THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February is 
ioB 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Cranberries are in moderate supply and firm. 
Carrots are somewhat scarce and the market 
firm. 
uccessful 
Choice small turkeys are scarce and in good 
demand. 
The tendency in the dry bean market is still 
downward. 
Spring lambs are plentiful, and are moving 
rather slowly. 
Capons seil for little more than large Philadel¬ 
phia chickens. 
Dressed calves have been somewhat scarce, and 
the market is firm. 
Celery is plentiful, quality ordinary, sales slow, 
and prices not large. 
Fancy red apples are in good demand and held 
firmly, at full prices. 
Receipts of milk are increasing, and the price 
of the surplus is decreasing. 
The cheese market is stronger, as stocks are 
not heavy, and the demand is fairly good. 
Buck wheat honey is plentiful, and prices low. 
White clover is scarce, and prices are largely 
nominal. 
The market is overstocked with yellow onions, 
and there seeems to be little outlet at any rea- 
son able price. 
Florida strawberries are mostly of ordinary 
quality and sell slowly at rather low p- : ces. 
Large, line ones would sell quickly. 
The Ohio State Horticultural Society will meet 
at Dayton, February 10-20, in the Old Guard Hall. 
W. W. Farnsworth, secretary, Waterville. 
Evaporated and sun-dried apples are extremely 
dull, and prices are lower. Stocks of the best 
seem to be a little low, and such are a little firmer. 
Receipts of eggs continue heavy, although the 
market is in slightly better condition. The be¬ 
ginning of Lent, now near at hand, will probably 
help the situation somewhat. 
A shipment of two quarts of very ordinary 
strawberries arrived from Charleston on Wed¬ 
nesday. The crop is reported large and the out¬ 
look good, but no very important shipments will 
arrive for some time. 
it is estimated that the apjffe crop of this coun¬ 
try last year would load a train of cars reaching 
from San Francisco to New York, and would be 
sufficiently large to give a barrel to every man, 
woman and child in the country. 
Receipts of Southern vegetables have not been 
large, but the quality is generally poor, and 
prices consequently low. The first shipments of 
cabbages have arrived, but the price realized 
was low, as stocks of old are too large, and 
prices too low. 
growers of fruits, berries, 
and all kinds of vegetables, 
know that the largest yields and 
best quality are produced by 
the liberal use of fertilizers 
containing at least lo% of 
Actual Potash. 
Without the liberal use of Pot¬ 
ash on sandy soils, it is impos¬ 
sible to grow fruits, berries anti 
vegetables of a quality that will 
command the best prices. 
Our pamphlets arc not advertising circulars boom 
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HOW TO BOY AND USE 
New York has been visited by a hurricane this 
week which has completely demoralized business. 
Such a storm keeps buyers at home, and de¬ 
creases the demand largely. It also delays ship¬ 
ments in transit, and interferes with the moving 
of the produce which has arrived. It will take 
several days for things to settle to their normal 
condition again. 
The United States Consul at Frankfort-on-the- 
Main, reports that Germany offers a fine market 
for California dried fruits. Their use is steadily 
increasing at prices that cannot help but be re¬ 
munerative. The Consul says of peaches and 
pears that there is a margin of 16 cents between 
the xirice the grower gets in California for each 
pound and the price he can obtain in Germany, 
thus giving him a chance for large profits by 
shipping his sun-dried product abroad. The cost 
of the fruit when landed at Hamburg or Bremen, 
freight and duty paid, would not exceed nine 
cents a pound exclusive of packing and handling. 
PLANT FOOD 
$10 to $15 per ton can be saved by buying fertilizers 
Intelligently, and using 
NITRATE OF SODA, 
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A Valuable Pamphlet, containing the results 
of experiments with fertilizers and directions how 
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DO YOU SEE THE POINT P 
Sow Lincoln Oats and put 3H' Bushels into a Bag and 
Reap from 30 to 40 Bags per Acre. 
I feel confident that no man who will sow from one to fifty acres of my Lin¬ 
coln Oats will ever have reason to regret it. I have a report before me of one of 
the largest farmers in the country, who planted tO bushels, and reports that the 
crop turned out One Hundred bushels to the measured acre, and weighed 47 
pounds to the bushel. 
Further, that they would not sell a bushel at any price, as they wished to 
sow the whole crop next, season. 
It is the general verdict of one and 
al'. that, they have no equal. 
My farmer friends want facts. I will 
present a few. briefly, as follows: 
1st. The Lincoln oat has produced 
one-third more than any other variety 
grown In the same locality. 
2d. They are vory early. Sown with 
other vaiieties. they ripen from six to 
ten days earlier. 
3d. They get t he start of dry weather, 
on account of their earliness. 
4th. They have thus far proven en¬ 
tirely free from rust. 
5th. They stand up better than any 
other sort.* No season could have af¬ 
forded a better test in this respect 
than the one just past. 
6th. They are the best for feeding, 
on account of their THIN’ HULL. 
HEAVY MEAT and SOET MB. 
7th. They are the best for oat meal 
or grinding, for the same reasons. 
8th. No oat in existence will produce 
■more on light lund than the LINCOLN, 
while on strong land 150 bushels is not 
uncommon. 
The seed l offer was grown expressly 
for me. under my own supervision, 
right here in Northern Ohio. As to the 
weight of my seed, you have but to 
glance at the above cut. it speaks lor 
Itself. 
I could submit many tine testimoni¬ 
als. but space here is too expensive to 
admit of it. 
Now, my farmer friends, is it not 
economy to have the best 1 Why. I know 
a number of farmers In this locality 
who raised LINCOLN oats last season 
and are selling them to t heir neighbors 
for many times their feed value. There 
Is hot a doubt that, you can do the same. Most seedsmen have their seed oats clipped so as to make them 
weigh more. Mine are NOT clipped. They are just as they come from the machine, except that they have 
been recleaned. My seed is PUllE, grown from stock seed, and don’t need clipping to make them heavy. My 
prices are as follows: 
Pint, postpaid, lit cents; quart, 2 S cents ; four quarts, 70 cents. Express or freight: 
Peek, 40 cents ; half bushel, 70 cents; bushel, $1; single bag 3 1-2 bushels, $3.30 ; fire 
bushels, $4.50} lO bushels, $8.50; 20 bushels or more, 80 cents per bushel. Good grain 
hags free with bushel or more. 
All other sacks free. To induce early orders, and having confidence In RURAL NEW-Yorker readers. 1 will 
booh your orders amounting to $1 or more payable when you want oats shipped, until March 1. No orders to be 
countermanded. Five per cent discount on all cash orders amounting to $1 or more, until March 1. Nodis- 
count after March 1. No one should order less than one bag, such as is shown In cut -3t6 bushels. 
Order soon, to be sure of your seed. I have a nice lot of the oats but they will not last the season through 
1 do not ship C. O. D. It makes useless expense and is not necessary. 1 guarantee all kinds of seeds as 
represented. If you don’t want oats you will want CORN or something else. Send money by bank draft, 
express Older, registered letter, or P. <). order on Birmingham. Ohio. Do rot send stamps if It can he helped. 
The Rural admits no f rauds. Lei your orders come at once. First come, first served. 
I also have the famous ’BONANZA KING,” “AMERICAN BANNER" and “BLACK RUSSIAN" oats. 
Address $ p SHEPARD, Seedsman, Henrietta, Ohio. 
100,000 Gregg, Cuthbert and other Raspberry roots at $7.50 per M. 
THAT’S WHY WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN! 
Our big bargain collections are the most valuable bargains ever offered by any 
firm. Extra plants packed to help pay express charges. 
By express, $2 for $l. 
GRAPE—TWO YEARS. 
1 Brighton. 
1 Niagara. 
1 Eaton. 
1 Worden. 
1 Diamond. 
.35 
.15 
.20 
.15 
.25 
1 Delaware. 
1 Moore’s Early. 
.15 
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Total. 
.$2.00 
By mail, $1.00 for 50 cents. 
12 Miller Red Raspberry.. .$0.50 
One detail drawing of my 
new Display Flat.50 
Total.$1.00 
By mail, $1.50 for 75 cents. 
12 North Star Currant, 1 yr.$1.00 
One detail drawing of my 
new Display Flat.50 
Total. .$1.50 
By mail, $2.25 for 75 cents. 
FOR GRAFTING. 
6 Koonee Scions.$0.50 
6 Lincoln Coreless.50 
6 Willard Plum.25 
6 Wickson Plum. 1.00 
Total.$2.25 
Send for my Catalogue. 
100 Collections. 
TICE C. KEVITT, 
ATHENIA, N. J. 
By express, $2.85 for $1.50. 
TWO YEARS—FIVE TO SIX FEET. 
1 Bartlett Pear.$0.30 
1 Keiffer Pear.30 
1 Koonee Petvr.50 
1 Lincoln Coreless Pear.50 
1 Willard Plum.25 
1 Abundance Plum.25 
1 Nap. Big. Cherry.25 
1 Gov. Wood Cherry.25 
1 Meeeh Quince, 4 to 5 feet. .25 
Total.$2.85 
By mail, $1.12 for 50 cents. 
3 Loudon Raspberry.$0.50 
3 Enormous Strawberry... .12 
One detail drawing of my 
new Display Flat.50 
Total.$1.12 
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Waste on the Farm. 
Around the farm there is at least a ton or two of materials, such as Ashes, 
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