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THIS RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
February 1, 
WESTERN GRAIN PRICES. 
Please note on the enclosed clipping 
from Nebraska Farmer the price that 
farmers in Nebraska are getting for 
wheat. How does that compare with 
the price the ultimate consumer in the 
East has to pay? It would be interest¬ 
ing to trace this wheat through to the 
man that eats the bread. 1 don’t sup¬ 
pose there is quite so much difference 
between the grower’s price and the buy¬ 
er’s price on wheat as on other items, 
but still the grower in this case is get¬ 
ting a trifle over one cent per pound, 
and the man that buys the bread in 
New York pays about six cents per 
pound, so I guess it is the same old 
story of the “35-cent dollar.” f. h. 
R. N. Y.—Here is the clipping men¬ 
tioned: 
There must be a good deal of wheat still 
in growers’ hands, for the price is not 
taking much of a spurt yet. The elevator 
here is offering but 66 cents for Fall 
wheat. We sold a load to-day at that 
price. In August at thrashing time we sold 
a car at 73 cents, which was not only 
seven cents better on the price but saved 
quite a lot of shrinkage besides the cost of 
handling and the waste. The “ultimate 
consumer,” however, is profiting by the 
lower price in flour, w T hich has dropped 20 
cents per sack. But the man with good 
sound corn seems to be getting the benefit 
of a raise for holding his crop a little 
while. Dry, sound corn is now bringing 
from 42 to 45 cents. Soft corn, of course, 
is a drug on the market. 
In our local market in New Jersey 
flour sells at 85 cents per sack of 24J4 
pounds. A loaf of bread weighing 1^4 
pound costs eight cents. Our local 
prices for feed and grain are: Feed, 
$1.75 to $2 per hundred; wheat, $1.50 
per bushel. 
What Low Farm Prices Mean. 
For a long time I have been very much 
interested in the discussion through the 
press of the high cost of living and the 
heroic efforts which everyone is making to 
instruct the farmer how to grow two 
bushels of wheat where he raises one now. 
It seems to me these same people have 
very short memories. If they had not they 
would make a few comparisons between 
conditions now and 15 or 20 years ago. 
Suppose we make a few. Beginning with 
1890 and continuing for about 10 years 
what do we find? Wheat. 50 cents; corn, 
so plentiful it was cheaper to burn than 
coal, carloads were sold that did not bring 
the grower 10 cents; oats. 20 cents; barley, 
40 ; beans, 31 ; hay, $5 to 87.50; potatoes 
as low as five cents and millions of bushels 
never sold for one cent. Butter, 10 to 12% 
cents; dressed pork, 84 ; pork loins, six; 
beef on foot, 83; fowl, six to eight; eggs, 
10, and you could go thx-ough the entire 
list and find every thing in proportion. I 
was in Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma in 
1894, and saw cotton selling for 3% cents. 
In 1895 in Minnesota a man told me he 
had taken more than 50 horses, a little 
old or blemished or unsound and killed 
them for their hides. The farmers did not . 
consider them worth wintering. One farm- | 
er was happy over getting 48 cents for a 
car of wheat. He struck the St. Paul 
market just right. I came to this city 
in 1896, and remember buying an overcoat 
for 810 that I cannot duplicate to-day for 
twice that sum; other wearing apparel in 
proportion. Now what about the other 
side of the same period ? Was there ever 
a time in the history of the country when 
there was so nxuch actual want and suf¬ 
fering as during those same years? I saw 
the Santa Fe It. R. bring in a train load of 
tramps or rather people out of work from 
Western Kansas to Topeka. Who does not 
remember Coxey’s Army and what was the 
reason for it? It sure was not for want 
of food in the counti\v, for that same coun¬ 
try was gi’oauing with abundant harvests. 
Bow prices for food and clothing do not 
necessarily spell comfort and prosperity. 
It is a mighty sight easier for a man to 
pay 20 cents per pound for a roast of beef 
if he has work, than it is to get that same 
piece for five cents per pound if he has 
no work. I hope and pray we may never 
6ee starvation prices for the farmer again 
because low prices to him do not mean 
cheap living for the laborer and the clerk, 
but it does write in big burning letters, 
hard times, no work, no food or very lit¬ 
tle and endless suffering for that same 
laborer and clerk. Had the period ending 
■with about 1898 continued five years 
longer two-thii-ds the farmers in Western 
New York would have been bankrupt. It 
was as sure as death and taxes. Any last¬ 
ing prosperity comes from the farm. 
“Burn down every city in the United 
States and leave the farms and these same 
cities will grow again, but blot out the 
farms and grass will grow knee deep the 
entire length of Broadway.” 
Monroe Co., N. Y. chas. irwin. 
THE BOSTON MARKETS. 
Prices in general in Boston market might 
well be classed as normal at this time; 
the supply of about everything is also 
about right, not too much, not too little, 
with few exceptions. Trade is a little 
slow, but not too bad. Fruit prices especi¬ 
ally are moderate and reasonable. Apples 
at this season are always in demand at 
fair prices. Best Baldwins bring as high 
as 34 per barrel; others down to 82. 
Greenings bring about 82 to $2.50; King 
and Spy from $3 to $4.50; Western box 
fancy fruit about $2 for most kinds, but 
Winter Banana and Delicious bring $3 to 
$4 per box. Cranberries light in supply, 
also demand, yet bring $8.50 to $9.50 per 
barrel and $3 per crate. Bananas are rea¬ 
sonable in price and in fair supply, $2 to 
$3 per big bunch, and $1 to $1.50 for 
small bunches. Southern strawberries, 30 
to 40 cents per box; Florida oi'anges, $3 
to $4.50 a box; California, $2.75 to $4; 
lemons high on account of crop reports, 
$5 to $6.50. 
Potatoes about the same at 65 to 70 
cents per bushel for Maine stock. Sweet 
potatoes, $1 to $1.35 per basket; onions, 
native stock, 50 to 75 cents per bushel; 
Spanish and Cuban around $2.50 per large 
crate. Cabbage goes slightly bettor at 
75 cents per barrel; squash, $1.25 to 
$1.50 for yellow per barrel, with Hubbard 
$30 to $40 per ton. Turnips, rutabaga, 
$1.25 per barrel; 'white egg and purple 
tops, 65 cents bushel; beets, 75; parsnips, 
75; carrots, 75. 
Hothouse rhubarb, 14 to 15 cents per 
pound; tpmatoes, 10 to 20 cents per 
pound; lettuce, 75 cents per box of 18 
heads; cucumbers, $3.50 to $9 per 100; 
spinach, 75 cents per bushel; celei'y, $1.50 
to $2 per dozen; dandelions, $1.50 per 
bushel; beet greens, $1 per bushel. South¬ 
ern peas, $4 per basket; spinach, $1.75 
per barrel; kale, 85 cents; string beans, 
$3.50 per basket; wax, $4/ 
Eggs slowly dropping, best fresh, 33; 
Western fresh, 30, and storage, 20 to 28 
cents per dozen. Butter holds firm as 
yet, but is due to drop lower shortly; 
33 to 36 cents are about the prices for 
good stock. Cheese, 16 to 18 for average 
stock per pound. 
Meats are easier on all kinds; live fancy 
beef, nine cents per pound; good, six to 
eight; other grades, four to five; best 
dressed, 13; other grades, eight to 12. 
Veal, eight live, and 12 dressed for good. 
Hogs, live, seven and a fraction is the 
average; dressed, nine to 10; lamb, seven 
cents live, around 11 and 12 di'essed, best, 
14. Dressed poultry firm and demand fair ; 
turkeys, 22 to 28; best fowls, 18; large 
chickens, 22; live hens, 15; chickens, 14 
to 16. 
Hay, $20 to $23 for horse hay. other 
grades $15 to $18 per ton. Corn and 
cornmeal, $1.12 to $1.15 per bag; oats 
around 40 cents per bushel; cotton-seed 
meal, $32 per ton ; linseed, $31.50; gluten. 
$30; bran, $24 to $25 per ton; mixed 
feed, $25 to $28 per ton. a. e. p. 
Market conditions here are very quiet; 
we are blessed with a few people in our 
city having a grudge against small growei'S 
and truckers. I have been in other cities 
and used my eyes to find that Dayton 
markets are cleaner and products are finer 
and put up in better shape than most 
places, also are cheaper in price, as vege¬ 
tables and other products have to be re¬ 
cleaned before selling that are shipped in. 
At present there are very few vegetables 
on market that are home grown. Celery, 
endive, head lettuce and potatoes are about 
all cleaned out and we are selling South¬ 
ern products at present. Rhubarb forced 
in beds, lettuce and greenhouse radishes 
are about the extent of home products at 
present. Celery, wholesale, $6 to $7 per 
crate; California, $1 a dozen; Michigan 
celery, $1.75 to $2 a box of five dozen; 
endive, $3.50; 10 cents a head; head let¬ 
tuce, $2.50 a hamper, 10 cents a head; 
cauliflower. $3.50 a crate of 24 heads ; leaf 
lettuce, eight to 10 cents a pound; pota¬ 
toes, $1.65 a sack; mushrooms, 60 cents 
a pound; home-grown rhubarb, forced, $1 
a dozen. 10 cents a bunch ; turnips, 30 
cents a bushel; pineapples, $3.60 a crate of 
24, 20 cents apiece; apples, $2.50 to $3.50 
per barrel; onions, 90 cents to $1 a bushel 
for white, yellow, 65; eggs, 35; dressed 
chickens. 75 to $1.25 ; turkeys, 30 cents a 
pound; butter, 35 to 40; hogs on foot, 6% 
to 7%; dressed rabbits, 25 to 30; mar¬ 
ket is a little firm on these things and 
looking up. e. ix. d. 
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