834 
June 30, 1017. 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
JVNE 21, 1017. 
Ecos.—Nearby hennery white effgs 
scarce and high. Only extra fancy qual¬ 
ity will bring 40c and 41c. State and 
nearby gathered whites, 37c to ,3Sc; 
fancy’ State and nearby hennery browns, 
.37c to 30c; State and nearbj hennery 
brown .and mixed gathered. .35c to .l(5c; 
duck eggs, ,38e to 40c. Pack only 20 
dozen duck eggs in a .30-dozen egg case to 
avoid breakage. It is advisable to can¬ 
dle your eggs before shipping. Dont 
wash the eggs in warm weather. 
P.i'TTKR. —flower. Fancy Western 
creamery, 30^/^c; extras, 30c; firsts, 38c ; 
dairy butter low'er; best Piastern dairy 
in tubs, .34c to 871 / 20 ; in prints not 
wanted. Eastern dairy in mixed pack¬ 
ages, .32c to 37iy4c. 
CiiKE.SE.—Ifest large and small white 
and colored selling slow and weak at 2.3c. 
Held cheese, New York State large white 
and colored, 24c to 24%c; new cheese, 
State large white and colored, -4c; 
skims, 17c to 18c. 
I.ivE Pori.TRY. —Fowls firm, 25c to 
27c; old roosters, 17c. I>ive rabbits, 
linn, 2.5c pound. I.eghorn broilers, 
pounds and up. 2.5c to 28c; colored broil¬ 
ers, .30c to 32c. Broilers are arriving m 
good sujiply and selling freely at lovver 
prices. Small ducks, 18c; old L. I. ducks, 
21c to 22c; L. 1, Spring, 24c. 
I.IVE Pai.ves. —Fancy calves, 15^/4 to 
10c; good to prime, 14c to 14%c; com¬ 
mon. '1314c to 1.3%c; buttermilks, 10c 
to 10 y 2 c; yearlings, 8%c to 9c. 
Dressed Calves and Lamrs. —Mar¬ 
ket steady; fancy white nieated calves, 
21c to 22c; good to prime, 20c to 21c; 
common, 17e to 18c; dressed hothouse 
lambs, steady, f7 to $10. 
Live Lambs and Dressed Pork.— 
Live Spring lambs higher, $18 to $18.50 
per cwt.; old ewes, $0.50 to $11. lo.^ 
Country dressed pork in light supply and' 
firm, 10c to 23c. 
Apples. —Fancy apples wanted. ^ Re¬ 
ceipts light and market firm. P^ancy 
Baldwins, ,$0: Baldwins, $4 to $0; Ben 
Davis, .$.3 to .$5; Spys, $0 to $8.50; 
Kings, $4 to $6. 
Peaches. —l^loridas, carrier, .$1.50 to 
$2..50; (Georgia Early Bells, .$.3..50 to 
$ 4,255 Georgia Carman, $3 to $3.25. 
Strawberries. — Receipts moderate. 
.Market firm. Jersey Gandy, 10c to 15c; 
(Jiesapeakes, 8c to 1.5c; Jersey Hiltons, 
25c to 30c. A few crates of up-river ber¬ 
ries arrived on Thursday and sold 14c 
to 17c. 
Bi.ackberries. — North Carolinas, 
(piart, 10c to 15c. 
Huckleberries. — North Carolinas, 
large, blue, quart, 14c to 20c. 
Gooseberries.—S mall, 7c; large, 10c. 
Vegetables. —New potatoes in liberal 
sujjplv with goo<l demand. Prices firm. 
Plorida.s, $10 to ,$10.75 barrel; North 
(’arolinas, barrel, ,$9.25 to .$9.75; South 
(’arolinas, .$9.75 to $10. Eastern Shore, 
$9.50 to $10.25; Maine Cobblers. .$9.50 
to $0.75 ^ per 105-pound bag. Onions, 
lower; Texas, crate, $1 to .$1.75; Ber¬ 
muda, crate, $1.25 to $1..50; California 
vellow, 100-pouud bag, .$3 to $3.50. As- 
paraous, lower; $1 to .$2 dozen; some 
extra fancy, ,$2.50. Rhuharh, selling 
slow. 7.5c to $1 hundred bunches. I’cas, 
7.5c to $1.25 per basket. Beans, $1 to 
.$1.75 per basket. Wax, .$1.50 to .$.3.20. 
(Uirrots. Southern, ,$1.50 to .$.3..50 per 
100 bunches. White turnips, $1 hundred 
bunches. Corn, P^lorida, $2 to .$.3 per 
crate. Cahhage, $1.75 to ,$2.75 per crate. 
Beans. —Market firm, 25c lower; mar¬ 
row, 100 lbs., $15.75 to ,$10.75; pea, 
$14.75 to $15.75 • red kidney, $13.75; 
white kidney, .$14.75 to $15.50. 
Note. —When making consignments to 
the Department of P''oods and Markets, 
always send a shipping notice with each 
consignment. When shipping live poul¬ 
try, use well-ventilated coops, and do not 
overload them, as this will aid to reduce 
the shrinkage. If you make con¬ 
signments to the Department and do not 
receive your check and sales promptly, 
kindly advise us. Many times consign¬ 
ments arrive here without tags or any 
identification marks. 
Boston Produce Markets 
VALUES UNSETTLED, WITH MOST CHANGES 
DOWNWARD. 
Supidies in many lines of produce show 
a tendency to increase at this time of 
year, and it is not easy to find buyers 
for liberal receipts at a high range of 
prices. In sevei’al lines there is actual 
falling off in buying power, because stor¬ 
age men have got all they want or can¬ 
not secure any more space in the freez¬ 
ers. Boston cold storage capacity is 
filled with produce, some of which cost 
its owners considerably more than they 
could get for it now. Warmer weather 
has something to do with the easy tone 
o" the markets, lessening the consuming 
demand but hurrying along the back- 
W'ard crops and forcing holders to mox’e 
V/>0 RURAL NEW-YORKEK 
speed in moving stocks at some price. 
VEGETART.E AND FRUIT BRICES UNEVEN. 
A variety of conditions affect the 
course of the market in green vegetables 
and fruit. “Y'ou might say it is the 
necessities that hold best when you con¬ 
sider the remarkable staying powers of 
the potato market.” commented a produce 
broker, “but peaches and melons seem 
to be bringing good prices this year. 
Strawberries have had some bad days. 
Onions are .a pojiular staple, but are sell¬ 
ing as low as last Summer. Some near¬ 
by truck is high and some too low to 
cover present cost of growing it. In 
some cases the retailers are at fault by 
keeping up prices unduly.” Said Hall & 
('ole: “Potatoes hold well, better 
than would be expected with re¬ 
ceipts ahead of last year. Sections like 
the Middle West seem to be m.-iking more 
money than they know what to do with, 
and New England has to pay the price 
or let them have the jiotatoes. 5Ve do 
not look for much lower prices until the 
large New .Jersey croj) arrives. J'he 
crop has been late all along in the sec¬ 
tions South,, and the northern crop has 
had to meet cold, wet weather. The 
c.abbage situation is weakened by de¬ 
layed shipments which become discol¬ 
ored, and are hard to sell. Most native 
stuff is low.” A Clinton Street dealer, 
in touch with the nearby gardeners, re- 
jjorts much complaint of weeds and witch 
grass which are thick and high, helped 
along by recent w'arm, muggy nights. 
Rains have flooded some fields often. In 
some places conditions seem almost as 
bad as last year. “Spinach is running 
to .seed early. In cucumber houses the 
vines are in bad shape, the crop will be 
light and the season short and probably 
done before the outdoor crop comes. 
Southern truck is full of water and does 
not stand up well. The strawberries look 
well when they come out of the cold car, 
but do not last long.” Asparagus Js 
$.3..50 to $4..50 box ; spinach poor, at 15c 
to 25c; kale, .3()c; dandelions. 50; scul¬ 
lions, 7,5c to $1 ; radishes, 40e to 50c; 
lettuce. 25c to .‘1.5c; cukes, $5..50 to $0. A 
few old carrots from cold storage bring 
.$'2.25 to $2..50 box. Hothouse bunch car¬ 
rots are 00c to 7.5c dozen bunches, and 
transplanted beets are $1 per dozen 
bunches, with four beets about the size 
of English walnuts to the bunch. Some 
of the young plants W’ere shipped from 
the South in early May. or before, and 
some were started in hotbeds. 
APBLE PROSPECTS UNCERTAIN. 
Dealers consider the crop prospect for 
apples very much in the air until they 
hear how much fruit has set and stuck 
on the trees. G-owers who visit the 
markets seem to be worrying about the 
effect of so much rain which interfered 
with the w'ork of the bees and with spray¬ 
ing. I'liey are also asking about the de¬ 
mand. ISIaynard & Childs say: “Let¬ 
ters from hundreds of apiile correspon¬ 
dents still leave the outlook uncertain. 
They agree on a heavy bloom, particu¬ 
larly in Maine, but have not much to 
say yet about the fruit, but we get the 
impression that a good crop is promised, 
although less than indlc.ated by the 
bloom. If the crop should be about like 
(hat of last year, it will be likely to sell 
hard. Last year the export demand had 
a steadying effect, esiiecially on the East¬ 
ern marketes, but the food authorities 
seem to look at apples as not a necessity 
in Europe, and no hope is held out that 
the embargo will be taken off until more 
steamer sp.ace is available. A large crop 
might be handled at home if retailers 
would follow the wholesale markets more 
closely, instead of keeping up the price 
right along and thus choking the outlet. 
Some of the big stores do give customers 
the benefit when produce is abundant and 
cheaj). The growth and prosperity of 
such stores is well for the public and 
threatens to put out of business many of 
the high price and credit stores. One 
big concern in the Middle West is selling 
on a basis of 19 per cent, profit instead 
of 25 per cent., but is adding a charge of 
five per cent, for delivery, and one per 
cent, for credit, thus allowing customers to 
.save these charges if they wish. After a 
year’s tnal it is reported a success. On 
the whole from what can be seen now, 
the market outlook for fruit is not so 
good as it was last year.” 
The fruit list now includes Southern 
blueberries, rather poor, at 8c to 15c 
quart; blackberries at 10c and some good 
strawberries from New Jersey at lOc to 
12c. Georgia iieaches are in light suii- 
ply at $3 to $3.50 per carrier. 
POULTRY TRADE IN THE RUTS. 
The poultry market jogs along quietly 
with moderate receipts and light demand 
at about recenet prices, except for broil¬ 
ers, which are lower. Amos Keyes & 
Son: “I'lie market is steady for live 
fowls at 24c, but live broilers are down to 
20c to 2Sc. J^he Large stock of frozen 
broilers is considered the main cause. 
After the Summer hotels start their busy 
season, early in July, the demand for 
broilers should increase. Choice dressed 
fowls are 26e to 27c; broilers, 30c.” The 
leading receiver reports dressed young 
ducks quiet at 25c to 20c. 
MEATS IN SLOW DEMAND. 
The warmer weather lately and the 
abundance and low price of fi.sh the past 
few weeks has slowed up the call for 
meats, but the supply is as limited as 
ever and values hold rather well. Choice 
M^estern beef is 17c. Good country 
dressed cow beef is 10c. Veal has a 
range of 10 to 2()c. some lots showing 
sweaty condition .added to other defects, 
('hoice mutton brings 21 to 2.3c, and 
dres.sed hogs 181/4 to 19c. 
EGGS IN WEAK POSITION. 
A number of unfavor.able conditions 
combined to bring the egg situation to a 
weak place. As a Fulton Street dealer 
summed it up: “The cold storage houses 
were all full, the waterglass storage was 
over, the hatching season was done. But 
cool weather kept receiiits large and of 
good quality, while demand was only 
moderate. Prices dropjied. A friend 
told me he had seven <-arloads in cold 
storage. They co.st him ,30c and he would 
gladly pay ,$1,000 to have them taken 
off his hands. Nearby eggs sell for 36c 
now. The market is weak, but should 
be better soon, as the output will de¬ 
cline with the advance of the .sea.son.” 
BUTTER FAIRLY STEADY. 
The excellent quality of late receipts 
has stimulated buying for storage and 
otherwi.se. The market has taken a 
steadier tone, and common view is that 
low point has been passed. Some still 
insist that lower prices are needed be¬ 
fore the market will clear itself. High 
prices of course limit the demand, but 
volume of receipts so far has been much 
below last year. “The Government at¬ 
titude on food control makes business 
men hesit.ate,” remarked one dealer. 
“We don’t know on what basis they will 
let us do business, so we don’t dare to 
go ahead, but do as little as possible 
and keep on the safe side.”_ Tub cream¬ 
ery extras are 38c,, and dairy butter .3.3 
to .3,5c. The cheese m.arket shows lit¬ 
tle change. Quotations hold fairly 
steady at 23 to 24c for full cream, and 
16 to’19c for skims. The export demand 
is light. Volume of receipts .so far has 
been about two-thirds that of the coi’- 
responding time last year. 
HAY TRADE AND OUTLOOK DULL. 
The improvement in demand appear¬ 
ing a few weeks ago has subsided and 
dealers say the situation is dull and un¬ 
satisfactory, with values really weaker, 
although asking prices are the same. 
Top for No. 1 is $23. Good coarse 
Eastern is $19 to $20 and good ^clover 
is nominal at $15. Rye straw is $16 
and oat straw $10. 8aid Hosmer, Rob¬ 
inson & Co.; “5Vhile acreage is reduced, 
the crop looks well both 5Vest and East. 
As there is a large surplus carried over, 
the prospect for high jirices seems not 
very good. 
LIVE STOCK IN LIGHT RECEIPT. 
All classes of live stock have averaged 
less than 70 cars a week lately, and the 
light supply has kept the m:irket well 
supported in face of dull trsule. Best 
beef cattle sell at 10 to ll^/^c; be.st 
cows, 9 to 10c; and fair to good cows, 
7 to 9c. Canners are about 6c. t'hoice 
calves bring around 15c, and mixed lots 
12 to 1.3c. Hogs bring about 16c. No 
sheep or lambs have come the past week 
or moi-e. Milch cows arriving look most¬ 
ly like poor milkers and are hard to sell, 
but good appearing ones are snapped 
up quickly at .$6.5 to $125. G. B. F. 
Why They Left the Farm 
I wish to congratulate you on the 
work you are doing for the farmer. Most 
of the so-called farm papers are evidently 
edited by city-raised men, and hence no 
real knowledge of farming as to the 
wants of the farmers. I am 62 years old ; 
I have four sons and two daughters, all 
of them in the city of Washinsrton, ex¬ 
cept the youngest boy. I own 280 acres 
of land unincumbered by debt. 'The boys 
knew how to farm, wore strong and 
healthy. This is what they said to 
me when they decided to leave the farm : 
It takes 10 per cent to pay taxes, 25 
per cent, to keep the place in repair, 2.5 
per cent, to raise feed and care for 
teams, 10 per cent, to jiay for necessary 
seed, 10 per cent, for freight to Balti¬ 
more or Washington, 10 per cent, for 
commission for selling, 15 per cent, pur¬ 
chase and upkeep of machines and tools, 
15 per cent, for purchase of guanos, 25 
per cent, as wages for labor. 
No one but a father and mother can 
ever know what we suffered. Wc saw 
the old home desolate and like ourselves 
going to decay, and realized that the 
communiQ was losing like ourselves. 
Could I tell them they had figured 
wrong? No, I knew but too well they 
were right. This is why they left the 
farm. L. M. w. 
Maryland. 
Gasoline Treatment for Woodchucks 
Your woodchuck item,_ on page 723, 
brings to my mind a wrinkle I learned 
last year, and it has the merit of being 
feasible, which the auto suggestion isn’t. 
Most woodchucks build their nests in 
places incacessible to automobiles. Then 
again, not every farmer has an auto, not 
even a Ford, and it is hardly worth while 
to buy one to kill woodchucks with, be¬ 
cause a handful of rags and some gasoline 
will do the trick just as well. .lust sat¬ 
urate a bunch of rags with gasoline, drop 
in the burrow and cover the openings 
with dirt. That is all. ’The ’chucks will 
die promptly, and you will have used less 
gasoline and killed more wodchucks than 
could be done by automobile methods. 
This is my contribution to the general 
good, and it will be of value to many of 
The R. N.-Y. readers. ii. G. 
New York. 
Use 
For Belt 
Power 
Runs Enslige Cutter Easily 
Helping Henry, the automobile belt power 
device does not harm car —isinuscon hundreds of 
farms doing all classes of work, baling hay, sawing 
wood, threshing, shellingand husking corn, pumping 
water, running concrete mixer and other machinery. 
Applied to any make car in fifteen seconds. Noholta 
or tools. Posh under rear axle. Press 
dovyn on handles. This jacks car up. 
Brings both tires firmly against rollers. 
Now run anything. Positively does not 
wear out tires. 
Takes Place of Expensive Gas 
Enaine Helping Henry costs less than a 
^ (Cood Buit of clothes. All steel. 
Weigrhs 1S5 lbs. (larricd on runnine: board. 
Sold with privilefire of return in 30 days if 
you are not in every way satisfied. 
Drop a post card to factory now. Just 
say, '*Send prices and biR folder showinfr 
pictures of Hcipins: Henry at all kinds of 
work. My car is a-Write today. 
AUTOPOWER COMPANY 
1266 Lincoln Way, La Porte, Ind. 
< 6 ) 
CHEAP LIME 
\Vc can furnish from time to time a few car¬ 
loads of a mixture containing about 
4.35% Phosphoric Acid 1 20. % Sulphate of l.ime 
20. % Slacked Lime I 50 to 55% Moisture 
Tliis has a fertilizer value of between $8 and 
$9 a ton. Wo will deliver it in carload lots 
f.o.b. cars Bayonne for $3 a ton. 
SOUTHERN COnON OIL CO., 160 E. 22nd SL, Bayonne, N. J. 
Millions of Fruit Trees 
Everyone prenuine Harrison-grrown. 
robust, healthy, true-to-name ana 
buddea from bearing orchardSs 
Backed oy more than, 
26 years* fruit-Rrowingr and 
tiorsery experience. Apples, peaches, 
pears, plum.s, cherries and small fruits. 
Also full line of ornamentals. Write to* 
day for 1917 Fruit Guide—/re«, **LarReat 
arowera of fruit trees In the world. 
Harrisons* Nurseries, Box 14 Berlin, MJ. 
^TOMATO PLANTS^ 
All Leading Varieties. Price, li'l.ftO per 1000 
CABBAGE PLANTS 
All Leading Varieties. Price, l>I.«0 per 1000 
Celery Plants, Green varieties, $2.00 per 1000. Golden 
Self-Blanching and Easy Blanching, $3.00 per 1000. 
Plants are carefully packed in moss and expressed 
OROL LEDDEN, SEWELL. N. J. 
Largest Grower of Vegetable Plants in New Jersey 
fVEGETABLE PLANTSl 
I BY MAIL OR EXPRESS PREPAID 
Cabbago, Cauliflower,Tomato, Beet, Lettuce,Celery, 
Popper, Egg, Paraley, Brussels Sprouts, Asparagus, 
Rhubarb, Horseradish plants. Lar(?e or small Tots. 
Fir.st^iass plants and safe delivery jfuaranteed. Also 
Stra'wberry Plants 
Pot-j?rown and runner, for summer and fall planting: 
—will bear fruit next summer. Catalog free. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES - GOOD GROUND, N. Y, 
Cabbage and Celery 
grown plants in largo quantities at SI per 1,000; 
SR.50 for 10,000 J. (J. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 
sAiE-CowPeas-Soy Beans-Scarlet Clover Seed 
JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, Milford, Delaware 
Cabbage Plants 
—Two Million. Danisli and Domestic. 
ASH M K AH, WilliuniHOii, N. Y, 
VooiktoKla Plante Tomato, Pepper, Cabbagre, owcul 
T cgcldOlc rianiS (^auliHuwers, Hcets. Lettuce and Celery. Get 
my prices on plants, sent by Parcel Post prepaid and special 
" - . C. E. FIELD, Sewcll,N.J. 
price on lar^c orders. 
OABBAGE PLANTS 
SUREHEAD. FLAT DUTCH. DANISH BALL AND COPENHAGEN 
MARKET, @ SI.50 per 1,000. Have an extra fine 
lot of nice, stocky plants. Romance Seed and 
Plant Farms, Caleb Bongs & Son, Cheswold, Del. 
F oil SALE—JAPANESE SEED « U C K W II E A T. 
$2.60 a bushel. GFO. MoLAUQIILIN, SkaneaUles, New York 
The Gasoline 
Engine on 
TheFann 
This is 
tile 
of a 
every far 
Dior will 
prcciate i 
every farm 
homo ought \ 
have. Includes 
selecting the 
most suitable 
engine for farm work, its most convenient and ef¬ 
ficient installation, with chapters on troubles, their 
remedies, and how to avoid them. The care and 
management of the farm tractor in plowing, har¬ 
rowing, liarvestlng and road grading are fully cov¬ 
ered: also plain directions are given for handling the 
tractor on tho road. 
XenoW. Pulaam 
Operation 
and 
Uses 
530 Pages. Nearly 
ISO Engravings 
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