THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Nov. 5, 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. 
Ml Lit. 
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% 4.5% 5% 
Oct. . .. 
. .$1.70 
$1.85 
$2.00 
$2.15 
$2.50 
Nov. . . . 
.. 1.80 
1.95 
2.10 
2.25 
2.40 
Dec. . . . 
.. 1.80 
1.95 
2.10 
2.25 
2.40 
Jan. . . . 
.. 1.70 
1.85 
2.00 
2.15 
2.30 
Feb. . . . 
.. 1.65 
1.80 
1.95 
2.10 
2.25 
March . . 
.. 1.60 
1.75 
1.90 
2.05 
2.20 
BUTTKK. 
Prices have advanced one half cent on 
the better grades of creamery and dairy. 
Creamery scoring above 92 is scarce. 
The quality of current receipts is run¬ 
ning lower, as is usual at this season 
when the change from grass to barn feed¬ 
ing is under way. The butter maker has 
his own troubles now, especially at cream¬ 
eries, where there is a wide variety of 
farm practice in the matter of feeding 
and general care of the raw material 
among patrons. The carelessness of two 
or three patrons may cut 10 to 15 per 
cent, from the price of the butter. The 
butter maker may need to be “fired.” but 
the probability is that thoughtful co¬ 
operation on the part of his patrons will 
go far toward remedying the deficient 
quality. 
Creamery, best, above 82 score, lb.... 30 @ 3*6 
Kxtra. 92 score .. 29*$@ 30 
Good to Choice . 24 @ 27 
Lower Grades. 21 @ 23 
State Dairy, best. 28*6@ 29 
Common to Good. 23 @ 2(i 
Ladles . 19 @ 22 
Packing Stock. ]7 @ 21 
Process . 21 @ 25 
KiglD, Ill., butter market 28 cents 
Philadelphia, western creamery, 2!) cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 29. 
Chicago creamery. 24@28. 
Kansas City, 24@27. 
C11K ICS it. 
The up-State markets are closing on 
a^ rather higher basis, but business in 
New York is very dull as local demand is 
small and prices held too high to interest 
export buyers. 
Whole Milk. State specials . .. 15%® 16 
Average fancy . 15 @ 15*6 
Under grades. 12 @ 13 
Daisies, best. 10 ® 10*4 
Young Americas . 15*6@ 10*6 
Skims, special. 12 @ 13 
Fair to good . 7 @ 10 
PRIM AH Y MARKETS. 
Watertown, N. Y., 14*6@1494. 
Utica. N. Y., 14® 14to. 
Little Falls, N. Y., 14@14£{. 
EGGS 
Choice eggs are very scarce, and three 
cents higher. Gathered stock shows a 
wide range of quality. Storage eggs are 
working out mainly under 2(5 cents. The 
range of wholesale values, from culls to 
fancy white, runs from 16 to 60 cents. 
White, choice to fancy, large .. 
... 56 
@ 
60 
Medium to good... 
@ 
50 
Mixed colors, best. 
@ 
42 
Common to good. 
@ 
35 
Storage, best. 
@ 
26 
Common. 
© 
22 
St. Louis, gathered, 24@26. 
Chicago, 23@27. 
Kansas City, 25@27. 
Indianapolis, lnd , 25@27. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Trading active in large 
choice chickens; other grades 
fowls 
slow. 
and 
Chickens, lb. 
14 @ 
13 @ 
10 @ 
15 @ 
13 @ 
15 
15 
n 
19 
15 
Fowls . 
Roosters. 
Ducks . 
Geese. . 
Chicago, Chickens 13013*6 
Kansas City, 12013. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
With the coming of cooler weather, the 
market shows some improvement in tone. 
Thanksgiving comes early this year—the 
25th—and supplies for that trade will be 
in order from the preceding Friday to 
Tuesday of that week. Monday and 
Tuesday are usually the heaviest days 
in the wholesale trade. Two points of 
special importance to keep in mind are 
that choice poultry only is wanted for 
this holiday, and that the animal heat 
must be all out of it before packing and 
shipment. The latter is of most import¬ 
ance, because any poultry will spoil if 
packed while containing animal heat. 
There is usually a good class of whole¬ 
sale buyers looking for straight lots of 
uniform pack. On this account it is 
well to keep the chickens, fowls, hen and 
tom turkeys in separate packages, and 
the culls by themselves if they are sent 
at all. The birds should be handled 
carefully before killing to avoid discolor¬ 
ation caused by bruises, and if scalding is 
practiced, it should be just enough to 
loosen the feathers without cooking the 
skin. Ordinarily dry picking is pre¬ 
ferred, especially if the weather turns 
mild. As the crop must be free from 
food, be sure that they are not fed for 
several hours before killing. 
Turkeys, choice, lb . 22 @ 23 
Common to good. U @ 20 
Chickens choice broilers, lb.. 23 ® 25 
Broilers, common to good . 20 @ 22 
Squab broilers, pair. 50 @ 00 
Roasters . 23 @ 25 
Fowls. 13 ® 17 
Spring Ducks. 17 @ 19*6 
Squabs, doz. 1 26 ® 4 25 
Guineas, Spring, lb. 20 @ 25 
WOOL. 
Trading in wool has improved. Recent 
sales at Boston have been: New York 
and Michigan unwashed Delaine, 26 to 
27; half blood, 31 to 32; three eights 
blood 35 to 36; Ohio and Pennsylvania 
half blood combing 32 to 33; three-eights 
blood 36 to 37. 
LIVE STOCK. 
All kinds of beef stock very dull, and 
lower except for prime calves and lambs 
meeting slow trade. 
Native Steers. 5 75 @ 9 50 
Hulls. 4 75 @6 25 
Cows. 2 50 ® 6 00 
Calves, prime veal. 100 lb. 9 00. @12 00 
Culls. 6 00 @7 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 3 00 ® 5 50 
Lambs . 7 00 ® 9 35 
Hogs. 7 60 ® 8 10 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 8 00 ® 8 25 
Medium . 5 90 ® G 26 
Pea . 6 40 ® 6 50 
Red Kidney. 8 40 ® 8 50 
Lima, California... 5 70 @6 75 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Supplies of apples for the week have 
been large and market rather dull. The 
extremes of prices remain unchanged, a 
few sales of choice varieties having been 
up to $4.50, and culls down to $1, but the 
average on medium to good grades has 
been lower. That is, more apples have 
sold at $2.25 and $2.50 that last week 
would have brought $2.50 and $3. Sound 
pears of the better varieties are selling 
at high prices; grapes meeting better de¬ 
mand, though prices practically un¬ 
changed. 
Apples—Ben Davis, bbl. 
Newtown, bbl. 
Hubbardsaton, bbl.... 
Winesap. 
Wolf River . 
Wealthy . .. . . 
Twenty-ounce . 
McIntosh . 
Jonathan . 
Greening . 
Baldwin. 
King.. 
Culls, bbl.. 
Grapes, 181b case.. 
4lb. bkt. 
Bulk, ton . 
Plums, 81b. bkt. 
Pears—Bartlett, bbl. 
Seckel, bbl. 
Bose. 
Anjou . 
Sheldon . 
Quinces, bbl. .. . 
Cranberries. Cape Cod. bbl.. 
Strawberries, pint . 
.. 2 00 ® 3 00 
.. 2 50 @ 3 50 
..175 @ 2 50 
. 3 00 ® 4 25 
, . 2 50 @ 3 50 
.. 2 00 @ 3 60 
.. 2 00 @ 3 50 
.. 2 50 @ 4 50 
.. 3 00 @ 4 50 
.. 2 00 @4 00 
.. 2 00 @ 3 00 
.. 2 Oil @ 4 00 
. 75 @ 1 25 
.. 40 @ 75 
.. 10 @ 15 
40 00 @45 00 
.. 15® 25 
.. 2 00 @ 3 50 
.. 6 00 @ 9 00 
.. 2 50 @ « 50 
.. 3 00 @ 3 60 
.. 3 00 @ 5 00 
.. 2 50 @ 6 00 
.. 5 50 @ 8 00 
.. 25 @ 30 
Chicago. Apples, bbl,, 2 00@3 50. 
St Louis, 1 50@3 00 
Pittsburg, 2 00@4 60. 
Cincinnati. 2 00@3 50. 
Buffalo. 2 00®350. 
Boston, 2 0U@5 00. 
VEGETABLES. 
Receipts of potatoes continue large, 
and some price cutting made by heavily 
stocked dealers. No improvement noted 
in cabbage and cauliflower. Onions do¬ 
ing a trifle better when, sound. Squashes 
and turnips very dull, celery and lettuce 
in surplus. Hothouse tomatoes arriving 
in carload lots and meeting a good mar¬ 
ket when a mark is sold through one 
distributor instead of scattered. 
Potatoes—Long Island, bbl. 2 25 @2 75 
Jersey ... 1 75 @ 2 25 
Maine . 2 40 @ 2 55 
• State.. 2 00 @ 2 25 
Sweet Potatoes. Jersey, bu. 40 @ 75 
Southern, bbl. 100 @ 1 50 
Beets, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Brussels Sprouts, qt. 4 @ 11 
Carrots, bbl. 76 @ 1 00 
Cucumbers, bu. 50 @ 1 25 
Cabbage, tou... 4 00 @10 00 
(Continued on page 1367.) 
Buffalo Markets. 
Eggs are up again, apples are high and 
potatoes are still away above Summer 
prices, though somewhat weak just now, 
probably on account of the fine weather 
for digging them. The quality of pro¬ 
duce is mostly excellent. The market is 
full of grapes at low prices. The ton 
price of home-grown grapes is still $35 
to $38, but 8-lb. baskets can he bought 
for 15 cents, wholesale. Apples are $3 
to $4.50 per barrel for reds and $2.25 
to $3.35 for greens first grade, running 
down to $1.50 for common, any color. 
Large Kings retail at six for 10 cents. 
They are only fairly plenty. 
Potatoes are not now quoted above 80 
cents a bushel, but the consumer pays 95 
cents or more. Sweet potatoes are only 
70 to 80 cents per hamper. Onions are 
going down, not being above 90 cents for 
home grown, with Spanish $1.50 per 
hamper. Beans are not quoted above $4 
for mediums, but farmers are getting 
$4.25 for red kidneys and $4 for or¬ 
dinary sorts. The prices promise to go 
higher, as the crop here is a failure for 
the most part. There is a good demand 
for general vegetables and the supply is 
fair, with fine weather to handle them. 
Brussels sprouts wholesale at 15 cents 
a quart, string beans at $1.50 per ham¬ 
per; Lima beans, 20 cents per quart; 
cabbage, $1.50 to $2.50 per 100 heads; 
cauliflower, 40 to 80 cents per bushel; 
celery, small to good, 10 to 25 cents per 
bunch; squash, 50 to 75 cents per 100 
pounds. The Hubbard squash was a big 
crop and is selling low. Yellow turnips 
are 80 cents per barrel. Vegetables not 
commonly quoted include pumpkins at 15 
cents each, retail; quinces, 40 cents per 
basket. Pumpkins are fine, but quinces 
are badly specked. The pear crop is 
small and poor, a few late Bartletts sell¬ 
ing at 10 cents per 2-quart measure. 
This is also the price of most small- 
measure vegetables, beets, white turnips, 
parsnips, onions, carrots. 
Butter remains at 31 cents for the 
highest quotation, running down to 20 
cents for poor butter. Market retailers 
sell what they post as best Elgin at 30 
cents and process at 27 cents. Cheese 
has returned to 17 cents for daisies, the 
retail price not going below 20 cents for 
best. Poor cheese wholesales at 12 cents. 
Eggs are high, the range being from 45 
to 26 for fancy and storage. Market re¬ 
tailers offer white, clean eggs for 40 
cents. 
Poultry is active and firm at about 
former prices. Choice to fancy dressed 
turkey is 21 to 22 cents; fowl, 17 cents; 
broilers, 20 cents; old roosters, 13 cents; 
ducks, 12 ceuts; dressed poultry a cent 
or two lower. Frozen poultry offered is 
now about confined to turkey at 21 to 
22 cents. jr. w. c. 
Oct. 29. Crops were good and prices 
as follows: Peas, Scotch, $2.40; green 
$2.40; wheat $1; rye 91; barley 50; oats 
35; flax $1.50; hay $6 to $10. Eggs 25. 
Milk for chese per lb. butterfat 31%. 
Stock, live weight, 4 to 5 cents. Calves 
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Almost any kind of hay is bringing 
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corn almost a failure on account of wet 
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$100. Fruit very plentiful, $2 a bbl. for 
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Potatoes, 75c. per bushel. Corn a good 
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selling at $1 to $1.50 per barrel. Milk 
selling 10c. on a can cheaper than last 
year. Help very scarce, wages high. 
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