Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-03
0LDEN TIME METHODS.
No Longer Profitable in the Busi-
ness World as 1t Now Exists.
MEN OF LEADING INDUSTRIES
Seem Very Well Satisfied With the Situa-
ton and Outlook.
THE PROSPECTS FOR THE FRUIT CROP.
OFFICE OF THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH,
TUESDAY, June 2, 1891
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OFFICE OF THE PTTTsBURG DIsPATcH,
TUESDAY. June 2, 1881
Farming Implements.
In summing up the results of the springs
trade O dealer in seeds agricultural impie-
rnents and such articles as farmers call for,
reports: "In the line of clover and timothy
seed trade Was scarcely as good this season
as last but in garden seeds it has been much
better. Seed potatoes have been unusually
high this season, and owing to cold weather
of Nav many gardeners in this section
nave been forced to replant the cir potatoes.
The necessity of replenting, together with
the ehort potato crop last fall, has no doubt
had much to do with the late high price of
choice old stock
I'm the line OF agricultural implements
for for the past month OF two. Inn
provements in farming implements were
thought a few years ago to have
reached perfection, but 1t has been de-
monstrated of late that the acme has not
been reached. Farming implements which
were in vogue O year or two ago are no long
er of any account. Binders are taking the
place Of self-rakers, and the progressive
farmer who keeps up with the times is
ready to sacrifice the old machine that ne
may introduce the new.
''The man who attempts to gather
the means Of subsistence out OF tho
half dozen years ago Will ind himself
left in the rear by enterprising
competitors" The commercial editor had
just left the Reformed Presbyterian Synod
meeting when he interviewed the dealer in
agricultural implements, and the thought
came without bidding, that possibly heresy
hunters were making the same mistake as
the old fogy farmers and gardeners who fail
to catch on to the new appliances Tor gather
ing the fruits of the earth. Haryests cannot
be gathered either in the natural or spiritual
worlds by the methods which we're success
full in the days of our fathers.
Truit
A Neville Island gardener, of lifetime ex-
per1ence in gardening lines, not to speak of
the lessons learned from a father who spent
the greater part of long life on the Island,
thus reports as to the situation and outlook:
81 do not remember year when We had
such Il cold Nav as this year. The tomato
plants that were set out IN the early part of
Nav were all nipped by the frosts, and re-
planting was necessity. The early plant
orS had 20 do their work a second time and
the sluggards who waited for a more con-
venient senson have had their reward. Asa
consequence of cold May weather the tomato
plant is fully month behind the average
season, but there is still abundance of time
to catch up though we cannot expect to
have tomatoes in the market as early as
usual. As to fruits, the early strawberry
viii yield light crops but the late may be
fair average crop. Cherries were about out
OF danger when the heavy frosts came, and
we will have a fair yield in this line
There never was better prospect for
apples than there was up TO the heavy frOsts
in the early part of May. Till then our only
fears were as to the ability of the trees to
carry the load. There are no longer any
fears in this direction, and now if one-haif
the average crop of apples is yielded in this
region L will be agreeably disappointed. 1
do not look for moro than one-Quarter of O
CROP and am sure that the fruit which has
not been destroyed by frosts will be of in
ferior quality. Grapes, too, have suffered
from frosts, and the yield will be much be-
low the average"
Canned Meats.
A representative of the canned meat trade
had this to say of business: "The best time
for our trade is during the summer months,
when the picnic season is at its height In
May we handled 20 per cent more goods than
for the corresponding month last year, and
the cost Of canned meats is fully 30 per cent
greater this year than last. The advance in
prices of canned meats the past few months
Is the natural result of higher priced live
stock. A patent can-opener, which has been
of late and which is attached to
every can, has added 1oc per dozen to the !
cost of canned meats.
~The new patent is q key which unlocks the |
can as easily as q trunk is unlocked and has |
at once become so popular that the addi-l
tional cost is cheerfully accepted because of |
the diminished trouble In opening cans on |
picnic grounds. Our customers now call for |
the patent openers, and 1t is only question
of short time when a can of lunch tongue or
canned beef will be unstable if IL is not fur
nished with the open sesame in the shape of
the newly patented key"