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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 1?, 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
The amount of copper mined in the United 
States, Canada and Mexico during 1905 was 
550,060 tons. Eight companies control the 
entire output. 
Lettuce and other southern green stuff 
continues vary high. Good lettuce is scarce, 
the heads being small and loose. Some 
Florida green peas and beans have sold up 
to $0 to .$8 per half-barrel basket. 
Ecus..—The recent zero weather has put 
a little life in the egg trade and prices 
have crawled up a peg, but there is nothing 
to indicate any permanent help for the cold 
storage people, who have not yet got rid 
of their holdings, and who are “pocketing 
their loss” with every sale. 
The live poultry combine with headquar 
ters in the "goose market,” West 14th street. 
New York, is having trouble with a refrac¬ 
tory independent concern, which is estab¬ 
lishing branch houses in various parts of the 
city and cutting prices. The trust started 
the disturbance by an attempt to freeze out 
the other concern. 
A Pickle Trust, with capital of $500,000 
has been found at St. Louis. The interested 
parties claim that it is not a trust, but 
“placing the management of a number of 
companies under one direction for economical 
reasons,” a tine distinction slightly beyond 
the comprehension of ordinary mortals, who 
have hitherto considered the above quoted 
passage a fair definition of a trust when 
first sprouted 
Fruits. —Apples are going up, $5 to $6 
per barrel, wholesale, for the best qualities, 
and the market firm at that. Strawberries 
from Florida are quite plentiful, bringing 
from 20 to 40 cents per quart. Tihe princi¬ 
pal varieties are Excelsior, Lady Thompson 
and Klondike. Cranberries continue scarce 
and very high. Orange sales have shown 
some improvement, the quality of the Flor- 
idas being better. Offerings of 3.600 boxes 
of Porto Rico fruit brought $1.75 to $2.50. 
Potatoes are down 25 cents per barrel 
and the market very weak. Some State stock 
has sold down to $1.50 per sack. On account 
of this drop in price considerable stock is 
going into storage, which will help the mar¬ 
ket a little. It does not seem probable that 
these low prices can continue very long, yet 
importers seem willing to sell European po- 
taloes for $1.50 to $1.70 per 168-pound sack, 
and there is apparently no end to the supply. 
At one time it was thought that there would 
be no serious competition from foreign po¬ 
tatoes except on the basis of $2 per barrel 
or more, but it is evident that American 
growers who are thinking of storing for high 
Winter prices will have to figure carefully on 
the European crop. It looks now as though 
those who sold last Fall got the best of the 
bargain. 
The mails appear to be pretty well filled 
with bargains and offers that w’ould better 
be let alone. Within the last week there 
have came to the writer's home address a 
whole hatch of offers to cure me of all sorts 
of ills, furnish profitable employment at 
home, etc. One man lias a marvelous prep¬ 
aration that will cause lacerated muscles to 
grow together in short order. He sends sam¬ 
ples of the stuff in two bottles; rub one on 
in the morning and the other at night. One 
is largely spirits of turpentine and the other 
a vile smelling sticky oil. The turpentine Is 
all right, a valuable remedy, but what sense 
is there in paying $16 per pint for it? The 
other stuff when rubbed on the arm had no 
effect other than to leave a smudgy spot, 
such as would be made by a mixture of ma¬ 
chine oil and molasses. lie tells the old 
threadbare story about the way somebody 
cured himself with this wonderful combina¬ 
tion. The recipe was lost for a long time, 
but was at last found and the mixture is now’ 
benevolently given to the world at the rate 
of $128 per gallon. The employment at 
home man is willing to give $18 per week 
and expenses to start. The work is some¬ 
thing that anyone can do and some agents 
are now getting $50 per week or more. 
Selling Lambs.—A sheep man who for 
several years lias been raising Winter lambs 
and disposing of them through one dealer in 
this market, says that until recently he has 
been well satisfied with sales, which have 
ordinarily been above quoted prices. Of late 
some of his lambs have fallen below thes* 
figures, and he is w’ondering whether he 
ought to shift his shipments to some other 
dealer. The warm weather during the latte, 
part of January made bad work with dressed 
lambs, and it is likely that the correspond¬ 
ent's shipments suffered from this cause. Wt 
have often noticed these lambs in the store 
referred to, and certainly nothing finer 
reaches New York, in any commercial quan¬ 
tity. The dealer handles only high-grade 
goods, and there is no reason why anyone else 
should do the work better, lie gives pei 
sonal attention to the work, is careful and 
honest. The lamb man asks whether he can¬ 
not sell direct to the consumer and thus save 
all the go-betw’een changes. To dispose of 
the quantity he has, arrangements would 
have to be made with some large hotel, and 
he would then come in contact with a system 
of organized graft on the part of the steward 
and his subordinates that would make the 
commission he is now paying look small. 
Being a non-resident they would put an addi¬ 
tional pressure, and, if he balked, something 
would be found wrong with his lambs. The 
writer has these facts direct from those who 
have been bled in this way. The plan of 
dealing direct with consumer is all right but 
one must be sure that, it is not costing him 
more than to let the product go through the 
regular channels of trade. As has often been 
said before, a square dealing commission man 
who is wide awake and knows his business, is 
worthing sticking to. Dealers of this type 
are not numerous. H. 
SILAGE WITHOUT A SILO. 
A Wisconsin reader sends us the fol¬ 
lowing note from the Wisconsin Farmer. 
Mr. Rahily is a large farmer and pioneer 
of Wabasha Co., Wis.: 
In accordance with your request as to how 
I nfake silaere from clover, would say I cut 
the clover when fully matured, and stack it 
as fast as cut. It will not damage the silage 
if it should rain while cutting or stacking. 
1 build my stacks 20 by 40 feet, the larger 
the better, and put two feet of straw on top 
svhen finished. The clover must not be left 
to wilt much before stacking, as that would 
prevent the packing. 1 cut and stack about 
the 20th of July and commence feeding the 
first of January. I stack in the field where 
it is cut. About a foot on the outside of the 
stack will be waste. It is on the same prin¬ 
ciple as canning fruit. Exclude the air and 
the fruit is preserved. One-third of the 
coarse ration of all my stock during Winter 
and Spring consists of this silage. All the ani¬ 
mals seem to eat it ravenously and prefer it 
to the best of hay. I believe from experience 
this will be the future clover silage system. 
The calculation is that four tons of silage 
will occupy the same space as one ton of 
hay. The silage as it comes out of the stack 
is a dark green color, packed as solid as a 
plug of tolaicco. Y’ou could not penetrate it 
two inches with hay knife. Exclude the ah 
and all will be well. From the above you 
will perceive it is not run through a feed 
cutter, nor put in a silo. p. h. raiiily. 
TELEPHONE FACTS 
We publish a finely illustrated book that is 
full of telephone facts. It tells all about 
telephones for farms, the kind to use, 
how to organize a farm telephone company, how 
to build the lines and where to buy the best 
telephones. Free if you ask for Book 102-F. 
Strombarg-Cirlson Tel. Mfg. Co., Chicago, Rochostar, N.Y. 
Long’s White Tartar Oats 
This is the lest oats we have ever raised. It has 
averaged over 100 busli. per acre on our farm for 
two years. Magnificent large heads and big stiff 
straw. Pure seed at a low price. Ask for catalogue 
and wholesale price list of seeds. JOSEPH HARRIS 
CO., Seed Growers, Coldwater, N. Y. 
THE CALDWELL 
Galvanized 
Steel Tanks 
Are cheaper than wood 
and do not rust. Sizes 
up to 1000 gallons capa¬ 
city shipped set up. 
Write for delivered 
prices and catalogue. 
W. E. CALDWELL CO. 
Louisville, Ky. 
HARNESS ivfail 
Our plan of selling custom-made, oak-tanned harness 
by mail, direct from the factory at wholesale prices, is 
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It it ’8 faulty in any way, return it and get your money 
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THE KINO HARNESS CO., 6 Lake St. ,Owego, Tioga Co., N.Y. 
STEEL 
WHEELS 
with wide tires double the use¬ 
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We furnish them any size to 
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EMPIRE MFG. CO., BoxTOa. Quincy. I1L 
LABEL 
Stamped with your 
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Aspmw&U 
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^No. 6 Iron Age Combined^ 
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t r heel Hoe, Hill J 
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BATEMAN MFG. CO., Box 102, Crenloch.N. J. 
TILE DRAINED LAND IS MORE PRODUCTIVE 
creases the value. Acres of swampy land reclaimed and 
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These two tubs of 
butter were made from 
the same quantity of milk 
'from the same cows 
How was it done? 
Here’s the story in the words of a plain* 
honest, liard-working farmer and his wife* 
V 
KH Raymond, Nebr., June C, 1905. 
We had a water separator, and from twelve cows we made 36 lbs. of butter. The next 
H week we used a No. 6 U. S. Separator and made 74 lbs. from the same cows in the same 
pasture without any extra feed. We made $10.45 the first week after using the machine. 
H We are very much pleased with it, and could not do without it now. 
John Nbylon, 
U Mrs. N eylon. 
Are you using any gravity method to skim your milk ? If you Li e, a 
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know. 
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Bellows Falls, Vt. 
Eighteen Centrally Located Distributing Warehouses 
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