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THE RURAb NEjW-YORKEEA 
April 15, 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE] 
Last rear the Cunard Steamship Co. 
made a profit of $1,500,000 above all ex¬ 
penses, including deterioration of wharf¬ 
age and ships. Its actual running expenses 
were $8,500,000. 
On March 15 there were 207.261 idle 
freight cars in the United States and Can¬ 
ada. This is nearly twice the amount un¬ 
used January 1, and 12 times the number 
idle March 16, 1010. 
April 1 four steamers bound for Europe 
from Philadelphia took 246,580 bushels of 
grain and 4,130,000 pounds of flour. 
London Wool Auctions. —The present 
series of sales closed April 1, 8,800 bales 
being sold. Prices of good scoured wool 
ranged from 30 to 45 cents, and greasy 
from 14 to 29 cents. 
During March, 1911, 57 national banks 
were organized in the United States. The 
total number of national hanks at present is 
7,252, with capital of $1,025,117,135, and 
outstanding circulation of $729,152,916. 
Sale of Valorized Coffee. —On April 1, 
900,000 hags of Brazilian coffee, worth 
about $16,000,000, were sold in this country 
and Europe, through the agents of the Bra¬ 
zilian State of Sao Paulo. Because of over¬ 
production and unwise methods of market¬ 
ing, the coffee business of Brazil became un¬ 
profitable to the planters, and several years 
ago that government took unusual methods 
to improve conditions. Large quantities of 
coffee were removed from the market and 
stored by the government as collateral, on 
which money was advanced by financiers in 
Europe and' America. laws were enacted 
regulating production, and the government 
practically took charge of the entire coffee 
business. The plan was not to corner cof¬ 
fee. but to hold it until a living value to 
the planter was reached. This paternalism 
idea did not work as well as was hoped, 
but on the whole it seems to have been of 
some benefit. 
Potato Prices. —“A charge of giant pow¬ 
der has been exploded under the potato 
market in this vicinity. Less than seven 
days ago they were a drug at -5 cents ; to¬ 
day (March 31) buyers are riding all over 
the country and offering 50 cents. Predic¬ 
tions are freely made that they will go to 
$1. 1 never saw the potato market act as it 
has this vear. All reports showed a moder 
ate crop and much rotting, yet they went 
down until 20 cents was all that farmers 
and growers in many places could get. 
Many believed there would be thousands of 
bushels thrown out for manure. I believed 
they should have brought 50 cents to the 
grower all Winter, and still think so. Can 
vou explain the situation?” 
Rochester, N. Y. reader. 
Potatoes in New York are 50 to i5 cents 
per barrel higher than last week. The two 
chief reasons are the local demand for seed 
at this season and the very low prices that 
have recently prevailed. Those with pota¬ 
toes on hand concluded to feed what they 
could and throw the remainder away rather 
than sell at prices that barely pay for the 
labor of handling. It is possible that a 
week of these increased prices will make 
receipts at New York, Chicago and other 
large markets so large that there will be a 
decided drop. It must also be remembered 
that there are starch and alcohol factories, 
both in this country and Europe, from 
which potatoes are easily diverted as soon 
as the market for eating stock warrants it 
The supply at New York has been exces¬ 
sive during the greater part of the past 
Winter, but the proportion of inferior grades 
was larger than usual. Potatoes under 
standard size or with a suspicion of rot 
are poor property to hold. This accounts 
for the apparent contradiction of a crop of 
moderate size flooding the market worse 
than a very large crop. Offerings of medium 
or low grade products are usually made 
with a degree and a certain quality of 
urgency that tends to depress market prices. 
w. w. H. 
Educational Horticulture in Virginia. 
We are now about to start in on a series 
of spraying demonstrations through the 
“back blocks,” to be followed later in the 
Summer with a series of packing demonstra¬ 
tions, the latter to be not in the back 
blocks, hut where most apples are packed. 
To my mind this educational work is the 
most 'important step towards producing a 
greater percentage of No. 1 fruits, and also 
better packing. We are more than satisfied 
with the results of these demonstrations 
last year; and we found the people highly 
appreciated them. We now have 800 mem¬ 
bers, and are strong enough to make the 
Legislature do anything in reason we want. 
WALTER WHATELY. 
Sec. Va. Horticultural Society. 
R. N.-Y.—The report of the fifteenth an¬ 
nual meeting of the Virginia society has 
just been issued. It is a model in its way 
—one of the most interesting and valuable 
fruit publications ever issued. Those Vir¬ 
ginia fruit growers are alive. 
I look for higher prices, and would not be 
be surprised to see the farmer get 75 cents 
per bushel before the season is closed. I 
base my ideas on the fact that they have 
been so cheap that they were fed to stock 
more freely, and the crop was large in 
some sections but light in others. 
Milwaukee, Wis. c. a. breen & CO. 
The freezing nights and hot days through 
March have almost destroyed the Winter 
wheat. Clover, too, is badly frozen out and 
is standing up out of the ground with its 
tap roots exposed two inches or more. The 
prospects for fruits are good; peaches, ap¬ 
ples, pears and plums are so far uninjured 
by the Winter. The early snows in No¬ 
vember and December and the damp Winter 
have made much mouldy and spoiled corn. 
Many potatoes were frozen in the ground, as 
the early Winter found them undug, and 
some farmers have lost their potatoes after 
digging by freezing in piles. Some are now 
plowing sod for corn. Plowing cornstalk 
ground for oats has not yet commenced 
The ground is very wet, roads bad. and 
from present appearances the seeding this 
Spring will be very late. J. C. M. J. 
Lawrence, Pa. 
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Built of Southern Pine, 
with our improved 1911 
continuous door, 19 feet 
by 20 feet. Complete 
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$89.00 
All other sizes equally 
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“Simplex” Water System 
This Hand Power System of 
Water Supply 150 gallons daily 
capacity, complete, ready to 
install, 
$ 44.90 
Power out¬ 
fit, $110.00. 
Anybody 
can install 
with our directions. 
We also furnish this outfit for power up to 
50,000 gallons capacity. 
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New York Denver San Francisco 
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