July 30, 
S8o 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
General Review. 
The end of the beef strike July 20 eased 
the market. As (he strike was of such short 
duration, prices did not advance to the ex¬ 
tent that another week would have caused. 
Eggs of medium grades are arriving more 
freely than flie previous week, although 
fancy are even more scarce and up one cent. 
The speculative demand is helping out what 
would otherwise be a dull butter market. 
Prices obtained during week ending July 
25, 1904 : 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 1 Northern, Duluth 
inspection, $1,09; No. 2, red, new, $1.07. 
Corn, No. 2, mixed, 55. Oats, 43@45. Rye, 
74. Harley, 4 7. 
FEED. Retail prices: Standard middlings, 
$24@2G; Spring bran, $2247,24. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, prime, 90(7795; 
No. 1, 85(7/ 90 ; .So. 2, 75(77:80; No. 3, G5@70; 
shipping, 50(7/ 00. Clover, mixed, 55@G0; 
<?lover, 45<7750. Straw, rye, 80(7/ $1.15. 
BEANS.—Marrows, $2.30@2.90 ; pea, $1.50 
@1.80; red kidney, $2.50(7/ 2.95; white kid¬ 
ney, $2.80(77 2.85; yellow eye, $2.55(772.00. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price was in¬ 
creased July 19 to 2cems per quart to 
shippers in 20-cent freight /.one. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, extras, 17@17% ', 
firsts, 10(7/17; seconds, 14 %@ 15 %; thirds, 
13(7714; State dairy, half tubs, extras, 17; 
tubs, firsts, 15(7/10; seconds, 14@14% ; 
Western factory, firsts, 13% ; seconds, 12% 
<7713; imitation creamery, 13(7/15; renovated, 
extras, 15; firsts, 14(7/14%; seconds, 12%@ 
13; packing stock, No. 1, 12%; No. 2, 11% 
@12; No. 3, 10. 
CIIEESE.—Full cream, colored, small fancy, 
8; fair to good, 7%@8; white, 734478%; 
white, large, fair to fancy, 7% @7% ; skims, 
2% @5. 
EGGS.—Nearby, fancy selected, 24; fresh 
gathered, firsts, 19(7/20; Western, average 
best to fancy, 18@19% ; Southern, fair to 
good, 14@17. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 4@ 
7; sun dried, 2(7/4; chops, 100 lbs, $1.75; 
cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.25(771.05. Huckle¬ 
berries, 12%. Blackberries, 5%. 
FRESH FRUITS.—New apples, bbl., 75@ 
$2. Peaches, ‘Mountain Rose, Belle of Geor¬ 
gia and St. John, crate, 75(7/ $1.25; Elberta, 
$1(7/1.37; Emma, Chinese Free and Lady In¬ 
gold, $1(7/1.25. Pears, Le Conte, bbl., $2(7/1 
4.50; Keiffer, $2(7/2.50. Plums, qt., 4(770. 
Cherries, 8-lb basket, 40(7775. Currants, qt., 
4<778. Red raspberries, pt., 4(777 ; blackcaps, 
pt., 3(775. Huckleberries, qt., 54710. Goose¬ 
berries, qt, 7(7/9. Muskmelons, crate, 50(77 $1. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, Long Island, in 
bulk, 180 lie/, $1.50@2; Jersey, prime, bbl., 
$1.50(7/ 1.75; Delaware and Maryland, prime, 
$1.50(7/ 1.75; Norfolk, prime, $1.507772 ; seconds 
and culls, 50(7/$1 ; sweet potatoes, Southern, 
bbl., $4(7/4.50; yams, Southern, white, bbl., 
$4475; red, $3@4. Beets, nearby, 100 
bunches, 75@$1. Carrots, nearby, 100 
bunches, 504/ 75. Cabbage, Long Island and 
Jersey, 100, $17</2. Cucumbers, Southern, 25 
@75; Jersey, lialf-bbl. basket, 404/50; bushel 
box, 304740; hothouse, 100, 754/ $1.25. Cu¬ 
cumber pickles, 1,000, $1.50@2. Celery, 
Jersey, dozen bunches, 204700; State and 
Michigan, 1047 30. Eggplants, Jersey, per 
bushel box, 50(7/$1.. Green corn, Jersey 1 , 100, 
50(7/ $1.00. Lettuce, nearby, bbl., 5047 75, 
Boston, dozen, 40(7/50; State, dozen, 254740. 
Onions, Texas, bushel crate, $1471.50; Ken¬ 
tucky, bbl., $3.25 ; Southern, Potato, bbl., $3 
4/ 3.50; Eastern Shore, red, bbl., $4474 50, 
nearby, white, half-bbl. basket, $1.25471-75 ; 
nearby, yellow, bbl., $3@3.50; nearly, red, 
bbl., $84_74. Peppers, Jersey, bushel box, 50 
47 $1. Peas, Telephone, busliel basket, 75@ 
$1 ; small, 004/80; Telephone, bag, 004790; 
small, bag, 504765. String beans, State, wax, 
basket, 504775; green, 50; Boston, bushel 
box, 504775; nearby, bag, 25@75. Squash, 
yellow crook-neck, bbl., 25@50; white, 25@ 
50; marrow, 50; Hubbard, 504775. Turnips, 
ruta baga, bbl., 504775. Tomatoes, Norfolk, 
carrier, 254705; Maryland and Delaware, 
small carrier, 154735 ; upper T erse y> bushel 
box, 75@$1 ; South Jersey, Acme, bushel box, 
$1,254/1.50; South Jersey, other kinds, bushel 
box, 30(7745. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Spring chickens, It), 18 
4719; 
fowls, 
15; roosters, 9; turkeys. 
, 10; 
ducks, 
pair, 
4 0 47SO ; geese, 90@$1.: 
25; 
live 
pigeons, pair, 
25. 
DRI 
CSSEI) 
POULTRY.—Turkeys, 
12 
@15; 
broilers, 3% to 4 lbs per pair, lb, 2G@30; 
under weight, 234/ 20; mixed, 204722; fowls, 
average best, 13%; ducks, 144710 ; squabs, 
prime, large, white, doz., $2.50@2.75; dark 
and mixed, $1.50472.37. 
HOPS—New York State, 1903, 254733; 
Western, 22472S; olds, 74713; German, crop 
1903, 554758. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices on fertiliz¬ 
ing materials cover the range from ton to 
carload lots. Nitrate of soda, ton, $404750; 
ground bone, $254728; dried blood, $544757; 
muriate of potash, $304745; sulphate of pot¬ 
ash, $444750; kainit, $1.14713; acid phos¬ 
phate, $124710; copper sulphate in bbl. lots, 
lb, 5% ; water glass (sodium silicate), in 
small lots, lb, 15(g.30. 
TOBACCO.—Louisville Burley, common to 
good lugs, 10%@15; common to good leaf, 
10% 4/20%. Virginia shipping, common to 
good lugs, 6477; common to fine leaf, 7 Vi47 
12%. .Seed leaf, Connecticut fillers, 54710; 
wrappers, 304/70. New York State fillers, 3 
4/5. Pennsylvania fillers, 3@6. 
LIVE STOCK. 
NEW YORK.—Steers, $4.20@6. Oxen, 
$4.30. Bulls, $2,504/4.25. Cows, $1.75(774. 
Calves, veal, $54/7; lower grades, $2.75474. 
Sheep, $.>4/4.25. Lambs, $4.50@G. Hogs, 
$0.30. 
EAST BUFFALO—Steers, $5.25@0.25; 
Stockers and feeders, $3474. Calves, $4.5047 
0. Sheep, $2@4.25. Lambs, $5@6.75. Hogs, 
$0470.15. 
CHICAGO.—Steers, $4.50470.35. Calves, 
$2.50470.25. Sheep, $3.25 474. Lambs, $4@ 
0.75. Hogs, $5.30@5.75. 
M_AR_K_ET_ NE_W_S 
Apples.— Such varieties as Astrachan, 
what is commonly known as White Harvest 
and several nondescript sorts are selling any¬ 
where from $1 to $2 per barrel. A good 
many are windfalls and nubbins. Hand¬ 
picked fruit as a rule is bringing more. 
Sweet Corn. —The season for the nearby 
crop is in full blast. During the week grow¬ 
ers rusned it in as rapidly as possible, so 
as to get as much here as they could 
before the price dropped. There is money In 
sweet corn at $1 per 100. The weather of 
late has been favorable for the crop in this 
vicinity, partly making up for the poor and 
uneven stand complained of by so many. 
Wants Free Wool. —A newspaper usually 
a consistent advocate of protection is now 
crying for free wool. The trouble is that the 
farmer is getting what little benefit there is 
in this, whereas the manufacturer has been 
led to tliink that protection is his private 
property. The paper referred to makes the 
astonishing statement that free wool was a 
benefit to the sheep industry of this country, 
1 hough it carefully refrains from saying in 
just what form this ‘benefit" struck the sheep 
farmer. A discussion of the merits or de¬ 
merits of protection and free trade is" out 
of place here, and may be left to compaign 
orators, but what sense is there in such a 
dog-in-the-manger argument? Why feel in¬ 
jured because the farmer is getting a little 
slice out of the prevailing public policy? 
He shoulders his share of the burdens and 
does but little whining because everything 
does not come his way. He adjusts his farm¬ 
ing methods to the conditions that he finds 
and asks few special favors. 
Tomatoes. —The Jersey crop is coming in 
so fast that the southern grown is being 
crowded out and selling at low figures to 
make a clearance. A good many of the Jer¬ 
sey tomatoes now arriving are very poor 
varieties, everything else being sacrificed for 
earliness. The trade and some growers give 
them such a standard name as Acme; Earli- 
ana and others of its class go as Acme, an 
old tomato, in quality superior to most of the 
extreme earlies. This early tomato business 
is easily over-done. Many who have tried 
it for a year are convinced that Its usefulness 
is limited to specially adapted soils and lo¬ 
cations where the grower can get part of the 
crop on the market ahead of all His neigh¬ 
bors, in which case these first sales bring 
enough to make the crop profitable, even 
though the later pickings amount to little. 
There are so many good varieties for main 
crop that it is a mistake to let the low-grade 
extra earlies lap over very far on to the 
midseason. Stone and Trucker's Favorite are 
varieties that combine profit to the grower 
with very fair table quality. 
Do They Know Beans? —A neighbor is 
having trouble with his Lima beans. This is 
his first experience with pole Limas, and he 
evidently thought as soon as the beans poked 
their heads out of the ground they would 
aim for the top of the pole and climb at a 
two-forty gait. But only now and then one 
shows any disposition to do this. They have 
loafed around on the ground. lie tied them 
up, and some took the hint, but others aimed 
the loose top end straight for Mother Earth 
again. A German gardener came along. “You 
wind them around the wrong way,” said he, 
pointing to the vines, which, though tied up, 
refused to go higher. He explained that 
beaus always twist around the pole from left 
to right; that is, contrary to the movements 
of the hands of a watch; and that they can¬ 
not be made to go the other way. An examin¬ 
ation of this and other bean patches showed 
that every vine that was climbipg with any 
degree of ambition was wound around in the 
way mentioned, but not one tied up with the 
wrong twist went any higher. Other garden¬ 
ers, while not so certain about this, uave 
told me that they always humor the Lima 
by winding all around in the direction that 
the few ready climbers take. 
Buying Plum Orchards. —“Can you tell 
me of anyone in New 1 ork who will buy 
plums on the tree in the same way apples are 
contracted for? K. 
I know one concern here that lost quite a 
little last year through a deal of this sort; 
and they will not be likely to try it again. 
They bought at what seemed a safe price, 
and would have been all right If a surplus of 
Pacific Coast piums had not turned up at just 
the wrong time. They had to be sold quickly, 
and as they looked so much nicer the other 
plums stood no chance of sale except at a 
reduced price, which was less than the con¬ 
cern paid the grower. It Is doubtful whether 
any reliable party here would be willing to 
make such a bargain now unless safely guard¬ 
ed as to quantity, time of delivery, etc., so 
that the arrangement would amount to about 
the same as shipping them on consignment. 
Those who wish to speculate in fruit prefer 
apples, which can be kept longer. I have seen 
the plum trade here so dull that eight-pound 
baskets of good fruit went at retail for 10 
cents, and not enough buyers could be found 
at this price to take it before it rotted. In 
many of these cases a little hustling around 
would have sold the plums at a fair price in 
the vicinity where grown. w. w. u. 
FISH-EATING COWS. 
A press dispatch from New Brunswick, 
N. J., says: “John Sutphin, a Franklin 
Park farmer, asked the police to help him 
find a pet heifer which had strayed away 
from his farm. He declared she was a great 
fish catcher, and frequently would go to 
ponds on the farm, stand motionless for a 
time in the water near the bank, then sud¬ 
denly thrust her head in the water and bring 
up a small fish in her mouth. On the advice 
of the police, and with their aid, the shores 
of the Raritan River were searched. The 
heifer was found watching for fish near the 
landing bridge.”—Creamery Journal. 
Some years ago a true account was 
printed of a small herd of cows in Connec¬ 
ticut that were fed on salted fish. These 
cows “roughed it in Winter and actually 
kept alive and in fair condition on sea 
weed, roughage and fish. Shetland ponies 
on the home islands eat fish readily. 
Hawks and Crows. —Experience very little 
trouble with hawks; our loss in young chicks 
comes from the crows. We take the tested- 
out eggs, break a small hole in the end, put 
in strychnine, paste a small piece of paper 
over It and lay it out where they can get 
them : in this way we are soon rid of them. 
Ohio. MRS. ,T. H. OREDAUGII. 
Gardener: “This here is a tobacco 
plant in full flower.” Lady: “How very 
interesting! And how long will it be 
before the cigars are ripe?”—New-Yorker. 
Patient : “Do you consider this 
trouble fatal, doctor? You know my 
means are limited and-” “Well, as a 
rule, the patient succumbs to it after about 
two thousand dollars’ worth of ' treat¬ 
ment.”—Life. 
IIx Tragedy: “How did you like Iowa?” 
Lowe Comedy. “Well, there was one 
town there I’ll never forget. We were 
simply carried away with it.” Lli Trag¬ 
edy: “You don’t say?” Lowe Comedy: 
“Yes, a cyclone arrived about an hour 
after we did.”—Philadelphia Press. 
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