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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 21, 
CONSUMERS’ DOLLAR. 
Business at Erie, Pa. 
There has been organized at this place a 
“Producer to Consumer Alliance.” It will 
be one grand scrap with the commission 
men, grocers’ association, and I suppose, 
the railroads, on one side, and the people 
on the other. One or more of the candi¬ 
dates for mayor will be made to go on 
record for th'e municipal market or we 
will know the reason why. Out in the 
country where I live, but 12 miles west 
of the city, potatoes can be bought in 
quantity at 60 and 65 cents per bushel. In 
Erie they are $1 on the main street and 
$1.10 to $1.20 in outlying groceries. The 
freight on one car of potatoes. 880 bushels, 
into Erie, is $24 per car (that’s another 
story), or three cents per bushel. Onions, 
apples, etc., are about in same condition. 
There was a very targe crop of peaches in 
the country, and I judge that 30 per cent 
of the crop was allowd to rot because the 
farmer thought there was “no market,” or 
“market glutted.” etc. However. Erie peo¬ 
ple had to pay from $1 to $1.50 for peaches 
right up to the end of the season. Now 
there is a big crop of fine late potatoes, 
and we are lining up about as follows: 
We will pay the grower a higher price 
than he is getting, or will get from the 
commission buyers; the potatoes will come 
in here by carload, and be distributed to 
the homes of the members of the unions 
by a local draying company; the members 
of the unions having ordered, and paid for, 
so many bushels, at a price considerably 
under the prevailing retail price. Onions 
will go in fhe same way. We are going 
to try to get some action before November 
7, election day. b. t. 
Boosting the Consumer’s Dollar. 
The following item appeared in the San 
Francisco Chronicle:- 
“OAKLAND, September 30.—On next 
Wednesday, October 4th, a trainload of 
“boosters” from Watsonville will come to 
this city in the interest of the Watsonville 
Apple show, which will be held from Oc¬ 
tober 9th to the 14th. The aggregation 
will be headed by a brass band and will 
parade the streets of this city.” 
That is one way the Watsonville people 
have of “talking apple.” They come in 
force, leading citizens, pretty girls and the 
entire outfit. They give away apples, dis¬ 
tribute cards and let people know that 
Watsonville is on the earth with plentj 
of apple sauce. They call this legitimate 
business in California. We must come to 
it at this end of the country. 
Letter to a Commission Man. 
The following letter was sent to a com¬ 
mission man in Newark. N. ,T., on forward¬ 
ing a shipment of apples: 
“Dear Sir: I am sending you 28 bas¬ 
kets of apples by the C. R. R., and I forbid 
the sale of them for less than 50 cents per 
basket. If the market is in such state 
that you cannot obtain that much, please 
notify me within 10 days of that fact and 
I will make arrangements to have them off 
your hands. I will dump them in the river 
before I will satisfy the jobber and specu¬ 
lators enough to sell for less. Tf they do 
not choose to divide some of the money 
with me I won’t help them get any. There 
are thousands of barrels of apples rotting 
on the ground for the reason that the rais¬ 
ers get too little of the consumer’s dollar. 
You can see for yourself where the profits 
go. The baskets cost 10 cents each; 
freight one cent: freight on apples. 13 cents 
per basket; cartage, five cents: commission, 
five cents; total, 34 cents per basket. Of 
course I understand that you do not govern 
the market, but I also know that under the 
present system of distribution of produce, 
you commission merchants stand between 
the farmers and jobbers, and if you lean 
toward the latter you help injure society 
bv assisting in the raising of prices of 
food. Toy taking the profit from the farmer. 
The moment he reaches a certain point he 
must stop sending produce to market. Re¬ 
spectfully yours, w. J. dodgan 
New Jersey. 
The Complicated Apple Situation. 
The apple situation has been changing 
rapidly the last few days. Buyers are re¬ 
turning to this territory and their purpose 
seems to be to control the Winter market. 
Most of the fruit, both in and out of stor¬ 
age, is now in their hands. There are a 
few exceptions. For instance, the man with 
very few apples, less than a carload, so 
that he is unable to ship alone, and who 
has no storage, is offered not more than 50 
cents a bushel, and that by local buyers. 
TTe Is not regarded as a competitor and his 
only alternative Is to shake his fruit off 
the trees and dry it. This will shorten the 
crop. Also there are three large blocks of 
anples in the storage which have not been 
sold. These growers have refused to give 
an option on No. 1 fruit at $3 a barrel, 
with storage assumed by the buyer. Such 
an offer was made me for entire crop by a 
New York man last week. For smaller lots 
they have been offering $2.50 with storage 
assumed and have secured a lot of it. The 
situation, from what I hear, seems to be 
the same throughout Western New York: 
An effort on the part of speculators to gain 
control. They practically disregard the 
small grower without storage. They offer 
up to $2.50 with storage assumed to the 
man with enough apples to ship in car lots; 
while the growers with large crops, say 
over 3.000 barrels, can get still higher 
prices. It is very difficult for growers to 
secure barrels. The small local cooper 
shops are driven beyond their capacity, and 
the larger shops are apparently supplying 
the buyers. It is practically impossible 
for the growers to get enough barrels until 
they sell; then the speculators furnish all 
they need and seem to have plenty of them. 
I ordered 5.000 barrels before picking be¬ 
gan and have to hustle to get enough of 
them to keep up with the packing. One 
buyers secured 10.000 barrels from a coop¬ 
erage. From this same firm I ordered 
i.OOO and for three weeks have been able 
to get hold of only 150. with no promise of 
more. Yet they are making 900 a day. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. apple grower. 
Auction Sales. 
I attended an auction in this town Sep¬ 
tember 30. where a man was leaving his 
200-acre farm to live in town. Bidding was 
slow and prices lower than like commodities 
and live stock would be in the Spring. 
Only $400. highest bid on a handsome five 
and six-year-old pair of black horses, me¬ 
dium size, line workers and drivers, worth 
$500; nice young cows, only $30 to $35. 
They began to sell the 40 or so tons of 
hay, but bidding was so low that they only 
sold one lot at about $16 a ton, I think. 
About 700 or 800 shocks of corn were in 
the field, but being frosted badly before 
cutting with the September 14 freeze, while 
it was yet soft, it only sold for about 15 
cents a shock, and several tons of pumpkins 
for $6, I think. No hens or hogs to speak 
of sold, but they would go a little better. 
Scarcely any sheep raised about here, Two- 
horse mower, run one season, $35; culti¬ 
vator (horse hoe), one season, $6 horse 
rake, run one season, $18, and other almost 
new farm machinery went fairly well for 
the season. There was quite a quantity of 
apples on the place, but they were not sold. 
Millington, Mass. m. w. F. 
Maine farmers supplying the corn can¬ 
ning factories have serious complaints 
against some of the factory people this 
year. In some cases part of a crop has 
been rejected because the factory had 
canned all it wanted, and in others large 
crops were frozen in the field before lit 
to can, because the seed, furnished by 
the packers was of too late varieties. The 
trouble seems to be a form of jug-handled 
contract that holds the farmer to his acre¬ 
age but lets the canner do as he pleases. 
I am fruit raiser with 50 acres of apples, 
peaches, pears, quinces and grapes. I 
have a nice crop of Baldwins; don’t know 
what I shall do with them. I am 18 miles 
from Cleveland; the cold storage of that 
city is full. I shall commence to pick 
right away and trust for a market. 
Brunswick, Ohio. G. B. s. 
A considerable amount "of snow fell in 
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Vermont October 7. Five inches of snow 
on a level covers Bennington Vt. The 
apple crop has been badly damaged by the 
snowstorm. In many places the snow was 
so heavy that trees have been broken down. 
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