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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
“I couldn’t 
rd not to buy!” 
Two farmers were talking over the outlook for this year. 
“I’ve just bought a new E-B plow,” said one, “and I’m 
figuring on a new cultivator. Expect to place my order 
this week.” 
“What’s the hurry?” asked the other. “Do you think this 
is a good time to buy?” 
“Well, 1 thought at first I couldn’t 
afford them, right now,” said the 
first, "but when I began to think 
about profits this year I decided 
/ couldn’t afford NOT to buy. As 
1 see it, there’s only one way to be 
sure of a successful year—to plow 
and plant as many acres as I can 
take care of, and make every day 
count for bigger crops at less ex¬ 
pense. That means better imple¬ 
ments—tools 1 can depend on to 
save me time and do the work 
thoroughly. The old machines may 
have pulled me through last year, 
but they won’t stand another sea¬ 
son’s use.” 
Can you afford to put off buying 
this year? It’s worth thinking about 
seriously. Let your E-B dealer show 
you the time and labor-saving fea¬ 
tures in E-B tools. You’ll see how 
they can help you farm more 
profitably. 
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Country-wide Produce Situation 
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES SLUMP LOWER 
THAN EVER. A FEW RAYS OF HOPE. 
Midwinter saw the six months’ de¬ 
pression at its worst. Not only did 
prices find, new low levels, but the actual 
return shrunk relatively still lower be¬ 
cause of rot and the accumulated costs 
of storage and extra handling. The Win¬ 
ter has been so mild that apples and 
some vegetables are not keeping so well 
as usual. Seldom ha* been seen a greater 
contrast between two seasons than those 
of 1020 and 1021. Last season, supplies 
were actively sought for the prices 
slanted upward all Winter. This sea¬ 
son, buyers held off. Prices started low 
and continued downward moving disagree¬ 
ably close to the vanishing point. 
PAYS TO STUDY CONDITIONS 
Of course the farmers got the worst 
end of it both seasons. In the first in¬ 
stance, most of them sold out early and 
the dealers gathered the later profits. 
This season, dealers shrewdly held back 
and the growers carried the stock during 
it** long decline in value. All of them 
had the same information as the dealer, 
or could have obtained it easily, and more 
of the stock might have been sold early 
if the size of the crops and the signs of 
the times had been duly considered. Every 
local farmers’ association should have a 
market committee composed <»f the most 
intelligent, business farmers in the com¬ 
munity who should receive all the mar¬ 
ket literature and sine up the situation 
from time to time for the benefit of mem¬ 
bers. It seems that few such committees 
would have advised their friends, for 
instance, to hold back potatoes last Fall ; 
yet that is what the farmers did, often 
mi a state wide scale. Everybody should 
have known the crop was next to the 
largest ever, and that prices in all lines 
were tending downward. Yet fewer 
main crop potatoes have been shipped 
thus far than were shipped last season 
to date. 
FARMERS HOLD THE BAG 
Dealers hold perhaps one-sixth of the 
potato stocks remaining and the farmers 
have the rest. At the time of writing, 
early in February, the potato markets in 
producing sections were close to demor¬ 
alization. In the West, the price paid 
to growers is down close to feeding value, 
around25c per bushel, but growers are still 
selling some extent because doubt¬ 
ful about the profits of feeding live stock 
or because they must have a little money. 
Little confidence seems to be felt in any 
section regarding the state of the market. 
About the top price by the carload for 
the growers is 50c in Eastern sections 
and nobody very anxious to buy at that. 
City prices for large lot** range from $1 
to .$1.80 per 100 lbs. Chicago lately 
quoted the season’s lowest point of $1 
in carlots. When charges ai-e taken out 
of that $1 how much is left for the grower 
and how much is left for him with cab¬ 
bage at $1 and onions 75e per 100 lbs. 
in some of the large cities? 
The story of onions is of the same 
kind. Neither growers nor dealers like 
to talk about it. Relatively more dealer** 
loaded up with onions than with pota¬ 
toes last Fall. Nearly everybody lost 
money and the dealers are a grouchy lot, 
some of them having lost, on potatoes and 
apples also. For onions, the worst of 
it is that they are softening and sprout¬ 
ing on account of the mild Winter. 
THE HOPEFUL SIDE 
Is there a more cheerful side of the 
produce situation? Perhaps. Conditions 
always look their worst just before im¬ 
provement, begins. Many authorities 
seem to be looking for some recovery of 
general business in the Spring, which 
would improve the demand for produce. 
In the case of potatoes, the official .Jan¬ 
uary report of stock on hand did not in¬ 
dicate any such tremendous surplus as 
some have supposed. The early Southern 
acreage is reduced and possibly there 
may be room in the market later for the 
old potatoes, at least for those that have 
kept in good condition until late in the 
season. The same may be true for the 
small percentage of onions and cabbage 
that are in cold storage or that are keep¬ 
ing well in common storage. 
Apples, too, are not keeping very well 
in common storage in mild climates and 
those in the Northern apple belt which 
are keeping the longest may find better 
demand at the end of the season, the sup¬ 
ply of cold storage Western boxed fruit 
being comparatively moderate. Exported 
apples are not bringing satisfactory 
prices, but large quantities of them are 
going across, considerably to the relief 
of home markets. G. u. F. 
February 12, 1021 
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Analysing 
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