1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE. 
Eggs.—T he price remains about the same 
as last week, but the market is in a much 
tirmer condition. The demand is very good 
and will continue so throughout April, both 
on account of the Lenten season and the 
call for April eggs for storage. 
Butter is up four cents from last week, 
extras now selling at 50 cents. This is on 
account of light receipts and reports of 
scanty shipments on the way. The previ¬ 
ous drop was too large to be permanent. An¬ 
other reduction is unite likely to occur in 
a few days, with a temporary settlement 
around 28 cents for extras. 
Potatoes. —There is no improvement in 
the price of common run stock. The supply 
seems endless and trade light. Conditions 
for the better qualities are more favorable. 
Seed potatoes are selling at present in New 
York at $2.50 to $4.50 per barrel. This is 
for seed free from frost and in viable con¬ 
dition. An occasional lot may be had un¬ 
der $2.50, and at interior points quite a dis¬ 
count from this is made. As with an other 
seeds, it pays best to use good quality and 
less of it. Very large seed is not economi¬ 
cal, as it is a job to cut it to advantage. 
A potato that can be cut in four pieces 
lengthwise, leaving two strong eyes in each 
piece, makes first-class seed. One of the 
best crops I ever saw was grown from whole 
tubers but little over one inch in diameter, 
but this was an exception and quite likely 
would have been better with better seed. 
Northern dealers are selling a fair quantity 
of southern second crop seed, usually at 
prices on a level with best northern grown, 
but this seed is in an experimental stage so 
far as the North is concerned. Sweet po¬ 
tatoes are high. Arrivals are light and de¬ 
mand fair. Some of the best Jersey grown 
have sold at from $5 to $(> per barrel during 
the past week. 
The Flower Trade.— At this season there 
is a large wholesale trade in Spring plants, 
especially those bloomed for Easter. Many 
hard-wood Easter plants, such as Azaleas and 
pot-grown lilacs are sold by large importers, 
who buy the plants dormant In Europe, and 
then sell to retail growers, who bring them 
on to the flowering stage. Favorite lilacs 
for pot culture are Marie Legraye, single 
white, Mme. Lemoine, double white, and 
Charles X., purplish red. The whites are 
usually in best demand, being ordinarily de¬ 
scribed by the public as French lilac; the 
plants, well started but not in b om, cost 
wholesale $0 a dozen. Azaleas are always 
a leading Easter plant; in addition to their 
intrinsic beauty, purchasers are able to re¬ 
gard them as a tolerably permanent invest¬ 
ment. Mme. Van der Cruyssen, a familiar 
old pink variety, still continues a leading 
favorite; other standard sorts are Niobe, 
double white; Bernhard Andreas Alba, double 
white; Empress of India, and Vervseneana, 
the latter a very attractive mingling of pink 
and white. These plants, well budded, cost 
from 00 cents to $2 each wholesale. Four 
weeks before Easter lilies were quoted at 
wholesale on the basis of 10 cents a bud for 
plants with five to eight buds; under five 
buds to the plant, 12 cents a bud. The 
wholesale rates for Easter lilies are always 
calculated on the basis of buds carried. 
Genistas, Rhododendrons, Ericas, Cinerarias, 
roses and small bulb stock are largely han¬ 
dled for Easter, and the specialists usually 
aim for some novelty that will appeal to 
an exclusive trade. This year a new Ger¬ 
man wallflower, bearing large crimson flow¬ 
ers, deliciously fragrant, is offered by one 
clever grower. Among Easter roses Dorothy 
Perkins promises to be as great a favorite 
as Crimson Rambler and Philadelphia. 
Apples. —The market continues weak and 
still crowded with low grades. The top 
figures quoted on preceding page are rather 
extreme, referring only to exceptional lots. 
Varieties seen most at present are Spitzen- 
burg, Spy, Newtown, Ben Davis and Bald¬ 
win. The Ben Davis season is coming on, 
and It is more freely offered. It certainly 
is a useful variety in the absence of a red 
apple, keeping equally well and of better 
quality. The N'ewtown is now at its best, 
retailing higher than any other variety here 
except very large Spitzenburgs. The Spencer 
seedless apple is getting an immense news¬ 
paper boom. During the past two weeks 
I have seen from several sources that it 
is going to “revolutionize the apple markets 
of the world.” The New York Sun now 
states that Mr. Spencer shipped some of 
these apples to England, one. in a plush 
case, being sent to King Edward, who is re¬ 
ported to have said that it was the most 
delicious apple he ever tasted, and he is said 
to have ordered that hereafter there shall 
be a regular supply of these seedless apples 
for the royal table. Evidently Mr. Scheti, 
the general manager of the Seedless Apple 
•Company, Is far too reserved in his state¬ 
ments regarding the fruit. When in The 
R. N.-Y. office he said several times in the 
writer’s presence that they never claimed it 
fo be a high quality apple, and rather depre¬ 
cated the newspaper statements to the con¬ 
trary. The Y’ellow Bellflower is said to 
■one of the varieties slated for core annihila¬ 
tion by this company, but those familiar with 
this variety will decide that a jackknife is 
the best core remover for this excellent. 
3i i 
but rather hollow apple. The official hy¬ 
bridizer is recommended to start with New¬ 
town, which has practically no core cavity. 
it. 
Planting Kieffer Pears. —Your corre¬ 
spondent, David K. Bell, page 164, says, 
"Why set out Kiefifer, which is of very in¬ 
ferior quality, when there are so many good 
varieties to grow?" I will answer his ques¬ 
tion: It succeeds where other varieties, or 
most other varieties, fail, and when well 
ripened is of fair quality. I have Kieft'er, 
put up last Fall, that I find of nice quality 
for the table. Most other kinds, especially 
the old popular Bartlett, are too much sub¬ 
ject to blight to be of any value here. The 
old Duchess dwarf generally does well. I 
am in hopes the Koonce will prove a suc¬ 
cess here. The Lexington is very promising 
and bears at three or four years of age. 
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Harvester Talks to Farmers—No. 3. 
The Question of Quality, and how it is attained in the 
International Harvesting Machines. 
E International line of 
harvesting machines are 
heartily endorsed by nine- 
tenths of the grain and 
grass growing farmers of 
America. 
Not because farmers could not get 
some other machine if they so desired, 
but simply because as careful, discrim¬ 
inating buyers they have deliberately 
chosen this line. 
Their choice is based on experience. 
They have found that these machines are 
better constructed, and therefore will 
give better service and longer service 
than ordinary agricultural machinery. 
And the explanation of the high qual¬ 
ity of the International line is just as 
simple. It rests upon superior facilities 
and a far-sighted policy of manage¬ 
ment. 
The manufactu¬ 
rers of the Inter¬ 
national line of 
h arvesting ma¬ 
chines own, op¬ 
erate and control 
the sources of their 
supply of raw ma¬ 
terials; their lum¬ 
ber comes from 
their own forests, 
their coal and iron 
from their own 
mines, their s t e el 
from their own 
steel mills, their 
coke from their 
own coke-ovens, 
and so on. 
They not only 
secure these ma¬ 
terials at first cost , 
but, what is of 
greater importance, they secure a uni¬ 
form quality of materials at a uniform 
price, enabling them to produce ma¬ 
chines of the highest quality at a mini¬ 
mum cost. 
And that’s why the diserminating 
farmer buys the International line. 
The matter of lumber is of special 
importance, for this country is threat¬ 
ened with a lumber famine, the nature 
of which is appalling when we stop to 
consider it. 
The consumption of lumber increases 
every year; the supply, according to the 
best authorities, decreases at the rate of 
3 per cent per annum, and the price 
consequently jumps from I per cent to 
5 per cent every year. No. 3 pine, for 
instance, in June, 1896 , sold for $ 6.75 per 
thousand feet; in June, 1904 , only eight 
years later, it sold for $ 15 . 50 , and other 
lumber has advanced accordingly. 
The great harvester companies, real¬ 
izing that it is only a question of time 
until the lumber problem will be one 
of the most serious confronting the 
manufacturer, inaugurated several years 
ago a policy in keeping with what they 
are doing in iron, steel, coal and coke—• 
that is, to become entirely independent 
of the lumber markets by securing a 
source of supply of their own. 
Their timber lands in the famous St. 
Francis Valley' consist of 60,000 acres 
which the International Company owns 
in southeastern Missouri, and 22,000 
acres leased in northeastern Arkansas, 
both a portion of the reclaimed “sunken 
land districts.” 
The Missouri lands are near the new 
town of Deering, which the Internation¬ 
al Company is making a model lumber 
town, with all the advantages and com¬ 
forts of modern life in the midst of the 
forests. The land is heavily timbered 
with oak, ash, elm, hickory, cottonwood, 
cypress, gum, hackberry and maple. At 
the principal mill here—shown in the 
illustration—a daily average of 44,000 
feet of lumber is cut, and 125 men are 
employed at the mill and in the timber. 
On the Arkansas lands the mill is 
at Truman; 85 men are employed and 
the average output is 35,000 feet per 
day. 
On both tracts, tramways, canals, and 
every modern facility for the econom¬ 
ical handling of logs and lumber are 
provided. 
The entire output of both tracts, after 
it has been properly air-dried, is used 
by the plants of the International Har¬ 
vester Company in manufacturing har¬ 
vesting machines and agricultural imple¬ 
ments. 
But the most important feature of 
fhe company’s lumber operations is this: 
All timber is cut in strict accordance 
with the rules of forestry. Instead of 
denuding the land, only ripe trees with 
well-matured, hardened wood are cut, 
and the greatest care is exercised to 
protect and preserve all young timber, 
so that by the time the best timber is 
once selected from this vast tract of 
82,000 acres—even at the rate of 20 , 000 ,- 
000 feet per year, the present consump¬ 
tion of the International factories—a 
new supply will have grown to a com¬ 
mercial size. 
In other words, the company by this 
far-sighted policy has secured practically 
a perpetual supply of the lumber neces¬ 
sary for the manufacture of the har¬ 
vesting machines used by the American 
farmer. It is in position for the next 
generation, at least, to secure lumber of 
the highest quality and is absolutely in¬ 
dependent of fluctuating markets, and, 
at the same time, by conserving the for¬ 
ests is not only reaping a benefit for 
itself and its customers, but is serving 
the best interests of the country at large. 
Of course, we realize that “when we 
get down to brass tacks,” as the saying 
is, the purchaser of a harvesting ma¬ 
chine, or of any other commodity, cares 
very little about how it is produced or 
where it is produced, or by whom it 
is produced—provided he gets what he 
wants at a fair price. 
There’s no sentiment about it one way 
or the other. 
But that “provided” means much to you 
as a purchaser. 
The old proverb has it that “you can’t 
make a silk purse 
from a sow’s ear.” 
Neither can you 
make a high-grade 
article from low- 
grade material. 
The Internation¬ 
al Ilrrvester Co. is 
man ufacturlng 
machines of the 
highest possible 
grade, of the best 
quality; more than 
that, of a better 
grade and higher 
quality than they 
could by any pos¬ 
sibility manufac¬ 
ture if they did not 
have the excep¬ 
tional facilities 
with which they 
have surrounded 
themselves,for both 
the production of raw material and the 
completion of the finished product. 
And by the same token they are put¬ 
ting a higher quality into their product 
than any other manufacturer can put 
into his and depend upon the uncertain, 
unstable markets for materials. 
This question of quality is at the base 
of the American farmer’s success. It is 
because he has always striven for better 
things—for better live stock, for in¬ 
creased fertility in his land, for finer 
fruit, for better methods—that he has 
been able to give a new meaning to the 
word agriculture. 
And it is because he has given qual¬ 
ity first consideration in purchasing sup¬ 
plies that he has made money. 
We ask your careful consideration of 
these facts, and of the advantages of¬ 
fered you in the International line. They 
mean a saving of money, a saving of 
time and worry, and a satisfaction which 
you can not obtain elsewhere. 
You will probably find local dealers 
in your community who represent the 
International line. Each dealer under¬ 
stands thoroughly the line he sells and 
carries a complete stock of repair parts. 
Call upon him for catalogue and full 
particulars. 
See Harvester Talks No. 1 and No. 2 In previous issues of this paper. 
The International Harvesting Machines, 
Champion, Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee, Osborne and Plano. 
have in them the quality that means satisfactory work every day you use them, few repairs and long life—a quality 
made possible only by the manufacturers’ policy of producing and controlling the raw materials that enter into their ma¬ 
chines—a quality you cannot obtain elsewhere—a quality you cannot afford to overlook. 
The International Lines are Represented by Different Dealers. See them for catalogues. 
Binders, Reapers, Headers, Header-Binders, Corn Binders, Corn Shockers, Corn Pickers, Huskers and Shredders, Mowers, 
Tedders, Hay Rakes, Sweep Rakes, Hay Stackers, Hay Balers, Knife Grinders, Gasoline Engines, 
Weber Wagons, Binder Twine. 
