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S AW WO O D 
NOW 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Countrywide Produce Conditions 
The old year is closing with rapidly 
decreasing movement of produce, although 
the volume is still much heavier than last 
year. There is no especial shortage of 
cars for loading, and nothing is being 
held back extensively for higher prices, 
except for more or less of a waiting at¬ 
titude on the part of some potato growers 
in the West. Prices generally are holding 
at about recent level and some lines, not¬ 
ably cabbage, apples, oranges and cran¬ 
berries. show gains or recoveries in value. 
Fruits and Southern vegetables are high. 
Beans and potatoes seem about the only 
leading lines that find difficulty in hold¬ 
ing their own. 
POTATOES MOVING FAST. 
The potato outlook is fairly good. Ap¬ 
parently, according to latest figures, only 
about three-fourths as many remain to be 
shipped as at the corresponding time last 
year. The price is little higher than at 
that time last year, and according there 
is much less prospect of declines such as 
occurred toward the end of last season. 
The rather mild Winter has helped the 
market movement a great deal. The 
range in the West is 90c to $1.30 per 100 
lbs. from growers and $1.40 to $1.65, 
sacked, f. o. b., and in the East about $2 
per bu. City wholesale markets ranged 
$2 to $2:65 per 100 lbs., sacked. Eastern 
and Western prices came a little closer 
together, New York declining slightly and 
Chicago advancing. 
CABBAGE AND ONIONS DOING WELL. 
Price of cabbage advanced sharply in 
the East, best stock reaching $20 to $28 
per ton m bulk for large lots. Large 
Western * markets range $17 to $30. 
Choice onions hold about steady at $1.50 
to $2 per 100 lbs. for large lots, but small 
or inferior lots range lower. In Central 
California producing sections onions are 
much lower than potatoes, the best brown 
stock ranging $1 to $1.25 per 100 lbs. 
and ordinary as low as 60c. The stopping 
of Government buying hurt the potato 
and onion position in the West, some con¬ 
tracts having been cancelled, owing to the 
change in war conditions. No export de¬ 
mand for bulky foods is looked for, but 
considerable dehydrated or dried stock 
may be shipped across. 
BEANS III AY BE W ANTED. 
On the other hand. Government buying 
has been the only salvation for the bean 
interest. There was a good deal of old 
stock held over in the city warehouses 
and the large new crop moves very slowly, 
except for the export of sixty to seventy 
million pounds through Government agen¬ 
cies. There is a lull in this buying just 
now. Over a million bushels have gone 
to Belgium alone since July. There is 
every reason to look for more of such de¬ 
mands later on. Prices are much lower 
than last year. Western growers receiving 
from $5.75 to $7 per 100 lbs. for colored 
beans and $7 to $8.50 for white stock. 
Eastern growers get mostly $7 to $8. Re¬ 
cleaned white stock, sacked, brings $9.50 
to $11 in city markets. 
STEADY APPLE MARKETS. 
Apples on the whole are holding firmly. 
Much of the unsold barreled stock is in 
Western New York, where choice Bald¬ 
wins from common storage bring $5 to 
$5.50. They sell in city markets at $5 
to $7 per barrel. Best grades Western 
box apples average about $3 in Eastern 
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DOMESTIC.—The “Lusitania Medal,” 
struck by the ex-Kaiser’s Government in 
celebration of the sinking of the ill-fated 
British liner, is responsible for the suit 
brought in the Supreme Court, New York, 
Dee. 19. by Armen P. Aleon to recover 
$1,500 from Raphael Constantian for al¬ 
leged injury to the “souvenir of the World 
War,” and “unjust suspicions” cast upon 
the plaintiff by agents of the Department 
of Justice. In his complaint, Aleon said 
he bought the medal in Holland for “the 
sole purpose of justifying the position of 
the United States in its war upon the 
German Government.” He said he lent 
the trinket to Constantian and that the 
latter organized a company for the manu¬ 
facture and distribution of replicas. In 
the process of making impressions the 
medal was broken. Agents of the De¬ 
partment of Justice learned of the matter 
and, according to Aleon, caused him con¬ 
siderable annoyance by inquiring how he 
came into possession of the medal and 
why duplicates were being made of it. 
Six men in an automobile held up Frank 
Brown, of Lynn. Mass., paymaster of the 
steel foundrv of the General Electric Com¬ 
pany. at Everett, Mass., Dee. 20, shot and 
seriously wounded him and escaped with 
the weeks’ payroll, reported to amount to 
$ 12 , 000 . ‘ 
Joseph M. G. Ivakay, president of the 
Verandah Chemical Company, with a 
plant in Verandah place, Brooklyn, was 
arrested by inspectors of the Health De¬ 
partment Dec. 20 on the charge of manu¬ 
facturing and selling drugs under a false 
and misleading label. Nearly 400,000 
tablets, which Health Department officials 
say were represented as ^aspirin tablets, 
were seized. Analysis c f 3 has 
shown them to contain only talcum pow¬ 
der cornstarch and a little salicylic acid. 
< )u the Government’s motion confessing 
technical errors in the lower court the 
Supreme Court Dee. 23 reversed the^ con¬ 
viction of Connul Kornmann in South 
Dakota under the espionage act and re- 
January 4, 1919 
manded the case for a new trial. Sim¬ 
ilar action against 28 defendants convict¬ 
ed under the act was taken recently. 
Arguments in the eases of Eugene V. 
Dobs of Indiana, James Paterson of Min¬ 
neapolis and Jacob Frohwerk of Kansas 
City, convicted under the espionage act, 
are set for Jan. 27. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—W. Ray¬ 
mond Stone of Vineland has been appoint¬ 
ed Superintendent of Farm Demonstra¬ 
tion for Bergen County, N. J., to succeed 
L. F. Merrill, who recently died. Mr, 
Stone’s appointment became effective 
Dec. 1. 
Stricter Government control of the meat 
industry without Government acquisition 
of the packing plants was advocated Dec. 
19 by IV. B. Colver, chairman of the Fed¬ 
eral Trade Commission, at the opening 
of hearings before the House Interstate 
Commerce Committee on the Administra¬ 
tion bill designed to deal with an alleged 
meat monopoly. ’ “There is not the slight¬ 
est reason at present why the industry 
should not remain in private hands,” said 
Mr. Colver. He added, however, that in¬ 
terlocked with the meat industry was 
ownership of transportation, stock yard, 
freight houses and other facilities, “so 
that competitors are practically helpless 
in carrying on the business.” 
WASHINGTON.—The war has cost 
the United States $55,087,256,051.11, ac¬ 
cording to the experts of the Senate Ap¬ 
propriations Committee. This estimate 
includes ten billions loaned to the Allies, 
and is based on the appropriations made 
by the first and second sessions of the 
65th Congress, with deductions for or¬ 
dinary civil appropriations, and including 
appropriations authorized although not 
expected to be expended before the end of 
the fiscal year of 1919. 
Official warning to the nation that pro¬ 
ceeds of the last Liberty loan have been 
spent, that expenditures for the fiscal year 
ending July 1, 1919, may even exceed the 
$18,000,000,000 estimated by Mr. Me- 
Adoo and that preparation must be made 
by the country to absorb another large 
bond issue before July 1 was issued Dec. 
19 by the new Secretary of the Treasury 
Carter Glass. 
Gross mismanagement and extrava¬ 
gance permeated affairs of the American 
International Corporation in building the 
great Hog Island shipyard at Philadel¬ 
phia, said Department of Justice investi¬ 
gators in findings made public at the 
White House Dec. 20. While no crim¬ 
inal responsibility is fixed, recommenda¬ 
tions were made for examination by a 
board of experts into the corporation’s 
expenditures. The investigators are G. 
Carroll Todd and Mark Hyman, Assis¬ 
tant Attorney General. The report says 
that officials of the corporation attempted 
to justify their position by explaining that 
they were forced to sacrifice economy for 
speed. They charged also that in giving 
them a second contract the United States 
Shipping Board had waived any alleged 
mismanagement. The increase from $21,- 
000.000, the first estimate of the yard’s 
cost, to $61,000,000 was not accounted for 
to the full satisfaction of the investiga¬ 
tors, says the report. 
The Senate passed Dee. 23 the revenue 
bill practical!" * the Fi¬ 
nance Committee wnu on*., ^important 
amendments. In the course of the final 
day’s deliberations the radical element 
in the Senate assumed the upper hand 
long enough to force back into the meas¬ 
ure the semi-luxury taxes and also to 
compel the inclusion in the measure of a 
tax of 100 per cent on campaign contri¬ 
butions in excess of $500 from any indi¬ 
vidual. firm or corporation, with heavy 
penalties for infraction of the proposed 
law. A special provision that every of¬ 
ficer and man of the United State naval 
and military forces shall be paid one 
month of extra salary at the time of his 
discharge was included. Almost the con¬ 
cluding act of the Senate Dec. 23 was 
the ratification in the open Senate of the 
Finance Committee's action in the matter 
of postal rates. The elimination of The 
zone system of charges for second-class 
mail matter, the pet measure of Post¬ 
master General Burleson, was accom¬ 
plished by a vote of 41 to 22, thus ratify¬ 
ing the previous action of the Finance 
Committee in this respect and of the Sen¬ 
ate Committee of the Whole. Under the 
bill as passed, first-class postage is re¬ 
duced from three cents per ounce to two 
cents, beginning July 1. 1919, while the 
zone system is abolished and a rate is es¬ 
tablished of l’i cents a pound for period¬ 
icals and newspapers destined for points 
within a radius of 20 miles of the point of 
publication, and 1% cents for greater 
distances. 
My greatest success last Summer was 
with corn; 1% acres yielded 160 bu. on 
the cob (measured) of Hall’s Golden 
Nugget, and except for the early frost 
there would have been more. The frost 
hit it in patches, and there the crop was 
poorer. This corn has enormous kernels, 
and the ears are large, but do not mature 
as early as many varieties. I made the 
mistake of husking it too early, thinking 
it would dry in some wire cribs. One 
crib was three feet thick, another two 
feet. The corn in the former began to 
mold and I had to spread it out on a 
floor to save it. In the two-foot bin it 
dried well. Blackbirds took a great deal 
before it was harvested. Flocks of sev¬ 
eral thousand would come down like a 
black cloud and must have taken 15 per 
cent of the kernels. f. i. proctor. 
Massachusetts. 
