1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
263 
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j Market Briefs. 
/ PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. 
1 POTATO PRICES.—The rise, which many 
people were expecting, has not come yet. 
) In fact, potatoes are lower now than they 
were a few weeks ago, and the market is 
' weak. It certainly looks as though those 
who sold early in the season did a wise 
thing. Many farmers have found it a 
) pretty safe rule to sell early if anything 
) ‘ like a fair price is offered. In this way 
1 they get rid of the waste, shrinkage and 
I danger of loss by freezing. The ideal way 
is to dispose of the crop right out of the 
field, without storing at all, but It is not 
I often that this can be done with a late 
i crop, as the market at that time is likely 
to be flooded. Choice Vineland sweets are 
; selling at J2 to $2.50 per cloth-top barrel, 
and we hear now and then reports of $,^ 
being obtained, but not enough of these to 
warrant a quotation. There Is a good sup- 
. ply of new potatoes from Bermuda and 
Cuba. Some Bermudas bring as high as 
$6.B0 per barrel, but the quality of many of 
those from Cuba has been very inferior. 
; prices ranging from $3 to $4. 
^ THEY HANG ON.—An Indiana man 
: makes a unique defense in favor of the 
Ben Davis apple. He admits that the qual¬ 
ity is no good, but says that they are bet¬ 
ter than none; and, as they stand heavy 
' winds better than most other varieties, 
I every farmer ought to have a few trees in 
I case the rest of his crop is blown off and 
ruined. He says that a heavy storm in his 
vicinity removed nearly all except this va¬ 
riety. Now he and his neighbors who 
) planted Ben Davis are eating apples, while 
5 others who called him foolish for setting 
I out such a worthless variety, are either 
buying or going without. For insurance 
against storms, however, we once saw a 
I seedling apple which would discount Ben 
Davis. Nature had glued the fruit on this 
tree in a most remarkable manner. The 
! quality was not considered good enough to 
I warrant picking except in case of failure 
of all others, but those apples stuck to the 
I tree like grim death. At least one-third 
' of them hung on during the Winter, and it 
j was nothing unusual to find a few still 
there when the new crop was full grown 
1 the next Fall. 
) EGG NEWS.—The States of the Central 
\ West produce great quantities of eggs, and 
the output this year is said to be larger 
! than usual. The consumptive trade has 
been good, and prices have been a little too 
j high for storage buyers to operate to any 
great extent. A number of large deals, 
' however, have been made in western mar¬ 
kets on the basis of 12% to 13 cents. This 
speculative buying for storage has caused 
a marked difference in receipts at New 
York for the past few days, as it has held 
back large quantities that would otherwise 
) have been shipped here. There is no 
I scarcity for current trade, but the market 
j shows such firmness all around that few 
; eastern cold-storage men care to do much 
* until there is a decided change in condi- 
I tions. No doubt after the close of the 
[ Lenten season, the call for eggs will fall 
j off considerably, but it is not probable that 
1 there will be any landslide in prices for a 
] time at least, as western speculators will 
I absorb the surplus there as soon as any 
I mark below 12 cents is reached. 
w. w. H. 
( 
The Mew York Rose Show. 
The second annual exhibition of the 
American Rose Society was held in the 
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, March 
19 to 22 Inclusive, under the direction of the 
patronesses of the Charitable Annex of the 
Loomis Sanitarium for Consumptives. It 
was a great success, financially and horti- 
culturally, the flowers being even better 
than those shown last year. The center of 
interest was as usual In the huge and per¬ 
fectly-grown American Beauties, with their 
immense stems and glossy foliage. The 
new pink sport of this favorite variety. 
Queen of Edgely, was shown in great per¬ 
fection, but while it retained the form and 
high perfume of the parent, it seemed to 
lack warmth of color. The various Tea and 
Hybrid Tea roses were perfect in finish and 
enormous in size. Robert Scott, bright 
coral pink, and Ivory, white, a sport from 
Golden Gate, seemed the best of the newer 
ones. The new crimson Liberty was liber¬ 
ally shown, and excited much admiration 
for its size and perfect finish as well as its 
depth of color. Some fine decorative effects 
were shown, especially in orchids, which 
have never been displayed to better ad¬ 
vantage in the city. A Crimson Rambler 
rose in bloom trained to represent a ship 
under sail was very much admired. A col¬ 
lection of rare plants from the New York 
Botanical Garden, including some large 
cacti 10 feet or more tall made a very in¬ 
teresting addition to the general effect, 
^he display of carnations was magnificent, 
and it is a question whether this flower, as 
now developed, does not have the advantage 
in coloring over the rose. Certainly the 
yellows are better and the dark reds fully 
equal In richness of tinting to any of the 
roses, and the range of shading is nearly 
as great. A multitude of special prizes and 
premiums, some of considerable value, was 
offered by various members and patrons of 
the society, and they were in the main very 
worthily captured. A great feature of the 
show was the elaborately planned and ex¬ 
ecuted Italian garden filling one of the 
larger assembly rooms of the building. 
Tall hedges of cedar and laurel, many feet 
high, inclosed a labyrinth of beds of bloom¬ 
ing roses. Azaleas, lilies, lilacs and bulbous 
plants, while the requisite formal effect was 
strengthened by statuary, vases, palms, 
clipped conifers and bay trees. The rich 
purple Bougainvillea was used in gpreat 
profusion, and contrasted well with the 
feathery white blooms of the lilacs and 
Japan cherry trees. The Italian garden 
was a most commendable addition, and 
was undoubtedly of much educational 
value. w. V. f. 
Oyster Shell Scale.— Last May, just 
after the scale hatched out and began 
crawling up the body and the limbs of our 
four-year-old apple trees, I made a wash 
of strong soap suds and whitewash ap¬ 
plied with broom; it was perfect. 
La Paz, Ind. c. a. b. 
A Mail Carrier Talks.—I have been 
pleased at what you have said about free 
rural mail delivery, and if you could in¬ 
duce the powers that be to pay the carriers 
a fair living salary, you would receive their 
blessings; $500 a year for two teams, their 
feed and repairs, also wife and baby to 
take care of, makes mighty close figuring 
to keep square, to says nothing about 
something for a rainy day. The carriers 
have to work all holidays, nor do they get 
15 days’ vacation "with pay,” as other 
Government employees. Surely, Uncle Sam 
has ground them down pretty low. 
subscriber. 
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Rakes, Cultivators, Saws, Kngines—3 to ’2.*) H. P., mounted or 
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Big Crops 
of Big Potatoes 
result from applying about 100 lbs of 
Nitrate of Soda 
per acre just after the potatoes are 
well up. Then, too, the potatoes are 
smoother and more salable. Insures 
a profitable crop. Our books tell 
about its use on potatoes and the 
profits produced. Send for free copies 
before you plant to Jolin A. ITIyers, 
12-0 John St., New York Mtrate 
fm' sale by fertilizer dealers everywhere. 
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I Best and cheapest. 
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PRESS CO., 
Water Street, 
8 \ KACeSJE, V. 
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~ Free Book. ' 
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Year Book for 1901 Is handsomer than ever. 
Numerous full page pictures of farm scenes 
at home and in foreign lands. Illnstrates 
completely full line of “Planet Jr.” Seed 
Drills, Wheel Hoes, Cultivators, Harrows, 
etc., to fit the smallest garden or largest 
farm. Send for It. Prices greatly reduced on 
Implements. 
S. L. ALLEN & CO., 
Boxii07-V, PHILADELPHiA, PA. 
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