1912. 
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NOTES ON PRICES AND SELLING. 
Prices of Agricultural Products. 
The average prices paid to producers 
of the United States for articles specified, 
on November 15, 1912, according to the 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
are shown below: 
Nov. 15, 
1912. 
Beef cattle, per 100 lbs. $5.22 
Veal calves, per 100 lbs. 6.77 
Hogs, per 100 lbs. 7.05 
Sheep, per 100 lbs. 4.05 
Lambs, per 100 lbs. 5.37 
Milch cows, each. 47.38 
Horses, each. 139.00 
Wool, unwashed, per lb. .186 
Honey, comb, per lb. .138 
Apples, per bu. .63 
Pears, per bu. .79 
Beans, per bu. 2.25 
Cabbage, per 100 lbs. 1.04 
Onions, per bu. .84 
Peanuts, per lb. .047 
Cotton seed, per ton. 18.57 
Hops, per lb. .197 
Broom corn, per ton. 69.30 
Sweet potatoes, per bu. .74 
Walnuts, per bu. .65 
Hickory nuts, per bu. 1.12 
Eggs, per doz. .2S6 
Chickens, live, per lb. .108 
Turkeys, live, per lb. .144 
Turnips, per bu. .44 
Popcorn, per bu. 1.41 
■Wheat, 95 cents; oats, 45 cents; corn, 65 
cents. Pork, 10 cents dressed; cattle, $8; 
butter, 30 cents ; butter fat at creamery 36 
cents. Potatoes, 50 cents ; apples, $1; eggs, 
35 cents per dozen. j. h. d. 
Academia, Pa. 
Dressed steers, 10 cents; sheep, nine 
cents; cows, eight cents; .hogs, 10 cents. 
Butter, 30 to 35 cents. Apples, $1.50 per 
barrel; buyers furnish barrels and deliver 
to cars, but buyers pack. Potatoes, 45 
cents to $1.50. F. E. C. 
Bridgeton, Me. 
Eggs, 60 cents per dozen at present time, 
and 14 cents for live fowl. For milk the 
farmers are getting 34 cents per can of 
eight quarts. Butter, .38 cents; live pork, 
six and eight cents. Ilay the farmers don't 
sell at this time of season. Apples, mostly 
Baldwins, are bringing $1.50 f. o. b. cars. 
Antrim, N. H. A. L. p. 
Draft horses, $200, good ones; driving 
horses, $150. Cows, fresh, from $50 to $60 ; 
young cattle, from $4 to $6 a hundred; 
hog?, heavy, $7 a hundred ; light hogs, $6. 
Potatoes, 40 cents a bushel; eggs, 30 cents 
a dozen ; butter, 28 cents a pound ; onions, 
75 cents a bushel; apples, 50 cents a 
bushel; cabbage, $4 a ton. m. 
Jonesville, Mich. 
The prices are about as follows: Hay, 
$12 per ton; oats, 35 cents per bushel; 
buckwheat, $1.15. $1.20 per hundred ; hogs, 
eight cents per pound, live weight. Pota¬ 
toes, 40 cents; apples, 40 cents. No 
peaches; apples, a good crop but no mar¬ 
ket ; potatoes, big yield; buckwheat, good 
yield, also corn. L. r. d. 
Blooming Valley, Pa. 
Farmers can get delivered here to stores 
and storehouses about the prices quoted be¬ 
low : Potatoes by the load, $1.25 per 
bushel. Apples, per bushel, 35 to 65 cents; 
beets, 40 to 50 cents; butter, 33 cents 
pound; chickens, pound, 16 to 18 cents; 
cabbage, per dozen, 40 to 45 cents; eggs, 
fresh, 45 to 50 cents per dozen; fowls, 
pound, 14 to 16 cents; turnips, bushel, 35 
to 50 cents; oats, bag, $1.25. F. p. 
Ashland, Me. 
Some time ago eight head of cows sold 
for $31 apiece, on account of lack of feed 
and high prices of hay and bran. Horses, 
scarce, $250 to $300 for good. Cows, new, 
$50 to $80. Pigs, dressed, $11 per 100 
pounds; hogs, $9.50 to $10. Apples, 50 
cents to $1 a bushel; potatoes, 50 cents; 
onions, GO to 70 cents; oats (not a good 
crop), 45 cents; buckwheat, 50 cents; hay 
(short crop), $22 a ton. Eggs, 45 to 50 
cents; chicks, live, 14 cents; fowls, live, 12 
cents; cabbage, three to four cents. 
Johnstown, N. Y. f. m. b. 
There is no grain raised for market, 
as the roads are in no shape to get a 
thrashing machine in here to do the thrash¬ 
ing. We can raise all kinds of grain, but 
have to feed it in the bundle. Here is a 
list of what we can sell: Potatoes, pro¬ 
ducer, 35 cents; retail, 60 cents; beef, 
wholesale, 4%; retail, 10 to 26; pork, re¬ 
tail, 12 to 24; hay, wholesale, $12; retail, 
$17 ; butter, retail, 35 cents. Three small 
apples for five cents; grapes, 25 cents for 
a small basket and poor at tiiat. Oranges, 
five cents each ; lemons, 45 cents a dozen. 
Alvin, Wis. o. H.' b. 
I give you the market prices paid to the 
farmer here by our local buyers and 
shippers: Cattle, delivered at railroad, 
six to 6% cents; hogs, 8% to 8% cents; 
good country butter, delivered at local 
store, 23 cents; fresh eggs, 26 cents; 
onions, Yellow Danvers, at railroad, 35 to 
40 cents; potatoes, 40 cents; wheat, in 
elevator, $1.03 ; corn, 75 to 80 cents; oats, 
32 cents; hay, $10 to $14. The above 
mentioned are the staples in this locality. 
Onions pay the largest profits of any crop 
grown here. I, j. 
Jeromeville, O, 
Corn and oats are fed out on the farms 
in nearly every case. Potatoes, though 
not over two-thirds of a crop, have been 
sold for 50 cents per bushel. Apples are 
hard to sell at $2 per barrel for firsts 
and $1 for seconds. Veal, eight to nine 
cents, depending upon quality. Pork, eight 
cents, and 7% on foot, depending upon 
weight. Fowls, 10 cents per pound. Ilay 
is not settled as to price, probably about 
$12 at barns. Cream is sold on butter fat 
basis fo Tait Bros, of Springfield, Mass., 
who paid for August cream 28 cents. 
Benson, Vt. C. s. a. 
Easton is a small village, but at the sta¬ 
tion a large business is done in potatoes 
and hay. There is no garden truck raised 
for sale in this locality, no auctions. 
Dressed heef, eight cents; bogs, 10 cents; 
THE RURAL 
chickens, when the meat market can handle 
them, 16 cents; fresh eggs, 40 cents; 
butter, pound prints, 35 cents; no cheese. 
Wheat, $1 per bushel; oats, 50 cents; bar¬ 
ley, 85 cents; potatoes, for a few days, 
$1.35 per 11-peck barrel. Presque Isle is 
about seven miles from Easton. Potatoes, 
chickens and pork, as a rule, bring a little 
more than at Easton. e. l. j. . 
Easton, Me. 
Butter and Eggs by Post. 
The parcel post service of Germany is 
used to a very large extent by farmers in 
their dealings with city customers, espe¬ 
cially for delivery of butter and eggs. 
Butter thus shipped is wrapped first in 
parchment paper and then packed in a 
cardboard box. As a rule, shipments under 
10 pounds are not made, each pound being 
separately wrapped, the total shipment in¬ 
cluding nine pounds of butter, net. These 
pasteboard butter boxes come with an 
upper and lower part and are folded to¬ 
gether and fastened with metal clamps to 
make the finished box. In knocked down 
condition these boxes can be had in this 
country, says Trade and Transportation, 
for $23.20 per thousand for the best quality 
and $21.42 for the second quality. The 
boxes can be saved and used over again. 
The clamps cost 33 cents per thousand. 
Eggs are shipped cither in strong card¬ 
board or wooden boxes, the inside of which 
contains corrugated cardboard partitions 
forming squares large enough to receive 
one egg. Between each layer of cardboard 
partitions a sheet of cardboard is placed. 
The wooden boxes are rather attractively 
finished and cost at retail 95 cents each. 
They are provided with a padlock and neat 
cover, and can be used for an indefinite 
period. Pasteboard egg boxes containing 
partitions for ten eggs can be had for 
$45.22 per thousand, and boxes to contain 
24 eggs for $71.40 per thousand. 
Get Ready for Parcels Post. 
The new experiment in parcels post will 
begin January 1. The North Dakota Agri¬ 
cultural College makes the following sug¬ 
gestion to farmers who intend to try to 
sell goods direct: 
“The quickest way for the farmer to 
locate customers is by advertising. A 
name should be given the products and 
this could best be the farm name, as 
Cloverdale, for instance. Quality should 
be secured and that maintained at all 
times. Nothing builds business like qual¬ 
ity. In the ad mention the goods for sale, 
the brand name and the quality and any 
distinctive feature. Invite correspondence, 
give the telephone number, as many will 
want to order in that way. 
“Another important thing is to have 
printed letterheads and envelopes. This 
letterhead is an important advertising me¬ 
dium and time saver, as it explains what 
your business is. This and the advertis¬ 
ing will also have the effect of establish¬ 
ing the business on a better and more per¬ 
manent basis; it makes a market for the 
thing produced, and it brings that market 
to the farmer instead of having to go to 
the common market. On this letterhead 
give about the same things as outlined for 
the advertisement. A name for the farm 
and a brand name for the product is 
mighty important. Anything too poor to 
have a name will never attract attention 
or command the best price. Quite a trade 
can be worked up in this way and it will 
prove mutually helpful to the producer 
and the consumer.” 
The Dealer’s Share. —Last September a 
farmer sold two boxes of sweet corn con¬ 
taining five dozen each, to a local provision 
dealer for 65 cents a box. A customer ad¬ 
mired the corn and asked the price per 
dozen. The dealer said 30 cents a dozen, 
which price the customer paid for one 
dozen. The two boies of corn were sold 
out the same day. giving a profit to tne 
dealer of $1.70. You can readily see who 
gets the profits. M. 
Wellesley, Mass. 
The Middleman.- —-Under Hope Farm Notes, 
page 1140, on the 35-cent dollar, there 
are other points to be considered. Fiist, 
a farmer must get his goods to market in 
the early morning and he is usually needed 
at home as soon as he can get back again. 
When he goes to market the retail stores 
are not open, and if they were he would 
have to visit a good many of them to dig- 
pqse of any considerable load of produce. 
If he started later he would find the whole¬ 
sale market a poor place for the latter part 
of his load, especially such as should be 
strictly fresh to be good. It is a poor 
time for a farmer to sell to stores during 
their busy morning hours, as the customers 
have the right of way and he would have 
some exasperating delays before his turn 
came. Most farmers are on the lookout 
for their own interests, and will take all 
the retail and store trade they can get if 
other conditions do not interfere. Per¬ 
sonally I do not begrudge the middle;nan, 
so-called, his portion on the goods I con¬ 
sign to him. F. T. JENCKS. 
Rhode Island. 
Selling on Commission. —In reply to F. 
D. F„ Massachusetts, about the high cost 
of living, I will tell you my experience in 
selling green produce (cabbage, radishes, 
tomatoes and turnips) at our home grocery 
store. I am a farmer, and my experience 
was similar to what F. D. F. said as long 
as I sold for cash and did not take back 
any spoiled green produce. Then I made 
an agreement with our storekeeper like 
this: “I will bring you all the green 
produce that I bring to town, then you 
sell all you can of it (the green produce) 
and keep 10 per cent of the retail price 
for your (storekeeper) trouble, and give me 
the balance of the money. Then I take 
away all of my spoiled or wilted green 
produce free of charge.” One storekeeper 
asked 30 per cent of the retail price for 
his trouble. By doing this way I make 
more money than I woukI (counting mv 
time) by selling from house to house to 
the consumers, and at the same time the 
consumer can buy green produce cheaper 
at the store I deal at than elsewhere in 
our town. D . F> K . 
Massillon, O. 
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1912 
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New Times, 
New Things 
The old fertilizer 
formulas are giving 
way to the new. At 
every farmers’ meeting 
tone subject should be 
the fertilizer formula 
that will furnish a balanced ration to the crop and keep up the fertility 
of the soil. To do this the fertilizer should contain at least as much 
POTA 
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