1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
729 
Market Briefs. 
We are here in this great market. You ship goods 
here. You can ship to better advantage if you know 
how and when to do it. We will try to tell you. 
We must know what you want. Ask questions. We 
will try to answer them. 
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. 
APPLE BUYERS.—A correspondent is 
surprised that there have been no ai pie 
buyers through his section this year. I 
asked a commission man about this, and 
he said that the trouble was the scarcity 
of barrels. The men he has on the road 
have been obliged to stop buying, because 
they could not get barrels to pack the 
fruit. 
BUTTERNUTS.—There is no demand f«>r 
these, and they are never quoted .n tne 
markets. One man said that a barrel of 
nice ones might bring $1 or $1.50 if some one 
came along who took a fancy to them. 
Many people do not know that butternuts 
can be cracked so that the meat will come 
out nicely, if stood on end. Those not ac¬ 
customed to this lay them down flat, and, 
of course, this spoils them, if it wore not 
for the difficulty in cracking them the 
market might be cult.voted, for the meat 
is very good. 
CHESTNUTS.—There is a fair supply at 
present, selling at $3 to $4. Healers say 
that prices fluctuate so much that it is im¬ 
possible to say anything definite. They 
may be worth $4 to-day and drop to $3 to¬ 
morrow. All any one can do is to fix them 
up in good shape and take the chances. 
Sometimes men are seen in the markets 
here picking them over and sifting out the 
small ones and the dirt. They find that 
this pays. The producer might just as 
well have the extra money. Reliable com¬ 
mission men like to handle first-class 
goods, and will generally make special ef¬ 
forts to get a fancy price. 
HICKORYNUTS.—'There is a large crop 
of these, and prices range from $1 to $1.50, 
according to quality, with prospects of a 
drop to 75 cents or even lower. To get 
the best prices they should be spread out 
and dried for a short time, before shipping, 
and also be free from leaves and dirt. Many 
are shipped w r et and dirty, and are dis¬ 
colored on arriving here. Some trees pro¬ 
duce very small nuts. It would be better 
not to mix them with the larger ones, as 
they spoil the appearance of the whole lot. 
When prices are so low, it scarcely pays 
to send any but the best to market. 
Freight and other charges eat up all the 
profit on poor sLuff. 
EXPORT APPLE MARKET.—In the of¬ 
fice of Otto G. Mayer & Company, I saw 
a cable from Glasgow stating that the de¬ 
mand is very active, and prices advancing. 
Advices from Liverpool are practically the 
same. The demand is strong for good 
stuff, but no poor apples are wanted, as 
they would bring such a low price that 
they could not compete with those brought 
from Germany and Belgium. One ship¬ 
ment of about 1,000 barrels netted an aver¬ 
age of $2.90 on the dock in this country. 
Part of this lot netted $4. Kings brought 
the highest price, then Baldwins, and 
Greenings last. They should be packed in 
barrels as for home market, but tighter, 
so that there is no possibility of their get¬ 
ting loose enough to rattle on the voyage. 
TOO MUCH POULTRY.—One dealer, 
when asked if the Dewey celebration ma¬ 
terially affected the demand for poultry, 
replied: “No, but it affected the supply. 
Shippers sent in far too much, and the 
market was glutted. I am afraid some of 
it will spoil before it can be disposed of.” 
This lack of any special demand for poultry 
may be accounted for in part, perhaps, by 
the fact that many of the Dewey Day visi¬ 
tors were from the country districts, and 
accustomed to eating poultry cooked on the 
same day it is killed. Any country-reared 
person will not be likely to call for 
“chicken” more than once at the average 
city restaurant or moderate-priced hotel. 
After being handled so much, and exposed 
in the markets for several days, poultry 
seems to lose its fine flavor. 
TRICKY BUYERS.—This is an old story, 
but these people seem to find victims every 
year, and it may be a good plan to repeat 
it. A, a reliable man, is buying apples. B 
comes along and offers 25 cents per barrel 
more. People are suspicious, but he makes 
a big bluff, pays cash on the start, and a 
good many bite on the bait. The word goes 
around: “B is giving 25 cents above the 
market price and pays cash.” He does a 
big business. One day he has a large 
quantity delivered. Two or three cars are 
loaded. B and his men are in a terrible 
rush to get them ready to go on the after¬ 
noon train. Those who are drawing the 
apples turn in and help. Ir the midst of 
all this excitement, B gets a telegram or 
message of some sort and has to leave at 
once. He says: “I am in a terrible hurry. 
Will be back to-morrow and straighten this 
all up.” His men finish the job, and the 
cars are shipped, but he does not come 
back, and the last lot, which he gets for 
nothing, gives him a big profit on the whole 
deal. Next year he goes somewhere else 
and changes his methods a little, but the 
results are the same. w. w. h. 
THE NA TIONAL FARMERS’ CONGRESS 
A Successful Meeting at Boston. 
The nineteenth annual session of the 
Farmers’ National Congress was held at 
Boston last week. There was a large at¬ 
tendance, with many delegates from the 
West. It was said that Iowa alone sent 
130 representatives. In former years It was 
said that many of the delegates were law¬ 
yers or men from the towns. The Congress 
has certainly been improved in this respect, 
for it was a representative gathering of 
farmers, most of whom evidently came di¬ 
rectly from the soil. 
The following papers, which will give an 
idea of the character of the convention, 
were on the programme, which was carried 
out: The Mission of the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, by Dr. H. II. Goodell, Massachusetts; 
Decline of Farm Lands in the East; Cause 
and Remedy, by Hon. J. W. Stock well, 
Massachusetts; Agricultural Progress and 
Profit, by Hon. Franklin Dye, New Jersey; 
Inventions for Farmers, by Hon. W. B. 
Powell, Pennsylvania; The Canadian De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, by Hon. Jas. W. 
Robertson, Canada; Problems Confronting 
Farm Life, by Hon. W. S. Delano, Nebras¬ 
ka; Intensive Gardening, by Hon. E. F. 
Wliitstein, Kentucky; The Promotion of the 
Consumption of American Products in For¬ 
eign Countries, by Hon. James Wilson, 
Washington, D. C.; Benefits of the United 
States Weather Bureau to the Farmer, by 
Prof. Willis L. Moore, Washington, D. C.; 
Teaching of the Elements of Agriculture in 
the Common School, by Hon. C. C. James, 
Canada; Railway Transportation, by Hon. 
L. S. Coffin, Iowa; Fertilizers and their 
General Application, by Dr. E. B. Voor- 
hees, New Jersey; Farming as it Influences 
and is Influenced, by Dr. E. L. Furness, 
Indiana; The Necessity of Pure Food Legis¬ 
lation, by Hon. H. C. Adams, Wisconsin; 
The Western Tenant and His Eastern 
Landlord, by Hon. H. R. Hilton, Kansas; 
Dairying, by B. Walker McKeen, Maine; 
Improved Farming in the South, by Col. T. 
C. Slaughter, Texas. 
It must be said that in some respects the 
convention was a windy affair. The 
speeches were long and, as a rule, did not 
deal with topics calculated to arouse earn¬ 
est discussion. Some of them were dis¬ 
cussed briefly, but it would seem as though 
shorter talks dealing with single, live top¬ 
ics, followed by animated or possibly pre¬ 
arranged discussion, would be better. The 
trouble with this Congress seems to be 
chiefly that it does not represent anything 
in particular. The delegates are appointed, 
we understand, by the Governors of the 
various States, at the request of the of¬ 
ficers of the Congress. Probably in most 
States the selection is really left to the ag¬ 
ricultural departments, which suggest cer¬ 
tain names to the Governor, and he usually 
acts upon such suggestion. The result of 
this method of selection is that few of the 
real delegates seem to know what they 
have come for. This gives rise to a sus¬ 
picion among many that the whole thing is 
cut and dried by a small band of interested 
parties, when probably there is little truth 
in such reports. It would seem as though 
this Congress ought to be made a powerful 
organization. We think it has grown in 
character and usefulness in the past few 
years. It ought to be made a more thor¬ 
oughly representative meeting. Instead of 
having delegates sent as they now are, they 
might possibly be sent directly from the 
various State societies, each set of dele¬ 
gates coming with positive instruction, in 
the form of resolutions, showing just what 
their constituents want. This, we think, 
would give more character to the meeting, 
and would give a definite purpose, which 
somehow seem to be lacking in the recent 
convention. 
Some points made by the speakers met 
with vigorous approval from various dele¬ 
gates, but nothing definite seemed to be in 
mind. For example, the question of tax 
dodgers, those who hold personal property 
and are not willing to pay their share of 
the public burdens, received a one-sided 
discussion. Every one agreed that the 
farmer was paying an unjust share of the 
taxes, but no one came forward with a 
definite remedy for this trouble. That was, 
perhaps, a fair illustration of the spirit of 
the convention. It was harmonious in the 
fact that all agreed that certain wrongs 
ought to be righted, but no one seemed 
to know just how to do it. The farm¬ 
ers of the country need a mouthpiece 
such as this Congress ought to be. It 
should give forth words of wisdom 
rather than wind, and it seems to us pos¬ 
sible to organize this gathering so as to 
give the delegates definite authority, and 
thus make their demands and results carry 
far greater weight than they now do. 
The following officers were unanimously 
elected for the ensuing two years; Presi¬ 
dent, ex-Gov. W. D. Hoard, Wisconsin; 
first vice-president, Royal Good Fellow 
Candage, Massachusetts; second vice-presi¬ 
dent, Hon. J. S. Cunningham, North Caro¬ 
lina; secretary, John M. Stahl, Illinois; 
first assistant secretary, J. W. Stockwell, 
Massachusetts; second assistant secretary, 
Col. Kolp, Texas; third assistant secretary, 
E. A. Callahan, New York; treasurer, Levi 
Morrison, Pennsylvania; executive com¬ 
mittee: E. L. Furness, Indiana; Col. T. C. 
Slaughter, Texas; Hon. W. G. Whitmore, 
Nebraska; Hon. B. F. Clayton, Texas; Hon. 
G. F. Whitstein, Kentucky; State viqp- 
presidents: J. II. Hale, Connecticut; A. F. 
Moore, Illinois; J. N. Babcock, Indiana; E. 
J. Secor, Iowa; Thos. M. Potter, Kansas; 
Clayton S. Longest, Kentucky; O. Gardner, 
Maine; W. L. Amos, Maryland; O. B. Had- 
win, Massachusetts; R. L. Quick, Michi¬ 
gan; D. M. Morse, Nebraska; J. F. Robin¬ 
son, New Hampshire; Franklin Dye, New 
Jersey; F. E. Dawley, New York; D. L. 
Pope, Ohio; Prof. John Hamilton, Penn¬ 
sylvania; IT. L. Green, Rhode Island. 
HERE AND THERE. 
Reports from Nebraska state that fully 
15,000,000 bushels of wheat, oats and rye 
have been rendered worthless by sprout¬ 
ing. Commission men refuse to accept 
cracked grain for storage, as it will swell 
and ruin other grain. Similar conditions 
are reported from Iowa and northern Kan¬ 
sas. The corn orop promises to be enor¬ 
mous, and farmers generally are investing 
in cattle, the price of feeders having gone 
to $3.25 per 100 pounds at Omaha during the 
last week in August. 
At the Westchester County Fair, Edith 
Stansbury, a young miss, who resides at 
Yorktown, showed a collection of 35 differ¬ 
ent sorts of beans and 20 kinds of peas, 
which she gathered and shelled. The 
work was carefully done, and each variety 
of bean and pea was properly named. It 
was one of the most instructive exhibits at 
the fair, and shows what farmers’ daugh¬ 
ters can do when they get down to careful 
painstaking work like shelling, assorting 
and naming beans. J. h. g. 
Pennsylvania Stock Breeders. — The 
stock breeders and exhibitors at the Penn¬ 
sylvania State Fair, held at Bethlehem, 
Pa., recently organized the National Breed¬ 
ers of Live Stock and Exhibitors’ Associa¬ 
tion. The following officers were elected: 
Hon. Jeremiah Roth, Allentown, Pa., presi¬ 
dent; W. M. Benninger, Walnutport, Pa., 
secretary-treasurer. On motion, it was decid¬ 
ed to elect vice-presidents from each State 
and Canada, which resulted as follows: A. 
S. Worden, Pennsylvania; A. A. Cortelyou, 
New Jersey; Chas. McLaury, New York; 
George Allen, Illinois; A. O. Fox, Wis¬ 
consin; A. W. F. Stevens, Massa¬ 
chusetts; C. Hiram Hayes, New Hamp¬ 
shire; Howard H. Keim, Indiana; G. 
J. Campbell, Ohio; Ira J. Hillyer, Michigan; 
Olonzo Libby, Maine; C. M. Winslow, Ver¬ 
mont; Jas P. Palmer, Connecticut; Obadiah 
Brown, Rhode Island. It was decided that 
the membership fee be $1, and the annual 
dues 50 cents. 
Free for a Club of Four. 
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The Rural New-Yorker, New York. 
