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several years is not covered by the one 
dollar a year estimate generally placed 
upon them from the time of planting. 
Land planted with fruit trees well man¬ 
aged is as good and safe security as a 
factory, or a railroad, profits from which 
are equally dependent npon good manage¬ 
ment. GEORGE T. POWELL. 
Columbia Co., X. Y. 
Boston Produce Markets 
TRADE SLOWS TP A IJTTLE, AND PRICES IN 
SOME IJNES INCLINE TO SAG AW'AY. 
The truck market has been passing 
through one of the easing-ofl: spells that 
may be expected to happen every little 
while even in the best of years. At no 
time this season has any real glut of pro¬ 
duce occurred, except In a few lines at 
once, and lasting only a short period. 
“It has been a pretty fair year.” declared 
a Burlington fann gardener. “Costs have 
been higli and labor scarce, but yield in 
most lines has been quite good, and 
prices have helped us out. I think truck 
farmers have been able to make a lit¬ 
tle money. My 2l^ acres of pepi)oi's w'ei’e 
about the best paying thing with the 
price around .$2. and tomatoes came next. 
Those who had early plants to set did 
W’ell. Corn has sold well most of the 
time. I worked nights, building smudge 
fires around the lot and warded off two 
frosts, but the third frost touched the 
husks a little. Fnfrosted corn was •w'orth 
.$l.r»0 a box for a wdiile, but people are 
getting tired of it and is about top 
in the street.” A leading nearby gar¬ 
dener remarked; “We have done fairly 
well on most crops and tlie loads have 
sold quickly at fair prices. .Tust now 
the public balks a little at the prices, 
but they will come back. Early set to¬ 
matoes paid well. Onions, beets and car¬ 
rots were all good crops. We figure on 
about 500 bu. per acre for all such in 
good years. The weeds are kept off our 
land and two weedings keep the crop 
clean even for onions, because weeds do 
not go to seed at the end of the season. 
If we had to weed six or seven times, 
there wouldn't be much in it. With beets 
one can get two crops, even without set¬ 
ting the first crop. Sow a good type of 
a kind like the Egyptian, and, if the soil 
is rich and early, the crop can be 
cleaned up early in .Tuly and the land 
sown to beets. These are fully big enough 
now and better than slowly grown beets. 
They are often grown too thick for quick 
results. Thin to 7 inches in rows a foot 
apart and when the beets are three or 
four inches across there wdll not be 
much room to sjiare. Hotted manure is 
be.st, but fresh stable manure plowed un¬ 
der in the Fall will do if there is enough 
of it.” 
Beets are Ro to OOc box; carrots, .$1.25 
to .$1.50; beans, string and shell, .$2 to 
.$.2; cauliflower, w'ide range of quality, 
75c to .$2; corn mostly 75e to .$1; egg 
plant, .$1.50; lettuce mo.stly .$1 to $1.25; 
onions, ,$1..R5; peppers, .$2.50; sugar 
pumpkins, 7.5c; parsnips, .$2; big pump¬ 
kins, .‘lOc; spinach, .50 to 60c; tomatoes, 
good. .$2; green tomatoes, 50 to 60c box; 
cabbages about steady around 75c bbl., 
and red ones, 75c box. Squashes are $1 
to $1.50 per bbl. and picked pea 
beans are firmer at $8.25. 
POTATOES IN MODERATE RECEIPT. 
The potato market has acted better 
than it does sometimes on the approach 
of the main digging season. So far, 
it cannot be said that the market is 
oversupplied. Prices are hardly sati.sfac- 
tory in view of the high costs and gen¬ 
erally rather light yield in this section, 
but the market shows no special signs of 
slumping to the low levels predicted by 
some dealers, but instead local values 
have tended stronger much of the time 
lately. “Aroostook potatoes are $1.20 
per bu. at the freight yard,” reports the 
local agent of the Parmer.s’ Union of 
Maine. “Browers seem inclined to hold, 
as there is no profit at present prices. 
Westei-n potatoes will begin to move 
soon, and there are enough of them to 
supply some of the markets depending 
on Maine stock last year, and it seems 
likely there wall be plenty of Maines to 
supply this market, the short crop being 
partly offset by the increased acreage.” 
According to F. M. Hatch, a wmll knowm 
and widely experienced receiver, “The 
crop in Northern ]\Iaine is a light one, 
and in Central Maine it is not over 85 
per cent of normal. The vines wmre dead 
w'hen I w'as there the first wmek in Rept. 
Browers in Maine are inclined to hold 
back shii)ments. That is wdiat keeps 
the market here a little shy on pota¬ 
toes nowL 8hippei“S hate to sell at cost 
of raising or less and they remember 
hast "Winter’s prices, but there is a big 
acreage and a fair crop in many parts 
of the country. Western shippers can 
get low^ rates to Southern markets. Maine 
growers may get high prices for seed, 
but outlook is not so good for table stock. 
Quality is not up to usual standard. On 
the other hand I do not look for ex¬ 
treme low prices, because farmers wall 
hold rather than sell low, and they have 
the cash and storage space to enable them 
to wait. Brain and other foodstuffs are 
high and a lot of potatoes will be used if 
prices attract the public. I have just sold 
16 cai's for delivery during the Winter 
naonths at $1.40 per bu.. and I consider 
it a very safe sale. Demand may be 
checked by the prepai-edness potato 
^/>c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
l atches, but so far I find dealers are or¬ 
dering about as usual.” Bag potatoes are 
.$2.,50 for Maines and .$2.,50 to .$2.60 for 
New .Jersey stock, wdiich has rather the 
better keeping quality at this season. 
FALL APPLE MARKET WEAK. 
Prices of Fall apples are below the best; 
of_ the_ season on account of heavier sup-j 
plies, including numerous shipments from 
Maine of Gravensteins, Wealthy, Alex-j 
ander, etc. It seems hard now^ to geti 
more than $2 a box or ,$5 a barrel for 
anything. Some sell for $1.50 and No. 
2.S at $1 up. “I got $7 per barrel for the 
first car ot McIntosh from a growmr of 
fancy fruit,” said a commission salesman. 
“He works hard to raise something choice, 
and I am willing to work hard to help 
such a man out, but a whole lot of stuff 
is fixed over on top, and the buyers come 
back and ask me to take off something on 
the price. Such fruit makes me sick and 
disgusted. But those. McIntosh, the best 
I can get now' is $5..50 or $6. Apples 
are coming faster and the price waas too 
high for free buying. A few Baldwins 
dented with hail ^old at $3.50; some in 
boxes at $1. Hard Winter fruit is not 
wanted yet.” Hall & Cole: “We paid 
$3.25 to $3..50, orchard run, for JVintcr 
fruit. Sales were reported as high as .$4. 
The market is not what it was, and a 
good many of the buyers have been called 
back.” 11. E. Annin, apple grading ex¬ 
pert of the State Board, reports orchard 
sales of fancy McIntosh as high as $.5, and 
many sales of Baldwdns at $3.50 to $4. 
A dealer tells of a fancy Maine orchard 
sold at $6. But just now the buyers seem 
less anxious to load up. Their purchases 
are beginning to arrive packed for stor¬ 
age, and they find that cold storage space 
is going to be higher this year, and as for 
expoi't trade, that is only a dim hope. 
Good pears bring about $2 bu., or $5 bbl. 
Peaches sell from $1..50 to .$2 bu. for 
New \ork, and around ,$1 for Connecti¬ 
cut 14-qt. bkts. Concord gimpes, 15 to 16c 
pony bkts. Box Concords, $1.50 to $2.50; 
wild grapes, $2 to $3; barberries, .$2 to 
$2.25; elderberries, 50c to $1 and very 
hard to sell. 
RUTTER AND CHEESE VERY FIRM. 
The Instant Summons 
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warriors literally to spring from the 
taneously set in motion all the vast 
machinery of warfare, munitions, 
transportation and food conserva¬ 
tion. 
Supply and demand appear fairly well 
balanced, but the underlying strength of 
the dairy products situation show's itself 
in the tendency of the market to advance 
a fraction from time to time. Less of the 
fine grade butter is coming now, but even 
the low’er grades seem to be wanted. Ex¬ 
tras are 45c official wholesale quotation, 
but many sales are made 46 to 47e for tub 
and a cent more for print.s. Extra dairy 
is 44. Goldsmith, Wall & Co.: “The de^ 
mand and the shortage is back of the 
strong market. Milk will be sold at a 
price equal to 60c per pound for the but¬ 
ter in it. _ If butter goes up to corre¬ 
spond it wall check the demand. Some 
trade is being driven to substitutes, but 
even a good grade of oleo is 31c, and man¬ 
ufacturers talk of the advancing cost of 
raw material and refuse to take orders 
except at market price on day of ship-! 
ment. ^ 
LIVE STOCK AND MEATS. ' 
Prices of beef cattle at the local stock- 
yards have not responded fully to the ad¬ 
vance of choice Western beef to 23c, and 
young cow beef to 15c. A reason is that 
even the best arrivals at Brighton are 
hardly up to the mark, while arrivals of 
ordinary grade are liberal. The range on 
good to choice is 9 to 11c, fair 7 to 8c. 
Cows of dairy breeds mostly 5 to Sc. 
Calves are 14e for the best and the top on 
dressed veals is 21c. Choice hogs bring 
19c alive, and 24c dressed. Lambs are 
11 to 13c, and sheep mostly 7 to 10c. 
Milch COW'S sell slowdy, and recent prices 
ranged a little lowmr, some going as low 
as $40, w'hile $125 was about the top. 
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