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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 15. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES, AND TRADE. 
Moke Oleo News. —On page 37 the writer 
said that although he had frequently been 
near the retail oleo places in Washington 
Market and some other sections of New 
York, not one sale had been noted. This 
statement must now be revised, as on New 
Year’s eve I saw a sale of five one-pound 
bricks to one person, evidently a boarding- 
house keeper. The price charged was 30 
cents, prime butter at that time retailing 
at 42 to 45 cents. 
Buttee Loweb. —A drop of three cents 
per pound has occurred since last report. 
Prices during, the holiday season were ex¬ 
cessive and were made possible by the re¬ 
luctance of people to economize in holiday 
buying, but the reaction was quick and 
sharp, trade in the better grades slackening 
to such an extent that dealers made speedy 
reductions. Even at the reduced prices the 
market has been decidedly weak, though at 
this writing, on account of the cold weather 
and slippery streets, making trucking slow 
and difficult, the tone of the market has 
slightly improved. There is a general feel¬ 
ing that prices will be lower as soon as 
conditions for distribution improve. 
Fancy White Eggs. —What are selected 
white eggs? That is. what should they 
weigh per dozen to be in this class, and 
should the shape of all be uniform? Why 
should they cost more than a brown egg, 
which very often is larger? We sell eggs 
that weigh 26 ounces to the dozen, but a 
friend has another variety of Leghorns that 
average only 22% ounces. Would these be 
in the selected class? s. 
Pennsylvania. 
The term fancy white covers so small a 
portion of current egg receipts that it is 
scarcely entitled to a place in market quo¬ 
tations. Eggs weighing only 22^ ounces per 
dozen are too small to come into this class. 
An occasional lot weighing 27 ounces has 
been noted, but 26-ounce eggs are above the 
average, which is probably about 24 ounces. 
In this classification “white” means not 
creamy white, but chalk or snow white, and 
a near approach to uniformity of shape is 
required. This matter of color is largely a 
fad. and we understand that in the Boston 
market brown eggs are given the preference. 
Very few poultry raisers are situated so 
that they can produce marketable quan¬ 
tities of selected white eggs. It is a busi¬ 
ness that a man may go into after years 
of experience if it is thought worth while. 
The writer believes there is more profit in 
producing eggs that can be guaranteed fresh 
and free from nest eggs than in working 
at any elusive white-egg fad. Anyone who 
markets eggs that run uniformly fresh 
throughout the crate will find himself in¬ 
creasingly popular with people who buy 
and use eggs._ w. w. h. 
MEXICAN CORN GROWING. 
Talking about corn growing here—would 
you like to try your hand at it as a 
Mexican renter? Consul Chas. M. Freeman 
tells the story : 
At the commencement of the season, June, 
the renters of the land take a yoke of 
oxen for each 11 or 12 acres to be culti¬ 
vated, and for which they are charged 
$10 per yoke for the season. The renter 
then has a credit at the ranch store which 
enables him to live while raising a crop. 
He signs a contract to raise a crop and to 
give the landowner one-half clear of all ex¬ 
penses. The goods from the store are sold 
at about 50 per cent profit. The-corn husk¬ 
ing is done as follows: All renters report 
at headquarters, and the overseers form 
into groups of 40 or 50, which work to¬ 
gether throughout husking. Each man is 
allowed 50 cents Mexican (25 cents Ameri¬ 
can currency) per day for his work. The 
cost of husking is charged to the renter 
whose field is being worked. The corn is 
divided. The first cartload is for the 
ranch owner, the second is applied to the 
store account of the renter, and so on until 
the store account, the $10 for oxen, the cost 
of husking, and all other debts have been 
taken out of the renter's share. After all 
accounts are settled, then every other cart¬ 
load goes to the renter. However, little is 
coming to the renter besides enough to 
last him until Spring, and often the ranch 
owner has to commence selling to the renter, 
as early as February, corn at a big profit, 
corn to be credited on the next season’s 
crop. Corn taken from renters at husking 
is credited at $3.50 Mexican per hectoliter. 
Corn sold to renters in the Spring brings 
$5 to $5.50 Mexican, per hectoliter. 
ROBBING THE POOR. 
I want to protest against the crime of 
the land boomers, including some of the 
railroads, of inducing eastern people of 
limited means to locate in the arid and 
semi-arid regions. Not familiar with the 
conditions there, they invest nearly all 
the cash they have, expecting soon to be 
upon the road to wealth, but, I believe, in 
two cases out of every three, they suffer 
great hardship. This is not a local con¬ 
dition, but is true from the Mexican bor¬ 
der north as far as Idaho. If homeseekers 
knew just what they wer^_ going into this 
disappointment and loss might be avoided. 
The poverty and anguish of thousands of 
these new settlers makes one’s blood boil 
and causes him to wonder about the future 
state of some of those friends. The writer 
is not inspired to write this because he 
has been duped by those fellows, but after 
an investigation of the section mentioned 
above. That people may go there and 
prosper is a fact, but. as stated above, the 
extravagant claims of land-dealers cause 
people to get themselves in a condition 
which means nothing less than great hard¬ 
ship or loss, and often both. I am glad to 
note that The R. N.-Y. does not help along 
this shameful robbery. R. 
K. N.-Y.—This “land booming” is a 
crime. In Texas alone thousands of acres 
of desert lands are bought at about 50 
cents an acre. This is usually all it is 
worth for farm purposes, yet the land 
frauds sell it for $25 lo $30 to “home- 
seekers” from the North. There is no 
meaner business on earth than this using 
a man's hunger for a home to rob him. 
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President 
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