THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
August 6, 
596 
MARKETS 
General Review. 
Egg arrivals have beeu heavy and the mar¬ 
ket is depressed. Cutter remains low, with 
no prospect of present improvement. Choice 
potatoes are rather scarce and higher. 
J'rices obtained during week ending August 
1, 1904 : 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 1 Northern, Duluth 
Inspection, new, $1.08% ; No. 2 red, Winter, 
$1.01. Corn, 54. Oats, 44@46. Rye, 75. 
HAY AND STRAW. Hay, prime Timothy, 
95; No. 1, 90; No. 2, 75® 80; No. 3, 60@65 ; 
shipping, 50@G0. Clover, mixed, 50@G0; 
clover, 45@50. Straw, long rye, 90@$1.20 ; 
short, 60®80. 
FEED.—Retail prices : Flour middlings, 
$28@30; city bran, $23® 25; linseed meal, 
$28. 
BEANS.—Marrow, $2.40@2.90 ; medium 
and pea, $1.50® 1.95; red kidney, $2.50® 2.90 ; 
white kidney, $2.85: yellow eye, $2.GO ; Cali¬ 
fornia lima, $2.40® 2.50. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 2% 
cents per quart to shippers in 2G-cent freight 
zone, subject to no other charges than freight 
and ferriage. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, extras, 17*4 I thirds 
to firsts, 13® 17 ; imitation creamery, seconds 
to firsts, 13® 15; State dairy, firsts and ex¬ 
tras, 15® 17 ; factory, thirds to firsts, 11® 
13*4; imitation creamery, 13® 15; renovated, 
10® 15. 
CHEESE. Full cream, 6%®8; skims, 2% 
®5>/,. 
EGGS.—Nearby, fancy selected, white, 24 ; 
firsts, 19 *4 : Western, fresh gathered, 20; 
Southern, 17%; checks, 10. 
DRIED FRUITS. Apples, evaporated, 5% 
®7; sun dried, 2%®3'/i. Blackberries, 4. 
Huckleberries, 13. 
FRESI1 FRUITS. — Apples offered are 
largely windfalls, many arriving in bad con 
dition. Bbl., 75® $2; picked fruit in peacli 
baskets, 30® 50. Beaches, Georgia, carrier, 
75®$1.50; varieties Mountain Rose, Elberta, 
Belle, Emma, Tillotson, Chinese Free and St. 
John. Maryland and Delaware, %-bu. bas¬ 
ket, 30@70. Blums, wild goose, qt., 4@5. 
Bears, I.#e. Conte, bbl., $2®;4; Kieffer, $2. 
Currants, lb, 5® 8. Red raspberries, pt., 4® 
8 ; blackcaps, pt., 3®5. Blackberries, qt., G®J 
13. Huckleberries, 5® 10. Watermelons, car¬ 
load, $100® 225: muskmelons, prices per crate 
range anywhere from 25 cents to $6, depend¬ 
ing on quality. 
VEGETABLES.—Botatoes, Long Island, in 
bulk, 180 lbs, $1.50® 2; Jersey, Delaware and 
Maryland, prime, bbl., $1.50@1.75; Southern, 
prime, $1.25® 1.75; common, 75@$1. Beets, 
100 bunches, 75®$1. Carrots, 100 bunches, 
50®75. Cabbage, l.ong Island and Jersey, 
bbl., 25® 50. Cucumbers, Southern, bbl., 20 
® 40; Jersey, halx-bbl. basket, 30®40; hot¬ 
house, lot), 75®$1.25; pickles, 1,000, $1® 2. 
Celery, Jersey, dozen bunches, 20@G0; State 
and Michigan, 10@30. Eggplants, Jersey, 
bushel box, 50®75. Green corn, Jersey, 100, 
50®$ 1. Lettuce, bbl., 50® 75. Onions, Ken¬ 
tucky, bid., $3®3.25; Southern, Botato, bid., 
$3®3.50 ; Eastern Shore, red, bbl., $4 ; near¬ 
by, white, half-bbl. basket, $1.25@1.75; yel¬ 
low, bbl., $3® 3.25; red, $3®4. l'eppers, Jer¬ 
sey, basket, GO®75. Beas, Telephone, bushel 
basket, G0® $1 ; small, 50@75. String beans, 
bushel box, 50@G5. Squash, yellow crook- 
neck, bbl., 25® 50; Hubbard, bbl., 50@75. 
Turnips, ruta baga, bbl., 50@75. Tomatoes, 
Norfolk, carrier, 25@50; upper Jersey, bushel 
box, 50®$1.25. 
BOTANIC DRUGS.—Brices paid the pro¬ 
ducer for stuff of fair quality properly cured: 
Ginseng, lb, $3®G; blood root, 5@G; poke 
root, 4; cascara sagrada, 7@10; wild cherry 
bark, 3®5; prickly ash, 7@10; sassafras, 
4 @5; white pine, 2@3; slippery elm, 10@20. 
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, $36@45; sulphate of pot¬ 
ash, $44@50; kainit, $11@13; acid phos¬ 
phate, $12@1G; copper sulphate in bbl lots, 
5 % ; water glass (silicate of soda), in small 
lots, lh, 15®30. 
TOBACCO.—Louisville Burley, common to 
good lugs, 10*4® 15 ; common to good leaf, 
10*4® 20*4. 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. 
NEW YORK.—Steers, $4.25@G.50 ; oxen, 
$3.25® 5.50; bulls, $3@4.50; cows, $1.75@ 
4.25; calves, veal, $4.50@7.75 ; lower grades, 
$3.25® 4; sheep, $3@4.75; lambs, $4.50® 
7.50; hogs, State and Pennsylvania, $0.25. 
EAST BUFFALO.—Steers, $4.75@6.15; 
Stockers and feeders, $2.50@4; cows, $3®> 
4.25; calves, $4.50®6.50; sheep, $2@4.25; 
lambs. $4.50®7.25; hogs, $5.10®6.35. 
PITTSBURG.—Cattle, $5.10@6.25; calves, 
$0® 6.50; sheep, $2@4.50; lambs, $5@G; 
hogs, $5®6.15. 
CINCINNATI.—Cattle, $3.25@4.50 ; sheep, 
$1.25® 4.40; lambs, $3.50® >6.50; hogs, $4.50 
@5.90. 
CHICAGO. —Steers, $4.25® 0.50; Stockers 
and feeders, $2@3.80; Texans, $3®5.35; 
cows, $ 1.50(5/'4.25; canners, $1.50®2.G0; 
calves, $2.50® 7; sheep, $3®4.25 ; lambs, $4 
®7.50 ; hogs, $4.90@5.75. 
KANSAS CITY.—Steers. $4® 0.25; Stock¬ 
ers and feeders, $2.75®4.50; cows, $1.75® 
3.50; calves, $2.75®5; sheep, $3.25@4; 
lambs, $4@G; hogs, $5.35@5.55. 
IMfl/tET N_EW_S 
A Land Scheme.—“I enclose circulars, etc., 
from a land company which claims to have 
property on Long Island. Are they reliable 
or is this a fraud?” u. 
Georgia. 
The concern is one which we looked up 
some time ago. They are not frauds, but 
the method of doing business that they use 
is not to be commended. The circular letter 
which they send states that the one receiving 
it has been awarded a building lot, a partly 
made out deed being enclosed, which will 
he completed, recorded and forwarded on 
receipt of a small amount to pay 1 lie nec¬ 
essary fees, tlie land itself to cost nothing. 
There is land on Long Island which could 
be sold and title furnished for less than 
$5 pei’ lot and still he a poor investment for 
the buyer. It is safe to say that this com¬ 
pany is in some way going to make a good 
profit out of every one of these lots it gives 
away. This is just a shrewd bit of adver¬ 
tising with the element of deception in it 
sufficiently guarded to avoid running afoul of 
the law. It is beuer to pay no attention to 
such schemes, hut see land before buying, 
as a slice of scrub oak barren, miles from 
nowhere, or a chunk of a mosquito swamp, 
at even a dollar, may bo expensive. 
Ski.1.1no Sassafkas. “I am going to clear 
about two acres of land covered with sassa¬ 
fras trees and bushes. Is there any market 
for tlie bark or root, and how should it lie 
prepared for sale? n. 
Michigan. 
The bark of the root is the only part sal¬ 
able. For best: results the root should be 
washed and tlie hark stripped off very soon 
after digging, before it lias an opportunity 
to dry. This bark is then dried and shipped 
in sacks or bales of any convenient size. At 
present prices, four or live cents per pound, 
it seems doubtful whether the producer would 
get enough out of it to pay for his labor, 
but so much is offered that buyers can get all 
that they wish at this low figure. In fact, 
there is but little profit: in the gathering of 
most roots and herbs. They dry out so 
light and so much waste must be removed 
that unless one is an expert the crop will not 
amount to much. A man from l.ong Island 
recently came into the store of a botanical 
druggist in this city with a few pounds of 
poke root. It was nicely prepared and he 
had been told that it was worth 80 cents pet- 
pound, but was disgusted to find that 5 cents 
per pound was all he could get. 
Quite a Load. —Sweet corn growers within 
wagon hauling distance of New York are al¬ 
ways in a hurry to market as much as pos¬ 
sible of the early crop just as soon as it 
is fit to pick, as a few days’ delay may cut 
tlie price in two. They use large market 
wagons upon which (lie ears are piled some¬ 
times as high as a load of hay. The largest 
load that I have known was drawn by three 
horses and contained 15,000 ears, which sold 
at $2 per hundred, making $300 for the load. 
The grower has very warm light land and 
plants varieties like Berry Hybrid and Early 
Cory, which make a good-sized ear and ma¬ 
ture quickly. I have not learned of any one 
trying this market with very small eared 
extra early, like Golden Bantam. This var¬ 
iety would seem to have possibilities as a 
market garden sort. Unlike many earlies it 
is of high quality. It is a strong grower on 
the start and yields well. The proportion of 
corn to cob is greater than with the larger 
varieties, but the ears are very small, which 
would be a disadvantage until buyers learned 
its superior quality. It would be a mistake 
to plant several acres of it for a new market 
except in sections not reached at the same 
time by the large-eared corn from the South. 
The Meat Strike, which was thought to 
be settled last week, did not stay settled 
long. At this writing conditions are worse 
than ever and both sides have gone so far 
that there seems no comfortable way of 
backing down. There is a limited number 
of people who will have fresh meat, no mat¬ 
ter what its cost, hut for the great bulk of 
buyers the price has for some time been 
just about to the limit, and they look upon a 
rise with about the same feeling that they 
would an increase from two to five or 10 
cents a mile for railroad fare. They simply 
are not buying meat. Wholesale dealers in 
this city who had stocked up heavily under 
the expectation of selling at a big profit have 
in some cases disposed of part of their stock 
at less than they were gelling before the 
strike. Their customers say that there is no 
use trying to do business at higher prices, as 
consumers will not pay them except in here 
and there instances. An amusing feature of 
the case is the boom that vegetarianism is 
getting. The sawdust and whole-grain 
cranks now have a good text, which they are 
taking advantage of. The .“physical culture" 
and oilier hay and grain restaurants have 
men parading tlie streets with signs calling 
attention to the merits of their special fod¬ 
dering systems. One of the best things that 
could results from this strike would be tlie 
dropping of a meat diet for a month or two 
by about 45 out of every 50 people. By 
proper substitution of other things no bodily 
harm would result. Of course, it would 
hardly do to go the extreme of raw unground 
grain, advocated by some, who may reason¬ 
ably be suspected of working for the inter¬ 
est of makers of store teeth. w. w. ii. 
WE WANT TO KNOW. 
How to Capture Carp. —Can any of your 
readers tell me how to catch carp? 1 have 
a pond that is we» stocked with them, but 
they will not. take any kind of bait that I 
have tried from a hook. Large numbers of 
them feed iu the grass around the shore, 
but will retreat upon the approach of any 
person. 1 should be very grateful for any in¬ 
formation that would aid me to catch them. 
Merrimack Co., N. II. w. h. 
Propagation of the Rubber Plant. —My 
experience with Ficus elastica has been that 
a branch cut off at any time of any length 
from three to twelve inches will root it 
stuck into ordinary soil in a flower pot, by it 
self or alongside another plant, and treated 
like any ordinary plant. Nothing “strikes’ 
more readily—not always quickly—but 1 
never stuck in a cutting that failed to root, 
perhaps because I didn t care, as the plant, 
for a "decorative" one, is so very luidecora- 
tive, so stiff and woodeny, and devoid of 
picturesque outlines. Its adaptiveness to 
many sorts of conditions probably accounts 
for its popularity. m. w. f. 
Hydraulic Rams. —- think I get more 
than 1 pay for in The R. N.-Y. so I will 
answer M. B. P., Texas, page 5G4. Hy¬ 
draulic rams raise water eight feet for every 
foot fall from spring to ram. The manu¬ 
facturers will tell you 10 feet, which is 
true, hut eight feet: gives a more even tiow. 
Three-quarters of the water is wasted. A 
two-inch pipe from spring to ram will throw 
a half-inch stream. Rams in use 10 year 4 
seem as good as ever. Ten feet fall fro.i 
spring to ram :tins the lam strongly. 1 
gave $11 lor mine, a good farmer can put it 
in place. a. f. sheldon. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
\Ay 
9 Hair Vigor. Stops falling hair. Makes 
w / o hair grow. Restores color. 
J. C. Ayer Co., 
Lowell, Mass. 
O. I. c. 
rep P 1 1 r— Ten weeks old pigs at $5.00 each 
rUn CALL Pedigree furnished with each pig. 
S. J. HOWARD. Henderson, Ky. 
\A/A WTrn Second-hand traction engine in good 
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