THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2 
296 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending 
March 26, 1904. 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, $1.02; No. 1, 
Northern, Duluth Inspection, $1.03%. Corn, 
56. Oats, 47. Rye, 80. Barley, 55@60. 
PEED.—Retail prices. Spring bran, $22 
@26; middlings, $25@28. 
SEEDS.—Retail prices. Clover, lb, 14@16; 
Timothy, 100 lbs, g>.75@6.50. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, No. 1, 85@95; 
No. 2, 72%@85; No. 3, 70@72%; clover, mixed, 
75@80; clover, 65@72%. Straw, long rye, 
$1.10@L26. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.70@3.10; me¬ 
dium, $2.06; pea, $1.80@2; red kidney, $2.75@ 
3.15; white kidney, $3; yellow eye, $2.70. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price three 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent 
freight zone. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 15@24%; State 
dairy, 13@20; factory, 12@15; renovated, 11 
@16. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 10@12; skims, 3@8. 
EGGS.—Good to fancy, 17@20; under 
grades, 14@16. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 
4@7%; sun-dried, 3@4%; chops, 100 lbs, $2.50; 
raspberries, 23; blackberries, 5@6. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, good to choice 
Spy, Baldwin, Greening, Spitzenburg and 
York Imperial, bbl., $2.25@3.50; common, 
$1.26@2; strawberries, Fla., qt., 15@30. 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS.—Cucumbers, 
doz., $1@1.37; lettuce, fancy, doz., 25@75; 
mushrooms, lb, 25@50; mint, doz., bunches, 
25@60; radishes, 100 bunches, $2@4; rhubarb, 
doz. bunches, 26@75; tomatoes, lb, 10@20. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, domestic, 180 
lbs, $2.60@3.50; foreign, 168 lbs, $2@2.85; Brus¬ 
sels sprouts, qt., 10@20; beets, bbl., $3@4; 
Fla., crate, 85@$1; carrots, old, $1.50@2; New 
Orleans, 100 bunches, $2@5; cabbage, ton, 
$20@65; celery, doz., 25@75; lettuce, New 
Orleans, bbl., $2@3; radishes. Southern, 
bbl., $2@4; turnips, rutabaga, bbl., $1.25; 
squash, Hubbard, bbl., $2@2.50; onions, red 
and yellow, bbl., $2.50@4.50; watercress, 100 
bunches, $1@2.50; spinach, bbl., $2@4. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Chickens, 12; fowls, 
14; turkeys, 15. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12@17; 
chickens, 14@19; fowls, 13@14. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.— Calves, 
6@10; lambs, $3@7; pork, 5@7%. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—The range quoted 
on ammoniates and other fertilizing goods 
is intended to cover rates for single ton to 
car lots f. o. b. New York: Nitrate of 
soda, ton, $46@48; dried blood, high grade, 
$50@66; ground bone, $23@28; acid phosphate, 
$11@15; kainit, $11@13; muriate of potash, 
$36@45; sulphate of potash, $44@60; copper 
sulphate, in bbl. lots, lb, 6% cents; sulphur 
flour, per lb. in bbl. lots, 2% cents; sulphide 
of potash (liver of sulphur), in cans of 50 
lbs., per lb, 14 cents; water glass (silicate 
of soda), in small lots, per lb, 10@25. 
LIVE STOCK.—Steers, $4.45@5.40; calves, 
veal, $4@8; barnyards, $3@3.50; sheep, $3.50 
@4.60; lambs, $6.60@6.60. 
tnand every year. The finest butter made 
is produced m small private dairies, where 
perhaps the dash churn and bowl and ladle 
are used, but this is always sold locally 
and the demand is never supplied. The 
dairy referred to is the average make, 
which has a hard time in competition with 
the abundance of uniform creamery but¬ 
ter, which may be had at prices within 
the reach of nearly all buyers. 
WATER CRESS.—The article on page 178 
describing the culture of this excellent 
salad may induce some who have running 
water that can be turned on tillable land 
to try the business. But all such are ad¬ 
vised to go slow and be sure of their mar¬ 
ket before investing money or labor in a 
water-cress farm. Much of the cress that 
comes to New York now is from the moun¬ 
tain streams of the Middle South. It is 
tied in neat bunches about four inches in 
diameter and wholesales at 1% to 2% cents 
per bunch. We do not see how anyone can 
meet this price with cultivated cress. In 
sections out of reach of large natural sup 
plies the case is different. 
HENS ARE NOT ANIMALS.—This fine 
point in natural history has been thus de¬ 
cided by the United States general apprais 
ers. A lot of live Plymouth Rocks, which 
the importer claimed were for breeding 
purposes, and entitled to free entry as 
breeding animals, were taxed at three 
cents per pound as live poultry. The 
Board of Appraisers decides that by “ani 
mals” are meant quadrupeds, and that the 
hen is still further barred on account of 
not being registered, like cattle or other 
breeding stock. It would seem that the 
only way to overcome this unfair dis¬ 
crimination, and secure for the hen her 
inherent rights, socially and otherwise, is 
to have books of registry the same as for 
breeds of cattle, or to develop fowls with 
four legs. There is no good reason for 
denying registry to the champion Leg¬ 
horn, Rock, Brahma, etc. They have pedi 
gree and performance worth recording, al¬ 
though it might seem awkward at first to 
refer to Cackle de Cut No. 9874 or Cock-a- 
doodle-do 1743. Aside from the unusual ap¬ 
pearance of quadruped fowls as adjuncts 
of the landscape the chief objection would 
be their destructiveness in garden or flow¬ 
er bed, but an Indian Game thus equipped 
might be useful for digging out and catch¬ 
ing woodchucks. If improved cattle and 
sheep for breeding are to be admitted free 
of duty there is no reason why those who 
import high-class poultry for the same 
purpose should not have the same advan¬ 
tage. If it can be proved beyond all doubt 
that the prices paid are far in excess of 
their value for egg or meat production 
this ought to be evidence enough to war¬ 
rant their exemption from duty. w. w. h. 
For the land’s sake, use Bnwker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
Over 50 years ago. Doctors took right hold of it. Keep 
their hold yet. The best Sarsaparilla — Ayer’s. Loweif, MasB. 
S. C. WHITE 
LEGHORNS 
Eggs. S2.00 per 15: $7.00 per 100. Also 4 A. J. C. C. Jersey 
heifer calves. GEO. L. FEKKIS & SON, Atwater, N.Y 
Prairie Farm 
ATT E NT IO N-flSSWffl 
favor ns with your orders. Mail orders a Special ty. 
I. jEIERZ, Labor Agency, 2 Carlisle St., New York. 
kJADP'JP. A D D11 I—First-class Managers and Gar- 
MAnull 06 Al nIL I deners. No charges to em¬ 
ployers. Men’s records carefully investigated before 
recommendation. The Science Agency, Durham, N.H 
FARMS 
For rich farming, fruit growing, Jlni 
climate, I 
write 
'■J. D.S. HANSON, Sic 
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ANTED —Twenty-five p lrs Young White 
Homer Pigeons, at reasonable price. 
G S. AVEKY, Mount Vernon. N. Y. 
A T BARGAIN PRICES-30 W. Wyan., 50 W. 
Rocks, 15 W. Leg. Eggs $1.50 for 20. Have Incub. 
eggs also. MRS. J. P. HELL1NGS. Dover, Del. 
Oldest Commission ^umnnEchlese; 
eggs, pork, poultry, dressed calveB, game, etc. Fruits. 
E. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich Street, New York. 
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CALVES & LAMBS 
Hothouse products: Fruits; Vegetables: Fancy 
Eggs, etc. Consignments solicited. Top prices se¬ 
cured for choice goods. Write us what you have to 
sell. ARCHDEACON & CO , 100 Murray St. N. Y. 
W A NTE n _W0RKING FOREMAN for fruit an. 
■ VAll I HU poultry farm, near N.Y. City. St..t i 
particulars as to experience and wages expected L 
first letter. JOHN COLEMAN SMITH, 
220 Broadway, New York. 
for Sale 
Dairy fai m w.th stocs and (.quip 
ments; Registered Jersey ber<' 
—-—-separator, barns, silos.telepho 
Established butter trade at 30 cts. Strictly up-to-date 
in everyway; pleasant climate, good water; onrlven 
A bonanza for practical man. Possession anytime. 
E. L. GIFFIN, Agt., Loudon, Tenn. 
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OOKKEKPING, STENOGRAPH 
Penmanship, Telegraphy ami Type¬ 
writing taught by mail at Eastman 
Positions for all graduates of complete 
commercial course. Outfit for home study 
' $5. Catalogue free. Address C. C. Gaines, 
Box 637, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., or 119 West 125th St., New York, N.Y. 
50,000 AMERICANS 
Were welcomed to 
Western 
Canada 
during past Year 
They are settled and settling 
on the Grain and Grazing 
Lands there, and are healthy, 
prosperous and satisfied. 
Sir Wilfred Laurier, speaking 
of Canada, recently said: "A 
new star has risen upon the 
horizon, and it is toward it that 
every immigrant who leaves 
the land of his ancestors to 
come and seek a home for 
himself now turns his gaze”— 
There is 
Room for Millions. 
FllKE llomeiiteadi to every 
head of :t family. School*, 
Churchei. Hallway*. Mar¬ 
ket*. Climate—everything to 
be desired. 
For a descriptive Atlas and 
other information, apply to 
Superintendent Immigration, 
Ottawa, Canada: or authorized 
Canadian Government Agent— 
W. D. SCOTT, Supt. of Immigration, 
Ottawa, Can. 
GEO P. HAMMOND. E8T. 1875. FRANK W. GODWIN. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & GO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds of 
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples, Peaches, Berries. 
Butter, Eggs. Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms and Hot¬ 
house Products a Specialty. Consignments solicited. 
34 & 36 Little 12tb St., New York. 
SURE CURL 
Brooks’ Appliance. New 
discovery. Wonderful. No 
obnoxious springs or pads. 
Automatic Air Cushion. 
Rinds and draws the 
Slbroken parts together 
■ as you would a broken 
limb. No salves; no lymph- 
ol; no lies. Durable, cheap. 
Pat. Sept. 10,1901. Sent on 
trial. Catalogue free. 
8rook£ Appliance Co., Box 965, Marshall, Mien. 
MARKET NEWS 
APPLES.—There is still a liberal supply 
which Is selling at reasonable prices. The 
extremely cold weather for three months 
was a constant drag on the apple trade, 
and It is probable that the fruit that has 
been held back will now be offered just 
as rapidly as the market will absorb It. 
DRIED RHUBARB.—About three weeks 
ago several bunches of rhubarb were ob¬ 
tained in the retail market here to get a 
correct idea of the average weight per 
bunch. One bunch was wrapped In paper 
and laid away. It then weighed half a 
pound. It is now so shriveled that the 
stalks are but little larger than rye straw, 
and the bunch weighs a trifle over half an 
ounce, which shows that it was about 92 
per cent water, illustrating the marvelous 
work of nature in flavoring and boxing up 
this common element in such a way as to 
make this wholesome product. 
POTATOES.—Domestic potatoes are ar¬ 
riving quite freely, though there is not the 
rush that was anticipated by some as soon 
as Winter let up enough to make ship¬ 
ments from the north safe. Lower prices 
were predicted but they have not come, and 
there is no sign of them. So much damage 
has been done to seed potatoes that a good 
many farmers who would ordinarily ai 
this time be making small shipments hei-e 
are holding more than usual of their bet¬ 
ter stock, either to make themselves safe 
on seed or with the expectation of an in¬ 
creased demand locally for this purpose. 
Present arrivals from Europe are light. 
Prices here are not high enough to make 
inducements for shipments at the figure for 
which the stock can at present be bougni 
in foreign markets. Bermuda potatoes are 
o.uite plenty but too high ($4 to $6 per bar¬ 
rel) to meet anything but special trade. 
BUTTER.—The only shortage is in fancy 
grades of which some dealers do not have 
enough to meet their trade requirements. 
Lower grades of fresh stock are hard to 
sell at any price. One dealer said that he 
was unable to get 15 cents for a very good 
quality of fresh dairy. He is a careful 
man, giving personal attention to his busi¬ 
ness and usually getting full value for all 
stuff sent him. The man who sent that 
butter is sure to be dissatisfied with 15- 
cent returns, while fancy creamery is 
quoted at 24 cents or over, and it is hard 
to show any good reason for such differ¬ 
ence as the butter was not the greasy 
stuff sometimes seen in dairy shipments. 
The dairy butter offered here, which form¬ 
erly sold quite well, finds a lessened de- 
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CASH 
For Your 
FARM 
(>or other real estate) 
No Matter Where It Is 
if 1 did not have the ability and facilities to sell your property, 
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the same time. 
W. M. OSTRANDER 
North American Building Philadelphia 
