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7^e RURAL NEW-VORKER 
Cows, from $80 to $110; milk, 84%c 
jjcr gallon. Hogs, $19.50 to $23.50 per 
cwt.. Eggs, 75c; 'butter, 48c; chickens, 
32c per lb., live. Buckwheat, $3.25 per 
cwt.; wheat, $2.25 per bu.; oats, 90c per 
bu.; potatoes, $1.50 per bu. J. s. 
Erie Co., N. Y. 
Rye, $1.82; wheat, ,$2.15 per bu.; ear 
corn, per ton, $48; corn, per bu, $1.75; 
oats, 85c; buckwheat, i)er 100 Ib.s., $3.50; 
straw, per 100 lbs.. 45 to 52c; hogs, 
dressed, per cwt., $23; eggs, 65c; beef, 
live, per cwt., $11.50; creamery butter, 
Glc; chicken-s, live, per lb., 22c; calves, 
per 100 lbs., $15..50; potatoes, per bu., 
,$1.50; sweet potatoes, $2.20; apples, 
$2.40; milk, per qt., 11c. Milking cows 
sold at a recent auction sale brought an 
average of $148. All of* the cattle, in¬ 
cluding 2.3 cows, a ‘bull and two heifers, 
averaged $141. The highest price paid 
for a cow was $220, given for a grade 
cow which gave 13,0(K) lbs. of milk last 
year. A registered cow brought $200, a 
bull $107.50, an eight-month calf $75, and 
a seven-month-old calf $78. Horses 
brought $187, $1.33, $127, respectively. 
Corn sold for $1.86 per bu; a mow of 
hay, $880. Fodder, 4c a .sheaf; oats, 9.3c 
per bu.; chickens, 26^c per lb., and sec¬ 
ond size potatoes 93c per bu. Machinery 
sold cheaply, but most of it was old. 
Farmers are receiving at creameries for 
butter fat 75 to 80c per lb. ir. s. u. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
We are experiencing some very severe 
storms and cold weather in Maine this 
Winter; for weeks at a time it has been 
impossible to haul to market. Dairy cows 
ar(!*in good demand and bring from $75 
to $150. Milk is sold to factories, No¬ 
vember price being from $2.75 to $3.60 
per cwt. as per test. Butter, 47c per lb.; 
eggs (strictly fresh), 70c, and very scarce. 
Potatoes are raised in considerable quan¬ 
tities in some sections of this county; 
crops very light with plenty of rot; haul¬ 
ing at a standstill; at present time are 
quoted at $1.25 per bu. Hay crop good, 
price at barns $10 per ton. Oat crop light 
housed in good condition. Farmers are 
getting 22e per lb. for dressed hogs. 
Fowls, 18c per lb.; chickens, 28c per lb.; 
yellow eye beans. $8 per bu.; cabbage, 
$.3.75 per cwt. Meal and cracked corn, 
$2.05; oats, 98c per 32 lbs.; bran. $2.50; 
middlings, $2..50; cottonseed meal. $.3.2() 
per cwt.; Spring wheat tiour, $12..50 per 
bbl.; wool, 70c per lb. w. ii. B. 
Somerset Co., Me. 
Pea and medium beans, per cwt., $11 
No potatoes being .sold at present. Milk, 
per cwt., $2.75 to $3.30; butter, 45c; 
eggs, 54c. Cows are selling at auctions 
and private sales at $50 to $125, accord¬ 
ing to quality of stock. F. P. 
Wyoming Co., N. Y. 
CourUrywide Produce Situation 
BEANS DOING BETTER. 
The bean market has been draggy for a 
long time, but showed some indications 
of betterment during the past week or 
two. Prices have held firm East and 
West, and some varieties of IVestern 
beans have sold 25 to 75 cents higher per 
100 pounds. The efforts of food author¬ 
ities to encourage substitution of other 
foods in place of grain and meat products 
may favorably affect the demand for 
beans. Fai-mers at principal shipping 
points are now receiving $11 to $11.7,5 
per 100 pounds. The prices in the large 
city markets range from $13 to $15. 
Some of the Western beans, like the IMn- 
tos. although of fair quality, are not yet 
well known in the Eastern markets, and 
sell much below white varieties. I’intos 
bring around $10 in such markets as 
Rochester and Pittsburg. Without doubt 
a good many farmers who raised beans 
this year are discouraged on account of 
the poor average yield and the damage 
which the crop received from weather-con¬ 
ditions. It is reported from Eastern 
bean sections that many large growers 
will reduce their acreage the coming sea¬ 
son. Another cause which will tend to 
the same result is the reported scarcity of 
good seed stock of the white variety in 
the New York and Michigan bean coun¬ 
try. Good seed stock is now being used 
by the canners, and authorities expect a 
shortage unless special effort is made to 
reserve more of the beans that are in 
good condition for planting. Probably 
there will be enough beans to plant, but 
the price might be high enough to tend 
to discourage some planters, and would 
thus result in reduced acreage. It is be¬ 
lieved that the Western bean growers will 
continue to plant extensively, and perhaps 
increase their acreage, but on account of 
the comparatively small extent of the in¬ 
dustry in that section the actual acreage 
of such increase will not be especially im¬ 
portant. . 
THE POTATO PROBLEM 
The total crop was around 442,000.000 
bushels, and the Northern, or Fall crop, 
about 359.000,000 bushels. This great 
total has been rapidly reduced from va¬ 
rious causes and the stock remaining on 
hand at January 1 was estimated at 147,- 
000,000 bushels, so that about 212,000,000 
bushels of the Northern crop has been 
used or lost. The shrinkage is no doubt 
greater than usual. Several of the lead¬ 
ing crop authorities estimate normal 
shrinkage at 7 per cent. This year they 
figure that 15 per cent covers the normal 
shrinkage and the usual loss from freezing 
and other damage. Probably a relatively 
smaller portion of the crop came to mar¬ 
ket this year on account of the general 
insistence upon grading as No. 1 and No. 
2. In many sections it would hardly pay 
to shij> the No. 2, and no. doubt a great 
deal of second rate and damaged stock 
was u.^fed as feed to live stock. Accord¬ 
ingly. the amount on hand the first of the 
year was not so excessive as might have 
been supposed from the size of the croj), 
although it was two .".nd one-half times as 
great as the amoiu.c on hand the first 
of the preceding year. .Since .Tanuary 1, 
shipment has proceeded at the rate of 
about 1,000,000 bushels per w^eek. Dur¬ 
ing the past week or two, shipment has 
been checked by storms and cold weather. 
Supplies in large markets became reduced 
and the prices advanced, while other mar¬ 
kets .showed a decline. On the whole, the 
price during the last few weeks has tended 
to advance both in the Eastern shipping 
sections and in the large city markets. 
In the Western producing sections, how¬ 
ever, prices have not as a rule advanced. 
Northwestern farmers are still selling for 
about 50 cents per bushel, compared with 
fully $1 per bushel in some Eastern ship¬ 
ping sections. Prices in the large mar¬ 
kets in a wholesale way range generally 
from $2.25 to a little over $3 per cwt. in 
sacks. 
CABBAGE MARKET.S STRONG. 
The cabbage market is strong at pres¬ 
ent, although the stock on hand appears 
to be two or three times larger than it 
was last year at this time, even when 
allowance is made for the round 100,000 
tons used in kraut manufacture. At all 
events, the scarcity of last .season is not 
likely to be repeated this year, but the 
price continues rather high, holding firm 
at $50 or more in the chief producing sec¬ 
tions, and growers are netting better than 
$40 at their farms in the New Y*ork cab¬ 
bage sectidn. In the large cities the 
wholesale price ranges generally from 
$2.50 to as high as $4 per cwt. 
Onions have been somewhat disappoint¬ 
ing this year because of the slow demand. 
One reason is the sudden increa.se in acre¬ 
age of the Far West. California doubled 
its acreage at one jump, and this year 
advanced to the position of leading onion 
producer, with fully one-fourth of the 
total crop of onions. Holders of the crop 
in storage have been disappointed so far 
and have seen no chance to get back their 
money, not to mention profit. Stocks 
stored in the Connecticut Valley and 
New Y’^ork onion .sections are holding at 
$2.25 to $3 per cwt., which is about the 
rate at which onions are selling in the 
large markets. The supply departments 
of the various army cantonments have 
been buying onions on bids lately, a 
month’s supply at a time, and .some of 
the camps have bought at close to $2 per 
1(X) pounds. Various forts, training 
camps, etc., buy more or less produce di¬ 
rect from growers. Instructions recently 
issued for the National Army cantonments 
on authority of the Acting Quartermaster 
General, specify that “If at any time 
February 16, 1918 
other than the regular proposal date, sup¬ 
plies become available for advantageous 
purchase in the vicinity of depots or 
camps, or if any offer is received from 
any sources which would appear to be a 
desirable purchase, the camp quarter¬ 
master should communicate by wire or 
mail to the depot quartermaster, and that 
officer will in turn recommend to the 
Washington office suitable action.’’ In 
selling to encampments, address the 
“Supply Department,” or the “Camp 
Quartermaster.” 
APPLES IN STRONG POSITION. 
The outlook for 'what is left of the 
barreled apple crop seems to be good. 
Shipments are light, andifar more boxed 
apples than barreled apples are going to 
market. Both cla.sses of apples are firm 
in price, and some varieties of barreled 
apples are higher. At one time lately 
choice Spies sold as high as $8 in one or 
two Eastern cities. Standard Winter va¬ 
rieties have ranged mostly from $4 to 
$.5.50 in the leading markets the past two 
or three weeks. G. B. F. 
The motorist was looking disconsolately 
at his car that lay helplessly on its side 
on the border of a small plowed field. It 
had obviously skidded off the road. Pres¬ 
ently a passer-by. of the genial kind that 
will ask senseless questions, came along. 
“Hallo I Have you had an accident?” 
“No,” returned the exasperated motorist, 
“I’ve just bought a new car, so I brought 
the old one out to bury it in this field. 
Got a pickax and shovel in your pocket 
you could lend me?”—London Farm and 
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