THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1335 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Oct. 29, 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, are 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-mile shipping zone. 
Outside points receive 10 cents per 100 
pounds less. 
3% 3.5% 4% 4.5% 5% 
Oct..$1.70 $1.S5 $2.00 $2.15 $2.30 
Nov.1.R0 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 
BUTTlfiR. 
Prices are one cent higher on best 
creamery and one-half cent on dairy. 
Country advices show a lighter make in 
many sections, so that the market has 
developed considerable strength with the 
advance. 
Creamery, best, above 92 score, lb..... 29J4 @37 
Extra, 92 score .i 29 @ 29!^ 
Good to Choice . 24 @ 27 
Lower Grades. 21 @ 23 
State Dairy, best. 28 @ 28J^ 
Common to Good. 23 @ 20 
Ladles . 19 @ 22 
Packing Stock. 17 @ 21 
Process . 21 @ 24 
Elgin, Ill., blitter market 27t£ cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 29 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 28. 
Chicago creamery. 24@27. 
Kansas City, 24@27. 
CHEESE, 
Higher prices, one-half to one cent or a 
trifle more, are noted both here and in 
the up-State markets. There has been 
but little business here above 15%, but 
some of the best makes are held with 
considerable confidence for 16 cents. 
Whole Milk, State specials. iuiif® 1° 
Average fancy . la @ 15)^ 
Under grades. 12 @ 13 
Daisies, best. 1<5 @ 16^ 
Young Americas. 15^@ 16 
Skims, special. 12 @ 13 
Pair to good. 7 @ 10 
PRIMARY MARKETS. 
Watertown, N. Y.. 14@1416. 
Utica. N. Y., 13^014^- 
Little Falls, N. Y., 14@li*q. 
EGGS 
Fancy eggs are very scarce and three 
to five cents higher. There is very little 
business at the top figures, because so 
few eggs grade anywhere near that mark. 
The range of prices now runs all the way 
from 15 cents to 55 cents, with gathered 
selling from 30 to 35. 
Wbite, choice to fancy, large . 85 @ 57 
Medium to good. 45 @ 48 
Mixed colors, best. 40 @ 42 
Common to good. 24 @ 35 
Storage, best, . 24 @ 26 
Common. 19 @ 22 
8 t, Louis, gathered, 22@23. 
Chicago, 23026. 
Kansas City, 26@27. 
Indianapolis, lud., 25@27. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Receipts large and demand only mod¬ 
erate. 
Chickens, lb. 14 @ 
Fowls . 13 @ 
Roosters .. 10 @ 
Ducks. 15 @ 
Geese. 13 @ 
Chicago. Chickens 13@13^ 
Kansas City, 12@13. 
15 
15 
11 
19 
15 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Market weak except on ducks and 
fancy chickens. 
Turkeys, choice, lb. 23 @ 25 
Common to good. 14 @ 20 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 23 @ ' 25 
Broilers, common to good . 20 @ 22 
Squab broilers, pair. 60 @ 60 
Roasters . 23 & 25 
Fowls. 13 ® 17 
Spring Ducks. 17 @ 18^ 
Squabs, doz. 125 @4 25 
Guineas, Spring, lb. 20 @ 25 
WOOL. 
Business has been picking up a little, 
with slightly advanced prices and decid¬ 
edly firm feeling in foreign markets. Re¬ 
cent sales at Boston have been: New 
York and Michigan unwashed Delaine, 
26 to 27 ; half blood, 31 to 32; Ohio and 
Pennsylvania half blood combing, 33; 
three-eighths blood, 36 to 37. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Market on prime steers strong; other 
beef stock slow. Calves generally lower 
except on top grades. Sheep and lambs 
selling well. 
Native Steers. 
Bulls. 
Cows. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lb 
Culls. 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
Lambs . .. 
Hogs. 
6 00 @ 9 50 
4 75 @ 6 50 
2 50 @ 6 00 
9 00 @12 00 
6 00 @7 00 
3 00 @5 50 
7 00 @9 50 
7 50 % S 10 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Medium . 
8 10 @8 25 
5 90 @ 6 25 
Pea . 6 50 @ 6 60 
Red Kidney.7 10 @ 7 15 
Lima, California. 5 70 @5 75 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Apple arrivals moderate and business 
rather ^better than last week, with top 
prices 50 cents per barrel above previous 
figures. Jonathan and McIntosh have 
brought $4 to $5, though very few the 
latter mark. Ungraded and windfall 
fruit, as well as that badly fungussed, 
went low, sometimes under $1. Pears 
mainly in bad condition. Choice Seckel 
and Bose, suitable to hold, have continued 
high. Peaches are about gone. Grapes 
in large supply but selling well. Straw¬ 
berries from California are on baud, 
bringing 25 cents per pint cup. 
Apples—Ben Davisbbl,.. . 2 00 @3 00 
Newtown, bbl. 2 50 @ 3 50 
Hubbardsato, bbl.1 75 @2 50 
Winesap. 3 00 @ 4 26 
(Continued on page 1339.) 
Dairy Reports. 
This is a dairy country, with hogs as 
a side line. Cooperative creameries han¬ 
dle the matter with very good satisfaction 
aside from the difficulty in getting all of 
the patrons to bring cream of good qual¬ 
ity. We had a cold Summer which 
makes our corn crop of about a third 
its usual value. Our crop of small grain 
was of fine quality and of heavy yield, 
oats averaging all of fifty bushels to the 
acre, and barley about the same. We use 
almost no commercial fertilizers but are 
getting to use some ground limestone. 
Most farmers follow a short rotation, and 
the heavy crops of clover and plenty of 
barnyard manure seem to keep up the 
fertility very well—in fact, I believe that 
most of our farms are more productive 
than they were 30 years ago. Alfalfa is 
not very extensively grown but is gaining 
in favor slowly. We have a good many 
herds of purebred cattle and hogs, and 
produce considerable pedigree seed grain. 
Improved lands sell from $50 to $100 
per acre, and most farms are farmed by 
their owners. Labor is more or less of a 
hard proposition—with a better supply 
of labor, we would produce double the 
present amount of butter in a very few 
years. There are a few milking machines 
but not all of them are satisfactory. The 
silo is on almost every farm of any size, 
and many farmers have a second one for 
Summer feeding. p. w. j. 
Jackson Co., Wis. 
The Federal Department of Agricul¬ 
ture has decided to call a conference of 
State live stock sanitary officials, agricul¬ 
tural college experts, practical stock men 
and representatives of live stock papers, 
transportation companies, stock yards, 
county banks, and of the Federal De¬ 
partment of Agriculture for the purpose 
of discussing ways and means of solving 
problems concerning live stock diseases. 
This conference will be held at the La 
Salle Hotel. Chicago, November 29 and 
30, and will be purely advisory. The 
Federal Department hopes at this con¬ 
ference to secure all possible light on the 
problem under discussion, but with re¬ 
gard to Federal administrative problems 
it of necessity must be the final judge as 
to what suggestions are helpful and which 
are impracticable. 
Oct. 25. We are receiving for farm 
products the following prices: Hay, $14 
to $16; oats, 40 to 45; buckwheat, $1.40 
per cwt.; potatoes, $1 per bushel; hogs, 
alive. 7c. per lb.; fat cattle on foot, 5c. 
per lb.; fresh cows, $50 to $80; milk, 
$1.60 per cwt.; eggs, 36c. per dozen; 
dairy butter, 32; veal, 10c. per lb.; ap¬ 
ples, $1 per bushel. g. n. m. 
Alfred, N. Y. 
Oct. 24. Beef cattle 2-year-old, $40 to 
$60; dairy cows, two years or over, $45 
to $65;jJressed pork, 9 to 10c.; butter, 
dairy, 25 to 27 ; creamery, 27 to 28; ap¬ 
ples, Fall, 75 to $1; peaches, $1.25 to 
$1.50; potatoes, 50c. per bushel; hay, 
haled, $10 to $12; oats, 42 to 45; wheat, 
90 to $1; rye, 80 to 90; peas, field, $1.25 
to $1.50; strawberries, $3.50 to $4 ; rasp¬ 
berries, $3.50 to $4.50; good horses, $175 
to $250. c. v. w. 
Alpena, Mich. 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 
Ilerefords, North Missouri breeders 
under management of John M. Herndon 
Centralia, Mo., Nov. 10. 
Duroc swine, W. E. Smiley, Payne, O. 
Nov. 13. 
Liverpool Sale and Pedigree Company 
7th Consignment Sale, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Nov. 15-16, 1915. 
Liverpool Sale and Consignment Co. 
first Eurlville Holstein Sale, Earlville. 
N. Y., Nov. 17-18. 
Duroc swine, Bowman & Mohler, Cov¬ 
ington, O., Nov. 19. 
Liverpool Sale and Pedigree Co., Hol- 
steins, Newark, O., Dec. 7-8. 
Shorthorns, C. A. Saunders, Manilla. 
Iowa, Dec. 14. 
Holsteins, Madison Square Garden, 
New York, Dec. 14. 
Holstein Sale, Madison Square Gar¬ 
den, New York, Dec. 15-16. 
Guernseys. Madison Square Garden, 
New York, Dec. 17. 
Dairymen’s Sale, Exposition Park, 
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 17. 
Benninger’s 4th Consignment Sale— 
Fair Grounds, Allentown, Pa., Nov. 10- 
Liverpool Sale and Consignment Co., 
Syracuse, N. Y., Holsteins, Jan. 17-18, 
1916. 
Liverpool Sale and Consignment Co., 
Earlville, N. Y., Holsteins, Jan. 19-20. 
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