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Boston  Produce  Markets 
REACTION  IN  POTATO  PRICES. 
After  mounting  close  to  the  two-dollar 
murk,  potatoes  declined  sharply.  The 
reason  assigned  by  many  dealers  is  the 
reduction  in  demand  caused  by  the  rapid 
and  extreme  advance  in  prices.  Some 
buyers  stocked  up  heavily  as  a  matter  of 
precaution  and  these  of  course  are  out  of 
the  market  for  a  while.  Others  shifted 
somewhat  to  sweet,  potatoes  which  have 
been  lower  than  white  all  along;  some 
hotels  and  restaurants  are  serving  only 
sweet  potatoes.  Consumers  ns  a  class 
have  cut  down  consumption  more  or  less. 
Prices  have  sagged  off  10  or  15  cents  per 
bushel. 
Whether  they  will  recover,  depends  on 
n  resumption  of  full  buying  power  and 
dealers  do  not  seem  especially  confident. 
P.  J.  Mnlloy,  who  is  just  back  fiom  a 
business  trip  through  the  Maine  potato 
sections,  says:  “Farmers  haven't  much 
stock.  Much  of  it  is  held  by  dealers  who 
are  holding  for  a  rise  and  working  for 
top  prices.  I  find  no  evidence  of  real 
scarcity  to  warrant  extreme  figures.  The 
advance  the  last.  part,  of  October  was 
partly  caused  by  de:  lers  who  sold  ahead 
and  who  had  to  buy  *.t  any  price  to  fill 
their  contracts.  A  good  many  potatoes 
were  shipped  West,  but  that  is  over,  as 
Western  potatoes  arc  coming  to  market 
more  freely  and  th  re  are  no  arrange¬ 
ments  for  supplying  oil  for  honied  cars 
on  lines  to  the  West.  Rut  holders  up 
there,  seem  confident.  One  of  them  I 
know  refused  $  1 ,000  for  250  barrels.  The 
common  selling  price  in  Aroostook  by  the 
producers  is  $1,50  per  bushel.  The 
Aroostook  crop  is  conceded  to  be  about  80 
per  cent,  of  normal ;  the  planting  was 
light,  but  the  county  had  almost  a  per¬ 
fect  season  and  obtained  quality  and  good 
yield  per  acre,  even  with  scarcity  of  fer¬ 
tilizer  used.  The  Central  Maine  section 
had  only  a  00  per  cent,  crop,  owing  to 
wet  weather.  The  Maine  Potato  .Ship¬ 
pers’  Association,  members  of  which  were 
lately  convicted  of  blacklisting  and  other 
trust  practices  are  reported  intending  to 
appeal  their  case.  They  tried  to  hide  be¬ 
hind  the  immunity  enjoyed  by  associa¬ 
tions  of  producers,  but  they  seem  to  be 
really  a  set  of  dealers.”  Maine  potatoes 
are  selling  in  Boston  freight,  yards  at 
$3.60  to  $3.75  per  1204b.  bag.  Most  of 
the  stock  coming  now  is  sound  and  ripe. 
Sweet  potatoes  arc  $3  to  $3.25  per  barrel. 
ATPT.E  MARKET  STRONG. 
It  is  evident  that  most  of  the  Winter 
apples  are  of  very  ordinary  grade  hardly 
desirable  for  storage,  and  dealers  are  glad 
to  get  hold  of  a  fancy  crop,  paying  as 
high  as  80  to  90  cents  per  market  box  in 
the  country.  The  range  in  the  city  for 
standard  "Winter  kinds,  mostly  Baldwin 
and  Spy,  is  $2  to  $2.75,  Poor  lots  and 
No.  2b  rnnge  down  to  $1.50  and  some 
fancy  fruit  brings  $3.  “I  have  great 
hopes  of  the  apple  market,”  said  a  Fulton 
street  dealer,  “because  the  price  started 
low.  People  got  to  using  apples  and  they 
are  still  using  them  freely,  as  the  retail 
prices  are  reasonable  compared  with  other 
produce.  They  will  probably  keep  on 
using  them,  even  if  the  price  goes  up 
gradually.  Last  year  the  high  prices  at 
the  start  scared  away  consumers  all  the 
season.” 
QUIET  TRADE  IN  VEGETABLES. 
Dealers  complain  that  demand  has 
slowed  down  lately  and  receipts  are  not 
so  easily  kept  moving.  They  blame  the 
high  retail  prices  which,  they  say,  have 
caused  nearly  everybody  to  feel  the  pinch 
and  to  cut  down  consumption.  “We  look 
forward  to  a  dull,  hard  Winter,”  said  one, 
“we  cannot  sell  so  much  at  these,  prices. 
It  will  be  hard  for  a  poor  man  to  pay  the 
bills.  But  there  is  a  shortage  of  stuff. 
Peddlers  say  they  cannot  find  their  usual 
supplies  among  the  farmers  within  25 
miles;  all  sold  out,  and  we  find  it  about 
the  same  up  in  New  Hampshire  and  Ver¬ 
mont;  farmers  who  usually  raise  truck 
have  only  a  few  bushels  of  turnips  and  a 
few  squashes  or  something  like  that, 
hardly  enough  for  home  use.  Labor  was 
scarce  and  the  season  poor.”  Prices  hold 
about  the  same,  except  for  kinds  going 
out  of  season  which  are  higher.  Beets 
are  $1.25  per  box,  carrots,  $1.25  to  $1.50; 
celery,  $1  to  $1.50;  choice  encumbers,  $8 
to  $9;  cauliflower,  50  to  00c.;  peppers, 
$1 ;  parsnips,  $1.25;  good  tomatoes,  $3; 
spinach,  35  to  -10c.;  sugar  pumpkins,  $1  ; 
turnips.  $1  to  $1.25;  radishes,  $1;  let¬ 
tuce,  40  to  60c.  per  box. 
LIVE  POULTRY  IN  HEAVY  SUPPLY. 
Leading  receivers  are  overstocked  with 
live  poultry,  most  of  it  poor.  Since  the 
jump  in  grain  prices  the  farm  flocks  have 
been  subject  to  a  great  clearance.  A  mar¬ 
ket  report  of  1895  which  happens  to  be  at 
hand,  quotes  the  various  classes  of 
dressed  poultry  at  10  to  15c.,  and  the  va¬ 
rious  grain  feeds  at  $1  to  $1.25  per  100 
pounds.  Labor  in  Massachusetts  was 
quoted  at  $15  to  $20  per  month  and 
board.  The  present  range  is  about  double 
on  all  these  items.  At  first  glance  it 
might  seem  fully  as  attractive  to  pay  out 
$2  and  get  back  $4  as  to  pay  $1.  and  get 
$2.  But  farmers  notice  that  the  cold 
weather  sharpens  the  appetites  of  the 
flock  and  ents  down  the  egg  yield.  Grain 
bills  are  big.  Off  go  the  birds  half  fat¬ 
tened,  to  market.  Said  8.  L.  Burr  &  Co. : 
“The  farmers  are  shipping  too  much  live 
poultry  in  poor  condition.  We  are  ad¬ 
vising  them  to  dress  it  if  good.  The  mar¬ 
ket  will  be  slow  for  live  poultry  all 
through  November,  but  should  itnpi*ove 
after  that.  Turkey  growers  in  Northern 
New  York  are  selling  live  stock  at  23  to 
25c.  to  dress  8  to  10  lbs.  The  range  on 
dressed  turkeys  here  is  mostly  34  to  35c. 
At  the  rate  stock  is  being  marketed  and 
demand  restricted  there  is  some  doubt 
whether  prices  will  hold  at  top  through 
the  holidays.”  Said  Amos  Keyes  &  Co. : 
“The  market,  is  dragging  on  live  poultry. 
Nothing  sells  above  17c.,  which  would  be 
for  young,  meaty,  2-lb.  broilers.  A  good 
many  pullets  are  being  shipped  in.  They 
sell  at  90c,  to  $1.75  each  from  small 
mixed  stock  to  large  purebreds  in  laying 
condition.”  Live  fowls,  small  and  thin, 
are  offered  as  low  as  12c.  per  lb.  Good 
fowls  bring  15  to  17c..  and  chickens  about 
the  same  as  fowls.  Dressed  fowls,  Kast- 
ern,  are  20  to  24c..  th  preference  being 
for  heavy  ones.  Roasting  chickens  are 
23  to  28c. ;  broilers.  25  to  26c. ;  odd  sizes, 
22  to  24c, ;  ducks,  18  to  22c. 
EGGS  AT  FULL  TRICES. 
The  market  is  well  sustained  for  all 
classes  of  eggs,  while  nearby’s  are  scarce 
around  55c.  Western  prime  firsts  are 
38c.,  and  cold  storage  stock  is  in  active 
demand  at  31  to  31%c. 
DAIRY  PRODUCTS  IN  STRONG  TOSITION. 
The  very  moderate  receipts  of  extra 
creamery  butter  sell  rea.lily  at  36  to  37c., 
and  the  undertune  of  the  market  continues 
strong,  but  the  consuming  demand  is  re¬ 
ported  checked  at  this  level.  Medium 
grades  are  being  taken  for  export  at 
prices  close  to  the  better  grades.  Storage 
creamery  is  selling  briskly  at  about  the 
price  of  the  fresh  make,  and  Is  of  fully 
as  good  quality,  the  fresh  arrival*  begin¬ 
ning  to  show  llavor  of  frozen  feed.  Box 
and  print  blitter  is  Lu  steady  demand. 
HAY  AND  GRAIN. 
Demand  slow,  but  receipts  have  been 
checked  by  the  scarcity  of  cars  for  load¬ 
ing,  and  the  market  seems  in  better  shape 
for  the  time.  Top  quotation  is  $22.  No. 
2  in  $15  to  $16  and  good,  coarse,  Eastern, 
$17  to  $1S.  Clover  mixed  is  $14  to  $17 ; 
swale,  $11  to  $12  and  rye  straw,  $13  to 
$14.  The  feed  market  has  a  strong  tone 
following  the  advances  in  grain.  Corn 
meal  is  $2.27  per  bag.  Bran  is  $32  per 
ton;  middlings.  $35  to  $40;  cottonseed, 
$44;  linseed,  $44;  gluten  feed,  $39.50; 
hominy,  $  14  ;  Alfalfa  meal,  $2S.  Feeding 
barley  is  98c.  to  $1  per  bushel  and  barley 
screenings,  88  to  90c. 
LIVE  STOCK  AT  BRIGHTON  LOWER. 
Dealers  say  that  the.  farmers  are  ship¬ 
ping  stock  to  cut  down  the  grain  bills. 
Arrivals  at  Brighton  and  Watertown  are 
large.  Steers  and  oxen  sold  at  7%  to 
8%c. ;  cows,  5  to  7c. ;  and  bulls,  5  to  6%c. 
Calves  were  mostly  10  to  11%.  Calf¬ 
skins  bring  a  record  price  at  46  t<  47c. 
per  pound.  Lambs  are  9  to  10c. ;  sheep.  5 
to' 7c. ;  hogs,  mostly  around  10c.  A  700- 
lb.  boar  sold  at  6c.  Country  dress  ’  hogs 
sold  lately  at  12%  to  13c.  Milch  cows 
seem  abundant,  but.  chiefly  of  low  or  me¬ 
dium  grade.  Prices  range  about  the  same 
at  $40  to  $60  for  the  rank  and  file,  $75  or 
thereabout,  for  really  good  ones,  aud  $99 
to  $115  for  the  tig,  handsome  ones  that 
look  like  extra  fancy  milkers  g.  b.  f. 
Rounding  Up  the  Milk  Contractors 
With  the  11.  P.  Ilood  company  and 
several  of  the  smaller  concerns  accounted 
for,  the  producers  are  centering  their  fire 
upon  the  group  of  sub-companies  con¬ 
trolled  by  the  Whitings.  It  was  supposul 
in  the  first  place  that,  the  other  firms 
would  follow  the  lead  of  the  Hoods,  but 
the  head  of  the  Whitings  asserts  that 
they  have  milk  enough  and  that  “most  of 
our  farmers  have  signed  the  new  con¬ 
tracts  which  took  effect  Oct.  1.” 
The  milk  producers,  however,  think 
they  see  various  ways  of  reducing  the 
supply  and  bringing  these  remaining  buy¬ 
ers  to  terms.  The  situation  shows  plainly 
the  effect  of  lack  of  early  organization, 
but  the  producers  are  doing  their  best  to 
catch  up  by  organizing  more  closely  in 
neglected  southern  sections  of  the  terri¬ 
tory  to  control  the  supply  from  Connecti¬ 
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