12 
January 2 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending De¬ 
cember 24, 1203: 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, 23%; No. 1, 
Northern, Duluth, 95%; No 1, Northern, 
New York, 94%. Corn, 60@53. Oats, 42@43. 
Rye, State, 66@68. Barley, 44©53. 
BEANS—Marrow, $2.40®2.65; pea, $2.06; 
red kidney, $2.40@2.65; white kidney, $2.75; 
yellow eye, $2.80. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, No. 1, 82%@85; 
No. 2, 75@80; No. 3, 65®70; clover, mixed, 
G0@65; clover, 50@65; marsh, 45@50. Straw, 
rye, 85®$1.10. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 3% 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent 
freight zone. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 15@23%; State 
dairy, 14®20; Western, factory, 13@15%; 
renovated, 13®18%; packing stock, 12(g>16. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 9@12; skims, 3@8. 
EGGS.—Choice to fancy, 35@45; lower 
grades, 24@33. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 
4@7; sun-dried, 3%@4; chops, 100 lbs., $2.50® 
2.60; cores and skins, $1.40@L60; raspberries, 
22®23; huckleberries, 13%@14; blackberries, 
6y*®5%. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice, bbl., 
$2.75@4; under grades, $L60®2.60. Cran¬ 
berries, bbl., $3®8. Grapes, 4-lb. basket, 
12@16. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, good to ch., 
bbl., $2.12@2.37; lower grades, $2; sweets, 
$1.50@3.50. Carrots, bbl., $1@1.25. Celery, 
doz., 10®50. Cabbage, Danish seed, ton, 
$40@50. Domestic, $20@26. Cauliflower, bbl., 
$2@8. Chicory, New Orleans, bbl., $6@8. 
Beets, bbl., $2.50@3. Brussels sprouts, qt., 
6® 12. Lettuce, New Orleans, bbl., $5@7. 
Spinach, bbl., $3@4.50. Onions, bbl., yellow, 
$1.50®2.50; red, $1,50@2.60; white, $2@5.50. 
Squash, marrow, bbl., $1.25; Hubbard, $1.25® 
1.50. Turnips, rutabaga, bbl., 76®$1. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—V e a 1, 
calves, good to prime, 10%@11; buttermilks, 
3@4. Pork, light, 6%@7%; medium, 6%@6%. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Chickens, 10@10%; 
fowls, 10@11%; turkeys, 14@15; ducks, pair, 
80@90; geese, pair, $L60@1.62; pigeons, pair, 
20 . 
DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, 16@21; 
chickens, 12@18; fowls, 11@12; ducks, 10@17; 
geese, 9@12; squabs, doz., $1.62@3. 
FEED.—Retail prices. Spring bran, $22® 
24. Fine middlings, $24@26. 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. — Cucumbers, 
doz., 60®$1; lettuce, doz., 60@$1; mushrooms, 
lb., 25®60; radishes, 100 bunches, $1.50@3; 
tomatoes, lb., 10@20. 
FURS.—Black bear, $20@30; cubs and 
yearlings, $5@15; badger, $1@1.50; otter, $7® 
15. Beaver, large, $6@9; medium, $5@6; 
small, $3@4. Fox, silver, $50@300; cross, 
$8@25; red, $2@4; grey, 75@$1. Fisher, $5® 
10. Wolf, prairie, $1@1.50; timber, $2@4. 
Wolverine, $4@8; lynx, $4@8; wild cat, 50® 
$1; civet cat, 25@30. House cat, black, 25; 
colored, 8@10. Marten, dark, $5@15; pale, 
$3@5. Skunk, black, $1.25@1.40; half-striped, 
80@90; long-striped, 80@90; striped, 40@50; 
white, 20@30. Raccoon, 75@$1.40. Opossum, 
large, 60@60; medium, 20@30; small, 10@15. 
Rabbit, 1@1%; mink, $1.50@5. Muskrat, 
Winter, 20@25; Fall, 13@18; kits, 4®5. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices given are 
for single ton to carload lots f. o. b.. New 
York: Nitrate of soda, ton, $42@45. Dried 
blood, 12 to 13 per cent ammonia, $50@56. 
Concentrated tankage, $16@20. Ground 
bone, $22@27. Acid phosphate, $10@15. Mu¬ 
riate of potash, $34@45. Sulphate of pot¬ 
ash, $42®48. Kainit, $10@12.50. 
LIVE STOCK. 
NEW YORK.—Steers, native, $4.50@5.10; 
calves, veal, $4.50@8; lower grades, $2.50@3. 
Sheep, $2.50@4; lambs, $5.50@6.50. Hogs, $5@ 
5.25. 
EAST BUFFALO.—Butchers’ steers, $5@ 
5.25; stockers and feeders, $2.50@6.75; calves, 
$5@7.50. Sheep, $2@3.75; lambs, $4.50@5.90. 
Hogs, $4.55@4.60; pigs, $4.50@4.55. 
CHICAGO.—Steers, good to prime, $4.90® 
5.75; stockers and feeders, $1.75@4. Sheep, 
$2.75@3.50; lambs, $4@5.70. Hogs, mixed and 
butchers’, $4.35@4.50. 
m_a_rJSJLZ news 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Receipts for the 
Christmas trade turned out to be larger 
than were expected. Chickens and fowls 
were particularly dull. Prime turkeys re¬ 
mained high, though not up to the Thanks¬ 
giving mark. Quite a large quantity of 
turkeys arrived under shippers’ limit to be 
:Sold at not less than 20 cents wholesale. 
In many cases this was not possible, so 
ithe poultry had to go into cold storage. 
It is doubtful whether any better prices 
will be secured later, however, as from 
this time until Spring there will be only 
the ordinary demand of hotels and the 
■weekly poultry dinner of many families. 
It would seem unwise for the shipper to 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
put a 20-cent limit on dressed poultry at 
the end of the holiday season. A special 
lot of turkeys, consisting of 20 carloads, 
over 30,000 birds in all, arrived here two 
days before Christmas. They had all been 
sold beforehand. 
ROOT CROPS.—It is doubtful whether at 
present prices there is much profit in the 
growing of turnips, beets and carrots for 
this market. Turnips and carrots bring 
about $1 per barrel, and beets only double 
that. From this must be taken freight and 
commission, leaving the grower but little 
for his time and work. There are very 
few farms where live stock is kept that 
could not use the roots to advantage. It 
is not the actual nutriment that they con¬ 
tain, which in the case of turnips is very 
little, but the appetizing and general tonic 
effect on the whole system in animals that 
during the Summer live entirely on succu¬ 
lent food. Before the days of improved 
root cutters the labor of preparing any 
large quantity of turnips for sheep or cattle 
was considerable, but inexpensive ma¬ 
chinery does the work satisfactorily now, 
and part of the crop may well be fed in¬ 
stead of loading down the market and thus 
depressing prices. 
APPLES.—The recent severe weather 
caused a little lessening in apple business. 
When the mercury gets so low that fruit 
is likely to freeze in open air, the dealers 
are not able to expose it in front of their 
stores, and the smaller stand and cart men 
have to keep off the streets or load up with 
something that will not freeze. This 
causes an increase in the grocery and fruit 
store trade, as a good many who ordinarily 
buy on the streets have to go to the stores. 
The apple demand comes nearer being a 
steady one than that for any other fruit. 
A good many people buy oranges now and 
then as a luxury, but they have the apple 
habit and feel that they cannot keep house 
without them. Apples are in the same list 
with the flour barrel and molasses jug. 
There is a better showing of Lady apples 
than last year. There is hardly any limit 
to the price that these will bring if fair 
and properly colored. 
WATCHING THE MARKET.—“My last 
shipment of fruit to New York did not 
bring what it ought. I am thinking of 
sending the next lot in the care of a friend 
who is in another line of business and 
letting him turn it over to a storage ware¬ 
house. Then he can watch the market 
and put it on sale at just the right time. 
What do you thinks of this plan?’’ 
READER. 
Watching the market is a serious job for 
anyone engaged in another line of work. 
No one could do this satisfactorily unless 
he was on hand all the time. About all 
that your friend could do would be to put 
the goods into the hands of a regular 
dealer with instructions to sell at the 
most favorable time. No reliable man 
could be found in this market who would 
claim on any particular day to know it 
all in regard to his special line. If he 
made such claim it would be advertising 
his ignorance. In a smaller place, like Al¬ 
bany or Syracuse, for instance, some such 
complete oversight might be possible, but 
Manhattan Island, with its surrounding 
fringe of large places on Long Island and 
in New Jersey, is too big a thing for any 
one man to keep track of. It is a great 
distributing as well as consuming point. At 
least 12 railroads have termini here, be¬ 
sides steamer lines to and from almost 
every civilized country. No place in this 
country gives opportunity for greater 
profit or heavier loss from the sale of farm 
products. _ w. w. h. 
Apples for Illinois.— What about the 
Black Ben Davis, Champion and Winter 
Banana apples? I want a commercial or¬ 
chard of 10 acres of good Winter apples 
and want varieties that bring the highest 
price in market and best adapted to south 
ern Illinois soil. w. b. 
Campbell Hill. Ill. 
As far as we can discover there is very 
little difference between Black Ben Davis 
and Gano, either as to tree or fruit. The 
Black Ben Davis has not fruited in this 
locality, and it seems not to have been 
very generally tested as yet. We would 
plant it with the same confidence that we 
would Gano. Our experience here with 
Gano is that it does not seem to come into 
bearing quite as early as Ben Davis, or 
bear quite so full or regularly. The apple 
is more nearly red all over, possibly a 
little finer grained, a little better in qual¬ 
ity and cooking much better than Ben 
Davis. The Champion has not been fruited 
in this region, and we know nothing about 
it in a practical way. The Winter Banana 
originated near Logansport, this State, and 
is a late Fall and early Winter apple here, 
of fair size, greenish yellow color and fair 
quality. It has never attracted very much 
attention in this State, and I would not 
advise planting it or any other new and 
untried sort in a large way for commercial 
purposes. W'e think the only safe way to 
plant for commercial purposes is to find 
out from fruit growers in the locality 
where trees are to be planted, what has 
done well for a number of years, and plant 
largely of these varieties, leaving the new 
and untried sorts for experimental pur¬ 
poses only. For southern Indiana and 
southern Illinois there are no better varie¬ 
ties than Winesap, Rome Beauty, Grimes 
Golden, Jonathan, and probably Kinnard’s 
Choice and York Imperial. Of course Ben 
Davis is not to be omitted for profit in 
most localities. Southern Indiana and 
southern Illinois produces the finest Wine- 
Baps in the world, when trees are properly 
cared for. c. m. h. 
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