1907*. 
TIIE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
to7 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. A MICHIGAN FRUIT EXCHANGE. 
Potatoes. —The market tins improved a 
little, though not: to the extent that was 
hoped a month ago. 
Mona Kicks. —A man In the Central West 
was sending dressed hothouse lambs to a 
well-known dealer In this city. The lambs 
were prime stock and brought high prices 
when they arrived In good condition, but 
too great proportion of the lots were sticky 
when they reached the receiver’s store, and 
had to go at half price or less. Tho lamb 
man determined to locate the trouble. lie 
saw the lambs put In the express enr at his 
station and got on the same train for a 
trip IOast. About half way to New York 
there was a change of cars and transfer of 
expreasnge. it was a warm day In late 
Winter, and his lambs (crated) were thrown 
on the platform directly In the sun. 'Hie 
other expressage was reloaded, and the train 
for New York nearly ready to leave, but 
there was no move to put on the lambs. 
The shipper approached the express agent. 
"I thought those lambs were marked for 
New York,” he said. 
"The express man, who thought him mere¬ 
ly an Inquisitive stranger, said, “That’s all 
right. They will go on the next train. 
There will lxt another one along In n couple 
of hours.” 
"Hut It seems as though they ought to go 
now.” 
“Well, what difference does it make to 
you ?” 
“Only this: 1 am the owner of those 
latnbs. The man who sells them for me In 
New York has complained that some ship¬ 
ments are spoiled when arrived, and I have 
followed this lot. to see where the trouble Is. 
I seem to have found it, and know 'just 
exactly where to enter complaint.” 
The express agent put them Into the enr 
very quickly. When the Iamb man got to 
the commission house he found the lambs 
there, hung up properly, and the employees 
wiping off the sticky parts with clean 
cloths, trying to make them presentable. 
Tin' hour's delay In the sun had Injured 
them. What shape would they have been In 
hail they waited on the platform for the next 
train? 
A commission man handling southern fruit 
In baskets found that the fruit In the bot¬ 
tom of package from one railroad station 
on In. was usually damaged. There was evi¬ 
dently something wrong In the loading at 
that place. Investigation showed that the 
express agent In charge of shipments there 
always "slid" the packages to the man In 
the car until he got nearly to the door. The 
agent was an expert at this sliding business, 
lie gave the package a quick, strong push 
so that It scooted along the ear floor like 
a rocket, lie was Indignant when told that 
this damaged the fruit, but had nothing to 
say when a package was opened carefully 
and bruised condition of the fruit In the 
bottom noted. Of course this damage done 
at the shipping point would grow much 
worse during the 40-hour trip north. 
I'ostap Kuaud Orders, "ii seems to me 
that the note (page 74) takes a narrow view 
In reference to the bill limiting the power 
of the postal authorities regarding fraud 
orders. The ('ruinpacker bill, as I understand 
It, does not In the least weaken the present 
"fraud order” law, but merely grants a right, 
of appeal to tin 1 courts for a hearing when, 
a fraud order Is Issued ugalnst. person or 
eotieern. J’.coauso the post otllee people are 
out. In the habit of abusing their powers Is 
no good reason for not being on the safe 
side and extending to any person or concern 
the right to an open and fair hearing. Are 
the post office officials infallible and the 
courts likely to make mistakes If permitted 
to review the evidence upon which fraud 
orders are Issued? Remember the order to 
change rural mall boxes." n, s. 
Connecticut. 
There Is certainly no ground for consider¬ 
ing the postal authorities Infallible, and the 
note on page 74 referred to was not Intended 
as an endorsement id' post office rulings In 
general. I>. S. is entirely accurate In his 
statements about hardships caused by rural 
mall box rulings. Hut In the Issuance of 
fraud orders the post office people have been 
so deliberate and conservative that the ... 
f"r putting a brake on this feature Is not 
apparent. Among the worst misusers of mall 
privileges are the promoters of stock lobbing 
Hellenics, and It Is a well known fact liiat the 
most strenuous workers for this court review 
oi fraud orders amendment are those deeply 
n teres led | u |i,| s form of slock fobbing, anil 
the publications that live on the advertising 
oi such promoters. Why are ihev so anxious 
V ln r« amendment? Iteeause they see 
in i i wl11 ,)l> possible to carry on what 
i ' 10 1,1 ‘‘floel a swindling game without 
i a iil: amenable to the law. To secure con- 
..'r.n 1 ! 1 , 11 /'ourt clear evidence of fraud or 
, *'audulenl luleni must lie shown, and this 
I ..„ l I M " n V. y possible until the scoundrels 
' V, pothered in a fat harvest. A man might. 
'' i i " » a most any kind of business under- 
aklng lor n million dollars or so and sell 
o«'k through the malls for two cents a 
one. Unless fraud Is glaringly evident In 
' V hmn_ he courts could not touch lids man. 
arm-iin iJ'xperlcnc© of (h) . )aNl y ,. ai . H has 
o<n l int the greater proportion of Inves- 
, i n have Mthor made 
thlML, or lost thHr money ^ntlroiy. Thero 
’ "b'jily ol reliable places for the Invesl 
' , 1 [' money without patronizing schemes 
I are at all doubtful, and It sdems In 
„..,i.! !.'Vr' N| ffi'll'le good lo lei (lie postal 
I 
I 
authorities shut these doubtful things out 
' ' mail", even though there Is not ni 
Uu lime sufficient evidence to secure a conn 
-•“"vie hm. Il ls better to head off a wrong 
d -er than punish him after In- had done the 
w. w. it. 
The Southern Michigan Fruit Association 
with headquarters at Lawton, but loading 
grapes at a number of neighboring stations, 
held its annual meeting January 4. Number 
of cars of grapes loaded In 190(1, 522; which 
was a few. more than the previous year. TTic 
average price received for Concords, eight 
pound baskets, was 11.08 cents, lowest price 
11 cents. The average price and the num¬ 
ber ol’ cars loaded would have been consider¬ 
ably larger If It bad not been for the freeze 
early In October. The black rot was quite 
prevalent and reduced (lie yield considerably. 
Ten per cent of the tolal sales are deducted 
for expenses and any loss due to bad Icing Is 
made up to the Individual grower out of this 
fund, expenses lust, year amounted to 4.7 
per cent of sales. Balance In expense fund Is 
relmted lo Individuals in proportion to their 
shipments. o. p. a. 
Matawan, Mich. 
SUCCESS WITH THE GARDEN. 
HOW TO GET THE HOST AND 
THE BEST OUT OF IT. 
The farmer or gardener who Is the most successful 
wit h IiIh garden Isn't always the one who works the 
hardest, but tho ono who makes use of the most 
up-to-date methods. 
Kvory farmer with a largo farm knows the value 
of practical garden Implements, hut not one man In 
llfty who lias only a small garden realizes how muoh 
easier they make gnruon work and what larger uud 
more uniform crops they produce. 
Take a seeder ror example. It not only outs down 
tho labor, but does tho work accurately planting In 
hills or drills, without waste Of seed and Insures tho 
best possible results. The picture below shows one 
of the most popular of ttiese time-and labor-savers— 
tho NO. 3 PLANKT Jlt. 
Some gardens may not bo large enough to use a 
seeder to good advantago, and in such eases a tool 
combining In one Implement a Boeder, with a wlioel 
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A wheel hoe has a place In even the smallest private 
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Philadelphia, to get a copy of this valuable book. 
SAW YOUR WOOD 
With ■ FOLDINU HAWIN') nidi INK. 0 CORDS by ONE HAN lw 
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The Frost VVli.-l 
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r made of heavy, laird steel wire,! 
clamped with the Frost 8teel Lock, I 
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II. B. Dlt A UK h Co., MO llro.dw.y, N»w York. 
STRENGTH 
DURABILITY 
ECONOMY ’ 
Those nro tho characterise , 
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because made of high car- 
• bon double strength Page 1 
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Box 71 , Adrian, ■Irh. ,— 
FENCE Mado?—** 
Made of High Carbon colled wire. Wo 
have no agents. Hell direct to user at 
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We pay all frolcht. Catalog shows 37 
styles and heights of farm and poultry 
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Every 
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healthiest of •Z.'i 
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J. STEVKNR ARMS AND TOOL CO. 
gOO I'lne Street 
Plilcopcc Fulls, Mass., U. H. A. 
A FLEXIBLE 
Barn Door Hanger. 
Thnt works. Allows close fitting of 
doors, nccommodatos itself to the in¬ 
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Runs easy and truo without a possi¬ 
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Fully described in catalog of Hay 
Tools, Hum and Stable Equipments, 
A copy free. Write for it and know ali 
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Louden Machinery Company, 
39 Broadway, Fairfield, Iowa. 
3* 1 Kvery wire— 
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Thickly galvanized. Best grade steel, wo mall tree sample i 
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PER ROD 
DELIVERED. 
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ARK 
RICH 
IN THE BEST 
PLANT FOOD 
FORMS OF 
HENCE THEY GIVE 
RICH CROPS AT HARVEST 
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No. 80 Pivot Wheel 
U 
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Specially adapted for potato culture. Sue-* 
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