June 11, 
468 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending June 
7, 1904: 
GRAIN.—Wheat, No. 2, red, for export, 
$1.10; No. 1, Northern, Duluth inspection, 
$1.04%. Corn, 00. Oats, 45%. Rye, 70. 
Barley, 49. 
FEED.—Spring bran, 200-lb sacks, $24@ 
20; red dog, $28; standard middlings, $25@ 
27. 
SEEDS.—Retail prices f. o. b. New York. 
Timothy, bu., $2.50. Clover, bu., $8.50. 
HAY AND STRAW.—Ilay, prime, 95; No. 
1, 90@92% ; No. 2, S0@85; No. 3, 65@70. 
Clover, mixed, 65(®75; clover, 50@60. Marsh, 
50@55. Straw, long rye, $1.20@1.30. Oat, 
55@G0. 
MILK.—New York Exchange price two 
cents per quart to shippers in 20-cent freight 
zone. 
BUTTER. — Creamery, 13@18% ; State 
dairy, 13@17% ; factory, 11%@14; imita¬ 
tion creamery, 13@15; renovated, 10@15; 
packing stock, 10@12%. 
CHEESE.—Full cream, new, G@8; skims, 
2@5. 
EGGS.—Fancy selected white, 20@21; fair 
to prime, 17@19Western and Southern sec¬ 
onds to firsts, 15@1G; checks, 11@13. 
DRIED FRUITS.—Apples, evaporated, 4@ 
7; sundried, 3@4i/ 2 ; chops, 100 lbs, $2.25@ 
2.37; cores and skins, 100 lbs, $1.62@1.75. 
Raspberries, 25. Huckleberries, 13%@14. 
Blackberries, 5@5%. 
FRESH FRUITS.—Apples, choice to fancy, 
$2.75@3.50; fair to good, $2@2.50. Straw¬ 
berries, qt., 4@7. Blackberries, 10@15. 
Huckleberries, 14@1G. Peaches, Fla., carrier, 
$1.50(8; 2.50. 
VEGETABLES.—Potatoes, Bermuda, $3@ 
5.50; Southern, $2@5.25; State and Western, 
$2.50@3; foreign, 108-lb sack, $2.25@2.75; 
sweets, bbl., $3@5. Asparagus, prime, doz. 
bunches, $1.75@2; short and culls, 75@$1.25. 
Mushrooms, lb, 20@40. Beets, new Southern, 
100 bunches, $3@5. Carrots, old, bbl., $2.50 
@3.50; new Southern, 100 bunches, $2@4. 
Cabbage, new Southern, bbl. crate, $1.50@ 
2.50. Cucumbers, Southern, bbl., $2.50@3.50. 
Egg plants, bu. box, $1.50@3. Horseradish, 
100 lbs, $4@G. Kale, bbl., 40@G0. Lettuce, 
bbl., $1@2. Peppers, bu. carrier, $1@2. Peas, 
%-bbl. basket, $1@1.50. String beans, ’%- 
bbl. basket, $1.25@1.75. Radishes, 100 
bunches, 25@50. Spinach, bbl., 50@75. 
Squash, Summer, bbl., $1@1.75. Tomatoes, bu. 
box or carrier, $1@2.50. Watercress, 100 
bunches, 50@$1.25. 
HOPS.—New York State, 1903, 2G@35; 
Pacific coast, 1903, 24@30; olds, 9@14; Ger¬ 
man, 57@G4. 
BEANS.—Marrow, bu., $2.50@2.90; pea, 
$1.70@1.90; red kidney, $2.G0@2.95; white 
kidney, $2.90@3; yellow eye, $2.00; lima, 
California, $2.35. 
LIVE POULTRY.—Fowls, lb, 14; chickens, 
20@25; roosters, 9%; turkeys, 12; ducks, 
pair, 40@90; geese, pair, 90@$1.25; pigeons, 
pair, 35@40. 
DRESSED POULTRY.—Turkeys, 12@1G; 
broilers, fancy, ID, 35@50; fowls, 12@13; 
ducks, Spring, 1G@18; squabs, doz., $1.50@ 
2.50. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS.—Calves, 0 
@8%; lambs (hothouse), head, $1@5; pork, 
G@7%. 
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@5G; ground bone, $25@28; mu¬ 
riate of potash, $3G@45; sulphate of potash, 
$44@50; kainit, 11@13; acid phosphate, 12@ 
15; copper sulphate in bbl. lots, lb, 5% ; sul¬ 
phur flour, in blR. lots, lb, 3; liver of sul¬ 
phur, in 50-lb lots, lb, 14; water glass (sili¬ 
cate of soda), small lots, lb, 10@30. 
LIVE STOCK.—Steers, $5.20@5.75. Milch 
cows with calves, $25@50. Calves, $4@G.75. 
Sheep, $3@5. Lambs, $G.50@8.15. Hogs, 
$5.20. _ 
MARKET NEWS 
Milk Lower. —The New York Exchange 
reduced the price one-fourth cent in eifect 
June 1. This brings the price to two cents 
per quart to shippers in 20-cent freight zone, 
where there are no extra station charges. 
Large Wool Sales. —Advices from Oregon 
state that in one day recently 000,000 pounds 
were disposed of by local producers at prices 
ranging from 11 to 14 cents. The individual 
offerings ran from 20,000 to 50,000 pounds. 
Country-Dressed Lambs would still sell 
first rate if they could be got here in good 
condition, but shipping is doubtful business? 
in such weather as we have had during the 
past two weeks. Fine lambs have been seen 
that were soured when arrived and a total 
loss. In many cases this has been because 
the Iambs have not been cut open far enough 
toward the neck. For early shipments this 
is not necessary or advisable, but with the ap¬ 
proach of warm weather there must be no 
place where liquids can settle and tire air 
cannot reach. A shipper from Ohio is talk¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ing of building refrigerator boxes big enough 
to hold three or four lambs, something on the 
plan of the Iced strawberry crates. The great 
drawback to this is the heavy express charges, 
though this might be offset by the extra price 
received at times when other offerings were 
doubtful. Buyers of fancy lambs are usually 
of a class that will stand high prices if they 
can get just what they wish. The exper¬ 
iment is worth trying. 
Brices for Pickling Goods. —“Give prices 
usually paid for cucumbers, cauliflower, etc., 
by pickle manufacturers.” t. t. s. 
Nova Scotia. 
Large quantities of these goods are pro¬ 
duced on Long Island and sold to local pickle 
factories. Last year cucumbers four or five 
inches long brought $2 per thousand, and 
small ones $1 or less. In some localities 
where scarce the pickles brought $4 or $5 
per thousand, but this Is exceptional. Cauli¬ 
flower brings about $30 per ton, green pep¬ 
pers 75 cents a barrel, and green tomatoes 20 
cents a bushel. The Long Island cucumber 
business has been very uncertain for several 
years on account of blight. In some seasons 
no pieces are saved except those sprayed with 
Bordeaux once a week, a job that adds mate¬ 
rially to the cost of the crop. The rapidity 
with which this disease works is surprising. 
I have seen promising looking fields which 
in a few days became as brown as though 
scorched with fire. 
Mushrooms. —A reader in Michigan wishes 
to know whether there is a market in this 
city the year around for mushrooms, and 
whether an experienced grower could expect 
fair profit from such long-distance shipments. 
The mushroom trade here is light during 
June, July and August, as many of the high- 
class buyers are then out of the city. Some 
are shipping from Michigan with fair profit. 
The business is full of risk. So many have 
gone into it that gluts in the market are not 
unusual, and the product is not one that can 
be held like apples or potatoes. I have seen 
lots of 15 or 20 pounds, carefully handled, 
strike such a dull market and get slippery be¬ 
fore they could be sold. There is money in 
mushrooms if one knows how to handle the 
business and strikes fairly favorable markets, 
but he must not be surprised at now and then 
a dead loss, although some of the boom liter¬ 
ature sent out by mushroom spawn dealers 
says nothing about this. They have brought 
the business into such disrepute that reliable 
concerns find it hard to work up new trade. 
The Catnip Market. —Catnip as an article 
of commerce is sold mainly through botanic 
druggists. The demand is not sufficient to 
encourage anyone to engage in catnip farm¬ 
ing. To a limited extent bunches of the 
freshly cut plant are sold in the produce 
markets. It is nothing unusual to see a 
market man or woman with a basket of catnip 
which is sold at five or 10 cents a bunch, the 
buyers usually being owners of cats. In 
towns and cities there are hundreds of cats 
which never get a smell or taste of their fav¬ 
orite herb. The enthusiasm of a really cat¬ 
nip-hungry feline over a handful of the fresh 
plant is interesting and leads one to think 
that being deprived of it may be a real hard¬ 
ship. As the plant grows wild in profusion 
near the writer’s home, a handful is fre¬ 
quently brought in for distribution among 
the commission house cats along Washington 
street. It is amusing to see how quickly they 
can eat large pieces. I offered to bring a 
clump of the roots for a man to put in his 
city backyard, but he objected. He had tried 
the experiment, but instead of making a plant 
to which his own cats could go and eat an 
occasional leaf, it attracted all the cats in 
the neighborhood. They dug the plant out 
by the roots, and still continued to come by 
the dozen to roll in the place where it was. 
w. w. H. 
“Don’t put in too much time worryin’ 
’bout de little things dat can’t be help¬ 
ed,” said Uncle Eben. “I once knew an 
absent-minded man dat was walkin’ on 
a railroad track, an’ he got to thinkin* 
so hahd ’bout de danger f’um microbes 
dat he was run over by a locomotive.”— 
Washington Star. 
BOOK BARGAINS. 
A few shelf-worn copies of the following 
20-cent pamphlets will be sold at the rate of 
any six for 25 cents or the whole 10 for 40 
cents: 
Canning and Preserving, Young; How to 
Plant a Place, Long; Silo and Silage, A. J. 
Cook; Ensilage and Silo, Collingwood; Fruit 
Packages, Powell; Accidents and Emergen¬ 
cies, Groff; Country Roads, Powell; The New 
Botany, Beal; Milk Making and Marketing, 
Fowler; Tuberous Begonias. 
FREAKS OF LIGHTNING. 
Lightning settled a dispute on Torring- 
ford street the latter part of last week, ac¬ 
cording to a story told by a man living in 
that part of the town. In the Winter George 
W. Eaton felled an Immense chestnut tree 
and had the base of it drawn to the highway. 
When Eaton went after the heavy pieces of 
timber the other day Fred. Bailey claimed it, 
saying Eaton had cut it on his land, and 
forbade its removal. An argument between 
the two men followed, and before it was fin¬ 
ished an electric storm came up and they 
sought a shelter under a nearby shed to settle 
the point at issue. There was a fearful 
crash a few minutes later, and an investiga¬ 
tion showed that lightning had struck and 
practically destroyed the huge log, the owner¬ 
ship of which the men were wrangling over. 
—Register, Torrington, Conn. 
One of the most severe storms in many 
years visited this city about one o’clock this 
morning. A bolt performed a curious feat at 
the farm of E. M. Pennock, north of the city. 
It entered his horse barn where three horses 
were standing in a row, killed two of them, 
left the building, jumped 50 feet to the cow 
barn and killed a cow which was standing 
among nine others. No harm was done to 
the rest. Neither building caught fire or was 
damaged in any way.—Vermont Watchman. 
HAIR ON GOOSEBERRIES. 
The secretary of an eastern agricultural 
society recently received the following unique 
letter: 
“Sir:—I partickly wish the satiety to be 
called to consider the case what follows, as 
I think it mite be maid Transaxtionable In 
the next Reports: 
“My Wif had a Tombd Cat that dyd. Being 
a torture shell and a Grate favirlt, we had 
Him berried in the Guardian, and for the 
sake of inrichment of the Mould I had the 
carks deposited under the roots of a Gosberry 
Bush. 
(The Frute being up till then of the 
smooth kind.) But the next Seson’s Frute, 
after the Cat was berried, the Gosberries was 
al hairy—and more Remarkable, the Catpilers 
of the same Bush was Al of the same hairy 
Discription. 
“I am, sir, your humble servant, Thomas 
F ros t.” —California Fruit Grower. 
CULTIVATING DEWBERRIES IN 
ILLINOIS. 
I am a grower of small fruit, and havo 
added dewberries to my assortment. I 
have read all the articles on their culture 
that come this way, and am undecided on 
several points. I have read of training 
them on wires and subsequently find the 
same authority claiming it is not a suc¬ 
cess; have tried the stake plan, but find 
it is not just the correct thing from the 
fact that many of the canes break at the 
tying point, either with the wind or weight 
of fruit, or both. I know, that the habit 
of running on the ground is the natural 
way, and I am not sure that it is not the 
best, but it makes gathering the berries 
tiresome work. Is there no intermediate 
plan? We read, according to some who 
are supposed to be authority, that the cor¬ 
rect way is keep the the new canes pruned 
back until the berries are picked. Will 
this late growth of canes make wood of 
sufficient maturity to stand our hard Win¬ 
ters in northern Illinois, with ordinary 
covering of straw? Would it be advisable 
to prune the canes back to three or four 
feet late in the Fall, when growth is 
stopped, and cover with straw, and in the 
Spring reverse the situation by uncovering 
and putting the straw under the canes? 
Who has experimented along these lines? 
Illinois. h. ■ 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
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Land Commissioner Wisconsin Cent. Ry. 
Milwaukee, Wls. 
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CURES THE WORST COLDS. 
For 73 years the Standard Cough Remedy. 
