May 7, 
388 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending April 
29, 1904 : 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, for export, 
$1.04; No. 1 northern, Duluth inspection, 98. 
Corn, 55. Oats, 46. Rye, 65. Barley, 45@50. 
FEED.—Spring bran, 200-Ib sacks, $22@24. 
Standard middlings, 25@28. 
SEEDS.—Retail prices f. o. b. New York. 
Timothy, bu., $3.50. Clover, bu., $9. Red-top, 
bu., $16. 
IIAY AND STRAW.—Iiay, prime, 92 
95; No. 1, 87y a @90; No. 2, 80@85; No. 3, 
70@75. Clover, mixed, 70@75; clover, 55@ 
60. Marsh, 50@60. Straw, long rye, $1@ 
1.20. Oat, 50@60. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 2 V£t 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 16@24 ; State dairy, 
13@22T£ ; factory, 12@14 ; imitation cream¬ 
ery, 14@17; renovated, 10@17 >/ a ; packing 
stock, 10@13%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 9@11 % : skims, 
3@8. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 20; fair to 
prime, 17@19; Western and Southern sec¬ 
onds to firsts, 16%@17y a ; checks, 16. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 4@ 
7 Vi ; sun dried, 2y a @4y! ; chops, 100 lbs, 
$2.35@2.45 ; cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.55@ 
1.65. Raspberries, 23@24. Huckleberries, 
13 Mi @14. Blackberries, 5. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice to fancy, 
$3@4; fair to good, $2@2.75. Strawberries, 
qt., 10@30. 
VEGETABLES. —Potatoes, Bermuda, $4@ 
6; Southern, $4.25@5.50; Long Island and 
Jersey, $3.75@4.25; State and Western, $3.40 
@3.87; foreign, 108-lb sack, $3@3.50; 
sweets, bbl., $2.50@5. Asparagus, prime, doz. 
bunches, $3.75@5; short and culls, $1.50@ 
2.50. Beets, old, bbl., $2.50@3; new SoutlP 
ern, 100 bunches, $2@5. Celery, doz. roots, 
10@75. Cabbage, new Southern, bbl. crate, 
$1.75@2.12. Cucumbers, Southern, 100, $3@ 
5. Escarol, bbl., $2.50@5. Egg plants, bu. 
box, $1@3.50. Horseradish, 100 lbs, $2@5. 
Kale, bbl., $1.50@2. Leeks, 100 bunches, $3 
@6. Lettuce, bbl., $2@3.50. Peppers, bu. 
carrier, $1.50@2.25. Peas, 1-3-bbl. basket, 
$1.50@1.75. String beans, 1-3 bbl. basket, 
$1@2. Radishes, 100 bunches, $1.25@1.50. 
Squash, Marrow or Hubbard, bbl., $2@2.50. 
Turnips, ruta baga, bbl., $1.25@1.75. Toma¬ 
toes, bu. box or carrier, $1@2. Watercress, 
100 bunches, $1@2.75. 
HOTHOUSE PRODUCTS. — Cucumbers, 
doz., 40@60. Cauliflowers, Long Island, doz., 
$2.50@5. Lettuce, doz., 50@$1. Mushrooms, 
lb, 25@40. Radishes, 100 bunches, $1@1.50. 
Rhubard, doz. bunches, 25@40. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 26@35; 
Pacific coast, 1903, 24@30; olds, 9@14; Ger¬ 
man, 1903, 57@64. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50@2.95; red 
kidney, $2.75@3.05 ; white kidney, $3; yellow 
eye, $2.60@2.65; lima, California, $2.40. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, lb, 13; chickens, 
12%; roosters, 8%; turkeys, 12@13; ducks, 
pair, 40@90; geese, pair, 90@$1.25; pigeons, 
pair, 25. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12@1C; 
broilers, fancy, lb, 35@40 ; chickens, 12@13 ; 
fowls, 12%<(xD3y a ; squabs, doz., $1.75@3. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—Calves, 5 
@7%; lambs (hothouse) head, $2.50@6.50; 
pork, 4@7%. 
TOBACCO.—Seed leaf, Connecticut fillers, 
4@6; fine wrappers, 50@70; New York State 
fillers, 3@5; Virginia shipping, common to 
goods lugs, 5@6% ; medium to good leaf, 
s@ll. 
BARKS, ROOTS AND HERBS.—Etm, lb, 
35@40. Wild cherry, lb, 5%(aJ9. Sassafras, 
lb, 8@10. Cascara sagrada, lb, 15@19. Sage, 
lb, 3@5. Ginseng, lb, $4.75@7. Virginia 
sna.ve root, lb, 43@45. 
FARM CHEMICALS—Prices on fertilizing 
chemicals are intended to cover the range 
from single ton to carload lots f. o. b. New 
York : Nitrate of soda, ton, $52@55. Dried 
blood, $54@57. Ground bone, $25@28. Mu¬ 
riate of potash, $36@45. Sulphate of potash, 
$44@50. Kainit, 11@13. Acid phosphate, 
12@15. Copper sulphate in bbl. lots, lb, 5%. 
Sulphur flour, in bbl. lots, lb, 3. Liver of 
sulphur, in 50-lb lots, lb, 14. Water glass 
(silicate of soda), small lots, lb, 10@25. 
LIVE STOCK.—Steers, $4.65@5.25. Oxen 
and stags, $4.25@4.50. Milch cows with 
calves, per head, $25(u;55. Calves, $3.50@6. 
Sheep, $3@5. Lambs, $5@5.50. Hogs, $5.50 
@5.60. _ 
FRUIT NOTES. 
Peck’s Pleasant Apple. —I am sending 
you by mail two specimens of the Peck’s 
l'leasant apple. Inasmuch as you are one of 
the charter members of the Apple Consumers’ 
League I thought you should be kept posted 
on all apples that are pleasant to consume. 
We do not hear or see much about this variety 
of late years, but it is an apple that should 
be in every home collection. The tree is of 
low spreading growth, and every apple on our 
30-year-old tree can be picked with a 10-foot 
ladder. I would suggest that you consume 
one of your favorite apples and then try a 
Peck’s l’leasant for comparison. This apple 
is green when picked in the Fall, and looks 
much like R. I. Greening, but by Spring they 
turn to a beautiful yellow. The specimens I 
send were kept in the cellar wrapped in paper. 
A bushel of them are in cold storage for the 
St. Louis Exhibition. w. a. bassett. 
New York. 
R. N.-Y.—We found the apple true to its 
name, so pleasant to the taste that we could 
eat a peck of them in short order. While 
not go spicy as Northern Spy or a well-grown 
Baldwin it is of delightful flavor. 
Polling Peach Tbees. —On page 355, I. C. 
J., Blooming Grove, N. Y., says peaches were 
killed last Winter by severe cold, 47 below 
zero. While I have no doubt the trees are 
dead, I think he would be ahead by pulli/g 
the trees out instead of sawing them off at 
the snow line and planting new trees. 1 have 
doubts about three-year-old trees sprouting 
above the bud at that age; even if they do so 
they are apt to sliver off easily after a year 
or so, but I find it hard matter to start a 
sprout from the stock of a peach tree at that 
age with the whole top cut off and nothing 
to draw the sap. On the other hand, a tree 
one year from planting will sprout almost to 
a tree. A few years ago we had a taste of 
the same kind of thing and every one along 
through this peach belt was talking of cut¬ 
ting out the trees in Spring at 27 bei,ow zero, 
and some few did so. One man cut out all 
but one row, and that row of trees is alive 
to-day, but I don’t know how healthy they are. 
I do know that a great many full-grown or 
nearly full-grown trees are in a weak condi¬ 
tion to-day and growing weaker, for the bodies 
and large parts of the limbs are nothing but 
dead punk with the exception of a very thin 
ring of green wood next to the bark. Of 
course cutting off all dead wood or to snow 
line does away with that danger, but if they 
were mine I should pull out. w. t. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. 
Grafting the Grapevine. —I have read 
with interest the various methods of grafting 
the grapevine in The R. N.-Y., and have tried 
the cleft-grafting, there spoken of, success¬ 
fully, and have tried another, which has proved 
successful. With a gimlet, about the size of 
the scion, I have bored a hole, anywhere it 
was convenient, except at the part amputated, 
and whittling the end of scion to a point, 
have forced it firmly into the hole, sometimes 
driving it moderately to keep it in place, it 
has always been successful. It is easily done 
by one familiar with tools. G. w. r. 
Hartford, Conn. 
Asparagus Planting in Maine. —On page 
325 certain advice is given to asparagus 
growers, which it seems to me must in many 
cases lead to failure. In this latitude espe¬ 
cially I think the plant should not be set 
over six or seven inches deep, and that a foot 
of soil over it would almost insure its failure. 
I put on three or four inches of tan one year 
where plants were set say six inches, and 
found that it retarded the growth two or 
three weeks and caused the ultimate failure 
of part of the bed. The soil is a clay loam. 
We have raised asparagus successfully and 
in beds set fifteen years or more. The plant 
does well when covered with six or seven 
inches of soil, and does not seem any nearer 
the surface than when first set. 
Maine. g. s. paine. 
BOOK BARGAINS. 
A few shelf-worn copies of the following 
20-eent pamphlets will be so'd at the r itc- 
of any six fcr 25 cents or the whole 10 for 
40 cents: 
Canning and Preserving, Young; How to 
Plant a Place, Long; Silo and Silage, A. J. 
Cock; Ensilage and Silo, Collingwood; 
Fruit Packages, Powell; Accidents and 
Emergencies, Groff; Country * Roads, 
Powell; The New Botany, Beal; Milk 
Making and Marketing, Fowler; Tuberou 
Begonias. 
“Tw you want to know how to raise 
Calves cheaply and successfully without 
Milk, write to J. W. Barwell, Wauke¬ 
gan, Ill.”— Adv. 
RCHARD PROFIT 
0 depends upon working all the 
fruit i nto a salable 
cider for instance. If clear 
pure it sells readily at a profit. 
The best is produeed by a 
CIDER 
PRESS 
Made in varying sizes, hand 
power. Catalogue free. 
HYDRAULIC PRESS MFC. 
39 Cortlandt St., New York. 
HYDRAULIC 
WANTED 
rjENERAL AGENTS.- Big profits, exclusive ter 
ritory,continuing dividends on sub-: gents. Every 
fanner, plumber, blacksmith, marble woiker or me¬ 
chanic buys at sight. One agent made $375 last month. 
Luther Bros. Co., 152 Ohio Ave.,North Milwaukee.Wis. 
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN BULLS 
FOR SALE CHEAP. 
Several very large, handsome, perfectly marked, 
registered Holstein-Frlesian bulls for sale at far¬ 
mer's prices. Front a year to 18 months old. Selected 
from bestdamsin herd of over forty head. All sire' 
by Dora DeKol's Count. No. 23,75?, or Corona Spoffon 
I’ietertje, No. 30.130. Extended pedigree furnished 
Inquire P. B MCLENNAN, Syracuse, N. Y., oi 
McLennan buos. stock farm, 
Dull McClceu, Manager. 
U F. D.. Isehua. Cattaraugus Co.. N. Y 
SHOO FLY PjSStT 
makes nCUnpUlllft 8afe uriy month, heals the 
wound Utnunmnu quickly, keeps all wounds, 
cuts and sores free front fly infection until healed, 
permits castrating of animals any time with safety. 
Used on 50,000 head of cattle and no failures. It will 
do all claimed for it Once used you willneverdehorn 
without it. Endorsed by prominent stockmen. 1 qt. 
is sufficient for 100 cattle. Sold at leading Stock Yards 
and druggists at $1.25 per pint; $2perqt.; $3.50 per 14 
gal , $5 per gallon. If your druggist does not keep it. 
send order to the manufacturer. 
H. It. READ, Ogiilalla, Nebraska. 
Write him for descriptive circular and testimonials. 
suavins 
aiiefl oy one 
45-minute 
treatment 
FLEMINC’S is the 
quick and sure spavin cure. 
Thousands cured by this 
wonderful 46-minute method. 
Guaranteed always. Free 
Rook about Spavin, Curb, 
Ringbone, Splint, etc.Write. 
FLEMING BROS., Cheml.t*, 
$22 talon Block Yds. Chicago, III. 
250 ACRES, STOCK A/VO TOOLS. 
Productive farm, nicely divided into smooth, 
pretty fields, spring fed pasture for 20 cows; cream 
sold at door; large wood lot, estimated to be $.000 
cords hard wood, bass, poplar, white birch and ash, 
abundance pears, cherries and apples; neat 8-room 
house with piazza; barn with clapboarded walls, 40 
x50: cellar and hay fork; ample outbuildings, all in 
good repair; fine views, beautiful shade, running 
spring water at the buildings; half mile to depot. 
To settle estate quickly, widow includes 7 good 
cows, calves, farming tools and machinery too nu¬ 
merous to mention; $3,000 takes everything; $1,500 
cash and your notes for $200 a year with interest 
at 5 per cent for the balance. It is the opportunity 
of a lifetime to secure a warranty deed to easy 
living for you and yours. The wood and timber on 
this New England farm will more than pay for It. 
Get our free 1904 catalogue for travelling instruc¬ 
tions, with descriptions of other good farms at bar- 
rain prices, and reliable Information regarding soils, 
products, markets and climate. K. A. H TROUT 
FA KM AGENCY, Dept. 42, 150 Nassau St, New 
York City, or 24 Franklin st., Boston, Mass. 
INFORMATION ABOUT DELAWARE, 
Unusual opportunities to secure f arms large or small, 
improved and unimproved; timber and other lands. 
Best fruit growing section: at the door of the best 
markets in the world. Mild, delightful climate. 
Varied products; great profits. For State map and 
valuable reports free, address, 
State Board of Agriculture, Dover, Delaware 
FARMS 
For rich f .rming and f ui growing. 
YVrite 3. D. S. HANSON, Hai t. Mich. 
ATT ENTION-^v, 
favor us with your orders. Mall orders a Specialty. 
I. HERZ, Labor Agency, 2 Carlisle St., New York. 
.nst.iooB. nutter,cheese; 
eggs, pork, poultry, dressed calves, game, etc. Fruits. 
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Even a Lady can hold an ugly horse 
Cures hichers, shyers, runaways etc 
FOUR b'ts in one TEN days TRIAL 
-vCIENTIFIC GRINDING MILLS grind Cort 
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FOOS MFG. CO., Springfield, Ohio. 
MONARCH GASOLINE ENGINES 
anU’T Auction Sale Catalogue Guns, 1’istois 
■ * Military Goods (Illustrated), 15c., mailed 
Gc. Stamps. F. BA .4NEUMAN,679 Broadway, N. Y. 
Fine Farm Only $600. 
115 acres, nicely divided into tillage, pasture and 
woodland; 100 apple trees, 160 bushels In season; 
crops grown last year were potatoes, hay, grapes, 
plums, corn, beans and all kinds of vegetables; 7- 
room house; barn 30x40, with cellars; overlooking 
nearby lake, fine fishing: near friendly neighbors; 
owner's Interests call him elsewhere and to get 
quick sale, price is reduced to $600. half cash; 
stock and tools at low price if desired; splendid 
markets at nearby Summer resorts. For details call 
on or write the E. A. 8TROUT FARM AGENCY 
Dept. 42,150 Nassau 8t., New York City; or24 Franklin 
St., Boston, Mass. 
SOLD ON THEIR MERIT. 
Perfect Working Tractions Portable^ 
Hydraulic Cider Presses, special presses and sup¬ 
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catalogue. MONARCH MACHINERY CO., 
39 Cortlandt St., New York. 
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CUTAWAY 
TOOLS 
For Large Hay Crops 
Clark’s Revers^le 
Bush and Bog Plow 
Cuts a track 4 ft. wide, 1 ft. 
deep. Will plow a new-cut forest. 
His Double - Action Cutaway 
Harrow keeps the land true, 
moveH 1 8,000 tons of earth and 
cuts HO acres per day. His Re¬ 
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row 6 to 10 in. deep, 14 in. wide. 
All of these machines will kill 
wltch-prrasSjWlld mustard, char¬ 
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weed, thistle or any foul plant. 
Send for circulars. 
Cutaway Harrow Co, 
HJgganum. Conn.,U 8 A 
Straight Straw, Rye and Wheat Thrasher 
WATER TANKS 
MADE OF 
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Combined with Spike-Tooth Oat 
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Our Machine will 
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tie It again in perfect 
bundles Can bechanged 
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HAY AND STRAW 
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