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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Crops and Farm News 
Country-wide Produce Situation 
LIGHTER SHIPMENTS BRING ROME PRICE 
RECOVERIES, BUT MOST MARKETS 
ARE LIBERALLY SUPPLIED 
The extremely low prices reached for 
various farm products have begun to 
bring, about their own correction to a 
certain extent. Net returns to growers 
became so low in some sections that it 
no longer seemed worth while to gather 
and-load the produce on cars, and ship¬ 
ments accordingly fell off sharply, thus 
reducing the oversupplies in the big mar¬ 
kets. Prices have shown a tendency to 
recover considerably for potatoes and 
cabbages. Onions have not shown much 
change lately, but storage buyers seem to 
be taking hold more extensively. 
MORE PRODUCED, BUT LESS SHIPPED 
Beneath the low prices the underlying 
cause of the lighter shipments lately is 
found in the heavy local supplies nearly 
everywhere, which kept the markets so 
full of produce that there was less than 
the usual demand for shipments from dis¬ 
tant sections. Thus, notwithstanding the 
large crop, the carlot shipments for 
August, .September and early October 
have been lighter than last season. This 
somewhat contradictory state of affairs 
is regarded as due directly to the lower 
prices and indirectly to the heavy local 
supplies. The shipments of potatoes, 
for instance, in September last year were 
at the rate of over 5.000 cars a week. 
This year, with a crop about one-sixth 
larger, the September shipments were 
less than 4,000 cars per week, because 
the markets were full of nearby potatoes 
and distant supplies could not be used 
at prices high enough to attract them. 
For similar reasons cabbage shipments 
fell off one-third despite the fine crop. 
About the same is true in some degree 
for onions, apples, grapes and miscel¬ 
laneous produce. However, the move¬ 
ment was heavy for peaches, pears, plums 
and melons. 
Total shipments of leading lines of 
fruits and vegetables were 7 or 8 per 
cent less the past month and likewise less 
than in August last season, while up to 
the July slump in prices the shipments 
had been much heavier than for the cor¬ 
responding time a year ago. It is plain 
that the reduced shipments since July 
have been a result of the low prices 
which began in that month and which 
discouraged producers for marketing their 
crop in distant sections. Various re¬ 
ports mentioned considerable produce 
either held back or going to waste or, 
whenever possible, being fed to live stock. 
It is one of those seasons when it seems 
to the producer that the more he raises 
the less money he gets for it. The nearby 
grower has some advantage, being able 
to make use of temporary recoveries in 
prices and being subject to less expense 
in marketing. 
RECOVERY IN POTATO MARKET 
Potato prices have averaged about 25c 
recovery from the low point late in Sep¬ 
tember. The cause for improvement 
seems to be found in the tendency of 
shippers to withhold the Stock at the 
lowest prices. The general range at 
shipping point is $1.30-2 per 100 lbs., 
while city markets quote $2-2.85. Cur¬ 
rent shipments are only at the rate of 
three-fourths the volume for the cor¬ 
responding time a year ago. 
BUYING APPLES SLOWLY 
Apple buying is becoming fairly active 
in the producing sections. Prices have 
followed fairly close to the range < of 
early sales. Winter varieties bringing 
$3.40-4.50 per bbl. in Southeastern New 
York and $3.25-5.50 in Virginia, West 
Virginia, and Pennsylvania producing 
sections. It is evident that a great deal 
of the crop in the Northeast will be sold 
in bulk, and bulk prices will be low. 
ranging now $1-1.25 per 100 lbs. for or¬ 
chard run stock. Prices are a little 
higher in the Middlewest. Ohio pro¬ 
ducers are trying to get $2 per 100 lbs. 
for Winter varieties. In Missouri and 
the Southwest supplies seem to be lighter 
than almost any other large section and 
fruit of choice quality brings $5-6 per 
bbl. Northwestern apple growers are 
getting $2-3 per box for best grades, ac¬ 
cording to variety. 
Onion prices show a general range 
East and West of $1.10-1.40 per 100 lbs., 
averaging perhaps about $1.25 for good 
stock in producing sections, while city 
prices for good stock average not far 
from $1.50 per 100 lbs. On account of 
the low prices there i<s a tendency to use 
the common burlap or grass fibre sacks 
rather than the patent kinds which have 
been popular in recent years. 
Sweet potatoes have shown recovery in 
some markets, but still average low at 
around $4 per bbl. Peaches continue to 
sell at firm prices around $2 per basket. 
Shipments were heavy and. no doubt, 
would have been much heavier but for the 
shortage of empty cars in the producing 
sections. 
This car shortage is. no doubt, partly 
responsible for the falling off in ship¬ 
ments of most kinds of produce. The ex¬ 
tremely perishable kinds naturally had 
the preference, while such lines as po¬ 
tatoes and onions had to wait G. B. F. 
Tin's is chiefly a dairy country, and 
most of the milk i<s sold to ^he Mohawk 
Condens’ery at league prices. The con¬ 
tracts expired October 1, and the milk 
producers were notified that the milk 
will not be accepted after September. I 
understand that an offer has been made 
to take the milk and separate it and make 
it into butter, and pay the producers 
what is coining to them after taking out 
expenses. The condensery is now sep¬ 
arating the milk, and I am told, although 
I have not verified it, that the skim-milk 
is offered at $1 per can. Not being sold 
at that, pidce, it is dumped on the fields. 
The milk producers are having meetings 
to discuss the question, but no definite 
conclusion has yet been reached. At a 
recent auction cows were sold for $55 
which would ordinarily bring $125. 
Fifty-five dollars was the highest sum 
offered. Hay was sold out of the field 
and delivered at $25 per ton. It brought 
$18 to $20 cut and raked in the field. 
Apples are grown to some extent here, 
nnd the apple growers are discouraged. 
No buyers have appeared and no prices 
have been quoted for good fruit. A large 
cider and vinegar factory has just been 
completed here, and a price of 50 cents 
per 100 lbs. is offered for cider apples. 
Some apple growers figure that it will 
cost at least $3 per barrel to pick apples, 
buy barrels, pay freight and storage, and 
doubt that the price in the Winter will 
warrant this oulay. We are in the edge of 
the grape belt, but grapes here ripen two 
weeks later than along the lake shore. 
Early grapes in 20-lb. baskets are bring¬ 
ing $110 per ton. The Concord harvest 
will begin in about one week, and good 
prices are expected from the manufac¬ 
turers of grape juice and wine. Pota¬ 
toes are rotting badly, and have little sale 
at $1 per bushel. The Chautauqua sea¬ 
son closed three weeks ago, and there 
is no local market for garden crops. Hay 
was not a large crop in this section, and 
some of it was late harvested on account 
of shortage of help. Corn has not been a 
heavy crop. Right in this section it has 
escaped frost, but on a recent trip by 
auto south of here and into the edge of 
Pennsylvania I saw many cornfields 
which showed the effects of early frost. 
I also saw many new silos being erected. 
Potatoes would be considered a good crop 
if they were not rotting so badly. Apples 
are a good crop. This is not a peach 
country, but what peach trees there are 
here are bearing well. Peaches are 
grown to some extent along- the lake 
shore, and are being sold in the orchards 
at $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel. Advertise¬ 
ments in papers 25 miles away indicate 
that they are sold in the stores at the 
low price of $2.95 per bushel. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. o. L. M. 
Milk, $3 per cwt.; wheat, $2.40 per 
bu.; oats, 80c per bu.; corn, $1.70 per 
bu.; rye, $1.75 per bu.; buckwheat, $2 
per bu.; sweet cider, 30c per gal.; ap- 
pres, $1 to $1.50 per bu.; pears, $1 per 
bu.; peaches, $1.25 per basket; grapes, 
$1 per basket; potatoes, $1.20 per bu., 
no demand; eggs, 60c per doz.; butter, 
60c per lb. The quality of everything 
is good and plentiful. Potatoes rotting 
badly. Prices on potatoes and grains are 
dropping, and the outlook not very en¬ 
couraging. Milk was $3.30 in August, 
but dropped 30c for September. 
Lebanon Co., Pa. n. b. 
September has been varied in its 
weather. The forepart was cold and dry, 
then came a fine rain, which was duly 
appreciated by the farmer in fitting the 
wheat ground. Wheat was not sown as 
early as usual, on account of fear of the 
fly. The authorities at Cornell advised 
late sowing. Fertilizers have been very 
high, and with high price of labor makes 
wheat-growing expensive. At present the 
market here is fluctuating. Not much do¬ 
ing in hay. Alfalfa made a larger third 
than it did for a second growth. Apples 
are a large crop, and selling very cheap. 
The pickers are making more than the 
growers, getting from $5 to $12 per 
lucking at 10c per bu. Cabbage hi 
heavy crop, and a drug on the market 
selling at present at $3 per ton for kraut 
Our county fair had a poor show of .ij 
kinds of livestock, but the fruit, flowers 
and vegetables were fine. e t ,, 
Ontario Co.,.N. Y. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
ocS““Tio D " irs ' show ’ CWca *°- Hi. 
Farmers’ Week, Morrisville Aerienl 
tural School, Morrisville, N. Y., October 
Ixmisiana State Fair and National Jer¬ 
sey Cattle Show, Shreveport, La., Octo¬ 
ber 28-November 7. 
New England Fruit Show, Hartford 
Conn., November 5-9. 
National Grange, Boston, Mass No¬ 
vember 8-13. 
Maryland Agricultural Society, annual 
meeting, .Salisbury, Md., November 9-11 
National Grange, annual convention 
Boston, Mass., November 10-19. 
American Royal Live Stock Show 
Kansas City, Mo., November 13-20. 
Tenth Indiana Apple Show, Women’s 
Building, State Fair Grounds, Indian¬ 
apolis, November 15-20. 
Dutchess County j N. Y., Poultry ami 
Pet Stock Association, Poughkeepsie \ 
Y., November 17-20. ‘ ’ ' 
Ohio Apple Show and American Porno- 
logical Society, Columbus, O., December 
International Live Stock Exposition 
Chicago, Ill., November 27-December 4. 
Seventh Annual Farmers’ Exposition 
Toledo, ()., December 2-10. 
National Western Stock Show. Denver 
Colo., January 22-29. 
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