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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 18 
$ $ 
We assume that you know by this 
time, that we are going to give eight 
valuable premiums May 1 to the eight 
agents who send the largest eight clubs 
from February 10 to that date. The 
first is a 8400 Emerson piano; second, 
8120 Estey organ; third, 8100 Wilcox & 
White organ. Thus late in the contest, 
you may not wish to start in for any of 
these. All right ! Let others have 
them! You could yet win one if you 
started out determined to get one, as the 
recent bad weather has kept the work 
back. 
But what we wish now is to call your 
attention to the buggy, Handy wagon, 
Superior land roller, Breed’s weeder and 
Sherwood harness. We give small illus¬ 
trations of the buggy, roller and wagon. 
The prices are respectively 8G0, S5G and 
830. Some one will be surprised when 
we tell him that he has won one of these 
premiums for a club of about 10 or 12 
names. Just think of it, a 860 buggy 
going for a club of, say, 12 yearly sub¬ 
scriptions, and your commission off this 
besides. And a steel land roller (no 
better made) going for a smaller club 
yet. If the present clubs are not in¬ 
creased, the 830 Handy wagon will go 
for a club of less than 10 names ; and 
the weeder and harness for smaller clubs 
yet. - This tells the whole story. Now 
do you wish one of these premiums, or 
don’t you ? 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES 
Dressed veals are much lower. 
Florida strawberries are plentiful. 
Choice turkeys are in good demand. 
Asparagus is in quite liberal supply. 
Arbor Day in New York State is May 8. 
New carrots are plentiful, and sell well. 
Game of all kinds is dull, and prices low. 
Sweet potatoes are dull and prices weak. 
Dry beans are very dull and slow of sale. 
Prices of surplus milk average considerably 
lower. 
And now California is experimenting in tobacco 
growing. 
Wheat is picking up, and some now predict dol¬ 
lar wheat. 
Dried fruits are extremely dull, and prices low, 
especially for apples. 
Beeswax is in light supply and held at 30 to 31 
cents per pound for pure. 
Arrivals of spinach and kale by the Old Domin¬ 
ion steamers, are very large. 
And now the brewers deny that they intend to 
boycott New York State hops. 
The hop growers of Washington have been 
shipping their product to Australia. 
Arrivals of new cabbage are increasing, mostly 
from Florida, some from Charleston. 
Squashes and turnips are in limited supply, 
and meet a ready sale at good prices. 
The average price of eggs in the New York 
market for March, was about 11(4 cents. 
Small lots of new maple sugar have arrived, 
and sold for about 10 cents per pound for strictly 
pure. 
There is a prospect that several more sugar- 
beet factories will soon be established in Cali¬ 
fornia. 
Greening apples are very scarce, and choice 
ones would sell for high prices if they were on the 
market. 
Some farmers are reported to be burning pota¬ 
toes for fuel instead of coal. Rather soggy fuel, 
we would say. 
The California lemon crop is reported to prom¬ 
ise larger than ever before if no unforeseen dis¬ 
aster overtake it. 
Last year’s cotton crop was butlittle more than 
two-thirds as large as that of the preceding year, 
but is said to have brought the growers more 
money. 
A few spring ducks have arrived from Long 
Island, and sold for about 30 to 35 cents per pound. 
These prices will decline as the shipments in¬ 
crease. 
With the near approach of warm weather, pork 
begins to drag. This is a cold-weather article of 
diet, and little is handled during the summer 
months. 
Live poultry is well cleaned up, and prices 
are good for all excepting geese, which are dull 
and lower. Chickens are selling for about the 
same as fowls. 
In spite of the tremendous quantity and low 
price of old potatoes, new ones are selling at 
pretty good prices. Not very large quantities of 
these are sold, however. 
Spring lambs are in large supply, and it takes 
extra good ones to bring outside quotations. 
Much caution should be used in shipping these as 
the weather grows warmer. 
A New York trade paper figures out that, in 
1895, 53,264,475 pounds of oleomargarine were con¬ 
sumed in the United States. We wonder how 
much of this stuff was sold and eaten under its 
true name ! 
A substitute filled cheese bill has been reported 
to Congress by the Ways and Means Committee, 
and is now under discussion. There was a mi¬ 
nority report of the Committee which opposed the 
bill as reported. 
The State of Washington, it is said, will not 
produce one-half of the usual hop crop this year. 
The crop has not been profitable for several 
years, and many of the largest yards will be 
plowed up. The farmers will try flax instead, as 
they believe that the climate and soil are pecu¬ 
liarly adapted for its culture. 
The United States Consul at Havana makes a 
report which shows that the exports of sugar 
from several of the leading provinces to Spain 
amounted to only three per cent, the rest coming 
to this country. The receipts in this country this 
year are only about one-sixth as large as they 
were at the same time last year. Our own sugar 
makers are likely to have less competition from 
that quarter so long as the present war continues. 
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture has just 
issued its first crop report for this year. It shows 
that the growing wheat crop in that State is in a 
bad condition. The report is based on township 
reports, and the summary of the wheat item is 
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