Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

S4.75. common grassers" at $4.10, ana
pretty good cakers" at $5.S5. Sausage
bulls" bring 1925, and straight cows"
$3.50. In the same town they quote
choice milk-fed veals 6 cents per
pound; heretlcs, 3 and 3 IL cents"
So, you see, they still roast heretics in
civilized America-at least, If the part
around St Louis Is classed under that
head. In Kansas City, they are less
explicit as to details, and just group
their cattle under "stockers and feed
ers at $3.50 to $3.50" and packers
and butchers $500 to 1925" Consider
ing the prices we in the east have to
pay for beef, some of US can't help
wishing that we might get few
Kansas City packers and butchers"
at even $725. But undoubtedly they'd
be too tough to feed anything. smaller
than a threshing machine. Fort
Worth, Texas, however, caps the
climax in its item under the head of
Cattle Market: Ten loads of She
stuff met with a slow demand in SYM
pathy with the dulness in the steer
trade" How's that? Milwaukee has
cutters" and Gamers" but it adds
three new grades to the list, viz:
"stockers," "springers" and throw
OUTS
In the dairy line I've struck few
queer looking items. Deseret quotes,
under the head of cheese: Daisies
10 1-2 cents, twins 10 IA cents, long
horns 10 IL and ga" Houston, Tex,
quotes fancy creamery butter 81 cents
per pound, country butter IL and 10
cents per pound, according to quality.
Looks very much as if the Texas
housewives weren't shining successes
as butter makers. This same Houston
market quotes Japan rice, whole heads
and clean, at cents per pound. Quite
difference between that and what
we pay for the same Texas-grow rice
here in New England!
There is a big variety of odd products
quoted in some of these papers, too.
Minneapolis and st. Louis, for in
stance, both quote frogs legs regular
ly, one city at from so cents to $3.50
per dozen, the other at cents to Z
cents per dozen. If you like frogs
legs it would clearly make a difference
which city you moved to. But / should
certainly hate to have to catch and
dress frogs in order to get two cents
dozen for the legs. Omaha buys bones
at $40 to $13 per ton, country rags"
at SIS cents per cwt, and sells second
hand barrels for from 80 cents for
whiskey and kerosene barrels to 40
cents for paint or tar barrels.
ST. Louis and Kansas City seem to
agree in a somewhat curious judgment
about the value of shortening" They
quote country lard" at to cents
per pound, and "oleostearine" (Which
is what we in the east know as lard
compound") at 10 IA cents. This is
an almost exact reversal of New Eng
land prices.
Some of the quotations for hides and
pelts bring out queer nomenclature
Dallas, Tex, grades its hides as dry
fiints. dry fallen, dry salts, green salts
and dead green butchers"-all at diff
fering prices. st. Paul buys wildcat
skins at $3.50. red fox at So and gray
fox at S5 cents, mink at 1925 to $3.50,
muskrat at : cents to As, skunk at 80
cents to 1925, and bear from 1926 for
cubs to SIG for big grizzlies.
ST. Louis also regularly quotes prices
for roots and herbs" 1t pays from
.$4.75 to s5.75 pound for ginseng, $1.25
for golden seal, Is cents for lady slip
per, 16 cents for wahoo bark. cents
for wild ginger, cents for bloodroot
and cents for spikenard. It's little
curious to me that SO little is done in
this line in New England. There's no
danger of anyone's ever getting rich
digging roots and collecting barks and
herbs, but there's some money to be
got from them, nevertheless, and there
are dull seasons on the farm when the
boys and girls could earn quite a little
gathering them. 1t would be better
than idleness.
The chief interest of these distant
market reports to me, however is in
the sidelight they throw on the diver
sity of our rural interests and the va
riety of our rural productions. The
strange difference in prices is also il
Eliminating. Just fancy a day in the
future when the aeroplane has become
the common vehicle; the thrifty New
England housewife looks over her
morning papers from Oshkosh and
Dallas and Eastport and Tampa Bay
She wants some frogs legs for dinner
and finds that they're selling at two
cents a dozen in Oshkosh. Hey
there, you, Johnny" she calls to her
youngest; Just take the red aeroplane
and fly over to Oshkosh and get me
two dozen frogs legs. Here's four
cents to pay for EN-, and-hold on,
now. don't start till you get ready
just come round by st. Louis on your
way back and get pound of country
lard at six cents. Give me back those
pennies; here's ten cents; that'll Just
pay for the frogs and the lard, both"
Oh, there will be great chances for do
nestle economy in this broad country
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