April 30 
372 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending 
April 22, 1904: 
(TRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, for export, 
$L06; No. 1 northern, Duluth inspection, 
$1.00%. corn, 56060; oats, 45; rye, 82; barley, 
47048. 
FEED.—Spring bran 200-lb sacks, retail, 
$23025; red dog, $28030; standard middlings, 
$27029. 
SEEDS.—Retail prices, f. o. b. New York. 
Timothy, bu., $3.50; clover, bu., $9; Red- 
top, bu., $16. 
11AY AND STRAW.—Hay, prime, 97%; 
No. 1, 90095; No. 2, 75085; No. 3, 65070; 
clover, mixed, 70080; clover, 50065; marsh, 
50000; straw, long rye, $101.2O;oat, 50060. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 2% 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent 
freight zone. 
BUTTER. — Creamery, 13022%; State 
dairy, 13021; factory, 12014; imitation 
creamery, 14017. renovated. 10017; packing 
stock, 11013%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 9011%; skims. 308. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 20; fair to 
prime, 18%019; Western and Southern sec¬ 
onds to firsts, 16018; checks, 16. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 4 
@7%; sun-dried. 304%; chops, 100 lbs, $2,450 
2.50; cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.5001.60; 
raspberries, 23024; huckleberries, 13%@14; 
blackberries, 5. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice to 
fancy, $3.2504; fair to good, $1.5003; cran¬ 
berries, bbl.. $508; strawberries, 20030. 
VEGETABLE'S.—Potatoes, Bermuda, $4.50 
07; Southern. $106.50; Long Island, $3,750 
4725. State and Western, $3.2503.76; foreign, 
168-Tb sack, $2.7503.25; sweets, bbl., $2.5005; 
asparagus, prime, doz. bunches, $305; short 
and culls. $1.5002.50; beets, old, bbl., $2,500 
3; new Southern, 100 bunches, $205; cairots, 
old, bbl., $203; new Southern, 100 bunches, 
$205; celery, doz. roots, 10075; cabbage, 
new Southern, bbl. crate, $2.25@2.50; cu¬ 
cumbers, Southern, 100, $406; escarol, bbl., 
$2.5005; egg plants bu. box, $203.50; horse¬ 
radish, 100 lbs., $206; kale, bbl., $1.5001.75; 
leeks, 100 bunches, $3@8. lettuce, bbl., $1.75 
02; onions, half-barrel basket, $101.50; red 
and yellow, bbl., $404.50; peppers, bu. car¬ 
rier, $101.75; peas, 1-3 bbl. basket, 75@$1; 
siring beans, 1-3 bbl. basket, 50@$2.50; rad¬ 
ishes, 100 bunches, $304; spinach, bbl., $10 
1.25; squash, marrow, bbl., $202.50; Hub¬ 
bard $202.50; turnips, rutabaga, bbl., $1,250 
1.37; tomatoes, carrier, 750$1.25; watercress, 
100 bunches, $102.75. 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS—Cucumbers, 40 
0$1; cauliflowers, Long Island, doz., $305; 
lettuce, doz., 5001; mushrooms, lb, 20040; 
radishes, 100 bunches, $101.50; rhubarb, doz. 
bunches, 20040. 
HOPS—New York State. 1903. 270 36; Pa- 
cilic coast. 1903, 24031; olds, 9014; German, 
57064. 
BEAiNS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50@2.85; pea, 
$1.7501.95; red kidney, $2.7503.05; white kid¬ 
ney, $3; yellow eye, $2.4002.65; Lima, Cali¬ 
fornia, $2.3702.50. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, lb, 13%; chick¬ 
ens, 12%; roosters, 8%; turkeys, 13; ducks, 
pair, 60090; geese, pair, 9O0$1.S. pigeons, 
pair, 26. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12016; 
broilers, fancy, lb, 25040; chickens, 12013; 
fowls, 13013%; squabs, doz., $203.75. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—Calves, 
$608%; lambs (hothouse), head, $406; pork, 
507%. 
BARKS. ROOTS AND HERBS.—Elm. lb, 
35040; wild cherry, lb, 5%09; sassafras, lb, 
8010; cascara sagrada, lb, 15019; sage, lb, 3 
05; ginseng, lb, $4.7507; Virginia snake 
root, lb, 39045. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices on fertiiliz- 
ing chemicals are intended to cover the 
range from single ton to carload f. o. b. 
New York: Nitrate of soda, ton, $46060; 
dried blood, $50055. ground bone, $24028; 
muriate of potash, $36@45; sulphate of pot¬ 
ash, $44050; kainit, $11013; acid phosphate, 
$12015; copper sulphate in bbl. lots, lb, 5%; 
sulphur flour in bbl. lots, lb, 3; liver of sui- 
phur in 60-lb lots, lb, 14; water glass (sili¬ 
cate of soda), small lots, lb, 10025. 
LIVE STOCK.—Steers. $4.20@5.60; bulls, 
$3.25@4.50; milch cows with calves, $25060. 
Calves, $3.6006.25. Sheep, $405.50; lambs, 
$6.1207. Hogs, $5.75. 
MARKET NEWS 
THE EGG MARKET has hardened a lit¬ 
tle. Arrivals are in excess of trade needs, 
but there is an excellent demand for goods 
to put in storage even at the advanced 
prices quoted. Heavy buying for storage is 
reported in the West. Considerable faith 
in next Winter’s market is needed to put 
away eggs that now cost from 17 to 20 
cents, although prices received the past 
Winter for these held-over eggs were high 
enough to encourage speculation at present 
figures. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Arrivals from 
nearby are light. While nearly every east¬ 
ern farmer raises some poultry as a side 
issue, most of it is sold for the holiday 
trade, and, but for a few superannuated 
hens, they have but little for the poultry 
market during Summer. The heaviest ar¬ 
rivals at present are from the South and 
Southwest. Of course professional poultry- 
men in the North, with all facilities by 
wav of buildings and artificial heat are not 
hindered by bad weather, but the late 
Spring has set back the business on many 
farms where the old-fashioned triangular 
hen coop is used and all outdoors is the 
brooder house. Hundreds thus situated are 
at least a month behind with their chick¬ 
ens. The market is well pieced out with 
frozen poultry during these spells. The re¬ 
tailers thaw it out and fix it up in such a 
way that the uninitiated think it is fresh 
killed, although some are retailed in the 
frozen state and taken home thus by the 
consumer. When Mr. Scarff’s plan of rais¬ 
ing chickens in the sand (page 363) gets in 
full blast there will doubtless be a revolu¬ 
tion in the poultry market. By grafting 
one leg of each chicken on a watermelon 
vine the expense of raising could be still 
further reduced as the chick would get 
victuals and drink from the soil as well as 
the melon. 
LIARS AND THIEVES.—On page 338 
mention was made of the methods of some 
commission men in drumming up business. 
The man who wiied that lettuce was bring¬ 
ing $3.50 per basket turned a lot of ship¬ 
ments his way. He sold them at $1.25 per 
basket. The same shippers had been get¬ 
ting $2 through another commission man, 
so they lost 75 cents per basket and fell 
$2.25 short of what was promised. In an¬ 
other instance a man was getting $3.50 per 
bag for foreign potatoes. They were very 
line and well worth this price. Another 
dealer cabled that ho could get more, and 
succeeded in diverting a lot of the potatoes, 
which he sold for 25 cents per bag less than 
the other man had been getting. Other 
cases involving the same principle might 
be given. Dealers of this type go on the 
cut-and-slash method and do not expect to 
hold or satisfy customers. They take what 
they can get here and there, and manage 
to keep things stirred up all around. While 
such actions are a damage to the reputable 
trade, by far the most loss falls on the 
shippers. Not every man who fails to get 
all that he expects to for produce is a 
scoundrel. There may be just reasons for 
such, but the one who promises what he 
knows to be impossible, and then crawls 
out of it in any way that best suits 
his purpose, is a genuine shark, which it 
is a good plan to have nothing to do with. 
CALIFORNIA ORANGES—The returns 
for the last crop have been very unsatis¬ 
factory to many growers. The extremely 
cold weather in the East made open-air 
handling of fruits difficult, and there has 
been much dissatisfaction with the meth¬ 
ods of distribution employed by the South¬ 
ern California Fruit Exchange. The man¬ 
ager of this organization has been severely 
censured for some of his acts, justly in 
some cases and without reason in others. 
He seems to have antagonized the trade 
here by ignoring the established channels 
of distribution and insisting that the fruit 
should be sold through his own agents 
alone. This principle might be all right 
where there was an unlimited demand for 
the product and the judgment of those in 
charge so good that no mistakes were 
made; otherwise an arbitrary management 
can make such a combine a hindrance 
rather than a help to members, while hon¬ 
estly believing that it is working for their 
best interests. Some eastern fruit dealers 
found it so hard to get California oranges 
on anything like satisfactory terms that 
they dropped them entirely and used Flor¬ 
ida and West Indian fruit. Some of these 
were square and honest dealers, whom the 
western orange people might better have 
conciliated. The common run of California 
oranges as sold here do not compare favor¬ 
ably with those from Florida, southern 
Europe or the better grades from the West 
Indies. Until Californias with more juice 
and less rag make up the bulk of ofCering. 1 - 
those selling them are not in position to 
dictate to eastern dealers. It would be a 
quite similar case if a certain section of 
New York State, for instance, where most 
of the cows gave low-grade milk, should 
organize and attempt to dictate to the city 
milk dealers. The latter would simply ig 
nore them, as plenty of better milk could 
be obtained elsewhere. One essential to the 
success of an organization of producers is 
the superior quality of product. If people 
really want it and cannot get it elsewhere, 
half the battle is won, and without these 
conditions there is but little use in making 
a fight. A good many excellent California 
oranges are brought here, and they sell 
well, but there is something the matter 
with the others, either in locality or meth¬ 
ods of growing and marketing. w. w. H. 
BOOK BARGAINS. 
A few shelf-worn copies of the following 
26-cent pamphlets will be sold at the rate 
of any six for 25 cents or the whole 10 for 
40 cents: 
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Plant a Place, Long; Silo and Silage. A. J. 
Cook; Ensilage and Silo, Oollingwood; 
Fruit Packages, Powell; Accidents and 
Emergencies, Groff; Country Roads, 
Powell; The New Botany, Beal; Milk 
Making and Marketing, Fowler; Tuberoue 
Begonias. 
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Good Top Buggies, $ 28.35 
Two Years’ Guarantee. 
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100 Strawberry Plants (£&), 50c, 
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WHITE WYAND0TTES, EXCLUSIVELY! 
Breeding stock and eggs for hatching. At right 
prices. K. FRANKLIN KKAN, Stanley N. Y. 
EGGS. 
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selected from over 2U0 One birds. 
Brice, $1.00 per 15. IRVING O. 
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IDuroc-Jersey Hogs 
They go like hot cakes; easy keepers; only a few left. 
Either sex, five months old; sows bred. All stock 
eligible. Prices right. L. C. HALL. Atwater, N. Y. 
BIBBY’S CALF FOOD saSKSP'iK 
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PRESIDENT STRAWBERRY 
Plants by mail, 50 cents per doz. Melon seed, most 
delicious grown, hardy, early, productive, free with 
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HORSERADISH StTS WANTED. 
Several thousand, 10 to 12 inches long preferred; G to 
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Oil A perfect steel frame silo with guar- 
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10x20 silo $78.37. Special terms to Farmer's Clubs 
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SILOS. 
For Silos, Hoops and Lugs, write for prices 
and circulars. T. E. CROSS, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 
INFORMATION ABOUT DELAWARE. 
Unusua 1 opportunities to secure farms large or small, 
improved and unimproved; timber and other lands. 
Best fruit growing section: at the door of the best 
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Varied profits: great profits. For State map and 
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State Board of Agriculture, Dover, Delaware 
400 Acres, Only $1,600. 
Our picture describes the property better than 
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sugar maples can be tapped on this big farm of 400 
acre; cuts25 ton hay; pasture for 25 cows; 1,000 cords 
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trees; 7-room house, with piazza, painted and blinded; 
stable, 40x48; two barns, each 30x55; living water In 
the pasture,good wellsnt buildings; near neighbors. 
1 mile to school. 2(£ milesoutfrom village; lllnessof 
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property that should sell for $2,000. but quick sale Is 
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on page 59 of our big 1904 catalogue of New England 
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E A. STROUT FARM AGENCY. 150 Nassau st , New 
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S uperior Cream 
eparator 
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Complete separation in tio to 90 
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A veterinary specific tor wind, 
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