The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-28

LOCAL MARKET REVIEW.
Corn was a shade weaker.

Corn was shade weaker,
Choice evaporated apples are nc up.
Pearl meal in Se.pound sacks is a trine
lower selling at 81 40 per barrel
sardines, American quarters, are quoted
15a25c less.
some banana sales have been slightly
higher in past few days and prices range
from 81 75@2 90 packed.
There is no extra short oletr bacon to he
had on the market. It Is an urtreduent
condition. the cause OF which jobbers are
unable to explain,
Cabbage holds Arm, with a normal supply
on band.
Large receipts in fruit and produce lines
are anticipated for Monday and Tuesday
and big week for trading Is anticipated.
The dealers are now bare Of apples, but
good shipments are to come In the next
few days.
A better report concerning part ri the
ample crop comes from a Washington ad-
vice which SAYS Favorable reports con
corning apples continue from Kansas; more
encouraging statements are also received
from portions Of Arkansas and tennessee,
and a slight Improvement In late apples n
Missouri Is indicated, Elsewhere the ap-
ple outlook continues unpromislng
On canned fruit and vegetables a New
York firm says: 1.-THE high prices of canned
vegetables and fruits are making trade
dun. as they average 25 per cent above a
year ago, and retailers are using ny an
while iobbcrs are not contracting ahead
OF current prices AS prices last year were
considered, high II makes o dnG 'r3H nnnssI
beer is neglected and the market sick al
the late decline
Referring TO Long Islands pickles, the
following is taken from writer for the
New York Commercial:
"out on Long Island lust now there is
considerable rejoicing over pickles II IS
Inspired by the fact that the farmers are
anywhere from 100000 TO $4,000 richer
because Of art sGeeesJIdlG' pickle crop '"''
Se.a III takes 90 Something Ike 2oo,0ooooo
pickles. to supply the. yearly demand , OF
are sailed every year by the factories On
'afhe market price for eucqmbers is from
ket is quick one. We can sell the cucum-
bers as fast as we can pick them; Ihe
great pickeraislng part of Long Island is
Wlthln fhuluS OF .lth " .'NIl't i'IiN,"
around Shutdown, Kings Park, Greenlawn,
Huntington. Hicksvile Central Park and
Farmlngdale The weather this year has
been all that could be desired. and some
OF the fields are yielding more than lWDWo
pickles TO the acre
"As an instance Of what the pickle crop
will do for some people, l viii tell YOU
about a German friend of mine. Last
spring he bought farm near Kings PARK.
He went into debt Sl70O for II. lie planted
It in pickle cucumbers. Thus far he has
gathered 400 600 nickies from four acres,
which have yielded him $3.50, and II he
gets In all his crop before the frost strikes
Il will nearly clear his farm from debt.
'Thls good luck Of the farmers with
pickles comes ct good time. For a fow
years back we have not been having good
crops Just when the pickle Industry was
at Its prime blight and mlldew attacked
the crops and for several years ruined
them.
-Four yenrs ngo Prof. T.. a. Serrine Of
the Jamaica branch OF the New York state
Agricultural experiment station began in
vestigatIons to kill the blight He devised
means Of spraying the crops. He In.
then he went h work Mt them. Several
fields adjoining be did not touch The
plnntR in the sprayed fields bore fine crops;
those In the unsprayed fields turned brown
with rust and died without producing crops.
These experiments were carried on for
two years aud the result was the same
The farmers We're persuaded 70 make the
experiment. and now the Industry is APP
preaching something Of It's old time pro-
portions Next year many more farmers
on Long Island VIII try the planting Of
pickle crops. and the prospects are that
they will make lot Of money.