1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
761 
20 CASH PRIZES 
Our old friends are doing nicely in the 
way of sending new names, but few are 
hunting for big clubs. The small orders 
for three or four and up to 10 names 
never came in as fast as during the past 
two or three weeks. We need them to 
feed this new press, and we feel that 
our old friends are going to see that we 
get them. At the present time The R. 
N.-Y. has five times the circulation of 
any other agricultural paper published 
in the State of New' York. 
This is a good time for new subscrib¬ 
ers to come in. Those who pay a dollar 
now for next year will get the remaining 
issues of this year free, as we begin the 
subscription with January 1. Remember 
we have 20 cash prizes for club raisers. 
If you do not know all about it send for 
terms. THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
New York. 
MARKET NOTES 
GRAPES.—Receipts continue light, and 
prices for anything choice are high. The 
label idea is taking deeper root in the minds 
of consumers. Those who last year got 
certain brands that proved superior are 
after the same brand and label number 
again, taking the grapes without even look¬ 
ing at them, and looking at unlabeled fruit 
with suspicion. Bulk grapes sell at two, 
and in some cases, three times last year’s 
figures, Delawares in trays having brought 
as high as $100 per ton. 
POTATOES have in some cases reached 
$2 or a little better; $1.75 is the lowest fig¬ 
ure noted for fair tubers at present. Buyers 
are quite active. We can see no reason to 
expect lower prices so long as receipts con¬ 
tinue of their present moderate dimensions. 
Many of the southern sweets on hand are 
poor and sell at less than $1.50. South Jer¬ 
sey stock sells well. The Island of Jersey in 
the English Channel, is particularly adapt¬ 
ed to potato growing. The Gardeners' 
Chronicle states that during the present 
season 66,625 tons of potatoes have been ex¬ 
ported from the island, bringing about $1,- 
900,000. 
APPLES.—There is still a large quantity 
of smutty and otherwise damaged fruit on 
hand, but a larger proportion of reasonably 
fair apples is seen this week. It is quite 
likely that an improvement in quality may 
be noted for some time, as many growers 
have been rushing off this inferior fruit, 
which spoils quickly if stored. We have 
seen barrels of large, fair and otherwise 
choice Greenings so spotted with this black 
fungus that a would-be customer said: 
‘‘Don’t want them at any price,” as soon 
as t’he barrel was opened. It is hardly 
necessary to say that nothing of this sort 
should be packed in boxes with the idea of 
getting an increased price. This practice 
is what has set some eastern apple dealers 
against the box, and from the specimens 
that we have seen we do not wonder that 
they prefer to have such stuff barreled. 
There 'have been a few Pacific coast apples 
on hand of the Alexander variety, which 
sold for over $1 in spite of the large quan¬ 
tity of cheap fruit on hand. Not many 
Pacific coast apples are expected until 
later, and the amount sent then will de¬ 
pend upon the ruling price for good fruit 
here. An occasional lot of extra choice 
apples sells for $3 per barrel, but $1.50 to $2 
will cover most of the business, w. w. h. 
WHY THE TREE MAN DEPARTED. 
An Illinois friend sends us the following 
little story—taken from a local paper: 
‘‘Talk about new and wonderful trees, 
plants and seeds,” said the enthusiastic 
agent, “I have got a list of novelties no 
enterprising, wide-awake farmer can af¬ 
ford to do without!” 
“Have you?” said the honest tiller of the 
soil, as a strange glitter crept into 'his eyes. 
“Yes, sir. I can sell you a pie plant from 
which you can grow mince, custard, lemon, 
cream or any other kind of pie while you 
wait. It is a mighty convenient plant to 
have around, because one never knows 
what minute a lot of unexpected company 
may come, and even the best of families 
are sometimes caught without a pie in the 
house.” 
“I guess you’re right,” said the old 
farmer. 
“And I have here an illustration, show¬ 
ing a new and wonderful variety of straw¬ 
berry plants, the pollen of w'hich has been 
crossed with the finest grades of pulverized 
sugar and Winter wheat flour, thus pro¬ 
ducing shortcake ready for the table. 
The picture as you see, is very attractive, 
but it does the subject nowhere near jus¬ 
tice.” 
“Have you got a sample of the cake with 
you?” asked the confiding farmer. 
“Sorry, but I just gave the last piece to 
a man I met half a mile down the road, and 
to whom I sold a large number of plants, 
as he is going to open a restaurant next 
Spring. But,” concluded t’he agent, “here 
ai’e things equally wonderful and desirable. 
I can sell you egg plant that will produce 
chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and all 
sorts of fowls. I have bird seed from 
which you can grow everything, from hum¬ 
ming birds to bald eagles.” 
“All from the same lot o’ seed?” inquired 
the farmer. 
“Oh, yes, to be sure,” answered the 
agent. “It’s mixed bird seed, you see. And 
I have horse chestnuts that will produce a 
livery stable in 90 days, and plum'and apple 
trees that will yield an abundance of pud¬ 
ding and dumplings ready to be eaten. I 
have also a variety of peac'h tree that was 
budded with a preparation of ground tin, 
and now it produces the peaches all put 
in cans, ready for Winter use.” 
“Well I’ll just be hanged ef that ain’t 
an idee,” said the listener. “Any can 
opener grow with it?” he added. 
“Well, no, I’ll not deceive you,” said the 
agent, “by saying there is, but we hope 
soon to remedy that defect.” 
“Wall, let me tell ye, stranger,” said the 
honest old farmer, “you’re way behind the 
times. The last agent that was here had 
them ready canned peach trees, and with 
every can there would grow a can-opener, 
a corkscrew, a pencil sharpener and a 
stump-puller. No can-opener, eh? Well, 
I can’t buy of you, ’cause I don’t want my 
neighbors to know that I am fool enough 
to buy old-fashioned, back-number trees 
that are clear out of style. They’d give 
me the laugh sure.” And then turning to a 
freckled-faced boy who had been listening 
at a safe distance, he said: “Hennie, let 
Tige out of the barn. He hasn’t had noth¬ 
ing to eat for three days.” 
And the tree man departed. 
A TOWN MAN TURNS FARMER. 
The following record of actual experience 
will appeal to some of those who think of 
leaving a city job for a farm. It isn’t all 
sunshine at either end—there is plenty of 
shade in both situations: 
“I formerly worked in a shop in town. I 
have had the “hen fever” for the past eight 
years, haven’t got over it yet, so in 1896, 
having saved about $600, I bought a little 
farm for $1,100, paying $450 down and giv¬ 
ing mortgage for $650. The balance of my 
$600 was used up in moving here, with a few 
other expenses, so when I got ’here in Sep¬ 
tember, 1896, I had about $50 and a horse, 
buggy and light wagon. No tools went 
with the place, so I had to buy or hire 
everything, and support a family of four. 
There are about 50 acres of cord wood on 
the place, so I started in to cut that. The 
first Winter I got out about 50 cords which 
sold for $1.75 per cord, and got a pair of 
very sore hands. It was my first attempt 
at cutting wood. When Spring came I got 
a tliree-year-old cow and a pig. I started 
in by borrowing all the sitting hens I could 
get hold of, and hatched about 300 chicks, 
raising about 125 pullets. I had to run in 
debt for the grain to feed them, and 
thought they would never lay the first egg. 
As 1 knew absolutely nothing about farm¬ 
ing except what I had picked out of books 
and papers, everything came very ’hard. 
However, that Summer I raised all the 
vegetables needed for our family, and had 
a little to sell. In June, 1897, I secured the 
sub-contract to carry the mail on a three- 
mile route for four years at $114 per year, 
and when the contracts were let in 1900 I 
secured the contract for four years more 
at $150 per year. I am beginning to learn 
a little of farming, and now have nearly 
all the tools I absolutely require, although 
a sulky plow and riding cultivator are 
hopes of the near future. I have cut my 
mortgage down to $400, and this year I ’have 
50 cords of hard wood for sale, which I 
could not well get out of the woods on 
account of lack of snow last Winter. It 
will now bring a good price on account of 
the coal strike, and it looks like plain sail¬ 
ing from now on. My farm lies on a point 
of land with salt water on each side of it, 
and the sea weed, which consists of Eel 
grass and Rock weed, is cast up in large 
quantities in the Fall, only costing the 
hauling. We pile in large heaps and it is 
well rotted by Spring. Potatoes, cabbage 
and turnips do well on it, but other vege¬ 
tables do not seem to like it on account of 
salt. I planted quite a lot of field corn and 
squashes on it last Spring, and they did 
nothing. It is pretty hard trying to make 
a living and at the same time pay off a 
mortgage on a run-out farm, but if nothing 
unforeseen happens, I shall do it, I like the 
life in the open air, have not paid one cent 
for doctors since I moved here, can get 
fresh fish, clams and lobsters at any time, 
and vegetables in their season, and am my 
own boss with no factory whistles to listen 
to as a warning.” 
I would use Missouri Pippin as a “filler” 
in an orchard to obtain quick crops while 
other varieties were coming on. It bears 
early, is handsome, bright-colored, always 
in demand. As tree grows old it is not so 
good in fruit or tree growth. A. z. M. 
Mountain Grove, Mo. 
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mon cold from the uncommon we could 
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has fastened its 
hold on the 
lungs, and there 
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