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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 3, 1920 
Market News and 
Price 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
VALUES CONTINUE STRONG—SOUTHERN 
SHIPMENTS INCREASING. 
C’arlot shipments of leading fruits and 
vegetables average over 1.000 cars per 
day. They keep fairly close to these 
figures all through the Winter and may 
be considered as representing surplus 
supply and demand. 
THE CARLOT SUPPLY. 
About two-thirds of the total consump¬ 
tion is supplied by the nearby crop, which 
feeds the farm families and supplies local 
nearby markets through the local market- 
ling season. They represent sales in 
nearby markets in carloads, truck loads 
and by express. The carlot shipments, 
on the other hand, move largely from 
distant sections, and supply the greater 
part of the requirements of the largest 
cities. The carloads come mainly from 
highly specialized producing sections, 
which follow one after another as the 
season advances Northward, each section 
in turn supplying the surplus demand of 
the consuming centers. 
TYPICAL SHIPPING SECTIONS. 
Thus the onion shipments are begin¬ 
ning a new season the last of March with 
a few cars from Southern Texas. About 
one-fourth of the whole carlot onion sup¬ 
plies will come, probably, from Texas, 
Southern California and Louisiana, then 
come the mid-season supplies with heavy 
shipments from Virginia. Kentucky, Cen¬ 
tral California and New Jersey, and 
finally the late crop from the Northern 
and Western States. The actual com¬ 
mercial onion area in each section is com¬ 
paratively small. It comprises usually 
some tract of fertile, loose, easily worked 
soil, with more or less opportunity for 
irrigation and a supply of transient labor 
available. Good examples at the two 
ends of the onion shipping territory are 
the Lower Rio Grande Valley in South¬ 
ern Texas and the Connecticut River Val¬ 
ley in Massachusetts. The season’s story 
is much the same for potatoes, cabbage, 
cantaloupes, strawberries and tomatoes, 
and in fact the whole list of truck crops 
and fruits. The leading shipping sections 
of each are limited in area and conditions 
favor the crop and bring it to market at 
a time when other leading sections are 
through shipping or not yet ready to 
ship. California, from South to North, 
is a succession of shipping sections last¬ 
ing throughout the year, and the State 
lias become a vast garden of truck and 
fruits. The southern part of the State 
sends most of the fresh Winter supplies 
to the Far Western markets, and also 
ships a considerable portion Eastward. 
Texas ships to many Middle Western 
markets, while Florida, sends products to 
Eastern markets. At present the second 
tier of States, beginning in Alabama, ex¬ 
tending westward to Central California, 
is beginning truck shipments. The vol¬ 
ume of movement will increase steadily 
and offset the approaching end of old 
Northern stock. There are still liberal 
quantities of Northern apples and pota¬ 
toes, but the other old lines are nearly 
done. 
VALUES STRENGTHEN. 
Prices have moved up still another de¬ 
gree. owing perhaps to the interruptions 
to transportation. Northern sections are 
still frozen in. Hundreds of trolley lines 
and some of the smallest steam lines had 
not fnllv resumed operations as late as 
the last of March. Probably the old 
potato movement will increase rapidly 
for a few weeks as soon as conditions 
permit unrestricted movement. 
STRONG POTATO SITUATION. 
Potatoes are still the most interesting 
mgrket feature. Prices are three times 
those of a year ago and at near the end 
of the month are still strong. The public 
seems to have become used to the high 
prices and there is no indication of a 
check to the demand, such as occurred 
during the shortage and high prices in 
the Spring of 1917. Remaining supplies 
of Northern stock April 1 seem to be 
about five-sixths of those a year ago. In 
view of the good demand and the high 
price it is not certain that any great 
slump will occur when shipments are iu 
full Spring volume, but some price re¬ 
duction seems probable. Nearby pro¬ 
ducers who get to market at once will 
be on the safe side. 
APPLES WORKING OUT FAIRLY WELL. 
Prices for Eastern and Western apples 
keep on strengthening, despite the rather 
threatening figures showing heavy stocks 
of boxed apples unsold. The State of 
Washington had its abundant crop and 
has shipped far more than all of the 
other boxed apple States combined and 
three times as many as New York, the 
leading Eastern apple State. 
Western apples have far more than set 
off the Eastern shortage. The effect is 
shown interestingly in markets like Chi¬ 
cago, located midway between the two 
apple sections. Early in the season apples 
were higher in Chicago than in Eastern 
cities. The competition of Western 
boxed apples has been heavy in markets 
nearest the Western producing sectiou. 
and at present the price of barreled 
apples is about the saute iu the Middle 
West as in the East. Leading markets 
range $8 to $9.50 for top grades of New 
York Baldwins. Boxed apples are nearly 
as high as they were a year ago. when 
exporters, now indifferent, were buying 
eagerly. 
There is yet little indication of the 
Spring slump in price which so many in 
the trade have been foretelling. Con¬ 
sumers seem to be cheerfully and liberally 
buying big red Western Delicious and 
Eastern Spy at, two for a quarter and 
other sizes and varieties at corresponding 
figures. Apples are high compared with 
most other recent years, and orchard pro¬ 
perty is booming iu some sections. The 
crop can be produced at a lower cost per 
bushel for labor and fertilizers than most 
other crops, or at least the orchard can 
be scrimped in these particulars for a 
year or two in times of emergency and 
still bear a fair crop, if mulched and 
sprayed. Apples are scarce and poor in 
British markets and prices higher, but 
still hardly satisfactory to shippers. 
Fairly good Virginia and New England 
apples ranged $11.24 to $12.7(1 per barrel 
at Glasgow' late in March. 
SOUTHERN PRODUCE INCREASING. 
About Northern onions and cabbage 
there is little to be said. Stocks are light 
and prices seem to remain extremely 
high. Texas onions are starting to move 
on in a small w r ay on the last of March 
and new onion supplies will soon take 
the place of the Northern crop. New r 
cabbage is moving from half a dozen 
Southern States, and selling at $2.50 to 
$8.50 per bushel iu the North. Florida 
growers get about $1.75. Cabbage grow¬ 
ers iu Central California are being paid 
$40 per ton. G. R. F. 
Local Up-State Prices 
BINGHAMTON 
Cabbage, per lb., 5c; carrots, bu., $1 to 
$1.25; potatoes, bu., $1.75; lettuce, per 
doz., 80c; onions, bu., $2.75 to $3; spin¬ 
ach, bu., $1.25; beets, bu., $1 to $1.25; 
parsnips, bu., $1 to $1.25; turnips, bu., 
$1 to $1.25 ; apples, bu.. $3.50 to $4. 
Fowls, live, lb., 3Se; dressed. 44c; tur¬ 
keys, live, lb., 48c; dressed. 58c ; squabs, 
per pair. 80c; broilers, live, lb., 55c; 
ducks, dressed, lb.. 42c. 
CJow’ hides, green, 17 to 22c; bull hides, 
green, 1G to 17c; horse hides. $8.50 to 
$10; deacons, $3 to $4 ; veals, $4.50 to 
$9.50. 
JOHNSON CITY PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, lb.. 12 to 33c; pigs. each. $3.50 
to $6; pork. lb.. 18 to 25c; bacon, lb., 
35c; bam, lb., 88 to 40e; veal, lb., 18 to 
35c. 
Fowls, live, lb., 35c; dressed. 3Sc; 
geese, live, 82c; dressed. 35c; ducks, live, 
30c; dressed, 35c; turkeys, live, 45c; 
dressed, 50c; rabbits, dressed, lb.. 35c; 
chickens, live. 34c; dressed, 40c; eggs. 
51c; duck eggs. 70c; butter, lb., G8c. 
Buttermilk, qt., Gc; milk, qt.. 10c; cot¬ 
tage cheese, lb.. 5c; cream, qt., 90c. 
Apples, bu.. $1.50 to $3.50; beets, bu., 
$1.10; beans, lb., 10c; carrots, bu.. $1.10; 
cabbage, lb,. Gc; celery, per head, 13 to 
15c; lettuce, per head, Gc; onions, peck, 
75c; potatoes, bu., $2; pumpkins, each 
10 to 25c; Hubbard squash, lb., $3; tur¬ 
nips, bu., 90c to $1. 
Vinegar, gal., 40c; pickles, doa., 20c; 
hickory nuts. qt.. 23c; honey, lb., 30e; 
buckwheat flour, lb., Gc. 
ROCHESTER PUBLIC MARKET 
White Winter wheat. $2.35 to $2.40; 
corn, shelled, bu., $1.80 to $1.85; oats, 
white, bu., $1.02; rye bu., $1.65 to $1.70. 
Hay, ton, $29 to $35; straw, loose, oat, 
$12 to $14; wheat, $15; rye, $14. 
Dressed beef, carcass, 16 to 22c; fore¬ 
quarters, 14 to 18c; hindquarters, 18 to 
24c; dressed hogs, light, lb., 20c; heavy, 
18% to 19c; Spring lambs, lb.. 30 to 32c; 
yearling lambs, lb.. 24 to 25e; mutton, 
15 to 18c; veals, 28 to 30c. 
Seeds, retail: Large clover, bu., $40; 
medium clover, bu., $38 to $40; Timothy, 
$7 to $7.50; Alsike, $36; Alfalfa, $25 to 
$28. 
Fowls, live, lb., 3G to 38c; live broil¬ 
ers. lb., 35 to 37c; live ducks, lb., 35 to 
36e. 
Beets, 14-qt. bskt., 35 to 50c; cabbage, 
ton, $40 to $55; per lb., 5c to Gc; carrots, 
bu., $1 to $1.25; celery, doz., 90c to $1; 
horseradish, lb.. 23c; lettuce, head, doz., 
$1.35 to $1.50; onions, green, ^ doz., 
bunches, 25 to 30c; onions, bu.. No. 1. 
$2.25 to $2.50; ordinary, bu., $1.25 to 
$1.75; potatoes, bu.. $2.50 to $2.60. 
Apples, bbl., Baldwin, $6 to $8; King, 
$7.50 to $8; Greenings, $9 to $10; fancy, 
bu.. $2.75 to $3; ordinary, bu., $1.25 to 
$1.75. 
Beaus, hand-picked, per 100 lbs.: Me¬ 
dium, $5; white marrowr, $9; red mar- 
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