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Countrywide Produce Situation 
Markets are beginning to settle down to 
what may be termed a Winter basis. 
Most of the quickly perishable produce is 
out of the way aud the main staples, like 
potatoes, apples, onions and cabbages, are 
getting into a position where holders know 
somewhere near how they stand. Prices 
ought to be more steady from now on be¬ 
cause there is less perishable stuff apart 
from the cooler weather, and sales need 
not be forced when there is temporary 
over-supply. The lo or so leading lines of 
fruits and vegetables are moving at the 
rate of about 2.000 cars per day, a volume 
midway between the light Summer move¬ 
ment and the height of shipments in early 
Fall. 
APPLES ACTIVE AT FIRM PRICES. 
The most interesting feature is the ap¬ 
ple crop. Eastern stock has been moving 
much faster than it did last Fall, New 
York shipping four or five times as much 
and Michigan increasing also, while Illi¬ 
nois, Kansas and adjoining States are 
light shippers compared with last season. 
Boxed apples show moderate gain in 
movement. It is evident thaat the sup¬ 
plies of apples in general are coming more 
freely than last year, but the price of 
barreled stock is about the same as that 
of last year, and boxed apples are 25 to 
50c higher than last year. The stronger 
situation seems to be owing to the com¬ 
parative shortage of other fruits. Pears, 
grapes, _ etc., are about done. Oranges 
are beginning to move at several hundred 
cars per week. A good crop of oranges 
is the only sign of competition for apple 
owners, but it appears that the orange 
crop has been about all bought up by 
dealers who expect to get high prices. A 
box of oranges sells in New York for 
about as much as a barrel of apples of 
comparable grade and variety, and has 
reached at times to in some North¬ 
ern markets. Barreled apples, too, of fancy 
kinds like Jonathans have sold as high as 
$8 to .$10 in Middlewestern cities, w'here 
the local supply is light, but the general 
range in Eastern and Northern markets 
for best grades. Bahhvins, Greenings and 
Yorks, has been $4.50 to $5.50, while in 
the shipping section#! of the East growers 
have been getting about $4.50. Barrels 
are so scarce and high that more bushel 
baskets are being used than ever before 
and much good stock has been sold in 
hulk. Cider stock ranges from 50 to 75c 
per cwt., east and west. 
POTATOES FAIRLY STEADY, 
Not much change has occurred in the 
potato situation. Movement to market is 
proceeding at a moderate rate, notwith¬ 
standing some apparent holding back in 
the West, where the price at one time 
dropped so low that farmers refused to 
continue hauling to the cars. At present 
the range in producing sections is $1.25 
to $1.75 per 100 lbs., sacked, in the West 
and Middle West, and around $2 in bulk 
in the East, while city wholesale markets 
throughout the country follow a general 
range of $2 to .$2.60 per 100 lbs., sacked, 
and roughly about 2.5c lower in the West 
than in the East. Values have been sag¬ 
ging off a little, just as they did in No¬ 
vember last year, hut the outlook may be 
considered much better because of the 
lighter aud the faster shipping movement. 
LOW, DRAGOINO CABBAGE MARKETS. 
Cabbage is dragging along at about one- 
half last year’s values at this season, sell¬ 
ing at $7 to $8 per ton in Western New 
Y"ork for midseason stock and about $16 
in Western New York and Wisconsin for 
late storage stoclj. VTiolesale markets 
ranged $12 to $20 for early and mid¬ 
season cabbage, and $20 to $30 for late 
storage stock. 
SLIGHTLY BETTER TONE IN ONION CENTERS 
Onions are doing a little better. Stor¬ 
age buyers show a little more confidence. 
Some retailers have been making a fea¬ 
ture of onions at bargain prices, just as 
they' have often done with potatoes. 
There is a better demand and a harden¬ 
ing of prices, but not a definite advance. 
Most wholesale markets are included in a 
range of $1.25 to .$2 per 100 lbs. for good 
sacked yellow stock. Onions are hard to 
sell in all producing sections. A hopeful 
sign is the strong effort under way by 
Government food and market agencies to 
advertise the abundance and cheapness of 
onions, cabbage and potatoes. 
Cranberries are rather draggy at $6 to 
$9 for small kinds and $6.50 to $10 for 
large stock. Tomatoes are holding out 
late ths year, over 100 cars still moving 
weekly. Pears and grapes are dwindling 
fast, but oranges and grapefruit are in¬ 
creasing rapidly this month. G. B. F. 
- EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The II. Hackfeld Com¬ 
pany, a German concern which owned 
many sugar plantations in Hawaii and 
the largest department store in Honolulu, 
has been taken over by the Government, 
it was announced Oct. 31 at the office of 
A. Mitchell Palmer. Alien Property Cus¬ 
todian. The company, w'hich earned 
$1,600,000 in 1917 on a capitalization of 
$4,000,000. has been reorganized under 
the name of American Factors, Ltd. The 
stock has been sold to 40 residents of 
Hawaii, who submitted proofs of their 
loyalty. The company will be adminis¬ 
tered by trustees ■ until three years after 
the war, when stock certificates will be 
distributed among the owners. The Hack¬ 
feld company was an important link in 
Germany’s dominance in the sugar indus¬ 
try, and served moreover as the central 
distributing agency for German propa¬ 
ganda in the Pacific. The company pro¬ 
duced from 20 to 30 per cent of Hawaii’s 
sugar. In 1917 its plantations produced 
139,044 tons of cane sugar. 
Ninety-three dead, many injured and 
more than 900 persons in peril resulted 
from a wreck on the Brooklyn Rapid 
Transit Railroad Nov. 1, in which a five- 
car train bound from the Brooklyn Bridge j 
to Coney Island on the Brighton Beach 
line jumped the track in a tunnel. The 
train went headlong into a solid concrete 
abutment, four of the five cars were 
crushed, and the wreckage, containing 
many bodies, caught fire. It was the i 
worst accident in the history of New 1 
York’s rapid transit system. The acci¬ 
dent came in the midst of a strike on the 
elevated and subway lines of the Brook¬ 
lyn Rapid Transit Company, in which 
perhaps 600 motormen and motor switch¬ 
men went out upon the order of the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers to 
enforce the reinstatement of 29 dis¬ 
charged men and the right of the em¬ 
ployees of the system to join the union, 
as affirmed by the War Labor Board. An 
inexperienced motorman was employed 
The wreck ended the strike. 
Four of the 30 members of the crew of 
the Eastern Steamship Company’s steam¬ 
ship Mineola were suffocated in a fire 
which destroyed the vessel at her dock at 
Bar Harbor, Me., Nov. ,3. 
Early reports of election returns indi¬ 
cated a Republican Congress, the House 
by a majority of 20 and the Senate by 2. 
The present Senate stands 52 Democrats 
and 44 Republicans. The present House 
stands 214 to 207. This will be the first 
time the_ Republicans have controlled the 
House since 1910. It means the election 
of a Republican Speaker, with Fordney 
of ^Michigan taking the majority floor 
leadership away from Claude Kitchin. 
Kansas has returned to the Republican 
party. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Leaf tobacco 
held by manufacturers and dealers on 
Oct. 1 was reported by the Bureau of the 
Census rs 1.2j>4.8S.3,788 pounds, compared 
with 1,154.056,034 pounds on the same 
date last year. 
The annual meeting of the Ohio State 
Horticultural Society will be held at Co¬ 
lumbus, O., .Tan. 28-29, 1919. 
Forty-five per cent of the entire output 
of canned tomatoes in the United States 
will be taken by the Army, Navy and 
Marine Corps. The total pack for the 
season is estimated as being from 18,- 
500,000 to 20,000,000 cases of two dozen 
cans to the case. A freight train sixty 
miles long would be required to move the 
part to be purchased by the Government 
The Army, according to a War Depart¬ 
ment announcement, will use 75 per cent 
of the Government’s quota. 
The twenty-second annual meeting and 
exhibition of the Vermont State Horticul¬ 
tural Society will be held in the Town 
Hall, St. Johnsbury, Nov. 21 to 23. Ac¬ 
cording to custom, the meetings and ex¬ 
hibition will be open to the public. There 
will be many premiums for choice garden 
and orchard products and a programme 
on subjects relating to plant production 
and preservation, with special atress on 
live topics for war times. 
The dates for the third annual New 
•Jersey Agricultural Convention have been 
fixed for .January 13 to 17, inclusive. All 
of the various organizations of the State 
will hold meetings in connection with this 
conyontion, and every branch of farming 
will be represented. The State Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture is arranging now to 
assist the associations with their pro¬ 
gramme, and will bring in speakers of 
nation-wide reputation for the evening 
meetings -when all the different interests 
will Unite. 
WASHINGTON.—The court martial 
of Colonel Edward A. Deeds and criminal 
prosecution of three other army officers 
are recommended in the report on the air¬ 
craft production investigation which has 
been submitted to the President bj 
Charles E. Hughes, who, with Attorney 
General Gregory, has been examining the 
situation for the last five months. No 
direct charges of graft are made, but a 
waste of approximately $24,000,000 is 
charged in the use of the original appro¬ 
priation of $691,851,866. This waste is 
attributed to the abandonment of the con¬ 
struction of two types of airplanes—one 
of them the Bristol—and a failure to 
salvage. 
The Government has made direct and 
indirect advances to the railroads undei 
Government control totaling $421,550,598 
since taking over the lines last .January. 
One hundred railroads participated in the 
advances, but seven big trunk-line sys¬ 
tems, the Pennsylvania. New York Cen¬ 
tral, New Haven, Baltimore and Ohio, 
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Illinois 
Central and Erie, received two-thirds of 
the total. The Pennsylvnnia received 
$56,620,000, New York Central $55,- 
320.000. New Haven $50,000,000. Balti¬ 
more and Ohio $22,2.50.000. St. Paul, $16,- 
925,000. Illinois Central $15,475,000, and 
Erie $12,900,000. 
Contracts have been placed with the 
British Government for the manufacture 
of 1.800.000 pairs of trousers and 1.400,- 
000 coats for the American Expeditionary 
Forces. Supplementary orders also were 
placed for 1,000.000 yards of cloth to he 
used in the manufacture of officers’ ;ini- 
forms. 
