1902 
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CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT, 
The Rural New-Yorker, 
409 Pearl Street, New York. 
markets, he is able to let them get nearly 
dead ripe before picking. This improves 
the quality of any berry. w. w. h. 
MARKET NOTES 
MELONS.—Prime muskmclons are scarce 
and others sell slowly. Consumers are 
willing to make allowance for a good- 
looking watermelon, even though it is not 
up to par, but they have no use for the 
pumpkiny muskmelon. The receipts of 
Florida watermelons have been heavy 
enough to force a material drop in price. 
The quality has greatly improved, some 
large and fine specimens being seen. 
POTATOES.—The season for foreign 
tubers is practically over, no further large 
shipments being expected. Choice old do¬ 
mestic stock is getting scarce, but the de¬ 
mand is too limited to warrant any large 
increase in price. Southern new potatoes 
are arriving at the rate of from 10,000 to 
20,000 barrels per day. Many of the Char¬ 
leston and Savannah receipts are large and 
smooth, readily bringing $3 to $4. A limited 
number of high-class Bermudas are at 
hand, selling at a premium over the best 
southern. 
SMALL FRUITS.—The effects of the 
drought are plainly seen in the berries that 
are now coming to hand. In one lot of 
North Carolina blackberries, which were 
far better than the ordinary, it was hardly 
possible to find any that did not have 
dried spots, making them undesirable for 
anything but cooking. Huckleberries are 
still worse, most of them being small and 
withered. There has been such a scarcity 
of fine strawberries that prices have 
jumped in some cases as high as 18 cen's 
wholesale for the fancy Irvington and Hil¬ 
ton product. There are many lots but 
little larger than Held berries, with a dried- 
up and puckery flavor that discourages 
buyers. 
FIRE NOTES.—During May there were 
reported for the United States and Can¬ 
ada 212 fires causing damage of $10,000 or 
over, the total for the month being $14,- 
860,000. Two of these were for $500,000 or 
over, 10 ranged between $250,000 and $500,- 
000; and 21 between $100,000 and $250,000. New 
York headed the list with 31 fires. Next 
came Pennsylvania, 19; Michigan and Can¬ 
ada, each 12; Illinois, 11; New Jersey, West 
Virginia, Indiana and Massachusetts, each 
9; Connecticut, 8; Wisconsin, Texas and 
Missouri, each 7; and the remainder were 
divided among 22 other States. Among the 
losses were 26 factories, 17 lumber plants. 
10 ice houses, six river steamers, four stor¬ 
age houses, flour mills and hotels, and two 
tannery plants. 
BUTTER.—There is no sign as yet of the 
prohibitive increase in price which the oleo 
people have been predicting on account of 
the law which goes into effect July 1. On 
the contrary a gradual decline in price is 
noted, 2P/fe cents being extreme for extra 
creamery. The local consumptive demand 
will soon drop materially, on account of 
the large number of people leaving the city 
during the hot weather, but this will be 
partly made up by the out-of-town hotel 
trade. Western factory and imitation 
creamery are selling slowly. Australia is 
becoming an extensive butter shipper. One 
concern at Melbourne is said to have sent 
to South Africa in one week recently 110,000 
tins of butter. 
A UNIQUE WASHINGTON.—Probably 
no other face has been known by so many 
people in this country as that of our first 
President. He has been oil-painted, chro- 
moed, wood and steel-engraved, crayoned 
and cartooned. From one point of view it 
may seem something of a reflection upon 
his unselfish life to do his picture in bris¬ 
tles, but this has been done by a brush- 
maker in this city, and the result is an 
ingenious and artistic piece of work, a 
trifle coarse when looked at closely, but 
at a little distance resembling an oil paint¬ 
ing. About 10 shades of coloring may be 
seen. The expression is correct, although 
perhaps a trifle stern. The picture is 
about three feet by two, and is made in 
sections. The bristles are set closely to¬ 
gether and are as fine as those of a soft 
hat brush. The general appearance of the 
work is quite similar to that of the genu¬ 
ine Turkish rug. w. w. H. 
Book Bulletin. 
Handrook of American Wild Flowers, 
by F. Schuyler Mathews. Flower lovers 
who have no knowledge of systematic bot¬ 
any often complain that the ordinary text¬ 
book is of no value to them as an aid to 
identification, because the scientific de¬ 
scription conveys no idea of the plant. Mr. 
Mathews remedies this by giving an ac¬ 
curate description in simple language, ac¬ 
companied by a picture, drawn from na¬ 
ture. As regards color of flowers, the au¬ 
thor observes: “In botanical and ornitho¬ 
logical works we find such color names as 
fuscous, rufous, vinaceous, ferruginous, 
rose-jpurple, greenish purple, etc.; they 
mean nothing at all to one who is not a 
scientist, and I half suspect they mean but 
little to one who is.” He bases his color 
discrimination upon the 18 ordinary tints 
sold by color dealers, thus giving an unal¬ 
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colored pictures and a copious list of draw¬ 
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are 552 pages, with valuable indexes and 
glossary. It is of convenient size to slip 
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net; postage 10 cents additional. 
STRAWBERRY FIELD MEETING. 
The second annual strawberry meeting 
at the fruit farm of T. C. Kevitt, Athenia. 
N. J., was held June 12. About 75 fruit 
growers and others interested in horticul¬ 
ture were present. The weather was favor¬ 
able, and the berries in fine condition for 
testing and comparing varieties. Mr. Ke¬ 
vitt has about five acres in strawberries. 
His plants apparently have not heard of 
the drought, which has dwarfed so many 
of the Jersey and South Atlantic States 
berries this season. Constant cultivation 
until fruiting time has kept a dust mulch 
on the surface, and seems to have scared 
away all of the weeds, as scarcely one is 
to be seen in the long rows. On this farm 
Glen Mary is proving itself the greatest 
money-maker. A patch of this variety is 
yielding not far from 20,000 quarts to the 
acre. The bed is in matted rows. It has 
been set seven years, and each year built 
up or renewed by removing worn-out or 
unpromising plants and leaving runners to 
take their places. A gang of pickers were 
hauling in money quite rapidly. Two cents 
per quart is the price paid, and as high as 
$6 per day has been made oy some. An 
illustration of the freakish actions of a 
variety under different conditions was seen 
in the remark of another grower who has 
a large plantation of Glen Mary which he 
is going to root out, as the fruit is too soft 
for market. Evidently there is something 
unfavorable to this variety in his condi¬ 
tions or management. 
The greatest single exhibit was a small 
bed of Sample, a variety on which Mr. Ke¬ 
vitt won the highest award at the Pan- 
American Exposition. Single plants set in 
August, 1901, are now yielding over a quart 
of berries. The frhit is large and uniform, 
color is as near perfection as one could 
ask, being between the Haverland, which, 
while attractive, is a trifle light for the 
general market, and the Marshall, which 
is too dark to take well in some markets. 
This beautiful berry has a glossy surface 
and the large green hull so necessary to 
make a berry show up well. The quality 
is surprisingly good for fruit of this size, 
and, as grown by Mr. Kevitt, it holds up 
well enough to ship a reasonable distance. 
Oom Paul, the large berry originated by 
I. S. Palmer, of Stuyvesant, N. Y., at¬ 
tracted considerable attention, but was not 
in condition to be seen at its best. A trial 
bed of six long rows mulched with straw 
was interesting, giving an opportunity to 
see the behavior of different varieties un¬ 
der the same conditions. Among other va¬ 
rieties in this bed were Pride of Cumber¬ 
land, Tennessee, Palmer Early, Nic Ohmer, 
Excelsior, Ridgeway, Haverland, Brandy¬ 
wine, Kansas, Oom Paul, Bismarck, New 
York, Bubach, DeWet, Twilight, Jersey 
Market, McKinley, Jessie, Hero, Howell 
and 16 unnamed seedlings, some of which 
appear fairly promising. As Mr. Kevitt 
disposes of most of his berries in the local 
All Sorts. 
Australia is taking advantage of the 
crowds in London during the Coronation 
to advertise her fruits. The last week in 
April the Victorian Minister for Agricul¬ 
ture shipped 100 cases of selected apples to 
London. Each one was wrapped in tissue 
paper, bearing the stamp of the Victorian 
government and the name of the variety. 
Mapes, the Hen Man, interests me very 
much. We have 107 hens now, and they 
are doing well. I would like to know what 
kind of hens he keeps most largely, and 
which he likes best for all-around layers. 
We keep Brown Leghorns; in March we 
got 1,346 eggs; April, 2,04S; May, 1,931. We 
have hatched about 140 chickens, a. j. r. 
Lathrop, Pa. 
Twenty-eight pounds of average milk 
contain one pound of protein. It takes 
seven pounds of digestible protein for the 
bare maintenance of a 1,000-pound cow. 
Will some one tell us how cows can give 
30 to 40 pounds of milk per day on rations 
that contain two pounds or less of digest¬ 
ible protein? Where are the cows that 
are doing it? h. g. m. 
Liquid Gluten.—I notice what is said 
about this on page 352. It is the resultant 
fluid obtained from the treatment of cor:: 
(mainly) after the starch has been elimin¬ 
ated, and contains acids in some cases and 
caustic alkalies in others. Starch compan¬ 
ies have expended thousands in attempts 
to prepare it for feeding, but to no avail. 
The cost is too great and it is permitted 
to escape into the river adjacent to the 
works. h. 
Fire Insurance.—I n The R. N.-Y. of 
May 31 appeared an article on fire insur¬ 
ance suggesting some reform in appraising 
the value of property Insured, and I cer¬ 
tainly think there should be some way to 
stop the friction that might cause a fire 
from carrying too much insurance. I would 
suggest that the State pass a law that the 
insurance companies shall pay the full 
amount for which they write the policy, 
and that would stop all over-valuation and 
“friction.” New Hampshire passed such a 
law several years ago, and it works satis¬ 
factorily. j. s. H. 
New York. _ 
Tough Grass for Geese. 
I was interested in J. S. Woodward’s ar¬ 
ticle on geese, page 331. I have a meadow 
of about three acres with a brook running 
through it, which produces grass like sam¬ 
ple enclosed. Would this grass be of value 
as a goose pasture or could the land be 
made to produce grass that would be suit¬ 
able? The land cannot be plowed, as it is 
too soft, and cannot be drained, but the 
surface is comparatively dry, and the grass 
now growing there makes a sod strong 
enough to hold up a team. s. s. c. 
Hardwick, Vt. 
The grass sent is a swale or sedge 
grass, and not at all like Eel grass. I 
doubt whether geese would eat it at all. 
Eel grass grows in running water, has a 
long flat leaf, very pulpy and soft, and 
geese are very fond of it. Leaves are 
often from four to 10 feet long, and they 
are never above the surface of the water. 
I have had no experience with land such 
as is described, and so cannot safely ad¬ 
vise as to its treatment. When our 
geese are not in the creek eating Eel 
grass they run on Blue-grass pasture or ] 
in a field of rape, sown near, of which 
they are very fond. So as before said, 
between the Eel grass in creek, Blue 
grass pasture and rape field .they get | 
their whole living. j. s. woodward. 
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