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Countrywide ProdiTSe Situation 
TRICES TTOLD HP GENERALLY—INTEREST IN 
NEW POTATOES—ONIONS DECLINE— 
CROP ACREAGE REDUCED 
Movement of vegetables and fruits is 
rather light for the time of year. Possi¬ 
bly it will continue light because of the 
reduced acreage of most Northern vege¬ 
tables. Potato acreage will be 3 to 5 
per cent short, according to field notes of 
the Bureau of Crop Estimates, the com¬ 
mercial potato section averaging for the 
principal shipping States about 05 per 
cent of last year’s acreage. Last year's 
acreage, in turn, was about 15 per cent 
loss than that of the season before. Some 
States, like Maine, have shown a pro¬ 
gressive decrease, with 102.000 acres last 
year. 112.000 acres the year before and 
150.000 acres in 1017. For this year no 
acreage estimate is available, but reports 
indicate that planting is limited chiefly 
by high price and scarcity of seed, labor 
and fertilizers, and these general causes 
are operating in other potato sections. 
Another year of high priced potatoes 
seems very probable. 
NEW CASH CROP FOR THE SOUTn 
Sweet potato acreage may be increased. 
The labor situation is not nearly so bad 
in the South as last year, and sweet 
potatoes stored in the thousands of re¬ 
cently constructed modern storage houses 
are proving a good cash crop in those sec¬ 
tions. not only in the older shipping sec¬ 
tions. but in sections further South, where 
the weevil is driving out the cotton crop. 
The greater part of the Northern supply 
of sweets is still drawn from the middle 
section, including Virginia. Maryland, 
Delaware and New Jersey. The soft- 
mcated varieties of the far South are 
gaining favor in some Northern markets. 
The per acre yield of sweet potatoes is 
about the same as that of white. Price 
received by growers is sometimes higher 
and sometimes lower than for white stock. 
The margin between growers and con¬ 
sumers is greater for sweets on account 
of their more perishable nature, resulting 
in much waste and preventing sales in 
large lots. Better methods of handling 
all along the line may sometime result 
in greatly increased consumption of sweet 
potatoes in the North. The crop even 
now is one-third as large as that of white 
potatoes, but the shipments are only one- 
tenth to one-twelfth as large, which indi¬ 
cates that most of the sweets are used 
near points of production. It is claimed 
that about one-half of them rot because 
of unsuitable storehouses. It seems signi¬ 
ficant that the shipments of sweet pota¬ 
toes the past season increased 50 per cent 
over that of last season, although the crop 
was not larger. A year ago not a single 
car was coming. This year they are fill¬ 
ing 50 to 75 cars a week, a difference 
which shows clearly the result of better 
storage methods. 
OLD WHITE POTATOES SEEM NEARLY DONE 
Even Maine, the country’s leading 
source of supply this Spring, appears to 
be cleaning up fast, and Canadian im¬ 
ports. which have exceeded 5,000 cars so 
far. are falling off rapidly. Conditions 
have been unusually favorable for Cana¬ 
dian shippers. Prices were high and the 
premium on United States dollars alone 
gave them quite a profit when selling in 
our markets. The Canadian shipments 
to this country would have been larger 
except that the prices have been high in 
Canada also, the domestic markets taking 
care of most of the surplus. 
PRICES CONTINUE HIGH 
_01d potatoes have been selling at $7 to 
$7.75 per 100 lbs., sacked, for No. l's in 
leading markets of the United States, and 
new potatoes at $13 to $17 per bbl., 
equivalent to about $8.25 per 100 lbs., 
or about $5 per bushel. Demand for old 
stock is still good, except in the more 
southerly markets, where quality of old 
stock is not very good at this time of 
year and where new stock is more abun¬ 
dant. The shipping season has extended 
northward as far as North Carolina. 
Shipments are liberal, even from States 
with reduced potato acreage. It appears 
that potato growers are digging as early 
and as fast as possible to make sure of 
the high prices prevailing. Old potatoes 
are three times as high as they were a 
year ago, and new potatoes sell at double 
the price of last season. Growers in 
Floi'ida and South Carolina get about $4 
per bushel for No. l’s, and growers in 
Michigan or Maine also get nearly $4. 
The higher cost of production iii the 
South somewhat offsets the shrinkage and 
cost of storage in the North, but unfor¬ 
tunately for Northern growers few of 
them ^ohl much of their crop at anywhere 
near the top prices. 
ONIONS LOWER 
Texas onions have been selling recently 
at $1.75 to $3 per standard crate in 
Northern markets. Prices declined 
through May. Under liberal supplies 
shipments have been about twice as heavy 
as last year. Onions are about the only 
leading product showing any such price 
decline compared with last season. Aver- 
prices probably have shown a profit 
to J exas growers because of the heavy 
yield, some reporting as high as 800 
orates per acre. Such heavy yields are 
possible with the large varieties under 
irrigation. 
FRUIT OUTLOOK STILL GOOD 
Apple prices are holding up wonder¬ 
fully, owing to the cool weather and the 
generally good demand. There is still a 
large stock in .storage, but holders are 
not much worried when barreled stock is 
selling at $10 to $12 for best standard 
grades and varieties, and Western box 
apples at $4 to $5. Growers are inter¬ 
ested in the market chiefly as forecasting 
the probability of continued good demand 
for fruits. Apparently it will be a year 
of heavy production, notwithstanding con¬ 
siderable frost damage here and there, the 
injury being especially severe in the 
Southwest. The lateness of the bloom 
has protected the crop thus far. but the 
set is by no means safe if the weather 
continues unseasonably cold. 
The strawberry shipping season now 
extends north to Maryland and west to 
Southern Illinois. About half the com¬ 
mercial crop is in the 15 States shipping. 
So far the movement is about 20 per cent 
short of last season to corresponding date, 
particularly because the season is late 
this year. The price, ranging from 20 to 
40 cents, quart basis, is little lower than 
last year. g. b. f. 
Local Up-State Prices 
JOHNSON CITY AND ENDICOTT, PURLIC 
MARKET 
Reef, per lb., 12 to 35c; pork. lb.. 18 
to 25c ; pigs, each, $5 to $6 ; ham. lb.. 40c; 
bacon, lb.. 25c; veal, lb.. IS to 40c; rab¬ 
bits. dressed, lb.. 30c; chickens, live, lb., 
36c; dressed. 42c: ducks, dressed, lb., 
40c; fowls, live, 35c; dressed, 42c; tur¬ 
keys. live. 45c; dressed. 50c. 
Butter, lb., 67c; milk, qt., 9c; cream, 
qt., 80c; buttermilk, qt.. 5c; cottage 
cheese, lb., 10c; eggs, 4Sc; duck eggs. 60c. 
Apples, bu.. $1.50 to $2.50: asparagus, 
V-i lb., 15c; beets, bu., $1.25; beans, lb., 
10c; carrots, bu., $1.15; cabbage, lb., 10c: 
cornmeal. lb., 5c; dandelion greens, peck, 
40c; green _onions. 3 bunches, 25c; onions, 
per peck. 75c; lettuce. 3 bunches. 25c; po¬ 
tatoes, per peck. 95c: pickles, per doz., 
20c: radishes, 3 bunches, 25c; rhubarb, 
per lb., 10c; spinach, per peck, 50c; tur¬ 
nips. per bu.. 90c to $1. 
Vinegar, gal.. 40c; maple syrup, gal., 
$3 ; honey, lb.. 33c. 
ROCHESTER. LOCAL WHOLESALE 
Wheat, white Winter. $2.95 to $3; 
corn, shelled, $2.15 to $2.20; oats, white, 
bu., carloads. $1.21 to $1.22; rve, bu., 
$2.10 to $2.16. 
Hay, $26 to $32, according to quality. 
Dressed beef, carcass, lb.. 16 to 22c; 
forequarters. 14 to 18c: hindquarters, IS 
to 24c; dressed hogs, light, lb., 22c ; heavy, 
IS to 20c; Spring lamb, lb., 36 to 38c ; 
yearling lambs, lb.. 34 to 36c; mutton, 16 
to 23c; veal, lb., 22 to 25c. 
Seeds, retail, large clover, bu.. $40: 
medium clover. $35; Timorhv. $7 to 
$7.50; Alsike, $35 to $3S; Alfalfa. $27 
to $28. 
^Eggs. 50 to 55c: live fowls, lb.. 33 to 
35c; live broilers, 35 to 37c; live ducks, 
lb., 35 to 36c; live geese, 18 to 20c; live 
turkeys, 40 to 45c. 
Beans, medium, handpicked, per 100 
lbs., $5.50; white marrow. $9; red mar¬ 
row. $10; rod and white kidney, $13; pea, 
$5 : yellow eye. $7.50. 
Hides, No. 1, steers. 18c; No. 2, 17c; 
No. 1, cows and heifers, lSe; No. 2, cows 
and heifers, 17c; bulls and stags, 15c; 
horse hides, each, $9 to $10; sheep skins, 
each, $2 to $3; calf. No. 1. 3Sc; No. 2. 
36c; No. 1. calf, over 14 lbs., 25c; No. 2, 
calf, over 14 lbs., 23c; wool, unwashed, 
medium, 40 to 45c; fine fleeced, 50 to 55c. 
SYRACUSE PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, prime, sides, 14c; medium, sides, 
lb.. 11c; lambs, lb., 26c; live pigs, each, 
$5.50 to $6; pork, lb., 21c; veal, lb- 
prime. 22c : common, lb.. 18c. 
Ducks, live, lb.. 45c; dressed, 50c; 
geese, live, lb., 45c; dressed. 55c; fowls, 
live, lb., 40 to 50e; dressed, lb., 55 to 
65c; rabbits, ilve, $1; dressed, lb.. 40c. 
Butter, lb., 70c; eggs. 50 to 55c; whole¬ 
sale. 48c; duck eggs, 65c. 
Alfalfa, extra, ton. $40: hav. No. 1. 
$40: No. 2. $34 to $38; No. 3. $26 to 
$34; Timothy, ton, $40: straw, rve, ton, 
$18; oat, $20. 
Apples, bu., $4: asparagus, dozen 
bunches. $1.25; beaus, bu., $7.50: per qt., 
25c; beets, bu., $1.25; cabbage plants, 
doz., 20c; lettuce, per bunch. 7c; onions, 
green, doz. bunches, 40c: dry. per bu.. 
$4.50: parsley, doz. bunches. 60c; pota¬ 
toes, bu., $4.25 to $4.50: popcorn, bu., $2; 
radishes, doz. bunches, 60c: rhubarb, doz. 
bunches, 50c; spinach, bu., $1. 
Buffalo Markets 
The situation is optimistic. Weather 
conditions favor rapid growth, only the 
old crop is often short. This enables 
farmers to sell potatoes for $5 or more 
off their wagons, but decline is the word 
with green crops like asparagus, celery 
and lettuce. Butter is also off. Orchard- 
ists say there will be much loss on the 
peach and apple crop for lack of people 
to gather the abundance of them. Quo¬ 
tations ; 
BUTTER—CHEESE—EGGS 
Rutter, lower. Creamery, 56 to 62c; 
dairy, 53 to 58c; crocks. 50 to 57c; com¬ 
mon. 3S to 42c. Cheese, dull. Flats, 30 
to 31c; longhorns. 33 to 34c; Swiss, 45 
to 60c. Eggs, strong. Hennery, 47 to 
50c; State and Western, 46 to 48c. 
POULTRY 
Poultry, weak; dressed turkey, 54 to 
58c; fowl, 32 to 43c; chickens, 34 to 43c; 
broilers. 50 to 60c; old roosters, 27 to 
29c; ducks, 38 to 40c; geese, 30 to 33c. 
Live poultry, light supply; fowl, 36 to 
38c; old roosters, 25 to 26c; ducks, 40 to 
45c; geese, 22 to 27c. 
APPLES—POTATOES 
Apples, quiet; red and green, bu., $3.75 
to $4.50; common. $1.75 to $2; named 
sorts, box, $4 to $4.75; Baldwin, bbl., $10 
to $11. Potatoes, better supply; bu., 
$3.25 to $5.50; Florida, new. bbl., $14 to 
$17; sweet, bu., $3.50 to $3.75. 
BEANS—ONIONS 
Beans, firm; kidney, cwt., $12 to $14; 
marrow, $11 to $12; pea and medium, 
$S.25 to $8.75. Onions, steady; home¬ 
grown, bu., $5.25 to $5.50; Texas, crate, 
$2.25 to $3; yellow, crate, $7.75 to $8.25. 
FANCY AND SOUTHERN FRUITS 
Strawberries, firmer; 24-qt. crate, $7.75 
to $8. Oranges, dull; box, $6 to $10. 
Lemons. $4.50 to $5.75. Grapefruit. $4.50 
to $6. Bananas, firm ; crate, $5.75 to $10. 
Pineapples, easy; box, $5.75 to $8. 
Vegetables 
Vegetables mostly easy; asparagus, 10- 
lb. basket, $1.25 to $2; beans, green and 
wax, hamper, $2.50 to $3.25; cucumbers, 
$3.25 to $3.75; carrots, bu., $2 to $3; 
spinach. 50 to 75c; rutabagas. $1.75 to 
$2 ^cabbage, cwt., $4 to $5; celery, bunch, 
81.50 to $1.75; lettuce, 2-doz. box, $1.50 
to $2; peppers, box, $7 to $9; tomatoes, 
$3.50 to $5. 
SWEETS 
Honey, quiet; light, lb.. 38 to 40c; 
dark, 30 to 32c; maple sugar, lb., 30 to 
38c; syrup, gal., $2,50 to $2.75. 
Feed 
Hay, steady; Timothy, baled. $38 to 
840; clover mixed, $36 to $38; wheat 
bran_, ton. car lots. $60.50; middlings, 
$63.50 : red dog. $70.50; cottonseed meal, 
$72; oilmeal, $65; hominy, $74; oat feed, 
$45; rye middlings. $62. j. w. c. 
Boston Wholesale Markets 
BUTTER 
Fancy Northern creamery, tubs, 64 to 
64V>e; boxes, 66 to 6614c; prints, 66 to 
67c; fancy Western creamery, tubs. 6314 
to 64c; Western creamery, good to choice - , 
02 to 63c; fair to good. 60 to 61c. 
Eggs 
Fancy hennery, 61 to 62c; choice 
Eastern. 50 to 57c: extras. 55 to 56c; 
prime firsts, 52 to 53c; firsts, 50 to 54c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Fowls, native, 45 to 46c; broilers, 75 
to 80c; Western ice packed, 33 to 4Sc; 
native squabs. $6 to $S doz.; pigeons, 
$3.50 to $4 doz. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls, 40 to 42c; stags, 28 to 30c; 
broilers, 65 to 67c; roosters, 26 to 2Sc. 
BEANS 
New York and Michigan pea. $8.50 to 
$9; white California. $8.50 to $9 ; green 
peas. $8.50 to $9 : Japanese peas. $9 to 
$10; dried Limas. $13 to $13.50; yellow 
eyes. $12 to $12.50; red kidney, $15.50 
to $16. 
POTATOES 
Old stock, 100 lbs.. $7.25 to $7.50; new, 
bbl.. $13 to $15; sweet potatoes, bbl., $6 
to $7. 
FRUITS 
Apples, general prices. $2 to $4 bu.; 
Baldwin. $2.50 to $4 bu.; all kinds. $5 
to $10 bbk: Western, box. $3.50 to $5; 
bananas, 7U» to 8c lb. ; strawberries. 35 
to 45c qt. ; oranges, new Florida, $9.50 to 
$11 crate; California navels. $7 to $8 
crate; grapefruit, $7.60 to $8.50 box. 
Vegetables 
Asparagus, $4 to $6.50 box; $3 to $4 
doz. bunches: green and wax beaus. $1.50 
to $2.50 bskt.; beets. $2 to $2,50 bu.; 
new, bunch. $1.50 to $1.75 doz.; cabbage, 
$3 to $4.50 bbl.; $3 to $4 crate (includ¬ 
ing Alabama) : carrots, cutoffs, $4 to $5 
bu.; celery, $2.75 to $3 doz. bunches; 
cucumbers, $5 to $8.50 box: onions, 
Texas Bermudas. $2.50 to $2.75 crate; 
Egyptian, $6 to $6.25 bag: peppers. $4 
to $5 crate; eggplant, $4.50 to $5.50 
crate: parsnips, $1.50 to $2 bu. : radishes, 
$2 to $2.75 box; lettuce, $2.75 to $3 box; 
Caljfornia, _$3 to $4.50 crate; romaine, 
$2.50 to $2.75 bu.; Summer squasb, $1.50 
to $3 box: tomatoes, hothouse. 40 to 50c 
lb.: Florida, crate. $6 to $7: carrier (6- 
basket). re-packs. $7 to $8.50 crate; tur¬ 
nips, yellow. $4.50 to $4.75 bag; mush¬ 
rooms, 50c to $1.50 bskt.; spinach. Bal- 
timore._$1.50 to $1.75 bskt.; rhubarb. 50c 
to $1.25 bu.; beet greens, $1 to $1.50 bu.; 
parsley. $2 to $2.50 box : green peas, $7 
to $8 bbl.; garlic, 20 to 28c lb. 
New York Wholesale Quotations 
NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1920 
MILK PRICES 
The price for June is $2.83 per 100 lbs. 
for 3 per cent milk at points 200 to 210 
miles from the city, with 4e per 100 
additional for every tenth of 1 per cent 
butterfat over 3. 
BUTTER 
Market is weak and mainly 2e lower, 
because of larger receipts and inferior 
quality of some of the current make.’ As 
is usual at this season onion flavor is in 
butter made from sections where the pas¬ 
tures are infested with that weed. The 
wild onion grows faster than the grass 
in early Spring, and naturally cows eat a 
lot of it. 
Creamery, fancy lb. 60 @ 601 i 
Good to Choice . 57 @ 59 ' 
Lower Grades. 48 a 52 
Storage, best. 57 @ 58 
Fair to good. 51 @ 5 s 
City made. <o @ 46 
Dairy, best . 58 @ 59 
Common to good . 46 @ 57 
Packing Stock. 37 @ 42 
CHEESE 
Whole Milk, fancy, new make. 28 © 29 
Good to choice. 26 @ 27 
Skims, best. 19 @ 20 
Fair to good. n @ 15 
EGGS 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 52 a 53 
Medium to good. 45 a 51 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 48 a 49 
Common to good. 44 a 47 
Gathered, best, white. 50 a 52 
Medium to good, mixed colors ... 44 a 47 
Lower graces. 37 a 42 
LIVE POULTRY 
Broilers and Spring ducks are in large 
supply, but demand good. Sales are re¬ 
ported at: Fowls, 40c; broilers, 70 to 
80c; roosters, 25c; Spring ducks, 40c; 
geese, 22c. 
LIVE STOCK. 
Steers . 
ai3 10 
a 9 00 
aio 00 
Bulls . 
Cows. 
. 4 OO 
Calves, prime veal,100 lbs.... 
Culls. 
.14 00 
@16 50 
@11 00 
@16 00 
ET Off 8 
.15 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs ... 
. 7 00 
a 9 50 
Lambs . . 
@20 00 
DRESSED POULTRY. 
Chickens choice lb. 
Fair to Good. 
Fowls. 33 
Capons. 52 
Roosters. 28 
Geese. 
Squabs, doz. 
. 3 00 
COUNTRY DRESSED 
MEAT. 
Calves, best. 
Coni, to good.. 
.... 15 
Lambs, hot house, each. 
.... 1000 
3EAN8. 
Marrow, 100 lb*. ..n 00 
..... 8 00 
Medium .. . j oo 
Bed Kidney. ,""l 5 00 
White Kidney .. 15 oo 
Yellow Eye. 10 50 
Lima, California.n 75 
@ 56 
@ 50 
a 42 
@ 57 
a 29 
@ 34 
@ 31 
a 9 00 
@ 23 
a 20 
@14 00 
ai 2 00 
a 8 25 
a 8 25 
a 15 50 
a 15 50 
@10 75 
ai 2 00 
FRUITS, 
Apples, Ben Davis. 
Albemarle. 
Winesap, box.. 
Newtown, box. 
Oranges, box . 
Lemons, box . 
Grape Fruit. 
Strawberries, qt. 
5 00 
9 00 
3 00 
2 50 
3 00 
2 00 
4 50 
20 
@ 9 00 
@14 50 
a 5 25 
a 4 25 
@11 50 
@ 4 00 
a 8 50 
® 40 
ore increasing, 
on best. Old 
much change. 
POTATOES 
Supplies of new stock 
and prices lower, except 
potatoes remain without__ 
though the market is weaker, as so many 
are using new, which are only a little 
higher. 
Old. 180 lbs. 11 50 ai2 50 
Southern new bbl. 3 00 @15 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. bkt. 2 00 a 4 50 
VEGETABLES 
Cabbage, lettuce and other salad crops 
are in greatly increased supply and much 
lower. 
Asparagus doz. bunches. 
Beets. 100 bunches. 
@ 6 00 
a s 00 
Carrots, bbl. 
Cabbage—New, bu. bk. 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 
Onions, new. bu. 
Squash, new.bu. 
Egg Plants, bu. 
. 75 
. 50 
. 150 
a 150 
a 2 00 
a 2 25 
0 3 00 
a 3 50 
a 4 25 
@ 7 00 
@ 75 
@ 3 25 
Turnips, rutabaga, bbl. 
Tomatoes. 6-bkt. crate. 
Radishes, bbl. bkt. 
String Beans, bu. bkt. 
Peppers, bu. 
.3 00 
.2 00 
. 25 
. 1 00 
Romaine, bu. 
Mushrooms, ib.’ 
Spinach, bbl. 
Kale, bbl. 
Garlic, lb.’. 
Peas, bu. 
. 1 00 
30 
. 50 
. 1 00 
.. . 15 
@ 2 00 
@ 50 
0 1 50 
@ 2 00 
@ 20 
Parsley, bbl. 
Parsnips, bbl. 
@3 00 
HAY AND STRAW 
Heavy shipments of hay have reached 
this market, and prices are $10 per ton 
lower on most grades. 
Hay. Timothy, No. 1. ton 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Shipping. 
Straw, Uye. 
44 00 a45 00 
.40 00 a43 00 
17 00 @40 00 
.34 00 a36 00 
.18 00 @20 00 
Butter, best. lb.... 
Good to choice.. 
Eggs, nearby, doz.. 
Gathered ...... 
Potatoes, lb. 
Onions, lb. 
Lettuce, head 
Apples, doz... 
Fowls, lb. 
Bacon, lb. 
Lamb chops, lb... 
Rib roast, lb,, 
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