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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Top Dress Your Crops 
with NITROGEN and POTASH. 
We offer the product of our Chilean Refineries, obtained 
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Soda at $81.00 per 
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It all dissolves in water. Growing crops absorb it quickly. Best used 
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Racine, Wisconsin 
March 15, 1919 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
HIGHER PRICES AND ACTIVE MOVEMENT 
IN MOST LINES OF VEGETABLES 
Prices of vegetables have followed a 
zigzag course, advancing and declining 
about two weeks at a stretch, ever since 
November. They reached low point dur¬ 
ing that month, then advanced toward the 
Christmas holidays; declined the last 
week in December and first few days of 
January; advanced to the middle of Jan¬ 
uary ; declined the last of January and 
in early February and moved up again in 
late February and in early March. At 
present they range about midway, gen¬ 
erally speaking, between the high points 
reached in the middle of January and the 
low points reached in November and 
again in some lines in February. Fruit, 
however, followed a different trend, ad¬ 
vancing quite steadily all the season. 
Shipment of produce is falling off for 
most lines of old stock, but iucreasing for 
new Southern vegetables, and the total 
is 10 to 20 per cent larger than a year 
ago, and increasing also from week to 
week. 
FAIRLY GOOD POTATO OUTLOOK 
Potatoes, however, show a notable fall¬ 
ing off in volume compared with last year. 
About one-third less are comiug than a 
year ago, and the decrease continues from 
week to week. The potato situation, al¬ 
together, looks fairly well compared with 
a year ago. The crop is lighter than last 
season and has been coming to market 
much more rapidly and steadily, and 
movement is now decreasing This year 
there is not much half-frozen stock to de¬ 
press the markets On the other hand 
Canada had a crop of tremendous size for 
that country, amounting to about one- 
fourth of the United States crop. Ship- 
incuts to this country have been over one- 
tliird heavier this season, with the ship¬ 
ping season by no means finished. This 
Canadian surplus has helped, depress some 
of our markets, particularly Now York 
and Boston. Yet the total imports from 
Canada are equal to only about one week’s 
shipments of our own crop and are partly 
offset by our exports to the West Iudies 
and elsewhere. Fortunately their home 
demand and their numerous dehydration 
plants for export trade have taken up 
most of the Canadian surplus. Our lead¬ 
ing potato markets are acting well lately, 
with advances of 5 to 25 cents over last 
month. Wholesale prices range $1.65 to 
$2.05 per 100 lbs. for large lots in the 
West and Southwest, and $2 to $2.25 in 
the East. In Maine producing sections 
sacked potatoes have advanced from $1.43 
per_ 100 lbs... f.o.b.. on February 17, to 
$158 to $1.68, which may be compared 
with the season’s high of $2.05 to $2.00 
on December 9. A year ago potatoes were 
selling not far from the present levels, 
but instead of tending upward were be¬ 
ginning their rapid and extended Spring 
decline. 
HEAVY GAINS IN ONION VALUES 
Onions have made sensational jumps 
lately, reaching as high as $5 per 100 lbs. 
in some markets, with a general range of 
$3 to $4. Some growers who thought the 
onion crop hardly worth taking care of 
under conditions prevailing last Fall, are 
perhaps wishing they had taken on a 
little more help. Remaining stocks seem 
light, notwithstanding the large crop, and 
it must be that a great many onions went 
to waste. The prospect seems good for 
stock fit to ship in March and April, in 
view of the light Southern acreage. 
SLOW STEADY GAIN IN CABBAGE MARKETS 
Prices have been improving right along 
for good hard cabbage, which brings $35 
to $50 nor ton for carlots in leading city 
markets. 
STEADY MARKETS FOR APPLES 
Choice apples are still quoted around 
$10 per barrel in most cities, but the mar¬ 
kets are no more than holding their own 
around that level. It is about all that 
can be paid for profitable export, while 
the home trade is somewhat limited at 
these figures. Most of the recent ad¬ 
vances have 'been of benefit chiefly to 
dealers. Growers mostly sold out long 
ago at about half present prices. Dealers 
have made so much money this year that 
they are likely to prove ready buyers the 
coining season. 
SOME IMPROVEMENT IN BEAN MARKETS 
The purchase of a few hundred cars of 
beans for export sent up the Eastern mar¬ 
kets 50 cents or more, but Western mar¬ 
kets continued weak. Bean holders are 
working to secure the purchase of more 
beans out of the new huudred-million- 
dollar food fund. Recent purchases at 
S% to t)ViC are a little above the gen¬ 
eral wholesale range of 7 to 8%c per lb. 
for white kinds. There are thousands of 
cars of white and colored beans for sale 
in the West. The East seems more nearly 
cleaned up of this crop. e. b. f. 
Soy Beans and Cow Peas in Northern 
Ohio 
I note in recent issue cow peas and Soy 
beans were not recommended for a cover 
crop in Northern Ohio. I have grown 
them for over 10 years in my young or¬ 
chard, three miles from Lake Erie, until 
the last two years, when seed was so high 
and labor so uncertain. I had good suc¬ 
cess with a large growth and plenty of 
nodules on roots after two years sowed on 
same land, but never tried to save seed. 
Wonderful cow peas and Mammoth Yel¬ 
low Soy bean produced a very heavy 
growth when sown about the first of July 
mixed together when sown. w. c. b. 
Ohio. 
