1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
793 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Ne v York. 
MAR KET NO fES 
FRESH FRUITS.—The receipts of apples 
are heavy with a large proportion much 
under first quality. The range of prices at 
present is from 75 cents to $3.50. A few 
fancy pears are selling at high prices, but 
we see large quantities of small inferior 
Kieffers in open barrels, which are really 
worthless and go for almost any price that 
a buyer sees fit to offer. Grapes are plenti¬ 
ful and selling well at a trifle below former 
prices. Comparatively few nave been sold 
on the streets by the hucksters with 
wagons this Fall, as the retail price is too 
high. In order to make them go quickly 
in this way a retail price as low as 10 cents 
per small basket is necessary. 
FIRE NOTES.—During October, for the 
United States and Canada, there were re¬ 
ported 158 fires of a destructiveness of not 
less than $10,000 each. Of this number seven 
were from $250,000 to $400,000; six from 
$150,000 to $225,000; 38 from $50,000 to $125,000, 
and 107 from $10,000 to $45,000. The distri¬ 
bution of fires by States was as follows: 
New York, 25; Michigan, 13; Texas, 12; 
Illinois, 11; New Jersey and Alabama, six; 
Minnesota and Massachusetts, five: Mary¬ 
land, Tennessee, North Dakota and In¬ 
diana, four; Maine, Wisconsin, Kansas and 
California, three; Iowa, Arkansas, Con¬ 
necticut, Vermont, Virginia, North Caro¬ 
lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Missouri, 
Oregon and Washington, two, and Ken¬ 
tucky, Louisiana, West Virginia, Montana 
and Indian Territory, one. Among the 
losses were. 35 mills and factories; 25 
stores; 21 elevators and warehouses; 11 
lumber plants; nine hotels; eight stables 
and farm buildings; three ice plants, and 
one church, cider mill, brewery and casket 
factory. 
EGGS.—Receivers complain that a large 
percentage of present arrivals contain 
stale stock. Strictly fancy eggs are firm, 
and there are but few in sight. Holders of 
refrigerator eggs are taking advantage of 
the opportunity for unloading offered by 
the scarcity of fresh goods, and some sales 
at 21 cents are noted. Many of these 
mixed eggs come from country stores 
where produce is taken in trade. In some 
instances but little attention is paid to the 
eggs brought to these stores in lots of one 
to 10 dozens or more. Those that look par¬ 
ticularly bad may be tested and rejected, 
but the rule is to put the different lots into 
one receptacle, some a day old, some a 
week, and others three weeks or more. 
When these mixed lots are crated and 
shipped to a distant market, the results 
are far from satisfactory. The eggs which 
had been held so long by the px-oducer that 
they were just at the danger point, 
actually become stale on the way. If 
producers would make it a rule to dispose 
of what they have for sale every week, 
and not put in “stolen” nests of uncer¬ 
tain age that are found, much of this 
“mixed” nuisance, which causes so much 
trouble in the markets, would be done 
away with. We have heard conversations 
like this. The man of the house is going 
to the village Saturday night to do some 
trading. His wife says: 
“John, you’d better take the eggs.” 
“How many are there?” 
“Three dozen.” 
“O, let them go until next Saturday.” 
Perhaps the rain keeps him from going 
the next week, and there lie the eggs 
which ought to be on their way to the 
consumer. 
BUTTER.—Offerings of fresh fancy 
creamery are light, and most trading in 
this grade is being done on the basis ot 
26 cents. Here and there are reports of 
very high scoring lots bringing a premium 
over this figure, but not enough to warrant 
a quotation. Choice firsts are meeting a 
good demand, but lower grades are dull and 
suffer by competition with storage cream¬ 
ery, which is moving quite well. The sup¬ 
ply of State dairy is light, with consider¬ 
able call for fine Fall-made. There are 
always a lot of under grades on the mar¬ 
ket which are a disgrace to the butter 
trade and properly belong in the soap- 
grease barrel. It has been our observation 
that retail buyers are more particular 
than they formerly were, more calling for 
the “best” butter. We hope this sentiment 
will grow until the inferior stuff is crowd¬ 
ed out. A large restaurant in this city, 
which has a reputation for clean and 
wholesome cooking, puts the butter on 
the tables in small slabs with a chunk of 
ice on top. Ordinarily the butter is good, 
but at one table was a chunk that would 
make a sap sago cheese turn pale with 
discouragement. When the waiter's at¬ 
tention was called to it, he captured it 
and hustled it ofL remarking that they 
had made a mis 'ake and got some cooking 
butter on the tfble! The custom of using 
butter of this c diber in cookery is a base 
ambushy attach upon the personal liberty 
of the consumin ' public. If anyone wishes 
to attempt to persuade the writer to eat 
such stuff, he prefers to have it offered in 
undisguised and refusable form. It is 
true that in high-seasoned cookery this 
rancid butter may go without being de¬ 
tected, but the practice is an abomina¬ 
tion. Where does the poor butter come 
from? Part of it is spoiled in transporta¬ 
tion or storage, and part was never good. 
No matter what the cause it should be 
outlawed for the good of the butter indus¬ 
try. Dairymen who cannot produce a rea¬ 
sonably good quality, at least free from 
taint, should learn better or go out of the 
business. A Philadelphia newspaper prints 
the following: 
“Owing to the condition of the local but¬ 
ter market, the sales of oleomargarine 
during the coming Winter will probably 
be greater than at any period during the 
last two years. The number of dealers 
applying at the Internal Revenue Office for 
tax receipts to sell the product is increas¬ 
ing daily. Yellow oleo as a substitute for 
butter can be sold at 14 to 16 cents a pound, 
retail, including the payment of a 10-eent 
tax. The best grades can be bought at 22 
to 24 cents a pound, tax paid.” 
It is quite likely that an increased quan¬ 
tity of oleomargarine will be sold as such 
during the coming Winter, because it is 
more difficult to palm it off for real butter 
now than before it was put under Federal 
authority. It is doubtful, however, whether 
any more than formerly will actually be 
sold. The only difference will be that 
some people will buy and eat it, knowing 
what it is, instead of thinking that they 
have butter. The fact that it can be re¬ 
tailed at a profit at 14 to 16 cents, after 
paying the 10-cent tax is interesting, 
showing the money maker it has been 
when sold as butter at butter prices. 
Dairymen can ask nothing more than that 
the oleo tub bear its own label and stand 
upon its own bottom. The severe regula¬ 
tions adopted appeared to be the only 
means of accomplishing this. w. w. h. 
Death of Nelson Cox. 
Nelson Cox, the pioneer orchardist of 
southern Ohio, died at his home at Ensee, 
Lawrence County, October 30. Mr. Cox was 
born at Cox’s Landing, W. Va., May 21, 
1828. In 1854 he came to Lawrence County 
and settled on the farm which has ever 
since been the scene of his life work. Mr. 
Cox was one of the oldest, most progressive 
and successful fruit growers of the State, 
and we are glad to know that he lived to 
see harvested the “banner crop” of his 
great orchard thus far—the yield of 1902— 
which is over 3,000 barrels of apples. Nel¬ 
son Cox did a great deal to popularize the 
Rome Beauty apple, which originated near 
his farm, and the Rome Beauty, in turn, 
made his own name famous throughout 
the Middle States, by the quantity and 
quality of that variety he was able to pro¬ 
duce upon his soil and place upon the mar¬ 
ket. Mr. Cox visited the Ohio State Fair 
in September, where the writer met him 
for the first and last time, and had a very 
pleasant talk with him. It was with al¬ 
most boyish enthusiasm that he spoke of 
his great orchard of beautiful apples, 
which promised so much at that date, and 
which has since broken all previous records 
as to bushels and dollars. 
Mr. Cox leaves an aged widow, five 
daughters and two sons. The latter, E. G. 
and U. T. Cox, are not unknown to R. 
N.-Y. readers, perhaps, as both are wide¬ 
awake, up-to-date horticulturists and oc¬ 
casional contributors to che horticultural 
press. It is pleasant to think that the 
great work to which Nelson Cox has de¬ 
voted a lifetime will fall upon the shoulders 
of those who are lovers of beautiful fruits, 
and who will do honor to their father and 
his chosen calling by bestowing the “best 
that is in them” upon commercial orchard¬ 
ing. This means that the energy and 
push that characterize the new century will 
be brought to bear upon the enterprise so 
successfully established. f. h. ballou. 
Ohio. 
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The dyspeptic may well be represented 
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"Your ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ has per¬ 
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Park Ridge, N. J. 
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