K6e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1479 
Products, Prices and Trade 
^•EW YORK, DECEMBER 20, 1917. 
It has been a hard week for handling 
farm produce in New York, as many of 
the streets have been so blocked with snow 
that trucking was slow and difficult, if not 
impossible. Cold weather has added to 
the troubles, making it unsafe to expose 
fruits and vegetables. 
BUTTER. 
The advance noted last week has been 
held, owing to the great scarcity of high- 
grade fresh receipts. Later in the week 
the situation improved somewhat through 
the arrival of some delayed stock, but sup¬ 
plies are still scanty and the market con¬ 
tinues firm on practically everything but 
renovated. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 50 @ 51 
Qood to Choice . 45 ® 49 
Lower Grades. 39 ® 43 
Storage, good to choice, . 40 ® 46 
Dairy, best. 48 ® 49 ' 
Common to Good. 35 ® 43 
City made. 34 ® 37 
Packing Stock. 33 ® 36 
Process . 35 ® 42 
CHEESE. 
The top grades of whole milk ai'e one- 
half cent higher; under qualities without 
special change, but many holders in the 
interior markets are apparently more 
anxious to sell. It is reported that one 
concern has a Government contract for 
125 tons of cheese, to be delivered soon 
on the basis of about 24^ cents. 
WhoieMilk. fancy . 24t<j® 25 
Good to choice. 22 ® 24 
Lower grades. 17 @ 21 
Skims, best. 18 ® 
Fair to good. 9 ® 14 
EGGS. 
The mai'ket is again higher, owing to 
the light receipts of fresh, supplies and 
some damage by frost to^ shipments on the 
way during the recent cold snap. The 
heavy snow and cold weather over so 
much of the producing sections has caused 
a heavy drop in laying, except where 
flocks are particularly well housed and 
have large indoor runs. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 70 ® 72 
Medium togood. 60 ® 65 
Mixed colors, nearbybest. 63 @ 65 
Common to good. 55 @ 60 
Gathered, best, white. 65 ® 68 
Medium to good, mixed coiors ... 55 ® 58 
Lower grades. 45 @ 50 
Storage, best. 38 ® 42 
Medium to Good . 28 @ 36 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.15 00 ®16 00 
Pea.14 00 @14 75 
California, small white,.i3 25 @13 50 
Bed Kidney.15 00 @15 50 
Lima, California.13 00 @13 50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
There has been a strong demand for 
fowls and prime chickens. Freight ship¬ 
ments have been coming in slowly and ex¬ 
press receipts are light, as it has been dif¬ 
ficult to get to shipping stations on many 
<-ountry roads because of the heavy snow. 
. 23 
& 
24 
Ducks, lb. 
® 
25 
Fowls . 
. 25 
@ 
28 
Roosters . 
@ 
18 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Choice turkeys are very scarce and 
some sales made above the high Thanks¬ 
giving figures. Chickens and fowls are 
held high, although demand is only mod¬ 
erate. 
Turkeys, best lb. 40 ® 42 
Common to good . 30 ® 37 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 38 ® 40 
Roasters . 28 ® 32 
Fowls. 26 ® 29 
Roosters. 21 ® 22 
Ducks. 26 @. 27 
Geese . 25 ® 30 
Guineas, pair. 75 ® 90 
Squabs, doz.. 150 ® 6 75 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 8 35 @12 85 
Bulls . 6 50 @10 00 
Cows . 4 50 ® 9 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs.15 00 @17 50 
Culls. 8 00 @12 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 7 00 @1150 
Lambs . 18 00 @18 50 
Hogs.17 00 @17 25 
WOOL, 
The niiirket is (piiet and prices show 
but little change. Recent sales at Boston 
have been : New England, half-blood. 70 
to 72c; three-eighths blood, 75 to 70c; 
New York and Michigan, unwashed De¬ 
laine, 7.Sc; half-blood. 75 to 70c; three- 
eighths blood, 76 to 77c; Ohio and Penn¬ 
sylvania. unwashed Delaine, 75 to 70e: 
half-blood combing, 70 to 77c; Texas fine 
scoured, $1.55 to $1.75. 
FRUITS. 
The apples offered this week have shown 
a rather large proportion of poor quality 
and frost damage, sound stock of desii’- 
able grades remain at the previous high 
figure. Cranberry demand only moderiite, 
but prices of the best qualities are held 
higher than at Thanksgiving. 
Apples, Albemarle, bbl. 
McIntosh . 
Bjn Davis. 
Winesap . 
Twenty-Ounce . 
Greening . 
Baldwin. 
King. 
Spy . 
Pears—Klefler, bbl. 
Cranberries, bbl. 
4 00 ® 5 50 
4 50 @7 00 
3 00 ® 4 00 
4 00 ® 5 50 
3 50 @5 50 
4 00 @ 6 50 
2 50 ® 5 00 
4 00 @ 5 50 
4 00 @ 5 50 
2 00 @3 50 
10 00 @15 00 
VEGETABLES. 
'I'he Federal authorities have ruled that 
potatoes shall be sold by the hundred 
pounds instead of by the sack or barrel, 
so that quotations are now made on the 
weight basis. Prices remain about as 
recently reported, except that buyers are 
more cautious to avoid getting chilled 
stock. Cabbage very scarce and $10 a 
ton higher for best grades. Some small 
Tots of new from Florida have arrived, 
bringing upward of $2 per bbl. Values 
on green beans and peas and the various 
salads are very iiTegular except when en¬ 
tirely free from frost. Spinach and kale 
are very high. 
Potatoes—Long Island, 100 lbs. 2 50 @ 2 75 
Maine, 106 lbs. 2 .50 @ 2 65 
Jersey, lOOlbs... 3 00 @3 50 
State and Western, 100 lbs. 2 30 @ 2 60 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 1 00 ® 2 25 
Beets, bbl. 2 00 @ 3 00 
Carrots, bbl. 2 00 ® 3 50 
Cabbage, bbl. 1.50 ® 2 50 
Ton ;.30 00 @50 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 50 @ 1 75 
Onions, white, bu. 100 @ 150 
State and W’n., 100 lbs. 2 00 ® 4 00 
Peppers, bu. 2 00 ® 5 00 
String Beans bu. 3 00 @6 00 
Turnips, bbl,. 1 25 @ 2 00 
Squash, bbl. 1 00 @ 2 OO 
Peas, bu. 3 00 @ 7 00 
Egg Plants, bu. 3 50 @ 4 50 
Tomatoes, Greenhouse, lb. 15 @ 25 
Brussels Sprouts, qt . 10 @ 18 
Leeks, 100 bunches . 1 00 @ 2 00 
Mushrooms lb . 25 @ 50 
Horseradish, 100 lbs. 5 00 @ 9 00 
Cucumbers, Southern, bu. 3 00 @ 4 00 
Okra, bu. 3 00 @ 8 OO 
Salsify, 100 bunches . 5 00 @ 7 00 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl. 2 00 @ 3 50 
Kale, bbl. 2 50 @ 3 00 
Parsley, bbl. 4 50 @6 00 
Spinach, bbl. 5 00 (Si 7 00 
Cauliflower, bbl. 1 50 @ 8 00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 29 00 @30 00 
No. 2.26 00 @28 00 
No. 3 .22 00 @23 00 
Clover mixed.23 00 @26 00 
Straw, Rye,.17 00 @18 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat. No. 2. red, . 2 26 @ 
Corn, new. 1 95 @ 2 00 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 89 @ 90 
Bye, free from onion. 1 88 @ 1 90 
RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, hut represent produce 
of good quality and the buying opportuni¬ 
ties of at least half of New York’s popu¬ 
lation : 
Butter, best prints..$0..56 $0..57 
Choice tub.54 .55 
Eggs, fancy.74 .76 
Gathered, good to choice, .65 .70 
Medium grades.45 ..50 
Potatoes, lb.O."! .0.31^ 
Cabbage, head.15 .20 
Turkeys, lb.42 .45 
Chickens, lb..‘12 .,35 
Fowls, lb.30 ..3.3 
Apples, doz.30 ..50 
Sausage, lb.35 .38 
Bacon, lb.4S .50 
Receipts at N-^w York during week end¬ 
ing Dec. 19, 1917. 
Butter, lbs.1,970..340 
Eggs, doz. 614,040 
Dressed poultry, pkgs. 24,208 
Live poultry, crates. 4,75.3 
Cotton, bales. 29,594 
Apples, bbls. 61,6.30 
Lemons, bxs. 3.187 
Onions, sks. 10,509 
Oranges, bxs. 134,170 
Potatoes, bbls. 29,089 
Corn, bu. 4,200 
Hay, tons. 2,905 
Oats, bu. 111,400 
Rye, bu. 357.500 
Wheat, bu. 896.000 
Rosin, bbls. 10,2.36 
Spirits Turpentine, bbls. 1.620 
Boston Produce Markets 
BUTTER. 
Fancy creamery, 44 to 4.5c; good to 
C'hoice, 42 to 43c; dairy, .38 to 42c, 
EGGS. 
Best nearby, 6.5 to 68c; gathered, good 
to choice, 55 to 58c; lower grades, 45 
to 50c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, choice, .32 to 35c; common to 
good, 25 to 29c ; fowls, 24 to 27c; chick¬ 
ens, 25 to 28c; roosters, 21 to 22c. 
FRUITS, 
Apples, standard varieties, bbl., .$4 to 
$4.50; common to good grade, ,$2.50 to 
.$.3..50 ; cranberries, bbl., $10 to $11. 
vegetables. 
Potatoes, 100 lbs., $2.25 to .$2.60; cab¬ 
bage. bbl., .$2.50 to ,$2.75; onions, 100 lbs., 
.$*2.75 to $.‘1.25; squash, ton, $40 to $50; 
turnips, bu., 75c to .$1. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers. $10 to .$12; bulls, $6 to .$8; 
cows, $5.50 to $6.50; calves, $9 to $14; 
sheep, $<> to .$9; lambs. $9 to $14; hogs, 
$18 to $18.50; milch cows, $100 to .$175 
per head. 
Philadelphia Markets 
.BUTTER. 
Best prints, 5.3 to 54c; creamery, good 
to choice, 50 to 52c; medium grades. 42 
to 47e. 
EGGS. 
Best nearby, 65 to 66e; gathered, good 
to choice, 55 to 58c; lower grades, 40 
to 50e. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Turkeys, 27 to 28c; fowls. 22 to 25c; 
chickens, 20 to 24c; ducks, 2.3 to 27c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, best. .38 to 40c; common to 
good, 30 to 35c; broilers, 34 to 36c; fowls, 
23 to 27c; roosters, 20 to 23e; ducks, 25 
to 27c; geese, 2.3 to 25c; squabs, doz., 
$3.75 to $5.75. 
FRtnTS. 
Apples, standai-d varieties, choice, bbl., 
$5 to $6; medium grades, ,$2.50 to .$4; 
cranberries, bbl., $10 to $15; strawberries, 
pint. 25 to 50c. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, 100 lbs., .$2 to ,$2..50; sweet 
potatoes, bu., $1.50 to .$2; Brussels 
sprouts, qt., 15 to 16c; spinach, bbl., $3.50 
to $5; kale, bbl., $1.50 to .$2.,5(); cabbage, 
ton. .$20 to ,$40; onions, 100 lbs., .$2 to 
2.50. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, No, 1 Timothy, ,$28 to .$28.50; No. 
2, .$26 to .$27; No. .3. .$23 to .$24..50; 
clover mixed, $2.3 to $27. Straw, best 
rye, $17 to .$18; short and tangled, $15 
to $16 ; oat, .$14 8 o $15. 
Buffalo Markets 
The market situation shows slowly ad¬ 
vancing prices of some perishable stuff. 
.Potatoes and apples are without much 
change; butter is higher; cheese and eggs 
are about the same; poultry is strong, as 
is common in Winter with grain blunging 
big prices; cucumbers are about out of 
market and tomatoes are hard to get, 
bringing 25e a pound retail. There is a 
tendency to quote potatoes and beans at 
the 100 lbs., though it sounds odd as yet. 
The market is pretty full of apples. 
The Western .Jonathan has eclipsed every¬ 
thing else, so that dealers are saying that 
it is ahead of any New York State sort, 
flavor as well as color. For this reason it 
is selling at a rapid rate at 65 to 80c per 
one-third bu. basket, retail. The barrel 
price for apples is from $4 to $7. The 
showing is good, as well in quality as in 
amount. Western apples are arriving in 
bulk car lots, so that prices are no higher 
than they were last Winter, in spite of 
the failure of the home crop. 
Potatoes are pretty plenty at $2 to 
$2.35 per 100 lbs., which is ,$1.20 up per 
bn. Onions are ,$1.75 to ,$2.2,5 per bu., 
home grown, and .$1.6,5 to $1.75 per crate 
for Spanish. Beans are still too high for 
everyday use, at $16 to $17 per 100 lbs., 
or upward of $10 per bu. 
In the vegetable list cabbage is $5 to $9 
per 100 lbs.; beets, $1 to $1.25; parsnips, 
$1.15 to $1.40; carrots, 7.5c to $1; purple- 
top turnips, $1.2.5, all per bu. Cauliflower 
is $1.50 to $1.75 per crate; celery, 20 to 
60e per bunch; lettuce, $2 to $2.75 per 
Florida hamper, good heads retailing at 
10c; parsley, 20 to .3.5c'; radishes, 15 to 
20e; shallots, .35 to 45c, all per doz. 
bunches ; squash, ,$.3.50 to .$4 per 100 lbs.; 
yellow turnips, $1.25 to .$1.50 per bbl.; 
vegetable oyster, 60 to 75c per doz. bunch¬ 
es ; celei’y cabbage, 10c per head. 
Butter is up to 50e per lb. for extra 
creamery; 44 to 46e for d.airy; 42 to 45c 
for crocks, and .38 to 40e for poor. Oleo¬ 
margarine is 27c. Cheese is firm at 27 
to 28e for best domestic and 2.3 to 25c 
for new. Eggs are stronger for storage 
than for fresh, at 6,3 to 65c for white hen¬ 
nery and 40c for storage. 
The poultry market is stronger for 
dressed than for live, dressed turkeys 
bringing ,3.3 to 37c; fowl, 20 to 27c; chick¬ 
ens. 2.3 to 28c; old roosters, 20 to 21c; 
ducks, 26 to .30c; geese, 22 to 27c. Dressed 
poultry is .3 to 4c over live, except geese, 
where the feathers make live a cent or 
two more than dressed. Southern fruits 
are rather quiet, at $4.25 to $4.75 for Cal¬ 
ifornia Valencia oranges, $7 to .$7.75 for 
lemons and 80 to 90c for limes per 100. 
Rabbits are plenty at 59 to 6.5e for cotton¬ 
tails, and $1 to .$1.25 for jacks per pair. 
They are now a common sight at the mar¬ 
kets, though not formerly, J. w. c. 
Country Wide Markets 
GENERAL PRODUCE MARKETS A LITTLE 
BETTER 
Apples are selling a little better in 
most of the lai’ge centers, owing partly to 
larger supplies of su"ar. As the season 
advances the harder varieties become 
more suitable for eating without sugar. 
The supply of barrel apples looks light 
anyhow. Total apple shipments of all 
classes are falling off I’apidly, and were 
it not for the abundance of Western boxed 
apples the offeiangs would be scanty. 
Baldwins in barrels range from $4 to $6 
for No. 1 and fancy, the highest prices 
being in Northwestern and Southern mar¬ 
kets. The market as a whole acts as if 
it would take care of the stock in sight, 
the only unfavorable feature being the 
fact that retail prices ai-e high enough to 
check demand. 
POTATOES STEADY 
No special change is shown in the po¬ 
tato situation. The Northwest and the 
Lakes region is still shipping in large, al¬ 
though decreasing, volume. Even the 
Maine potato folks ai-e shipping more po¬ 
tatoes. The plain fact is that unless gen¬ 
eral shipments keep coming fast, it will 
be hardly possible to market this year’s 
great crop without a big slump in price 
later on. 
CABBAGES HIGHER 
The advance in the cabbage market 
seems a final outcome of the big freeze 
which made a good deal of the crop un¬ 
suitable for keeping, and this damaged 
stock had to be sold at once, causing low 
prices. The stock not damaged was nat¬ 
urally in an improved position and now 
it is selling a good deal higher. Market 
centers that were quoting $1.2.5 per bbl. 
a few weeks ago now quote $2, and ton 
prices went up .$5 to $10 in the great 
cabbage shipping sections of New York 
and Wisconsin. 
BEANS DRAGGING 
One of the most disappointing crops 
this year was beans. The yield per acre 
was generally light, but so many acres 
were planted that the crop is a big one 
and the price is still further affected by the 
weather damage that occurred in most 
sections. In the Eastern pi’odueing re¬ 
gions beans are selling by the carload at 
$11 to ,$12.50 foi* 100 lbs. This is a 
pretty fair price according to old stand¬ 
ards, but seems too low for these times of 
high cost of production, with a light acre 
yield. Q. p. 
•?2.10 per bu.; potatoes, .$2; 
corn, $2.o0 per bbl. Good 5Jortheru Spy 
apples are selling in this market whole¬ 
sale at .$6.50 per bbl. We are paying di¬ 
rect to the farmer for country butter, .50e- 
eggs, 4Sc; dressed hogs, whole, 20c per 
lb.; buckwheat flour, for 24-lb. sack .8‘> 
Fayette Co., Pa. e. c.’c. 
Everything is high here. One turkey 
gobbler brought over $14 last week at .30c 
per lb. Lambs, 15c; hogs, 14c; chickens 
and fowls, 18 to 22c. Beef, 14 to ISe by 
the quarter. Good hay, $20 to $25 on 
prs, and going higher. Oats, 65 to 75c 
bu.;jvheat, ,$2.25; rye, $1.50; buckwheat, 
.$.3._,u per lOO lbs.; cornmeal, .$4.25 per 
100; hominy, .$4; middlings, .$.3.60; bran, 
f2. Our best flour is $12 per bbl.; sugar, 
lOc a lb., only 1 lb. to each family; very 
scarce. Some talk of a salt famine, but 
the Syracuse people say the output is 
normal and there is plenty of salt. Cows 
are high, selling from $50 for old ones to 
.$12.j for good_fresh ones. Yearling heif- 
ers, $50 to .$75, according to grade; grass 
calves, $10 to $.3.3. Horses plenty; light 
young horses, .$75 to $100; heavy, $150 
to $2.50. Good hill farms selling .$.30 to 
$40 an acre. Help very scarce. Farmers 
have to pay 20 to 25e an hour and board 
to press and thi-ash. Potatoes are $1.25 
to $1.,50 bu.; carrots, $1 bu.; beets, $1; 
cabbage, 5e a head; apples, $1 per bu. 
Cars are scarce and lots of hay waiting 
to he shipped. Government has the first 
chance with cars. a. e. r. 
Tioga Co., Pa. 
Ringworm 
I have several calves with some sort of 
skin ailment or disease. I am told it is 
“bull itch.” What is a cure for same? 
New York. .j. f. h. 
As calves are affected, the disease no 
doubt is ringworm, caused by the vegeta¬ 
ble parasite tricophyton tonsurans, which 
also lives upon damp woodwork, walls, 
fences, and feed hoxes and racks. First 
cleanse, disinfect, whitewa.sh, sunlight and 
ventilate the stable, and also attend to 
the other sources mentioned. A five per 
cent solution of coal tar dip will do for 
the disinfecting, or use a solution of five 
ounces oif formaldehyde to the gallon of 
water. Treat the calves as follows: 
Scrub each affected spot clean, then paint 
it twice daily for three or four days with 
tincture of iodine, and then once every 
other day. Rub iodoform upon affected 
spots on the upper eyelids. Where the 
body is affected in considerable areas, 
notably along the spine and about the 
tailhead of adult cattle, scrub with a so¬ 
lution of two ounces of sulphate of cop¬ 
per (bluestone) every three days until 
well. The solution is most effective when 
used hot. A. s. A. 
Weak Stifle 
1. I have a three-year-old-colt that was 
injured as a suckling while running in 
pasture, either by kick from mare or by 
strain or dislocation of right stifle. He 
has recovered from the lameness, but the 
muscle from his hip bone down to stifle 
seems to be stretched or shrunken, and 
there is a small puff on front just below 
stifle joint. When he travels, up hill 
especially, the stifle joint .seems to fly out 
sideways,^ and then, as he straightens 
the leg, just before stepping, it will fly 
back with a snap. Can you suggest any¬ 
thing to relieve this? I have used a 
mild blister, but it seemed to make him 
stiffer^ in the leg and only relieved the 
snapping noise temporarily. Would iodine 
or biniodide of mercury in any way help 
strengthen the tendons so as to keep this 
floating joint in place? Would shoeing 
in any way help? 2. I have a .30-mouths- 
old heifer due to freshen with first calf 
in two or three weeks. Lately bunches 
have appeared on eacn side of hind quar¬ 
ters near stifle joint; sometimes nearly 
go away and then come back. She is 
stiff about getting up, and at times a lit¬ 
tle lame. What is the trouble, and what 
can be done for it? f. s. c. 
Maine, 
1. Owing to weakness of the mu.scles 
and ligaments of the stifle joint the po- 
tella (knee cap) slips back and forth. 
Infection of the navei at birth is one of 
the common causes of this ailment, and 
where that is the case it usually proves in¬ 
curable. We should tie the colt up short 
in a narrow stall and keep the foot of the 
affected leg advanced somewhat under the 
body by means of a padded rope or strap 
tied to a collar, passed between the fore 
legs and fastened to a wide strap buckled 
around the pastern. Then clip the hair 
from the region of the stifle and blister it 
two or three times, with a mixture of 
two drams of biniodide of mercury and 
powdered cantharides in three ounces of 
lard, at intervale of two or three weeks, 
as the state of the skin will allow. 2. 
The heifer may have weak stifles with re¬ 
curring dislocation of the patella, but an 
examination would be necessary to a con¬ 
fident opinion. Try the effects of 10 per 
cent iodine petrogen or vasogen rubbed 
once daily upon the affected parts. A. s.a. 
