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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
43 
SHORT TALKS. 
Public Sprayers. —The majority of peo¬ 
ple are just waking up to the necessity of 
fighting the scale, and when they get right 
at the job they will find it is not as big 
a one as it looks. Of course, I can under¬ 
stand how the little fellow with a few 
trees is not in position to do much for 
himself, and here comes a chance for a 
public sprayer. There ought to be a tree 
doctor with a good spraying outfit in eveFy 
farm neighborhood. He could do these 
small jobs of spraying at one-half what 
the original owner could and yet make a 
fine profit to himself, and it is a good bus¬ 
iness opening for an energetic young man 
everywhere. J. H. hale. 
R/N.-Y.—In theory there ought to be a 
good opening in most neighborhoods for 
such a public sprayer. He ought to know 
how to handle different insects and dis¬ 
eases and to spray at a fair price. Few 
if any people seem to have taken up the 
work. We know not why! 
Strawberry Syrup Wanted. —I am a 
druggist and notice on page 814 an inquiry 
as to the best way to use strawberries 
when too low in price to ship from the 
South. The soda-water trade use enor¬ 
mous quantities of fruit syrups, and 
strawberry is one of the favorites. 
These syrups are made from the fruit, 
and it would seem feasible for small pro¬ 
ducers to combine in a neighborhood to 
use such fruit. There are many manu¬ 
facturers of soda-water syrups in the 
North that they could sell their product 
to in a large way, manufacturing it under 
their direction and shipping by the barrel. 
Syracuse, N. Y. F. h. b. 
R. N.-Y.—In the South it often hap¬ 
pens that many crates of berries are 
wasted. There ought to be a great de¬ 
mand for such syrup, but the trouble is 
to get growers to combine for manufac¬ 
ture. Who will start it? 
Utilizing Waste Land.— In looking 
over a back number of The R. N.-Y. 
we wondered why we, in this town of 
Clarendon and the edge of Byron and a 
lot of Barre where we have thousands of 
acres of muck to drain, could not get 
such a man as M. Garrahan to come and 
show us how to raise something that 
pays better than beans, wheat and pota¬ 
toes, as they are our money crops on high 
land, aside from fruit. We know of 40 
acres or more of dry muck, that is, water 
never stands on, but damp enough to 
raise anything, that the people are too busy 
to raise garden truck on. o. j. A. 
Holley, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—A man like Mr. Garrahan 
could, if given control, demonstrate the 
value of such land so as to double its 
value. It is doubtful if such a man could 
be induced to leave his own farm. We 
are told of a case in New Mexico where 
a farmer made a great success on a small 
area. The business men of the town 
raised a fund and proposed to hire this 
man to demonstrate on a larger scale 
what could be done in “dry farming.” 
They figured that money spent in this 
way would be a good investment, since it 
would advertise the section. Our agri¬ 
cultural colleges ought to fit men capable 
of doing such work. Here is a good op¬ 
portunity for middle-aged men of experi¬ 
ence to study scientific agriculture and 
practice it. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES, AND TRADE. 
Potatoes continue very low and market 
dull. 
Apples. —Business is dull, and a very wide 
range of prices is noted, from $1 to $5 per 
barrel. 
Dressed Poultry. —The mild weather has 
been bad for this kind of trade, many ship¬ 
ments opening up slippery and discolored. 
Liability of Express Co. —An interesting 
case is noted covering the disclaimer on most 
express receipts limiting liability to $50, no 
matter what the value of shipment. A lot of 
furs worth something over $300 was lost 
by aai express company. They admitted the 
loss, but crawled behind the fine print on 
their receipt blank, the $50 liability clause. 
The municipal court could not see it this 
way, however, and awarded the loser the full 
value, and the appellate term of the Supreme 
Court has affirmed this decision. 
A Batch of Kicks —A man on Long 
Island sent 10 barrels of cucumbers to a com¬ 
mission house in this city. Two or three 
days later his brother's wife telephoned the 
dealers asking what the cucumbers brought, 
and she makes affidavit that the reply was 
that they sold for $0 per barrel, which reply 
she had repeated to make sure that there 
was no error. On this advice another lot 
was sent at once. After some delay returns 
were made at $2 for all except one barrel. 
They claim that the telephone message was 
that they were trying to get $6, not that 
the $6 had been secured. They also state 
that the market went to pieces, and that it 
took nearly three weeks to- clear out" their 
stock of cukes. At the same time the shipper 
sent several barrels to two other houses afid 
sales were made at $5 and $6. lie feels 
that he has been swindled, but how is he to 
get evidence that would be ground for a suit? 
The writer knows a good many men In the 
produce business, and for 10 years has kept 
close watch of the current of trade and the 
methods of selling used by these dealers. It 
is astonishing how many, not sharks or fak¬ 
ers, but reputable concerns, will spend money 
and time drumming up shipments and then 
handle them as though they cared nothing 
about retaining the good will of their cus¬ 
tomers. It would seem good business and a 
matter of self-protection to use all possible 
diligence in selling to advantage. The house 
referred to above bears a very fair reputa¬ 
tion, yet they admit that they kept those 
cucumbers nearly three weeks, that they could 
not sell them at all at a time when other 
concerns were getting $4 to $6, and that 
thev did not know what prices were being 
received. Granting that there was nothing 
crooked in this deal, it is plain that they 
are incompetent to handle this line of goods 
except on a hungry' market. Selling perishable 
goods is a business requiring acute judgment 
and aggressive action. If customers are 
scarce they must be looked up. 
Another case concerns a shipment of tur¬ 
keys and ducks. They did not bring as much 
as the shipper thought they should, and he 
wrote the commission man, calling him a 
thief and liar. I happened to know about 
this lot of poultry. It was not well fat¬ 
tened or neatly dressed, hence couldi not be 
expected to bring top prices. They sold on 
tile same basis as other poultry of similar 
quality, so the complaint was not justified. 
A man who was shipping mushrooms regu¬ 
larly came to this city, and entering the re¬ 
ceiver’s store without telling him who he 
was, asked the price of mushrooms. The 
salesman treated him as he would any tran¬ 
sient possible buyer, asking more than he 
expected to get so that he could come down 
a little, as the majority of such buyers try 
to beat down ttie salesman. After asking the 
price the man left immediately. When his 
returns for those mushrooms were received 
he made a wild howl because the price re¬ 
turned was not the same as that asked him 
when in the store. The fact was that the 
mushrooms sold for from five to 10 cents 
per pound less than he was asked. This 
method of “checking off” commission men has 
often been used but to be effective the in¬ 
vestigator must see ‘actual sales made. This 
man had no cause for complaint, and saw the 
point when the matter was explained. 
w. w. H. 
“Now that we’re engaged,” said the fair 
girl, “I don’t want to call you ‘Welling 
ton.’ Isn’t there some shorter name, some 
nickname that you have?” “Why, dear,” 
replied Wellington Carmichael, “the fel¬ 
lows at college used to call me—er—‘Pie- 
Face.’ ”—Philadelphia Ledger. 
*sjr- 
IRON AGE'S- 
Potato Planter 
(Improved Robbins') 
The only planter that does abso¬ 
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doubles — and gives you a uniform 
“ stand ” from the entire crop. 
No waste of land, no waste of 
seed, no waste of time and labor. 
Write for the New 1907 Iron Age Book—Free— and find out 
^ about this and all other Iron Age Potato Machinery and 
Farm Implements. ^i§ 
BATEMAN MFQ. CO., Box 103 Grenloch, N. J. 
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TILE DRAINED LAND IS MORE PRODUCTIVE SSrM'l 
creases the value. Acres of swampy land reclaimed anti made fertile. 
Jackson's Round Drain Tile meets every requirement. Wealso make Sewer 
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for what you want and prices. JOHN U. JACKSON, 76 Third Are., Albany, N. Y. 
A low wagon 
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Handy for 
the farmer. 
Will carry a 
load any- 
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Low Down Wagons 
soon earn their cost on any farm. 
Steel Wheels 7 
for farm wagons. Straight or stag¬ 
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width of tire. Hubs to lit any axle. 
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Cider Machinery-Send for Catalogue to Boomer & 
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18 CHATHAM SQUARE. Established 1816. NEW YORK CITY 
The Oldest Mail Order House in America. 
Cambridge Steel Plows 
have back of them 61 years experience in plow 
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20to40 Foundry St., Cambridge, N.Y. 
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llJi® AMERICAN Manure Spreader 
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# Don’t ASK You to Send Cash 
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__ w. Wm Cottier, Gen. Manager 
American Harrow Co., 1645 Hastings St., Detroit, Mich. 
