IShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Products, Prices and Trade 
NEW YORK, MAY 10, 1918. 
BUTTER 
The market has remained quite firm and 
at previous high range or fractionally 
higher, but reports indicate that the 
make is increasing and dealers are rather 
cautious about stocking up beyond their 
immediate needs. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 47 @ 4754 
Good to Choice . 4i}i@ 46 
Lower Grades. 38 ® 43 
Dairy, best. 45 @ 46 
Common to Good. 36 ® 43 
City made. 31 & 34 
Packing Stock. 27 & 33 
Process . 34 & 40 
CHEESE 
No special change is noted in prices or 
demand, but the market is perhaps a 
little weaker. The feature of greatest im¬ 
portance is the export trade, and buyers 
for this purpr je are reporting quite active 
in interior markets. 
Whole Milk, fancy . 25 ^ 26 
Good to choice. 23 @ 24^ 
Lower grades. 16 ® 22 
Skims, best. 18 ® 19 
Fair to good. 9 & 14 
Eggs. 
The market is quite well supplied with 
grades running medium to good or a little 
above. The proportion of fancy is small, 
and the top figures on nearby white repre¬ 
sent a smaller volume of business than 
two weeks previous. 
White, nearby, clioice to fancy. 40 @ 42 
Medium to good. 38 ® 39 
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. 
Supplies are considerably larger and 
fowls lower. Broilers have Sold from 70 
to 85 cents per lb.; fowls, 30; ducks, 30 
to 35; geese, 17 to IS; turkeys, 20. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best lb. 36 ® 37 
Common to good . 30 ® 34 
Chickens choice broilers, lb. 75 ® 80 
Roasters . 33 ® 35 
Fowls. 28 ® 36 
Roosters. 27 ® 28 
Squabs, dot. 1 50 ® 6 50 
COUNTRY DRESSED MEAT. 
The weather has been unfavorable for 
this class of shipments, many of which 
arrived in poor condition and were con¬ 
demned by the health authorities. 
Calves, Choice to fancy. 19 @ 21 
Lower grades. 15 ® 18 
Hothouse Lambs head.4 00 ®12 00 
Pork good to choice. 15 @ 25 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.13 00 ®14 00 
Pea.12 50 ®13 25 
California, small white,.13 00 ®13 25 
Red Kidney.13 50 ®14 00 
White Kidney.15 00 ®15 75 
Lima, California.13 00 ®13 50 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers.14 00 @16 25 
Bulls . 8 00 @12 75 
Cows . 5 00 ®11 00 
Calves, prime real, 100 lbs.15 00 @15 50 
Culls. 9 00 @12 00 
Lambs . 20 00 @25 00 
Hogs.18 00 @18 50 
FRUITS. 
Barrelled apples are getting scarce and 
very high prices received on sound, first- 
class stock. Western apples also higher. 
The varieties most seen at present are 
Winesap, Stayman, and Albemarle. 8traw- 
berries in large supply and lower. A few 
peaches are on hand, but bringing very 
low prices because of the small size. 
Florida muskmelons and ostrich-egg melon 
are arriving,^ but mainly small. Water¬ 
melons bringing high figures. 
Apples, Albemarle, bbl. 6 00 ® 9 .70 
Ben Davis. 3 00 @ 5 .50 
Baldwin. 4 00 @ 7 .50 
Strawberries, qt. 12 ® 21 
Watermelons 100 .50 00 @90 00 
Muskmelons, bu. 3 00 @ 6 00 
Peaches, 24 qt. crate . 1 00 @ 2 50 
Vegetables 
New potatoes have .‘told a little better 
than last week, though prices are still 
low. Old stock in large supply, and 
wholesaling mainly under 75c per bushel. 
Asparagus in very heavy receipt and 
lower. Old onions are mainly poor and 
sprouted. New Texas are bringing .^1.50 
or upwards per bushel. Cabbage lower, 
and some thrown away as not worth 
freight charges. 
Potatoes—New, No. 1, bbl. 3 00 @ 3 75 
New, No. 2, bbl. 2 00 @ 2 50 
Old, 100 lbs. 1 40 @ 1 .50 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 1 00 @ 2 50 
Beets, new, bbl. 2 00 @ 5 00 
Carrots, bbl. 1 50 @ 2 00 
Cabbage, new, bbl. 75 @ 1 50 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 60 ® 126 
Onions, old, 100 lbs,. .50 @ 2 00 
New, bu. 1 40 @ 2 00 
Peppers, bu.1 50 ® 3 oo 
String Beans bu. 1 00 @ 3 25 
Turnips, bbl,. 1.50 @2 50 
Squash.new, bu. 1 00 @ 2 50 
Peas, bu. 2 00 @ 4 50 
Egg Plants, bu.. 2 00 @ 3 50 
Tomatoes, Southern. 24-qt. crate .... 2 00 @3 50 
Asparagus, fancy, doz.. 3 25 @3 50 
Common to good.1 25 @ 2 50 
Mushrooms lb . 20 @ 50 
Horseradish, 100 lbs.. 3 00 @ 6 00 
Cucumbers, Southern, bu,. 2 00 @4 00 
Salsify, 100 bunches. 2 00 @500 
Chicory and Escarol, bbl.1 50 @ 2 50 
Kale, bbl. 25 @ 75 
Spinach, bbl. 1 00 @ 1 50 
Leeks, 100 bunches,. I 00 @ 2 00 
Parsley, bbl.,. 4 00 ® 5 00 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton ..30 00 @31 00 
No. 2.26 00 @28 00 
No. 3 .20 00 @23 00 
Clover mixed.20 00 @27 00 
Straw, Rye,.16 00 @18 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat. No. 2, red, . 2 26 @ 
Corn. 1 5.5 ® 1 60 
Oats, as to weight, bush. 83 @ 85 
Receipts at New York for tveek ending 
May 15: 
Apple.s, bbls. 38.762 
Barley, bus. 9.550 
Butter, ibs. 2,735,880 
Cheese, bxs. 32.024 
Corn, bus. 149.800 
Cotton, bis. 24.698 
Eggs, doz. 4,700,100 
Hay, tons . 4,173 
Oats, bus. 458,000 
Onions, bu.s. 33.598 
Oranges, bxs. 92.944 
Potatoes, bbls. 90,726 
Rosin, bbls. 6,544 
Rye, bus. 12,500 
Straw, tons . 190 
Turpentine, bbls. 2,478 
Wheat, bus. 72,800 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER. 
The market is steady, but buying is of 
limited volume. Best print 50 to 51c; 
tub creamery, good to choice, 46 to 48c; 
lower grades, 41 to 44c. 
EGGS. 
A_ considerable quautity of the current 
receipts is going into storage. Best 
nearby, 4.3 to 44e; gathered, good to 
choice, 35 to 40e. 
DRESSED POtTLTRY. 
Supplies of fresh killed are light and 
selling readily. Fowls, 34 to 37c; old 
roosters, 28 to 29c; chickens, 35 to 42c; 
turkeys, 30 to 34c; ducks, 40 to 42c; 
squabs, doz., .$6.25 to ,$7.25. 
Eruits. 
Choice Eastern apples are scarce. Albe¬ 
marle and Winesap, ,$4 to $7 ; Ben Davis, 
$3.50 to $6; strawberries, 15 to 25c; 
watermelon.s, 100, $50 to ,$75; oranges, 
box, .$4.50 to $8.25. 
Vegetables. 
Potato market dull, with large re¬ 
ceipts. Potatoes, old, 100 lbs., 90c to 
$1.15; new, barrel. .$2 to $3.25; sweet 
potatoes, barrel. $lr25 to ,$1.80; spinach, 
barrel. 75c to $1.25; peas, bn., .$2 to $3 ; 
turnips, 100 lbs., ,50c to $1; cabbage, 
75c to $1.25; onions, new, bu., $1.25 to 
$1.50. 
hay and straw. 
Hay, No. 1 Timothy. $21 to $30; No. 2, 
$27 to $28; No. 3, .$2.3 to $25; clover, 
mixed, $26 to $28; straw, rye, $21 to .$22; 
oat and wheat, $18 to 18.50. 
Countrywide Produce Markets 
PRICES WORKING LOWER, 
This is the time of year when the ship¬ 
ping area increases every week. Accord¬ 
ingly, the markets are liberally supplied 
and the'public having lost the keen edge 
of its longing for new garden truck, has 
become more critical and refuses to pay 
much for inferior stock. The result is a 
wide range of prices and a downward 
trend. Northern cellar stock is close to 
end of its market season, and sells slowly 
despite the urgent efforts to incn'use it.s 
sale. The government campaign to boom 
the sale of potatoes came too late to show 
full effect, but an earlier start would only 
have raised the price in the cities, be¬ 
cause railroads could not handle increased 
shipments until well into the Spring 
months. It was a hard year for handling 
a big crop. Digging season was short. 
Some 3yere frozen, some were held for 
high prices. Then came the hard Winter 
and the shortage of cars and coal, and 
finally this Spring came a big crop of new 
Southern potatoes. These new potatoes 
constitute one-third of the present supply, 
and they sell only 25 to .50 per cent 
higher than old potatoes. The Southern 
growers have boon losing money as well 
their Northern competitors. They figure 
it costs about $150 there -to raise and 
market an acre of potatoes in tlie Florida 
section, and the average crop is 30 to 35 
735 
barrels. Last year they were getting $7 
a barrel, and made money. This season 
they get $2.25 to $2.75, and the outlook 
is not pleasant, as mo.st of these growers 
have only this one string to their bow, 
and a loss in potatoes to them often 
means going into debt. Old Northern 
stock has been selling in city wholesale 
markets at $1 to $1..5() per cwt. for good 
stock. Farmers at country shipping 
points are getting 60c to $1.10, according 
to locality. Most shipping sections are 
nearing thc^ end, but Minnesota, Mich¬ 
igan and \\ isconsin seem to have consid¬ 
erable more stock to be shipped. 
The remnant of the big Northern onion 
crop is dragging out its last days rather 
hopelessly. Soft, sprouted stock sells 
hard when Southern onions are so fresh 
and plentiful. Northern and Eastern red 
and yHlow onions wholesale anywhere 
from 25c to .$2 per bag, but the common 
range for fairly good stock is 75c to $1.25. 
New onions also drag considerably, and 
growers are not getting anywhere nearly 
as much as they did last year. It will be 
surprising if the onion acreage, as well 
as that of potatoes, is not much less this 
season. 
The markets are pretty well loaded with 
miscellaneous stuff from the Soutli. New 
.Tersey asparagus is about the only fresh 
Northern product in carloads, and it has 
boon selling at $3 to $4 per doz. bunches 
mostly. About half a dozen cars of bar¬ 
rel apples are coming each week, but the 
supply is dwindling; likewise the orange 
supply. Bo.x apples are drawing toward 
the end of the main season. Beaches are 
coming about as fast as apples now, all 
from Georgia and Alabama.* Strawberries 
are by no means as abundant as they were 
last sea.son, and jjrico still holds up well, 
mostly 15 to .30 cents wholesale for good 
lots in various city markets. Growers 
get usually 10 to 15 cents in the Ten¬ 
nessee, Virginia and other sections. The 
season is gradually working northward 
through Maryland and adjoining States. 
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