7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Countrywide Produce Situation 
farmers’ position gradually improving 
—MARKETS GENERALLY GOING BETTER 
AND COSTS DECLINING 
The position of the farmer is appar¬ 
ently becoming a little better week by 
week. Of the products he has for sale 
more of them have been going up than 
down. The recent ups quoted include 
wheat, vegetables, apples and most live 
stock. CottOli continues to lose its Sum¬ 
mer gains, and is only 2c above I lie price 
a year ago. Most things the farmer sells 
are well above the lowest of the big 
slump, while many of the goods he buys 
have been tending lower for the most 
Part, including fertilizers, freight trans¬ 
portation, machinery, some seeds and 
nursery stock, many groceries, clothing 
and building materials. 
In short, the farmer has a few more 
dollars, and the money goes further than 
it did last, year, hut the changes have been 
so uneven and some crops were so poor 
that many farmers are still in difficulty. 
In the Rust most farmers not depending 
on orchard fruits have done fairly well. 
Maine had two tine money crops—apples 
and potatoes. Milk prices hove been de¬ 
clining. The coodenseries have averaged 
less than Sy 2 c per quart, hut cost of 
dairy feeds has dropped a little, especially 
bran and gluten. City milk prices are 
easing down gradually, often to 3 or 4e 
per quart below the highest, but are still 
about that much above the pre-war prices. 
Wages of milk peddlers and other helpers 
in the city milk trade are far out of line 
with farm wages, while occasional dis¬ 
closures indicate that some of the big dis¬ 
tributors have made immense profits dur¬ 
ing the past few years. 
A feature of the vegetable market is 
the rise of onions, best stock approaching 
$9 per 100 lbs. in some markets. A year 
ago many cities quoted below $1. it is 
all on account of only half a crop, most 
of the onions too small to suit the best 
trade. .Tust about half the enbbage com¬ 
ing now is from the South. New York 
State seems to have plenty of old stock 
coming along, too, and the markets cave 
in here and there under the combined 
pressure. Average city price toward the 
middle of February is $35 to $45 per ton. 
Apple prices seem a little more firm each 
week, hut the apples themselves are soft¬ 
ening early in the season and the mar¬ 
kets will need to shift to storage stock. 
Best Baldwins average about $8 per bar¬ 
rel in the cities, and Western boxed ap¬ 
ples of standard kinds and best grades 
$3 to $4. 
Potato supplies are heavy for the time 
of year. Maine shipments are holding 
out wonderfully, sometimes amounting to 
one-third of the week’s supply. The price 
holds fairly well, ranging mostly $2 to 
$2.40 per 100 lbs. in the cities and $1.50 
to $1.05 at Eastern and Middle Western 
shipping points. The explanation of the 
shipping movement running so heavy in 
proportion to the estimated crop probably 
is that the shortage is mainly in the 
States of the corn belt and the Middle 
Atlantic section, which are buyers rather 
than sellers: henop a great flow of pota¬ 
toes From the Far West, the North and 
Northeast, where the principal surplus 
supplies were located. If the shortage 
had bpen mostly in the selling States, in¬ 
stead of the buying section, shipments no 
doubt would have been lighter. The situ¬ 
ation is much like that of 1910-20. The 
principal difference is the tremendous 
crop in Maine this season, which is prob¬ 
ably the chief reason why potato prices 
have not gone up ns they did then. There 
were 20.000 cars more potatoes in Maine 
than in that State ill 1019-20. All this 
excess alone would supply the country 
over a month, o. b. f. 
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Twenty to thirty miles to the gallon of gasoline 
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January was quite a pleasant month, 
with the exception of the last week, which 
was cold and blustery. The meruery went 
to 10 degrees below zero, and many roads 
drifted badly. The ice men are harvest¬ 
ing a large crop of ice ,»f excellent quality. 
Quite a number of small auctions being 
Held. at whieb prices are lower than last, 
leason. A number of farmers’ institutes 
are being held iu this county. Farmers, 
ns a rule, are not very enthusiastic in the 
outward look. Wheat. $1.10; oats. 35o; 
corn. 45c: barley, (15c; rye. 90c per bn. 
Potatoes, $1 per bu. Hay a drug on the 
market. Apples and enbbage taken out 
of oold storage at a loss. Pigs. 814 ; 
lambs, lie; butter. 35c; eggs, 35c. 
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Mold in Sprouted Oats 
T think that F. M. F. (page 1P»0> will 
dn away with moldy oaN iu his sprouter 
if lie will drain the trays after watering 
same. Moldy oats arc caused by too 
much beat, ton much moisture, too warm 
water, contaminated trays and tubs, or a 
combination of the above. Formalin will 
kill the mold iu contaminated containers, 
and will help prevent It if a few drops are 
put in the water when oats are first put 
to soak. The most important thing to do 
(we find), and T have never seen it mon- 
toned. is to drain out the surplus water 
after thoroughly wetting the sprouts. We 
do it by tipping the entire set of trnvs 
bnek at a sharp angle. Yon will be sur¬ 
prised at the amount of water (hat will 
drain off when this is praetieed after they 
stop dripping. We use. n little formalin 
in the water, as above mentioned ; wet 
with cold water and drain well. The 
trays can he kept tipped at all times if 
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