3903. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4oQ 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Potatoes. There has been some improve¬ 
ment in conditions on choice old stock, fewer 
having wholesaled under $i per barrel than 
the previous week. A good many have been 
badly sprouted, and are shriveled. Such are 
hard to dispose of at any price. New pota¬ 
toes did a little better early in the week,-hut 
later the supply increased and prices dropped 
to the lowest figure for the season. 
This Will llKi.r. -The Long island Rail¬ 
road has put on a new train which promises 
to lie a benefit both to farmers and city con¬ 
sumers. This train leaves (freeuport early in 
tlie afternoon and picks up vegetables and 
other perishable freight through the truck¬ 
ing sections, reaching the terminus in time 
to put tlie fresh vegetables in (lie market, 
districts of New York and Brooklyn for tlie 
early morning trade. This will open new 
industries for sections of tlie Island outside 
the wagon hauling /one, and give farmers on 
tiie eastern end a market opportunity nearly 
equal to those near tlie city. If good service 
and fair freight rates are provided Long 
Island farming ought to experience a mild 
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needed not only to do this work, but to de¬ 
cide whether or not tlie butter should be 
touched at all. There is butter that will 
not stand handling. I knew one grocery- 
man who took butter of all kinds in trade, 
and had a system of grading and repacking, 
which worked well. Rutter color was used 
liberally in that section in Winter, and the 
stuff would vary from pale straw almost to 
red. lie spread tlie stock out oil a table, 
matched tlie colors as well as Ik- could, and 
was usually able to put it in live or 10- 
pound pails or boxes that would run fairly 
uniform throughout, lie never tried to mix 
violently different colors. To do this he 
would have had to wear the butter into 
grease to avoid a color combination as fan¬ 
tastic as that of "marble” cake. Working 
over butter with milk In a churn will some¬ 
times freshen it up a little, but one must 
know just bow to do it and when to quit. 
A full set of renovating machinery is needed 
to turn all kinds of odd lots into a uniform 
grade. The best plan for anyone without 
these facilities is to do as little handling as 
possible. _ H. 
COST OF A GALLON OF SPRAY. 
No Cars.— Would-be shippers of strawber¬ 
ries in the Cnrollnus are in an exasperated 
state of mind on account of the scarcity of 
cars suitable for hauling these perishables. 
Great quantities have been llirown away at 
the shipping stations. The loss to growers 
in the vicinity of Chadbourne, N. (’., is said 
to be already more than $500,000. The re¬ 
frigerator car trust is alleged to have shown 
itself entirely Inadequate to handle the crop, 
although there has been every opportunity 
for them to learn what amount of transporta¬ 
tion would he needed. Teach and orange 
growers have wrestled with this refrigerator 
car crowd and usually come out second 
best. The fruit growers want cars, not ex¬ 
cuses, and every experience of this sort 
brings this country so much nearer to strict 
Government supervision of such matters. 
Transportation Is the greatest question of 
the day for the man making his living from 
the land, and he has the voting power to 
regulate this matter. He does not ask the 
politicians whether he may raise this or 
that on his farm, but has permitted them to 
say when and where and how bis crops shall 
be’ marketed, which is equivalent to tqrning 
over to the politicians, their masters and 
followers, more than a liberal percentage 
of the farm profits. 
Condemned TuodUCe. —The New York 
Hoard of Health Inspectors have been full of 
business for the past two weeks. A good 
many strawberries, green beans and peas 
have arrived here in unwholesome condition, 
and of course such stuff ough': not to be 
offered for food, but a great amount of 
complaint is heard from the better class of 
receivers here, of the officious unfairness of 
some of these Inspectors, who evidently lose 
their heads on account of (lie authority given 
them over other people’s property. Cases 
are noted where a whole pile of crated straw¬ 
berries is seized and ordered dumped because 
perhaps the top or bottom crate has been 
found rotten, while many of the others when 
thrown out have been found sound. The 
attitude of the heads of the Board of Health 
is entirely fair, and they are hampered for 
lack of inspectors to examine everything care¬ 
fully, but there is no good excuse for throw 
ing away a lot of fruit or vegetables without 
examining every package. At present the 
strawberry and pen Shippers are the worst 
sufferers from damaged stuff caused by car 
shortages and delays. 
Better arrivals continue scanty, and tlie 
market keeps cleaned up as though buyers 
were on tlie edge of starvation. In view 
of tlie probablv increased make within a week 
or two. Hie Mercantile Exchange lias not 
seen lit to advance the official quotation, but 
n good many sales of tlie better qualities 
have been made above .‘JO cents to dealers 
who have contracts for special grades to (ill. 
Cnder grades are selling in about the range 
given. It would he misleading to quote the 
extreme top prices paid now and then for 
some lots of fancy butter. Probably not a 
week passes without some transactions of this 
kind. The only reason why any dealer should 
pay 30 cents for a mark of butter when ‘JO 
is the going price for other of the same 
grade, is because lie must have it and fears 
Hint some one else who feels in the same way 
will bid it up if lie does not. His customer 
is a man or concern that Insists upon a cer 
tain quality and pays tlie advanced price 
when necessary, though perhaps with some 
protest. 'I'lils Is not peculiar to Hie butter 
trade, ns other lines of produce show spas¬ 
modic deals of tlie same kind, entirely lie 
yond the limit of reasonable quotations, lint 
it shows Hie advantage of producing some 
tiling so superior that buyers make more or 
jess of a rumpus in order to get hold of It. 
Tiie Stock Transfer Tax, which goes 
into effect in New York State June 1. may 
not bring In nearby so much revenue as was 
anticipated. Already Incorporation lias been 
made for an extensive stock exchange busi¬ 
ness In Jersey Oily, solely for tlie purpose 
of getting away from tills tax, which tlie 
financial districts, possibly with some basis 
of reason, consider unfair. They cannot un¬ 
derstand why their business transactions 
should he taxed any more than those of the 
dry goods or grocery man, coal merchant or 
builder. But there is a current sentiment 
that I In- ‘‘Wall Street Crowd” are bleeding 
tlie public and ought to pay for the prlvl 
ietre. Members of the New York Stock Ex¬ 
change.deny that they have any hand in tlie 
pronosod New Jersey movement. Thov state 
that tlie rules of tlie exchange would forbid 
any member from doing business in another 
exchange, and also that they will make a 
test of the constitutionality of the law. 
Fixing Over Better. -‘‘We gather up con¬ 
siderable surplus butter during tin* warm Wea¬ 
ther, a little here and there from the neigh¬ 
bors, and market In the city 15 miles away. 
In tlie villages near there is always a sur¬ 
plus, and some grocers will not buy more 
than their trade calls for, there being no 
outlet for it. This butter is usually sweet 
and clean, but of various colors, and some In¬ 
sufficiently worked some water and butter 
milk still remaining, and as it comes from most 
makers soft, oily and very unpalatable look¬ 
ing. Can tills be worked over to a uniform 
color and packed in .jars of Id to 15 pounds 
each? Can use tee if necessary. Will it lie 
necessary to churn various lots together with 
milk or buttermilk, or can it be mixed with 
paddle?” a. q. w. 
Indiana. 
I have seen a good many of these odd lots 
of butter and laid some experience in fixing 
them over. The lint ter which is not thor 
oughly worked may be Improved by cutting 
up and handling carefully with a ladle or 
worker, provided it lias not reached the 
greasy stage. Au experienced person is 
Have you ever made any figures to show 
what It costs either to make a gallon of 
spray mixture, such as lime and sulphur or 
Bordeaux Mixture, or what It costs to spray 
a tree, or an acre of fair-sized trees? Can 
you give us figures? In estimating the cost 
of a gallon of spray mixture, wliat items 
would you include? 
After trying a number of different com¬ 
binations in spraying, I am at present 
using the following formula: Three 
pounds sulphate of copper, two pounds 
arsenate of lead, six pounds of lime, 50 
gallons water. This costs about 50 cents, 
and will spray 50 eight-year-old trees, 
taking three men about one hour to mix 
and apply right, using power sprayer. The 
cost of chemicals is one cent per tree; the 
cost of labor and power to spray about 
two cents per tree. This estimate will vary 
somewhat in cost, as the conditions of 
spraying vary as well as size of trees. 
New York. grant g. hitchings. 
I spray peaches for leaf-curl with 
5-10-50 Bordeaux; this costs in the field 
ready for use an average of 40 cents per 
50 gallons, divided as follows: Five 
pounds copper sulphate, 27 cents; 10 
pounds lime, five cents; total labor cost, 
five cents; fuel, three cents; total, 40 
cents. This includes everything except 
application of mixture. Any other for¬ 
mulas would differ only in cost of mate¬ 
rials ; labor cost would be same in all 
cases except lime and sulphur. I have 
never used much of this, but cost of 
preparation is nearly the same; fuel cost 
is about double above. a. i. loop. 
Pennsylvania. 
Inasmuch as Bordeaux Mixture varies 
in strength, the cost for a given gallon 
must also vary. It will also vary with 
the kind of poison used, for I take it that 
you mean poison included. Anwering 
your question specifically, a gallon of lie 
mixture the strength in which we make 
it would be just four-fifths of a cent, 
based on the following prices for ingre¬ 
dients: Copper sulphate, six cents per 
pound; lime, $1.17 per barrel of 200 
pounds; Paris-green, 1(> cents per pound. 
I’be cost for a gallon of Bordeaux Mix¬ 
ture of the maximum strength (the (>-4-50 
formula) with arsenate of lead as a poi¬ 
son would be about 1(4 cent. The cost 
for a gallon of the 4-4-50 strength with 
arsenite of lime as a poison would be 
about three-fifths of a cent. 'The benefits 
derived from spraying are so marked that 
we have never before figured oi t the cost 
per acre or per tree, but, roughly speak¬ 
ing, for two thorough sprayings, one Do¬ 
ing when the trees are in full leaf, it costs 
us six cents per tree per year. This esti¬ 
mate is for large JO-year-old trees, and 
includes cost of a hand outfit and repairs, 
but does not include labor for applying. 
If we include the latter, at the rate of $4 
per day for two men and team, the cost 
would be five cents per tree additional. 
Seneca Co.. N. l. w. a. bassett. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
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