1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
171 
Among the Marketmen. 
WHAT / SEE AND HEAR. 
Apples for Homemade Pies —In 
one of the restaurants where all the 
pastry is guaranteed to be homemade, 
the proprietor told me that he is now 
using Baldwins exclusively for making 
apple pies. During the Fall and early 
Winter, Greenings were used altogether, 
but now the Greenings are not so satis¬ 
factory, and Baldwins have taken their 
places. The trouble seems to be that 
the Greenings do not keep so well as the 
Baldwins and some other varieties. This 
fact is apparent to any one noticing the 
different varieties in the markets at the 
present time. First-class Greenings in 
fine shape bring exceedingly high prices 
now, but many of them are scalded and 
present a very poor appearance. 
X X X 
Frostbitten.—That's the condition 
of many vegetables recently on the mar¬ 
ket. Many potatoes, onions, etc., have 
been more or less injured. A large per¬ 
centage of the southern vegetables show 
the effects of the severe cold. In many 
a commission house, men are sorting 
and repacking in the endeavor to save 
all possible of some damaged shipments. 
I heard of one Florida celery grower 
who feared that his crop was ruined, but 
who found that only the tops were in¬ 
jured, and he thought he could save it 
by hurrying it off to market at once. 
Prices on many lines of vegetables have 
advanced sharply, and anything of good 
quality is in remand! Hothouse stuff 
has abetter show, but in some localities, 
even this was frozen in the houses. 
t X X 
A False Prophet. —Last week I 
spoke of misleading quotations, and es¬ 
sayed the role of prophet. I have con¬ 
cluded that I am no prophet. I said 
that I would not be surprised to see the 
price of eggs cut in two in one week. 
Instead, eggs are higher than they were 
one week ago. They have been lower, 
however, during the week, by several 
cents a dozen. The trouble was that I 
reckoned without taking the hen into 
account—a fatal error. The shortage 
was not caused by delayed shipments 
alone. The extreme cold wave was so 
widespread and so long continued that 
production was checked over a wide 
area. Not only have receipts been light, 
but dealers say that recent shipments 
have been small, so that receipts are 
likely to continue light for some time 
to come. 
nt, 
Bad Butter Business. —I saw a 
barrelful of butter in one store, which 
must have proved an unprofitable ship¬ 
ment. To begin with, the quality was 
very poor, then it was packed in small 
stone jars, some of them holding only 
three or four pounds apiece, and some a 
little more. Many of these jars weighed 
nearly as much as the butter they con¬ 
tained ; hence, heavy freight or express 
charges must have been paid on all this 
useless weight. Some of the jars had 
been broken in transit, and this made 
matters still worse. Take it all around, 
it was a very undesirable operation, and 
it must have been a losing venture. The 
packages themselves were such as very 
few buyers would care for, and this ren¬ 
dered sales exceedingly slow. Useless 
weight should always be avoided, and 
efforts made to secure packages that are 
neat and acceptable to the market. 
X X X 
The Price that Never Came.—A 
commission merchant was visited a few 
days ago, by a ahipper from the interior 
of New York State, who threatened to 
sue the aforesaid commission merchant, 
and make him all sorts of trouble. His 
grievance was that he had shipped a lot 
of poultry to the commission merchant, 
and that the latter had not secured him 
nearly so high prices as another firm to 
whom he had shipped. Leaving out of 
sight the fact that the poultry sent was 
not what it should have been, that the 
middle of the barrels of chickens were 
filled with old roosters and other ancient 
birds, the commission merchant asked 
him why he stopped shipping to the 
other party, who he claimed had secured 
him such high prices. “ Oh, he busted ! ” 
was the frank reply. “We sent him 
about $500 worth of poultry, and he was 
owing us $400 when he went under. If 
we had sued him right away, we might 
have got this, but as we let it go, we 
lost it.” Confession is good for the soul. 
This man was the victim of one of those 
fake firms which had secured his ship¬ 
ments by not only quoting such high 
prices, but pretending to get them, and 
then deliberately swindling him out of 
four-fifths of his shipments, yet he didn’t 
s?em able to see that he was the victim 
of the barest kind of fraud. f. h. v. 
NEWS FROM ALBANY. 
Assembymak Kelsey has introduced a bill ap¬ 
propriating 83,500 for the Agricultural College at 
Cornell. 
Assemblyman Litchard’s bill, appropriating 
830,000 for continuing the promotion of the beet 
sugar industry, has passed both houses. 
It has been practically decided by the leaders 
of the maiority of the legislature to make an 
appropriation of 8100,000 for good roads. Last 
year, 850,000 was appropriated. 
Assemblyman Hallock has introduced a bill 
appropriating 18,000 for horticultural investiga¬ 
tions, experiments, instruction, information, etc., 
in the second judicial district, by the Geneva 
Experiment Station. 
Director of Farmers’ Institutes F. E. Dawley,. 
H. B. Towns, and Mr. Miles, made strorg 
speeches for the Miles five per cent interest bill 
before the Assembly General Laws Committee. 
They said the farmers wanted lower interest, ar d 
Mr. Miles read letters from organizations indors¬ 
ing the bill. 
Senator Coogeshall’s bill amending the beet- 
su?ar law by providing that, where sugar beets 
are weighed at the place of shipment, they shall 
be weighed by the person appointed by the Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture, and that the expense 
of weighing shall be borne by the buyer, has 
passed the Senate. 
Prop. W. H. Jordan, of the Geneva Experiment 
Station, favored the Lltchard Fertilizer bill, 
which provides for a 8t5 license, to be issued by 
the Geneva Station, for each brand, at the hear* 
ing before the Assembly Committee on Agricul- 
ture. He suggested some minor amendments. 
There is little opposition to this bill since the 
large manufacturers favor it. 
The following is the gist of one of the shortest 
bills introduced at Albany: The owner, driver or 
other person having the charge or control of a 
horse, who permits such horse to stand exposed 
to the open air when the temperature is below 32 
degrees F., without being sufficiently covered 
with a blanket or other similar covering, to pro¬ 
tect such horse from the cold, Is guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor. 
Senator Ambler and Assemblyman Witter 
have Introduced a bill regulating the size of an 
apple, potato, pear or quince barrel, by provid* 
Ing that it shall be of the following dimensions: 
Diameter of head, 17!4 inches; length of staves, 
28 Vi inches; bilge, not less than 64 inches outside 
measurement. Messrs. Powell, Forster and oth¬ 
ers of the Eastern New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety appeared before the Senate Committee on 
Agriculture and favored the bill. 
The Assembly Committee on Agriculture has 
reported Mr. Litchard’s bill compelling commis¬ 
sion merchants, when making a return of the 
sale of farm produce, to render a written state¬ 
ment, verified by the affidavit of such commis¬ 
sion merchant, showing what portion of such 
consignment has been sold and the price re¬ 
ceived therefor, and the names and addresses 
of the persons to whom the goods consigned were 
sold, and the dates when sold. The penalty for 
any violation is 8100. When the bill comes to a 
vote, there will be a warm debate. It has been 
reached on the calendar once, but was simply 
laid aside. The Eastern New York Horticultural 
Society indorsed the bill by resolution. 
Senator Ambler has introduced a bill author¬ 
izing the Commissioner of Agriculture to investi¬ 
gate and examine the food and food products 
manufactured or sold in this State. For that 
purpose, he may appoint agents or employ chem¬ 
ists or such experts as he may deem necessary. 
The object is an investigation of the food adul ( 
terations and adulterated goods; such Investi¬ 
gation being demanded by the results already 
obtained by the Department in the few examina¬ 
tions it has thus far made. The report is to be 
submitted to the legislature in January, 1900, 
with recommendations as to such legislation as 
he may deem necessary to correct any evils exist¬ 
ing relative to food or food products. The agents 
are to have access to any place where food adul¬ 
terations or adulterated food is prepared. Any 
person refusing to admit agents will be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor. The sum of 810,000 is 
appropriated for the examination. 
Prop. I. P. Roberts has replied to the recent 
letter from Commissioner Wieting, regarding 
farm schools for large cities, favoring the plan. 
He thinks the schools should be located away 
from the city. The farm on which a school is 
located should be rented for a term of years 
with option to purchase. Both practical and 
theoretical agriculture should be taught, and 
the rules for work, recreation, etc., should be ar¬ 
ranged on the line of the George Jr. Republic, at 
Freeville. Students should be selected with 
care, and recommended by some of the various 
city institutions which are helping the poor. 
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