 
tural machinery; 1.825 tierces, 1,260 half¬ 
barrels and 1,200 tubs of lard; 12,061 sacks 
of malt sprouts; 1,000 sacks of oil cake; 
24.492 sacks of flour; 960 barrels of cotton¬ 
seed oil. and 600 barrels of rosin. This 12,- 
000 -ton cargo is said to be the largest ever 
shipped from Baltimore, and put the ves¬ 
sel's draught 30 feet, 10 inches under water. 
MELONS AND PEACHES—A few from 
the extreme south are on hand. Musk- 
melons wholesale at $2 to $4 per bushel 
case, and watermelons 75 cents to $1 each. 
The latter are very small and the quality 
of neither is high enough to cause one who 
knows good melons to ask for more. It 
seems an insult to the peach tribe to label 
as peaches the little hard green fruits that 
have been offered for two or three weeks. 
Of course, the number on hand is limited, 
and but few could be sold anyway, until 
there Is a decided improvement in quality. 
Consumers have so great a variety of fine 
fruits to select from all the time in the 
large markets that few care to pay ex¬ 
orbitant prices for poor quality fruit 
merely because it is scarce. 
EXPORT NOTES. — Grain shipments 
from this country for the nine months end¬ 
ing March 31 were: whe t, 126,942.339 bushels, 
an increase of 47,500,000 over the same 
period last year; corn, 24,369.964 bushels, 
a drop of over 120,000,000; oats, 8,559,353 bush¬ 
els, about one-third the previous year's 
exports and barley, 7,794,501 bushels. Cotton 
cloth shipments were more than double, 
368.355,847 yards. In live stock were 75.753 
horses; 23,017 mules, and 305.595 cattle. 
Meats form a large item: Fresh beef, 233,- 
828,359 pounds; pork, 129,672,497 pounds; 
hams. 164,685,147 pounds; 38,407,828 pounds of 
cured, and 45,509,388 of canned beef. In 
miscellaneous items were 27,362,087 pounds 
of sole leather; 190,666,511 of copper; 1,246,- 
635.594 of oil cake, and 230,982,231 of leaf to¬ 
bacco. 
STRAWBERRIES.—There is a lot of 
poor stuff on hand this week. Some berries 
have sold at wholesale as low as two cents 
per quart. Even many of those from Dela¬ 
ware and the Peninsula, which came in 
refrigerator cars, appear to have been dam¬ 
aged before shipment, probably by stand¬ 
ing in the excessive heat too long after 
picking. Later arrivals show injury from 
heavy rains, being soft and sandy. Hand¬ 
lers here have been busy sorting over the 
better of these poor berries, and fixing up 
in presentable shape those fit to be sold. 
Most of the North Carolina and Norfolk 
berries are here, and the few straggling 
lots now arriving bring low' prices. Like 
the mercury in a thermometer the top-notch 
price works up gradually during the season 
from Florida to the Oswego section. Just 
now it stands over the fancy fruit from 
Maryland and Delaware. Very soon it will 
move up a notch to tne southern Jersey 
crop. A few of the latter, which are in at 
present, are selling at fair prices. 
Ashes, Saif and Sulphur for Hogs. 
We find no bad results from allowing 
pigs of all ages free access to a mixture 
of charcoal, salt and sulphur constantly 
before them. We heartily approve of it, 
and consider it a great benefit to pigs 
that are kept penned up. We do not put 
wood ashes in the mixture, but often 
throw some nice clean wood ashes in the 
pens. In the mixture we prefer charcoal 
to wood ashes. We would never put 
wood ashes or this mixture into the feed 
or slop, and force them to eat it. If hogs 
need medicine it is a good way to admin¬ 
ister it through the feed, but not the 
above mixture. Hamilton & co. 
Rosenvick, Pa. 
Hogs not accustomed to ashes, salt and 
sulphur may take too much for best re¬ 
sults when first offered to them, but this 
does not occur when a supply is con¬ 
stantly left before them (so as to have 
them accustomed to it) in such manner 
as not to compel them to eat it in order 
to get their food. enos h. hess. 
Casanova. Va. 
The Octopus; a Belated Review. 
The Octopus, a novel of California wheat 
ranch life, by Frank Norris, stands out as 
the strongest work of American fiction 
published In a year notable for large out¬ 
put and high quality in every field of pop¬ 
ular literature. The several months that 
have passed since its issue have only con¬ 
firmed estimates of its force and earnest 
directness. It is a story of the unavailing 
struggles of wheat growers against the 
relentless power of rate discrimination em¬ 
bodied in certain subsidized railroads. 
Nothing seems too great nor trivial to es¬ 
cape their notice. Prosperous industries 
may be destroyed on one hand, while un¬ 
scrupulous favorites are enriched on the 
other. One realizes, while reading the 
grim struggles of the harried ranchers, 
the gigantic folly of permitting greedy 
personal interests to monopolize the com¬ 
mon rights of all to cheap and equitable 
transportation of person and property. On 
the other side, the ways of tne bonanza 
farmers, who have no real love for the 
soil, and who exploit a gigantic wheat 
crop as a mine or other speculation to be 
rapidly worked out without thought of 
replenishment do not seem altogether 
admirable. We realize theirs is not the 
true and lasting method of righting great 
wrongs, and despite our hot indignation 
at the tricky and merciless domination 
of the railroads, we do not really wish 
success to the ranchers. The true farmer 
has a tender regard for his land and will 
not deplete it willingly for speculative 
purposes. The essential truthfulness of 
this remarkable book is guaranteed by 
its immunity from successful adverse 
criticism, although the radical views of 
the talented young author naturally ex¬ 
cite great opposition. Well-written fic¬ 
tion has its uses in developing great 
moral truths, as well as in giving enter¬ 
tainment. Good novels are found In al¬ 
most every household, and by means of 
rapidly increasing libraries are becoming 
accessible to all. We recommend readers 
of The R. N.-Y. to read The Octopus. 
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AMD 
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so I began taking his ‘Golden Medical 
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worked all summer and this winter as 
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medicine has cured me. In September 
1898 my weight was about 95 pounds, now 
it is 195 . Please accept my sincere thanks.” 
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