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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 16, 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Applks.—T he heavy Know and cold snap 
have upset the apple business for the time 
and caused considerable permanent' loss from 
frozen fruit in cars and on dock. A ten-inch 
snowfall in the country does not tie up 
business, merely making good sleighing, but 
in a section like downtown New York truck 
drivers are about helpless, and it is a weari¬ 
some job to wait for relief from the street 
cleaning department. Surprise has been ex¬ 
pressed at the low quotations on Northern 
Spy, which, at its best is admitted by most 
people to be of top-notch quality. The 
reason is that choice or even fairly good 
Spies are scarce this year. Fruit retailers 
who handle the best regardless of price can 
get few Spies suitable for their trade. The 
wholesale price of $2 to $3.50 quoted is ample 
for present offerings of this variety. 
White Egos. —The New York market dis¬ 
crimination in favor of white eggs is lessen¬ 
ing. There is still sufficient preference to 
warrant a top quotation for whites, but this 
([notation does not represent nearly so many 
sales ns formerly. Every week there are 
sales of fancy white at price of brown. 
White eggs are likely to lie discounted if 
small or of uneven size, and dealers who 
at one time were able to get a few cents 
premium for the entire run of White Leg¬ 
horn flocks if quickly gathered and shipped 
now find difficulty in getting more than a 
straight market price unless the eggs are 
graded as to size. This would not be prac¬ 
tical in farm flocks where only a case or 
two per week is gathered. The western eggs, 
which are handled by so many of the large 
dealers and Mercantile Exchange operators, 
are graded, so that a whole case will run 
uniform in size, and small and dirty eggs 
are sold separately. When shipments of 
fresh collections come through promptly from 
the Central West, consumers prefer them to 
the general run of fresh nearby eggs of odd 
sizes. 
Snapping Turtles.—W here can I dispose 
of snapping turtles? a. j. h. 
Iowa. 
There is a slow and rather uncertain de¬ 
mand for these turtles among the fish, deal¬ 
ers in this city. As a rule they sell for from 
four to six cents per pound, but might not 
bring enough to pay charges. It is doubtful 
whether shipments from as far west as 
Iowa would pay, unless a better market, than 
has yet been found could be developed. One 
dealer of whom Inquiry was made said that 
many people do not know the genuine snap¬ 
ping turtle, confusing it with the common 
land or mud turtle, which is practically 
worthless. One unmistakable sign is his 
savage nature. He does not: believe in haul¬ 
ing his head into his shell but faces his 
enemy and luis a grip that would discount a 
bulldog. Most large dictionaries describe and 
illustrate this special turtle (Chelydra ser¬ 
pentina). 
In looking about to learn where the vari¬ 
ous products of the farm shipped here finally 
go some strange facts are noted. A poultry 
commission house t lie day before Christmas 
had a lot of delayed poultry arrive. All but 
one package was in a condition making im¬ 
mediate sale necessary, and most of the 
wholesale business was already over. Rut 
a man keeping a low grade East Side provi¬ 
sion store stopped. That poultry on the 
verge of spoiling meant a bargain for him, 
and after dickering he agreed to take the 
whole lot. When he came to the one package 
of strictly sound poultry he threw it out. 
“Why do you do that?” said the seller, 
“those turkeys are worth twice as much as 
the others." 
“That’s the trouble. They're so good that 
I can't handle them. My customers will pay 
only low prices, and that one lot of sound 
poultry would spoil the trade for the grades 
I have to carry to keep prices low enough. 
If I should sell that lot for nine cents they 
would think their regular grade ought to go 
for five or six." 
This sounds incredible, though it actually 
happened, and is an unpleasant illustration 
of the awful and constant fight waged by 
unwholesome food against bodies and minds 
of the city poor. ' w. w. h. 
will grow without cultivation and fertilizer. 
Let. us have more tomato talk before we con¬ 
tract, s. K. P. 
Delaware. 
G. W. S., Newtonville, O., discusses the pro¬ 
duction of tomatoes for the cannery In his lo¬ 
cality, and asks for experiences of other grow¬ 
ers. He says the crop yielded about 100 bush¬ 
els per acre, for which he received 20 cents 
per bushel or $20 per acre. I have been a 
grower of tomatoes both early and late for 25 
years, and I wonder at some of these state¬ 
ments, and why farmers do not do a little 
more figuring on their own account. Here 
in New Jersey we could not think of grow¬ 
ing this crop for anything like what G. W. 
S. received for his, which is $0,605 per ton 
delivered at factory. Let us see for a mom¬ 
ent what it cost to produce an acre of late 
tomatoes here in New Jersey. Plowing 1 
acre, $1.50; harrowing and furrowing, $1 ; 
e.ight tons manure. $16; applying same. 
$2.50 : 400 pounds fertilizer, $6 ; plants and 
setting, $5; cultivation, $2: one hoeing, $1 ; 
rent of land. $0; picking and carting. $4; 
total cost, $45. 
In tabulating this cost of production I 
have been very conservative, but knowing 
that conditions are not the same the country 
over, I felt that I should not go too high. 
The item of rent of land is too low for my 
locality. The cost of picking and carting 
is also too low, but I made it to conform to 
his (G. W. S.) yield of 100 crates per acre. 
Again, the item of manure may in some in¬ 
stances on good strong land be cut out en¬ 
tirely, and only fertilizers be used; in that 
case the cost of production would be cut to 
$20.50 per acre. Supposing that to be the 
case, he is yet short $0.50. Is it any wonder 
that we hear daily that “farming don’t 
pay"? Mow long is this condition of af¬ 
fairs going to exist? Just as long as farmers 
will allow the other fellow to set prices for 
his produce and no longer. The time is fully 
ripe—with farm labor at the price it is— 
for farmers to get together and know what 
is a fair price for what they produce, then 
ask and stand by it. till they receive it. 
No business under the sun ever prospered 
where the buyer made the price. I say to 
the men in G. \V. S.'s article who are stand¬ 
ing out for 25 cents per crate to marshal 
your forces and do not produce a tomato 
for any less. The growers here who plant 
for canneries are holding for $10 per ton 
this season. Individually I would not do 
that, beeaus'e 1 can plant such crops as will 
pay me better. It is for every producer to 
study this question and plant such crops 
as will pay him the most for time and 
labor expended. c. c. HUI.sart. 
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TOMATOES FOR CANNERIES. 
We have grown tomatoes in Delaware for 
10 to 15 years. The cannery paid the first 
year $0 per ton, and had their own scales 
to weigh, and the cannery has reluctantly 
raised the price to $8 per ton. The farmers 
don’t care to raise them at that figure; any 
farmer should have $10 per ton or put his 
land in potatoes or clover or some other 
crop. There is money in tomatoes hut the 
grower does not get it; some one else does. 
I cannot say what it costs to grow tomatoes 
per acre; I don’t care to know; if I did I 
would not set. any more. We pay from two 
cents to two and a half per five-eighths 
basket for picking; we deliver them for 
contract price. The catiner now offers us 
$8 per ton this season. The farmers are 
not anxious to contract for that. I see your 
canner offers you but $7 per ton; you cannot 
grow them fop less than $t) per ton. unless 
your land will yield 10 tons per acre, and 
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