1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
8o9 
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. 
A CAT’S BED.—Cats have the faculty 
of making themselves at home under al¬ 
most any circumstances. I saw a big 
yellow feline sound asleep in a chest of tea 
which stood in a grocer’s window! 
APPLES.—The day after election 12,000 
barrels were received, and there were some 
left over from the previous week, but good 
fruit sells quite readily, and there is a 
prospect of better trade, with an advance 
of 25 cents or more per barrel on best 
qualities. 
ALMERIA GRAPES.—60,000 barrels of 
these grapes have been received from 
Spain thus far, and fruitmen estimate that 
the New York market will handle 175,000 
barrels before the season is over. The 
grapes are packed in cork chips, each bar¬ 
rel containing about 50 pounds of fruit. 
They are a little larger than the California 
grapes, but resemble them in flavor. 
RED CABBAGE.—A reader wishes to 
know whether there is any demand for 
red cabbage, and in what shape it should 
be shipped. There is but little of this in 
the markets. It is used by the hotels and 
restaurants in salads, and there is some 
call for it for pickling among the Ger¬ 
mans. The price is $3.50 to $4 per 100 at 
present. In shipping small quantities the 
best way is to pack it in barrels, covering 
the top with bagging. 
POTATOES.—The most careful estimate 
now places the potato yield in this country 
at 250,000,000 bushels, an increase of 46,000,000 
bushels over last year. The crop in the 
West is smaller than was thought at first, 
but New England and New York State 
have very large yields. The crop in Eng¬ 
land is said to be poor, blight having 
worked such havoc that in some places 
the tubers are not worth digging. This 
means that England will have to import a 
gcod many, and will probably take some 
of our surplus. There has been a tem¬ 
porary shortage of prime quality in this 
market for the past few days, and prices 
have advanced slightly. 
EXCELSIOR.—No man need expect to 
save money at present by putting green 
spectacles on his horse and filling the 
manger with shavings in the shape of ex¬ 
celsior. This product has advanced 25 per 
cent within the past two months, the price 
now being $14 to $16 per ton. The annual 
output of this country is about 50,000 tons, 
25,000 tons being manufactured in the East. 
One mill in Maine turns out 40 tons daily. 
Excelsior is made of poplar and basswood. 
Blocks 18 inches long are fed into a ma¬ 
chine which planes and shreds them at 
the same time. The result is a substance 
somewhat resembling curled hair. It is 
used for packing, and also for stuffing 
cheap mattresses and cushions. 
JAMAICA ORANGES.—These have the 
reputation of being inferior to the best 
Floridas. A gentleman well acquainted 
with this industry in Jamaica states that 
nearly all of the oranges grown in the 
highlands there are sold in this country as 
Indian Rivers from Florida, as soon as the 
latter begin to come into the markets. 
Indian Rivers have the name of being su¬ 
perior, but these Jamaicas are fully equal 
to them. Those grown on the lowlands 
are of inferior quality, and are w'hat we 
usually get here as Jamaicas. This gen¬ 
tleman says that on returning to the North, 
he brought a quantity of this highland 
fruit from Jamaica, and also bought a lot 
of the finest genuine Indian Rivers to be 
found in the markets here, submitting the 
two to a number of friends. In manv 
cases they picked out those from Jamaica 
as superior in flavor. 
ROOTS AND HERBS.—Good burdock 
roots sell for V/s to six cents per pound 
delivered. Here is a chance advantage¬ 
ously to get rid of these unwelcome ten¬ 
ants of fence corners and backyards. In 
a talk with McKesson & Robbins, whole¬ 
sale druggists of this city, I learned that 
they buy the root and bark of a good many 
of the familiar trees and plants throughout 
the country. Among other things are 
mandrake root, Cotton-root bark, corn 
-ilk, Prickly ash root and berries. Skunk- 
cabbage root sliced, Southern snakeroot, 
sassafras root and bark, and Wild-cherry 
bark from young trees. It would be mis¬ 
leading to give definite prices on these, as 
they vary considerably, but most of these 
things will pay for the cost of gathering 
where they are found in any quantity. If 
one has any of this stuff for sale, the best 
plan is to write some reliable buyer, giv¬ 
ing full particulars. w. w. h. 
Very Much Pleased. 
I have used Bowker’s Animal Meal for the past 
year, and have reason to feel very much pleased with 
it. It is the best egg-producing, health-sustaining 
food I ever used. E. L. Piebce 
Pottersville, Mass. 
INCREASE IN IMPLEMENT PRICES. 
What Farmers Think About It. 
Not Sharing Prosperity.— The farmers 
in our neighborhood will not willingly pay 
any material advance in agricultural im¬ 
plements. The past season has not been 
a profitable one with farmers in New Jer¬ 
sey; prices are so low, expenses so heavy, 
that there are but small profits. Old tools 
will be repaired and utilized for another 
season, and few new ones purchased. 
While all business seems to be booming, 
farmers of the eastern States are not as 
a rule making money; in other words, they 
are not participating in the general pros¬ 
perity. n. c. LEWIS. 
Middlesex Co., N. J. 
Must Economize.— I see nothing in the 
present condition of farming to warrant 
the paying of higher prices for farming 
implements, and I believe that a material 
advance in price will result in very much 
less sales. Manufacturers would do well 
to advance as little as possible, trusting to 
better sales and less profit rather than few 
sales and larger profit. In Michigan the 
wheat crop was about eight bushels per 
acre, beans only about one-half a crop, and 
hay almost double its price last year, 
which makes the farmer compelled to 
economize, and in farming implements it 
will be felt as much as in any other branch. 
Michigan. f. g. m. 
Necessities Only. —Farm implements are 
divided into two classes, those that a 
farmer must have, and those that it would 
be nice to have. A farmer must have a 
plow, a cultivator and a wagon to cart his 
produce to market. These things, if he 
does not have them, he must buy, no mat¬ 
ter if the price be higher. Other machines, 
like riding cutivators, potato planters and 
diggers, horse-power sprayers, etc., that 
it would be nice to have, farmers will wait 
a year or two before purchasing, if the 
price be much increased. The returns for 
farming have not increased like those in 
other trades, and farmers are not in a po¬ 
sition to increase their expenses. 
Burlington Co., N. J. chas. parry. 
Wants to Know.— I do not consider that 
the past season has been anything more 
than an average one in this section; if any¬ 
thing, it has fallen below the average. 
Crops suffered very materially from 
drought in the early part of the season, 
and some farmers have been compelled to 
feed all stock from the barns, as all pas¬ 
tures failed. This will greatly deplete the 
Winter supply of forage. Farmers as a 
rule are not so well supplied with money 
that such an advance in machinery prices 
will not affect them. I can assure you 
that sales of farm machinery will fall off 
very decidedly if this increase in price is 
decided upon. Will you inform me why it 
is these manufacturers that are so deeply 
interested in the welfare of the farmer and 
are so sorry to advance the price of ma¬ 
chinery to him will sell the same machine 
in Europe and South American countries at 
a lower price than they will sell to the 
farmer at home? I understand that this 
is generally conceded to be a fact. 
New York. s. c. hedges. 
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