1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
335 
Among the Marketmen. 
WHAT / SEE AND HEAR. 
“Pure Cream, 14Cents a Quart.” 
—This is the sign I saw in one store 
window on the east side, and it set me 
to wondering what pure cream really is 
in that neighborhood. It might be pure 
in that it contained no foreign matter, 
but I believe that it must have been 
pretty well diluted with skim-milk. The 
standards vary considerably in different 
localities. 
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Bad Filling for Dressed Calves. 
—I was in one commission house when 
the expressman brought in three very 
fine drtssed calves, ranging in weight 
from 111 to 116 pounds. They were 
beauties and finely dressed, but the liver, 
tongue and heart of each had been 
wrapped in paper and put inside. In 
cool weather, the carcass and its con¬ 
tents would have dried out somewhat, 
60 that this might possibly have done 
little harm, but as the weather has been 
warm, the whole became sticky, and the 
result was that the whole carcass inside 
was soiled and bloody, presenting a very 
unattractive appearance. This would 
probably injure the sale seriously, and 
depreciate the price much more than the 
amount received for the livers. The lat¬ 
ter sold for about 30 cents each. 
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Pure Maple Sugar. —“How much 
pure, unadulterated sugar is there in 
this market ?” I asked one large receiver. 
“ Well, there is a great deal that is not 
pure, and much that is badly adulter¬ 
ated, but when we get Vermont sugar 
direct from the producers, we are pretty 
sure to know that it is all right. Some 
other States, too, send very good sugar 
and syrup, but there is an immense 
amount of adulteration in the maple 
products that come to this market.” It 
is probable that' the constant demand 
for cheaper products has considerable to 
do with this deterioration in quality. 
People look too much at the price they 
are paying, and too little at the quality 
of what they get, although they are 
likely to grumble later if the quality is 
not satisfactory. 
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Auction Sales of Produce —These 
continue to agitate the marketmen. 
Small quantities of Bermuda onions and 
potatoes are sold every few days. 
Whether as a result of this or not, is 
difficult to say, but certain it is that 
prices have depreciated within the past 
few days. Attempts have, also, been 
made to sell pineapples at auction, but 
the effect seems to have been to demoral¬ 
ize the trade in these. There are some 
things about the auction system that 
are very desirable in some lines of goods. 
Some dealers like the system because it 
clears up whole lines of goods rapidly 
and completely. It has made great ad¬ 
vances during the past few years, and 
the opinion among many seems to be 
that it will continue until many other 
kinds of goods not now sold will be in¬ 
cluded in this method of selling. 
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Trout in Market. —The season for 
this fish from Long Island opened April 
1; from all other sections, it opened April 
15. The size trout wanted are those 
weighing from one-third to one-half 
pound each, and they must be in prime 
condition. Marketmen here say that 
there is little sale for those weighing 
only one-quarter pound each, excepting 
in special cases. They have no difficulty 
now, when trout are in season, in getting 
all they want to supply demands. Poor 
trout are unsalable at almost any price. 
The price now for first-class fish is about 
40 cents a pound, varying somewhat 
from day to day. Not many years ago, 
good trout brought as high as $1 a pound, 
but it was a very limited trade that 
could pay this price, and as supplies in¬ 
creased, the price declined until, now it 
is quite moderate. F. h. v. 
BULLETINS BOILED DOWN. 
The United States Department of Agriculture 
(Washington, D. C ) issues a pamphlet on the 
Jack Rabbit which tells all-about that animal. 
Some eastern readers have written to know what 
this rabbit is It i9 better to read about him than 
to have him for a regular neighbor. 
Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home 
Decoration —This is the title of a book by Prof. 
S. T. Maynard, of the Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College. It contains 338 pages and 168 cuts, 
and treats upon the care of ornamental plants, 
shrubs and trees, aquatics and the home fruit 
ga*den. Advice is given on the care and prun¬ 
ing of shrubs, hedges and climbing plants, the 
renovation and improvement of old grouids, 
country roads, parks and schoolyards, while the 
ornamentation of a new home is considered from 
the first grading of the ground to the finished 
planting. The book is a very valuable one and 
will be of great use to any owner of a country 
home. It may be obtained from this office. 
Price 81 50. 
Bulletin No 61 of the South Dakota Eiperi- 
ment Station (Brookings) gives an account of 
experiments with forage and garden crops in 
that western country. Among other plants 
found very useful in So ith Dakota is the Awn¬ 
less Brome grass, Bromus Inermis, which The 
R. N.-Y. has tested now for several years. This 
grass i9 highly prized by western stockmen. It 
grows rapidly on poor ground, and makes very 
sweet hay of a dark green color. This grass is, 
evidently, worth testing in almost any part of 
the country, although it seems to do better on 
the dry plains of the Northwest. In one case, a 
mixture of this Brome grass and Alfalfa was 
sown, yielding in three cuttings, 10,800 pounds of 
cured hay per acre, the hay being of good qual¬ 
ity. Another test was made of different varie¬ 
ties of corns and canes for fodder. The heaviest 
yield of cured fodder per acre was given by the 
Minnesota or Amber cane. Stowell’s Evergreen 
sweet corn gave the best results of any of the 
varieties of corn. Bulletin 62, of the same sta¬ 
tion, gives the results of experiments in growing 
sugar beets. As an average of many samples 
taken from various parts of the State, these 
beets yielded 18 44 per cent of sugar, with a yield 
of 16 3 tons to the acre. The cost per acre for 
growing was an average of $37.f4. 
How Ringing Affects Graces.— This is the title 
of Bulletin 151 of the New York Experiment Sta¬ 
tion (Geneva). It contains illustrations of the 
tools used in ringing the vines, also of a section 
of vine as it appears with the ring of bark just 
removed, and at the close of the season. 
Ringing grape vines is practiced to secure 
earlier maturity and larger clusters. A ring of 
bark is removed from the bearing arm between 
the main vine and the buds which are to pro¬ 
duce the fruit of the season. Tne theory is that 
this does not interfere with the ascent of the sap, 
but does prevent the return of the food which has 
been formed from the sap in the leaves, and all 
this food remains in the branch above the ring. 
The overfed bunches grow faster, and become 
larger than those on branches not girdled, but at 
the expense of quality. The vine, also, may 
suffer. 
Ringing may be performed with a knife, or 
with the tools shown in the illustrations, a band 
of bark about an inch wide being removed. Un¬ 
less the operation be performed with care, per¬ 
manent injury may result to the vine. The latter 
should be well fed, the foliage free from diseases 
and insects, and the method of ringing be modi¬ 
fied to suit the system of training Parts of the 
vice should be left ungirdled to support its 
growth. All fruit below the ring should be re¬ 
moved. 
The experiments tend to show that ringing will 
mature grapes of some varieties earlier, and will 
make larger and more compact bunches; but the 
amount of difference will vary with the variety, 
season, condition of foliage, cultural care, and 
quantity of fruit allowed to mature on the vine. 
The quality of finely-flavored grapes is liable to 
be lowered ; but this maybe remedied, to some 
extent, by trimming ringed vines so but little 
new growth forms. With careful management, 
the vitality of the vines need not be seriously im¬ 
paired. 
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