The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1901 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
MARKETS CONTINUE DULL AND SAGGY AT 
COUNTRY SHIPPING POINTS, WITH 
SLIGHTLY DOWNWARD TREND IN 
CITY MARKETS 
Dull conditions are reported in pro¬ 
ducing sections. This is partly because 
the rush of harvest time shipment is 
over. Also because buyers are scarce in 
many lines, and finally because producers 
as a class do not like to sell their high 
cost produce at prevailing prices and 
cling to the hope that better prices will 
be seen before the end of the season. 
The whole country is going through a 
hard experience, which the financial 
papers call contraction and liquidation, 
or in plain and unpleasant words, selling 
stuff at less than it cost. The extent of 
the disaster to the farmer is somewhat 
offset by the large crops, but many who 
specialized on certain commercial fruits 
and vegetables find themselves facing a 
serious loss. Those who are best pre¬ 
pared to meet the conditions are the gen¬ 
eral farmers who raised a varied line of 
products and are able to get along with¬ 
out buying too much outside the farm. 
Some of the general farmers find that the 
decline in prices is not wholly a loss to 
them; thus the milk producers of the 
East are obtaining the benefit of low- 
priced grain and feed, and are producing 
milk at a considerable loss cost than in 
recent seasons. Eggs have continued to 
sell at high prices, although poultry feed 
is lower. Similar conditions prevail with 
fast during November. Many growers 
are refusing to sell at these prices, and 
there is some danger that too much stock 
is being held over Winter. If weather 
is such as to interfere with regular ship¬ 
ments during the coining months there 
may be too many potatoes to sell in the 
short time of active movement in Spring. 
Prices in producing sections range from 
$1.50 to $1.75 and average about $2 per 
100 lbs. in city markets for No. 1 sacked 
stock. 
Apple prices, while low compared with 
last year, are being maintained better 
than in almost any leading line. The 
range for Baldwins is $4 to $4.25 in the 
country and $4 to $5.50 in the cities. 
Bulk apples in W'estern New York are 
selling at $1.40 to $1.50 per 100 ,bs., 
which is higher than a month ago, but, 
of course, there is shrinkage in bulk 
stock held to this time. Stock in country 
storage has been pushed on the market 
actively. Apples in cold storage are not 
a large quantity, considering the size of 
the crop, and the position of long-keeping 
stock whether in common or cold storage 
should improve as the season advances. 
G. B. F. 
Ground Peas for Cows 
I have seen nothing about how to feed 
peas to milking cows. I have a lot of 
good, sound peas to sell, but the price I 
am offered is from $10 to $20 less than 
Purebred Angus Steer "Black Ruler,” Grand Champion Steer at the International 
Live Stock Exhibition. See Page 18i)8. Bred and Exhibited by Purdue 
University, Lafayette, Ind. 
the production of cheese and butter. 
The markets for fruits and vegetables 
continue stagnant, with some declines. 
Shipments in carlots were heavy in No¬ 
vember, but for the season to date have 
been quite moderate, considering the size 
of the crop. It is plain that a large part 
of the abundant production is still in 
the hands of the producers or stored at 
country shipping points. 
It appears that at least one-third of 
the Western New York cabbage crop was 
still in the fields at the time of the freeze 
in late November. Some of it was spoiled 
for late keeping, but was available for 
immediate use and help to overstock the 
markets, resulting in the low prices which 
were seen in many cities since that time. 
Probably at least 10 per cent of the crop 
was useless even for immediate shipment. 
Similar damage is reported to have oc¬ 
curred in Northern cabbage sections, thus 
improving the market position of cab¬ 
bage suitable for long storage. The price 
of such cabbage has shown no gaiu, how¬ 
ever. ruling $10 in Western New York 
and several dollars less in Wisconsin and 
.the Middle West, while city prices 
ranged mostly $12 to $15 for' the best 
stock. 
Onions show no particular change in 
market position. They still range $1 to 
$1.25 per 100 lbs. in the country and 
about 25 cents above those figures iu 
leading city markets for large lots. 
Prices are quite uniform the country 
over. Recent reports indicate that about 
10 per cent more market onions are in 
storage than last season, but as last sea¬ 
son was a short crop year the stock iu 
reserve does not seem excessive and the 
market ought to show some improvement 
during the last half of the season. The 
stock seems to be keeping well so far. 
An unusual number of onion growers 
have stored onions this season because 
unable to get satisfactory offers from the 
regular buyers.- Few sales are being 
made in producing sections and city mar¬ 
kets are nearly all very dull and quiet. 
Potatoes have been going to market 
what I can buy other feeds for. I have 
decided to grind peas up for milking cows. 
I wish to learn what other feeds to buy to 
advantage to mix iu with, the peas. How 
much of the other feeds to 100 lbs. of 
peas? What would you recommend to 
make a good ration? I have mixed clover 
hay, some mangels ; otherwise have to buy 
feed. o. j. H. 
Everson, Wash. 
Dry peas make a high protein feed, and 
can be used to very good advantage when 
ground and mixed with other grains of a 
higher fat content. A pound of dry peas 
contains .00 of dry matter, of which .168 
is protein and .534 of carbohydrates and 
fat, a total of .702 of nutrients. A cow 
weighing 1.000 lbs. requires at least 25 
lbs. of nutriment a day. A very good ra¬ 
tion for such an animal may be made up 
as follows: 
Carbohydrates 
Protein. and fat 
15 lbs. mixed hay.. .93 6.90 
5 lbs. ground peas .84 2.67 
3 lbs. cornmeal .. .237 2.29 
4 lbs. wheat bran. ASS ESI 
Making a total of 27 lbs. dry matter, 
2.495 lbe. protein and 13.67 lbs. of car¬ 
bohydrates and fat. 
Mangels are good feed in conjunction 
with dry foods, but they are very high in 
water content, and correspondingly low 
iu nutritive value. Their chief value 
seems to consist in adding succulence to 
the ration, and their laxative and cooling 
action on the digestive system. 15 
pounds of mangels contain only 1.35 lbs. 
of dry matter, of which .165 is protein 
and ,S4 is fat. Therefore, when a cow is 
giving a good flow of milk this amount 
ot mangels may be fed twice a day in ad¬ 
dition to the above ration. In making up 
the above ration I have taken into con¬ 
sideration the fact that the feeds men¬ 
tioned would be the easiest procurable, 
and therefore the lowest in price in the 
inquirer’s locality. J, grant morse. 
Silage keeps best in a Harder 
It settles closely and evenly because of the 
smooth wood inside. It keeps perfectly be¬ 
cause the walls are absolutely air-tight and 
because the wood staves are the best non¬ 
conductors of heat. That means no chilling 
or freezing—no escape of heat—no acid con¬ 
dition in the silage. 
Harder silage is best for cows—best for milk. That’s 
why the U. S. Government and state 
institutions have chosen Harder Silos. 
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Harder Mfg. Corporation 
Box 11. CobUskill. N. Y. 
Good available territory open for live 
agents. 
Harder Silo on McCune 
farm, Midway, Pa. 
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IS-20-22 W. 20th St., 
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