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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Our Subscription Work 
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prizes. THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
Among the Marketmen. 
WHAT I SEE ANI) HEAR. 
SOME ODD SIZES.—In one commis¬ 
sion house was a pile containing just 
one-half dozen boxes of crab apples. 
The commission merchant said, “This 
box is worth 75 cents, this about 70, this 
about 60, this 50, and these about 30 
cents.” No two were of exactly the 
same size. Some had contained soap, 
some saleratus, some baking powder, 
etc. The brands indicating their former 
contents were the most conspicuous 
thing about them. The covers were of 
all sorts of odd pieces of boards, and the 
whole lot was very unattractive in ap¬ 
pearance. Such lots sell slowly. The 
commission merchant remarked that a 
man needed to do considerable guessing 
to get just the right prices on such a 
mixed lot, and how are such packages 
to be quoted? 
EVAPORATED BANANAS.—It has 
been reported here during the week that 
a syndicate with ample capital is pre¬ 
paring to put on the market the coming 
Fall, evaporated bananas. This method 
of preparing the fruit is not new, but 
the marketing on an extensive scale has 
never been tried. In a small way, the 
evaporated fruit has been introduced, 
not only into this country, but into Ger¬ 
many, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and 
perhaps some other countries. It is said 
to give satisfaction, and that bakers and 
confectioners use it in a variety of ways. 
The advantage of thus preparing the 
fruit for shipment will be very apparent 
to any one who has seen the condition in 
which the green fruit often comes into 
market. 
“FIXED-UP” FRUIT.—In New York 
City is an organization known as the 
Fruit Buyers’ Union. They have been 
making war on fruit put up in a de¬ 
ceptive manner. This week, a cargo of 
lemons was sold at auction. Their offi¬ 
cial inspector reported that a certain 
line had been “fixed-up.” The buyers 
boycotted this line to such an extent 
that it was withdrawn by the importer. 
It needs action of this kind to bring 
some people to their senses. 
D. H. BARRELS.—Some readers want 
to know what d. h. means in the market 
reports. It means simply double-headed, 
that is, a barrel having two heads. The 
larger part of the apples, pears, quinces, 
onions, potatoes, etc., coming from a dis¬ 
tance, are shipped in these barrels, se¬ 
curely headed up at each end. As dis¬ 
tinguished from these, most of the pota¬ 
toes, especially sweet potatoes, and other 
truck coming from nearby points, as 
well as many apples, are brought in bar¬ 
rels having but one head. Barrels con¬ 
taining sweet potatoes and some other 
products arc usually covered with coarse 
canvas, a piece being put over the top 
and one hoop being driven down over it 
solidly, and then nailed. This gives 
more ventilation than when the barrel 
is headed up tight, and serves the pur¬ 
pose just as well; but most of the choicer 
fruits come in d. h. barrels. 
POOR CELERY — FANCY PACK¬ 
AGES.—I saw a lot of celery that was 
very nicely packed, but which would 
hardly sell for enough to pay transporta¬ 
tion charges. It was sent from a nearby 
point, and arrived in good condition, but 
the stalks were altogether too short and 
too small. A whole head of the celery 
was not much larger than a single stalk 
of the first-class Michigan celery. It 
was packed in handled baskets, in very 
nice condition, and probably, the ship¬ 
per will wonder why it was that he re¬ 
ceived such a low price; but with the 
market full of choice Michigan-grown 
celery, of good size and fine appearance, 
it would be very easy for him to know, 
could he see the two kinds side by side. 
It will pay any shipper, who is not too 
far away, to visit the markets occasion¬ 
ally, and make comparisons of the dif¬ 
ferent products there found. He will be 
likely to learn many things that might 
surprise him. 
NEW YORK AS AN EGG MARKET.— 
It is said that this city is the largest egg 
market in the world. Last year’s re¬ 
ceipts were over 90,000,000 dozens, but 
the receipts for the first half of this 
year showed a falling off from last year. 
The value of the eggs handled here last 
year was upwards of $18,000,000, at the 
average retail value of 20 cents per 
dozen. It is said that the calico printers 
use more than 40,000,000 dozens annual¬ 
ly, and that the coffee roasters, the pho¬ 
tographic trades, the cracker and biscuit 
combines, and the chemical trades con¬ 
sume more than twice as many. Large 
quantities are also used in the leatner 
trades, for tanning, etc. They are, also, 
largely used in the preparation of many 
patent foods, and the liquor trade takes 
no inconsiderable number. For many of 
these uses, inferior grades of eggs are 
used—not because they are better, but 
because they are cneaper. One biscuit 
company in the city buys 4,000 dozens 
every week. Numerous substitutes for 
eggs have been put forth from time to 
time, but the genuine hen fruit stil 
holds its own. Strictly fresh eggs fit 
for the highest class consumptive trade 
are always in demand. England im¬ 
ported last year more than $ 20 , 000,000 
worth of eggs, but almost none of them 
came from this country. There seems a 
good outlook for the fruits of the labor 
of the American hen, both for domestic 
and foreign consumption. r. H. v. 
SICK WOMEN 
are invited to consult Dr. R. V. Pierce, 
chief consulting physician to the In¬ 
valids’ Plotel and Surgical Institute, 
Buffalo, N. Y., by letter, without fee or 
charge of any kind. Dr. Pierce is a 
specialist in the diseases of women. He 
has treated over half-a-million women 
for diseases of the womanly, organs and 
ninety-eight out of every hundred women 
he lias treated have been absolutely and 
perfectly cured. Every letter received 
by Dr. Pierce, is treated as a purely per¬ 
sonal and private communication and its 
contents guarded as a sacred confidence. 
All answers to these letters are sent in 
sealed envelopes bearing upon them no 
printing or advertising whatever. 
Write to the doctor. It is no use for 
sick women to write to a man unless he 
is a doctor. It is no use to “ write to a 
woman ” unless the woman is a doctor. 
Write to a woman about cookery or any 
branch of housekeeping, because she is 
a woman and knows. But it is of no use 
to write to a woman about disease unless 
she has a doctor's training and diploma. 
A woman who isn’t a doctor is just as dan* 
gcrous as a man who isn’t a doctor, when 
she undertakes to treat disease. 
There is no qualified woman physician 
so far as is known connected with any 
proprietary medicine put up for women. 
Even the “bearded woman,” the man 
who advertises “write to a woman” is 
not a qualified physician and stands too 
much in fear of the law to claim that he is. 
There is no other physician, male or 
female, who, like Dr. Pierce has a record 
of over thirty years, as chief consulting 
physician of a well known institution, 
making a specialty of the private treat¬ 
ment of women’s diseases. 
Write to the doctor—Dr. R. V. Pierce, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Women realize Dr. Pierce’s ability 
when they read his great work the Com¬ 
mon Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 -pages; 
sent free on receipt of stamps to defray 
expense of mailing only. Send 21 one- 
cent stamps for paper-bound edition, 01 
31 stamps for cloth. Address Dr. R. V. 
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 
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