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Products, Prices and Trade 
NEW YORK, JANUARY 10, lOlS. 
TliP week nt Now York has beon a little 
more favorable for baiulling farm prod- 
iiets, as the zero spell has passed by. Uon- 
ditions in many lines have been bad. 
however, because of the lai’ge amount of 
frozen stuff received. Prices of perish¬ 
ables are very irregular, with occasional 
lots selling above quotations to critical 
buyers. 
urTTER. 
Receipts have been a little larger and 
the better ciaaimery and dairy grades one- 
balf cent to a cent lower. Packing stock 
and city made ai’e in small supply and a 
trifle higher. They have been selling pro- 
Ijortionately under fresh creamery. 
Creamery, fancy lb. b\ ® ,52 
Good to Cliome . 48 @ .50 
I.ower Griiiles. 40 @ 4.5 
Stor.age, good to choice, . 40 @ 46 
Dairy, bext. 49 @ .50 
Common to Good. 40 ® 46 
City made. 35 ® 38 
Haokitig Stock. 34 @ 37 
Process .38 ® 43 
CHEESE. 
Prices range about as for the pa.st tliree 
tveeks, but with rather more active trade 
in colored grades. 
Whole Milk, fancy . 24)4® 25 
Good to choice. 22 24 
Lower grades. 17 ® 21 
Skims, best. .. 18 ® 19'n 
Fair to good. 9 ® 14 
EGGS. 
Receipts of gathered stock light. Near¬ 
by white in a little freer supply, though 
more or less frosted and mixed with small 
sizes. The trade in whites is being partly 
supiilied by well graded stock from the 
AVest. Storage eggs are higher and de¬ 
mand good. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 73 @ 75 
Medium to good. 65 @ 70 
Mixed colors, nearbybest..■. 64 O 6.'> 
Common to good. 60 O 62 
Gathered, best, white. 70 O 71 
Medium to kooU, mixed colors ... r (1 67 
I.ower grades. 45 O 5.i 
Storage, best. 43 ® 45 
Media m ^o Good . 30 ® 40 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.15 00 f*.].5 75 
Pea.14 00 ®14 2.5 
California, small white,.13 00 ®13 25 
Bed Kidney.14 00 @14 .50 
liima, Cali fornia. . .13 00 (6.13 25 
LIVE I’OULTUY. 
Arrivals are light and prices higher on 
heavy fowls and jirime geese ; conunon run 
of fowls and chickens selling slowly. 
Chickens, lb. 
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Ducks, lb. 
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Fowls . 
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26 
Roosters . 
. 17 
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18 
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DRESSED POULTItY. 
A considerable quantity of delayed stuff 
is arriving, usually frozen hard or in bad 
order. High grades of fowhs, chickens and 
capons are scarce. 
Turkeys, best lb. 33 @ 34 
Common to good . 30 @ 32 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 38 @ 40 
Roasters . 30 ® 35 
Fowls. 25 @ .30 
Capons, best . 38 ® 40 
Smaller sizes . 33 @ 37 
Roosters. 20 @ 21 
iMicks. 27 ® 28 
Geese . 23 @ 26 
Guineas, pair. 75 6» 90 
Squabs, doz. 1 .50 @6 75 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 8 35 @13 25 
Bulls . 6 60 @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 @12 00 
l,,ambs .15 00 @19 00 
Hogs.17 00 @17 25 
FRUITS. 
Uhe aiiple market is very unsettled lie- 
cause of the heavy iiroiiortion frozen or 
frosted, ('ranherry trade moderate, hut 
the better grades held higher. A few 
stratvberries from Florida and California 
are arriving. Oranges bringing high 
figures. 
Apples, Albemarle, bbl. 4 00 @ 5.50 
McIntosh. 4 .50 @ 7 00 
Ben Davis. 3 00 @3 .50 
Winesap . 4 00 @5.50 
Twenty Ounce . 4 00 @5.50 
Greeni g . 4 00 @ 6.50 
Baldwin. 3.50 @5 00 
King. 4 00 @ 5 .50 
Spy .. . . . 4 00 @ 5 .50 
Pears—KielTer. bbl. 2 00 @4 00 
Cranberries, bbl.10 00 @16 00 
Strawberries, qt. .50 @ 75 
VEGETABI.ES. 
I’otato market firm and higher on best 
.sound stock. Onions in good demand. 
Cabbage very high, sound old going mainly 
above $-l() per ton and new from Florida 
at about .$2 per bushel hamper. Southern 
beans, peas and salads arriving badly 
frozen and in many cases abandoned as 
not worth freight. In such times as this 
the value of a salvaging place on the 
meadows ivest and north of .Jersey (Yty ' 
is evident. There is ample room, land 
rental comiiaratively-fdieap. and all of the 
railroads reaching New York from tlie 
.Jersey side could reach one or two central 
places there readily by sidings. Sorting 
sh<‘ds of concrete or matched luinher with 
jirovision for necessary heat would not be 
very expensive, and with the present and 
growing trolley and tube connections a 
distributing business other than in dam¬ 
aged goods would doubtless be developed 
under conditions much less expensive than 
are at present possible in or near the city. 
At any rate it would prevent throwing 
away food part of which could be saved. 
Potatoes—Long Island, 100 lbs. 2 .50 @3 15 
Maine, 100 lbs. 2 OO @ 2 75 
Jersey, lOOlbs. 2 00 @ 2 25 
a37ic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
State and Western, 100 lbs. 2 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. i oo 
Beets, bbl. 2 00 
Carrots, bbl. 2 00 
Cabbage, bbl. 2 00 
Ton ..35 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. .50 
Onions, State and W’n., 100 lbs.2 00 
Peppers, bu.2 00 
String Beans bu. 100 
Turnips, bbl,. 1 25 
Squash, bbl. 2 00 
Peas, bu. .3 00 
Egg Plants, bu. 3 M 
Tomatoes, Greenhouse, lb. 15 
Slushrooms lb . 25 
Horseradish, 100 lbs.5 00 
Cucumbers, hothouse, doz. 1 00 
Salsify, 100 bunches . 5 00 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl.2 00 
Kale, bbl. 1 ,50 
Parsley, bbl.4 00 
Spinach, bbl. 3 00 
Cauliflower, bbl. 150 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton .3.3 00 
No. 2.30 00 
No. 3 .25 00 
Clover mixed.20 00 
Straw, Rye,.16 oo 
GRAIN. 
Wheat. No. 2, red, . 2 26 
Corn, new. 195 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 94 
Rye, free from onion. 1 88 
,S 2 60 
@ 2 75 
@ 3 50 
@ 3 00 
@ 3 00 
@.55 00 
@ 2 25 
@ 3 25 
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@10 00 
@ .3 00 
@ 3 00 
@ 8 00 
@ 4 00 
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@ 55 
@800 
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® 7 00 
® 3 00 
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@ 9 00 
@ 6 .50 
® 8 00 
®34 00 
@32 00 
@29 00 
@28 00 
@20 00 
pricc.s noted hero, hut represent produce 
of good quality and the buying oppor¬ 
tunities of at least half of 
population : 
Rutter—Rest print.s. 
Tub, good to choice. 
Eggs — Fancy. 
(lathered, good to choice.. 
Aledium grades. 
Potatoes, Ih. 
Cabbage, lb. 
Apples, doz. 
Turkeys, lb.'. 
Fowls, lb. 
New York’s 
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North Carolina.. 
Oklahoma . 
Sontli Carolina.. 
Tonnosscp . 
'Pexjus . 
Virgiiiii . 
All oilier Stiitps. 
.'■>43, .123 
884.829 
1,140,22(1 
200.320 
2,987.947 
10.273 
3,788 
042,810 
798,701 
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3,523,90.5 
20,192 
5,589 
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1,133, 
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United States.. 10.4.50,401 11,039,491 10,030,778 
COTTO.N GINNING REPORT. 
The Covernment report puts the amount 
of cotton ginned iq) to Jan. 1, 1918, at 
10.450,401 bales, or .5.89,000 bales less 
than for the same period last year. The 
figures by States for the last three years 
follow : 
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RETAIL PRICES AT NEW YORK. 
These are not the highest or lowest 
1918 
1917 
1910 
-Alabnina .... 
540,001 
1,007,1.30 
Arizona . 
5,770 
1,445 
Arkansas ... 
. 8.58,445 
1,000,.509 
753,180 
California 
28,237 
20,383 
Florida . 
_ 40,353 
50,2.54 
54,087 
Georgia .... 
. 1,708,280 
1,810,934 
1,900,771 
Louisiana 
. 005,9.37 
4.35.437 
.3.32.428 
Mississippi 
. 809,712 
775,452 
888,813 
Missouri .... 
55,727 
43,405 
Country Wide Markets 
THE UPWARD TURN IN PRODUCE MARKETS. 
Prices of vegetables and fruits have tend¬ 
ed upward recently, following the long 
time of sagging and weakness throughout 
November and December. Cabbage, po¬ 
tatoes, onions, apples, oranges, Soutlieru 
truck, all show a higher price trend. 
The cold weather which improved the 
demand for food also reduced the siqiply, 
because of the hindrance to hauling, load¬ 
ing and shiinnent, the delay of trains, and 
also tlie actual damage by freezing of the 
stock and of growing crops in the South. 
Tlie car shortiige is not so had now as 
it was a month ago, hut protected ciirs are 
still scarce; that is, the double-walled, 
double-paper lined, stove-heated cars used 
for potatoes, etc. This year the cold has 
been so extreme that even the heated cars 
hiive often failed to prevent freezing. At 
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