1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PRODUCTS , PRICES AND TRADE. 
At New Orleans the first bale of the new 
cotton was sold for 46 cents per pound. 
Oranges have sold at high prices recently, 
some California Valencias bringing nearly $7 
per box. This fruit is of excellent quality. 
According to the estimate of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Railroad there will be about 2,600,- 
000 baskets of peaches shipped from Dela¬ 
ware this year. 
An important appointment is that of Dr. 
TJ. G. Ilauck as chief of that branch of the 
meat inspection service in charge of meats 
intended for inter-S.tate commerce. Dr. 
Ilauck is a skilled veterinarian and has 
made a special feature of that branch of 
chemistry dealing with living organisms. 
That wonderful American Farm Products 
Co., is geting another newspaper boom. Some 
of the stories printed about it read like fairy 
tales, and others sound like straight adver¬ 
tising, paid for at so much a line. Those 
at present handling the products that this 
company purposes monopolizing are not 
worried, having heard similar talk before. 
The combination of money and brains neces¬ 
sary to control the sale of all farm products 
may now be in the process of incubation, 
but something more than eight-hour days 
and newspaper talk will be needed to put 
the thing on a working basis. 
Patent medicines have a hard row to hoe 
In Switzerland. There is no national law 
but each canton has power to handle the 
matter as It sees fit. In some cantons all 
medicines must be examined by a medical 
association. The results are published, and 
any containing objectionable ingredients, 
offered at exorbitant prices, or showing evi¬ 
dence of fraud, are thrown out. In two 
states secret remedies can neither be ad¬ 
vertised nor sold. Such restrictions put a 
quietus on those exponents of outdoor pub¬ 
licity, who without these regulations would 
decorate all paintable portions of the Alpine 
landscape with advice to use Tadmore's pills 
or Skagg’s Extract of Snapdragon. 
A New Jersey egg man, who can furnish 
00 dozen guaranteed eggs every week, is 
very anxious to reach a special market for 
his product. Recently he obtained an in¬ 
troduction to the head steward of a very 
large and fashionable hotel in New York. 
He began to talk eggs, but was informed 
that the hotel used 90 dozen guaranteed 
fresh eggs every day for boiling, poaching, 
etc., in addition to the quantity used in 
other ways, so it would not be worth while 
for the hotel to bother with any one individ¬ 
ual who could only supply one day’s supply 
a week. Handling the food supply depart¬ 
ment of a big hotel is a complicated job, 
and the head steward must depend on supply 
houses that will keep him stocked up, rain 
or shine, regardless of whether the hens go 
on strike or the barn burns. In the special 
hotel referred to in this note, the buying 
department probably tolerates less of that 
variety of hotel graft, which has been re¬ 
ferred to previously, than most places, yet 
where supplies are bought in small quan¬ 
tities from a large number of people the 
employees have increased opportunity for 
getting fees from those who furnish the 
goods. 
Wiiat Made the Difference? “Having 
noticed so many times your advice and 
warning to shippers, I enclose two accounts 
of sales, which speak for themselves. I 
have been shipping to these parties for the 
last two years, and never have had such a 
discrepancy before. These berries were all 
gathered, packed, and shipped at the same 
time; they were put in the same refriger¬ 
ator car, and were marked indiscriminately 
to the two parties. You will see such a dif¬ 
ference in the prices obtained, that I can¬ 
not help thinking that there must be some 
mistake about it. The reason I write you 
is, my experience has been with commission 
merchants, in making my complaints, they 
usually have some fault to find with the 
goods after they have sent their checks. I 
have always thought highly of - 
& Co., and believe they would do the right 
thing. It is true, I am not a large shipper, 
but my knowledge and observation have 
been that it is the little fellow who suffers 
most after all, as they don't think his busi¬ 
ness is worth fooling with, but he can talk 
nevertheless, and Is a walking advertisement 
for any concern who treats him right.” 
North Carolina. shipper. 
The accounts of sales referred to each 
covered returns for four crates of black¬ 
berries. One lot sold at 4% cents and the 
other seven cents. As the man who sent 
these berries declares that they were of the 
same quality, packed and handled the same, 
he quite naturally finds it hard to account 
for the different prices obtained by these 
two houses within a few blocks of each 
other, both having good locations and being 
reputable concerns. Not being well ac¬ 
quainted with the concern which got the 
highest price in this ease, I thought at first 
that this might be a case of “writing up” 
the returns merely as a bait to get the 
shipper away from the other house, but 
further Investigation shows that this is not 
at all probable, as their business methods 
are all contrary to such snide or sensational 
policies. So there seems to be no way to 
account for it except that the man who sold 
highest found a better customer early in 
the day than the other receiver, an incident 
that often occurs in the handling of perish¬ 
able goods. There are very many days in 
the year when the quotation on perishables 
printed in newspapers giving market news 
is not at all a fair average of the day's 
business. Different prices may be noted 
every hour or oftener. Many concerns will 
not tell an outsider what they get or pay for 
stuff, this policy being one of self defense 
against competitors. There would be no 
way to get a correct average of a day's 
business in fruits, for instance, but to com¬ 
pel by law every house to report details of 
its transactions, a thing entirely out of the 
question. Of what account, then, are the 
published quotations on perishables? Very 
little usually except as covering a small 
fraction of the business of a day. With 
the more staple articles, which do not need 
to be disposed of so quickly, conditions are 
different, and a man with eyes wide open 
may make up an average figure that will 
fairly represent the day’s business. The 
quotations printed in The R. N.-Y. for the 
most part represent current prices at the 
time of going to press, but in some cases, 
where an average of two or three days' 
prices seems more nearly to show the tone 
of the market, average figures are given. 
Regarding the last paragraph of the in¬ 
quirer's letter, It is true that some people 
do neglect the small shipper, though the 
custom is not so general as might be sup¬ 
posed. I know that the man who sold at 
the lowest price in the case mentioned is 
especially careful to see that small shippers 
are not neglected, not from specially benevo¬ 
lent motives, but as a matter of business, 
realizing that every shipper is a traveling 
advertisement. w. w. h. 
BUILDING CEMENT CISTERN. 
A. M. W„ Troy, N. Y .—I wish to build a 
cistern about 10x10 to hold four feet of 
water—soil loam. Shall I use river sand or 
river gravel? Dow much sand or gravel to 
cement (Portland) ? How thick shall I 
make the bottom? How thick the sides, us¬ 
ing boards only on the inside of the cement, 
the dirt for outer form? Can I let the bot¬ 
tom “set” before building sides? If so, 
will there not be a weak spot w.here new 
and old cement unite? Will it be an advan¬ 
tage to paint the inside with tar or asphalt? 
Location of cistern under piazza on north 
side of house. How deep should the soil be 
over cistern to prevent injury by freezing? 
Would you advise longer and narrower and 
cement arch over top? How thick the arch? 
Ans. —I should prefer the river gravel 
mixed thoroughly six parts to one of 
Portland cement. If the gravel is ex¬ 
ceedingly coarse, use about one-fifth of 
the bulk of sand with it. After excavat¬ 
ing put up the “forms” six indies from 
the dirt; make the concrete stiff enough 
so it will ram together solid. About one 
foot from the top set in reinforcing wire, 
which shall be long enough to reach at 
least two-thirds of the distance across 
the top; three-eighths or one-half inch is 
large enough. As soon as the concrete 
has set take away the forms and put in 
four inches in the bottom of the same 
combination used on the sides; then cover 
the bottom with one inch of Portland one 
part and sand two parts. Then plaster 
the side walls with the same two to one 
mixture; this will make a smooth sur¬ 
face, and prevent any possible chance for 
leakage. Do not put the bottom in first. 
The form of the cover will depend on the 
size. You can safely depend upon a plain 
flat slab four inches thick over a width 
of five feet. If the cistern is wider one 
of two methods may be advised. Small 
iron I beams may be set across four feet 
apart, boards laid on the lower flange, 
just enough lap to hold. They can be 
taken out after the concrete has set. 
Leave a man-hole and also a small en 
trance for water pipes. An arch cover 
can be built, not as expensive perhaps 
Put on a form, which will have a rise of 
two inches to the foot; that is, if the 
cistern is eight feet wide the center of the 
cover would be eight inches higher than 
the sides. Let two inches of this cover 
thickness drop down on .the side wall, 
and the four inches rest upon the side 
wall with a thickness at the center of four 
inches. Bend the reinforcing rods so 
they will occupy the center of the cap. 
One foot of dirt will be sufficient to pre¬ 
vent freezing. Follow these plans and 
you will have a cistern satisfactory in 
every way. h. e. cook. 
577 
SIX MONTHS WITH HENS. 
I have been interested in Mr. Cos¬ 
grove’s reports of his success with poultry 
in The R. N.-Y., and thought you might 
like some figures of whai has been done 
with practically the same number of hens 
for comparison with his reports. I have 
370 S. C. Brown Leghorns and 70 cross¬ 
bred ; Brown Leghorn cockerels with 
Barred Plymouth Rock pullets; all eggs 
have been sold at market prices, partly to 
retail customers and part by the case to 
stores, in Gardner, Mass., a town of 
12,000 people, near here. A few cases 
were sold for 19 cents per dozen, but 
mostly for 20 cents, and at present 22 
cents with retail prices three or four cents 
higher; during January from 35 cents 
down to 27 cents. I have about 475 chicks 
and intend to keep about 200 pullets and 
400 1 
liens 
through 
the 
next 
season. 
Egg Record 
, 1906. 
Jan. Feb, 
Mch. 
Apr. 
May 
June 
1 
71 
126 
207 
232 
286 
237 
2 
8t 
144 
225 
266 
278 
261 
3 
73 
159 
227 
251 
274 
245 
4 
SO 
149 
218 
244 
266 
258 
5 
74 
160 
*>*>*> 
249 
300 
247 
6 
73 
168 
250 
241 
309 
241 
7 
79 
142 
224 
247 
278 
217 
8 
70 
168 
253 
249 
272 
266 
9 
90 
173 
227 
248 
296 
237 
10 
82 
171 
268 
260 
269 
230 
11 
93 
174 
210 
230 
234 
230 
12 
92 
179 
258 
262 
271 
228 
13 
96 
191. 
223 
231 
263 
243 
14 
87 
185 
227 
249 
231 
213 
15 
90 
195 
OOP 
270 
235 
225 
16 
91 
173 
237 
238 
251 
209 
17 
88 
190 
199 
241 
243 
214 
18 
'll 
188 
245 
265 
250 
192 
19 
91 
190 
216 
264 
250 
210 
20 
91 
200 
220 
255 
246 
216 
21 
80 
188 
224 
278 
267 
220 
22 
107 
202 
213 
277 
259 
219 
23 
89 
185 
236 
277 
230 
QOO 
24 
89 
230 
231 
321 
251 
210 
25 
110 
206 
214 
252 
254 
21 2 
26 
106 
196 
219 
269 
230 
234 
27 
103 
226 
234 
of) 2 
262 
224 . 
28 
135 
217 
215 
217 
270 
221 
29 
121 
225 
284 
246 
213 
30 
122 
254 
273 
247 
204 
31 
153 
235 
271 
o 
.898 
5,075 7,087 
7,799 
8,089 
6,798 
Total 
. 
. 
. 
. 
37,746 
No. Hens. 
.. 98 
98 
98 
98 98 97 
Pullets ., 
... 342 342 341 340 339 336 
Average per hen... 
...86 
January, 
egg sales 
$78.44 
1 
chicken . .. . 
.50 
February, 
egg sales 
100.16 
March, egg sales.. 
113.76 
April, 
egg 
sales. .. 
110.44 
May, 
egg 
sales. 
164.55 
June, 
egg 
sales... . 
123.74 
$691.56 
January, paid for grain. 
February, 
paid for 
grain 
41.35 
March, paid for grain.. 
38.60 
Eggs 
for hatching. . 
14.45 
April, 
eggs for hatching. 
6.00 
Paid 
for grain 
44.95 
May, 
paid 
for grain.... 
61.30 
uiirie, 
paid 
for grain.... 
67.85 
$312.30 
Less 
Beef scraps sold. $26.45 
Used for house, etc. 20.00 
Balance . 
East Templeton, Mass. 
46.45 
$265.85 
$691.56 
265.85 
-$425.71 
C. H. V. 
Running Sores on Limbs. 
Little Girl’s Obstinate Case of Eczema- 
Mother Says: “Cuticura Remedies 
a Household Standby.” 
“Last year, after having my little girl 
treated by a very prominent physician for 
an obstinate case of eczema, 1 resorted to 
the Cuticura Remedies, and was so well 
pleased with the almost instantaneous re- 
icf afforded that we discarded the physi¬ 
cian’s prescription and relied entirely on 
the Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment 
and Cuticura Pills. When we commenced 
with the Cuticura Remedies her feet and 
limbs were covered with running sores. 
In about six weeks we had her completely 
well, and there has been no recurrence of 
the trouble. W find that the Cuticura 
Remedies are a valuable household stand¬ 
by, living as we do twelve miles from a 
doctor, and where it costs from twenty to 
twenty-five dollars to come up on the 
mountain. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas, 
Fairmount, Walden’s Ridge, Tenn., Oct. 
13, 1905.” 
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