The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
347 
ANOTHER CUT IN 
225HS PRICES 
Fencing, Gates, Paint 
X Steel Posts and Roofing 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
PRICE TREND OF FARM PRODUCTS CONTINUE 
SLIGHTLY UPWARD. POTATO SITUATION 
PUZZLING. RUT OUTLOOK FAIRLY GOOD. 
INCREASING ACTIVITY OF SOUTHERN 
PRODUCE. FARM WAGES LOWER. 
Farm prices continue to slant upward 
along the line of recovery. The grain 
markets are doing better under continued 
export buyiug. Livestock is higher. Veal 
has recovered to about the price of a yeai' 
ago. Hogs and heavy steers hold around 
nine cents per pound in Western sections. 
At this price it would pay farmers to feed 
hogs rather than to sell corn. Europe 
continues to buy fairly large quantities of 
cotton. Exports of apples have been more 
active than expected, greatly to the ad¬ 
vantage of the domestic market. Foreign 
buying of condensed milk has been re¬ 
sumed, thus strengthening the dairy prod¬ 
ucts situation. 
LIBERAL STOCKS OF POTATOES 
The most important recent news of 
produce is the reported heavy stock of 
potatoes on hand January 1. This report 
has been delayed for some time on ac¬ 
count of revision of the crop report in 
harmony with census figures. The stoek- 
on-hand report is rather sensational in 
some ways, as it shows large remaining 
stocks iu the States that ship most of the 
potatoes during the last four or five 
months in the main crop season. These 
States arc reported to have more potatoes 
January 1 than they had a year ago in 
a season of big crops, and this result is 
after shipping heavily all through the first 
three or four months of the season. 
The situation may be explained by the 
big crop iu a few of the principal shipping 
States, notably Maine. There was a short 
total crop, but the shortage was located 
in States which buy potatoes rather than 
sell them, and tended to increase the de¬ 
mand from the main shipping States. 
Maine’s crop of over 00.000 cars was 
about double that of some recent seasons. 
The State seems likely to lead even Min¬ 
nesota t.his season, us it still has nearly 
half of its crop ou hand. Of course, noth¬ 
ing like all of the 235,000 cars on hand 
January 1 will go in cnrlots to market. 
Many States will have none to spare. If. 
as usual, about one-quarter of the total 
January stocks arc shipped during the 
rest of (he season, there would be over 
50.000 cars, or 3.000 a week from Janu¬ 
ary 1 to near tbe end of April. Ship¬ 
ment. usually continues quite active for a 
month or more after the end • >f April. 
About 15,000 cars were shipped in Janu¬ 
ary. February seems likely to score al¬ 
most as heavy movement, yet the markets 
have acted vastly better than they did 
last season. There are plenty of potatoes, 
but the demand is much better because 
of the shortage in the Central and manu¬ 
facturing States, which are active con¬ 
suming sections. It will be a big year for 
potatoes, possibly bigger than ever before 
in volume of shipment: yet keen demand 
may let tbe growers out with profit. It 
looks as if all the potatoes would l>e 
wanted, and probably at about present 
prices, but there is no market boom iu 
sight. If Southern potatoes are late and 
do not yield more than ordinarily, the old 
stock may give an excellent account of 
itself. Most Northern farmers have little 
to sell at this time in the line of fruits 
and vegetables, except potatoes, but stor¬ 
age holders are still guessing over the cab¬ 
bage, potato and apple outcome. 
SOUTH COMPETING STRONGLY 
Green stuff from the South is beginning 
to take off the edge of the demand for 
stored vegetables. Cabbage, celery, let¬ 
tuce and tomatoes front Florida, Texas 
and California seem to become more early 
and abundant year by year. Texas cab¬ 
bage is selliug as low as Northern cabbage 
was selling a few weeks ago. while North¬ 
ern'stock lias lost about 20 per cent of its 
early Winter value. Northern onions and 
potatoes still hold the market, bur Florida 
and Texas will begin next month in a 
small way. The Southern States have 
increased f'eir acreage of both these crons 
by about 10 per cent, according to early 
reports. 
Apples are holding their own at $7 to 
SS.50 per barrel for best stock, and $3 to 
•'?-! for host Western box apples. The 
Ireeziug of half the California orange crop 
helps the sale of apples. Most, apple 
growers are through for the season, and 
beginning to talk about the next crop, 
which, they argue, should be a big one 
from the appearance of the lnul< ami be¬ 
cause so many orchards had a rest last 
season. It will he the even or bearing 
year for the Baldwin, which usually has 
a big crop in the Eastern apple belt every 
other season. 
Europe is buying liberal supplies of 
\\ estern box apples at about S3 per box 
average for all grades, Many of these 
apples are being shipped direct, from the 
Pacific Coast by steamer, and with fair 
success, although some of the arrivals 
show the effect of the long journey. 
LABOR COST LOWER 
Cost of farm labor went down one-third 
last year; more than that in the South 
and West. but less in sections where the 
shops compete with farms in the labor 
market The average is about $50 per 
month with board, and $13 without. The 
price is about $10 above the wages before 
the war. The labor bill is still a burden 
to farmers who had poor crops or who 
raised products which have heen selling 
as low as they sold before the war. 
1- G. B. F. 
Faring Profit 
These 
McCormick-Deering 
Products are in Demand 
at this Time of Year: 
heartstrings of the American farmer. It went 
out under a cloud and he shed no tears. Yet 
this cloud, like so many of the clouds in life, had 
its silver lining. 
The agricultural ills and ailments of 1921 brought with 
them their own remedies. At Washington today the govern¬ 
mental forces, wide awake to the vital co-relation of farm and 
industrial welfare, are fortifying the weak places in the busi¬ 
ness of farming. The farm public has created a hundred 
active, vigorous movements, many of them now bearing fruit. 
Freight reductions, better financing and better marketing 
conditions, lower labor and equipment costs, legislation tend¬ 
ing to higher farm product prices—items like these build up 
the optimistic outlook for the summer ahead. 
For you, the individual farmer, all the factors in the 
situation center of course on your own acres. In so far as 
you are a believer in the inevitable return swing of a pen¬ 
dulum, you will apply your best knowledge and the most 
efficient and modern equipment to make your fields produce 
bumper crops. 
As you come to the spring season you will probably 
discover the need of one or more new machines and we 
want to call your attention to the standard popular equip¬ 
ment that makes up the McCormick-Deering Line, sold by a 
good dealer in your community. For reliable machines and 
equipment, repairs, and ever-ready service, consider the 
McCormick-Deering Dealer fully qualified to serve you. 
Tractors 
Titan 10-20 
International 8-16 
International 15-30 
Plows—Tractor and Horse 
Disk Harrows 
Spring and Peg Harrows 
Culti-Packers 
Drills, Seeders, and Alfalfa 
Drills 
Fertilizer and Lime Sowers 
Corn Planters 
Corn Cultivators 
Beet Seeders 
Listers 
Engines 
Cream Separators 
Manure Spreaders 
Motor Trucks 
Twine 
Repairs 
The 
McCormick-Deering 
Dealer Offers You 
Standard Tractors and 
the Best-known, Most- 
complete Line of Trac¬ 
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on the Market. 
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less cost and to give my customers the benefit as 
y/ I always do, I have made another deep cut. This 
’’ time I have slashed prices to the bone. By all means 
send for my New Cut Price Catalog before buying. 
ROWE MJIRUFACTUBIWG CO. 
2 *d-»a SCr—t. C-I-—burs, HI, 
KITSELMAN FENCE 
PRICES AGAIN REDUCED. We Pay 
the Freight and save you money. Direct 
from Factory to Farm. Write fur Free 
Catalog of Fann.Ponltry and Lawn Fence 
* BROS. Dept.230MUNCIE. INDIANA 
I want to send every farmer my latest Cut Price Catalog, FREE and postpaid. 
Your name and address on a post card will bring it. If you are needing fencing, 
gates, steel posts, send for this book and see the big saving my new 
cut prices give you. If you expect to paint any of your — 1 
13 buildingsxir put new roofs on them. or fix the old roofs, ask for 
my New Roofing and Faint Book—it will save you big moaey. ■KTjuaBl 
SalaMl Jim Brown PAYS the Freight 
EDMONDS’ POULTRY 
ACCOUNT DOOK 
Practical—Simple. 
Start the account any time. Net 
Balance shown at any time. 
Price $1.00 To Canada $1.25 
For Sale by 
The Rural New-Yorker 
333 W. 30th Street New York City 
When you buy from Jim Brown he pay* the freight. That saves 
you some more money. You always get beat quality at lowest 
orices. Send for big Free Cut Price Catalog now! Jim Brown, Pres. 
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