1914. 
TL' H FS RURAt NEW-YORKKR 
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PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Wholesale milk prices remain un¬ 
changed, $1.81 for B and 10 cents per 
can less for C. A slight reduction is ex¬ 
pected in early March, though this is 
not certain, depending on the weather 
and prices for manufactured milk pro¬ 
ducts. The railroads reaching New 
York brought 17,947.000 cans of milk 
and 944,000 cans cream during 1913, a 
daily average of about 2,480,000 quarts. 
* 
The butter market is well sustained at 
an advance of one cent over last week’s 
figures. This is partly the result of the 
snow blockade, which held up consider¬ 
able stock on the way and made trucking 
very slow in the city. Choice creamery 
is now selling at 31 cents, and best dairy, 
29 to 30. Imports from Siberia, Argen¬ 
tina, New Zealand and Australia con¬ 
tinue at New York, the stock from the 
two last named countries coming by way 
of London. The best of this costs about 
27 cents delivered here. 
* 
Re 'ceipts of eggs are large and prices 
on most grades lower. Pew fancy white 
exceed 33 cents, those mixed with small 
sizes running at 30 to 31, and brown 
mainly at 29 to 30. Eggs from China are 
reaching the middle west in commercial 
quantities. A recent shipment of 36,000 
dozen received at St. Louis wholesale at 
a trifle above 20 cents. These eggs were 
said to cost not more than one cent each 
in China. 
* 
Potatoes may now be imported from 
Denmark and Belgium, subject to inspec¬ 
tion. The Department of Agriculture 
finds that those countries are now free 
from the diseases against which the quar¬ 
antine was made. 
* 
A cargo of silk from China and Japan, 
which recently arrived at San Francisco, 
is on its way to New York. Thirteen 
cars were required, and its value is $2,- 
500,000. 
Travellers on sleeping cars who have 
been annoyed by the revelry of drunken 
passengers will be glad to know that the 
custom of making travelling saloons of 
railroad trains is gradually going out of 
existence. The New Haven states that 
after March 1 no liquor will be sold on 
any of its trains. 
* 
Returns for several barrels of poultry 
and a lot of roasting pigs are being held 
by a New Y’ork commission house because 
the shipper cannot be located. Checks 
have been made out and forwarded to 
the only address given, but returned un¬ 
claimed. Any shipper whose case this 
seems to fit may get in touch with his 
returns by writing us particulars. 
* 
British spinners who are raising cot¬ 
ton in Africa report a crop of at least 
16,000,000 pounds. This is 2*4 times 
last year’s yield, and seven times the 
amount in 1910, when the industry first 
began to attract attention. The section 
referred to is Lagos and Nigeria, on the 
southern coast of the Sudan. 
* 
I enclose a letter from a New York 
commission house. They have been sell¬ 
ing eggs for five per cent, but have in¬ 
creased the charge to 10 per cent. Have 
they any right to do this? r. 
New York. 
The letter states that owing to in¬ 
creased expenses they will in future 
charge 10 per cent for selling eggs. There 
is apparently nothing to prevent them 
from doing this, as 10 per cent is the 
amount now charged for selling many 
lines of produce. It is true that rents, 
taxes and hired help now cost more in 
this, as well as other lines of business, 
and from one to two months credit has 
to be given to many customers, while 
cash returns are made to the shipper. 
w. W. II. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
This is the season when produce com¬ 
monly begins to become scarce, if at all, 
but there is a fine supply of it in Hie 
Buffalo markets. Not only is there plenty 
of trenched stuff from near home, but the 
Rochester district has a surplus, and is 
also sending in hothouse tomatoes, cu¬ 
cumbers and the like. There is also new 
stuff from Florida coming in now. As a 
rule it is all pretty cheap for Winter; 
spinach retails for 25 cents a peck and 
string beans, as good as in Summer, for 
20 cents a quart (pound). Sweet pota¬ 
toes, which have retailed at $1.50 a 
hamper (bushel), have come down to 
$1.25. Potatoes are again retailing at 
85 cents. Farmers are begining to de¬ 
spair of big prices for potatoes and began 
to sell them before the heavy Winter 
weather set in. The cold spell ought 
soon to raise the price if it lasts. 
Butter and eggs are again about on a 
par as to pound or dozen, the retail price 
being 31 cents for choice, though five 
cents more is occasionally asked. One 
difficulty with eggs is mat many dealers 
sell good-looking storage eggs for fresh 
laid. Poultry is rather high, fowls retail¬ 
ing for 22 cents dressed; turkey, 26 
cents; capon, 27 cents, and squab, 65 
cents a pair. Rabbits have been quite 
plenty all Winter at 40 cents a pair. 
Apple venders complain that the fruit 
is hard to get, but they do not sell the 
western fancy varieties as high as they 
used to, retailing them at two to three 
cents apiece in small measures. By the 
bushel Kings retail at $2 and Green¬ 
ings at $1.60. They are keeping fairly 
well. All southern fruits are cheap, 
which appears to have a depressing ef¬ 
fect on apples. Grape fruit is five cents 
up, and lemons and oranges, 15 cents up. 
Bananas are very plenty for the season 
at 10 cents a dozen up. mostly selling 
at 12 cents. Big pineapples retail for 
25 cents. Malaga grapes are 15 to 20 
cents a pound. Among new southern 
vegetables are Florida beets at five cents 
a bunch; celery at 75 cents a dozen, 
tomatoes from Texas at 20 cents 
a pound, Bermuda potatoes at 50 cents 
a peck. Stuff from Texas is not coming 
in very good condition. Florida lettuce 
is 10 cents a fine head; others five cents. 
Imported Belgian endive retails for 25 
cents a pound, but i.s out just now. It 
is not much understood here and need 
not be till it is cheaper. Home-grown 
vegetables, beets, carrots and parsnips, 
retail at eight cents a two-quart measure 
and vegetable oyster at five cents, being 
very large roots and well kept. Green¬ 
house radishes retail at two bunches for 
five cents. j. w. c. 
The country roads are badly blocked 
—not by innumerable hordes of farmers 
rushing in their limousines and "sixes” 
to pay their income tax, as many urban¬ 
ites and one great New York daily would 
seem to think—but by the greatest fall 
of snow that we have had since the big 
blizzard. The "bear” sign, hereafter, 
will hold high place in the minds of those 
who are “weather-wise,” for from the 
very day that he saw his shadow we have 
had steadily such severe Winter weather 
as we are wont to associate with our 
boyhood days. We hope it may also 
presage one of our old-time early Springs 
with a fair amount of Summer rain. The 
past Summer and latter part of the 
Spring was absolutely rainless in this 
section, and it was really marvelous that 
the farmers were able to harvest the 40 
or 50 per cent crops that they did. The 
consumers’ dollar problem does not af¬ 
fect us as seriously as it does many, for 
the consumer at our door takes readily 
all the general farm products we have to 
share, which is a very fortunate thing 
for us, because, with the exception of 
fruit, during these past dry seasons, it 
has cost nearly a dollar, and sometimes 
more, to produce a dollar’s worth. 
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