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H'HBj RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 6, 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE 
A British steamer will shortly sail from 
Portland, Oregon, with 3,500,000 feet of 
lumber for Nanking and Hangkow, China, 
800 miles up the Yangtse Kiang River. 
The whole distance will be about 5,500 
miles. 
Horseradish. —“I want information re¬ 
garding the New York market for horse¬ 
radish, the amount that can be sold, pres¬ 
ent prices, etc.” w. s. 
New Hampshire. 
Several inquiries about this matter are 
at hand. It all depends upon the quality 
of the horseradish. Comparatively little 
prime root is grown in the East at present. 
Most of the supply comes from the Central 
West, largely Missouri, where it grows to 
perfection in the black soil of reclaimed 
swamps. Single roots weighing upwards of 
one pound are not uncommon. To bring 
best prices horseradish must be practically 
free from knobby, branching roots. Several 
growers in New York State and New Jersey 
are raising very fine roots, which are sold 
at top prices to special customers, but most 
dealers do not care to encourage shipments 
from New York or New England except 
from experienced growers, as the common 
roots growing in meadows and wet pastures 
are not worth the transportation charges 
for this trade. There is a steadily increas¬ 
ing demand for this vegetable for both hotel, 
and family trade, and the business has be¬ 
come large enough to interest speculators. 
The root is taken'from the market and put 
into cold storage until prices are forced to 
a level that will make an ample profit on 
the speculation. One man near New York 
has at present 20 carloads in storage. He 
grates and bottles it, selling to the hotel 
and retail trade. Wholesale prices for the 
root run from .$4 to $7 per 100 pounds. 
Our judgment is that growers of a small 
quantity of horseradish would do better to 
sejl it locally than ship to New York. 
Gx-atcd horseradish becomes discolored quick¬ 
ly. The supply that the village grocer gets 
from his wholesaler blackens, and here is 
the local growers’ opportunity. A supply 
freshly grated, and delivered to grocery or 
family trade two or three times a week 
will net more profit than selling the root 
whole. 
Cabbage.— New York has been overloaded 
with this product during the past two 
weeks. New stock from the South has ar¬ 
rived freely. Some has brought barely 
enough to pay the freight, and several cars 
have been abandoned as not worth the 
charges. Part of the trouble was due to 
the poor condition, but more to the surplus. 
The same thing happened last year with 
cabbage, sweet potatoes and some other 
products, and will doubtless continue until 
a quick and unprejudiced system of dis¬ 
tributing market information is devised. It 
may. be said that commission men should 
warn shippers when a market gets seriously 
overloaded. Some of them do, but there are 
many who encourage shipments, so long 
as they bring enough to pay freight and 
commission. This is a matter which the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture at Washington 
might well consider. They have the facili¬ 
ties for distributing daily information 
through the press, weather and crop bulle¬ 
tins, etc., and some market information 
might be added to these daily bulletins 
without much additional expense. No great 
details would be needed. In the present 
case the brief statement that New York 
is overloaded with cabbage would have en¬ 
abled shippers to divert some of the stuff 
to more favorable markets. Reliable daily 
news regarding market conditions on some 
staple perishable products in half a dozen 
large cities would be of great value to the 
public generally. 
Easter Fi.owers. —The florists are unani¬ 
mous in saying that it was a plant Easter 
this year; while millions of cut flowers 
were sold the greatest demand among retail 
purchasers was for pot plants. The com¬ 
bination of a late Easter with an excep¬ 
tionally backward season resulted in plants 
of extra high quality, as they were not 
unduly forced, and thus showed firm and 
robust growth with flowers of natural color 
and texture. Next to the lilies, which are 
always in enormous demand, climbing roses 
were among the most popular plants, in 
baskets or in standard and umbrella shapes, 
Crimson Rambler, Dorothy Perkins, Tau- 
scndchon, Lady Gay, etc., and there were 
also many Baby Ramblers. Among pot 
roses.of the Hybrid Perpetual class Magna 
Charta is still a favorite, as it blooms free¬ 
ly and makes a handsome plant under 
forcing conditions. The yellow Genista, 
which has been a little out of favor for a 
few years, was again popular, and there 
were beautiful Acacias and Laburnums. Hy¬ 
drangeas Otaksa and Thomas Hogg were 
exceptionally fine and purchased eagerly, 
while there were magnificent Rhododendrons 
for those who wanted large plants. Azaleas 
sold rapidly, and in New York the supply 
in the smaller sizes was reported as un¬ 
equal to the demand. A novelty in the 
trade was the little native moss pink, Phlox 
subulata, in attractive pottery bowls. The 
beautiful tropical vine Bougainvillea, with 
masses of rosy mauve bracts, . and some 
potted orchids, Cattleyas, Miltonias, Den- 
drobiums and Oncidiums, appeared in the 
high-class trade, while Spiraeas, hyacinths, 
lily of the valley and marguerites sold free¬ 
ly in popular trade. In cut flowers roses 
and carnations were exceedingly plentiful, 
and prices were moderate, American Beauty 
being especially disappointing to sellers. 
Violets were also plentiful and an enormous 
quantity of all these flowers went to the 
street venders. Probably the only flower 
that went up in price on Saturday was lily 
of the valley, which became scarce, advanc¬ 
ing from $2 per 100 in the morning to .$3 
and $4 by midnight. Violets were from 25 
cents per 100 for low grades to 75 cents 
for specials. Since Easter the street men 
have been selling violets freely for 10 cents 
a bunch, and roses equally cheap. 
Spraying in Nebraska. 
We finished the first spraying of our home 
commercial orchard to-day, April 22. The 
object of the first spraying is to destroy 
such spores of fungus diseases as have been 
carried over the Winter. The proper time 
for this first application is before the blos¬ 
som buds actually open, at the stage when 
they show by a pink tinge that they will 
bloom in a few days. Formula: Four 
pounds sulphate of copper, five pounds of 
fresh stone lime slaked, 2% pounds of ar¬ 
senate of lead to 50 gallons of water. The 
Bordeaux portion of the application is to 
destroy fungus spores, the arsenate of lead 
portion in the combination is expected to 
help guard against canker-worm, apple and 
plum curculio. The second application will 
be applied just after the petals of the blos¬ 
soms fall and before the calyx of the apple 
closes. For the second application we shall 
use three pounds of sulphate of copper, five 
pounds of lime, 2% pounds of arsenate of 
lead to 50 gallons of water, applying the 
same with a 3% horse power gasoline en¬ 
gine intended to maintain a pressure of 175 
to 200 pounds, and thus applying the spray 
with such force as shall fill the calyx of 
the apple. Our apricots have set fruit, 
apparently have suffered no harm, plum and 
cherry are in excellent condition, black 
raspberries, blackberries, strawberries and 
grapes are in excellent condition. The 
apple tree buds up to this time have suf¬ 
fered no harm. At this moment the indi¬ 
cations are very encouraging for a crop of 
fruit. During our dry Springs, where the 
country is drv over a wide area there seems 
to be less liability to severe dangerous cold 
Waves. E. F. STEPHENS. 
Saline Co., Nebraska. 
‘‘Working Dogs.” —The latest live stock 
organization which we read about is a 
Draft Dog Society which is organized in 
Belgium. The object of this is to preserve 
the Belgium breed of mastiff and improve 
the condition of working dogs. A working 
dog will seem like a strange animal to a 
good many of our people, but in Europe 
large dogs are used to haul loads, often 
taking the place of horses or oxen. It is 
said that there arc 150.000 dogs used for 
working purposes in Belgium, with 10,000 
of these in the city of Brussels. When 
properly trained these dogs haul heavy 
loads, and are very useful, and this society 
appears to be necessary in order to preserve 
proper type of working dogs. 
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