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The RURAL NEW-YORKEP 
February 21, 1!>2( 
Market News 
and Prices 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
I 
MARKETS SOMEWHAT WEAK AND UN¬ 
SETTLED, WITH FURTHER LOSSES IN 
LEADING LINES 
The downward price movement start¬ 
ing: fully a month ago is still slightly in 
evidence. It seems to be the usual relapse 
which sooner or later follows every sharp 
rise. Additional forces in the case are 
the unsettled financial conditions, caus¬ 
ing declines in many other commodities as 
well as in farm products. Some vege¬ 
tables are depressed farther because of 
heavy shipments from the South. Total 
supplies of all kinds of produce are fairly 
liberal for the time of year at the rate 
of somewhat above 1.000 cars daily. Ow¬ 
ing to the liberal Southern plantings of 
cabbage, onions and potatoes, the North¬ 
ern holder from now on will no longer 
have things wholly his own way. 
POTATOES DULL AND WEAK 
Prices average 50c per 100 pounds 
lower than a month ago. As usually 
happens in such cases, the demand has 
fallen off instead of increasing. Buying 
is much more lively when prices have 
come up fast and seem to be going still 
higher, than when values have declined 
sharply and may go down further. Prob- 
ablv the market will not go to pieces until 
Spring anyhow. Shipments are kept back 
now by weather conditions and car short¬ 
age. If the official crop estimate was fairly 
less than at the corresponding time a 
year ago and could be only moderately 
larger than during the well remembered 
Winter and Spring of 1917. when potatoes 
became a luxury. 
On the other hand, the present whole¬ 
sale city prices are from $4 65 to $5 per 
cwt.. or about double the values opening 
the middle of February last year. The 
general opinion among the trade seems 
to be that prices will continue rather 
bisrb throughout the season, or until new 
Southern potatoes begin to compete seri¬ 
ously with the Spring remains of the 
Northern stock. Southern plantings may 
not he so heavy as was expected at first. 
A combination of bad weather, damaged 
seed stock and labor scarcity has inter¬ 
fered with the plans of potato growers 
in some States of the South, and in some 
cases acreage is now expected to be less 
than last year, but the losses apparently 
will he somewhat more than offset by 
increases as high as 25% in the Caroli- 
nas and northward. In some sections of 
the extreme South the crop has been 
injured by drought followed by excessive 
rains and floods. 
CABBAGE LOWER 
The gain in the cabbage market is ow¬ 
ing to one or two special causes, the 
chief of which is the rapid increase of 
Southern shipments which are now double 
the volume of old stock moving in on riots. 
Most of the new arrivals are from Florida. 
The stock is largely Wakefield. Winning- 
stadt and similar early and half-early 
kinds; not strictly first grade, but attrac¬ 
tive as fresh stock and competing actively 
in various markets. Competition still 
more direct comes from liberal imports 
into New York City of Danish cabbage, 
which is similar to the best home grown 
cabbage of the Dutch and Danish vari¬ 
eties and can be sold at lower prices 
than have prevailed recently for cabbage 
taken from storage in New York State. 
Accordingly, prices have come down about 
one-third from high point a month or 
more ago, and the general range is around 
$75 per ton in shipping sections and not 
far from $100 per ton in the large city 
markets. In Western markets there is 
some competition from new California 
stock for which the growers are getting 
about $75 per ton, while Texas growers 
get from $90 to $95, being near the largest 
markets. 
ONIONS FAIRLY STEADY 
The situation is dragging along about 
as last described. Prices are about 75c 
below the high point of the season in 
New York State, but average only 25c 
to 50c below recent tops in most city 
markets. There is active competition 
from Spanish onions, heavy cargoes of 
which have arrived the past few weeks. 
These are large, handsome, uniform and 
sell readily at wholesale prices moderately 
higher than our regular stock. Yellow 
onions are selling around $5.50 per cwt. 
f o.b. sacked at Eastern shipping points 
and $5.50 to $6.50 wholesale in city 
markets. 
APPLE PRICES HOLD FAIRLY WELL 
The market is good for choice stock and 
prices hold about the same as for the 
past few weeks, but there is only a little 
choice, high colored, first grade stock 
of barreled apples offered. Baldwins of 
this class bring around $6 in most city 
markets and reach $9 in a few cities. 
Most of the stock ranges from $5 to $7. 
Greening. Spy and Jonathan sell 50c to 
$1 higher than the Baldwin, while Ben 
Davis sells 50c to $1 lower than Baldwin 
in most markets. York Imperial ranges 
not far from Baldwin of corresponding 
grade. Northwestern boxed apples sell 
at somewhat irregular prices owing to 
so much frozen stock still on the market. 
Apparently the shippers let down the bars 
this year in the Northwest and allowed 
frozen stuff to come forward freely, con¬ 
trary to the usual -policy. Even the 
frozen apples will more than pay expenses 
in a year of high prices, but. of course, 
the sale of the best stock is injured. 
G. B. F. 
Local Up-State Prices 
ROCHESTER 
Dressed beef, carcass, lb.. 16 to 22c: 
forequarters. 14 to ISc; hindquarters. IS 
to 24c. Dressed hogs, light, lb.. 20c: 
heavy. IS to 19c. Spring lambs, lb.. 28 
to 30c; yearling lambs. 22 to 24c. Mut¬ 
ton. lb.. i5 to 19c. Yea’s, lb.. 28 to ,30c. 
Butter, er. fresh, extra, prints. 65c; 
tubs. 64c. Cheese, whole-milk. State, lb., 
3344c. Eggs, fresh, doz., 70 to 75c; 
<fold storage, 52c. 
Live fowls, lb. 38 to 40c: live broilers, 
lb.. 32 to 34c; live ducks, lb.. 35 to 36c; 
live geese, lb., 32 to 34c; live turkeys, ii)., 
50 to 55c. 
Cabbage, per doz.. $1 50 to $2: beets, 
per 14-qt. bkt.. 40 to 50c; carrots, bn., 
$1.25 to $150; onion. No. 1. bu.. $2.25 to 
$2.50; ordinary, bu.. $1 25 to $1.75; po¬ 
tatoes. bu . $2.40 to $2.50 ; parsnips, bu., 
.81.40 to $1.50: turnips, white. 14-qt. bkt.. 
80c to 81 : Hubbard squash, per 100 lbs., 
$2 50 to $3. 
Apples, Baldwin, bbl.. $6 to $8; King. 
87 to 88; Greening. $9 to 810: fancy, per 
bu.. $2.75 to $3; No. 1 stock, bu., $2 to 
$2.50: ordinary. $1.25 to $1.75. 
Beans, mod., hand-picked. 100 lbs., $6; 
Wh’te marrow. $10: Red kidney and 
White kidney. 812: Pea. $6; Yellow eye. 
$6.50; Imperial, $10. 
Hides, No. 1. steer. 22c; No. 2. steer. 
21c: No. 1. cows and heifers. 22c; No. 2, 
cows and heifers. 21c. 
Wool, unwashed, med.. 53 to 55c; fine 
fleeced, 50 to 52c. 
SYRACUSE PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, prime, sides. 12 to 16c; med., 
sides. 10c; lamb. lb.. 26c; pork, heavy, 
lb. 19c; light. 21 to 22c: veal, prime. 2$c. 
Ducks, live. lb.. 45c; dressed, lb., 60c; 
geese, live, lb., 37c; dressed, lb.. 50c; 
guinea hens. live. lb.. 25c: fowls, live. 11).. 
40 to 45c; dressed. 55c; turkeys, live. lb.. 
50c; dressed, lb. SO to 90c; live rabbits, 
each. $1; dressed, lb.. 35c. 
Dairy butter, lb.. 75 to 80c; eggs, doz., 
75 to 80c; wholesale, doz., 70c; duck 
eggs. doz.. 95c. 
Beans, bu.. $4.50 to $6: lb.. 5c; beets, 
bu.. $1; cabbage, lb.. 5c; each. 25c; 
onions, bu., $3.75; potatoes, bu.. $2..»0; 
rutabagas, bu . 90c: turnips, bu.. $1.25; 
Winter squash, lb.. 3c; apples, bn.. $2.50. 
I lav and Straw—Alfalfa, extra, ton. 
$30: No. 1. prime, $30; No. 2. $26 to 
828: No. 3. 820 to $25: Timothy, ton, 
$30. Straw, rye. ton. $13: oat. $14; 
wheat. $15. Oats. bu.. 95 to 98c. 
BINGHAMTON AND JOHNSON CITY 
Beef. lb.. 12 to 33c; pork, lb.. 18 to 
35c: cwt., $19 to $23; pigs. each. $3.50 
to $6. 
Chickens, live. 1b, 34c; dressed, lb.. 
40c; ducks, live. lb.. 30c; dressed, lb., 
35c; geese, live. lb.. 32c; dressed, lb.. 35c; 
fowls, live, lb . 30c; dressed, lb., 35c. 
Butter, lb.. 66c; eggs, doz.. 70c; duck 
eggs. doz.. 95c. 
Potatoes, bu . 81.90; onions, bu.. $2 50; 
apples, bu.. $1.50 to $3.50; beans, lb., 11c. 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER 
Beet prints. 77 to 7$c; tub. fancy. 69 
to 71c ; good to choice. 60 to 65c ; packing 
stock, 42 to 45c. 
fcGGS 
Best nearby, 70 to 72c; gathered, good 
to choice, 60 to 65c; lower grades, 50 
to 53c. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls. 42 to 44c; roosters, 25 to 26c; 
ducks, 40 to 46c; geese, 35 to 45c; tur¬ 
keys, 45 to 50c. 
PRESSED POTT.TRY 
Turkeys, best. 58 to 59c; common to 
good, 50 to 55c: fowls. 30 to 40c: roost»rs, 
27c: b”eiler«. 50 to 60c; ducks. 30 to 40c; 
geese, 27 to 32c; c-apons, 48 to 55c. 
POTATOES 
Pennsylvania, 100 lbs., $4 to $4.50; 
New York, 84 to $4.25; sweet potatoes, 
bu., $lt25 to $2.25. 
VEGETABLES 
Cabbage, old. ton. $60 to $80: new. bu.- 
bkt.. $1.75 to $2; onions, 100 lbs., $4.50 
to $5.50. 
FRUITS 
Apples, bbl.. $4 to $9; box, $1.50 to 
$3.50; cranberries, bbl., $6.50 to $S.50. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hav. No. 1. Timothy. $37 to $38; No. 
2. $35 to $36; No. 3. $32 to $33; clover 
mixed. $32 to $35. Straw, rye, $17 to 
$18; oat and wheat, $14 to $16. 
Boston Markets 
BUTTER 
Best creamery, 65 to 66c; medium to 
good, 62 to 63c; ladles, 47 to 4Se; storage, 
59 to 63. 
EGGS 
Best nearby. 59 to 60c; gathered, best, 
55 to 57c; common to good, 51 to 54c; 
storage, 30 to 50c. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Chickens, 36 to 3Sc; roosters, 22 to 
25c; fowls, 38 to 40c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best,52 to 55c; fair to good, 
40 to 45c; fowls, 34 to 42c; chickens, 
best, 40 to 45c; fair to good, 32 to 3Se; 
duclce, 32 to 38c: geese, 28 to 30c; squabs, 
doz., $6 to $10. 
APPLES 
Grening. $4 to $6; Baldwin. $3.50 to 
$7: Spy, $3.50 to $6; Ben Davis, $3.50 
to $4. 
POTATOES 
Maine Greene Mountain, 100 lbs., $4 to 
$4.60; sweet potatoes, bu., $2.25 to $2.50. 
VEGETABLES 
Cabbage, bbl., $5 to $6 50; celery, doz., 
$2 to $4; lettuce, bu. box. $1 to $1.50; 
radishes, bu.. $1.75 to $2; squash, ton, 
$65 to $90; onions. 100 lbs.. $6 to $6.25; 
tomatoes, hothouse, lb.. 40 to 60c; cu¬ 
cumbers. bu. box. 84 to $13 ; turnips, cwt., 
$2.50 to $3. 
MILL FEED 
Bran. $50 to $50 50; middlings. $51 to 
$57; red dog. $65; gluten feed. $75; hom¬ 
iny, $68; cottonseed meal, $78 to $83; 
cornmeal, $3.20 to $3.80. 
Buffalo Markets 
Produce for the week has gone both 
up and down, according to supply. While 
the tendency of southern raised stuff 
is downward, showing a good crop, the 
steady winter is still advancing home¬ 
grown stuff. Ilay is up $2. poultry 2c 
per lb:, cheese lc; eggs. 2c; potatoes 
declining slightly from oversupply : butter 
firm. Imt unchanged. Southern cabbage 
is off 50 to 75c per crate; lettuce, eudive. 
egg plants are off. 
BUTTER—CHEESE—EGGS 
Butter, creamery. 60 to 68c ; dairy, 50 
to 5 v e; crocks, 88 to 50c; common, 38 
to 40c: oleomargarine. 30 to 38c. Gheesc. 
flats, 32 to 33c; longhorns. 33 to 35c; 
Swiss, 40 to 60c. Eggs, white hennery. 
62 to 71 e; southern and western, 5S to 
60c; storage, 50 to 52c. 
% 
LIVE POULTRY—RABBITS 
Live poultry, fowl. 36 to 43c; chickens, 
32 to 37c; roosters, 27 to 28c; ducks, 
40 to 44e; geese. 36 to 36c: turkey 
(dressed only). 52 to 56c: dressed capon, 
42 to 44c. Rabbits, jacks. 75 to $1; 
cottontails, 30 to 50c per pair. 
APPf.ES—POTATOES 
Apples, rods, per bu.. $2.75 to $3; 
greens, $2 to $2.50; common. 81 50 to 
$1.75. Kieffer pears. $5 to $6 per bbl. 
for best. Potatoes, bu.. $2.35 to 82.75; 
sweets, Jersey hamper, $3 to $3.25. 
FANCY AND SOUTHERN FRUITS 
Strawberries (first), qt., 50 to 60c; 
cranberries, bbl.. lower. $3 to $7 ; oranges, 
box. $4.50 to 86: lemons. $5.25 to $6.75; 
grapefruit, $3.50 to $4.50; bananas, 
bunch. $4 to $7; Malaga grapes, keg, 
$5.50 to $6. 
VEGATABLES 
Green beans, hamper, $5 to $6; wax 
beans, $5 to $7: beets old, bu., $1.25 to 
$1.50; carrots. $1.75 to $2.50; parsnips, 
$2 25 to $2.75; spinach. $1.75 to $3; 
white turnips. $2 to $2.50; rutabagas, 
$1.50 to $1.75; cabbage, cwt.. $3.50 to 
$3.75; Hubbard squash. 84 to $5; Brus- 
sells sprouts, qt.. 30 to 35c; cauliflower, 
crate, $1.75 to S3; celery, state, bunch. 
75c to $1,25; lettuce, box. 50 to 75c; 
endive, Ih.. 40 to 50c; tomatoes, Florida, 
crate. 85 to $8 ; radishes, southern, doz. 
bunches, 40 to 50c. 
BEANS—ONIONS 
Beans, pea, medium, cwt., $8 to $8.75; 
marrow. 91 50 to 812: kidneys. $13 to 
$14; onions, yellow, cwt., $4.50 to $6; 
home-grown, bn . $3.50 to $4; Spanish, 
crate, $2 to $2.75. 
SWEETS 
Honey, scarce, white, lb., 33 to 40c; 
dark, 30 to 32c; maple sugar, lb., 17 to 
24c; syrup, gal., $2 to $2.25. 
FEED 
Ilay, demand exceeds receipts, timothy, 
ton, $34 to $35; one-third clover mix, 
$29 to $31 ; bran, carlots, ton wheat bran, 
$47 ; middlings, $52: red dog. $66; cot¬ 
tonseed meal. $77.25; oilmeal, $77.50; 
hominy. $65 75; oatfeed, $34.25; rye mid¬ 
dlings, $52.50. J. W. C. 
New York Quotations 
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 13, 1920. 
MILK PRICES. 
New York, for February, $3 48 per 100 
lbs. for 3 per 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. 
During the past week the produce trade 
in New York has been wallowing in the 
worst mess of snow that has been seen 
here since the great blizzard of 1888. At 
this writing lower Washington Street, 
and the streets crossing it. where the 
greatest amount of farm produce is han¬ 
dled. are blocked so that trucking is very 
slow and in many cases impossible. Con¬ 
siderable quantities of perishable goods 
have spoiled, because they could not be 
handled, and the prices quoted in many 
lines are more or loss nominal. 
BUTTER. 
Creamery, fancy lb . 
. 67 
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Good to Choice . 
. 64 
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66 
Lower Grades .. 
. 5» 
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55 
Storage, best, . 
62 
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Fair to good . 
. 52 
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60 
City made .. ..,. 
41 
47 
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Common to good . 
50 
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62 
Packing Slock . 
. 39 
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43 
CHEESE. 
Whole Milk, fancy . 
31 
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32 
Good to choice . 
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Skims, best . 
. 22 
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Fair to good . 
14 
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EGGS. 
White, nearby, choice to fanoy . 
. 71 
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Medium to good . 
. 65 
<& 
70 
Mixed colors, nearby best . 
. 63 
<A 
64 
Common to good . 
. 57 
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Gathered, best, white . 
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70 
Medium t« good, mixed colors ... 
57 
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62 
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LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steers. 
.11 00 
@13 75 
Bulls .. 
. 7 00 
©11 00 
Cows. 
4 50 
©10 50 
Calves, prime real, 100 lbs. 
20 00 
©24 00 
. 10 00 
16 00 
Ilors. 
.14 50 
Si Hi 50 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
. 8 00 
©12 00 
Lambs . 
.20 00 
@23 00 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fancy, lb... 
Fair to good. 
Chickens choice lb... 
Fair to Good. 
Broilers, lb. 
Fowls. 
Roosters. 
. 30 
. 26 
@ 52 
@ 48 
@ 48 
@ 42 
6* 49 
© 40 
@ 27 
@ 41 
Geese. 
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. 25 
@ 31 
Squabs, do*. 
.. 2 50 
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COUNTRY 
DRESSED 
MEAT. 
Calves, best. 
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Com. to good. 
.. 
25 
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Lambs, hot house, each. 
. 8 00 
@16 00 
Pork, heavy. 
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.... 15 
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Marrow, 100 lbs. 
• ...... ... 
.10 50 
@12 00 
Pea. 
........... 
.... 7 00 
to 8 00 
Medium . 
............i 
. 7 75 
@ 8 00 
Red Kidney. 
........ . 
....13 00 
@14 75 
W bite Kidney ,. 
. . 
.15 00 
6c 15 50 
Yellow iCye. 
@ 9 00 
Lima, California. 
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. 14 00 
@14 50 
FRUITS. 
Apples. Winesap, bbl. 
Albemarle. 
York Imperial. 
Stnyman. 
Greening. 
King. 
Baldwin. 
(lornnon. 
Home Baauty.bu. box. 
Winesap, box. 
Salty., box. 
Newtown, box....o .. 
Delicious, box. 
Oranges, box . 
Lemons, box . 
Grape Fruit. 
Cranberries, bbl. 
Strawberries, qt. 
IIAY AND STRAW, 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton. 
No. 2. 
No 3. 
Shipping. 
Clover mixed. 
Straw, Rye.. 
POTATOES. 
Long Island. 190 lbs..... 
Maine. ISO lbs. 
State. 18a lbs . 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. bkt.. 
VEGETABLES. 
Anise, bbl... 
Beets, bbl. 
Carrots, bbl.... 
Cabbage—ton. 
New. bu. bk.. 
Celery, crate. 
Lettuce, hulf-bbl, basket. 
Onions. 100 lbs.. 
String Beaus bu. 
Squash, new,bu. 
Egg Plants, bu. 
Turnips, rutabaga, bbl. 
Okra, bu. 
Tomatoes. 6-bkt. crate. 
Radishes. 100 bunches. 
Horseradish, 1110 lbs. 
Peppers, bu. 
Romalne, bu... 
M ushrnotus, lb.. 
Spiuaeh. bu. 
Karo, bbl. 
Parsnips, bbl. 
Chicory and Esearol, bbl. 
Garlic, lb... 
Peas, bu. 
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