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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March i:;, 1920 
M a r k e 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
SUPPLIES STILL MODERATE AND PRTCE 
CONDITIONS SOMEWHAT UNSETTLED. 
Prices do, not go down easily. Most 
recent declines have been slow and re¬ 
coveries have been quickly made. Ex¬ 
ceptions are the unsettled conditions of 
old cabbage and Western apples. Other 
values have been well maintained gen¬ 
erally. 
Back of the situation is the car short¬ 
age which has kept supplies very mod¬ 
erate in the large cities and has given a 
good chance to nearby growers with then- 
teams and trucks. If car supply permits 
there may be heavier shipments of such 
lines as potatoes and other crops also ap¬ 
ples this Spring. Conditions will soon 
be safe for use of common freight cars 
sifter which time the shipment of qld pro¬ 
duce increases for a while. At about 
the same period the amount of Southern 
produce usually is gaining very fast as 
the season reaches the second tier of the 
Southern states, but an unexpected short¬ 
age of all vegetables or some late damage 
to the Southern crop such as the killing 
frost iu central Florida early this month 
often upsets early calculations. 
POTATOES IN STRONG POSITION 
The potato outlook is quite a puzzle. 
This situation seems strong in the West 
but more uncertain in the East. The 
Western crop is likely to be wanted in 
states which often in other years have 
had potatoes to ship East. Farmers were 
hard hit in some sections. In Eastern 
Montana they had three dry years one 
after another and the last was the worst 
of the lot. Farmers who counted abso¬ 
lutely on the third season breaking the 
succession often lost all they had. Farms 
for which $30 an acre was refused three 
years ago are offered in large numbers 
this spring at $10. Most other far 
Western sections suffered less, but the 
surplus of potatoes was small iu the far 
West and prices often have been higher 
than iu the East. Probably never before 
t New 
have potato prices ranged so nearly alike 
all oyer the country. They are selling at 
about $4.50 iu sacks and ready for ship¬ 
ment. A range from $4.25 to $4.75 per 
100 lbs. covers the values for most sec¬ 
tions. Lowest prices are iu Maine where 
there is still a large supply ; over 7.000 
cars in Aroostook County alone, accord¬ 
ing to the best estimates obtainable. The 
best of it is that Maine growers own most 
of the potatoes and will be able to cash 
in nicely if the price holds out and cars 
are supplied. City Markets quote best 
Maine stock not far below $6 per 100 lbs. 
iu large lots. 
There is some talk of bringing the po¬ 
tatoes from Europe. They have been of¬ 
fered sometimes at about one-half the 
price of best native potatoes but ex¬ 
penses of getting them here would take 
off most of the profit as they are rather 
poor and do not bring anything like top 
prices iu American markets. The whole 
exportable surplus of Denmark, if it all 
came here, would last our markets only 
a week or so. However, in the long run 
our farmers will need to watch the for¬ 
eign situation if the low rates of ex¬ 
change continue. The farmers of such 
countries as Russia or Germany might 
flood our markts with cheap vegetables 
whenever the growers over there get down 
to business again. 
ONION MARKETS ARE ABOUT STEADY 
Spanish onions are selling lower than 
American stock but they are not worth 
as much. They are too large to suit our 
best trade and recent shipments come iu 
poor condition. The onion situation is 
clearing up fairly well. If there is any 
final slump the dealers and not the grow¬ 
ers as a class will feel it. Best native 
stock is $5.50 to 80 in leading Eastern 
cities. 
NEW CABBAGE IN HEAVY SUPPLY 
Liberal supplies of Florida cabbage 
have driven out old cabbage from some of 
the Eastern markets. Old stock is down 
to about $75 per ton for the most part. 
s and 
The best still reaches $90 to $100 in a 
few markets. New cabbage has been 
moving at twice the volume of a year 
ago and the prices average rather higher 
than old stock. 
APPLE SITUATION SLIGHTLY BETTER 
Western boxed apples have appeared to 
be the serious factor of the apple situa¬ 
tion. Conditions look a little better now. 
Prices have moved up slightly in produc¬ 
ing sections, and in most Eastern cities 
export trade active in January although 
prices obtained were not always satis¬ 
factory. Much stock was sold at auction 
in the home markets at prices lower than 
it cost the speculators at harvest time. 
Just now the sales are doing better. 
Eastern apples have not changed much 
in price. They are a little higher than 
at harvest time and a little lower than 
a year ago. Certainly they do not as a 
rule show much net profit for those who 
have stored them. It is apparently a 
question whether the big storage stock 
of boxed apples can be sold except at 
lower prices. Holders hesitate because 
to sell boxed apples from cold storage 
now means generally that a lower price 
must be accepted than the apples cost the 
owner, taking the storage and incidental 
expenses into account. Top grades of 
best. Western apples sell at $3 to $4 per 
box in leading cities. New York State 
Baldwins, best. $2.50. are stronger at 
$7.50 to $8.25 per bbl., f. o. b.. country 
shipping points and $8 to $9 iu city mar¬ 
kets. G. B. F. 
Local Up-State Prices 
SYRACUSE PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, prime, sides, lb.. 12 to 15c; me¬ 
dium. sides. S to 10c: lamb. lb. 20c; 
pork, lb., 22 to 24c; veal, prime, lb., 20 
to 30c; common, lb.. 15c. 
Ducks, live, lb., 40c; dressed, lb., 00c; 
geese, live, lb., 37c; dressed, lb.. 50c; 
fowls, live, lb., 45c; dressed. 55 to 05c; 
turkeys, 4ive, lb., 50c; dressed, lb., 80 
Prices 
to 90c; rabbits, live. each. $1; dressed 
lb.. 40c. 
Butter, dairy, lb.. 70 to 80c; eggs. 75 
to 80c; at wholesale, 05c; duck eggs. 90c. 
Beans, bu.. 05 to $0; beets, bu., $1.30; 
carrots, bu.. $1; cabbage, lb., 3 to 4c; 
onions, bu.. $3.50 to $4; parsnips, bu., 
$1.25: potatoes, bu.. $2.40: rutabagas, 
bu.. 90c.; Winter squash, lb.. 3c; turnips, 
bu.. $1.25; apples, bu., $2.50. 
Alfalfa, extra, ton. $32: Hav. No. 1, 
$32; No. 2. $28: No. 3. $20 to $25; tim¬ 
othy. $30; straw, rye, ton. $13; oat, $14; 
wheat. $15. 
Oats, per bu., 95 to 9Sc. 
BINGHAMTON 
Beef, native steer, carcass, lb.. IS to 
20c; Western, lb., 17c; veal, lb., 26c; 
lamb. lb.. 33c. 
Fowls, live, lb., 37c; dressed, lb.. 43c; 
turkeys, live, lb., 4Sc; dressed, lb.. 58c; 
squabs, per pair. SOc; broilers, live, lb., 
48c; ducks, dressed, lb.. 42c. 
Butter, prints, lb.. 68c; eggs. 00<\ 
Potatoes, bu.. $1.75 to $2 ; carrots, bu., 
75c to $1 ; onions, per doz., 60c; per bu., 
$2.75 to $3: beets, bu.. $1 to $1.25; par¬ 
snips. bu.. $1; turnips, bu.. $1 to $1.25; 
apples, bu.. $3 to $3.50; cabbage, lb., 5 
to 6c; Hubbard squash, lb.. 2% to 3c. 
Cow hides, green. No. 1. 18c; bull 
hides, green. No. 1, 15c; horse hides. No. 
1. $9; veal skins, $4.50 to $8.50: dairy 
skins. $3 to $3.50; musk rat, No. 1, $4; 
Wool, lb.. 50c. 
Hay. No. 1. baled, $29; No. 2. $28; 
oat straw, ton, $15; rye. tangled. $16; 
bundled. $18. 
Corn. bu.. $1.78; oats. bu.. $1.06; corn 
meal, ton, $65; ground oats. ton. $66; 
bran, ton, $53; mixed feed, ton. $56. 
JOHNSON CITY PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, per lb.. 12 to 38c; pork, lb., IS 
to 25c; pigs, each, $3.50 to $6; ham, lb., 
38 lo 40c; bacon, lb., 35c; veal, lb., 18 
to 35c. 
Fowls, dressed, lb.. 3Sc; live, lb.. 35c 
geese, dressed, lb., 35c; live. 32c; ducks, 
dressed, lb., 35c; live, 30c; turkeys, 
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