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Countrywide Produce Situation 
The continued rise of potatoes and cab¬ 
bage and the high closing prices of the 
onion and apple season suggest a favor¬ 
able outlook for truck and fruit crops the 
coming season. Reports from the South 
indicate light acreage of the principal 
crops, including strawberries and canta¬ 
loupes, as well as vegetables. Farmers 
in various sections were discouraged last 
year by the high costs and by the low 
prices received for some lines of produce. 
Further setbacks occurred this season on 
account of heavy rains, which delayed 
planting at the proper time and caused 
rotting of the seed in the ground in some 
localities. The result is a heavy reduc¬ 
tion, amounting in some cases to about 
one-half, in acreage of potatoes, canta¬ 
loupes and strawberries, and a consider¬ 
able reduction in other lines, including 
cabbage and tomatoes. With the advance 
of the season northward the feeling is a 
little more confident lately in such sec¬ 
tions as Virginia, Delaware and Mary¬ 
land, where the recent advances in pota¬ 
toes. cabbage, etc., seem to have encour¬ 
aged a larger acreage than was expected 
at first. 
The rise at the end of the season will 
no doubt tend to increase planting of 
early crops in the North. Potatoes ad¬ 
vanced sharply the past week, respond¬ 
ing to much higher prices in the West 
the preceding week. Orowers in Northern 
Maine are now getting from $3 to $3.50 
per barrel, which lets them out at a 
f irofit even at the high cost of production 
ast season, but the average price for 
the season has not been satisfactory. 
Growers are now getting $1.50 to $1.70 
per cwt. in the Western and North Cen¬ 
tral States. Reports indicate rapid clean¬ 
ing up of supplies in the mountain States 
and Northern lake region, while even the 
large Winter stocks in Maine and New 
York State are being rapidly lessened. 
The Northern cabbage and onion crops 
seem to be practically done except for such 
limited stock as is in hands of dealers and 
in cold storage. Even the recent extreme 
price© of cabbage failed to bring out any 
heavy shipments and the market is now 
practically supplied by Southern stock. 
The best old stock and various lines of 
new stock reached the range of $00 to 
$140 per.ton in city wholesale markets, 
and onions at last reports were selling 
at $5 per cwt. f. o. b. Western shipping 
points, but not much stock either in pro¬ 
ducing sections or in the large cities is 
good enough at this season to bring top 
prices, and the general range is $3 to 
$4.75 per cwt. 
The fruit output appears fairly good 
in a general way. The apple crop went 
out at high prices and good stock brought 
$10 per barrel. Cranberries reached the 
extreme prices aud oranges nearly equaled 
the high values at the end of last season. 
Recent plantings of fruit seem to have 
been light. The present acreage of bear¬ 
ing strawberries is only about one-half 
the normal, and much of the limited acre¬ 
age is old planted area that will not pro¬ 
duce heavy crops nor choice fruit. On 
the other hand, it is conceded that de¬ 
mand may be excellent, owing to the boom 
in the manufacture of fruit juices. 
According to early indications the peach 
crop will be a good one in the North, but 
not quite so large as last year in Georgia. 
The total, however, is expected to be at 
least one-third larger than last ypar, 
although the critical point has not been 
passed in Northern sections. g. b. f. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Records show that at the 
three Fort Worth. Tex., air fields, where 
flying virtually ceased April 3 and all 
enlisted men were discharged, 106 men 
were killed from November 7. 1017. to 
April 1. 1010. During the time the 
British Royal Flying Corps trained its 
squadrons there 50 students, officers and 
mechanics met fatal mishaps. Since tin* 
Americans took over the field© 5(5 have 
been killed. At Love Field. Dallas. Tex., 
which soon will be discontinued, flying 
accidents caused 11 deaths, of which nine 
were officers and two cadets. There was 
a total of 30.000 hours in the air ac¬ 
complished. 400 cadets received training 
and 300 student officers got advanced 
training. 
A verdict of $413,301.30 was returned 
by a jury in the Supreme Court in New 
Jersey April'4 in favor of R. II. Howell, 
Soil & Co.. 120 Front Street, Manhattan, 
against the Lehigh Valley Railroad for 
sugar destroyed in the Blaek Tom explo¬ 
sion of July 30. 1916. The sugar was 
stored in one of the railroad's warehouses 
and it was charged was lost through neg¬ 
ligence. The railroad defence was that 
the fire did not start on its property and 
it was not responsible for its spread to 
the warehouse. 
The recent trial of Jeremiah O’Leary 
under the espionage act in New York City 
ended in a disagreement of the jury, after 
protracted efforts to come to a decision. 
The defendant was discharged from fur¬ 
ther indictments. 
Yaqui Indians April 7 crossed the boun¬ 
dary from the State of Sonora. Mexico, 
into the United States, obtained a large 
amount of arms and ammunition and 
then recrossed into Mexico. The Mexican 
officials asked Colonel F. C. Carnahan, 
Fnited States commander at Nogales. 
Ariss., for assistance to stand off the Yu- 
quis. 
Casting the heaviest vote ever recorded 
‘The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
at a biennial Spring election, Michigan | 
electors rejected April 7 a proposed 
amendment to modify the prohibition law, 
adopted a $50,000,000 road-building pro¬ 
gram and gave the Republican ticket of 
minor State officers an overwhelming ma¬ 
jority. The feminine vote, a factor for 
the first time in a State election, figured 
prominently in the balloting on the liquor 
amendment. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A permit 
was issued at El Paso. Tex., April 3, for 
the exportation of 1,000 cavalry horses to 
Mexico for the use of the Mexican Fed¬ 
eral army. The horses were purchased 
from the United State© army at the Fort 
Bliss remount station. 
Reduction amounting to 31.08 per cent 
in the acreage to be planted to cotton this 
year in the South has been pledged, ac¬ 
cording to a report of the State organiza¬ 
tion. made at Columbia, S. (’., April 3, to 
a convention of nearly 1.000 South Caro¬ 
lina planters^ 
Schuyler A. Haas of Indianapolis has 
been appointed by Will II. Hays. National 
Republican chairman, as head of the Na¬ 
tional committee department, which, with 
headquarters in Chicago, will organize; 
farmers in the Middle West and North¬ 
west. 
.T. I.. Edwards, manager of the rail¬ 
roads’ agricultural development section, 
announced at Memphis, Tenn., April 3,| 
that the railroad administration soon 
would institute a market bulletin service 
giving information as to agricultural pro¬ 
ducts available for market in all sections, 
and also the needs of consumers in partic¬ 
ular localities. Mr. Edwards said the 
service contemplated an extension and co¬ 
ordination of similar bulletin services now 
conducted by individual roads and would 
thus be nationwide in scope. 
The effort to get soldiers on the farms 
“strikes nearer the mark of solving the 
reconstruction problems” than anything 
else, according to Harry B. Winters. New 
York Deputy State Commissioner of Ag¬ 
riculture. lie is in charge of the Farm 
Service Bureau, which is conducting this 
work in connection with the State De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. The bureau has 
established huts at Camps Upton and 
Mills for the purpose of encouraging sol¬ 
diers to purchase farms or to interest 
them in agricultural work. 
Headquarters at Washington of the Na¬ 
tional Grange made public April s a letter 
addressed to Secretary Glass, urging that 
the interest rate on the Victory loan he 
fixed at 4Y± per cent. The letter said mas¬ 
ters of State Granges and other represen¬ 
tatives of farming interests were asking 
that the rate be no higher. 
The British Wheat Commission has re¬ 
moved the embargo on cereal exports from 
Canada to Holland, Denmark, Finland, 
Portugal and Sprin. 
The I’nion Agricultural Association 
will hold its sixty-fourth annual fair at 
Bnrgettstown, Pa.. September 30 and Oc¬ 
tober 1 aud 2. J. I.. McGough, secretary. 
WASHINGTON. — The War Trade 
Board announced April 6 that goods of 
enemy origin, owned by American citi¬ 
zens and stored in Holland or one of the; 
Scandinavian countries prior to April 6. 
1017. now may he imported into the Unit¬ 
ed States, provided the commodities are 
not on the list of restricted imports. If 
the goods are not fully paid for it will be 
necessary, it was said, for the purchaser 
to deposit the balance due in a bank of 
the country where they are stored to the 
credit of the Inter-Allied Trade Commit¬ 
tee in that country. If the goods orig¬ 
inated. however, in territory formerly un¬ 
der control of the enemy or an ally of the 
enemy, but now open to American trade, 
such a deposit will not be necessary. 
The Government is now interested in a 
novel building project involving an outlay 
of approximately $900,000. It is con¬ 
structing a helium plant, the only one in i 
the world, at North Fort Worth. Tex., and] 
it is expected that it will be in operation 
before May 1. Helium, which American 
scientists have learned how to develop as 
a means of aiding aerial warfare, removes 
the danger of fire in the filling of gas bal¬ 
loons. It is ©aid to have about 92 per 
cent of the lifting power of hydrogen and 
is not inflammable. The products of cer¬ 
tain natural gas wells in Clay County, 
Texas, have been found best fitted for 
the extraction of helium, and this will be 
piped to Fort Worth. 
A huge cut in shipbuilding costs in the 
Fnited States is in immediate prospect. 
The Shipping Board is in receipt of an 
offer from the Submarine Boat Corpora¬ 
tion. Newark Bjiy. to build eight 12,000- 
ton American type cargo ships at a flat 
cost of $149 a ton. The corporation de¬ 
clare© that it probably will he ahle to take 
a second contract at a lower figure. Chair¬ 
man Hurley of the Shipping Board pre¬ 
dicted upon his return from Europe that 
American shipyards would he able to 
build cheaper than the yards of compet¬ 
ing countries. The figures given hy the 
submarine boat people are understood to 
be away below those of Great Britain or 
any other country at this time. 
The Commercial Telegraphers’ Union, 
through F. S. McDowell, a member of the 
national grievance committee. April 8 
asked Postmaster General Burleson who 
would get the excess income resulting 
from the 20 per cent increase in telegram 
tolls put into effect April 1. McDowell! 
asserted that the whole move, instead of 
being made necessary by wage increases, 
was done to make good the failing I 
revenues of the Western Uuion and the 
Bell systems. 
Westclox 
H ERE they are; the four top-notchers in 
the Westclox line. Big Ben heads the 
family. He’s a good, substantial timekeeper 
and a loyal call-clock. 
At his right, America: trim, alert, compe¬ 
tent. Then Sleep-Meter, a close second to 
Big Ben; refined, neighborly, watchful. 
Last but least only in size comes little 
brother, Baby Ben, who tucks cozily into 
places where Big Ben might feel out of place. 
They’re all faithful timekeepers and punc¬ 
tual alarms. They all have that same good 
Westclox construction. They all wear our 
quality-pledge, Westclox. 
Western Clock Co. - makers of Westclox 
La Salle & Peru. Illinois. U. S. A. 
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