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THE EURAL NEW-YORKER, 
333 WEST 30th 8T., NEW YORK. 
Boston Produce Markets 
CAHDEX TRUCK MOVES BKIS 'EY AV‘TH 
HELP OF NUMEROUS PUBLIC SALES. 
Vogotablos are coming in good volume, 
prices skverage somewhat lower, and gen¬ 
eral trade is rather hri.sk. I’eddlers report 
a thriving business althougli the score 
of now public markets in the large cities 
and even in the smaller places, must 
divert some of the trade, but a farmer 
peddler remarks, “We sell about a.s low 
a.s the public markets, and most of our 
trade sticks by because they are used to 
buying of us. I think the business is tak¬ 
en mostly from the retail markets that 
charge high prices for stuff that is not 
always fresh.” The.se public markets 
are two general type.s. In one kind, such 
us prevails mainly in lioston and sub¬ 
urbs, there is an open sfiuare with free 
stands for all comers, and the farmers 
hack up their wagonloads and wait until 
buyers have taken their load, wholesale, 
retail or both together. In smaller places 
it often takes all day to sell much of a 
load and the farmers comi)lain that they 
cannot spare the time. T'his difficulty led 
to anohter plan of which the market at 
Framingham, Mass., Is a sample. A 
bootli with wooden roof and sides of wire 
screen was put up in the square and an 
eexperienced salesman placed in charge, 
lie accepts only the most salable and 
best looking stuff brought in by the 
producers of the vicinity. Truck mu.st 
be clean, of first grade and of kinds that 
are in fair demand. The selling prices are 
a little higher than the Boston wholesale 
markets. Baskets are loaned to carry 
home the purchases; the proceeds go to 
the farmers at the end of the season, less 
the_ cost of carrying on the booth. The 
main difference as compared with a 
private retail market is that the expen.ses 
are low and on a co-operative basis. 
Selling prices are not higher or lower 
because the other market and the ped¬ 
dlers are obliged by competition to sell 
at about the same level as the public 
markets. But it appears that in many 
towns the tendency has been to reduce 
the average level of retail prices to con¬ 
sumers. While products are benefited 
by securing an outlet whenever there is 
a glut of perishable produce. The super¬ 
intendent of the public markets in sev¬ 
eral Boston districts asserts that “on the 
whole the prices charged at the new 
markets were about 83 per cent, lower 
than those charged in the stores. Bas¬ 
kets were sold at seven cents, some of 
the >yomen took their purchases 
home in baby-carriages, while others 
carried heads of lettuce and cabbages 
under their ann.” The new markets .seem 
to meet with general approval, but there 
is some complaint from local tradesmen 
on the ground that the new competitor 
does not have to pay rent. Beets, 
wholesale in Boston 75 cents -to $1 a 
box; turnips, $1; carrots, $2; encum¬ 
bers. a wide range of price aud quality, 
at 50 cents to $2; celery, to .$1.2.5; 
radishes, 50 to (30c; lettuce. 25 to 50c.; 
native tomatoes, $2 to .$2..50; .spinach, 
50 to 75c.; green peas, .$1 ..50 to .$2; 
string beans, $J..50 to $1.75; Summer 
squash, 25 to 50c.; green corn, 7.5c to 
$1.25; shell beans, 75c. to $1 a box; 
native cabbage, 75c to $1 barrel; native 
onions, $1.50 bushel. Most of these prices 
are off considerably from last quotation 
giveu, owing to the heavy supply, and the 
usual slacking up of consumption in late 
August. Cooler weather is exi>ected to 
improve the situation other things being 
equal. Except onions, potatoes have 
held up in price better than almost any¬ 
thing else, good stock of both still 
selling on a basis of close to $1.50 per 
hu. Field beans have been likewise a 
fairly firm feature, choice pea selling 
at $8.25 to $8.50 per bu.; yellow eye, 
$7.75 to $8; red kidney, $7 to $7.50. The 
expected arrival of sweet potatoes in 
quantity by next week may have its ef¬ 
fect upon the market for white potatoes. 
At present sweets are selling around 
$6 per bbl. — 
FRUIT SUPPLY STILL LIGHT. 
Most lines ^ of fruit continue rather 
scarce and high. Peaches have had a 
good market right along and strictly 
first-class fruit continues to bring $5 or 
better per 6-basket crate. Reports indi¬ 
cate a liberal crop in nearby sect’jons 
of Boston shipping territory, but ready 
sales are looked for by dealers on ac¬ 
count of the light or moderate crop of 
most other fruits.* There are few ber- 
i*ies on sale of good quality and prices 
rim too high for peddlers and cheap 
stores, with raspberriies 14 to ISc per 
l)int; currants, 7 to 10c per qt.; blue¬ 
berries, 15 to 30c per qt.; blackberries, 
10 to 20c.; southern grapes of fair grade 
ai"e $1.50 per 8-bkt. carrier. Nothing new 
appears in the apple situation. There is 
the same wide range of quality, mostly 
l)oor. and the great hulk of sales not 
far from $1 per box. Large fancy fruit 
of attractive color should hilug $2 for 
the red kinds and about $1.75 for good 
yellow or green. 
HIGHER VALUES IN DAIRY PRODUCTS. 
The keynote of the daii*y market 
seems to be decrease of supplies owing to 
drought and poorer paiturage. But of 
ordinary grades and of most lines of 
western butter, supplies have been fully 
equal to demand in Boston and most 
other markets. Accordingly the strength 
is chiefly in the finer grades of northern 
creamery which are quoted at 42i/^ to 
4.3c for extra.s, Avhile 42c is about the 
top for we.stern extras aud 41c for west¬ 
ern firsts. 
C’heesc is higher. Too, fancy grades 
holding above 24c. This advance seems 
to be away of bringing the local market 
into_ ]ine_ with the receiving markets of 
the interior’. Local demand ap-'ears about 
the same and supplies here are ample. 
The recent government report states a 
round total of 18,(XX),000 lbs. of butter 
in New England stoi-age plants compared 
with 22,000,000 last year at this time. 
This comparative shortage os quoted by 
most Boston dealers when asked about 
the future of the market, hut they usual¬ 
ly add that pi-ices nre already well 
above last year’s level at this time. 
Cheese storage in New England is placed 
at 4.000,429 lbs., c mpared with 3,35(5,- 
876 lbs. at this time last year. This in¬ 
crease of stock is also reported for 
other sections, and is supposed here to 
he owing to .speculative buying and to 
a lack of recent selling for export. 
NEARBY EGGS IN DEMAND. 
The market is still in sellers’ hands so 
far as concerns the neaihy receipts. Many 
buyers are short and willing to pay any 
pi-ice _ for good stock and sufficient 
quantity. This situation causes an un¬ 
even market with few eggs remaining in 
strictly wholesale hands, but a good 
deal of .selling at jobbing prices in lots 
of a few cases as fast as they come in. 
Said a leading dealer, “the price depends 
wholly on how badly a buyer wants the 
goods. Sometimes he -wull take other 
grades aud tbe.se are accordingly in bet¬ 
ter demand even including cold stoi’age 
stock. Jobbing sales are often reported 
at 00c or better, hut the strictly wholc- 
,sale for good sized lots of nearbys can¬ 
not be placed above 5Se. Eastern ex¬ 
tras are 53 to .55e, and western prime 
first are 40 to 41c. Total receipts have 
been about as usual for the time of year, 
the shortage being wholly in nearby 
hennei'y stock. 
POULTRY MARKET FIRM. 
Better demand from the summer hotels 
has helpeil some lines of poultry. 'West¬ 
ern broilers are selling fairly Svell at 25 
to 27c and ueai’bys 28 to 30c; northern 
fowl hold at 25 to 26c for large aud 22 
to 23e for small; native green ducks are 
quoted at 25c by the dealer handling 
most of this trade; squabs are $2 to $3 
per doz. for average shipment; live fowls 
hold fii-mer at 22 to 2.3c and chickens jof 
broiler size or a little larger 24 to 25c. 
Storage house reports give the total of 
frozen stock .iji the country at about three 
times the quantity held at this time last 
year. This immense resciwe surplus 
overhung the poultry market all the 
season and prevented i rices from reach¬ 
ing a level corresponding to present cost 
of production. Even in New England the 
cold storage poultry is about 150 per 
cent in excess of last year's holdings at 
this time. 
HAY AND FEED. 
The improvement Toeently noted in the 
hay market is still in force, owing to a 
temporai’y condition of moderate supply. 
Not so much old stock has been coming 
in and the new crop is not yet ready. 
No. 1 gi’ade is quoted as $22 to $23, No. 
2 $19 to $21, stock hay .$13 to $15, rye 
straw $15 to $16, oat straw $10 to .$11; 
corn meal has been tending toward lower 
prices for some time -past, aud the de¬ 
cline has brought bag values close to the 
$4 line once more. Winter bran is down 
to $35 per ton; middlings, $45; mixed 
feed, $45; hominy feeds, $64.50; concen¬ 
trates are about steady with cotton-seed 
$.51 to .$53; linseed, $53; and gluten 
fee<l, $58. G. B. F. 
Crops and Fcirm News 
We have been getting 50 cents a doz¬ 
en for eggs for the last month and 50 
cents for butter. Cabbage at present 
2c lb.; potatoes, $1.75 bu.; apples, $2 
hu., and scarce; tomatoes $1.75 bu. and 
scarce; as the weather has not been 
good for ripening. Sweet-corn 35 to 50 
cents doz.; cucumbers 5c each or three 
for lOe for larger ones. Green string 
beans, $1.25 to $1.50 bn. Family luilk 
cows such as Jer.sey, sell from $75 to 
.$80, a good daii-1 cow, $110 to $125. 
Dairymen shipping milk get 26 to 28c 
per gal. it retails at 12 to 14c per qt. 
Cream 60c qt., buttermilk, 5c qt., re¬ 
tail from the wagon. Spring chickens 
35c lb.; old hens, 25c Ih. from the farm 
to private trade. 
Alleghenj’ Co., Pa. J. O. J. 
Milch cows ih this localitj’ are selling 
for from $75 to $125. Milk at the local 
shipping station is $2.66 per cwt.; but¬ 
ter 40c; cheese 22e; beans per bn. .$10; 
new potatoes $1..50 per bu. 
.Teffenson Co., N. Y. T. ii. s. 
A very few people in this county have, 
for the past few years, been trying to 
grow their o^vn supply of navy beans, 
and with fair success. They .seem to 
yield about as well as in New York, and 
are usually eaten (except the few kept 
for seed) before damage by the weevil 
.shows up. As a test, I planted a quart 
on April 20 on rather poor land and 
September 1, 1917 
used no fertilize!’. The yield was excell¬ 
ent, thougli I can nit give exact yield as I 
have not yet shelled them out. On .Inly 
11 I gathered pai’t of them and planted 
a few of them. These now—August 2() 
—have pods three inches long on them 
and are loaded with blossoms aud young 
beans, indicating a good crop. These 
will pi’ob.'’bly ripen in September, giving 
two crops of beans from one seeding. 
The.se beaus stood the unusually cold 
weather of April and early May better 
than other varieties of beans, indicat¬ 
ing that they can be planted when we 
plant corn, the last of March or the 
first of April, in a normal season. With 
an jp’erage .sea.sou, the crop would ripen 
in time to follow with late corn, potatoes 
field peas. Soy h ms, etc., or could fol¬ 
low wheat, oats, early potatoes, or clover. 
Person Co., N. C. f. a. b. 
We have jn.st finished putting in 60 
tons of fine hay. Now we have four 
acres corn three acres oats, one acre 
buckwheat, one and one-half acre po¬ 
tatoes, three-quarter acre beans, one-half 
acre full of garden truck and ICKK) bbls. 
apples to harvest, to say nothing of sec¬ 
ond crop aud other work. That is the 
way we are,trying to “do our hit.” The 
work has kept us fairly busy with taking 
care of the .Jerseys and poultry, hut 
crops are looking fairly well and we are 
in hopes to get a fair return for our 
work. 
Androscoggin Co., ]\Ie. F. A. b. 
Nut-growers’ Meeting 
Programme for the eighth annual meet¬ 
ing of the Northern Nut Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, to he held at Stamford, Conn., 
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 5 aud G, 
1917, at the Hotel Davenport: 
Wednesday, Sept, 5— 
9.30 a, m.—Call to order aud husine.ss 
.session. 
10 a. m.—President’s address, W. ('. 
Deming, 
10.. 30 a. m.—Reasons for Onr l.imited 
Knowledge as to What Varieties of Nut 
Trees to Plant, Prof. Hutt, I’res. Am. 
Pomolog. Socy.; discussion. 
11 a. m.—The High Cost of Nut 
Trees, T. P. Littlepage; discussion. 
11.. 30 a. m.—The Nut-bearing Pine 
Trees, Dr. Morris; discussion. 
12 m.—Question Box. 
12.30 p. m.—Intermission for lunch. 
1.30 p. m.-^By automobiles to Dr. 
Morris’s and inspection of his expeii- 
mental work. 
_4..30 p. m.—By automobiles to Green¬ 
wich and Stamford nut trees. 
6.30 p. m.—Dinner of member.s and 
guests at Hotel Davenport. 
_ 8 p. m.—^Advent of Nuts into the Na¬ 
tion’s List of Staple Foods, Dr. J. H. 
Kellogg of Battle Creek; discussion. 
8.. 30 p. m.—On the Importance of Nut 
Growing, H. W. Colliugwood. 
9 p. m.—The Place for Nut Trees in 
the Planting I’rogramme, illustrated talk 
by C. A. Reed, Nut Culturist, TJ. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
Thursday, Sept. 6— 
9.30 a. m.—Business meeting. 
10 a. m.—Demonstration of Toj) Work¬ 
ing Nut Trees, J. F. Jone.s. 
10.. 30 a. m.—’Ihe Extent of the Hardy 
Nut Tree Nursery Business, K. 3'. oi- 
cott, editor Am. Nut Journal; discussion. 
11 a. m.—Insects Injuring Nut Trees, 
Dr. W. E. Britton,. State Entomologist; 
discussion. 
11.30 a. m.—Nut 3’recs for Shade, E. 
A, Bartlett. Fd. of “J’ree Talk.” 
12 m.—Question Box. 
12.30 p. m.—Intermis-sion for luncheon. 
1.30 p. ni.'^—Automobile trip to see nut 
trees _ between Stamford and Danbury, 
stopping at Dr. Deming’s place. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Ohio State Fail’, Columbus, August 
27-31. 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, August 
ol-Sept. 9. 
Kankakee Interstate Fair, Kankakee 
HI.. Sept. 1-7. ’ 
Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept. 
•-- 9 . 
Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, 
Sept. 3-7. 
Minnesota State Fair, Hamliue, Sept. 
3-8. 
Aoi’theru. Nut Growers’ Association, 
annual convention, Stamford, Conn., 
Sept. 5-6. 
Illinois State Fair, Springfield, Sept. 
7-15. 
Solebury Farmers’ Exhibit, Solebury 
Deer Park, Solebury, Pa., Sept. 7-8. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. 
W, Sept. 10-15. 
Agricultural Society of Queens Na.s.sau 
Counties, seventy-sixth annual exhibi¬ 
tion, Mineola, N. Y., Sept. 25-29. 
Dairy Cattle C/Ongress, Waterloo, 
Iowa, Oct. 1-7. 
International Wheat Show, Wichita, 
Kan., Oct. 1-13. 
Eastern States Agricultux’al and In¬ 
dustrial Exposition, Springfield, .Mass., 
Oct. 12-20. 
National Dairy Show, Columhus, O., 
Oct. 18-27. 
American Pomological Society, regular 
biennial meeting, Boston, Mass., Get. 
31-Nov. 4. 
Short courses in agriculture, Rutgers 
College, New Brunswick, N. J., open 
Nov. 20. 
