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Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
April 5, 1917 
Egg.s. —Nearby hennerys in good de¬ 
mand. Don’t ship u.s the incubator egg.s. 
Fancy State and nearby hennery whites. 
State and nearby gathered 
whites, ooc to .‘>0c; fancy State and near¬ 
by hennery browns, 35c to SGc; State and 
nearby hennery brown and mixed gath¬ 
ered, 34c to 35c. 
Rutter. —Market higher. Fancy West¬ 
ern creamery, 45i/^c to 46c: prime to 
fancy. 4.31/4 to 4oi/4c; best Eastern dairy 
in tubs, 4()c to 4.3c; in prints, 41e to 43c; 
in mixed packages, 33c to 40c. 
Cheese. —Market firm and higher. 
New York State large white and colored, 
2754c. State part skims, 21c to 22c. Low 
grade skims, 15e to 19c. 
Live Poultry. —Express receipts light. 
Good demand for heavy fowls. Fowls. 
27c to 29c; young roosters, 20c to 23c; 
dneks. 25c; geese, 18e to 20c; live rab¬ 
bits, 28c to 30c per pound. 
.Tewtsh TToltdays. —Last Passover 
April 13th-14th, Market days, April 9th 
to 12th. Feast of the Weeks, May 27th. 
Shipment should be made from May 21st 
to May 24th. During these holidays all 
varieties of poultry ai'e in good demand. 
_Dre.s.sed Poultry. —Fowls. 25c to 
25i/4c; roasting chickens, 28c to .30c; old 
roosters. 16c to 48c: broilers. 30e to 40c; 
capons, 35c to 38c. 
Lia^e Calve.s. —Market firm and higher. 
Fancy calves, 1554c to lOi^c; good to 
prime, 14c to 15c; common, 1254c to 
1454c; live bnttermilker.s, 7c to 8c; live 
yearlings, 7c to 754c. 
Dressed Calves and Lambs. —Fancy 
white meated calves, 20c to 21c; good to 
prime, 20c to 21c: common, 16c to 1854c; 
'dressed buttermilks, 14c to 16e; hothouse 
Iambs, $8 to .$10 each. 
Live Lambs, Sheep and Pork.—L ive 
Spring lambs, .$15.50 to $16 per cwt.; old 
ewes, 754c to»9c; country-dressed pork, 
18c to 19c. 
Apples. —Under heavy receipts, mar¬ 
ket lower, especially on lower grades. 
Fancy Baldwins, .$4.25 to .$5 per barrel; 
fancy Greenings, .$6; Baldwins. “A” 
grade, .$4 to $5; “B” and ungraded, .$.3,50 
to $4 ; fancy New A^ork State Greenings, 
.$5 to .$(!; “A” grade. .$4 to .$5; “B” and 
ungraded, .$.3 to $4 ; Northern Spy, .$4 to 
.$7..50; Ben Davis. $3.75 to $4.75; King, 
,$.3..50 to ,$6; Newtown Pippin, $5 to $7. 
Potatoes and Vegetables. —State po¬ 
tatoes, $6.2.5 to $7 per 16,5-lb. bag. Ber¬ 
muda, .$7.50 to ,$10 barrel; Maine. $6.25 
to .$7 165-lb. bag; Long Island, barrel, .$7 
to $8.50. Onions.—Red and yellow, ,$6 
to ,$7 per 100-lb. bag. Cabbage.—New 
York State, ton, $125 to $150; Long 
I.sland. barrel, .$6 to 7..50: Florida, bas¬ 
ket, $3 to ,$.3.50. Carrots.—State, per 
100 lbs., .$2 to .$2.75. 
Beans. —Market firm. IMarrow, per 
100 lbs.. .$12.25 to .$1.3; pea, $12.50 to 
.$1.3; red kidney. $12 to .$12.75; yellow 
eye, .$9.50 to $10.50. 
Honey and Maple Syrup. —No. 1 
clover comb, pound, 1.5c to 16c: lower 
grades, 14e to 1.5c. Maple syrup selling 
slow, $1 per gallon. 
Notice to Shippers 
The United States Department of Ag¬ 
riculture has issued the following notice 
to shippers of fruits and vegetables.; 
“The officials in charge of the enforce¬ 
ment of the Food and Drugs Act report 
that inspectors have found sevei-al inter¬ 
state shipments of packages of fruits and 
vegetables, such as grapes, tomatoes and 
berries, which contain no statement on 
the packages as to the quantity of con¬ 
tents. The net weight amendment to the 
Federal Food and Drugs Act requires 
that all packages of foods which are 
shipped into interstate or foreign com¬ 
merce must be marked plainly and con¬ 
spicuously with a statement of the quan¬ 
tity of the net contents, either by weight 
or measure. Shippers who violate the 
law by failing to mark the quantity of the 
contents of each package of fruits, and 
vegetables they ship into interstate com¬ 
merce are liable to criminal prosecution. 
Several shpipers have tilready been cited 
to hearings under the Food and Drugs 
Act for violating its provisions in this 
respect.” 
Boston Produce Markets 
EGG VALUES ARE STRONG, AND OUTLOOK 
suggests CORNER HAS BEEN TURNFD. 
Among dealers the opinion seems very 
general that there will be no long con¬ 
tinued low prices on eggs this season. 
After the low point in ^Slarch the trend 
has been up rather than down. At fix’st 
the Easter demand was often given as the 
explanation, but the continued heavy con¬ 
sumption, together with moderate re¬ 
ceipts, have maintained values at about 
10 cents above the u.sual or average Spring 
level. Stoi’age men who have been wait¬ 
ing for low prices are being gradually 
forced to pay still more, and buyers seem 
plentiful. 
“We can’t look for low prices this 
April 14,»1917. 
Spring,” declared Farnsworth, Benjamin 
& Mills. “With Western prime firsts at 
.32 to ,3.3c and nearbys at 34 to 35c, it has 
been a strong market. They may go off 
a little at times, but the demand for stor¬ 
age is beneath the market. Goose eggs 
have been scarce at 90c to $1.25, and duck 
eggs brought 50c. Demand for special 
trade was insistent and not particular 
about price.” According to another large 
receiver, “Eggs for storage have sold as 
high as 35c, which is something like lOc 
above what usually has been considered 
a normal figure. It seems .a venturesome 
deal to put away eggs at this level con¬ 
sidering all the costs, charges and risks, 
but the buyers, so far. have no choice. 
The demand for the later .Tewish holidays 
helped the market,” observed a South 
Market street house. “The influence of 
.such buying is always strong in New 
Y^ork on account of their large .Tewish 
population, and the general influence ex¬ 
tended to this market, which, however, did 
not reach the New A^ork high level.” 
There is rather more complaint of dull¬ 
ness of trade. The edge of the public’s 
Spring appetite seems to be off a little, 
and, while eggs are not relatively l.ighev 
than meat, they are hardly at a level that 
would encourage lavish buying, as many 
retail stores ask 40e, which used to be 
regarded as a pretty good price even at 
the end of the year. 
BUTTER HIGHER. 
The price of butter has been ■working 
upward in a way that is hard to explain 
at this season of gradually increasing I'e- 
ceipts. Arrivals are larger week by week, 
yet the price advances. The short supply 
of good cold stox-age butter is one reason, 
but perhaps a better explanation is the 
general fear of higher war pi-ices, which 
very fear often causes dealers and the 
public to buy heavily in advance of pres¬ 
ent needs. Said Greene & Co.: “Storage 
creamery is 4.3c, up ,3c in about a week, 
and the supply is going out fast. Not 
much of the fresh make is coming, the 
season being hackwai-d all over the coun¬ 
try, and especially in Westex-n dairy sec¬ 
tions.” Creamery extras are 44c and 
Vermont dairy extra .32c in tubs and 33 
in pi-ints. Old cheese extras are scax’ce 
at 28 to 29c, as compared with 2,5c for 
the best of the current make. Skims x*ange 
fx’om 17 to 20c. The export trade is xiot 
taking cheese now, hut the home demand 
seems to keep the market sti'ong. 
.STRONG POULTRY SITUATION. 
The various x’eligions feast days have 
made special demand for live and dressed 
poultry. This influence ended last week, 
but the market has held strong because 
of the light supply. Neither the high 
price of poultx’y nor that of gx-ain will 
foi’ce many shipments of fowls that are 
turning out a good ginst of .3,5-cent eggs. 
“Good live fowl sell at 25c,” according to 
S. Tj. Burr & Co., “and choice ones may 
command a little premium over that. 
Tliei'C ai’e not many chickens, and most of 
them are poor and staggy. not worth over 
20 tO' 2.3e.” live ducks seem scai’ce, and 
good young stock brings 25 to 26c. 
Dressed poultry shows no impox-tant 
changes in price since last week. Ri-oilers 
range from 35 to 40c. Pigeons at $2 to 
.$2..50 per dozen, are higher than usual 
and some fancy large squabs bx-ought $5 
per dozen. 
APPLE trade only FAIR. 
The average opinion is perhaps that 
the demand, while not brisk, is taking 
cax’c of the limited stocks in a way that 
indicates a good outcome. Storage stocks 
that ai’e showing scald are being pressed 
for sale. “I am selling these No. 1 Bald¬ 
wins at $5 because they ax’e showing some 
bi’own,” obsei’ved a Faneuil Flail commis¬ 
sion man ; “a month ago I would not have 
sold them below .$6.” Another dealer, 
moi-e fortunate, insisted that “thei’e is no 
scald on apples this yeax*.” Rut he xvas 
having trouble of another kind because of 
a oax’load of large, well-packed New A’'oi’k 
State Baldwins grading No. 1, which he 
hatl_ assured the shipper would sell for 
$5.50. but which were going at $4.50 on 
account of their greenish colox*, due as 
the dealer thought, to growing them on 
heavy soil. A x’ange of .$.3 to $,5..50 in¬ 
cludes the gi’cat bulk of sales of Bald¬ 
wins. A de.aler showed accounts of Spies 
at .$5 to $.5..50 for No. Is and $4 for No. 
2s. “Russets,” said Lord & Spencei". “are 
in slow demand here. We have been sell¬ 
ing them at $5 a barrel to go South, while 
they range fi’om $3 to $4.,50 in this mar¬ 
ket. Not many apples are left in cold 
storage in Boston. We have about a 
quarter of them and we expect them to 
sell to close out without difficulty.” 
POTATOES DOING A LITTLE BETTER. 
Pl’ices havkig shown a tendency to re¬ 
cover a little from the lowest point of the 
recent depression, potato dealers talk 
rather more hopefully, but they declare 
there is little real change in the situation. 
Offerings are a shade less abundant and 
demand a trifle better, that is all. R. E. 
McLatchey says: “Potatoes are up 25c 
per bag, selling at $5. or at .$2.45 per bii. 
in bulk. We credit the impi'cvement to 
better buying, especially from the West.” 
Beets are .scarce at .$3 to .$,3.59, and 
choice carrots bring $3, with others at $2 
to $2.25. Parsnips sell around .$2.25. 
Some hothouse stuff tends a little lower, 
with lettuce at $1.75, fancy cukes at $8. 
dandelions at .$1.,50. But rhubax’b holds 
at 8 to 10c, and radishes are up to .$2.25 
per box, while hothouse tomatoes are 
scarce at 75e to $1 per lb. Gax’deners have 
done well with their greenhouses the past 
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