1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
473 
Among the Marketmen. 
WHAT / SEE AND HEAR. 
Hothouse Grapes —A couple of 
weeks ago, these were scarce, and prices 
were pretty well up. Now, they are 
plentiful and the price has declined. 
Very fine ones were selling in the mar¬ 
ket this morning for $1 per pound. The 
leading variety is Black Hamburg, and 
the quality is very good, although some 
lots seem inclined to drop from the 
stems badly, possibly because a little 
overripe. 
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Black Raspberries have made their 
appearance, although not in very large 
quantities as yet. The supply so far 
comes largely from New Jersey and 
Maryland. This is a very difficult fruit 
to ship in good condition, possibly the 
most difficult of any. Most distant 
growers usually evaporate the crop, but 
prices of evaporated fruit have been so 
low of late years that the profit is not 
large. Evaporated stock is now selling 
for about 10 cents per pound, which is 
quite a decline from a few years ago, 
when prices seldom went below 25 cents 
a pound. 
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Plenty ot Cherries. — The most 
prominent fruit in the markets now is 
cherries. The crop in the East seems to 
be a good one this year, although, as 
our California correspondent stated last 
week, the crop in that State is light; 
still, we are getting some very good fruit 
from California, and it serves to give 
variety to the supply. A favorite variety 
in the eastern fruit is the Black Tar¬ 
tarian. A large part of the supplies come 
in 10-pound grape baskets. I have seen 
a good many in the new, square-cornered, 
ventilated baskets which were illus¬ 
trated in The R. N.-Y. a couple of years 
ago. The Early Richmond cherries are 
said to be poor this year, that is, so far 
as they have arrived in market. The 
extreme heat plays havoc with these as 
well as other fruits in transit, and some 
lots arrive in market in very poor con¬ 
dition. 
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Dishonest Commission Mer¬ 
chants. —This is an old text, but one 
can always get a new sermon from it. 
The R. N.-Y. has frequently exposed a 
man by the name of Hayt, but that hate¬ 
ful name still flourishes in the markets. 
A business friend recently received a 
letter from this old acquaintance saying 
that he wished to get hold of a man 
with some money to put into the com¬ 
mission business. It seems that he is 
trying to work not only the farmers, but 
business men as well. On my last trip 
through the markets, a most reputable 
commission man told me that a certain 
firm which had failed two or three times, 
and against whom he now has a judgment 
which can not be collected, was getting 
a large part of the shipments of hot¬ 
house products and fancy fruits from 
some of his old shippers. These rob¬ 
bers simply agree to pay a great deal 
more than any man who intends to make 
honest returns can pay for shipments. 
In this way, these people secure large 
quantities of produce, sometimes paying 
what they agree for the first shipments, 
afterwards securing heavy shipments 
upon which they make up their losses 
on the first. F H v. 
Coloring Matter in Butter — Why is 
it not as bad to put coloring matter into 
butter as it is to color oleomargarine ? 
That is a question often asked by the 
oleo people. The New York Produce 
Review answers it as follows: 
Butter made from cream when the cows are 
fed on various fodders, is colored to resemble 
butter made during the full-grass season, for the 
sake of a reasonable uniformity, but never to 
make it resemble any other commodity than pure 
butter. Oleomargarine, on the contrary, has 
been colored yellow solely to make it resemble 
butter and, in practice, for fraudulent deception. 
Had the natural color of butter been blue, there 
is no doubt whatever that oleo would have been 
so colored, also. It is an undoubted fact that 
consumers can be protected in their right to be 
assured of getting butter when they ask for 
butter, only by a distinctive difference in the ap¬ 
pearance of the substitute. 
A SUMMER SHOW. 
The American Institute held an exhibition of 
flowers, strawberries and vegetables at their 
rooms Nos 19 and 21 W. 44th Street, New York, 
on June 14 and 15 The extreme heat deteriorated 
the quality of the exhibits rapidly, so that it 
was difficult to judge fairly of the quality of 
many of them. A single muskmelon of a 
light cream color was very conspicuous because 
of its isolation, and was to be judged by quality 
alone. It was grown under glass; certainly the 
appearance was good, but of the quality I did 
not have an opportunity to judge. 
Henry Jerolaman exhibited about 20 quarts of 
different varieties of strawberries, the larger 
part being the Henry and the Mary. He also had 
the Clyde, Bubach, Glen Mary, Hilton Gem, 
Sharpless and H. <St H No. 3. The exhibition was 
a good test of one quality of the strawberries, 
and showed how well and how poorly they would 
stand up under extreme heat and unfavorable 
conditions. The Henry and the Marshall have 
been claimed by some to be the same, but their 
appearance here was entirely distinct. The Mar¬ 
shall turned very dark-colored, very unattrac¬ 
tive-looking, while the Henry stood up firm and 
of good color. This quality alone would render 
it superior as a market variety. 
W. T. Brown exhibited his Brown’s 8eedling, 
which he claims is superior to the Henry as a 
common market variety. It is very productive, 
but does not grow of such large size. The color 
is good, and it appears to be a variety well worth 
testing. The Professor Is a seedling exhibited by 
H. A. Maxiner, which was a very fine-looking 
berry, although not of extra size. The color is 
light, but it seemed to hold its color and appear¬ 
ance well. The quality is said to be, by those 
who have tested it, very poor. The Fay was 
rather a poor-looking variety. N. C. Jessup, of 
West Hampton Beach, N. Y., exhibited Jessup’s 
Cream Seedling, and Jessup’s Prolific, two varie¬ 
ties which, he claims, beat the world. The Gandy 
made a good showing so far as keeping its ap¬ 
pearance and remaining firm is concerned. 
Three varieties of hothouse peaches were 
shown, Mountain Rose, Hale’s Early, and Water¬ 
loo, and all were certainly of fine appearance. 
But so far as the market is concerned, there is 
very little call for these at this time of year. 
f. h. v. 
MEETING OF HOLS r EIN-FRIESIAN 
BREEDERS. 
The 14th annual meeting of the Holstein- 
Friesian Association of America, held in Buffalo 
June 7, was, in every way, an entire success. 
Forty-ihree members attended in person, and 230 
by proxy. President Matteson, in his opening 
address, congratulated his fellow breeders on 
the advancement of their favorite breeds of cat¬ 
tle to first place in the estimation of the public. 
The proceedings were entirely harmonious, the 
numerous amendments to the rules all being in 
the interest of greater efficiency and care in the 
maintenance of the herds in their purity. One 
amendment is of general interest, as it reduces 
the charge for registering imported animals. It 
has purposely been kept so high as practically 
to be prohibitive of importation. 
The financial report of Treasurer Smith was as 
follows: Received from last year’s board, #14,- 
810.52; from all other sources, 123 417 37; dis¬ 
bursed, $9,055 55; balance on hand, $17,361.82 or 
$2,551.30 over last year. 
The entire membership of the Association is 
690, of which 84 have been added during the 
year, and 55 have come over from the Western 
Association, which joined this Association at 
the last annual meeting. A committee of the 
Canadian Association having been appointed 
with a view to union also with this body, the 
meeting authorized the appointment of a com¬ 
mittee to confer with them. 
The attendance was very gratifying, 10 States 
and Canada being represented. The meeting 
arranged for issuing challenges to the dairying 
public, soliciting competitive tests, which will, 
probably, be made public at Pan-American Ex¬ 
position in Buffalo, 1901. This extended time is 
thought to be sufficient to disarm all opposition, 
and to make a valid excuse impossible. 
Prof. H. H. Wing, of Cornell, who has made a 
large number of butter and butter-fat tests of 
Holstein-Friesian cows during the year, gave 
an analysis of them, showing pretty conclusively 
that it is not best to feed milch cows very high 
All officers were reelected, as follows: Presi¬ 
dent, W. A. Matteson, Utica, N. Y.; first vice- 
president, S Borchard, Hamilton, N. Y ; second 
vice-president, W. B. Barney, Hampton, la.; third 
vice-president, W. S. Carpenter, Menominee, 
Mich.; fourth vice-president, W. J. Gillett, Rosen- 
dale, Wis.; secretary, F L. Houghton, Brattle- 
boro, Vt,; treasurer, WingR Smith, Syracuse, N. 
Y. Adjournment to first Wednesday in June, 1900 
Save time—don’t shave it. 
He who gives to the world a new and superior 
fruit or vegetable, does more for his fellow men 
than all the trusts and millionaire monopolists 
in Christendom. 
The price one pays for success is ofien vitu¬ 
peration and slander from those less success¬ 
ful. This is the method small spiritsntake to get 
even with those who have succeeded where they 
have failed. 
John J. Ingalls 
Contributes the first of his papers on 
“FAMOUS FEUDS” 
Telling of the Blaine-Conkling and the 
Conkling-Larnar battles of invective. 
A Soldier s View of a 
Warless World 
99 
By MAJOR-GENERAL NELSON A. MILES 
Newell DwightHillis 
Has written for the Post 
The Tragedy of the 
Ten-Talent Men 
Showing the life-lessons to be drawn from the 
lives ot great geniuses in the world’s history. 
ii 
99 
Early Failures of Successful Men’ 
By CHARLES F. WINGATE 
Furnishes practical proofs from real life of 
the value of perseverance. 
These, and much 
else of timely 
interest, in this 
week’s issue of 
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