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‘P* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November C>, 1020 
Country-wide Produce Situation 
HOUND "UP OF TRUCK CROPS SHOWS BIG 
SURPLUS—SHIPMENTS CONTINUE 
HEAVY AND MARKETS WEAK 
The latest, crop reports 'show increases 
rather than losses in probable supplies of 
the leading lines of produce. Apples, 
potatoes, onions and cabbage all line up 
the last of October with yields even 
heavier than the early estimates. Usu¬ 
ally something happens toward the end 
of the season to reduce the actual out¬ 
turn, but. not so this season. 
WHY CABBAGE IS LOW 
Gabbago will more than double the com¬ 
mercial cron of last, season. The various 
shipping seasons range from nine tons 
per acre in Wisconsin to 14 tons in 
Colorado, where irrigation is practiced, 
and average, in principal cabbage sec¬ 
tions. over 11 tons. The total is fully 
double that of last season and 10,000 to 
12.000 oars greater than the crops of 
1918 and 1917. No wonder prices at. 
country shipping points are only $5 to 
$15 per ton, bulk, according to variety 
and section, compared with $10 to $40 a 
year ago. Prices have tended downward 
most of the time this season, and are 
about as low at shipping points as can 
be without diverting the crop to stock 
feeding. As if. is, fewer cars of Northern 
cabbage have been shipped than in the 
corresponding period of last season. Mar¬ 
kets have been supplied largely from the 
abundant nearby crops. The only pros¬ 
pect of much improvement seems to be 
the fact that some of the earlier domestic 
stock will soon be too mature for ship¬ 
ment. 
SLOW ONION MARKETS 
Onions are dragging weakly at $1.10 
to $1.40 per 100 pounds in the country 
and $1.25 to $1.75 in the cities for best 
stock, although a considerable part of 
the shipments sell at lower prices, down 
to $1, owing to poorer condition and 
grade. The commercial crop reaches 
nearly 400 bushels per acre*, according to 
the official October report. Growers are 
getting 50 to 75 cents per bushel, mostly 
nearer the lower figure. The crop is 00 
per cent larger than the light crop of last 
season, but will make little money for 
growers, on account of high costs, with 
prices for the product only one-third 
those of the corresponding time a year 
ago. There is talk of a campaign to in¬ 
crease the demand, and it is much needed." 
If provision dealers can be induced to 
get the price down to about two cents 
per pound for onions and cabbage and 25 
cents a peck for apples, using these 
abundant crops as leaders, the situation 
would be different. Producers, finding a 
brisk market, even though prices are low. 
would be encouraged to plant as usual 
next year. As it is, the Southern onion 
growers seem disposed to cut acreage 25 
to 50 per cent. 
POTATOES DOING A LITTLE BETTER 
Evidently potatoes have passed the 
height of the shipping movement, but 
they are still filling nearly 1,000 cars per 
day. Any little gain in the market brings 
along big supplies. The carlot .shipments 
of late Northern potatoes, that is, the 
main crop, are actually less, so far, than 
last season, but the markets have been 
heavily supplied, owing to the abundant 
local crops. Prices show a tendency to 
recover a little from the lowest. Ship¬ 
ments and local supplies are being cleaned 
up as fast as could be expected, and the 
situation is slowly improving. Tin* longer 
the movement continues at heavy volume 
the less will be carried over during the 
Winter and less will be the danger of a 
Spring slump, such as happens in many 
years of heavy production. Growers are 
getting $1 to $1.25 per 100 pounds, and 
city markets range $1.60 to $2.25. Re¬ 
ports from shipping sections indicate 
some holding for higher prices. 
APPLES COMING FREELY 
Shipments of apples have exceeded^ 
those of potatoes lately. The season be¬ 
gan late and, so far, the shipments have 
not gone far ahead of last season. There 
are more barreled apples being shipped, 
hut not so many box apples from the i 
Northwest as last season. The markets I 
are filled with local supplies, and are 
slow and weak. Rox apples sell only a 
little lower than last season, but Eastern 
apples much lower. A range of $3 to 
$4.50 per barrel covers best grades of 
leading varieties in most city wholesale 
markets. Growers in leading producing 
sections are seldom getting much more 
than $1 per 100 pounds for orchard run 
fruit in bulk. Apples packed in bushel 
baskets sell at shipping points from 75 
cents up, and Baldwins in Western New 
York mostly $4 per barrel for 2 1 /fc-inch 
grade. Apples sold in Detroit at auction 
at $1.50 to $3 per barrel, which would 
not leave much after the cost of barrel 
and freight. G. B. F. 
$2,000,000 building he was erecting. 
Levy testified that lie paid the money to 
George Backer, a well-known builder, 
who has put up thirty large buildings in 
this city in recent years. Backer told 
him, ho said, that the money was for 
Robert P. Brindell, president of the Build¬ 
ing Trades Committee* and the labor com¬ 
mittee associated with Brindell. The 
money, Levy said, was to ‘Mix'’ the strike 
which had held up work on the building 
for two months. 
Two families were wiped out near 
Quakertown, Pa., October 22. when a 
Philadelphia-bound electric express of the 
Lehigh Valley Trans't Company crashed 
into an automobile The dead are: Mr. 
and Mrs. llardie II. 1'Vhnel, aged 33 and 
27. respectively, and daughter. Beatrice, 
aged two years, 5908 North Thirteenth 
Street, Philadelphia : Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
P. Miller. 20 and 22 years, of 2025 Chest¬ 
nut Street, Philadelphia. 
Armour & Co.. .1. Ogden Armour, its 
president ; F. Edson White, its vice-presi¬ 
dent, and four other individuals were in¬ 
dicted in New York Oct. 21 for alleged 
profiteering in New Zealand lamb to 
the extent of $277,000 not profit. 
The officials of the company are in¬ 
cluded in the indictment, because they 
are said to have fixed the selling price of 
lamb. The other individuals mentioned 
are Herbert. A. Phillips, manager of the 
dressed beef v department of Armour & 
Co., in Chicago: Arthur Van Pelt, dis¬ 
trict superintendent for New York City 
and its environs, and Charles A. Neyer 
and WiIlham A. Netsch. There are 136 
counts in the indictment, all charging 
alleged unjust rates in handling and deal¬ 
ing in New Zealand lamb. Each count 
specifies an alleged unjust sale in and 
around New York. The indictment was 
returned to Judge Julius M. Mayer in 
the United States District Court. 
The annual New York State "Conven¬ 
tion of the W. C. T. IT. closed at Syra¬ 
cuse. Oct. 26 with resolutions to stjirt 
a campaign to crystalize sentiment against 
home brew beer, cider and wine. The big 
increase in home manufacture of alcoholic 
liquors was characterized as a violation 
of the spirit of the law. 
Habeas corpus proceedings brought in 
behalf of Beiiejamiif Salmon, a conscien¬ 
tious objector -during the war, who went 
on a hunger strike while confined at a 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The investigation in 
New York by the Joint Legislative Com¬ 
mittee on Housing Oct. 21, brought out 
(lie story of Ephraim B. Levy, building 
contractor, who jilleges that, last Spring 
lie paid $25,000 (•> settle a strike on a 
government hospital, were dismissed ;it 
Washington Oct. 26. Justice Bailey held 
there was no reason, to .interfere with the 
action of the military authorities or the 
detention of the prisoner. Salmon was 
sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment by 
court-martial on conviction of refusal to 
do military duty during the war. The 
sentence was later cut to five years by 
reviewing authorities. lie was sent to 
the hospital for observation, after which 
he began his hunger strike. Hospital 
physicians told the Court they consid¬ 
ered him sane, and he will be remanded 
to the military prison to serve the balance 
of his term, which has three years to run. 
FARM AND GARDEN—The fortieth 
annual session of the Farmers’ National 
Congress will he held at Columbus. <>.. 
Nov. 16-19. For program, hotel or other 
information, write to A. P. Sandies, 
secretary, 405 Hartman Building, Colujn- 
bus, Ohio. 
The thirty-seventh meeting of the 
American Poniologieal Society and the 
ninth Apple Show of the Ohio State 
Horticultural Society will he held to¬ 
gether this year in Columbus, December 
1-3. The occasion will attract fruit¬ 
growers, both commercial and amateur 
from many States of the Union and from 
several provinces of Canada. Plans are 
being rapidly completed for a program 
of interest and profit and for a fruit dis¬ 
play of unusual rdze and scope. On the 
program will he many men of prominence 
in horticultural affairs of the continent, 
including workers for the experiment sta¬ 
tions, State agricultural colleges, from the 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
and from the ranks of the growers and 
commercial interests. Information con¬ 
cerning the program, exhibits and local 
accomodations may be had from R, B. 
Cruickshank. Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio. 
Unable to obtain cars in which to ship 
his wheat and finding local elevators filled 
to capacity, a Potter, Neb., farmer, carried 
liO bushels of wheat on his two-ton truck 
to Omaha. 480 miles. The trip required 
three days. The total expense was 
$22.09. or about 21 cents a bushel. The 
wheat sold in the Omaha market for $2 
;t bushel, which the farmer said insured 
him a better profit than he would have 
received by selling at home. 
From three inches to five feet of snow 
Oct. 24 covered western Colorado. 
Mountain roads were closed and fruit 
trees with fruit unpicked were reported 
to have broken under additional weight 
with heavy loss. At Ouray the tempera¬ 
ture was reported 16 degrees above zero. 
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Use It for Every Farm Purpose 
The way your hams smell is a pretty good indica¬ 
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