1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
29 
January 15 
is the last day for clubs to count for 
those cash premiums. There are 50 of 
them—probably enough to go around to 
all that have sent clubs of any size. It 
is a question with most club-raisers who 
have sent clubs simply how big their 
premium is to be. That depends not on 
a big club, but on the relative size of a 
good many small ones. The largest 
premium is $100. Then come premiums 
of $75, $50, $30, $20 and so on down. Just 
a few names now may make a difference 
of $25 to you in the premium. For the 
smaller premiums it may make a less dif¬ 
ference, but if it were only $10 or $5 it 
would be worth while to hustle around 
for a day or two. Besides an this, those 
$2 bills go out every day to the largest 
daily clubs. All clubs mailed January 
15 will count. Be sure that the post¬ 
mark is plain on the envelop; or it 
you write the number sent it will count. 
Here are the daily winners for last 
week: 
Dee. 31. S. F. Johnson, Ohio. 
Jan. 2 Jay E. Allis, New York. 
Jan. 3. Mrs. C. B. Curtis, New York. 
Jan. 4. Mrs. C. B. Curtis, New York. 
Jan. .5. Jay H. Bowker, New York. 
We wanted to make the first day of 
the new century a record-breaker. But 
it was just a few names short of our 
best previous record. This was prob¬ 
ably due to a delay in the mails, as the 
next day brought up the average so that 
the two days beat any two correspond¬ 
ing days of other years, and the first 
week is far ahead. This report is due 
those who contributed to the result, and 
as we cannot thank each one separately, 
we here say “thanks” to all. Our New 
Year’s resolve is to give readers the best 
value that they will get for any dollar 
invested this year. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Market Briefs. 
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. 
SLEIGHT OF HAND.—The following 
item appears in a New York paper under 
the head of Business Troubles: 
“Chas. L. Pettis and Harvey J. Hunter, 
comprising the firm of C. L. Pettis & Co., 
wholesale dealers in produce at No. 204 
Duane st., New York, have made an as¬ 
signment to Uriah W. Tompkins. Before 
the assignment the sheriff received an at¬ 
tachment against Mr. Hunter for $2,496 in 
favor of Norman T. Kerr, but found noth¬ 
ing at the store on which to levy.” 
We have received a number of inquiries 
about the firm mentioned above, and 
others doing business in the same lines, 
namely, buying country produce for cash 
at prices above the market, and in all 
cases have advised correspondents to be 
careful about shipping to those who make 
such extraordinary promises. It seems to 
do but little good to publish the names of 
frauds. While people are reading the 
names and thinking what first-class scala¬ 
wags they are, somebody else comes up 
like a mushroom with a new proposition, 
which is simply a warmed-up hash of the 
methods of his predecessors in the fake 
family, and who for a consideration can 
get some so-called banking firm to give 
him a reference. We hope that our read¬ 
ers will give the cold shoulder to all of 
these commission merchant magicians who 
can be in one place one minute, with un¬ 
limited facilities for handling at a pre¬ 
mium anything that a farmer has a mind 
to ship them, and then all at once dis¬ 
appear, like an icicle on a red-hot stove. 
There may be some good reasons why 
people who steal in this way should be 
allowed to go on ad libitum without pun¬ 
ishment, while the man who picks your 
pocket or holds you up in some dark 
street is put behind the bars if caught, but 
the writer fails to discover any particular 
difference between the two methods. The 
highwayman at least does not add to his 
crime by lying about what he intends to 
do. As soon as he puts the i-evolver under 
your nose, you know just what he is 
after, and thus, in a way, he is entitled to 
credit for his honesty. 
.A TOUGH PROBLEM.—A reader on 
Long Island says that he recently sent 10 
three-bushel sacks of potatoes to a com¬ 
mission dealer in this city. They sold at 
$1.76 per bag, or $70 for the lot. Out of this 
was deducted $7 commission, $2 cartage, 
$10.80 freight, and $2.40 for 40 sacks, which 
the commission man bought here and sent 
to the shipper. These charges amount to 
$22.20. He wonders where his profits are 
coming in. It is somewhat discouraging 
\o the grower to have to turn in nearly 
one-third of the value of a crop as mar¬ 
keting expense. The freight charge in this 
case, $10.80 for transporting 120 bushels of 
potatoes 80 miles, seems excessive. The 
other items are not unusual. The charge 
for bags is all right. Six cents apiece was 
what they cost the dealer, and the general 
rule is that the package goes with the 
goods. That is, the price is made on this 
basis, and, if the buyer returns the pack¬ 
age, he usually gets a rebate. Some com¬ 
mission merchants, in order to appear un¬ 
usually generous, would have made no 
charge for the bags, and returned the 
price at which tlie potatoes sold at just 
HO much less, thus making themselves 
even. There is no way for the shipper to 
find this out unless he comes to the other 
man’s office and demands to see the ac¬ 
count on the books. If caught in this 
way he could squirm out of it without 
any trouble. However, there are plenty 
of honest dealers who will tell just what 
the goods sold for, and give an itemized 
account of expenses. In the city, where 
rents and all other charges are high, it is 
not reasonable to expect that merchants 
are going to give away anything unless 
they get an equivalent of some sort. The 
principle is the same as in some clothing 
stores, where with every suit of clothes, 
a pair of suspenders, a necktie and one 
or tw'o other articles are “thrown in.” 
The buyer pays for all these things, how¬ 
ever, for the clothing man knows that he 
is expected to donate these extras, and 
makes the price accordingly. 
A MALICIOUS REPORT has been cir¬ 
culated in some sections of New York, 
particularly in the Jewish districts on the 
East Side, to the effect that Mississippi 
River catfish were being canned an-i 
shipped to this market under the brand of 
Pacific Coast Salmon. This rumor has re¬ 
sulted in some injury to trade, as the He- 
bi’e%vs, for religious reasons, are prohibit¬ 
ed from using catfish, and those who did 
not know that there is a decided differ¬ 
ence in color and texture between these 
two fishes, refused to buy salmon in any 
shape. It is needless to say that there Is 
no foundation of truth in this report, as 
salmon and catfish are about as near alike 
as woodchuck and alligator. 
COTTON UP AGAIN.—Unusual activity 
marks the cotton market here. On the 
day after New, Year speculative trans¬ 
actions on the Exchange amounted to 
more than 350,000 bales. The prospect that 
Chinese affairs will be soon settled suf¬ 
ficiently to allow a general extension of 
trade there, is an encouraging feature. 
While there are indications that the crop 
in the South will be larger than at first 
reported, yet the manufacturing demand 
in all parts of the world is so extensive 
that there is no prospect of any serious 
drop in price. 
THEATERIZED BOYS.—A popular the¬ 
ater in New York charges a gallery ad¬ 
mission of only 15 cents. Some time be¬ 
fore the gallery is opened at night, a line, 
often several hundred men and boys, 
mostly boys, forms on the sidewalk. They 
are newsboys, bootblacks, and ragamuffins 
of various types. Some are under 12 years 
of age, and ought to be in bed at that 
time. Others are older, but vile food, dirt, 
lack of sleep, and a general knocking 
around on the ragged edges of life have 
marked them, and they are stunted and 
wiihered up like a potato that has grown 
a yard or two of sprout In the cellar. 
Their education is picked up on the streets, 
and flavored with a little stage comedy or 
tragedy, as they are able to scrape up the 
price of a gallery seat. To many of them, 
home, if they have any, is a place that 
they don’t care for, where they are not 
wanted, and from which thev get no en¬ 
couragement. They are an uninviting 
crowd, and the average person who passes 
this line will put them down as tough 
cases, candidates for the gutter, jails, 
prisons, asylums and early graves. Yet, 
some of these boys have as good material 
in them as there is in the world. Now and 
then somebody gives one a bit of en¬ 
couragement; hope starts to grow in him; 
he gets his head above the surface and 
climbs into better things at surprising 
speed. An illustration of this is seen In 
Governor Brady, of Alaska, who was once 
a ragamuffin, kicked around the streets of 
New York, and sleeping in barrels and 
boxes, until he was picked up by some one, 
put on a farm and given a little chance. 
He pushed ahead; went through Yale Col¬ 
lege, and is a most useful citizen. Who¬ 
ever gave him the start made a good in¬ 
vestment. w. w. H. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
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were premature births; one lived to be one year 
old but she was always feeble. I tried different 
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Syrup Cans and Sap Pails. 
McLANE-SCHANCK HDW. CO., Linesville, Pa. 
Also. Mfrs.of the“SunUght” Acetylene Gas Machine 
Wood Saw Machines 
5 p< 
S.MAIiLKYund BATTLE CREEK Dm* 
.Snws. No. 2 Self-Feed Battle Creek Drag Saw, 
for 2 to 4 horses. Price 
For i $85.00; with power com¬ 
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Electric Circular Saw 
Machine. 
.The best 
Long Timber 
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on Earth. 
We also 
make En¬ 
silage and Fodder Cutters, Grinding Mills, the 
Battle Creek BoltingorSlat Mill. FakmPoweks. 
Cut. and Introduction prices to any one naming this paper. 
SMALLEY MFQ. CO.,Sole Makers, ManItowoc, Wis. 
Seed Potatoes—120 var. Gold Standard 
Oats and S. C. VV. Leghorns. Cat. and pkt. oats free. 
HXLEK BKOS., Box 5, Prattsburg, N. Y. 
Fortune, 
rUIClIUlSS Harvest, Bovee. Queen, Irish Cob¬ 
bler, Good News, Stump the World, Thoroughbred. 
Uncle Sam. 85 kinds. C. W. Ford & Co., Fishers, N. Y 
1 
rw Ika Mow Aiifo Strawberry. Largest and 
rj me neif MUIV Best. S.UOOqts. to the acre. 
1 doz. plants for $2. Other good kinds as low as 
$1.50 IH 1,000. Cat.free. Slaymaker& Son,Dover,Del 
Prices for Crops.— Wheat, 72 cents, but 
very little in farmers’ hands. Rye, 46 cents 
per bushel; was a good crop; about half 
a crop in farmers’ hands yet. Storehouses 
full; no cars to ship in. Apples, 50 to 75 
cents per bushel, and are shipping in from 
outside markets now. Potatoes, 32 'cents 
per bushel; cellars full and no cars to ship 
in; there has been no competition in buy¬ 
ing here, as cars were so scarce. A large 
amount has been frozen in pits. Butter, 
18 cents per pound. The market is well 
supplied at present, and prices are likely 
to go lower. Eggs are 22 cents per dozen, 
not enough to supply the market. Poultry 
market is overloaded, selling at five cents 
live, or eight cents dressed. I have been 
offered 75 cents per bushel for my Ben 
Davis apples delivered In February. There 
were a number of carloads bought here in 
the Fall for 20 cents per basket. The home 
market pays. w. b. 
Stanwood, Mich. 
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