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Tjhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
May 31, 1917, 
Egos. —Fancy State and nearby hen¬ 
nery whites, 30c to lOc; State and nearby 
gathered whites, 3Si/^c to ,39c, fancy 
State and nearby henneiy brown-s 39c to 
40c; State and nearby hennery brown 
and mixed gathered, .3Se; duck eggs, 40c 
to 42c. He very careful to rhip only 
fresh eggs. From now on it i" advisable 
to candle your eggs before shipping. 
BrTTKK.—Firm. Fancy Western 
creamery butter. 42c: extras. 40yjc to 
41c; firsts, .OO^/^c t^' 40c; best Eastern 
dairy, in tubs, 40e; in prints, 40e to 43c; 
in mixed packages, .3(k? to 40c. 
Cheese. —The decline on Canadian 
markets aiTecte<l jjrices here. Old cliecse, 
Xew’ York State large white and (•<il<tr<‘d, 
23%c to 24%c: new State large white 
and colored, 23C,o to 24e. 
Live I’ori.TKY.—Fowls, 22c to 24e 
Old roosters. 17c. T.ive rabbits wanted, 
23c to 'Jiic per jiound ; Leghorn broilers, 
one ))Ound and under. 34c to 3(»c; IVi 
pounds and up. .3tic to 40c; colored broil¬ 
ers, 43c to 45c; ducks. 18c. 
T )RESSEn I'oi i.TRY.—Fowls, 20c to 25c; 
old rooster.s, 18c, Tvoug Island Si)i’ing 
duckling.?, 24c; squabs, $1.50 to .$5.50 
dozen. 
Live Caeves. —Lower. Fancy, 13%c 
to 141/^c; good to )>rime, 1.3e to 13i/^c; 
common, li%e to 12c; buttermilks, 8Jy4c 
fo 9c; yearling.?, 7c to 8c. 
Dressed C.\e\te:s and Lambs. —Fancy 
white-meated calves. 21c to 21%c; good 
to prime. 18^/^c to 21e; common, lOc to 
17c; dressed hothouse lambs steady, $7 
to $10 each. 
Ln’E Lambs and Dressed Pork.— 
Live clip lambs higher, $10 to $10..50 per 
cwt.; live Spring lambs, $18 to ,$20 per 
cwt. Country dressed pork in light supply 
and firm, 10c to 20c. 
Appi.es. —Fancy apple.? wanted. l\Iar- 
ket firm. Fancy Daldwing, $0.25; Rald- 
\\ins, $4 to $5.25: Ben Davis. ,$3 to $4; 
Spys, .$4 to $7; Kings, .$3 to $5. 
Strawberries. —Delaware and Mary¬ 
land, quart. 8c to 14c Norfolk Excel¬ 
sior, Oc to 9c; North Carolina, 5c to 10c; 
Virginia, 5e to 9c. 
A’egetabi-es. —State and Maine pota¬ 
toes. .$9.50 to $10..50 per 105-lb. bag; 
Southern and Bermuda potatoes lower, 
.$10..50 to $11.50 per barrel; Long I.sland, 
baiTel. $10 to .$10..50. Onions —'Fexas, 
crate, $1.05 to .$2: Bermuda, crate, $1.70 
to $1.75, Califoimia yellow% 100-lb. bag, 
.$3 to $4. Asparof/us —$1.75 to $3..50 per 
dozen. liliuharh —$1 to $1.50 per huu- 
di-ed bunches. 
Beans. —Market firm and unchanged. 
Marrow. KKj lbs., $10 to $17; pea, $15 to 
$10: jed kidney, $14; w’hite kidney, $15 
to .$1.5.75. 
a curious cons])iracy is which some of 
the old llatfield-MiCoy feudists figured, 
the purjiose of which was to offer armed 
resistance to the work of the registration 
officers. The ringleader.? of this attempt 
were arrested and are now in jail. 
In view of the many anti-consci’iption 
and anti-registration movements which 
have been stai'ted throughout the coun¬ 
try and which in some localities have 
reacheil a serious jioint the flovernment 
officials have revised to a large extent 
the rules governing their attitude toward 
this character of agitation, and the 
mar.shals.^ sheriffs and local authorities 
have received enlarged powders. A year's 
imprisonment will be the punishment for 
every man apprehended who should have 
registered and did not, and a greater pen¬ 
alty will be the fate of those who have 
taken part in the propaganda against 
registration and conscription. 
The lo,?s of the American schooner M. 
E. Eldridge of Dennis. Mass., and the 
<lealh of her captain, George Delbat. and 
one member of her crew who perished 
from exposure and starvation, became 
known May .30, when eight survivors of 
the Eldridge were brought into Havana 
by a British schooner. The Eldridge 
sprang a leak and sank in a hurricane 
encountered when three days out fiom 
3'ampa. 3’he rescued men were iticked 
up after drifting for IS days in a small 
boat without water and with only a few 
canned peaches for food. The sailors 
declared they caught a shark with rope? 
and drank its blood to sustain life. 
PAUM AND GABDEN.—A proposal 
that the T'^nited States permit the im¬ 
portation of Chinese coolie labor for the 
period of the war has been laid before 
the Council of National Defence by the 
('hinese Con.solidated Benevolent Asso¬ 
ciation of San Francisco, w’hich is pop¬ 
ularly known as the “Chinese 8ix Com¬ 
panies.” Apparently the attitude of the 
Government is to have nothing to do with 
the .suggestion unless it is backed up by 
a popular demand on the part of the 
people living on the Pacific coast, where 
it is proposed to use the Chinese l.abor on 
the farms as a means of increasing the 
food products of that section and releas¬ 
ing young Amei’icans for other .service. 
Eighty-eight cori)orations and individ¬ 
uals were indicted by the Federal Grand 
Jury at Boston, May 24, for conspiring 
to_ monopolize interstate commerce In 
onions. The indictments, which were 
returned as a result of a nationwide in¬ 
quiry into the cost of food conducted last 
MTinter by United States Attorney 
George W. Anderson, of Boston, allege 
that the defendants divided up the terri¬ 
tory of the country between them for the 
purpose of eliminating competition, that 
maximum prices were fixed for the pur¬ 
chase of onions and that the supply was 
hoarded in ordei- to increase prices. Mr. 
Anderson estimated that the annual crop 
of onions amounted to 200,000,000 
pounds, three-fourths of which he said 
was alleged to have been controlled by 
the defendants. 
Profes.sor C. B. Sayre, in charge of the 
floi'iculiura] woidc at Purdue University, 
LaFayette. Ind.. has been assigned to 
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., as first 
lieutenant of field artillery. 
Arthur S. Ilhodes, formerly assi.stant 
in forest botany at the New York State 
College of Forestry, Syracuse, hr/- been 
apj)ointed assistant forest pathologist in 
the United States Bureau of Plan': In¬ 
dustry, Washington, D'. C. 
Agricultural and live stock interests, 
prote.sting. May 28, to th Interstate 
Commerce Commis.sion against. '.>/ rail¬ 
roads’ ]u-oposal for ; 1,5 per cent, general 
inci-ease in freight rates declared that 
such a revi.sion not only woul' burden 
food producers unjustly, but would han¬ 
dicap seriously the whole food proiluc- 
tion campaign initiated by the Govern¬ 
ment as a war measui-e. Itepresenta- 
tives of the American National Live 
Stock _ .\s.?ociation and of the National 
Council of the I'kirmer.s’ Cooperative -As¬ 
sociation submitted evidence calculated 
to show that stock rai.sers and farmers 
are bearing unu.sually heavy exj)enses 
and could not make a .supporting profit 
if a freight incre.-ise were added. Speak¬ 
ing for the live stock association, T, 
W. Tomlinson told the commission that 
Western cattle jtroducers would have to 
get_2.5 per cent, more than last year for 
their product, even under i>resent condi¬ 
tions, to make a living. Both Mr. 3'om-: 
linsftn and Clifford Thorne, who ap- ' 
peared for the farmei-s’ association, 
l)ointed out how the price of everything 
cnt(“ring into grain and meat production 
had increased. The 3Iiddle Western far¬ 
mer.?. said Mr. Thorne, who would have 
to pay much of the proi)osed rate in- 
crea.se, now have an average yearly in¬ 
come of only about .$480. Mr. 'riiorne 
and other shippers’ representatives 
urged that rates be readjustetl rather 
than increased by a flat 15 per cent. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
-American Seed Trade -Association, De¬ 
troit, Mich., .Tune l!) to 21. 
-American Association of Nurserymen, 
forty-second annual meeting, I’hiladel- 
phia. Pa., .Tune 27-29. 
.Society of American Florists and Orna¬ 
mental Horticulturists, New York City, 
August 21-2.3. 
.Solebury Farmer.?’ Exhibit, Solebury 
Deer Park, Solebury, Pa., Sept. 7-8. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 10-15. 
Agricultural- Society of Queens-Nassaii 
Counties seventy-.sixth annual exhibition 
Mineola, N. Y.. ,Sept. 25-29. 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, 
Mass., Oct. 12-20. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
June 8-9.—Purebred Live Stock Sale .9 
Co., Brattleboro, Vt., Tllolsteins. 
,7une 14.—^^New England Ayrshire 
Club, Springfield, Mass, 
-August 7-8.—Purebred Live Stock 
Sali's Co., Bratthdioro, A’t., Holsteins. 
Oct. 2-.3.—I’urebred I-ive Stock Sales 
Co., Brattleboro, A't., Holstein.?. 
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Honey and Maple Syritp and Mapi.e 
SutiAR.—No. Clover comb honey, 
1)01111(1, 14e to 15c: lower grade?, 13e to 
14c; maple syrup, $1.10 to $1.25 gallon. 
Miiple sugar, 14e to 15c per iiound. If 
imijile sugar or .?yrup is scorched or 
burned in the making, it will sell lower. 
Hides. —Do not ship your hide? to this 
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sale of them and advise selling them to 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOA^ESTIC.—A series of tornadoes, 
May 2 . 5 , 20, and 27, caused great de¬ 
struction and lo.ss of life in Kansas, Illi¬ 
nois. Tennessee, and other State.?. May 
25, 30 persons were killed and many hurt 
at -Aud.ale, near Wichita, Kan. Hail 
followed the tornado, and crops are re¬ 
ported badly damaged. May 20 more 
than 1(K> i)er.?ons were killecl by torna¬ 
does in Central Illinois and Indiana, and 
May 27 another tornado which struck 
'South Dyer.sburg. Tenn., and surround¬ 
ing districts in Byer County, killed 15 
and (leva.?tated property. The .same day 
tornadoes killed three and injured other.? 
at Dublin, Ky., cau.sed several fatalities 
and much property lo.ss near Murphy.?- 
boro, Ill., and killed nine persons near 
Blytbeville. -Ark. In Illinois and Central 
Indiana there was heavy lo.?.? of life. 
Revised figures that include Illinois, In¬ 
diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ten¬ 
nessee, Alabama, and Kansas give a total 
of 294 (lead an<l 1794 injured. 
There were three explosions, May 28, 
in the hold of the -American steamer 
Lackawanna, while its cargo of coal was 
being unloaded at a dock in the harbor 
at Havana, Cuba. Two Cuban workmen 
and one Spanish workman were injured, 
the Cubans seriou.?ly. 
Peace riots in Cleveland and Chicago, 
May 28, resulted from agitation against 
the selective draft law. There was simi¬ 
lar (lisorder in Seattle and parts of the 
South. Eleven arrests have been made 
an(l nine indictments have been returned 
by Federal grand juries as a result of 
organized attempts to hinder registration. 
Two of the arrests were made in Vir¬ 
ginia and nine in Texas, according to an¬ 
nouncement of the authorities, May 28. 
The arrests in Virginia brought to light 
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