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American Ap’iculturist, February 24,1923 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets 
NEW YOKK EXCLUDES SMALL 
LIVE ANIMALS 
I T is reported that the New York 
City Health Department has issued 
a ruling prohibiting live pigs, lambs, 
goats, rabbits, hares and other small 
animals from being sold in New York' 
City except for breeding, and when ♦ 
sold for food purposes they must on 
arrival be sent to a slaughter house and 
killed before being offered for sale. 
This ruling will practically prohibit 
the shipping of such live animals, as 
the expense of carting to and from the 
receivers’ stores and having the stock 
slaughtered is too great. It will, there¬ 
fore, be necessary for shippers to kill 
and dress the stock before shipment. 
Further information regarding this 
ruling and the proper method of dress¬ 
ing and shipping will be given in next 
week’s issue. 
The Lenten season commenced with 
Ash Wednesday and demand for 
dressed calves and other meat will 
pi’obably be lighter from now on until 
Easter, which occurs April 1. A con¬ 
siderable surplus of calves and other 
country dressed meat is held in the 
country because of snow, and as soon 
as shipping conditions become normal 
there will probably be an oversupply, 
with very low prices. Shippers are ad¬ 
vised not to, dress meats for this mar¬ 
ket during the next month. 
WEATHER STRENGTHENS POTATO 
MARKET 
The extreme cold weather last week 
interfered with loading and unloading 
of all vegetables and fruits. Prices 
tended to be firmer at New York in an¬ 
ticipation of lighter receipts but sup¬ 
plies on hand could not be moved 
readily. 
State potatoes moved in a small way 
from western New York for $1.15 cwt, 
in bulk and $1.80 per 150-lb. sack de¬ 
livered New York City. Round whites, 
bulk per 180-lbs. No. 1 sold at $2.50 to 
$2.60. Growers were offered 40c per 
bu. and were inclined to stop hauling. 
At Rochester and nearby, market was 
dull and movement slow. Round whites 
U. S. No. 1 sold there Feb. 15 at mostly 
$1.35 to $1.40 per 150-lb. sack, with a 
few at $1.45. 
Maine shipments are running very 
light owing to cold and car shortage, 
and are going mostly to New England 
cities. Shipments so far this season 
from Maine are over 7,000 cars short 
of last year to same date. 
Carlot shipments of old crop potatoes 
in entire country are 74,000 cars below 
last season. New crop shipments to 
date are 25,461 cars, compared with 
19,005 to' same date last year. 
Danish cabbage has been in demand. 
Best quality sold as high as $40 per 
ton. Receipts light. 
APPLES MEET GOOD MARKET 
Barreled apples were fairly plentiful 
last week at New York but prices held 
steady especially for fancy McIntosh, 
,and Northern Spy, which were much in 
demand. Trading stopped on account 
of weather at end of week. 
Carlot shipments of barreled apples 
this season up to Feb. 10 in entire 
country were 54,324, as compared with 
32,078 all last season. New York State 
shipped 22,785 cars this season com¬ 
pared with 17,806 total last season. 
Wholesale prices at New York Feb. 
16, were: 
Appi.es- Best Fancy Ordinary 
Baldwin. .. $4.50@4.75 $5 $4 «7)4.25 
Greenings.. 4.25@4.50 4.75 t!.75@4 
McIntosh ... 1 2 @13 14 @15 8 @10 
N. Spy. . . 6.50@7 7.5U@S 5 @0 
Pears from storage continue to be 
in light demand and the market dull. 
Liberal holdings are reported in the 
Rochester section. Kieffer, per barrel, 
sold, best, $3 to $3.50, with a few sales 
of extra fancy at $4.25 to $4.50. 
BUTTER STILL FLUCTUATING 
Wholesale butter prices are now 
fluctuating up and down, as so often 
happens in February. Remaining stocks 
of storage butter are very light and 
prices are now low enough to shut off 
Danish importations. 
Cold weather in the West checked 
the increase in fresh production. If 
fresh butter moves promptly the mar¬ 
ket should not show extreme changes 
for the rest of February. Last year in 
22 business days of February, the price 
of extras changed 11 times, and in 1921 
there were 14 changes in 22 days. 
All grades of creamery butter were 
Vz to Ic higher on February 15 than 
a week previous. Creamery extras, 
which sold at 50 to 50 ^4c, were last 
year on the same date only 37 to 
37V2C lb. 
The market for cheese is irregular, 
and fresh cheese prices both east and 
west are gradually weakening. In Wis¬ 
consin fresh makes declined a cent a 
pound in one week. State flats, fresh, 
average run, were quoted at 25V2C lb. 
Holdings of cheese in public storage 
houses in four large cities, February 
14, were 8,712,177 lbs., against 7,199,- 
773 lbs. on February 14, 1922. 
EGG MARKET ACTIVE 
The tendency toward increasing sup¬ 
plies of fresh eggs was checked by the 
cold weather in the west and later in 
the east. The market at the close of 
last week was strong and active, with 
tendency toward higher prices provid¬ 
ing weather continued cold. Storage 
and western eggs advanced and Pacific 
winter bran, and middlings. Market 
firm and inclined to work higher. Quo¬ 
tations on carlots f. o. b. Buffalo in 
100-lb. sacks, February 14, were: Gluten 
feed, $46.50 @ $47; cottonseed meal, 36 
per cent, $48.50 @ $49; oil meal, 33 to 
34 per cent, local billed, $51 (2) $51.50; 
standard spring bran, $33.75 @ $34; 
hard winter bran, $34.25 @ $34.50; 
standard spring middlings, $33.75 @ 
$34; choice flour middlings, $36.25 @ 
$36.75. 
Following were prices in feed grains 
per bushel: No. 2 yellow corn, 86c.; 
No. 2 white oats, 52%c.; barley, feed, 
74 @ 76c.; rye. No. 2, 99c. 
HAY PRICES ADVANCE 
Owing to limited number of permits 
issued by the railroads for shipping 
hay to New York, the market has 
cleaned up old accumulations and taken 
on a firmer tone. Lower grades are 
not much in demand. Buying has been 
active on better grades. Some prem¬ 
iums paid above quotations. 
DULL MARKET FOR BEANS 
Trading in beans is very light, but 
pea beans are a little firmer. No sales 
reported over $8.50 per cwt., however. 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm 
eastern farmers sold on February 16: 
Eggs, Nearbys (cents per dozen) 
New .Jersey hennery whites uncandled, extras... 
Other hennery whites, extras .. 
Extra firsts . 
Firsts .. . 
Gathered, whites, first to extra firsts . 
Lower grades . 
Hennery browns, extras . 
Gathered browns and mixed colors, extras. 
Pullets No. 1. 
Butter (cents per pound) 
Creamery (salted) high score. 
Extra (92 score) . 
State dairy (salted), finest . 
Good to prime .. 
products of 
special 
New York 
Buffalo 
45@47 
43@44 
43@44 
42@42^ 
41 
41@42J^ 
40@4i 
39@40 
43@45 
38@42 
38@39 
40@41 
ni@5VA 
52@53 
50@50k2 
50@51 
49@50 
48@-49 
46@48 
42@47 
interest to 
Phila. 
30 
38 
Hay and Straw, Large Bales (per ton) 
Timothy No. 2. 
Timothy No. 3. 
Timothy Sample. 
Fancy light clover mixed. 
Alfalfa, second cutting. 
Oat straw No. 1. 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cents per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy. 
Fowls, leghorns and poor. 
Chickens, leghorns. 
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. 
.$23@24 
$23 
21@22 
17@18 
20@21 
\ 24 
2.f'fi'2.'5 
20 
16@17 
13@13.50 
28 
30@32 
28@30 
26 
26@2S 
27@28 
26 
22@24 
2B@28 
15@16 
17@18 
17@18 
14 @15 
11 m5'/2 
S'A® 4 
4 @ 6)4 
9@11^ , 
15 @15)4 
31/2© 5A 
7^ @ 8 
9@ 91^ 
844 @ 9 
Coast whites to a less extent. Nearbys, 
except New Jerseys, were Ic. higher on 
Feb. 15 than a week previous. 
Cold storage stocks have been work¬ 
ing off rapidly. Only 18,712 cases of 
storage eggs were on tond at New York 
February 15, compared with 17,259 
cases on the same date last year. 
BROILERS, CAPONS, DUCKS 
WANTED 
At this time of the year the demand 
is stronger for lightweight fowls, and 
both capons and boilers are selling very 
well. Most of the chickens arriving 
now are staggy, generally little better 
than old roosters, and the market for 
them is weak. 
GRAIN PRICES DROP SLIGHTLY 
After about three weeks of an almost 
uninterrupted advance, grain prices 
suddenly dropped on February 15. Fu¬ 
ture grains are sensitive at present to 
the European situation. Rye trading 
is light. 
Cash grain prices February 15 fol¬ 
lows: At New York — Whieat, No. 2 
hard winter, $1,311^; corn No. 2 yellow, 
9114c.; oats. No. 2 white, 57c.; ordinary 
white, clipped, 55 @ 5714c,; rye, $1; 
barley, 81 (@ 82c.; buckwheat, $1.98 @ 
$2.25. At Chicago — 'Corn, No. 2 yellow, 
7314 @ 75c.; oats. No. 2 white, 46(5) 
47c.; barley, 64 @ 68c. 
FEED BUYING ACTIVE 
Trading in feed was active last week 
and prices advanced on cottonseed meal, 
oil meal, standard spring bran, hard 
Marrow beans received little attention, 
the few sales being at $10 to $11. Med¬ 
ium, 1922, quoted at $8.25 to $8.50. 
INSULATING AN ICE HOUSE 
h have built a frame ice house 20 x 30 x 20 
feet deep, 10 feet in the ground. I have used 
plain boards for the outside. Will it be good to 
use same kind of boards for the inside and the 
aawdust in between the boards? If this is any 
good, how thick will the sawdust be to keep the 
Ice In good condition and what kind of venti¬ 
lators, and how many tons of ice will fill the 
place. — (S. R. Pennsylvania. 
In order to make the walls of the ice 
house have good insulating action, it is 
necessary to put sheathing both inside 
and outside the studs, and fill in the 
spaces between with some insulating 
material, such as ground cork or coarse 
sawdust. Ground cork is considerably 
better, but it is sometimes difficult to 
obtain. The sawdust will do very 
nicely and is quite effective. The thick¬ 
ness of the sawdust ought to be six or 
eight inches, and this can be accom¬ 
plished by using studs of this width. 
When the ice is put in a space twelve 
inches wide should be left between it 
and the walls and filled later with 
packed sawdust. A layer of sawdust 
a foot thick should be piled over the 
top of the ice also. An icehouse of the 
size you mentiqn will hold approxi¬ 
mately 250 tons of ice, depending on 
how it is packed and how completely 
it ig filled. 
Says Sam: The fellow who can do 
the most for you is the f' llow you see 
when you shave yourself. 
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