June 4, 
452 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
M A R__K_E_T_S 
Prices obtained during current week ending 
May 31, 1904 : 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, for export, 
$1.03; No. 1, Northern Duluth inspection, 
$1.04%. Corn, 59@61. Oats, 48. Rye, 72. 
Parley, 47. 
FEED.—Spring bran, 200-lb sacks, $24@ 
26; red dog, $27@30; standard middlings. 
$26@28. 
SEEDS.—Retail prices f. o. h. New York. 
Timothy, bu., $3.50. Clover, bu., $8.50. Red- 
top, bu., $13. 
IIAY AND STRAW—Hay, prime, 97 %@ 
$1; No. 1, 90@95; No. 2, 80@85; No. 3, 
65@70. Clover, mixed, 65@75; clover, 50@ 
60. Marsh, 50@55. Straw, long rye, $1.25 
@1.35. Oat, 55@60. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price 2% 
cents per quart to shippers in 26-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER. — Creamery, 13@18% ; State 
dairy, 13@17; factory, 12@14; imitation 
creamery, 13@15; renovated, 10@15% ; pack¬ 
ing stock, 10@13%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, 6%@8; skims, 2 
@4. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 20; fair to 
prime, 17@19; Western and Southern seconds 
to firsts, 14@16; checks, 12. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 4@ 
7% ; sun dried, 3@4; chops, 100 lbs, $2.30@ 
2.40; cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.65@1.75. 
Raspberries, 25. Huckleberries, 13%. Black¬ 
berries, 5. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice to fancy, 
$2.75@3.50; fair to good, $1.25@2.50. Straw¬ 
berries, qt., 3@12. Peaches, Fla., carrier, 
$1.25@3. Watermelons, Fla., 100, $40@50. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, Bermuda, $3@ 
5.50; Southern, $2.50@3.25 ; State and West¬ 
ern, $2.5u@3.; foreign, 168-lb sack, $2.25@ 
2.65; sweets, bbl., $2@5. Asparagus, prime, 
doz. bunches, $2@2.25; short and culls, $1@ 
1.75. Beets, new Southern, 100 bunches, $3@5. 
Carrots, old, bbl., $2@3.50 ; new Southern, 100 
bunches, $2@4. Cabbage, new Southern, bbl. 
crate, $1.50@2.25. Cucumbers, Southern, bas¬ 
ket, $1.50@2.25. Egg plants, bu. box, $1.50@ 
3. Horseradish, 100 lbs, 3@6. Kale, bbl., 50@ 
75. Mushrooms, lb, 10@40. Lettuce, bbl., $1@ 
2. Peppers, bu. carrier, $1@2. Peas, %-bbl. 
basket, 75@$1.25. String beans, %-bbl. bas¬ 
ket, 40@$1. Radishes, 100 bunches, 25@50. 
Spinach, bbl., 75@$1. Squash, summer, bbl. 
crate, $1.50@2. Turnips, ruta baga, bbl., $1 
@1.50. Tomatoes, bu. box or carrier, $1@ 
2.50. Watercress, 100 bunches, 75@$1.25. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 30@35; 
Pacific Coast, 1903, 24@30; olds, 9@14 ; Ger¬ 
man, 57@64. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50@2.90; pea, 
$1.75@1.92% ; red kidney, $2.75@3; white 
kidney, $2.90@3; yellow eye, $2.60; lima, 
California, $2.35@2.40. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, lb, 14; chickens, 
20@25; roosters, 9%; turkeys, 12; ducks, 
pair, S0@90 ; geese, pair, 90@$1.25 ; pigeons, 
pair, 35@40. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12@16; 
broilers, fancy, lb, 30@50; fowls, 10@13% ; 
squabs, doz., $1.50@2.50. 
COUNTitjL-DRESSED MEATS.—Calves, 5 
@7. Lambs (hothouse), head, $2@6, arriv¬ 
ing In bad condition. Pork, 5@7%. 
TOBACCO.—Seed leaf, Connecticut fillers, 
4@6; fine wrappers, 50@70; New York State 
fillers, 3@5; Virginia shipping, common to 
good lugs, 6@7; medium to good leaf, 9@11; 
good to fine leaf, 11%@12%. 
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, $48@52; dried 
blood, $53@56; ground bone, $25@28; muri¬ 
ate 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 sul¬ 
phur, in 50-lb lots, lb, 14; water glass (sili¬ 
cate of soda), small lots, lb, 10@25. 
LIVE STOCK.—Steers, $4.50@5.40. Calves, 
$4@6. Sheep, $3.50@5. Lambs, $4.60@7. 
Hogs, $5@5.25._ 
M A RKET N E W S 
AN ODD LOT FROM CUBA.—A steamer 
from Havana recently brought 50 large live 
turtles and 24,000 crates of pineapples. The 
turtles are supposed to be used by hotels as 
one of the essential ingredients of turtle 
soup, a delicacy for which epicures pay high 
pricer 
FRUITS.—rThere are large supplies of 
strawberries from Maryland, Virginia and the 
Carolinas. Many have sold at very low 
prices owing to being small and of poor qual¬ 
ity. There are a few Florida peaches of 
such varieties as Alexander, Bidwell’s Early, 
Waldo, Honey and Jewel, but few of them 
look inviting, and they sell slowly. There is 
but little use in sending little, scrubby green 
peaches here, or, in fact, unripe peaches of 
any kind, as they never ripen afterward so as 
to be fit for anything but pickling fruit. 
Watermelons in carload lots are on hand, 
bringing 30 to 50 cents apiece. 
SATURDAY is an off day so far as business 
in the wholesale markets here in Summer is 
concerned, and many commission houses close 
shortly after noon, because there are prac¬ 
tically no buyers around. There may be no 
very good reason for this half-holiday busi¬ 
ness, 'but it is so largely the custom that 
those shipping produce here should take it 
into account. Most commission houses like 
to get all perishable held-over stuff cleaned 
out Saturday morning and other produce, un¬ 
less it has been specially arranged for, is like¬ 
ly to lay over until Monday for lack of buy¬ 
ers. Where shipments like berries have to 
be made nearly every day a definite agree¬ 
ment may be made with the receiver, but as 
a rule stuff that can be held would be better 
off not to get here Saturday, unless the com¬ 
mission man knows about it and has arranged 
to dispose of it. 
CHERRY SALES—The first 10-pound box 
of Pacific Coast cherries for the season was 
sold here May 6 for $21. The first straight 
carload arrived May 24, and brought from 
$1.19 to $5.25 per box. Although more than 
10 days on the road, most of-the fruit was in 
good condition. The highest price was for a 
few Black Tartarian. It is scarcely necessary 
to say that there is no great demand for 
cherries at 40 or 50 cents a pound. When 
most expensive they are used for the decora¬ 
tion of tables. When they get cheaper, so 
that five or 10 cents’ worth Is more than a 
tablespoonful they are sold in small lots on 
the fruit stands. They are practically all 
gone before the eastern crop arrives. The 
chief advantage of this thin box, three inches 
deep, as a cherry package, is that the fruit 
is not bruised by the weight of fruit above, 
for there is practically no weight. Where 
cherries are poured into a peach basket, or 
even the large grape basket, some are sure 
to be bruised. For the main crop of the East, 
where sold for preserving purposes, the limit 
of prices paia would not warrant the expense 
for packing put on the California cherries, but 
the life of the fruit may be lengthened and 
losses lessened by using as shallow picking 
vessels and packages as practicable. Some 
of the shallow packages used in English mar¬ 
kets, known as punnets, are very suitable for 
such easily bruised fruit. 
HANDY MAN WANTED.—A reader in 
Pennsylvania writes to get a young man who 
could work on a farm in Summer and help 
him in telegraph office and at mechanical 
work during Winter and at other odd times. 
He holds a responsible position in a branch of 
a large concern, and the young man would 
have an opportunity to learn the various 
work his employer does now and gradually 
take his place. The job would probably be 
a good one for an ambitious boy, willing to 
do almost anything at the start and able to 
adopt himself to the various requirements. 
If lacking in these particulars it would be 
worse than useless for him to try it. The 
matter is mentioned here as being a little out 
of the ordinary run of applications for help. 
CHAIR SEATS.—“Where can I get cheap, 
serviceable bottoms to put on chairs where the 
cane seats are worn out? Having them re¬ 
caned at 75 cents each Is too expensive.” 
D. 
Perforated wooden bottoms may be had at 
most furniture stores, and they may be put 
on at home, brass-headed tacks being used. 
They cost here 25 or 30 cents each, and are 
fairly serviceable, but never equal to the cane 
seats, the nails having a habit of working 
loose. If tne chair frames are in good con¬ 
dition it will pay better to have new canes 
put in. We have seen chairs bottomed with 
several thicknesses of heavy paper varnished, 
and also various forms of canvas or other 
cloth tacked on, but these substitutes are not 
durable. For hard kitchen usage the old style 
wooden-bottomed chair is about the best. 
Shaded strawberries. —Growers who 
produce the famous berries at Hilton, N. J., 
lay great stress on the fact that all fruit is 
grown in the shade. Mr. Jerolaman, whose 
Marshall or Henry strawberries are the 
standard, has all his fruit growing under 
trees or vines, and claims that part of the 
famous quality and appearance is due to the 
shade. Otner growers have experimented 
with thin cioth stretched above the plants 
with varying results. The New Y'ork Ex¬ 
periment Station at Geneva experimented 
with min cheese cloth stretched on stakes 
and wires so as to rest about 20 inches 
above the ground. The results varied, but 
at Geneva the shaded fruit was a little 
larger. Thirteen quarts of uerries from 
the unshaded plat contained 1,452 berries 
anu 13 quarts grown under the cover 1,102 
berries, or only three-fourths as many; that 
is, shaded berries were nearly one-third lar¬ 
ger than unsuaded berries. This increase 
of size is of three-fold advantage. Small 
berries settle together more in the box, thus 
increasing the actual quantity which must 
be solu for a quart; a quart of small ber¬ 
ries takes more time to pick than a quart of 
large berries; and a quart of small berries 
brings less money in market than the quart 
of large berries with Its actually smaller 
quantity of fruit. If this advantage from 
increased size were not offset by a decreased 
yield, it would promise well for shading. 
With increased size there is frequently asso¬ 
ciated a better appearance, especially with 
such varieties as Marshall and Brandywine; 
for the same number of seeds will be borne 
on the berry whether it be stunted or grown 
to large size, and the proportion of exposed, 
glistening colored flesh will be much in¬ 
creased if these seeds are separated as they 
must be on the larger berry. Aside from this 
apparent bettering of color due to increased 
size of the fruit, there was little perceptible 
effect of shading on coloration. In the first 
picking of Marshall and Ridgeway the shad¬ 
ed berries were a little brighter and glossier; 
but this effect was not great enough to be of 
commercial importance. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
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PENLAY, a CURE for Indigestion. 
In private use two generations. Bottle mailed, 50c- 
F. I*. RAYMOND & CO.. 3 East 13th Street, New York 
CM C A perfect steel frame silo with guar- 
anteed workmanship and material. 
10x20 silo $78.37. Special terms to Farmer's Clubs 
& Granges. The International Silo Co., Jefferson, O' 
Handsome Yearling Holstein Bull, 
Sired by Prince King DeKol, testing 5 per cent; $40 
takes him. WM EMPIE, Amsterdam, N. Y. 
SCOTCH COLLIE PUPS 
Sable and White, Males, S3 ; Females, $2. 
J. H. VANDEN BOSCH, Jr., R. D. No.7, Auburn, N. Y. 
Tar Paper Roofs.—A writer in a recent 
issue tells about tarring roofs. I did mine 
(old smoke and springkouse) last Summer, 
and I found an old worn broom the best sort 
of a brush for applying tar, and I had tried 
bristle brush. Select a still, clear, warm day 
(September and October, May and .Tune are 
best) and it doesn't take long to put it on 
with the broom. A paper roof needs good 
boards under it, and should be carefully laid. 
In cost, roofing is about as follows: Slate, 
tin, shingle, tar paper—the last the cheapest, 
being about one-tliird cost of best shingles. 
We pay $15.50 per 1,000 for No. 1 cypress 
heart shingles. a. a. k. 
ILactical Farm Superintendent Wanted. 
To take charge of thousand acre farm and dairy; 
must be able to put into practice most improved and 
up-to-date methods; also to oversee office accounts 
and general business operations. Applicants must 
state age, experience and wages expected. 
Address, P. O. Box 629, New York City. 
ATTENTION "S Z'i 
favor us with your orders. Mail orders a specialty. 
I. HHRZ, Labor Aoency, 2 Carlisle St., New York.' 
Oldest Commission Bouse ln New York. 
bluest UfilimiSMUIl Est.1838. Butter,cheese, 
■ggs, pork, poultry, dressed calves, game, etc. Fruits. 
E. u. WOODWARD,302 Greenwich Street, New York. 
Renting Sitting IIens. —The following is 
taken from the Philadelphia Record : “Rent¬ 
ing out clucking hens is the new business 
venture of a well-known Manayunk livery¬ 
man, and he finds it more profitable than 
chicken-raising. The liveryman, finding that 
his hens were beginning to set very early and 
not having had first-class luck in the poultry 
business in former years, posted a placard 
announcing the rental of his “cluckers” at 
75 cents for the season. The scheme was a 
gr.eat success, and in a short time the de¬ 
mand was greater than the supply. He fed 
all the hens with food mixed with red pepper 
to make them set. and finally took to the 
woods for more “cluckers.” He traveled up 
through Montgomery County purchasing lay¬ 
ing hens at low prices, and at present has 
rented out nearly 100. In calculating his 
profits on the scheme he claims he saved the 
feed, gets 75 cents a bead for the hens’ use 
and will have them to sell In the Fall.” We 
don't believe it. It is doubtful if the author 
ever saw a sitting hen. 
Mice and Fruit Trees. — I tramped the 
snow around all my trees and have lost noth¬ 
ing from mice but grapevines. Some of the 
stems were gnawed through a thickness of 
one-fourth • inch. I guess I will continue to 
tramp snow. b. b. 
New Hampshire. 
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’ Nosiones. Best Trucking. Fruit,Stock, and Poultry 
section. Good water Finest climate to be found 
any where. Very healthy. Flue shipping point. Write 
H. E. WKI8S, Manager of Immigration, Emporia, Va. 
INFORMATION ABOUT DELAWARE. 
Unusual opportunities to secure farms large or small, 
improved and unimproved; timber i-nd other lands. 
Best fruit giowing section: at the floor 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 
■■■■■»■■£ For rich farming and fruit growing, 
r An mo Write J. D. S. HANSON, Hart, Mich. 
FOR SALE. 
Tenatwenty , fifty acre farms, and larger. Fine land, 
good buildings, good market. Adapted to fruit and 
stock raising. Short winters and a fine climate. 
Catalogue free. J. R. McGONIGAL & SON, Dover,Del 
FARM FOR SALE. 
;FARM CATALOGUE FREE, describing and 
illustrating a few good productive properties, with 
stock, tools and growing crops Included, 5 to 400 acres, 
$400 to $10,0U0. 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. STliOUT. FARM AGENCY 
Dept. 42, 150 Nassau St., New York City, or 24 Franklin 
St., Boston Mass. 
Pills. The oldest, safest, best pills you 
can buy. Gently laxative. 
Dairying In Wisconsin Pays. 
That is why there are more dairies in Wisconsin than any other state in U. S. It is the 
, . greatest grass and clover land found anywhere, 
('v-;'' They grow almost spontaneously in Wisconsin. 
; ' ' . The advantages for general farming are equally 
~7 ~') _ great. Lands accessible to the great markets of 
'■ -- V;•LnTW.su.i*® Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis. 
Our lands in Northern Wisconsin have plenty of | 
timber for building. Soft water springs and 
--- wells. Good schools and churches. Clay loam 
V soil, healthy climate. Work for everybody every day in 
the year. Unimproved lands, $5 to $10 por acre. 
Small payments and liberal terms. 
Send for booklet No. 2, with maps showing 
pictures of farms, etc. 
WM. H. KILLEN. 
Land Commissioner Wisconsin Cent. Ry. 
Milwaukee, Wls. 
s?. . 
GEORGIA 
LANDS yield 40% of their valua¬ 
tion annually. Many farms do much 
better when brains are used Any- 
_ thing that grows outdoors grows 
best in Georgia, and reaches northern markets weeks ahead 
of other states, so gets top price. Climate is salubrious, 
healthful. People welcome you. Southern hospitality is 
proverbial—Georgia has made it so. Lands are cheap now 
and terms easy. To write for information is the part of 
•wisdom, and does not obligate you in the least. Write today. 
GREATER GEORGIA ASSOCIATION, Atlanta, Ga.' 
JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT 
CURES THE WORST COLDS. 
For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy. 
