1176 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
OcTOUER 4, ]017. 
Fogs.—N(> arb.v eRgs of faiiey quality, 
scarce ami hiRh. Fancy lu-nnory whites, 
i)8c to (iuc; fancy hennery browns, 48e 
ainl oOc; nearby gathered whites and 
mixed, 40c to 52c. Candle your eggs 
before shipping, and do not pack cracked 
eggs. Use ne\v_ cases, with Xo. 1 Oats 
and fillers, ))lacing excelsior on top and 
bottom of ca.se. 
IluTTER.—Market advances about %e 
over last week. I>est Western Creamery, 
40c to 40%c; j)rime to fancy, 44i/4c to 
45% ; fancy Eastern dairy, 44c to 45^c; 
Eastern Dairy in mixed i)ackages, 40c 
to 45c. 
Live Poultryj —Market active and 
firm. Chickens. 27c to 2Sc; fowls, white 
and colored, 27e to 2.Sc; old roosters, 
2()c to 20c; J.ong Island ducks in gf)od 
demand, and firm, 28c to 29c; live rab¬ 
bits, wanted, 25c. 
N. B.— E.\ipty Coops. —All empty 
coops ai'e turned over to the express 
companies promptly after arrival. We 
obtain a recei]tt for them. M'e are ex¬ 
erting every effort to induce the express 
companies to retura them to the shipper 
promptly. Shippers who do not receive 
the coops promptly should write us for a 
copy of the exjjress receipt, and have 
their local agent trace tlie shipment or 
as a last re.sort file claim with their 
local express agent for th“ir Ic'*- 
Live Carves and Hogs. —Market 
steady. Prime veals, lG%c to 17c. Fair 
to good, 1514c to l(>14c. Common, l‘3c 
to 1514c. Veal culls, 1014c to 12c. But¬ 
termilks, 9c to 10c. Live hogs, 19c to 
19 %c. 
Dressed Calves and Dressed Pork. 
•—('ountry dre.ssed calves in light supply, 
and good demand. Choice veals, 24e to 
2()c; good to prime, 22c to 24c; common, 
18c to 19c; buttermilks, lOc to ISc. 
Dressed Hogs, 2.8c to 2.5c; roasting pigs, 
10 to 15 pounds each, 25c to 27c; 25 to 
.85 pounds, 24c to 2(5c; light pigs, 40 
pounds to GO i)ounds, 24c to 25c. 
Peaches. —In good demand and 
steady. Quality variable. Fancy Elberta 
in baskets, 75c to $1; ordinary Elberta 
in ba.skets, 50c to 75c; Elberta, .$1.50 to 
$2.50 per carrier. 
Pears. —In moderate supply and high¬ 
er. Poorer lots dragging. Seckel, bbl. 
$5 to $8; basket, $1.50 to $2.50; Bose, 
bbl., .$.8.50 to $5, basket, $1.25 to .$1.75; 
Clairgeau, bbl., .$.8 to $4.75; basket, $1 
to $1.25; Anjim, bbl., $.8 to .$4.50; Kief- 
fer, barrel, $1.50 to $2.75, basket, 35c 
to 75c. 
Grades. —Concord crate, 70c to 85c; 
20-pound basket, G5c to 70c; <S-pouud 
basket, 2.8c to 25c. Delaware, 20-pound 
basket, 60c to 75c; black 20-pound bas¬ 
ket, OOc to 70c; White, 20-pound basket, 
40c to GOc. 
Apples. —In moderate supi)ly. market 
firm on fancy. AVolf Biver, .$2!50 to $5; 
McIntosh and .Tonathan, $.8 to $6..50; 
Wealthy, $3 to $6; Alexander, .$2.50 to 
$5; York Imperial, $2..50 to .$4.,50; King. 
$2.50 to $5; Baldwin, .$2.50 to $4. Maiden 
Blush, $2.50 to .$4..50; Fall Holland 
Pippin, $2..50 to $5; Greening, $2.,50 to 
$5; N. W. Greening, $3 to .$5..50; Crab- I 
apples, small, bbl., .$7 to $9. TiUrge, bar- ' 
rel, $4 to $7; basket, .$2 to $4. 
Chestnuts. —Southern, bushel, .$10 to 
$12. Large quality, $6 to $9 bushel. 
Maple Products and Honey. —Sugar 
light, pound 15c to IGc; Syrup, gallon, 
$1.25 to .$1..85; clover white extracted, 
1.5c to 16c pound; buckwheat extracted, 
1.8c to 14c. 
Potatoes. —Market firm, Maine $.8.75 
to $3.90; bulk, 180 pounds, $4 to $4.25; 
Long Island, bag $4.25 to ,$4.75; Jersey, 
round barrel, $3.,50 to $4; Long, $2.75 
to $3.25. 
Onions. —In moderate supply, market 
firm. State onions generally undersized. 
State and Western whites. <100 
pounds), $2..50 to $3; yellow, .$2.50 to 
$3.25; Red, .$2.,50 to $.8. Onions, State 
Yelloiv, basket 75c to $1.25. 
Beans.—M ain-ow, 1.8c to 14 Vjc; pea, 
]3%c to 14c; red kidney, 11c to 12c; 
white kidney, 1214c to 14c. 
Boston Produce Markets 
(Continued from page 1174.) 
LIVE poultry not SO ITR.M 
Fowls and chickens went off two or 
three cents from the top of 2Gc reached 
during the recent strong market, but at 
23c there was good buying power, and 
along the first of October there was re¬ 
covery, which has continued. Some deal¬ 
ers are asking 26c for hens and broilers. 
Old roosters are 17c; ducks, 16 to 22c. 
Hens of the light-weight breeds do not 
reach the quotations given. Live pullets 
have a wide range of 75e to $2, the top 
being for well-colored birds and ready to 
lay. A coop of yearling Buttercups were 
offered at $1. Most dealers seem to an- 
RURAL NEW-VORKER 
ticipate a fairly steady market through 
this month. According to S. L. Burr, 
“poultry is moving right along. Cold 
storage stock seems pretty well cleared 
away. It looks like good prices Thank.s- 
glving season, e.specially for turkeys. 
Good Northern dressed fowls are 28 to 
.80c, chickens of 4(4 lbs. weight .8.8 to 
35c. those of three lbs., 26c to 29c, broilers 
27 to 30c, old roosters 22 to 2.8c.” 
uncertainties of the egg market 
Sliippers of nearby eggs selling here at 
around GOc have little to worry about ex¬ 
cept the price of grain, but holders of 
cold stoi’age eggs have troubles of many 
kinds. They j)aid a good round price at 
the start. “When we put away eggs at 
40c we knew we were stuck,” admitted a 
dealer, “but we had to do it to keep in 
business. Xobod.v has had a chance to 
make anything yet. On some grades we 
could break about even. 8’he outcome de¬ 
pends on the season ; a hard Winter will 
lessen supplies of fresh eggs, and if values 
of the.se go too high, people will use more 
storage eggs.” “The egg market is bet¬ 
ter,” remarked I. II. Ballou, “but is quiet 
on all giades. There are more storage 
eggs than last year, and holders are in¬ 
clined to move them.” 
ri'tter and cheese very firm 
Many dealers talk as if expecting but¬ 
ter to go still higher, but retailers do not 
.share the .sentiment, or el.se cannot easily 
raise the heavj' capital needed to buy in 
advance at these levels. To store even 
20 tubs at $24 a tub takes a good buncli 
of money. Said G. H. Stone & Co.: “'riie 
butter market seems firmer on both but¬ 
ter and cheese, with an advance of on(>- 
half cent, but the volume of trade is 
light. It would be hard to get above last 
week’s prices on a forced sale. A lai-ger 
proportion of consumers are using sub¬ 
stitutes, Stock in reserve of butter is less 
than last year’.s, and prices may go higher 
eventually. Of cheese there is an incre.ased 
stock in storage, no exjmrt demand. 
and it is hard to account for the advanc¬ 
ing tendency.” Commented another large 
receiver: “There is less butter this year, 
and there was not enough last year. The 
feeling of the trade is strong. Butter is 
still the cheapest dairy foixl. Farmers 
are selling milk in preference, but in that 
wa.v they are placing a mortgage on the 
future of their faiaus. for tlie iiractice 
tends to loss of fertility of the soil, and 
live stock raised without skim milk is 
jtoor^ stuff. (’he<‘se has Ix'en going higlier. 
but it has seemed hardly a health.v m.ar- 
ket, because of the absence of actual de¬ 
mand and no export. It is something of 
a mystery, btit may be due to speculative 
holding. Canadian markets are wa.v be¬ 
low our’s. I’rice in Boston is 25i^ to 
26c for best, and to 24i/^c for fair 
to good.” Said L. Mears & Co.: “The 
dairy market seems to have an upward 
tendency all the time. Butter is being 
taken well at the advanced prices. Cold 
storage butter is being heavily sold and is 
showing good qu.ality.” 
MILK ADV.VNCE PO.STPONED 
Both jiroducers and contractors agreed 
to put off the i)roposed advance on milk 
to 8 or S(4e wholesale and 15c retail, ow¬ 
ing to the interference of one of the 
.State war commi.ssions, which wishes to 
look into the conditions underlying the 
market. It seemed to be .a ca.se of wait 
or I'isk a lawsuit, and everyb<Mly decided 
to wait. The leading milk dealers had 
arranged to put up the retail price to 15 
cents October 1. which seems to leave 
them small excuse for objecting to the 
producer.s’ advance to a general basis of 
.Sc for milk delivei-ed in Boston. The 
I’roducers’ As.sociation sought only a con* 
tr.'ict for .a month at a time in the hoi)e 
that grain prices might come down and 
enable them to put milk back to the old 
price. Of cour.se, it is realized that the 
advance is sure to check the demand, but 
the grain market conditions seemed to 
force the shippers to take this step. 
October 3.8, 1917 
HOG.? STILL HIGHER 
Live hogs sell close to the 20c mark at 
Brighton .stock yards, the quotations be¬ 
ing 39(4- to 19%c. Dressed hogs reach 
the tremendous price of 24 to 25c. Hog 
shipments are only about 50 per cent, of 
normal, quality and condition average 
rather poor at that. Prices for other live 
stock have b*-"--' rather weak, with steers 
and oxen at S to 11c. good cows 6 to 9c. 
poor cows 4(4 to *5(4. Best calves are 
13 to 14c, and others 8 to 12c; lambs, 33 
to 14c; sheep, 7 to 9c. 
FEED PRICES UNEVEN 
Corn products and cottomseed meal have 
tended lower of late, and some other feeds 
higher. Cornmeal is $4.15; cracked corn, 
$4.1,8. In .sifting cracked corn there is 
comsiderable fine material which goes to 
make meal and increasing its relative 
sui>ply. Then, too, it is doubtless easier 
to work off poorer material in cornmeal. 
The market bas had such violent changes 
in the past few months that some retailers 
are stocked up with high-priced feed while 
others bought lower. Ilence retail prices 
of dealers only a few miles apart often 
differ widely. Hominy feed is .$62, or $2.8 
below cornmeal. and is being substituted 
more than ever before. Cottonseed and 
linseed are $50 to $55, bran $36. 
II.\Y HIGHER. 
Price of leading grades of hay is up 
about .$2. or .$2.8 for Xo. 1: $16 to $17 for 
clover mixed, and $15 for Eastern stock 
hay, which is the wildi.sh hay from old 
mowings and not much wanted at this 
time. The advance in the better grades is 
credited to the shortage of cars and labor, 
which prevents active shipping from the 
country. Higher i)rice9 in the early Fall 
are not usually to be expected, and least 
of all when a big crop has just been har¬ 
vested. Lower figures are looked for 
when shipping conditions improve. 
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