3914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Tlio general conditions in Boston mar¬ 
ket during the Christmas holiday trade 
were brisk, with the supply just about 
right to supply the demand in nearly all 
cases. The trade in trees and greens was 
lively and large, as general decoration 
was more in evidence than usual this 
year. Trees were perhaps not as large 
as in years past, yet the price of 15 to 
25 cents as a general rule was in favor of 
a larger than usual sale. Fruit in most 
cases sold unusually well, as no over 
supply of any kind was in the market, 
and good stuff brought good prices. Good 
apples sold well; best Baldwin .$5.50 per 
barrel, with not quite as good going at 
$3.50 to $5; King and Spy $5 and $ 6 '; 
Greenings $3.50 to $5; common box stock 
$1 to $ 2 . Western box fruit $2 to $3 
for Jonathan, Grimes Golden, Beauty, 
Winsnp, etc., with Winter Banana $4. 
Cranberries $7 to $0 per barrel, and 
$2.50 to $3 per box. Bananas $2 to $3.25 
for good yellows with small bunches of 
seconds at $1 to $1.25 each ; reds $3.50 to 
$4.50 for best, with small bunches $1.50 
to $2. California melons $4.50 per crate; 
California lemons $5 per box, others 
around $4. California oranges $2.50 to 
$3.50 per box ; Florida $3.50 to $4.50 for 
best, others $2.25 to $3.25 with a good 
demand at these prices. Grapefruit $2.50 
to $4 per box. Pineapples $3 to $5 per 
era to. Florida strawberries 75 cents per 
box; nhtive Beurre pears, box $4. 
Tomatoes were a little short of the de¬ 
mand. being close picked to fill the de¬ 
mand as far as possible with native stock 
which went at 40 cents per pound, Flori- 
das $5 and $6 per six basket carrier. 
Native celery very short, and as demand 
was imperative brought $2.50 to $3.50 
per dozen bunches for Boston market and 
Pascal, while California white stock sold 
at $1.50 for best. Cucumbers were up in 
price from last quotation, bringing $12 
per box of 100 for best; other grades $5 
to $11. Lettuce is always in demand at 
this season and at present prices of 75 
cents per hox of IS heads is a good crop 
to grow for profit. Cabbage is not a 
Christmas dish, and while it has brought 
$2.50 and better per barrel a short time 
since is now going at about $1.75. Cauli¬ 
flower $2.25 to $3 per crate for California 
and Belgian stock. Onions in good de¬ 
mand at $2 to $2.25 per bag for native; 
Spanish $3 per crate. A short crop of 
squash keeps prices up. Hubbard $60 to 
$70 per ton, while Marrow and Turbans 
went at $2.50 and better per barrel. 
Rutabaga turnips short at $1.75 per bag. 
with egg and purple-top going at 60 to 
70 cents per box. Good beets $1.25 per 
box ; carrots 75 ; parsnips $1; Southern 
spinach brought $1.50 per barrel. South¬ 
ern kale brought $1.25. Potatoes while 
not plentiful were enough in evidence 
to supply demand at reasonable prices 
going at $1.35 to $1.50 per bag of two 
bushels. Good sweets cheap for this sea¬ 
son at $1.75 per barrel and 85 to $1 per 
basket. 
The chicken and turkey market is much 
more in favor of the common buyer than 
at Thanksgiving time. Good turkeys 
were in good supply at from 20 to 25 
cents per pound wholesale and 22 to 30 
cents retail; these birds were much bet¬ 
ter in condition and looks than the 
Thanksgiving birds. Good Western geese 
were offered at 16 to 18 wholesale. Best 
native roasting chickens were offered at 
22 and 24; good 18 to 20; common 
chickens and fowl 14 to 20; broiler chick¬ 
ens and fowl at 28; Western 24. The 
above prices are for dressed stock. 
Dressed beef, best, 12 and 13; good 11 
and 12 ; best veal 15; good, 12 and 14; 
common 10 to 12. Best fancy lamb 14; 
good 10 and 12 . Best dressed hogs 1014. 
Live hogs at Brighton S to 814. Live 
beef $7.50 to $S.50 for best, good grades 
at $ 6 ; common $4.25 to $5.50; poor 
$3.25 to $4.25 per hundred. Live veals 
7 to 10 cents according to size and 
quality. 
The horse market is slow at present, 
second hand find hard sale and must be 
kept a few months to realize value ou 
same. A few first-class heavy horses go 
at $325 to $450 when a sale is made; 
lighter stock for common average busi¬ 
ness $200 to $300 each. Fancy milch 
cows bring $125 and hard to find. One 
sale is reported at Brighton of a fancy 
purebred Jersey at $300. Common milch 
cows go at round $60 each. a. e. p. 
BOSTON MARKETS. 
The Buffalo produce market turns on 
the increasing plentifulness of certain 
Southern fruits and the low price of po¬ 
tatoes. at a time of the year when almost 
everything ought to be going up. Pota¬ 
toes have gone down quite lately, till 
farmers are beginning to hold them back 
for better prices. Sweet potatoes, which 
have been about as low as white ones, 
are now a little higher and dealers re¬ 
port that their next purchases will be 
still higher. The consumer pays 40 cents 
a peck for sweets and from 80 cents to $1 
per bushel for whites. 
The supply of apples is increasing, a 
good many varieties now selling by name, 
both home-grown and western. The price 
is 10 to 15 a small measure of not over 
10 apples, some fancy western retailing as 
high as two for five cents. A fine sam¬ 
ple of Wealthy is offered as eastern 
grown. It is claimed that this variety 
will color up about as well here as it 
will anywhere. Fancy red and green 
apples retail at $5 a barrel and nothing 
is quoted at less than $3. The effort 
is made to handle the home-grown sorts 
after the fashion of western and the Snow 
varieties are among those that come close 
to the mark. The offerings are quite 
liberal. An effort is made to sell wind¬ 
falls in quantity, but they are not mak¬ 
ing a good appearance, being quite dirty 
and dull appearing. The high price has 
kept them above canning factory and 
evaporator prices. 
The warm weather is still telling 
against poultry, so that dealers are not 
handling it in any quantity. The quota¬ 
tion is 25 cents a pound for dressed tur¬ 
key, but the finest turkey can be bought 
at retail for that. Dressed fowl is five 
to eight cents less than turkey. Live 
fowls are less plenty, as the egg-laying 
season returns. The Buffalo House¬ 
wives’ League has shown its enterprise by 
selling, a few days before Christmas 3,- 
000 dozen eggs at 33 cents a dozen. They 
had been in storage a short time, but at 
this time of the year were practically 
the same as newly laid. It is expected 
that the league will repeat the experi¬ 
ment in some way before long. To make 
the best showing these eggs should have 
been offered on the first of December, for 
the regular quotations of fancy eggs is 
not now above 30 cents. Prices are still 
declining. 
The mild season has told against the 
shipment of vegetables. Celery arrives 
fairly burned up and what is saved of 
it sells at 10 cents for small bunches. 
I russels sprouts have had a fine Fall to 
mature and are coming in much improved 
condition, but retail at 20 cents a quart, 
which is too much, with beets, carrots, 
parsnip and vegetable oyster retailing 
at five to eight cents a bunch or small 
measure. Lettuce, too, is fine, heads as 
big as a small cabbage retailing at 10 
cents. Radishes are also plenty and low, 
two bunches for five cents. Watercress 
has ventured out again, retailing at two 
small bunches for five cents. Cranberries 
are in three grades, retailing at 5, 10 
and 15 cents a quart. J. w. c. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY PRICES. 
Buffalo had a plentiful supply of milk 
last Summer. The farmer’s price was 
advanced from 14 to 16 cents per gallon, 
which did away with the shortage of 
other years. The high retail prices have 
also taught the consumer to economize 
in the use of milk, so a milk famine is 
out of question. The general retail price 
is eight cents per quart. G. e. s. 
Clarence, N. Y. v 
Milch cows from $60 to $80. Veal 
calves 12 cents on foot; hogs 11 cents 
dressed. Beef dressed by the side 13 to 
15. Chicken young and old 18 and 20; 
eggs 40. Cabbage $1.50 to $2 per barrel. 
Celery 50 cents dozen, seven and eight 
cents a stalk. Potatoes 90. Hay from 
$8 to $14, for clean Timothy straw $8 
to $9. Apples 90 to $1.25 per bushel. 
Peaches were from 50 cents to $1.50 
per basket, one-half bushel. Strawber¬ 
ries $3.25 to $4 per 32-quart crate. 
Coopersburg, Pa. A. w. b. 
The prices we get are as follows: Hay 
baled $15.50 wholesale; straw $9; beef 
9 to 10 cents a pound; hogs 11 to 12; 
butter, retail to consumer. 40; eggs, 
strictly fresh, retail. 50; potatoes, retail, 
from $3.50 to $5 a barrel. These prices 
are what we get here in Bradford town¬ 
ship and possibly may be a little high for 
people living in smaller towns, farther 
back. m. I. 
Custer City, Pa. 
Good young horses, $100 to $200 ; old 
plugs. $5 up; beef, nine cents; veal, 14 ; 
mutton, nine cents; Iambs, dressed, 15; 
pork, 12^4 to 13 ; at the car ; veal calves, 
nine cents; lambs, 7^4- October and No¬ 
vember price for milk, $1.95 per cwt.; 
butter, 35 up; eggs, strictly fresh, 4S; 
fowls, live, 16; dressed. 18. Apples are 
very scarce, $1 to $1.50 per bushel; po¬ 
tatoes, 90 to $1; rutabagas, 60 to 75; 
carrots. 75 ; parsnips. $1 to $1.25 ; onions 
were $1.25 ; are now $1.50 per bushel; 
cabbage, five to eight cents. Hay at auc¬ 
tion, $10.50 to $15 in mow; just ordi¬ 
nary scrub cows. $20 to $50; grade Hol- 
steins, $75 to $100. a. c. G. 
There is just enough snow here to 
whiten the ground a little. The roads are 
frozen, but not very rough. Considerable 
plowing was done this Fall. Farmers are 
now busy getting up their Winter’s wood 
supply, although this is a light task com¬ 
pared with 25 years ago. Now there 
are two or three gasoline sawing rigs 
in most of the neighborhoods through the 
country, and when a farmer gets up a 
large pile of wood he hires a sawing r.g 
and the wood is cut up in a hurry. Con- | 
siderable baled hay has been shipped this 
Fall from here, and still there are a few 
lots of hay for sale yet. Cows remain 
high. There was an auction a week ago, 
near here; the stock was registered grade 
Jerseys, and sold from $39 to $110 each. 
Butter 30: eggs 30; chickens, live, 12; 
dressed hogs 10. p. s. s. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
The trial of a notorious old moon¬ 
shiner was over and he had been found 
guilty. The judge lectured him severe¬ 
ly on his long criminal record, and then 
sentenced him to thirty-six years’ im¬ 
prisonment. saying that the court had no 
feeling of anger toward him. but only of 
pity. The prisoner listened stolidly and 
said as he left the courtroom: “Well. I 
suah am glad he wasn’t mad at me.”— 
Credit Lost. 
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when Fertilized with 
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For years animals that have fed upon these 
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Nitrogen in the forms of milk, flesh and wool; Phosphoric 
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