Omaha daily bee., 1885-05-01

New York Sun.
In many offices around and In the big
Produce Exchange there are numerous
little shallow boxes piled on window sills,
tables and desks. The boxes are gen.
orally filled with corn and wheat and
other grain, samples of the ntocks held
In the big elevators and stores along the
river fronts and In the fleets of canal
boats In the Brooklyn basins. A grain
dealer was running his hand through a
sample of No. l spring wheat, when a
young man said:-
"Good as gold"
"Yes, but, unlike some other farm
products, 1t is not worth its weight In
gold"
"Squashes, for ~instance2'
"Perhaps you would like to know
something about high-priced farm
products There is a new variety of oats
called the Clydesdsle. A measured
bushel weighs tifty.one pounds. While
they will not retain their full weight In
this country, they will double the market
value of the product of an oat field. The
entsrprlsing farmer pays So a bushel for
the seed. There is the new Fife spring
wheat, which sells for So a bushel. and
the new style of field corn, known as
Chester Mammoth and Golden Dent,
sells for about the same.
SIN the matter of garden seeds, the
farmer must pay prices that make him
squeal. Last year a Newark man brought
out what is known as Hender,on's white
plume celery. Unlike common celery, 1t
does not need to be banked up to whiten
the leaves, and what is more, these leaves
are as much Ike ostrich feathers as any.
thing you can imagine. During the
American Institute fair the plants on ex-
hibition were frequently torn to pieces
by guests who used the leaves for but.
tonhole bouquets. The seedman who Is
introducing the plant paid $3.50 for a
small truck-load of plants, and he now
sells the seed at $40 a pound.
ga new French bean Is selling at so
cents a quart. The new Eclipse beet
seed sells for 81. 30 q pound, while the
seed of the new lettuce called the Oak
Leaf sells for 50 an ounce. Even a new
variety of parsley is high priced, the seed
of the style called Emerald selling for So
a pound.
.'You scientifically mentioned the
squash. That was because you didn't
know all about squashes. There was q
specimen of a new squash on exhibition
In town last fall for several weeks that
weighed 223 pounds. Its flavor was as
excellent as Its size wat enormous. The
seeds obtained from this big aqussh sell
for 3 cents apiece, or So an ounce.
"But when you want to find farm pro-
ducts that are really worth their weight
In gold you must take the flower seeds
raised by the farmers wife. This year
there Is great variety of new iowerr. 1t
would bewilder you to name them. These
seeds are always sold by the packet ct
from % to 30 cents. That sounds cheap,
but there are new styles In daisies. lady's
slippers, petunias, and pansies, the seeds
of which are worth In the market by the
ounce a sum that will take your breath
away. The petunia grandihora is a sam
pie. 1t is IN exceedingly beautiful flower.
The packages of seeds contain three or
four hundred seeds each, but the seed is
an impalpable powder almost, it is SO fine.
The package retsils at 75c, but by the
ounce the seed is worth $500. An ounce
will make five thousand packages. You
can see what the retail price of flower
seeds and the retailers profits are from
that statement"