July 2, 
bi6 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending June 
28, 1904 : 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, $1.07%. Corn, 
54@56. Oats, 46. Rye, 70. Barley, 47. 
FEED.—Spring bran, 200-lb sacks, $22@ 
25; red dog, $28@30; standard middlings, 
$24 @26. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Ilay, prime, 95@ 
97 % ; No. 1, 90@92% ; No. 2, 80@85; No. 3, 
65@70. Clover, mixed, 65; clover, 55@G2%. 
Marsh, 50@55. Straw, long rye, $1.05@1.20. 
Oat, 55. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price two 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 13@18 ; State dairy, 
13@17 ; factory, 11@13% ; imitation cream¬ 
ery, 13@15; renovated, 10@15; packing 
stock, 10@12%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 6@8% ; skims, 2 
@5. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 20@21 ; fair 
to prime, 18@79; Western and Southern sec¬ 
onds to firsts, 15@17; checks, 10@12. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 4@ 
7 ; sun dried, 2@4 ; chops, 100 lbs, $2@2.25 ; 
cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.50@1.70. Rasp¬ 
berries, 25. Huckleberries, 12%@14. Black¬ 
berries, 4@5. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice to fancy, 
$2.50@2.75; fair to good, $1.25@2. Plums, 
Georgia, carrier, $1@2.25. Peaches, carrier, 
$1@1.50. Pears, Le Conte, bbl., $4@G. 
Strawberries, qt., 4@12. Blackberries, 8@11. 
Huckleberries, 7@13. Gooseberries, 6@8. 
Red raspberries, pt., 8@10. Cherries, lb, 5 
@12. Muskmelons, bu. crate, $1@2.50. Water¬ 
melons, 100, $18@35. 
VEGETABLES.—l’otatoes, Southern No. 1, 
bbl., $2@3; lower grades, $1@1.75 ; sweets, 
bu., $1@1.50. Asparagus, prime, doz. 
bunches, $1.25@1.75 ; short and culls, 50@75. 
Beets, new 100 bunches, $1.62. Carrots, new, 
100 bunches, i@1.50. Cabbage, new Southern, 
bbl. crate, 75@$1.12. Egg plants, bu. box, 
$1.50@2. Horseradish, 100 lbs, $4@6. Kale, 
bbl., 40@->0. Lettuce, bbl., 25@75. Mush¬ 
rooms, hothouse, lb, 50@$1. Onions, Texas, 
bu., $1.25@1.75. Peppers, bu. carrier, $1.50 
@2.50. Peas, %-bbl. basket, 50@$1. String 
beans, %-bbl. basket, 50@$1. Radishes, 100 
bunches, 50@75. Spinach, bbl., 50@00. 
Squash, marrow, bbl., $1.50@2. Turnips, 
ruta baga, bbl., 75@$1.25; white, 100 
bunches, $1. Tomatoes, bu. box or carrier, 
$1@2.50. Watercress, 100 bunches, 50@$1.25. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 26@35; 
Pacific coast, 1903, 24@30; olds, 9@14 ; Ger¬ 
man, 1903, 57"@64. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50@2.90; pea, 
$1.50@1.S5; red kidney, $2.50@2.95; white 
kidney, $2.85@2.90; yellow eye, $2.60; lima, 
California, $2.35@2.40. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, lb, 12; chickens, 
18@20; roosters, 7 ; turkeys, 12; ducks, pair, 
G0@S0; geese, pair, 90@$1.25; pigeons, pair, 
25. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12@15; 
broilers, fancy, lb, 16@35; fowls, 11@12; 
squabs, doz., $1.50@2.75. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS—Calves, 6 
@8; pork, 6@? ] /4. 
TOBACCO.—Seed leaf, Connecticut fillers, 
5@10; fine wrappers, 50@70; New York State 
fillers, 3@5; Virginia shipping, common to 
good lugs, 6@7; medium to good leaf, 9@11; 
good to fine leaf, liy 2 @12y 2 I Louisville Bur- 
'ey, common to good lugs, 10%@15. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices on fertilizing 
rhemicals are intended to cover the range 
from single ton to carload lots f. o. b. New 
York : Nitrate of soda, ton, $4G@50; dried 
blood, $52@55; ground bone, $25@28; muri¬ 
ate of potash, $36@45; sulphate of potash, 
$44@50 ; kainff, $11@13 ; acid phosphate, $12 
@15; copper sulphate in bbl. lots, It), 5%; 
sulphur flour, in bbl. lots, lb, 3; liver of sul¬ 
phur, in 50-lb lots, lb, 14; water glass (sili¬ 
cate of soda), small lots, lb, 15@30. 
LIVE STOCK.—Steers, $4.45@G.30. Calves, 
$4@6.25. Sheep, $3@4.50. Lambs, $5.25@ 
7.25. ilogs, $5.70. 
MARKET NEWS 
Potatoes. —Old stock is practically out of 
this market, and the arrivals of new during 
the past ween, were so heavy that a drop of 
a dollar per barrel occurred, but the better 
grades recovered part of this later. The 
highest prices are paid for Early Rose. This 
excellent variety has outlived a good many 
for which great things were promised. The 
seed has been baaiy mixed, so that Early 
Rose of all sorts and colors are seen, but 
wherever a crop of the genuine type is of¬ 
fered it sells welL The Long Island and Jer¬ 
sey early crop will soon begin to come, but 
Southern receipts will have slackened by that 
time, so that prices for good stock are not 
likely to be much lower for some time. 
Gbeen Peas. —Large quantities from Jer¬ 
sey and Long Island are arriving by wagon. 
Bags holding about a bushel are largely used, 
also three-peck baskets. As a rule, the tall- 
growing varieties sell highest, as they are 
better than most dwarf sorts. The highest 
price paid now is for Telephone, about 15 
cents jier bag above the small. This variety 
makes a surprising growth of vine with long, 
well-filled pods. For a dwarf market sort the 
old Daniel O'Rourke is hard to beat, as it is 
prolific and has good sized pods. The very 
small podded sorts do not sell well when the 
larger can be had. It takes some of the 
newer varieties a long time to get into the 
market garden trade, as some need more care 
than they get in field culture to make a fair 
showing. 
Butteb. —Speculative demand has hardened 
the market a trifle, and in some cases a little 
higher prices have been obtained for specially 
desirable marks. Some of the receipts are 
off in quality owing to excessive heat and 
slack methods in making. Of course the best 
butter makers do not always have equal suc¬ 
cess, but there is no excuse for some of the 
stuff that comes here, and anything above 
soap grease prices is too much to pay for it. 
The trouble starts in the milk, which gets a 
dose of dried ulth from the cow's udder and 
side. The ordinary strainer used removes but 
a small portion of this dirt. Considerable of 
it rises to the surface with the cream and 
thus gets directly into the buter. This filth 
is responsible for more bad butter than any 
other cause. 
Bbixh is Not Fish.—T his weighty deci¬ 
sion was recently arrived at by the Treasury 
Department. Large quantities of mackerel 
and other fish in pickle are brought into this 
country, me duty averages about one cent 
per pound. Previously this has been levied 
on the whole contents of the barrel. In some 
cases it made nearly a double charge. Im¬ 
porters naturally opposed this, and the ap¬ 
praisers have at last decided that only the 
fish and the brine and salt which naturally 
stick to them are taxable. This would seem 
to be a self-evident proposition, as there is 
no more reason for charging fish duty on the 
brine than there would be to put the cent a 
pound tax ou the fish barrels, the men who 
handled them and the team and truck which 
hauled them to the shipping point. 
w. w. II. 
“ROPING HAY.” 
A. If. M., Davenport, Neb .—About one 
year ago an article was published in The 
R. N.-Y. describing the method of drawing in 
hay to the stock by means of a rope. 1 
would ask you to publish the article again. 
Ans. —The article was by John Gould, 
of Ohio, as follow: 
“The machinery is simply a good stout 
3 3,^-inch rope, -80 feet in length, with an 
iron whiffletree hook in one end, and 
bound so it will not untwist at the other. 
A whiffletree and one horse of the span 
is hitched to one end of the rope and 
driven astride of a windrow of the hay, 
and stopped about 50 feet from the end. 
Some of the hay at the end is pushed 
forward enough to make a little bunch. 
The loose end of the rope is now looped 
about this bunch, and tied with a half 
hitch into the whiffletree of the other 
horse. A driver starts the team slowly, 
the second man thrusts his fork into 
the hay at the rear, just above the rope, 
so it will not pull over; and as soon as 
the hay is moving forward all right, this 
man comes around at the side and light¬ 
ens up the hay between the ropes, so it 
will not roll under, as the rapidly gather¬ 
ing mass of nay grows larger. Pretty 
soon he will stand on the rope to hold 
it close to the ground, and the driver 
who has the lengthened reins will stand on 
the opposite rope, and the size of the 
bunch will be governed by the strength 
of the team. The gathered bunch of hay 
will—or should—weigh about a ton, and 
slips over the stubble, with far less fric¬ 
tion than one would think. When taken 
to the place wanted, the half hitch is 
cleared from the whiffletree, and the first 
horse draws it clear from the mass of hay, 
and the next windrow is attacked. When 
ready to pitch, the first forkful should 
be the one in front, and the rakefuls 
come out without much if any tangle. In 
stacking hay these rope loads are pulled 
up to the stack first on one side, then 
another, until the stack gets too high to 
pitch on to, when a partial load of hay 
is brought in, and the hay in the bunch is 
first forked up on it. Where hay is left 
in the field to cure out, the loose hay in 
front of the bunch is used to top it out. 
and so compact is the hay, that wetting 
in—if well topped—is about impossible. 
Where the meadow adjoins the hay barn, 
many rope in the nearby hay and avoid 
all loading and pitching, and where a 
horse fork is used, haying is an occupa¬ 
tion that harmonizes well with white duck 
suits.” 
1 his called out the following comment, 
by W. F. Taber; 
“First procure a one-inch rope 150 
feet long; and double it, which will form 
a loop at on end; tie the other end to 
the whiffletree of the off side horse. Have 
a stout iron hoop attached to the whif¬ 
fletree of the nigh horse, to which hitch 
the looped end of the rope. Drive the 
horse around the end of the wind¬ 
row, which has been prepared for the 
drawing; lay the rope across the hay, 
stand upon it and start the horses. As 
a boy in my early teens, I assisted by 
standing upon the rope on one side or 
the other as needed, my father standing 
at the rear. As the load increased in size 
the horses were urged to a trot, and 
many a time the load of half a ton or 
more reached the stack with the horses 
at a keen run. Then unhook the rope 
and draw it out and go for another load. 
Sometimes the rope would slip over the 
hay and the boy would get covered up, 
but if the windrow was properly pre¬ 
pared, by throwing the hay forward so 
that left back would slide under, one man 
could withdraw without any assistance, 
as I remember my father doing when 1 
got old enough to build the stack. This 
was in the forties and fifties, the old-fogy 
days, as some may think, but never was 
hay got together more quickly than by 
this method.”_ 
Bbidge-Gbafting. —If bridge-grafting has 
been well done and is growing there is no 
need to do anything further, for the wound 
will soon heal over. If it is not a success, 
or if binding has only been done, the wounds 
should be carefully examined and any bare 
places covered with wax or waxed cloth. It 
lakes nature to heal the wound, and all we 
can do is to give her the best opportunity 
possible. H. K. VAN DEMAN. 
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New York State Fair 
SYRACUSE, SEPTEMBER 5-10, 1904. 
$65,000 in Premiums and Purses. 
The agricultural display will exceed all former exhibitions In quality and variety. 
Live Stock Exhibit 
will be one of the most interesting features of the fair. A third prize has been added In the Sheep 
and Swine Departments. 
Poultry, Pigeons and Pet Stock. 
New coops have been putin and more prizes than last year are offered. 
The Implement Display 
will exceed the unusual fine exhibit of last year. This department is receiving more attention each 
year from the farmers and manufacturers of agricultural implements. 
The Domestic Department 
will interest the ladies as new classes have been added bringing the department up to date. 
Farm Produce. 
This display promises to be larger than ever and will be one of the most attractive features of the fair. 
Dairy Exhibit 
will be up to its usual high standard and promises to be larger than ever. 
Fruit and Flowers 
will interest all who attend the fair. The fruit designs will be an attractive feature in itself. The 
Flower display will equal any exhibit ever given at the fair. Entries in the Live Stock Department 
close August 8th; in all other departments August 29th except machinery, which closes on Sept. Stir 
Scud For Prize List. 
JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT 
CURES THE WORST COLDS. 
For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy. 
