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Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
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men can give you immediate service on 
them. If you have any difficulty getting 
them, write us. We’ll see you are supplied. 
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The big demand for Baker Boxes 
makes ordering ahead the only 
safe way. Growers everywhere 
are alive to the fact that the extra 
price leaves a fine margin of profit 
over cost of 
Baker Apple Boxes 
Your apples will “look” a better 
price, command a better price, 
will be easier to sell and easier 
to handle. Boxes shipped to you 
knocked-down. 
Write at once for prices, stating 
Jiumberand style of box wanted. 
An order placed at once will in¬ 
sure delivery. 
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August 2, 1917, 
Eggs. —New laid hennerie.s scarce, not 
enough to supply demand at 40e to 48c. 
Fancy State and nearby hennery white.s, 
40c to 48c. State and nearby gathered 
whites .‘<9c to 41c; Fancy State and near¬ 
by hennery browns 4.3c to 45c State and 
nearby hennery brown and mixed gather¬ 
ed, .38c to 4()c. TTse new crates with 
No, 1 flats and fillers, place excelsior 
on top and bottom. Candle your eggs be¬ 
fore shipping and do not pack cracked 
or broken eggs. 
Butter. —Best Creamery 40%e to 41c; 
prime and fancy, 38%c to 40% ; East¬ 
ern dairy fancy .35c to .330c; Eastern, 
dairy mixed packages, 32e to .34c. 
Live Poultry.—A rrivals of live poul¬ 
try during the extremely hot weather 
killed. About 100 gallons of the spray 
material per acre was nee<led. The en¬ 
tomologists advi.se u.sing the tobacco ex¬ 
tract with the Bordeaux mixture and this 
would .seem to be good advice, since by 
one application the aphis may be killed 
and at the same time the plant thoroughly 
sprayed against the blight disease. After 
a week or 10 days mo.st of the lice dis¬ 
appeared apparently being attacked by 
other insects and parasites. It may be 
years before we have another .serious at¬ 
tack or they may be expected now any 
season. 
The lesson from this year’s work is to 
keep on hand if possible, a .supply of the 
tobacco extract and use it with the Bor¬ 
deaux or alone in ca.se the lice are ob¬ 
served. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Unnaturalized German 
men are now barred from all pleasure 
craft in New York Harbor. The reason 
___ given for the ban is that passengers on 
showed shrinkage. Many of the chickens pleasure craft may witness many opera- 
died on the way. Market lower. Fowls 18e tion.s, .such as the sailing of transports 
to 20c; old roosters, 15c; live rabbits low¬ 
er, l<Se to 19c; Iveghorn broilers lower, 24c 
to 20c; colored broilers, 28c to .30c; 
State duck.s, 18e; Long Island ducks, 21c 
to 22c. 
Live Calves. —Fancy calves. ]5%c to 
16c; goo<l to prime, 14%c to 15%c; com¬ 
mon, 1.3%c to 14%c; buttermilks, 10c to 
10%c; yearling.s, 8%c to 9c. 
Dressed Calves and Dressed Pork. 
—Market continues steady, receipts light. 
Fancy white-meat calves i9c to 21c; good 
to prime, 18c to 21c; common, 17c; dres.s- 
ed pork firm, 10 to 23c. 
Peaches. —Georgia elbertas. $2.75 to 
$3.25; Georgia early Bells, .$2.25 to .$3..50; 
.Jersey, $2 to .$3 ; Delaware and Maryland 
.$2.,50 to $3. Markets higher than la.st 
week. 
Blackberries. —.Jersey, 8c to 12c; 
Delaware, 7c to 12e per qt. 
Raspberries. —.Tersey, 5c to Oc per 
pt.; Up-river, Oc to 8c; .Jersey blackcap.s, 
7e to 8c per pt. 
Huckleberries. —10c to 15c per qt. 
Currants. —Up-river large, 7e to 8c per 
and war vessels or the transportation of 
explosives and supplies, I'ermits which 
entitle nnnaturalized Germans to enter 
the barred zones about State annorie.s 
will be of no avail to them on the river 
and hay craft. 
Forty Chippewa Indians from the T^ae 
Courte Oreilles Indian reservation have 
enlisted in a company that will be taken 
into the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment. 
Chai’les Isham, an Indian, took his two 
sons to the recruiting office, and when 
one failed to pass the father offered to go 
and was accepted. , 
.Joseph Cohen was convicted of murder 
in the first degree .July 27 by a jury be¬ 
fore .Justice Tompkins in the Criminal 
Branch of the Supreme Court, of New 
York, for instigating the murder of Bar¬ 
nett Baff in West Washington Market on 
November 24, 1914. Abie Graff was con¬ 
victed of manslaughter in the first de¬ 
gree. The other two on trial, David 
.Jacob.s and .Jacob Cohen were acquitted. 
This murder was due to business condi¬ 
tions in the live poultry market and the 
trial has been bitterly contested. • 
Gov. Ferguson of Texas, was indicted 
qt,; small, 5c to 7c qt. Black Currants, by the Travis County Grand Jury, July 
12c to 15c per qt. 27, on nine counts, seven charging mis- 
Goo.SERERRiEfi. —Small green, Oc to 8c; application of public funds, one diver.sion 
large, green, 10c to 12c. of public funds and one embezzlement. 
Vegetables. —Potatoes, Norfolk, $3 to C. .1. Bartlett, Secretary of State, was 
$3.50; .Jersey, $3.25 to .$3.75; Eastern indicted on four counts, charging misap- 
Shore, $3. to $3.25 per barrel; I^oug Is- plication of public fuiid.s. C. .1. Stowe, 
land. $3.2.5 to $.3.75. Onions —.Jersey, 7.5e 
to $1 per basket; Del. & Md. $1 to .$1.25 
Asparaqus —$1 to $3.25 dozen. Pens, 
Stae 7.5c to $1, basket. Beans, 50c 
to $1 basket; carrots, Southern, $1..50 to 
$2.50 perl 00 bunches. Corn—.7ersey ,$1.25 
to $2 crate. Cahhaqe —weak, Jj. I. & 
.Jersey 50c to 75c barrel. Lettuce, 75c to 
$1.25 basket. Cukes —50c to $1 basket. 
Notes —'When making consignments to 
the Department of Foods and Markets, 
always send a shipping notice with each 
consignment. When shipping live poultry 
do not overload them, as this will aid to 
reduce the shrinkage. If you have made 
consignments to the Department and did 
not receive your check and sales, kindly 
advise ns. Many times consignments ar¬ 
rive here without tags of any identifica¬ 
tion marks. 
Potato Lice in New Jersey 
The iilant lice which recently appeared 
upon the potato vines in Northern New 
.Jersey and Southern New York took 
farmers by surprise. Most of us had 
sprayed to kill the bugs and had given 
the first spraying of Bordeaux mixture, 
and as a rule the vines were looking re¬ 
markably well. Suddenly they began to 
wilt. An examination .showed millions 
of the potato aphis (Macrosiphum .solan- 
ifolii) working on the under side of the 
leaves. The entomologists tell us that 
this is not an insect. That is no solution 
since they did a new and complete job. 
The insect has been reported from New 
.Jersey and Maine. It passes the Win¬ 
ter in the egg stage principally on rose 
bushes. The lice start on roses and va¬ 
rious weeds and migrate to the potato 
vines. When in large numbers they do 
great damage but the parasites generally 
multiply and take care of the pest. After 
a few^ days’ work by these lice. After 
fields in Northern New .Jersey looked just 
as they would after a heavy freeze. The 
growth stopped and most of the vines 
fell to the ground and turned brown. 
That made many farmers believe that 
it was a case of blight coming earlier 
than usual. Unquestionably the work of 
these aphis weakens the plants so that 
even though they recover for the time the 
blightcarried them down quicker than it 
otherwise would have done. In our own 
case we sprayed the vines with a solution 
of tobacco—about one pound to ICO gallons 
Four pounds or more of dissolved soap 
was added to the mixture and this thor¬ 
oughly sprayed upon the vines quickly de¬ 
stroyed the lice. As they were almost en¬ 
tirely upon the under side of the leaves 
it was difficult to make a thorough appli¬ 
cation since some of the vines were full 
grown and ready to fall to the gi-ound. It 
seemed as if the tobacco extract damaged 
some varieties more than others but there 
can be no doubt that the application killed 
the aphis. In many cases it was not ap¬ 
plied early enough so that.the vines were 
greatly weakened before the aphis were 
State Superintendent of Buildings and 
Grounds, was indicted on one count. 
C. O. Austin, Commissioner of Insurance 
and Banking, was indicted on four 
counts. The Speaker of the Texas House 
of Representatives called a special ses¬ 
sion for August 1 to consider whether 
articles of impeachment should be pre¬ 
sented against the Governor. 
_ July 28 the “Official Bulletin” gave no¬ 
tice that the Department of Justice re¬ 
ported discovery of tetanus germs in 
samples of sticking plaster submitted for 
analysis. A number of widely separated 
districts have reported peddleus of sus¬ 
picious character selling sticking plaster, 
in some cases asserting the proceeds were 
for the benefit of French wounded and 
other charities. It is officially urged that 
such supplies be purchased only from rcr 
sponsible sources. 
FABM AND GABDEN.—The regular 
biennial meeting of the Am'erican Pomo- 
logical Society will be held in Boston, 
Mass., October 31-November 4, 1917. 
The occasion in full will be a regular 
meeting of the Massachusetts Horticul¬ 
tural Society, the New England Fruit 
Show, and the American Bornological So¬ 
ciety. Yory full and extended programs 
covering all phases of fruit growing will 
be rendered and an exceptional exhibition 
of fruits, fruit products, and allied mate¬ 
rial will be staged. The American Pomo- 
logical Society will feature the Wilder 
Medal, its distinct and special honor for 
new fruits, discoveries in pomological 
science, and for specially meritorious ex¬ 
hibits. Those who contemplate offering 
new fruits for the Wilder Medal should 
advise the Secretary, E. R. Lake, 2033 
Park Road, Washington, D. C., in order 
that registration and entry cards can be 
properly made before the meeting date. 
The Certified Milk Producers’ Associa¬ 
tion of America, AVilson II. Lee, presi¬ 
dent, will hold its tenth annual conven¬ 
tion at Briarcliff Lodge, Briarcliff Manor, 
N. Y., August 14 and 15. 
An appeal was made .July 27 to Presi¬ 
dent Wilson by the Canners’ League of 
California for Federal intervention in the 
fruit and vegetable cannery strikes at 
San Francisco, and in the Santa Clara 
A’alley, It is asserted that enemies of 
the country are behind this movement, 
which is sweeping over many Western 
States. No dispute over wages or hours 
of labor. Agitators, practically all for¬ 
eigners, are forcibly stopping men and 
women going to work. This is regarded 
as a conspiracy to stop fruit and vege¬ 
table packing, resulting in destruction to 
large quantities of fruit products. About 
2.500 men and women are affected by the 
strike. 
The first cargo of flour from Australia 
ever to reach one of the Atlantic ports, 
was brought in July 27 in a Swedish 
steamer. The cargo consisted of 7,500 
tons and was consigned to a British 
agency. 
August 11, 1917. 
The Board of Grain Supervisors for 
Canada issued an oi'der .Inly 27 prohib¬ 
iting the export of Canadian wheat to the 
United States without pel-mission of the 
board. The order stipulates that it is to 
govern the remainder of the present crop 
and until further notice. 
WASHINGTON.—Secretary of War 
Baker, through the Secretary of the 
Treasury, July 26, submitted to Congress 
deficiency estimates for the War Depart¬ 
ment aggregating $.5.278,6.30,000. Of 
this amount $2,468,613,000 is for arma¬ 
ment of fortifications. At the same time 
the Secretary presented supplemental es¬ 
timates amounting to $642,124,.591, but 
of this amount $6.39,000,000 already has 
been appropriated in the aviation bill and 
should be deducted, although Congress 
must make provi.sion to meet it. as it was 
not on the ledger when the war tax was 
framed. In the meantime the Appropria¬ 
tions Committee of the House completed 
the prepai-atiou of a naval deficiency bill 
appropriating approximately .$280,000,000 
for the navy, making a total army and 
navy deficiency bill for the year ending 
.Tune .W next of more than five and one- 
half billions of dollars. 
Senator Wolcott introduced a resolu¬ 
tion .Inly .30 to make po.ssible the return 
of bodies of American soldiers killed in 
Europe through the services of the Amer¬ 
ican Purple Cross Association, an organ¬ 
ization of undertaker!?, which already has 
offered its services to the army. 
Reporting to the Senate .Inly 26 on its 
investigation of the sudden rise in price 
of American flags at the time the country 
entered the war the Federal Trade Com- 
mivssion expressed the opinion that some 
legislation should protect the public 
against unreasonable prices—in some 
oases involving 400 per cent, profit—re¬ 
sulting not only from unlawful agencies 
but from abnormal conditions as well. 
The commission has ordered proceedings 
to stop attempts recently made to fix a 
new standard at 100 per cent, above old 
piuce.s as means of guarding against de¬ 
cline in the market when the supply again 
overtakes the demand. 
^Carrying an appropriation of .$27, 
954,000, the annual rivers and harbors 
bill was passed by the Senate late to¬ 
day, 50 to 11. Although many Senators 
had attacked the measure as pork ban-el 
legislation of a kind inexcusable in war 
time the only negative votes were cast 
by Senators Borah, Brady, Kenyon, La 
Follette, Smith of Michigan and Smoot, 
Republicans, and Ashui-st, Gore, King, 
Pomerene and Shafroth, Democrats. The 
measure, which passed the House .June 
27, now goes to conference. As passed 
by the Senate it authorizes the Govern¬ 
ment to enter into negotiations for ac¬ 
quisition of the Cape Cod and the Ches¬ 
apeake and Delaware canals, and iiro- 
Vides for the e-stablishment of a Federal 
waterway.s commission of seven members 
appointed by the President at a salary of 
$7,500 each. 
A favorable report on the Chamberlain 
joint resolution to authorize the apjilica- 
tion of selective conscription to aliens, 
excepting enemy aliens, was adopted 
unanimously by the Senate Committee on 
Military Affairs .Tuly 27. This action 
was taken, however, with the proviso that 
such aliens as are not eligible to Ameri¬ 
can citizenship—that includes resident 
Chinese and .Japanese—should not be 
considered as amenable to service and 
that they should be exempted. 
With President Wilson’s indorsement 
the Foreign Relations Committee, .Inly 
30, favorably reported Senator McCum- 
ber’s re.solution opening the way by 
treaty negotiations for drafting Ally sub¬ 
jects in this country into the American 
army. Senator Chamberlain presented 
his resolution for draft without negotia¬ 
tions to the Senate with the unanimous 
consent of the Military Affaii-s Commit¬ 
tee. 
Revision of the war tax hill to increase 
its total from $1,670,000,060 to about 
$2,000,000,000 was undertaken July ,30 
by the Senate Finance Committee, while 
House leaders informally discussed meas¬ 
ures to provide still further against the 
increased estimates of this year’s war ex¬ 
penditures. 
The Spring was so wet that not as 
much grain was planted as was planned; 
but it is looking well; much AYinter 
wheat to be planted. Large acreage of 
potatoes and garden crops. Apples prom¬ 
ise a small crop. A large crop of hay, 
following a large crop last year, so that 
prices for both old hay and standing 
fields are way down, any amount of 
good quality can be bought for $8 per 
ton or less in the barn. Grains and 
feeds are out of sight, corn $4.10 per 
cwt.; bran $2.25 bag; stock feed $2.7,5. 
Butter 40-42c, eggs 41c, milk 8c qt. 
Season is so late that we are just be¬ 
ginning to hay now, July 23. j. c. s. 
A good many farmers are selling most 
of their hens, as they cannot afford to 
pay the prices for feed and sell eggs at 
36e per doz. corn .$4.60 per 100 and going 
up; wheat feed ,$3.2$; oats .$1 per bn. 
Last week’s good hay weather was im¬ 
proved most farmers. Fruit will he light 
crop except berries; they promise fair 
Broome Co., N. Y. f. s. 
Mrs. Crabshaw: I wonder why the 
bakers haven’t raised the price of dough¬ 
nuts? Crabshaw: That was easy for 
them. They just made the hole larger.— 
N. y. Sun. 
