1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
265 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE. 
London Wool Sales. —Active bidding is 
reported from the sales now being held. Some 
of the top prices paid are: 35 cents for 
New South Wales scoured; greasy, 32; New 
Zealand greasy, 30; South African, greasy, 20, 
High Green Beans. —The Florida freeze 
cut off a good many of the early beans, and 
for a time those that escaped sold at enor¬ 
mous prices, $12 to $15 per three-peck basket 
in some cases. The later crop is coming on 
now and with the increased supply $5 is the 
top for prime, but there is fair profit in them 
at this price. 
Eggs have drooped 16 cents in about two 
weeks. Arrivals are large enough for all 
present needs, and still lower prices may be 
expected. The I.enten season, however, will 
make considerable difference in the use of 
eggs and perhaps prevent prices from reach- j 
ing so low a level as the receipts would 
otherwise warrant. 
Potatoes. —The market is weak, but prices 
are not specially changed. There seems to be 
an endless quantity in the country, and but 
little hope of better prices until very late. 
Bermuda and Cuba new potatoes wholesale at 
$4 to $6 per barrel, but they do not compete 
with our old domestic stock, as they reach a 
special class of trade. The conditions In 
sweet potatoes are more favorable, best Jer¬ 
seys selling at $-j. 
Apple Trade is not satisfactory and the 
outlook is anything but favorable. The mar¬ 
ket continues to be loaded down with low 
grades which should never have been stored. 
The experience of the past season shows 
clearly that it is not at all wise to hold for 
sale anything but choice apples, unless the 
crop is very short. Culls and seconds should 
be got rid of as soon as possible after har¬ 
vesting, and whatever they bring for hog feed 
or evaporating should be considered clear 
gain. Very many of the apples from common 
cellar storage will soon begin to wither, and 
these, no matter how large or well colored, 
will not sell well in competition with the firm 
fruit from cold houses. Every year late 
shippers get caught in this way and cannot 
understand why they get such poor returns 
for apples sent late in the season. Pinch an 
apple tightly in the hand, and if the skin 
wrinkles and the flesh yields much, that apple 
will be discounted. Before the general use 
of cold storage this was not so. The late 
apple was expected to be somewhat wilted. 
Butter. —During the past three weeks 
there lias been a decline of 10 cents, and the 
price is once more within reach of ordinary 
pocketbooks. A few of the special brands 
taken by very high class trade sell equally 
well no matter what the price, but the gen¬ 
eral trade slackens quickly when extras and 
firsts get much above 30 cents. To secure an 
active consumptive trade extras should not 
wholesale above 25 cents, and if proper use is 
made of cold stonfge there is no need of their 
going below 20 cents. Consumers who will 
not stick to good butter through this price 
range belong to a quite numerous class who 
expect to pay about a certain price for but¬ 
ter without much regard to quality. These 
people are becoming more critical, which is a 
hopeful sign for the dairy Industry. Every 
pound of choice butter consumed Is an edu¬ 
cator, drawing the user farther away from 
the soap grease grades, and helping to make 
a general demand that will not be satisfied 
with anything less than good butter. One 
of the evils in the increased use of cold 
storage comes from the greed of holders. 
They want to make all they can, and hence 
when fresh-made butter gets scarce they 
crowd up the storage product to the very 
limit. Instead of storage butter helping to 
keep prices on a moderate basis, the business 
is so handled that storage prices are boomed 
to the skies. Of course these dealers are not 
in the business from philanthropic principles, 
and it can hardly be expected that they will 
not squeeze out all there is In it for them, 
even though the trade as a whole suffers, and 
as a result they themselves may lose equal 
amounts In other deals. 
Farm Labor Question. —“When away on 
business the farmer needs some one at home 
to keep the work going and be a caretaker. 
In these days more than ever he needs some 
one that is trusty and intelligent. They are 
hard to get. All the bright, smart ones do 
something else. About all the farmer can get 
are the culls. Indoors the situation is still 
worse; in a large majority of farmhouses 
there is but one woman, the meals must be 
got and the house kept in order; there is no 
time for social enjoyment, a very unpleasant 
state of things. Can some one suggest a 
remedy ?” w. 
New York. 
The type of hired man referred to above 
has become very nearly an extinct species in 
many localities. I am well acquainted with 
this man and his farm and methods. The 
hired man is treated as one of the family; is 
expected to do a fair day’s work, but is not 
crowded, has plenty to eat, and there Is a 
good supply of reading matter for Sundays 
if inclined that way. This farmer ought 
not to have any difficulty in getting the 
kind of help wanted if it were to be had. 
As to a remedy for this state of things, a 
number of thousands of farmers similarly 
situated are working at the same problem 
with no prospect of a more satisfactory solu¬ 
tion than the employment of green immi¬ 
grants, tramps and “hard-luckers.” A good 
many men are placed every year by the Labor 
Bureau in the Barge Office, Battery Fark, 
New York, W. H. Meara, Superintendent. This 
is free to everyone, but the employer must 
pay the car fare of the man to his place. If 
desired, Mr. Meara will till to the best of his 
ability orders sent by mail, but, of course, 
cannot guarantee that the men will prove 
satisfactory. Blanks giving the conditions 
under which male help is supplied will be 
sent on request. This agency is supported by 
the Irish Emigrant Society and the German 
Society of the City of New York, but is free 
to all nationalities. H. 
Indiana Notes.- —Sheep have come out in 
better shape than I have ever known them be¬ 
fore, notwithstanding the past Winter has 
been the most severe we have ever known. 
Sheep are very scarce and prices rule high. 
The township assessors at their recent meet¬ 
ing agreed upon $4 per head as the appraise¬ 
ment on sheep, the highest ever placed in our 
county. Two weeks ago at Indianapolis 
lambs sold at $ 8 , the highest price on record; 
this was for last Spring’s lamas, and not 
hothouse. Sheep have ruled high there all 
this season ; the quality has been of the very 
best. Ilorse breeding is receiving much at¬ 
tention in this country, and many fine horses 
have been sold for export. Cattle from some 
cause do not seem to claim as much atten¬ 
tion as they should. The dispersal of the 
Crawford herd of Polled Angus had a de¬ 
pressing effect. This was one of the finest 
herds in the country, and was never beaten 
in competition at State fairs. The death 
of the owner caused its dispersal. b. 
Brazil, Ind. 
Good Plymouth Bocks. —I send you my 
record for February of my pen of 31 Barred 
Plymouth Bocks. Pullets were hatched in 
April and M’ay, sired by brother of first New 
York pullet. 1904 ; the dams were exhibition 
females. When starting to lay they weighed 
from seven to eight pounds. In December 
they laid 3 l / 2 dozen; January, 26 dozen; 
February, 47 V$ dozen, or 65 per cent. One 
pullet started to sit February 15, and two 
more February 20. I think this record is 
extra good laying. These birds were housed 
in coop 14 x 8 ; were let out of doors every 
day, a place as large as coop being cleared 
of snow. Their feed was a hot mash with a 
little cut clover for morning, wheat and oats 
at noon, and corn at night; water, grit and 
shells at all times; also three pounds of raw 
meat ground fine, once a week (at cost of 
2 o cents). Eggs were sold at 35 cents per 
dozen, or $16.62. Cost of feed. $3.80; bal¬ 
ance for month of February, $12.82, or 41 
cents per hen. This speaks well for the 
purebred. Who has done as well? c. k. 
Danbury, Conn. 
CHORTHORN8- Young stock at farmers’prices 
** next 30 days, Bull 13 mos. old, heifers all ages. 
L. B. Hotchkiss, West Springfield, Pa., Erie Co. 
Partridge Plymouth Rocks 
MADISON SQUABE WINNERS. Eggs, 13, $2. 
Riverside Farm, Weston, N, J. 
Stock and 
g From Rose and Single 
O Comb Buff Leghorns. 
ONLY FINE BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
on my place. Eggs, $1.00 for 15. or $4.00 for 100. 
E. W. JENKINS, Dover. Delaware. 
Standard-bred Poultry 
Rhode Island Reds, Barred Tt< 
-White Leghorns, 
r White Wyandottes. 
—-uc.cu Rocks. Choice Matings■ 
Eggsatfarmers’prlces. Fairvlew Farm, Shrewsbury, 
Pa. 
V Alley View Poultry Farm, Belleville, Pa. Bronze and Wild 
Turkey*. Leading varieties of Poultry. Prices low. Cat.free. 
While Plymouth Rooks 
$1 per 15, $5 per 100. Isaac C. Clark, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
Incubator Chicks. White and Barred Plymouth 
Rocks only. Eggs for Hatching from Wyan’s, Rocks, 
Legs, Game, Minorcas, Brahmas, Ducks andtTurkeys. 
Low prices. Pleasant View Farm, Seward, N. Y. 
Watpr filacc for preserving eggs. Endorsed 
TVaiGI UlaOO by agricultural papers. Gallon can, 
$1. Middlesex Chem. Works, Middletown, Ct. 
PEKIN DUCKS AND 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
200 April hatched ducks, $1 50 to $2.50 each. Duck 
egg orders booked, $1 15 for 11; $8 per hundred. 
Leghorns are the real egg machines. Eggs for Incu¬ 
bating $1 for 13; $6 per hundred. Largest plant 
vicinity of New York City. 8C pens, 2.000 layers. Cut 
of same in Cyphers catalogue. Agent Cyphers in¬ 
cubators, brooders, etc. 
BONNIE BRAE, New Rochelle, N. Y. 
MANY OF 
THE 
FIRST PRIZE 
WINNERS 
at 
New York, Chicago, St. 
Louis World’s Fair, 
and other large shows 
were from our cele¬ 
brated breeding yards. 
OUR EGGS have produced the winners of high¬ 
est honors. From Exhibition Mat¬ 
ings of Grand Show Stock. $5 per 12; $10 per 36; 
$20 per 100. From Laying Matings of Great Egg 
Producers, $2 per 12; $8 per 100; $70 per 1.000. 
OUR MATINGS are better than ever and the 
quantity of high quality stock 
in our yards is greater than ever. Over 6,500 birds 
now mated to supply the demand. 
Illustrated catalogue free. 
I; ELM POULTRY YARDS, 
P. 0, Box Y, HARTFORD, CONN. 
Angora Goats and Rat Terrier Dogs. 
(Prices on application.) 
The crown of womanhood is motherhood. 
But uneasy lies the head that wears the 
crown or anticipates this coronation, when 
there is a lack of womanly strength to bear 
the burdens of maternal dignity and duty. 
The reason why so many women sink under 
the strain of motherhood is because they 
are unprepared. 
"I unhesitatingly advise expectant moth¬ 
ers to use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip¬ 
tion,’’writes Mrs. J.W. G. Stephens, of Mila, 
Northumberland Co., Va. The reason for 
this advice is that Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre¬ 
scription is the best preparative for the 
maternal function. No matter how healthy 
and strong a woman may be, she cannot 
use "Favorite Prescription” as a prepara¬ 
tive for maternity without gain of health 
and comfort. But it is the women who are 
not strong who best appreciate the great 
benefits received from the use of "Favorite 
Prescription.” For one thing its use makes 
the baby’s advent practically painless. It 
has in many cases reduced days of suffer¬ 
ing to a few brief hours. It has changed 
the period of anxiety and struggle into a 
time of ease and comfort. 
The proprietors and makers of Doctor 
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription now feel 
fully warranted in offering to pay $500 for 
any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, 
Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb, which they 
cannot cure. All the World’s Dispensary 
Medical Association, Proprietors, of Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., ask is a fair and reasonable 
trial of their means of cure. 
Chicks Well Hatched 
Are Half Sold 
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85% of fertile eggn set-good, 
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