THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 16, 
548. 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending July 
11, 1904: 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 1, Northern, Duluth 
inspection, $1.02%. Corn, 53%. Oats, 46. 
Rye, 70. Harley, 46%. 
FEED.—Spring bran, 200-Ib sacks, $21@ 
23; red dog, $26@28; standard middlings, 
$22@25. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, prime, 95; No. 
1, 85@90 ; No. 2, 75@80; No. 3, 55@65. 
Clover, mixed, 70@77%. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price two 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER. — Creamery, 14@18% ; State 
dairy, 13@17; factory, lt@13% ; imitation 
creamery, 13@15; renovated, 13@15; pack¬ 
ing stock, 10@12%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 7@8% ; skims, 3@ 
6 %. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 20@21; fair 
to prime, 18@19; Western and Southern sec¬ 
onds to iirsts, 14@17; checks, 10. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 4@ 
7 ; sun dried, 2%@4; chops, 100 lbs, $1.75@ 
2; cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.25@1.75. 
Huckleberries, 13. Blackberries, 5%. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, new, crate, 40 
@$1.50. Pears, Le Conte, bbl., $2@4.50. 
Peaches, carrier, 30@$1.50. Plums, Geor¬ 
gia, carrier, $1.25@2.50. Currants, qt., 8@ 
9. Musk melons, bu. crate, 50@$2.50. Straw¬ 
berries, qt., 6@14. Blackberries, 6@8. Huckle¬ 
berries, 7@12. Gooseberries, 10@12. Black 
caps, pt., 2@4. Red raspberries, pt., 3@5. 
Cherries, lb, 0@15. 
VEGETABLES.-—Potatoes, Southern Rose, 
bbl., $1.75@2.50; sweets, bu., $1@1.50. Cauli- 
(iowers, bbl., 75@$2. Beets, new, 100 bunches, 
$1.25. Carrots, new, 100 bunches, $1@1.25. 
Celery, doz., 35@65. Cabbage, new, bbl., 75@ 
$1. Cucumbers, Norfolk, bbl., 75@$1; hot¬ 
house, 100, $2. Corn, South Jersey, 100, 75@ 
$1.25. Egg plants, bbl. crate, $2. Mush¬ 
rooms, hothouse, lb, 40@60. Kale, bbl., 40@ 
50. Lettuce, bbl., 25@75. Onions, Ken¬ 
tucky, bbl., $3; Texas, bu., $1@1.50. Pep¬ 
pers, hu. carrier, $1@1.25. Peas, bu., 50@$1. 
String beans, 1-3-bbl basket. 50@75. Radishes, 
100 bunches, 50@75. Squash, Summer, bbl., 
$1@1.25. Turnips, ruta baga, bbl., 75@$lj 
white, 100 bunches, $1. Tomatoes, bu. box or 
carrier, $1@1.50. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 30@34; 
Pacific coast, 1903, 25@29 ; olds, 10. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50@2.90; pea, 
$1.80 ; red kidney, $2.50@2.95 ; white kidney, 
$2.85; yellow eye, $2.55; lima, California, 
$2.45. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, lb, 12; chickens, 
16@19 ; roosters, 8 ; turkeys, 10 ; ducks, pair, 
40@S0; geese, pair, $1@1.25 ; pigeons, pair, 
25. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12@15; 
broilers, fancy, lb, 25@30; fowls, 11%; 
spring ducks, 14@17; squabs, doz., $1.50@ 
2.75. 
TOBACCO.—Louisville Burley, common to 
good lugs, 10%@15; common to good leaf, 
10% @20% ; line and selections, 25@28; Wis¬ 
consin seed leaf, 10@15 ; Connecticut fillers, 
5@10 ; fine wrappers, 50@70 ; New York State 
fillers, 3@5; Pennsylvania fillers, 3@0; Vir¬ 
ginia shipping, common to good lugs, 6@7; 
medium to good leaf, 9@11. 
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@3; sassafras, lb, 3@5 ; cascara sagrada, 
lb, 6@9; sage, lb, 2@3; ginseng, lb, $3.50@ 
5; Virginia snake root, lb, 18@21 ; poke root, 
2 %. 
•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, $45@48; dried 
blood, $53@56; 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 sul¬ 
phur, in 50-lb lots, lb, 14; water glass (sili¬ 
cate of soda), small lots, lb, 15@30. 
MARK ET NEWS 
Light Mackerel Catch. —Reports from 
the vessels now in and those still at work are 
that the catch of shore mackerel is likely to 
be considerably under that of last year. Thus 
far it is nearly 2,000 barrels behind. 
Potato receipts show so large a proportion 
of common stock as to burden the market 
with these grades. Anything choice has sold 
well, with a tendency to advancing prices. 
There is a surplus of cucumbers, which are 
very low. A little Jersey green corn is ar¬ 
riving, also some from the South, but the 
quality is not good enough to attract buyers. 
Strawberries are getting toward the last run. 
As usual many of the Northern New York re¬ 
ceipts are very fine and bringing nearly 20 
cents. The rush of the Georgia peach season 
is on and prices have been cut to move the 
crop quickly. 
Hops. —Trade is quiet. Stocks in dealers’ 
hands are light, and brewers are buying but 
little at present. The chief crop reports of 
interest are drought in the Oregon district 
and worm damage in the Otsego County, 
N. Y., yards. It is thought that the injury 
from worms will not be very serious or wide¬ 
spread. 
Selling Early Potatoes. —“Tell us how to 
dispose of our early potatoes, say 100 to 150 
bushels, to best advantage. We are 50 miles 
north of New York and have manufacturing 
town near Us, but can’t spare time to peddle, 
and therefore would prefer shipping or selling 
to a reliable New York dealer who would se¬ 
cure full price, light expenses and honest re¬ 
turns.” L. 
Unless that manufacturing town is already 
supplied it is the logical market for this crop, 
and if there is no opportunity to sell direct 
to consumers it would seem that arrange¬ 
ments might be made with grocers or other 
local dealers to take the crop in lots of 10 
bushels or more. It seems a pity to send any 
supplies away from a factory town until that 
market is thoroughly stocked up. If it is 
decided to ship to New York the best way is 
to make arrangements with some responsible 
house and then follow out their instructions 
as to time and manner of shipping, regardless 
of what anyone else says about the market. 
Another might judge from the general tone of 
the market that a certain time was not best 
for making shipment, and yet the special re¬ 
ceiver selected might be so situated as to 
handle them most advantageously then. lie 
is the one to advise provided the right man is 
selected. There are plenty of good men in 
this city who are thoroughly honest and cap¬ 
able. We have had dealings with some of 
them ; some we know favorably from the re¬ 
ports of those who have done business with 
them, and some we do not know at all, except 
as seeing that they are doing a large amount 
of business. Of course it is obvious that, 
except in the case of frauds which deserve 
exposure, we cannot publicly discuss the busi¬ 
ness standing of any commission house; yet 
we are always glad to look up any concern 
and reply by mail, giving the exact facts so 
far as we are able to judge. The early crop 
of Long Island potatoes starts in about the 
middle of July, and during the rush prices 
are likely to weaken. This period would seem 
to be the least favorable time for those 50 or 
100 miles away to ship, as they can scarcely 
compete with the Long Island farmers who 
haul in hundreds of bushels by wagon. If 
the potatoes did not have to be dug as soon 
as ripe our plan would be to let them lie 
until there was a little lull in the arrivals of 
what are called “nearby.” 
Dorking Fowls. —Dorkings are one of the 
oldest breeds of fowls known. They are good 
layers of a large, nearly white egg, and are 
excelled by none in their superior table 
qualities. The flesh is fine grained, tender 
and juicy, bones small, and the large deep 
breasts give *a greater proportion of white 
meat than is found in other varieties of 
fowls. They have a fine appearance when 
dressed for market. They do not begin to 
lay quite so young as some of the smaller 
breeds, but begin as early as other breeds 
of their size, and continue to be good layers 
up to three and four years olu. The Colored 
are larger than White. Standard weights 
are cocks from 7% to 9 pounds; hens six to 
seven pounds, but in the best stock weights 
are one or two pounds more. Colored and 
Silver have single combs; White rose combs; 
skin is white; legs pinkish white with five 
toes, fifth toe turning up. To persons who 
want a profitable general purpose fowl, the 
Dorking cannot be surpassed. They are 
fair layers, good mothers; make a good 
growth at from two to three months’ old 
and a heavy fowl at maturity. A Colored 
cockerel in my yards hatched April 8 weighed 
4% pounds July 12, and eight pounds Sep¬ 
tember 15. A Silver cockerel, same hatch, 
weighed four pounds July 12, and a White 
cockerel 3% pounds. A customer reports 
three Colored cockerels at five months weigh¬ 
ing one a few ounces less than eight pounds 
and the other two 7% pounds each. I have 
an egg record of 710 eggs from 14 pullets in 
March, April and May, and the last two 
weeks there were only 13 in pen. They be¬ 
gan laying in December, had no special feed, 
and were confined. In December 20 old hens 
laid 15 dozen eggs. l. s. 
Canastota, N. Y. 
BOOK BARGAINS. 
A few shelf-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, Collingwood; Fruit 
Packages, Powell; Accidents and Emergen¬ 
cies, Groff; Country Roads, Powell; The New 
Botany, Beal; Milk Making and Marketing, 
Fowler; Tuberous Begonias. 
Worms in Field Beans. 
O. T. B., Oakland, Me .—I have a large 
piece of beans, about an acre, which is 
being destroyed by grub worms. Can you 
tell me any way to check or destroy them? 
Ans.— Beans have suffered very seri¬ 
ously this season in many localities from 
the work of insects. In many cases small 
white maggots eat into the seed leaves be¬ 
fore they appear above the surface of the 
ground, and often most of the plants do 
not start at all. I am not sure that the 
correspondent means these white maggots 
when he says “grub worms.” Possibly 
his beans have been destroyed by cut¬ 
worms. These large, fleshy, grayish cater¬ 
pillars are unusually numerous this year, 
and have done much damage in gardens. 
There is no practicable method of de¬ 
stroying either one of these pests in a 
large field without also injuring the plants. 
For the maggots, the best application I 
have used is one pound of any kind of 
soap dissolved in one gallon of hot water, 
to which is then added one pint of crude 
carbolic acid, and the whole thoroughly 
agitated into an emulsion; dilute this with 
30 parts of water and pour freely around 
the infested plants. This, of course, is 
practicable only on small areas where cab¬ 
bages. radishes or onions are affected. For 
cutworms the best method is to wet up 
some bran into a mash and add about one 
pound of Paris-green or white arsenic to 
10 pounds of the bran, and perhaps put¬ 
ting in a little molasses also. Scatter this 
about through the infested field in little 
heaps near the plants, or in rows across 
the field late in the afternoon or earlv 
evening. This mash will attract the cut¬ 
worms, and as they feed upon it readily, it 
will soon destroy many of them. One 
should not use this poison mash where 
there is any danger of domestic animals 
getting at it. Another similar method is 
to cut bunches of clover or other green 
stuff and dip them into a strong mixture 
of poison, like Paris-green, at the rate of 
one pound in 25 gallons of water, and 
scatter these bunches through the field. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Jonathan and Ben Davis.—F. Walden, in 
The Ranch, gives this experience on the 
Pacific Coast: “I grew the Jonathan by the 
side of the Ben Davis, and the latter yielded 
four times as many apples as the former. 
At that time the taste of the people was not 
educated in the matter of apples as it is now. 
I could sell my Bens for as much per bushel 
as the Jonathans. Of course under such 
conditions it paid much better to raise the 
old Ben Davis. It is quite different now. 
Good Jonathans will sell for twice as much 
as the Ben Davis. This means about 
three times as much to the grower 
in favor of the higher priced apple. 
Some one may ask how that can be. 
Well, suppose a box of Ben Davis sells in 
Seattle for 75 cents. How much of that is 
net to the grower? The box, the picking, 
packing and freight must come out of that 
sum. These items combined will take about 
one-half of the selling price of the box of 
apples. Now let a box of Jonathans be sold 
for $1.50. The expenses enumerated above 
will be just the same. The additional 75 
cents will be all profit, except the commis¬ 
sion. In the case of the box of Ben Davis 
the net profit will be not more than 35 cents; 
in the case of the Jonathan it will be more 
than $1. This Is a view point in selling 
fruit that many fail to see. If a box of 
peaches sells in Seattle for 50 cents we do 
not realize more than 20 cents profit. If, 
however, it sells for $1, the profit is 20 cents 
plus 45 cents or 65 cents, which is more 
than three times as much. These figures 
ought to teach growers the importance of 
raising good fruit. Fruit not well thinned 
and inferior in appearance, even though it be 
a good variety, will not pay. The Jona¬ 
than is an annual bearer, and in the West 
the trees are always full and have to be 
thinned. But one thing must not be for¬ 
gotten and that is, that the Jonathan is a 
slow grower, and at ten years of age will not 
under the most favorable conditions bear one- 
half as many apples as the Ben Davis or 
Rome Beauty.” 
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