oy>e RURAL NEW.YORKER 
605 
Products, Prices and Trade 
NEW YORK, APRIL 11, 1918. 
BVTTER. 
The market weakened somewhat after 
last report but later became a little 
stronger. Some small lots 
for 
export 
have gone recently. I’acking 
stock 
and 
city made are dull. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 
42^@ 
43 
Good to Choice . 
40 
® 
42 
I.ower Grades. 
36 
® 
39 
Storage, good to choice,. 
35 
@ 
41 
Dairy, best. 
41 
@ 
42 
Common to Good. 
37 
@ 
40 
City made... 
31 
@ 
33 
Packing Stock. 
28 
@ 
33 
Process ... 
35 
@ 
39 
CHEESE. 
Very little change is noted in condi¬ 
tions of better grades. The market is a 
little weaker on stock running medium 
or beIow\ 
Whole Ml)k. fancy . 25 ® 2.5V4 
Good to choice. 2;j @ 24^ 
Lower grades. 16 ® 22 
Skims, best. 19 @ 19^ 
Fair to good. 9 & 14 
EGGS. 
Receipts continue extremely heavy but 
considerable portion is going into tem¬ 
porary or permanent storage, as the cur¬ 
rent prices are not sufficient to allow a 
profit on these shipments Choice eggs 
of mixed colors may now be had at re¬ 
tail at 40 cents or under and white of 
uniformly large size at 4.o cents. Whole¬ 
sale prices on gathered stock of good 
quality run from 35 to 37 cents. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 39 & 40 
Medium to good. 36 @ 3S 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 37 @ 38 
Common to good. 34 @ 37 
Gathered, best, white. 37 ® 38 
Medium to good, mixed colors ... 34 @ 36 
Lower grades. 31 ® 33 
BEAXS. 
Receipts have been larger and the mar¬ 
ket is quite weak with lower prices on 
most grades. 
Marrow, 100 Iba.13 2.5 @14 50 
Pea.12 50 @14 00 
California, small white,.13 75 @14 00 
Bed Kidney.13.50 @15 00 
White Kidney.15.50 @16 00 
Lima, California....14 00 @14 2.5 
DRE.SvSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, best lb. 35 @ 36 
Common to good . 30 ® 34 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 65 ® 70 
Roasters . 33 @ 36 
Fowls. 28 ® 3.5 
Roosters. 27 ® 28 
Bquabs, doz. 150 @ 8 25 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers.12 00 @14.50 
Bulls . 7 00 @11 00 
Cows . 5 00 @10 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs.16 00 @16 50 
Culls. 9 00 @12 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 8 00 @9 00 
Lambs .18.50 @20 00 
Hogs.18 00 @18 75 
■WOOL. 
The Covernment has asked for control 
of practically all wool in the Boston 
market suitable for (loverninent work. 
Recent sales have been: New York and 
Michigan unwashed delaine, 7.3 cents; 
half-blood, 75 to 79; three-eights blood. 
77; Ohio and Pennsylvania, half-blood 
combing, 78; New England, half-blood, 
70 to 73; three-eighths blood, 7.5 to 70; 
Territory scoured, half-blood combing, 
•81.7.5 to .$1.78; fine clothing, .$1.00 to 
•81.65. 
FRUITS. 
Receipts for barrelled apple.s are light. 
The better grades are selling at the high 
prices recently quoted, but withered or 
otherwise wasty stock goes at low figures, 
as the supply of sound apples in boxes 
from the West is heavy. Strawberries 
have been arriving in .slightly better con¬ 
dition and selling at higher prices. 
Apples, York Imperial, bbl. 
Ben Davis. 
Winesap .. 
Greening . 
Baldwin.. 
King. 
Spy . 
Strawberries, qt. 
3 .50 @5 00 
3 00 ® 4 50 
4 00 @ 6 00 
4 00 @ 6 00 
3 50 @ 6 00 
4 00 ® 6 00 
4 00 @ 7 50 
15 ® 45 
VEGETABLE.?. 
Potatoes are in large supply and 
mainly lower. Old cabbage is slightly 
higher; new selling in about the previous 
range when sound. Onions continue veiT 
low. Tomatoes from the South are ar¬ 
riving mainly in poor condition. String 
beans plentiful but in good demand. As¬ 
paragus in light supply and .slightly 
higher on the better grades. 
Potatoes—Long Island, 100 lbs. 2 40 @ 2 75 
Maine, 100 lbs. 1 75 @ 2 00 
Jersey, 100 lbs. 1 .50 @ 2 00 
State and Western, 100 lbs. 1 50 .@2 00 
Southern New, bb). 4 ,50 @ 8 50 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 1 00 @ 2 00 
Beets, new. bbl. 1.50 @4 00 
Carrots, bbl. 1 00 @ 2 25 
Cabbage, new, bbl. 1 50 @ 4 00 
Ton, old, .20 00 @40 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 1 OO @ 5 50 
Onions, State and W’n., 100 lbs. 25 @ 1 75 
Peppers, bu.1 50 © 4 00 
String Beans bu. 100 @3 00 
Turnips, bbl,. 50 ® 1 25 
Squash,new, bu. 2 00 @2 .50 
Peas, bu. 2 00 @ 3 50 
Egg Plants, bu. 2 00 @ 3 50 
Tomatoes, Southern. 24-qt. crate .... 2 00 @ 4 00 
Asparagus, Southern, doz. 1 50 @ 5 00 
California. 2 00 @ 7 00 
Mushrooms lb . 25 @ .50 
Horseradish. 100 lbs. 5 00 @6 00 
Cucumbers, hothouse, doz. 50 @ 1 00 
Salsify, 100 bunches . 1 00 @ 4 00 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl. 2 00 @ 5 00 
Kale, bbl. 1 75 @ 2 .50 
Spinach, bbl. 1 00 ® 2 25 
Leeks, 100 bunches,. 2 00 @ 4 00 
Parsley, bbl.,. 2 00 @ 5 00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton ... 30 00 @3100 
No. 2.25 00 @29 00 
No. 3 .22 00 @24 00 
Clover mixed.20 00 @28 00 
Straw, Rye,.2100 @23 00 
GRAIN. 
W heat. No. 2. red, . 2 26 @ 
Corn. 1 85 @ 1 90 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 1 04 @ 1 05 
Rye, free from onion. 2 75 ® 2 80 
Buffalo Markets 
The season is advancing, hut the local 
dealers are not filling their stalls very full 
yet with green stuff, though the Southern 
crops are coming now. so that the supply 
is in fair amount. The decline in straw¬ 
berries shows that Spring is here. Prices 
•are down to .87 to .87.50 per 24-quart case 
for Louisiana berries. Potatoes are also 
5\^ak, at 75 to 90 cents, farmers getting 
65 cents or so. Sweets arc .82.35 to .82,50 
per hainpor. Maple sugar is also weak at 
20 to 25 cents per pound aiid syrup .81,7.5 
to .81.80 per gallon. Butter, chee.se and 
eggs are weaker, but have not declined 
within the past fe^v days. Onions still go 
down, being only 2.5 to 7.5 cents per 
bushel for home grown and .81.75 to .8^3 
per Spanish crate. Onion sets are much 
lower than last year, being -85 to .88 per 
bushel. 
Beans continue at .88 to .89 for various 
grades per bushel and green vegetables 
are steady at .84 to .8.5 per case for as- 
Ijaragus, which is already coming in suf¬ 
ficient quantity to promise a good supply. 
Old beets are 75 cents to .81; carrots, 25 
to 75 cents; parsnips. 50 to 75 cents; 
turnips, <81 to .81.50 for white, all per 
bu.shel. Cabbage is .82.25 to .82.50 per 
100-pound crate or 81 to $1.25 per new 
Florida hamper; cauliflower is plenty at 
.82.25 to .83 for California crate; Florida 
celery, 82.25 to $3 per crate; lettuce, 50 
(“ents to .81..50 per two-dozen box; endive, 
25 to 35 cents per basket; new beets, 50 
cents to 81; parsley, 20 to 40 cents; 
radishes, 15 to .35 cents; shallots, 40 to 
60 cents; vegetable oyster, 40 to 60 cents, 
all per dozon^bnnohes; pieplant has ap¬ 
pealed at .$.3.7.5 per box; yellow turnips, 
81.50 to 81.7.5 per barrel ; hothouse cu¬ 
cumbers. 81.50 to 82 per dozen ; Florida.s, 
85 J:o 86 per hamper; tomatoes, Floridas, 
.84..50 to .%5 per crate; mushrooms, .81..50 
per four-pound basket. 
Honthern fruits are higher, at 85.50 
to >89 for oranges, 86 to 87.20 for lemons 
and 83.50 to .85 for grapefruit, per box; 
bananas, .$2 to 8'5 per bunch, having ad¬ 
vanced rapidly of late; occasional pine¬ 
apples at 2.5 cents each. The apple mar¬ 
ket is full of Western fruit of the finest 
nnality, so that the prices are not strong. 
Western box are 82 to .$2.75 and. home 
grown 84..50 to $6 for firsts and seconds 
and .82.,50 for low grade.s, per barrel. 
Honey is fairly out of market at 26 to 
.30 cents per iioiind. 
Butter is ea.sy at 45 cents for best 
creamery, 42 cents for fair creamery, .37 
to 41 cents for dairy grades. 34 to 40 
<*ents for crocks and 25 to 2S cents for 
low grades, with oleomargarine, 25 to 26 
cents, riiee.sc is quiet at 27 to 2S cents 
for finest old, 25 to 26 cents for new and 
.31 to .33 cents for limburger. Eggs are 
down to 38 to 39 cents for white hen¬ 
nery, and 36 to 37 cents for State and 
AVestern, showing that storage stocks are 
about out. The supply is large. 
The poultry market is .steady, with not 
much hut frozen offered at 34 to .38 cents 
for turkey. 20 to 35 cents for fowl and 
chickens. 27 to 28 cents for old roosters. 
34 to 35 cents for ducks and .32 to .34 
cents for geese. Ilay still decline!?, being 
down to $22 for No. 1 Timothy, baled, 
and $16 for No. .3. The big AVinter prices 
did not hold long after the snow went, 
this market getting much of its hay by 
team. j, w, c. 
Crops and Feurm News 
Dairy cows brought all the way from 
.$8.5 to $106 at sales here recently. These 
!ire grade cows, a? not much registered 
stock is owned by farmers in this vicinity. 
Many calve.s are being deaconed, as the 
milk prices are good and it docs not pay 
to veal the calves. Rupplee Alilk Com¬ 
pany of Philadelphia has a shipping 
station at Centerville, to which place our 
milk is hauled iiud sold for shipment to 
Philadelphia. Creameries have been 
compelled to close in this vicinity, not 
being able to compete with Supplee Alilk 
Company. Fewer hogs are raised on ac¬ 
count of lack of skim-milk and high price 
of gi'fiiu, as not many fanners can raise 
their grain supply. Some Spring wheat 
is being planted here. Potatoes are a dull 
market, with _ many in farmers’ cellars. 
Maple syrup is being made by nearly all 
farmers who hiive the trees. Four-weeks- 
old pigs bring $6 apiece. F. F. 
Crawford Co., Pa. 
Alilk, 8 to Iflc per qt.; butter, .50; 
eggs, 38c; apples, 81 per bu.; potatoes, 
$1 per bu.; onions, $1 per bu.; beaus, 
.8S..50 per bu.; hay, .820 to .825; rye 
.straw, 8P’>- Calves, 21c per lb., hog 
dressed. Cows, fresh, .8100 to $150 each; 
horses, 8150 to $.300 each; six-weeks-old 
pigs, .88 each. s. .i. u. 
Rensselaer Co., N, Y. 
On account of the dry weather last Fall 
the acreage is considerably below the 
average. Some on Fall plowing did not 
come up, and has been sowed in Spring 
wheat. AA’heat that was sown in the 
cornfields is looking well, and promises 
a fair yield if we get plenty of moisture. 
The weather has been ideal for putting in 
small grain and the oats and Spring 
wheat is about all in. though it is di-j- for 
plowing and we are needing rain all over 
the State. For this county to make 50 
per cent of an average crop of Fall wheat, 
conditions would have to be most favor¬ 
able from now on till harvest, though 
there is more Spring wheat than I have 
ever known of before. J. T. .1. 
Madison Co., Neb, 
Milk is sold here at League prices; no 
butter or cheeso sold. Few vegetables 
grown for market, excepting potatoes, 
which are .82.25 for table stock and 8.3 
for Giants for seed. AVool, 70c per lb.; 
shorn lambs, 124 ^ 0 , live weight; calves, 
16c to ISc; hogs, 16c, 22c di-essed. AVheat 
bran still costs thq farmer $52 per ton, 
miller’s price about 826.50, Question— 
who gets the .82.5.50? s. m . a . 
Rensselaer Co., N. Y. 
__rieifer calves are hard to get, even at 
85 two days old. Dairy cows, grade IIol- 
steins, 890 to 8130. Butter, .50c; eggs, 
38c; maple sugar, .30c lb.; maple synip, 
$2.50 gal. Potatoes, 40c to 60c bu. Large 
apples sold all AA’iuter for 5c each, im¬ 
ported, Pigs, four weeks old, $7 each. 
Allegany Co., N. Y. c. ii, c. 
Milch cows, $100 to 8125; butter, ,5.50; 
dry cows, $60 to 8^5. o. n. 
Oswego Co., N. Y. 
At the auction sales, of which there 
are many this Spring, oats sold for $1.07 ; 
rye, .$2; cows from $60 to $115, very few 
sold under $70; calves, yearling, sold 
from <$25 to $45. The farm products are 
potatoes, some apples, but this is not a 
fruit locality. ^ There are a few selling 
milk. The principal industry must be 
sheep, for there are quite a number of 
thein here on the farms. They sold at 
auction for $14. Hay is a staple product, 
and_ sold for $12 at auction. Eggs are 
selling at the dozen for 35c; some by 
shipping get 40e. Alixed farming is car¬ 
ried on principally. e. c. w. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
AA^e get for wheat .$2.13; corn, $1.75; 
oats, 90c to 96c: hay, per ton, .$27. Fat 
bulls, $10.50 to $11 per cwt.; steers and 
heifers, 811 to $11.50. Potatoe.s, 65c to 
81.10. Eggs, 32o. Alilk, .$2.70 per cwt., 
four per cent, AA’e are paying for bran, 
per ton, ,847; middling, .$56. Bran and 
middling are hard to get on account of 
poor railway service. Shotes cost about 
35e a pound and scarce at that. Less 
cows in neighborhood than ever before. 
Berks Co., Pa. ?. s. s. 
The AVinter wheat crop in this vicinity 
is good. There is not a large acreage, as 
we are not in the AA’inter wheat belt 
proiier. There has been a larger acreage 
of Spring wdieat sown this year than 
usual. AA’’e have had a very early and 
warm_ Spring so far, and nearly all seed¬ 
ing, including Spring wheat, oats and 
barley, is done. AA’e are needing rain, 
with good prospect of getting it soon. 
AVe are in the northern part of the State 
here, and the AA’inter wheat belt is farther 
south and west of ns. o. s. 
AA^ayne Co., Neb. 
The staples here are hay, rye and oats. 
Hay, .820 per ton; rye straw, $16; oat 
straw, $10; rye, .82 per bu.; oats, 81.40-; 
potatoes, $1 per bu.; butter, 50c; eggs, 
40c; cows, fresh, $80 to 8100; pigs at 
four weeks. .$6 to $7; dressed pigs, 24c; 
veal, hog dressed, 24c. At an auction 
here Alarch 20, seed oats sold at $1.51 
and Holstein cows, $125 to $1.58. Alill 
feed very high and not much bought. A 
large number of cows for sale and few 
biiyors. I., H. M. 
•Schenectady Co., N. Y. 
Are you going to town in your work¬ 
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AAi^hen I walk up High Street I don’t want 
to be mi.stook for any city chap. I want 
to look like I had a barrel o’ potatoes or 
a load o’ hay that I might conde-scend to 
sell somebody if I took a fancy to him.” 
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