©y>e  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
961 
Notes  from  Department  of  Foods  and 
Markets 
204  Franklin  St.,  New  York  City 
To  Revoke  License 
The  Department  of  Foods  and  Markets  has  made  a 
request  on  the  State  Agricultural  Department  to  re¬ 
voke  the  license  of  B.  Half  &  Sons,  commission  mer¬ 
chants  of  West  Washington  Market,  New  York  City. 
The  license  was  issued  under  the  Cole  Law  to  Half  & 
Sons,  authorizing  them  to  do  a  commission  business  in 
farm  produce  in  the  City  of  Xew  York.  The  cancella¬ 
tion  of  the  license  is  asked  on  the  testimony  revealed 
in  a  recent  investigation  by  the  Department  of  Foods 
and  Markets  of  the  live  poultry  business.  The  testi¬ 
mony  is  voluminous  and  alleges  a  violation  of  the  In¬ 
terstate  Commerce  Law.  a  violation  of  the  State  law 
and  charges  the  Baft  concern  with  an  attempt  to  man¬ 
ipulate  prices  and  to  drive  competitors  out  of  bus¬ 
iness. 
The  Department  of  Agriculture  has  also  been  re¬ 
quested  to  revoke  the  commission  merchant  license  is¬ 
sued  under  the  Cole  Law  to  Jacob  Bros.,  Ine„  doing 
a  commission  business  in  Washington  Market.  The 
cancellation  of  this  license  is  asked  on  the  ground  that 
Jacob  Bros.,  Inc.,  was  heretofore  conducting  the  busi¬ 
ness  ns  a  firm  at  which  time  it  contract0*!  debts  with 
ortp  Charles  T.  Hawk  to  the  amount  of  some  .$2,800, 
which  has  been  placed  in  , judgment,  and  which  at  the 
time  of  the  application  was  not  paid  and  it  is  alleged 
that  the  business  was  incorporated  fur  the  purpose  of 
avoiding  payment. 
The  New  York  City  Board  of  Health  has  also  been 
requested  to  cancel  tlm  license  of  B.  Raff  &  Sons  issued 
to  permit  them  to  conduct  a  slaughter  bouse  ami  poul¬ 
try  business  at  .‘>01  Cowell  Street,  Brooklyn,  Now  York, 
en  the  ground  that  the  business  has  become  a  nuisance 
in  the  neighborhood  and  it  is  also  alleged  that  the  busi¬ 
ness  is  conducted  for  the  purpose  of  an  unjust  and  un¬ 
fair  competition  of  oilier  dealers  with  a  purpose  of  en¬ 
abling  the  Ball  concern  to  regulate  prices  of  live 
poultry. 
Auction  Notes 
The  small  fruit  market  in  New  York  has  been  rather 
unsatisfactory  during  the  last  week;  the  fruit  for  the 
most  part  shows  the  effect  of  the  long  heavy  rains. 
Much  of  it  is  coming  water-soaked  and  soft  and  goes  to 
pieces  quickly  and  in  this  condition  prices  have  ruled 
low.  An  occasional  shipment  of  best  quality  sells  for 
better  prices. 
'f'lie  shipments  from  the  Hudson  River  section  have 
be.  i  especially  light,  the  hulk  of  the  produce  going  to 
markets  other  than  New  York.  There  are  a  hundred 
packages  coming  where  a  thousand  would  be  the  normal 
receipts  from  the  Hudson  River  section.  This  is  dis¬ 
tributed  to  a  hundred  or  more  different  dealers  and  the 
expense  of  distribution  is  about  as  extravagant  as  it 
could  be  possible  to  make  it.  Where  G  or  7  crates  of 
berries  come  in  in  the  morning  to  100  receivers,  it 
means  RIO  establishments,  100  men  and  100  trucks  and 
teams  to  cart  the  produce  from  the  boat  to  the  store¬ 
house.  It  becomes  expensive  and  where  prices  are  rul¬ 
ing  low  as  they  arc  this  year,  the  producer  pays  a 
high  penalty  for  his  want  of  concentration. 
Strawberries  have  been  ranging  from  Gc  to  12c  a 
quart.  Very  fancy,  during  the  week,  reached  as  high 
as  lie.  Blackberries  run  from  Sc  to  14c  and  black 
caps  from  zero  up  to  8c  a  pint;  red  raspberries,  Sc 
to  10c  a  pint. 
Cherries  have  also  shown  the  effects  of  the  wet 
weather.  White  Ox  Hearts  sell  from  3c  to  Gc  a  quart 
and  the  larger  baskets  usually  quoted  as  8  quarts,  act¬ 
ually  about  6  quarts,  run  from  2<ic  to  40c  a  basket. 
The  Blaek  Tartarians  in  the  same  baskets  are  selling 
from  40c  to  73c  and  in  the  quart  baskets  from  Gc  to 
12c. 
The  latter  part  of  the  week  there  were  some  western 
New  York  peas  which  sold  for  $1.73  per  bushel  basket. 
Alaska  peas  from  New  Jersey  sold  from  75c  to  $1.25, 
and  Telephones  as  high  as  $2.  Those  also  show  the 
effects  of  the  wet  weather.  The  peas  are  soft  and  with- 
out  the  sweet  flavor. 
The  potato  supply  during  the  week  has  been  very 
large:  coming  mostly  from  Maryland  and  Eastern 
Shore  and  still  the  large  supply  has  been  pretty  well 
absorbed.  Prices  ruled  from  $3  to  as  high  as  $3.75 
per  barrel. 
California  has  been  sending  in  quite  a  little  supply 
of  cantaloupes;  arouml  35  cars  per  day.  The  standard 
crates,  containing  about  45  melons  run  from  $2.50  to 
$2.75.  The  pony  crates  with  about  50  melons  of  simi¬ 
lar  size,  run  from  $1.50  to  $2;  and  what  is  known  as 
“Flats”  with  about  a  dozen  melons,  run  from  50c  to 
$1.  Some  melons  are  coming  from  Georgia  in  the  stand¬ 
ard  packages  and  sell  from  70c  to  $1.25;  Floridas  in 
the  same  crates  from  50c  to  $1.50. 
During  the  latter  part  of  the  week,  Georgia  peaches 
were  arriving  at  about  20  cars  per  day.  These  were 
coming  mostly  in  the  6-basket  carriers  and  are  selling 
from  $2  to  $3  a  crate,  according  to  quality. 
There  were  practically  no  currants  on  tlie  market  last 
week  but  they  are  expected  next  week.  The  oanners 
seem  not  to  be  buying  (bis  year  and  the  indications  are 
that  there  are  quite  liberal  quantities  of  currants  for 
the  consumptive  market.  What  the  price  will  be,  only 
the  future  can  tell.  There  is  an  indication  that  the 
shipments  will  be  quite  liberal  if  the  prices  justify 
shipments. 
The  range  of  the  Department's  sales  last  week  fol¬ 
lows  : 
Summe  "  of  sab's  of  miscellaneous  farm  products 
during  the  week  ending  June  29th,  1930: 
EGOS. 
15  cases  . $0.31 
. 30 
. 29 
....'. . . . 28% 
. 28 
. 27% 
io% 
. 26 
72% 
19 
41% 
4 
cases 
eases  . . . 
cases  . 
eases  . . . 
eases  . 
eases  . 
cases  . . . 
eases  . 25 
cases  . . . 24 
eases  . 23 
2o5  cases 
DAIRY  PRODUCTS. 
20  lbs.  butter  . $0.28 
147  lbs.  butter  . 27 
232  lbs.  blitter  . 2G 
305  lbs.  butter  . 25 
232  lbs.  butter  . 24 
1892  lbs.  cheese  . 15 
07 
f> 
4 
1 
1 
1 
82 
75 
o 
*  > 
1 
4 
10 
o 
O 
7 
1 
2 
11 
2 
118: 
2 
•> 
1 
1 
o 
3 
25 
VEGETABLES. 
. $1.25 
.  2.00 
. .  1.75 
.  5.00 
bbls.  potatoes  . 4.50 
bbl.  potatoes  . 3.50 
bbl.  potatoes  .  2.50 
bbl.  potatoes  .  2.25 
baskets  beans 
baskets  peas  . 
baskets  peas  . 
bbls.  potatoes 
hunches 
baskets 
baskets 
basket 
baskets 
asparagus 
peas  . 
peas  . 
pen  s  . 
peas 
1.12% 
1.02% 
1.02% 
1.50 
1.60 
baskets  peas  .  1.37% 
baskets  pens  .  1.75 
baskets  peas  . 
basket  peas  . 
baskets  pens  . 
baskets  peas  . 
baskets  pens  . 
5  lbs.  dried  beans, 
bbls.  potatoes  .... 
bbls.  potatoes  .... 
cwt. 
1.59 
1.00 
1.62% 
1.30 
1.25 
7.85 
5.25 
5.00 
25 
25 
o 
10 
19 
o 
o 
24 
32 
5 
10 
Q 
bbl.  potatoes  .  4.50 
bbl.  potatoes  .  4.10 
bbls.  potatoes  .  3.25 
baskets  peas  . . .  1.50 
baskets  wax  beans  .  1.12% 
baskets  green  beans  .  1.25 
baskets  wax  beans  .  1.25 
baskets  wax  beans  .  1.1  3% 
baskets  wax  beans  .  1.00 
crates  asparagus  .  1.50 
baskets  peas  .  1.12% 
baskets  peas  .  2.09 
baskets  peas  .  1.02% 
baskets  wax  beans  .  1.25 
baskets  green  beans  .  1.00 
baskets  green  beans  .  1.25 
FRUITS. 
128 
72 
90 
04 
250 
04 
-no 
04 
56 
128 
12S 
i 
24 
37 
49 
10 
5 
is 
S 
crates  strawberries 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  • 
qts.  strawberri;  ;  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  strawberries  . 
qts.  gooseberries  •  • 
qts.  cherries  . 
qts.  cherries  . 
•its.  cherries  ...... 
qts.  •  berries  .  .  .  .  . 
baskets  cherries  .. 
baskets  cherries  ... 
baskets  cherries  . . 
baskets  cherries  .  . 
baskets  cherries  .  . 
baskets  cherries  . . 
baskets  cherries  .  . 
baskets  cherries  . .  . 
1  ham,  10  lbs. 
1  dressed  calf, 
1  dressed  calf, 
DRESSED  MEATS 
108 
lift 
lbs. 
lbs. 
5  gals,  svrup. 
300  lbs.  light  honey 
120  lbs.  dark  honey 
MISCELLA  N  EOT 
gal . 
$1 
.J  > 
.11 
.19 
.09 
.08 
.07 
.00% 
.00 
.05% 
.05 
.04 
.0‘S 
.(2% 
.05 
.07 
00% 
.06 
.05 
.90 
.89 
.75 
.70 
.00 
.50 
.40 
.30 
.80.19 
.  .13 
,  .18 
.$0.95 
.  .07 
.  .05 
83 
020 
484 
28 
35 
13 
7 
15 
11 
175 
113 
281 
459 
1S3 
lbs.  fowl 
POULTRY. 
lbs.  fowl  . 
lbs.  fowl  . 
lbs.  fowl  . 
. 18V, 
.  is 
lbs . 
.  17 
squabs  • . 
.  2.75 
squalls  . 
.  1.50 
1  ft 
lbs.  old  Cocks  . 
. 14 
lbs.  broilers  . 
. 28 
lbs.  broilers  . 
. 27 
lbs.  broilers  . 
. 20 
•>-; 
lbs.  broilers  . 
. 24 
.$0.21 
The  following  claims  against  transportation  compan¬ 
ies  were  collected  during  week  ending  June  29th,  1910: 
T.  P.  Yarrow,  Princess  Anne,  Md..  damage  to  ergs, 
$0.53. 
J.  B.  &  S.  S.  Silliman,  8o.  Kortright,  N.  Y ,  dam¬ 
age  to  pig.  $3.11. 
r.  D.  M.ver.  Romulus,  X.  Y  .  damage  to  fruit.  $9.80. 
F.  L.  Van  Sehaiek,  Fuba,  X.  Y..  damage  to  eggs,  25 
cents. 
Ford,  Rnrkevillc.  Ya..  non-delivery,  $9.00. 
George  Jackson,  Shortsyille,  X.  V.,  nnn-deliverv, 
$12.50. 
( L.  Selter,  Three  Mile  Bay,  Nr.  Y..  damage  to  eggs, 
52  cents. 
S.  L.  Pnrdie,  Genoa,  X.  Y.,  damage  to  eggs,  53  cents. 
No  Commission 
The  following  advertisement  appeared  in  the  trade 
papers  of  May  30th  : 
WHAT  18  YOUR  BUTTER  WORTH? 
New  York  . 30%c. 
Chicago  . 29c. 
Elgin  . 29c. 
(This  Writing. ) 
Many  large  Eastern  buyers  are.  getting  their  butter 
in  Chicago  because  they  can  save  money  and  the  cream¬ 
eries  who  ship  there  are  losing  just  this  amount. 
Hhip  to  the  best  market  in  the  country,  and  to  a 
house  that  gives  accurate  ireiylit,  prompt  returns  and 
full  prices,  and  is  highly  rated  financially. 
We  charge  no  commission. 
Fitch,  Cornell  &  Co.,  10-18  Jay  St.,  New  York  City. 
This  house  is  licensed  to  do  a  commission  business, 
yet  it  charges  no  commission,  and  it  advertises  for  con¬ 
signments  and  promises  to  give  “accurate  weights’’  and 
“full  prices,”  and  charge  no  commission-  The  intima¬ 
tion  is  that  accurate  weights  and  full  prices  are  not 
general. 
Full  prices  for  butter  on  the  New  York  market  means 
the  prices  quoted  by  the  Urner-Barry  Price  Current, 
and  fully  05  per  cent,  of  the  butter  from  Western  cream¬ 
eries  comes  into  New  York  under  a  guaranty  of  a  pre¬ 
mium  above  the  quotations  of  from  %c.  to  3c.  per 
pound.  At  the  present  time  these  large  dealers  are 
taking  over  probably  50  per  cent,  of  their  shipments  “on 
account.”  That  is  to  say,  they  buy  the  butter  them¬ 
selves  and  put  it  in  cold  storage  to  hold  for  better  prices 
later  on.  If,  for  example,  the  Frner-Barry  quotation 
for  butter  to-day  is  30c.,  and  these  houses  are  guaran¬ 
teeing  a  premium  of  2c.  per  lb.,  it  simply  means  that  the 
New  York  concern  Is  haying  the  butter  that  was  con¬ 
signed  to  it,  and  pays  32c.  per  pound  for  it,  less  5  per 
cent,  commission,  and  putting  it  in  storage  for  specula¬ 
tion.  The  receiver  in  this  ease  is  both  the  commission 
dealer  and  the  buyer.  Its  receiver  is  an  agent  of  the 
producer  and  sells  as  such  agent  to  itself.  The  buyer  in 
such  eases  is  not  likely  to  pay  more  than  the  market 
demands.  Observe,  however,  that  the  butter  is  actually 
sold  by  the  agent  to  himself  as  a  speculator  at  32  cents 
per  pound.  If  the  “Price  Current”  published  this  price 
as  it  should  do  if  it  published  the  truth,  the  agent 
would  be  obliged  to  settle  with  the  Western  creamery  at 
34c.,  or  2c,  above  the  quotation,  and  the  fiction  of  pay¬ 
ing  a  premium  would  he  abandoned-  Of  course,  large 
dealers  guaranteeing  a  premium  and  buying  their  own 
consignments  to  put  in  storage  also  receive  consign¬ 
ments  on  which  no  premium  is  guaranteed,  and  whether 
they  sell  this  to  their  regular  trade  or  to  themselves 
for  storage,  they  benefit  to  the  extent  of  the  premium. 
Few  if  any  New  York  State  producers  sell  on  a  pre¬ 
mium  contract.  Their  natural  market  is  New  York 
anyway,  and  the  butter  comes  without  the  extra  bait, 
so  that  the  Western  creamery  has  an  advantage  over 
the  New  York  butter  maker  equal  to  the  amount  of 
the  alleged  premium.  This  system  has  worked  a  great 
hardship  to  New  York  dairymen.  It  is  worked  on 
cheese  ami  other  predic  ts  as  well  as  on  butter,  and  by 
working  a  discrimination  against  New  York  State  but¬ 
ter  and  cheese  has  made  it  easier  for  dealers  to  keep 
down  the  price  of  milk  to  the  farmer. 
Live  poultry  dealers  recently  testified  under  oath  that 
no  dealer  can  pay  a  premium  unless  he  is  in  a  position 
to  control  the  publisher  of  prices.  If  the  prices  quoted 
are  the  exact  prices  that  the  goods  sell  for  in  the  Xew 
York  market,  nobody  could  pay  a  premium  without 
losing  money,  unless  he  cheated  on  weights,  and  this 
condition  is  just  as  true  of  butter  as  it  is  of  live  poul¬ 
try.  The  facts  are  self-evident.  A  premium  is  n  fiction, 
a  swindle  and  a  fraud.  It  is  possible  only  because  the 
publisher  of  the  “I’rice  Current”  can  be  induced  to  pub¬ 
lish  lying  quotations,  but  the  wonder  is  that  such  u 
prominent  house  should  furnish  the  evidence  of  the  de¬ 
ceptive  system  in  its  own  advertisement  for  the  infor¬ 
mation  of  an  intelligent  public. 
New  York  State  News 
A  GRANGE  STOCK  SHOW. — J.inclenwald  Grange 
of  Kinderliook,  X.  Y..  held  its  first  annual  stock  show 
and  fair  <m  its  grounds  on  June  23.  The  early  date 
was  chosen  as  it  was  the  anniversary  of  the  organiza¬ 
tion  of  the  Grange,  but.  if  the  show  bad  been  held  in 
the  Full  and  all  departments  of  fruit,  vegetables, 
grains,  ete..  would  have  been  seasonal,  it  may  well  be 
predicted  that  it  would  have  been  a  show  equal  to  the 
county  fair.  But  it  was  in  this  instance  primarily  a 
stock  show,  and  as  such  a  great  success.  There  were 
on  exhibition  90  cattle,  oft  horses,  30  swine  and  about 
15  sheep.  And  every  entry,  with  a  single  exeepth  n, 
was  made  by  a  member  of  the  Linden wahl  Grange.  Xo 
money  premiums  were  offered,  only  ribbons:  IniL  all  co¬ 
operated  to  make  tlie  show  a  succors  as  if  there  was 
a  money  consideration.  This  shows  a  remarkable  spir  t 
of  community  enterprise,  and  is  an  indication  of  the 
strong  hold  the  Grange  there  has  on  the  community. 
It  is  one  of  tlie  few  Granges  in  the  State  that  confines 
its  membership  to  farmers.  The  awards  were  placed 
by  Prof.  F.  C.  Minkler  of  the  Xew  Jersey  .State  Col¬ 
lege. 
GRANGE  SCHOLARSHIP  WINNERS —At  the 
recent  examinations  for  the  12  scholarships  to  be  award¬ 
ed  by  tho  State  Grange  for  1910  there  were  39  candi¬ 
dates.  The  following  are  the  successful  coni  ' stunts : 
R.  A.  McGeocgh.  Arg.vle:  Charles  Wells,  Shortsville; 
Mary  Smithling,  Taleottville ;  Russell  \V  Woodward, 
Stockton;  Sylvester  Cattrell,  Collins;  Howard  A. 
Fuller.  Moravia:  <  >.  It.  Robson.  Hall;  E.  8.  Smith, 
Franklin:  fl.  F.  Meaker.  Memphis;  Geo.  W.  Rinley, 
Ithaca:  Elizabeth  Spencer.  Ellington;  Mabel  Cruik- 
sbnnk.  Salem.  The  value  of  these  scholarships  is  $50 
each,  and  entitle  the  holder  to  tuition  in  the  -short 
course  at  the  State  College  of  Agriculture.  j.  .\i.  o. 
