The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
751 
POTATOES STILL THE LEADING FEATURE- 
OTHER LINES FAST CLEANING UP— 
GENERAL OUTLEEK PROMISING. 
The advancing prices for potatoes still 
comprise the only remarkable develop¬ 
ment. There are some signs that the top 
is near at hand. Supplies are increasing 
and are liberal for the time of year, al¬ 
though the more northern sections have 
been shut in longer than usual by Winter 
and transportation difficulties. Growers 
appear anxious to sell. If supplies come 
forward freely during the present month 
the markets could hardly hold present 
levels. As yet the Spring potato move¬ 
ment has not quite reached an average of 
.">00 cars daily, which was the rate of 
movement at this time a year ago. Ap¬ 
parently, the remaining stocks of pota¬ 
toes are only three-fourths those of last 
year at this time. The potatoes are of 
better keeping quality this season. This 
situation seems rather critical owing to 
the high prices and to the uncertainty re¬ 
garding the extent of the Spring shipping 
movement from producing sections. Prices 
have risen almost continuously since dig¬ 
ging time. Average prices sagged off 
about 50c per 100 lbs. in February, but 
regained the loss in March and went still 
higher, exceeding $0 per 100 lbs. in some 
of the city markets, while shipping points 
and producing sections quote $4.85 to $0. 
APPLE EXPORTS ENDING 
The apple situation is somewhat criti¬ 
cal, but the matter is chiefly of interest 
to dealers who now hold most of the 
commercial stock remaining. There is 
still a large amount in cold storage in 
the East and also several thousand cars 
to come from the Northwest. Holders 
are worrying over the possibility of a 
slump before the market is cleared up. 
At present values are holding very well, 
although a few cities ended the month at 
slightly weaker quotations. Top grades 
of Eastern standard varieties ranged $8 
to $9 per bid., and box apples $3.50 to $4 
per box. Shippers in Washington ship¬ 
ping sections recently have been getting 
$3 to $3.25 for top grades of best varie¬ 
ties like Winesaps. Foreign markets are 
bolding up well, with recent sales at 
about top legal prices, which means a net 
about equal to prices in our own markets. 
But the export season is about over. Tas¬ 
manian apples will reach British markets 
in quantity this month, while American 
apples are becoming too ripe to arrive in 
best condition. 
ONION PRICES HOLD 
Supplies of Eastern onions are light 
and good. Ohio, Massachusetts or New 
York Yellow Globes bring close to $7 per 
100 lbs. in various large city markets. 
Egyptian onions are beginning to arrive 
in New York and Boston. They can be 
bought in producing sections at a price 
showing a liberal profit to importers. 
Spanish onions to the extent of over a 
million eases have been sold this season, 
but they are about done now. They could 
be bought where grown at about $1.50 
per 100 lbs., and they sold nearly as high 
as good native stock, showing the im¬ 
porter a large profit, despite the high cost 
of handling. Spanish onions are of fine 
appearance, but rather too mild in flavor 
and too large in size to be entirely sat¬ 
isfactory to American trade. Some of 
them arrived in poor condition. Texas 
onions are beginning to move, and by the 
end of the month will fill the markets. 
■Meanwhile old Northern onions will be 
sold out fairly clean. Prices being paid 
Texas growers for advanced delivery in¬ 
dicate an opening value in Northern 'mar¬ 
kets of about $4 per crate, holding less 
than a bushel. Evidently early Northern 
onions will bring good prices. 
A LONG RANGE PRICE OUTLOOK 
M ill high prices prevail for fruits and 
vegetables for another season? The per¬ 
sistent strength of the markets all AVin- 
<t, notwithstanding heavier shipments 
rnan the year before, suggests that the 
toundation of the high price level is the 
good demand, which in turn results from 
the high wages paid iu so many indus- 
ines. Naturally any reduction in wages 
V, 1 y u -' T of employment would be re¬ 
flected in the produce markets before 
.ong. At present the trend of wages is 
m-egutar, some industries still advancing, 
unue others have gone down under pres- 
suie of competition iu labor. When there 
.. a ' on ‘. th . a “ <)n e applicant for one job 
ages teml to come down. In general 
erl V, S . uothln K to indicate lack of gen- 
(»i, l, *u U ® Power the coming seasou. 
lik.-iv f e , Slde of Production there is 
Moif je ),v som . e increase iu acreage. 
reports from Southern truck- 
inL ff t ^ show P ,aus or actual plant- 
the \ir. rge1 ' thau last yoar, but even with 
to thn c i* ases , many sections are not back 
aiea planted before the great war. 
Growers have largo plans, but are ham¬ 
pered by shortage of fertilizers, seeds, 
plants and labor. A great deal of capital 
is required to swing l large acreage under 
present, conditions. 
Production in other countries may have 
some effect. East year Denmark was the 
only country in Europe having a large 
food surplus. There was great need for 
food in some of the countries of Europe, 
but most of them lacked money or credit 
for buying what they needed, and some 
of the Danish surplus found its best mar¬ 
ket, in this country, although the amount 
shipped here was not a serious matter 
marketwise. The rate of exchange shows 
a large profit on European imports and 
more stuff may be raised and sent here 
the coming season if conditions warrant. 
However, foreign producers are hampered 
to some extent, by world wide conditions, 
including the high cost of freight and the 
scarcity and high cost of labor, fertilizers 
and other raw materials. g. b. f. 
Stone-ground Local Flour 
I would like to get. the name and ad¬ 
dress of several grist mills in New York 
State or Northern Pennsylvania that, 
make a strictly stone-ground flour from 
local State Winter wheat. I believe such 
flour would give us a much better food 
and at less expense per calorie than the 
western Spring wheat roller process 
flour, as well as giving work to our local 
mills and to some extent saving railroad 
transportation. If every housewife would 
insist on having stone-ground flour from 
local wheat for her pastry work or bak¬ 
ing, it would create a demand for our 
local wheat, and give us a more nutritious 
tood for local production, and a home 
market for our wheat.. c r v 
West Groton, N. Y. 
Readers who know of such mills will 
doubtless respond to this request, but it 
will take far more than a list of such 
mills to bring about a resumption of the 
use of bread flour from locally ground 
wheat. In my own locality it has been a 
gradually waning custom for farmers with 
a Jittle home-grown wheat to take it to 
some mill within reach and have it 
floured for them. These mills have, be¬ 
come more and more scarce, however, and 
at .present I do not know of one that does 
this kind of work. There is now upon the 
market a flour mill made iu small sizes 
suited to local work of this kind, and it 
is qmte possible that this and similar 
mills will in some measure restore flour 
making to the Eastern States. This is a 
roller mill, however, making flour by the 
roller process. For flour making, the old- 
fashioned stones, whatever their merits 
have undoubtedly had their day. The dark 
flours have been banished from the kitch¬ 
ens of both farm and town by the beauti¬ 
ful product of the Western mills. No 
proud housewife will stand for bavin- 
the product of her skill compare unfa¬ 
vorably in color and texture with that of 
her neighbor who uses the patents. Com¬ 
parative wholesomeness cut little figure 
here ; appearance is what counts. If you 
think that this isn't true, count up on 
yoiu- fingers the neighbors who are still 
Using the war bread of a few months ago, 
particularly those who then vehementlv 
declared that they should never go back 
to those unwholesome, devitalized, emas¬ 
culated, chemiealljyffileached patent flours 
Count ’em. M . B . u . 
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