1914. 
THE RURAL NBW-YORKBR 
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MARKETS 
BUTTER. 
New York, Jan. 2, 1914. 
The closing week of the year is usually 
a quiet period in the wholesale butter 
trade. Many of the jobbing houses were 
busy taking account of stock, and the 
buying was against current consumptive 
needs, except in one or two instances 
where out-of-town buyers took on lines 
of 500 to 1,000 tubs. Possibly the quiet¬ 
ness tended to check any further advance 
in the fresh table grades, anti the business 
was mainly at 37 and 37*4 cents for 
creamery that rightly belongs in the class 
of extras. The proportion of stock that 
would pass official inspection is still 
small, but the average quality of the fresh 
make is improving and if this continues 
there will be fewer seconds and more 
firsts available. Colder weather has pre¬ 
vailed throughout the country and farm¬ 
ers have housed and fed their cows more 
generally than heretofore. There is still 
a considerable accumulation of “held 
fresh” creamery and it has quite an un¬ 
satisfactory trade, with values irregu¬ 
lar from 23*4 cents for low grade sec¬ 
onds to 33 cents for pretty good firsts. 
Storage creamery is moving into con¬ 
sumptive channels quite freely and not 
over 110,000 packages are carried over 
into the new year. For all the goods that 
are made from farmers’ butter—process, 
ladles and packing stock—outlets are 
narrow and there is the widest range of 
values that the trade here has known for 
many years. This is undoubtedly due 
to the fact that Siberian butter has been 
a considerable competitor since October 
1. Several thousand casks of these goods 
were purchased in London, Copenhagen 
and 1 lamburg, most of which were made 
last Summer and stored in the freezers 
at those points. A little of this butter, 
particularly the freshest lots, sells up to 
28 and 30 cents, but the larger part goes 
to bakers’ trade at 23 and 25 cents. It 
is packed in white wood casks, weighing 
110 to 130 pounds. Several thousand 50- 
pound boxes of Argentine and New Zea¬ 
land butter are now on the way here. 
The year’s statistical figures, just com¬ 
piled, are of much interest. Receipts of 
domestic butter aggregated 2,516,485 
packages, of an average weight of about 
58 pounds, an increase over the previous 
year of a little over 82.000 packages, 
which makes a new record for New York. 
CHEESE. 
New York appears to be handling a 
relatively smaller part of the country’s 
production of cheese each year. The 
1913 receipts were but 642,317 boxes 
against 713,034 boxes for 1912 and 806,- 
359 boxes for 1911. The exports from 
this part during 1913 were equivalent to 
about 35,000 forty-pound boxes, against 
about 44,500 boxes during 1912 and about 
183,250 boxes during 1911. The market 
on storage cheese at this writing looks 
more favorable to holders than for some 
time past. Present selling values—17 
and 17*4 cents for best State flats—en¬ 
able holders to sell most of the high-cost 
Fall purchases without loss. 
EGGS. 
The movement of fresh gathered eggs 
to distributing markets has fallen off 
somewhat. The practical exhaustion of 
storage reserve at the smaller interior 
centers and the comparatively low prices 
ruling for fresh at many primary points 
during mid-December led to an enlarge¬ 
ment of interior consumption of fresh 
and with colder weather at many points 
the production has made little, if any, 
further expansion. Reserve stock in the 
larger cities has been reduced to unusu¬ 
ally small amounts, and the relation of 
these to the recent rate of output has 
given the markets an undercurrent of 
great strength. New York will carry into 
January a total stock of only about 100,- 
000 cases of which some 25.000 cases 
are in receivers’ hands outside of cold 
storage, about 15,000 cases the latter 
amount being of fresh gathered and the 
balance refrigerators and foreign eggs. 
The statistics indicate that New York’s 
output of eggs into consumption was close 
to 400.000 cases in December and as 
January receipts for five years past have 
averaged only about 185,000 cases there 
is seen to be a prospect of shortage 
though this may be obviated by importa¬ 
tions, by a further curtailment of demand, 
or by a possible increase of fresh pro¬ 
duction. Fresh Western eggs advanced 
up to Monday of this week when firsts 
to extra firsts sold at a range of 36 to 
38 cents, but at the close they have 
eased off to 35*4 and 37 cents under a 
quieter trading incident to the close of 
the year. Storage eggs however are clos¬ 
ing strong at 30 and 32 cents for good 
to finest qualities. 
Importations of eggs since November 
1 have been 12,328 cases at New York. 
These cases are approximately six feet 
long by two feet wide and about 10 inches 
deep with a double partition in the mid¬ 
dle. They contain 120 dozen eggs each, 
packed in a coarse excelsior or straw. 
They have come chiefly from Hamburg 
with a few from Bremen and a few from 
London. The eggs originate in many 
European countries, chiefly in Austria, 
but with some from Russia. Bulgaria and 
Italy. Few of the lots shipped as fresh 
have been fine enough to compete with 
the better grades of domestic fresh gath¬ 
ered and many of them have been quite 
poor, showing considerable loss in spots 
and an undesirable flavor, probably due 
to damp packing. On the present market 
most sales of foreign fresh are in range 
of 28 and 32 cents, only a few excep¬ 
tionally good lots going higher, and some 
inferior lots have sold lower. Good 
foreign refrigerator eggs have compared 
favorably with ordinary grades of domes¬ 
tic but their irregular condition has ne¬ 
cessitated sales at easy prices, generally 
24 and 26 cents, a few higher and a few 
lower. Foreign limed have been of useful 
quality and have sold very well for bak¬ 
ers’ trade at 23*4 and 24*4 cents. There 
is prospect of further considerable im 
porta tions. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
There has been a fairly active demand 
for live poultry the past week or 10 
days, on the basis of 15 cents per pound 
for fowls. 14 cents for chickens, 11*4 
cents for old roosters, 22 cents for tur¬ 
keys, 16 cents for ducks. 14 cents for 
geese, 65 cents per pair for guineas and 
20 cepts per pair for pigeons. Some 
shippers have not been satisfied with 
these prices, and considerable stock has 
accumulated on track under limits. At 
the close with so much stock held off the 
market and dealers in want of stock, a 
firmer feeling has developed on fowls and 
chickens with prices advanced one-half 
cent. Receipts have been heavy, footing 
up since Monday. Dec. 22nd—115 car¬ 
loads. Turkeys closing quite firm and 
ducks in good demand and firm with fat¬ 
tened stock bringing a considerable pre 
minm. Receipts of live poultry for the 
year 1913 aggregated 5,819 carloads by 
freight and express, against 5,607 car¬ 
loads in 1912. Estimating 18.000 pounds 
to the carload it foots up a weight of 
98,923.000 pounds. A fair estimate of 
the value is 15*4 cents per pound which 
totals an amount of 815,711,300. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
The demand for dressed poultry during 
the holidays just passed was somewhat 
disappointing. The heavy losses sustained 
at the Thanksgiving holiday, owing to 
poultry arriving in bad condition, when 
many tons were condemned by the health 
authorities and destroyed, naturally 
caused dealers to operate cautiously. Sup¬ 
plies of fancy turkeys were not in any 
surplus, and while the trading was mod¬ 
erate the market gradually cleaned up 
before the close of the year at generally 
22 and 23 cents for fancy western; 23 
and 24 cents for finest New York State, 
Pennsylvania and Virginia, and 26 and 
27 cents for fancy Maryland, Delaware 
and Jersey with feeling stronger at the 
close on western at 23 and 23 *4 cents 
The. larger proportion of the western 
receipts, however, for the holiday mar 
ket were simply fair to good grades, in 
eluding quite a number packed in ice 
from southerly sections which sold around 
20 and 21 cents. Chickens and fowls 
were in liberal supply, general demand 
slow, and a large surplus had to go into 
refrigerators. Ducks and geese were in 
moderate supply for the Christmas holi¬ 
day and brought extreme prices, but since 
that holiday demand has been slow, stock 
accumulating and prices have declined 
from 2 to 4 cents per pound. Squabs in 
fair demand. Spring guineas generally 
slow stile. Receipts of dressed poultry 
for the year 1913 were 1.082.273 pack¬ 
ages. against 1,054,121 packages in 1912. 
Taking the different styles of packages 
from small boxes, 12 birds to the box, 
to large barrels, a fair estimate in weight 
would be 160 pounds to the package, 
which makes a total weight of 173.163. 
6S0 pounds. Estimating the value at 
18 cents per pound totals an amount of 
832,035,280. 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, best. ig® 
J?:iir to good.. it® 
Buttermilks. OS® 
Lambs. Hothouse, each .5 u0@ S 
Pork. light . n® 
Heavy.. 05® 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apples—Spitzenburg, bbl. 3 50 ® 5 
Spy. 3 50 @5 
King. 3 oo ® 5 
Hubbardston. 3 00 @ 4 
Greening . 3 50 @5 
York Imperial. 3 50 @5 
Ben Davis. 2 25 ® 3 
Baldwin. 3 50 @ 5 
Western, box. 1 50 ® 3 
Pears—KiefTer. bbl . 2 00 @4 
Cranberries. Cape Cod, bbl. 8 50 ®I2 
Long Island, bbl. 9 00 ®13 
Jersey, bbl. 3 00 @10 
Jersey, crate .2 U0 ® 2 
Strawberries, Fla., qt. 30 @ 0 
VEG ETABLES. 
Potatoes—Long Island. bbL . 2 50 ® 2 
Jersey, bbl. 1 75 @2 
Maine. 180 lbs. 2 25 ® 2 
State, bulk. let) lbs. 2 25 ® 2 
European, 163 lb. bag. 1 40 ® 2 
Bermuda, bbl. 3 00 @5 
Sweet Potatoes, bbl. 1 00 ® 1 
Beets, bbl. 1 25 ® 1 
Brussel sprouts, qt. 10 ® 
Carrots, bbl. 1 25 ® 1 
Cucumbers, bu. 2 00 ® 3 
Cabbage. Danish seed, ton.25 00 @27 
Red .25 00 @30 
Imported .22 00 @25 
Celery, doz. 25 @ 
Cauliflower, bbl. 200 @10 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 1 00 @ 2 
Onions—White bu. 1 50 @2 
Red. 100 lb bag . 1 75 @2 
Peppers. Southern, bu.125 @3 
Peas. Southern, bu . 2 00 @ o 
Radishes. 100 bunches . 1 DO @ 1 
Spinach, bbl. 1 50 @3 
String Beans, bu. . 150 @4 
Squash. Marrow, bbl . ... 150 ® 1 
Hubbard, bbl. 1 75 @2 
New, bu. 100 @ 1 
Egg Plants. Southern, bu. 3 00 @4 
Tomatoes. Southern. 6 bkt. crate .... 2 00 @3 
Turnips, white, bbl. 1 25 @ I 
Rutabaga . 73 @ 1 
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“For the Laud’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Complying with several suggestions received 
recently, we o pen a department here to enable 
RURAL NEW-YORKER readers to supply each 
other’s wants. If you want to buy or sell or 
exchange, make it known here. This Rate will 
be 5 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
name and address must be counted as part of 
the advertisement. Copy must reach us not 
later than Friday to appear in the following 
week. No display type used, and only Farm 
Products, Help and Positions Wanted admitted. 
For subscribers only. Dealers, jobbers and gen¬ 
eral manufacturers’ announcements not admitted 
here. Poultry, Eggs and other live stock adver¬ 
tisements will go under proper headings on other 
pages. 
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WOULD like work on a farm. J. L. LOYD 
DAVIS, Box No. G2, Boston, N„ Y. 
POSITION as private secretary. Familiar with 
farm operations. Small salary for short 
hours. EXPERIENCE, care R. N.-Y. 
SINGLE man 33, witii 3 years experience, 
wishes work on poultry farm. J. K. .G., 
care Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St. 
POTJLTRYMAN wants position on poultry 
farm, thoroughly experienced in all lines. 
GEO. PARISH, 320 W. 25th St, New York, 
N. Y. 
SITUATION WANTED—Fruit grower of long 
experience will contract to trim old or young 
orchards in scientific manner at reasonable 
prices. Orchards planned and planted. H. W. 
COBB, Ridgewood, N. J. 
PRACTICAL POULTRYMAN with farm office 
experience, including shorthand and type¬ 
writing. seeks similar position or would invest, 
with services in well conducted utility plant. 
K. 3. D., care D. N.-Y. 
WANTED—Intelligent man wants position on 
fowl farm with orchard preferable. Some 
knowledge of poultry but not thoroughly ex¬ 
perienced. Had course in fruit growing at 
Cornell. S. MILLER, 30G E. 105th St., Bronx, 
N. Y. 
WANTED—A chance to build up and system¬ 
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old one. Middle-aged, married man; small 
family; agricultural college training; life ex¬ 
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and breeding of dairy stock; rotation; ac¬ 
counts; handling men, soil, and stock for high¬ 
est returns. No booze or tobacco. F. M. V., 
care It. N.-Y. 
OUR GRADUATES will be ready to accept.posi¬ 
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and general farm help on March 1st, 1914. Ap¬ 
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CULTURAL SCHOOL, Woodbine, N. J., Dept. B. 
MAPLE COVE FARM—Products to Consumers. 
5 lbs. butter. 6 lbs. chickens, 1 lb. honey. 2 lbs. 
carrots. 15 lbs. potatoes. 2 dozen eggs. Box $ 6 . 
Shipped Thursdays, postpaid covering third zone. 
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WANTED—Married man on truck and fruit 
farm, experienced, sober. Address D. A. 
COLEMAN, Watervliet, N. Y. 
WANTED—Single, young ruan, some experience, 
to work on farm, must be good milker, good 
wages. CHARLES BLOSS, Blossvale, N. Y. 
WANTED—A single German man 35 to 45 
years of age, all round farmer, who can 
handle a team and is not afraid of hard work. 
For full particulars write H.* A. BENNETT, 
Ridgewood, N. J., R. F. D. 1. 
WANTED—Man and wife as second farm hand. 
Cottage, heat, light, milk, and such vegeta¬ 
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be made. Give full particulars including 
wages, age, nationality and references. JOHN 
T. CADE, R. F. D. 1. Ridgewood, N. J. 
$1300 BUYS fine 80-acre farm near Troy, sight 
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WILL EXCHANGE lots value $10,000 on R. R , 
near Westbury, I.. I.. tor a large farm, free 
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FOR SALE—Best ninety-acre river farm, Dela¬ 
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N. Y. 
FOR SALE—25-acte farm, good buildings, fer¬ 
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railway town. JULIUS MILLS, Fillmore, N. Y. 
250-ACRE FARM. $50 per acre, just off State 
road to Buffalo. ALBERT D. JAMIESON, 
owner, 606 White Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. 
VIRGINIA FARM of 110 acres, 40 cleared, bal¬ 
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Apply for fuller particulars to, OWNER, Lock 
Box 249, Louisa. Va. 
FOR SALE—08-Acre fruit farm. 3,000 pear 
trees of many varieties, from 2 to 10 years 
old. Yielded the last year over 2,400 baskets. 
Good farm home and out-buildings. Call on or 
address REV. B. F. REAVE, East Quogue P. 
O., Suffolk Co.. N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Fittest twenty-five acre tract on 
south shore Oneida lake, best of soil, forty 
apple trees, ideal for fruit and poultry, or 
country home. No buildings, near church and 
school. State road. Address BOX 163, Cazen- 
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FOR SALE—Central Jersey farm and peach 
orchard. 1S5 acres, 13 room house, steam 
heat, bath room, best plumbing, 6 room cottage 
and 16 other buildings, silo, etc. Water sys¬ 
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Price U. E. $1.8,000. Stock and personal prop¬ 
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BOX M. C., care Rural New-Yorker. 
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WANTED—Portable rip saw. S. E. TERRY. 
Iloltsville, N. Y. 
WANTED—Rood Jersey red boar, ready for 
service. H. W. COBB, Ridgewood, N. J. 
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID for Low’s 
Cliampiou Bush Bean Seed by F. H. HAYES. 
Dexter, Me. 
WANTED—Ham, bacon, eggs, potatoes, butter. 
and apples direct from farmer. Address AL¬ 
BERT D. JAMIESON. 600 White Bldg., Buffalo. 
WANTED—A few boxes selected Jersey sweet 
apples or other good sweet table apples. 
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heater only. G. CHAUNCEY PARSONS, 
Mountaiuville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Several No. 2 and No. 3 Prairie 
State Incubators, in first-class condition, been 
used two seasons. Prices very reasonable if 
taken at once. Address WHITE HORSE 
FARMS, Paoli, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 
