904 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 9, 1921 
Market 
News and 
c e 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
ADVANCING SEASON BRINGS DECLINING 
BRICES FOR VEGETABLES—FRUITS 
SCARCE AND HIGH. 
Freight. charges averaging 20 to 30c 
per 3(H) lbs. higher than before the ad¬ 
vance are surely a handicap. However, 
shipments are coming along as usual, and 
one-fifth more of them than last season 
for the corresponding dates. This is part¬ 
ly because some lines like melons and 
peaches are moving early this year. Prices 
of these lines are high enough to bring 
full shipments. Fruits are relatively 
higher than vegetables. Peaches, plums, 
cherries and the berry crops sell high be¬ 
cause the fruit crops in general are light. 
Melons on Northern markets have been 
bringing .$400 to $700 per carload of 
about 3.000 medium sized melons, which 
growers consider a fair price, except in 
comparison with some recent years of 
very high prices. In fact, the present 
range is as high or higher than in any 
year except 3919 and part of 3920. Grow¬ 
ers are receiving about $300 per car aver¬ 
age. The hot. dry weather has cut down 
the yield of all seasonable fruits, but has 
increased the demand. 
The outloo! for tree fruits lias become 
worse rather ihan better, owing to heavy 
June drought and dry weather. Maine 
and the Northwest seem to have the only 
really good crops. On the other hand, or¬ 
chard conditions in July often look worse 
than they are and a comparatively poor 
set may show a decent crop if there is 
moisture enough the last three months to 
size pp the fruit. 
From the grower’s standpoint it seems 
a pity that all the crops cannot be handled 
as skilfully as the cranberry specialty. 
The marketing is concentrated in so few 
hands on a co-operative basis that it ap¬ 
proaches monopoly, limited, mainly by 
competition with other fruits. Plainly, a 
good-sized crop of cranberries would be 
hard to sell at high prices in a big apple 
year, but the cranberry associations did it 
by starting the prices low. selling the 
earlier and inferior kinds first, grading the 
fruit well, advertising to increase the 
demand, and by distributing shipments 
throughout the country to cover the mar¬ 
kets regularly and evenly. It was a re¬ 
markable piece of work to sell cranber¬ 
ries, some of them around $20 per barrel, 
in a yeaij of tumbling prices in other lines. 
It was done by finding people who wanted 
them and by starting new consumers in 
the cranberry habit. Of course, the lower 
price of sugar helped. The commercial 
cranberry territory is limited by natural 
conditions, but many of the ideas of the 
cranberry management seem good for any 
crop where the growers can be induced to 
follow a co-operative plan. 
Vegetables have gone down slowly as 
the supply increased. Early potatoes 
have been averaging over 500 cars per 
day. and the price is down to about $2 
to the growers in the Eastern Shore sec¬ 
tion. The best stock brings about $3 per 
barrel in Northern markets. The South¬ 
ern onions approach the end of the market 
season at $1.50 to $2 per crate in North¬ 
ern cities. The price at shipping points 
has averaged below $1 nearly all the sea¬ 
son. A few growers who raise big crops 
may have got out without loss, but the 
majority doubtless failed to pay expenses, 
as was the case with many of the leading 
Southern truck crops this season. Cali¬ 
fornia is even worse off than the South 
because the freight is higher. Although 
growers were losing money they had to 
keep on shipping or lose all they had put 
into crops. Their courage is shown by 
the fact that some of them are already 
asking about the coming Northern onion 
crop, in order to lay plans for their own 
crop next season. 
Regarding the Northern onion crop, 
most news is unfavorable. There are 
signs of a rather short crop, because of 
lighter acreage, drought, winds and vari¬ 
ous pests. Some growers will have a good 
yield. It is the old story of the persist¬ 
ent. regular grower who learns the busi¬ 
ness. takes a bad market season when it 
comes and makes it up later when others 
drop out. The first of the early onions 
from Virginia bring $1 to $1.50 per bushel 
in Northern markets. G. B. F. 
Local Up-state Prices 
SYRACUSE 
Beef, prime, sides, 30 to 12c; medium, 
lb.. 5 to 6c ; lamb. lb.. 25 to 30c ; live pigs, 
each. $4.50 to $5; small dressed pigs, lb., 
16c; pork, light, lb.. 14c; heavy, lb. 12c; 
veal, prime, lb., 13c; common, lb., 30c. 
Live Poultry—Ducks, lb.. 30 to 32c; 
Spring, lb., 35 to 38c ; chickens, live, lb., 
40 to 45c; fowls, 35c; geese, lb.. 35c; 
guinea hens. each. $3. 
Dressed Poultry—Ducks. Spring, lb.. 
50c: chickens, lb., 60 to 65c; fowls, lb.. 45 
to 50c : geese, lb., 50c: rabbits, lb.. 40c. 
Rutter, lb. 30 to 40c; eggs. 32 to 35c; 
duck eggs, 40c; Italian cbeese, 40 to 45c; 
maple syrup, gal.. $2. 
Strawberries, crate, $5 to $6 50: per 
pt., 20 to 30c: cherries, crate, $6.50; per 
qt., 20c; currants, red. crate. $4.50; 
gooseberries, qt.. 20 to 25c; blackberries, 
crate. $30; per qt., 30c. 
Asparagus, per bunch, 32c; per doz. 
bunches. $3 : beans, string, bu.. $4; beets, 
green, bu.. 50c; per doz. bunches, 40 to 
5<’c; cabbage, new, doz. heads, $1.50 to 
$1.75; carrots, doz. bunches, 30 to 40c; 
chives, bunch. 10c ; cucumbers, each, 5 to 
10c; garlic, lb.. 20c; kohlrabi, doz., $1 ; 
lettuce, leaf, crate. 50c to $2; Boston, 
doz., 25 to 50c; onions, doz.. 30c; parsley, 
doz. bunches. 50c; peas, bu., $2.25; per 
peck. 50 to 75c; potatoes, bu.. 35 to 40c; 
radishes, doz. bunches, 20c; rhubarb, doz. 
bunches, 50c; romaine, doz. heads. 30 to 
50c; sage, lb., 30c; Swiss chard, per bun¬ 
dle. 20c; turnips, doz. bunches. 50 to 60c. 
Hay and Straw—Alfalfa, extra, ton, 
$18; hay. No. 3. $18; No. 2. $17: No. 3. 
$15; Timothy, ton. $17 to $20. Straw— 
Rye, $32; wheat. $14; oat, $10. 
ROCHESTER 
Dressed beef, carcass, lb.. 15 to 18c; 
forequarters, lb , 30 to 13c; hindquarters, 
lb.. IS to 22c; dressed hogs. lb.. 13 to 
15c. light; heavy, lb.. 10 to 12c; Spring 
lambs, lb. 30 to 32c; yearling lambs, lb., 
39 to 24c; mutton, lb., 30 to 35c; veal. 34 
to 36c. 
Dive Poultry—Fowls, lb., 26 to 28c; 
broilers, lb.. 45 to 50c; roosters. 14 to 
16c; ducks. 23 to 25c; geese, 20 to 25c; 
turkeys, 40 to 45c; eggs. 28 to 30c. 
Cherries, sour. lb.. 10c; black, lb.. 34 
to 16c; white, lb.. 30 to 12c; currants, 
rod. Jb.. 8 to 10c; raspberries, red. pt.. 22 
to 2.>c; black, pt.. 15 to 18c; gooseberries, 
lb.. 12 to 14c; watermelons, each. 50 to 
75c. 
Asparagus, doz. bunches. 60 to 75c; 
large. $2 to $3 50; beets, doz. bunches. 25 
to 35c; cauliflower, doz. heads. $2 25 to 
$2 50; cabbage, new, doz. heads. $3.50 to 
$3.75; carrots, new. doz. bunches. 25 to 
30c; celery, doz. bunches. $1.25 to $1.50: 
cucumbers, doz., $1.25 to $1.40; green 
peas. bu.. $1.75 to $2; lettuce, doz. heads, 
20 to 50c; mint, green, doz. bunches. 30 
to 35c; onions, bu., 40 to 45c; green, doz. 
bunches. 15 to 20c; potatoes, old. bn . 35 
to 40c; pieplant, doz. hunches. 35 to 45c; 
radishes, doz. bunches. 30 to 32c; spinach, 
bu.. 40 to 50c; tomatoes, lb . 20 to 25c; 
green beans, basket. $1 50 to $3.75; wax 
beans, basket. $1.50 to $3.75; watercress, 
doz. bunches. 40 to 50c. 
Beans, per 100 lbs., hand-picked, medi¬ 
um. $3 25; rod marrow. $8; white mar¬ 
row, $4.50; red kidney. $9; white kid¬ 
ney. $10; pea, $3.10; yellow eye. $6.25: 
imperials. $8. 
Hides, No. 3. steers, lb.. 4c; No. 2. 3c; 
No. 3. cows and heifers. 3c; No. 2. cows 
and heifers, 2c; bulls and stags, lb.. 2c; 
horsehides. each. $1.50 to $2; lambs, each. 
25c; calf. No. 3. 32c; No. 2. 10c; wool 
fiooeo. lb.. 35 to 18c; unwashed, medium. 
15 to 18c. 
Wheat, bu.. $1.20 to $1.25; corn, 
shelled, 80 to 82c; oats, 45 to 46c; rve, 
bu.. $1.20 to $1.25. 
Hay and Straw—Timothv. No. 1. $24; 
No. 2. $18 to $21 ; No 3 mixed. $38 to 
$20; Alfalfa, $37 to $25. Straw. $34 to 
$18. 
Buffalo Wholesale Markets 
The midsummer season brings out a 
number of new items. With the going of 
strawberries, other berries appear, and 
peaches are plentier. The local peach 
crop will be much better than cherries 
were. The freezing that nearly ruined 
the cherries scarcely affected the peaches. 
Apples are about gone. 
BUTTER—CHEESE—EGGS 
Butter, strong; creamery, 33 to 38c; 
dairy, 23 to 31c; crocks, 22 to 30c; com¬ 
mon, 30 to 20c. Cheese steady: flats and 
daisies. 17 to 18c; longhorns, 18 to 39c; 
old cheese. 6 to 9c more. Eggs stronger ; 
hennery, 31 to 34e; State and Western 
candled, 29 to 30c. 
POULTRY 
Dressed poultry, dull; turkeys, 55 to 
56c; fowl, 30 to 34c; chickens. 38 to 40c; 
old roosters, 18 to 20c ; ducks. 30 to 31c; 
goose, 28 to 30c. T ive poultry, lower: 
fowl. 26 to 33c; broilers. 28 to 40c; old 
roosters. 21 to 22c; ducks, 35 to 40c; 
geese, 18 to 20c. 
APPLES—POTATOES 
Apples going out; Baldwin. bbl„ $5.50 
to $6.50; Ren Davis. $5 to $6; Western 
Winesap, bu., $2.35 to $3. Potatoes, 
steady; good to fancy white, bn.. 30 to 
45c; new Southern, bid.. $3 to $3.50. 
CHERRIES AND BERRIES 
Cherries, scarce; sweet. 4-qt. basket. 
$125 to $1.60; sour, 50 to 65c. Straw¬ 
berries, scarce, firm ; homegrown, qt.. 15 
to 25c; raspberries, red. 30 to 35c; pur¬ 
ple. _23 to 25c: black. 20 to 25c; huckle¬ 
berries, 25 to 30c; gooseberries, 20 to 28c. 
PEACHES AND MELONS 
Peaches, dull; Georgia clingstone, crate. 
$3.75 to $2.25: freestone. $2.50 to $3.25; 
watermelons, each. 50c to $3.75; canta¬ 
loupes. crate. $3.50 to $3.75; honevdew, 
box, $3 to $3.50. 
BEANS—ONIONS 
Beans, steady; kidney, cwt., $8.50 to 
$9; marrow, $8.25 to $850; pea and me¬ 
dium. $4.50 to $5 25; onions, easy; Texas 
white, crate. $1.50 to $1.75; Texas vellow, 
$3.25 to $1.30. 
VEGETABLES 
Vegetables, active; asparagus, doz. 
bunches, $1.50 to $2; beets. 40 to 50c; 
carrots, 40 to 50c; onion sprouts, 10 to 
15c; parsley, 60 to 75c; pieplant, 40 to 
60c; radishes, 25 to 35c; string beans, 
hamper, $1.50 to $2.50; cucumbers, Flor¬ 
ida hamper. $2.50 to $2.75; cabbage, 
Southern crate, $1.50 to $3.25; tomatoes. 
Southern crate, $3 to $4 ; celery, bunch. 
15 to 20c; eggplant, box, $2.50 to $3.50; 
peppers, box, $3.50 to $4.25; lettuce. 50c 
to $1.25; peas, bag. $3.25 to $3.50. 
SWEETS 
Iloney. quiet; light comb. lb.. 25 to 
32c; dark, 18 to 22c; maple products, 
dull: sugar, lb., 20 to 30c; syrup, gal.. 
$3.50 to $1.75. 
* Reed 
Hay, dull; Timothy, track, ton. $16.50 
to $19 50; clover mixed, $16 to $19; 
straw, $5 to $30; wheat bran, lower; ton, 
car lot. $38.50; middlings, $39 50; red 
dog. $31.50; cottonseed meal. $36.75; oil- 
meal, $33; hominy, $28-50; glnten, $32; 
oat feed, $30; rye middlings. $23. 
J. W. C. 
Philadelphia Wholesale Markets 
BUTTER 
Rest creamery, 38 to 39c; common to 
good. 30 to 35c; packing stock. 18 to 26c. 
RGGS 
Nearby fancy. 39 to 40c; gathered, com¬ 
mon to good. 24 to 25c. 
DIVE POULTRY 
Fowls. 33 to 35c; broilers, 45 to 54c; 
ducks, 38 to 22c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Fowls. 33 to 34c; broilers, 45 to 50c; 
ducks, 27 to 28c. 
fruits 
Peaches, 6-basket crate. $2.25 to $3; 
muskmelons, bu. crate. $4.25 to $4.75; 
watermelons, carload. $300 to $750. Black¬ 
berries, qt . 23 to 2$e; raspberries, pt., S 
to 32c; huckleberries, qt.. 25 to 35c. 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes, new, bbl.. $1.50 to $2.75; cab¬ 
bage. bbl., $2 to $3; onions, %-bu. 40 to 
65c. 
IIAY AND STRAW 
Hay—Timothy. No. 2, $20 to $23 ; No 
3. $17 to $18; clover mixed. $37 to $19. 
Straw—Rye, $19 to $21 ; wheat. $34 to 
$16. 
Boston Wholesale Markets 
BUTTER 
Rest creamery. 36 to 37c; common to 
good, 26 to 33c: dairy. 24 to 32c. 
EGGS 
Ghoice nearby, 46 to 47c; common to 
good, 35 to 42c. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls, 30 to 32c ; broilers, 40 to 43c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Fowls. 30 to 37c; broilers, 35 to 40c; 
squabs, doz., $5 to $7. 
VEGETABLES 
Cabbage, bbl.. $1.75 to $2.75: cucum¬ 
bers. bu., $2.50 to $6 50: radishes, bu., 40 
to 50c; lettuce, bu.. 35 to 50c. 
POTATOES 
New stock, bbl., $2 to $3.25; old, 100 
lbs., 65 to 90c. 
* FRUITS 
Strawberries, qt.. 20 to 45c; huckleber¬ 
ries. 30 to 35c; blackberries, 22 to 2Sc; 
raspberries, pt., 10 to 15c; currants, qt., 
12 to 15c; gooseberries, qt., 15 to 35c; 
cherries, qt., 20 to 22c. 
Pittsburgh Markets 
BUTTER 
Best creamery, 38 to 39c: common to 
good. 30 to 35c ; rolls. 28 to 29c. 
Eggs 
Rest, 30 to 31c; common to good, 27 
to 28c. 
r.lVE POULTRY 
Hens, 26 to 30c; Spring chickens. 48 
to 50c; roosters, 18 to 19c; ducks. 30 to 
32c; geese, 18 to 22c; turkeys. 40 to 43c. 
PRESSED POULTRY 
ITons. 40 to 45c; b-oilcrs. 60 to 65c; 
roosters. 32 to 33c: ducks, 40 to 45c; 
squabs, $7.50 to $9.50. 
Fruits 
Apples, bbl.. $5 to $7; strawberries, qt., 
22 to 30c; huckleberries, qt., 32 to 35c. 
VEGETABLES 
Potatoes, old. LoO lbs., $1.25 to $1.75; 
cabbage, bbl. $2 50 to $3; lettuce, bu.. 
$2.25 to $2 75 ; cucumbers, bu.. $2.25 to 
$2.75; onions, bu.. $1.50 to $1.65. 
IIAY AND STRAW 
Hay—No. 1 Timothy. $24 to $24 50; 
No. 2. $20 to $21 ; clover mixed. $17 to 
$19. Straw—Rye, $36.50 to $17; oat, 
$15 to $36. 
New York Wholesale Quotations 
June 30. 1921 
MILK 
The New York prices for July fluid 
milk, 3 per cent. $2.20 per 100 lbs.; Class 
2, milk used for plain condensed, ice 
cream and cream. $1.55; Class 3, sweet 
condensed, evaporated and milk powder, 
$1.50 in 201 to 250-mile zone. 
BUTTER 
Creamery, fancy. )b. 
Good to Choice . 
Lower Grndes. 
City made. 
Dairy, best . 
Common to (food . 
Packing Stock. 
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CHEESE 
Whole Milk, fancy, new... lfi 
Good to choice. ]4 
EGGS 
White, nearby, choice to fancy. 40 
Medium to wood . 33 
Mixed colors, nearby best. 34 
Common to good. 27 
Gathered, best, white. 34 
Medium to eooa. mixed colors... 26 
Lower grades. 20 
LIVE STOCK 
Steen. 
Ball* . 
Cows. 
Calves, prime real. 100 lb* 
Cull*. 
Hoes... 
Sheep. 100 lbs. 
Lambs .. 
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4 50 
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8 00 
3 00 
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LIVE POULTRY 
Prices arc reported as follows : Fowls, 
30 to 32c; broilers. 35 to 50c; roosters, 
16c; ducks, 25 to 30c; geese, 14 to 16c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Turkeys, best. 45 @ 55 
Com. to good. 30 @ 40 
Chickens cln.ice lb. 45 © 50 
Fair to Good. 30 @> 40 
Fowls. 30 @ 33 
Roosters. 17 @ 20 
Ducks . 25 © 28 
Squabs, dox. . 4 00 a 8 00 
BEANS 
' Marrow. 100 lb*..... 6 00 ©6 25 
Pea . 4 00 © 4 60 
Medium .. 4 SO © 4 75 
Red Ki(1n« v .11 00 @11 75 
White Kidney. 12 50 @13 25 
Yellow Eye. 7 50 @ 8 10 
FRUITS 
Old apples in barrels in light supply 
and dull. Strawberries nearly gone. Rasp¬ 
berries show effect of the recent drought. 
Currants doing a trifle better. Peaches in 
good demand and higher for best. 
Apples. Baldwin, bbl. 4 00 @6 00 
Ben Davis . 3 50 @ 4 50 
Strawberries. Western N. Y. 35 @ 45 
Reaches. 6-bkt. orate. 2 00 O 4 10 
Watermelons, earload . . 400 00 @650 00 
Kaspberries.pt . . 8 © 15 
Blackberries, qt. 25 @ 35 
Huckleberries, qt . 30 @ (0 
Uo 'seberries. 8-lb. bkt. 50 @ 55 
Cherries, 8-lb. bkt. 90 @ 1 00 
Currants, qt . 14 @ 17 
Muskmelons. bu . 4 00 @ 5 50 
POTATOES 
Southern, new, bbl.1 00 @ 3 00 
Old, ISO lbs.1 50 @ 2 00 
Bermuda, bbl. 2 00 @ 4 00 
Sweet Potatoes, bu. bkt. 1 00 @ S 00 
VEGETABLES 
Asparagus, doz. bunches. 1 50 © 4 00 
Beets, bu. 1 00 @ 1 25 
Cabbage. New, bbl. 1 25 @1 50 
Carrots, bu. 1 00 @1 25 
Cucumbers, bu. 1 00 @ 2 50 
Lettuce, half-bbl. basket. 50 @ 125 
Onions, new, bu. 50 @ 1 50 
Egg Plants, bu. 1 00 @2 75 
Turnips, rutabaga bbl... 175 @2 26 
Radishes. 100 bunches. 1 00 ® 2 00 
String Beans, bu. bkt. 50 @ 1 26 
Peppers, bu. 1 00 @ 1 75 
Peas, bu . 1 00 & 8 00 
Komaine.bu. 50 @ 125 
Mushrooms. Ib. 40 @ 1 00 
Spinach, bbl. 1 00 ffl 2 00 
Kale, bbl. 50 @ 75 
Tomatoes, 6-bkt crate.I 25 @ 4 00 
Squash, bu . 50 @ 1 50 
Sweet corn, bbl. 7 00 @ 8 00 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay. Timothy,So. 1. ton. 27 00 @28 00 
No. 2 . 25 00 @26 00 
No. 3 .....22 00 ©24 00 
Shipping.18 00 @2100 
Clover. Mixed .20 00 ©27 0(1 
8traw. Rye .22 00 @23 CO 
Oat and wheat.15 00 @20 00 
GRAIN 
Cash wholesale prices quoted at New 
York: Wheat. No. 2 red Winter, $1.47: 
corn. No. 2 yellow. 80c; oats. No. 2 
white, 47c; rye. $1.37; barley, 75c. 
What Are “Grass” Eggs? 
Will you explain the meaning of the 
term “grass eggs.” referred to in a bill, 
and some means of preventing the con¬ 
dition? A. W. J. 
New York. 
The meaning in this ease is eggs of 
weak body, where the yolk will not stand 
up for frying or poaching. Before the 
candler’s light they show dark spots or 
a mottled condition. Dealers who sup¬ 
ply hotels and restaurants have to candle 
out such eggs and sell at a much lower 
price for bakery or omelet use. This is 
classed as a hot weather defect. There 
is a large amount of complaint about it 
at. present. Frequent gathering and ship¬ 
ping . will help, and temporary storage 
should be in a cool, dry place. Hens 
with free range, seeking a secluded spot, 
will often lay on the hay. in a shed or 
barn, close to the roof, where it is very 
hot. They should be shut out of such 
places, if possible, and the Summer nest 
arrangement in houses should be on the 
cool side. Standing an hour or two on 
the railroad platform in the blazing sun 
adds to the damage. Some dealers think 
that when hens on free range are made to 
“pick their living” to a great extent and 
are fed a minimum amount of grain, this 
breaking down of the yolk is more likely 
to occur. 
