852 
.Tilly 7, ini7. 
Importations of Poisonous Beans 
'rix' beans sliown at Fig. .‘>.51 in nat¬ 
ural size ■were sent ns by I'lof. N. E. 
Hansen, of the South Dakota Experi¬ 
ment Station. He sa.v.s that the.se are 
poisonous P.urma beans, which liave been 
imported and distributed through the 
iMiddle West as a c-hief substitute for 
the ordinary navy bean. We understand 
that .six carloads or about half a million 
pounds have been received from the 
Orient by way of .Japan and Vancouver, 
'riiey have been sold through many 
States, and a new importation of a mil¬ 
lion pounds is counted on for next Sep¬ 
tember. 
This is a dangerous import. It will 
not only injure the legitimate business of 
growing navy beans, but these Burma 
beans contain a poisonous principle in 
cyanogen or a form of prussic acid. 
The poisonous principle, according to 
Mr. Viehoever, of the Uniterl States Bu- 
r(>au of Chemistry, is called phaseoluna- 
tin. a glucoside, that in the presence of 
certain enzymes in the intestinal tract 
may release the cyanogen or prinssic acid 
as one of the products. There is the dan¬ 
ger of having sufficient cyanogen released 
after eating the beans to cause illness, if 
not death. 
These beans are so dangerous that the 
military authorities of France, Germany 
and other European countries forbid 
their iiniiortation. Each shipment into 
France and Germany must be accom- 
The Poisonous Burma Bean. Fig. 351 
panied by a sworn statement as to the 
amount of cyanogen which the beans con¬ 
tain. In some yeai's the use of these 
beans causes wholesale poisoning in India. 
As will be S'een, these Burma beans are 
about the size of a fair specimen of navy. 
They have a faint yellowish tinge, with 
many fine lines or rays out from the eye 
like spokes of a wheel. Some are colored 
light brown, or speckled and various 
shades of browm. There is also a form 
of lima beans from Burma which are 
V eijually poisonous, but these cannot mas- 
ipierade in the disguise of navy beaus. 
There is great danger in the importa¬ 
tion of this product and the Government 
should start at once to .shut them off and 
refuse entrance to this bean. While they 
are sold at wholesale cheaper than the 
navy bean they are poisonous and will 
cause sickness and trouble, besides in¬ 
terfering with a legitimate business of 
American farmers. Shut them off! 
Keep them out of the country! Be 
warned in time and let them alone. 
Boston Produce Markets 
l>iaCKS ea.sk off, as supply of native 
TRUCK INCREASES. 
Xew lines of nearby and Xorthern 
jiroduce are coming along week by week, 
and tho.se of a more perishable nature 
are mostly .selling rather low. Southern 
truck is arriving in large volume, in¬ 
cluding a great deal of poor stuff of a 
grade that would not often be shipped. 
Gondition is frequently made worse by 
I'.ailroad delays. Trade is considered 
rather slow, although fancy and stand¬ 
ard lots move promptly. “Soft stuff” 
from the nearby farms is in liberal sup¬ 
ply and cheap, with lettuce at 1.5 to 
;k5c box; spinach 25c; beet greens 15 to 
20c. Native cauliflower brings $1; rad¬ 
ish .S5c; onions, bunched, 75c; turnips 
40c; cukes .$.3.50 to .$6. Native peas 
started at $3.50 to $4 but are_ coming 
down gradually. Rhubarb, being the 
only available fresh pie material just 
now, is up again to 50c. Beets are 
abundant and lower. Dealers seem to be 
anticipating moderate prices: “We sel¬ 
dom get a high market,” said one, “e_x- 
cejit when nobody Avas looking for it. 
AVhen everybody is aroused to it and 
making preparations for it, the thing is 
discounted in advance and doesn’t often 
hajipen.” Another prorluce man took a 
different view: “This is a time of gen¬ 
eral inflation, and high prices are in 
line with high costs. I certainly hope 
the farmers will get at lea.st enough to 
< ffset the prices they are paying for la- 
One RURAL NEW-YORKER 
boi- and other things. So long as busi¬ 
ness is very active and pays good wages, 
the buying ivill be strong enough to pre- 
A'ent low jirices except for stuff that 
comes all together and Avill not keep 
long.” 
REAN.S AND POTATOES ON EASY RA.SIS. 
Field beans are no longer held so 
fii-mly, but $0 is near top for pea beans 
now; $8.50 for yellow eyes, and .$8.2.5 
for red kidney. Said a large handler: 
“The market is very dull. There is al¬ 
most no wholesale buying, and job lots 
are moving .slowly, because retailers who 
used to take 10 to 25 bags now take 
only two or three.” So much was said 
about high prices last season, that many 
hopeful bean barons and potato princes 
started out in the Spring. One of them 
confessed the other day that he would 
have to get $5 per bushel for his beans to 
pay expenses, which is likely enough, 
since bean experience and machinery are 
scarce in his section, but seed was $12 
per bu. and team work .$7 per day. 
Still more difficult is the position of 
a nearb.v potato potentate who sold his 
cows and invested in seed potatoes and 
fertilizer. The .seed all rotted in the 
ground because of too early planting, and 
at last account he was debating whether 
to risk replanting the 30 acres. Maine 
potatoes closed the season in Boston at 
$0.50 per 2-bu. bag; a good end of a 
strong, wonderful potato year. Southern 
spuds are working slowly northward, 
and tending downward in price, and most 
dealers expect this to be the general 
tendency until after the northern digging 
season. According to G. A. Fentress: 
“The Virginias and Eastern Shores in¬ 
cluded lots of jioor stuff, on account of 
bad grading. The crop as a whole -was 
not up to standard for size and appear¬ 
ance, although the well-known brands 
came all right. I look for a better mai’- 
ket when the New .Tensey crop comes, 
although I expect potato prices to go 
lower.” Southern .stock ranges from .$7 
to $8 per bbl. Small culls bring .$4. 
Brices have hidd well, considering that 
the crop in the South is placed 25 per 
cent, larger than last year. 
FRUITS IN LIGHT SUPPLY. 
The crop of fruit is late, and so far 
no more has been coming than could be 
cleared if of fair quality. Prices have 
averaged somewhat above last year’s. 
Strawberries from nearby points were in 
fair receipt by July 1. Early prices 
were 15 to 25c. It is stated by York 
& Whitney that, “The native crop is re¬ 
ported moderate, although the yield 
seems to be good at Falmouth and along 
the Cape. But there was too much rain 
at the season of bloom. The Concord 
crop is coming along slowly. Prices are 
rather high so far. Condition is better 
than it was last season, when the rain 
delayed the picking and the fruit got 
very soft. A good many lai-ge, soft va¬ 
rieties are grown in this section and they 
come bad in a Avet season. The South 
groAVS smaller, harder berries. The 
Klondyke is the best .shipping berry Ave 
receive. They pick their fruit rather 
more green than AA^e do in the North, and 
of course they have refrigerator cars.” 
Apple prospects are not spoken of 
with so much confidence as at first. Re¬ 
ports from various i>oints lead dealers 
to suspect that the set of fruit Avas by 
no means equal to the heav.v bloom. The 
trouble seems to be Avith the late kinds, 
but early apples are said to promise a 
good crop. Many pear orchards are re¬ 
ported very light. Japan and other 
hardy blossomed plums set well, but ten¬ 
der kinds did not. The cherry set is de¬ 
clared A'ery moderate and in some or¬ 
chards, cherries are blighting or drop¬ 
ping before ripe. 
RUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS IN LARGE 
RECEIPT. 
Dair.v and poultr.v products have come 
along freely, with liberal production 
keeping up longer than usual because of 
a late moist season. Charles II. vStone 
& Co. summarize the market as folloAvs: 
“The butter price is one-half cent high¬ 
er this week at 39c. There were some 
large orders for June butter filled the 
last of the mouth. The jobbing trade is 
quiet because of hand-to-mouth buying 
by retailer.s. Iteceiiits are lighter than 
last year, but the buying shows little 
spirit, not cleaning up receipts, but stor¬ 
age is a little ahead of last year. The 
make will soon begin to deci'ease, pas¬ 
turage falling off. and as the demand for 
milk and cream increases in hot Aveath- 
er, many factories Avill stop. Butter is 
full grass, but the pastures have not 
had enough sun to mature the feed and 
make butter Avith quick, rosy, snapp.v 
flavor. There is also some trouble from 
Avild plants in the feixl. Dealers are 
conservative about storing any but the 
best at these prices and are holding 
creamery shippers absolutely up to 
standard. That is, extras mu.st score 93 
according to the Chamber of Commerce 
rule, or they Avill not be accepted as ex¬ 
tras. ^lany creameries using stale cream 
gathered on routes and in all stages and 
conditions are not able to turn out fancy 
butter. Three or four in Vermont and 
more in New York State are grading 
their cream and paying less for that in 
off condition, and making at least tAvo 
grades of butter. They Avill all he forced 
to such a plan under pre.sent tendencies. 
“Cheese is dull and Aveak at 23c to 
24c. There is no foreign demand. The 
Canadian goA’ernment has restricted 
prices and all exports are from Montreal. 
NeAV Zealand cheese has been requisi¬ 
tioned at prices Avhich Avould prohibit a 
demand from the United States. Our 
OAvn consumers do not relish cheese Avell 
enough to pay .30c at retail and trade is 
quiet. 
•The egg market is rallying a little 
after the recent drop and nearbys are 
.37c. Those Avho bought Western eggs 
for storage at 38c may regret the pur¬ 
chase, and some of these April eggs have 
already been offered at concessions, some¬ 
times at a loss. Receipts are .still heavy.” 
FarnsAvorth. Benjamin & Mills describe 
the egg market as dull but improving a 
little, quoting nearbys at .37c, Western 
fanc.A’ at 34c to .35c and firsts at .32c to 
.33%c. Trade is increasing from the 
Summer resorts; Western eggs have been 
coming mostly free from heat. One 
dealer Avho does not look for extreme 
prices next Fall, claims to haA^e figured 
out from the sales of Avaterglass and 
earthen crocks that at least 200,000 cases 
of eggs have been put aAvay by NeAV 
England consumers this season. 
MAKING THE MILK MARKET. 
During the closing days of the month 
the Ncav England Milk Producers Avere 
A'ery bus.v “trying to iron out the Avhole 
question,” as Secretary Pattee expressed 
it. Thei-e Avere hitches and seams at the 
last moment but the matter Avas in close 
control, the contract-making poAver being 
placed in the hands of a committee 
of three. The Association being now 
legally a corporation can make bind¬ 
ing contracts and Avith its control of more 
than one-half the milk supply, is in a 
A'ery strong position. There are noAV 
455 locals in New England. 
No marked change appears in the poul¬ 
tr.v situation. Dive foAvl sell at 24c to 
25c; live broilers, 2Gc to 27c; Northern 
fowls, choice dressed, 2r>c to 28c; dressed 
broilers, 30c to 32c; roasters, 40e to 45c. 
Of the dressed iioultry and meat situa¬ 
tion ‘T. H. Wheeler & Co. remark ; “So 
many rain.v Sundays have interfered with 
country hotel business, and the surjilus 
lAOultry in cold storage is always hanging 
over the market. The fresh arrivals are 
moving along all right. Cold storage 
stock must be taken out within a year ac¬ 
cording to State hiAV, unless special ex¬ 
tension can be obtained from the State 
Board of Health. Veals range from 12c 
to 19c. They are coming chiefly from 
Northern Ncav England. Nearby A'eals 
as a class are of medium grade; picked 
too quick, often, because milk is scarce. 
A fine-grained, well-bred calf will im¬ 
prove by keeping and should not be 
shipped too young. On the other hand, 
we get many overgrown calves from the 
North. Farmers seem to get bus.v Avith 
hoeing and haying and shipments slow 
up. Later the.v come along neither A'eal 
nor l>eef. Western Spring lamb is 25c 
to 28c. There is no call for Eastern, 
except from a few particular buyers will¬ 
ing to i)ay a little more.” 
LIA'E STOCK AT BRIGHTON. 
IMilch coAvs are in moderate suppl.A' and 
good demand at Brighton. Hot weather 
tends to create a milk shortage, and there 
is hope of better milk prices held out to 
producers. Choice coavs are scarce and 
sell above $100, with a general range of 
ordinary ones down to $40 or $50. The 
prices are not quoted higher than of late, 
but dealers insist firmly on their price, 
and “sundowners” Avho come late to pick 
up bargains do not find many now. Beef 
cattle are off a fraction in response to 
lower markets in the West. Best sales 
averaged about 10c with a dowiiAvard 
range to 5c for the poore.st canning coavs. 
Good calves sold from 13c to 15c, and 
overgroAvn grassfeds at lOe to 11c. Hogs 
bring about 10c for average grade re¬ 
ceived. It is a hot weather market for 
meat stock, with not much snap to the 
general demand. G. R. F. 
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