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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Market Briefs. 
riCKED UP HERE AND THERE. 
LARGE PROFITS.—A dividend of 8 % per 
cent has just been made to the stockholders 
of the North German Lloyd Steamship 
Company, although the company suffered 
a loss of $1,250,000 through the fire in their 
dockage at Hoboken last year. Another 
German line running to the Far East, has 
declared a dividend of 10 per cent. 
DRIED CURRANTS.—Early in the sea¬ 
son the crop in Greece promised to be un¬ 
usually large, but later unfavorable weather 
and plant diseases cut the crop down to 
about one-fifth of the previous estimate. 
Naturally prices went up to extravagant 
figures, ranging at piesent from 9% cents 
to 11 cents wholesale. At these rates trade 
is light, and their place will be taken large¬ 
ly by other dried fruits. 
HUTTER is down three cents from last 
week, and the drop has caused considerable 
activity among the buyers. Prices are now 
within i-each of exporters, and there is a 
fair amount of trade in fresh creamery and 
.June creamery for this purpose. The best 
creamery is scarce, but there is uuite an 
accumulation of inferior grades. Some 
i-hoicc factory in small tubs is being taken 
by local trade at 14 cents, but there is no 
great demand for this. 
LUMBER I'-IGURES.—Saginaw, Midi., 
lies in one of the largest lumber-producing 
.sections in this country. The output for 
the past jear, however, is said to be the 
smallest in 26 years. The entire cut of the 
mills for IDtHJ aggregates 213,000,000 feet. 
Moi'c than half of this was pine; about one- 
third hemlock, and the remainder hard¬ 
wood. The largest output of shingles was 
10 years ago, when nearly 305,000,000 were 
turned out. ijast year only 11,500,000 
shingles, and 28,000,000 lath were made. 
SHIPBUII.DING FIGURES. — Reports 
for the year just past show that in the 
yards of Great Britain, there were 
launched 854 vessels, aggregating 1,500,000 
tons. This is an increase of nearly 100 
vessels over the previous year, though the 
tonnage is about 20,000 tons less than for 
1S99, showing that during that year the 
average of size was somewhat greater. 
These represent the output of 96 shipyards 
in tile United Kingdom. In the United 
States steam vessels of 141,450 horse-power 
were constructed, the largest output being 
from the Cramps, of Philadelphia. 
A COLD WEATHER CRANK.—One even¬ 
ing during a severe cold snap, when most 
people felt like drawing their heads down 
into their coats and getting indoors as 
soon as possible, I heard one man saying 
lo another on the street: “This is bracing 
air; just what people go to the Adirondacks 
for; yet now that it is right here, they 
stay in the house. My son has been sickly, 
and 1 took him out for a long walk this 
afternoon.” If the son does not have pneu¬ 
monia, it will not be his father's fault. 
V’ery cold air is not harmful to those ac¬ 
customed to being out of doors and breath¬ 
ing deepiy all the time; but delicate peojtle 
iind those spending most of their time in 
the house, should be cautious about breath¬ 
ing deeply in extremely cold air. The lungs 
are not accustomed to it. 
MUSHROOM conditions, for any but the 
best, are unfavorable, and low prices pre¬ 
vail, some going for 10 cents per pound. 
This is a business that can be overdone, 
and there is no doul>i that loo man,\' have 
gone into it. Comparaliveiy few people 
care for mushrooms. In most cases the 
taste must be cultivated. Others have a 
prejudice against them as food on account 
of the fatal mistakes some have made in 
eating varieties that were not wholesome. 
.V man who was considered one of the best 
authorities on mushrooms in this country 
lost his life by eating a variety which iie 
was sure was all right. Cautious peopie 
take the ground that, if those who have 
made mushrooms a study for years are 
liable to be deceived, their only safe way 
is to let them entirely alone. Probably 
there is little danger from those sold in 
large markets, however, as they are raised 
year after year from the spawn of weil- 
known varieties. Another reason for the 
low prices is the hand-to-mouth way in 
which they are peddled out. The majority 
of mushroom buyers would pay 50 cents 
])er pound about as quickly as 25 cents, as 
they are usually considered luxuries rather 
than necessities. If growers would select 
a few specialists in large cities to handie 
their crop, instead of sending to everyone, 
the mushroom trade could go through 
regular channels, and such disastrous price- 
cutting be avoided. As it is, a merchant 
here who has nothing but a chance trade 
for anything in this line, receives a few 
baskets. None of the regular buyers come 
to see him. for they don’t know he has 
them, and the quantity is too small for 
him to spend much time looking after a 
buyer. They stand around for a time until 
stale. Then one of those market scaven¬ 
gers, who is always looking after chea)) 
stuff at cut prices, comes along; he makes 
an offer, and gets them for little or noth¬ 
ing. The same lot sent to some one who 
had a regular trade in mushrooms would 
have been disposed of quickly, reached the 
consumer in good shape, and brought a 
good price. _ w. w. h. 
THE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
Boiled Bits of Bulletins. 
Feeding Trials.— Bulletin 45, of the 
North Dakota Station (Fargo), gives the 
result of hay and grain experiments. 
Brome hay (from Brome grass) gave as 
good resuits as Timothy when fed to 
horses. It was shown that when oat straw 
is fed to horses, 25 per cent more grain is 
needed than when good hay is fed. Bar¬ 
ley did not give as good results as oats 
when fed to horses. It was shown that 
ear corn made an excellent grain for the 
working team, 77 pounds of corn giving as 
good results as 100 pounds of oats. Bran 
and shorts mixed also gave as good results 
as oats. 
The Brown Rot.— In Bulletin 60, of the 
Georgia Station (Experiment), this dis¬ 
ease of peaches, plums and other fruits is 
well described and pictured. The loss from 
this disease is very heavy—worse in wet 
seasons, it is a fungous disease and spray¬ 
ing with Bordeaux Mixture and destroy¬ 
ing affected fruit seem the best pre¬ 
ventives. 
Clover Seed Lmi’uritie.s.— Bulletin 47, of 
the Nevada Experiment Station (Reno), 
gives an excellent account of the impuri¬ 
ties and adulterations found in clover 
seeds. Seeds of the various ciovers are 
pictured, as are those of the weed seeds 
often mixed with them. It is said that 
little chunks of stone or pebbles are some¬ 
times colored and sold as Red-clover seed. 
The bulletin tells how to test such seeds. 
Crude Petroleum and Scale Insect.s.— 
Every fruit grower in the North and East 
wiil be interested in Bulletin 146, of the 
New Jersey Station (New Brunswick). 
Dr. J. B. Smith gives the known facts 
about petroleum as an insecticide in plain 
and simple language, and the whole pam¬ 
phlet is worthy of careful study. We 
shall give a full synopsis of it later, but 
it would be well for fruit growers to send 
for a copy. We feel confident that petro¬ 
leum will prove a valuable insecticide. 
Strawberry Root-Louse.— Bulletin 49, 
of the Delaware Station (Newark), de¬ 
scribes this root louse, which has caused 
great damage in some parts of the South. 
A very interesting account of the life his¬ 
tory of this remarkable insect is given, 
.tuts carry the young insects about, and 
herd them on the roots, where they secrete 
a sweet substance of which the ants are 
very fond. Prof. Sanderson thus describes 
their work: 
"L'litil the last week in April, but few ants 
are seen in an infested bed. About this 
time, however, they are quite numerous, 
busily carrying the young aphids from the 
leaves dow’n to the roots of the plants, 
where are colonies of a dozen or so, rarely 
more than one colony upon a plant. These 
colonies consist entirely of young, being 
unaccompanied by mature females, show¬ 
ing that they had all been carried to the 
roots by the ants. The ants will be found 
more active in spots where the soil is dry 
and sandy. The ants are solely respon¬ 
sible for carrying the lice to the roots, as 
up to the time of the ants’ appearance no 
lice are to be found on the roots. By the 
middle of May the work of the ants is 
much more evident. At that time by 
plunging a trowel under many of the 
plants, a hollow space may be felt direct¬ 
ly beneath the erown. This space usually 
consist of an ants’ nest, containing egg.s 
and larvio. Radiating from these nests, or 
irregularly under other plants, the ants' 
6i 
burrows may be found going in all direc¬ 
tions among the roots. The ants continue 
to care for the aphids throughout the sea¬ 
son. When one plant becomes over¬ 
crowded the aphids are carried to a 
neighboring plant, and in this way the 
ants are almost entirely responsible for 
the spread of the aphids throughout a bed 
as well as for carrying them to the roots 
of the plants.” 
He says that the ants carry the Corn 
root-louse in much the same way. Thus, 
old cornfields or melon fields where they 
have been abundant are usually full of ant 
hills, and strawberries planted after them 
are sure to suffer. Bisulphide of carbon 
injected into the ground near the plant 
will kill the lice, but the safest treatment 
is to clean the plants before setting. This 
is done by dipping them in kerosene emul¬ 
sion or fumigating with cyanide of potas¬ 
sium. The bulletin also describes the de¬ 
structive pea-louse. 
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