1822 
Tl* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Deo ember 13, 1919 
Crops and Farm Notes 
Wheat, 75 per cent marketed: Rood. 
$2.15; potatoes, average 100 bu. or a lit¬ 
tle more. $2.25 for No. 1. and No. 2 $1.10. 
Beans, very few planted, yield 10 to 15 
bu.; per cwt.. $5.50. Oats, average yield; 
no market; 85c. Barley, good acreage; 
poor yield—15 to 25 bn.: $2.25. Corn, 
best in three years; mostly silage; no 
State corn for sale. Buckwheat, only 
small lots in this section ; yield, 30 or 
more; $3 per cwt. Apples, very small 
crop; ciders. $1.50 per cwt.: bbl., $0 to 
$!). Cabbage short on account of lice; 
Danish, $25 to $30 per ton ; domestic, $12 
to $20. Hay, good crop; some damaged 
by rain: Timothy. $18 to $10. Milk 
mostly at League price; some to Roches¬ 
ter at a little more. Hogs, live. 14 to 
35c; fowls and chicks dropped from 30c 
to 22 to 24c. There are several hun¬ 
dred acres of muck land in northern part 
of town owned by Western New York 
Farms Company which rents for $35 per 
acre, and as onions sold around $2 per 
bu.. lettuce $1.50 to $3.50 per bag, cel¬ 
ery up to $3.50 or $4. it has been very 
profitable, some with 10 or 15 acres mak¬ 
ing thousands of dollars. All that is 
broken up is taken for another year. 
Help is so scarce and expensive several 
farmers are saying they will have to cut 
down acreage of crops, as they cannot 
get them taken care of. I heard one pros¬ 
perous farmer say he had to help fill 11 
silos to get his own done. Quite a few 
tenant farmers are selling out. thinking 
they can do better working out, but others 
will take the farms. o. L. s. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
The leading products in this vicinity 
are hay, oats and buckwheat; no dairying 
on a large scale in this section. Farmers 
are receiving for hay $20 to $21 per ton 
for best; buckwheat, $1.25 per bu.: oats, 
75 to SOe; eggs. 65 to 70c per doz.; but¬ 
ter. 57 to 60c per lb. Hay was a fairly 
good crop. Buckwheat ran about 25 bu. 
to acre. There was so much rain that 
oats were poor and of poor quality, as 
they were sprouted and badly colored and 
a great many wasted. There is lots of 
land that was not worked, the hay not 
even cut. on account of scarcity of labor. 
I think the future outlook for farmers is 
bad, unless they get together and send 
more farmers to the Legislature to make 
our laws. n. o. 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
Milk. 3 per cent butterfat at conden- 
sery. $3.30 per cwt. Oats poor, selling 
at 00c per bu.; buckwheat good at $2.60 
per cwt.; some early for $3. Potatoes 
fair, at car $1.30 per bu. Corn an extra 
good crop. $3.30 per cwt. at mills. Ap¬ 
ples scarce, bringing from $2 to $3 per 
bu. Hay, $18 per ton. pressed. Stock is 
rather dull at present, good grade cows 
$100 to $125 each. Dairying is the prin¬ 
cipal industry in this section. The prin¬ 
cipal crops raised are buckwheat and po¬ 
tatoes; these, combined with the milk bus¬ 
iness, form the principal income to farm¬ 
ers. E. L. P. 
Chemung Co., N. Y. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
STOCKS FIRMLY HELD AND VALUES STILL 
TENDING SLIGHTLY UPWARD. 
Prices of leading lines of produce still 
tend upward, but recent advances have 
been small and the markets seem to be 
steadying to- a Winter basis. Supplies in 
nearly all lines are still decreasing. Val¬ 
ues of onions, cabbage and potatoes have 
moved up another peg. These three 
lines have been the star performers in the 
market this season. Apples are high too. 
but. they simpiy made a good start and 
held it fairly well throughout the season. 
OUTLOOK FOR SUSTAINED TOTATO 
MARKETS 
Potatoes are higher west than east in 
many markets. The general wholesale 
range in -western cities is $2.85 to $3.25 
per cwt. while leading eastern cities range 
82.50 to $2.00. The range in Canadian 
cities is about the same as in the Eastern 
United States. Potato holders appear 
confident of continued high prices and are 
not hurrying the slow sales. Supplies 
are very moderate for the time of year. 
If the crop has not been under estimated, 
there should be no difficulty in disposing 
of it without the troublesome surplus 
v.hich occurred last Spring. Something 
will depend on the kind of weather this 
Winter and the transportation conditions 
as affecting a steady rate of movement 
to market. 
HEAVY STORAGE OF APPLES 
The feature of the apple situation is 
the large and increasing amount in cold 
storage, but the increase as compared 
with the early part of the season and with 
last, year is chiefly in boxed apples. Ap¬ 
parently the later varieties of Northwest¬ 
ern boxed fruit have not come upon the 
market to any great, extent, but have been 
put almost solidly into cold storage. The 
stock of barrelled apples in storage is 
practically about the same as last year; 
hence, during the last part of the season 
Washington and Oregon apples are un¬ 
likely to be a prominent, feature in the 
large markets. The stock of boxed ap¬ 
ples in storage increased over 50 per cent 
during the first two weeks in November, 
and by the middle of the month it was 
nearly 70 per cent larger than the same 
date in 1018. Apples have gone into 
storage at. rather high prices, but demand 
seems to be steady and fairly active al¬ 
though doubtless checked somewhat, by 
scarcity of sugar. 
EXPORT MARKETS UNSATISFACTORY 
There would be nothing very dangerous 
in the situation were it not for the un¬ 
satisfactory conditions of foreign markets. 
British cities seem to be over-supplied at 
present, and even the holiday demand has 
not yet. stiffened prices. Decent prices 
would hardly net shippers as much as 
they could have obtained in the home mar¬ 
kets even for the best lots, while ship¬ 
ments which arrived slack or wasty were 
sold at a net loss. The English shilling 
is worth only about 20 cents now’, which 
makes considerable difference in net re¬ 
turns compared with the former 24 cent 
basis. No. 1 American Baldwins have 
been selling at, about $10 per barrel for 
the best. _hut a good many sold from 
$6 to $8.50 which means a very unsat¬ 
isfactory net after taking out nearly $5 
for expenses. The domestic markets 
have been paying $7 to $8.50 for best 
Baldwins, and $4 to $6 for those not so 
good in color and finish. The general 
range of prices has been fully maintained 
for the past two w r eeks. 
CABBAGE AND ONIONS FIRMLY HELD 
After several weeks of very rapid ad¬ 
vance. the cabbage markets are a little 
more steady, but the tendency is still up¬ 
ward in many markets and the price level 
has reached $70 per ton bulk in several 
cities of the Middle West. Most eastern 
cities ranee $55 to $65 with correspond¬ 
ing prices by barrel or cwt. Shippers in 
Western New York are getting as high as 
$60 for best hard head stock. Apparently 
from 1.500 to 2.000 cars are left, in the 
important shipping section, which from 
now on supplies the greater part of the 
Winter cabbage. New cabbage is be¬ 
ginning to come in a small way from 
Texas, but not, very much southern cab¬ 
bage this year was grown on about 2-3 
of the acreage of last season's crop, and 
the average yield was only seven tons 
ier acre, compared with $.7 tons per acre 
ast. year, but the crop is likely to h" 
fully as profitable this year because of 
the higher average price. Unfortunately, 
much of the recent advance has gone to 
the storage buyer rather than to the 
grower, nearly all the crop having lef 
the grower’s hands in the principal com¬ 
mercial sections at much lower prices. 
The present is one of the years in which 
growers of most leading truck crops 
would have been well repaid for storing 
part, of t.heir crop. The situation of 
onions is much like that of cabbage. 
Dealers hold about all the commercial 
supplies and are asking-$5 to $6 per cwt. 
The price is about the same East and 
West. Shipments are less than 50 cars 
per day. g. b. f. 
Buffalo Markets 
Potatoes are steady at $1.25 to $1.75 
per bu.. with sweets $4.25 to $4.50 per 
bbl. Apples quiet; $2.25 to $3.25 for 
Duchess, Wealthy or Baldwin, firsts; 
$1.25 to $2 for low grades, per bu. Pears 
becoming scarce; $3 to $4 for best; $1.50 
to $3 for common; per bu. Quinces. 
$1.50 to $2 per bu. Beans dull; $4 20 
to $7.80 per bu. Onions, $2.25 to $5 
per 100-lb. sack. Grapes out of market, 
except California Malagas, $1.50 to $1.75 
per box. Cranberries quiet; $7.50 to 
$10 50 per bbl. Oranges, $0.50 to $7.25 ; 
lemons, $5.25 to $6.25; grapefruit. $4 to 
$5, per box; limes. 75c to $1 per 100; 
all citrus fruit active and firm. Banana/:. 
$3.25 to $6 per bunch ; pineapples re¬ 
tailing at 40c for 24's. 
String beans, $5 to $6 per hamper: 
Lima beans. 30 to 40c; Brussels sprouts. 
15 to 20c. both per qt.; beets. 85c to $1 ; 
carrots, $1 to $1.25; cauliflower scare". 
$2.50 to 83; parsnips, $1.50 to $1.75; 
perpers. $1 to $1.50; pumpkins, 50 to 
60c; spinach, light offerings. $2 to $2.25; 
turnips, $1.25 to $1.50 for white : $2 50 to 
$2.75 for yellow, all per bu.: cabbage. 
$2.75 to $3.50; Winter squash. 60 to 75c. 
both per 100 lbs.; celery, State, 60 to 75c 
per bunch; lettuce, $1.25 to $1.50 per 
2-doz. box; endive, 75c to $1; romaine. 
30 to 40c per doz.; watercress, 40 to 50c ; 
parsley, 20 to 40c; radishes. 15 to 25c. 
all per doz. bunches; tomatoes, $2.50 to 
$3 for California 30-lb. box. 
Butter. 65 to 75c for creamery; 60 to 
70c for dairy; 58 to 68c for crocks; 48 
to 52c for common ; 20 to 38c for oleo¬ 
margarine ; higher prices predicted. 
Cheese, steady : 33 to 3-*c for daisies ; 32 
to 33c for flats; 35 to 36c for longhorns 
and flats; 40 to 60c for Swiss. Eggs. 82 
to 03c for hennery; 75 to 80c for State 
candled: 73 to 75c for Western candled; 
53 to 54c for storage. 
Poultry is not strong, at 45 to -18c for 
dressed turkey; 27 to 33c for fowl; 35 
to 3,6c for chicken ; 38 to 44c for broilers; 
23 to 26c for old roosters; 37 to 40c for 
ducks; 27 to 20c for geese; with live 
poultry 3 to 5c less than dressed. Bab¬ 
bits, $1.50 to $1.75 for jacks; 60 to 75c 
for cottontails, per pair. Dressed cotton¬ 
tails retailing at $1 per pair. Chestnuts. 
18 to 20c; 8 to 12c for hickories; 7 to 
9c for walnuts, per lb. Hay, $25 to $30 
for Timothy grades, baled ; firm. Maple 
sugar, 17 to 24c per lb.; maple syrup, $2 
to $2.25 per gal. Honey, dull; 30 to 36c 
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