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NEW YORK, MARCH 21, 1918. 
BUTTER. 
There has been a heavy decline—four 
to seven cents—on most grades of butter, 
as receipts have been large and market 
panicky, .lust how much of this panicky 
condition is real and how much artili- 
cial is hard to tell, but the effect on 
prices is the same. Another point that 
.adds to the weakness of the market is 
that a Spring’s production has never be¬ 
fore been preceded by so heavy consump¬ 
tion of butter substitutes. Nearly every 
dairy store has displayed and sold the 
oleomargarine from both animal and veg¬ 
etable fats, and the prejudice formerly 
so prevalent has largely disappeared. 
Dealers are wondering how' large a pro¬ 
portion of consumers will go back to blit¬ 
ter when the price gets down toward the 
range of previous years. This is not a 
pleasant thing for the dairy interests to 
think about, but it is a condition that 
exists and must be faced. The oleo in¬ 
terests have taken every advantage of 
the situation and know that they can 
continue to keep the price of their pro¬ 
ducts helow butter on the decline and 
still make large profits. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 41^4® 42 
Good to Choice . .19 ® 41 
Bower Grades. 36 ® 38 
Storage, good to choice, . 3.1 @ 40 
Dairy, best. 40 @ 40^ 
Common to Good. 34 ® 38 
City made. 31 ® 36 
Packing Stock. 27 ® 31 
Process. 35 & 37 
CHEESE. 
Prices are slightly lower, partly in 
sympathy with the drop in butter, but it 
is expected that there will be heavy ex¬ 
port sales of this highly concentrated 
food w'hich will steady the market. 
Whole Milk, fancy . 25 4D 25?.^ 
Good to choice. 23 ® 2414 
Lower grades. 16 @ 22 
Skims, best. 19 ® 1214 
Fair to good. 9 ® 14 
EGGS. 
The week has not brought much price 
change. Receipts have been large, but 
consumption is very heavy, especially 
with the .lewish buyers, w'ho are unable 
to get the live poultry they generally use 
at this time. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 
46 
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Medium to good... 
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Mixed colors, nearby best. 
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Common to good. 
37 
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Gathered, best, white. 
Medium to good, mixed colors ... 
45 
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Lower grades. 
35 
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IVOOL. 
The Government announces that it will 
not interfere with the marketing of this 
years crop. Recent prices at Boston 
have been: New York and Michigan, 
fine unwashed, 0.*! to 0-tc; Delaine, 73c; 
■half-blood, 75 to 76c; three-eights blood, 
77e; Ohio and Pennsylvania, half-blood 
combing, 77 to 78c; unw'ashed Delaine, 
75c; New England, half-blood, 70 to 
72c; three-eighths blood, 75 to 7Gc. 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.14 00 ®15 HO 
Pea.12 75 ®14 50 
Oalifornia, small white,.14 00 @14 25 
Bed Kidney.14 00 ®14 50 
White Kidney.16 00 @16 25 
Lima, California....14 00 @14 50 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Arrivals are light and disposed of 
quite quickly at the high figures recently 
jircvailing. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Business is light and pi-ices high ex¬ 
cept on rough grades of chickens. 
Tnrkeys, best lb. 35 ® 36 
Common to good . 30 ® 34 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 45 ® 50 
Boasters . 33 ® 36 
Fowls .. 28 ® 34 
Capons, best .. 41 ® 42 
Smaller sizes. 33 ® 37 
Roosters. 26 ® 27 
Ducks. 30 @ 81 
Squabs, doz. ISO ® 8 25 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 12 00 @14 05 
Bulls . 7 00 @10 75 
Cows . 5 00 @10 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs.18 00 @19 25 
Culls.12 00 @15 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 8 00 ® 9 00 
Lambs .17 00 @19 00 
Hogs.18 00 @18 75 
FRUIT. 
Apple demand good and market liigher 
on the better grades of dessert varieties. 
\"ery few jtairs on hand except Easter 
Beurre from the West, which are usually 
stored so as to be at their prime at this 
time. The single fruits sell from five to 
ten cents each. Strawberries in light 
receipt. 
Apples, York Imperial, bbl. 3 50 @5 00 
Ben Davis. 3 00 @4 00 
Winesap . 4 00 @ 600 
Greening . 3 50 ® 6 50 
Baldwin. 3 50 @ 5 50 
King. 4 00 @600 
Spy . 4 00 @ 7 00 
Pears—Kiefler, bbl. 1 50 ® 3 OO 
Cranberries, bbl. .14 00 @18 00 
strawberries, qt. 12 @ 35 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes are in large supply, good 
grades wholesaling around $2 per 100 
pounds and retailing from peddler’s 
wagons at 21/4 cents per pound. Onion 
market is in very bad condition, receipts 
being large and a heavy proportion run¬ 
ning poor. The best old cabbage is a 
little higher; new in large receipt and 
low except for best asparagus from the 
South is arriving in small quantities. 
(Continued on page 503.) 
Crops for Uncle Sam and More Profits for You 
N OW —more than ever before—you must work 
quickly and well. Farm and firing line must 
fight together. 
America’ s acres must yield more than^ever before. 
But the task of stimulating production is hedged about 
by difficulty. 
Munition plants and factories have steadily drained 
labor from the fields. The new regulations place 
unskilled farm hands in the 
first draft class. Over a Jk T* L 
million horses already have I 
been shipped abroad and 
the needs of our own army are yet to be filled. 
You must replace muscle with machine. 
The Cleveland Tractor will plow miles an 
hour—8 to 10 acres a day. That equals the work, 
of three good 3-horse teams and 3 men. 
This same time-saving speed, so profitable in plow¬ 
ing, is of equal advantage in harvesting, mowang, 
discing, spreading manure and other hauling work. 
The Cleveland not only conserves time and labor 
but it does better, cheaper work. 
Traveling on its own tracks, this sturdy little ma¬ 
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ditches or gumbo, sand and gravel. 
It will not pack the soil, nor mire, slip or flounder. 
It weighs less than 3200 pounds and has 600 square 
inches of continuous traction surface. 
Although small enough for work in orchards and 
among small fruit trees, the Cleveland develops full 
12 h. p. at the drawbar for hauling. 
At the pulley belt it gives 20 h. p.—plenty for 
stationary work such as shelling corn, cutting ensilage, 
filling silos, pumping, and many other uses on the farm 
where power is needed. 
Rollin H. White, the fa¬ 
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