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■Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 27, 1917 
Notes from Department of 
Foods and Markets 
204 Franklin Street, New York City 
Boston Produce Markets 
OCTOBER 18, 1017. 
Eggs —Fancy nearby wliite, scarce. 
Market firm. Most eggs are selling at 
wide range of prices. Fancy hennery 
whites, 60 to 66c fancy hennery browns, 
48 to 52c; nearby gathered whites and 
mixed, 46 to 56c. Candle your eggs before 
shipping, and do not pack cracked eggs. 
Use new cases, with no flats and filler.s, 
placing excelsior on top and bottom. 
Rx’TTER —Lower. Rest Western ('ream- 
ery, 44 to 44i/ic; prime to fancy, 4.‘lc; 
fancy Eastern dairy, 40 to 41c; Eastern 
dairy in mixed packages, 40 to 41c. 
Live Poultry —Mark(?t dull and low(‘r. 
Fowls, white, 21 to 22c; colored fowls, 
22 to 2.'>c; chickens, 21c; Long Isk-uid 
Spring ducks, 28 to 20c; State ducks. 2.‘; 
to 24c; old roosters, 18c; live rabbits, 2.5c. 
E.MPTY COOPS. 
N. R.—,\11 empty coops aia; tiirm'd 
over to tlie exprc'ss c()m])anies promi)tly 
after arr'val. We obtain a i‘pcei])t for 
them. We are exerting every effort to 
induce the express comi>anies to j-eturn 
them to the shipper promptly. Shippers 
who do not receive the coops promptly 
should write us for a coi)y of the ex- 
pre.ss receipt, and have tlndr local agent 
trace the shii)ment, or as a Last resort, 
file claim with theb- local exjtress agent 
for their loss. 
Live (’ai.ves a.nd IIchls - .Market 
Prime calves, 16 Vi to lUVjc me- 
good, 1.‘5 to 15i/4c; common, 12 
buttermilks, to J)c; live hog.s. 
to ip7 
low(*i'. 
ilium to 
to 14c 
19c. 
Dressed Caj ves a.nd Dres.sed I’ork:—■ 
Market dull and lower. Choice veals, 22 
to 2.‘lc; i>rime veals, 21 to 21V^c; common 
veals, 20 to 20i/^c; buttermilks, 15 to 
16c; dressed pigs, 12 to 20 pounds each, 
25 to 27c; dressed pork, 25 to 27c. 
Peaks —No mater'al change. Kieffer 
pears lower, selling at .$2 to .$.2.50 b.arrel, 
few fancy, .$4; fancy Seckel, .$10 barrel; 
Anjou, .$6; Rose, .$4 to .$8; Clairgeau, .$4 
to ,$6. 
QtTiNCE.s—Fancy large, .$6.50 
barrel; No. 1, .$2 to .$5 barrel. 
Grape.s —Concord, per ton, .$70 to .$80; 
per 20-pound basket. 40 to 70c; Dela¬ 
ware, 20-i)ound basket, 40 to 60c. 
Peaches —Most basket peaches sold 
at .50 to 7.5c; bushel basket. .$1..50 to 
.$1.75; carriers, .$1.25 to $1.75. 
Apples —Good demand for all grades. 
Few fancy api)les coming. Ungraded, 
$2.,50 to $2..50; Alclntosh, .$2 to $7 barrel; 
.Jonathan, .$4 to $8 ; Wealthy, .$2 to .$6; 
Snow% $.2 to $5; King, $2.50 to .$5..50; 
Spy, .$2 to $5; Baldwin, .$2.50 to $4..50; 
Ren Davis, .$2 to .$2..50; Greening, .$2.50 
to .$6; I’ippins, $2.50 to $5.50. 
Maple 1’koducts and IIoney' —.Sugar 
light, per pound, 15 to 16c. Syrup, per 
gallon, $1.25 to $1..2.5; clover white ex¬ 
tracted, 15 to 16c per pound; buckwheat 
extracted, 1.2 to 14c per pound. 
Potatoes —Prices continue to advance. 
Buying at country points for deferred 
shipment is active. Farmers are holding 
back. liong Island farmers refused $2 
per bushel at loading station. Jersey 
Giants .sold today at $4.75 per 165-lb. 
bug, which is a record price. Few new 
York State potatoes arriving. State, 180 
pounds, bulk, .$.5 to $5.50; 168-lb. bag, 
$4.75 to .$4.85; 150-lb. bag, $4.50; .Jersey 
Round. 168-lb. bag, $5 to .$5.10; .Jersey 
Giants, 168-lb. bag, .$4 to $4.75; Maine, 
180 pounds bulk, $5..50 to ,$5.75; I.ong 
. Island, 180 pounds, bulk, .$5.75 to .$6.25; 
168-lb. bag, $5..50 to $5.75. 
Onions — Market Irgher and firm. 
Stale white, 100-lb. bag, .$2..50 to .$2..50; 
State yellow, 100-lb. bag, .$.2 to .$2.85; 
State red, 100-lb. bag. .$2.75 to .$.2..50; 
Connecticut Valley yellow, 100-lb. bag, 
$.2 to $2.50. 
Beans —Marrow, 12 to 15c; pea, 1214 
to 15c; red kidney, 12 to 1.214c; white 
kidney, 1414 to 14%c. 
notice to shippers. 
'fhe officials in charge of the Food and 
Drug Act report that inspectors have 
found several interstate shipments of 
packages of fruit and vegetables, such as 
grapes, tomatoes and berries, which con¬ 
tain no statement on the package as to 
the quantity of contents. The net weight 
amendment to the Federal Food and Drug 
Act requires that all packages of foods 
which are shipped into the inter.state or 
foreign commerce must be marked plainly 
jind conspicuously with a statement of 
the quantity of the net contents, either 
by weight or measure Shippers who vio¬ 
late the law, by not marking each pack¬ 
age of fniits and vegetables shipped into 
interstate commerce with the quantity, 
are liable to criminal prosecution. Sev¬ 
eral shippers have already been cited to 
hearings under the Food and Drug Act 
for violating its provisions in this i-espect. 
Mo.st Vegetarles in Limited Supply— 
Potatoes and Carr ages IIigher, 
While the truck market is (piiet, with 
only a moderate volume of trade, the tone 
is sati.sfactory. Supi)lies in most lines 
are not very large and sales are made 
without .special difiiculty, despite the 
rather high price level of produce in gen- 
<'ral. Values hold firm for the most part. 
Gabbage, which has been tbe cheapest 
thing in the market all along, now at 
.$1.25 per barrel shows perhaps a little 
ju-ofit for the growers’. Yield and quality 
seem good. Sipiiish appeal’s a little out 
of line at $1 to $1.2.5 jier barrel, and be¬ 
cause squash is low pumjikui.s sell very 
slowly at about the same price. 2'he 
small ide pumpkins are best sellers, but 
just before Hallowe’en there is consider¬ 
able call for large field inimpkins for 
decoration, lant(*rns. etc. “Last year I 
bought some pumiddns from farmers,” 
said a jieddler. “They were face jmnij)- 
kins. large and rather long, just right for 
lanterns, 'riie boys followed my cart all 
over town the afternoon before Hallow¬ 
e'en. and I .sold all I had at three tunes 
the cost.” Native onions of good size 
bring $2 i)er bu.shel. but many seem to 
I’un small this year. Unlike potato 
growers, the carrot raiser who sold early 
made most money. It takes clean, smooth 
and not overgrown carrots to bring over 
$L and beets, if bright, uniform, me¬ 
dium sv.e and dark colored, bring about 
as much. Spinach has been in liberal 
supply all this month and sells at 40 to 
.50c jier box. Cauliflower i.s around $1 
per box. Choice cucumbers are scarce 
and high at .$8 per box; celery, .$1.25 to 
$1..50 per dozen; lettuce. .50c to $1.2.5 per 
box; parsnips, $1.2.5 to .$L.50. Tomatoes 
are nearl.v done, but show all qualities 
and a range of from $1 to .$4 per box, 
green ones, 75c to $1; turnips. 65 to 00c 
l)er bushel; oyster plant, $1; citrons, 
$1.25 to .$1.50. 
POTATOES A STRONG FEATURE. 
Those who looked for low potato prices 
at digging time found instead a rapidly 
advancing market, and have cause to 
wonder what has become of tbe immense 
acreage and heavy crop of which so much 
was said earlier in the season. The drop 
of the iVlaine yield to about .50 per cent 
is now generally acknowledged, and what 
there are up that way seem to be held 
back for still better pi-ices or for lack 
of cars. "Western and Canad'an potatoes 
are not cutting much of a figure here yet. 
Said J. H. Mead—“The market is strong; 
$1.00 per bushel in bulk at the yards. 
Farmers are holding them back. There 
is car shortage in the West. Some of 
the old style blue Uhenangoes come from 
Canada, but are not popular and sell 
from 40 to 50e below the market.” Deal¬ 
ers who have been through the Northern 
potato country find the crop disappointing 
in quantity and quality. There is now 
les.s expectation of large Western and 
Canadian ehipment-s, A. F. Ileald—“The 
market is higher, supply is light and de¬ 
mand good. The farmers holding for 
higher prices, is the secret of the whole 
business. At the agency of the Farmers’ 
Union of Maine it was stated that the 
movement of potatoes from Maine has 
been less than one-third compared with 
last year. This holding back wdll at this 
rate overcome the shortage so far as 
Blaine is concerned by the first of the 
year. 
APPLE MEN GENERAIXT CONFIDENT. 
The apple market is back again on its 
good behavior, and most holders are feel¬ 
ing cheerful once more, although there is 
in many cases an undertone of worry. 
“It is a bit of a gamble, anyhow,” re¬ 
marked a veteran buyer. We get caught 
sometimes, but if we win three times in 
five we get ahead a little. Two years 
ago we lost money, and so did most of 
the triide. Last year v;e got it back and 
a little more. Tbe -worst year we had 
was in 1007. Toward the last dealers 
Avere paying $4 in New York State, and 
then came the panic and bad times. One 
of our neighbors wms said to have sunk 
$40,000 that year in apples. This year 
it seems as if dealers are paying a dan¬ 
gerous price for apples at $2 to $4 a bar¬ 
rel, but they are buying and we are buy¬ 
ing because such risks are a part of the 
business. We feel that the deal will come 
out all right xvith general prosperity and 
everything else high. At least we hope 
so.” Said another old timer—“If I Avere 
,a young man I w'ould buy and hold .25.000 
barrels of Winter apples this year. They 
can’t helj) going high Avith a 10 to 20 per 
cent crop in Ncav Y"ork State, Avhich ought 
to raise a third of the whole supply, and 
Ncav England is short compared even 
Avith last year. Absence of export trade 
needn’t bother us, because we haven’t 
enough to fill our home markets, and 
there Avill not be much other fruit excejit 
apples.” A Faneuil Hall market dealer 
observed—“One of our old shippers tele- 
phoned today that he had refused $2 per 
bushel for 200 boxes of his fancy Rald- 
Avins and refused $1.20 for orchard run. 
I told him to hold them and I would sell 
them all on commission later at $2.” Rut 
some are far less confident. “Western 
apples are going to cut a great figure in 
the market,” said a leading firm. “Last 
year a lot of them went to Europe, but 
this year we must take them all. There 
AVill be over 1(,000 carloads in Washing¬ 
ton State alone, and all the States raising 
bo.x apples, except Oregon, shoAv an in¬ 
crease OA-er last year.” Baldwin wind¬ 
falls sell at .$2 to .$2..50 per barrel, some 
being of fine grade, others poor and 
A\mrmy. Many orchards having light 
crops went unsprayed this year. Wealthy, 
$2 to .$4 per barrel; McIntosh, $4 to .$6. 
One lot of McIntosh brought .$4 a bushel. 
Snow, $2.50 to $2.50 per barrel; crab 
apples, ,$4 to .$6. Cranberries are in light 
receipt and fair demand. Said W. W. 
Benjamin & Co.—“It is about half a crop, 
and much of the crop not spoiled AA'as in¬ 
jured. The frosted berries are picked 
out, but tbe rest are apt to be stickv. 
2’he general range is from $8 to $0.50 per 
barrel.” Concord grapes are 16 to 17c 
per small basket, $1 to $1.,50 per box. 
RUTTER IN AA'EAKER POSITION. 
The market has sagged aAA’av a frac- 
fon this Aveek to about 24i/^c for North- 
<’rn creamery extra under the influence 
of lai’ger receijjts and reduced demand. 
Dealers seem agreed that high, price.s 
have checked buying. “Reta’lers Avho 
used to s(41 a tub a day noAv order thi’ee 
or t(jur tubs a A\'eek, and others in like 
jiroportion,” declared C. H. Stone & Co. 
“'I’lie suri)lus stock for the Avhole country 
of 24 i)er cent on .August 1 Ava .9 reduced 
to three per c.-nt October 1, and tbe local 
.situation is in line AA’ith these figures, 
Avith, only .a few thousand packages sur- 
jilus. Recei[)fs are increasing. Over 250 
tubs came this moi-ning from a creamery 
Avhich ha.s not been sbippuig for months. 
Demand for cream and ice cream is less, 
and the milk goes to the butter factory. 
LoAA’er butter prices aj’e needed to increase 
demand. Oleo sells at 20c beloAV butter 
and other butter substitutes are used in 
cooking. 2’he chees-e smiation is AA’orse 
than butter. Thei’i; is OA’er balf as much 
again as last year and no active demand.” 
8aid I.. H. Alears & Co.—“We look for 
a steady butter market for the present. 
Chee.se is firm around 2.5c. It seems t<) 
be held by large packing firms, who are 
Avaiting for export demand.” 
EGGS STEADY, 
Price for nearby hennery .stock hold 
around .56c, AA’ith light receipts. Choice 
AV’esterns are 42 to 42c; April stored 
eggs, choice, .27 to .28c, these shoAving a 
loss to holders. Dealers feel gloomy over 
the outlook for the.se. 
POULTRY LOAA’ER. 
Demand is sIoaa’ and supplies liberal, 
especially live poultr.v, and it Avill pay 
just noAV to dress fat poulti'y, especially 
beaA'y chickens, four to five pounds, rather 
than ship alive. S. L. Burr—“Lh’e poul¬ 
try is loAver; live foAvl and chickens, 22c, 
old roosters, 16 to 17c; heavy dressed 
foAvls, 20 to .20c, medium 2.5c; heavy 
chickens. .22 to ,24c; light. 28 to ,20c; 
turkeys are likely to be short for Thanks¬ 
giving, and the average buyer may have 
to be content Avith one from cold storage.” 
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134-136 West 25th St.. New York City 
Member of the Raw Fur Alerchants’ Association of 
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