THE RURAI 
NEW-YORKER. 
July 23, 
564 
MAR K E’TS 
General Review. 
A feature of the week was the meat hand¬ 
lers’ strike, which at this writing is not set¬ 
tled. This caused a rise in the price of meats 
and made a strong demand for live stock in 
eastern markets. IOggs have advanced one 
cent, the calls of the trade for fresh stock 
being rather in excess or arrivals. Wheat 
Crop reports being unfavorable, the market is 
firm. 
Prices outained during week ending July 
18, 1004: 
WHEAT.—No. 1 Northern, Duluth inspec¬ 
tion $1.05; No. 2, hard Winter, New York in¬ 
spection, 08. Corn, No. 2, mixed, for export, 
53%. Oats, white, 44. ltye, No. 2, Western, 
75. Barley, 48. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, prime, 90@95 ; 
No. 1, 85@90 ; No. 2, 75@80 ; No. 3, 55@05 ; 
shipping, 50@55. Clover, mixed, u0@00; 
clover, 45@50. Straw, long, rye, $1@1.15; 
short, 70@8v. 
FEED.—Retail prices : Spring bran, .$22 
@24; standard middlings, $23@2G; flour mid¬ 
dlings, $28@30. 
BEANS.—Marrow, $2.45@2.90; pea, $1.50 
@1.80; red kidney, $2.50@2.95; white kid¬ 
ney, $2.80@2.85; yellow eye, $2.55@2.60; 
lima, California, $2.45. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price two 
cents per quart to shippers in 20-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, extras, 17@17% ; 
firsts, 1G@17; seconds, 14%@15% ; thirds, 
13@14; State dairy, half tubs, extras, 17; 
tubs, firsts, 15@1G; seconds, 14@14y 2 ; 
Western factory, firsts, 13 Vi ; seconds, 12% 
@13; imitation creamery, 13@15; renovated, 
extras, 15; firsts, 14@14% ; seconds, 12%@ 
13; packing stock, No. 1, 12%; No. 2, 11% 
@12; No. 3, 10. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, colored, small fancy, 
8%; fair to good, 7%@8; white, 7%@8%‘. 
white, large, fair to fancy, 7Vi@7% I skims, 
2% @5. 
EGGS.—Nearby, fancy selected, 21@23 ; 
fresh gathered, firsts, 18@19; Western, 
northerly sections, average best to fancy, 18 
@10%; Southern, fair to good, 15@17; 
checks, 9@12. 
DRIED FRUITS.— Apples, evaporated, 
choice, G%@6% ; common to prime, ^4@G; 
sun dried, 2@4 ; chops, 100 lbs, $1.75@2; 
cores and skins, $1.50@l.i5. Iluckleberiies, 
1003, 12@14. Blackberries, 4@5. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 25@33; 
Western, 22@28; olds, 7@13; German, ciop 
1003, 55@58. 
FRESH FRUITS.—New apples, bushel 
crate or basket, 75@$1.50. Pears, Be Conte, 
bbl., $2@4. Peaches, Belle of Georgia, car¬ 
rier, $1@1.75; Elberta, $1.25@1.75; Moun¬ 
tain Rose, 75@$1.25; Carman, $1@1.25; 
Lady Ingold, $1@1.50; Tillotson, 75@$1 ; 
poor and soft, 25@75. Plums, Georgia, cai- 
rier, $1.50@2. Wild goose, qt., 4@5. 
Cherries, lb, sweet, 8@15; sour, G@9. Cui- 
rants, qt., 7@9. Strawberries, Western New 
York, qt., 6@12. Raspberries, red, pt„ 3@G; 
blackcaps. 3@5. Blackberries, qt., G@8. 
Huckleberries, qt., 6@11. Gooseberries, qt., 
7@8. Muskmelons, Southern, crate, 75@$2. 
Watermelons, carload, $100@300. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Spring chickens, lb, 18 
@20; fowls, 14; roosters, 8% ; turkeys, 10, 
ducks, pair, 40@80; geese, 90@$1.25; live 
pigeons, 25. 
DRESSED POULTRY—Turkeys, 12@15; 
broilers, 3% to 4 lbs per pqir, lb, 26@30; 
under weight, 24@2G; mixed, 20@22; fowls, 
average best, 11% ; ducks, 14@1G, squabs, 
prime, large, white, doz., $2.50@2.75; dark 
and mixed, $1.50@2.37. 
VEGETABLES.—Beets, 100 bunches, $1@ 
1.50. Carrots, 100 bunches, $1@1.25. Cab¬ 
bage, bbl., 75@$1. Cucumbers, bbl., 50@$1; 
hothouse, 100, $1.75@2. Cauliflowers, Long 
Island, bbl., $1@2. Celery, doz., 20@50. Egg¬ 
plants, bu. box, 75@$1.25. Sweet corn, 100, 
75@$1.25. l’otatoes, Long Island, 180 lbs, 
$1.75@2.25; Jersey, bbl., $1.50@2; Norfolk 
and Eastern Shore, prime, $1.50@2.25; 
sweets, Jersey, basket, $1.25@1.75. Kale, 
bbl., 25@50. Lettuce, bbl., 25@50. Onions, 
nearby, white, %-bbl. basket, $1.25@1.50, 
Long Island, yellow, bbl., $2.75; Kentucky, 
bbl., $2.75@3; Texas, bu. crate, $1@1.50. 
Peppers, Floriua, carrier, $1; Norfolk, bbl., 
$2.50@3; Jersey, bu. box, $1 @1.50. Peas, 
Telephone, bu., 50@$1; small, 40@60. Rad¬ 
ishes, 100 bunches, 50. Rhubarb, 100 bunches, 
40@75. String beans, %-bbl. basket, 25@75. 
Squash, crook-neck, bbl., 25@50; Ilubbaid, 
50@$1. Turnips, ruta baga, bbl., 75@$1; 
white, 100 bunches, 50@$1. Tomatoes, Flor¬ 
ida, carrier, z,o@50 ; Savannah, 25@75 ; Nor¬ 
folk, 50@$1; North Carolina, 35@40; Jersey, 
bu. box, $1@2. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices on fertiliz- 
ing materials cover the range from ton to 
carload lots. Nitrate of soda, ton, $45@48; 
ground bone, $25@28; dried blood, $54@57; 
muriate of potash, $3G@45; sulphate of pot¬ 
ash, $44^00; kainit, $11@13; acid phos¬ 
phate, $12@1G; copper sulphate in bbl. lots, 
lb, 5% ; water glass (sodium silicate), in 
small lots, lb, 15@30. 
TOBACcU.—Louisville Burley, common to 
good lugs, 10%@15; common to good leaf, 
19%@20%. Virginia shipping, common to 
good lugs, G@7 ; common to fine leaf, 7%@ 
12%. Seed leaf, Connecticut fillers, 5@10; 
wrappers, 30@70. New York State fillers, 3 
@5. Pennsylvania fillers, 3@G. 
LIVE STOCK. 
xnEW YORK.—Steers, $5@7; oxen and 
stags, $3.90@5.75; bulls, $3@4.90; cows, 
$1.75@4.95; milch cows, with calves, $25@ 
50; calves, common to prime veals, $4.50@ 
7.75; buttermilks, $4@4.50; sheep, 100 lbs, 
$3(o 4.50; lambs, $6.25@8.75 ; hogs, $5.70. 
BUFFALO.—Prime steers, $5.80@6.30 , 
shipping, $5@5.75; butchers’, $4.25@5.50; 
cows, $3.25@4.35; bulls, $3.15@4.50; Stock¬ 
ers and feeders, $3@4.25; calves, $5@7; 
sheep, 3@4.25; lambs, $o@8; hogs, mixed, 
$o.40@ 5.50. 
CHICAGO.—Steers, $4.50@G.25 ; Stockers 
and feeders, $2.50@4; cows, $1.50@4.50; 
bulls, $2@4; Texans, $4.65@4.90; calves, 
$2.50@5.50; Sueep, $3.25@5; lambs, $3.50 ./ 
G.50. _ 
MARKET NEWS 
Turning Night Into Day. —This is what 
most of the fruit and vegetable receivers of 
New York do during their busy time, a slice 
of which they are having now. Peaches from 
the South come at the rate of 20 or more 
cars a day. The docks are open at one 
o’clock in the morning, and a coal mine 
worked at full speed is scarcely busier than 
these docks from one to three A. M. Long 
before this the cars containing the produce 
have been brought over from the Jersey side. 
They are run on lighters, and a muscular 
little tugboat will take two of these lighters, 
loaded with 20 or 30 freight cars, snort a few 
times and walk away with them as readily as 
a cat carries a rat. The lighters are made 
fast to the dock and unloaded, A’s, B's and 
C’s stuff being put in separate piles. The 
available dock space is apportioned between 
the principal receivers, each having a sign 
where his pile of crates, perhaps several car¬ 
loads, is to go. Thus the dock becomes like 
one great store with its salesmen and buyers, 
handlers chasing about with back or hand 
truck loads ot crates, and scores of trucks 
being loaded und waiting their turn. I have 
never seen more work crowded into a short 
space of time, and there is less confusion 
than one might expect from this hurried mix¬ 
ture of buyers and sellers and their wares. 
Part of the fruit, melons and other produce is 
unloaded in freight houses at Jersey City, 
the selling being done there. 
An Outgrown Market. —But what is the 
use of starting at such an outlandish hour? 
Why not wait until, say, four o’clock, good 
haying-time getting up, before starting to dis¬ 
tribute these products? Of course it is nec¬ 
essary to get perishable stuff out of the way 
as quickly as possible, but the chief reason is 
that New York has entirely outgrown its mar¬ 
ket facilities. It is like a boy so tall that 
his head is several miles away from his hands, 
so that, he has to start the day beforehand 
to get his breakfast to his mouth. To a large 
extent the wholesale distribution of products 
is confined to the same area as years ago near 
the litue end of the island. But the popula¬ 
tion has increased so that it has crowded it¬ 
self far beyond what was then backwoods. 
Transportation accommodations for humans 
have barely kept up with the needs, but the 
horse and wagon are still practically the only 
means for carrying food to these thousands 
who are mi.es away from where supplies can 
at present be landed. Hence it is no wonder 
that 1 A. M. finds the big retailer on hand 
with his trucks so that he may get started on 
his journey of several miles with stuff some 
of which must reach the small retailer and 
consumer in time for breakfast. It would 
seem that before many years some form of 
power freight distribution of food to various 
parts of the city would be necessary, a service 
quick, ample and much less expensive than 
the present stage-coach way of doing it. Pri¬ 
vate corporations would be glad to handle the 
job, but the city rightly refuses to give away 
franchises that may be worth millions, and 
thus far the city seems afraid to tackle it. 
Good Peaches and Lots op Them describes 
the Georgia arrivals very well. The chief 
varieties are Belle of Georgia and Carman, 
which show up finely; Elberta, the old relia 
ble; Mountain Rose and Lady Ingold. In 
former years the quite natural error was 
made of picking them too green, fearing that 
they would not stand the journey. Many 
that would have been choice if ripe arrived 
here hard as croquet balls and about as eat¬ 
able. The only place that a peach can get 
the desired quality is on the tree. Last year 
and this the pickers have run nearer the mar¬ 
gin of ripeness, and while now and then some 
get soft on the way, this is better than to 
have most of them so hard that they are only 
fit for pickling. The Penna. It. R. previously 
had most of the Georgia peach trade, but this 
year it has been diverted to the B. & O., the 
latter people offering more dock accommoda¬ 
tions, especially in sorting the cars contain¬ 
ing mixed shipments, so that each man's stuff 
would be in one place instead of being scat¬ 
tered about. w. w. h. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
It. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
"a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
S CIENTIFIC CORN HARVESTERS.—One 
Corn quicker, better than any other. No ears 
knocked off. No mouldy fodder. Get catalogue 
R. FOOS MFG. CO., Springfield, Ohio. 
GEO P. HAMMOND. EST 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & CO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches, Berries 
Rutter, itggs, Cheese, Poultry Mushrooms and fio5 
loose Products a Specialty. Consignments solicited. 
34 St 36 Rlttle 12th St.. New York. 
Value of an Experiment Orchard. 
It., Sangamon Go., III .—I have lately seen 
numerous articles in The It. N.-Y. relative 
to the value of apple orchards. I have been 
curious to know how it would be considered 
by a judge or jury in ray case where the or¬ 
chard might not have any direct money 
value. An orchard consisting of only one or 
two trees of a variety, most of them proving 
comparatively worthless, has but little selling 
value. Of course these varieties were ob¬ 
tained for study, and at many limes the ex¬ 
pense of the ordinary money making kinds. 
Would I be allowed if the orchard were dam¬ 
aged' by stock or malicious intent as much 
or less than if me plant was a money paying 
investment? 
Ans.— While the educational value of 
such an orchard is much greater than a 
commercial orchard of a few tested varie¬ 
ties we do not believe a jury would con¬ 
sider it so. The court would consider the 
income or earning capacity of the orchard, 
what the apples have sold for during a 
term of years or what similar trees in 
other orchards produce. The money value 
or earning capacity is what the court meas¬ 
ures a man or a tree by. A judge in New 
Jersey placed the value of a boy’s life at 
$G,000 and a girl’s at $3,000, because the 
boy’s probable earning capacity was 
greater. Money is coming to be the meas¬ 
ure of mankind. 
WE WANT TO KNOW. 
Information About Hydraulic Rams.— 
Will you publish the experience of some 
persons with hydraulic rams for raising 
water for irrigating in a small way, two to 
six acres. The points on which information 
is most desired are: What percentage of 
water Is wasted? IIow high can it be ele¬ 
vated? Is a ram liable to get out of order? 
How long will it last? Is it necessary that 
the supply pipe pass through near bottom of 
dam, or would a syphon over dam work sat¬ 
isfactorily? What does a ram cost? This 
water can be got part way up to the point 
desired, but not so high as wished. There 
would be but little difficulty from freezing, 
if any. A reservoir would he provided at 
point of distribution. m. b. p. 
Texas. 
JIdest Commission SSw.'S»2SciS2; 
£gs, pork, poultry, dressed calves, Rome, etc. Fruits. 
’ B. WOODWARD. 302 Grcemvi. h Str 'ct. New York. 
WANTED. 
Peaches, Plums, Pears, Berries, and all 
fruits and vegetables. Highest prices 
secured for choice products. 
W rite us what you have to sell. 
ARCHDEACON & CO., 100 Murray Street, New York. 
WANTED. 
A man to take charge of a fruit farm on the Hudson, 
one who understands fruit and poultry raising, and 
his a little capital. Will give such a man a tine 
chance to make money and have a good homo. 
Address, HUDSON, care Rural New-Youklk. 
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