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January 8, 1921 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Country-wide Produce Situation 
Each 
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FARMERS NOT WITOLLY DISCOURAGED -TOO 
MANY POTATOES-PRICES DOING A 
LITTLE BETTER FOR CABBAGE- 
MOST LINES CONTINUE SLOW 
AND WEAK 
Here and there are indications of re¬ 
duction in acreage next season. The 
Maine potato growers are refusing to buy 
fertilizer until the price comes down. 
Farmers in some States are hiring less 
Fall plowing done, anticipating lower 
costs or less acreage Such things show 
hesitation, but not discouragement. After 
all probably the farmers will go ahead 
strenuously and raise at least fair-sized 
crops. As a Kansas farmer said last 
Fall: “We have hopes. Anyhow, a 
farmer must keep on working/ and he 
can’t leave it all until Spring.” There 
is nothing like a farmers’ strike, although 
there is excuse for one now if ever, when 
farm prices are down and other prices 
still up in the air. The higher cost of 
freight and express is becoming a serious 
handicap to Southern truck growers. Con¬ 
ditions bear heavily on shipments of less 
than carlots. and the result may be a 
change in methods of marketing. Higher 
transportation charges are comparatively 
favorable to greenhouse gardeners and 
producers living close to the markets. 
Proposed tariff charges would also tend 
to check distant competition. Canadian 
shippers of potatoes under present condi¬ 
tions are able to undersell in several 
large city markets. 
POTATO MARKETS IMPROVE SLIGHTLY 
The slight advance noted in the West¬ 
ern potato markets last week has con¬ 
tinued, and prices are 10 to 15 cents 
higher at most Western country ship¬ 
ping points, where the general range is 
75c to $1.50 per 100 lbs., according to 
locality and the basis of sale. Range to 
growers^ is as low as 75c to $1 in the 
Far West. City prices range mostly 
$1.50 to $2 per 100 lbs. Eastern city 
markets show little change. The official 
crop report shows fully 79.000,000 bushels 
more potatoes than last season. Usually 
about one-third of the crop is moved in 
carlots, the rest being used or consumed 
locally. Accordingly there would be 
about 25.000 cars more to he shipped 
this season than last season, but growers 
are not shipping them as yet. The earlot 
movement of Northern potatoes this sea¬ 
son is actually a little less than that of 
last season to the end of the year. Prob¬ 
lem : Those 35.000 extra carlots, equal 
to 25 per cent of the whole season’s usual 
shipping movement of potatoes, and what 
will be the price of them in Spring? 
Probably much of the surplus will stay on 
the farm. The cautious shipper who can 
find a Winter market will hardly take 
chances with the Spring market even, 
although Winter prices may he far from 
satisfactory. The outlook seems better 
for Eastern markets than for Western, 
because the crop is lighter West than 
East, and a tariff wall may shut out 
several thousand cars of Canadian pota¬ 
toes. 
CABBAGE SUPPLY DECREASING 
The improved situation of cabbage is 
owing to a clearing out of the early and 
frozen stock. The amount in long-time 
storage is only about one-seventh larger 
than last season, and there is no evident 
reason why prices should stay unreason¬ 
ably low except that everything else is 
that way now. The prevailing city whole¬ 
sale range of $15 to $18 per ton is at 
least $5 above the lowest in December, 
although not more than one-fifth the 
price a year 'ago. Onions refuse to re¬ 
cover from a price of $1 per 100 lbs., or 
a little better, in the country, and $1.25 
to $1.50 in the city. 
SLOW APPLE SALES 
Apples are not doing so well as in 
November and December: $5 per barrel 
in Eastern cities is about the top for 
standard kinds, and there is considerable 
good stock selling at $3.50 to $4.50. Bulk 
apples range $1 to $2 per 100 lbs., the 
higher price in Western cities, where ap¬ 
ples are doing better than in the East. 
Growers of sweet potatoes are getting 
about the same as paid for white pota¬ 
toes in the North, but with equally slow 
demand. More sweets are in long storage 
than ever before. The Department of 
Agriculture has succeeded in keeping 
sweet potatoes, even the moist fleshed 
kinds, the year around in suitable storage, 
which means dry and neither too cold or 
too warm ; about 40 degrees is best. Now 
there are a dozen cars of white potatoes 
sold for each car of sweets. The crop is 
four to one, and the ratio of sales might 
be about the same if the demand- were 
active throughout a greatly prolonged 
market season. G. B. F. 
Raw Fur Notes 
The Fur Merchants’ Association of the 
City of New York does not discourage 
trapping of fur-bearing animals through¬ 
out the United States. On the contrary, 
leading members of the raw fur group of 
this association are doing their utmost to 
induce farmers and trappers not to “pull 
up thefir traps” but to trap furs lawfully 
to be taken. Haw fur prices have de¬ 
clined somewhat, but trapping will still 
be profitable. This attitude of the Fur 
Merchants’ Association, composed of the 
leading houses in New York and other 
cities, is highly significant, being dia¬ 
metrically opposed to the news items 
circulated recently by an individual West¬ 
ern concern which advised against trap¬ 
ping of furs this season. 
Grow Small Fruits 
For Big Profits 
One or two acres in berries will 
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Our customers clear from $500 to $800 
per acre with strawberry and raspberry 
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Box 80 Sawyer, Michigan 
Mail Order Catalog Shows 
Big Drop in Prices 
Prices have taken a big drop in New 
York City and vicinity if we are to be 
guided by the Special Sale Catalog just 
issued by a large New York mail order 
house. 
This firm evidently believes the time 
has come for big price reductions, for 
apparently every article in the catalog is 
offered at a price far below what we have 
been used to. And everything is sold on 
a guarantee of complete satisfaction or 
money refunded. 
A copy of this “Special Sale Catalog,” 
which contains more than 100 pages and 
is fully illustrated, has been sent to every 
regular customer of this concern. Others 
desiring to take advantage of the many 
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mailing a post card or letter to The 
Charles William Stores, Inc., Dept. 405, 
New York City. Immediate action is 
advisable, however, as the sale closes on 
February 28th. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JAN. 8, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Harvesting in Com Belt.35 
Good Results from Swamp Muck.36 
Experience with Glazed Tile. 36 
Lime and Chemicals.38 
Hope Farm Notes. 44 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Triplet Calves . 36 
Pasture and Bam Notes.36 
Veteran Sheep Shearer...... 37 
Live Stock and Farm Fertility.37 
Feeding Dairy Herd. 50 
Ration Lacks Protein...50 
Feeding Family Cow. 50 
Improving Milk Flow. 60 
Ration with Buckwheat. 52 
Ration with Silage.52 
Pigs Do Not Grow. 52 
New York Breeders’ Association. 54 
THE HENYARD 
Granulated Bone or Meat Scrap. 64 
Concrete Poultry House. 56 
Feeding Leghorns . 56 
HORTICULTURE 
Notes on Florida Crops. 39 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.. 41 
Care of Red Raspberries. 43 
Killing Large Tree. .... 45 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 48 
Winter Flower Garden.48 
The Rural Patterns.48 
Finery in the Schools. 49 
Winter Meat Dishes. 49 
Two Danish Recipes.49 
Fine Needles for Knitting. 49 
Potato and Salsify Soup. 49 
Two Ways of Cooking Rice. 49 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Wonders of Time. 43 
New York Agricultural Convention.. 45 
Editorials . 46 
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