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if  you  raise  it  on  Sucrene  Calf  Meal 
to  veal  size,  or  for  baby  beef. 
Sucrene  Calf  Meal  is  cheaper  than  skim  milk  and 
very  much  better,  because  it  contains  Ihe  fit-making 
element  Which  has  been  removed  from  skim  mi.k. 
Sucrene  Calf  Meal -the  Most 
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The  result  of  long  continued  scien- 
tiiie  investigation  and  experimenting 
—  _  — prepared  with  greatest  care.  Contains 
important  ingredients  often  omitted  from  com¬ 
mercial  calf  meals.  I:  is  a  complete  ralioli  for  tijc  young 
calf — enables  you  to  save  ail  the  cow  s  milk. 
Guaranteed  Analysis:  20  p.c.  protein,  5  p.c.  fat,  3  p.c.  f 
Composed  of  Linseed  Meal  and  Blood 
Meal  wliieh  supply  a  high  percentage  of  di-  r 
Kestible  protein;  Bone  Meal  to  buildup  the 
Iraine  of  the  rapidly  growing  young  animal; 
bumble  March  and  Malt  Flour  which  supply  the 
New  England  Notes 
FRUIT  AND  VEGETABLES  DECLINE  SHARPLY. 
The  Boston  produce  market  has  been 
going  through  one  of  the  worst  slumps  of 
the  season.  Fruit  and  vegetables  declined 
sharply  in  response  to  over-supply.  It 
seems  to  he  at  the  foundation  a  matter  of 
the  weather.  A  little  while  ago  trans¬ 
portation  was  checked  by  cold  and  snow. 
Country  roads  were  almost  impassable, 
and  even  the  city  deliveries  were  impeded. 
Tt  looked  a.s  if  there  was  a  shortage  and 
prices  went  up  10  to  50  per  cent,  in 
various  special  lines. 
Then  came  the  warm  weather,  the  snow 
melted  rapidly  and  market  prices  melted 
almost  as  fast  as  1  lie  snow,  because  the 
improved  conditions  brought  reserve  sup¬ 
plies  all  at  once  upon  the  market,  and 
dealers  were  anxious  to  sell  them  quickly, 
both  from  fear  of  further  decline  and  be¬ 
cause  keeping  quality  of  many  lines  of 
produce  is  not  first  class  so  late  in  the 
season.  Apples  seem  to  he  oil'  about  50 
cents  a  barrel,  and  Winter  vegetables 
have  declined  from  It)  to  50  cents  per 
bushel  from  the  top  prides  reached  during 
the  height  of  the  storm  period  in  March. 
That  the  slump  is  a  matter  of  over-supply 
rather  than  of  poor  demand  is  shown  by 
the  comparative  steadiness  of  dairy  and 
poultry  products  and  of  hothouse  vege¬ 
tables.  (Vuisumers  as  a  class  are  pros¬ 
perous  now.  and  their  liberal  buying  is 
likely  promptly  to  offset  the  temporary 
over-supply  in  such  lines  as  do  not  need 
to  be  forced  on  the  market  because  of 
their  poor  keeping  quality. 
BUTTER  I'KIpES  FIRM. 
The  continued  firmness  of  the  butter 
market  is  in  refreshing  contrast,  although 
dealers  do  not  seem  especially  confident. 
Said  < 5 reel i  &  Co..  "The  dullness  in  New 
York  makes  our  market  a  little  soft,  but 
receipts  are  light  and  surplus  of  cold  stor¬ 
age  butter  practically  cleared  up.  As 
Spring  advances  we  usually  expect  a 
larger  production  and  lower  prices,  but 
this  year  the  cold  storage  supply  has  been 
cleared  up  so  fast  that  usual  conditions 
are  offset.”  Retailers  seem  to  be  buying 
in  small  lots  mostly,  fearing  to  be  caught 
in  the  usual  Spring  decline.  The  market 
is  in  well  balanced  condition,  although  a 
little  unsettled,  but  quotations  arc  holding 
about  as  last  quoted.  Northern  tub 
creamery,  extra  quality,  3fi  cents,  firsts 
54  cents  to  M5  cents.  Vermont  firsts  33  to 
34  cents.  The  cheese  market  also  shows 
a  condition  of  steadiness,  quotations  hold¬ 
ing  around  IN  cents  for  choice  grades.  De¬ 
mand  is  good  and  supply  in  some  grades 
very  light,  even  the  skim  cheeses  bring 
from  40  to  45  cents. 
EGGS  LOWER. 
The  egg  market  of  late  has  reached  a 
level  which  would  commonly  he  consid¬ 
ered  near  the  bottom  for  the  season. 
Fancy  nearby  hennery  stock  lias  sold  at 
25  cents  or  lower,  and  Western  eggs  of 
the  grade  used  for  cold  storage  have  sold 
around  ”11  cents.  They  ought  not  to  go 
much  lower,  but  dealers  admit  they  may 
decline  further  in  the  event  of  warm 
weather  early  in  the  season,  or  because  of 
the  hesitation  of  cold  storage  buyers,  re¬ 
sulting  from  tln>  losses  they  sustained  in 
last  season’s  operations.  There  was  no 
fault  to  he  found  with  the  demand,  and 
the  supply  is  not  unexpectedly  heavy. 
The  only  unfavorable  signs  are  seen  in  a 
tendency  of  nearby  and  Eastern  eggs  to 
aeeuinuiato  unsold,  and  such  conditions, 
if  continued,  would  ofcour.se  force  further 
dec-line. 
SCARCITY  OF  POULTRY, 
Supplies  have  been  light  all  along  the 
line.  ( hie  dealer  said  that  during  his  -5 
years  in  the  market  he  had  never  seen 
Western  frozen  poultry  and  some  other 
lines  so  scarce  and  high.  The  time  of  year 
is  favorable  for  top  prices.  Fowls  are 
not  shipped  because  they  are  laying  now 
if  ever,  and  most  poultry  of  other  classes 
has  been  sold  out.  or  is  not  yet  ready  for 
market.  Under  these  conditions  a  scarcity 
of  cold  storage  stock  affects  the  whole 
market,  .especially  in  connection  with  the 
extra  demand  for  the  Jewish  holiday 
trade.  April  10  to  14  and  April  17  Co  21. 
Said  Hutchelder  &  Snyder:  "All  lines  of 
poultry  are  scarce.  The  demand  is  good. 
The  country  is  prosperous  and  the  limited 
supplies  are  sold  to  good  advantage,  t  If 
native  stock  arriving  there  is  not  much,  ex¬ 
cept  a  few  live  fowls,  some  soft  roasters 
nr  capons  from  the  south  shore,  and  a 
limited  supply  of  incubator  broilers  or 
squab  broilers.  The  squab  broilers,  if 
shipped  alive,  should  at  this  time  weigh 
not  less  than  14,  pound  each.  They  are 
bringing  .$1  to  $1.25  per  pair.  Large 
It  rollers  sell  at  40  to  4->  cents  per  pound 
dressed  weight  and  heavy  roasters.  31  to 
34  cents  dressed  weight.  Fowls  are  20 
to  22  cents  dressed  weight  and  Is  to  10 
"cuts  live  weight.  It  should  be  a  good 
market  for  fowls  all  this  month,  hut  not 
quite  so  good  after  May  1.  because  supply 
usually  inemisos  at  about  that  time, 
spring  ducks  soil  at  about  30  cents  per 
pound  dressed  weight.” 
APPLE  MARKET  WEAK. 
Apple  speculators  have  been  Tv, rd  hit  , 
by  the  continued  and  in<  reusing  weakness'  ! 
in  the  market,  losses  Have  bee  ■  Heavy  for 
those  who  stored  thousands  '  lau  rels  and 
•sold  them  all  the  way  from  25  cents  to 
.$2  per  barrel  loss  than  total  cost.  Said 
the  salesman  of  one  leading  firm:  "It  has 
been  a  hard  Winter  for  produce,  especial¬ 
ly  apples.  It  is  hard  to  sell  a  barrel  of 
fancy  Baldwins  today  for  $3  that  would 
have  brought  $  I  at  one  time  and  would 
have  sold  at  $3.50  only  a  few  weeks  ago. 
Even  in  cold  storage  stock  it  takes  a 
fancy  apple  to  bring  much  above  S3. 
Fresh  packed  shipments  of  Maine  Bald¬ 
wins  range  from  $2  to  $2.75  for  No.  1. 
while  No.  2  sell  at  $1.50.  I  have  just 
sold  a  carload  of  elioice  Russets  at  $2.75 
per  barrel,  but  most  lots  sell  lower.  Here 
is  a  barrel  of  Baldwins  from  New  York 
that  I  am  trying  to  sell  at  $2.  They 
came  from  cold  storage  and  together  with 
charges  for  storage,  freight,  commission, 
cartage,  etc.,  must  stand  the  owner  close 
to  $4.  Other  people  besides  farmers  httvo 
hard  hick  sometimes.” 
MILK  LEGISLATION. 
The  legislative  hearing  at  Boston  on 
bills  regulating  the  conditions  of  the  milk 
supply  were  somewhat  mixed  up  in  the 
later  stages  by  introduction  of  a  new 
bill,  which  may  he  called  a  different  ver¬ 
sion  of  the  Board  of  Health  bill.  This 
bill,  introduced  hy  the  Somers  Creamery 
Co.,  of  Springfield,  by  George  F.  Leary, 
would  add  to  the  committee  making  mijlc 
rules  besides  the  State  Board  of  Health, 
the  chairmen  of  the  boards  of  health  of 
Worcester,  Springfield  and  Fall  River, 
the  agent  of  the  Dairy  Bureau  of  the 
State  Board  of  Agriculture  and  the  Mas¬ 
ter  of  tlie  State  Grange.  Enforcement  of 
pasteurization  would  not  be  required  un¬ 
less  ordered  by  the  local  boards  of  health 
after  holding  public  hearings.  This  bill 
would  take  effect  December  1  instead  of 
June  1.  This  substitute  bill  was  favored 
by  some,  but  a  majority  of  prodne-  rs 
present  seemed  to  think  it  no  great  im¬ 
provement  over  the  State  Board  of  Health 
bill,  and  they  urged  the  legislative  com¬ 
mittee  not  to  report  either  bill  favorably. 
Many  of  the  producers,  however,  are  in 
favor  of  the  Bratt  bill,  which  provides  for 
grading,  but  is  not  compulsory.  Repre¬ 
sentatives  of  milk  contracting  firms  seem 
to  favor  the  Leary  substitute  bill  on  the 
ground  that  it  is  somewhat  less  arbitrary 
than  the  State  Board  of  Health  bill  anil 
provides  for  centralized  authority  and 
compulsory  grading.  The  contractors 
liaxurally  favor  a  system  which  will  com¬ 
pel  the  fanners  to  do  without  compensa¬ 
tion  a  lot  of  "improvement”  work  which 
the  contractors  themselves  have  no  power 
to  enforce  upon  the  producers,  but  the 
fanners  see  in  the  Bratt  bill  a  better 
chance  to  get  some  return  for  producing 
milk  of  a  higher  standard  of  purity  and 
richness.  Moreover,  from  past  experience, 
they  are  profoundly  suspicious  of  a  set  of 
rules  which  depend  wholly  on  the  ideas  of 
a  body  like  the  State  Board  of  Health,  or 
of  a  commission  controlled  hy  officials  of 
that  general  description, 
SLUMP  2X  PRODUCE  VALUES. 
The  vegetable  market  is  lower  all  along 
tlio  line,  with  few  exceptions,  The  trou- 
hie  is  that  the  market  seems  glutted  with 
numerous  shipments  that  have  been  held 
back  before,  for  one  reason  or  another. 
Cabbage  is  down  to  75  cents  to  $1.  Par¬ 
snips  have  arrived  m  liberal  quantities 
and  Sell  GO  to  75  cents.  Carrots  have  also 
declined  to  about  the  same  level.  Beets 
have  hehl  f.-G'-L  -,v  it  at  75  to  N5  cents, 
also  turnips  $1.50  to  $1.00  per  hag. 
Hothouse  lettuce  is  the  brightest  spot  in 
tlie  market  from  the  standpoint  of  the 
nour-by_  gardener,  and  sells  at  >5  emits 
to  $1.2.>,  the  top  figure  being'  commanded 
by  a  good  many  lots.  Hothouse  tomatoes 
and  cucumbers  also  hold  prices  very  well, 
likewise  rhubarb  and  a  few  other  special 
lines  of  under-glass  products.  Radishes 
are  rather  high  at  N2  per  box,  and  choice 
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