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<Ibe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 28, 1020 
Market News and 
Country-wide Produce Situation 
NEW SUPPLIES FROM THE SOUTH AND 
FROM EUROPE TEND TO WEAKEN 
THE MARKETS. 
The usual dullness and decline after 
the holiday season has continued through 
January and most of February. Price 
ranges are still much higher than last 
year. Potatoes, cabbage and onions sell 
at twice or three times the value then 
prevailing, but apples were a little higher 
then and sweet potatoes about the same. 
From now on, the South will ship an in¬ 
creasing share, five or six states being 
quite active already. 
POTATOES RECOVERING 
The increase in potato prices may be 
described as a rise extending from digging 
time to the last of January, then a re¬ 
action in early February, followed by a 
partial recovery the middle of the month, 
averaging about 25c per 100 lbs above 
the low point early in that month. The 
price of best sacked stock is backed to 
around $4 per 100 lbs. sacked F. O. IP, 
in producing sections throughout the 
country or about 50c to 75c below Jan¬ 
uary high point and 25c above the early 
February low point. City wholesale mar¬ 
kets are about 50c higher than country 
markets. 
Offerings of potatoes from Northern 
Europe in New York market at low 
prices will help to keep in line the fact 
that under present rates of foreign ex¬ 
change Europe can pay the duty and still 
undersell us in many lines of produce. 
Danish cabbage sent across at $25 to $35 
per ton where it was grown has been sold 
in New York lately at $85 per ton. net¬ 
ting a profit about equal to the original 
cost. Such items suggest that there is 
a limit to prices or will be when our 
competitors get into full swing once more. 
Southern cabbage is coining along in 
heavy volume and its actual effect on the 
market is far greater than that of the 
4.000 or 2,000 tons of foreign cabbage. 
Southern growers have worked on the 
old plan which has fooled many farmers 
so often. Cabbage sold high last Spring, 
therefore, plant twice as many this sea¬ 
son and make twice the money. Thou¬ 
sands of farmers reason that way and 
then the only escape from a glut in that 
line of produce is an unfavorable season 
and the high cost of making a crop in 
these times. Northern growers of Spring 
cabbage may go a little slow in view of 
the way Southern cabbage has started 
rolling from Florida. Louisiana. Cali¬ 
fornia and Texas al double the volume 
of last year. Conditions for the cab¬ 
bage crop are rather unfavorable in South 
Carolina and Virginia, which compete 
heavily with Eastern cabbage. Crowers 
in both States may fall short of their 
early plans for large production. 
ONIONS STILL CRAGGY 
The onion situation has 1 t most of 
its interest for Northern growers, but 
dealers and Southern producers are still 
watching with interest the weak, druggy 
action of the markets. Prices have 
sagged from a range of $5.50 to $0.75 per 
100 lbs. in wholesale in January to a 
range of $5 to $0 in February and de¬ 
clines were still greater in producing sec¬ 
tions. The large stocks of California 
onions stored in the East are said not to 
be keeping as well as usual. Ordinarily 
these selected Western onions keep bet¬ 
ter than Eastern stock. 
APPLE CONDITIONS SLIGHTLY BETTER 
During this month of general depres¬ 
sion apples acted better than anything 
else. They are the one crop that has not 
shown any very great change in price 
from start to finish. A range of $7 to 
$8 per bbl. for best A 2 1 /f> Haldwins pre¬ 
vailed most of the season at shipping 
points in leading Eastern producing sec¬ 
tions. Lower grades have not held so 
well as Eastern barreled fruit. The un¬ 
satisfactory features are the depression of 
the export markets and presence of much 
frozn stock and the fairly large supplies 
in cold storage. There are 73.1 per cent 
more boxed apples and 25 per cent more 
barreled apples than a year ago according 
to the report of February 17. Last 
year the sudden return of strong export 
demand saved the holders. This year 
the home markets will have to take more 
of the fruit. As the price is not high 
compared with most other produce, the 
market ought to hold up for the rest of 
the season, except possibly for overripe 
and frozen stuff. 
OTHER CASH CROPS 
Southern lettuce is a heavy crop this 
season, so abundant and cheap that many 
plantings were not worth shipping at the 
prices offered. When Southern lettuce is 
plentiful the Northern produce is in like 
demand and often unprofitable. A strik¬ 
ing feature of the field bean market is the 
wide difference between varieties. For the 
two preceding yars the white and col¬ 
ored kinds sold at almost the same values 
in many markets. This season medium 
white and pea beans range from $7.50 
to $8 per 100 lbs recleaned and sacked, in 
New York State producing sections while 
the Red Kidney variety is quoted $14.50 
and even the Yellow Eyes bring $9. The 
demand is dull but the general situation is 
somewhat better because of heavy exports 
of California beans, which have cleaned 
out old held over Western crops and 
cleared the way for moving the last crop 
which was not a very heavy one. Ratlm~ 
large stocks of carrots arc reported still 
held in Western New York producing sec¬ 
tions but moving rather slowly around 
$3 per 100 lbs or $4.50 per bbl. The 
course of the market seems to depend very 
much upon the potato market, which 
often acts as a kind of barometer for all 
the root crops. 
Cold storage holdings of apples Feb¬ 
ruary 1 were 9.500.100 barrels. 7,277.099 
boxes compared with 1.703,072 barrels 
and 4,204.628 boxes February 1 last year. 
This is 23 per cent increase in barrel 
holdings and 73.1 per cent in boxed ap¬ 
ples compared with stock in storage Jan¬ 
uary 1. The decrease during January 
was 22.8 per cent for barreled stock and 
14.6 per cent for boxed apples compared 
with decrease during January last year 
of 34 per cent for barreled apples and 
1S.1 per cent for boxed apples. c. B. F. 
Local Up-State Prices 
ROCHESTER 
Grain—White Winter wheat. $2.10 to 
$2.45; corn, shelled. $1.70 to $1.75 per 
bu.; oats, white. 9514 to 97c bn., car¬ 
loads; rye, $1.50 to $1.55 bu. Ilay and 
Straw—Ilay. $30 to $32 ton: straw, 
loose, oat, $12 to $14; wheat, $15; rye, 
$14. 
Dressed Beef—Carcass. 16 to 22c; fore¬ 
quarters, 14 to 1 Sc: hindquarters, IS to 
24c. Dressed hogs, light. 20c: IS to 19c 
for heavy. Spring lambs, 28 to 30c; year¬ 
lings. 22 to 24c; mutton, 15 to lSe; veals, 
28 to 30c. 
Seeds—Retail, clover, large, $40; me¬ 
dium. $38 to $40; Timothy. $7 to 87.50; 
Alsike, $36 to $38; Alfalfa. $25 to $28. 
Eggs, fresh, doz.. 70 to 80e; live fowls, 
lb., 38 to 40c; live broilers, lb.. 32 to 34c; 
live ducks, lb.. 35 to 36c; live geese. 32 to 
34c; live turkeys, 50 to 55c. 
Cabbage, doz., $1.25 to $2: per lb., 4 to 
5c; carrots, bu., $1.25 to $1.50; boots, li¬ 
cit. basket. 45 to 50e ; onions. No. 1. bu.. 
$2.25 (o $2.50; ordinary, bu.. $1.25 to 
$1.75; potatoes, bu., $2.25 to $2.50; pars¬ 
nips. bu.. $1.75 to $2; Hubbard squash, 
per 100 lbs.. 82.50 to $3. 
Apples. Baldwin, bu., $0 to $8; King, 
bbl.. $7 50 to $8; Greening, bbl.. $9 to 
$10; fancy, bu.. $2.75 to $3; ordinary, 
bu., $1.25 to $1.75. 
Beans, medium, hand-picked, per 100 
lbs.. 80: White Marrow, $10; Rod and 
White Kidney, $12; pea, $6; Imperials, 
$ 10 . 
SYRACUSE, CITY PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, prime, sides. 12 to 16c; medium, 
sides, 10c; lamb, 26c; pork, 20 to 21c; 
veal, prime, 28c. 
Ducks, live, 45c; dressed. 60e; geese, 
live, 37c; dressed. 50c; fowls, live. 40 to 
45c; dressed. 55c; turkeys, live, 50c; 
dressed. 80 to 90c; live rabbits, each, $1; 
dressed, lb.. 35c. 
Dairy butter, lb . 05 to 75c; eggs, 75 
to 80c: wholesale. 70c; duck eggs, 95c. 
Beans, bu., $4.50 to $0; per lb., 5c; 
beets, bu., $1; cabbage, lh.._4o; carrots, 
bu., 81; onions, bu., $3.75; potatoes, 
bu., $2.40; rutabagas, bu.. 90c; turnips, 
bu., $1.25; Winter squash, lb., 3c. 
Apples, bu.. $2.50. 
Hav—Alfalfa, extra. $30; No. 1 hay, 
$30; ‘No. 2. $20 to $28; No. 3. $20 to 
$25; Timothv. $30; straw, rvo, $13; oat, 
$14 ; wheat. $15. Oats, bu., 95 to 98c. 
BINGHAMTON 
Fowls, live. 30 to 34c; dressed. 37_to 
39c; turkeys, live. 47c; dressed, 55c; 
squabs, per pair. 60c; broilers, live, lb., 
35c; ducks, dressed, lb., 42c; butter, 
prints, lb., 6Se; eggs, '66c. 
Hides, cow, green. No. 1. 32c; bull, 
green, No. 1. 22c ; horse. No. 1. $12.50; 
veals. $6.50 to $10.50; dairy skins, $4 to 
$5 50. Wool, lb., 60c. 
Cabbags. lb.. 7c; carrots, l>u., 90c to 
$1; potatoes, bu.. $1.75 to $2; onions, 
bu.. $2.75 to $3; beets, bu., $1 to $1.25; 
parsnips, bu., $1 ; turnips, bu.. $1 ; ap¬ 
ples. bu.. $3 to $3.50; Hubbard squash, 
lb.. 2 y s to 3c. 
Hay, No. 1. baled, old, $28; No. 2, $26; 
oat straw, baled, $14; rye, loose, $10; 
bundled, $18. 
JOHNSON CITY, PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, lb.. 12 to 33c; pork, lb.. IS to 
35c; pigs. each. $3.50 to $0: bacon, lb., 
35c; ham. lb.. 38 to 40c; veal. 18 to 35c. 
Fowls, live. lb. 35c; ducks, live, lb.. 
30c; dressed, 35c; turkeys, live. 45c; 
dressed, lb., 50c; chickens, live, 34e; 
dressed, 44c. 
Butter, lb.. 08c; eggs. 00c; duck eggs, 
05c; milk, qt., 10c; buttermilk, q!.. Gc; 
cottage cheese, lb., 5c; cream, qt.. 90c. 
Apples, bu., $1.50 to $3.50; beets, bu., 
$1.10; beans, lb., lie; carrots, bu.. $1.10; 
cabbage, lb., 7c; onions, bu., $2.50; po¬ 
tatoes, bu., $2: turnips, bu., 90c to $1; 
Hubbard squash, lb., 2*40. 
Vinegar, gab. 55c; sweet cider, qt.. 15c; 
honey, lb.. 30c; buckwheat flour. lb. T 
614c: hickory nuts, qt., 23c; Hiestnnts, 
qt.” 25c; pumpkins, each, 10 to 25c. 
Buffalo Markets 
Again the produce markets as a rule 
show slight fallings off in price, as the 
California and Florida crops increase in 
abundance, and even potatoes have weak¬ 
ened a little, although it is stated that 
farmers have been held back by the fierce 
storm. Strawberries remain the same, 
but cranberries are still declining. Veg¬ 
etable oysters are now quoted. 
BUTTER—CHEESE—EGGS 
Butter, creamery, 00 to 00c; dairy. 50 
to 00c; crocks, 46 to 57c; common, 38 to 
42c; oleomargarine. 39 to 38c. Eggs, 
white hennery. 63 to 72c; State and West¬ 
ern candled. 58 to 01c; storage. 48 to 50c. 
Cheese, daisies, 32 to 33c; flats, 31 to 
32c; Swiss, 40 to 00c. 
POULTRY—RABBITS 
Dressed poultry, strong; turkeys. 52 to 
50c; capons. 42 to 54c; fowls, 32 to 40c; 
chickens, 33 to 40c; old roosters, 20 to 
27c; ducks, 40 to 42c; geese. 32 to 35c; 
live poultry active; fowls, 3S to 43c; 
chickens. 30 to 36c; roosters. 25 to 26c; 
ducks, 50 to 55c; geese, 36 to 37c; rab¬ 
bits. dull: cottontails, pair, 50 to 60c; 
jacks, $75c to $1. 
APPLES—POTATOES 
Apples, quiet: reds, bu, $2 to $2.75; 
greens, $2 to $2.50; common, $1.50 to 
$1.75: potatoes, steady; bu., $2.60 to 
$2.75; Jersey s\veet6, hamper, $2.50 to 
$3.25. 
BEANS—ONIONS 
Beans, easy; kidney, ewt.. $13 to $14 ; 
Marrow. $11.50 to $12 : medium. $8.25 to 
$8.50; pea, $8 to $8.50: onions, dull; 
yellow, ewt.. $0 to $0.25 ; homegrown, bu.. 
$3.25 to $4; Spanish, crate, $2 to $2.25. 
FANCY AND SOUTHERN FRUITS 
Cranberries, dull; bbl., $2 to $0: straw¬ 
berries, scarce: qt„ 50 to 60c; oranges, 
quiet; box. $5.75; lemons, $8 to $9; 
grapefruit, $3 to $4.50; bananas, steady; 
bunch, $4 to $7: California Malaga 
grapes, keg, $5.50 to $6. 
VEGETABLES 
Vegetables, quiet: light demand; green 
beaus, hamper, $5 to $7.50; wax beans, 
$6 to $7.50; lettuce, Florida, hamper $1 
to $2; Cal. iceberg, box, $2 to $3: car¬ 
rots. bu.. $1.70 to $2.25; beets, old. 75c 
to $1.25; spinach, $1.50 to $1.75; pars¬ 
nips. 82 to $2.50; white turnips, $2.50 to 
$2.75; yellow turnips, .bbl.. $2.75 to $3.25; 
celery. State, doz. bunches, 00 to 75e; cel¬ 
ery. Florida, crate, $4 to $5; cauliflower, 
California, large crate. $8 to $8.50; en¬ 
dive. Belgium, lb.. 40 to 50c; oyster 
plant. State, doz. bunches, $1 to $1.25; 
radishes. 20 to 30c; peppers, crate, $2.50 
to $.‘5; Hubbard squash, ewt., $4 to $5; 
tomatoes, Florida, crate, $4 to $7. 
SWEETS 
Honey, firm ; lb., fancy white. 30 to 
38c; dark. 30 to 32c: maple sugar, lb., 
17 to 25c; syrup, gal., $1.75 to $2.3p. 
FEED 
Hay, firm, unchanged: $34 to $35 for 
all Timothy; $31 to $33 for clover mix; 
bran, carlots, $47: middlings. $52; red 
dog. $02: cottonseed meal. $77.25; oil- 
meal. _ $77.50; hominy. $02; oat feed, 
$34.25; rye middlings, 852.50. j. w. c. 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER 
Best prints, 77 to 78c; tub. fancy, 09 
to 71c; good tn choice, 00 to 05c; packing 
stock, 42 to 45c. 
EGGS 
Best nearby, 70 to 72c; gathered, good 
to choice, 00 to 05c; lower grades, 50 
to 53e. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls. 40 to 42c; roosters, 25 to 20c; 
ducks. 40 to 46c; geese, 35 to 45c; tur¬ 
keys, 45 to 50c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best. 58 to 59c; common to 
good, 50 to 55c; fowls. 30 to 39c; roosters 
27c; broilers. 50 to 00c; ducks, 30 to 40c; 
geese, 27 to 32c; capons, 48 to 55c. 
POTATOES 
Pennsylvania, 100-lbs., $4.50 to $4.75; 
New York, $4 to $4.50; sweet potatoes, 
bu., $1.25 to $2.25. 
VEGETABLES 
Cabbage( old. ton, $00 to $95 : new. bu.- 
bkt.. $1.75 to $2; onions, 100 lbs., $3.50 
to $5.50. 
FRUITS 
Apples, bbl.. $4 to $9; box, $1.50 to 
$3.50; cranberries, bbl.. $5.00 to $8. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay. No. 1. Timothv. $38 to $39; No. 
2. $36 to $37: No. 3. $32 to $34; clover 
mixed. $32 to $35. Straw, rye, $17 to 
$18; oat and wheat. $14 to $16. 
Boston Markets 
BUTTER. 
Best creamery. 01 to 05c; medium to 
good. 58 to 02c: ladles, 47 to 48c; storage, 
59 to 63c. 
EGGS. 
Best nearby. 61 to 62c; gathered, beet, 
57 to 60c; common to good, 51 to 54c 
storage, 30 to 50c. 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Chickens, 36 to 3Sc; roosters, 22 to 
25c; fowls, 40 to 42c. 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, best. 52 to 55c; fair to good. 
40 to 45c; fowls, 34 to 42c; chickens, 
best. 45 to 48c; fair to good. 32 to 39c; 
ducks. 35 to 3Sc ; geese. 28 to 30c ; squabs, 
doz., $6 to $10. 
APPLES. 
Greening. $4 to $0: Baldwin. $3.50 to 
$5.50; Spy. $3.50 to $6; Ben Davis, 
$2.25 to $2.50. 
POTATOES. 
Maine Green Mountain, 100 lbs., $4.25 
to $4.60; sweet potatoes, bu., $2.25 to 
$2.50. 
VEGETABLES. 
Cabbage, bbl., $5 to $0.50; celery, doz., 
$3 to $4; lettuce, bu. box, $1 to $1.50; 
radishes, bu., $1.75 to $2; squash, ton, 
$00 to $90; ouions, 100 lbs.. $0 to $0.25; 
tomatoes, hothouse, lb.. 40 to 00c; cucum¬ 
bers, bu. box, $4 to $15; turnips, ewt., 
$2.50 to $3. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers. $11 to $15; oxen, $9 to $11; 
cows, $8.50 to $12; calves, best. $18 to 
$21; common to good, $12 to $16; sheep, 
$8 to $14 ; lambs, $14 to $18 : hogs. $14.50 
to $19. Milch cows, best, $150 to $200; 
common to good, $100 to $150. 
New York Quotations 
NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 19, 1920. 
MILK PRICES. 
New York, for February, $3.4S per 100 
lb;, 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. 
BUTTER. 
Under grades are lower and the market 
as a whole is quite unsettled. Steamers 
recently in from Denmark and Holland 
brought something over 1.000.000 lbs. of 
high quality. California is 
sen 
ding a 
considerable quantity here. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 
67 
a 
68 
Good to Choice . 
64 
a 
66 
Lower Grades. 
53 
(ft 
55 
Storage, best. 
62 
@ 
63 
Fair to good. 
52 
60 
City made. 
39 
1(9 
44 
Dairy, best . 
64 
a 
65 
Common to good . 
46 
a 
60 
Packing Stock. 
36 
a 
40 
CHEESE. 
A drop of one cent in the better grades 
is noted. Business is light. 
Whole Milk, fancy . HO w> 31 
Good to choice. @ 29H5 
Skims, best. 21 @ 22 
Fair to good. 14 @ 16 
LIVE POULTRY. 
Deliveries are being made slowly. 
Prices reported at: Chickens, 35 to 38c; 
fowls. 40 to 41c; roosters. 24c; turkeys, 
35 to 40c; ducks, 30 to 35c; geese 22c. 
EGGS. 
White, nearby, choice to fancy .. 
Medium to good . 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 
Com moil to good. 
Gathered, best, white. 
Medium to good, mixed colors 
Lower grades. 
Storage. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Native Steen.. 
Built . 
COW8. 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbt. 
Culls... 
Hogs. 
3heep. 100 lbs. 
Lambs .. 
69 
65 
67 
llll 
68 
04 
r.o 
42 
9 75 
7 00 
4 50 
22 00 
10 00 
14 50 
5 00 
18 00 
@ 70 
a 78 
a 68 
a 65 
a 6'.) 
a 67 
a 54 
@ 60 
a u oo 
ail oo 
a 9 50 
@25 00 
@16 00 
@10 25 
@11 00 
rtf 22 00 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Turkeys, fancy, lb. 
Fair to good.. 
Chickens choice lb... 
.. 50 
. 44 
. 46 
. 35 
Broilers, lb. 
. 30 
Capons . 
Roosters. 
. 50 
Ducks . 
Geese. 
. 25 
Squabs, doz. 
COUNTRY DRESSED 
MEAT. 
Calves, best. 
Com. to good. 
Lambs, hot bouse, each. 
32 
25 
8 00 
Light. 
BEANS. 
Marrow. 100 lbt.10 50 
Pea. 7 00 
Medium .7 75 
Bed Kidney.13 00 
White Kidney,.15 00 
Yellow Eye. 8 75 
Lima, California.14 00 
@ 52 
@ 48 
@ 48 
@ 42 
a 48 
a 4u 
@ 62 
@ 27 
@ 41 
@ 31 
a u oo 
@ 33 
a 30 
@16 00 
<■’ Is 
@ 23 
a 12 oo 
i a 8 00 
a h oo 
a 14 75 
@15 50 
a 9 oo 
@14 25 
FRUITS. 
Apples. Winesap,'bbl. 4 50 @ 8 50 
Albemarle. 5 oo @ 9 50 
York Imperial. 4 oo a 7 oo 
Stayman. 4 50 @ 8 oo 
Greening.5 oo all oo 
King. 4 50 a s oo 
Baldwin. 4 50 @ 9 00 
Common.. 2 00 a 3 00 
Home Beauty,bu. box. 2 Oo @ 3 50 
Winesap. box. 2 00 a 3 50 
Spitz, box. 2 00 On 3 40 
Newtown, box. 2 00 @ 3 25 
Delicious, box. 2 50 a 4 50 
Oranges, box . 5 00 a 7 00 
Lemons, box . 5 50 @ 7 00 
Grape Fruit. 3 50 fet 5 00 
Cranberries, bbl. 4 50 @10 00 
Strawberries, qt. . 50 @ 65 
POTATOES. 
Long Island. ISO lbs.. 7 50 a 8 50 
Maine. 180 lbs. 7 00 @9 00 
State. 180 lbs . 7 00 @8 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. bkt. 2 00 @ 3 00 
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