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■Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Boston Produce Markets 
STRONG EASTER DEMAND FOR EGGS, POtJI/ 
TRY AND FRESH MEATS. 
Toward the end of Lent and preceding 
lOaster, the egg situation becomes es¬ 
pecially interesting. The extent of the 
Easter demand is some test of buying 
power or disposition of the public and of 
its ability to absorb the increasing egg 
receipts of the Spring season. The mar¬ 
ket’s behavior the past fortnight suggests 
underlying strength and a tendency to 
maintain a higher level of prices than is 
usual at this sca.son. Whenever receipts 
have shortened uj), the price has risen 
promptly. Storage packed eggs are on a 
higher cost basis than anybody expected 
or predicted, yet the large, buyers are 
putting them (away with a readiness 
which suggests- a firm belief in high 
prices for a long time to come. Sudden 
jumps in quotations as in the last few 
days of March, including a bulge of 2c 
on the 2Sth show the insistent demand. 
Rec<‘ipts have been 10 or 12 per cent, 
less than la.st year, so far, which shows 
the effect of a severe season and of the 
terrific thinning out of the flocks last 
Fall. Said Amos Keyes & Son: “Eggs 
are being stored at around .30 cents, and 
most dealers look for a high price right 
along and especially next Autumn. But 
that will depend on the hatch of early 
pullets. There is a great demand for 
eggs for hatching, which increases the 
market shortage now but w-hich may 
mean that growers are not afraid of high 
grain markets so long as they can get 
big prices for eggs and poultry. It looks 
as if hot weather later on would afford 
the only probable chance of a low egg 
market. 
WHITE EGGS GAIN FAVOR. 
“While ^loston has always been sup¬ 
posed to prefer brown eggs, it is a fact 
that white eggs are fast coming into 
favor. Here is a ease of very clean, well 
graded Leghorn eggs from a large Massa¬ 
chusetts poultry farm. We refused 34c 
for them this morning, and here is a case 
of Minorcas. a very large, handsome egg 
and one which sells at about the top 
market price. If the white eggs are as 
large and uniform and clean as they 
ought to be this market will pay what 
they are worth, that is at a premium 
above the regular price for neai-by hen¬ 
nery stock.” The usual Easter demand 
for duck eggs resulted in liberal receipts. 
“It is all over after the holiday,” com¬ 
mented a South Market Street dealer. 
“Buyers will pay a good ptemium above 
hens’ eggs just now, but they w-on’t touch 
them at other seasons. Duck eggs are 
selling at 40c and goose eggs at .$1. 
which is about the usual range of prices.” 
POrLTRY SOT.D AT STRONG PRICES. 
The special demand for the Jewish 
holiday trade forced up the price of 
choice live fowls to 2oo, or to about the 
same price as western dressed fowls. 
The last of these feast days comes on 
the 22nd. T. H. Wheeler & Co. explain 
the situation as follows: “Live poultry 
is high on account of the boycott which 
scared away shippers and caused a scar¬ 
city just when the .Jewish buyers had to 
have the stock. The boycott is always 
a boomerang in any line of produce and 
tends to make prices higher than ever in 
the long run. by keeping conditions un¬ 
settled and discouraging production and 
shipment. The high price of grain is 
back of the whole situation, but farmers 
should realize that they can afford to 
pay for the grain in full confidence that 
the price of poultry products will con¬ 
tinue high accordingly. Live chickens, 
and fowls are 23 to 2.5c: roosters 18c. 
Northern dressed fowd are 25 to 26c. 
Good soft meated Fall chickens sell for 
.20 to 32c but are scarce. A few native 
broilers are offered at 40 to 45c, but 
trade is mainly in western cold stored 
broilers at 30 to 32c.” 
MEAT.S STILT. HIGHER. 
Brisk demand and moderate supply is 
responsible for even higher prices in most 
lines of fresh meats. Quotation on coun¬ 
try dressed hogs touched the 20-cent line: 
choice Western beef went to 17c, and 
even good Western cow beef brings 15c, 
>Iutton and yearlings are kept closely 
sold up at 16 to 17c. and best veals range 
from 17 to 18c. In all these lines de¬ 
mand tends to exceed supply, causing the 
market to lean in sellers’ favor. 
BHTTER IN STRONG POSITION FOR SEASON. 
Although the time of the usual Spring 
increase of receipts is at hand, the mar¬ 
ket’s behavior suggests confidence on the 
part of holders, while buyers seem eager 
to secure supplies of the best grades. 
Not much extra creamery could be had 
for less than 42c. and there is little of it 
on the market. “There is a pinch in the 
butter market just now,” observed I. II. 
Ballou, “and the situation appears strong 
all over the country. Stock arriving is 
mostly below extra. We can hardly look 
for lower prices until receipts are largely 
increased. Cold storage creamei-y sells 
around 40 cents.” 
POTATO MARKET FAIRLY STEADY, 
Not much excitement has appeared in 
the potato line of late. The situation is 
if anything a little more in buyers’ favor. 
As seen at the agency of the Farmers’ 
Union of Maine. “Supply and demand are 
both light, but offerings are being made 
a little more freely. While the range in 
bulk carload lots is still .$2.25 to .$2..50. it 
h easier now to buy at ,$2.25 than it was. 
Holders in Maine are becoming more anx¬ 
ious to close out. We do not look for re¬ 
turn of extreme high prices which were due 
more to car shortage than to crop short¬ 
age. Sime of the planters talk of putting 
in an increased acreage, while others hes¬ 
itate because of cost of seed and fertil¬ 
izer.” 
NATIVE FRUITS IN MODERATE DEMAND. 
The cranberry trade has been showing 
a shade of improvement lately, and some 
choice brands sold up to $6.50. Most 
sales are from .$.3 to $6, the lower range 
being for the small, early kinds, or for 
soft berries. “For very soft, decaying 
fruit,” remarked a leading'dealer, “we 
have to take what we can get, even down 
to .50c per barrel, from .Tewdsh buyers, 
who sell them to bakers or to some such 
use.” Apples are moving well according 
to some comments, while others say the 
trading is slow. The range of prices 
holds about as last quoted. According to 
P. H. Wall & Co., “Good A-Grade Bald¬ 
wins sell for $5. A few fancy lots sell for 
more and poorer gi-ades at $3 to .$4. 
Choice Russets of good color and size sell 
as high as ,$4.,50, and No. 2’s are .$3.” 
VEGETABLES ABOUT STEADY. 
Prices are fairly Avell maintained in 
native vegetables, although most changes 
lately have been downward. Beets, how¬ 
ever, are scarce at .$3, if good, while nice 
carrots and parsnips bring .$2..50, and 
squashes cannot be bought for less than 
5c per pound by the ton. Hothouse stuff 
still brings good prices, with choice let¬ 
tuce at $2 per box, tomatoes at 50c per 
pound, radishes at .$2 per box and 
rhubarb 8c per pound. 
LI\CE STOCK IN UNEVEN SUPPLY. 
When prices move upward sharply, the 
drovers rush the stock to market the fol¬ 
lowing week. Buyers take advantage of 
the increased supply to force down the 
prices, and then down goes the number of 
stock arrivals. The high prices pfevail- 
ing for meats, hides and other products 
ought to keep the live stock market more 
steady, but .shippers not being organized 
at all, cannot regulate the shipments and 
are somewhat at the mercy of the killers, 
who hold back when they see a big lupply 
of .stock, regardless of the rising market 
for meats. Hogs are selling at 1.5 to 
1514 c: lambs, 12 to 1.5c; calves, 11 to 
12c; sheep, 8 to 10c; beef cattle, 9 to 10c; 
good beef cows, 8 to 9c; and others, 41/4 
to 5j4c. The milch cow market shows no 
special change. The rise in beef has made 
it harder than ever to buy a decent i. ilker 
at a low price or around $50, while good 
ones cost high. As one trader remarked: 
“I have to pay $100 now for a good two- 
can (17 quarts) cow that I used to buy 
for $.50 to $6)0.” G. B. F. 
Buffalo Markets 
The appearance of some good aspara¬ 
gus, which retails as low as 12 cents a 
fair-sized bunch, is about the only indi¬ 
cation that Spring is here. Potatoes are 
April 7, 191'(. 
still .$2.25 and $2.75, and retail for $3 per 
bu., with Bermudas $12 and $13 per bar¬ 
rel, and sweets, $1.85 and $2.75 per bu. 
hamper. Apples remain at $3.50 and $7 
per barrel, and are plenty for this time of 
the year. Some excellent Rome Beauty 
and Winesap selected retail at 2 and 3c 
each. 
Eggs are not quoted above 31c, retail¬ 
ing at 33 and 35c, the storage wholesale 
price of 30c showing that the supply is 
limited. Cheese is firm at 28c for best do¬ 
mestic and 25c for fair. Butter has ad¬ 
vanced to 43c for best creamery, 38c for 
best dairy and 32 and 37c for crocks 
Onions •are $4.50 and $5.50 for fancy 
yellow home grown and $4.25 and $4.50 
per Havana crate. The bean supply is 
still low enough to keep prices up to $8 
and $9 for all sorts. Vegetables are firm 
and rather scarce at $5 and $6 per box 
for California artichokes. .$2 and $2..50 
per bushel for beets, $1.60 and $1.75 for 
carrots, $2.25 and- $2.65 for parsnips, 
$1.90 and $2.10 for white turnips per 
bushel, and $2.75 and $3 per barrel for 
yellow turnips. New beets are 75 and 
85c per dozen bunches; shallots, 50 and 
65c per dozen bunches; cabbage, $2.50 
and .$2.75 per hamper, new; Florida cel¬ 
ery, $3.50 and .$3.75 per crate; lettnee, 
$1 and $1.35 per 2-lb. box; curly lettuce. 
.50 and ^c per basket; mushrooms, $1.25 
and $1.75 per 4-lb. basket; hothouse cu¬ 
cumbers, $I and $1.50 per dozen. This 
ought to be the last report with next to 
nothing of fair-priced Southern vegetables 
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