The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Countrywide Produce Situation 
SOLID SICAS OF IMPROVEMENT, BUT FARM¬ 
ERS GOING SLOW — AGAIN 12-CENT 
ONIONS—LETTUCE FROM MOUN¬ 
TAIN FARMS—STEADY APPLE 
SEASON—POTATO PRICES 
HOLD 
New signs show that farmers are not 
so badly off as they were a year ago. 
They are paying up bank loans in the 
West and South, which improves general 
money conditions. They are buying more 
fertilizer and farm machinery, which 
helps these industries, hard hit by the 
depression. Fewer idle freight cars show 
that in general buying and selling are 
more active. Farmers are still going 
slowly. Only a few are buying automo¬ 
biles and such things Hired help is 
taken on sparingly and at lower wages 
than of late years, but farm wages here 
and the world over are still higher than 
before the war; $10 to $15 per month 
higher in this country. Cost and prices, 
however, have reached a balance on which 
the farmer may feel hopeful. Freight 
seems m •<> out of line than auythiug 
else that the farmer must have, and the 
railroads may have to fight it out with 
their highly paid help before freight costs 
will come down far. 
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TWELVE-PENT ONIONS 
These are the days of 12-eent onions 
in some of the big markets. Even the 
present high prices fail to draw much of 
a supply. It is the closest clean-up since 
1917. and even then the April prices 
were no higher than now. Since that 
time the public has become used to many 
ups and downs in the produce market, 
and nobody talks of boycotting the onion 
dealers. Nothing but. onions, apples and 
oranges are really very high, and these 
because of crop damage, aided somewhat 
hv high cost of freight and marketing, 
as compared with the times before the 
war. The effect of the last named items 
shows -strongly in the cabbage market 
with prices three to four times as high 
in Northern cities as in Texas or Florida 
producing sections. The Northern retail 
consumer is not using cabbage freely at 
5c per lb., while the Southern grower 
often finds no buyers and is trying to 
save some of the crop by making kraut, 
although early cabbage is rather too light 
a yielder for that purpose. 
HIGHLAND LETTUCE 
Of late years lettuce comes from so 
many sections that the hothouse growers 
are seldom favored by scarcity of the out¬ 
door product. The newest competition is 
from the highlands of the Rocky Moun¬ 
tain section, which have a cool, moist 
Summer climate, and produce good let¬ 
tuce for market in early Fall. It sells 
at fairly high prices. Thousands of acres 
will be planted this season. Here seems 
to he a hint for some of the farmers of 
the East in mountain sections, where the 
climate has been described as "nine 
months Winter and three months Spring." 
Among the White Mountains and the 
Adiroudacks are some highlands of good 
level laud, now used for hay, grain, cab¬ 
bage and other hardy short-season crops. 
Lettuce from these sections would he 
comparatively close to the markets and 
should pay if well grown and handled. 
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STEADY POTATO MARKETS 
Potato .shipments are slowing down 
and prices hold well lately. The market 
might possibly show some recovery dar¬ 
ing April, according to the facts, which 
are the short estimated main crop, the cool 
Spring, favorable to long-keeping, the 
lateness of the season in parts of the 
Sooth, the active demand iu most mar¬ 
kets and the frost damage to early pota¬ 
toes in the Southwest. Potatoes are 
coming quite liberally from Florida, but 
will be too scarce and high for the pres¬ 
ent to offer much real competition. For 
all that, it seems that the grower who 
sold early came out best. Prices were 
as high as now. and the early seller had 
no loss from shrinkage and no extra cost 
of storage. Most expert dealers seemed 
to have expected higher prices • this 
Spring, and put some of their money be¬ 
hind their opinion. Maine, Minnesota 
and a few Far Western States spoiled 
all calculations for much profit in hold¬ 
ing potatoes. 
APPLES NEARLY GONE 
The apple season is about over for the 
grower. Only a few cars seem to be left 
in producing sections, and these mostly 
arc held by dealers or in cold storage, 
it has been a quiet season, with au un¬ 
usually steady run of prices from hogin¬ 
ning to end, and with about the usual 
gniu of later prices over those on the 
first part of the season. The average of 
city prices is close to $8 per barrel for 
best grades of standard kinds, compared 
with $7.25 in Fall and early Winter. 
Nobody in the Eastern apple section who 
had apples to sell this season is complain¬ 
ing. The Northwestern growers had a 
fair season and managed to dean up at 
about Iasi season's average prices, but 
they would not have fared so well if 
Eastern apples had not been scarce. If 
the two sections can keep on having their 
biggest crops j\\ different years a lot of 
trouble would be avoided. G. B. f. 
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