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Oie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 9, 1918 
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Country-Wide Produce Conditions 
POTATO MAIIKCTS VERY WEAK. 
In the potato regions prices liave been 
dropping so fast lately that conditions be¬ 
came .something like panic. Markets have 
changed almost daily, and at times the 
range of quotations was so wide that it 
seemed hard to tell what potatoes vrere 
w'orth anywhere. The Far Western mar¬ 
kets acted better than the Eastern, be¬ 
cause prices in the West were already 
very low. Eastern prices have been put 
approaching the Western level, and by 
the first of the month bulk stock was not 
bringing much over .$1..50 per cwt. any¬ 
where, and went as low as 75 cents at 
some points. In the large cities whole¬ 
sale prices slumped badly. Carlots sold 
at .$1.50 per cwt. in Chicago, and good 
bulk stock could he bought around .$2 in 
most markets. The stock on hand is still 
large, as only about fifteen million bushels 
have been shiiiped since the first of the 
year, which would leave about 150,000,000 
bn. on hand now. Not all of these would 
come to market, even if ])rices were 
tempting. As it is, much depends on car 
supply. Thousands of cars are held back 
right along, and the connti\y station 
storehouses are full. Much depends also 
on the success of (lovernment efforts to 
get more potatoes on the public’s dinner 
table. Instead of 2.000 cars a week, at 
least O.(KK) cars weekly ought to he mov¬ 
ing out of the jiotato country. Prices 
semn likely to sttiy down and maybe go 
lower, unless something unexpected hap¬ 
pens. 
THE BEAX MARKET. 
This was imlled out of a had jiosition 
by heavy sales to the (Tovernment. So 
much of the sn))ply was taken in this way 
that the iirlee has been advancing steadily 
ever since, with a rise of .$1 to .$2 per 
ewt. in various bean sections. Rut beans 
differ from ])otatoes as a war-time crop 
because tliey are more eompaet and can 
be, shipped to feed the armies in France. 
OXTO.XS SEI.I.I.XG SLOWI.Y. 
The weakness of the onion iiosition is 
second only to tliat of potatoes. With 
apparently from two to four million 
bushels to he sold before warm weather 
and only a few linndred cars moving each 
week, it looks as if some of the onions 
would never be marketed. Storage hold¬ 
ers face lieavy losses compared with val¬ 
ues last Fall. Texas onions will begin 
about Aju-il 1 ; there are about as many 
of them as of old onions. The worst of 
it is that the retail stores usually keep 
nj) the jn-ioe of onions tet consumers, and 
tlins clieck the demand that might de- 
velo]) if the public could buy lots of a few 
pounds at anywhere near wholesale 
prices. Onions are down to about .$2 per 
cwt. in most iirodncing sections, and .$2 
to .$2.25 in tlie big cities, hut the city 
onion eater is jiaying 4 to (J cents a pound, 
as a rule. 
CABBAGE LOWER. 
'i'he public seemed inclined to balk a 
little after the <iuick advance in cabbage; 
the demand fell off and prices for the 
last few hundred cars of the Northern 
crop averaged somewhat lower, dropping 
to around $40 per ton in Western New 
York, sifter having reached a season’s top 
'if $00. Southern cabbages are competing 
heavily as the season gradually advances 
nortli from Florida and Tt^xas. It be¬ 
comes more and more risky to hold North¬ 
ern stnIT late in tin' setison, in view of the 
increasing Soutliern iirodnction. 
G. B. E. 
N. Y. Federation of Farmers 
'The Meeting at Syracuse 
The N(‘w York Federation of Agricnl 
tnre wtts formally launched at Syraensi 
Ft'hrnary 20 at a largidy attended meet 
ing. Many of those i»resent went then 
to see and learn, and were at first can 
tious, but as the day wmit on then* eaim 
to he a much greater confidence in its mo 
tives. Its aim as* stated is to federate 
the various agricultural associations of 
tlie State so that it may be possible to 
speak for agricnllnre more unitedly than 
has been possible through the various so¬ 
cieties. There was more or le.^ of “fire¬ 
works” in evidence at the meeting. Init in 
most cases none too much. It is tinn* to 
speak out iiointedly and let jiolit icians 
and the inihlic know that there is life left 
in fanners. It did not seem to me that 
there is an.y motive in tin* organization to 
•"osti'r any personal iiolitical amhitions. 
hut more to put farmers where they her 
long in relation to politictil affairs, and 
'five them a voice in their own bu.siness; 
The resolutions attacked many of tJie in- 
I'qualitie.s and injustices of Federal and 
State activities of r<‘cent date. The ad- 
dresse.s were for the most part favorable 
to the aims of the federation, and were 
received with approval 
It was stated that .‘>0 associations of 
the State were invited, mid many of them 
were represented. None but farmers are 
eligible to membership. I Vielieve, and the 
con-stitution distinctly asserts that no 
others can he officers. First was a report 
by IMr. Rush of the ‘Western New York 
1 iorticnltural Society, who gave substan¬ 
tially the above facts, tind added that no 
politician is connected with the movement 
in any way, and none will be permitted 
to use it. I was told authoritatively that 
the Lieutenant-Governor was at the hotel 
headquarters the night before, but there 
was no patching things up with the Gov¬ 
ernor and his set of manipulators. That 
there were politicians present in consid¬ 
erable numbers is certain, and several of 
the metropolitan and other daily iiapers 
had men on the ground. Mr. Fraser par¬ 
aphrased the oath of Athens, and stated 
in substance something like this: “I will 
never disgrace my native land by any act 
of mine; I will not keep silence when any 
attack its fair name; and I will not de- 
.sert my comrades in the ranks. I will 
fight for the ideals and sacred things of 
the nation, democrac.v and humanity. I 
will revere and obey the laws of the land. 
I will do all I can to quicken a public 
sense of duty, to the end that the land 
ma.v be better and more beautiful when 1 
go hence than when I came into it.” He 
then went on to show something of how 
organization in other lines has come to be 
n.sed for improper ends, while the farmer 
has remained an individualist much as 
has been the case with the final purchases 
of foods, and the result has been that both 
ends suffer. He mentioned the retail 
grocers’ associations, the A. & P. Com¬ 
pany, Swift & Company, who have gone 
into the handling of farm products, in¬ 
cluding eggs. Armours, who have decided 
to let farming alone, hut to furnish the 
cars to transport farm products and so 
help to control the markets and to deal 
in some commodities grown on the farms. 
Standard Oil finances tlie Rorden’s and 
the Sheffield’s, he says, and some 700 or 
SOO other lines, it having about 750 or¬ 
ganizations. These things and the other 
organizations for controlling business are 
detrimental to the public, and it is neces¬ 
sary for the farmers to organize success- 
fuliy in order to jirotect not only them- 
.solves but the public in general. 
Mr. Fowell. Master of the State 
Grange, said that all Interests center in 
agriculture. It is our duty to produce 
all the food iiossible. hut that we should 
speak lip plainly when forces dwarf oiir 
energies. He called attention to the atti¬ 
tude of the jiresent Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture, and expressed the fear that we may 
face a famine inside of two years unless 
there he some change in the attitude of 
those in control of affairs in some quar¬ 
ters. Speaking of organization, he re¬ 
marked that it is dreaded by those who 
are already organized to control the ac¬ 
tivities of others. 
It might be said that the chii'f address 
of the day was given h.v H. W. Colling- 
wood. ^ir. Collingwood is decidi'dly in 
sympathy with the movement, while the 
other spetikers. othi'r than those at the 
head of activities, may yet ht* a little in 
doubt whether it is in all respects just the 
thing. My idea is that the others came 
to learn as mtich as anything, and I be¬ 
lieve that they went nwa.v with a more 
favorable feeling. We want 50 farmers 
in the next Legislature, said Mr. (killing- 
wood, and he evidently believes that the 
Federation will liel)) to init th<‘m there. 
It is not new parties tliat we want, but 
new men right from the farm. I want 
to digress enough to remark on the defini¬ 
tions given during the day of a farnu*!', 
for that is what the constitution says 
memlx’i’s are to be, esjiecially if they are 
to hold office, and that no as.sociation can 
becoiiK* members if not over 00 per (■(*nt 
of its members are farmers. Some 
thought a farmer is a man who gets a 
majiir part of his living from direct man¬ 
agement of a farm, and not as the owner 
who operates through others. 
six'iikers tlionght that such a definition 
would disbar many pre.sent. as they 
worked on the farm, but had to get a 
major part of Iht'ir income from some 
other source. Mr. ('ollingwood was more 
definite still, and insists that a farmer is 
a man who lives on the farm and iiy his 
own labor sniqiorts himself and his fam¬ 
ily. It is that tyiie of a man whom we 
want in the Letrislatnre to the extent of 
.50 memhers. It has been charged that 
to (piestion the acts of government at this 
time and tt> embarrass those who have 
charge of those acts is treasonable. Inde¬ 
pendence. the s])eaker said, is not treason. 
When the i’nban army was in danger of 
disease from hmg stay in the island, and 
after Ihey were not all needed there. Col- 
Roosevelt took the initiative to secure 
their transiiortation to Long Island, 
where many livi's were saved. Some .said 
it was an act of insubordination and 
punishable, hut it was simply an act of 
wisdom and loyalty. Farmers know their 
hnsiiH'ss as none others do, and meddling 
'with it h.v- those who do not know and 
cannot understand is .dangeron.s at this 
time. We must iirotest in order to save 
men and save the people of the world 
from starvation. We will produce all the 
foods we can, hut it is necessary to turn 
aside now and then and fight for democ¬ 
racy here at home. Food is to win the 
war; it is a farmers’ wmr, hut it is not 
wise to save a slice of bread and lo.se 10 
bushels of wheat. We have played iut® 
the hands of those better organized, and 
have been given in return education, 
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