THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 21, 
420 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending May 13, 
1904 : 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, for export, 
$1.07: No. 1. Northern, Duluth inspection, $1. 
Corn, 00. Oats, 48. Rye, 70. Barley, 48. 
SEEDS.—Retail prices f. o. b. New York. 
Timothy, bu $3.50. Clover, bu., $9. Red- 
top, bu., $10. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Hay, prime, 95@$1; 
No. 1, 90<t/!»2i/.! ; No. 2, 804/87% No. 3, 70@ 
77%. Clover, mixed, 704/75; clover. 55@65. 
•larsh, 504/00. Straw, long rye, $1,104/1.25. 
Oat, 004/05. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 2% 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER.—Creamery, 134720^; State 
dairy, 134/19: factory, 11%47'14%; imitation 
creamery, 13%@16; renovated, 1047:17; pack¬ 
ing stock, 10@13%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 94/11 : skims, 3478. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 2047 20% ; 
fair to prime, 1847 19%; Western and South¬ 
ern seconds to firsts, 144717 ; checks, 13. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 447 
7% ; sun dried, 2% @4% ; chops, 100 lbs, 
$2.35; cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.75. Rasp¬ 
berries, 25. Huckleberries, 13%. Black¬ 
berries, 5. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice to fancy, 
$3473.75; fair to good, $1,254/2.50. Straw¬ 
berries, qt., 04710. Watermelons, 75@1.25. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, Bermuda, $447 
0; Southern, $2@5 : State and Western, $2.50 
473; foreign, 108-11) sack, $2.50@3; sweets, 
bbl., $2.50475. Asparagus, prime, doz. bunches, 
$1.50472; short and culls, 504/ $1.25. Cab¬ 
bage, new Southern, bbl. crate, $1471.50. 
Escarol, bbl., $3474. Egg plants, bu. box, 
$1473. Green corn, Fla., 100, $3@4. Kale, 
bbl., 654775. Leeks, 100 bunches, $34710. 
Lettuce, barrel, $1.50473; hothouse, doz., 50 
@$1. Peppers, bu. carrier, 75@$2. Peas, 
%-bbI. basket, $24/2.50; bu., $1472. String 
beans, %-bbl. basket, $1472. Radishes, 100 
bunches, $1.50472. Spinach, bbl., $1471.50. 
Turnips, ruta baga, bbl., $1471.25. Tomatoes, 
bu. box or carrier, 75@1.25. Watercress, 100 
bunches, 754/$1.25. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 304735; 
Pacific coast. 1903, 264730; olds, 94714; Ger¬ 
man, 574764. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50<g)2.95 : pea. 
$ 1 . 75471 . 97 %: red kidney, $2.75473.05; white 
kidney, $3; yellow eye, $2.00472.65; lima, 
California, $2.40. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, 11), 12%: chick¬ 
ens, 12% ; roosters, 8% ; turkeys. 11 : ducks, 
pair, 404/90; geese, pair, 9047 $1.25; pigeons, 
pair, 25. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 124716; 
broilers, lb, 304/50; fowls, 1247:12%; squabs, 
doz., $1.75412.75. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—Calves, 5 
4 / 8 . Lambs (hothouse), head, $24/6.50. Pork, 
5@7%. 
TOBACCO.—Seed leaf, Connecticut fillers, 
447)6; fine wrappers, 504/ 70; New York State 
fillers, 3475; Virginia shipping, common to 
good lugs, 64?7 ; medium to good leaf, 9(gll; 
good to fine leaf, ll%f//12%. 
BARKS, ROOTS AND HERBS—Elm, lb, 
3047/40. Wild cherry, lb, 5% 479. Sassafras, 
lb, 84710. Cascara sagrada, lb, 154719. Sage, 
lb, 3475. Ginseng, lb, $4.75477. Virginia 
snake root, lb, 404/45. 
FARM CHEMICALS.—Prices on fertilizing 
chemicals are intended to cover the range 
from single ton to carload lots f. 0 . b. New 
York : Nitrate of soda, ton, $484752. Dried 
blood. $534756. Ground bone, $25@28. Mu¬ 
riate of Potash, $364/45. Sulphate of potash, 
$444/50. Kainit, $114713. Acid phosphate, 
$124715. Copper sulphate in bbl. lots, lb, 6. 
Sulphur flour, in bbl. lots, lb, 3. Liver of 
sulphur, in 50-lb lots, lb, 14. Water glass 
(silicate of soda), small lots, lb, 154730. 
LIVE STOCK.—Steers, $4.35475.35. Milch 
cows with calves, $254/55. Calves, $3.5047 
6.25. Sheep, $2.50475. Lambs, $5.25476.60. 
Hogs, $5.30. _ 
MARK ET NEWS 
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POTATOES.—During the past month over 
500,000 bushels of foreign potatoes arrived 
here, the price having been high enough to 
make shipments profitable. The demand for 
new Southern and Bermuda is very good, and 
they are somewhat higher. Late buyers of 
seed are having trouble to get the varieties 
wanted. In some parts of New Jersey, near 
this city, the acreage is considerably increased 
over last year. 
EGG PRICES hold up well. Production is 
much heavier than a month ago, but large 
quantities are going into storage. Thus what 
would be a dangerous surplus is constantly 
absorbed during April and May. The Spring 
demand makes a big difference in tHe quan¬ 
tity of eggs for sale. Thousands of farmers 
have 10 or 12 hens sitting. These with the 
demand for incubators take a good many 
eggs off the market. The hens themselves are 
storing quite a quantity in “stolen” nests. 
Some of these will make fair hatches, and in 
other cases the nests, if found after only a 
short time of incubation, will be put in the 
commercial egg basket. In some cases the 
only test is wnether or not the egg “shakes.” 
This practice is not general, but it is always 
an injury to the egg trade, which in early 
Summer dealers find more uncertain than the 
weather. 
BUTTER.—The high retail prices which 
have been maintained for some time in spite 
of the weakness in the wholesale market are 
giving away to a more reasonable figure, and 
consumptive trade is increasing accordingly. 
There is no sense in the attempt of retailers 
to hold up buyers in this way. In some cases 
I know that a margin of eight cents per 
pound has been asked, which is altogether too 
much. Now is the time to encourage heavy 
consumption of butter in this city. In a 
month or six weeks hundreds of people will' 
be away in the country and butter will be 
dull. The retailer will make more in the 
long run by keeping reasonably close to 
wholesale prices. 
HORSERADISH.—“Is there a market for 
horseradish root in New York, and what 
does it bring?” w. s. 
New York. 
Quite a large quantity is sold here. It is 
used by picklers, and also grated and put 
up in bottles or jars for table use. Nearly 
all hotels and restaurants have it. The 
quality of the root governs the price. The 
small branchy tough roots often found on 
plants that grow wild will not bring nearly 
so much as the fleshy tender roots of culti¬ 
vated plants or those growing wild in very 
rich ground. Prices run from $2 to $0 per 
hundred. Before marketing any it would be 
well to send samples to the dealer who 
will do the selling, to learn whether it will 
bring enough to pay for shipment. If one 
did not mind the job of grating it could be 
put in cans at home at odd times and sold 
in local towns or shipped to some dealer in 
canned goods in a large city. After being 
tested and found pure a steady trade might 
result. The graters used here consist of 
rough cylinders, against which the roots 
are pressed, run by a crank. The machine 
looks a little like a hay cutter and is 
worked in the same way, the grated prod¬ 
uct dropping through into some sort of 
catcher. __________ w - w - H - 
Lady Maud “Do you think it’s un¬ 
lucky to be married on a Friday, Sir 
John?” Sir John: “Certainly. But why 
make Friday an exception?”—Punch. 
COULD YOU USE ANY KIND OF A SEWING 
MACHINE AT ANY PRICE? 
If there is any price so low. any offer so 
liberal that you would think of accepting on 
trial a new high grade, drop cabinet or up¬ 
right Minnesota. Singer, Wheeler & Wilson, 
Standard, White or New Home Sewing Ma¬ 
chine, on a postal card or in a letter, say : 
“Send me your latest Sewing Machine Cata¬ 
logue," and you will receive by return mail, 
postpaid, free of cost, the handsomest sewing 
machine catalogue ever published. It will 
name you prices on the Minnesota, Singer, 
Wheeler & Wilson, White, Standard and New 
Home sewing machines that will surprise 
you; we will make you a new and attractive 
proposition, a sewing machine offer that will 
astonish you. 
If you can make any use of any sewing ma¬ 
chine at any price, if any kind of an offer 
would interest you, don't fail to write us at 
once and get our latest book, our latest 
offers, our new and most surprising proposi¬ 
tion. Address 
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago. 
MARKET FOR WINTER VEGETABLES. 
—In this city there is a good demand for 
small fruits. The past Winter we had no 
trouble at all in selling neatly put-up hot¬ 
house products at from 25 to 50 per cent, ad¬ 
vance in selling price over the same goods 
that were shipped in from Chicago. If peo¬ 
ple can get a first-class article put up in a 
nice attractive form they are willing to buy 
it at a good price. I think that if some en¬ 
terprising fruit grower would ship really 
first-class peaches and apples to towns of 
this size he would have no trouble in getting 
a good price for same. The trouble is that 
the fruit, peaches especially, are small and 
half ripe. A person never buys but one bas¬ 
ket of such fruit; then the fruit grower says 
there is no demand for his fruit. At the 
experiment station here we have been grow¬ 
ing a new bean ; the pods are like those of 
an ordinary bean, but contain about 20 beans, 
one of the pods measuring 38 inches in 
length. a. h. 
Madison. Wis. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
I t. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
Vegetable Plants. 
Transplanted Cabbage. Wakefield. Early Summer. 
Celery White Plume. {2.50 per 1.000. Tomatoes in 
var. Sweet Potatoes, $1.50. Pepper, $3.50. Cauliflower, 
$5 per 1.000. Field grown Danish Bullhead. white 
cabbage a specialty: sill head cabbage, E. Summer, 
Drumhead, $1 per 1.000; 15c. per 100. Celery. Celeriac 
Leek, Kale, Beets, Tomato, Pepper and Parsley, $1 to 
$1.25 per 1.000; 15c. per 100. Sample for 6c. Cash with 
order. Pricelist mailed free. Pansies and bedding 
plants. LUDVIG MOSBAEK, Phone 105, Onarga. Ill. 
1 QTII || | CURED to stay cared. Health restored. Hook 54F 
RO 1 IllVIfl FREE. P. Harold Hayes,Buffalo,N.Y. 
011 O A perfect steel frame silo with guar- 
OILVO anteed workmanship and material. 
10x20 silo $78.37. Special terms to Farmer's Clubs 
& Granges. The International Silo Co., Jefferson, O. 
UfCCnCDnRT Qll fl<k lead In havingthe most 
fILtUOrUIIl OILUO practicalDoor, Hoof, and 
general construction of any Silo on market. Write for 
Catalogue to Abram Walhath Co.,Weedsport,N. Y. 
ftApCO Heiney’s Guaranteed Cure. Simply put 
UHl tO chicks in a box. They inhale cure. Price 
50 cents. Postpaid. H. H. HEINEY. Ashficld, Pa, 
HURST'S SPRAYER 
Sprays Everything. 
Trees, potatoes (4 rows at a 
time ), whole fields, orchards, 
small patches. Pays itself 
first season. County agents 
controlling territory make 
#1 5 to 820 per day. First 
order, where no agent, se- 
cu r e s dealer’s price and 
agency; or will ship on IO 
days’ free trial at regu¬ 
lar price. ‘Write to-day; adv. won’t appear again. 
All kinds Spray Pumps. Catalog E describes. 
H. L. HURST MFC. CO., I>rpt. E, Canton, O. 
New York State Veterinary College 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N Y. 
Free tuition to residents of New York State, Ex¬ 
tended announcement. Address 
Prof. JAMES LAW, F. R. C. V.S. Director. 
gk — Needing male 
A1 luNTlUN help of any kind, 
favor ns with your orders. Mail orders a specialty. 
I. HERZ, Labor Agency, 2 Carlisle BL, New York.' 
Oldest Commission 
eggs, pork, poultry, dressed calves, game, etc. Fruits. 
F. B. WOODWARD, 302 Greenwich Street, New York 
FARM FOR SALE. 
FARM CATALOGUE FREE, describing and 
Illustrating a few good productive properties, with 
stock, tools and growing crops Included, 6 to 400 acres, 
$400 to $10,000. Low prices to settle estates quickly. 
It is full of reliable information about New England 
soils, crops, markets, climate, etc. A few farms on 
easy terms. Write E. A. STROUT. FARM AG KNCY, 
Dept. 42, 150 Nassau St.,New York City, or 24 Franklin 
St., Boston Mass. 
pinUC For rich farming and fruit growing, 
f" A It mO Write J. D. S. HANSON, Hart, Mich. 
INFORMATION ABOUT DELAWARE. 
Unusual opportunities to secure farms 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 Hoard of Agriculture, Dover, Delaware 
FARMS. 
Money makers in Western New York. Beautiful 
farms in the Great Dairy and Fruit Belt, near Buffalo; 
farms the profits of which will pay their cost every 
three to four years right along, and have done so f >r 
years; to settle a large estate we offer a few of these 
cholcefarms for Immediate sale: enclose stamp for 
proof and descriptions SHIPMAN, 99 Elm Street, 
Buffalo, N. Y., largest Farm Agency In the State. 
S me Mm 
AT COOPERSBURG,PA* 
A PLEASED BUYER IS THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT. 
After many urgent requests from many friends and breeders of Jersey Cattle to hold my ANNUAL SALE 
of IMPORTED CATTLE onDecoration Day iMa.v 30), here at -‘Linden Grove.” I have reluctantly consented 
to do so. Why I say “ reluctantly " is. this importation was not bought for auction purposes, and, us many 
know, I had to reach ’way down into my pocket to secure the cream I was after, and to par; with them is like 
pulling front teeth. 
It has been our custom to sell the entire Importation, much as we should have liked to have kept out a few 
for special breeding purposes but to make the Sale all the more attractive, we sold the entire lot And that 
is what we intend to do this year; the entire importation, which by day of sale, with increase, will number 
about 90 head, will be sold, reserving only the right to withdraw any animal that has met with a mishap 
since the catalogue has been published, or is otherwise not in a condition to sell. 
It will make many a breeder “smile” when he sees a list of the animals to be sold, among which will be the 
Island Queen, Blue Belle herself, and family: the invincible Flying Foxes, the Forfarshlres, Eminent 2d, 
Mon Plalsir, Agatha’s Flying Fox, Golden Jolly, Queenie’s Prince, Actor Llopeful. Calest.Orlando. Mabel's 
Poet. Golden Marquis. John Bull, Leda's Golden Ladd. Astor; and for good measure, two Highlv Commended 
daughters of Golden Fern's Lad (one a First Prize Winner on the Island) will also be in the Sale. 
Among’ the number will be all our candidates, which we had in¬ 
tended for the St. Tonis Show. 
CATALOGUES READY FOR DISTRIBUTION THE I0TH OF MAY. 
Owing to the great expense of mailing so large a number, many of which are sent to parties no longer 
interested in Jerseys, we respectfully ask those that want a catalogue to mail their address. 
Mention Rural New-Yorker. T. S. COOPER, “ Linden Grove,” Coopersburg, Pa. 
THE FARMERS OF THE UNITED STATES 
commenced to learn the necessity of protecting their woodwork against decay in 1878, and in 1903 
Bought 145,000 Gallons of S. P. F. CARBOLINEUM. 
You are Behind the times if you don’t use it, or accept worthless substitutes. 
BRUNO GROSCHE & CO., 27 William Street, New York City. 
You Can Save From SSO to $50 
By buying one 
of our 
National Pitless Scales 
NO PIT TO DIG. 8 INCHES OVER ALL. STEEL FRAME. 
This Scale is complete when it leaves our factory, with 
the exception of floor planks. Write for free catalogue. 
NATIONAL PITLESS SCALE CO., Oept. Z, KANSAS CITT, MO. 
JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT 
CURES THE WORST COLDS. 
For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy, 
Ask for 
Booklet R 
^GEORGIA 
I GEORGIA offers the greatest opportunities to settlers ■ m 
I wr and investors; tn hp found in Amprira tn-iinv Tt ha 
Lands 
LANDS In the most desirable sections of this wonderful state can be purchased on long time and at 
far lower prices than are asked in northern states. There is no more beautiful or fertile land out¬ 
doors than Georgia possesses in abundance. Ten months in the year there is open pasturage for 
cattle. So rich and fertile is the soil, so early and convenient the market, that farms here yield annu¬ 
ally 40 percent of their valuations. Failure of crops is almost unheard of in the entire state of 
Georgia, and where diversified crops are grown nothing like an unprofitable year was ever known. 
.. _ _ ■ No better opportunity exists for poultry and dairy farming, cattle, hogs and 
and investors to be found in America to-day. It ■ MUBt stock breedinggenerally. Small fruits and in fact all fruits grow to perfection, 
has been overlooked in the rush to less favored but ■ H m ■ K H w. GROW any crop here that grows in your state, and others that you cannot 
better advertised sections. It is the ideal place for grow to profit. Ten cent cotton is like dollar wheat. Georgia peaches sell 
Northern farmers and their sons to locate. Grows for millions. Finest grasses and open pasturage ten months yearly make 
all kinds of crops, make permanent and profitable homes, and all at a very _ dairy farming and cattle raising profitable. Don’t 
moderate cost. The climate of Georgia is perfect, neither too hot nor too cold va JA JV misjudge Georgia just because you know little or 
and is diversified as the land rises from the sea-level to an altitude of 5,000 feet. ■ ■■ nothing about it. Find out. Lay aside any 
No blizzards, or violent extremes of weather. The best climate, in fact, to be Bf prejudice you may possess and ask for facts, and 
found anywhere on the continent, for health and comfort with profit. Coal " ■ ^ ^ then investigate for yourself 
Is cheap and abundant, educational and church advantages the very best, water plentiful, transportation facilities Igood. 
More than one-half the deposits in State Banks are owned by Georgia farmers. sb m \ 
tver 
Write 
GREATER GEORGIA ASSOCIATION, Atlanta, Georgia, 
they 
will tell 
thing 
