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American Agriculturist, January 13, 19" fj? 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
BULK OF APPLE EECEIPTS ARE 
GREENINGS 
T he bulk of the supply of barreled 
apples in the market last week were 
Greenings. There was considerable ac¬ 
cumulation of barreled stock from N. 
Y. State in the market. 
The total carlot shipments of apples 
from all producing points within the 
United States this season up to Jan¬ 
uary 1, 1923, was 79,073 carloads com¬ 
pared with 73,407 cars to the same date 
last year. 
Market reports on apples use the 
term “best” as meaning the best of the 
general receipts. The term “fancy” is 
applied only to those very exceptional 
packs where the goods are of very 
superior quality, carefully graded and 
free from all blemishes. Such goods 
are superior to the minimum require¬ 
ments of the New York law for Grade 
A. “Ordinary” is the common stock 
barely meeting minimum Grade A re¬ 
quirements not uniform good size, nor 
up to market standard as to color or 
freedom from blemishes. 
These terms will be used in regular 
quotations on this page during the rest 
of the apple-shipping season, as in the 
following table of wholesale prices at 
New York January 4; 
Apples Best Fancy Ordinary 
Baldwin.. .$4.75@5 $5.25@5.50 $4 @4.50 
Greening.. 4 @4.25 4.50@4.75 3.50@3.76 
McIntosh.. 7.50@8 8.50@9 6 @7 
N. Spy_ 6.50@7 7.25@7.50 5 @6 
Ben Davis. 3 @3.25 3.50 2.50@2.76 
The market for pears most of which 
are now Kiefers continued very dull. 
Best Kiefers sold at $3.00 to $3.50 with 
a few sales of fancy large at $3.75 to $4. 
Potato Market Dull After Holidays 
Except for a little better demand 
just before New Year’s the potato- 
market at New York has been generally 
dull -with plenty of potatoes moving 
from the country on the slightest pros¬ 
pect of higher prices. Most New York 
State growers have been getting 45 
cents a bushel, with a few very fancy 
bringing 50 cents. 
At the 33rd St. N. Y. City yard 150- 
pound sacks on January 4 were sell¬ 
ing, not freely, for $2 each. Bulk 
State round whites No. 1 per 180- 
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pounds mostly $2.50 for best. Long 
Island Green Mountains, per 180-pounds 
bulk, mostly $3.50 to $3.65. 
The total carlot shipments of pota¬ 
toes in the country this season up to 
January 1, Avas 154,800, only a little 
in excess of the 152,245 cars shipped 
last year up to the same date, in spite 
of the larger crop. 
Demand for Cabbage Improving 
There were very few cars of cabbage 
in the yard on January 4, and the de¬ 
mand was improving. The best Danish 
brought $25.per ton in Harlem. Some 
up-state shippers are holding for $20 
per ton f. o. b. which is too high to 
stimulate much movement. Carlot ship¬ 
ments of cabbage in U. S. up to Jan¬ 
uary 1, were 34,391 compared with 
26,994 to same date last year. 
Onions continued to find a steady 
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lower than in 1921, the decline was not 
as great as with most other farm pro¬ 
ducts. The following average whole¬ 
sale prices received for butter in New 
York City for the last five years were 
compiled by the principal trade market 
reporting agency: 1922, 40.58 cents; 
1921, 43.25; 1920, 60.144; 1919, 60.72; 
1918, 52.30. 
Included in the year’s receipts of 
butter at New York were at least 20,000 
packages from Canada, and 27,260 
casks of 112 pounds each from Den¬ 
mark. The high tariff of 8 cents per 
pound caused imports to fall off consid¬ 
erably in 1922, and the total importa¬ 
tions were about 4,000,000 pounds. 
The cold storage holdings of butter 
in the four large markets on January 
3 were 14,835,806 pounds, compared 
with 32,974,153 pounds on the same 
date last year. Receipts of butter at 
New York up to January 3 this year 
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Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to 
eastern farmers hold on January 4: 
Eggs, Nearbys (cents per dozen) New York Buffalo Phila. 
Hennery, whites, extra fancy. 
Extra first. 
Firsts . 
Gathered, whites, first to extra firsts. 
Lower grades... 
Hennery browns, extra fancy. 
Gathered browns and mixed colors, extra fancy. 
Extra-first. . 
Pullets.. 
Butter (cents per pound) 
Creamery (salted) high score. 52i/^@53 
Extra (92 score). 51tk@52 
State dairy (salted), fine to fancy. 42 @50 
Good to prime. 35 @41 
Hay and Straw, Large Bales (per ton) 
New York 
55@57 
53@54 
51@52 
51@54 
45@50 
53@55 
45@52 
42@5i 
51@53 
49@56 
46@48 
54@55 
52@53 
45@51 
49@50 
531/2 
Timothy No. 2. 
Timothy No. 3. 
Shipping hay. 
Fancy light clover mixed 
Oat straw No. 1. 
Rye straw No. 1. 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cants per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy. . . . 
Fowls, leghorns, fancy, heavy. 
Chickens, colored, fancy, heavy. 
Roosters. 
Live Stock (cents per pound) 
Calves, good to medium. 
Bulls, common to good. 
I^ambs, common to good. 
Sheep, common to good ewes. 
Hogs, Yorkers. 
$24@25 
21@23 
24@25 
16@17 
24@25 
23@27 
20@21 
13 ' '' 
15 @16 
2.6@3.9 
9 @11 
3y2@5y2 
914 @ 91/2 
$19@20 
$20@21 
17@19 
’i 9@26 
12.50@13 
25@26 
17@21 
‘l7@i8 
12 @151^ 
4 1/2 @51/2 
iii4@i5y2 
7 @8 
8y2@9i4 
26@28 
19@22 
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average value of $4,250 per car, mak¬ 
ing a total valu'e of $51,000,000. Es¬ 
timating an average weight of 3% 
pounds to each bird, the total number 
of birds exceeded 62,000,000. All this 
poultry was Kosher dressed in the 
poultry slaughter houses and consumed 
chiefly by Jewish people. Their per 
capita consumption of poultry was close 
to 90 pounds per person. 
All during the year the supply was 
in excess of normal demand. Whole¬ 
sale dealers and shippers both claim 
they have made no money on poultry 
business here last year. Competition 
resulting from the effort to move over¬ 
supply cut the margins do-wn so that 
profits were small. 
Country Dressed Calves Meet Good 
Market 
Country dressed calves have found a 
much better market outlet since the 
holidays, and have been fairly plenti¬ 
ful. Small veals and lower grade 
calves, however, brought irregular 
prices, and did not move as regularly 
as better qualities. Dressed lambs were 
steady for fancy hot house, but poor 
grades sold slowly at irregular prices. 
The following quotations are for Janu¬ 
ary 4: Calves, prime, 16 @ 17c; fair 
to good, 11 @ 15c. Lambs, dressed hot¬ 
house, per carcass, 9 @ 12c. Pigs, 8 to 
12 pounds, per pound, 30 @ 40c; 14 to 
20 pounds each, per pound, 20 @ 30c. 
Hay Market Continues Dull 
Market continues weak and trade 
dull. The following quotations are 
based upon the new U. S. Hay Grades, 
which are now in effect in the New 
York markets. Copies of the grade 
specifications can be obtained from the 
U. S. Bureau of Agrcultural Econom¬ 
ics, Washington, D. C. Official inspec¬ 
tions to determine quality and condition 
' will in the near future be based upon 
these grades, and can be obtained on 
application to Richard J. O’Brien, New 
York Hay Exchange, 601 West 33rd 
Street. 
No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 
U. S. Timothy (not 
more than 5% 
clover). $26 $24@25 $21@23 
Light 
slightly higher than a week ago, best, 
$2.65 to $2.75 per 100-pound bag. Re¬ 
ceipts comparatively light. Carlot 
shipments to January 1 for whole coun¬ 
try were considerably greater than last 
year, 23,090 cars- this year, compared 
with 17,339 last. 
Sweet potatoes advanced last week 
for a few days, then dropped again 
with much larger receipts. New Jersey 
basket sweets principal supply now. 
Quality of many shipments is poor. 
Prices ranged from 90 cents to $1.65 
during week, but on January 4 most 
sales were $1.15 to $1.25 per bushel. 
Celery offerings from up-State sec¬ 
tions were of inferior quality and con¬ 
dition, with demand light and market 
generally dull. U. S. Bureau of Agri¬ 
cultural Economics reports that 48,596 
crates of celery were still in storage 
December 22 in Wayne County. Two- 
thirds crates, best, sold at New York, 
January 4, at $3.25, with few sales 
higher. 
Butter Lowers on Heavy Receipts 
Butter dropped several cents a pound 
in the last week. Receipts are running 
several thousand packages per day 
higher than the week prvious, with con¬ 
siderable quantities arriving from for¬ 
eign countries. Creamery, salted, ex¬ 
tra 92 score, was quoted at 51% @ 52c 
per pound, January 4, as compared 
with 54 cents a week before. On same 
date last year the price was 39 to 40 
cents. State dairy declined^ from 3 to 
,6 cents on top prices for given grade, 
and showed much wider range in qual¬ 
ity and price. Danish creamery sold 
at 52 to 52% cents per pound. 
Receipts of butter at New . York in 
1922 broke all previous records. There 
was an increase over 1921 of 444,704 
packages, equivalent to about 26,682,- 
240 pounds. The total receipts for 1922 
were 3,317,278 packages. Although 
prices during the year were somewhat 
were 19,025 tubs, compared with 9,164 
tubs last year. 
New York State cheese, whole milk, 
average run colored and uncolored flats, 
sold the first four days in January at 
27% to 28 cents per pound, slightly 
above the average price of December, 
on which the Dairymen’s League based 
its price for milk going into cheese 
manufacture. The market was steady 
in spite of very heavy receipts of 320,- 
006 pounds on January 2, compared witn 
102,539 pounds on same day last year. 
Eggs Hold Fairly Firm 
Nearby eggs declined another 5 cents 
per dozen last week, except fancy near¬ 
by browns, which continued at about 
the same price. Receipts were about 
4,000 cases in excess of the previous 
week from Saturday to Tuesday, Janu¬ 
ary 2. Shipments of Pacific Coast 
whites were fairly liberal. The fanciest 
nearby extras were in fair demand, 
and the finest New Jersey lots sold for 
various prices up to 60 cents per dozen 
on January 3. Pacific Coast whites ex¬ 
tras quoted at 55% @56c; fancy New 
Jersey hennery browns, 56 @ 57c. 
Receipts of Poultry Exceed Demand 
Repeipts of fresh-killed poultry con¬ 
tained liberal and in excess of demand. 
Nearby chickens are vei’y irregular in 
quality and many shipments average 
considerably under the quotations. The 
prices on nearby best poultry, January 
4, follow: Per pound, by the barrel, 
dry-picked fowls, five pounds and over, 
29 @ 30c; four pounds, 28c; three 
pounds and under, 20 @ 26c; scalded, 
five pounds and over, 23 (a)24c; roast¬ 
ing chickens, dry picked, four to six 
pounds and over, 34 @ 36c; 3% pounds 
and under, 24 (S) 30c. 
More live poulti’y was sold in New 
York City in 1922 than ever before. 
The total business for the year was 
more than 12,000 carloads, with an 
U. S. Light Clover 
mixed (not more 
than 15% clover) 
U. S. Medium Clover 
mixed (not more 
than 35% clover) 
U. S. Heavy Clover 
mixed (not more 
than 66% clover) 
Light Grass mixed 
(not more than 
15% grass). 
Medium Grass (not 
more than 35% 
grass). 
Heavy Grass mixed 
(not more than 
60% grass) ...... 
Heavy Clover mixed 
(not more than 
90% grass). 
24@25 23@24 21@22 
24@25 23@24 22@23 
21@23 18@20 
23@25 
19@22 
19@22 
17@21 
Feed and Grain Quotations 
Buffalo Market—Wholesale prices in 
cai’lots f. 0 . b. Buffalo, 100-pound sacks, 
were practically the same on January 3 
as quoted in last week’s issue, except 
for choice flour middlings, which were 
50 cents ton lower. Straight grains 
were all lower, and quoted: New No. 
2 yellow corn, 82c bushel; No. 3 yellow 
corn, 81c; No. 2 white oats, 51%c; No. 
3 white oats, 49 %c. 
The following were the cash grain 
quotations per bushel at New York: 
No. 2 red wheat, $1.35; No. 2 hard win¬ 
ter, $1.35; No. 2 yellow corn, 90%c; 
No. 2 mixed, 90c; No. 2 white oats, 
54% (5) 54%c; No. 3, 53%c; rye for 
export, $1.02%; barley for malting, 
81 (5) 83c. At Chicago: No. 2 hard 
winter, $1.17% (S) 1.19%; No. 2 white 
corn, 71@71%c; No. 2 yellow corn, 
70% (a) 72c; No. 2 white, oats, 43 @ 
43%c; barley, 60 (2) 71c; rye, 87% 
@ 88c. 
Horse Market Starts Year Active 
January opened with an active mar¬ 
ket, prices $25 to $50 higher on good, 
serviceable animals than at the close 
of last year. At New York, fresh 
western horses, sound and fully service¬ 
able, sold the first week in January at 
$165 to $250 for weights over 1,300 
pounds; $140 to $215 for lighter 
weights. Second-hand, sound farm 
horses sold around $190 for average 
weights, particularly good animals go¬ 
ing as high as $225. The spring horse 
market in New York City opens about 
February 1, and lasts until early May. 
