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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 31, 1920 
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Crops and Farm Notes 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
SLUMP IN POTATOES AND MELONS. MOST 
LINES WEAK BECAUSE OF 
HEAVY SUPPLIES 
Supplies of fruit, anti truck this season 
have been 10 to 15 per cent heavier than 
last. Shipments are still coming at heavy 
volume, leading fruits and vegetables fill¬ 
ing over 2,000 cars per day. A year ago the 
daily average was several hundred cars 
less. For the entire year the average is 
not far from 1,500 cars. At times in Winter 
shipments fall below 1.000 cars daily, 
while at greatest activity in October 
shipments reach 3,000 cars per day. 
These are for leading fruits and vege¬ 
tables only. Less important produce, in¬ 
cluding dried fruits and vegetables would 
increase the total volume nearly one- 
half. The nearby produce marketed by 
wagons and- trucks and in smaller lots 
would about double the total, so that the 
actual amount of fruits and vegetables 
marketed is equivalent to about 4.000 
cars per day—worth, at wholesale, at 
least $1,000 per car, or $4,000,000 gross 
return coming each day to shippers of 
fruits and vegetables. 
POTATOES MUCH LOWER 
New potatoes are starting from as 
far northward as the light land districts 
of Minnesota, and these Minnesota Early 
Ohios have been selling at $5 per cwt. at 
shipping stations, or close to $2,000 per 
car. However, the price of potatoes is 
coming down, because of the increasing 
supply from all sections. The “Eastern 
Shore” region with New Jersey is supply¬ 
ing the eastern markets for the most 
part. New Jersey early varieties sell at 
$4.50 to $4.75 per cwt in New York, be¬ 
ing too green and poorly graded as yet to 
equal the price of the best Southern 
stock. A well known brand of Maryland 
Eastern Shore potatoes enjoys a market 
reputation that has brought top prices 
for the stock for many years. Peddlers 
know that the barrel will net full measure 
with no culls and they will pay the dealer 
more, rather than take a chance with un¬ 
known packs that must be looked over 
and which will perhaps shrink a peck or 
so when sorted and measured. The dif¬ 
ference between such packs and this well 
known brand is quite a profit in itself, 
and the growers get the benefit, because 
the stock is packed by a large growers’ 
association. A packer of any line cf 
produce without an established standard 
and a market reputation is at a consid¬ 
erable disadvantage. The general potato 
market began to break about the middle 
of Julj-, starting in the East and moving 
westward. Within a week the average 
price had fallen 25 per cent, reaching a 
level of $8 to $12 per barrel for the best 
stock at wholesale in the large cities. 
OTHER LINES DECLINE ALSO 
Tomatoes and melons are lower. Ship¬ 
ments of close to (5,000 care of water¬ 
melons the third week of July, probably is 
a record breaking movement in that line 
and is seldom equalled in a week, even by 
potatoes at the height of the harvest 
season. Melon prices have declined rap¬ 
idly and are less than half the high level 
prevailing early in July. Contrary to 
the general impression among consumers, 
wholesale prices of fruits and vegetables 
are not now higher than last year. Po¬ 
tatoes are an important exception, being 
nearly twice as high as a year ago. Onions 
bring only one-half to one-third the price 
a year ago. Peaches and cantaloupes do 
not vary much from last year’s average 
level, some cities quote higher end some 
lower. 
FRUIT STILL WORTH WHILE 
Apples of fancy grade are opening the 
season at rather high prices, exceeding 
$4 per bushel in some markets, but in¬ 
ferior stock is cheap and abundant. Fruit 
prices seem to be sagging off a little under 
the promise of heavy crops, but fruit is 
still worth marketing. Sour cherries ore 
bringing 15 to 20 cents per quart in sev¬ 
eral large markets. There appears little 
basis for newspaper stories to the effect 
that growers are letting them rot on the 
trees. That would be very unlikely in a 
commercial orchard unless the weather 
was very unfavorable or the trees un¬ 
usually old and hard to pick. To get 
pickers enough may require considerable 
enterprise on the part of large growers, 
but the increasing and heavy carlot ship¬ 
ments show that most of the fruit is be¬ 
ing cleared up somehow. o. B. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—A 14-year-old girl was 
killed and 50 persons were injured iu 
automobile accidents at Chicago July 15 
resulting from congestion caused by an 
unexpected strike of 15)2 street car elec¬ 
tricians which seriously hampered surface 
ear lines. The girl was killed when a 
motor truck carrying 40 persons to work 
crashed into a telegraph pole. About half 
of the 32 power houses were closed, but 
the others were running with non-union 
wen. 
Milton Woodman, 19. was killed and 
Irving Atwood, who was riding with him 
1 on a load of hay, was knocked down and 
paralyzed in one arm and leg by light¬ 
ning at Haverhill, Mass., July 15. The 
hay caught fire, and Atwood, unable to 
move, called for help. Walter Canney, a 
farm hand who had been knocked down 
while working in a field nearby, rescued 
him. 
A life jacket, silent remembrance of the 
tragic sinking of the Lusitania five years 
ago. and bearing a faded strand of 
woman’s blonde hair, was picked up July 
14 in the Delaware River. The name of 
the ship still remained clear and distinct 
on the wave-beaten canvas, which has 
been adrift on the seas throughout three 
years of war and two of peace. The 
jacket, was covered with seaweed, -with 
one arm strap broken. On one side were 
the words “Life Belt” and on the other 
in large black letters the inscription 
Lusitania.” 
Ellis LorenY. a steamship fireman, was 
arrested July 21 in his room in a rooming 
house at No. 18 Catharine Slip. New 
York, by Detectives Reilly, Josephus and 
Morrissey, charged with having narcotics 
in his possession. He was locked up at 
Police Headquarters. Detectives found in 
his room morphine to the value of 
JpoUjUUO. 
July 19 lightning struck two large 
tanks containing thousands of barrels of 
crude and light oil at the plant of the 
United States Asphalt Refining Company 
U agner’s Point, south of Baltimore, Mil. 
Two blocks of two-story houses, the 
homes of workmen, were burned, and the 
fire spread to the Texas Oil Company’s 
property. Hundreds of families, residents 
of Fairfield and Wagner’s Point, moved 
all their household belongings to the 
streets. The aggregate losses to the coni 
pames are estimated at $700,000. 
An American giving his name as Leslie 
'' bite Burdick, formerly connected with 
a hank in Gouverneur. N. Y., was ar¬ 
rested at London. England, July 10, on 
an extradition warrant charging embezzle¬ 
ment and fraud. Burdick, formerly of 
Gouverneur, N. Y., was formerly presi¬ 
dent of the First National Bank ‘of Gou- 
vernour and secretary-treasurer of the 
Aurora Milk Company of Canton, N. Y. 
1 he Aurora company went into bank¬ 
ruptcy about three, years ago. It is un¬ 
derstood that five indictments have been 
found against him, four charging embez¬ 
zlement in connection with the Aurora 
company failure and one for some trans¬ 
action in New Jersey. All are Federal 
court indictments. 
' One woman was injured by jumping 
from a second-story window and many 
other guests of the Lake Placid Inn had 
thrilling escapes during a fire that de¬ 
stroyed the hotel at Lake Placid, N. Y.. 
July IS. Repairs to the third story of 
the inn, which was destroyed by fire on 
June 4. were nearing completion. This 
second blaze started in the bakerv. The 
loss is estimated at $75,000. 
The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, as 
represented by its directors, was bound 
over for trial on a charge of profiteering 
in sugar, July 19, by United States Com¬ 
missioner Van Pelt, at Salt Lake City. 
The president of the company is Ileber J. 
Grant, president of the Church of Jesus 
Christ of Latter Day Saints. The pre¬ 
siding bishop of the church, Charles W. 
Nibley. is the principal stockholder. It 
was charged that the company sold for 
more than 23 cents a pound sugar whose 
production cost yvas less than 9*4 cents. 
A spectacular fire that sent huge bil¬ 
lows of smoke rolling across the Hudson 
River, and over the apartment houses of 
Washington Heights, New York, destroyed 
July 1(5 part of the plant, of the Midland 
Linseed Oil Company at Edgewater and 
River roads, Edgewater, N. J., across the 
river from 129th Street. The fire was 
brought under control after almost two 
hours of hard work by the fire depart¬ 
ments of Edgewater, North Bergen. Cliff- 
side and several other New Jersey towns. 
Loss was $100,000. 
Four severe earthquakes at Los An¬ 
geles July 16 threw the city and its 
suburbs into excitement, indirectly caused 
a number of injuries to men, women and 
children and slightly damaged several 
buildings, chiefly old ones, but none to a 
great extent. While the shocks seemed to 
center in Los Angeles, some were felt 
more than 30 miles away, but no material 
damage was reported. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The New 
ork Central Railroad was named de- 
ndant in four suits filed by attorneys in 
nited States District Court at Pitts- 
irg. Pa., July 14, for alleged violation 
the law pertaining to the transporta- 
on of cattle. The Government seeks to 
cover a total of $34,500 from the road, 
he suite charge 67 violations of the law, 
hioh prohibits the moving of cattle in 
irs for more than 36 hours without mi¬ 
nding for rest, water and feed. The 
leged violations occurred, according to 
ie suits, on shipments of cattle out of 
'The New England Fruit Show will be 
4d in Foot Guard Hall. Hartford, Conn., 
ovember 5-9. . 
The Bi-State Guernsey meeting will be 
aid at Glens Falls, N. Y., August 7. 
times H. Seaman, proprietor of Minur 
in Farm, has invited the Guernsey 
reeders of New York State and Vei- 
lont to a meeting at his farm, Gfen 
alls, on the above date. A splendid 
rogram has been prepared and all " 
ave a good time. 
