1899 
THE RURAL~NE W-YORKER 
777 
Publishers’Desk. Market Briefs. 
Every morning I read the kind things 
said by subscribers in the letters which 
accompany remittances for subscrip¬ 
tions. It makes pleasant reading. I 
am frank enough to say that I like it. I 
think these letters inspire us all to try 
to do a little better work each day. 
This morning one man from Illinois 
said: “I like your paper very much.” 
Mr. Allen, of Massachusetts says: “I 
value it highly, as do my whole family.” 
A New York man says: “It is the best 
agricultural paper I take.” Now it 
seems to me that if all these good 
friends would just repeat these remarks 
to their neighbors and friends, and at 
the same time suggest that both sub¬ 
scriptions could be sent at once, our 
subscription list would increase in every 
neighborhood where the paper is now 
taken. Good friends, just try it. This 
is the best time now, because we will 
send the paper until January 1, 1901, for 
$1. They get the remainder of this year 
free. Besides, we do not wish our old 
subscribers to work for nothing. For a 
club of four, new or old, with $4, we will 
advance your own subscription one year 
free. Or send us one new name, with 
$1, and ask for one of these books. We 
will send it by return mail, postpaid: 
American Grape Training.75 cents 
The Business Hen..40 cents 
Horticulturist’s Rule Book.50 cents 
Canning and Preserving.20 cents 
The Nursery Book.50 cents 
How to Rid Buildings of Rats... .20 cents 
First Lessons in Agriculture.$1 00 
We would like to send our new terms 
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it 
FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 
NEW YORK. 
The institutes promise to be unusually interest¬ 
ing this year. Mr. Dawley, with his corps of 
workers, will first visit Ithaca and Geneva No¬ 
vember 18 to 15, with a “wind-up” meeting at 
the latter place. Meetings will be held in the 
Northern Circuit as below: 
TOWN. 
Parish. 
Pulaski. 
Woodville. 
Rodman. 
Lafargeville ... 
Clayton. 
Plessis. 
Gouverneur.... 
Hammond. 
Lisbon Center.. 
Madrid. 
Winthrop . 
Nicholviile. 
Bombay Junet. 
North Bangor . 
Cliateaugay.... 
ElleuburgDep’t 
West Chany.... 
Plattsburg. 
Willsboro. 
COUNTY. 
Oswego. 
Oswego. 
Jefferson. 
Jefferson. 
Jefferson. 
Jefferson. 
Jefferson. 
St. Lawrence.. 
St. Lawrence.. 
St. Lawrence.. 
St. Lawrence.. 
St. Lawrence.. 
St. Lawrence.. 
Franklin. 
Franklin. 
Franklin. 
Clinton. 
Clinton. 
Clinton. 
Essex. 
Date. 
November 16, 17 
November 17, 18 
November 20, 21 
November 22, 23 
November 24 
November 25 
November 27 
November 28, 29 
December 1, 2 
December 4, 5 
December 6 , 7 
December 8 , 9 
December 11 , 12 
December 13 
December 14 
December 15 
December 16 
December 18, 19 
December 20, 21 
December 22 
These meetings have steadily grown in value 
and interest, and this year’s series will be well 
worth attending. 
NEW JERSEY. 
Secretary Franklyn Dye announces the follow¬ 
ing list of institutes for the coming season. His 
list of speakers is better than ever: 
TOWN. 
COUNTY. 
Key port. 
Swedesboro.... 
Locktown. 
Vineland. 
Hammonton.... 
Haddonfleld.... 
Allentown. 
Monmouth .... 
Gloucester.... 
Hunterdon .... 
Cumberland .. 
Atlantic. 
Camden. 
Monmouth .... 
Millstone. 
Three Bridges . 
Hightstown .... 
Somerset. 
Hunterdon 
Mercer. 
Mercer. 
Moorestown.... 
Burlington.... 
Salem. 
Cedarville. 
Shiloh. 
WiUiamstown.. 
Cape May C. H. 
Salem. 
Harlingen. 
German Valley. 
Ringoes. 
Cumberland .. 
Cumberland .. 
Gloucester .... 
Cape May. 
Salem.,.. 
Somerset. 
Morris. 
Hunterdon .... 
Essex. 
Eaglewood. 
Branehville. 
Deckertown.... 
Blairstown .... 
Stewartsville : 
Bergen. 
Sussex . 
Sussex . 
Warren. 
Warren. 
DATE. 
November 
13. 14 
November 15, 16 
November 17, 18 
November 20, 21 
November 
22 
November 
23 
November 
24 
November 
25 
November 27, 28 
November 
29 
December 
1 
December 
2 
January 
2, 3 
January 
4, 5 
January 
5, 6 
January 
8 , 9 
January 
10 , 11 
January 
12 
January 
13 
January 
15 
January 
16 
January 
19, 20 
January 
22 
January 
23 
January 
24 
January 
25 
January 
26, 27 
January 
29 
January 
30, 31 
5 
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We are hero 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. 
ORANGES.—The first car of Florida 
oranges for the season arrived in New 
York recently. It contained 270 boxes of 
fine fruit. Receipts of Jamaica oranges are 
liberal, and there will be a good supply 
from now until next Spring. It is said that 
the United States takes nearly all of the 
Jamaica crop. Reports from Florida show 
that the crop will be about 250,000 boxes. 
LIVE CALVES.—Choice veals now sell 
for eight to 8 % cents; poor to common, 4 % 
to six cents. Jelliffe, Wright & Co. say 
that the demand for the last few days has 
been good. The best prices are received for 
calves four to five weeks old, weighing 110 
to 160 pounds. Butchers want them to dress 
90 to 100 pounds. The season for veals is 
about over, and those received from now 
until Spring will be of a coarser grade. 
Buttermilks should weigh from 180 to 240 
pounds. 
MONEY-WEIGHT SCALES.—One of the 
modern conveniences for butchers and gro¬ 
cers is this scale, which weighs and figures 
out the price at the same time. For in¬ 
stance, a butcher cuts a piece of meat. It 
weighs four pounds and 13 ounces. Per¬ 
haps the price is 12% cents a pound. The 
butcher sets the price bar at 12 % cents, and 
the indicator shows exactly to a cent what 
that piece of meat is worth. Of course, the 
chief advantage is in weighing articles like 
butter, cheese or meat, where it is difficult 
to cut exact pounds. The prices are rather 
high—from $25 up—but not extravagant 
considering the work done. 
KTEFFER PEARS.—There is a fair sup¬ 
ply of these much-abused (and sometimes 
rightly so) pears. They are of all sorts 
and sizes, from those as large as small 
squashes, retailing at two for five cents, 
to some but little larger than eggs at two 
for one cent. I doubt if there is any 
other variety of fruit in the market that 
varies so much in size and quality. Some 
are of excellent flavor, and, but for the 
little hard gritty bunches, would be very 
desirable, while others are so full of grit 
that they would pass for scouring-brick 
or pumice stone. Certainly no one can 
accuse the Kieffer of any lack of “sand.” 
Its fine appearance and keeping qualities, 
however, will make it hold its place as a 
popular variety. 
FRANCE A GREAT WHEAT CON¬ 
SUMER.—One of the editors of the Na¬ 
tional Provisioner said in conversation a 
few days ago: “France uses considerable 
game and poultry; I believe more poultry 
proportionately than any other nation, but 
not much beef and pork.” The price of 
meat in France is out of the reach of the 
poorer classes, and an enormous amount 
of bread is eaten there. The Department 
of Agriculture, in its recent circular esti¬ 
mating the world’s grain crop, puts France 
third as a wheat-producing country, the 
United States being first and Russia sec¬ 
ond. Yet France imports a large amount 
of wheat, and it is stated that the con¬ 
sumption for each inhabitant is about 700 
pounds per year, nearly twice as much in 
proportion as in England or this country. 
FANCY PRICES FOR APPLES.—A 
grower of choice apples says that he finds 
it difficult to get the fancy price he one* 
did for extra selected fruit. Commission 
men say that there has been an improve¬ 
ment in the methods of packing apples 
Formerly it was a common th'r.g to find 
a barrel with fine fruit on the top and the 
remainder mixed with culls, so that there 
would not be half a bushel of choice apples 
in the lot. Buyers became acquainted with 
the brands of those who did pacit theii 
fruit properly, and were willing to pay a 
premium as a sort of insurance against 
the dishonesty and carelessness of others. 
Shippers are learning, however, that this 
dishonest plan does not pay, and the fruit 
is now nearer of an even grade, so that in 
a barrel of choice apples perhaps less than 
a peck would have to be thrown out to 
grade them up to fancy. The risk of get¬ 
ting poor fruit is now so much less that 
buyers will not pay a big price for fancy, 
while the next grade is nearly as good. 
GAME.—The game laws in many parts of 
this country are so restrictive that only a 
limited amount of game is marketed here. 
In some States these numerous laws are so 
often changed that about the only safe 
way seems to be to throw away guns and 
traps and stay at home. Those wishing 
to hunt can get the latest game laws by 
writing their Secretary of State, and it is 
well to study them carefully, as violations 
are expensive. Game received here in 
prime condition brings a good price. Prime 
partridges now sell for $1.50 to $1.75 per 
pair, grouse about $ 1 , woodcock $1.25, and 
rabbits 25 to 30 cents. Where trapping is 
allowed, this is preferable to shooting, as 
the game is not disfigured and usually 
brings a better price. In cold weather 
birds may be shipped without ice, packed 
breast down in barrels or boxes, and the 
feathers smoothly laid, so that they will 
have a neat appearance when taken out. 
If the weather is not settled cold, game 
must be packed in ice, of course waiting 
until thoroughly free from animal heat. It 
is well to wrap it in plenty of heavy paper 
as a protection against water, and there 
should also be packing of a springy sort 
like hay or straw, so that the contents of 
the barrel will not get loose as the ice 
melts. 
A JOKER’S MISHAP.—In one of the 
busiest parts of Washington Street, T saw 
a man with a wagon, collecting decayed 
fruit and other rubbish that gathers around 
commission houses. A fellow, who evi¬ 
dently thought, himself a joker, and be¬ 
lieved that every one else was of the same 
opinion, came along, eating an apple, and 
tossed the core at the garbage man. The 
latter seemed to have more red pepper 
than good nature in his make-up. and re¬ 
sented this. He grabbed a rotten orange 
from the wagon, and, with the aim of an 
old baseball player, threw the orange at 
the fellow. It hit him on the side of the 
head, and was of such a consistency that 
it went in all directions at once in a way 
that would delight the most rabid expan¬ 
sionist. Bystanders dodged. The joker 
was a sight. He did not have much to say, 
but doubtless concluded that his particu¬ 
lar brand of familiarity was not in great 
demand with that truckman. He sowed 
apple cores and reaped oranges at the rate 
of a mile a minute. 
ODD ADVERTISING.—Business houses 
show considerable ingenuity in getting up 
window displays to attract attention. A 
poultry supply company has in its win¬ 
dows cages made of wire netting, in which 
from time to time are little chickens, 
Guinea pigs or some other small live 
creatures. Seeing a crowd in front of this 
window one evening, I investigated, and 
found that they were looking at a pair of 
live opossums. Some did not know what 
they were. One man asked if they were 
young porcupines. The ’possums did not 
like so much publicity, and were adver¬ 
tising the excellence of this special wire 
netting by their vain attempts to escape. 
In the window of a large restaurant was a 
cage containing a pair of large bright 
green fowls. A sign solemnly stated that 
the observer was looking at the Saughren 
hen. People who had never paid any at¬ 
tention to this restaurant before, stopped, 
looked wise, and passed on, evidently be¬ 
lieving they had seen a great natural 
curiosity. In form, size and actions, the 
fowls resembled good old-fashioned Brah¬ 
mas, and it is highly probable that Dia¬ 
mond Dyes were responsible for the high- 
colored plumage and green Saughren eggs 
in one corner of the box. w. w. h 
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How many thousands 
of women understand 
the sad and pitiful 
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phrase: “ Just dragging 
around.” 
Women every- 
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feel that they 
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and a mission 
of woman- 
hood to ac¬ 
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the disheartened 
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Venhans, of Tioga, 
Hancock County, Illinois. 
“I had been sick for seven years,” she says; 
“not in bed, but just dragging myself around. 
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