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rural. NEW-YORKER 
Novt’inbor y, 1!)17 
The Fate of the Unprepared 
Among the remarkable events of 
this war no fact stands out more 
startlingly than the tragic sacrifice 
of Russia’s unequipped soldiers. 
The army has been victimized L)' 
intrigue and treachery. Guns were 
sent to the front without ammunition 
and ammunition without guns. Sup¬ 
plies were provided that when un¬ 
packed proved to be rubbish. Left 
stranded by communications that 
broke down under slight pressure 
the brave Russian troops hurled 
themselves again and again against 
foes perfectly prepared. 
From the very verge of victory 
they doggedly fell back fighting 
with stones and clubs and iron bars, 
resisting heroically but ineffectively. 
No thought can be more abhor¬ 
rent to Americans than that of our 
boys ruthlessly slaughtered because 
cf lack of equipment or support 
which it is the first business of us 
at home to supply. 
Our Government, never before 
so powerful, is working prodigiously] 
in the preparation of armies and 
means of warfare. Throughout the* 
nation there is a unity of purpose, 
that is piling on the altar of liberty 
every personal ambition and cor¬ 
porate gain. 
Mines, factories, farms, shipyards, 
the counting houses and shops of 
every industry are laboring day and 
night to supply the sinews of war. 
The Bell System is co-operating 
to mobilize production, transporta¬ 
tion and communication, and is 
using its every energy to speed up 
American defense. 
Boston Produce Markets 
.Sr.ow Axo Snaocixg Vaft’ES 
Ht'I.K IX SlAKKAf. I.IXKS OF TRAnK 
TIio liiis bocii pnssiii" 
tlirougli ono of loan stroaks tliat 
aro ajit to ooonr ovcry fow nionths;. 'Flioy 
usually Iiaiiiioii aftor a riso in ju-ioos. At 
first Totailors liurry to buy for foar 
pricos will jjo still liisbor. Whou this 
kind of buyiufr is ov<'r thoro is a. jniusc, 
for by tlrs tiiuo the advanci* will havo 
soakod down to tho oousuinor and ho 
buys loss fur a whilo. TW rosiilt is a 
dullnoss of trade and a sagsins of whoh*- 
salo vabios such as ]iro\ailod durins; the 
last part of tlctobor. Sooner or later the 
buyiii}; rocoviM's in volume and the mar¬ 
ket moves uj) or down, aei'ordinff to the 
suitiily. The dullness applied to A-ege- 
tables, m<‘ats, jmultry, eggs, cheese. Ilut- 
tev has ke])t moving pretty well, and the 
suji]>ly of fi'uit has beim so limited all 
the season that receipts do not usually 
more than kee|> ])aee with the demand. 
It is expected that the heavy buying that 
'might to jirecede the 'J'hanksgiving s'oa- 
son will before long begin to renew the 
act'vity of the genei-al produci' markeds. 
Vkoetaiu.ks Drag axd Wkakfx 
Itealers almost without exception com- 
jdain of the slow trade in garden truck. 
“It’s the, high prices,” declared one. 
“They are tired of the stulT,” assertial 
another. On the AA'hole, jlric<*s have held 
pretty well. Oarr<)ts are down, but beets 
are up, both selling at .'jil, to per 
box. Ttmder second crop beets are in 
light sujipl.v be<‘ause jirices were discour- 
agingly low at the time these should have 
been planted. Oelery holds at .$1. to .*?l.r>0 
per doz., according to grade and variety. 
Cauliflower is coming ver.v fine and brings 
75c to .$1 ])er box of live heads. Cabbage 
holds its recent price imjirovement to .'?! 
per 1)1)1., or b.-tter. One day it s.dd in 
the municiiial markets as high as .$2, but 
fiuickl.y fell back the next day. Ily the 
way. many of the smaller free markets 
in Xew Kngland have been closing for 
the season. They explain it by lack of 
free Winter quarters or lack of a large 
and varied supply from local farmers late 
in the season. But it seems that the 
public markets have seldom flourished 
very Avell after the most perishable stuff 
has gone. For Winter vegetables, fresh¬ 
ness is not so much of an ob.iect to the 
consumer and it is more convenient to 
call up the legular dealer and have the 
stuff sent to the door. Onions i*em.aiu at 
$2 per box; sugar pumpkins, 750 per 
box; squashes, .$1 to .$1.50 per bbl.; shell 
beans, $1.50 ))er box. It is sur))rising 
how some of the farms along the South 
Shore manage to kt'ep shipping good 
looking beans, tomatoes and corn way uj) 
to Xovembm". The sea moisture seems 
to take out the frost, leaving enough life 
in the jilant to carry out a part of its 
crop. Cucumbers are in light supply, at 
$fl jier box for choice stock, Badishes 
and lettuce arc 35c to 50c per box; yel¬ 
low turnips, 75c to per box; par¬ 
snips. .$1 to .$1.25. 
Potatoes Rise axd Fale 
Potatoes have been selling as high as 
$2 for native stock and good Maine pota¬ 
toes Avmit near to that level. Later the 
market has been easier, with Maine sell¬ 
ing down to .$3..50 per 2-bu. bag at the 
yards. 'I'he checking of demand follow¬ 
ing the sharj) advance appears to explain 
the situation. Both supply and demand 
are Awr.v moderate. Farmers are in no 
hurr.y to ship unless they can at least 
net the cost of raising tliis year’s crop 
and marketing has been further delayed 
b.v bad Avi'ather, muddy roads and lack 
of cars. 
PiKi.D Beaxs Seel Reoaa’t.y 
D ullness preA'ails likew'se in the field 
bean trade, although Government orders 
are hoped for soon after the first of the 
month. The price is holding Avell. at .$0 
for X. Y. pea, and .$7 to .$7..50 for red 
kidney. Xoaa’ crop A-alues are reported 
niling fully as high as for the old crop. 
The trade coushlers the yield short in the 
'inportant field bean sections of Xew 
York and Michigan, “As for the ama¬ 
teur beau growers around here,” said a 
Chatham Street dealer, ” their condition 
is pit'able. The drought stonped the 
vines and ripened some beans. Then rains 
started ncAV groAvth and rusted the ripe 
beans, Avhile the ncAV groAvth beaus were 
caught by the early frost. They have a 
mess that the.v don’t knoAv Avhat to do 
AA’ith.” 
.Apple Pric es Fairet Steady 
Sales of apples ai'e quite active, at 
about recent prices, except that feAv lots 
reach extreme high pi'ices. Fancy Mc¬ 
Intosh still tops the market at .$(>. al¬ 
though some fancy Spies and even Bald¬ 
wins were reported going into cold stor¬ 
age'at about that level. But most stand¬ 
ard lots range from 153..50 to .$1.50 per 
bbl. Xo. 2’s and Avindfalls around .$.‘>, al- 
through the bulk of them are sold by the 
box, running nearly three boxes to the 
bbl. gowl deal of Winter frir't is going 
into storage, but some hand-picked Bald- 
Avins are offered in the market at .$1.50 
per box. Color is good, but size hardly 
up to normal. Apples .are A’cr.y sc.arce 
in many of the .smaller town's Avhicli 
usually have plenty, and prices are about 
on city level. 8ome orchards have noth¬ 
ing but seconds, spraying having bi'cn 
neglected because of the light set of fruit, 
(’ider mills seem hard put for supplies 
and are^ adA-erti.sing Ir'gh prices all through 
Ponrs art' very scavco, 
even small native Kieffers are $.3 per bbl., 
double last year’s price; large X. .J. 
Kielfcrs. .$4: choice kinds, like Sheldon. 
Sor'kol aiif] Rop:c, $._» to $7. Qiiinr^os aro 
$7 per bbl.; cranberries. .$8..50 to 
( oTicord and Ninj^ara ^:i*apos, 
to in por baskot. 
vSeeeixg Xew Fxgi.axd Milk. 
The Xew Fnglaud Milk Producers’ .\s- 
sociation has been sending out from its 
Boston office the list of prices. shoAving 
nets paid to producers at the vari¬ 
ous stations. The schedule is based on 
the noAV terms of Sc per quart for the milk 
delnmred at Boston, with freight deduc¬ 
tions lor the various zones. Xearb.v ship- 
pers, hoAvevei', in the first zone get a full 
cent a quart abo\’e the general 8-cent 
stiindard, the reason being that nearby 
milk is in .special demand. Massachusetts 
shippers are additionally favored by tho 
recent reduction of freight rates on the 
S^/^-quart cans, letting them in on the 40- 
quart basis and amounting to an adA-ance 
of nearl,y one-tenth cent per quart on the 
net price receiA’ed, The higher price of 
milk in Boston h.as not resulted .so far in 
any important oversupply. While the 
•State food commission ju.stified the ad- 
A’ance on the part of f.armer.s, it refused 
to alloAV the de.alers to charge more than 
14c, and thi.s limitation of the i-etail price 
has helped check any falling off in 
demand likel.A^^ to occur if dealei's were 
alloAA'e<l to raise the price to consumers 
out of proportion to the advance giA-en the 
producers. A great deal of milk is Iming 
S(.;d^ in the 20 or more 10-cent milk 
stations that have been opened in A-arious 
parts of the cit.v._ They sell 10-quart 
tickets for .$1 cash in advance and do not 
furnish the bottle nor deliA'er the milk. 
The consumer brings a ticket and a bottle 
and carries home the milk. This plan is 
claimed to result in no profit to the 
dealers. It certainlj' tends to help the 
demand and to preAmnt accumAilation 
of surplus milk. 
Better Market Uxsettled. 
Values have shown a tendency to re¬ 
cover in the butter market, biit some 
dealers protest that the advance is not 
'‘healthy,” because prices had not stayed 
doAvn long enough to .start general buy¬ 
ing. Pre.sent basis is 44^ for tub extras 
and 4.5c for prints. Dealers .say they 
Avant lower prices, to increase the de¬ 
mand, but it is plain that butter is al¬ 
ready cheaper than milk. Cheese in¬ 
clines loAver because of the persistent lack 
of large buying. The price in the country 
markets is noAv doAvu pretty close to the 
price Xew England is offering for imports, 
and shipments may resume after the 
Canadian supply becomes short. Bo.ston 
dealers quote 2.3i^c to 24c for X. Y. 
•State extras. 
Xearby Eggs Firm. 
The .scarcit.v of nearby hennery eggs 
keeps the price firm around (30e, although 
demand is light. Best Western are 44c. 
but many lots include too much held stock. 
Fine cold storage eggs sell at .38c, show¬ 
ing usuall.v a loss to holders, but many 
Irying to get out now r.ather than risk a 
bigger loss by-and-by. 
POUETBY LoavER. 
It is betAAmen seasons in the poultry 
trade just uoav with no special demami. 
while supply continues liberal. The situ¬ 
ation of live poultr.v is further aggravated 
hy the presence^ of a great deal of thin 
stock. ^ Re.sult i.s .a drop in live fowls 
and chickens to a range of 10c to Iffc. 
Most lines if plump sell better dressed 
than alive. ‘‘It wouldn’t cost much to got 
a little more flesh on some of these biros.” 
remarked S. L. Burr, ‘‘and it would pay, 
because every pound of the bird would 
bring more. We advise dressing the stuff 
noAV if one has i-easonably good facilities. 
If a dre.sser knows his trade, the cost of 
dressing a heaA’y chicken need not be over 
3c per iioimd, shrinkage included, Avhile 
the difference per pound is 9c or 10c be¬ 
tween live and dressed.” Choice northern 
dressed foAvls are 27e to 28e; heavy 
chickens, 30c to 33c; medium, 27c; broil¬ 
ers, 30c to 32c; young ducks, 27c. 
Live Hogs Seix Iaiaver. 
During the past month the price of livi* 
hogs at the Brighton stockyards has drop- 
lied quite sharply from the top of about 
20c to a level of 16o to IGV^c for best 
lots. Receipts are not especially large, 
but the Western markets Avent doAvn and 
this one had to go Avith them. Dressed 
pork is 20e to 21c. Choice beef cattle 
sell at 10c to 12c; good coavs, 7c to 8c; 
fanners, 4%e to .5c; best calves, 14c to 
14 %C; fair to goo<l, 11c to 13c; sheep, Gc 
to 9c; lambs, 120 to 14e. Choice milch 
coAvs are scarcer than ever. They sell up 
to .$150 or better, and it does not take a 
A’ery wonderfvil milker to bring .$100. 
In fact the range of sales at a recent 
auction of a milkman’s herd near Boston 
Avas .$90 to .$158. g. n. f. 
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