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I'HU; i-i UKAL IMES W-YOKE'S.hliK 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Sept. 17, 1915. 
The commercial values of farm pro¬ 
ducts are what they sell for—not neces¬ 
sarily their food value or what some one 
thinks or wishes they were worth. Hence 
representative sales rather than opinions, 
even though unbiased, arc the correct 
basis for quotations. Except in cases 
where quality is standardized by scoring, 
the term “best” refers to the best on sale 
at the time. The best sheep, lambs, 
apples, pears, etc., one week may be 
much better or poorer than the next. 
Live Stock and Dairy Markets. 
MILK. 
The Borden contract prices for the six 
months beginning with April are based on 
the fat content of the milk, there being 
a difference of GO cents per 100 pounds 
between three and five per cent. fat. The 
prices increases uniformly three cents per 
cent, fat increase. 
3% 
3.5% 
4% 
4.5% 
5% 
April .... 
$1.31 
$1.46 
$1.61 
$1.76 
$1.01 
May . 
1.06 
1.21 
1.36 
1.51 
1.66 
June .... 
1.00 
1.15 
1.30 
1.45 
1.60 
July .... 
1.16 
1.31 
1.46 
1.61 
1.76 
Aug. 
1.32 
1.47 
1.62 
1.77 
1.92 
8ept. 
1.41 
1.56 
1.71 
1.S6 
2.01 
BUTT 1C it. 
The better grades of creamery and 
dairy declined one cent early in the week 
owing to heavy recipts and unseasonably 
hot weather, which checked demand. On 
increased speculative trade part of this 
drop was regained. Whether the advance 
will be sustained another week depends 
largely on how storage and export busi¬ 
ness develop. About 150 tons have been 
shipped to Europe the past week. 
Creamery, best, above 92 score, lb. 2614® 27 
Extra. 92 score . 26j|@ 20 
Good to Choice . 22 ® 24 
Lower Grades. 20 @ 21 
State Dairy, ben. 25 ® 25 \4 
Common to Good. 20 ® 24 
Ladies . J9 @ 21 
Packing Stock. ]7 @ 20 
Process . 20 @ 23 
Elgin. Ill., butter market 24 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 26 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 26b$. 
Chicago creamery. 22@25. 
Kansas City, 24@2G. 
CHEESE. 
The market has advanced another half 
cent and is now too high for much export 
business. Receivers who have brands run¬ 
ning above medium are holding for higher 
figures. Wiscons n markets report lvgh- 
er prices than have yet developed here. 
Whole Milk. State specials. 15 
Average fancy . 14 @ U]fi 
Under grades. 11 ® 12 
Daisies, best. 15 ® Vo\4 
Young Americas. U>\4® 16 
Skims, special. 10 @ 11 
Fair to good. 7 ® 9 
PRIMARY MARKETS. 
Cuba. N. Y.. 14@14‘4. 
Watertown, N. Y., 13ls@14. 
Utica. N. Y., 13)^®I4. 
Little Falls, N. Y., K%<al4. 
EGGS 
Fancy white are higher, some sales hav¬ 
ing been made above 87 cents. This re¬ 
fers only to uniform qualities—not those 
carelessly graded or stuffed with held 
stock. In one instance noted the past 
week, eight dozen stales were candled out 
of a 30-dozen case. The off grades were 
well down in the case, and all pure white 
—whited sepulchres. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 37 ® 38 
Medium togood. 30 ® 32 
Mixed colors, best. 32 @ 35 
Common to good. 24 ® 28 
Storage, best, . 23 ® 24 
Common. 18 @ 21 
St, Louis, gathered, 19@21. 
Chicago, 21<§)22. 
Kansas City. 20@25. 
Indianapolis, lnd., 21@22. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Demand for chickens is active and 
prices three cents above last week. Fowls 
unchanged, with good demand for large 
sizes. 
Chickens, lb. 18 ® 19 
Fowls . ia ® 16 
Roosters. 11 @ 12 
Ducks... 15 ® 
Geese. 13 ® 15 
Chicago, Chickens IO@lGJs 
Kansas City, 15. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Market in bad condition, owing to heat. 
Iced shipments coming from such districts 
arrived badly melted and out of condition. 
Turkeys, choice, lb . 20 ® 21 
Common togood.. . 14 ® is 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 24 ® 25 
Broilers, common to good . 21 ® 23 
Squab broilers, pair. 40 @ 50 
Roasters . 22 @ 24 
Fowls. U @ 17 
Spring Ducks. 17 @ 18 
Squabs, doz. 1 25 @ 3 50 
WOOL. 
The London and Australian markets 
have been firm on the best fine wools. 
At Boston business has been of fair vol¬ 
ume at prices ranging as follows: Michi¬ 
gan and New York unwashed Delaine, 
26 to 27; half blood, 32 to 33; Ohio and 
Pennsylvania half blood combing, 35 to 
3G; three-eighths blood, 37. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Market on bulls and cows lower; steers 
selling slowly unless fancy; about 150 
from Virginia brought $9.00. Calves gen¬ 
erally lower. Sheep and lambs offered 
mainly poor and dull. 
Native Steers. 5 25 @9 60 
Bulls. 3 75 @ 5 75 
Cows.. 3 00 ® 6 50 
Calves, prime veal. 100 lb. 8 00 @12 25 
Culls.. 6 00 @ 7 50 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 00 @5 60 
Lambs . 7 00 @ 9 25 
Hogs. 7 50 @ 8 60 
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Marrow. 100 lbs. 7 90 @8 00 
Medium . 575 @ 585 
Pea . 5 25 @5 40 
Red Kidney. .... 5 70 @ 6 50 
White Kidney . 7 50 @ 7 60 
Yellow Eye. 4 70 @ 5 20 
Lima, California. 5 20 @5 30 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The week lias been trying for all per¬ 
ishable fruits. Peaches and eastern pears 
suffered most from the intense heat. Many 
were refused by receivers as not worth 
the freight or condemned by the health 
authorities. When selling a lot of rotten 
stuff which had escaped the inspectors 
an auctioneer remarked that a pair of 
rubber boots went with them. Really 
choice Bartlett pears have sold above 
$4 and peaches at $1.25 per crate, GO 
to 75 cents per bushel basket and 40 
to 45 cents for halves. Sound plums have 
been in good demand, handle baskets of 
Grand Duke type bringing 30 cents and 
bushel baskets up to $1.50. The latter 
is a poor package for plum shipment, how¬ 
ever, as unless the plums are hard ns 
stones many will be crushed by the weight 
above thorn. Some New Y'ork State crates 
in imitation of the California square flat 
plum and grape package are arriving, 
but the lumber used for covers is more 
than twice as thick as it should be, so 
that instead of being held firmly by the 
springy cover which acts like a large 
rubber band, the fruit rattles about and 
gets bruised. This package, as well as 
others used by western shippers, is the 
result of a large amount of study 
and experience, and there is a practical 
reason for every feature of its construc¬ 
tion. particularly the thickness of ma¬ 
terial. It is 16x167/4x4^4 inches inside. 
The ends are three-fourths inch thick. 
The bottom and sides are strips one- 
fourth inch thick, aud 1% wide, four 
strips on the bottom and two on each 
side. The cover is only one-eighth inch 
thick and covered at the ends by cleats 
three-fourths by three-eighths inch. The 
entire package, including the four square 
baskets weighs only four pounds and will 
contain 20 pounds of fruit. The thick 
ends make secure nailing space for the 
remaining very light strips which make 
the package elastic instead of rigid. Me¬ 
dium grade apples are in surplus and of 
slow sale at much above $2. Fancy Fall 
varieties have brought $3 to $3.50, but 
in small quantities. Some Greenings have 
been, shipped to commission houses on 
a price limit of $3, while the same grade 
is selling freely at $2.25. The receiver’s 
only recourse is to store them, which 
seems a doubtful process for the quality 
of fruit. In seasons of moderate or short 
crop, like the present, apples worth only 
$2 now are not nearly so likely to have 
50 per cent, value added to them b.v stor¬ 
age as the $3 or $3.50 grade is to double 
in value- 
Apples— Duchess, bbl. 2 00 @2 50 
N. W. Greening, bbl.. 2 50 @3 00 
Alexander, bbi. 2 00 @3 00 
Gravenstein . 2 00 @2 50 
Blush . ... 1 75 @ 2 50 
Wealthy. 2 00 ® 3 EO 
Fail Pippin. 75 @3 00 
Twenty-ounco . 1 75 @ 2 75 
McIntosh. 2 00 @ 3 60 
Jonathan . 2 50 @3 00 
Greening . 1 50 @ 2 25 
Raldwin. 1 50 @ 2 25 
King. 2 00 @2 76 
Culls, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Crab Apples — . . 2 00 @3 50 
Raspberries, red. pint. 3 @ 6 
Figs, qt. 3 @ 9 
Grapes. 181b case. 35 ® 60 
41b. bkt. 7 @ 8 
Blackberries, qr. 8 @ 12 
Huckleberries, ar. 4 © 10 
Nova Scotia, qt. 10 @ 16 
Plums. 81b. bkt. ]j @ 30 
201b bkt. 40 @ 75 
Pears—Bartlett, bbl. 2 50 @ 4 60 
Clapp bbl. 2 50 @ 4 00 
Seckcl, bbl. 4 50 ® 6 00 
Bose. 2 05 @ 3 50 
Anjou . 2 75 @ 3 25 
Sheldon. 3 00 @ 3 75 
Peaches. State, bkt. 25 @ 45 
State, carrier . 55 @ 1 25 
Jersey, bkt. 25 @ 55 
Muskmelons, bu . 75 @ 4 00 
Watermelons, carload . 200 OUte 400 00 
Chicago. Apples, bbl., 1 50@3 00. 
St. Louis, 75>«2 50 
Pittsburg, 1 50-<13 00. 
Cincinnati, 2 00@3 5U. 
Buffalo. 2 00®4 50. 
Boston, 2 UU@3 00. 
V1CG ETA B LKS. 
Potato receipts are large, and business 
dull, but good quality Loug Island and 
Jersey are held at last week’s figures. 
Onions and lettuce are iu surplus and 
had condition. IVas scarce. String beans 
from the Middle South too plentiful and 
some refused as not worth charges. Sweet 
corn plentiful and 25 cents lower. 
Potatoes-Long Island, bbi. 
Del. and Md. 
<U, 
1 65 
Jersey . 
I 25 
60 
Sweet Potatoes. Jersey, bu. 
Southern, bbl. 
Beets. 1U0 bunches . 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 
Carrots. 10U bunches. 
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1 00 
12 
Cucumbers, bu. 
Pickles, bu. 
Cabbage. 100 . 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 
Onions, Orange Co., bag . 
Jersev. white, bu. 
1 00 
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. 20 
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1 50 
2 00 
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1 00 
1 50 
Long Island, bbl. 
Peppers, bbl. 
Peas, bu. 
String Beans, bu. 
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Lima Beans, bu. 
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Okra, tv bu. . 
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1 00 
1 00 
2 »0 
Turnips, white, bbl. 
Cauliflowers, bbl. 
Squash bbl. 
. 50 
. 50 
(ft 
Sweet Corn. 100. 
1 76 
Egg Plants ba. 
’Tomatoes. 6-hkt. crate. 
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Jersey, bu. box. 
60 
Chicago. Potatoes, bbl.. 90@1 25. 
Cincinnati, 1 2a@l all. 
Pittsburg. 1 3li@l 50. 
Denver. 1 uu@l 35. 
Indianapolis, 1 40@1 75. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay market very dull, low grades be¬ 
ing in excessive supply. Very little de¬ 
mand for Alfalfa here at present. Straight 
rye straw is scarce. 
Hay. new, Timothy, No. 1. ton ... 
No. 2. 
.. 28 50 
@21 50 
@22 50 
@18 00 
@22 00 
@16 00 
No. 3. 
Clover mixed. 
8traw, Rye. 
MILLFEED. 
Bran, car lots. 
@24 00 
@32 00 
Middlings. 
Red Do<* 
Corn meal. 
@34 00 
GRAIN 
Heavy rains have delayed thrashing in 
some of the Winter wheat sections, and 
many disappointing yields are noted. 
Prices are on a generally higher level. 
Corn and oats practically unchanged. 
Wheat. No. 1. Northern Spring, new.. 1 11 @ 
No. 2. Red, new . 1 25 @ 
Corn, as to quality, bush. 84 @ 85 
Flour, carlots, at N. Y. bbl. 5 50 @ 6 75 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 45 @ 50 
Rye, free from onion. 98 @ 1 00 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
figures noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying opportuni¬ 
ties of at least half of New York’s popu¬ 
lation. 
Eggs, fancy white, doz. 
Mixed colors, new laid. 
Ordinary grades. 
Butter, fancy prints, lb.. 
Tub. choice. 
Chickens, roasting, ib. . ..... 
Broilers, common to good. Ib. 
Squab Broilers, pair .. ..." 
Fricassee, ib. .i. 
Fowls . . 
Leg of lamb. 
Lamb chops. 
Roasting beef. 
Pork chops .. 
Loin of pork . 
Lettuce, bead. 
Radishes, bunch .’’ 
Cucumbers, each. 
Sweet corn, doz.' . ' ’ ’ 
Cabbage, bead .....]., 
Muskmelons. each.%.!...". 
Potatoes, peck .. 
Peaches. 4 qts."!!!!!!!!!. 
Tomatoes, qt. 
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Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Interstate Live Stock Fair, Sioux City, 
Iowa, Sept. 20-25. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, N. Y„ 
Sept. 21-25. 
Trenton Inter-State Fair, Trenton, N. 
J., Sept. 27-Oet. 2. 
Farmers’ National Congress, annual 
meeting. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 28-Oct. 1. 
Haverhill Holstein Sale, Haverhill. 
Mass., Oct. 1. 
Provincial Exposition and IIors<> Show, 
Westminster, B C., Sept. 28-()et. 2. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver, Colo., Oet. 4-7. 
American Royal Live Stock Show, 
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 4-9. 
Breeders’ Consignment Sale, Ilolsteins, 
Syracuse, N. Y., Oet. 12-13. 
International Wheat Show and Expo¬ 
sition, Wichita. Kan.. Oct. 4-14. 
New England Fruit Show, Mechanics’ 
Building. Boston, Mass., Oct. 23-30. 
Fifth annual apple show, Indiana Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Indianapolis, Nov. 
6-13. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 10- 
14. 1915. Special show, San Francisco, 
Cal. 
Liverpool Sale and Pedigree Company’s 
eighth sale, Ilolsteins, Syracuse, N. Y„ 
Nov. 15-16. 
Paterson Poultry Association, annual 
show, Paterson, N. J.. Nov. 16-20. 
Liverpool Sale and Pedigree Company’s 
Holstein sale, Earlville, N. Y., Nov. 
17-18. 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, Nov. 27-Dec. 4. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading. Pa., Dec. 
24. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
6 - 11 . 
Pacific International Live Stock Ex¬ 
position. No. Portland, Ore.. Dec. 6-11. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn.. Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
Vermont State Poultry Association an¬ 
nual show, St. Albans, Yt., Jan. 18-21, 
1916. 
National Western Stock Show, Denver, 
Colo.. Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, 
Fort Worth, Tex., March 11-17, 1916. 
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She keeps quiet until we get almost 
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New York. 
There is a warty or fibroid growth in 
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operating is dangerous. If it is near the 
tip of the teat have it removed by a vet¬ 
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