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Dealers in Raw Furs, Ginseng Roots, and 
Golden Seal. etc. 
412 WEST BROADWAY. 
NEW YORK CITY 
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New York 
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Countrywide Produce Situation 
The rush of the holiday season is over, 
and only about 1,000 ears a day of the 
leading vegetables and fruits are moving 
miirket.ward. In a general way and 
roughly .stated, about one-half the carlot 
shipments go to the 14 leading cities. In 
the eour.se of the year. New York alone 
receives 20,(X)0^ ears of [lotatoes, 11,000 
cars of apples, .o,000 cars of onions, about 
3,(X)0 cars each of peaches, muskmelons, 
tomatoes and strawberries, and 2,(K)0 
cars of cabbage. New York gets about 
one-third as much as all other big cities 
combined. Chicago has about half as 
much as New York. 
December has been a good month for 
the produce trade. Shipments were luucli 
heavier thiiu last yciir and also decidedly 
heavier for the month before. Y"et active 
demand caused a high range of prices in 
most lines. 
Thus the best grades of cranberries 
jumped to $22 per bbl. whole.sale in New 
York and a few other cities. Five dol¬ 
lars used to be considered fairly good for 
cranberries when the crop was not a 
failure. This year the sugar restrictions 
w'ere removed in the nick of time, and 
the public wcnit in for cranberry sauce 
with their holiday dinners. 
The leading fruits have been selling 
well. Hest Baldwins, (Jreenings and 
Yorks reached .$7 per hbl. in some mar¬ 
kets and exceeded ,$5 in most cities. The 
crop is going to market very fast, and 
some of it is being exported in response 
to the quotations in the “ ’teens” from 
British markets. It was ji great fruit 
year for the lucky growers who had a 
eroj). 
Vegetables are not doing as well as 
fruits. Some of the side lines, like celery, 
lettuce and early Southern vegetiibles, 
but markets are rather draggy for the 
big crops like potatoes, cabbages and 
onions. For tliese, however, the outlook 
is growing better. I’otatoes have been 
going to market one-third faster than in 
the previous ye.ar. although the crop is 
10 to 1.0 per cent smaller this year. The 
net result is that stock left unmarketed 
is comparatively light. It could be sold 
at good prices if tlie public would return 
to the liberal potato eating’habit followed 
before the scarcity and extreme prices of 
1910. A potato consumers’ league is 
badly needed. Browers are getting for 
bulk earlots and wagon loads 90c to .$1.2,5 
per 100 lbs. in the West, and $1..S0 to 
$1.90 in the East. Brices in the lar^te 
cities for sacked stock run from $1.7.5 to 
.$2..50 jier 100 Ibs.^ Markets have been a 
little weak in the Great Lakes section l)ut 
steady elsewhere the past four weeks. 
There is opening for onion and cab- 
bage eonsj*n)ers’ leagues also, although 
both these lines appear to have seen the 
worst, for the time being at least. Cab¬ 
bage doubled in price in one month, 
reaching $25 to $.30 per ton in a number 
of leading cities. The Southern calihage 
prospects are not very good ; the Western 
crop should lx* wanted. The same may 
be said of onions. Southern growers ai''e 
not planting freely on account of last 
year’s low prices. Accordingly Northern 
onions ought to sell I'eadily until the end 
of the season. The markets are in fair 
shape now at .$1..S.5 to .$2 per 100 llis., 
sacked. The .storage stock is much below 
last year and holders seem confident. 
G. H. K. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOIMESTTC -ITermann Wessels, alias 
Carl Koediger. the German naval officx’r 
and alleged spy. and Albert Banl 1 rieke, 
the repre.sentativi’ of a German toy block 
making concern, were arraigned Decem¬ 
ber 12 before .Tnlins M. Mayer in the 
(Criminal Branch of the Federal District 
Court here on indictments returned a few 
(hays ago charging treason. The men, 
who have been in the Tombs since last 
.inly on another indictment,_ charging 
them with Ix’lng concerned in a con¬ 
spiracy with .lereiniah A. O’T.eary, Mme. 
Mariii d<‘ Victorica and others, to attempt 
to commit treason, were n’presented be¬ 
fore .Indge Miiyer by William A. Italy, 
.a law partner of .John .T. O’T.eary. 1 ricke 
is an American citizen. 
firganization of circles of the Young 
People’s Socialist League, whose members 
were known as “5'ipsels.” at Camp Grant 
cantonment, formation of a secret code to 
aid draft evaders in reaching Mexico and 
d<'cisions to evade enli.stiiK’iit were testi¬ 
fied to in Federal Court at Chii-ago. De- 
e(*mher 12, by Arnold A. Schilh’i', a^ draft 
so!di<‘r at Ciimi) Grant, in the trial <>f 
Victor Tj. Berger and four other Socialist 
leaders for conspiracy under the espion¬ 
age !lCt. 
The fiiilnre of Sylvester .1. McBride, 
Sociiilist candidate for Governor of Mas¬ 
sachusetts at the recent election, to re¬ 
ceive .‘I per cent of tlie total number of 
votes cast, will deprive tliat iiarty of ()f- 
ficlal recognition in the jirimaries iH'xt 
yciir. At the November election in 1917 
the party candidate for Governor polk’d 
more than 115,000 votes out of a total of 
.390.000. This year there were 422..370 
votes cast, of which McBrick’ ri’ceivcd 
7,757. This leaves the Bepnhiicans and 
Democrats the only official political par¬ 
ties in that State. 
December 1.3 two bandits entered the 
East Brooklyn Savings Bank. Brooklyn, 
in business hours, shot and killed the teller 
and assistant treasurer, and escaped with 
$13,112. They came in a taxicab, in 
which they escaped. The chauffeur is held 
by the police. 
December 28, 101.8 
Two enlisted men were killed instantly 
and two ensigns injured at Norfolk. Va.. 
December 12, when a large hydro-airplane 
crashed into the IVilloughby Club, on 
Willoughby Spit, about 12 miles from 
the city. Dense fog caused the accident. 
Fire December 15 destroyed the large 
plant of the Scott Fertilizer Company 
along Elk River, Elkton, Ind. 'The acid 
plant was badly damaged. Loss, .$250,000. 
Four men were killed in an airplane 
collision near West I’oint, Miss., Decem¬ 
ber 16. They are Lients. Alvin W. 
Splane of Oil City, Pa., and Fred Syn- 
nestvedt of Pittsburgh, flying instructors 
of Payne Field, and Privates Fred P. 
.Lames of Litchfield. Ill, and (Iny Mc- 
Wells of Reynoldsville, III, stationed at 
Bowen Field. , 
December 17 three men were burned to 
death in a lodging-house fire at Syracuse. 
N. Y.. and seven others injured by jump¬ 
ing from windows. It is believed that the 
fire started from a lamp explosion. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Massa¬ 
chusetts Dairymen’s Association will hold 
its annual meeting in Horticultural Hall. 
Boston, Mass., during the week of Febru¬ 
ary 10. 1919. There is to he at this time 
,a combined meeting of practically all 
agricultural and horticultural interests in 
that State. 
3'he annual Winter meeting of the 
Massachusetts State Vegetable Growers’ 
Association was held at Horticultural 
Hall in Boston on Wedne.sday. December 
11. This meeting wa.s held in conjunc¬ 
tion with the annual Winter meetings of 
the Massachusetts State Department of 
Agriculture and other agricultural and 
horticultural organizations of Massachu¬ 
setts. 
The eight weeks’ Winter course af Ohio 
State University, Columbus, begins .Janu¬ 
ary 6. Write for information to B. G. 
Wat.son. secretary of College of Agricul¬ 
ture, Ohio State University, Columbus, 
Ohio. 
A market milk and cream contest will 
be held in connection with the annual con¬ 
vention of the State Board of Agriculture 
and the annual meeting of the New .Ter- 
.sey State Dairymen’s Association to he 
held in ’Frenton, .Tannary 14-17. There 
will he three classes for milk producers, 
as follows: Raw milk and cream and 
certified milk, as well as four classes for 
milk dealers, as follows: pasteurized milk 
and eiq’ani, and raw milk and cream. 
Four pint bottles must be entered in a 
class for milk and four half-pints for the 
cream classes in order to compete and all 
samples mu.st be received in Trenton by 
Monday noon, .Tanuary 13, 1919. This is 
the first contest of this kind ever held 
in connection with this annual farmers’ 
meeting and producers and distributors of 
milk in New .Ter.soy should make an ef¬ 
fort to exhibit samples of their milk and 
cream. The samples will he judged and 
scored by representatives from the T’nited 
States Department of Agriculture. Dairy 
Division, and the scores will be sent to 
the competitors with comments and sug¬ 
gestions. 
WASHINGTON. — Negotiations have 
been begun by the United States for the 
purchase, at .a cost of .$15,(X)0.0(X). of 
property rights on the island of Taboga, 
at the Pacific entrance of the 1‘anama 
Canal in Panama territory, for six bat- 
t(‘ries of coast artillery and a po.st of 
3,000 men. The village of Taboga, which 
is older than Panama City, will not be 
touched, hut the remainder of the island 
will he reserved for military jiurposes. 
T’luler the terms of the treaty of 19(>3 the 
United States may occupy any territory 
in Panama required for the operation of 
the Canal or its defense by making settle¬ 
ment for private titles. 
A bill permitting all men who served in 
the nation’s fighting forces during the war 
to retain their uniforms after they nre 
mustered out was pas.sed, Decenibi’r 16. 
by the House and sent to the Senate. 
'The volley of criticism against the mis¬ 
handling of the affairs of the IVar Ri.sk 
Insurance Rnrean. to which has been 
charg(‘d tlion.sands and thousands of cases 
of severe privation in the families of sol¬ 
diers, because of failure to provide them 
with funds due them, enlminated Decem¬ 
ber 17 in the introduction of a resolution 
for a special Congress investigation of the 
bureau. Representative JIcFadden of 
Pennsylvania, of the hanking and enr- 
rency committee, introduced the resolu¬ 
tion. There is also criticism of the sy.s- 
tem of army pay. as many wounded nien 
reach New York penniless, having been 
without pay for montli.s. 
General farming leads here ; about all 
the grain that is .sold i« wheat. I’lie 
farmers keep enough stock to use tin’ 
other grain. Not many potatoes raised. 
We have a co-operative creamery at Pe¬ 
tersburg. and there is a milk station at 
Huntingdon, about 10 miles distiint from 
this valley. ’Fhey have been trying to get 
a milk route through this valley, but have 
not .mioce('ded yet; a good many do not 
want to leave the creamery. They Inive 
been shipping wheat; $2.15 per hn. at 
shij)i)ing i)olnt. Butter fat at creamery. 
60c per Ih. Eggs. 60c; pork. 20c; dr(’.s.sed 
beef. 1.5c; live cattle, about 11 to 12c. 
on foot. Lambs have been a« high a.s 17e 
earlier in the Fall, hut there do not meem 
to he any sold now. Potatoes, what there 
were, are .sold ; we can generally get the 
retail price, or very near it; they are 
about $1.50 per bn. Hay has been selling 
for $32.50 per ton on the car, but it has 
dropped some. Straw, $16 per ton. J. F. 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. 
