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December 18, 1015. 
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Notes from the Auction 
When we began to develop a market 
for farm products in the City of New 
York, we said that we were going to do 
things and that we expected to make 
some mistakes. We think that we have 
made good on the promise to do things, 
and we know that 'we have made some 
mistakes. One of these mistakes was the 
purpose to sell anything good to eat in 
our auction market. We had made good 
on selling apples and fruits. We had a 
large line of buyers for all classes and all 
grades of apples and other fruits and 
were receiving and are receiving, the high 
level of the market price at our sales. We 
knew that some of these buyers also need 
vegetables and other products and we 
believe that if we had the volume large 
enough, we could sell other things just 
as we sold fruit. But the buyers of 
fruit are not always large buyers of the 
other products and we have not had large 
enough a volume, nor steady enough a 
supply to attract enough buyers to make 
a successful auction sale for products 
other than fruit. As a result some of our 
sales on vegetables have been too low and 
we promptly cut out that method of sell¬ 
ing. We are of course, able to sell at 
private sale just as successfully as any 
of the commission dealers. The Depart¬ 
ment salesmen can got just as good prices 
at private sales as. the salesmen of the 
commission dealers and it can insure an 
honest’ return for what it does get, but 
it is not our plan at this time to develop 
that line, and we do not have the organi¬ 
zation for it. At the same time, we have 
made connections with a strong house, 
so that if any farmer has produce to ship 
of any kind and does not have a satis¬ 
factory outlet for it, we are in a posi¬ 
tion to handle it for him and to get for 
him the market price, grade and quality 
considered at the time it is received. 
We are developing a trade in fresh 
eggs, which we believe will be of the 
greatest importance to shippers. It is 
true that we have not yet been able to 
develop a market for eggs that would re¬ 
turn a price greater than the regular 
market. We have not had time to do so, 
but we are working up the trade with a 
small and growing supply and we believe 
it will not be long before we shall be in 
position to return the “producer a price in 
excess of the market, and certainly in ex¬ 
cess of what he has been receiving for 
the grade of eggs shipped to this market. 
The price of eggs has gone off during 
the last couple of weeks beyond what they 
were, but they are yet ruling high. 
Last week the inspectors of the State 
Agricultural Department who are charged 
with the duty of enforcing the apple law. 
made a special effort to enforce the law 
on the Barclay St. dock where State ap¬ 
ples are received and it is reported 
through the trade, that several violations 
were reported against packers. It wa3 
said in the trade that the activity of 
these inspectors had affected the price of 
apples on the dock and that on the first 
day's sales there was a loss of .$5,000 on 
a volume of 54 car loads of apples. The 
inspection, however, did not in any way 
affect the auction sales. The quality of 
shipments to the auction were not of 
the high grade, but the demand was good 
and the prices reached a high level for 
the grade and buyers are clamoring for 
a better grade of apples than we have 
had to offer them for a few 7 days. The 
time is ripe now for shipments of good 
quality fruit. 
N. Y. STATE DEPT. OF FOODS & MARKETS. 
Prices for three days of last week 
were: 
APPLES.—0 bbls. Baldwin $.3.05; 1 
Spy, $2.40; 2 Greening $3.10; 19 Bald¬ 
win $2.30; 3 $2.15: IS $1.70; 19 Spv 
$2.55; 1 Baldwin $2.55; 12 $2.95; 4 
$2.45; 1 $2.05; 1 Spy $1.85; 1 Ben 
1 >avis $1.95; 3 Spy $2; 5 $2.25; 7 Ben 
Davis $2.65; 2 Baldwin $3.10; 4 $3.35; 
2 $2.50; 3 $2.05; 2 Tolman $3.10; 1 
Vandervere $3.05; 1 $3.25; 1 $2.05; 1 
Pound Sweet $2.65; 1 $2.35; 3 Green¬ 
ing $2.20; 1 $2.75: 1 Tolman $3; 1 
Newtown $2.05; 1 Gilliflower $2.20; 1 
$2.15; 1 Vandervere, $2.25; 1 Jonathan 
$3.05; 1 $2.10 1 Snow $2.90; 2 $2.25; 
I King $3.05; 1 Ben Davis $1.70; 1 
Baldwin $2.25; 97 Baldwin $2.25; 92 
$2; 10 Greening $1.75; 2 Spv $1.S5; 1 
$1.80; 3 Spy $1.90; 5 $1.65; 2 Ben 
Davis $1.75: 2 $1.50; 1 Baldwin $1.85; 
II Ben Davis $2.85; 2 $2.35; 24 Bald¬ 
win $2.85; 35 Greening $2.30; 11 Rus¬ 
set $2.45; 12 IlubbardSton $2.50; 1 
Hendrick $2.35: 1 Spitz $3.45; 1 King 
$3.50; 4 Spy $3.85; 2 Tolman $2.55; 5 
Fallawater $2.60; 19 hampers various, 
85c; 10 bbls. Ilubbardston $2.65; 3 Bald¬ 
win $2.60; 2 Rome $2.35; 7 Baldwin 
$2.75; 5 $2.35: 8 $1.85: 9 N. W. Green¬ 
ing $3.35; 30 $2.60; 1 Greening $1.80; 1 
Baldwin $1.80; 7 $2; 3 $2.10; 1 Green¬ 
ing $2.60; 2 $2.25; 1 $1.55; 12 Baldwin 
$2.90; 10 $2.75; 6 $2.20; 1 Ben Davis 
$1.60: 1 Baldwin $1.75; 9 boxes Spy 
90c; 23 bbls. Baldwin $3.30; 122 $3.05; 
22 $2.15; 13 $2.45; 2 boxes Greening 
$1.25; 4 78c; 4 Greening $1.30; 6 90c; 
6 Spy 90c; 1 bkt. Russet 40c; 1 Fall 
Pippin 40c; 10 bbls. Spy $2.20; 10 Ben 
Davis $2.80; 63 Ilubbardston $2.10; 38 
$1.65; 23 $2.10: 9 Pound Sweet $2.30; 
6 Winesap $2; 10 Twenty Ounce $2.10; 
11 Snow $3.10; 14 Rambo $1.65 ; 6 $2.20; 
33 Ben Davis $2.40; 40 York $3.05; 22 
Baldwin $3; 9 boxes Palmer Greening 
78c; 3 bkts. Seek 28c; 3 Baldwin 30c. 
MISCELLANEOUS.—118 bbls. An¬ 
jou pear $3.80; 41 $2.80; 25 crates sweet 
potatoes 40c; 300 crates Danish cabbage 
35c. 
New Jersey Horticulturists Meet 
The annual meeting of the New 
Jersey Horticultural Society held at 
Freehold, Nov. 1-Dec. 1-2, was well at¬ 
tended and lively interest was shown. 
Pres. Hendrickson spoke of the discour¬ 
aging features of the past season, lie 
feels that New Jersey products are not 
advertised as they should be and every 
package should bear a New Jersey stamp. 
The secretary included by request in his 
report the historical poem read at the 
Seabrook meeting by one of the charter 
members, S. C." DeCou, of Moorestown, 
Burlington County, giving in verse the 
names and aims of the founders. 
The afternoon session was devoted to 
potato growing, Guy C. Porter of Maine 
telling how they were endeavoring to 
send out seed true to name and type. 
L. Willard Minch of Bridgeton, by 
means of a few pictures told how they 
succeeded in growing both the early and 
late crops, a new feature to many being 
returning the cornstalks back to the land 
to be followed by potatoes the follow¬ 
ing Spring. The discussion which fol¬ 
lowed was practical as prominent men 
told how they had tried to overcome the 
troubles of this important crop. The re¬ 
sult of experiments were given where no 
potash was used, with good returns, prov¬ 
ing that for a time at least good crops 
can be grown without it. 
H. W. Collingwood made an address on 
“New Jersey, the State we Live in.” lie 
gave a history of the formation of the 
State and its settlement by the Dutch, 
Swedes, English and French and told 
what an important part New Jersey has 
taken in movements for liberty of con¬ 
science as well as for justice, quoting the 
opening sentences of the State Constitu¬ 
tion as a model, and something worthy 
of being committed to memory by our 
school children. As the great opportuni¬ 
ties of the Garden State are brought to 
our notice from time to time, we can but 
wonder why it has not been more fully 
developed, situated between two such 
great cities with their far reaching sub¬ 
urbs. 
II. W. Selby, of Philadelphia, spoke 
on better grading, packing, and the pack¬ 
age question. The latter is one that will 
be hard to solve by those hauling to the 
Philadelphia markets, as the farmers 
feel they will not receive enough more to 
cover the cost of their baskets and those 
who have established a reputation for the 
contents of the red, blue or some other 
colored rims, do not wish to see them 
used by others with inferior products. 
Prof. M. A. Blake, gave a synopsis of 
the aid rendered by the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion to co-operative shipments of peaches, 
especially from the Vineland district 
where there is an experimental orchard 
of peaches. The results were very en¬ 
couraging. Growers were cautioned to 
see that their peach trees were in condi¬ 
tion to withstand Winter injury, many 
orchards having been loosened by heavy 
storms and cavities left to catch the 
water and make a place for ice. Mr. P. 
J. Carey of Canada gave a description 
of their methods in enforcing the laws 
for honest packing, by education when 
possible, but not hesitating to use harsher 
treatment when necessary." It seems that 
the growers south of the St. Lawrence are 
not the only ones to fill the middle of the 
barrel with trash. John G. Townsend, 
Jr., of Selbyville, Del., gave his exper¬ 
ience both as strawberry grower, shipper 
and canner. lie emphasized the great 
importance of a district dependent on dis¬ 
tant markets growing a very few stand¬ 
ard kinds so uniform carloads could be 
made up. He mentioned that they packed 
from 4,000 to 5,000 barrels of strawber¬ 
ries, mainly for the syrup and ice cream 
men. He suggested a flock of geese for 
weeding the berry fields as they pull all 
the grass and do not disturb the plants. 
Dr. T. J. Ileadlee gave the latest results 
in controlling the strawberry weevil by 
dust sprays, which give great promise of 
freeing our fields from this pest, by using 
sulphur and arsenate of lead. Applica¬ 
tions of lime-sulphur and nicotine sul¬ 
phate should hold the aphids and pear 
psylla in check. 
(Continued on page 1482.) 
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