July 9, 
532 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending July 5, 
1904: 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 1, Northern, Duluth 
inspection, $1.00%. Corn, 54. Oats, 45. 
Rye, 70. Barley, 47. 
FEED.—Spring bran, 200-Ib sacks, $22@ 
24 ; standard middlings, $24@2G; Hour mid¬ 
dlings, $29. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, prime, 95; No. 
1, U0@92% ; No. 2, 80@85; No. 3, 65@75. 
Clover, mixed, 05; clover, 55. Marsh, 50@ 
55. Straw, long rye, 70@80. Oat, 40@50. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price two 
cents per quart to shippers in 20-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER. — Creamery, 13@18J4 ; State 
dairy, 13(y)17; factory, 11@13% ; imitation 
creamery, 13(q)15; renovated, 10@15; pack¬ 
ing stock, 10^12%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 7% @9; skims, 3@ 
5. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 20@21; fair 
to prime, 18@19; Western and Southern sec¬ 
onds to firsts, 14<§H7 ; checks, 10. 
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, 
$2.75(^3.25. Peaches, carrier, $1@1.50. 
Plums, carrier, $1.25@2.50. Pears, Le Coiite, 
bbl., $4@5.50. Strawberries, qt., 6@18. 
Blackberries, 7@10. Huckleberries, G@10. 
Gooseberries, 7@8. Black caps, pt., 5@C. 
Red raspberries, pt., 6<ji)8. Currants, qt., 8@ 
10. Cherries, lb, G@14. Muskmelons, crate, 
$1@2.50. Watermelons, 100, $15@40. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, Southern, No. 
1, $1.50@2; lower grades, $l(cf*1.25. Aspar¬ 
agus, prime, doz. bunches, $2.25@3; short 
and culls, 75@$1.50. Beets, new, 100 bunches, 
$1@1.50. Carrots, 100 bunches, $1@1.25. 
Cabbage, new, bbl. crate, 60@$1.25. Cucum¬ 
bers, Southern, bbl., $1.50@2.25. Egg plants, 
bu. box, $1.25@2. Kale, bbl., 40@50. Lettuce, 
bbl., 25(&$1. Onions, Texas, bu. crate, $1.50 
(a 2; nearby, %-bbl. basket, $1.50@2. Pep¬ 
pers, bu. carrier, $1.50(^2. Peas, 1-3-bbl. 
basket, 25@50. String beans, %-bbl. basket, 
25@27. Radishes, 100 bunches, 25@75. 
Squash, Summer, 50@$1.50. Turnips, ruta 
baga, bbl., $1.25@1.75; white, 100 bunches, 
$1. Tomatoes, bu. box or carrier, $1@2.50. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 26@35; 
Pacific coast, 1903, 24(0*30; olds, 9({J14 ; Ger¬ 
man, 1903, 57(£fG4. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50@2.90 ; pea, 
$1.50@1.82% ; red kidney, $2.50^2.90; white 
kidney, $2.85(^2.90 ; yellow eye, $2.55@2.G0 ; 
lima, California, $2.40. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, lb, 11 ; chickens., 
1G@18; roosters, G; turkeys, 10; ducks, pair, 
40<y.'80; geese, pair, 90@$1.25; pigeons, pair, 
25. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12@15 ; 
broilers, fancy, lb, 25@30; fowls, 10@11% ; 
squabs, doz., $L50@2.75. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—Calves, G 
(7tJ8; pork, G@G%. 
BARKS, ROOTS AND HERBS.—Prices 
previously given have been the going prices 
in New York; that is, what wholesalers 
charge smaller dealers. Prices paid producers 
vary largely owing to quality, etc., and are 
generally a matter of individual bargaining. 
So many have asked for quotations on rough 
stock at first hand that the figures hereafter 
given will as nearly as possible represent 
what producers may expect to get for stuff 
of fair quality. Elm, lb, 10@22; wild cherry, 
lb, 2(q*3 ; sassafras, lb, 3@5 ; cascara sagrada, 
lb, 6@9; sage, lb, 2@3; ginseng, lb, $3.50(^ 
5; Virginia snake root, lb, 1S@21. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices on fertilizing 
chemicals are intended to cover the range 
from single ton to carload lots f. o. b. New 
York: Nitrate of soda, ton, $40@50; dried 
blood, $52@55 ; ground bone, $25@28; muri¬ 
ate of potash, $36@45 ; sulphate of potash, 
$44@50; kainit, $11@13; acid phosphate, 
$12@15; copper sulphate in bbl. lots, lb, 5% ; 
sulphur flour in bbl. lots, lb, 3; liver of 
sulphur, in 50Tb lots, lb, 14; water 
glass (silicate of soda), small lots, lb, 15@30. 
LIVE STOCK.—Calves, $4@6.25. Sheep, 
$2.75^)4.25. Lambs, $4.75@7.65. 
MARKET NEWS 
Wool. —Business is improving. Some large 
mills have been buying heavily and the mar¬ 
ket is strong. Fine washed Michigan delaine 
has sold at 31 cents; Ohio and Pennsylvania 
No. 1, 32; unwashed lower grades, 23 to 26. 
Territory wools run from 14 to 20 cents. 
Apple Futures. —Some of the papers rep¬ 
resenting the apple dealers have seen their 
annual double-leaded vision of apple trees 
loaded with marketable fruit, and they are 
already talking 40 or 50 cents a barrel for 
choice apples. We have seen fine Baldwins 
and Northern Spies sold at this price, but it 
was in a year when the apple sections had a 
heavier setting than this season, and before 
cither export or domestic trade had been de¬ 
veloped to its present proportions. To cry 
"big crop” every year, regardless of the facts, 
upsets all confidence in the buying element 
and usually tends to harden rather than de¬ 
press prices, as those having apples to sell 
discount the big crop talk even more than it 
deserves. There was a time when a buyer 
could go into a neighborhood and by smooth 
talking get apples at two-thirds their value 
or less, but this does not happen so often 
now, when reliable crop statistics may be had 
through the press and fruit growers’ asso¬ 
ciations. 
Cotton prices are getting down somewhere 
near, hard bottom again, and within reach of 
the manufacturing interests. During the past 
week current prices dropped a trifle below 
11 cents. This goes to show that natural 
causes and manufacturing interests are in 
the end quite sure to upset the plans of 
wildcat speculators. The speculation of the 
past year lias put millions into the pockets 
of some and thrown others into bankruptcy. 
Some planters have actually got a share of 
the high prices that have prevailed, but in 
most cases the professional speculator and 
small dealer have made the money rather 
than the producer. A loss and gain account 
of all features of cotton operations for the 
past two years would show the loss side to 
be far the greater. Many mills In this coun¬ 
try have been forced to close or run on part 
time because they could not pay the prices 
asked for raw material, held above its manu¬ 
facturing value. The closing of a large mill 
for no other reason than this is a serious 
affair. It turns a lot of industrious workers 
out of a job, brings suffering to famines, 
throws a wet cloth over all other lines of 
business in the community and ties up' the 
capital of men who, while not manufacturers 
from philanthropic purposes, are willing, as 
employers of labor, to distribute a share of 
their income rather than pocketing it all. 
The outrageous artificial prices have hit our 
export trade worse than appears on the sur¬ 
face. European mill men who have previous¬ 
ly depended upon getting American cotton at 
a living price are quite naturally looking to 
other sources suited to cotton growing in Asia 
and Africa. A field of growing cotton has a 
certain value, based on the investment and 
labor put into it. Every operation, picking, 
ginning, baling, hauling to shipping point, 
spinning and weaving, adds to this value. 
There is good reason why cotton cloth should 
he worth more than the raw cotton, because 
value has been put into it all along. The 
speculator adds nothing to the value of the 
cotton. He sells it in the same form that he 
bought It and in most cases never sees it at 
all. Yet in a day he may make more out of 
it than all others combined, from planter to 
dealer in the finished cloth. In order to get 
cotton cloth we must have the planter, the 
truly legitimate handler, the mill man, spin¬ 
ner and weaver. Take away any one and the 
chain is broken. But the speculator of the 
type referred to is a parasite on business. 
His constant aim is to upset prices based on 
supply and demand and pocket a good “wad” 
in the scramble. lie plays into the hands of 
the farmer when there is most in it for him 
in that way, but the farming interests always 
suffer from his disturbances. When some 
other fellow shark overpowers and puts him 
iu a business grave there are no mourners. 
It is said that he must be a “smart man” to 
be able to control the cotton market as some 
of them have, but he is no smarter than many 
manufacturers and other dealers who, if they 
were willing to throw all true business prin¬ 
ciples to the dogs and sail in as he does could 
outwit him at his own game. w. w. h. 
Bridge-Gjiaeting.— As a rule, the waxing 
and wrapping of the bridged section com¬ 
pletes the job. The cloth usually rots off and 
causes no trouble. If linen bandages are 
used, however, they may become so tight, if 
the trees are young and growth is rather 
rapid, as to lace the stem in an objectionable 
manner. “Tight lacing” should be avoided. 
When the bridges have taken the bandages 
can be slit. Iu my own experience I do not 
find that bandages are necessary as a rule. 
1 prefer to wax the lower and upper extrem¬ 
ities thoroughly and let it go at that. Where 
large trees have been girdled and the bearing 
wood is perfectly dead, it is a good plan to 
paint this before inserting the scions. The 
scions will not unite with the wood, at any 
rate, and the painting protects it from wood- 
destroying fungi. JOHN CRAIG. 
BOOK BARGAINS. 
A few slielf-worn copies of the following 
20-cent pamphlets will be sold at the rate of 
any six for 25 cents or the whole 10 for 40 
cents: 
Canning and Preserving, Young; How to 
Plant a Place, Long; Silo and Silage, A. J. 
Cook; Ensilage and Silo, Colling'wood; Fruit 
Packages, Powell; Accidents and Emergen¬ 
cies, Groff; Country Roads, Powell; The New 
Botany, Beal; Milk Making and Marketing, 
Fowler; Tuberous Begonias. 
The Warfare on Mosquitoes. 
Reader (No Address ).—I noticed a para¬ 
graph in Brevities, to the effect that the Jap¬ 
anese were seeking information about de¬ 
stroying mosquitoes. I would like to learn 
an effective method of destroying, or doing 
away r with mosquitoes, as I was annoyed a 
great deal by them last Summer. 
Ans. —In New Jersey and localities in 
other States an organized warfare against 
mosquitoes is going on. This insect has 
certain iixed habits. It breeds in water 
or low undrained places—the young being 
the well known “wrigglers” seen in stag¬ 
nant water. In fighting the mosquitoes 
efforts are made to prevent their breeding 
and to kill the young on a large scale. All 
low, damp places are drained and, so far 
as possible, all bodies of stagnant water 
are covered with oil. A thin film of this 
oil in the water kills the wrigglers when 
they rise to the surface, as they must 
often do for air. Thus it is possible to 
kill off the mosquitoes only where all low 
places and stagnant pools can be con¬ 
trolled. A cistern or some small pond left 
without the oil might furnish enough of 
the pests to plague a whole town. In some 
parts of the East whole districts have 
been freed from the pests by controlling 
the breeding places in this way. 
“Well, supposing she did throw you 
over because you had lost your money— 
there are as good fish in the sea as ever 
came out of it.” “That’s poor consola¬ 
tion,. Miss Trixie, for a fellow who’s lost 
his bait.”—Tit-Bits. 
“John,” asked the lawyer’s wife, who 
had recently taken up the health-culture 
fad, “is it best to lie on the right side or 
the left side?” “My dear,” replied the 
legal luminary, “if one is on the right 
side it isn’t usually necessary to lie at 
all.”—Woman’s Journal. 
Oldest Commission XlVSiV."..: 
eggs. pork, poultry, dressed calves, game, etc. Fruits. 
E. B. WOODWAKD,302 Greenwich Street, New York. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND. E8T. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN. 
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Description of the land: There are about 15 acres 
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r New York State Fair 1 
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 ihe most interesting features of the fair. A third prize has been added In t he Sheep 
and Swine Departments. 
Poultry, Pigeons and Pet Stock. 
New coops have been put in and more prizes than last year are offered. 
The Implement Display 
will exceed the unusual tine exhibitof last year. This department is receiving more attention each 
year from t he 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. 
Thisdisplay 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 interestall 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. 5th- 
Send For Prize List. 
t 
^S. C. SHAVER , SECRETARY, ALBANY, N. 
JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT 
CURES THE WORST COLDS. 
For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy. 
