October 22, 
772 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKETS 
Prices obtained during week ending Octo¬ 
ber 17, 1904 : 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 1, Northern, Du¬ 
luth inspection . — 
No. 2, red, new. — 
Corn, No. 2, export grade.... — 
Oats, mixed . — 
Rye . 
Parley, feeding .— 
Timothy seed, choice, bu. — 
@1.19 
@1.15 
@ 58 
@ 36 
@ 80 
(a 39 
@2.85 
FEED. 
Coarse Spring bran. 22.00@ 24.00 
Standard middlings . 23.00@ 20.00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, prime . — @ 80 
No. 1 . 721/ 2 @ 77% 
Nos. 3 and 2. 55 @ 70 
Clover and clover mixed. 50 @ 70 
Straw, long rye. 90 @1.10 
Short and oat. 45 @ 55 
MILK. 
New York Exchange price 2 % cents per 
quart net to shippers in 2G-cent freight zone. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery . 
18 
@ 
20% 
State dairy . 
13 
© 
19 
Factory . 
12 
© 
14 
Backing stock . 
11 
13% 
CHEESE. 
Full cream . 
7% 
@ 
10% 
Skims . 
5%@ 
9 
EGGS. 
Fancy selected white. 
28 
@ 
30 
Fresh gathered, firsts to extra 
22 
@ 
27 
Western and Southern. 
14 
@ 
23 
Refrigerator, Spring pack .... 
18 
© 
19 
DRIED FRUITS. 
Apples, evaporated . 
4 
@ 
7 
Sun dried . 
3 
@ 
4 
Chops, 100 lbs .1 
@1 
.75 
Cores and skins.1 
@ 1.05 
Raspberries . 
19 
@ 
20 
Huckleberries . 
13 
@ 
13% 
Blackberries . 
0 
@ 
0% 
Cherries . 
12% 
@ 
13% 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples, Alexander .2.00 @3.00 
Wealthy, King and Graven- 
stein .1.50 @2.50 
Jonathan, Snow and Twenty 
Ounce .1.25 @2.25 
Fall and York Pippin.1.00 @2.00 
Spitzenburg .1.50 @2.00 
Spy and Baldwin.1.25 @1.50 
Windfalls . 50 @ 75 
Pears, Bartlett and Seckel.. .2.50 @5.00 
Clairgeau and Bose.2.00 @4.00 
Vicar, Sheidon, Duchess and 
Louise Bonne .1.50 @2.50 
kieffer . 50 @1.50 
Quinces .2.50 @4.00 
Plums, Damson, 8-lb bkt. 20 @ 25 
Peaches, %-bu. bkt. 50 @1.00 
Grapes, Niagara and Delaware, 
4-lb basket . 10 @ 10 
Black . 9 @ 10 
Bulk, ton . 40.00@ 80.00 
Cranberries, bbl.4.00 @0.00 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, bbl.1.50 @2.00 
Sweets .1.00 @2.00 
Carrots . 75 @1.25 
Citron, bbl. 50 @ 75 
Cabbage, 100 .2.00 @i4.00 
Cauliflower, bbl.1.00 @1.75 
Celery, dozen . 20 @ 50 
Egg plants, bbl.1.50 @3.00 
Kale, bbl. 25 @ 50 
Lettuce, bbl. 50 @ 75 
Onions, white, bbl.2.00 @7.00 
Yellow and red.1.50 @2.00 
Peppers, bbl. 50 @1.00 
Spinach, bbl. 75 @1.25 
Squash, Hubbard, bbl. 75 @1.00 
Marrow . 50 @ 75 
Turnips, ruta baga, bbl. 50 @ 85 
Tomatoes, bu. 25 @ 75 
NUTS. 
Chestnuts .3.50 @4.00 
Hickory nuts, new.2.25 @2.50 
HOPS. 
N. Y. State, com, to choice. .. 30 @38 
Pacific coast . 30 @ 36 
Olds . 14 (a 18 
German crop, 1904. 56 @ 08 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens . 13 @ 13% 
Fowls . — @ 14 
Roosters . — @ 10 
Turkeys . 13 @ 14 
Ducks, pair . 50 @ 80 
Geese, pair .1.12 @1.50 
Pigeons, pair .. — @ 15 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Spring turkeys . 15 @ 25 
Chickens, fancy . 18 @ 24 
Lower grades . 13 @ 17 
Fowls . 13% @ — 
Ducks . 10 @ 18 
Geese . 14 @ 17 
Squabs, dozen .1.75 @2.75 
FARM CHEMICALS. 
Prices cover ton to car lots. 
Nitrate of soda. 4G.00@ 50.00 
Cotton-seed meal . 28.00@ 32.00 
Dried blood . 55.00@ 00.00 
Kainit . 10.00@ 12.00 
Muriate of potash. 38.00@ 44.00 
Acid phosphate . 12.00@ 16.00 
MARKET NEWS 
Hops. —The market continues firm and 
prices advancing. Business in eastern hops 
at 30 cents is reported, with scattering sales 
at 38. The crop of central Europe is 10,000,- 
000 pounds below last year. The season in 
England has been bad and the crop far be¬ 
low the average. There is quite certain to 
he a strong demand for American hops on the 
other side. 
Dressed Poultry. —Some of the receipts 
of chickens are the worst I have ever seen, 
small, bony and not well picked. Of course 
these are hard to sell. Retailers have to 
remove the pinfeathers and fix them up in 
presentable shape. This takes time, and 
they insist on buying low enough to make a 
good margin. But few choice Spring tur¬ 
keys are arriving. These sell well, but it is 
a mistake to ship small thin turkeys unless 
one knows in advance where they can be sold 
to advantage. After a turkey gets half 
grown the worst of the bother about raising 
him Is over, and it seems a mistake to sell 
so early a bird that would bring more pro¬ 
portionate profit at Thanksgiving. 
Selling Feathers. —“Where can I sell 
feathers of poultry and game birds, used 
for millinery purposes, etc. j. l. 
Wisconsin. 
The most convenient way to dispose of 
small lots of feathers is to ship them to the 
regular commission man who handles your 
other produce. Feather and fur dealers go 
around among the commission houses to pick 
up odd lots of these goods that may be sent 
in. 
An Icy Discussion. —The special investi¬ 
gation into refrigerator car affairs now go¬ 
ing on, while not directly affecting the bulk 
of general farmers, is important enough to 
warrant looking into carefully. In fact, the 
farmer cannot afford to miss anything that 
is being said or done regarding transporta¬ 
tion, for there is a wire fast to it that is sure 
to pull on him directly sooner or later. The 
idea of turning a freight car into a cold stor¬ 
age warehouse was quickly grasped by men 
dealing in perishable goods. Concerns of this 
type, with large capital, saw great possibil¬ 
ities in a perfected refrigerator car and the 
practical control of all rolling stock so 
equipped. The railroads stood still and let 
certain corporations extend this cold storage 
transportation business until the small affair 
grew into a big monopoly, which appears to 
have both railroads and shippers in its 
clutches. The chief abuses alleged are in¬ 
efficient service in the supply of these cold 
storage cars, and exorbitant charges for icing. 
It is claimed that if shippers complain of the 
treatment received they find it hard to get 
cars, it being a case of “take what we offer 
you and keep quiet or you'll not get any more 
anyway." This is not to be wondered at, 
and is the usual attitude of a monopoly. 
Unless compelled by law to give a fair and 
impartial service the cars will be operated 
where and when they will bring most profit 
to the owners. There seems to be some question 
whether these private freight car corporations 
can be considered common carriers in the 
same sense as the regular rolling stock owned 
by the railroads. If not, they certainly can¬ 
not be forced to give all the service de¬ 
manded of common carriers. Those who con¬ 
trol these cars have either kept within the 
law or violated it. If the former, the laws 
are not sufficiently comprehensive and up to 
date. If the latter, it is a matter for inves¬ 
tigation and pressure on the part of the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, bringing 
the facts to light and the offenders to jus¬ 
tice. The cost of icing cars varies widely in 
different sections. But there is no excuse 
for the enormous charges alleged to have 
been made in some Northern States where the 
ice crop is always good. The refrigerator 
car system has so grown up with trade that 
these ears are now as much a business neces¬ 
sity as are coal, grain or cattle cars. If the 
private parties owning them will not give 
fair and adequate service, and the laws do 
not cover them, there is no way but to make 
amendments that will put them on the same 
footing as any common carrier. The prob¬ 
able outcome of such a move would be for 
the private owners to dispose of their hold¬ 
ings to the railroads, to be handled the same 
as coal or grain cars. The reason that the 
railroads and others having close business re¬ 
lations with these private freight car con¬ 
cerns are shy about taking any hand in this 
matter is tliaf the car owners have such a 
grasp on fruit, grain, butter, eggs, etc., which 
form a large part of the freight business that 
they can demand much special privilege, 
chief of which is being let alone. By a com¬ 
plicated system of rebates, concessions, under¬ 
standings and the “seeing" of important ship¬ 
pers and kickers the matter has been doc¬ 
tored up from time to time. It is to be hoped 
that the investigators how at it will keep at 
it until something is done. This will be of 
more account than all the abuse that can be 
piled on to the railroads and private freight 
car owners. __ w. w. H. 
Mike: “An’ phat is it ails Kehoe?” 
Pat: "Shure, Oi can’t remimber th’ name 
av it, but it’s that thing th’ doctors cut out 
av ye whether ye’ve got it or not.”—Judge. 
“The edge on the razor/’ said the gar¬ 
rulous barber, “improves by laying it away 
for a time.” “That being the case,” re¬ 
joined the victim in the chair, “I’d advise 
you to lay the one you are using away foi 
about 2,000 years.”—Chicago Daily News. 
Concrete for Barn Floor. 
R. L. S., Jamestown, N. Y .—In using ce¬ 
ment floor and gutter in cow stable is it prac¬ 
tical to handle solid and liquid manure to¬ 
gether by using a fair amount of absorbents, 
or is it necessary to pipe liquid away to cis¬ 
tern and handle separately? Will creek 
gravel, consisting of about one-third coarse 
gravel, one-third fine gravel and one-third 
good sharp sand, mixed with Portland cement, 
make a good, permanent wall for barn? In 
what proportion should they be mixed? 
Ans. —We find no trouble in handling 
the solids and liquids together. The horse 
manure is put into the gutter, never under 
the cows, and bedding used quite freely. 
There is one great advantage of concrete; 
it becomes necessary to use bedding and 
absorbents, and so the farm grows richer. 
Do not build a cistern; of course, if this 
manure is thrown in a pile, and allowed 
to stand for a period the liquids will all 
be lost. I would, therefore, arrange to 
take from stable to field at same haul. 
The creek gravel is very good for con¬ 
crete if it is free from dirt, and should be 
used about one to four. h. e. cook. 
Late Grapes for North Carolina. 
R. V. R., Rochester, N. Y .—On my farm in 
western North Carolina I wish to grow grapes 
for the latest possible markets. I want to 
plant late varieties. Is it safe? Can 1 get 
good results on a northern slope with open 
exposure, elevation about 2,000 feet, or 
should I have a warmer exposure? What 
other varieties, besides Catawba, would you 
recommend for late market grapes? 
Ans. —Grape growing in some parts of 
North Carolina is carried on very exten¬ 
sively and successfully, but in the ele¬ 
vated regions of the west part of the State 
the climate is not so well adapted to the 
culture of this fruit. From 2,000 feet ele¬ 
vation and upward the climate is so cool 
that grapes are very late in ripening, and 
in some places do not succeed well be¬ 
cause of this fact. Where they do suc¬ 
ceed their lateness makes them more prof¬ 
itable than if they ripened early. This 
may be the fact in the case mentioned, 
and I think it is so, judging by what I 
have seen in the way of grape growing 
there. Concord and Delaware will both 
hang on late, although they are not equal 
to Catawba in this respect. 
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