1046 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKEB 
October 12, 
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In Livingston Co., N. Y., buyers are of¬ 
fering $1.50 per barrel for medium to 
good apples but not finding many takers. 
The large grower has sold his crop for 
$1.50 per barrel on the trees. 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture gives the following revised estimate of 
grain yields in the Northern Hemisphere: 
Wheat, 2.900,000,000 bushels; barley, 1,- 
225,000.000; oats, 2,600,000,000 and corn, 
3,000,000,000 bushels. 
Springfield is the market center for this 
section. A full line of vegetables in their 
season are furnished by market gaideners. 
Producers are now receiving the following 
prices: Potatoes, 80 cents; corn, 85 cents 
per 100; tomatoes, 25 and 30 cents per 
basket; cabbage, $1 per barrel. Tobacco 
is largely raised and a large per cent has 
already been sold at from 15 to 22 cents 
per pound. New milch cows, according to 
size and quality, $65 to $85; milk, 4 Y a 
cents at the door. H. p. w. 
Agawam, Mass. 
According to the Rochester Democrat 
and Chronicle, farmers are reporting seri¬ 
ous damage to the bean crop in the 
Wyoming Valley as a result of the ex¬ 
cessive rainfall during the last three weeks 
in September. Reports are -very general 
that" the crop is molding and rotting as it 
lies in the windrow after being cut. Other 
reports claim that the beans are starting 
to grow in the pods. Some fields were 
partially submerged in water as a result 
of the rain. About 30 per cent of the 
crop is already ruined. The potato crop 
is also damaged by the wet weather. Many 
fields were affected with blight during the 
early part of September. This was fol¬ 
lowed with wet weather and resulted in 
potato rot. Buyers are very reluctant in 
taking the potatoes, as it is known that 
the rot will continue after they are dug. 
I have just returned from a short stay 
in a farming community in Vermont, where 
dairying is the main line of farming. The 
owners carried from 30 to 80 head of 
stock, receiving $1.65 per 100 pounds for 
milk. The general complaint seemed to 
be that there was not much in it at that 
price, with grain so high and the price 
going up. They took what was offered 
and seemed to think they could get no 
more. No one weighed his milk, or knew 
whether the cow was paying her keep or 
not. Some said as long as the balance 
was on the right side that was enough. 
Some did not feed grain, as it was too 
high and they could not afford it. They 
sold their milk to the same crowd that sold 
them their grain, and still they worked 
from five A. M. till eight P. M„ some of 
them old and broken down. g. h. m. 
You will be interested in the potato 
outlook in Western New York, or perhaps 
Monroe County more particularly. I have 
been steam, trolley, auto and buggy riding 
during the past 10 days, and I have yet 
to find a single piece that is not blighted. 
In 19 fields out of 20 the vines are dead 
to the ground, occasionally a field only 
partly dead, but all are struck and struck 
badly. 1 was in a field last week where 
we dug into a good many hills, and it 
was the exception to find one where some 
of the tubers were not beginning to rot; in 
some hills every potato was affected. A 
person who claimed his were not rotting 
found on September 28 six bad ones in 
enough for dinner, showing the rot is af¬ 
fecting fields which 10 days ago seemed 
free are now. affected. I believe the blight 
and rot will cut down the yield in this 
part of the State 35 to 50 per cent of 
merchantable stock. C. s. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
MARKETS AND MARKETING. 
The picture at Fig. 430, page 1043, 
shows the public market house in Pa¬ 
ducah, Ivy. We understand that 30,000 
consumers use these markets to deal direct 
with the producers. It is open every day 
from six A. M. to 10 A. M., and ail day 
Saturday. It is said that this market 
proved such a success that there is hardly 
a meat market or a greengrocer to be 
found in the downtown district of Paducah. 
The people seem to be well served, the 
farmers have a good market, and obtain 
far more for their goods than they ever 
could by passing them on through middle¬ 
men. This is the way business should be 
conducted in hundreds or thousands of 
American towns and cities. The way to 
relieve the market situation in the larger 
towns is to take care of the smaller mar¬ 
kets first. In many cases producers ship 
to the large cities and then ship back to 
supply these smaller places. Get hold of 
the local market first and cover it fully. 
This is the first principle of handling the 
market situation. Since we began to talk 
about this market business, our readers 
have taken hold of the matter in earnest, 
and every day brings us additional infor¬ 
mation about their struggle. 
At Greensburg, Pa., a curb market was 
started. This is held three days a week, 
and was the outcome of a crusade on the 
part of the women of Greensburg to cut 
down the high cost of living. The follow¬ 
ing quotation from a local paper shows 
what they are doing at Greensburg: 
“Saturday morning’s beautiful weather 
brought more than, the usual number of 
market farmers and market buyers to the 
Curb. There was plenty of market stuff 
and plenty of buyers and the combination 
emptied the wagons of their heavy loads. 
' Great heaping baskets were required to 
take the corn, tomatoes, beans, peaches, 
grapes and other good things to eat home. 
“Twenty wagons backed up to the Curb 
and their contents looked most inviting. 
The. variety was even better to-day than 
at any previous market, if that could be 
possible. The season is just at its highest 
point of plenty and everything is most in¬ 
viting. Apples are about the only com¬ 
modity that shows a shortage, but the 
other foodstuffs more than make up this 
shortage.” 
This is the beginning of a regular mar¬ 
ket house, and after two mouths’ trial it 
is highly satisfactory. Formerly the farm¬ 
ers traveled from house to house peddling 
their goods. Now they back up at the 
curb at a certain place in town, and the 
people meet them and trade. This thing 
could be done in hundreds of other towns 
throughout the country, greatly to the ad¬ 
vantage of consumers and producers alike. 
Camden, N. J., reports its first experi¬ 
ence with a farmers’ market on Septem¬ 
ber 27. This market was authorized by 
a local ordinance. The farmers are re¬ 
quired to pay a license of $1 a year, and 
they must prove that they are selling their 
own goods and are not buying and selling 
for others. Tuesday. Friday and Saturday 
are' market days. Comparative prices for 
the opening day were reported as follows: 
“They sold roasting chickens for 24 
cents a pound as against 30 cents de¬ 
manded at the stores, and eggs at 38 and 
40 cents, as against 42 and 44 cents. 
Green corn was 15 cents a dozen, 18 and 
20 cents being the price at regular retail 
places. Squash were onfe cent apiece as 
against five cents. Tomatoes brought 35 
cents a basket at both the market and 
the retail stores.” 
As an exhibit of the 35-cent dollar, the 
following reproduction from the Philadel¬ 
phia Public Ledger is worth while: 
80c. for Farmer; $9.20 for Dealer. 
To the Editor of the Public Ledger: 
Sir—Apropos of the high prices for farm 
products and the profits of the middlemen, 
I relate the following story, the truth of 
which I can vouch for: 
A lady was visiting the Terminal Market 
recently, where she bought a head of let¬ 
tuce, paying 10 cents for it. On emerging 
from the building she saw a large wagon, 
such as truckers use to haul their produce 
to market, loaded with lettuce. She ac¬ 
costed the driver with the remark that he 
had apparently a fortune in the wagon. 
“Not much,” he said ; “I only get 80 cents 
a hundred for them.” 
Eighty cents for production and trans¬ 
portation and $9.20 for distribution seems 
very disproportionate to me. 
FRIEND OF THE PBODUCER. 
Wyncote, Pa., August 1, 1912. 
In Los Angeles a free public market has 
been opened in the Plaza. Sixteen years 
ago there was such a market, but the com¬ 
mission men and dealers combined and 
drove the farmers out through a local or¬ 
dinance. The city has now brought the 
market back. Farmers may drive in and 
sell their goods from midnight until nine 
in the morning, and may sell their goods 
without paying any license. At the same 
time the city prosecutor of Los Angeles 
has caused the arrest of a number of com¬ 
mission men on the charge of combination 
or conspiracy to control prices. It seems 
that a committee of the local produce ex¬ 
change meets daily to fix prices on staple 
articles. The prosecutor claims that he 
has proof to show that this price fixing 
means an actual combination to regulate 
prices against the interests of the farm¬ 
ers. A movement is now on foot to estab¬ 
lish a definite market house in Los An¬ 
geles, so that the movement may be said 
to stretch from the Pacific across to the 
Atlantic. 
In Tyrone, Pa., the old battle to compel 
a farmer to pay a license for selling his 
own goods has been up. The borough 
council passed an ordinance apparently 
doing its best to prohibit farmers from 
selling their own goods on the street, ex¬ 
cept in a regular market. The burgess of 
Tyrone vetoed this ordinance, but the 
council passed it over his veto, at the in¬ 
stance of store-keepers and livery stable 
men. One of our readers was in the habit 
of selling goods from his wagon, and asked 
our advice about such a law. We believe 
that it is. a common right of an American 
citizen to' use the public highways for sell¬ 
ing his own goods. There have been a 
number of cases where efforts have been 
made to stop him, without success. Our 
friend states that he has received the 
backing of some of the foremost men in 
Tyrone. They tell him to go ahead and 
sell his goods on the streets, for he is 
within his rights in doing so, and that they 
•will back him up i*' a test case. This is 
business, and we hope our friend will stick 
to it, and assert his market rights. 
Prices of Farm Products. 
The average of prices paid to producers 
of the United States on September 15, 
1912, with comparisons, made by the Bu¬ 
reau of Statistics of the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, are given below : 
Sept. 15, Sept. 15, 
1912. - 
Beef cattle, per 100 1! 
Yeal calves, per 100 lb 
Hogs, per 100 lbs.... 
Sheep, per 100 lbs... 
Lambs, per 100 lbs.. 
Milch cows, each.... 
Horses . 
Wool, unwashed, per ] 
Honey, comb, per lb. 
Milk, per gallon. 
Apples, per bu. 
Peaches, per bu. 
Pears, per bu.. 
Grapes, per lb. 
Beans, per bu. 
Cabbage, per 100 lbs. 
Onions, per bu. 
Tomatoes, per bu.... 
Peanuts, per lb. 
Hops, per lb. 
Broom corn, per ton. 
Sweet potatoes, per b 
$5.35 
6.83 
7.47 
4.11 
5.49 
46.79 
141.00 
.187 
.135 
.225 
.62 
1.10 
1.00 
.025 
2.38 
1.25 
.89 
.59 
.048 
.198 
76.50 
.89 
1911. 
$4.43 
6.11 
6.53 
3.91 
5.02 
42.22 
139.00 
.156 
.137 
.216 
.70 
1.29 
1.04 
.022 
2.26 
1.94 
1.04 
'.051 
.406 
91.70 
.98 
The French Wheat Crop. 
“Consular Reports” states that the 
French wheat crop is about 12 per cent 
above last year’s yield of 389,592,319 
bushels. Considerable damage was done to 
the crop by bad weather during harvest, 
but the acreage was much larger than last 
year. _ 
Horses are from $125 to $250 ; cows, $35 
to $75, according to how badly they are 
wanted; beef, 4% cents on foot for steers. 
Butter, 25 cents; cream, 28 cents; eggs, 
25 cents a dozen. Potatoes, 27 cents a 
bushel now with promise of more. No 
fruit is raised here, except a few straw¬ 
berries in season. c. s. 
Wascott, Wis. 
Present prices of farm products in local 
market are, wheat. 95 cents; oats, 40; corn 
(old), 85; hay, $12 to $15 per ton. Eggs, 
18_ cents per dozen. Milch cows, $25 to 
$45; butcher cattle, 4% to six cents; veal 
calves, five to 7% cents. Butter, 20 cents; 
milk (retail), five cents. Apple crop short, 
probably 40 per cent of full crop, inferior 
quality, selling at distilleries at 60 cents 
per barrel. Only limited market for garden 
crops, therefore very little gardening done. 
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