W* RURAL NEW-YORKE 
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Countrywide Produce Situation 
SHIPMENTS ClirOKKI) ItY I.OWKR PRICES 
AMI VAU KK Til KN RECOVERED-APPLE 
CHOP NEEDS ADVKIITISIM, — OKCIIAUD 
BUYERS SCARCE—SOUTH EAIRI.Y PROS¬ 
PEROUS—CROPS HOLD!NO THEIR OWN, 
Thi* cron outlook is not lm<l. There is 
no .special shortage of ulrylhing except 
cotton. The main weather feu lures are 
too much rain East and loo little in the 
far Wont. Pastures are good for the time 
of year, and the output of dairy produce 
is liberal. The excess of moisture along 
the Atlantic coast favors potato and fruit 
blight; otherwise the prospect is good for 
these crops. 
(Supplies of some lines of farm produce 
became lighter toward the end of August. 
Except in the case of hay. the railroad 
strike was not to blame, but rather the 
low prices of such lines as potatoes and 
fruits and the cost recovery for produce 
which is coming in by the volume, bill the 
general level is rather low, 
APPLES SELL LOW 
Good Fall apples are selling in most 
cities around 50c per bit., and $2 per bbl. 
They brought $2 to $3 per bbl. in Sep¬ 
tember. 1021. 
The apple outlook continues favorable 
to a fair to good yield throughout the 
country. The August estimate is 88,402.- 
000 barrels. Prices are low in the sec¬ 
tions now shipping early apples. Dutch¬ 
ess are down to 50c per bit. in some dis¬ 
tricts nf M ichigan. I tost grades of stand¬ 
ard varieties in the Pacific coast apple 
sections are reported selling for future 
delivery around $1.50 per box. Choice 
Eastern early kinds sell in city markets 
from $2.50 per bit. down. 
Buyers are keeping away from the late 
apple sections and nobody seems ready to 
talk prices yet. although a few. stiles of 
fancy table varieties at $4 to $5 per bbl. 
are reported in the Middle West. The 
low opening prices in consuming markets 
will start the public to eating apples 
again, its soon as retailers get over the 
idea 11ml a small apple must forever sell 
for 5<■ and the big one for 10c. What is 
badly needed is it little lively advertising 
of the goodness and abundance of tipples. 
There should la* an apple day—several of 
them in every town, with celebrations, 
placarding, and bargain oilers, to con¬ 
vince the public that it may afford to use 
the fruit every day. and plenty of it. 
When the big crop of Fall apples is out 
of the Wily, the worst will be over, be¬ 
cause Baldwin. Ben Davis and sotue other 
leading lute kinds are not a heavy crop. 
The English apple crop is reported not 
very large. People in Europe have not 
been prosperous, but they always find 
money to buy American apples when the 
price looks right to them, English re¬ 
tailers, like a similar class in the Foiled 
States, have been trying to hold war¬ 
time prices too long. 
A Western potato grower asks where 
is the potato shortage this season and 
what will be the price in October? The 
nearest to a shortage this season is in the 
Northwest, as n result of drought, but 
that section always has plenty of potatoes 
for its needs. Other sections will have a 
big surplus unless rot becomes general. 
If anybody could foresee the price he 
might try to corner the market, but no¬ 
body over lias done that as yet with po¬ 
tatoes. The early potato crop has been 
selling low. As the late crop also is on a 
large acreage and likely to average a 
good yield there is no reason as yet to 
look for high prices at any time follow¬ 
ing the coming season. Whenever the 
yield promises well over 400.00(1,000 
bushels, the chance of a rising market is 
too small to justify taking the extra 
trouble and risk of holding one's crop. It 
is estimated 440,000,000 bushels this sea¬ 
son. A big rise under such conditions has 
occurred only two or three times in rite 
past 20 years, the advance being due in 
each case either to rot. or to war time 
inflation of prices. A little rise often 
occurs with a large crop, but not usually 
enough to pay for bidding. Often there 
is a little gain in the price about the 
middle of November, when shipments begin 
to fall off, and another in January, when 
Winter sets in. This is one of the years 
when growers will play safe by beginning 
to sell early and keep on selling whenever 
the demand is good. 
SOUTH FAIRLY PROSPEROUS 
The South is having another fairly 
good season. Their peach crop brought 
in about $10,000,000. probably as much 
more on me through sales of watermelons, 
tt I though the melon yield per acre was 
light and quality rather poor. Sweet po¬ 
tatoes promise well, and corn is making 
a big crop, while cotton, the fiuaticial 
backlog, keeps about 20c per lb. Every 
Southern farmer talks glomnil; of the 
high cost and the weevil. He has forgot¬ 
ten the old days of 7-eent cotton, and 
store debts the year around, when it 
home-owned motor ear was seldom seen 
and few Southern children went to costly 
city schools. o. it. e. 
OUT in Wyoming a train ran over a 
cow belonging to a Swede named Die Ole- 
son. The claim adjuster went out to the 
home of Ole to adjust the claim likely to 
be made for the loss of his cow. ‘Well, 
Mr. (Meson,” said the adjuster. “1 came 
out to see you about your cow being 
killed on our track. What are you ex¬ 
pecting to do about it?" "Veil." said ole 
stolidly. “I ban a poor man an' 1 cannot 
do much because I ban so poor; but I 
will try to pay you $5."—Ilolsteiu-Frie- 
sinn Register. 
Is it better to pay less in the 
beginning, or less in the end? 
The Hupmobile is answering 
that question for farmers in its 
own way. 
It is answering with lower 
aftercos ts y lesser need for re¬ 
pairs, and its own rare reliability 
—as it does for scores of busi¬ 
ness houses which employ 
Hupmobile fleets. 
It goes so far toward earning 
its keep by the savings it makes, 
that farmers are rapidly revis¬ 
ing their ideas about motor 
car economy. 
More and more, they are com¬ 
ing to see that it is better business 
to buy the fine qualities always 
associated with the Hupmo¬ 
bile, than to pay less in the first 
place and far more by the year. 
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Sedan, *1785. Cord tires on all models. Prices F. (). B. Detroit—Revenue Tax extra 
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