The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
979 
Products, Prices and Trade 
NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 1919. 
These prices and notes are believed to 
be fairly representative of the current of 
trade here: 
siilk Prices. 
New York, for June, $2.89 per 100 for 
3 per cent milk, with an additional 4c 
per 100 for every one-tenth of 1 per cent 
extra butterf t, at points 200 to 210 
miles from city. 
PUTTER. 
Supplies are much larger and very little 
speculative demand to handle the surplus, 
so that prices have been cut three to four 
cents to induce heavier consumption. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 52 @ 53 
Good to Choice . 50 @ 52 
Lower Grades. 46 @ 48 
City made." 43 @ 47 
Dairy, best .' 50 @ 51 
Common to good . 45 @ 49 
Packing Stock. 40 @ 45 
Process . 45 @ 50 
CHEESE. 
The market has been firm on higher 
Western reports, but is now weaker, be¬ 
cause of the drop in butter and eggs. 
Whole Milk, fancy . 32 ©? 32J* 
Good to choice. 31 @ 31>-i 
Skims, best. 24 @ 25 
Fair to good. 12 @ 19 
EGGS. 
Receipts are excessive—in one recent 
day 1,900,000 dozen. The hot weather 
makes quick handling 1 necessary, and 
prices, except on top qualities, have been 
unsettled. Nearby white and best gath¬ 
ered are five to six cents lower and under 
grades subject to any reasonable offer. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 45 @ 46 
Medium to good . 40 @ 44 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 43 @ 41 
Common to good. 38 @ 42 
Gathered, best, white. 4> @ 44 
Medium to good, mixed colors ... 40 @ 43 
Lower grades. 30 @ 36 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers.12 00 @14 50 
Bulls . 7 50 @1100 
Cows. 4 25 @1150 
Calves, prime veal. 100 lbs. 14 00 @17 50 
Culls. 7 00 @10 00 
Hogs.20 50 @2100 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 7 00 @10 50 
Lambs .15 00 @2100 
DRESSED MEATS. 
Calves, choice. 23 @ 21 
Common to good. 16 @ 22 
Pork . 24 @ 28 
Lambs, hothouse, head . 5 00 @10 00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Sales are reported at: 35 to 39c for 
fowls; 45 to 55c for broilers, and 20c for 
old roosters. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, host. 
@ 
49 
Medium to good. 
. 40 
@ 
40 
Chickens choice lb. 
. 42 
& 
43 
Fair to Good. 
@ 
39 
Broilers, lb. 
@ 
65 
Fowls. . 
.. 33 
@ 
39 
Roosters. 
<21 
24 
Ducks . 
© 
'35 
8quabs, doz 
2 00 @10 00 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.. 
Pea. 
Medium .. 
Red Kidney. 
White Kidney 
Yellow Eye .... 
Lima, California 
10 25 @11 T5 
6 75 @ 8 00 
6 50 @8 00 
10 75 @13 UO 
1175 @12 25 
7 25 @ 7 50 
8 00 @ 9 00 
FRUITS. 
The list of varieties offered is larger, 
peaches and watermelons being on hand 
in carlots, blackberries from the Caro- 
linas and muskmelons from Florida and 
California. Many of the peaches have 
come in bad order, so that the price range 
is wide. Jersey strawberries are being 
pinched by the drought, but have brought 
around 25c when fairly good. 
Apples —Baldwin, bbl. 8 00 @1100 
Ben Davis . 6 00 @ SOU 
Albemarle . 7 00 @15 00 
Strawberries, qt. 25 @ 32 
Oranges, box . 4 50 @ 9 00 
Lemons, box . 4 25 @ 5 00 
Grape Fruit. 6 00 @9 00 
Pineapples. 36s to 30s. 5 00 @5 50 
Peaches, Southern, 6-bkt. crate. 2 50 @ 4 00 
Muskmelons. bu. 9 00 @12 00 
Watermelons, carload . 700 uu@1000 u0 
Vegetables. 
Old potatoes are in surplus, with many 
sprouted and damaged by heat. Sound 
hard stock is selling fairly well, though 
about $1 per 100 lbs. lower. Desirable 
new potatoes are still held high, up to 
$11 per bbl. in some cases, but inferior 
as low as $3. 
Potatoes—old, 180 lbs.. 3 50 
Southern, new, bbl.. best . 9 00 
Southern, common to good . 2 50 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 200 
Beets, bbl. 2 00 
@ 4 50 
(.1 11 oo 
@ 6 00 
@ 6 00 
@ 2 50 
Carrots, bbl. 
00 
@ 
5 
00 
Cabbage bbl. 
50 
@ 
5 
oo 
Lettuce, hnlf-bbl. basket.. 
0 
00 
@ 
3 
00 
Onions, new. bu. 
00 
4 
60 
String Beans bu. 
. 1 
50 
& 
4 
00 
Squash. Now. bu, . ... 
50 
@ 
3 
50 
Egg Plants, bu. 
50 
d 
3 
00 
Spinach, bbl. 
00 
@ 
1 
75 
Turnips, rutabaga, bbl. 
00 
(ft 
5 
00 
Kale, bbl . . 
75 
id. 
1 
50 
Chicory, bbl . 
© 
2 
00 
Asparagus, doz. 
•) 
a 
4 
00 
Cucumbers, bu. 
50 
© 
4 
00 
Peas. bu. bkt. 
00 
© 
4 
00 
Tomatoes, 0-bkt. crate.... 
00 
© 
3 
50 
Radishes, bu. bkt . 
00 
© 
2 
00 
Rhubarb, 100 bunches . 
o 
00 
© 
4 
50 
HAY AND 
STRAW. 
U&T Timothy, No. 1. ton 
«.*. ••••• 4ti 
00 
@47 
00 
No. 2. 
00 
@45 
00 
No. 3. 
no 
@42 
00 
No grade . 
00 
@34 
00 
Clover mixed. 
00 
@45 
00 
Straw, Rye. 
00 
@15 
00 
GRAIN. 
Following are the Government prices 
on No. 2 red wheat at New York and 
other markets: New York. $2.37%; 
Chicago, $2.23; Baltimore, $2.38% ; Kan¬ 
sas City, $2.13. Corn, No. 3. yellow, 
New York, $1.92; Chicago, $1.74. Oats, 
No. 3, white, New York. SOc; rye, $1.66; 
barley, $1.30; buckwheat, 100 lbs., $3.30. 
Retail Prices at New York 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, but represent produce 
of good quality and the buying opportuni¬ 
ties of at least half of New York’s popu¬ 
lation : 
Butter—Best prints . 
Tub, good to choice.63 to 
Cheese .40 to 
Eggs, fancy .60 to 
Good to choice.52 to 
Potatoes, new, lb. 7 to 
Apples, doz.60 to 
Strawberries, qt.30 to 
Fowls, lb.42 to 
Bacon, lb.45 to 
Fresh fish, lb.16 to 
Lettuce, head . 5 to 
6Sc 
65c 
45e 
62c 
55c 
8c 
75c 
35c 
47c 
48c 
25c 
10c 
Philadelphia Markets 
(SUTTER. 
Nearby prints, 60 to 62c: tub creamery, 
best. 53c; common to good, 47 to 50c; 
packing stock. 42 to 43c. 
FGGS. 
Nearby, best, 49 to 51c; gathered, best, 
40 to 44c; lower grades, 37 to 39c. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowds, 38 to 39c; broilers, 45 to 56c: 
roosters, 22 to 23c; ducks, 30 to 32c; 
geese, 20 to 23c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 1 . 
Fowls. 38 to 39c; roosters. 26c; Spring 
ducks, 3S to 39c; squabs, doz., $5.50 to 
$9.25. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes. 100 lbs.. $2.50 to $2.60; 
sweet potatoes, bu.. $2.50 to $4 ; onions, 
new. bu., $3.50 to $4.25; cabbage, bbl., 
$3 to $4. 
HAY AND STRAYV. 
Hay, Timothy. No. 1. $44 to $45; No. 
2, $42 to $43; No. 3. $39 to $40; clover 
mixed. $38 to $42. Straw, rye. $14.50 to 
$15; oat and wheat, $11.50 to $13.50. 
Snow’s Grain Report 
makes the following crop 
43.214.000; condition, 
crop, 1,460,000.000 
indi- 
B. \V. Snow 
estimates: 
Oats acreage. 
93.4; indicated 
bushels. 
Winter wheat condition. 96 
cated crop. 900.000.000 bushels. 
Spring wheat acreage, 22.S58.000: con¬ 
dition. 95.5; indicated crop, 345,000.000 
bushels. 
Rye acreage. 5,450,000: condition. 
95.1: indicated crop. 93.000.000. 
Barley acreage. 8.661.000; condition. 
91.3; indicated crop. 225.000.000 bushels. 
Ilay condition. 94.4; indicated crop, 
84.000.000 tons. 
Government final figures last year: 
Wheat, total. 917.100.000 bushels; corn, 
2.582.814.000; oats. 1.538.359.000; rve, 
*9,103.000; barley. 256.375,000; hay, 
90.000.000 tons total. 
Buffalo Markets 
hennery; 47 to 48c for candled. Poultry 
is firm at 40 to 45c for dressed turkey; 
34 to 39c for fowl; 27 to 28c for old 
roosters; 38 to 40c for live ducks; 25 to 
30c for geese; 33 to 36c for frozen 
chickens and broilers. Dressed and 
frozen poultry is 3 to 5c over live per lb. 
Maple sugar is steady at $1.75 per gal. 
for syrup; 19 to 24c for sugar; honey, 
33 to 36c for extract, all per lb. Hay is 
at the high record at $37 to $40 for No. 
1 Timothy and $30 for lowest grade. The 
new crop will be large unless crippled 
by present hot spell. It is late and would 
not stand much drouth. j. w. c. 
Storing Buckwheat Flour 
I have a next year’s supply of buck¬ 
wheat flour on hand, and wonder if you 
cannot suggest some way in which I can 
save it. Two or three years ago I bought 
a supply of wheat flour, in the Fall, and 
stored it upstairs where it was dry. It 
kept all right, but moths got in that left 
early the ne t Summer. I am afraid that 
I will have the same trouble with this 
buckwheat flour. I have plenty of those 
40-quart station cans in which I could 
put this flour, but I am afraid that it 
would be so close that the flour would get 
musty. f. J. K. 
New York. 
Buckwheat flour can be kept from one 
season to another only at some little risk, 
unless it can be held in cold storage. Our 
local miller tells me that he has kept it 
in ordinary paper sacks without trouble, 
but I am quite sure that his success was 
somewhat exceptional. Other millers tell 
me that cold storage is the only solution 
of the problem. If I were to attempt to 
keep a year’s supply of buckwheat flour 
over the season I should store it in as cool 
and dry a place as was available and in 
Very tightly sealed paper sacks. There 
is considerable difference in the moisture 
content of flour, and this may account 
for the varying success reported in at¬ 
tempts to keep it in ordinary storage. 
M. B. D. 
“That man started in life on $50 he 
borrowed.” "And made a fortune, eh?” 
“No, it ruined him. He found getting 
that so easy that he’s been living on bor¬ 
rowed money ever since.”—Louisville 
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The features of the situation are a 
sudden hot spell that sets farmers to 
sowing their oats and barley that the 
floods have prevented since April and 
wondering if the ground will not soon be 
too hard to plant corn. One fanner re¬ 
ports buying some fine flint corn that 
last year was glazed in 90 days from 
planting, a much needed variety. The 
cherry and quince trees blossomed pro¬ 
fusely. the apple moderately and the pear 
but little. Peach trees show an alarming 
amount of curl leaf in some sections. 
Potat s are a little higher and straw¬ 
berries still sell at above 30c per qt. by 
the crate. A few days more of hot. dry 
weather will ruin the Northern straw¬ 
berry crop. 
Potatoes are sprouted badly, but whole¬ 
sale at $1.40 to $1.60 per bu. for home- 
growu : $7 to $9.50 for new Floridas and 
89 to $11 for Bermudas, per bbl. Apples 
are about out. a few fancy Baldwins sell¬ 
ing at $11 to $11.50 per bbl. and others 
at $2 to $4 per bu. Beans are dull at 
$4.50 to $6.60 per bu. Onions steady at 
$4.50 to $5 for Texas or Bermuda, crate. 
_Vegetables are active. Cabbage. $4 to 
85 per 100 Its.; asparagus. 82 25 a, 
$2.50 new beets. $1 to $1.50: carrots, 
$1.25 to $1.50; celery, $1.50 to $1.75 for 
small: radishes, 20 to 30c: spinach. 60 
to 90c; watercress. 60 to 90c: pieplant, 
40 to 60c. all per doz. bunches: snap 
beans, $2.50 to $4 : Florida cucumbers, 
$2.75 to $3.50, per hamper; lettuce. $2.40 
per 2-doz. box; endive. 25c; mushrooms. 
75c to 85c; tomatoes, 25 to 40c, all per 
11*.: old carrots. $2 to $3.50; yellow tur¬ 
nips. $1 to $1.25. all per bu. Southern 
and fancy fruits are firm at $5.75 to 
86 50 for oranges; ,$4.50 to $5.75 for 
lemons; $5 to $6 for grapefruit, all per 
box : 81 to 8125 for limes, per 100; $5.25 
to 85.50 for pineapples, per crate ; $3.70 
to $7 for bananas, per bunch; $4.50 to 
$8 for strawberries, per 24-qt. crate. 
Butter is lower and still declining at 
55 to 60c for creamery; 52 to 56c for 
dairy; 46 to 54c for crocks: 43 to 45c 
for common, and 28 to 37c for oleomar¬ 
garine. Cheese is firm at 34 to 38c for 
best domestic; 33c for flats, and 44c for 
Swiss. Eggs are steady at 48 to 30c for 
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