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American Agriculturist, January 20,(1923 
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(192 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
INDICATIONS ARE THAT FEED 
PRICES WILL NOT GO LOWER 
A n official of one of the largest mill¬ 
ing companies in the country 
stated this week in private conversa¬ 
tion with the editor of this page that 
he saw no prospect for any lower 
prices on mixed feeds or protein con¬ 
centrates in the next two months. The 
number of cattle on feed in the country 
now has increased about 27 per cent. 
The cotton crop is not over 50 per cent 
normal, and demand for cottonseed 
meal has increased, especially for use 
as fertilizer. Flax-seed production de¬ 
creased this year and has been decreas¬ 
ing for several years. 
The gluten supply is short, as pro¬ 
duction has been decreased. Distillers’ 
grains are difficult to obtain. So, ac¬ 
cording to this official, there is a limited 
supply of protein ingredients, which is 
likely to result in holding up the price 
on such commodities during the re¬ 
mainder of the heavy-feeding season. 
Greenings Still Dominate Apple 
Market 
Western New York and Hudson Val¬ 
ley apples, consisting chiefly of Green¬ 
ings, have been moving to the New 
York market in liberal quantity, which, 
together with heavy arrivals of West¬ 
ern boxed apples, contributed to a gen¬ 
erally dull market. Barrelled fancy 
red varieties, well colored, have been 
scarce. Good stock at Eastern mar¬ 
ket? has been in moderate demand, but 
ordinary sorts sold slowly in mid-Jan- 
uary. A? reported by the New York 
State Department of Farms and Mar¬ 
kets, the total carlot shipment of ap¬ 
ples this season to January 10 amount- 
edto 81,214, as compared with 73,230 
last year. 
The following table shows the sale 
price per barrel at New York City in 
mid-January: 
Variety Beat Fancy Ordinary 
Greening.. $4 @4.25 $4.50@4.75 $3.50@3.75 
Baldwin. . 4.50@4.75 5 4 @4.25 
N. Spy.... 6.50@7 7.25@7.50 5 @6 
McIntosh.. 8 @8.25 8.50@9 6.50@7 
Ben Davis. 3 @3.25 @3.50 2.50@2.75 
At Rochester, N. Y., A grade 214- 
inch Baldwins sold f. o. b. at $4 to $4.50 
per barrel. 
Some activity was noticed in the Brit¬ 
ish apple market. At Liverpool, Green¬ 
ings went at $4.90 per barrel, Ben 
Davis, $5.25 to $6.28. ■ 
Receipts of pears were comparatively 
light from the Hudson Valley and 
Western New York; demarid also light, 
only very best grades moving at en¬ 
couraging prices. Kieffers were the 
largest barreled offerings; even best 
stock moved at $3 to $3.50 per barrel, 
with very few sales reported as high 
as $4. 
Potato Buyers Continue to Be 
Cautious 
The expected turn for the better on 
potatoes had not taken place by mid- 
January, country and city prices for 
the most part remaining irregular at 
former levels. The f. o. b. loading prices 
at up-State points for Green Mountain 
and similar varieties averaged close to 
45 cents per bushel; some turn-over at 
40 cents. These same potatoes whole¬ 
saled at New York City receiving termi¬ 
nals at $1.15 to $1.25 bulk in heated 
cars. The latter figuve was secured 
only bn frost-free, clean, attractive 
stock* 
Long Island shipping points reported 
most sales at 90 to 96 cents per bushel 
f. o. b., or $2.70 to $2.90 per 180-pound 
sack. As laid down in New York City, 
this stock went at $3.50 to $3.65 per 
sack, full weight. In mid-January there 
was gossip among traders which indi¬ 
cated a better feeling, perhaps due to 
the belief that weather conditions would 
be more normal for the season and the 
winter trade would begin in earnest. 
With few arrivals of white cabbage 
from up-State producing sections, the 
market ruled stronger for fancy stock; 
prices unchanged. Old-crop white cab¬ 
bage was dull. Total shipments of 
both old and new-crop shipments to 
date are a fifth heavier than last year. 
White Danish, best, sold at New York 
at $25 to $26 per ton, bulk; fancy, m a 
small way, $28 to $30. Red Danish 
went at $45 to $50. 
Mid-January saw little change in the 
onion market. Best No. 1 yelow onions 
from New York State brought $2.50 to 
$2.60 per lOO-pound sack; occasional 
sales on fancy up to $2.65 to $2.70, 
ordinary $2 to $2.50. 
Butter Recovers on Firm Market 
The butter market at New York 
nearly recovered the several cents drop 
which it experienced at the opening of 
the year; market firm. In fact, under 
moderate receipts even first and second 
grades worked out under a good de¬ 
mand. Highest score creamery salted 
butter sold at 5414 @ 55c per pound; 
extra 92-score, 5314 @ 54c; firsts to 
extra firsts, 4714 @ 53c; finest New 
York State dairy butter, salted, fine to 
fancy, 42 @ 51c; good to prime, 35 @ 
41c; common to fair, 27 @ 34c. New 
arrivals of Danish butter still offer 
competition, arrivals of something over 
5,000 casks going into the jobbing trade 
in mid-January. 
The cheese market was firm, despite 
quiet tradings, particularly on fancy 
sorts, prices fractionally higher than 
earlier in the month. New York State 
whole«milk, held, fiats, colored or white, 
sold at 28%c per pound; average run, 
2714 @ 28c; daisies, 2714 @ 2814 c; 
twins, 2714 @ 2814c; Young America,^ 
28 @ 2814c; New York State skims 
brought I 21 (S) 2114c; fancy Swiss 
cheese, 34 (5) 35c. 
Eggs Working Lower 
Although not in direct competition, 
heavy arrivals of Pacific Coast eggs 
were to the disadvantage of nearby 
white and brown, the market continu¬ 
ing to work lower, but not as sharply 
as the first week in January, when the 
drop was as much as 5 to 7 cents per 
dozen on very best nearby henneries, 
and more op the firsts and lower 
grades. Buyers are cautious, antici¬ 
pating fairly heavy arrivals of nearby 
grades, due to mild weather; prices 
correspondingly irregular. 
Nearby hennery whites in new cases, 
fiats and fillers, extra fancy, sold at 
58 @ 60c per dozen; nearby hennery 
whites in other than new cases, extra 
fancy, 55 @57c. Brown eggs in corre¬ 
sponding grades ruled at 2 to 3 cents 
per dozen lower. Fancy New Jersey 
hennery white sold at 58 @ 60c per 
dozen. 
Poultry in Fair Demand 
Arrivals at New York of live poultry 
by freight were heavy in mid-January; 
express receipts light. Heavy, fat 
fowls and chickens met a reasonably 
good demand. Heavy colored fowls, 
plump, sold at 26 @ 29c per pound; 
Leghorns, light weights, 20 @ 22c; 
chickens, colored or white, 21 @ 22c; 
roosters, 13c. 
Supplies of nearby New York State 
dressed poultry were fairly liberal and 
moved slowly. By the barrel, dry- 
picked fowls, five pounds and over, 
brought 29 @ 30c; four pounds, 28c; 
SVz pounds, 22 @ 26c; scalded fowls, 
heavy, 23 @ 24c; roasting chickens, 
dry picked, four to six pounds and over, 
34 @ 36c; 314 pounds and under, 24 
@ 30c. 
Hay Market Dull, Alfalfa Steady 
Market continued dull. Prices in 
mid-January were $1 per ton less than 
in previous week. Basing quotations 
on the new U. S. grades, as quoted in 
detail in these columns in the issue of 
January 13, the following are the mid- 
January prices: U. S. timothy No. 1, 
$25 per ton; No. 2, $23; No. 3, $21 @ 
22. U. S. light clover mixed. No. 1, 
$23 @ 24; No. 2, $22 @ 23; No. 3, $21 
@ 22. U. S. medium clover, mixed. No. 
1, $24; No. 2, $22 @ 23; No. 3, $21 @ 
22. U. S. heavy clover, mixed. No. 1, 
$21 @ 23; No. 2, $18 @ 20. Light grass, 
mixed, $24 @25; heavy grass, mixed. 
$19 @22; heavy clover, mixed, $21 
@ 22 . 
Alfalfa sold fairly steady. No. 1 sec¬ 
ond cutting bringing at New York $27 
@29 per ton; No. 2, $24 @ 26. Oats 
straw sold at $16 @17; rye straw, 
$24 @ 25. 
Country Meats and Live Stock 
Receipts of country dressed calves 
continue light, market reasonably firm 
under fairly active trade. Fresh, choice 
calves brought 20c per pound; prime, 
18 @ 19c; good, 16 @ 17c; poorer sorts, 
12 @ 15c. Country-dressed pigs were 
in light receipt, but demand slow. 
White skinned roasting sorts, weigh¬ 
ing 10 to 15 pounds, brought 25 @ 30c 
per pound; 16 to 40 pounds, 20 @ 23c; 
40 to 60 pounds, 15 @ 18c; heavier 
weights down to 10c. Hot-house spring 
lambs moved slowly, with fancy at $10 
@ 12 each. 
At New York, good to choice steers 
sold at $9.25 @ 10.10 per 100 pounds; 
ordinary to choice bulls, $4.90 @ 6.50; 
common to choice cows, $4.75 @ 5.15. 
Common to prime ewes brought $4.50 
@ 7.50; yearlings, $8 @ 12. Medium to 
lightweight hogs and pigs sold at $9.60 
@ 9.75; heavy hogs, $9 @ 9.25. 
Little Change in Feed and Grain 
Buffalo market continued steady in 
mid-January, with practicaly no change 
in prices. Carlots f. o. b. Buffalo, per 
lOO-pound sack, sold as follows: Glut§n 
feed, $46.25 @ 47 per ton; cottonseed 
meal, 36 per cent protein, $49 @ 49.50; 
cottonseed meal, 43 per cent, $54.25 @ 
54.75; oil meal, 33 to 34 per^cent, local 
billed, $54 @ 54.50; dried brewers’ 
grains, $49 @ 50; standard spring bran, 
$32.05 @ 32.55; hard winter bran, $33 
@ 33.50; standard spring middlings, 
$31.30 @ 31.80; No. 2 yellow corn, new, 
82c per bushel; No. 3, 81c; new white 
oats. No. 2, 50c; No. 3, 48c. 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to 
eastern farmers sold in the week ending January 13: 
Eggs, Nearbys (cents per dozen) • 
Hennery, whites, extra fancy. 
Extra first. 
Firsts.;. 
Gathered, whites, first to extra firsts. 
Lower grades. 
Hennery browns, extra fancy. 
Gathered browns and ipixed colors, extra fancy. 
Extra first.. 
Pullets. 
Butter (cents per pound) 
Creamery (salted) high score.... 
Extra (92 score). 
State dairy (salted), fine to fancy. 
Good to prime. 
Hay and Straw, Large Bales (per ton) 
Timothy No. 2. 
Timothy No. 3. 
U. S. Sample. 
Fancy light clover mixed 
Oat straw No. 1. 
Rye straw No. 1. 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cents 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. 
Lambs, common to good. 
Sheep, common to good ewes. 
Hogs, Yorkers... 
New York 
58@60 
53@55 
50@52 
50@54 
45@49 
52@54 
45@51 
42@48 
53y2®54 
42 @51 
35 @41 
$23@24 
21@22 
15@18 
22@24 
26@29 
20@22 
21@22 
13 
9 @ 151/2 
5 @ 6% 
12/2 @>16 
41/2® 7J4 
9J4@ 9% 
Buffalo 
51@52 
49@56 
'46@48 
54@55 
51@52 
43@50 
$19@20 
25@26 
17@21 
24@25 
17@18 
141/2 
3V2@ 5)4 
7 @ 151/2 
SV 2 
914 ® 9y2 
Phila. 
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45 
55 
$21 @22 
18 @20 
20 @21 
12.50@13 
28@30 
20@24 
27@28 
17@18 
Eastern grain markets registered 
Ittle change during the week ending 
January 13. At New York, cash quota¬ 
tions were: No. 2 red wheat, for ex¬ 
port, $1.34 per bushel; No. 2 hard win¬ 
ter, $1.341/^; No. 2 mixed Durham, 
$1.21; No. 2 yellow corn, 90%; No. 2 
mixed, 90i/4c; No. 2 white corn, 90% c; 
No. 2 white oats, 50 @ 55>!^c; No. 3 
white, 53@54i^c; rye for export, 
$1.02; barley for malting, 81 @ 83c. 
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