1914. 
T1-1 i£. RUKA1 
KiOW-YORKKR 
09 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
Winter conditions appear to have af¬ 
fected no produce prices as yet unless it 
he cabbage, which is not plenty and prom¬ 
ises to be decidedly high before the early 
Southern crop is in. It now sells at $6 
to $8 per 100, and good-sized heads retail 
at 10 cents. The market feature is still 
the growing plentifulness of Citrus fruits, 
especially grape fruit and oranges. Grape 
fruit of fairly large size now retails at 
five cents, and the big California navel 
orange is not above 40 cents a dozen. It 
has just appeared. Lemons are not much 
plentier yet. Full-size bananas retail as 
low as 10 cents a dozen. Apples are 
rather plenty, but high, the cooking, wind¬ 
fall grades retailing at not less than $1.25 
a bushel, often showing that they have 
fallen where the ground is plowed. Some 
of the smaller Western apples, like 
Wealthy, retail as low as 15 cents a doz¬ 
en ; the big ones at three cents or more 
each. As appearance sells almost any¬ 
thing in preference to quality, the West¬ 
ern apple generally leads the dull Eastern 
fruit, unless the price gets unreasonably 
high. Green apples are now about as 
high as red. 
The cheap vegetable is still potatoes, 
which retail as low as 85 cents a bushel, 
and still the little rod Bermudas come in 
at $0 up per barrel to the retailer. The 
sweet potato supply is still large and 
promises to remain so, unless the weather 
becomes more severe. Celery continues 
to co.ine in burned by the warm weather, 
very little of it capable of restoration to 
really marketable appearance. It retails 
at 10 cents the small bunch. New South¬ 
ern green onions are coming in, retailing 
at 10 cents a bunch. There is plenty of 
leeks and garlic. Parsnips and vege¬ 
table oyster are 5 to 10 cents a bunch or 
small measure. The squash season closed 
early and in bad shape, as it had been 
most of the' open season. The crop was 
poor and rotting was early. There are a 
few good specimens offering yet at four 
to five cents a pound retail. Pumpkins 
are keeping better accordingly and should 
be plentier. Often the sale would be 
much larger if people saw them on sale. 
Farmers dislike to raise them with corn, 
as they clog the binder badly. The egg 
market has settled down to "about a 10- 
cent range ,40 cents for best and 20 cents 
for long-storage stocks. Some farmers 
are laughing over the efforts of ignorant 
people to make the hens lay during the 
molting season. They say that until that 
is accomplished the cold-storage problem 
will be with us. Butter is still quoted at 
38 cents maximum to retailers, and retail¬ 
ing at about 40 cents. The price has been 
very steady for a long time, spite of feed 
fluctuations and Summer drouths. 
J. w. c. 
THE BOSTON MILK MARKET. 
It was stated by some authorities that 
Boston milk receipts were normal during 
the months of July and August of 1913, 
yet a recent statement of Dr. Jordan’s 
that Boston did not have enough milk in 
July to supply the city’s wants, and that 
unless an increase in production is brought 
about the people will have to turn to milk 
substitutes, the situation being serious, 
bears out what we have been claiming 
was the true situation, and these facts 
cannot be kept quiet and hidden by the 
milk buyer, as has been the case much of 
the time in the past. The low price re¬ 
ceived by producers of Boston milk has 
done much to bring the supply to a very 
low level, and if the statement is true 
that 3.S cents per quart is the average 
price received by producers for Boston 
milk it is no wonder the supply runs so 
low throughout the year, even with best 
producing months. The one thing that 
can stop a higher price in the near future 
is the fact that under the new tariff the 
Canadian supply can be drawn upon, and 
undoubtedly will be to some extent the 
coming Summer, as a recent statement 
by Dr. Davis implies that this will be 
done. Tie says, I believe, that the dairy¬ 
men of New England are alive to the 
fact that they can, if yiey vflsh, supply 
Boston with milk, and that the dealers 
would prefer to get their supply from 
them. In my judgment it would be a 
serious mistake on their part to let for¬ 
eign milk come into this market, as if it 
onee comes it is likely to continue. We 
know that in past times, when shortage 
was acute, some contractors wished to 
reach out into territory farther from 
Boston than this Canadian territory 
would be, but were refused permission by 
the city health board, A readjustment of 
present freight rates would make the idea 
less tempting, as present rates are in its 
favor very much, as milk can be freighted 
from there cheaper than from some points 
right here in Massachusetts. 
It would seem as though the passage 
of the Ellis milk bill would help keep this 
milk out, but it is doubtful if this will 
happen this Winter because of the preju¬ 
dice and feeling against this bill, largely, 
I believe, because farmers do not under¬ 
stand the bill, and are suspicious that it 
is just a move to get them deeper into the 
mire. However, intelligent, progressive, 
go-ahead farmers are largely in favor of 
it, and I believe it would do no harm, and 
perhaps lots of good. It would certainly 
do away with half a dozen different in¬ 
spections we have at present, and put it 
all under one. It'would also look after 
the dealers more strictly, "and keep tuem 
under control, and not put it all on the 
producer. Personally I am neither for 
nor against it. but I certainly am not 
afraid it will harm me, and think it will 
help others who need help. I further be¬ 
lieve that it pays to improve and keep 
up, or, better still, keep a little ahead of 
the times. I notice those who do are 
never complaining about the poor returns 
or price they receive, as they usually have 
no trouble finding a buyer for their prod¬ 
uct at a better price than their keep-in- 
the-rut neighbors receive. Any time one 
has a superior article to sell some buyer 
soon finds it out, and is ready to take it 
off our hands at a fair price. 
I still believe the health boards of Bos¬ 
ton and Massachusetts are and mean to 
be reasonable, and will not cause anyone 
to go to unnecessary expense in making 
needed improvements. A case to prove 
this came to my view this Winter. A 
man in a neighboring town wished to 
market his milk to the company I sell to, 
so went to them, but was turned down 
because of previous bad record with the 
Boston Health Board. lie then came to 
me and asked me to see them for him, 
and see if I could get them to take him. 
I told him what he would have to do, or, 
rather, my idea of it. He said he would 
do it if they didn’t want too much. I 
saw the manager, who, after I explained 
the case, said if I could get the inspector 
to pass him he would try him. The in¬ 
spector at first refused, because he knew 
it was a bad case, but finally agreed if 
this producer really wanted to get in 
shape to sell to our company he would 
see him and tell him what he must do. 
I again saw the producer, and he agreed 
to fix up, so I sent up the inspector to 
see him. The w-sult was the inspector’s 
demands were complied with, the im¬ 
provements made, and the man is selling 
to-day to our company. Personally I 
should have made this party do more than 
the inspector did before I should have 
taken him in. a. e. p. 
Massachusetts. 
Prices here are as follows: Hay, $10; 
corn 75 cents; wheat 80: oats 45; barley 
50; milch cows $40 to $75 each; butter 
35 cents a pound; eggs 35; apples 75 
cents to $1.50 per box. c. o. n. 
Canyonville, Ore. 
Poultry dealers are paying to farmers, 
45 and 50 cents each for live chickens, old 
and young, small and large, taken to¬ 
gether. Dry cows are selling from $20 
up; fresh cows from $50 up. Dressed 
hogs are selling at 9 y 2 to 10 cents per 
pound; shelled corn $1.50 the hundred; 
potatoes $1 per bushel; hay in barn from 
$15 to $18 the ton. w. 
Dover, N. J. 
Dairy products and hay are the prin¬ 
cipal market crops. Hay, choice Tim- ! 
othy, $14 per ton ; seller boards hands, 
pitches hay to press and delivers to car. 
Low grades $10 to $12; oats 4S to 50; | 
no potatoes shipped; local trade only, 
75 cents per bushel. Apple crop a fail¬ 
ure. We pay 45 cents per peck, $3.75 to 
$4 per barrel. Butter retails at 3G to 3S ; 
cheese 18 to 20; eggs 40. Most of the 
milk produced is sold to shipping stations. 
1‘rice for December $1.90 per hundred. 
Good cows, to freshen in Spring, bring 
$50 to $75. Choice Holstein grades, 
springers or nearby springers, $75 and 
UP. O. L. B. 
Canton, N. Y. 
We had a very fine December; it has 
seemed more like a Southern Winter so 
far until Christmas night, when we had 
a severe snowstorm, which came in drifts 
and has made poor sleighing. Stock has 
been at large, most of the month, very 
little stock being fed. Some are feeding 
pigs. Water in limited supply for Win¬ 
ter. A large amount of farm-work done 
last month, plowing, getting out stones, 
and general repairing. Times are dull 
at present; farmers are taking things 
easy. No cabbage on the move as yet, 
and not much in farmers’ hands, and not 
very many potatoes, either. Some farms 
have been sold this month at high figures, 
considering the kind of property. Wheat 
92 ; oats 40; corn 85; barley" G5; hay, 
mixed, $12; red kidney and marrow 
beans $2.75; potatoes 50; veal 10y,, live; 
poultry 12; pork 7, dressed, 9 to 10; 
lambs G% to 7y>, live; butter 30; eggs 
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