1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
841 
MARKET MOTES 
DISEASED CATTLE.—The foot-and- 
mouth disease scare is likely to affect east¬ 
ern cattle markets for some time. Great 
Britain has already quarantined the New 
England States. Shipments from Boston 
for English ports amounting to $15,000 in 
freight charges have been held up, and 
cattle on the way from the West for ship¬ 
ment from Boston will be sent to other 
ports. Roughly speaking from 500,000 to 
two-thirds of a million head of cattle are 
annually exported from the United States 
to Great Britain, to be slaughtered there 
for the trade that does not wish refriger¬ 
ator beef. A most serious feature of this 
outbreak is the fact that the disease be¬ 
came so thoroughly established before its 
existence became generally known. Keep¬ 
ing such a matter secret is as misguided 
a policy as that of the man who suspects 
that he has smallpox, but does not say 
anything about it for fear he will be 
quarantined. So he peddles the disease 
around, merely putting off the crisis and 
augmenting the damage. Public safety 
and a reasonable consideration for prop¬ 
erty demand that a disease so dangerous as 
the foot-and-mouth plague should be most 
carefully guarded against, and the law 
should provide for the severe punishment 
of anyone willfully hiding it. 
THANKSGIVING SHORTAGE.—Dressed 
poultry dealers who were expecting the 
Thanksgiving trade to add a large, slice to 
their yearly profits were disappointed. 
Several dealers told us that they were 500 
packages or more short of the consign¬ 
ments usually received. A conservative 
estimate would place the shortage for this 
entire market at about* 10,000 packages. 
Turkeys were especially scarce, and retail 
prices climbed to such a height that a 
good many people did without, feeling that 
the thought that they were eating turkey at 
20 and 25 cents per pound would not tend to 
Iiromote a spirit of thankfulness. This re¬ 
fers to the better grades of poultry. Dur¬ 
ing the last two days of the market a 
good many lots of delayed stock came in, 
stuff that ought to have been on hand 
Monday, The mild rainy -weather had befen 
too much for some of it, which would 
hardly bear looking at. There is always 
a risk in shipping dry-packed poultry, al¬ 
though it is preferred when in good condi¬ 
tion. If it is badly delayed or strikes warm 
■weather on the way, it is iikely to be 
spoiled. The same may happen with de¬ 
layed iced poultry, in which case it arrives 
minus ice and in a state of slipperiness that 
an eel might envy. The health inspectors 
condemn some of this, but it is hard to 
draw the line in many cases, so consider¬ 
able is sold that, while not dangerous to 
health, is certainly not desirable as food. 
COMMERCIAL APPLES.—This word 
"commercial” is a much emphasized and 
hard-worked one. It is tiresome and even 
painful to see excellent varieties of apples, 
having peculiar merits possessed by no 
others, made to toe the dollars-and-cents 
mark and sometimes elbowed away by a 
burly ruffian whose only market recom¬ 
mendations are his red face, leathery hide 
and fi.osh and numerousness. An idea is 
afloat that any apple that is not a 
"money-maker” must take a back seat. 
Thus varieties of superior quality have 
been dropped, which might be grown with 
profit if a little special work in marketing 
were done. Prof. Waugh has done service 
to horticulture by calling attention to sev¬ 
eral of these excellent varieties that havo 
been laid aside from the general market 
His remarks on the Mother apple on first 
page should make fruit growers thoughtful. 
Is it possible that there are no people in 
the great city markets who are willing to 
pay enough for apples of real dessert 
merit so that the grower can after q to 
produce them even though weak in tree 
or shy bearers? No, the prices paid for 
other things that go on the tables of the 
well-to-do show that they have what they 
believe to be good regardless of cost. The 
regular fruit trade can hardly be expected 
to stir up a demand for varieties of which 
they can get but small quantities. There 
is "not enough in it” for them. But sup¬ 
pose the fruit grower himself has the capi¬ 
tal, backbone and business gumption to run 
his orchards and at the same time estab¬ 
lish a fruit business within reach of buyers 
who are willing to pay high prices for 
choice fruits; he could then work in t^ese 
fine but little-known apples which are not 
able to fight their way to a place in the 
general market, and perhaps after a time 
get prices which would make them really 
profitable, commercially, in spite of defects 
in productiveness. Of course, this is a big 
contract for any individual fruit grower to 
tackle. But suppose an association of fruit 
men should go at it in earnest! Something 
of this sort might at least partly solve the 
problem of how to increase the consumption 
of choice apples in large cities. The merits 
of some apples have to be brought out 
and shown to the consumer. The apple may 
be a humble-looking affair and not a 
barrel filler, of such natural backwardness 
in booming itself as to be effectually barred 
from the advertising agency business. 
Money and time will be required to put 
such apples in their proper market place 
as table varieties. The regular dealers can 
hardly be expected to to do this. They 
prefer to stick to the established channels 
of trade. Horticulturists must take a hand 
in the advertising and selling, as well as 
the producing end of their business. No 
variety of distinct merit should be perma¬ 
nently shelved because of lack of present 
money-making ability, so long as apples 
of no real table worth are being urged upon 
consumers with the result of lessening 
rather than increasing the demand for ap¬ 
ples. __ w • w - H - 
FREE RURAL MAIL AND BUSINESS. 
Has It Injured the Storekeeper? 
In my opinion the rural free delivery of 
the mails is one of the grandest things that 
ever came to the farmer, and I find no dis¬ 
advantage or loss in it whatever. Of course 
there are some people who go to town 
every Saturday night after their mail, and 
there are others who like to have "going 
after the mail’ as an excuse to go to town 
and sit around. These people, 5 n finding 
the postmasters of the small offices, and 
some of the country storekeepers are those 
who are complaining. b. m. p 
Lewiston, N. Y. 
The rural free delivery seems to give al¬ 
most entire satisfaction. I have only found 
one man in our town dissatisfied with it, 
and he is what v r e call a sitter around the 
corner stores. The farmers seem to be 
more than pleased with it, and I have 
heard no complaint from the country store 
keepers. I have talked with them and they 
seem to be satisfied, and the farmers would 
feel it a great hardship if they had to go 
back to the old way of doing business. 
Gasport, N. Y. a. w. <3. 
As far as I am concerned free delivery Is 
all right, and I think it is with nine- 
tenths of the rural population. I know 
there are a few who wish some excuse to 
go to town and to go for the mail always 
passes. Tnere were a few who did not put 
up boxes at first, out they are getting 
fewer. We have had free delivery just one 
year, and are well pleased. It does not 
prevent our going to town if we have any 
business. I am situated three miles south¬ 
east from Barker and four miles north¬ 
west from Johnson’s Creek. From the time 
the roads get good in the Spring until they 
get bad in the Fall four large covered 
merchant's wagons, carrying a variety of 
goods that are kept in country stores, drive 
to the door every week, taking butter and 
eggs in exchange for groceries, dry goods, 
canned goods, boots and shoes or anything 
to be had at the best country stores, and 
still we go to town every week, and some¬ 
times every day. If I am going to town 
and have letters to mail I drop them in 
the box at home; then they are off my 
mind; are net forgotten and are sure to go. 
I am well Pleased with rural free delivery. 
Barker, N. Y. a. m. a. 
ALL SORTS. 
New York Weather.— Last night, No¬ 
vember 30, we had a snowstorm, and to¬ 
day the ground is covered with about two 
Inches of snow, and the temperature just 
low enough so that it has not melted ex¬ 
cept a little in sheltered locations where it 
was on the east or south exposed to the 
sun. Up to this time the weather has been 
fairly warm; still, November 28 and 29 the 
temperature -was low enough to freeze the 
ground. M. K. 
Liberty, N. Y. 
Poultry Losses.— It is some consolation 
to us who are not professors in the poultry 
business to know that an expert like Mr. 
Mapes cannot get along without losing 
brooder chicks, too. My first hatch last 
Spring did as well as any we ever had, but 
alas, the next hatch under same treatment 
and conditions turned out a failure, for 
out of 200 chicks we did not save more than 
25 or 30. They grew and thrived until two 
weeks old, and they began to die although 
we did everything we could to save them. 
But that is the way it goes, and we must 
take the bitter with the sweet, without 
being discouraged, but take fresh hold and 
try again. Our hens have done well the 
past Summer, but are taking a vacation 
at present. I hope to get them down to 
business, however, pretty soon, as eggs are 
■worth 30 cents per dozen. We have had 
very little frost or snow this Fall so far. 
A neighbor has pansies in bloom out in his 
garden, so you can judge we have had no 
very cold yeather. I picked a few ripe 
Cuthbert raspberries on November 26, the 
latest that I ever found any. j. n. 
Fenton, N. Y. 
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