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Crops and Farm News 
Country-wide Produce Situation 
PRICES STILL INCLINED DOWNWARD, BUT 
RESERVE STOCKS MOVING TO MAR- 
’KET RAPIDLY 
The decline in the apple mai'ket has 
been more gradual than in some other 
lines, but the loss has come during the 
months when prices should rise to offset 
shrinkage and storage, and the result is 
a position considerably less favorable for 
the_ holders. Large cities are quoting 
$4.50 to $5 per barrel for top grades. The 
ordinary run of stock sells at $3 to $4. 
Bushel baskets range from 75c to $1.25 
for best grades of standard varieties. 
The leading city markets are reported 
slow. Lack of brisk buying and the 
heavy supply seem to be the underlying 
cause. Apple shipments for the season 
have been about 10 per cent ahead of 
last season. Quality has been good. No¬ 
body could afford to ship anything el§e 
with marketing costs what they were this 
season, but demand has not been active 
enough to hold the price at even the 
moderate level with which the season 
started. The same is true of Western 
boxed apples, although there was not a 
heavy crop, and similar conditions pre¬ 
vailed in foreign markets. Leading Brit¬ 
ish cities quote standard varieties of 
American apples at $7.45 to $8.50 per 
barrel, or hardly more than half the early 
season prices. Ocean freight has come 
down to $1.75, and the value of the shil¬ 
ling has risen slightly, both of which 
items aid the American exporter to show 
a small average profit for the rather ordi¬ 
nary stock which comprises much of the 
recent exports. The Government price 
control has had little effect, as only a few 
of the fancy Western boxed apples have 
reached the limit prices lately. Stocks of 
barreled apples are beginning to move out 
of cold storage in considerable quantity. 
The markets are not attractive, but the 
storage stocks are large, and the owners 
feel that they must keep them moving out 
steadily. Western apples have been com¬ 
ing East and going into cold storage in 
the hope of better markets toward the 
end of the season. 
POTATOES IN WEAK POSITION 
the sentence, the men being at liberty 
under bail. 
Unless every one of the 272,000 em¬ 
ployes of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
agrees to lay off one day weekly a 20 
per cent reduction will be made in the 
working force of the entire system. Crews 
that heretofore have been operating what 
is known as single trains in the future 
will double up; that is. one crew will do 
the work that two crews have done here¬ 
tofore. The official pereonnel of the sys¬ 
tem will be reduced 60- per cent. These 
three orders have gone out over the Penn¬ 
sylvania Railroad system. A census is 
being taken of employes in the Pittsburgh 
district, who are asked to volunteer to 
lay off one day a week. 
Four corporations and 11 individuals, 
indicted December 29 by a Federal Grand 
Jury and charged with conspiracy to con¬ 
trol the output, market and price of sand 
and gravel in building construction, en¬ 
tered pleas of guilty through counsel 
January 18, and were fined a total of 
$40,000 in the United States District 
Court in NeAV York. A fine of $5,000 was 
imposed on each corporation. They are 
the Goodwin-Gallagher Sand & Gravel 
Corporation, the Manhattan Sand Com¬ 
pany, Inc., the Lenox Sand & Gravel 
Company, Inc., and the Colonial Sand & 
Stone Companv, Inc. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Enaetment 
of a tariff for the protection of the live¬ 
stock industry, the gradual establishment 
of municipal retail markets in all cities, 
and the enactment by Congress of “con¬ 
structive Federal legislation regulating 
the packers, commission men and trad¬ 
ers” was recommended in resolutions pre¬ 
sented to the American Livestock conven¬ 
tion at El Paso, Tex., January 14, 
p armers ot America are willing to 
donate a sufficient amount of their surplus 
corn to feed the starving in Europe and 
China, if arrangements are made by peo¬ 
ple of the cities to transport it to the 
famine victims, President .1. R. Howard 
of the American Farm Bureau Federa¬ 
tion declared at Chicago, January 14, in 
an address before the Illinois Agricultural 
Association. Mr. Howard said he had 
advices from many States assuring him 
that the farmers were willing to give lib¬ 
erally from America’s corn crop for relief 
purposes. The matter has been taken 
up with Herbert Hoover, in charge of Eu¬ 
ropean relief activities, Mr. Howard said. 
Hie announcement was met with enthusi¬ 
asm by the 800 delegates, and within 10 
minutes more than 65.000 bushels of corn 
was volunteered for relief. 
A serum for the prevention of foot and 
mouth disease has been discovered by a 
commission of French experts, but? enough 
serum cannot be manufactured now to 
inoculate all cattle. The commission is 
composed of Professors Roux, Nocard. 
Carre and Yallee. Prize cattle and .val¬ 
uable animals of the world will be treated, 
including those in Argentina, Brazil and 
Uruguay. Prof. Vallee said that the mi¬ 
crobe. invisible under the microscope, is 
so infinitesimal that it. passes through 
porcelain filters, which heretofore have 
retained all known microbes. Virus to 
make the serum can be obtained only from 
the diseased parts of affected animals. 
A very succcessful two-day meeting was 
held by the National Grape Growers’ As¬ 
sociation in Cleveland. O., January 11 
and 12, at which over 100 were present. 
Associations from Michigan, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, New- York and Ohio were repre¬ 
sented by their duly accredited congress¬ 
men, while delegates from several associa¬ 
tions were present from various States 
and Canada. O. W. Johnson, Geneva. 
O., was elected as president, and W. H. 
Asbury, UnioT.villo, O., secretary. The 
next meeting will be held at North East. 
Pa. 
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February Milk Price 
The New York price to producers in 
the 200 to 210-mile zone has boon set at 
$2.58 per 100 lbs. for three per cent 
milk, with four cents per hundred lbs. 
additional for every tenth of one per 
cent butterfat above three. This is a 
reduction of 61 cents per 100 lbs. from 
the January price. 
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The little spurt in potato prices early 
in January had ebbed away by the middle 
of the month ard some markets, notably 
Chicago, made new low records for the 
season at $1.15 per 100 lbs. Jn carlots, 
and potatoes sold as low as 35 cents per 
bushel in Idaho, but the countrywide 
range in producing sections east of the 
Mississippi River was about $1 to $1.50 
per 100 lbs., and in large cities $1.50 to 
$1.00. Shipments are just about suffi¬ 
cient for the average demand. 
LIBERAL SUPPLY OF CABBAGE AND ONIONS 
Prices of onions have been seeking still 
lower levels, reaching 60 cents per 100 
lbs. bag in some Central Western cities; 
$1 to $1.50 in the East. Shipments are 
coming at a rate which suggests heavy 
reserves. Apparently there are about 
1.400 cars in five or six towns in the 
Connecticut Valley. Holdings in farm 
storage in the West are reported heavy, 
but in rather poor condition. Cabbage, 
too, is moving to market in liberal quan¬ 
tities, indicating that the stock in farm 
storage is still holding out. Prices lost 
some of the recent gain, but still hold 
considerably above the cost range of the 
season, leading cities quoting $12 to $2o 
per ton bulk. Sweet potatoes are doing 
better than white stock, at $1.50 to $2 
per bushel in large lots. New England 
cranberries still sell at $10 to $18 per 
barrel, rounding out a prosperous season 
for growers, thanks to the abundance of 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Benjamin Newman of 
New York, charged with being the leader 
of a million-dollar drug ring, whose ac¬ 
tivities extend over 22 States, was ar¬ 
rested at Denver, Colo., January 17, with 
three of his alleged agents. At the same 
time $15,000 worth of morphine, cocaine 
and other drugs were seized. 
One man is dead, another is dying and 
six others were injured by a bomb explo¬ 
sion in Philadelphia. January 17, at the 
headquarters of the Quaker City Taxicab 
Company. Chauffeurs of the company 
have been on strike for several weeks, 
and police orders were issued immediately 
after the explosion for a round-up of the 
strikers. Bombs were placed in two taxi¬ 
cabs of the company about 10 days ago, 
and several cars have been stolen and 
wrecked. 
William F. Salisbury, Jr., of Buffalo, 
and David M. Griswold of Brooklyn, 
pleaded guilty January 17 in the District 
of Columbia Supreme Court to two in¬ 
dictments in connection with the war- 
risk insurance frauds by which a number 
of wounded war veterans were mulcted 
of large sums to expedite their claims 
against the Government. The pair were 
examiners of claims in the bureau, and 
were charged with having furnished in¬ 
formation of claims about to be allowed 
and having had others interview the pros¬ 
pective claimants and arrange with them 
for a division of the awards. As much 
as 50 per cent of the claims was de¬ 
manded in some cases, the Government 
contended. Justice Gould set no date for 
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