THE RURAL MEW-YORKER 
1207 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Sept. 24, 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 opinious, 
even though unbiased, ai’e 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, ap¬ 
ples, 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 October are based 
on the fat content of the milk, there being 
a difference of 60 cents per 100 pounds 
between three and five per cent. fat. The 
price increases uniformly three cents per 
100 pounds for every tenth of one per 
cent, fat increase. Following are the 
prices within the 100-inile shipping zone. 
Outside points receive 10 cents per 100 
pounds less. 
3% 3.5% 4% 4.o% o% 
Oct. .. 
...$1.70 
$1.85 
$2.00 
$2.15 
$2.30 
Nov. .. 
. .. 1.80 
1.95 
2.10 
2.25 
2.40 
Dec. .. 
... 1.80 
1.95 
2.10 
2.25 
2.40 
Jan. .. 
... 1.70 
1.85 
2.00 
2.15 
2.30 
Feb. . . 
.. . 1.65 
1.80 
1.95 
2.10 
2.25 
March . 
... 1.60 
1.75 
1.90 
2.05 
2.20 
BUTT Kit. 
Business, both local and for export, has 
been active, with prices one cent higher 
on the better grades. 
Creamery, best above 92 score, lb. 27*^@ 28 
Extra. 92 score . 26*$@ 27 
Good to Choice . 22 @ 24 
Lower Unnies. 20 @ 21 
8t«te Dairy, ben. 26 @ 26*^ 
Common to Good. 21 @ 25 
Ladles . 19 @ 22 
Packing Stock. 17 @ 20 
Process .. 20 @ 23 
Elgin. Ill., bntter market 25 cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 27 cents. 
Boston, western creamery, 27. 
Chicago creamery. 22@26. 
Kansas City, 24@25. 
Cl I K ICS K. 
Last week’s prices are generally main¬ 
tained, but the market is weaker in tone, 
and dealers heavily stocked are meeting 
desirable customers with slight conces¬ 
sions when necessary to complete a sale. 
Whole Milk. State specials .. 14<y@ 15 
Average fancy . 14 @ 14*6 
Under grades.. 12 ® 13 
Daisies, best. . 16 @ 16*6 
Young Americas. 15*£@ 15J^ 
Skims, special. 10 @ 11 
Fair to good . 7 @ 9 
PRIMARY MARKETS. 
Cuba. K. Y.. 14<@14J4. 
Watertown, N. Y., 13*4@14. 
Utica. N. Y„ 13**@14. 
Little Falls, N. Y., 13*4014. 
EGGS 
Fancy white are scarce, in some cases 
wholesaling above 40 cents; 35 is nearer 
the top. however, for most shipments 
called fancy. Gathered stock is showing 
a very wide range of quality, owing to the 
recent 10 days of hot weather, so that 
considerable goes at 25 cents or less. 
White, choice to fancy, large . 41 @ 42 
Medium to good. 35 & 38 
Mixed colors, best. 32 @ 35 
Common to good. 24 @ 28 
Storage, best. . 24 @ 25 
Common. 18 @ 21 
St. Louis, gathered, 19@21. 
Chicago, 22@23. 
Kansas City. 20@25. 
Indianapolis, lud., 21(3,22. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens have sold one cent and fowls 
two cents above last week’s prices, with 
good demand. Exceptions have been some 
lots of Leghorn chickens and small 
fowls. 
Chickens, lb. 18 @ 
Fowls . 17 @ 
Roosters. 11 @ 
Ducks. 15 @ 
Geese. 13 @ 
Chicago. Chickens 16@16*4 
Kansas City. 15. 
19 
18 
12 
19 
15 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Supplies of fresh-killed are arriving in 
better condition and selling well when of 
reasonably good quality. 
Turkeys, choice, lb . 20 @ 21 
Common to good. 14 @ 18 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 24 @ 25 
Broilers common to good . 21 <8 23 
Squab broilers, pair. 40 @ 50 
Roasters . 22 @ 24 
Fowls. 14 @ 17 
Spring Ducks. 17 @ 18 
Squabs, doz.1 25 @ 3 50 
WOOL. 
A steady business has been noted, but 
mainly for current needs of mills. For¬ 
eign markets are firm. Recent prices at 
Boston have been : New York and Mich¬ 
igan unwashed Delaine, 26 to 27; half- 
blood, 32 to 33; three-eighths blood, 37; 
Ohio and Pennsylvania half-blood comb¬ 
ing, 35 to 36; Delaine, 30 to 31. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Very few steers on hand. Market on 
calves, sheep and lambs firm. 
Native Steers. .8 10 @8 70 
Bulls... 4 00 @ 5 75 
Cows. . 3 00 @ 6 25 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb . 9 00 @13 25 
Culls. 6 00 @7 50 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 3 00 @ 5 50 
Lambs ... 7 00 @9 50 
Hogs. 7 50 @ 8 60 
BEANS. 
Marrow. 100 lbs. 7 90 @ 8 00 
Medium . 6 86 @6 90 
@3 00 
@3 00 
@ 4 00 
@ 4 00 
@ 3 00 
@ 3 60 
@ 3 50 
@ 3 25 
@ 4 60 
® 4 25 
@3 00 
@ 2 60 
@326 
@ 1 25 
@ 3 60 
@ 5 
@ 12 
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12 
16 
30 
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Pea . 5 26 @ 6 40 
Red Kidney.,. 6 00 @ 6 60 
Yellow Eye.. 4 90 @5 00 
Lima, California. 4 20 @6 30 
FRESH FRUITS. 
The cooler weather has made a great 
improvement in the fruit situation. 
Peach receipts have been large (in four 
days 215 straight cars besides several 
cars in express lots). Most of this stock 
came from Western New York, but some 
very fine fruit is arriving from West Vir¬ 
ginia. The top prices have remained 
about as last week, but the average on all 
sales has been higher, because of better 
quality and weather conditions, that made 
speculative buying a safer risk. There is 
still a surplus of low grade apples. 
Choice McIntosh and Jonathan are sell¬ 
ing up to $4.50, and other varieties at 
$2.75 to $3.50, with medium grades down 
to $2.25. A good many shipments show 
damage from going slack in the barrel. 
Every year several thousand dollars are 
lost on apple shipments to New York 
from this cause, the barrels opening two 
or three inches slack, every apple having 
bumped against its neighbors. No mat¬ 
ter how tight a barrel may seem when 
headed, it will go slack unless it has been 
packed properly—thoroughly shaken down 
several times from the time it is half full 
to the top. This shaking must be done 
on a hard surface , and in a short 
“chucky” way, that will settle the apples 
rather making them bounce up. Some 
expert packers have a way of putting the 
apples in one at a time with a sort of 
wedging motion. Fruit put up in this 
way will frequently carry so well that 
after hard transit the head will fly out 
with the pressure when the hoops are 
loosened. This method is too slow for 
any one but an expert, but if the shaking 
prevously mentioned is well done there 
will be but little trouble from going 
slack. Bartlett and Seckel pears have 
sold higher, some Bartletts bringing 
$5.50. Grape business has not got under 
way, as people have been using peaches 
and waiting for better grapes. 
Apples—Duchess, bbl. 2 00 
N. W. Greening, bbl. 2 60 
Alexander, bbl.2 50 
Gravensteln . 2 00 
Blush . 2 00 
Wealthy.2 00 
Fall Pippin.2 00 
Twenty-ounce . 2 00 
McIntosh. 2 50 
Jonathan .2 50 
Greening . l 75 
Baldwin. 1 50 
King. 2 00 
Culls, bbl. 1 00 
Crab Apples, bbl.2 00 
Raspberries, red. pint. 3 
Figs, qt. 4 
Grapes, 181b case . 40 
41b. bkt. 7 
Huckleberries, ar. 4 
Nova Scotia, qt . 8 
Plums. 81b. bkt. 15 
*4 bu. bkt. 30 
Pears—Bartlett, bbl. 2 60 
Clapp bbl . 2 50 
Seckel, bbl. 4 50 
Bose. 2 50 
Anjou . 2 00 
8heldon. 3 00 
Peaches, State, 16 qt. bkt. 30 
State, 24 qt carrier . 55 
State, bu. bkt. 70 
Penn., 16 qt. bkt. 30 
Muskmelons. bu . 75 _ 
Watermelons, carload . 200 00® 400 00 
Chicago, Apples, bbl., 2 00@3 25. 
St. Louis, 1 60@2 60 
Pittsburg, 2 00-a3 00. 
Cincinnati, 2 00@3 50. 
Buffalo. I 00<6 4 00. 
Boston, 2 0C@3 00. 
(General Markets on page 1211.) 
Boston Market Review. 
Large supply with small demand has 
been the rule in Boston market during th.< 
exceedingly hot weather we have passed 
through. Everything has ripened too 
fast, and must be sold at some price or it 
is a dead loss to most gardeners. I saw- 
sweet corn cleaning up on September 17 
at 15 cents per box, the general price has 
been 25 to 40. Tomatoes have most of 
the time been selling at 50 to 75 cents, but 
September 17 a large supply sold at any 
offer that came along. Peaches have fol¬ 
lowed about the same line—must be sold 
at what people wanted to give. Lots of 
nice ones have been sold at 40 to 50 cents 
per basket whch would usually be con¬ 
sidered cheap at 75 cents to $1. Apples 
are not in much demand; good Graven- 
stein did not move very fast at $1 per 
box and others sold much less. Pears not 
too plenty, and prices range up to $3.50 
per box for California Bartletts with na¬ 
tives at $2 and $2.50, seconds and cook¬ 
ing pears, 75 cents per box. A few na¬ 
tive blueberries left at 15 and 16 cents per 
quart. Grapes, small baskets, 12 to 15 
cents each. 
Potatoes, $1.25 per bag for Southern 
and $1.15 for Maine. Sweet potatoes, 
$2.50 per barrel and 75 cents per basket. 
Cabbage about 75 cents per barrel; celery, 
75 to 90 cents for early, and $1.25 to 
$1.50 for others; cucumbers, $3.50 per 
box for best; others $2.50 down to $1.25. 
String beans, 50 and 75 cents per box; 
lettuce, 25 to 75 cents per box of 18 
heads; onions nearby stock, $1 per bu.; 
corn. Valley stock, $1.75 per hag. Squash 
$1 per barrel for marrow, Turban $1.50. 
Turnips, $1.50 per barrel; beets, 50 cents; 
carrots, 65; cauliflower, 50 cents per box. 
Butter still in increasing supply with 
prices low-, 29 to 31 for best, 26 to 28 for 
good, and fair is sold at about 25 cents 
per pound. Cheese in fair supply at 15 
to 1714. Eggs not coming in fast; best 
fancy fresh, 44 cents per dozen; good 
fresh. 40; good Western, 30 to 34 ; stor¬ 
age, 25 to 30. 
Best horse hay. $25 per ton; other 
grades, $22, $19, $17. Oats, 43 cents per 
bushel; corn, 90 cents; meal ground from 
poorer grades of corn, about $1.08 per 
bag. Gluten, $29 per ton. Cottonseed 
meal, $32.50; bran, $23 to $25. Beef. 14 
@ 5 6U 
@ 6 00 
@ 6 5U 
@ 3 60 
@ 3 00 
@ 3 26 
@ 50 
@ 1 00 
@ 90 
@ 55 
@ 2 60 
cents for best; other grades, 9 to 12 cents. 
Lamb, 10 to 13; veal, 12 to 16. Large 
dressed fowl, 19 cents per pound; medium, 
15 to 18; broilers, 20 to 22; geese, 22 
and 23; ducks, 17; live hens, 14 and 15; 
chickens, 17 cents. Dressed hogs, 9 to 
9% cents per pound; live, 7 to 7%c. 
Best milking cows, $S0 to $125 each. 
Medium grade milkers, $60 to $80 each, 
and light milker and farrow- cow-s, $40 to 
$50, w-ith a good supply to choose from. 
_ A. E. p. 
Buffalo Markets. 
The feature of the local markets is 
peaches. The highest price at retail is 
ouly 35 cents and most of them go for 25 
cents for a third-bushel basket. The offi¬ 
cial quotation is 10 to 30 cents. All 
green vegetables are cheap, apples per¬ 
haps being dearest, at 65 to 90 cents a 
bushel for red and 50 to SO cents for green. 
The retail price often goes above $1. Pota¬ 
toes are a little stronger at 50 to 75 
cents per bushel, wholesale. The local 
crop was about spoiled by blight. Sweet 
potatoes are low, $1 per hamper, whole¬ 
sale. Pears are more plenty, fancy Bart¬ 
letts bringing as high as $1.50 per bushel. 
Plums are plenty at 12 to 15 cents per 7- 
pound basket for large, fancy. A few 
grapes are offering at about 10 cents a 
Pound. It is now expected that the hot 
September will ripen the Chautauqua 
crop, most of which had to set a second 
time after the freeze of May 27. 
Onions are firmer at 30 to 65 cents per 
bushel, home grown and $1.50 per small 
crate for Spanish. Beans are firm on ac¬ 
count of the failure of the crop here, at 
$3.50 for medium. By the quart they 
bring 10 to 12 cents for common and 14 
to 15 cents for Limas. String beans are 
2o to 60 cents per bushel. Vegetables are 
plenty at $1.25 per hundred for cabbages, 
40 cents per bushel for cauliflower, 35 
cents per bushel for cucumbers, 20 to 35 
cents per 100 for cucumbers, pickle size, 
40 to 60 cents per bushel for eggplant, 20 
to 25 cents per bushel for lettuce, $1 per 
barrel for peppers, 50 cents per bushel 
for tomatoes, $1 per barrel for yellow 
turnips. 
Butter remains at 28 cents per pound 
for extra and 24 cents for fancy crocks. 
Cheese is up a trifle, 16 cents for best. 
Eggs are firmer, 32 cents for the top of 
the market and 24 cents for candled stor¬ 
age. Live poultry is active at 13 to 16 
cents for fowl, springers and broilers, 17 
cents; 13 to 16 cents for ducks and geese. 
Turkey is offered frozen only at 21 to 22 
cents, frozen chicken and fowl, 14 to 18 
cents. The hay market goes down slowly, 
being not above $21 per ton for choice 
Timothy and $19 for fancy light mixed. 
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