1911 
181 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE 
Receipts of fish at Boston, Mass., dup¬ 
ing 1910 amounted to 102,059,154 pounds, 
the heaviest on record. 
Following are the top prices per 10- 
hour day paid the following workmen in 
Germany: Plumbers, $1.20; pattern mak¬ 
ers, $1.67; carpenters, 95 cents; bricklay¬ 
ers, $1.19 ; type setters, $1.20 ; blacksmiths, 
83 cents; weavers, 64 cents; painters, 86 
cents ; street laborers, 71 cents. 
Large Tobacco Sales. —Danville, Va., is 
a great tobacco market. Auction sales of 
loose leaf tobacco there January 31 
amounted to nearly 1,000,000 pounds. This 
is the heaviest day's business done in any 
one market this season. 
Beans by Weight. —The New York 
wholesale bean dealers have adopted weight 
instead of measure as the basis for trade 
here. The new rule, in effect February 1, 
provides that 100 pounds, instead of one 
bushel, shall be the standard, and that 
sales shall be at net weight. The tares 
to be deducted are as follows: Cotton 
seamless sacks, 12 ounces; one-bushel light 
sacks, six ounces; California Lima sacks, 
eight ounces; jute sacks in which imported 
beans are received, two pounds. 
Trade with Canada.— During 1910 our 
exports to Canada amounted to $223,501,- 
809. and our imports, $104,199,675. The 
heaviest items of import were: Lumber 
products, $20,607,086 ; flaxseed, $6,430,509 ; 
wood pulp, $4,966,536; coal, $4,508,120; 
fish, $3,613,688; cream, $1,884,175; hay, 
$1,464,429; live stock, $20,607,086; oats, 
$249,859; wheat, $119,898; potatoes, $29,- 
000. Following were the largest exports: 
Coal, $32,515,003; lumber, $9,308,943; 
fruits and nuts, $6,183,012; corn, $5,557,- 
199; wheat, $1,063,403; machinery, $11,- 
514,511; live stock, $3,580,812; meat pro¬ 
ducts, $3,158,140; hay, $161,435; potatoes, 
$155,814; butter, $59,064. Of Canada's 
entire trade, 50 per cent is with the United 
States; 35.9 per cent with Great Britain ; 
France, 1.9; Germany, 1.5; British West 
Indies, 1.3. The remainder is divided 
among Newfoundland, Belgium, South 
America, Australia, Africa, Netherlands 
and Japan. 
Eggs. —While white eggs continue nomin¬ 
ally above 30 cents, the bulk of the mar¬ 
ket Is on a much lower basis and de¬ 
cidedly weak in the face of the steadily 
increasing receipts. Interior markets are 
overstocked, and large numbers who ordin¬ 
arily sell nearer home, have been discour¬ 
aged by the drop in price and are looking 
for an outlet in New York, but with gen¬ 
erally disappointing results so far as im¬ 
proved prices are concerned. Offering 
goods to a falling market is discouraging 
business, as buyers are critical and unwill¬ 
ing to take more than enough for current 
needs. 
Bleached Oats. —Why is it we cannot 
purchase any oats except those which are 
bleached? What is the process of bleach¬ 
ing, and does it affect the quality of the 
oats ? p. c. 
Maine. 
A common method of bleaching is ex¬ 
posure, of the oats to sulphur fumes, which 
improve . the appearance of discolored or 
weatherbeaten grain. The principle is the 
same as in bleaching dried apples, and is 
quite easily carried out in grain elevators, 
where large quantities of oats are stored. 
It is not thought that the bleaching in¬ 
jures the feeding qualities of the grain, 
but its germination is likely to be lowered. 
In business on grain exchanges bleached 
oats are classed as “purified” and are sub¬ 
ject to special inspection rules. It is 
doubtful whether many retail buyers are 
told that oats are bleached or otherwise, 
and when they are sold badly weathered 
grain that has been made to look bright 
by any artificial process, they are swindled 
to that extent. 
Those Milk Rules mentioned on page 
175 are probably well meant; but there is 
serious doubt whether the “Grade A” and 
“Grade B,” etc., business will follow the 
milk to the consumer. So long as dipped 
milk can be had at a lower price than 
bottled it will be used for infant food by 
the thousands who must practice the 
closest economy. It is said that the eagle 
hustles her nestlings out of the nest in 
order to make them fly, and it would seem 
as though such a process might be good for 
sonic of those responsible for health board 
r U?' s ' v .* Z- > shut up their laboratories and 
offices for a day or two, and put in the 
time on the street in localities where milk 
is retailed in violation of all sanitary 
rules- The laboratory bacteria could weil 
be , left to slumber in their “cubic centi¬ 
meters'’ without being counted, while the 
big guns in the department were learning 
more about the actual retail sale of milk, 
and perhaps, shooing a few of the street 
microbes out of the open cans or bottles. 
w. w. h. 
TH EC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOTES ON PARCELS POST. 
Lice on Heifer. 
I had a heifer come home from the pas¬ 
ture last Fall covered with lice, the great 
black kind. What can I do for her? I 
have been washing in dip solution, but do 
not seem to get rid of them. c. p. r 
Maine. 
Four ounces of stavesacre seeds boiled 
n a gallon of water makes a sure killer of 
„ oal tar dip solution made creamy 
uith flowers of sulphur also proves effec¬ 
tive, but whatever is used should be re¬ 
applied in 10 days to kill new broods of 
lice hatched from nits. Also clean up, dis¬ 
infect and whitewash the stable, a. s a 
Having been a silent reader of The 
R. N.-Y. for some time I thought I would 
write a few ideas that have been troubling 
me for some time about parcels post. The 
anti-parcels post league is sending out 
literature to all the merchants in country 
towns, including petitions to be presented 
to patrons, and a lengthy article to be sent 
in to each local newspaper, telling the poor 
deluded farmer why he should vote against 
parcels post. They also include the min¬ 
utes of a meeting of the league signed by 
perhaps 200 firms. I cannot remember who 
made the speeches, but the drift of their 
worry seemed to be that if we had parcels 
post the jobbers or middlemen would 
straightway be out of a job. They all 
agreed that this would be a sure thing, and 
they were nearly all jobbers. I presume 
almost any one can figure out results from 
this; that the consumer and the consumer 
only supports the jobber. They acknowl¬ 
edge that the producer and consumer would 
deal more direct. Now in regard to a par¬ 
cels post putting the small town merchant 
out of business, it seems to me that if the 
small merchant who buys in quantities and 
has his goods come by freight at from 
one-half cent to a cent and a half per 
pound cannot compete with the mail order 
houses plus the postal rate per pound, 
then I think they should go out of business 
and stay out. 
Referring to L T . S., page 59. in regard to 
selling potatoes to the storekeeper, I had 
the same experience. I was offered the 
price asked by the wholesaler and they 
would not figure in the freight, and that is 
not all. I do not know how IT. S. would 
have been paid, but I would have been 
compelled to take my pay “in trade.” I do 
not know whether the wholesaler made oc¬ 
casional trips to my town to trade out 
his potato money or not, but I am in¬ 
clined to think that he received cash for 
his spuds. 
It seems to me that old argument about 
the merchant helping to support the schools 
and churches is about ready for patches. 
It is getting holes in it. Every cent that 
he pays toward schools and churches is 
contributed by his patrons. It is nothing 
out of his poeket at all. Just as a few 
years ago, when a certain oil king used to 
bestow a few hundred thousand on some 
college, the price of oil would suddenly soar. 
In reality the consumer made the gift, but 
the oil king got all the glory, and he Is 
only a sample. And speaking of oil, we 
get Standard Oil product in five-gallon lots 
at 20 cents per gallon. No competition 
here. p. b. 
Nebraska. 
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