The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1665 
Products, Prices and Trade 
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 30, 1010. 
These prices and notes are belieyed to 
be fairly representative of the current of 
trade here. The range given in the quo¬ 
tations covers the qualities on hand at the 
time. The best grade of most fruits and 
vegetables, live stock and poultry on sale 
one week may be much better or poorer 
than next week’s offerings, so that a 
lower top price on such products does not 
necessarily mean a lower general market. 
This does not apply to butter, cheese and 
eggs, which are more thoroughly .stand¬ 
ardized. 
Farm produce has been cruising around 
among the strikes for several weeks. Some 
of it has got here in usable condition 
and some not. The heaviest losses have 
been in shiploads of bananas, citrus fruit 
and grapes from the tropics and Spain, 
which could not be unloaded because of 
the longshoremen’s tie-up. Express and 
freight shipments of domestic produce 
have suffered severely. It has been a 
good time to sell stuff locally, or at least 
divert it to other markets than New 
York, which even in normal times is 
most expensive in handling charges. 
New York requires a large amount of 
food for its own use. but the practice of 
sending so much here to be reshipped to 
other places is not economical. 
MILK PRICES. 
New York, for November, $3.33 per 100 
lbs. for 3 tier cent milk at points 200 to 
210 miles from the city, with 4c per 100 
additional for every tenth of 1 per cent 
butterfat over 3 Retail prices for bot¬ 
tled milk are: Grade A, 18c; Grade B, 
16c. 
Creamery, fancy lb... TO @ 71 
Good to Choice . 6ft @ 09 
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Fair to guotl . 5ft <«' 6U 
City made . 16 >«. SO 
Dairy, best . os to 09 
Common to good . 51 a 62 
Packing Stock. II to 18 
CHEESE. 
Whole Milk, fancy . 32 *» 32 3 4 
Good to choice. 29 a 31 
Skims, heot. 21 a 21*3 
Fair to good. 11 ® 16 
EGOS. 
White, nearby, choice totfancy. 90 to 95 
Medium to good .,. 75 <3 85 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 71 to 76 
Common to good. 60 to 70 
Gathered, best, white. 83 to 87 
Medium to good, mixed colors ... 63 © 69 
Power grades. 15 a 55 
Storage. 15 ® 53 
LIVE STOCK. 
NatlveSteers. . 8 50 @1650 
Bulls . 6 00 @ 7 75 
Cows. 100 to 9 00 
Calves, prime veal,100 lbs. 20 00 @21 00 
Culls.10 00 @15 00 
Hob* .13 75 toll 00 
Sheep. 100 ibs. 5 00 to 8 50 
Lambs . ...14 00 15 00 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, 22 to 23c; fowls. 20 to 25c; 
ducks, 28 to 30c; roosters, lSc; turkeys, 
30 to 35c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Ducks 
BEANS. 
Marrow, 100 lbs. 
Pea. 
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Bed Kidney. 
White Kidney ..12 25 
FRUITS. 
Apples. Wealthy, bbl. 4 00 
Fall Pippins. 5 00 
Twenty Ounce. 4 00 
York Imperial. 
Wolf River. 
Greening. 
King... 1 50 
McIntosh. ... 150 
Jonathan... 150 
Windfalls. 150 
I’ears. Seckel, bbl.. 
Sheldon, bbl. ... 6 00 
Kleffer. bbl . 3 00 
Oranges, box .. 
Lemons, box . 5 50 
Grape Fruit.. 4 00 
Cranberries, bbl . 5 00 
Grapes, 8-bkt, crate. 1 50 
VEGETABLES. 
Potatoes—Long Island. 180 lbs.. 4 50 
Jersey. 165 lbs. 
Maine. 180 lbs.. 4 00 
State. 180 lbs 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. 
Beets, bhl . 
Carrots, bbl. 
Cabbage—bbl. 1 50 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 1 00 
Onions. 100 lbs. 2 00 
String Beans bu .... 
Squash, bbl. 1 00 
Egg Plants, bn. 1 00 
Turnips, rutabaga, bbl. 1 25 
Okra, bu. . 
Tomatoes. 6-bkt. crate. 
Radishes, 100 bunches . 
Sweet Corn. 100 ears.. 
Horseradish, 100 lbs. 
Peoners. bbl. 
Rental ne, bn. 
Mushrooms, lb. 
HONEY. 
Supplies of comb are light, 
prices run as follows: 
to 36c; lower grades, 
tracted, gallon, $1.50 to $2 
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New York 
ashed delaine. 78 to 
blood, 00 to 07c. Ohio and Pennsyl¬ 
vania half blood combing. SO to 81c; un¬ 
washed delaine, 85 to 87c. X'ew Eng¬ 
land half blood, 72-to 75c; three-eighths 
blood, 02 to 63c. 
AITIX FEED. 
Market is firm and mills not anxious 
to force sales. Wholesale prices are re¬ 
ported as follows: Spring bran, $44 to 
$45; middlings, $50 to $00; red dog, $09; 
rye _ middlings, $52; cottonseed meal, 
$75.50; linseed meal, $70. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton. 33 00 @34 00 
No. 2. 31 00 @32 00 
No ». 27 00 @29 00 
Shipping.2ft 00 @27 00 
C over.mixed. 26 00 @32 00 
Straw, Rye. .14 00 tolft 00 
GRAIN. 
Wheat, No. 2, red, Government price, 
$2.5744 ; corn, No. 2, yellow, $1.56; oats, 
N<x 2, - white, 81c; rye, $1.52; barley, 
$1.52. 
Retail Prices at New York 
These are not the highest or lowest 
prices noted here, hut represent produce 
of good quality and the'buying oppor¬ 
tunities of at least half of New York’s 
population : 
Butter—Best prints.77 to 78c 
Tub, good to choice.74 to 70c 
Eggs—Fancy, doz.95c to $100 
Good to choice.75 to 85c 
Storage .00 to 05c 
Potatoes, lb.3 to 4c 
Apples, doz.30 to 50c 
Popcorn ou ear, lb.12 to 15c 
Chestnuts, lb.30 to 45c 
Cranberries, qt.'. 15c 
Fowls, lb.i . ...40 to 45c 
Roasting beef.45 to 48c 
Bacon .35 to 50e 
Sausage .45 to 50c 
VARIOUS PRODUCTS. 
Chestnuts, best, bu.... 
.$10.00 to 
$1.7.00 
Hickory nuts, bu. 
. 4.00 to 
5.00 
Peanuts, lb. 
.10 to 
.15 
Maple sugar, lb. 
Beeswax, lb. 
. .30 to 
.32 
.40 to 
.42 
Neatsfoot oil, gal. 
. 1.30 to 
1.80 
Sperm oil, gal. 
. 1.00 to 
2.00 
Menhaden oil, gal. 
Sulphur flower, 100 lbs. 
. 1.00 
. 3.00 to 
3.35 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER. 
Market quiet. Best prints. 70 to 77c; 
tub creamery, best, 72 t<> 73c; common 
to good, 05 to OSc: packing stock, 46 
to 51c. 
EGOS. 
Choice candled. 74 to 70c; gathered, 
best. 04 to 05c; common to good, 56 
to 00c. 
FRT'ITS. 
Apple**, bu. bkt., $1 to $2.25: bhl., 
$3.50 to $8; pears. Kieffer. bu.. $1 to 
$2.25; grapes, 4-lb. bkt., 25 to 30c. 
VEGETABLES. 
Potato market firm. Potatoes, TOO lbs., 
$2.60 to $2.95; -"4-bu. bkt.. 00c to $1.15. 
Sweet potatoes, bbl..' $ll to $3.75. Cab¬ 
bage, ton, $20 to $52. - 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Fowls. 27 to 30c: chickens. 25 to 28c; 
ducks, 30 to 52c; turkeys. 35 to 38c; 
roosters, 20 to 21c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Fowls, 50 to 59c; chickens. 30 to 33c; 
ducks, 35 to 40c; squabs, doz., $7.50 to 
$9.25. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Hay. No. 1, Timothy. $32: No. 2. $28 
to $30; No. 3, 824 to $27; clover mixed, 
820 to $28. 
Northern Hemisphere Crops 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture gives the following grain crop figures 
for countries reporting in the northern 
half of the world, 000 being omitted: 
Wheat 
. 138,300 
Barley 
Oats 
Italy . 
. . . 154.140 
7.820 
31.050 
Canada ...- 
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07.620 
408.510 
United States. 938.780 
204.240 1. 
208.220 
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Scotland . 
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5.980 
40.920 
Algeria ... 
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31.740 
9.000 
Ditching 
The Cheaper, Quicker, Easier Way. 
Farmers still need ditches to drain wet land, 
but how many farmers know where to get the 
men to dig them nowadays? And how many 
feel they can afford to pay the wages the dig¬ 
gers demand even if they do know where to 
get the men ? 
Farmers “up against” the ditching problem will be in¬ 
terested in the following from the Savannah, (Georgia) 
Press of October 7, 1919: 
“The demonstration of ditching with dynamite was the 
feature of the multiplying man-power campaign we are wag¬ 
ing with this train (a demonstration train conducted by the 
Georgia Agricultural College, the Georgia State Department 
of Agricultural, etc.) The Bethesda ditch is where anyone 
can ride out to see it. It cost about 33 cents a running 
yard, approximately half the cost of a hand-dug ditch even 
if labor were available to do the digging. In wet Weather, 
this cost could have been materially reduced.” 
There is nothing difficult to understand about 
THE 
DYNAMITE 
WAY OF DITCHING 
but to get good results the operator should know just how 
to go about it. 
This information is free. The method is described and 
illustrated in our Handbook of Explosives. Write for it today. 
In addition to the booklet, if your land is located in 
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North or South Carolina, 
Virginia, Maryland, Northern Minnesota, Northern Michi¬ 
gan, Delaware,Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Wisconsin, 
or New York, we can have an expert demonstrator call on 
you at no cost to you and if you will help him, he will ar¬ 
range a public demonstration, preferably under the auspices 
of your U. S. County Agent, to be held on some centrally 
located farm where he will show you and your neighbors the 
safest and best blasting practice, including ditching, stump 
and boulder breaking, tree planting, etc". 
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. 
Wilmington, Delaware 
Plants, Warehouses and Sales Offices in all principal business centers 
roil PONT™ 
Heat the Water They Drink With 
the Cobs They Leave 
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No bother or fire danger with a Hudson Tank Heater. Just put a 
few cobs into the fuel box when yon do your chores and have drinking water at 
70° for your stock all winter. No ice to chop. No chilled stomachs. Stock gain 
faster—keep healthier. Cows average 15 quarts a month more milk. Heater 
soon pays for itself. 
TANK HEATER 
) (Formerly Called Nelson) 
Heats water twice as fast as any other heater and with less fuel. Made 
of 20 gauge galvanized metal with cast flanged joints bolted and packed with one 
piece asbestos. No welded Beams to leak or rust. End of tank and pipe cast in 
one piece to above water line. Won’t rust out. More than one inch of clearance for 
water to circal&te under Heater. Ashes easily removed. Bums straw, cobs, wood or coal. 
Lasts for years. Get one for yoor stock NOW. WRITE FOR FREE CIRCULAR. (1) 
Hudson Mfg. Co., Pept.Sl , Minneapolis, Minn. 
-s'Vfc-caoa 
Tkere arc reports on rye from only 
three countries, as follows : Italy. 3.930,- 
000 bu.: Canada, s,640.000; United 
States, 84.495.000. 
The prices paid in the local markets are 
as follows: Eggs. 75 to 78c per doz.; 
chickens, live, 35 to 40c per lb.; corn on 
ear. $1.65 to $1.95 per owt.. according to 
quality and kind ; wheat brings from $2.05 
to $2.17 per bu ; buckwheat. $3 per cwt. 
Ilay is a short crop. There is none on the 
market at any price. Dealers pay $25 per 
cwt. for fresh pork, and there is very little 
to be had. There is no demand for cows, 
fresh or fat. or bulls for service or fat. 
No sale for borset*. General condition is 
very unfavorable. There is too much rain 
and seeding is about only two-fifths done 
to date (Oct. 17). Dorn harvesting is 
late and there will he much moldy corn. 
Somerset Co., N. .1. v. m. d. 
Mrs Styles: "Did your husband get 
any decorations in the war?” Mrs. Mvles: 
“No; but he learned how to cook.”— 
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