1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
365 
Market Briefs. 
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE. 
LAKE TRAFFIC.—The American and 
Canadian canals connecting Lakes Superior 
and Huron, are the highways over which 
large quantities of merchandise pass dur¬ 
ing the season. For the month of April 
1 Q 4 vessels passed through these canals, 
either east or west, carrying a total freight 
of 2,545 tons. The largest single item was 
grain—23,500 bushels. 
APRIL FIRE LOSSES for the United 
States and Canada amounted to $11,352,800, 
less than half the loss for the same month 
last year. The Jacksonville, Fla., disaster, 
which will be figured in the May report, 
will about bring up the total for the first 
tive months to that of last year. The 
largest single item for April was $650,000 
for a St. I..ouis grain elevator. Most of the 
tires ranged from $10,000 to $75,000. 
THREE NEW TRUSTS.—Straw hats, 
oilcloth and music are now applying for 
enlistment in the army of combinations. 
If the exactions of the first two become too 
oppressive, we may have to go back to the 
bare-headed and sanded-floor modes of liv¬ 
ing of our ancestors; but we understand 
that the music trust is not to take in the 
hand organ, horse-fiddle and squeejunk, so 
there is no immediate danger of a musical 
famine for those who decline to patronize 
this proposed monopoly. 
HEAVT I.EMON SALES.—A Mediterra¬ 
nean steamer loaded with oranges and 
lemons has arrived at Montreal, Canada, 
and the cargo is being disposed of at auc¬ 
tion. On May 7 about 100,000 boxes of 
oranges and lemons were sold, prices for 
the latter ranging from $1.35 to $2.75 per 
box. New York lemon dealers were on 
hand and bought heavily. The oranges did 
not sell well. California lemons, while of 
good quality, do not take the place of those 
from Sicily. Analyses have shown that the 
latter contain a larger percentage of citric 
acid, which is thought to be due to peculiar 
conditions of soil and climate. 
WASTED LABOR.—Some apple packers 
have queer ideas. In one commission 
house was seen a barret of inferior Green¬ 
ings, every apple wrapped in tissue paper. 
The man who sent them evidently thought 
that the paper and extra work done would 
sell the poor fruit for a big price. 'Phe 
apples should have been sold in tlic early 
Winter. Many of them were partly rotten, 
and the dealer said he had not been able 
to get an offer for them. It is a pretty safe 
rule to sell Greenings in the Fall, as they 
do not keep well, and will not stand hand¬ 
ling. Those who wish to hold apples for 
a late market would better depend on New¬ 
town, Baldwin or Ben Davis. 
PLENTY OF ONIONS.-On the White 
Star I.ine steamer Georgic, from Liver¬ 
pool, is an uncommonly large shipment of 
onions—nearly 17,000 sacks, valued at about 
$40,000. Old domestic onions are scarce, and 
this causes an increased trade in Egyptian 
stock. Quite a percentage of the onions 
received here are consumed by the foreign 
population, particularly the Italians, who 
use them in combination with red peppers 
in a variety of ways. They also work well 
in stews or hash in the type of eating 
houses where a man who has a steak for 
supper is quite likely to renew his ac¬ 
quaintance with the tough and uneatable 
portion in the hash he has for breakfast. 
THE MAN WHO LEANS.—He is found 
in crowded street cars, and is apparently 
so lacking in common sense and decency 
that he sees no impropriety in leaning 
against his neighbor, whether man or 
woman. He is usually well-dressed, and 
a big, able-bodied man, muscular enough 
to hold himself up. The one remedy is to 
let him lean for some time, then suddenly 
move to one side and note his wild efforts 
to keep from falling. This trick was neatly 
done in a Broadway cable car. The car 
was not crowded, there being room enough 
so that those who were standing need not 
liave brushed against each other at all. 
One of these hogs was reading a paper, 
and instead of hanging on a strap, leaned 
against another man, who stood it for a 
time. As the car neared one of those sharp 
curves, around which they go so swiftly 
as almost to throw people out of their 
seats, he got a firm hold of the strap, and 
as the car flew around the corner, he 
lurched to one side, so that the leaner fell 
flat on his back, to the amusement of the 
other passengers. 
HEAVY TRADING.—The business done 
on the New York Stock Exchange for the 
past month has been enormous. More 
than 630,000 transactions were recorded in 
a single hour, and the brokers’ commis¬ 
sions for buying and selling in one day 
amounted to nearly $400,000. Demoralizing 
as some as))ects of this business are, it 
does not merit I lie wholesale cotulemna- 
tion heaped upon it by those who denonm-e 
all Wall Street operators as cutthroats and 
thieves. It is true that unusual opportuni¬ 
ties are given for taking advantage of the 
Ignorance or misfortunes of others, and 
the loser is often ground into the dust in 
a way that seems heartless, yet these are 
not the methods of all Wall Street men. 
The effect of such a boom in stocks is 
bad on many young people, clerks and 
stenographers, both men and women. They 
see how the investment of $100 on a margin 
may in one day bring them more money 
than they could earn at their work in 
months, and take the risk. In many case* 
the worst thing that can happen to them 
is to win, because after one taste of easy 
money-making, they will never be satis¬ 
fied with the slower method of getting 
what their labor is actually worth. No 
young person knows the value of a dollar 
or how to spend it wisely unless he has 
earned it by work. The conversations over¬ 
heard at this time between young men in 
street cars and restaurants Indicate that 
the one thing uppermost in their minds is 
stock speculation. w. w. h. 
4 Good New JIpple 
T am the ardent champion of fine-flavored 
fruits. Nurserymen often fail to grow de¬ 
serving varieties because they do not make 
straight young trees, so they do not “de¬ 
liver well.” The Mann apple is a well- 
known instance of a very poor apple sent 
all over the land for the reason, as I hap¬ 
pen to know, that the young trees grew 
straight and “delivered well.” Good qual¬ 
ity is the only criterion of merit. Last 
Autumn, while gathering a collection of 
100 varieties of Winter apples for an ex¬ 
hibit of northwestern Michigan fruits at 
the Pan-American Exposition, I found a 
Kalkaska County apple I named Wolver¬ 
ine, which is the greatest hustler and bar¬ 
rel-filler of any apple I know. It was first 
spoken of in public and exhibited at Mich¬ 
igan State Fair in 1900. It bloomed at four 
years from seed, and has been heavily 
loaded every year for sixteen years with¬ 
out fail, and with its cloud of big lea\es 
and large white blossoms, it gets there in 
spile of cold weather, having passed 
through 40 degrees below zero unharmed. 
This and another new variety will prob¬ 
ably be exhibited at Buffalo. I visited 
Olivet in search of scions of favorite apples 
of my school days; Early Joe, the finest 
early; Primate, Dyer, Sops of Wine. Gra- 
venstein, Ohio Nonpariel, and McDonald, 
the last a seedling. Four years ago, when 
I was engaged in buying apples at I.,ee, a 
seedling tree bore a heavy load of smooth, 
light green apples, with a deep red cheek. 
These I called Van’s Blush, and they sold 
readily. As I approached the tree re¬ 
cently, behold a pile of brush made of its 
once symmetrical top, and firewood sawed 
and split out of the smooth bodv. The storm 
had uprooted it, and thus the histoiy of 
another new apple seemed ended. 
Charlevoix. Mich. f. m. b. 
Hudson River Fruit Transportation. 
On May 3 the transportation committee 
of the Eastern New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and representatives of other organ¬ 
izations met at Newburg, N. Y. Among 
those present were J. A. Hepworth, Chas. 
Forster of New York, J. S. Hosford, J. S. 
Carpenter, E. R. Martin, E. B. Covert, J. 
R. Clark and H. W. Collingwood. They 
first called upon W. H. Weston, president 
of the steamboat line which carries a large 
proportion of the fruit of that section to 
New York. No time was lost in making 
known their chief wants, which are: More 
careful handling of fruit; better service in 
returning empty crates. 
Shippers who were present described the 
way in w’hich deck hands sometimes play 
ball with crates or boxes of fruit. They 
seemed to convince Mr. Weston that they 
knew what they were talking about, and 
that reforms are needed. Chas. Forster 
corroborated the statements made by ship¬ 
pers—in fact, there was no chance for an 
argument, and Mr. Weston agreed that 
more careful service must be given. 
The empty crate question is an old one. 
At present the crates are brought back and 
dumped—none too carefully—on the dock. 
Each fruit grower is supposed to help him¬ 
self from the pile. The result of this care¬ 
less system is that some men get more than 
their share, while others are short just at 
the time the crates are most needed. Some¬ 
times a man will order 100 crates from his 
commission man, only to find that some 
neighbor has come in ahead of him and 
taken half or more for his own use. It is 
easy to see how much confusion and 
trouble this lack of system means. The 
fruit shippers want their crates sorted and 
piled so that each man may get his own 
and give a receipt for them if necessary. 
In other words, they want these crates 
carried and handled like other merchan¬ 
dise. They cost money and are a necessary 
pai't of the business. If it be said that 
they are carried for nothing, the answer 
is that more than enough is paid for carry¬ 
ing the full crate to cover the round trip. 
These things were made so clear and plain 
at the meeting that there can be no chance 
for an argument. Mr. Weston certainly 
talked fairly, and seemed disposed to do 
his best to Improve the service. The men 
who were present represented a good deal 
of freight, and all of them understand the 
situation and the remedy, if needed. 
The committee also met P. K. Bushnell, 
representative of the National Express 
Company, and told him in a business-like 
way what was wanted. He promised that 
crates would be returned promptly and in 
good shape, and properly delivered. He 
also guaranteed quick and careful service 
in handling fruit. We think this was a 
good day’s work for the fruit growers of 
the Hudson River Valley. Much of the 
credit is due to J. A. Hepworth of Marl¬ 
borough, the chairman of the committee. 
This work simply shows what would hap¬ 
pen if any large proportion of fruit men 
in the valley would fall in behind the com¬ 
mittee and push hard. 
Cutting Small Potatoes.— Planting seed 
ends of small potatoes certainly does not 
pay. For 15 or 20 years, when using small 
seed of long varieties, I clip the seed end 
and throw it away, and divide the re¬ 
mainder into two pieces. This method, by 
several trials, has given more merchantable 
and less small potatoes than would be the 
result if all were planted. Small seed, 
hen’s-egg size, for instance, has too many 
eyes unless cut too small. A good-sized 
piece with two good eyes with us is just 
right. Whole seed is sure to give a multi¬ 
tude of small and few large tubers. We 
plant with an Asplnwall planter. b. b. 
Sardinia, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply and 
“a square deal.” See our guarantee 8th page. 
Hopeless ano Helpless. 
The consequences of a diseased condi¬ 
tion of the stomach and digestive and 
nutritive system are most disastrous to 
the whole body. One by one every 
organ may become involved. The mis¬ 
ery is maddening. The most extreme 
cases of ''stomach trouble” and the evils 
resulting from it have been cured by Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It 
strengthens the stomach, purifies the 
blood and builds up the body with sound 
healthy flesh. 
"I was taken with severe headache,” writes 
Thomas A. Swarts, Box 103 , Sub-Station C, Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio, then cramps in the stomach, and 
my food would not digest, then kidney and liver 
trouble, and my back got weak so I could 
scarcely get around. I just gave money to the 
doctors whenever I thought they would do me 
any gex^, but the more f doctored the worse I 
got until six years passed. I had become » ' 
poorly l could only walk in the house by the aid 
of chair, and I got so thin I had ziven up to die, 
thinking that I could not b« cured. Then I saw 
one of my neighbor boys and he said, "Take ray 
advice and take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery and make a new man out of yourself.” 
The first bottle helped me so I thought I would 
get another, and after I had taken eight bottles 
in about six weeks I was weighed and found I 
had gained twenty-seven ( 37 ) pounds. I have 
done more hard work in the past eleven months 
than I did in two years before, and I am as stout 
and healthy to-day, I think, as I ever was." 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure 
biliousness. 
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Test the National by 
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we'll take it back cheer¬ 
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National Dairy Machine Co. 
Newark, N. J. 
The Farmer 
Can Reduce Expenses 
of cultivation by the Judicious 
use of 
Nitrate of Soda 
upon his land. This when prop 
erly applied, witli other elements of 
plant food, never fails to largely in¬ 
crease the yield of hay, grain, or garden 
crops, without additional cultivation or 
labor. Our literature and Hni of domlerm 
in Nitrate of Soda will be sent free on 
application to .Tolin A. Myers, 13-0 
John St., New York City. 
Make your Cow Comfortable 
Positively prevents 
flies from annoy¬ 
ing cows or 
horses; rids sta¬ 
ble of files, 
keeps stock 
good tem¬ 
pered and in 
fine condi¬ 
tion. A boon 
to every 
stock owner. 
Apply to your 
nearest dealer 
or write for 
booklet and 
prices. 
H.W. Doughten, 
Meorestown, 
N. J. 
Gold-Shell Rings. 
Mo.st people like a 
nice ring. We show 
three styles. These are 
made by drawing a 
shell of gold over a rod 
of composition metal. 
They are better and 
will wear longer than 
solid gold rings of a 
low carat. The retail 
price would be from 75 
cents to $1. We will 
send one of these rings 
postpaid as a reward 
for sending one new subscription at $1. 
Cut a slip of paper the size of finger and 
send for size. 
The New Horticulture 
BY H. M. STRINCEELLOW, 
We do not hesitate to say that this is one of the most 
interesting books on horticulture that ever was printed. 
Most reading farmers have heard of the now famous 
“Stringfellow Method” of planting trees, but few 
understand clearly what it is. This book tells the whole 
story in clear-cut, forcible style, which all can under¬ 
stand. Not only is the theory of close root-pruning 
carefully explained, but the general principles of garden¬ 
ing and fruit-growing are discussed. Mr. Stringfellow 
is a practical gardener, and he gives his own experience. 
We commend the book to all without reserve. New 
Edition, paper covers, 50 cents. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
