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THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 1, 
IMPROVING SEED POTATOES. 
At t.ljp Now York institutes tbit past 
Winter Prof. II. .1. Webber, of Cornell, 
gave a method of selecting and planting 
seed to improve the yield. lie advocated 
<afefully selecting a large number of 
ideally shaped tubers of nearly the same 
size from a variety which you know tp 
be .a good producer for the section. These 
selected tubers should be cut into uniform 
sized quarters and planted in hills a uni¬ 
form distance apart. The hills should be 
at least a foot and a half apart in the 
rows, in order that there will .not be mix¬ 
ing of tubers in the hill. The small 
breeding patch planted with these selected 
tubers can be placed in one corner of tbe 
gem ral field, but should be on as uniform 
soil as possible. 
In harvesting this patch dig each hill 
separately by hand and lay the tubers of 
each bill together at the side of tbe row. 
After the patch lias been dug tbe first pro¬ 
cess should be to eliminate all poor yield¬ 
ing bills. This the grower can usually do 
by going down each row and taking out 
the low yielding hills, so that till the re¬ 
maining hills are good bills. It then re¬ 
mains for tlie grower to select from those 
good yielding hills those which are the 
very best, the so-called gilt-edged •.bills*. lie 
should now go over the patch again row 
by row. and pick out from among the good 
bills the very best ones. By host one 
would mean not only those which are the 
very highest in yield, but those which have 
the largest number of good-sized market¬ 
able tubers of regular shape. Some good 
yielding hills show a tendency to form 
irregular tubers, which of course would 
make the hill useless for selection pur¬ 
poses. As rapidly as the best hills are 
selected the best tubers front these can he 
taken out and preserved separately as 
breeding stock tubers. The remaining 
tubers in these gilt-edged hills can be 
utilized along with tbe remaining good 
hills for planting the general crop tbe next 
year. Tbe breeding stock seed which rep¬ 
resents tin* lies! tubers from tbe best bills 
should be preserved to plant another 
breeding, patch the next year. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
OitKKN Stuff.—T his lias been a week of 
low prices for southern green vegetables.es¬ 
pecially the salads, peas, beans and lettuce. 
The receipts of cabbage have been large, 
but demand heavy enough to keep prices 
up. 
Sthawberkies of excellent quality are 
arriving in New York from Florida and 
the Carolinas. Of course, they are not 
equal to nearby berries, but are much supe¬ 
rior to the hard sour fruit so often noted 
in southern receipts. Fancy berries retail 
.at 25 or 30 cents nor basket, though I 
have seen some with an occasional soft 
berry sold as low as 15 cents. 
Hothouse Lambs. Heavy losses have 
recently been noted owing to tbe hot or 
muggy weather in transit. One day of 
this sort is enough to do great damage to 
dressed lambs shipped hy express without 
refrigeration. Where tbe egreass is only 
slightly sour in one place, the neck, for ex¬ 
ample. prompt cutting up and storage in 
a cold room will avoid total loss. Half 
the land) may be saved or only a single 
quarter, but at best it is a bad job for 
liotb shipper and receiver. One man who 
was getting a nice line of lambs from the 
Middle West bad a lot from two or three 
shippers come in bad order on the same 
day. He did everything lie could and 
saved part of the meat. Tbe weather since 
lias been largely favorable, hut be lias had 
no further lambs from tKoso men. They 
did not doubt his honesty but preferred 
to s* 11 nearby at a lower price rather than 
to risk further long-distance shipments Ibis 
spring. At this time of year lambs 
should be opened much lower than early 
in the season, so that air may circulate 
freely through the cut portion. Fare is 
needed to avoid any retention of the liq¬ 
uids in the neck. Of course, all animal 
beat should be out before the carcass is 
wrapped and shipped. 
Grain Prices. —The recent skilfully en¬ 
gineered wheat corner in Chicago has 
yielded its chief promoters a profit of 
about $4.000.000. a sleight-of-hand perform¬ 
ance that rather discounts Hermann or the 
Japanese jugglers. There lias been no spe¬ 
cial movement of tlie actual grain other 
than that caused by Hu* usual steady de¬ 
mand. and there is probably neither more 
nor loss wheat in tbe country on account 
of this spectacular speculation, yet some¬ 
body has made $4,000,000 without pro¬ 
ducing anything worth while or contrib¬ 
uting any more to tlie country's welfare 
H'an tbe burglar who cracks a safe or 
the counterfeiter who gets cash for worth¬ 
less paper. In fact, the same quality of 
mental insight and moral purpose exer¬ 
cised in cornering wheat is dominant in 
the make-up of the safe crackers, counter¬ 
feiters and hold-up men. To curse Mr. 
Patten or any other speculator is a waste 
of time and language. The mischief is 
done bpfore tbe public learns about it. 
T’-ev are frankly in the business to make 
quick money by any method the law will 
permit. 
Such plans are hatched and carried to 
the “sticking point.” in secrecy. Remove 
the legal right to conceal in storage un¬ 
limited quantities of any public necessity, 
and corners in food stuffs, with their en¬ 
suing misery, eon 1 d not exist. Yet such 
searching supervision of storage with full 
and regular public reports would be ex¬ 
actly in line with existing laws considered 
necessary to safeguard public welfare in 
transportation, insurance and banking. The 
railroad rebate System at its worst was 
no more detrimental to public peace and 
property than is this continual tinkering 
with the law of supply and demand by 
speculators- in food products, w. w. ji. 
CHEESE PROSPECTS IN JEFFERSON CO. 
The cheese season in Northern New 
York lias opened earlier than usual this 
Spring, and Hie April make has been larger 
than for many years. The increased early 
production lias been stimulated by the ab¬ 
normally high prices offered, 12(4 to 13 
cents having been paid freely by buyers for 
the April make. The scarcity of old cheese 
lias caused a brisk demand for tbe new 
make, which has been taken entirely by 
home traders, exporters regarding quota¬ 
tions as dangerously high. Colored cheese 
has been in better demand than white, as 
stocks of tlie former remaining from last 
year are practically exhausted. 
Prices on cheese are opening higher than 
for many years, and the prospects for a 
good season are exceedingly bright. Buyers 
had a profitable year last season, as their 
purchases have been cleaned up at good 
margins of profit and the new season opens 
with the market nearly hare of old cheese. 
One year ago the opening prices on cheese. 
May 1, on tlie Watertown Produce Ex¬ 
change, were 914 to 0% cents on twins 
and 10 to 10% cents on large, the demand 
from exporters being better than from 
home traders, owing to tbe considerable 
amount of old cheese in storage. This 
season conditions are reversed, as the 
home traders are dominating the market. 
The average price for cheese for the sea¬ 
son of 1908 on the Watertown Produce 
Exchange was $.1142, as against 12 2-5 
cents in 1007 and $.1158 in 100(5. With 
the present favorable conditions there 
seems good reason for expecting that this 
year's average will equal if not exceed that 
of 1908. The season, so far as pasturage 
is concerned, is later than usual, the grass 
being delayed by tbe cold weather during 
tbe latter part of April. However, dairy¬ 
men have been feeding mill stuffs fairly 
liberally in spite of the high prices they 
are compelled to pay for such feeds. Wa¬ 
tertown continues to Hold its position as 
t he leading interior cheese* market of Hie 
country, last year’s sales in the board ag¬ 
gregating 186.000 boxes. L. L. ALLEN, 
Secretary Watertown Produce Exchange. 
“For the Land’s Sake use Bowkcr’s 
Fertilizers: thev enrich the earth and 
those who till it. Write Bowker Fer¬ 
tilizer Co., Boston, New York, or Buf¬ 
falo, who make attractive propositions 
to farmers who will act as agents. 
Illustrated catalogue free.”— Ad*v. 
NEW TYPE OF PEA BEAN. 
The Alfred J. Brown Seed Co., of 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, are introduc¬ 
ing a new type of Pea or Navy Bean 
which promises to be worth many thou¬ 
sands of dollars to the bean grower. This 
New Bean is more prolific, ripens ten 
days to two weeks earlier than the gen¬ 
eral crop, is very uniform in size and 
pure, chalky white. The plant is of 
robust growth and carries its pods well 
up on the plant so that few if any come 
in contact with the ground, and very 
little or no handpicking is necessary. 
As it requires less seed per acre, the cost 
for seed of this new bean is very little 
more than common Pea or Navy Beans, 
The above named Seed Company are 
sending out full information upon re¬ 
quest, as well as a Small Sample of the 
Beans free of charge.— Adv. 
No Barn is Complete Without a 
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Greatest capacity j 
easiest to operate | 
and strongest of lit¬ 
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wheels are roller- 
bear i n g and are 
swivelled in such a 
manner as to round 
a curve with perfect 
ease. Runs on our 
celebrated “Colum¬ 
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can be bent to any 
curve, and will sus¬ 
tain any reasonable 
weight. Tbe hopper 
is held automatical¬ 
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operator. Send for descriptive catalogue of car¬ 
riers. hay tools, etc. 
J. E. PORTER COMPANY. OTTAWA, ILL. | 
LETTUCE, BEANS and CUKES 
Ship them in the South Side Hampers. 
Send for Catalogues. 
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Painting should be a 
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Paint is insurance. It protects and prolongs the life of 
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Paint means profits because it saves money; because it post¬ 
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Perhaps you appreciate this, but do you appreciate that 
results from painting depend upon the quality of the paint; that 
different surfaces require different kinds of paint; that even 
good paint may be unsatisfactory paint if applied to a surface for 
which it is not intended ? 
Do you want complete and reliable information about paint¬ 
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Don’t break yourback and kill your 
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