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Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
July 19, 1917. 
Enos.—New laid henneries in light 
supply and higher. Fancy State and near¬ 
by hennery whites—42c to 44c; State 
and nearby gathered whites, 88c to 40c. 
Fancy State and nearby hennery browns, 
40c to 42c; State and nearby hennery 
))rown and mixed gathered, 37c to 39a 
Duck eggs, 38c to 42e. Candle your eggs 
before shipping. Don’t wash the eggs in 
warm weather. 
Buttuu. —Fancy Western creamery, 
40c: extras, 39c; firsts, .37i/^e to .3^; 
Ix'st Eastern dairy in tubs, 34c to 3()C; 
Eastern dairy in prints not wanted; 
Eastern dairy in mixed packages, 33e to 
30c. 
Live Poultry. —Fowls, 22c to 24c; 
old roosters, 10c; live rabbits, firm, 23c 
to 25c per pound : Iveghorn broilers lower, 
20c to .30c; colored broilers, .30c to .32c; 
State ducks, 18c; old ducks, 20e; Spring 
(lucks, 22c to 23c. 
TjIve Calves. —Fancy calves, W^c to 
10c; good to prime, 14%c to 15^/40; 
common, 1.3%c to 14%c; buttermilks, 10c 
to 1014 c: yearlings, 814c to 9c. 
Dressed Calves and Dressed Pork. 
—Market steady. Fancy white-meated 
calves, 21c to 22c; good to prime, 20c to 
22c; common, 17c to 19c; dressed pork 
firm, IGc to 21c. 
Peaches. —Georgia Elberta, .$1..'50 to 
$2.25; Georgia Early Bells, $1.25 to 
$1.75; Belle of Georgia, ,$1.50 to $1.7o. 
Cherries. —Receipts the past week 
have arrived in bad condition due to ex¬ 
cessive rains, .lersey sour, $1 to $1.25 
per peach basket; Up River, black, 25c 
to ()0c per 8-pound basket; Up River, 
red, sour, 15c to 40c per 8-pound basket. 
Strawberries. — Receipts moderate. 
Quality generally poor, Up-River, in 
light supply, 8c to 12e; Oswegos, lOe to 
15c. 
Blackberries. —.Jersey, 8e to 12c; 
rielaware, 7c to 12c per quart. 
Raspberries. —Jersey, pint, 6c to 
10c; Up-River, Oc to lOc; Jersey Black 
caps, 6c to 10c pint. 
Huckleberries.— lOe to 16e quart. 
Currants. —Up-River, large, 8 c to 9 c 
per quart; small, 7 c to 8 c. 
Gooseberries. —Small, green, 6e to 
10c; large, green, 10c to 12c. Darge, 
green, $1 to $1.25 per Climax basket; 
small, 75e to $1 per Climax basket. 
Vegetabt.es. —Steady. Norfolk. $3.75 
to .$4.25; Jersey, $4.75 to ,$5. Eastern 
Shore, $4 to $4.,50 barrel; Long Island, 
$4.75 to $5 barrel. Onions —Jersey, $1.25 
to .$1.50 basket. Delaware and Mary¬ 
land, $1 to $1.50. Asparagus —$1 to 
.$3.50 dozen. Peas —State, ,$1.25 to $2.2,5 
basket. Beans —Market lower and weak, 
.50c to 75c per ba.sket. Carrots —South¬ 
ern, $1 to $1..50 per 100 bunches. Corn — 
Southern, .$1 to $1.25 crate. Cahhage — 
Weak. Tyong Island and .Tersey, 30c to 
.50c per barrel; Eastern Shore, per crate, 
.50c to 75c. Lettuce —Weak. 50c to 75c 
per basket. Cukes —75c to $1 per basket. 
Note. —When making consignments to 
the Department of Foods 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 have made con¬ 
signments to the Department and did not 
receive your check and sales, kindly ad¬ 
vise us. Afany times consignments ar¬ 
rive here without tags or any identifica¬ 
tion marks. 
Boston Produce Markets 
FRtTITS IN FAIR VARIETY WITH PRICES 
GENERALLY WELL SUSTAINED. 
Most lines of fruit are now represented 
with fairly liberal arrivals and demand 
good. Apples are coming in morlerate 
quantity from New Jersey, but so far 
most receipts lack color and size and the 
price range is $1.50 to $2.50 basket. 
Good ones sell readily. Reports rciceived 
by dealers show New England crop pros- 
jiects ranging from light to fair or mod¬ 
erate. Kinney & Co., agents for the 
large Kinney orchards report a light cr(ip 
for Vermont and the Ijake Champlain 
district. A clearer market outlook could 
be had if the export situation were un- 
dei-stood. A leading export firm sees 
“No present reason to expect that the 
British markets will be opened to our 
fi’uit. Freight room seem in still short¬ 
er supply than last Spring. We are 
in hopes that special permits will be 
issued to admit limited quantities, but 
if they are, it will need to be soon, to 
give exporters time for getting ready.” 
Good sour cherries have ranged around 
10c qt., but receipts have been light. 
Strawberries from northern sections 
range from 10 to 15c, but dealei-s com¬ 
plain that many crates are too soft to 
carry well. “We had four crates come 
back this morning,” declared a salesman, 
“and I am not urging our regular cus¬ 
tomers to bother with soft berries in 
hot weather.” Green gooseberries bring 
10 to 1.3c qt. The first native blue¬ 
berries sold at about 18e and the crop 
seems light. Southern watermelons are 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 28, 1917. 
lower at $1.5 to $35 per 100. Southern 
peaches are in fair supply at $2.50 per 
carrier. 
BERRY AUCTIONS. 
When a dealer gets carlots of quickly 
perishable fruit, he chalks it on his 
blackboard some hours before the stuff 
reaches his store, something as follows: 
“Reds today at 10,” or “Car N. Y. cur¬ 
rants 1 o’clock.” In due time a wagon¬ 
load backs to the curb, and a dozen or 
20 buyers including many Italians and 
Greek fruit men gather at the rear of 
the load. The driver hands down the 
crates, an assistant opens them, a good 
salesman is auctioneer, while a member 
of the firm keeps tally of the crate num¬ 
ber, the price and the buyers’ address. 
The fate of each crate is settled at a 
glance. The auctioneer sometimes partly 
tips a, box into his hands. “Dry as a 
bone,” he announces, “11 cents for this 
one, who takes it? IOV 2 then. Ten 
cents? P. Dordoni at 10 cents.” After 
a succession of sales at that figure one 
lot with a little mold sells at 8c qt. and 
a soft looking lot at 7i/4c. A few crates 
of large red currants sell at about the 
same range as sound raspberries. Each 
buyer’s crates are chalked and stacked 
as fast as sold and the load is disposed 
of in ten to twenty minutes except a few 
badly damaged crates on which nobody 
bid. “Don’t go, boys!” calls the sales¬ 
man. “There’s another load coming.” 
VEGETABLE PRICES TEND LOWR. 
"Beets are down to about 2c a bunch.” 
observed a dealer, and if not just right 
they .are hard to sell. Buyers want 
dark red, tuynip-shaped stock of the 
Egyptian class, of uniform size and not 
too large. Round pink or white beets 
may be just as good, but this market 
will not take them. Cut-off beets are $1 
to $1.2,5 box. Cabbages are $1 to $1.25 
bbl. Yes; prices are wmrking down, 
and it’s about time. Dealers like to see 
the stuff moving.” The new gardens are 
not credited with any great market in¬ 
fluence as yet. Most of the receipts are 
from skilled growers. “The gardens are 
late,” remarked a suburban peddler. 
“Almost every backyard and lawn seems 
to be planted, but the things are only 
just coming ready now. I expect a slow 
time for awhile on peas, beans, corn, to¬ 
matoes, but it will soon be out of the 
way. Most gardens do not raise a steady 
supply.” Wihile supplies are more liberal 
there is no glut except in the salad class, 
with lettuce 10 to 20c. kale 10 to 25c, 
beet greens 20c, spinach and parsley ,50e 
box. Best cucumbers are down to .$3.50 
box, cauliflower $1, large peas $2, native 
onions .$1..50, radishes 80e. string beans 
$1.50, rhubarb 50 to 60c per box. Sweet 
corn from New .Jersey is $2 per crate 
of about seven dozen. 
Potatoes of good grade range around 
$.5 and show quite a recession from the 
top of about .$7 bbl. during the last rise. 
The market varies considerably from day 
to day with the volume of receipts and 
the weather. Quality is improving as the 
crop works northward. 
Field beans are held at steady price. 
Garlots pea beans sell at .$8.75 bbl.; 
yellow eyes $8.35; red kidneys $7.50. 
^aid Fowle. ITibbard & Co.: “Reports 
from the crop section tell of excessive 
rain* and floods on the lowdands. There 
is a large acreage, but at least the crop 
will be late. We hear rumors of ad¬ 
vance sales of the new crop .at $7 to 
$7.50. The market has been quite well 
cleaned of odds and ends. The imports 
from Asia and South America often did 
not give satisfaction becau.se consumers 
w'ore not used to them or did not cook 
them right.” 
D^VIRY JIARKETS DULL AND WEAK. 
Butter prices tend to ease off and .39c 
is about top figure for best Northern tub 
creamery. 8upi)lies seem more than 
equal to demand. Chas. TI. Stone & 
Co. said: "The market is off half a cent. 
There is lack of speculative demand here 
and outside. Shipments must score 9.3 to 
bring full price. Some of the Western 
consignments show effect of heat, and 
quality is hardly up to that of two weeks 
ago. Shipments are off in volume. One 
large creamery fell off .30 per cent, and 
all fell off 10 to 15 per cent. Consid¬ 
erable milk is being diverted for con¬ 
densed milk for which there is a demand 
for export. The contrary is the fact with 
cheese, its foreign outlet having been cut 
off. The Briti.sh Government official 
buyer fixes an arbitrary retail price of 
.31 %c. He pays 27%c delivered in Eng¬ 
land and the difference of 4c goes to 
wholesalers, jobbers and retailers. The 
cheese would h:ive to be bought in this 
country at about 20e, as comp.ared with 
our present market at around 22e for 
cheese of export grade. Accordingly 
British markets are supplied with Can¬ 
adian and Australian cheese. Freight 
from here is $1.50 per 100 lbs, Last 
year there were many .shipments. Now 
there are none and none iu prospect.” 
ALL QUIET IN THE MILK MARKET. 
After securing the price they asked, 
the new schedule to begin Aug. 1, the 
milk officials have been working out the 
details with several of the leading firms 
of contractors. It is a long job adapt¬ 
ing each shipper’s local fi-elght rates and 
shipping conditions and figuring his net 
price on the basis of the new Boston 
l)rice of 7c. The date of change in 
price was moved to Aug. 1 because of the 
late pasture situation producing a full 
flow later than usual, while the prevailing 
cool weather had caused a reduction in 
the usual Summer demand. While con¬ 
ceding the demands of the producers, the 
dealers have passed it along, all and 
more besides, to the consumers, and with¬ 
out doubt the effect on the demand will 
be watched with anxiety. On the other 
hand, it can hardly be said that no 
further advance will be made by pro¬ 
ducers. There is already some discus¬ 
sion of next Winter’s price. The whole 
question hinges on rapidly advancing 
costs of production, and the extent of 
these for the next few months can only 
be guesserl. Many producers claim they 
can only break even, on the basis of the 
new price. 
EGGS HIGHER. 
The egg market has at last resumed, it 
seems, the usual upward march that lasts 
through Summer and Fall. Good stock 
seems to be cleaning up well, especially 
nearbys and desirable Eastern.s. “Egg re¬ 
ceipts show signs of heat.” said a Chat¬ 
ham street dealer, “but Westerns of full 
quality bring 3.3c. Nearbys sell at 40 or 
41. The output tends to fall off at this 
season. Supplies are wanted and many 
dealers are paying a premium over the 
regular market to encourage more ship¬ 
ments.” 
LITTLE SAI.E FOR DRESSED POULTRY. 
“The poultry market is more than 
dull,” declared a South Market street re¬ 
ceiver. “It is absolutely demoralized. 
There is no real demand. Quotations are 
nominal at 25e to 20c for choice Eastern 
fowls and 28c for broilers, but nobody 
knows what to ask because there are no 
buyers. Even those who want dressed 
poultry are holding off in hope of lower 
prices.” 'This line of complaint is gen¬ 
eral among the trade. They have so 
little to do that a crowd of them motored 
to Nantasket beach the other day to cool 
off and talk of better times. The market 
for live poultry, on the other hand, seems 
to be clearing up about as usual, although 
prices are a little lower, fowls now sell¬ 
ing at 21 e to 22c, broilers at 24c to 25c 
and old roosters at 14c to 15c lb. 
LIVE STOCK IN GOOD DEMAND. 
Prices are holding up well in mo.st 
lines of live stock at Brighton and Water- 
town, receipts being about as usual and 
demand active for the better grades. Hogs 
sell close around 10c alive and a little 
Ix'tior Ihiin 2(V dressed. The big l<ical 
packers seem to make the market just 
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