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Countrywide Produce Situation 
PRICES TEND HIGHER WHILE CAR SHORT¬ 
AGE LASTS-COST THE GREAT DRAW¬ 
BACK—SELLING WESTERN SUNSHINE— 
APPLES A PROMISING FEATURE—POTATO 
POSITION WEAK. 
Prices show a generally upward trend 
in city markets. Grain, cotton, live 
stock, butter, apples and potatoes have 
all made some gain above lowest points. 
Beef cattle at $13. hogs above $11. bay at 
$27. cotton at 23c. apples at shipping 
points at $4.25 all represent about top 
prices of the season. 
Two general reasons are given for 
higher quotations. First, the rise of 
prices in general as the usual result of 
greater business activity ; second, the car 
shortage, which is partly holding back 
supplies. The first reason is likely to 
hold good for some time. The second 
may he expected to disappear soon after 
the rush of the Fall shipping season is 
over. These few weeks or months while 
the railroads are catching up seem to be 
the right time for the farmers who live 
dose to markets to sell quite a lot of 
produce. 
COST KILLING PROFIT 
Farm prices may go up, anyway, along 
with steel, cloth, coal and the rest, and 
so may bring the returns into better rela¬ 
tion with cost of production. The pres¬ 
ent plight of producer far away from 
market is illustrated again in a report 
of the Arizona cantaloupe season. The 
Southwestern melon growers had a full 
crop, and rhe average of about $2.50 per 
crate of 45 melons in the Eastern mar¬ 
kets looked like a decent price But out 
of it came $1.50 for freight and icing. 35c 
for selling and 50c for crates, picking, 
packing and hauling, which left 15c for 
the grower, many of whom did not aver¬ 
age anything like $2.50 in the first place. 
Even a net of 15c. equal to about $1S 
per acre, is not much, compared, with 
cost nf cultivating and irrigating, fertil¬ 
izing and spraying an acre of melons. 
Some of the growers got the best of the 
middlemen of selling the crop in advance, 
receiving a first payment, which was 
larger than they would have obtained in 
any other way. 
SHIPPING SUNSHINE AND WATER 
Our Eastern melon growers will won¬ 
der chiefly that a Pacific Slope farmer 
can expect to compere at all with a 
freight handicap of $1.50. The canta¬ 
loupe is little else than a package of the 
everlasting Southwestern sunshine dis¬ 
solved in ;>s much water as can be had 
and marketed with such skill that, taking 
one year with another, the Western 
grower makes money. Probably the 
Eastern cantaloupe farmer will accept 
this state of affairs until he finds out as 
he did with apples that by taking pains 
enough he can raise them at high value 
in the East and market them at less cost. 
STRONG APPLE MARKET 
The gradual advance in prices of Win¬ 
ter apples tends to support the idea that 
the supply of these is no more than mod¬ 
erate. At $4.25 a barrel in the country 
Baldwins have gone up about SI from 
lowest points. It is a much better show¬ 
ing than potatoes at $1 per 100 lbs. or 
sweet potatoes at $1.50 per barrel, and 
these three lines are of great importance 
to millions of farmers. Apples have 
acted hotter than most crops marketwise 
in recent full crop years.' Despite all the 
talk throughout the past 30 years, rhe 
past 75 years, for that matter, that fruit 
has been overplanted, it is still making 
as good an average showing as almost 
anything else compared with cost. 
Whatever advance has taken place in 
potatoes lately seems due to car shortage. 
Some people who have traveled through 
the Northern potato bell quite thoroughly 
say they look for low prices in the Spring 
because so many potatoes are being held 
over for lack of demand now. This may 
nor happen, bur there is not much in 
sight to encourage holding if there is a 
chance to sol' during a bulge in the 
present market. 
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For a slight difference in 
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time. It will cost you very 
little if any more to own a 
Westclox with its record of 
faithful timekeeping and 
punctual calling. 
The name Westclox is on 
thedial and six-sided, orange- 
bordered tag. Priced from 
$1.50 to $4.75. 
HE name of ach 
ampion 
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BASKET PACK GAINING 
The handy basket package is being 
u od nmv more than ever before, but the 
price is hardly as high in proportion as 
the barreled apples. Buyers reason that 
growers will put their best stock in the 
more expensive and troublesome barrel 
and will pack baskets less carefully, and 
so it happens, often. There is less dam¬ 
age to fruit aud package when shipped in 
barrels. For rhe Fall varieties nud wind¬ 
falls the basket has advantages, because 
some small buyers do not want over a 
bushel of such stock at one time. Much 
of the basket stock is being put up or¬ 
chard run. 
Apples as a class lack color this season, 
owing to the cloudy weather and thick 
foliage. Some kinds of apples, especially 
the Spy. are showing scale in orchards 
which were sprayed only once or twice. 
A good many early apples were not sold 
at all. Even plums and peaches have 
been going to waste to some extent, be¬ 
cause of unfavorable weather and the 
poor shipping qualities of certain kinds, 
which made the risk of shipping too great 
at prevailing prices. The producer of 
firm-fleshed, tough-skinned fruit has two 
strings to pull. If he can't sell near 
home he can try distant markets, while 
the grower of shortlived kinds may have 
no outlet hut the cannery. Some of these 
arc paying better prices than they used to. 
tnlriug one year with another. u. u. f. 
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