The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
771 
Marke 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
TESTS HIT BY IT ARD WEATHER, BUT PLENTY 
LEFT—FRUITS AND NEW VEGETABLES 
FILLING THE MARKETS 
One effect of the treacherous weather 
this season is the check on insect pests. 
Tree lice and onion thrips especially seem 
to have been thinned out severely in 
many sections. The hardier creatures, 
like San .Tose scale and Gypsy moth, are 
still in full force and more numerous 
than usual because of the mild Winter. 
The pear psylla is serious in the orchards 
of the Northeast. There will be plenty 
of potato beetles in the East, but not so 
many in Colorado, the original home of 
the pest. The season is not so early as 
seemed likely at first, because of the cold 
rains. Florida, on the other hand, had 
been drying up until the heavy rain 
occurred the middle of May and improved 
the prospects for melons and other truck 
crops. Quantities of melons and canta¬ 
loupes have been planted everywhere, but 
they have not been doing very well as 
yet. 
NOBODY WANTS OLD ONIONS 
New onions are coming a little more 
slowly this year, mainly because Califor¬ 
nia shippers have been holding back. 
Prices average about 50 cents below last 
year, and there is not much in it for dis¬ 
tant growers after paying the new freight 
charge. The dull thud or splash here and 
there represent dumping the last of the 
old onions. There are still thousands of 
bushels in cold storage, mostly on the 
Pacific coast, but nobody seems to want 
old onions after March. 
STILL BUYING OLD POTATOES 
The case is not. so bad for old potatoes. 
Thev still comprise two-thirds of the sup¬ 
ply. and the price has picked up a little, 
especially in the West, and quotations 
generally average better than $1 per 100 
lbs. wholesale. New potatoes sell at about 
three times the price of old stock, but are 
declining under increasing supplies from 
the Carolinas. Combined old and new 
moving supplies are more than double 
those of a year ago. but together they 
equal only the average of the year around 
demand. The season’s shipment of old 
potatoes will be the largest on record, 
with several thousand cars still to come. 
The cold weather has been quite a help 
in clearing out the old stock. 
SWEET POTATOES A COMING MARKET CROP 
Growers of sweet potatoes did as well 
as anybody in the South last season. 
They had a good crop, and the price has 
been more satisfactory than for most 
Southern products. Shipments will be 
about one-tenth the volume of the white 
potato movement. As the crop was one- 
fourth that of the white potatoes, there 
would have been more to ship had there 
been enough good storehouses to keep 
them longer. Many States, like Alabama, 
Georgia, South Carolina and Louisiana, 
that used to consume about all their 
sweet potatoes, have been storing and 
shipping hundreds of carloads this sea¬ 
son. People in the sweet potato belt eat 
about three bushels of sweet potatoes to 
one of white. In the North they eat 
nearly 10 bushels of white to one of 
sweets. Europe hardly knows what the 
sweet potato is like, but the recent intro¬ 
ductory shipments seem to have been sold 
readily in England. Growers of sweet 
potatoes appear quite enthusiastic, and 
are reported planting somewhat more this 
season. 
FRUITS SELLING WELL 
Of the new crop the strawberry is the 
most interesting at present. The season 
has reached the Northern States earlier 
than usual, but movement is still heavy 
from the South. Twice as many berries 
have been shipped as last season so far, 
owing more to earliness than heavy pro¬ 
duction. but prices are holding fairly well 
except for poor fruit. The cold and rain 
caused many imperfect berries. 
_Apples from cold storage average about 
$7 per barrel. The consumer paying a 
dime for a fancy apple would hardly sus¬ 
pect that the crop was a record breaker 
which hardly anybody wanted to touch 
last Fall This season, with expenses 
down and total yield much less in the 
East, there should be good demand for 
barreled apples if the growers fight hard 
enough against the insects, which threaten 
to damage the market quality of the 
fruit. G. B. F. 
Local Up-State Prices 
SYRACUSE PUBLIC MARKET 
Beef, prime, sides, lb.. 10 to 12c; 
medium, 5 to 6c; lamb. lb.. 25 to .“>0c; 
live pigs, each, $6; small dressed pigs, 
lb.. 16c; pork, light, lb., 14%c; heavy, 
10c; veal, prime, ib.. 12c; common, 10c; 
sausage, lb.. 24c. 
Live poultry—Ducks, lb., 30c; fowls, 
35 to 40c; geese, 35c; guinea hens, each, 
$ 1 . 
Dressed Poultry — Ducks, lb.. 55c; 
broilers. 60c; fowls. 45 to 55c; ducks, 
50c; rabbits. Ih . 35c. 
Butter, lb.. 50 to 55c : eggs. 30c : duck» 
eggs, 40 to 50c; lard, lb.. 15c: Italiau 
cheese, lb.. 45 to 50c; maple syrup, gal., 
$1.75 to $2.25. 
t New 
Asparagus, bunch, 20c; doz. bunches, 
$2; beans, dry. bu., $1.50 to $4.50; qt„ 
10 to 12c; cabbage, doz. heads, 40c; per 
100, $3; carrots, bu., $1; chives, bunch, 
10c; garlic, lb.. 20c; horseradish roots, 
bunch, 10c; lettuce, leaf, crate, $1 to $3; 
onions, bu.. 45c; hothouse, doz.. 20 to 
25c: parsley, doz. bunches, 50c; parsnips, 
bu.. 70 to 75c; popcorn, bu.. $1 to $1.50; 
potatoes, bu., 40 to 50c; radishes, doz. 
bunches. 50c: rhubarb, doz. bunches, 40 
to 60c; spinach, bu., 60c to $1 ; sage, 
lb.. 10c. 
I lav and Straw—Alfalfa, extra, ton. 
$22; hay. No. 1. $22; No. 2, $10 to $20; 
No. 3. $14 to $16; Timothy, ton. $22. 
Straw, rve. ton. $13; wheat, $15; oat, 
$ 12 . 
JOHNSON CITY-ENDICOTT MARKETS 
Round steak, lb., 22c; hamburg, lb., 
20c; boneless roast, lb.. 20c; porterhouse 
steak, lb.. 2Sc; brisket bacon, lb., 22c; 
lamb chops, lb., 28c; mutton, lb., 12 to 
25c; roasting pigs, lb.. 25c; salt pork, 
lb., 23c; pork loins, lb.. 20 to 25c; sliced 
ham, lb., 35c; brisket bacon, lb., 22c; veal 
chops, lb., 35c; veal cutlets, lb., 40c; 
rabbits, dressed, ib., 35c; kettle roasts, 
lb., 14 to 18c; woodchuck, dressed, 30c. 
Live Poultry—Fowls, heavy, lb., 34c; 
old roosters, lb., 22c; turkeys, lb., 45 to 
50c; geese, lb., 36c; ducks, lb., 40c. 
Dressed Poultry—Roasting chickens, 
lb.. 45c; fowls, heavy, 44c; turkeys, lb., 
55c; geese, lb., 42c; ducks, lb., 46c. 
Eggs, fancy white, 30c; brown, 30c; 
mixed. 30c; duck eggs, 37c. 
Milk, qt.. 9c; buttermilk, qt., 5c; slum- 
milk. qt., 5c; creamery butter, fancy 
prints, lb., 40c; best dairy prints, lb, 
40c; dairy, in jars, lb., 40c; whole milk 
cream cheese, lb., 33c; skim, 17c; cottage 
cheese, 10c; pimento cheese, lb., 15c. 
Apples, large, bu., Baldwins, $1.20; 
Greenings. $1.25; Ben Davis, 90c; Spys, 
$1.40; other varieties, bu., 50c to $1; 
pears, Keifer, bu., $1.75; dried apples. 
12%c; citrons, each. 10 to 15c. 
Asparagus, 15c; beans, dry, lb., 7c; 
beets, bu.. $1: cabbage, white, lb., 2c; 
carrots, bu., 80c; celery, best, bunch, 12 
to 15c: dandelions greens, lb., 7c; egg¬ 
plant. best, each, 15c; medium, 10c; 
horseradish roots, lb., 15c; lettuce, large 
heads, 8c; onions, green, bunch, 30c; per 
bu.. 75c; parsnips, bu., $1; potatoes, bu., 
65c; small, 50c; rhubarb, lb., 10c; rad¬ 
ishes, large white, bunch, 8c; round red, 
bunch. 7c; sauerkraut, qt., 15c; spinach, 
peck, 30c; Hubbard squash, lb., 3c; ruta¬ 
bagas. bu., 90c; vegetable oysters, bunch, 
10c. 
Vinegar, qt., 10c; clover honey, ex¬ 
tracted. lb., 25c; card, lb., 25c; maple 
syrup, gal., $2.25; popcorn, shelled, lb., 
10c: on cob. Se; buckwheat flour, lb., 5c. 
Black walnuts, bu., $2.50; butternuts, 
bu., $2; hiekoryuuts, bu., $5.50. 
ROCHESTER 
Beef, dressed, carcass, lb., 15 to 18c; 
forequarters, lb., 10 to 13c; hindquarters, 
lb., 18 to 22c; dressed hogs, light, lb., 
15 to 18c; heavy, lb., 10 to 12c; Spring 
lamb, lb., 20 to 24c; yearling lambs, lb., 
10 to 18c; mutton, lb., 11 to 13c; veal, 
lb., 14 to 19c. 
Live Poultry—Fowls, lb., 35 to 38c; 
broilers, 70 to 75c; roosters, old, 14 to 
16c; ducks, lb., 28 to 30c; geese, lb., 20 
to 25c; turkeys, lb., 40 to 45c; eggs, 28 
to 30c. 
Apples, bu., Kings, $1.50 to $2; Spy, 
$1.50 to $2; Greenings, $1.25 to $1.50; 
seconds, SOc to $1. 
Asparagus, doz. bunches, $1 to $1.25; 
large bunches, $2.50 to $3; beets, doz. 
bunches, $1.50: cabbage, crate, 35 to 40c; 
carrots, bu., 75 to 90c; celery, doz. 
bunches, $1 to $1.25; cucumbers, hot¬ 
house, per doz. $2.50 to $3.50; lettuce, 
curly, doz. heads, 65 to 75c; common, 
per doz., 40 to SOc; mint, green, doz. 
bunches, 30 to 35c; onions, per bu., 40 
to SOc; green, per doz. bunches, 10 to 
12c; potatoes, bu.. 30 to 35c; parsnips, 
bu., 60 to 75c; pieplant, doz. bunches, 
30 to 40c; radishes, hothouse, per doz. 
bunches, 25 to 30c; spinach, home-grown, 
bu., $1 to $1.25; vegetable oysters, doz. 
bunches, 40 to 45c; watercress, doz. 
bunches, 40 to SOc. 
Seeds, clover, bu., $14 to $15; Tim¬ 
othy, $4 to $4.50; Alsike, $14 to $15; 
Alfalfa. $14.50 to $15.50. 
Beans, per 100 lbs., hand-picked, me¬ 
dium. $3.25; red marrow, $7 ; white mar¬ 
row, $4 50; red kidney, $7.50; white kid¬ 
ney, $10: pea, $3; yellow-eye, $6; im¬ 
perials, $8. 
Hides, steers. No. 1, 4c; No. 2, 3c; 
cows and heifers, No. 1, lb., 3c; No. 2, 
2c: bulls and stags, lb., 2c; horsehides, 
each. $1.50 to $2; lambs, each, SOc to $1; 
calf. No. 1. 12c; No. 2, 10c; wool, fleece, 
lb., 15 to 18c; unwashed, medium, 15 to 
18c. 
Buffalo Wholesale Markets 
Still the same weakness in most arti¬ 
cles. Butter had advanced a little, but 
it is now off again. Potatoes are “easy,” 
and steady is about the best with any¬ 
thing. 
BUTTER—CHEESE—EGGS 
Butter, weak; creamery, 27 to 34c; 
dairy, 25 to 31c; crocks, 23 to 30c: com¬ 
mon. IS to 20c. Cheese, quiet; daisies 
and flats, 16 to 18c; longhorns, 17 to 19c: 
s and 
held cheese. 6 to 9c more. Eggs, steady; 
hennery. 28 to 31c; State and Western, 
26 to 29c; no storage. 
POULTRY 
Dressed poultry, quiet: turkeys, 56 to 
60c; fowl, 37 to 38c ; capons, 58 to 60c; 
old roosters. 24 to 26c: ducks, 36 to 3Sc; 
geese, 26 to 28c. Live poultry, firm; 
fowl. 34 to 38c ; broilers. 50 to 65c; old 
roosters, 20 to 22c; ducks, 30 to 40c; 
gedse, 30 to 32c. 
APPLES'—POTATOES 
Apples, strong; fancy Spv. bu., $2.50 
to $2.75; Baldwin. $2.25 to' $2.50; Rus¬ 
set. $2 to $2.25. Potatoes, dull : fancy 
white, bu., 55 to 65c ; seconds, 40 to 59c; 
Floridas. hbl.. $6.50 to $9; Bermudas. $8 
to $12; sweets, hamper. $1.50 to $2.50. 
STRAWBERRIES 
Strawberries, easier; Southern, 24-qt. 
crate, $7 to $7.50; single qt., 20 to 32c. 
BEANS—ONIONS 
Beans, dull; kidney, cwt.. $7.50 to 
$8.75; marrow, $8 to $8.59; pea and 
medium, $4.50 to $5. Onions, weak ; 
homegrown, bu.. 75c to $1.25; Texas, 
white and yellow, crate, $1.75 to $2.25. 
VEGETABLES 
Vegetables, more firm. Asparagus, doz. 
bunches. $2.50 to $3 ; onion sprouts, do., 
10 to 15c; radishes, 60 to 70c; beets, old. 
bu.. 50 to 75c: carrots, do., $1.25 to 
$1.50; spinach, .81 to $1.25; new beets, 
hamper. $2.50 to $3; string beans, do., 
$3 to $4 : Florida cucumbers. $6 to $7 ; 
lettuce. Iceberg, crate. $4 to $4.50; toma¬ 
toes. Florida, do., $3 to $5; endive, lb., 
28 to 30c; pieplant, doz., 50 to 80c; pep¬ 
pers, box, $4.50 to $5.50; celery, Florida, 
crate, $6 to $7. 
SWEETS 
Honey, dull: light comb, lb.. 26 to 33c; 
dark, 20 to 24c. Maple products, dull; 
sugar, lb., 25 to 35c; svrup, gal., $1.75 
to $2. 
FEED 
Hay, easy ; Timothy, track, ton, $18 to 
$21; clover mixed, $16 to $18 ; straw, $14 
to $15. Wheat bran, ton, carlot, $21.25; 
middlings, $21.25; red dog. $32.25; cot¬ 
tonseed meal. $35.50; oilmeal, $31; 
hominy, $28.50; gluten, $31; oat feed, 
$9; rye middlings, $20. j. w. 0. 
Philadelphia 'Wholesale Markets 
BUTTER 
Best creamery, 31 to 33c; good to 
choice, 27 to 29c; ladles, 17 to 22c. 
Eggs 
Best, nearby, 34 to 35c; gathered, good 
to choice, 27 to 28c; better grades, 19 
to 22c. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls, 34 to 37c; broilers, 50 to 65c; 
roosters, 22 to 24c; ducks, 25 to 30c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Fowls, 35 to 38c; roosters, 22 to 23c. 
FRUITS 
Strawberries, qt., 10 to 28c; oranges, 
box, $2 to $7.75 ; grapefruit, $5 to $6. 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes, cwt.. SOc to $1.20; new, 
Southern, hbl., $5 to $8; sweet potatoes, 
%-bu. basket. $1.50 to $1.75: cabbage, 
new, bid., $2.50 to $3.50; onions, old, 100 
ltxs.. $1 to $1.25; asparagus, bunch, 10 
to SOc. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Ilay—Timothy, No. 2, $21 to $22 ; No. 
3, $18 to $19; clover mixed, $18 to $20. 
Straw—Rye, $18 to $20; wheat. $15 to 
$17. 
Boston Wholesale Prices 
BUTTER 
Creamery, best, 31 to 32c; common to 
good. 27 to 29c; dairy, 18 to 25c; stor¬ 
age, 31 to 33c. 
Fogs 
Fancy nearby, 40 to 41c; gathered, 
good to choice, 30 to 36c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Broilers, 55 to 60c; fowls, 32 to 38c; 
ducks, 30 to 33c; squabs, doz., $5 to $7. 
Fruits 
Apples. Baldwin, hbl., $3 to $8.50; Ben 
Davis. $3 to $4; Russet, $3.50 to $6; 
Spy. $3.50 to $7. Strawberries, qt., 30 
to 35c. 
POTATOES 
Maine, 100 lbs., 90c to $1; new, bbl., 
$4.50 to $9.50. 
VEGETABLES 
Onions, 100 lbs., 75c to $1; asparagus, 
bu. box, $6 to $8; lettuce, bu. box, $1 to 
$2.25; spinach, bu., $1.25 to $1.50; car¬ 
rots. bu. box, $1.50 to $2 ; turnips, bag, 
$1.50 to $2; radishes, bu. box, $2 to 
$2.50: tomatoes, hothouse, lb., 15 to 35c; 
rhubarb, bu. box, $1 to $1.25; parsnips, 
bu. box, $1.50 to $2.75. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Best Timothy. $31 to $32; No. 2. $27 
to $28; No. 3. $25 to $26; clover mixed, 
$27 to $29. Rye straw, $25 to $26; oat 
straw, $17 to $18. 
Prices 
New York Wholesale Quotations 
May 19, 1921 
MILK 
The New York price to producers for 
May is $2.30 per 100 lbs. for 3 per cent 
fluid milk at points 200 to 210 miles from 
the city, with 4 cents per 100 lbs. addi¬ 
tional for every tenth of 1 per cent but- 
terfat over 3. Prices for June fluid milk, 
3 per cent. $1.95 per 100 lbs.; Class 2. 
milk used for plain condensed, ice cream 
and cream, $1.65; Class 3. sweet con¬ 
densed. evaporated and milk powder, 
$1.50. Loose milk at stores retails at 
10 cents per quart; bottled. Grade A. 17 
eents; bottled. Grade B. 15 cents; certi¬ 
fied. 28 cents. Some retailers state that 
retail prices will drop one cent, per quart 
by June. 
BUTTER 
There has been another heavy drop in 
in-ice, choice creamery wholesaling under 
30 cents for the first time in several 
years. The Chicago price on “Extras” is 
now practically the same as New York, 
although a large proportion of the butter 
sold at New York is Western made and 
certainly costs more to deliver at New 
York than Chicago. It is not improbable 
that other reasons than the ordinary hap¬ 
penings of trade may account for the 
Steady pounding down of New York 
prices. 
Creamery, fancy, lb. 29 a 29J^ 
Good to Choice . 25 @ 28 
Lower Grades. 20 @ 24 
City made. 18 @ 22 
Dairy, best . 27 a 28 
Common to good . 19 @ 24 
Packing Stock. 13 u 18 
CHEESE 
Prices are fractionally lower both here 
and at interior points. The Utica, N. Y., 
Dairy Board this week made the price 
12%. a drop of three-fourths cent. 
Whole Milk, fancy, new. 15J^@ 165^ 
Good to choice. 14'a 15 
EGGS 
White, nearby, oholce to fancy. 32 a 33 
Medium to good. 28 a 30 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 28 a 29 
Common to good. 25 a 27 
Gathered, beBt, white. 29 a 30 
Medium to good, mixed oolora... 23 a 27 
I,ower grades. 20 a 22 
Storage, best. 19 @ 20 
LIVE STOCK 
Steers. 8 00 a 9 15 
Balls;. 5 00 a 6 75 
Cows. 3 00 a 6 00 
Calves, prime veal, 100 lbs. 8 00 ai2 50 
Culls. 5 00 @ 7 00 
Hogs. 8 75 all) 00 
Sheep, 100 lbs. 5 00 a 7 00 
Lambs . 9 00 ® 15 00 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best. 40 @ 50 
Com. to good. 35 @ 45 
Chickens choice Ib. 45 a 50 
Fair to Good. 30 © 38 
Fowls. 32 @ 37 
Roosters. 18 a 22 
Ducks . 25 @ 28 
Squabs, dot. . 4 00 a 9 00 
COUNTRY-DRESSED MEATS 
Sales are reported at: Calves, choice, 
15 to 17c; common to good. 10 to 14c; 
lambs, hothouse, each, $4 to $9. 
BEANS 
Marrow, 100 lbs..... 6 25 a 6 50 
Pea . 3 75 a 4 40 
Medium .. 4 50 a 4 75 
Red Kidney . 9 50 a 9 75 
White Kidney.12 50 a 13 00 
Vellow Eye. 7 50 @ 8 00 
FRUITS 
Apples, Baldwin, bbl. 4 00 a 7 50 
Ben Davis. 3 50 a 5 50 
Albemarle. 9 00 mil 50 
Strawberries, Jersey, qt.. 25 a 35 
Virginia. 15 @ 23 
Maryland. 20 a 30 
POTATOES 
Southern, new, bbl.2 50 @ 8 00 
Old, 180 lbs.150 a 2 50 
Bermuda, bbl. . .. VO a 8 50 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. bkt. .... 1 00 a 2 75 
VEGETABLES 
Asparagus, doz. bunches. 2 00 4 6 00 
Beets, bbl. 1 50 a 2 50 
Cabbage, ton. 8 00 al2 00 
New, bbl. 2 50 @ 3 25 
Carrots, bbl. 1 50 a 3 00 
Cucumbers, bu. 2 00 @ 6 00 
Chicory and Escarol. bbl. 2 00 a 4 00 
Lettuce, balf-bbl. basket. 1 00 a 2 00 
Onions. 100 lbs. 50 a 175 
New, bu. cra'e. 1 00 a 2 25 
Egg Plants, bu. 2 00 a 3 75 
Turnips, rutabaga bbl. 2 50 a 3 50 
Radishes. 100 bunches. 3 00 ® 5 00 
String Beans, bu. bkt. 1 50 @ 3 00 
Peppers, bu. 2 00 a 3 50 
Peas, bu. 1 50 @ 3 75 
Parsnips, bbl. 100 @2 50 
Romaine, bu. 1 00 @2 50 
Mushrooms, lb. 20 @ 35 
Spinach, bbl. 1 00 @ 2 00 
Kale, bbl. 1 00 @ 2 00 
Parsley, bbl. 2 00 @ 4 00 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay. Timothy,No. 1. ton. 27 00 @28 00 
No. 2 .23 00 @25 00 
No. 3 .20 00 ig'22 00 
Shipping.15 00 @19 00 
Clover. Mixed .20 00 @26 00 
Straw. Rye. .20 00 @24 00 
Oat and wheat.12 00 @16 00 
GRAIN 
Cash wholesale prices quoted at New 
York: Wheat, No. 2 red Winter, $1.69; 
corn. No. 2 yellow. 79c; oats. No. 2 
white, 50c; rye, $1.55; barley, 75c. 
George: “What. ’Enry, out of a job 
again?” ’Enry: “Yus, I had to resign. 
They set me to push a wheelbarrow, and 
what do I know of machinery?”—Credit 
Lost. 
