1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
The buttei - market has hardened again, 
and extras have sold at 22 cents or even a 
half cent higher. 
' During 1906 nearly 200,000.000 tons of 
coal were mined in Pennsylvania. About 
one-third of this was anthracite. 
The potato market has picked tip a little, 
both in new and old stock, an advance of 25 
cents per sack being noted on most grades. 
Strawberries. —The arrivals continue poor, 
and sales above 13 cents are exceptional, 
while many run down to seven cents or 
under. 
One of the growing industries of the Ha¬ 
waiian Islands is pineapple culture. IMnes 
do remarkably well there, the yield per acre 
being large and quality fine. Canners are 
increasing the facilities of their plants there, 
and the outlook is favorable for an output 
equal to the Maryland pack in a very few 
years. This year it will reach about 100,000 
two-dozen cases. 
The Inferences to be drawn from that new 
meat inspection bill can scarcely be consid¬ 
ered complimentary to the packing indus¬ 
try. The situation is something like locking 
a man in jail and saying : “Now be honest, 
will you?” The provisions for inspection, 
reinspection, etc., are so elaborate that it 
would seem as though a new cabinet officer, 
secretary of meat inspection, would be re¬ 
quired. 'Hie framers of the bill, recogniz¬ 
ing the increased opportunity for graft in 
this multiplication of inspectors, have pro¬ 
vided heavy penalties for bribery or attempts 
at bribery, $ 10,000 fine with possibility of 
imprisonment. What effect these new regu¬ 
lations will have on cattlemen and consum¬ 
ers remains to be seen. If the packers are 
put to any additional expense or suffer loss 
on this account they may be depended upon 
to see to it that the cattlemen and those 
who use the meat “pay the freight.” The 
business is nearly enough of a monopoly to 
ensure safeguarding I he packers’ profits. 
A Butter Question. —“We have a co¬ 
operative creamery at this place, and —, 
claiming to be a commission man in New 
York, has been soliciting our trade. He said 
he would give us highest New York quota¬ 
tions and charge no commission or cartage, 
asking us to ship 10 tubs as a sample. We 
sent 11 tubs on May 3. On May 12 they sent 
returns at 17 cents and charged commission 
besides. Now the quotation at the time the 
butter was shipped was 20% cents. Our 
secretary has written him, and he says the 
butter was poor in quality. Tell us if you 
know anything of this man.” inquirer. 
We have had no personal dealings with 
this man and merely knew him as a butter 
dealer who is apparently doing a square busi¬ 
ness and with a good reputation in the 
trade. Rut this correspondent’s experience 
is certainly unsatisfactory. Not having seen 
the butter we cannot say just what it was 
worth. Fosslbly the dealer returned the 
full price. The most fishy looking part of 
the whole matter was the offer to give highest 
N. Y. quotations and charge no commision 
or cartage. No man can do business on such 
a basis. He is bound to get pay for his 
work, and if it does not appear in the account 
of sales, it will lie taken out in some form. 
We would send no goods to any man who 
promises to sell them for nothing, because 
one who will deceive in this way will not 
hesitate to steal enough to make up all 
charges and as much more as he dares to 
take out. 
An Egg Experience. —A correspondent in 
Dominica* Leeward Islands, British West In¬ 
dies, asked me to send him a setting each 
of Pekin duck and Barred Rock eggs and 
a bread mixer. On looking up transportation 
charges it seemed necessary to make one 
package of the whole order, though it would 
have been desirable to send the eggs sep¬ 
arately. The whole package weighed 33 
pounds, and the express company charged 
$2.75 to deliver it at Dominica. In order to 
avoid delays I took the package to the main 
office of the company in this city. On apply¬ 
ing to what, according to the sign, was the 
foreign department, I was sent to another 
room, and the man (here told me to go down 
stairs. After waiting 15 minutes at what 
was said to be the right place, the clerk sent 
me to another part of the basement, and 
the man there directed me to another room, 
which proved to be the right one. It took 
the clerk just 10 minutes to figure out the 
rate, and while waiting, a man who was 
nailing the cover on a box struck a nail 
a sidewise blow. The nail flew like a bullet 
within half an inch of my nose and landed 
30 feet away. These details are given mere¬ 
ly to show the accommodations (?) which 
this great express company offers to its 
customers. Any concern but a transportation 
company would have had a receiving de¬ 
partment accessible to the public without this 
long rigmarole of running about the build¬ 
ing and down into the farther corner of the 
basement. But there was still cause for 
thankfulness that they did not order me to 
put the box on board the ship. The party 
who supplied the eggs sent three duck eggs 
more than ordered, and by way of experi¬ 
ment I thought it would be of interest to 
send these three eggs by parcels post, there 
being a parcels post agreement between this 
country and British West Indies. The three 
eggs were put in a wooden box, securely 
packed, and offered to the parcels post man 
at the General Pq?t Office. He at once said 
that he could not receive eggs in any shape, 
no matter how packed, and volunteered the 
advice that I would better “scud them hit 
express. I went to the Assistant Postmas¬ 
ter. He was courteous, but said that as 
eggs are perishable and will liquefy, they 
were ruled out. The only way they could 
be sent was to put each egg in a thick glass 
bottle, securely corked, and these bottles 
securely packed in an outer case. Possibly 
if the eggs had been boiled 15 minutes in 
the presence of the post office authorities 
they might have been accepted, but this 
would have been hard on their hatching qual¬ 
ities. I could have sent, a pair of rubber 
boots, a sledge hammer, or 50 other articles 
which no orie would want to ship by par¬ 
cels post, provided the weight was not more 
than II pounds and the girth a certain num¬ 
ber of inches, but a careful investigation of 
permissible articles shows that in most cases 
just the thing you want to send cannot go. 
The express companies know by experience 
the articles that people desire to ship, and if 
they had lieen specially consulted in work¬ 
ing" out all the details of this arrangement 
the result could scarcely have been more 
satisfactory—to them. w. w. H. 
Awful Psoriasis 35 Years. 
Terrible Scaly Humor in Patches All 
Over Body—Skin Cracked and 
Bleeding—Cured l>y Cutlcura. 
“I was afflicted with psoriasis for thirty- 
five years. It was in patches all over my 
body. I used three cakes of Cuticura 
Soap, six boxes of Ointment and two bot- 
t’es of Resolvent. In thirty days I was 
completely cured, and I think permanent¬ 
ly, as it was about five years ago. The 
psoriasis first made its appearance in red 
spots, generally forming a circle, leaving 
in the center a spot about the size of a 
silver dollar of sound flesh. In a short 
time the affected circle would form a 
heavy dry scale of white silvery appar- 
ance, and would gradually drop off. To 
remove the entire scales by bathing or 
using oil to soften them the flesh would 
be perfectly raw, and a light discharge of 
bloody substance w.ould ooze out. That 
scaly crust would form again in twenty- 
four hours. It was worse on my arms 
and limbs, although it was in spots all 
over my body, also on my scalp. If I let 
the scales remain too long without re¬ 
moving by bath or otherwise, the skin 
would crack and bleed. I suffered intense 
itching, worse at nights after getting 
warm in bed, or blood warm by exercise, 
when it would be almost unbearable. W. 
M. Chidester, Hutchinson, Kan,, April 
20. 1905.” 
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R egistered angora ooATs.-Pairs or 
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MELROSE STOCK FARM, Cineinnatus, N. Y. 
E GGS $1 per 15.- $2 per 40, from thoroughbred Brah¬ 
mas, Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds, Leghorns; 12 va¬ 
rieties; catalogue. S. K. MOHR, Coopersburg, Pa. 
EDWARD G, NOONAN, M ^T V ’ 
Breeder of Thoroughbred Poultry. Prices reasonable. 
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farmers, women. 
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S. C. BROWN LEGHORNS SSt5r,«5i 
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EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Winners at N. Y. State Fair, 1904-05. Trios, $5. Eggs 
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409 PEARL STREET NEW YORK 
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