687 
Products, Prices and Trade 
NEW YORK, MAY, 2, 1918. 
BUTTER 
The market is very lirm ou the better 
grades of creamery, and prices 1 to l^c 
higher, ^ Packing stock and city made re¬ 
main without much change. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 46 & 47 
eiood to Choice . 44}^& 45^ 
Lower Grades... 38 ^ 43 
Dairy, bent. 45 @ 46 
Common to Good. 37 & 41 
City made. 31 ® 34 
PaoklDK Stock. 29 & 33 
Process . 34 & 39 
CHEESE 
Business is a little more active, as con¬ 
siderable export trade is developing. Some 
new make of fairly good quality is re¬ 
ported to have been sold at about 22i4c. 
Holders of stock grading good to choice 
are rather more firm in their ideas and 
less disposed to cut prices. 
Whole Milk, fancy . 25 26 
Good to choice. 23 ® 24j4 
Lower grades. 16 ® 22 
Bklms, beat. .. 19 @ igjjj 
Fair to good. 9 ® 14 
lOGGS. 
The market on the better grades of both 
gathered and nearby is firm and .slightly 
higher, though the top figures noted do 
not represent any large volume of trade. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 41 ® 42 
Medlamtogood. 3 S ® 40 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 38 ® 39 
Common to good. 34 @ 37 
Gathered, best, white. 39 ® 40 
Medium to good, mixed colors ... 34 @ 36 
Lower grades. 31 @ 33 
LIVE POULTRY 
Receipts continue very .small and 
prices on the recent high level. Fowls 
have brought 36e or upwards, ducks, 35c; 
old roosters, 27c; turkeys and gee.se, 20c. 
The latter are mainly of very poor 
quality. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Receipts of fresh killed continue small 
and many of the grades running medium 
or low’er. The quality of fresh-killed 
turkeys and chickens is especially coarse 
and undesirable. 
Turkeys, best lb. 35 ® 36 
Common to good . 30 ® 84 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 70 ® 75 
Roasters . 33 ® .35 
Fowls. 28 & 35 
Roosters. 27 & 29 
Bquabs. doi. 1 50 @ 6.50 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEAT, 
Calves and hothouse lambs are selling 
slowly, and in most cases at a lower 
price. This is partly owing to slightly 
inferior condition and paitly to the dispo¬ 
sition of the consumers toward cutting 
out high-priced meat. 
Calves, Choice to fancy. 21 ® 22 
Lower grades . 15 ® 19 
Hothouse Lambs head.4 00 @12 CIO 
Pork good to choice. 15 ® 25 
BEANS. 
8upj)lies are large at present, and busi¬ 
ness very dull. A little export trade is 
reported. The market in general is tveak 
and many dealers quite ready to cut 
prices on medium-grade stock when sales 
can be made on this basis. 
Marrow, lUO Iba. 
Pea. 
@14 25 
@13 .50 
@13 50 
California, small white,. 
Bed UIdney. 
....13 50 
@14 ‘25 
White Kidney. 
@16 00 
Lima, CHllfornia. 
@13 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers.. 
@16 50 
Bulls . 
@13 10 
@10 00 
@16 00 
Cows .. , 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 
-15 00 
Culls. 
@12 00 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
.13 50 
@15 00 
Lambs ... 
@22 00 
@18 50 
Hogs. 
FRUITS. 
CMff RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Spinach, bbl. 2 00 ® 3 50 
Leeks, lOO bunches,. 2 00 ® 4 00 
Parsley, bbl.,. 150 @200 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton . 30 00 @32 00 
No. 2.26 00 @29 00 
No. 3 . 20 00 @23 00 
Clover mixed. 20 00 @28 00 
Straw, Rye. 17 00 @18 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat. No. 2, red, . 2 26 @ 
Corn. 160 @165 
Oc.ts, as to weight, bush. 90 ® 91 
Rye, free from onion. 2 75 ® 2 80 
Receipts at New York for week ending 
May 1: 
Apples, bbls. 72,429 
Barley, bushels. 47,6.50 
Butter, lbs. 2,843,340 
Cheese, boxes . 40,207 
Corn, bushels . 58,800 
Cotton, bales . 21,893 
Eggs, doz. 5,743,260 
Hay, tons . 4,490 
Oats, bushels . 1,244,000 
Onions, sacks . 29,367 
Oranges, boxes. 62,025 
Potatoes, bbls. 96,930 
Rosin, bbls. 5,166 
Rye, bushels. 33,750 
Straw, tons. 211 
Turpentine, bbls. 1,459 
Wheat, bushels. 23,800 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER. 
The market on creamery is active and 
firm. Prints are scarce. There is consid¬ 
erable complaint of garlic flavor in some 
of the new make now arriving. Prints, 
good to choice, 48 to 50c; tub, best, 47 to 
48c; medium to good, 43 to 46c. 
EGGS. 
Receipts moderate and market strong. 
Best nearby, 42 to 44e; gathered, good to 
choice, 38 to 40c; lower grades, 35 to 37c. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls in good demand at 35 to 37c; 
old roosters, 22 to 23e; coarse chickens, 
24 to 26c; ducks, 26 to 2^; geese, 2.5 to 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Fresh-killed stock is scarce, and the 
better grades of fowls slightly higher. 
Fowls, 34 to 36%c; roosters, 28 to 29c; 
chickens, 28 to .3()e; turkeys, 3.5 to 40c; 
squabs, doz., .$6.25 to ,$7.25. 
FRUITS. 
Apples in sti’ong demand for all good 
quality of barrelled stock; Albemarle, $6 
to $7; Rome Beauty, $4 to .$4.50; Gano, 
13 to $4.75; Winesap, $4 to $7 ; Baldwin, 
.$4 to $7; strawberries, 1.5 to 20c. 
The potato market is rather dull under 
large supplies. Potatoes, 100 lbs., .$1.25 
to .$1.,50; sweet potatoes, bu., .$1..50 to 
.$1.90; lettuce, bu., .$1 to .$2.25; spinach, 
bbl., ,$2.75 to $3.25; kale, bbl., .$1.50 to 
.$2; string beaus, bu., $2 to $3.25; cab¬ 
bage, old, ton, ,$20 to $.30; new, bbl., .$2 
to $3; onions, lOO lbs., 50e to $2. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, No. 1, Timothy, .$29 to .$.30; Na 
2, $27 to $28; No. 3, $23 to $25; clover. 
mixed, $27 to $28; rye .straw, .$20.50 to 
$22; oat and wheat, .$19.,50 to $20. 
In this part of the country we are al¬ 
most all dairy farmers. Our milk goes 
to the Merrell-Soule Powdered Milk plant 
at Frewsburg, N. Y., 13 miles away, and 
it costs us 25c per cwt. to get it hauled. 
This month we are to get $2.31 per cwt. 
for 3 per cent milk. Veals, about 13c 
per lb., live weight. Hogs from 16 to 17c 
per lb.; young pigs, $8 apiece. Eggs, 
30c; butter in Jamestown market, 40 to 
50c per lb. Potatoes from 75 to 85e pei* 
bu. Hay from .$16 to .$20 per ton, and 
not very iilenty around here. We cannot 
buy any kind of dairy ration for less than 
.$3 per cwt. and upwards; corn, .$3.75 to 
.$4. I think we are going to have an¬ 
other late Spring. Farm wages are high 
and help very hard to get. h. a. c. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
The farmers here receive for corn .$45 
per ton; wheat, .$2.20 bu.; potatoes, 7.5e 
per bu.; milk, 7c qt. The wheat look.s 
very poor. Farmers around this part will 
plant com and oats; got 80c for oats 
last Winter. They will also plant po¬ 
tatoes. Most of the farmers are on rented 
farms and depend ou their cows for their 
living. The owner of the farm gets half 
of the grain and potatoes, paying for half 
of fertilizer and seed. Size of farms runs 
from 75 to 200 acres, and the owner’s 
share runs from $8 to $16 a year. The 
farmer feeds most of his share of grain. 
Eggs, 34c; country butter, 46e lb. 
Warren Co., N. .T. .t. h. t. 
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Facts you should know about 
the market for live stock and meat 
In Swift Company's 
1918 Year Book. Sent FREE 
on request. Write for copy 
''T^HIS book presents, clearly and frankly, a study 
of live stock buying and meat selling—a descrip¬ 
tion of the market conditions that determine the prices 
you get for your live stock. 
Apples, Albemarle, bbl. 6 00 @ 8 00 
Ben Davis. 3 00 ® 6 00 
Baldwin. 3 80 @ 7 25 
Spy .. . 4 00 @ 8 00 
Strawberries, qt. 12 @ 25 
VEGETABLES 
Potato receipts are very large, but the 
demand for several days past has been 
somewhat better, so that a fair clearance 
is being made. Old potatoes at the prin¬ 
cipal receiving docks and yards have 
wholesaled at about $1.50 to $1.75 per 
100 lbs. New from the South are selling 
mainly at low range except for a few 
fancy grades. Ordinary new stock is 
going at $2 to $2.50 per 100 lbs. Aspara- 
gu.s from nearby is arriving in large 
quantities and selling mainly at a lower 
range of prices from .$.3 per dozen down. 
Cucumbers from the South are in larger 
supply. Cabbage market steady. Onions 
lower, especially on old. which are con¬ 
siderably sprouted. Spinach scarce and 
very high. Tomatoes mainly poor. 
Potatoes—New. No. 1, bbl. 
New, No. 2, bbl. 
Old. 100 lbs. 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 
Beets, new. bbl. 
Carrots, bbl.] 
CabbaKe. new', bbl. 
Ton, old. 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 
Onions, old, 100 lbs. 
New, bu. 
Peppers, bu. 
Strlnif Beans bu. 
Turnips, bbl,.. 
Squash.new, bu. 
Peas, bu. 
KK8 Plants, bu. 
Tomatoes, Southern. 24-qt. crate 
Asparagus, fancy, doz. 
Common to good.. 
Musiirooms lb . 
Horseradish, 100 lbs. 
Cucumbers, hothouse, doz... 
Southern, bu,. 
Salsify, 100 bunches. 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl. 
Kale, bbl. 
.... 4 00 @ 4 .50 
.... 3 00 @ 3 50 
.... 1 40 @1 75 
.... 1 00 @2 50 
.... 1 50 @ 3 00 
.... I 50 @ 2 25 
..... 2 00 @ 3 00 
,....20 00 @30 00 
.... 1 50 @ 3 .50 
.... 50 @ 2 25 
.... 1 25 @ 3 00 
... 1 50 €) 3 00 
.... 1 00 @3 00 
.... 7.5 ® 2 50 
.... 1 00 ® 2 80 
.... 2 00 @ 3 50 
.... 2 00 @ 3 50 
.... 2 25 ® 3 50 
- 3 00 @ 3 .50 
.... 1 25 @2 50 
.... 25 @ 45 
.... 3 00 @ 6 00 
... 75 @ 1 .50 
.... 2 00 ® 3 75 
.... 2 00 @ 4 00 
... 1 50 @ 3 00 
.... 1 50 @250 
It describes the producing and marketing steps from 
your farm to the table of the consumer. It explains 
also how the part played by Swift 65 Company 
enables you to obtain for your live stock the highest 
market figures. 
The full value to you, of this part played by Swift 
85 Company ^how it affords you a ready cash market 
for your live stock, and how it passes along the meat 
products to the consumer on the lowest operating 
expense and profit and with highest efficiency—is 
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