1911 . 
113 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE 
Receipts of grain at elevators at Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y., during 1910 amounted to 
78,507,100 bushels. The total amount in 
transit reported by the lake weighmas- 
ter was 102,564,000 bushels. 
About 70,000 tons of raw rubber are 
produced annually. More than half 
comes from South America, one-fourth 
from Africa, and the remainder from 
Mexico, Central America and various 
tropical islands. The United States is 
said to be the largest consumer of rub¬ 
ber. 
Adulterated Sole Leather. —Many 
people wonder why the soles of shoes, 
which appear substantial when bought, 
wear so poorly. Perhaps the various 
soluble substances used in stuffing sole 
leather may account for this lack of dur¬ 
ability. Some of these adulterants are 
glucose and heavy earths, which may be 
worked into the pores of leather, add¬ 
ing somewhat to its bulk and very much 
to its weight. 
Food Speculators, with large storage 
holdings of butter, eggs and poultry, are 
having their own troubles. Many of 
these men are working with capital bor¬ 
rowed from banks, which are now push¬ 
ing them for payment. This, combined 
with the large crops of last year, the 
comparatively open Winter thus far, and 
the forced economy of consumers, makes 
the storage outlook bad. There is no 
doubt that efforts will be made to work 
many of these stored goods out into 
trade channels as rapidly as possible. 
This may result in decidedly lower 
prices to the consumer, though he need 
be in no hurry about finding places to 
invest his extra savings, as these first¬ 
hand declines in food prices have a way 
of shrinking before reaching the con¬ 
sumer. In the face of a falling market 
some food speculators, who feel that 
they are in a strongly controlling posi¬ 
tion with regard to any item of food, do 
careful figuring on the relative profit in 
throwing the goods on the market and 
taking the necessarily low price, or hold¬ 
ing them until the proportion of spoilage 
is so large as to do away with the sur¬ 
plus and thus prevent the drop in price. 
Cold-blooded as this attitude is, it is 
frankly admitted by those in the business. 
Fortunately for consumers of food, such 
plans often fail to work out as figured, 
usually because the would-be monopo¬ 
lizer of foods has incorrectly estimated 
his strength. Unexpected offerings of 
his line of goods are thrown on the 
market at just the wrong time—for him. 
Or demand, that unaccountably fickle 
feature of large markets, may slacken. 
Whatever the cause the speculator in 
such a situation has use for large 
amounts of the brand of philosophy 
needed by the man who runs for office 
with fair prospects of success, but is 
defeated. He realizes then that the sit¬ 
uation which he thought in his grasp 
was really in the hands of the “com¬ 
mon people,” who have a way of com¬ 
ing to the front when the need arises. 
The storage of foods should be sub¬ 
ject to as thorough regulation as rail¬ 
roads or any public utilities. Full re¬ 
ports of the quantities of food stuffs in 
storage should be made public fre¬ 
quently. This would injure no branch 
of trade that is not now an acknowl¬ 
edged detriment to public welfare. Do 
away with secret storage and the type 
of speculation it fosters, and the most 
dangerous element of the food situa¬ 
tion will be removed. w. w. h. 
HENS VS. COWS. 
Mr. Dougan Talks Business. 
On page 46, J. Allen Cloud tells of his 
cows, and from the statement he makes, 
I understand that he has two really good 
ones. As for the others, they are com¬ 
mon, as a $60 cow is not much. When 
he speaks of hens, he evidently thinks 
I would use the nine-dollar hens, but I 
would do just as he would with the cows, 
pick the one wanted. As I did not 
say any two cows, I will tell what I will 
do. I will pit 10 hens and two roosters 
against either of his two best cows for 
12 months, the winner to take all. If he 
wins, he takes the 10 hens and two 
cocks, and if I win, I am to have his 
cow, that is, the one I compete with. 
Of course he will think that offer like 
me, betting $5 against his $100, but I 
think the offer not unreasonable, as I 
will choose hens from my present flock, 
of which I have been offered, and re¬ 
fused to sell, four pullets and cockerel, 
for $75. Besides that, if the 10 hens can 
bring in more revenue than the cow, 
they must be worth more as an invest¬ 
ment. I am perfectly willing you and 
others may think me anxious to give 
Mr. Cloud some nice poultry. As Mr. 
Cloud was so kind as to tell the income 
from his best cows, I will reciprocate 
for his benefit; I will tell what I expect, 
and that is, that the poorest hen will give 
me 36 chicks beside nine dozen eggs for 
sale. That has been done by members 
of this family, and can be repeated 
easily. The chicks sold for 40 cents 
each, and the eggs at 25 cents per 
dozen. But I hold contracts for enough 
eggs at twice that price to take all I 
can raise. You are welcome to the 
poultry, but also remember that I need 
a good cow quite badly. In answer to 
J. P. S., I can only say that as far into 
antiquity as we are able to trace our 
family tree, we find neither root nor 
branch approaching insanity. You are 
at liberty to publish this or not, just as 
you choose, but I mean every word writ¬ 
ten. W. J. DOUGAN. 
New Jersey. 
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with milk at 70. Remember that lots of times in the 
winter your milk will be nearer 65 than 85. 
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Whether you are churning your own cream, selling it 
to a local creamery, or shipping it to some distant point, 
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cream churns easier, is less liable to spoil, and has less 
bulk. It pays to make thick cream, but to do this the 
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