1402 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 21, 1918 
Countrywide Produce Conditions 
SUPPTJES AM) PRICES ROTH INCREASE AT 
HOLIDAY SEASON. 
Tlic special domande attondinR a Christ¬ 
mas market increa.scd the carlot movement 
30 to 1~) per cent. Onions, potatoes and 
orange.s each filled about .lOO cars per 
day, and nearly every other line gained 
in volume. After the first of the year, 
the movement may be expected to fall off 
to lower figures, affected chiefly by 
weather conditions. Prices went up for 
almost everything during the three weeks 
preceding Christmas. 
POTATOES TENDING ITPWAED. 
The moderate rise in potato markets 
seems fully warranted by the conditions. 
According to official figures released Dec. 
17, the apparent stock left in the princi¬ 
pal luoducing sections is less than one- 
half that on hand at the corresponding 
time last rear. Shipments have been go¬ 
ing to market rapidly. Prices average 
about the same as at this time a year 
ago. Past year values kept on falling, 
but they may not do so this year owing 
to the lack of supplies in sight. It le 
not expected that the exports of food to 
Europe will include many raw potatoes, 
but much dried stock is being made avail¬ 
able for export. 
BETTER CABBAGE TRADE. 
Cabbage has seemed likely to repeat 
the sensational advance of December, last 
year Hard stock, suitable for storage, 
has marched rapidly from .$32 per ton in 
bulk to fully .$25 per ton, f. o. b. in pro¬ 
ducing sections, and brings $20 to .'t'.Jo 
per ton in leading city wholesale mar¬ 
kets The main re.ason for the advance 
seems to be that the public suddenly re¬ 
alized that other lines of fresh vegetables 
were comparatively high and rapidly go¬ 
ing out of season, while plenty of cab¬ 
bage could be had at fair prices. 'Ifiie 
manufacture of kraut seems to have taken 
about one-fifth of the whole crop, some of 
the kraut stock selling as low as .$;> per 
ton. New cabbage is starting from the 
South, but will not amount to much until 
the Spring months. Plants for setting 
are report(*d scarce in the South ana the 
acreage reduced one-half or more in var¬ 
ious important producing sections. Hence 
Northern holders ought to have no special 
trouble in selling out clean. 
OTITEB I.TNES ALSO IMPROVING. 
Onions are moving better, especially in 
the East, and prices tend upward in such 
index markets as New York and Chicagm 
General range is mostly $1.25 to $1.75 
per cwt. for fair to good yellow stock. 
New York reached $2 for best. Celery 
advanced to a range of $4 to $6 per m’ate 
for best New York, Michigan and Cali¬ 
fornia stock in wholesale markets. Cran¬ 
berries soared to almost unheard of 
prices, reaching .$14 to .$18 per bbl. for 
best lilassachusetts and New 
.stock. Even at the low average of 15 
barrels per acre, cranberries were sure 
enough money crop this Paldwin 
apples, A-2%, have exceeded $6 in quite 
a number of markets, but ^ the 
grades show little change. Quite a liberal 
export demand has developed with the 
removal of the embargo. Exporters figure 
about $7 expenses, but if they receive the 
limit price of $14 to $18 per barrel there 
will be little cause for complaint. Fancy 
Western boxed apples still sell around $.4 
in Eastern markets and are considered 
rather too high for exjiort, although 
Western growlers are getting only about 
.$2 per box for the best, hut last year 
they were getting only $1.2.5. G. B. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—^Four explosions, follow¬ 
ing each other rapidly, \yrecked the deto¬ 
nator assembling building of the cap 
works of the E. I. du Pont de Nemoui-s 
Co. at Pompton Lakes, N. .T., December 5, 
killing 10 men and seriously injuring 2d. 
The du Pont works at Pompton Lakes 
covers many acres and employs 4,000 per- 
sons 
Lieuts. Herbert N. Chaffee of Pasa¬ 
dena, t'^al., and Charles .T. Drake of INlan- 
kato, Kan., luirsiiit pilots and instructors 
at Rockwell Field. San Diego, were in- 
stantlv killed at Los Angeles. December 8, 
when their airplane plunged ^1,000 feet. 
A shipment of flax, one of the few car¬ 
goes from a Russian port received here 
for some time, arrived in New York. De¬ 
cember 0. on the United States Shipping 
Board steamship Ascutney. from Arch¬ 
angel. The Ascutney left New York sev¬ 
eral months ago for Murmansk. Russia, 
carrying Red Cross officials. On board 
the 'steamship were several polar bear 
cubs, sent here by an American officer in 
Russia. The Ascutney was formerly the 
German steamship Pisa. 
AVith the necessity for further secrecy 
gone, the Department of .Justice lifted the 
lid. December 0, on data in its posses¬ 
sion upon the operations of pro-German 
influence in the United States prior to 
American entry into the war. Before the 
sub-committee of the Senate judiciary 
committee A. Bruce Bielaski, head of the 
bureau of investigations, treated the com¬ 
mittee to a series of the most amazing 
revelations it has yet heard. Activities 
of not only the German professional 
propagandists under the direction of 
Count von Bernstorff, then German Am¬ 
bassador here, but of American citizens in 
the pay of the Berlin government were 
reveale'd by Mr. Bielaski, ranging up to a 
surprising plan to take the attention of 
the American people away from European 
affairs by trying to embroil them with 
.Japan. The names of many well-known col¬ 
lege professors and journalists who were 
connected with or interested in the propa¬ 
ganda were given. There are indications 
at the present time of a Avidespread pi*opa- 
ganda designed to create feeling against 
Great Britain which is being spread 
among soldiers as well as ciA’ilians in this 
country, German, Irish and Bohshevik 
agitators appearing to be involved. 
WASHINGTON.—Plans to attack the 
high cost of living by extension of the 
rural parcel post were explained Decem¬ 
ber 5 by Assistant Postmaster-General 
Blakslee to the House postoffice commit¬ 
tee, which is framing the 1920 appropria¬ 
tion bill. Mr. Blakslee, in asking for 
$8,000,000 for the rural service for the 
year beginning .July 1, 1919, said army 
trucks for the service would be turned 
over by the War Department without 
charge. Truck trains of one tractor and 
six or more trailers, he added, could make 
Iiostal rates compete with freight rates. 
Government control and virtual Govern¬ 
ment ownership of the meat packing in¬ 
dustry was suggested December 10 in a 
hill drawn by the Federal Trade Commis¬ 
sion and introduced in the House by Rep¬ 
resentative Sims of Tennessee, chairman 
of the House interstate commerce com¬ 
mittee. According to Mr. Sims, the bill 
has the indorsement of the President. A 
revolving fund of half a billion dollars to 
swing the facilities necessary to the meat 
packing business will be required and 
this is provided for in the measure. 
By direction of President Wilson the 
conservation division of the War Indus¬ 
tries Board is to become a permanent part 
of the machinery of the Department of 
Commerce. Secretary Redfield also an¬ 
nounced December 10 that the re.sources 
and conversions sections of the board will 
be taken over by the department, but will 
operate only temporarilv. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—That the 
war gardens are responsible for the high 
prices of products there was the state¬ 
ment made at Boston Dec. 6 by Wilfrid 
AA'heeler, State Secretary of Agriculture. 
Speaking before the Intercollegiate Lib¬ 
eral Club he declared that while sub¬ 
stantial amounts of stuff had been pro¬ 
duced in the gardens the campaign for 
“home gardens” was so discouraging to 
farmers that they reduced their acreagi' 
to such an extent that the total amount 
raised was apparently less than it other¬ 
wise would have been. He predicted 
that the shortage due to this cause would 
lengthen the period of high prices. 
Massachusetts, he said, buys $4,000,000 
worth of agricultural products annually 
that could be raised within the State oii 
idle land. 
An urgent demand for women to turn 
to farm work was voiced by speakers at 
Chicago Dec. 5 at the International Live 
Stock Exposition. Mrs. William H. Hu¬ 
bert, New York, executive secretary of 
the United States Agricultural Land 
Army, said 3,000,000 more men will be 
needed in this country to plant, cultivate 
and harvest the 1919 crop. She said 
women were particularly adapted for 
certain kinds of farm work, and urged 
that they respond in large numbers to the 
country’s emergency call. 
The Federal Food Board announced 
Dee. 9 that the 1918 pea-pack will exceed 
that of last year by approximately 1,000,- 
000 cases. The total number of cases 
reiiorted to date is 19,898,222 cases, each 
of which contains 24 No. 2 cans. It is 
estimated that this total represents more 
than 95 per cent of the total pack of the 
country. 
The New England Ayrshire Club held 
its thirteenth annual meeting at Boston, 
Mass., Dec. 3. Roll call showed 162 
mi'inbers, and treasurer’s report sliowed 
balance on hand $3,354.81. Meeting was 
largely attended, 64 at the banquet. H. 
M. Kimball, Concord. N. Y.. was elected 
.president, and R. M. Handy, Barre, 
Mass., was re-elected secretary and treas¬ 
urer. G. n. Yeaton, Dover, N, H., wms 
elected auditor. George E. Stickney of 
Newburyport, was toastmaster, and in¬ 
troduced as the first speaker Hon. Chan- 
ning H, Cox, present Speaker of tl^> 
House of Representatives, and Lieut.- 
Gov.-elect; G. C. Levey, of New England 
JTomestead, spoke upon farming condi¬ 
tions; W. W. Whitcher, humorist, made 
all members laugh, and Abel F. Stevens 
gave an original poem. The club present¬ 
ed retiring President Sagendorph with a 
traveling bag. 
The American Society for Horticultural 
Science will hold its annual meeting at 
Baltimore, Md., Dec. 27-28. 
Disabled soldier and women will be 
operating tractors extensively on farms 
in this State next year, according to the 
present plan of Calvin J. Huson, director 
of the Bureau of Production of the New 
York State Food Commission. Mr. Hu¬ 
son is arranging to hold a number of 
tractor schools during the coming AVinter, 
and will offer special opportunities to 
women and disabled soldiers to bi'come ex¬ 
perts in operating these machines. This 
AATnter Mr. Huson plans to h.ave at least 
20 tractor schools. The “terms” of in¬ 
struction will be one week. The schools 
will he located at such points in the State 
where local conditions—buildings, rail¬ 
road communications and probable attend¬ 
ance—'Would seem to warrant their es¬ 
tablishment. 
Connecticut Farmers’ AA’’eek will be held 
at Hartford Jan. 20-24. The Connecticut 
Dairymen’s Association. State Sheep 
Breeders’ Association, Poultrymen’s As¬ 
sociation, Connecticut Pomological Socie¬ 
ty and State Vegetable Growers’ Afisocia- 
tion will meet during the week. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
• American Society for Horticultural 
Science, annual meeting, Baltimore, Md,, 
Dec. 27-2S. 
AA’isconsin Cheese Makers’ Association, 
Auditorium, Milwaukee, AVis., Jan. 8-10, 
1919. 
AA"e.stern New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association, joint meeting, Rochester, N. 
Y., .Jam 12, 1919. 
Third Annual New Jersey Agricultural 
Convention, Trenton, Jan. 13-17, 1919. 
New .Jersey State Poultry Association, 
annual meeting and exhibition, the Arm¬ 
ory, Trenton, N. .J., .Jan. 1.3-17, 1919. 
.Jan. 18-26—National AVestern Stock 
Show, Denver, Colo. 
Farmers’ AA^eek, Hartford, Conn., Jan. 
20-24. 
Connecticut Dairymen’s Associ.ation, 
Connecticut Sheep Breeders’ Association, 
Connecticut I’oultrymen’s Association, 
Hartford. Conn.. .Jan. 21-22. 
Jan. 22-23—New York State Breeders’ 
Association, Buffalo. N. Y.; H. B. Har¬ 
pending, president, Dundee, N. Y. 
Connecticut Pomological Society, Con¬ 
necticut Vegetable Growers’ Association, 
llartford. Conn., .Jan. 2.3-24, 
Feb. 8-1,5—California International 
Live Stock Show. San Francisco. Cal. 
Omaha Inter-State I.and Show. Munic¬ 
ipal Auditorium, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 12- 
22, 1919. _ 
Philadelphia Markets 
hUTTER. 
Best creamery prints, 7.3 to 74c; tub, 
choice, 69 to 70c; packing stock, 40 to 
43c. 
kGGS. 
Nearby choice. 76 to 78c; gathered, 
best, 70 to 72c; lower grades, 55 to 65c. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls, 28 to 32c; chickens. 26 to 32c; 
roosters, 20 to 21c; ducks, 28 to 35c; 
guineas, pair, 75c to $1.10. 
PRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, ,38 to 42c; chickens. 3,5 to 
44c; fowls. 34 to 37c; roosters. 27c: 
ducks. Spring, 38 to 42c; squabs, doz., $6 
to $8.25. 
Fruits. 
Apples, bbl., $4 to .$6.50; cranberries, 
bbl., $10 to $18. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes, No. 1, bbl., .$3 to .$3.75; %- 
hu. bkt., 40 to 90c; sweet potatoes, bbl., 
$3 to .$5; cabbage, ton, $15 to $35; 
onions, 100 lbs., $1.25 to $2.50. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay, No. 1, .$33 to $34 ; No. 2, $31 to 
$.32; No. 3, $25 to $26; clover mixed, 
.$25 to $31. Straw, rye, .$16 to $19; oat 
and wheat, $14 to $16. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
The market is weak, with a smaller 
proportion selling at the top_ figures. At 
shipping points in Maine prices rejiorted 
are: .$15 to $18 for loose, and $17 to 
$20 baled. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Feb. 4-5, 1919—Holsteins. Purebred 
Live Stock SaleG Co., Brattleboro, AT. 
April 1-2, 1919—Holsteins. Purebred 
Live Stock Sales Co., Brattleboro, A’t. 
•Jan. 8-10, 1919—iOhio Shorthorn Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, Shorthorns, Columbus, 
O.; P. G. Ross, sales manager. 
Feb. 18-21, 1919—Shorthorn Congress 
Show and Sale, Chicago, Ill.; F. AA’’. 
Harding, manager. 
March 7, 1919—AV. C. McGavock, Du- 
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