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March 19, 1921 
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PRICES SHOW SOME RECENT GAINS—INDI¬ 
CATIONS ARE THAT ACREAGE WILL 
BE REDUCED 
Potatoes, onions, cabbage and tomatoes, 
four of the most important early Souttu 
ern crops, all show decreases of 10 to 25 
per cent in acreage. If the North goes 
the same moderate pace, it is plain that 
there will be no such surplus of early 
truck as that which demoralized the mar¬ 
kets last season from July onward. Prob¬ 
ably there will be enough as it is. The 
buying power of the public will return 
somewhat if business continues to recover, 
but war prices have gone into market kis- 
toti’.v. 
The planting season has opened early. 
Seldom has so much plowing been done in 
late Fall and early Spring. Fertilizer 
prices have come down a little. Farm la¬ 
bor is back to pre-war levels in some 
States, and the men seem more ready to 
do a full day’s work. Farmers are re¬ 
ported more or less uncertain what and 
how much to plant. Most of them seem 
to liave decided to go on about as usual, 
but on a slightly smaller scale, watching 
expenses carefully. They are not buying 
as in war times, and all kinds of business 
suffer accordingly. 
SLIGHT RECOVERY OF POTATO PRICES 
Potatoes have recovered fully 25c per 
100 lbs. in the West and nearly as much 
in the East. With the remairfing stock 
much less than expected, the improvement 
seems fully justified. Dealers are still 
puzzling over what became of the missing 
millions of bushels between harvest time 
and the first of the year. Besides ordi¬ 
nary rot and close culling, a third ex¬ 
planation is the prevalence of destructive 
diseases in the Far West, which greatly 
reduced the outturn in many sections; 
a kind of dry rot which shriveled the po¬ 
tatoes while in the ground. It is said 
that these diseases may force the farmers 
to stop planting potatoes for market in 
such localities. The description sounds 
much like common rot and fusarium rot. 
long prevalent in the East. The average 
city price is slightly above the low point 
of the season in February at $1.25 per 
100 lb.s.. compared with the season's high 
point of $2.30 in early November. 
POOR DEMAND EOR ONIONS 
The onion market seems too weak to 
recover. It sags back quickly after every 
little gain. Unofficial reports place the 
remaining stock in storage at nearly 0.000 
cars, which is about twice as much as 
can be used under ordinary conditions. 
The average city price ranges 75c to $1 
per bag. A groat many Spanish onions 
are coming over, and the fairly large 
Texas crop will,start in about a month. 
Cabbage, on the other hand, is doing bet¬ 
ter because the amount of long-keeping 
stock is limited, and the high freights 
are checking the movement of Southern 
cabbage. Some cabbage fields have been 
plowed under in Florida and Texas. 
MORE ACTIVE APPLE MARKETS 
Apples are plainly doing better. First, 
there was a better demand for bulk stock 
at, country shipping points, then the city 
markets began to pick up for barreled ap- 
nles and also for Western boxed fruit. 
The average price has crept up at least 
25c per barrel. More markets quote 
above $5 than below for best ^Baldwins, 
and fancy stock reached $5.75 or even 
in some markets. Shipments of bar¬ 
reled apples are 20.000 cars ahead of last 
season and still coming fast: three-fourths 
of them from New York State, which has 
■shipped three or four times as many as 
last season and i« still going strong. Ap¬ 
ples. cranberries and sweet potatoes seem 
to have been the best sellers this season. 
Cranberries are about $20 per barrel, and 
•sweet potatoes have been relatively higher 
than white stock. Apples have not been 
high, but the enormous supplies have gone 
forward at priees that would seem fairly 
good but for the heavy costs of the sea¬ 
son’s crop. G. B. F. 
We got $1.50 per bu. for potatoes: 14c 
per lb. for dressed hogs weighing from 
100 to 125 lbs. Eggs at store, 35c; but¬ 
ter, 40c per lb. No sale for apples; no 
sale for wool. Grain prices coming down ; 
also cattle selling low at sales, l. l. w. 
Venango Co., Pa. 
We have been having a very open Win¬ 
ter. Only two cold spells, and very little 
snow; not enough for any sleighing. Feb¬ 
ruary 10-11 we had a snowstorm. Busi¬ 
ness on the farm is dull; all crops have 
fallen to the low level. Hired help is 
scarce and high in price. Railroads and 
factories are discharging help and cutting 
wages, but manufactured goods do not 
come down as they should. Wheat has 
been bare most of the Winter, but this 
snow makes a fine protection. No stock 
of any amount 'being fed, and those that 
are breeding do it at a loss. Danish cab¬ 
bage, $5 per ton ; potatoes, 40c per 'bu;; 
best timothy hay, pressed. $15 per ton. 
Apples have been stored at a loss. Many 
auctions are being held and prices are 
good. Some farms being sold. Grange 
u this section doing good work. The 
County Agricultural Society is in the best 
condition it has been for years. Coal 
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