1911 . 
THE RUKAb NEW-YORKER 
036 
Crops and Markets 
Wholesale Prices at .New York, 
Week Ending September 8, 1911. 
BUTTER 
Creamery, fancy, lb.26 ffi .27 
Good to Choice.23 @ .25 
tower Grades . :.is @ .22 
State Dairy, best.24 © .25 
Common to Good.15 @ .23 
Factory.:.14 ® .20 
Packing Stock.. 16 © .18$£ 
Elgin, 111., butter market firm at 26 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 27 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 28 cents. 
CHEESE 
Full Cream, best.12 © .1316 
Common to Good.09 @ .11 
Skims.05 @ .10 
EGGS 
White, good to choice.28 ® .34 
Mixed Colors, best.26 @ .27 
Common to Good.20 @ .24 
Western, best.22 © .25 
Under grades.14 @ .20 
Checks and dirties. 11 © .14 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 4.00 © 4.50 
Medium. 4.00 © 4.35 
Pea. 3.90 @4.20 
Yellow Eye. 3.50 © 3.55 
Red Kidney.5.60 © 6.00 
WhiteKidney.•..5.00 ® 5.20 
Lima, California. 6.60 ® 6.65 
HOPS 
Prime to Choice.41 ffi .42 
Common to Good.38 @ .40 
Pacific Coast.40 @ .42 
DRIED FRUITS 
Apples, evap., choice..10J6© 11 
Common to good.08 @ .10 
Waste.07 © .07% 
Cherries.14 © .18 
Raspberries... 31 @ .32 
FRESH FRUITS 
Apples, Wealthy, bbl.2.00 @3.00 
Alexander. 2.50 © 3.50 
Wolf River . 2.50 @ 3.50 
Twenty Ounce. 2.50 ® 3.00 
Maiden Blush.2.00 © 2.50 
McIntosh. 2.00 © 3.00 
Gravenstein. 2 00 © 3 00 
Duchess. 2.00 © 3.00 
Nyack. 2.00 @ 3.00 
Orange Pippin. 1,50 @ 2.00 
Fall Pippin. 2.00 @ 3.25 
Windfalls, bbl...1.00 @1.50 
Various, hS-bbl.-bkt.75 @1.25 
Crabapples, bbl. 2.00 @ 6.00 
Pears. Seckel, bbl. 2.50 © 4.00 
Flemish Beauty, bbl. 1.50 © 2.25 
Bartlett, bbl. 2.25 © 4.25 
Clapp’s. 3.00 @ 4.50 
Kleffer, J^-bbl.30 ffi .55 
Peaches, Up-river, bkt.30 ffi .75 
Western N. Y., bkt.35 © .80 
W Va.. carrier. 1.00 @ 1.25 
Del. and Md., carrier . 1.25 @ 1.75 
Del. and Md.. bkt.40 © .90 
Jersey, carrier. 1.25 @ 1.75 
Jersey, bkt.40 © .90 
Pine Island, bkt.35 @ .75 
Muskmelons, Colorado, crate. 1.25 @ 3.00 
Maryland, crate.50 © 1.50 
Jersey, bkt.25 © .70 
Watermelons. Southern, carload.90.00 ©150.00 
Cranberries. Cape Cod, bbl. 4.50 © 6 50 
Plums, 8-ib. bkt.10 @ .28 
Grapes, Moore’s Early. 18-lb. case ... .40 @ .55 
Champion...40 @ .50 
Delaware.60 @ .65 
Niagara.40 ffi .70 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes, Jersey, bbl. 2.75 @ 3.00 
Maine, bag. 2.75 © 2.80 
Long Island, bbl. 2.75 @ 3.00 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 2.00 @ 3.75 
Beets. 100 bunches. 1.00 ffi 1.50 
Carrots, bbl. 1.00 © 1.25 
Cabbage, Long Island, bbl. x ... .50 @ 1.25 
Cauliflowers, L. I., bbl. 1.00 © 2.00 
Sweet Corn, choice. 100. 1.50 @ 1.75 
Common to Good.75 @ 1.25 
Cucumbers, bbl.50 @ 1.25 
Pickles, bbl.75 @1.50 
Celery, Jersey, bunch.10 @ .35 
1/ettuce,!6-bbl. bkt.25 @ .75 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl.25 @ 1.00 
Peppers, Jersey, bbl.75 © 1.25 
Horseradish. 100 lbs. 3.00 © 5.00 
Okra. Jersey, bpbu.25 @ .30 
Onions, Long Island, bbl.2.00 ffi 2.25 
Orange Co., bag.2.00 © 2.50 
Jersey, bu.75 @ 1.25 
Conn. Yellow, 100-1 b. bag. 1.00 © 1.75 
Peas. State, bu.76 © 2.00 
Radishes.100 bunches.75 © 1.25 
String Beans, bu.50 @ 1.00 
Lima Beans, potato, bu.50 @ 1.00 
Flat kinds.35 @ .60 
Spinach, bbl. 1.00 @ 1.50 
Squasn. Marrow, bbl.,.50 © .75 
Crook Neck, bbl.60 © .75 
Turnins. Rutabaga, bbl.75 @ .90 
■White, bbl. 1.00 © 1.50 
Egg Plants, Jersey, bbl.75 © 1.25 
Tomatoes. Jersey, box.25 © .75 
Up-River, bu.30 @ .60 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, Broilers, lb.14 © .15 
Fowls.. .14 © .15 
Roosters.09 @ .10 
Ducks...12 @ .13 
Geese.10 ffi .11 
Turkeys.12 ffi .13 
Guineas, pair.60 © 
DRESSED POULTRY—FltESH KILLED 
Turkeys. Spring, best.25 'ffi .30 
Old Common to Good.12 @ .13 
Chickens, choice broilers, lb. 21 © 23 
Broilers, common to good.18 ffi .20 
Fowls. 14 @ .17 
Spring Ducks, lb.14 © .16 
Squabs, doz. 1.00 @ 3.50 
DRESSED POULTRY-FROZEN 
Turkeys, best.22 © 24 
Chickens, milk-fed roasters.18 © .22 
Corn-fed roasters.16 © .18 
HAY AND STRAW 
Uay. new No. 1, ton.24.00 © 25.00 
No. 2.22.00 @ 23.00 
No. 3.17.00 © 20.00 
Clover Mixed.16.00 © 22 00 
Clover.15.00 © 18.00 
Straw, Rye.14.00 ffi 16.00 
Oat and Wheat.8.U0 © 9.00 
LIVE STOCK 
Native Steers, 100 lbs. 4.75 @ 7.30 
Bulls.3.00 ffi 4.35 
Cows. 1.25 @ 4.75 
Calves, Prime Veal, 100 lbs. 7.00 @10.00 
Culls .5.00 ffi 6.00 
Sheep, 100 lbs.2.50 @ 4.U0 
Lambs. 4 75 ffi 7.00 
Hogs. 7.00 © 8.00 
GRAIN 
Wheat, No. 1. Northern Spring. 1.13 ffi 
No. 2, Red.98 © .. 
No. 2 Hard Winter. 1.02 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush.70 ffi .74 
Oats, as to weight, bush.45 @ .49 
Rye, No. 2, Western.90 ffi .92 
MILL FEED—CAR LOTS 
Spring Bran, ton. 23.60 ffi 25.50 ’ 
Standard Middlings. 28.00 ffi 31.00 
Red Dog. 31.00 @ 32.00 
Hominy Chop. 25.00 © 26.70 
Linseed Meal. 37.00 @ 37.50 
Com Meal. 27.00 ffi 28.00 
COTTON 
New York, Middling Upland. 11.60 
Middling Gulf. 11.85 
New Orleans, Low Middling. 11.10 
Good Middling. 11.95 
WOOL 
NewYork Fleeces, Fine, unwashed.19 ffi .20 
Ohio half blood combing.25 © .26 
Kentucky, three-eighths blood.24 © .25 
Michigan, half blood.24 @ .24J6 
TOBACCO. 
Conn, broadleaf-flller.08 © .10 
Fine wrappers.60 @ 75 
N. Y.State Fillers.05 @ .06 
Fine and Selections.12 ffi .16 
Ohio. Zimmer s Spanish.19 @ .20 
Virginia Dark Lugs. 07%® .09 
Dark Leaf. 10 ffi .20 
Bright Cutters.12 ffi .30 
Penn, broad leaf fillers.10 @ .12 
CHICAGO . 
Butter, creamery.22 @ .26 
Eggs, good to prime firsts.15 @ .1816 
Live Turkeys.10 @ .14 
Fowls.12 © 13 
Chickens. 13 @ .14 
Potatoes, bbl.3.00 @ 3.75 
Apples, bbl.1.00 @ 3.00 
Sheep, 100 lbs .2.40 @ 3.80 
Lambs, 100 lbs.4.25 © 6.20 
Hogs.7.20 @ 7.75 
BUFFALO 
Butter, creamery.27 @ .28 
Eggs, State. .20 @ .24 
Live Chickens..15 @ .16 
Fowls ..14 @ .15 
Potatoes, bbl.3.00 @ 3 35 
Calves, live, 100 lbs.5.50 @10.00 
Sheep. 100 lbs.1.50 @ 3.75 
Lambs, 100 lbs.4.00 @ 7.00 
Hogs. 6.75 © 7.75 
Wheat, No. 2, Red. © .92 
Corn.67 @ .68 
Oats.44 @ .46 
Boston Markets. 
On Tuesday, September 5, the largest 
amount of produce ever brought into 
Boston in one day was placed on the 
market. This was well cleaned up by 
Wednesday noon, the surplus or extra 
supply being needed to replace what had 
been used up on Sunday and Labor Day. 
The prices were fairly satisfactory, ex¬ 
cept in cases of low grade goods, which 
always go slow and cheap. Meat prices 
are stiff. Beef and hogs same as last 
week on the average ; dressed hogs being 
close to 10 cents a pound wholesale. 
Veals, dressed, brought 13 to 15 per 
pound; Iamb, 11 to 13; chickens, 17 to 
22, dressed. Apples in good supply and 
mostly fair quality; best Gravenstein, 
$1.50 per bushel; McIntosh Bed, $1.25; 
good common stock, from $1 down to 65 
and 75 cents; best Bartlett pears as high 
as $2 per bushel, and this grade is short; 
poor kinds more plentiful, and go from 
50 cents to $1. Peaches plenty at from 
60 cents to $1.50 per basket, according 
to size and conditioa. Wild grapes go 
slow at $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel. Not 
ready to use them much, as many are 
not home from Summer resorts, but will 
arrive in large numbers this week. But¬ 
ter is easy at 23 to 2S cents wholesale; 
25 to 32 cents retail. Eggs are in fair 
supply and strictly fresh, retail for 38 
and 40 in most localities. Cauliflower 
not in much as yet. Cabbage have 
dropped to 75 cents a barrel, or four to 
six cents when sold loose. Squashes go 
at from 75 cents to $1 per barrel and 
are not being sent in very heavy just 
at present. Peppers go at 50 and 75 
cents per bushel, a* 7 sell a little slow. 
Cucumbers are a little improved at from 
50 cts. to $1 per bushel. Corn goes well at 
50 to 65 cents, and good is not plenty. 
Tomatoes are dropping, bringing only 50 
to 75 cents a box, and will go lower, 
as we expect the flush of the market on 
these by next week. Shell beans, which 
have been selling high, have reached the 
other extreme and bring around 50 cents 
per basket, some even less. Carrots are 
high, bringing $1 per box. Eggplant 
also bringing $1.50 per box. Beets go at 
40 cents a bushel : turnips, 40 to 65 
cents per bushel. Potatoes are in good 
supply, yet sell at 00 cents to $1 per 
bushel. Quality is very good on Maine 
stock. Sweets are high at $1.75 per 
bushel basket or $4 per barrel. 
A. E. P. 
Arkansas will have about 2,800.000 bush¬ 
els of rice this year; 70.000 acres are in 
this crop. 
Harvests in Great Britain are said to be 
the poorest in 30 years, owing to excessive 
beat and drought. 
The potato crop in Anoka County, Minn., 
is the best ever grown there, and will 
bring about .$1,000,000. 
The total revenue from the last cotton 
crop in the United States was $1,030,000,- 
000 . the largest amount on record. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad has issued 
9.019.481 shares of stock, now owned by 
69.700 persons. The total outstanding cap¬ 
ital is $450,974,050. 
Because of the severe drought crops in 
Prussia are very poor. Potatoes, beets and 
fodder yields are so light that many farm¬ 
ers are selling their live stock. 
The latest crop estimates from the Cana¬ 
dian Northwest indicate a yield of 178,- 
650.000 bushels of wheat. 223.550,000 oats, 
33.300,000 barley and 720*000 bushels of 
flax. 
The apple crop of Virginia will bo about 
39.5 per cent. On account of drought ap¬ 
ples have dropped badly and in some cases 
are undersized, but are improving since the 
recent rains. Prices reported run from 
$2.50 to $3.50. 
Late rains are going to help potatoes. 
They are selling on the Rochester market 
from farmers’ wagons from $1.25 to $1.60 
for good tubers. Taking the country 
around here, I have not seen so poor pros¬ 
pects in 20 years as prevail now. Poor 
stand, puny tops, some blight and bugs. 
Rochestex - , N. Y. c. 1 . 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. contents 
Prom New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola 
and Gulfport, 1,234,742,000 feet of lumber 
were shipped during 1910. 
The taxable property in Wisconsin this 
year is valued at $2,941,412,842. This in¬ 
cludes personal property, which totals 
$739,187,616. 
The yield of diamonds in the Transvaal 
mines for the past year was 812 pounds, 
valued at $5,000,000. The output for tire 
past niue years was 2% tons. 
After October 6 it will cost 21% cents 
per 100 pounds to send flour from Minne¬ 
apolis to New York by the lake and rail 
route. By all rail the charge is 25 cents. 
Butter Stock. —According to the Ameri¬ 
can CreameryNow York had in storage, on 
September 1, 239.300 packages of butter, 
about one-third less than at the same time 
last year. Stocks in the four cities of 
New York, Chicago. Boston and Philadel¬ 
phia totaled 1,001,670 packages, a decrease 
of 255,530 from last year. Of course this 
does not include all butter in storage, 
many holdings being private and not re¬ 
ported. 
Australia has very strict regulations re¬ 
garding importation of potatoes in order 
to keep out disease, especially Phvtophthora 
infestans, commonly known as late blight. 
This disease has been known about 70 
years and has caused great damage, both in 
America and Europe. The now Australian 
law provides that all shipments of potatoes 
from any country must be accompanied by 
certificates that the tubers are believed to 
be free from the disease named above, or 
any other known disease, such as canker, 
black scab, warty disease, etc., and that 
they were grown at least 20 miles from any 
place known to be infected with any po¬ 
tato disease. After potatoes are received 
they are planted in quarantined ground, and 
if the crop is found free from disease, are 
admitted to the trade. The importer must 
pay all cost of inspection. It is evident 
that with these restrictions imports will 
be light, hut if it results in keeping out 
these bacteria] diseases, the law will prove 
highly profitable, in the United States we 
use the spray pump freely, but have 
been notoriously careless in scattering 
broadcast all manner of -plant diseases. 
That Exchange Manager.— The amount 
of produce sold through farmers’ cooper- 
ative exchanges is increasing yearly. The 
idea is a popular one. Business is done on 
a large scale—carloads instead of small 
lots. Checks for returns are large, and 
individual profits in manv cases average 
better than formerly. They ought to in 
practically all cases, because there is econ¬ 
omy in cooperative selling when properly 
managed. Most farmers who are capable 
of handling the work hesitate to take the 
job of manager. They feel that it will he 
a nuisance, that there will be troublesome 
problems at the market end. that their 
own farms will be neglected. and there will 
be much disquietude of mind. For these 
and similar reasons a professional manager, 
usually an outsider, gets the job. He mav 
he strictly honest, hut the writer believes 
that in some of these managers the farm¬ 
ers have added more middlemen instead of 
getting rid of some, as they thought. In 
the headquarters of one of these exchanges 
the manager was working the long-distance 
telephone and sending various telegrams. 
There was nothing wrong in that so long 
as_ he got an improved outlet and better 
prices, hut he was merely shipping the stuff 
to a commission house that the individual 
farmers could have dealt with to as good 
advantage. Tn other words, thev were pay¬ 
ing this man to do what they could have 
done with practically no more labor. The 
salary of an exchange manager who can 
find no more profitable outlet for the goods 
than the channels of commission house 
trade should he based solely on his use¬ 
fulness at the shipping end getting 
large shipments and a better pack, thus 
saving on transportation and making the 
produce suitable for a higher class of trade 
than the ordinary odds and ends of ship¬ 
ment. 
The Rural New-Yorker, September 
16, 1911. 
FARM TOPICS. 
“Farm Politics” and Farmers.917 
Buckwheat as a Farm Crop....917, 938 
The Peanut in Indiana. 918 
More About Sowing Vetch. 920 
Boston Chamber of Commerce Agri¬ 
cultural Exhibit . 920 
Top-dressing for Alfalfa. 922 
Lime With Grass Seeding. 922 
Care of Tools. 922 
Use of Sea Waste. 922 
Crop to Follow Millet. 922 
The Labor Question . 922 
Coming Farm Meetings. 922 
Some Corrupt” Lady Beetles. 1)21 
Using Liquid Manure. 921 
Hope Farm Notes. 924 
Diary of Farm Work. 927 
\ egetable Growers’ Convention.... 927 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
The First Egg. 918 
Sheep in the Early Fall. 930 
The Poland China Hogs. 930 
Stock Notes . 930 
Dexter and Kerry Cattle. 930 
Milk . 931 
IIow We Improved Our Herd.931 
Making High-Scoring Butter. 931 
Water Supply for Barn. 931 
Experience With a Silo. 932 
Feeding Problems . 932 
Unthrifty Pigs. 932 
Stock and Poison Ivy. 932 
Foot Rot . 932 
Cow With Cough. 932 
An Egg Talk. 933 
Anconas and Leghorns. 933 
Feeding Beef Scraps. 933 
“Live Breeding” of Poultry.933 
Cracked or Whole Corn. 933 
Bedbugs in Henhouse. 933 
Grain Ration for Chicks..,. 933 
HORTICULTURE. 
Rapid Method of Orchard Planting. 918 
Growing Peach Seedling in Western 
New York . 919 
What Age of Tree. 919 
Value of Orchard Trees. 921 
Weeds in the Vineyards. 921 
Wrong Spray for Peaches. 925 
Trouble With Peach Trees.925 
Transplanting Wild Trees and 
Shrubs . 925 
Ornamental Grapes . 925 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
From Day to Day. 928 
Cake Fillings Without Eggs. 928 
Keeping Meat Without Ice. 928 
The Rural Patterns. 929 
Canned Beets. 929 
Three Eggless Recipes. 929 
A Penny Saved . 929 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Icehouses of Concrete.920 
What About Long-Tongued Bees... 921 
Honey-bees and Tobacco. 922 
Other People's Money. 927 
Events of the Week. 927 
Publisher’s Desk . 934 
EARLY CHESTNUTS & SHELLBARKS 
wanted. H m. II. Cohen & Co., CoiiiiiiImaIoii Mer- 
cliuntH. - - - 229 Washington 8t., New York. 
Eggs, Poultry, Meats, Produce. 
Shipments solicited. JELLIFFE, WRIGHT 8 CO., Com¬ 
mission Merchants, 284 Washington St.,New York. 
pi.KASE send a trial shipment to the Oldest Com- 
r mission House in New York. Est. 1838. Butter. 
Eggs. Poultry. Pork. Calves. Hay. Grain, Beans. 
Apples, etc. K. II. WOODWARD, SOU (ireenwloh St., N.T, 
JOHN C. QUICK CO. 
But here is whore the elements of bluff 
and dishonesty work in. The exchange 
manager is a good talker and can explain 
the value of his work at the selling end in 
ways that sound plausible and are hard to 
controvert. With thp help of two or three 
confederates he can easily show comparative 
account sales of shipments sent by others 
clearly proving f?> that he has some pecu¬ 
liar power to get prices higher than others 
who are using the same channels of trade. 
In all the large markets there are commis¬ 
sion men sufficiently progressive and hon¬ 
est that they do not need the peculiar 
services of an exchange manager to stir 
them up to do their best for patrons, either 
as individuals or in associations, and every 
dollar these farmers pay the professional 
manager is so much money wasted. Instead 
of getting rid of the middleman thev are 
creating a new and high-priced one.' But 
by far the worst result of such methods is 
the harm done the cause of real coopera¬ 
tion. After the excitement of a shipping 
season is past and the results are figured 
over and analyzed by those members of an 
association who figure, there is often reason 
for the feeling that after all there is not 
so much in cooperation as was thought. 
The manager has been paid his salnrv and 
has gone. In one instance-a man, starting 
at the South and working up, managed 
three exchanges in one season, getting 
$5,000 from each. Produce dealers smile 
when they speak of such cooperation, often 
engineered hy their own agents, who are 
usually on hand, roadv to boss the job, 
whenever farmers talk of “getting together.” 
The management of an exchange handling 
hundreds of tons of perishable products in 
a season is a serious matter, but it is a 
still more serious affair to hire an outsider 
or professional to do the work,, when the 
probabilities are that the association has 
excellent timber in its own membership. 
Cooperation in work as well as results is 
essential in getting an organization of 
farmers started on a sound basis. 
w. w. rr. 
COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 34 JAY STREET, NEW YORK 
POULTRY FARM EGGSoUR SPECIALTY. 
QUICK Returns Our Motto. Established 1855 
Highest prices guaranteed for White or Brown 
Leghorns or mixed eggs. Also high grade butter. 
Write us for information. A trial will convince you 
of our ability to obtain extreme prices. Address 
JOHNSTONE 6 COUGHLAN, 
172 Duane Street s : New York 
Boston Produce Co. 
Commission Merchants, 
Fruits and Produce. Consignments Solicited 
93-95 South Market St., - Boston. 
GEO. P. HAMMOND & GO., 
Commission Merchants and Dealers in all kinds o 
COUNTRY PKODUCK, Apples, Peaches Bei 
ries Butter, Eggs. Cheese, Poultry. Mushrooms 
and Hot-house Products a Specialty. Consignment! 
cV 36 Little 12th JSt., New York 
solicited. 34 & 
SHIP YOUR CALVES AND POULTRY 
-TO- 
GEO. OLIVER & COMPANY 
Established 1850 
COMMISSION MERCHANT8 
WEST WASHINGTON MARKET. -:- NEW YORK, N. Y. 
PROMPT RETURNS 
Apples—Peaches 
and all Fruits and Vegetables, Fancy 
Eggs; Hothouse Products. Top prices 
secured for choice products. 
Archdeacen & Ce., 100 Murray St.,’New York 
