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American Agriculturist,' June 9,1923 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
SHIPPING POINT INSPECTION 
HERSCHBL H. JONES 
N O activity of government market 
bureaus has greater possibilities 
for improving the marketing of farm 
products than the official inspection of 
perishable vegetables and fruits at 
point-of-origin. In all sections where 
production is specialized and carlot 
shipments are made to distant markets 
the problem of grading, standardizing 
and establishing a definite basis of trad¬ 
ing without actual inspection by the 
distant buyer, is fundamental. There is 
no estimating the losses both city 
market buyers and country shippers 
have suffered, either through ignorance 
or sharp practice because of lack of a 
system of certification as to thb quality 
and condition of shipments of perish¬ 
ables. 
Just as grading is the first step in 
better marketing, so shipping point in¬ 
spection and terminal 'market inspection 
are essential to the enforcement of 
grading. 
In cooperation with the United States 
MILK CANS 
20-30-40 qt. 
sizes 
We sell only 
makes of high 
quality — yet 
our prices are 
reasonable. 
Progressive 
dairymen have 
bought sup- 
pi i e s and 
equipment 
from us since 
1889. 
J. S. BIESECKER 
Creamery, Dairy and Dairy 
Barn Equipment 
59 Murray St. New York City 
STAY 
Built in every detail for 
long life and tight-fitting 
stability. Heavy, sound 
staves, creosoted; over¬ 
sized threads on heavy steel 
hoops. Close-fitting, safe¬ 
like doors. Handsome red- 
cedar roof. Write for book¬ 
let and special proposition 
for early buyers. 
CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. CO. 
350 West St., Rutland, Vt. 
MOUNTAIN SIIOS 
$1,000 Gets 200-Acre Farm 
Income $4,000; Growing Crops; 8 Cows, team, tools, imple 
ments included if taken soon; any farmer would be proud 
of it; on improved road, close R.R. town, city markets; 
100 acres machine-worked fields, part river bottomland; 
alfalfa does well; 40-cow pasture, woven wire fences; esti¬ 
mated 300 cords wood, timber; variety fruit; splendid two- 
story 7-room house, running water; 70-ft. con effete basement 
barn, stable, garage, piggery, poultry house. To settle 
affairs $5,800 takes all, only $1,000 needed. Details and photo 
page 58 Illus. Catalog Bargains—many States Copy free. 
STROUT FARM AGENCY, 150R Nassau St., N. Y. City. 
WANTED 
If you have HAY and STRAW to sell 
write us for quotations and free Book¬ 
let “How to market Hay and Straw.” 
JOHN E. MURRAY, Inc. 
1658 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. 
SHIP YOUR EGGS 
WHITE AND BROWN 
To R. BRENNER & SONS 
Bonded Commission Merchants 
358 Greenwich St., New York City 
SHIP to the right house 
M. ROTH & CO. 
321 Greenwich St.—N. Y. C. 
Write for shipping Tags 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the 
New York State Department of Farms 
and Markets last year made a com¬ 
mendable start toward establishing 
shipping point inspection service in 
New York State, particularly with 
I’eference , to potatoes. Inspectors se¬ 
lected by the Department of Farms and 
Markets, were trained by specialists 
from the Federal Bureau, and issued 
Federal certificates as to the grade, 
quality and condition of each car of 
potatoes they inspected. The work was 
organized and directed by H. D. Phillips 
of thd State Department. A nominal 
fee was charged per car inspected. 
When an inspected car went forward 
The demand for old potatoes is slowly 
disappearing and if prices on the new 
go lower within the next few weeks, 
there will be a very few cars of the old ' 
marketed. States ai’e moving to the 
trade at prices from $2.25 to $^2.75 per 
150-lb. sack. One of the largest New 
York jobbers of Northern grown pota¬ 
toes will close his office Saturday for 
the summer. 
HAY TRADE QUIET 
^ There was very little activity in the 
hay market last week and very few 
changes in prices. Receipts were 
fairly light at all points. Good No. 2 
timothy in large bales will bring $25 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to 
easteim farmers sold on May 31: 
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. 
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. 
New York 
38@40 
37@38 
31@33 
29@30 
29@32 
27 1/2 @28 
32@34 
29@30 
27@28 
391/2 
38% @39 
38 @ 381/2 
37@37y2 
U. S. Grades 
$22@24 
19@21 
11@16 
24@25 
27@28 
10 
Buffalo 
29@30 
28@29 
42@43 
40@41 
38@39 
31@37 
Phila. 
291/2 
271/2 
40 
Old Grade Standards 
$20@21 $21@22 
. 19@20 
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. 
26@27 
26@28 
24@25 
15 
17@18 
9y2@ll% 
12 @ 121/2 
4@4% 
4y2@6y2 
10@14 
14% @15 
3 1/2 @5 14 
5@7% 
8 @8% 
8 
21@22 
15y2’@i6 
29@30 
26@27 
15@17 
it carried a copy of the certificate in¬ 
side and a copy went to the buyer with 
the bill of lading. The shipper held a 
copy. Rejections because of declining 
market were eliminated, rea4justments 
in price because quality was not up to 
specifications were reduced to a mini¬ 
mum, potatoes could be sold f. o. b. 
shipping point with the same security 
as a standardized factory product. 
Twenty-two States are now carry¬ 
ing out some such plan of shipping 
point inspection in cooperation with the 
Federal government, many of them 
much more extensively than in New 
York. New Jersey is one of these. 
Western States have far outstripped 
the East in such service to their pro¬ 
ducers. It is hoped that in the coming 
season the work begun last year in New 
York may be greatly enlarged. 
STRAWBERRY SUPPLY HEAVY 
Strawberries are now arriving in the 
New York market in very large quanti¬ 
ties. On June 1, receipts for one day 
were one and one-half million quarts. 
They sold at 6 to 10c per quart, \yith 
some fancy at 12 to 15c. 
Long Island fresh vegetables are con¬ 
siderably retarded by the late season. 
The first bunched kale and white 
turnips from Long Island appeared in 
the farmers’ markets last week. 
The market for old crop State onions 
is practically dead. A shipment of 
5,500 cwt. bags of onions arrived from 
Egypt on June 1, and sold at $3.50 to 
$3.65. 
OLD POTATOES YIELD TO NEW 
, Out of 434 cars shipped on May 29 
from all potato producing sections, from 
Maine to Florida and from Washington 
to Texas, 361 cars rolled from South 
Carolina. Possibly one-third of these 
cars were destined for New York City 
market. 
Due to poor quality and careless grad¬ 
ing, prices at New York piers show a 
wide range. Floridas, best, sold for 
$7.50 bbl., poor, $6.50 and wasty, con¬ 
siderably lower. South Carolinas sold 
from $6 to $5.50. 
per ton, but most sales range from 
$23 to $24. One car of fancy large 
baled timothy sold at $27. 
BUTTER DECLINES STEADILY 
There was generally a more conser¬ 
vative feeling reported all over the 
country among butter dealers last 
week. Although production has not in¬ 
creased very strongly yet, it is gi’owing 
steadily. Wholesale prices fell 2 @ 
214 c from the previous week. Cream-' 
ery extras (92 score) were quoted at 
38% @ 38%c on May 31, compared 
with 41 @ 41 %c lb., the week previous, 
and 34 @ 34%c lb., on the same date 
last year. 
Future buying of June butter last 
week was all at 39c lb. 
CHEESE MARKET STILL FIRM 
The cheese market continued firm 
last week. State whole milk .flats held 
average run were quoted May 31 at 
28 to 2814c per lb; flats, fresh, average 
run 23%c; twins, fresh, average run , 
2314 @ 2314c; State skims, flats, fresh, 
specials 18c per lb., fresh choice 15 @ 
16c; undergrades 10 @ 14c. 
BROILERS BRING GOOD PRICES 
The usual active demand for broilers 
preceding Decoration Day was repeated 
this year, and those who got their 
broilers in early enough realized very 
good prices. Most of the colored broil¬ 
ers sold at 55c, but later the market 
settled down to 50c. There was a good 
demand for larger size Leghorn broilers. 
On Monday, before Decoration Day, 
they went as high as 55c but later 
settled down to 40 @ 45c. Some late 
receipts had to be carried oyer the holi¬ 
day and sold out slowly. 
Express fowls sold slowly and 
brought little more than freight ship¬ 
ments of fowls from the West. 
Rabbiti:, live, were in light supply 
and sold at ‘^2 to 33c lb. 
EGG SUPPLIED EXCEED DEMAND 
Nearby white eggs continued in heavy 
supply last week. There was a consid¬ 
erable surplus, even of fancy Jersey 
hennery whites that went into cold 
storage at prices lower than quotations. 
The miscellaneous small express ship¬ 
ments were of very ir,regular quality 
and orrly a small portion could be sold 
in regular channels for immediate con¬ 
sumption at the range of prices quoted 
for average extras. The bulk of the 
nearby receipts sold at 29 to 32c per 
dozen. Undergrades went below this. 
The top price for New Jersey hennery 
whites, extras, was 38 @ 40c. 
Storage packed firsts from the West 
were ' freely offered at 27% to 28c. 
Speculative buyers are afraid to put 
more eggs into storage now except on a 
lower level of prices, and the general 
condition of the market is very weak. 
Most of the eggs now going to storage 
are put there by the shippers themselves 
to avoid sacrificing at lower prices. 
DRESSED CALVES WEAKER 
The demand for country dressed 
calves was not very active last week, 
and the tendency was toward lower 
prices on all grades^ Dressed calves, 
veals, sold at the following prices per 
lb. on May 31, choice, 17c; prime, 14 @ 
16c; good, 11 @ 13c; common, 8 @ 10c. 
Dressed lambs were in light supply 
toward the end of last week and firm 
for fancy large with occasional sales 
as high as $11 per carcass, but $10 the 
top price for average best, poor to good 
ranged from $3 to $4 per carcass, 
LIVE CALVES IN DEMAND 
Although receipts of live calves were 
fairly heavy at New York last week, 
the buying was quite active and there 
was practically no accumulation of 
stock. , Toward the end of the week 
prices advanced 50c with general sales 
of veals at $11 to 13.50 per cwt. Live 
lambs’ were also in good demand. In 
the middle of last week several cars of 
the best Southern spring lambs brought 
$16 @ 16.50 per cwt., but after the 
holiday the bulk of sales were $15 @ 
$16.50, with one car of choice Virginia 
lambs selling at $17. 
LIMITED DEMAND FOR FEEDS 
The Buffalo feed market continued 
dull and inactive last week. There 
were declines in meal feeds, oil meal 
and cottonseed meal during the week, 
supplies were liberal. Quotations May 
31 on carlots Buffalo rate basis 100-lb. 
sacks per ton were: 
Gluten feed, $41.05; cottonseed meal, 
$44.55; oil meal, $40; standard spring 
bran, $31; hard winter bran, $31.50; 
choice flour middlings, $36.50; stand¬ 
ard spring middlings, $34; white hominy, 
$36.55, No. 2 yellow corn per bushel, 
91 %c; No. 2 white oats, per bushel, 49c. 
CASH GRAIN QUOTATIONS 
Cash grain quotations June 1, at 
New York were as follows: 
Wheat, No. 2 red—$1.46%; No. 2 
hard winter, $1.31; No. 2 mixed 
durum $1.20%; corn. No. 2 yellow, 99c; 
No. 2 mixed, 98%c; No. 2 white, 99c; 
oats. No. 2 white, 54% @ 55c; No. 3 
white, 53%c; rye, 83%c. 
Chicago: No. 2 hard winter, $1.15%; 
corn, No. 2 white, 80 @ 80%c; No. 2 
yellow, 80% @ 81%c; oats, No. 2 white, 
43% @ 44%c; No. 3 white, 42% @ 
43%c; barley, 67 @ 69c. 
Rearing Vigorous Pullets 
(Continued from page 490) 
are doing as well as they should. The 
following table will supply the neces¬ 
sary data. 
GROWTH OF PULLETS EXPRESSED IN 
POUNDS AND WEEKS 
Lbs. Leghorns 
Rocks 
Wyandottes 
‘ 8 
Reds 
1 . . , . 9 
8 
9 
2 ... . 15 
12 
12 
14 
3 .... 25 
15 
16 
19 
i . . . . 
19 
20 
25 
In conclusion it might be said that 
the success of a poultryman depends 
on his ability to raise strong, vigorous 
pullets. There is not any most import¬ 
ant period, but rather it is necessary 
to see that from the time the chick is 
hatched until it is housed that its 
growth is constant and uniform. If 
this is done the cares of winter will 
bepome less heavy and the eggs will 
come when the price pays. 
