1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
255 
Among the Marketmen. 
WHAT / SEE AND HEAR. 
Potato Prospects.— Further reports 
confirm previous ones of heavy losses of 
potatoes by frost. The market in this 
City has shown no advance worth men¬ 
tioning until the past week, when some¬ 
what lighter receipts have created an 
advance. Some reports would indicate 
that farmers have sold largely, and we 
have heard of some prices paid in the 
country that were fully equal to those 
ruling here. The situation has started 
imports of Scotch and German potatoes, 
the first of the former for this season 
having just arrived. German potatoes 
have been coming occasionally ever since 
last Fall. Good potatoes are gcod prop¬ 
erty. 
X X 1 
Pigs from Boston. —“ Those pigs are 
from Boston ”, said a butcher in West 
Washington market, pointing to a half 
dozen hanging in his refrigerator, which 
we were inspecting. “How did they 
happen to ship them here ? ” I asked. 
“ I thought Boston paid higher prices 
usually than New York.” “ It does usual¬ 
ly, but these are coarse and far from first- 
class. Boston wants choicer goods than 
New York, or rather, it is more difficult 
to sell inferior goods there than in New 
York, and the best goods bring better 
prices than here. Some lamb shippers 
that used to send us their choice lambs, 
now ship them to Boston, because they 
can get higher prices there.” This is not 
the first time I have heard this same 
statement made, in regard to the dif¬ 
ferent products. For extremely choice 
products, the price there often seems to 
be higher than in New York, and this is 
a fact worth bearing in mind, by those 
who have such products to ship. 
X X X 
The Honest Fisherman.— It is gen¬ 
erally supposed that fishermen are pos¬ 
sessed of as much honesty as other mor¬ 
tals, except when it comes to talking 
about the fish they caught—or did not 
catch. But some dealers in the whole¬ 
sale fish market here have come to the 
conclusion that even the fisherman has 
tricks, perhaps not peculiar to himself, 
but nevertheless, which have upset their 
business seriously. For a long time, the 
farmer has been accused of putting the 
best apples at the top of the barrel, and 
the poorer stuff in the middle, but now 
the same complaint comes about the 
smelts which have been received here 
from Maine. These come packed in 
boxes, but they have been scarce this 
season, so the fishermen have taken to 
filling up the middle of the boxes with 
any old fish at hand, and finishing up 
the tops nicely with the ordinary-sized 
smelts. The result has been a loss to 
people who have bought these boxes, 
under the impression that they are what 
they seem, loss of confidence in the hon¬ 
esty of the fisherman, and a resolve to 
buy no more without thorough examina¬ 
tion. I suppose this is only another one 
of the Yankee tricks, about which we 
hear so much. 
X t X 
Selling Bermuda Products.—A 
certain fruit auction company has been 
advertising that it had made arrange¬ 
ments to sell the Bermuda vegetables at 
auction on arrival of each steamer. The 
following week, one of the trade papers 
contained an advertisement signed by 
the leading receivers of these products, 
to the effect that they would continue 
to sell Bermuda produce as in former 
years. The largest receiver of these 
products told me that a few of the smaller 
receivers had, probably, made this auc¬ 
tion arrangement, but that they repre¬ 
sented not to exceed five per cent of the 
receipts. He said that the trade at the 
Bermuda end is largely in the hands of 
the merchants at the shippiEg port. 
They buy the seeds and supplies, which 
are furnished to the farmers. The latter 
do the work, and deliver the products to 
the former. Everything is thoroughly 
inspected and packed in the best man¬ 
ner. The arrangements for selling are 
made with commission merchants here. 
This receiver told me that their present 
arrangements had been in force for a 
number of years, that their dealings had 
been entirely satisfactory, and the best 
of feeling prevails between them. This 
being the case, there seems little likeli¬ 
hood of a change to the auction system. 
The auction company, undoubtedly, 
would be glad to make this change. It 
is said that the present duty on foreign 
fruits has shut out many of these, and 
as they are sold largely at auction, the 
business of the auctioneer has been cur¬ 
tailed thereby. It is in an effort to re¬ 
coup himself in other directions that he 
has made the effort to bring the Ber¬ 
muda products under the auctioneer’s 
hammer. 
X X X 
High-Priced Beans. — A case of 
Florida string beans is reported to have 
sold for $15 the other day. This price 
certainly puts them in the category of 
luxuries. The purchaser retailed them 
for about $1 per quart, if he made any¬ 
thing at all for his trouble. It takes a 
long poeketbock to buy such commodi¬ 
ties now. Many other fresh southern 
vegetables, if of choice quality, are bring¬ 
ing extreme prices, though, possibly, not 
so extreme as this. f. h. v. 
NEWS FROM ALBANY. 
C. W. Mudge, of Ithaca, has been appointed 
from the civil service list as assistant chemist at 
the Geneva Experiment Station. 
Governor Roosevelt has appointed Prof. 
James Law, of the Cornell Veterinary College, 
as a director to represent New York State in the 
National Live Stock Association. 
Governor Roosevelt, on Wednesday, sent to 
the Senate the nomination of Charles A. Wieting 
to be Commissioner of Agriculture, to succeed 
himself, for a term of three years. The action 
was anticipated. The nomination was confirmed. 
Assemblyman Vincent, of Broome County, has 
introduced a bill providing for the Torrens sys¬ 
tem of registration of land titles, with county 
clerks as official registers. To The R. N.-Y. rep¬ 
resentative, Mr. Vincent said he had followed 
somewhat the Illinois law, as he considered that 
preferable. The system was explained in Tub 
R. N.-Y. of January 28 and February 4. 
Assistant-Commissioner op Agriculture, F. H. 
Kracke, of the New York district, Informed The 
R. N.-Y. representative that the statement that 
bob veal was being taken from Orange County 
across the line into New Jersey, and from there 
shipped by boat and rail into New York City by 
the ton, is untrue. He said he had held confer¬ 
ences with the New York City Board of Health, 
and that that body and the State Department of 
Agriculture are working in concert in suppress¬ 
ing the traffic, and that the agents are con¬ 
stantly on the alert. 
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