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American Agriculturist, March 24,1923 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
JEWISH HOLIDAYS CALL FOE 
LIVE POULTEY 
T he following Jewish Holidays for 
the year 5683 will bring demand 
for live poultry as indicated: PASS- 
OVER, April 1 and 2; best market 
days March 26 to 28; kinds most in de¬ 
mand : Fat fowls, ducks, geese and 
turkeys. LAST PASSOVER—April 7 
and 8; best market days April 2 to 4; 
kinds most in demand: Prime quality 
of all kinds wanted. FEAST OF 
WEEKS—May 2l and 22; best market 
days May 17 and 18. Very little extra 
demand for this holiday. 
Fat heavy fowls are especially de¬ 
sired for these hoi Ways. Jewish house¬ 
wives store up the food for cooking 
purposes for a week or two in advance, 
causing a run on fat fowls. White 
Leghorn broilers sold last week around 
70c each, and lower for stock under 
1 lb. each. Best colored broilers went 
as high as 80c each. 
Long Island spring ducks are now 
coming in limited quantities, and price 
last week was 36c lb. 
DEMAND FOR APPLES FALLS OFF 
The market for barreled apples at 
New York slumped a little last week, 
due partly to the poor average quality 
of arrivals. Fancy, large-sized, well- 
colored stock is still in demand, how¬ 
ever. Wholesale prices per bbl., A 
grade, 2^4-inch stock, were: 
Variety Best Fancy Ordinary 
Baldwins.. $5 @5.25 5.50 $4.50@4.75 
Greening... 5 @5.25 5.50@6.75 4. @4.25 
N. Spy_ 8 @9 10 6 @7 
DRIED APPLES—APPLE WASTE 
Market for evaporated apples and 
waste at New York was dull last week. 
Evaporated in 50-lb. boxes, per lb.: 
Fancy, 1214c; choice, 1114c; prime, 10c. 
Apple waste in 100-lb. bags: Prime, 
3 @ 3%c lb.; chops, prime, 314 @ 314c; 
Pomace, 214 @ 314 c. 
POTATO MARKET FIRM 
The market in New York City for 
potatoes continued firm. Supplies were 
light, due to bad roads up-State. Farm¬ 
ers were looking for slightly higher 
prices. 
Carlots of 150-lb. sacks were not of¬ 
fered freely, market from $2.60 to 
$2.60, delivered N. Y. City. Bulk 
quoted $1.40 to $1.50 cwt. As long as 
bad condition of country roads and car 
shortage continues, prices are likely to 
hold up. 
Carlot shipments of potatoes from 
N. Y. State points are now^ moving 
more rapidly than at this time last 
year, although the total for the season 
is still over 3,000 cars short of last 
year to same date. Maine shipments 
so far this season are nearly 8,000 
cars short of last season. The total 
carlot movement of late and early 
potatoes in the country now is over 
5,000 cars ahead of last year. 
CABBAGE MARKET STILL FIRM 
Supplies of old crop white Danish 
cabbage continued light from all up- 
State points, and the market held firm, 
particularly for fancy, large, sound 
stock. State white Danish sold, bulk, 
per ton, in the yards at $60 to $66, on 
March 16, with a few fancy sales at 
$70, and some ordinary at $50 to $65. 
HAY SHIPMENTS NOW HEAVY 
The over-supply of hay at New York, 
which was anticipated in last week’s 
review, came and brought with it a 
general decline in market prices. Me¬ 
dium and poor stock showed the great¬ 
est weakness and prices were very 
irregular. It is possible that railroad 
congestion, embargoes and poor roads 
in the country may retard shipments 
so that prices will not drop much lower 
in the next few weeks, especially on 
better grades. There will undoubtedly 
be a general tendency to dump hay on 
the market in the late spring, however, 
so it behooves the man who still has 
hay to sell to watch the market closely. 
See quotations in center of page. 
BUTTER MARKET STRONG 
Instead of declining, as might be ex¬ 
pected at this time of year, butter ad¬ 
vanced last week and closed on March 
15 very strong. Receipts of creamery 
at New York last week were about 
10,000 packages behind the week prev¬ 
ious. Dealers not only cleaned up fresh 
arrivals, but disposed of much of prev¬ 
ious accumulations. Consumption is 
good, and there is very little old stock 
to fall back on. The stock of butter 
on hand in storage at New York is only 
about half the reserve stock at this 
time last year, although receipts since 
January 1 this year have been greater 
than in some period last year. 
OUTLOOK GOOD FOR CHEESE 
Dairymen, whose fluid milk price is 
affected by the market for cheese, will 
be glad to know that the prospect is for 
higher June prices on cheese than last 
year. The export demand continues 
active. The increase in the make in 
Wisconsin has been retarded by recent 
storms. Stocks of old cheese in the 
East are light, and were further re¬ 
duced last week. Total public ware¬ 
house holdings in New York, Boston 
and Philadelphia were less than 2,000,- 
000 lbs. on March 15. 
EGG MARKET ACTIVE 
With the lower prices of the last 
week or two, there has been a larger 
consumption, and the decline in prices 
The government restrictions will be to 
prevent the diversion of such imported 
wools to other uses, and at the same 
time to avoid inconvenience to honest 
importers. 
At Boston, the country’s largest wool 
market, Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces 
sold at 56 to 57c per lb. for %-blood 
combing, 52 to 53c for ^-blood, 46 to 
48c for 14-blood and %-blood clothing, 
and 38 to 40c for common. New York 
fleeces brought 54 to 65c for %-blood 
unwashed, 52c for 14-blood. Western 
%-blood unwashed sold at 55 to 56c, 
14-blood 60 to 51c. Choice Southern 
fleeces went at 46 to 46c. 
MAPLE SYRUP PROSPECT 
The price that will be paid for this 
year’s maple syrup crop is of vital 
interest just now to every man with a 
sugar bush. One of the largest buyers 
of maple syrup in the East says that 
prices to producers will.be higher this 
year, on an average, than last, due to 
fact that very little old syrup or sugar 
is being carried over into the new sea¬ 
son. It is reported that Vermont pro¬ 
ducers are generally being offered now 
for syrup at the farm $1.43 for No. 1, 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to 
eastern farmers sold on March 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, eiijtras. 
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. 
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. 
New York 
39@40 
38 
Buffalo 
Phila. 
36@37 
36@37 
29 
35@36 
35@37 
33@34 
35@36 
32@34 
28 
34@35 
34@37 
50%@51 
52@53 
50 
51@52 
50 
48 @481/2 
47@48 
461/2 @47 1/2 
41@46 
U. S. Grades 
Old Grade Standards 
$ 24 
$20@21 
$20@21 
22@23 
15@17 
26@27 
17@18 
21@22 
15 
15@16 
26 
26@27 
80@31 
25 
21@23 
26@28 
22@23 
23@26 
30@31 
16@17 
17@18 
19@20 
12%'@13% 
11 @ 141/2 
4 @ 41/2 
4 @ 4% 
9% @12% 
12 @1514 
31 / 2 ® SVa 
6%@ TVg 
9 @ 9% 
9 
has been more gradual than usual at 
this time of year. No eggs have yet 
gone into storage at New York, and 
stocks in the wholesale market have 
been cleaned out fairly well day by 
day. Last year, at this time, dealers 
were holding heavy stocks on their 
floors so as to put them in storage on 
April 1 and get an April storage mark. 
Wholesale prices on extra fancy 
nearby hennery whites on March 16 
last year were 33 to 36c dozen, com¬ 
pared with a top quotation of 40 to 42c 
on same date this year. The top price 
on hennery browns last year in mid- 
March was 27 to 28c, compared with 
38 to 40c this year. 
The Easter and Jewish Passover 
holidays will bring larger demand, 
especially for large, clean eggs. 
Receipts of eggs at New York since 
January 1, 1923, are over 100,000 cases 
below receipts last year up to this 
time. 
WOOL MARKET STEADY 
Little change was noted in the east¬ 
ern wool markets during mid-March, 
Boston and Philadelphia reporting a 
quiet demand, sales consistent, but in 
small quantities, and highest quota¬ 
tions on fancy fleeces held with some 
difficulty. Advices from western coun¬ 
try points indicate an increase in con¬ 
tracting for the 1923 clip, which prev¬ 
ious to this time has gone slowly. Wool 
dealers are awaiting the new regula¬ 
tions to come from the government 
concerning the importation of raw wool 
to be used for the manufacture of rugs 
and carpets. Under the new tariff, 
these wools are admitted duty-free. 
$1.21 for No. 2, and 99c for No. 3. It 
is generally believed that bulk sugar of 
the new run will not go lower than 
25c per lb. 
LIVE STOCK MARKET QUIET 
At New York live steers were in 
light supply; during mid-March prices 
largely nominal at previous figures. 
Live calves, however, sold under an 
easier tone and price, 50c per 100 lbs. 
lower. Common to choice veals 
brought 8 to 14c cwt. 
Market on hogs, however, was firm 
for light, medium weight selling at 
$9.25 cwt. Sheep also in light supply. 
Prices nominal at $5 to $7 cwt. 
FEED MARKET WEAKER, 
The Buffalo feed market continued 
dull and weak, and prices on March 14 
were $2 per ton lower on oil meal and 
25c per ton lower on 36 per cent cot¬ 
tonseed meal than week previous. Mill 
feeds did not change. Prices on carlots 
f. o. b. Buffalo in 100-lb. sacks per ton 
that date were: 
Gluten feed, $46.55 : cottonseed meal, 36 per 
cent, $47; oil meal, 33 to 34 per cent, $47 ; 
white hominy, $32.05. Grains Buffalo, per 
bushel. No. 2 oats, .52%c; No. 2 yellow corn, 
83%c: barley feed, 73@77c. 
BAN ON LIVE RABBITS LIFTED 
The restrictions that were placed by 
the N. Y. City Board of Health on the 
sale of live four-footed animals re¬ 
ceived in the New York wholesale mar¬ 
kets have been lifted in the case of live 
rabbits. The regulations never did 
apply to live stock sold at the 60th 
Street yards for slaughter in regular 
packing houses, but were aimed pri¬ 
marily at smaller animals which wei’e 
frequently slaughtered in butcher shops 
under such conditions as to constitute 
a public nuisance. Live rabbits, for 
which there is a good demand at Eas¬ 
ter among Italians and French, may 
now, however, be handled in the mar¬ 
kets as heretofore. 
CASH GRAINS AT NEW YORK 
The following were cash grain prices 
at New York March 16: 
No. 2 hard winter, $1.32% ; No. 2 mixed 
durum, $1.23% ; No. 2 yeliow corn, 91%c; No 
2 mixed corn 91%c: No. 2 white oats, 66c- 
rye, 93%c; bariey, 81@82c; buckwheat $1.92@ 
2.10. At Chicago: No. 2 red wheat, $1.20%- 
No. 2 yeilow corn, 74@74t4c; No. 2 white oats^ 
45%@46%c. 
Raise Your Chicks 
in Prairie State Brooders 
Have your chick-raising equipment ready 
before the chicks arrive —■ avoid the risk of 
heavy ioss. Whether you grow 25 chicks or 
25,000 there are practical, dependable, efficient 
Prairie State Brooders which will exactly meet 
your needs. Oil-burning hovers and coal-burn¬ 
ing stoves. Perfect in design—built on honor 
—tested and proved — preferred by successful 
poultry growers. 
“Prairie State” means efficiency in incuba¬ 
tors and brooders. 
Write for descriptive catalog and prices: 
PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATOR CO. 
46 Main Street Homer City, Pa. 
Pedigreed Potatoes 
Irish Cobblers, and Certified Rural 
Russets. Yields from 300 to 562 bushels 
per acre, for ten years. First Prize 
and Sweepstakes medal over all vari¬ 
eties at Cornell Potato Show, Feb. 23. 
Address 
GARDNER FARMS. TULLY, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRIES 
THE BEST MONEY CROP 
You can ^row them. Get our 
Book of Berries and learn how. Lots 
of dependable STRAWBERRY in¬ 
formation, Just the kind you want. 
88 years in the business. No other 
book like it. It’s free. Write today. 
__THEW. F. ALLEN CO., 
170 Market St. Salisbury, Md. 
1OOO Premier $5.00 
.'),000, $22.50. Big Joe, Gibson and Wm. Belt same price. 
Dunlap, Dr. Burrill and Gandy 100, 80c.; 1,000, $1.00; 
5,000, $18.75. Satisfaction guaranteed. 29 varieties. Also 
dewberry plants. Catalog free. 
M. S. PRYOR, Route 4, Salisbury, Md. 
Peach Trees 20c, Apple Trees 25c 
each Postpaid. Send for 1923 Catalog of Fruit Trees, 
Plants. Guaranteed Garden, Flower and Farm Seeds. 
AliEN NURSERY & SEED HOUSE GENEVA, OHIO 
Strawberry Plants, Baspberries, 
Blackberry, Gooseberry, Currant. 
Grapes. Asparagus, Khubarb. Trees— 
Fruit, Nut, Shade, Ornamental. 
Flowers—Bulbs, Vines, Roses, Shrubbery, etc. 
rite for prices and booklet howto grow everything from ih^ nursery. 
A. G. BLOUNT, Dept. E, HASTINGS, N. Y. 
FOR SALE. Ask for Cata¬ 
log telling all about the 
great Early Frost Proof straw¬ 
berry. “Horsey” and 40 other varieties. Also Raspberry, Dewberry 
Horseradish and other plants. J. Keifibrd Hall, Reid’s Grove, Hd., R. No.l 
450,000 
200 varieties. Also Grapes.Small Fruits,etc.Best rooted stock. 
Genuine, Cheap. 2 sample currants mailed for 20c. Descriptivr 
price list free. LEWIS ROESOH, Box F, Fredonia, N.Y. 
STRAWBERRY—DEWBERRY The Big Money Crops 
Grape Vines, Privet Hedge and other Plants that Flense. 
Asparagus Seed, WASHINGTON, and standard varieties: 
Cantaloupe, Tomato and other Seed that Yields. 
SPECIAL: Asparagus Crates, and waterproof linings. Catalog Free, 
V. R. ALLEN, 7 Lane Road, SEAFORD, DEL. 
BINDER Twine 
Samples Free. 
CAR LOTS, Per Lb. | 
Small lots a Hharle higher. 
Agents wanted. 
THEO BURT & SONS, MELROSE, OHIO 
9c 
Natural Leaf Tobacco 
$2.00; 20, $3.fi0. PIPE 
FREE; Hand-Picked Chewing, 5 lbs. ,$1.50; 10, $2.50. 
TOBACCO GROWERS’ UNION, Murray. Ky. 
SHIP 
to the right house 
M. ROTH & CO. 
EST. 1892 
185 Duane St., N. Y. C. 
Write for shipping Tags. 
SHIP YOUR EGGS 
WHITE AND BROWN 
To R. BRENNER & SONS 
Bonded Commission Merchaj 
358 Greenwich St., New Ys 
