February 20 
148 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
M__A__R_K__E__T__S 
General Review. 
Another week of steady cold weather has 
made it hard to handle fresh fruits. Po¬ 
tato market continues firm. All kinds of 
grain are advancing, largely on account of 
advices from the war in the East. Butter 
has made a little advance. Receipts from 
northern sections are light owing to snow 
blockades. 
Prices obtained during week ending Feb¬ 
ruary 11. 1904: 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, 97. Corn, 58. 
.Oats, 48. Rye, State, 654768. Barley, 554765. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50472.70 . Pea, 
$1.75©2. Red kidney, $2.50<g)2.75. White kid¬ 
ney, $2.75. Yellow eye, $2.fi5. 
FEED.—Retail prices, Spring bran, $22@ 
25; middlings, $25@28. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, No. 1, 85; No. 
2, 75@>80; No. 3, 65@70; clover, mixed, 60@70; 
clover, 504760; marsh, 504760. Straw, rye, 
$ 1 . 10 @ 1 . 20 . 
MILK.—New York Exchange price three 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent 
freight zone. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 144725%; Stani 
dairy, 14@21; Western factory, 124714%; 
renovated, 124716; packing stock, 124714. 
CH EESE.—Full cream, 9@12; skims, 3477. 
EGGS—Choice to fancy, 344738; lower 
grades, 254(30. 
DRIED FRUITS—Apples, evaporated, 4@ 
7; sun-dried, 3 1 / 447’5; chops, 100 lbs., $2.4&<ft) 
2.55; cores and skins, $1.25471.50; raspberries, 
22(fe23; huckleberries, 13%4714; blackberries, 
5mv z . 
FRFJSH FRUITS.—Apples, choice, bbl., 
$2.5047)4; under grades, $1.25472; cranberries, 
bbl., $4.50478; strawberries, Fla., qt., 25@ou. 
HOPS.—Medium to choice, 344?'8; ordi¬ 
nary, 244730. 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS.—Asparagus, 
dcz., bunches, $3476; cucumbers, doz., 2647 
$1.25; lettuce, doz., 254/50; mushrooms, lb., 
10©40; radishes, 100 bunches, $1.50473; rhu¬ 
barb, doz. bunches, 304760; tomatoes, lb., 
10(5:20. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, good to ch„ 
bbl., $2.50473.50; Sweets, yellow, $1.50473.75; 
carrots, bbl., $1.75(f/'2.50; celery, doz., 10@60; 
cabbage, Danish seed, ton, $25(5*50; domestic 
seed, $204735; lettuce, bbl., $2474; onions, 
bbl., yellow, $2473; red, $2(53; white, $2(fT5; 
spinach, bbl., $3475; squash, Marrow, $1.25® 
1.50; Hubbard, $1.50471.75; turnips, rutabaga, 
bbl., $1471-50. 
COUNTRY - DRESSED MEATS. — Veal, 
calves, good to prime, 10@11^; buttermilks, 
4476. Pork, light, 6%477 Vg medium, 6%@6%. 
Lambs, "hothouse,” head, $54711- 
LIVE POULTRY.—Chickens, lb., 11%; 
fowls, 14; roosters, 9%; turkeys, 15. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 124719; 
chickens, 124720; fowls, 104714; ducks, 94716; 
geese, 8@14; squabs, doz., $2.50474.50. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices given are 
for single ton to carload lots f. o. b.. New 
York: Nitrate of soda, ton, $464748. Dried 
blood, 12 to 13 per cent ammonia, $504756. 
Concentrated tankage, $154720. Ground bone, 
$224727. Acid phosphate, $114715. Muriate 
of potash, $35@45. Sulphate of potash, $42® 
4S. Kainit, $10@12.50. Copper sulphate, 
per pound in barrel lots, 6% cents. Sulphur 
lb ur, per pound in barrel lots, 2% cents. 
Sulphide of potash (liver of sulphur) in 
cans of 50 lbs., per Hi., 14 cents. 
FURS.—Black bear, $104720; cubs and 
yearlings, $347(10; badger, 75@$1; otter, $7# 
15; beaver, large, $5478; medium, $3@5; 
small, $2(53; fox, silver, $5047250; cross, $647) 
15; red, $2(54; grey, 704775; fisher, $4@8; won, 
prairie, $1472; timber, $2474; wolverine, $4@ 
8; lynx, $4478; wild cat, 40@75; civet cat, 
254735; house cat, black. 25; colored, 8; mar¬ 
ten, dark, $44712; pale, $2474; skunk, black, 
$1.25(51.30; half-striped, 804790; long striped, 
804790; striped, 404750; white, 20@25; raccoon, 
$1(51.40; opossum, large, 65(575; medium, 35 
(540; small, 154720; kits, 5; rabbit, 1471%; 
mink, $1474; muskrat, Winter, 204722: Fall. 
134716; kits, 4475. 
TOBACCO.—Kentucky light, common, 
lugs, 4%475%; fillers, 3@5; fine, 154720. Seed 
Leaf, Connecticut fillers, 6478; average run¬ 
ning lots, 204730; New York State fillers, 5@ 
7; average running lots, 154720; fine wrap¬ 
pers, 254735; Ohio fillers, 154718; average run¬ 
ning lots, 164720; Pennsylvania fillers, 7@lo; 
average lots B’s, 134715. Virginia Shipping, 
common lugs, 5475%; good lugs, 5%476%; 
common to medium leaf, 7@8; medium to 
good leaf, dark, 8479; light, 104711; good to 
fine leaf, dark, 11%4712%; light, 12%@14. 
LIVE STOCK. 
NEW YORK.—Steers, $4.15475.30; calves, 
$5479.50. Sheep, $3474; lambs, $6.25@7. Hogs, 
$5.50475.75. 
EAST BUFFALO.—Steers, $5475.25; Stock¬ 
ers and feeders, $2.75474; calves, $6.50(58.75. 
Sheep, $2.50474.50; lambs, $5(56.90. Hogs, 
$4.50475.75. 
CHICAGO.—Steers, $3.5047)4.60; calves, $35 
7.25. Sheep, $3.75474; lambs, $4(55.25. Hogs, 
$4.95475.45. __ 
MARKET NEWS 
COTTON.—Since last report the price 
went to 17% cents, and those booming the 
market talked 20-cent cotton for the near 
future. But instead of that the bottom 
dropped out, and in spite of all attempts 
to rally, remains at 14 cents or under. This 
is five cents above the price at the same 
time last year. 
RIGHTS OF A DRIVER.—"In a certain 
section of Brooklyn, N. Y., a driver for a 
milk company was laid off, or discharged. 
No cause was given why this driver's sei- 
vices were no longer needed The com 
pany requires a 10-days’ notice from a 
driver before leaving and they are also re¬ 
quired to give the same notice. This man 
is discharged without notification, and by 
the agreement signed (sometimes without 
reading it through), he cannot take an¬ 
other position driving a milk wagon for 60 
days. If he does he loses his $150 deposit. 
Has he any redress? He is honest and a 
hard worker. I heard that when his 60 
days are up he will get nearly every cus¬ 
tomer he had from this company.” H. 
New York. 
If he signed any such agreement he will 
certainly have to live up to it, no matter 
whether he read it or not, unless he can 
prove that the company has violated its 
part of the bargain, which is doubtful, as 
they have considered it and probably have 
some loophole in the contract to crawl out 
of. It is quite customary for concerns 
whose drivers are so largely in control of 
their trade to make a stiff contract which 
protects the company thoroughly. They 
wish to make sure that no driver leaves 
them and takes the customers with him. 
It is supposed that in 60 days the new 
driver will have a safe hold on the cus¬ 
tomers. From the standpoint of common 
justice this attitude on the part of the milk 
company is untenable. Running a mint 
route is hard work, and the driver who by 
courteous service gains customers has a 
right to retain whatever interest in them 
he can. This is recognized in lines of 
business employing commercial travelers, 
whose value to a concern depends largely 
upon the amount of trade they can bring 
to it. Employers know the value of a man 
of this type with a good clientage, and un¬ 
derstand that they cannot replace him 
easily, but a milk company can get a new 
driver in a day and hence are able to pin 
him to a contract that would not be con¬ 
sidered by people in other lines of business. 
EGG NOTES.—Receipts are increasing, 
but as yet there is not sufficient surplus 
from immediate wants to put the price 
down. People who get anywhere near 
fresh eggs at retail have to pay four or 
five cents apiece. Yet I have seen eggs 
sold within the last week for 28 cents per 
dozen, and they were fair eggs, as storage 
eggs go. No article of general commerce 
in this city is so uniformly scarce as the 
egg only a day or two old. It is possible 
to get plenty less than two weeks old and 
occasionally a fair supply less than one 
week, but the great bulk of what are call¬ 
ed fresh eggs are at least three weeks old 
before the consumer gets them. The trucK 
farmer with whom I live in New Jersey 
winters about 100 hens as a side issue. They 
have usually taken a long vacation in cold 
weather, but this Winter developed the 
strange habit of laying right along. It 
cannot be the breed, because they are all 
kinds, and the house is only a common 
one. The owner bought a bone cutter last 
Fall and has been feeding cut bone liberal¬ 
ly, to which he gives all the credit. They 
are not breaking any records, except their 
own, but furnish enough eggs to pay a 
fair profit over their keep at the prices 
prevailing this Winter. People come to the 
house for them, cheerfully paving 50 cents 
per dozen. Several people whom I meet 
in the city every day are very fond of 
new-laid eggs. At their request I hare 
brought in a few dozen, not more than a 
day or two old, and they have been dis¬ 
tributed among their friends as unusual 
delicacies. One man sent one here and 
there to sick friends. A baker who knows 
what good things are at once ate one raw 
and called it "delicious.” This will sound 
strange, or impossible to farmers w’ho can 
have all the new eggs they want and 
would not think of using any others. Per¬ 
haps imagination had something to do 
with the relish for these eggs, but at least 
some of the people mentioned know the 
peculiar flavor of the new egg, which it 
scon loses. An amusing incident occurred 
at bakery referred to. They run a small 
lunch counter, serving among other things 
ham and eggs, two eggs and a small slice 
of ham for 15 cents. At this price, of 
course, the eggs must be the storage ar¬ 
ticle, though entirely wholesome. A 
stranger ordered ham and eggs. The baker 
said in German to his helper, “Don’t use 
those 50-cent eggs.” After looking the 
cook said: “The others are all gone,” so 
supposedly the new' eggs were used. It 
happened that the customer understood 
German, had taken in the little conversa¬ 
tion between cook and baker, and said in 
that language when paying his bill: “Those 
eggs were fine. There is nothing so nrce 
as a new-laid egg.” The joke was that the 
eggs were from the storage supply, though 
the cook did not know it at the time. 
w. w. H. 
Making Hotbeds.—I n late years I make 
my hotbed frames 111-3 feet wide, head of 
sash in center bed; shake manure well as 
I put in so there are no hard lumps, put 
on sash and when well heated up tread 
down, load up with leaves if I have them, 
or with fresh manure, and put on dirt. If 
packed and soil put on when first filled it 
rr.ay cool off. As soon as tomato plants 
put on third leaf I transplant about two 
inches apart and set up to the first leaf. 
As soon as they spread out to cover the 
ground I transplant, giving five or six 
inches space. When setting in field I plow 
a furrow as for potatoes north and south 
if I can, soak plants in bed, and lay top 
of plant toward the north, placing roots 
where I have poured about a pint of water; 
press soil on root and cover stalk with dirt 
up to the leaves. In the morning the tops 
will stand up, roots will put out on the 
stalk, and all done with hoe. The main 
roots are deep, they root from stalk near 
top and none are shaded by plant. Try 
Sibley’s or Pike’s Peak squash for own use. 
I like it better than Hubbard. e. w. b, 
Connecticut. 
Milk and Feed Matters.—I hear no 
complaint about, cows not doing well about 
here, when housed in warm barns. The 
cold Winter has emphasized the nec(*;sity 
of warm buildings and a good water sup¬ 
ply. Farmers seem to be feeding no more 
grain than usual, but feed stores report 
more feed sold than in many years. The 
corn crop was almost a failure. Very few 
put in any large amount of feed last Fall 
and almost all buy throughout the season 
in small quantities. Prices now are $25 for 
Pillsbury mixed feed and $27 for Buffalo 
gluten, which are the favorite feeds in this 
section. There is more interest taken in 
dairying now' than a few years ago. The 
Bordens have recently put up two bottling 
plants near here, one at Canaan two years 
ago and one at Lime Rock Station last 
Fall. Their prices have been more satis- 
factorv than the prices of those paying on 
Exchange basis. The receiving station at 
Falls Village pays within five cents of the 
Exchange for the Winter months; before 
they had competition from the Bordens 
they took out 15 cents the year round. 
Most farmers will have enough hay to 
carry their stock through, but imany who 
expected to have a surplus will be disap¬ 
pointed. There have been no new milcn 
cows sold about here recently t <?2y fancy 
cc.w's always bring good prices. h. g. 
Falls Village, Conn. 
“Gentlemen,” said the impassioned 
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are you doing in politics?” interrupted a 
man in the audience.—Chicago Evening 
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Potatoes on Fertilizer Alone. 
Mr. John H. Gray, of Baring, Washing¬ 
ton Co., Me., w’rites: “This v£ar I planted 
six bushels of Green Mountain potatoes on 
five-eighths of an acre of clay loam that 
had not been plowed or dressed for 12 
years, and which was cutting only one-half 
ton of hay to the acre. I applied no other 
dressing than Bowker’s Stockbridge Po¬ 
tato Manure at the rate of 1.800 pounds to 
the acre in the hill. The rows were three 
feet apart and the seed w'as planted 18 to 
20 inches apart in the rows by hand and 
covered two or three inches deep. 1 he 
piece was cultivated three times with a 
14-tooth cultivator. The crop grew rapidly 
and strong, with very large stalks, and 
was harvested from September 20 to 28, 
and yielded 150 bushels of sound potatoes 
on the piece by measure. I think Bow'ker’s 
Fertilizer is the best made, and I have used 
many other kinds.”— Adv. 
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