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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 18, 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Egg Crates. —“Where in New York can I 
get gift egg crates, the 30-dozen size?" 
Pennsylvania. s. o. 
There is no concern here that keeps them 
in stock. There would he no cali for them, 
as practically all tlie eggs shipped from here 
go in the crates in which they come. These 
crates are manufactured near the large pro¬ 
ducing sections of the South and Central 
West, and are kept in stock by Chicago 
houses. All of .the poultry supply houses 
handle returnable egg crates of various sizes 
convenient for short distance shipment. These 
are best adapted to direct dealing with a re¬ 
tailer, who can empty the crates and return 
then at once. For the wholesale trade crates 
that go with the eggs are much to be pre¬ 
ferred, as this does away with the nuisance 
of gathering up the returns, and there is 
no certainty that the sender will get back 
the same crate that he sends unless he 
follows it up with a detective. Second-hand 
gift crates may be had here occasionally, but 
there is no regular supply, and they are 
likely to be poor things. 
Aquariums Wanted. —“Can you give me 
the address of any firm who manufactures 
slate bottom fish aquariums?” s. b. 
New Y'ork. 
Anything' in this line may be had from 
Wm. Battles, 1(10 Greenwich Street, New 
Y'ork. Aquariums vary in price from .$5 for 
one 10% x 18 x 12 inches, capacity 9 gallons, 
to $35 for one holding 70 gallons, Hi x f’O x 
GO inches. 
Fruits for N. Y". Market. —Last week 
reference was made to apples from the N. Y. 
market standpoint. The following notes on 
other staple fruits are based on sales and 
comments I have heard buyers make. Early 
pears are not popular, though quite a quan¬ 
tity of Le Conte from the South are sold 
during July and early August. Bartlett is 
the great standby and the season very long, 
starting with those from the Facific Coast 
in Summer, and continuing until the last of 
the eastern crop is disposed of in cold wea¬ 
ther. Kieffers sell at all sorts of prices. 
Those of good size and well ripened meet 
a fair trade. All others sell because they are 
cheap or because people do not know what 
they are. Any material extension of the 
demand for Kieffers here will be solely the re¬ 
sult of larger offerings of the top grade, 
properly ripened. Flemish Beauty and Clapp's 
Favorite are disappointing, often being rot¬ 
ten at the center. Seckel is an excellent 
market sort. It brings top price, keeps well, 
and is a favorite with retail buyers. For 
late, Anjou and Bose are good sellers, the 
preference being for the former. Beurre 
Easter is a very fine late dessert variety, 
often retailing at 15 to 25 cents per fruit. 
Some first-class fruit dealers consider it at 
the top for a late Spring sort. Almost any 
inferior pear will sell at some price for 
cooking, provided it is sound. The chief 
exception is Iviefifer, the culls of which are 
too gritty to be of much account, even as a 
cheap hotel side dish. This market is easily 
overloaded with plums. The Pacific Coast 
sends a large variety of the Japanese hy¬ 
brids and various fresh prunes. They are 
carefully packed and handled and offered for 
sale here in such fine condition that they 
bring top prices, though often inferior in 
'quality to eastern grown plums. Among the 
nearby varieties that have made a fair mar¬ 
ket showing here are Burbank, Abundance, 
October Purple, Fellenburg, Green Gage, and 
ihe old-fashioned Damson. In peaches there 
is a multitude of varieties, many of which 
retail buyers do not know. Among those 
that have sold best recently are: Mountain 
Bose, Tillotson, Elberta, Carman, Late Craw¬ 
ford, Morris White, Belle of Georgia. The 
finest showing last year was made by El¬ 
berta, Carman and Belle of Georgia. Of 
grapes the number of strictly commercial 
varieties is not large. Delaware, Worden, 
Concord, Niagara and Catawba about cover 
the list. 
Drawn Poultry. —An effort is being made 
to get a bill through the New Y’ork Legis¬ 
lature practically doing away with the sale 
of undrawn poultry in the State. As might 
be expected, the trade is soiidly “agin it!” 
as it would upset the present methods of 
handling poultry, and make a higher price 
per pound necessary, which the consumer 
would hesitate to pay. They also claim that 
poultry thus handled would spoil more quick¬ 
ly. and no doubt it would if marketed as at 
present. Drawn poultry requires special 
treatment. The job must be well done, blood 
and liquids drained out, and the birds more 
carefully packed than when undrawn. As 
the trade and retail buyers feel about this 
matter at present, such a law would be only 
another package to lay away in legislative 
cold storage, with the standard package law, 
etc., which those most concerned did not 
fee! interest enough in to push to enforce¬ 
ment. There is plenty of room for improve¬ 
ment in sanitary handling of dressed poultry, 
as everyone knows who has seen the work¬ 
ing room of a large poultry store, particu¬ 
larly where much iced stock is received. The 
sights and odors are not appetizing. There 
is an opportunity for some one to get up 
a special trade in drawn poultry at quite 
an advance in price. This could not easily 
i-> done through the regular channels of 
trade. The proper wav would be to arrange 
with some high-class dealer, possibly a re¬ 
tail butcher, to handle a little poultry neatly 
dressed ana pinfeathered, packed in boxes or 
hampers, something as the packing houses 
fix up tenderloins or other choice cuts. There 
is a certain class of buyers who are always 
ready to try something new in the meat 
line if it appears cleaner or otherwise better. 
After it was shown that poultry could be 
shipped thus and find buyers other dealers 
would fall in line and after the plan was 
fairly established a law making it general 
would naturally follow. But considerable 
time and still more persistence in the face of 
ridicule and opposition from the trade, would 
be needed to bring anything like this to pass, 
and whether the result, would be worth the 
trouble only time could show. h. 
ALFALFA GROWING IN UTAH. 
On page 113 I see much discussion of 
Alfalfa, and though it is one of our chief 
industries, we never heard before of the 
necessity for inoculation. Of course we 
do not presume to say that it may not 
need it on some soils, but our virgin soil 
in proper condition never fails to start 
good seed, and we raise it with irrigation 
on the high and otherwise dry places, 
but not, as one of your correspondents 
suggests, where it will have very wet 
feet, as where the roots run down to 
water it makes a very poor crop. If we 
can keep it sufficiently moist to keep it 
growing for two or three years it will 
then stand considerable drought, as the 
roots run very deep. Another point which 
may be of advantage to the inexperienced 
is the fact that the young plant is very 
tender, and if planted too early may be 
killed by a slight frost, and the planter 
may think the seed no good, or that the 
soil may need inoculating. We have lost 
seedings in this way. The safest way 
is to wait until danger of frost is past, 
as in case of tomato plants, etc., and, of 
course, as the seed is small, the finer and 
smoother the soil the better. It should 
not be planted deep; we harrow in, or 
plant by a grain seeder, the latter being 
preferable if the surface has or is in dan¬ 
ger of drying before the plant can get 
started. As to danger of surface water 
mentioned by one, we irrigate after the 
first year by flooding. The first year we 
mark off the same as for grain; small 
furrows about 18 inches apart, so that the 
small plants may not be washed out. It 
has no detrimental effect, except where it 
may fill in some low place, and there 
stand for several days at a time. 
Salt Lake Co., Utah, jas- m. fisher. 
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AutomobileHiichin^Post 
This Is an Indispensable article In these 
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ZBROWiN-t 
Heaviest Fence Made. AllNo. 9 Steel Wire J 
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THE BROWN FENCE & WIRE C0 V 
Cleveland. Ohio 
BUY 
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THE FROST WIRE FENCE CO . Cleveland. Ohio. 
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MACHINE CO 
Box 225 Mt. Sterling, Ohio. 
IWANS’ Post Hole 
AND WELL 
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For Fence and Telephone Post Holes, Welle, Prospecting, etc. A man 
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Sixes 3 to 10 inch, 
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Union Lock Poultry Fence 
A Fence—Not a Netting. 
The bottom six rows of mesh are x 3 in., the next three 1)4 x 3, then five 
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This arrangement prevents escape of chickens young or old and the strength of 
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quality material; those who have used it say it will 
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Made in widths from 12 to 84 in. Sold by the rod—not by the 
square foot, in rolls of 10 and 20 rods, 60 rods or more delivered 
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Send for Catalogue J), and “A Short Story for Poultry 
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UNION FENCE COMPANY, 
114 Liberty St., New York. 
Mills at New Haven. Ct.. I)e Kalb. Ill.. Oakland. Cal. 
Fencingc 
Factory Net Price List. 
Regular. 
19 &20 Wire. 
21 inch per rod, $ .28 
36. .35 
448 “ “ “ .42 
00 “ “ “ .48 
-72 *• “ “ .54 
84 “ “ “ .60 
Extra Heavy 
No. 17 Wire. 
24 inch, 8 .48 
36 “ .59 
48 “ .70 
00 “ .85 
72 “ .93 
84 “ 1.00 
As it Looks When Erected. 
This fence is put up in 10 and 20 rod rolls. We accept orders for any number of rods or rolls, 
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