1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
297 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
Some weeks ago we had occasion to re¬ 
fer to a dispute which arose between F. 
H. Keeler & Co., commission merchants 
of 104 Murray street, New York City, 
and E. W. Catchpole, a fruit grower of 
North Rose. N. Y. It will be remem¬ 
bered that Mr. Catchpole tried to serve 
a summons on the company so as to get 
the dispute adjusted in the courts, but 
was unable to find a member of the firm, 
so as to effect a legal service. In this 
connection the following statement from 
another shipper may be of interest: 
On January 12 T shipped 24 half barrels of 
sweet potatoes to F. IT. Keeler & Co. At the 
same time I sent a shipment of the same 
stock to Archdeacon & Co., and got a prompt 
return. I wrote Keeler & Co. three times, 
and could get no reply. After a while they 
wrote that the stock had been all cleaned 
out. and they thought returns had l>een for¬ 
warder. They promised to look it up, but 
not hearing from them I wrote again, and 
still no reply. I then wrote The It. N.-Y. 
about, it. and after your intercession I re¬ 
ceived the returns, but the net returns were 
15 cents less a basket than from Archdeacon 
& Co. 
A Massachusetts shipper complains that 
he sent goods to P. H. Wallace & Co., 
commission merchants, of 48 Clinton 
street, Boston, Mass., and could get no 
returns or acknowledgment of any kind. 
1 hey also refuse to reply to our inquiry 
about the shipment. It is evidently one 
of the concerns that should be let alone. 
We have no let up on the number of 
letters that praise The R. N.-Y. Here is 
one: 
I am a painter by trade, also run a two- 
cow farm. I consider The It. N.-Y. the best 
investment. I make in the whole year. 
Vermont. e. l . p. 
Here is another: 
Your “Publisher’s Desk” alone makes your 
paper invaluable, to say nothing of its merits 
as an up-to-date farm manual. It is truly 
refreshing the way you go after the many 
parasites that are preying upon the innocent 
tiller of the soil, through the agency of 
1'ncle Sam's mails. Keep on hitting the par¬ 
cels post until Platt is dead or forced to bow 
to the people’s demands. j. t. 
Indiana. 
Here is one more letter: 
I received the book. “The Farmer's Garden,” 
and it is just what I have been looking for, a 
book with good plain facts so there is no 
cause to make mistakes. r. h. r. 
New York. 
We print the above letter because we 
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garden book. Thousands of them have 
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PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE . 
A steamer from Para, Brazil, recently 
brought to this port 956,000 pounds of rubber, 
worth at present prices about $1,500,000. 
Lettuce has been unusually poor, the 
heads small and loose. Anything approaching 
fancy lias retailed at high prices, 10 to 15 
cents per head. 
Potatoes: Conditions are not improved; 
$2 per barrel is the very top wholesale price 
for Maine stock, and this figure is only oc¬ 
casionally reached. 
Heavy seizures of hob veal have been made 
during the past week, more than 1,000 car¬ 
casses having been destroyed by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. 
Oed cabbage is high, with the exception of 
red, of which there seems to be a surplus. 
Lest white, grown from Danish seed, has sold 
up to $55 per ton. New cabbage from Florida 
and Charleston brings $2 to $3 per barrel 
crate. 
Larue numbers of immigrants are arriving 
here at present. In one day during the past 
week 3,000 were unloaded on Ellis Island, 
jins is said to beat all records for a single 
day. Nearly 30,000 were landed during the 
week. 
O'jr consul general at Cairo, Egypt, states 
ris 1 hat couniry is in a very prosperous con¬ 
dition. The high price of cotton lias made 
money plentiful. Ileal estate values have ad¬ 
vanced. and there is a general building boom 
near the large cities. 
Tke expense of caring for the City of New 
ioi'k is about $50 per inhabitant. That is. 
’.‘‘ere are about 4,000.000 people, and $200,- 
000,000 is the cost of carrying on the city 
business. The 51,000 city employees receive 
about $70,000,000 salary. 
Beans.— Trade is dull and prices quoted 
on market page for marrow and white kidney 
represent the figures at which they are held 
lather than actual sales. Very few of either 
(i o ail*,' varieties’ could be sold for more 
than $3 per bushel. They would have to 
bright and clean and entirely free from 
id d no vs UIe * S a ex P° rt trade in red 
market is slightly improved. 
,i. c !U ' e “aking an effort to get rid of 
about as fast as received, even though 
d •on eS m hav ? t0 be cut a little. The heavy 
‘ n P ri ces during the Iasi six weeks has 
handlers conservative. Some of 
carrying about as heavy a load of 
not il oss i bl ® without bankruptcy and are 
not disposed to do any more plunging. I 
know of a number who sold large quantities 
of their holdings at about one-half what the 
stock cost them. 
Apples. —The offerings are rather large at 
present, yet there appears to be plenty of 
people who are willing to pay $5 and $6 per 
barrel for good fruit. The chief varieties 
seen here at present are: Ben Davis, Spy, 
King, Baldwin, Greening and Russet. A few 
choice Greenings have brought the highest 
figure of anything lately, and when such an 
apple is broken open the reason is quickly 
noted, the rich, yellow, tender flesh and de¬ 
cidedly agreeable flavor, good either raw 
or cooked. I recently met baked apple in a 
shape that was new to me. The apples were 
washed and quartered, the core removed, 
hut the skin left on. These pieces were put 
in a shallow dish, sugared to taste and 
baked until tender. The flavor seemed better 
lban that of stewed or steamed apples, and 
they were more juicy than when baked whole. 
“The worst job I have at present is to 
prevent people from shipping maple sugar and 
syrup to me,” said a produce dealer who has 
formerly handled large quantities of maple 
products. The reason why lie is refusing 
shipments this year is that food inspectors 
have found on his premises some which after 
testing they pronounced adulterated, thus 
making the dealer handling it liable to a 
fine. He had not meddled with it, and the 
man who made the shipment declared that it 
was pure, but the inspectors said otherwise. 
I asked the dealer why he did not label it 
merely “syrup" and sell it as such, but he 
said that it would not bring enough to pay 
for handling. Of course people have a right 
to know what they are buying, and maple 
products blended with other sweets should 
not be sold as pure. But the fact is that a 
slight toning down of the verv strong pure 
maple flavor is agreeable to some tastes. It 
looks very much as though it might be nec¬ 
essary to educate the buyer to use this syrup 
without any pure maple guarantee, buying 
on sample. So long as the goods hold up to 
the sample and the flavor is what the buyer 
wants, this method ought to be satisfactory, 
though some time will be required to remove 
the prejudice caused by an acknowledgment 
that the product is not pure maple. it. 
Silo Construction.— It seems to me 
Mr. Manchester in his recent article on 
has failed to describe the most difficult 
of silo construction: that is the doors, 
do not want to throw it all out at the 
M. 
that 
silos 
part 
We 
top. 
G. 
$16.00 AN ACRE 
Western 
Canada 
is the amount many 
farmers will realize 
from their wheat crop 
this year. 
25 Bushels to the Acre 
will be the 
Average Yield of Wheat 
The land that this was grown on cost 
many of the farmers uhmdutclv noth. 
Ing, while those who wish to add to the 
160 acres the Government grants, can 
bay land adjoining at from $6 to $10 
an acre. 
Climate splendid, schools and 
churches convenient, railways 
close at hand, taxes low. 
Send for pnmphlot "20th Century Can- 
ada’ and full particulars regarding 
rate, etc., to Superintendent of Immi¬ 
gration, Ottawa. Can.; or to 
THOS. DUNCAN, Canadian Government Agent 
Syracuse Rank Building, SYRACUSE, N. T. 
Mention this paper. 
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Before you buy roof¬ 
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a small poultry house to the 
largest mill or factory, it will pay 
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with fixtures packed in the center.) 
Our concern was 
Founded in 1817 
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East Walpole, Mass. 
New York, Washington,Chicago, 
Hamilton, Ont. 
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What Two 
They* can virtually 
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melon vines. Instant Louse Killer is the 
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1 lb. 25c 
3 lbs.60c 
Except iu Canada < 
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