The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1085 
Products, Prices and Trade 
NEW YORK, JULY 3, 1919. 
These prices and notes are believed to 
be fairly representative of the current of 
trade here: 
MILK PRICES. 
New Y’ork, for July, $3.01 per 100 for 
3 per cent milk, with an additional 4c 
per 100 for every one-tenth of 1 per cent 
extra butterfat, at. points 200 to 210 
miles from city. 
The large dealers have raised the price 
to consumers one cent per quart, the 
schedule for various grades being: Cer¬ 
tified. 24c; selected grade A, IS; grade 
P,. 16; grade B. pint, 9%; heavy cream, 
half pint, 26. 
PUTTER. 
The market is weak and prices on 
creamery two cents lower. 
Creamery, fancy lb. SO @ 51 
Wood to Choice . 47 @ 4!it^ 
Lower Grades.. 15 & 46 
City made. 44 <a 47 
Dairy, best . 49 @ 50 
Common to good . 45 @ 48 
Packing Stock .. 42 <8 46 
Prooess . 45 8 49 
CHEESE. 
Western and up-State markets are re¬ 
ported higher, and sales of best grades 
have been made here at a little above 
last week’s figures. 
Whole Milk, funoy 
Good to choice.. 
gkl'US, beat. 
Fair to good .... 
32 32 3 4 
30 <8 31 
24 @ 25 
12 @ 20 
EGGS. 
Receipts are large and considerable 
hot weather damage noted. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 
Medium to good . 
Mixed oolore, nearby best. 
Common to good. 
Gathered, best, white. 
Medium to good, mixed colors ... 
Lower grades. 
LIVE STOCK. 
57 
@ 
58 
48 
W 
56 
54 
@ 
55 
44 
@ 
49 
55 
@ 
56 
50 
® 
52 
30 
@ 
36 
Native Steers. 
Bulls . 
COW8. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs 
: Culls. 
nogs. 
Sheep. 100 lbs.. 
Lambs .. 
13 00 
8 00 
4 00 
19 00 
9 00 
20 00 
6 00 
14 50 
@15 00 
@11 00 
@10 00 
@22 00 
@14 00 
@21 50 
@ 9 50 
@18 60 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Business is rather dull. Sales are re¬ 
ported at: Fowls, 33 to 34c; broilers, 
40 to 50c; roosters, 23 to 24c; ducks, 
30c-; geeee, 20c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
@ 
49 
. 38 
@ 
46 
Chickens choice lb. 
. 42 
. 37 
& 
@ 
43 
39 
@ 
55 
. 30 
@ 
35 
@ 
20 
@ 
35 
Squabs. aoz. . 
. 2 00 
@ 9 50 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs.. 
Pea . 
Medium . 
Red iildney. 
White Kidney,. 
Vellow Eye. 
Lima, California 
....10 50 
.... 650 
.... 6 25 
....11 25 
....10 60 
.... 7 00 
.... 900 
@11 75 
@ 7 50 
@ 7 60 
@13 00 
@13 00 
@ 7 50 
@9 25 
Fruits. 
A few new apples are on hand, but mainly 
small. Peaches show a wide range of 
price. Currants, blackberries and other 
small fruits more plentiful and lower. 
Apples, new bu. 
Pears, Le Conte, bbi.. 
Strawberries, qt. 
Oranges, bon . 
Lemons, box . 
Grape Fruit. 
Pineapples. 36s to 30s. 
Peaches, 6-bkt. crato . 
Muskmeions, bu. 
Watermelons, carload 
Blackberries, qt. 
i herries, 81b. bkt. — 
Gooseberries, qt . .. 
Raspberries, pt. 
Currants, qt. 
. 1 50 ® 3 00 
. 9 00 @10 00 
. 15 @ 35 
. 3 50 @ 6 50 
. 3 00 @7 50 
. 2 60 @ 5 .50 
. 5 00 @ 6 00 
. 1 00 @ 4 00 
1 00 @ 2 50 
400 00 @800 00 
. 20 @ 25 
. 1 00 @ 1 50 
. 10 @ 19 
. 10 (8 16 
. 13 @ 15 
VEGETABLES. 
Old potatoes going very slowly; new 
stock in large supply and lower. String 
beans and cabbage lower. Sweet corn 
from Jersey arriving in small quantities. 
Potatoes—old, 180 lbs. 1 25 ^ 2 25 
Southern, new, bbl.. best . 4 no @ 6 00 
(>outliern, common to good . 1 50 @ 2 5U 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 2 00 @ 650 
Beets, Dew, bul. 2 00 @ 3 50 
Carrots, bbl. 2 00 @ 4 oO 
Cabbage— bbl. 1 25 @ 2 00 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 50 @125 
Unions, new. bu. 2 00 © 3 50 
siring Beans bu. 75 @ 125 
Squash, New, bu. , . 50 @ 1 50 
Egg Plauts, bu. 100 ® 3 50 
Spinach, bbl. 75 @150 
Turnips, rutabaga, bbl. 2 00 @4 00 
Kale, bbl. 25 @ 75 
Okra, bu. 2 00 @ 5 00 
Asparagus, doz. 2 00 @5 50 
Cucumbers, bu. »•'>() @ 3 00 
Peas. bu. bkt. 1 00 @ 3 00 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt. crate. 1 00 @ 3 50 
Kadisbes. 100 bunches . 1 00 @ 2 00 
Khubarb.100 bunches . 2 00 @4 50 
sweet Corn, 100 ears. 2 60 @ 3 00 
iCauliflower, bu. bkt. 100 @ 125 
Horseradish, 100 lbs. 4 00 @ 6 00 
Peppers, bu.1 00 @ 2 50 
ltomaine, bbl. 75 @125 
Mushrooms, lb. 50 @ 75 
HAY AND STRAW. 
11 ay Timothy, No. 1. ton .43 oo @44 00 
No. 2 .4100 @42 00 
No. 3 .35 00 @37 00 
No grade .25 00 @ 29 00 
Clover mixed.34 00 @42 00 
cUraw. Rye.12 00 @13 00 
Wool. 
The market i.s strong. Sales of Ohio 
, nd Indiana, clips are reported at 65 to 
75c, and even a premium on this top 
figure for choice Delaines. On the scoured 
las's Western wools have sold at $1.50 
• $ 1 . 00 . 
CHAIN. 
Following are the Government prices 
on No. 2 red wheat at various markets: 
New York. $2.37% ; Chicago, $2.23; Bal¬ 
timore, $2.35% ; Kansas (’ity. $2.13; St. 
Louis, $2.21. Corn. No. 2. yellow, New 
York. $1.98% : Chicago. $1.82. Rye. New 
York, $1.52. Oats. No. 2. white. 79c. 
Retail Prices at New York 
Those 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, prints .61 to 62c 
Tub. choice .59 to 60c 
Cheese .43 to 46c 
Eggs, best .70 to 72c 
Fair to good.45 to 60c 
Strawberries, qt.35 to 40c 
Potatoes, new. Hi. 5 to 6c 
Lettuce, head . 5 to 10c ‘ 
Gabbage. head .10 to 15c 
Fowls, lb.35 to 45c 
Broilers, lb.55 to 65c 
Fresh fish, lb.15 to 25c 
Bacon, lb.45 to 4Se 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Oct. 6-8—-Holsteins. Quality Holstein. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Oct. 8-9—Holsteins.^ Annual Dairy¬ 
men’s Sale. E. M. Hastings Co., Lacona. 
N. Y., manager. 
Oct. 9—Central Illinois Shorthorn 
Breeders’ Association, Paris, Ill. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Ohio State Horticultural Society Sum¬ 
mer meeting, Lawrence County. July 23. 
Experiment Station. Wooster. Sept. 10. 
Town of Franklin Improvement Asso¬ 
ciation. field dav and picnic, Vermont- 
ville, N. Y.. July 26. 
Connecticut Poultrymen’s Association, 
field meeting. Connecticut Agricultural 
College, Storrs. Aug. 4-5-6. 
Society of American Florists and Hor¬ 
ticulturists. Detroit. Mich., Aug. 19-21. 
Annual farmers’ picnic of Cayuga 
County, Hamilton’s Grove, Weedsport, 
N. Y., Aug. 21. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, O., Aug. 
25-29. 
Vegetable Growers of America, annual 
convention. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 9-13. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair, Burgettstown, Pa., 
Sept. 30-Oct. 1-12. 
Greater Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, 
Dec. 3-8. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Atlantic City, 
probably Dec. 3-5. 
National Farmers’ Exposition and 
Ohio Apple Show, Terminal Auditorium, 
Toledo, O., Dec. 4-12. 
Red Mites 
I am having great trouble with chick¬ 
ens dying off. It is not only small ones 
of about two months, but grown ones of 
nearly a year old. Up to about two weeks 
ago they seemed to be all right. The ap¬ 
parent trouble seems to be small red 
mites. Is this the cause, and. if so, is 
there anything that can be done? 
New York. k. m. w. 
Red mites are probably never the direct 
cause of deaths in flocks of fowls, though 
they might be responsible for fatalities 
among young chicks. Mites can so weak¬ 
en any fowl, however, as to make it less 
able to resist disease of any kind. I do 
not. of course, know the cause or causes 
of the deaths in your flock, but the red 
mites should certainly be disposed of. 
This may be readily accomplished by the 
use of kerosene or any light oil upon the 
places where they congregate. You will 
find them, sometimes in great masses, be¬ 
neath perches where they rest upon their 
supports, behind and in the cracks about 
nests, behind boards loosely nailed agaiust 
the poultry house walls, and in the crev¬ 
ices of the perches themselves. Paint 
or spray all these places thoroughly with 
kerosene or oil. or with a strong solution 
of one of the coal tar cattle dips. These 
mites feed upon the fowls at night, gorg¬ 
ing themselves with blood, and then retire 
to their hiding places through the day. 
They are easily kept in check if a little 
vigilance is used. M. b. d. 
Keeping Out Weasels 
What size mesh wire used on my poul¬ 
try house will keep weasels out? Would 
a weasel kill yearling hens and chickens 
that are now 10 weeks old? Should 
these 10-weeks-old chickens go on the 
roost nights, or is it better to keep them 
in a box where they stay out? I have 
heard that roosting was apt to spoil young 
birds. a. F. B. 
New Jersey. 
Weasels will kill fowls of any age and 
are responsible for serious losses when 
they get into the habit of visiting poultry 
quarters. I do not know just how small 
a hole a full-grown weasel can get 
through, hut should expect that inch mesh 
poultry netting would stop them. Young 
chicks should be encouraged to take to 
perches as early in life as they will. Low 
perches, placed but a few inches from the 
floor, will induce them to roost, rather 
than to squat upon the floor, at quite an 
early age, and they are then in less dan¬ 
ger from crowding and smothering than 
when huddling together and very likely 
shoving the weake* ones into fatal cor¬ 
ners. M. B. D. 
The Perfect Salt for All 
Purposes on the Farm. 
For use in salting meats—salting butter, stock feeding, 
cooking for the table and for all other purposes where 
salt is used on the farm. 
COLONIAL 
SPECIAL FARMER’S 
SALT 
is the quickest dissolving and highest grade salt produced. 
If it should happen that your dealer is not handling our salt, write us. 
THE COLONIAL SALT COMPANY 
AKRON, OHIO 
Chicago, Ill. Buffalo, N. Y. Boston, Mass. Atlanta, Ga. 
^ /3 M 200 Eggs a Year 
1^ Jm. Per Hen” 
Best Poultry Book Ever Written 
™Postpaid Anywhere.50c 
JfKF With A rfvn. ate one year.. 7.8c 
1 inlif Rrahm^C ONLY. T6th year. Hens from 
LlgniDranmaS our breeding pens. S3 and $3.oc. 
Cocks, $5. Haystack Mountain Farm, Norfolk, Conn. 
7 Light Brahma Hens forest 1 f2m! 1 roc” wav. n. j. 
Advocate 50c year, 3 yrs . $1.00 
6 mos. 25c. Sample Copy Free. 
Two Months Trial, 10c. 
POULTRY ADVOCATE, Dept. A-61, SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
Pearl Guinea Eggs > 
cions. Raise some this season. Rear same as baby chicks. 
Still ample time to hatch and grow. L. 0. QUIGLEY, Gcsben. N.Y 
S.C.White Leghorn Baby Chicks 
from selected large best-laying liens mated to big vigor¬ 
ous males from trap-nested hens with records of 250 to 
284 eggs in year. Barron strain imported direct. Grand 
winter layers of large white eggs. Strong chicks $15 
per 100, Postpaid. Prompt shipment. Safe arrival guar¬ 
anteed. Circular free. If. T. EWING, Atlantic, Pn. 
Hose Comb Brown Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds 
and Buff Wyandottes. Eggs, S3— 15. 
LEON SAGE - Crown Point New York 
Wanted-Young Turkeys & Young Chicks 
100 to 500. State price. 
G* STUART - Granite Springs. New York 
CHICKS AND HATCHING EGGS 
S.C. White Leghorns. R. I. Reds, Barred Rocks. 3000 Chicks, 
4500 Eggs, weekly. Circular: A. B. HALL.Wallingford. Conn. 
ANCONA S-Gockere Is Sta’S' salso 
;>ev dozen. H. GOLD, Roslyn, Long Island, N. Y. 
Wanted— 50(9 W. Leghorn Pullets 
J. N. RICHARDSON Goshen, Netvlfork 
SPECIAL NOTICE 
Those purchasing eggs for hatching and baby 
chicks must understand that they are assuming 
some risk when ordering from a distance. For the 
most part eggs and chicks carry safely, but some¬ 
times rough handling by the express companies 
or exposure to heat and cold causes damage. 
That eggs fail to hatch or chicks die is not con¬ 
clusive evidence of bad faith on the part of the 
seller, and we shall not consider claims on that 
basis. To avoid controversy buyer and seller 
should have a definite understanding as to the 
responsibility assumed in case of dissatisfaction 
AT* y Tkl 1 T 1 Breeding hens, S2. 
Nixon s Black Leghorns 
hens, $6. FUl-D C. NIXON, Ouakertown, N. J. 
For Sale-White Leghorn Cockerels Mar^hawhi": 
From liens from flock averaging 180 eggs. 53.00 each; 
532.50 per dozen. H. GOLD, Roslyn. L I.. New York 
ADDRESS CHANGED 
Still Have Our American Wyandottes 
Pedigree March and April cockerels from high 
record hens at S3 to 5810. Few young Puliets for 
Sept, and Oct. delivery at 581.50 to 583.50. 
R. W. Stevens - Schuylerville. N. Y. 
Formerly Stillwater, N. Y. 
SPECIAL SALE OF JULY CHICKS 
Prepaid by Parcel Post at Cut Prices 
Ready for Shipment—Black Leghorns and Barred Rocks, July 16th & 23d 
S. C. White Leghorns 
Barred Plymouth Rocks . . . . 
Rhode Island Reds ...... 
White Plymouth Rocks . . . . 
Black Leghorns ....... 
25 Chicks 
50 Chicks 
lOO Chicks 
$4.00 
$7.00 
$13.00 
5.50 
10.00 
20.00 
5.50 
10.00 
20.00 
6.75 
13.00 
25.00 
4.25 
7.50 
15.00 
XOOO Chicks 
$120.00 
Terms Cash with order. Can not ship C. O. D„ but will guarantee to deliver the chicks in first-class 
condition. II any are dead upon arrival will refund your money or replace them free of charge. 
These chicks are from healthy, vigoroui, pure bred stock, the kind that will produce eggs and plenty of them 
1 o be sure of getting Kerr’s Top Notch Quality Chicks order now. Send for FREE Catalog No. 4*. 
H EKERItfC HICKER 
