1905. 
TIIH RURAL NEW-YORKER 
9i3 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE. 
Strawbekkiks from Florida are on hand, 
wholesaling at 50 to 75 cents per quart. 
Those noted have boon small but well colored. 
Potatoes. Arrivals from Europe are so 
large that the market is depressed and lower, 
$2.50 being the top for best Iamg Island, and 
State and Jersey going as low as $1.50. 
Dried Apples. —As might be expected from 
the figures at which fresh fruit sold during 
the Fail, apples, both evaporated and sun- 
dried are high, with an advance of one- 
eighth to one-half cent during the past week. 
Our records for 11 years show only one, 
December. 1!)01. when prices were anywhere 
near the present range. 
Hothouse Goods are selling at figures that 
must leave but Hit tie profit to the growers. 
A good many mushrooms have sold below 
25 cents per pound, and tomatoes as low as 
10 cents. As has been said before some 
growers have killed (he market for these 
specialties by scattering consignments among 
a large number of commission men who had 
had no experience >u this trade. They got 
rid of the stuff at almost any price buyers 
offered. The same brand of mushrooms would 
be sold at two or three different prices on 
the same day, and the careful dealer who 
has worked up the trade must* cut prices or 
lose his customers. The hothouse mushroom 
and tomato business would be handled with 
more profit and greater satisfaction all around 
if it were kept as a practical monopoly. 
'Then buyers would know just whom they had 
to deal with, and there would be less half 
spoiled stuff hawked about. Most of the con¬ 
sumers of these products are able and willing 
to pay enough for them to furnish a good 
profit for growers and handlers. 
Eog Notes. —The market has weakened 
during the past week. Ilest qualities are 
still scarce, but there is a surplus of under 
grades, and the storage people are working 
out their holdings at every opportunity. What 
the ideas and intentions of the hens are is 
an important matter to egg men just at 
present. The weather in some of the best 
producing sections is so favorable that an 
increase in the crop of new-laid eggs may be 
expected soon. Collections in the central and 
southwestern sections are already reported 
heavier, and dealers know that even a moder¬ 
ate increase in the receipts of fresh eggs will 
knock down the prices of under grades and 
storage stock, some of which was put away 
at too high a figure. A good many pullets 
that have had fair care will start in soon. 
A neighbor of the writer has one Plymouth 
Hock pullet, hatched in May, that lias already 
laid 10 eggs. Until December 10 she roosted 
with 50 other May and June chickens in 
small tiees in a very exposed location. 
During the past month there have been two 
severe rains lasting all night, several heavy 
winds, and two-thirds of the time the ground 
has frozen hard at night, with two nights 
when (lie mercury dropped to 10 above zero. 
All the long single combs have been frosted, 
and certainly not much in the way of early 
laying could lie expected from pullets thus 
housed. These chickens are a mixture of 
White Leghorn and Plymouth Rock, and the 
freaks resulting from this strange and violent 
cross are many. There are Dominiques with 
true Leghorn shape, long combs and wattles 
and wild as hawks, and big white ones with 
part Plymouth Rock shape and a splotch of 
dark feathers here and there. The flock was 
started four years ago with a fine White 
Leghorn male and a lot of mixed hens. The 
next year a well bred Plymouth Rock rooster 
was brought in, and the best formed roosters 
of both breeds have been saved since. The 
Plymouth Rocks appear to have suffered 
least in this mix-up, as there are half a 
dozen well-formed and colored pullets that 
would pass as well bred. A striking peeu- 
larit.v is the development of several very 
small, leggy and wingy Leghorns that fly 
like birds and are evidently several steps 
back on their journey toward their wild 
ancestors. 
Capital Stock, —Tlfis term, which is sup¬ 
posed to refer to the solid foundation of a 
business, is often found to represent the hol¬ 
low shell of an effort to make dimes, or even 
pennies, look like doriars. This note was 
suggested by a conversation I overheard be¬ 
tween two men who came out of an office 
bearing the sign of a “development" com¬ 
pany, that is a concern that will take hold 
of any invention, enterprise or scheme that 
can lie made to appear plausible, and boom 
it to the extent of selling the stock. The 
special job that these men were talking 
about was the development of a copper mine 
(on paper) and it was quite”safe to judge 
that the only copper that would enter into 
the deal would be the “coppers" of the people 
who invested in if. There are alleged com¬ 
panies formed with no incorporation or finan¬ 
cial foundation, but (he sale of such stock 
is a fraudulent act and most promoters pre¬ 
fer to protect themselves to the extent of 
incorporation, with just enough money put 
into it to make the deal legal. Occasional 
cases may be found where a square and 
honest business is worked up to a successful 
basis by this risky method, lint such in¬ 
stances are so rare that a strictly enforced 
law shutting down on all of this fake in¬ 
corporation business would be a good thing 
Capital stock in which three cents is made 
to look like a dollar is a dangerous article 
of commerce, no matter how much ambition 
or ability those in charge of the company 
may have. No matter how guarded or 
twisted and turned such a scheme may be 
to give it a fair and square appearance it 
is essentially deception and nothing else. Its 
promoters say, practically, that the business 
represents an actual investment of $100,000, 
when in reality only a small fraction of 
this cash has ever been put up. Vet the 
matter may be so shrewdly handled that the 
letter of the law is lived up to while its 
intent is violated. The most effectual way 
of putting these bluffers out of business is 
for every person who lias money to invest, no 
matter how few dollars it may be, to “be a 
law unto himself" to the extent of having 
absolutely nothing to do with such people. 
Thin scares them more than a visit from the 
sheriff. Rut a menace to the country more 
serious than financial loss is the schooling in 
crooked morals which the clerks in such 
concerns receive. They bring up a generation 
of smart young men who. wherever they may 
go afterward, will have one eye on their 
employer's cash box and tlie other on the 
Canada line. At another time something will 
be said about definite methods of investi¬ 
gating proposed Investments. ii. 
Alsike Clover. —Regarding your talk on 
Alsike in a recent number, for several sea¬ 
sons I have sown a mixture of Alsike and 
Red clover with Timothy, and find the Alsike 
always in evidence, whether the Red clover 
is or not. Red clover does the greater part 
of its growing through the agency of its long 
tap root, 'l'lie freezing and thawing of 
most Springs acts upon this' root as it does 
upon fence posts, drawing it out of the 
ground in a way which endangers if it does 
not kill the plant. Alsike lias a root sys¬ 
tem which enables it to sit down quietly in 
Its place undisturbed by changes of tempera¬ 
ture. The heaving of Red clover is not so 
pronounced upon high or well-drained land, 
but where the drainage is not perfect Alsike 
is by far tin' safer seed to sow in this sec¬ 
tion, though I always sow Red clover with 
it. S. A. LITTLE. 
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