1902 
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MARKET NOTES 
FRESH FRUITS.—A few new southern 
apples are on hand, the best being Georgia 
Astrachans. The small green ones from 
Maryland and Delaware meet a slow sale. 
The receipts of Georgia peaches are In¬ 
creasing, but many are so green or other¬ 
wise inferior that they bring but small 
prices. Southern plums are plentiful, the 
quality of many being better than usual. 
Some excellent blackberries are seen, the 
cultivated ones from Maryland being large 
and arriving in good condition. Straw¬ 
berry receipts are dropping off. A few 
up-river Gandys are selling high as 15 
cents, while 12 appears to be the top for 
western New York berries at present. 
CALIFORNIA ORANGE shipments for 
the season now practically ended were 
4,935,S70 boxes, a decrease of nearly 3,000,000 
boxes from the previous season. At New 
York 778,662 boxes were received, nearly 
300,000 boxes short of last year. In those 
that we have observed the proportion of 
large fine navels has been less than usual, 
with an increase of the dry, cotton-flavored 
type. In spite of the short crop growers 
have reason to be pleased with the re¬ 
turns, as prices in many cases have been 
nearly double those of last season. Wash¬ 
ington navels have sold at higher figures 
than were ever before received in New 
York. 
HORSE ANTICS.—A truck horse stood 
before a commission house at the noon 
hour. It was sleepy weather. Perhaps he 
was tired, and, while standing in the hot 
sun it was not strange that he got drowsy, 
lie evidently became unconscious in sleep, 
for all at once his legs gave out and down 
he dropped. Of course this waked him 
thoroughly, and he scrambled to his feet 
and stood properly in the shafts before the 
driver, who was disgusted at such actions, 
could get to him. Another horse dis¬ 
played an expansionist policy during a 
street block which brought him in the vi¬ 
cinity of a pushcart loaded with bananas. 
He had been standing with an air of deep 
thought while his driver engaged in a 
heart-to-heart talk with the teamster re¬ 
sponsible for the block, and was doubt¬ 
less carrying out the result of his equine 
reflctions when he reached over and 
grabbed a “hand” of bananas from the 
pushcart. His driver jerked at the lines, 
and the Greek danced about wildly filling 
the air with classical objurgations, but the 
horse, his jaws circled with a fringe of 
bananas, munched away joyously at the 
dainty he had forcibly annexed. It is not 
likely that the Greek received much con¬ 
solation; the teamster was in no way re¬ 
sponsible, ana the police were more likely 
to order the pushcart man to move on 
than to listen to his tale of woe. 
COAL MATTERS.—The continued idle¬ 
ness in the anthracite districts, owing to 
the strike, has brought about a peculiar 
state of affairs in the coal market. Where 
there are no restrictions in regard to burn¬ 
ing soft coal it is used freely. In this city 
there is an ordinance against its use, which 
has been quite well enforced. On this 
account New York, while thickly peppered 
with mills and factories, has had the repu¬ 
tation of having the clearest atmosphere 
of any large business town in the world. 
To have the anthracite supply cut short 
was a serious matter to large coal users. 
Many evidently thought that enforcement 
of the ordinance would be suspended for 
a time, and at once started to use soft 
coal. The most serious offenders were the 
elevated railroad engines, which poured 
clouds of black, sticky smoke Into the 
windows in the residence districts. The 
Health Department was at once flooded 
with complaints, and took such severe 
action that conditions are now much im¬ 
proved. Astonishing prices are being paid 
for hard coal here. The sale of a cargo 
of 400 tons of pea coal is reported at $6. 
Before the strike the same grade brought 
$2.70. Other anthracite runs trom $8 up, 
and is hard to get at any price. A harvest 
has been made by small dealers within a 
radius of 50 to 100 miles of New York, 
who had full stocks on hand before the 
strike, which have found quick buyers 
here. One shipment of this sort from as 
far north as Albany is reported. 
BUTTER.—The receipts, while heavy, 
are being rapidly disposed of, not to con¬ 
sumers, but for storage on speculation. 
Storing any large quantity of butter at 
22 cents or over is an unusual proceeding, 
the wisdom of which is much doubted by 
many practical butter men. It seems 
hardly possible that anyone should store 
butter In the hope of any greatly increased 
price as the result of the oleomargarine 
law in effect July 1. An opinion heard 
occasionally is that this large storage 
movement is the work of the oleo makers, 
who intend to corner butter and force the 
price to a fabulous figure. Whoever is do¬ 
ing it may find the profit in 22-cent storage 
butter an exceedingly slippery commodity. 
PIE is a rather indefinite term under 
the cloak of which numerous combinations 
of supposed eatables offer themselves to 
the public. As the New York man meets 
it in lunch rooms it may be tender with a 
thin crust, merely a lid for the well-cooked 
fruit beneath; or of able-bodied or gone- 
to-seed texture, requiring a case-hardened 
instrument to dissect it. Several com¬ 
panies make a business of pie baking for 
the eating-house trade, distributing their 
product with delivery wagons. These are 
covered and have a hallway through the 
center with movable trays loaded with 
pies on each side. One delivery man 
slipped as he was handling one of these 
trays on the street, and 25 or 30 pies were 
scattered about. The apple, dried-peach and 
other fully matured, tight-top-crust pies 
stood the jar without serious damage; but 
the custard, cocoanut and woven-wire-top- 
crust sorts were hopelessly wrecked. In 
the same vicinity another kind of pie was 
seen, usually spelled pi, and familiar to 
printers. A man with a wheelbarrow was 
taking two “forms” of type along the side¬ 
walk, when he slipped and upset the load 
in the gutter, making pi of the type. The 
vision of an irate composing-room fore¬ 
man and a still more wrathy employer 
was doubtless the caus6 of the dismay 
with which he looked at the ruin. 
STRAY NOTES.—Egypt produces a qual¬ 
ity of raw sugar which is said to contain 
more sweetening power than that obtained 
elsewhere. The land where it grows was 
but a few years ago a desert, but has been 
made productive by irrigation from the 
Nile. A cargo of 5,000 tons of this sugar 
was recently received at Philadelphia. 
. . . . The Bureau of Foreign Com¬ 
merce at Washington states that the ship¬ 
ments of American machinery to Russia 
during 1901 were the greatest on record, 
one firm having done more than $1,000,000 
worth of business in this line. Certain 
kinds of agricultural machinery are ad¬ 
mitted free of duty. Steam thrashers, 
harvesters and other implements used in 
large operations, are well known; but the 
smaller implements, such as plows, culti¬ 
vators and seeding machines are but little 
used, as the average small farmer in that 
country is not at all progressive. . . . 
A union of the large ice cream makers of 
this city appears to be probable. This 
business, coming up from a small begin- 
ing, has proved very profitable. While 
much heavier in Summer, the trade is fair 
all the year, as hotels and restaurants 
find quite a demand for this product for 
desserts even in cold weather. The cream 
made in this city is shipped to many places 
100 miles or more distant, and some of 
the manufactured article goes back to the 
same dairy districts from which the cream 
was shipped to New York. One reason for 
this is that the quality is better and more 
uniform than that of most local makers 
who have not the experience and facilities 
for this work. The combined net profits 
of the two leading manufacturers here are 
said to be about $200,000 per year. 
The wool market is very firm, and the 
clip of 1902 is being rapidly bought by the 
trade at strong prices. Figures of sales 
recently reported are: Ohio and Pennsyl¬ 
vania XX, 26@27 cents; Michigan X, 22@24; 
Ohio fine delaine, 28@29; Michigan coarse, 
23@25. _ 
FRUIT IN THE HUDSON VALLEY. 
Strawberries in the lower Hudson River 
Valley are things of the past. The crop 
was light, but quality good and prices 
high. The early Spring promise of fruit 
will not be realized in this section. There 
was an abundance of bloom, but the 
cold weather has been unfavorable, and 
the yield will be short of a full crop in 
most fruits, though I find some exceptions 
in almost every line. At Dwyer’s Nur¬ 
series in Cornwall, where we usually find 
fruit of every kind bearing a full crop, 
strawberries have been estimated at 35 per 
cent of crop; cherries are exceedingly 
light, and plums no better. He has no 
early apples and his Baldwin, Rhode 
Island Greening and Russet will hardly 
yield more than 60 per cent of full crop. 
His White Grape currants show a full 
crop, but the reds are at least 40 per cent 
short. Blackberries and red raspberries 
were badly hurt during the last Winter, 
and the crop of both will be exceptionally 
light. The blackberries with Mr. Dwyer 
will probably yield a quarter crop, and red 
raspberries not over half a crop; but his 
blackcaps are bearing full crop. His 
peaches are bearing well on young trees. 
Some trees show lack of foliage, especi¬ 
ally in the middle of the trees, but there 
is a fair promise of fruit, and if future 
conditions are favorable, he will have a 
good crop. 
John R. Cornell, of Newburgh, makes his 
usual good showing on peaches, pears and 
currants. I think he gets uniformly the 
best foliage in the Hudson Valley, especi¬ 
ally on pears and peaches. It is possibly 
partly due to his location, and protection 
of high mountains to the west, but more 
particularly, I think, to fertility, culture 
and care. Mr. Cornell knows every tree 
in his grounds just as a herdsman knows 
his individual cows, and each one is treat¬ 
ed for its particular needs. He will have 
a full crop of Bartlett and a good crop of 
Seckel and of peaches. 
At Mountainville, Cyrus Shaw shows an 
orchard of Pippins that will give him a 
full crop. He has, all told, in this orchard 
the best promise of apples that I have 
seen. Among the other varieties some 
trees are well loaded, but the majority 
run light. There have been heavy drop¬ 
pings, and this has continued up to the 
present time. H. C. Lee, of Cornwall, has 
a good crop of gooseberries and a fine 
promise of grapes, especially Delaware. 
His red raspberries will probably run one- 
half crop. J. W. Spencer, of the same 
place, was picking currants. They looked 
a little green for the market, but were fair 
yield and good appearance. He has an 
exceptional show for Baldwin apples. W. 
C. Heard, of Mountainville, was picking 
cherries. He was topping his eight-pound 
baskets off nicely, and has been rewarded 
for his pains in the return of 65 cents per 
basket from the New York market. His 
currants are ripe and the canes are well 
loaded—rather the fullest crop that I have 
seen. ________ J ‘ v ‘ 
Bulletin No. 98, of the Lexington, Ky., 
Experiment Station, gives an excellent ac¬ 
count of the work of leguminous plants 
as nitrogen gatherers; the tubercles on the 
roots; the bacteria causing the tubercles; 
how the bacteria get into the roots, and 
how they may be disseminated by natural 
means. Also analyses of legumes and 
allied plants. 
Griffin’s Broom Corn News states that 
220 growers in Illinois have about 7,453 
acres, the acreage for the whole State be¬ 
ing 13 per cent larger than last year, al¬ 
though 25 per cent less than in 1900. Many 
farmers have gone out of the business, as 
other crops have paid better, and it is 
difficult to get sufficient help to handle 
the broom corn, which must be harvested 
at just the right time. Early in the sea¬ 
son it was thought that a large amount 
of wheat land in Kansas would be plowed 
up for broom corn, but the rains have im¬ 
proved the wheat so that more than was 
expected will be saved. The total stock of 
brush in all hands now Is estimated at 7,000 
to 8,000 tons, which will probably be used 
up before the new crop Is in the market. 
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have been improving ever since. I 
am now in good health for one of my 
age—6o years. I owe it all to Doctor 
Pierce’s medicines.” 
Mark. 
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