Country-wide Produce Situation 
KBUITS AND VEGETABLES SELLING NBAS 
LOWEST POINTS—GROWERS CONSID¬ 
ERING NEXT YEAR’S ACREAGE 
Prices seem to be near the worst just 
*s the farmers are thinking what they 
will try to raise the coming season. Nat- 
irally there is hesitation. Down in 
Florida, where the ground is being worked 
for early potatoes, there is about 20 per 
cent reduction in acreage, although the 
growers still recall the good prices of last 
Spring. Florida potatoes were about the 
ast ones that sold for high prices, and 
--omparison with prices of Northern pota 
:oes is not encouraging, while supplies of 
Northern stock seem almost unlimited 
The Florida planters will go ahead. They 
are planting 4,000 acres in the leading 
section, but not with entire confidence, 
Florida Winter lettuce crop has been 
selling for less than cost of production. 
Likewise the orange and lemon crops, 
vhile other lines have been too low for 
nuch profit. 
THE POTATO PROBLEM 
At the other end of the early market, 
srea, on the eastern shore of Virginia, the 
potato problem is a little different from 
hat of Florida, which sells its potatoes 
n March and April. The Virginia crop 
does not arrive until old potatoes are 
shrunken and sprouted. Prices for Vir¬ 
ginia potatoes will depend mainly on the 
Southern production and upon the de¬ 
mand. “Will fertilizers come down?” 
a.sks a Virginia farmer.. “Labor is 30 
per cent lower and seed is cheaper. Will 
-.he North pay a fair price for new pota¬ 
toes? Shall I plant my usual acreage of 
iarly potatoes, or raise some sweet pota¬ 
toes instead? I am at a loss what to 
Jo.” 
SOME REDUCTIONS IN ACREAGE 
The same kind of problem will appear 
as the planting season moves northward. 
They are having an early Spring in the 
South except where heavy rains have hin¬ 
dered work in the lowlands, and the Win¬ 
ter has been mild nearly everywhere. 
There was Winter plowing in some parts 
©f the North. Will farmers plant their 
usual acreage? Judging from the early 
reports of Southern truck crops, the 
§ lanters are inclined to reduce acreage. 
Jorida potato acreage decreased one- 
fifth, cabbage and tomatoes one-half and 
oeas three-fourthe. Of the two othe^ 
•early planting States the great early 
onion crop of Texas is one-fourth less in 
area this season, and that of California 
about one-half. Early spinach sold well 
■ast season and shows increased acreage 
in the extreme South, but a decrease 
of one-half in Virginia, where the crop 
of last season was caught in the low- 
price wave. Strawberries sold well last 
season, and many new fields have been 
set. Probably the net acreage will be 
>tbout the same. 
In general, the crops that sold poorly 
the past season are showing decreased 
acreage in the South. If the same rule 
bolds in the North there will be less 
planting of most market crops and pos¬ 
sibly more attention to the feeding crops, 
because dairying has been relatively more 
profitable than raising potatoes, onions, 
cabbage and garden truck.. 
In a season like this, with open 
weather and ample supplies available, 
=very little advance brings in plenty, of 
•stock, and near-by holders must be active 
to sell before the carlot shipments arrive. 
c ‘Near-by” now means anywhere within 
trucking distances, or at least 50 miles 
n a region of good roads. Motor trucks 
come rolling in the first mild day and 
break up the plans of holders of stocks 
in city storage. 
Growers who own properly built storage 
bouses and live within trucking distance 
have a considerable advantage. They han- 
Ile at least expense for marketing. They 
can secure good results if they know 
bow, because they store carefully at just 
he right time, and if the house is modern 
-and well tended the results in the North 
are almost as good as cold storage until 
early Spring. The grower who stores 
his own stock has cut out several costs 
and charges and by watching closely he 
can reach the market usually while tem¬ 
porary gains are still in force. His ad¬ 
vantage is great with second-grade ap¬ 
ples. for instance, which do not pay to 
put into city storage, but which he can 
bold in his naturally cooled house until 
most of the glut is over. The main feature 
of the best storage is to open the house 
only on cool night and to have it built for 
protection against sudden changes from 
without. 
WESTERN ONIONS DRAGGING 
Onion prices still range close to !?1 for 
00 lbs. in producing sections, and aver¬ 
age about $1.50 in Fastern cities, but. 
Western distributing markets average 
only $1. The Eastern crop is working off 
at somewhat higher prices than in the 
West. The Connecticut Valley onion 
shipments have been about as usual in 
volume, and apparently only about one- 
fifth of the crop is still held in storage. 
The Western New York crop has not 
moved off so well, but the prices obtained 
by .growers are better than in the West, 
owing to nearness to the larger cities 
and to less competition. The West is a 
heavy producer of onions in a favorable 
season like that, of 1920. It is believed 
that large quantities of onions remaining 
in the hands of producers in the West 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
will not he shipped because of poor keep¬ 
ing quality, or rather the lack of suitable 
storage facilities. 
MANY PRICES AT SEASON’S LOWEST 
The price trend has been downward 
ever since early •November, not to men¬ 
tion the great decline of the past six 
months. The potato growers are getting 
25 to 40 cents per bushel in the Western 
central sections. Maine growers are 
getting about 45 cents by carlot. These 
prices suggest the Spring of 1915, when 
growers were getting 17 to 30 cents per 
bushel. Present prices represent a 
greater hardship, since the cost of pro¬ 
duction is probably double that of five 
years ago. Wholesale prices in the cities 
at that time ranged from 40 to 60 cents 
per bushel, compared with 75 cents to $1 
at present. A year ago at this time— 
but why vex one’s self by looking at 
figures four times as large? Of onions 
there is little new to be said. Wholesale 
price range is 75 cents to $1.50 per 100 
lbs., and the demand is slow, with plenty 
of shipments even at this unattractive 
level of prices. Cabbage’failed to hold 
the gains made earlier in the year. Much 
of the stock is from farm storage and of 
poor grade. Old cabbage of good quality 
from commercial storage ran from $13 to 
$18 per ton in city markets. New cab¬ 
bage from Florida and California is be¬ 
ginning to compete. 
SAGGING PRICES FOR APPLES 
. Apples have changed but little in the 
City markets. The best grades ran from 
$4 to $5 per barrel. Country prices have 
been sagging off, and best grade common 
storage. Baldwins can be bought for 
$3.50 in Western New York. Foreign 
markets get less than domestic for most 
lots. The range late in January at Lon¬ 
don and Liverpool was $6 to $7.50 per 
barrel for good stock of standard kinds, 
from which deduct about $3 for expense. 
They are going across sometimes 100,000 
barrels a week, which will at least help 
*0 relieve the home markets. G. B. F. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
March 16—Ilolsteins. Somerset-IIun- 
terdon County Holstein-Friesian Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, College Farm, New 
Brunswick. N. .T. 
March 29-30—Ilolsteins. Watertown 
Holstein Sales Co., Watertown, Wis. F. 
Darcey, secretary. 
May 9—Ilolsteins. Brown County 
Holstein Breeders’ Sale at I)e 1‘ere, Wis. 
May 17—Ilolsteins. Wisconsin Hol¬ 
stein Breeders’ Sale, West Allis, Wis. 
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WANTED—Summer boarding house to rent, with 
view to buy; mountains or seashore. Send 
particulars, E. O., 233 15tli Str., West New 
York. N. J. 
WANTED—A farm near Lake Ontario. S. HILL, 
Route 1, Arlington, Vt. 
WANT to rent, with option of buying, farm in 
Oneida or Madison County, New York; witli or 
without stock and tools; must be well located 
near milk market and have Alfalfa soil: give 
full particulars. ADVERTISER 8320, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
BEAUTIFUL home and fruit farm, between Buf¬ 
falo and Rochester; center of great fruit belt; 
on edge of village; 4 churches, high school, 
stores, bank, depot, factories, etc.; good State 
road; two good houses, one worth $10,000; elec¬ 
tricity, bathroom, heating system; beautiful 
lawn and shade; good barns; village fire pro¬ 
tection; never-failing well supplies pure water; 
91 acres sandy loam, highest fertility; no stone, 
no hills; good natural drainage, assisted by tile 
drainage costing $5,000 ; 50 acres fruit: 14‘acres 
timber; no waste land; stock and tools included; 
$30,000. ADVERTISER 8323, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
DAIRY and fruit farm; 160 acres, all equipped; 
29 head of stock: half mile from City of Hud¬ 
son, on State road: sell all milk for 15c per 
quart; about 700 bearing fruit trees: 250 grape 
vineyard; 9-room residence, 6-room tenement 
house; the income starts the day of purchase. 
LLOYD M. HALLENBECK, Greendale-on-the 
Hudson, N. Y. 
WANTED—Truck farm by an agriculturist with 
10 years’ experience; will work on shares pro¬ 
vided farm is fully equipped with implements 
and seed, or on salary and percentage of profits; 
will consider management of estate. Address 
below, giving all particulars. G. W. T., 412 W. 
Green St., Ithaca, N. Y. 
BUY or LEASE modern poultry farm, 2,000 or 
more capacity, near town, on concrete road, 
near New York; give full description. ADVER¬ 
TISER 8333, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Dutchess County farm: 170 acres; 
fine land; good buildings; plenty fruit; grand 
view; $6,500; reasonable terms. ADVERTISER 
8335, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Forty miles New York, about seven 
acres: abundant good water, good soil, house 
and buildings first-class condition absolutely es¬ 
sential: full particulars and price. ADVER¬ 
TISER 1227 Madison St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Large hill farm; stocked. BOX 65, 
Wardsboro, Vt. 
FOR SALE—South Jersey farm, 70 acres: 1% 
miles to market: house is worth price of farm! 
barn will hold 15 eo-vs. ADVERTISER 8337, 
care Rural New-Yorker. 
FARM WANTED—15 acres not over 35 miles 
from New York; no agents and cheap. AD¬ 
VERTISER 8338, care Rural New-Yorker. 
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FOR SALE—Cash; store building, stock, dwell¬ 
ing, 6 lots; near depot: electric ligh#. tele¬ 
phone. Write A. B. FISHER, Strasburg, Va. 
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TEN ACRES: fruit and poultry; good buildings: 
spring water in house: $5,000. GEORGE S. 
MARTIN, R. No. 3. Plainfield, N. J. 
$2,000 BUYS 163 acres; level, productive; house, 
stable, fruit; no barn; Dalton five miles; 
sugar onsh and timber worth price. O. MILLS, 
Houghton, N. Y. 
WANTED—To rent, or to rent with option to 
buy, farm, with fair buildings, suitable for 
truck and other crops, with apple orchard, in 
Northern New Jersey or Southern New York, 
within a radius of 50 miles of New York City. 
Address ADVERTISER 8352, care Rural New- 
Y orker. 
92 ACRES, in the oil field; good soil; house, 11 
rooms; basement barn, 40x72; other outbuild¬ 
ings; tile, water, electric lights, silo; als® stock 
and tools; if interested write; deal with owner. 
C. S. JEWELL, Spencer, O. 
FOR SALE. OR RENT—A large grain and stock 
farm: this is a fine farm and can be had at 
a bargain. Address ADVERTISER 8351, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
TO LET—Extra good homestead farm; 90 acres; 
general farming; good buildings; fine soil: 
will accommodate 10 cows if desired; want man 
to buy equipment; must be Protestant, honest 
and capable: easy terms to right party. HOME¬ 
STEAD FARM, R. D. 2, Canandaigua, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Three farms, near Somerville: all 
in good condition. No. 1—96 acres excellent 
trucking soil, on river, right in town. No. 2— 
85 acres. No. 3—175 acres; both dairv and 
general farming; buildings good. C. DRYSDALE 
BLACK, Somerville, N. J. 
FOR RENT—Farm, 100 acres, near Somerville; 
fair buildings; improvements in house: $700. 
C. DRYSDALE BLACK, Somerville, N. j. 
Miscellaneous 
EXTRACTED CLOVER HONEY, f. o. b. our 
station. 60-lb. can, $12.75; 10-lb. pail, $2.40. 
Buckwheat. 60-lb. can, $10; 10-lb. pail. $2.25. 
Delivered in 3d postal zone—Clover, 10 lbs., 
$2.75; buckwheat. 10 lbs., $2.60; 5 lb?, of either, 
$1.50. Special prices on large lots. RAY C. 
WILCOX, Odessa, N. Y. 
SURE POP white rice corn, year old, shelled. 25 
lbs., prepaid parcel post to fifth zone. $3.00: 
bag lots, special low price to trade. W. HAL¬ 
BERT, Oxford, N. Y. 
CANDEE INCFBATOR, 4,200 capacity, for sale; 
in good condition, well crated, f. o. b., $400. 
BOX 113, Petersburg, Va. 
205 
FOR SALE—One 3,000-egg Candee incubator> 
A No. 1 condition; price $250. J. A. SHAW. 
Downsville, N. Y. 
DELICIOUS bams, bacon, shoulders and smoked 
saiisage from young hogs fed on peanuts, 
sweet potatoes, acorns and corn; cured in real 
old \ irginia way; one hundred pound lots at 
wholesale prices. CHEROKEE FARMS, Monti- 
cello, Fla. 
SAUSAGE, Homemade, for sale—30c lb de¬ 
livered parcel post. ALLEN MORTON, ’ Ash- 
ville, N. Y. 
KING oranges, grapefruit, orauges, tangerines, 
tangelos, 17 lbs., post paid anywhere, $3.00; 
kumquats, 5 lbs. post paid, $1.50; by express 
collect standard boxes King oranges, tangerines 
tangelos, $6.50; grapefruit. $3.00; oranges, $4.50; 
mixed (% grapefruit), $5.00; half boxes, $2.75; 
guava jelly and cheese, lbs., 40c; samples, t 
2ac; mixed candied fruits, 1 lb., $1.00, post- * 
paid. GEO. W. KOSEL, Grower Redland, Fla. 
WANTED—240-egg incubators W. JANDA 
Huntington, L. I., N. Y. 
APPLES FOR SALE—2.000 barrels famous Hud 
son River Valley apples in bushel hampers, 
lMi-busbel boxes or barrels: graded to suit; in 
any quantity; would deliver in truck load lots, 
V. B. DEMAREST, Rhinebeek, N. Y. 
CHOCOLATES—Pure honey centers; healthful 
and delicious; $1 per pound; money with or¬ 
der. “ENDION,” Naples, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Pure wool yarn, pure white, $2.50 
CT?^ r x-vL 1 i’LJ ,ostpai<,: writn for sample. O. P. 
CHANDLER, Breeder of Herefords, New Glou¬ 
cester, Me. 
FOR SALE—Columbia hay baler: made at Ann 
Arbor, Mich.; makes bale 17x22; in good or- 
nfmi . a *?° ® b ‘ kerosene engine, 
„ on gO0(1 steel tnlp k9. $350, complete, 
tW!m7VI,°o press > $ 12 ,o for engine. ADVER- 
USER 8313, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR g Bnl1 tractor, excellent eondi- 
tion, $*.25.00; J. I. Case 2-bottom plow, $60.00; 
tractor manure spreader, nearly new, $100.00- 
Mann power bone grinder, little used, $25.00; 
Prairie State 390-egg incubator, $40.00, and 
Junior coal brooder, $20.00; Chalmers %-ton 
truck. $150.00. MARVIN. T. FORSTER, Hall. 
WANTED—Candee incubator heater size 6 
HUMMER & CO., Frenchtown N. j. 6 ‘ 
FOR.. SALE — Hay; any quantity. PHILIP 
LINSLEY, Pine Plains, N. Y. 
WANTED—Colony brooders, coal burning; must 
uvrn/ 0 ^ condition; Candee preferred. PAUL 
MYERS, Berrien Springs, Mich. 
B ?, 00 P , 'R’ over K000, wanted. J. C. TAYLOR 
Garfield, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Midwest Utilitor tractor, with at- 
tachments; best condition; horse accepted in 
transaction. THOMPSON BROS., Blue Anchor. 
FOR SALE 'Forty galvanized metal trap-nest 
a f w n TT S VTA v?S rf S> ct °r^ r ’ at 50 pe nts each. G. 
A- WILLIAMS, Box 494, Warwick, N. Y. 
"PISUSP* for sale; buy now. IRVING 
HAWKINS, General Delivery, Syracuse, N. Y. 
n OJ\EY—Finest extracted clover, 60-lb. can. 
10-lb-. $2.35; buckwheat. 60-lb. can, 
flO" iOlbs., $2; f. o. b. Romulus, N. Y. H. F. 
WILLIAMS, Romulus, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—3 new sleigh gears, $5 each; 1 pair 
3-knee bobs, capacity 1,800 lbs., $16 H 
HOFFMEYER, Vineland, N. J. * ’ 
INCUBATOR bargains; 144 Cyphers, 3,000 New- 
r? th / rs; *T 'l ke new: brooders. EM. 
BANKS, Corfu, N. Y. 
HBN EY—dover, comb, 38c lb.; strained, 30c 
^rr’ 0 ^ pam :‘ P° st prepaid. MIL- 
TON B. MARSH, Nunda, N. Y. 
WANTED—-Wood planer; send particulars and 
Price. ARTHUR JOHNSON, Suffern, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Choice grade pure maple svrun. 
standard weight, $2.50 per gallon f. o. b. 
Pitcher” T' Y WILL1AM H ' K-IBBE, North 
KEYS l ONE DRILLERS—One No. 5, two No. 2, 
all traction; full equipment for each, including 
IPf, tools; good order; all Porcupine boilers 
THEO. S. MOORE, Stockton, N. J. 
HOME-MADE cream fudge; chocolate, cocoanut 
walnut or mixed fruit and nut; 1*4 lb. for $1 
A. H. PLUMMER, Toms R iver, N. j. 
CHOICE Vermont maple syrup, $2.50 per gallon 
T. f SMITH R Rgrt, V vK reiBit Wlth JAY 
WANTED—To buy 50 t© 200 bushels of good 
. ., oats > p riee and send small sample. 
Address BOX 312, R. F. D., p or t Chester, N. Y. 
I 1 OR SALE—25 hover. Hall, brooder equipment; 
capacity 100 chicks each hover; complete with 
all HaH equipment and carpenter work, except 
building, ami in A-l condition; cost $750; first 
takes RIVERDALE POULTRY 
FARM. Riverdale, N. J. 
^?u^^7^ arg8 buffalo robe, in perfect con- 
owrrSU T, rUe f,,r Particulars. E. M. ROCKE 
r ELLER. Germantown, N. Y. 
HOMES WAN! ED—We will co-operate with anv 
responsible family la placing with them a 
suitable Catholic child between seven and 12 
years of age; our experience and vour willing 
Aren o',. ! o, pr .°il u< '**i he ri ^ ht result. PLACING 
OT r 111 REAU, 417 Broome Street, New York. 
WANTED—Cyphers or Prairie State 240 or 390 
r-/?T>r r!v CU ^? tor ’ a,so *- w ° ' Ia Ric brooders. H. 
CORLEY. Route No. 2. Ppekskill. N. Y. 
W EMERYlDLE k c y a e to, N. Y^" 9 incUbator ’ 
WANTED—Ci phers incubators, LESLIE MOORE, 
Ellenville, N. Y. 
WANTED—Three cars of good Timothy hay, 2 
cars of Alfalfa: also car of mangels or beets; 
state lowest price f. o. b. cars. THOMAS 
j. mcdermott, Belleville, N. j. 
FOR SALE—50 tons of Timothy hay, cut in first 
blow: cured right; $25 ton, f. o. b. GUY 
HARRIS. Milan, Bradford Co„ Pa. 
WANTED—-Disease-free bees, beehives, supers, 
tops and bottoms. What have you? LLOYD 
W. SMITH, Madison, N. J. 
FOR SALE—Two 390-egg Prairie State incuba¬ 
tors; sand trays; $25 each; six three-tray, 390- 
egg old-style Prairie State incubators, $15 each; 
all machines in good working order. WILLOW 
BROOK POULTRY FARM, Odessa, N. Y. 
mifuraiiiniiiniiini on irimr 
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