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Market News 
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rices 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
LOWER COSTS TEND TO BALANCE LOW 
PRICES OF WIIAT TIIE FARMER SELLS— 
OUTLOOK FOR PLENTY OF TRUCK AND 
FRUIT — ONIONS AND APPLES ENDING 
niGU—POTATO MARKET UNSETTLED. 
The active Spring season opened with 
the outlook for the. farming interests 
rather mixed, but on the whole not at 
all gloomy. The West and South, which 
have felt the worst of the 1020-21 slump 
in farm products, now seem fully as well 
off .as the East, owing to the rise in 
grain, live stock and cotton and the 
downward trend of cost of machinery, 
fertilizer and farm labor. There is more 
buying of farm machinery and fertilizer, 
hut help is taken on rather sparingly, 
and there is a surplus of farm hands in 
some sections. Very likely the present 
season will prove to have been a favor¬ 
able time to make farm improvements 
requiring common labor. As soon as the 
manufacturing industries have fully re¬ 
covered usual activity it may not be so 
easy to obtain good surplus help ou the 
farm. 
COST AND PRICES 
Eastern farmers share the benefit of 
declines in supplies, but the rise in grain 
which helps the West has also put up 
the price of millfeeds in the great dairy 
sections of the North and Northeast, 
while milk, as well as most other pro¬ 
ducts which the fanner sells at this time 
of^ the year, have been going down in 
price. The price of milk in leading pro¬ 
ducing sections has declined fully oue- 
third since the boom period of 1910-1920. 
Values of milk cows have dropped about 
as much, but are still twice as high as 
in 1909. Quantity of milk produced has 
been kept up, aided by lower priced feeds 
and the return of some tillage land to 
pasturage. 
Early reports show that many farmers 
throughout the country are thinking of 
raising more fruits and vegetables. The 
cotton weevil in the South and cheap 
grain and live stock in the West have 
helped this tendency. The production of 
a double crop of strawberries or tomatoes 
may sell fairly well, but what will the 
market do with a full crop from 50.000 
acres of Georgia watermelons? 
ONIONS POPULAR 
Northern farmers seem inclined to put 
in a large crop of onions and potatoes. 
4Ieavy increase in onion production would 
not be desirable, because the public will 
use only about so many. The past sea¬ 
son. with prices often 10 times as high, 
there were over two-thirds as many 
onions shipped as the season before with 
its heavy crop. The top prices in large 
lots reached $15.50 to $16 per 100 lbs. 
in March in one or two of the larger 
markets. The price a year ago was near 
the 50c without the $15, but the average 
city family seems to have used its pound 
or two of onions nearly as often as usual. 
Potato consumption is rather more 
variable, according to prices, but this 
country will not use at a fair price much 
over four bushels each person. The crop 
of Maine, whioh astonished the country 
the past season, may be even larger in 
acreage this year, but such another favor¬ 
able season is scarcely to be expected. 
The potato price level in Chicago is 
about midway betweeu highest prices 
this year and the prices a year ago. Most 
States, except Maine, arc decreasing 
shipments, but there are potatoes enough 
and the new crop is beginning in a small 
way. 
LOOKS LIKE FRUIT YEAR 
The fruit outlook is good almost every¬ 
where so far. Georgia peaches will start 
for market before many weeks, and there 
will he more of them from the upper 
South this season. There is every rea¬ 
son to expect plenty of apples in the 
East this year. There is always a chance 
of unfavorable Aventher in May. but all 
present sigus point to a big fruit year. 
What is left of the apple and orange crop 
is selling at a high price. Even the Ben 
Davis and Russets from common storage 
are bringing $5 per barrel or a little 
more, and choice standard varieties sell 
$7 to $10 for best grades. G. B. F. 
Local Up-State Prices 
JOHNSON CTTY-EXD1COTT MARKETS 
Hamburg, lb.. 15c; boneless roasts, lb., 
20c; kettle roasts, lb., S to 14c: neck 
cuts, lh.. Sc; lamb chops, lb., 20 to 25c; 
mutton, lb., 10 to 25c; salt pork. lb.. 20c; 
sausage, lb.. 20c; sliced ham. lb-, 20 to 
25c: Dold bacon. lb., 20c; pork chops, 
lh.. 24c; pork loin, lb., 22c; veal cut¬ 
lets. lb., 25c: veal loaf, lb., 20c; rabbits, 
live, lb.. 20c; dressed. 20c. 
live Poultry — Chickens, lh., 22c; 
fowls, lb.. 22c; old roosters, lb., 25c; geese 
and (lucks, lb., 22c. 
Dressed Poultry—Chickens, lb., 40c; 
fowls, lh.. 40c; geese and ducks, lb., 26c. 
Eggs, extra, white, 28c: brown. 28e; 
duck eggs. 38e: milk. qt„ 9c; buttermilk 
and skimmilk. qt., 5c: cream, qt., 75c; 
cheese, cream. 20c • skim. 17c; cottage 
cheese, lb.. 10c: pimento cheese, lb., 15c; 
creamery butter, faucy prints, 44c; best 
dairy. 1I>.. 44c. 
Popcorn, shelled, lh.. 6c; buckwheat 
flour, lb., 4c; bread, 17-oz. loaf. 5c; new 
maple syrup, gal., $2 to $2.50; maple , 
sug*»r, lb., 20 to 25c; clover honey, card. 
Apples. bu.. $2.40; beans, qt., 10c; cab¬ 
bage, white, lh., 4c; carrots, bu., $1.50; 
horseradish, 10c; celery, bunch, 10c; let¬ 
tuce, large heads, 10c; onions, lb., 15c; 
green, bunch, 1.0c; potatoes, bu., $1.20; 
parsnips, bu., $1.35; radishes, bunch. 5c; 
spinach. 15c; squash, Hubbard, lb., 5c; 
sauerkraut, qt., 15c; rutabagas, bu., 80c; 
vegetable oysters, bunch. 10c. 
Feeds, per 100 lbs.-—Gluten, $2; bran, 
$1.85; wheat feed, $1.90; middlings, 
$1.95 ; cornmeal, $1.50; whole corn. $1.50; 
hominy, $1.60; cracked corn. $1.55; mo¬ 
lasses feed. $1.75; cottonseed meal, $2.50; 
oilmeal, $2.90; ground oats. $1.75. 
SYRACUSE PUBLIC MARKET 
Pork, lh., 14 to 15c; heavy, lh., 11 to 
12c; lambs, Spring, lb.. 30 to 50e; beef, 
lh.. 7 to 8c; veal. lb.. 12 to 12c. 
Live Poultry—Ducks. Spring, lb., 32 to 
35c;_ chickens, 20 to 35c; fowls, lb., 30 
to 35c; geese, lb., 32 to 35c; guinea hens, 
each, $1. 
Dressed Poultry—Ducks, lb.. 40c; 
chickens, lh.. 30 to 53c; fowls, lh., 50c;- 
geese, 45c. 
Butter, lb., 40 to 45c; eggs. 27 to 30c; 
duck eggs, 35 to 40c; Italian cheese, lb., 
35c. 
Apples, bu., $1.50 to $3; beans, bu., $3 
to $3.75; beets, bu., 90c to $1.10; celery, 
doz. bunches, $1.20 to $1.50; carrots, bu,, 
80c to_$1.25; cabbage, lb.. 2c; cowslips, 
bu., 75c to $1; endive, doz. heads, 75c; 
garlic, lb., 20 to 25c; honey, pt„ 30 to 
35c; kohl-rabbi, doz.. 60c; lettuce, leaf, 
crate, $2.40; maple syrup, gal., $1.75 to 
$2; onions, bu.. $2.50 to $4.75; green, 
doz. bunches, 40 to 50c; parsnips, bu.. §1 
to $125: potatoes, bu.. 40c to $1.10; per 
peck. 40c; rutabagas, bu.. 75c; tui-nips, 
bu.. 35 to 50c. 
Hay, No. 1, ton. $21 to $22; No. 2. 
$17 to $19; No. 3. $16; Timothy, $19 
to $22; straw, rye, ton. $11 to $12. 
ROCHESTER 
Dressed beef, carcass, lb.. 10 to 14c; 
forequarters, lb., 8 to 10c: hindquarters, 
lb., 10 to 16c; dressed hogs, light, lb., 12 
to 15c; heavy, lb.. 10 to 12c; Spring 
lambs, 28 to 30c; yearling lambs, lb., 14 
to 16c; mutton, lb.. 10 to 12c; veal, lb., 
16 to 18c. 
Live Poultry—Broilers, lb., 26 to 2Sc; 
Springers, lb.. 26 to 28c-; fowls, lb.. 28 to 
30c; old' roosters, lb.. 18 to 20c; guinea 
fowl, each, 50 to 60c; ducks, lb.. 30 to 
32c; geese, lb., 18 to 20c: turkeys, lb., 
40 to 45c. 
Eggs. 28c; butter, country, crock, lb., 
38 to 40c. 
Apples, bid., 8py. King and Greening. 
$8 to $10; Baldwin. $6 to $8; apples, 
per bu., $1.50 to $2.50. 
Asparagus, shipped, doz. bunches. $6.50 
to $8.50; beets, new, doz. bunches. $1.75; 
cabbage, doz. heads, 75c to $1; carrots, 
bu.. $1.50 to $2; celery, doz. bunches, 90e 
to $1.10: lettuce, doz. heads, GO to 75c- 
head lettuce, per doz., $1.50 to $1,75; 
mint, green, doz. bunches. 30 to 35c; 
onions, bu., $1.50 to $2; green, doz. 
bunches. 25 to 30c; potatoes, bu.. $1 to 
$1.10; parsnips, bn.. $1.25 to $1.75; pie¬ 
plant, doz. bunches, $1.20 to $1.25 ; rad¬ 
ishes, doz. bunches. 35 to 40c-: spinach, 
bu., $1.65 to $1.75; turnips, bu., 40 to 
55c: vegetable oysters, doz. bunches, 40 
to 60c; watercress, doz. bunches, 40 to 
50c. 
Beans, per 100 lbs., handpicked, red 
marrow. $7 50: white marrow. $5.50; 
red kidney. $7.50: white kidney. $8; pea, 
$5.50; yellow eye, $6; Imperial. $6. 
Hides—Steers. No. 1. 6c; No. 2, 5c; 
COAVS and heifers. No. 1. 5c; No. 2, 4c; 
hulls and stags, lb., 4c; horsehides, each, 
$2 to $3; lamb, each. $1 to $1 50; calf. 
No. 1. 12e; No. 2, 7c; wool, fleece, lh.. 22 
to 25c; unwashed, medium, 22 to 25c. 
Wheat, bu . $1.23 to $1.25: corn, 
shelled, bu.. 75 to 77c; oats, bu., 49 to 
49%c; rye. $1.05 to $1.10. 
Hay—Timothy, ton, $25 to $27; straAv, 
ton. $14 to $18. 
Seeds—Glover, large, bu.. $16.50 to 
$17.50; medium, bu.. $16 to $17: Tim¬ 
othy. $4.75 to $5; Alsike. bu.. $13 to $14; 
Alfalfa. $13.50 to $14.50. 
$15; Sweets, Jersey, hamper, $1.75 to 
$2.25. 
BERRIES 
Strawberries, weak, poor quality; 
Louisiana. 24-qt. crate, $7 to $7.50; pts., 
$3 to $3.50. 
BEANS—ONIONS 
Beans, steady; kidney, cwt., $8 to $10: 
'narrow. 87.50 to_ $8; pea and medium, 
$6.75 to $7. Onions, firm: homegrown, 
yellow, bu.. $7 to $8; Texas crate, $3.50 
to $5.50; sets, homegrown, bu., $8 to 815; 
Western. $3 to $3.50. 
VEGETABLES 
Vegetables, quiet; asparagus, crate, $5 
to $7 ; beans, wax and green, hamper, $3 to 
$o; beets, new. In., $2.25 to $2.50; doz. 
bunches, 60 to 90c; cabbage, ton, $16 to 
$10; new, hamper, $1 to 81.50; carrots, 
olil, bu.,_ $1.50 to $2; new* <lr\z, bunches, 
o0 to 75c; cauliflower. California, crate. 
•$1*25 to $2; c-elery, Florida, crate. $3.75 
1°, > 4 -^: numbers, Florida, hamper, 
$4 to $4.50; lettuce, California Iceberg, 
crate. $2.oO to $3.50; onion sprouts, doz. 
bG'H’hes. 12 t<) 15e; parsley, doz. hum-lies, 
80c to $1; peppers, box. $3.50 to $5 ; peas, 
hamper, V^.75 to *, radishes, d^z 
bunches. 35 to 45c; spinach. Texas, bu., 
$1 to $1.25; shallots, doz. bunches. 60 to 
75ctomatoes. Florida, crate. $3 to $5; 
turnips, 1’lorida, crate. $3 to 85; turnips, 
white and yelloAv, bu., 40 to 75c. 
SWEETS 
Honey, white comb. Ih.. 22 to 24c : dark. 
Lie. Maple products: Sugar, lb., 
12 to 20c: syrup, gal.. $1,50 to $1.75. 
FEED 
Hay, steady: Timothy, ton. $18 to $21 • 
clover, mixed, $18 to $19; straw, oats arid 
wheat. $17 to $18; rye. $18 to $19 
U heat bran, ton, car lot, $27; middlings, 
-8'<4.50; cottonseed meal, 
$0.8 25; oilmeal, $51; hominy. $25.25; 
g uten, $36.50; oat feed. $10.50; rye mid¬ 
dlings, $29.50. j. w. c. 
EGGS 
White, choice to f’ey .38 
Medium to good.. .33 
Mixed col’s, n’by, best .31 
Medium to good. . .24 
Gathered, best.30 
Medium to good.. .24 
Duck eggs.30 
Goose eggs.60 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls, best.28 
Fair to good.25 
Broilers ..40 
Roosters.16 
Ducks .20 
Geese .18 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best.49 
Common to good.. .42 
Chickens, choice, lb. .40 
Fair to good.30 
Fowls ..25 
Roosters.20 
Ducks . .25 
Geese .15 
Squabs, doz. 4.00 
Capons, best . 
Medium to good. 
LIVE STOCK 
Steers . 7.75 0 
Bulls . 4.00 0 
Cows . 1.50 0 
Calves, pr’e v’l, cwt. 10.00 0 
Culls . 6.00 0 
Hogs . 10.00 0 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 5.00 0 
Lambs . 10.00 @ 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS 
Calves, best.14 @ 
Common to good.. .09 0 
Hothouse lambs, each 6.00 @ 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs... . 6.75 @ 
Medium . 7.00 0 
Pea . 6.75 (S 
Red kidney. 7.75 0 
White kidney. 9.25 0 
Yellow eye . 6.50 0 
FRUITS 
Apples, Baldwin, bbl. 4.50 0 
Ben Davis . 4.50 0 
Spy . 5.00 0 
Ilubbardston _ 4.00 0 
Western, box .... 2.00 0 
Oranges, box . 4.00 0 
Strawberries, qt.10 @ 
Vegetables 
Asparagus, doz. b’s. 3.00 0 
Beets, bu. 1.50 0 
Carrots, 100 lbs.... 2.00 0 
Chicory, bbl. 3.00 0 
Cabbage, bu. 1.25 0 
Cauliflower, crate... 2.25 0 
Eggplant, bu.75 0 
Kale, bbl.50 0 
Lettuce, bu. 1.50 0 
Onious, bu. 1.50 0 
Peppers, bu. 1.50 0' 
Radishes, %-bbl. bkt. 1.00 0 
Spinach, bbl. 1.50 (S 
Squash, bu. 1.50 0 
String beans, bu.75 0 
Tomatoes, G-hkt. c’re 1.25 (ffi 
Watercress. 100 b’s. 2.00 @ 
potatoes 
Long Island, ISO lbs. 4.00 0 
Maine, ISO lbs. 3.25 0 
State, ISO lbs. 4.00 0 
Florida, bbl. 2.25 0 
Bermuda, bbl. 5.00 (S 
Sweet potatoes, bu.. 2.75 0 
HAY AND STRAAV 
Hay. Timothy. No. 1 29.00 ' (q) 
No. 2 . 27.00 0 
No. 3 . 24.00 0 
Shipping . 21.00 0 
Clover mixed .... 22.00 0 
Straw, rye . 32.00 0 
Oat and wheat... 16.00 0 
Boston Wholesale Markets 
Buffalo Wholesale Markets 
The season is advancing at a good rate 
and most produce is cheap. Butter and 
eggs lead in Ioav prices, but apples arc 
still high, with onions out of sight. 
BUTTER—C IT ELSE—EOGS 
Butter, steady; creamery. 35 to 41c; 
dairy, 30 to 36c: crocks. 30 to 34c; com¬ 
mon. 21 to 26c. Cheese, unsettled; 
daisies, old and new. 20 to 25c: flats, 21 
to 25c: longhorns, 23 to 24c; Swiss, 
35 to 60c. Eggs, firm: hennery, 27 to 
30c; State and Western, candled, 26 
to 27e. 
POULTRY 
Dressed poultry, dull; turkeys, 45 to 
53c : fowl. 22 to 34c; capons. 38 to 44c; 
broilers, 35 to 42c; chickens. 26 to 34c; 
old roosters, 24 to 25c: ducks, 32 to 
33c; geese, 23 to 24c. Live poultry, 
easier; fowl. 28 to 30c; chickens. 24 to 
28c; old roosters, 19 to 20c; ducks, 34 
to 35c; geese. 23 to 2Ge. 
apples—potatoes 
Apples, quiet; best named varieties, 
bu.. $2.75 to $3; fair to good. $2 to $2.50: 
common. $1.50 to $1.75. Potatoes, steady; 
homegrown, bu.. 65c to $1.15; Florida, 
bbl., $8 to $10.50; Rormuda, bbl.. $12 to 
APPLES 
Baldwin bbl., $4 to $8.75; Spy, $4 to 
P’c. B -o Davis ’ to $6; bu. box, $1.50 
to $4,r>0. 
Beans 
P* 13 - 100 lbs., $6. i o to $7.35; red kid¬ 
ney^ $7.50 to $8.25; yellow eye, $8 to 
BUTTER 
Creamery, best, 39 to 39%c: good to 
choice, 33 to 37c. Dairy, 25 to 35c. 
Eggs 
Nearby hennery. 33 to 34c; gathered, 
choice, 29 to 30c; common to good. 24 
to 27c. 
mill peed 
Spring bran. $32 to $32.50; middlings. 
no7 t0 dog. $39; mixed feed. 
$34 to $36: gluten feed, $30.80; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $50 to $55 ; linseed meal, $58. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay—No. 1 Timothy. $32 to 834 • No 
2 829 to $30; No. 3. $26 to $27; clover; 
$26 to $30. Straw—Rye, $37 to $38; 
oat, $20 to $21. ’ 
Potatoes 
Maine Cobbler. 100 lbs., $1.15 to $1.30; 
Green Mountain. $1.40 to $1.50. Sweet 
potatoes, bu., $2.25. 
dressed Poultry 
Native roasters, 34 to ,35c: fowls, 30 to 
32c; roosters, 23 to 24c; squabs, doz.. $7 
to $9. 
Vegetables 
Cabbage, bbl., $2 to $3; celery, bn. box. 
$3 to $3.25: parsnips, bu.. $1.50 to $2.25 ; 
lettuce, bu.. $1.50 to $1.75; radishes, $2 
to $3: tomatoes, lb., 25 to 50c; rutabagas, 
140 lbs., $2 to $2.75; spinach, bbl.. $1.50 
to $2. 
FRESH FISH 
Prices of ground fish at the dock to 
wholesale dealers are: Haddock 5 to 
5%e: cod, 3 to 6c; pollock, 3 to 4c; eusk. 
2% to 3c. 
New York Wholesale Quotations 
April 20. 1922 
MILK 
Dairymen’s I.oague Co-operative Asso¬ 
ciation New York price for April fluid 
milk. 3 per cent fat. in 201 to 210-mile 
zone. $2.30 per 100 lbs. Class 1A (bot¬ 
tled!. and $1.7.:> for Class IB (hulk milk 
to he sold dipped or from which the 
cream is to he removed and the skim-milk 
sold other than to farmers in fluid bulk 
form). The March price for Class 2 
(milk for <oft fancy cheeses, cream, ice 
cream and plain condensed). $1.50. The 
pool jiriee for March was $1.65; deduc¬ 
tions 5c for expenses and 20c certificate 
of indebtedness ; check to producers $1.40. 
Butter 
Creamery, fancy, lb. .40 0 .40% 
Good to choice... .37 0 .39 
Lower grades.32 0 .34 
City made.22 0 .27 
Dairy, best ....... .38 0 .39 
Common to good. .30 0 .33 
Packing stock.18 @ .23 
CHEESE 
Whole milk, held. Fey .24 0 .24% 
Average run.22% 0 .23% 
New. fancy.17% @ .18 “ 
New. average run.. .17 
.51 
.47 
.43 
.39 
.31 
.25 
.35 
.18 
10.00 
.48 
.45 
8.25 
6.00 
5.60 
12.00 
7.00 
11.25 
6.00 
12.00 
.15 
.13 
11.00 
7.00 
7.25 
7.25 
8.35 
10225 
7.25 
8.00 
6.50 
11.00 
7.00 
4.00 
8.00 
.30 
0. 4.25 
0 3.50 
(S 4.25 
0 7.25 
0 10.00 
@ 3.25 
27.00 
24.00 
21.00 
22.00 
32.00 
16.00 
0 30.00 
0 28.00 
0 26.00 
0 22.00 
0 28.00 
0 34.00 
0 18.00 
GRAIN 
Cash quotations at New York: 
Wheat, No. 2, red.$1.57 
No. 1. Northern. 1.61 
No. 2. Durum. 1.47 
Corn. No. 2. yellow.79 
Oats. No. 2. white.48 
Eye . 1.16 
Barley .. 73 
Retail Prices at New York 
Butter—Best .$.46 to 
Fair to good. .36 to 
Milk—Loose, at stores. 
Bottled, Grade A. 
Bottled. Grade B. 
Certified .. 
Hca\ r y cream, % pint.... 
Cheese, lb .30 to 
Eggs—Best .47 to 
Fair to good.30 to 
Fowls ..45 to 
Chickens . 
Lamb chops .. 
Potatoes, lb. .. 
Apples, doz. . . 
Onions, lb. ... 
Lettuce, head . 
.45 to 
.50 to 
m to 
.50 to 
.15 to 
.15 to 
City Lady : “Why does that bull look 
at me like that?’’ Farmer Hill; “I 
suppose it’s your red hat.” City Lady : 
“Really! I kneAv that hat was out of 
style, but I never thought a bull would 
notice it!”—Credit Lost. 
