American Agriculturist, December 6, 1924 
Reviewing the Lastest Eastern Markets and Prices 
MILK PRICES 
T HE Dairymen's League Cooperative As¬ 
sociation announces the following prices 
that dealers will pay the League during the 
month of December for milk testing 3% in the 
basic zone of 201 to 210 miles from New York 
City. It is to be understood, of course, that the 
‘prices mentioned below are not received by the 
farmer but go into the pool. They represent the 
prices dealers pay to the League. Class 1: milk 
used chiefly for fluid purposes, $3.07 per hun¬ 
dred pounds. Class 2A, used chiefly as fluid 
cream, $2.10; Class 2B, used chiefly in the 
manufacture of condensed milk and ice cream, 
$2.25; Class 2C, used chiefly in the manufac¬ 
ture of soft cheese, $2.15. Class 3A, $1.80. 
Class SB, $1.75. Class 3C, $1.65. 
Class Jf, prices will as usual be based on the 
butter and American cheese quotations on the 
New York market. 
The only increases over November prices are 
in Class 2, 20 cents per hundred in 2A and 2B 
and a 10 cent increase in 2C. 
Sheffield Producers 
BUTTER PRICES ADVANCE 
Color Your Butter 
“Dandelion Butter Color” Gives That 
Golden June Shade which 
Brings Top Prices 
Before churn¬ 
ing add one-half 
teaspoonful to 
each gallon of 
cream and out 
of your churn 
comes butter of 
G ol d e n June 
shade. “Dandelion 
Butter Color” is 
purely vegetable, 
harmless, and 
meets all State 
laws. Used for 50 
creameries. Doesn’t 
Absolutely tasteless. 
and National food 
years by all large 
color buttermilk. 
Large bottles cost only 35 cents at drug 
or grocery stores. Write for free sam¬ 
ple bottle. 
Wells & Richardson Co., Burlington, Yt. 
Live Poultry Shippers 
IF YOU WANT HIGHEST PRICES re¬ 
turned promptly—market reports and infor¬ 
mation—free use of coops AND SERVICE 
UNEXCELLED—SHIP TO: 
BERMAN & BAEDECKER, Inc. 
West Washington Mkt., 28 Thirteenth Avenue 
New York City 
SHIP YOUR EGGS 
WHITE AND BROWN 
To R. BRENNER & SONS 
Bonded Commission Merchants 
358 Greenwich St., New York City 
mediums and lower grades. It is a problem to 
forecast just how long these advanced prices 
will hold. Weather conditions have a great 
deal to do with it. Trading is active at these 
higher prices, and unless receipts increase ma¬ 
terially and as long as consumptive demand 
stays as it is, we will see the market hold its 
own on these top grades of fresh butter. 
Naturally with the advance on fancy grades, 
there has been a corresponding advance, al¬ 
though not as extensive, in the intermediate 
and lower grades. However, there is not the 
activity in and the snap to the demand for 
these intermediate and lower grades that the 
trade would like to see. Storage holdings are 
still very heavy and naturally the better grades 
will compete with the intermediates at relative 
prices. Medium grades are a whole lot better 
than they were a month ago. In general, there 
is a marked contrast in the butter market as 
it is at the present time compared with the 
condition it was in a month ago. It is just 
about reversed. 
CHEESE MARKET FIRMER 
The Sheffield Farms Producers announce the 
following price for 3% milk in the 201 to 210- 
mile zone: Class 1, $3.07 per hundred; Class 2, 
$2.00; Cla„s 3, $1.50; Class 4, determined by 
market quotations on butter and cheese. 
Non-Pool Cooperative 
The Non-pooling Dairymen's Cooperative 
prices for Class 1 milk is $2.80 per hundred; 
Class 2, $2.00; Class 3A, $1.60; with freight 
and fat differentials. 
Interstate Producers 
The Interstate Milk Producers’ Association 
(Philadelphia Price Plan)-announces that re¬ 
ceiving station prices, or the price to farmers 
in the 201 to 210-mile zone from Philadelphia 
for 3% milk, is $ 2 . 10 . In the 101 to 110-mile 
zone the price is $ 2 . 20 . 
The butter market has made a rather spec¬ 
tacular advance during the past week. Cream¬ 
ery marks scoring higher than extras are selling 
better than 47j^c where pet marks are con¬ 
cerned. Even creamery extras, scoring 92, 
reached by the middle of the week. 
This unusual turn has been due primarily to 
the fact that the Chicago market has been 
above par with New York right along, and 
there is no question but what the light make 
of butter is having a material effect on the 
market. There is a light supply of really fancy 
butter. The advances have been more pro¬ 
nounced in the higher scores than in the 
The Market at a Glance 
The following are the prices on the New York Mar- 
ket, at which farm products of special interest to eastern 
farmers, sold on November 26. 
Eggs, nearbys (cents per dozen) 
Jersey hennery whites, closelv selected. 
.76 
to 71 
Other hennery whites, extras . 
.73 
to 75 
Extra firsts. 
. 6 > 
to 72 
Firsts. 
62 
to 67 
Gathered, whites, first to extra firsts.. 
.62 
to 7) 
Undergrades. 
to 61 
Pullets. 
to 56 
Hennery browns, extras . 
.70 
to 7) 
Gathered browns and mixed colors.... 
.54 
to 63 
Butter (cents per pound) 
Creamery (salted) high score (93 score). 
.47 
to47K 
Extra (92 score) c.c. 
4SH 
Firsts (90-91 score) . 
-42G4>)4 
Firsts (88-89 score). . 
.38 
to 41 
Hay and Straw, large bales (per ton) 
Timothy No. 2. 
.24 
to 25 
Timothy No. 3. . 
to 23 
Timothv Sample. 
to 20 
Fancy light clover mixed No. 2 . 
.21 
to 23 
Alfalfa, sccird cutting No. 2 . 
.25 
to 26 
Oat Straw No. 1. 
Beans (domestic, per lb.) 
Marrow .. 
.1CK to 11 >4 
Pea . 
• 5j£ to fix 
Red Kidney. 
. 8)4 to 9 
White Kidney . 
. 9% to 10L3 
kellow Eyes. 
. 6 H to 7 
Live Poultry, via express (cents per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy.... 
.23 
to 30 
Fowls, leghorns and poor. 
.17 
to 21 
Chickens, colored fancy . 
.23 
to 3) 
Chickens, leghorns .:. 
.25 
to /7 
Broilers, colored. 
.32 
to 43 
Broilers, leghorns. .. 
Ducks, nearbv. 
.23 
to 25 
Ducks, Long Island. 
. 29 
Turkeys.... 
.35 
to 43 
Live Stock (cents per lb.) 
Calves, good to medium. 
.10 
to 12 
Bulls, common to good . 
• 2 U 
ti 3 a 
Lambs, common to good . 
linto 13 'A 
Sheep, common to good. 
■ 3« 
to 5 
Hogs, Yorkers (200 lbs.). 
. 9 
to 91/2 
stocks moving. The demand in New York is 
more for cured stock. New York State whole 
milk flats, held, grading fancy to special, are 
selling chiefly at 22)^c with a few pet marks 
reaching 23c. Average run, held, whole milk 
flats, are selling anywhere from 2014c to 22c. 
Fresh, State flats, are bringing anywhere from 
lc to 2c per pound lower than held goods. 
Fancy fresh, whole milk flats, are bringing 
from 21c to 22c, and average run flats are 
seldom bringing any better than 20f$c, while 
undergrades are bringing anywhere from 18c 
to 19j^c. As a matter of fact there are very 
few fresh flats arriving. 
FANCY EGGS EASIER 
The market for fancy nearby white eggs has 
taken on something of an easier tone and 
prices have lowered as a consequence. The 
market opened on the 24th with a’considerable 
accumulation of nearby white eggs. Trading 
was not very active and as a result pressure 
to sell developed at lower prices. This weakness 
is greatest on the higher priced stocks. Me¬ 
diums and small sizes have maintained their 
position better than higher priced goods. 
During the week the market continued in the 
buyers’ favor as trading was quiet and accu¬ 
mulations were reported in some quarters with 
a consequent pressure to sell. Eggs have got 
to be extra fancy, as to size, shape, color and 
interior quality to bring 78c. Most fresh nearby 
hennery whites are bringing in the neighbor¬ 
hood of anywhere from 62c to 73c. The fanciest 
gathered whites range from 62c to 70c, while 
pullets are bringing from 45c to 56c. These 
medium .grades are maintaining their position 
much better than the higher priced eggs, which 
is quite natural. The trade is always very 
critical when it pays high prices while supplies 
are ample to meet trade needs. 
LIVE POULTRY SELLING WELL 
Activity in the cheese market and the gen¬ 
eral firm tone continues. Although the market 
is in a verygood condition, nevertheless dealers 
have not been inclined to push prices any 
higher, generally showing a disposition to keep 
POTATOES STILL DULL 
There is nothing to report in the potato 
market of a news nature. Conditions are just 
the same as they were last week, the week 
before and the week before that. There seems 
to be a little more interest in Long Islands. 
Farmers on the north side of the Island (down 
at the East End) are getting 75c a bushel, 
while South Siders are getting a nickel more. 
Maines and States seem to be dragging badly, 
especially in New York City. The Brooklyn 
market has been a little bit better. While 
States were bringing $2 per 180 pound sack 
at 33rd Street and in the Bronx, they were 
bringing $2.25 per 180 pound sack in the 
Brooklyn yards. There was not a whole lot of 
buying just previous to Thanksgiving. Most 
dealers were busy making deliveries and were 
not in a buying mood. States in general are 
bringing $1.75 a 150 pound sack in car lots 
delivered in New York City while Maines are 
about 25c per sack better. 
About a week ago we had the pleasure of a 
visit from a prominent up-State grower who 
was in the city to sell a couple of cars of po¬ 
tatoes. He grows a superior stock and grades 
very closely, giving the market exactly what 
it wants. He called upom a number of the men 
in the trade and spent some time in the 33rd 
Street yards. He told the writer it was no 
wonder States were dragging on the market 
for he saw several cars opened that revealed 
about as poor stock as a man would want to 
be troubled with. He said that as long as New 
York State continues to ship such potatoes, it 
can expect the tail end position in the market. 
GRAINS AND FEED 
According to New York State Department 
of Farms and Markets, the following prices 
prevailed November 15. 
The quotations given in this report show the approximate 
prices at which feed can be purchased per ton, and grain 
per bushel, in straight earlots through billed from Western 
points, delivered on track at points in the freight zones as 
indicated. Mixed earlots cost approximately 52 per ton more. 
Retail feed and grain prices vary with different local deale s 
depending upon their individual cost of doing business, volume 
handled, etc. In the case of feeds the retail price may some¬ 
times be as high as $5 per ton above the wholesale prices given 
in this report: 
Ogdens- Rochester Buff 
Albany burg Utica Syracuse alo 
No. 2 W. Oats. .. 
No. 3 W. Oats... 
No. 2 Yel. Corn. 
No. 3 Yel. Corn. 
Ground Oats .... 
Spr. W. Bran _ 
Hard W. Bran... 
Standard Mids.. . 
Soft W. Mids.... 
Flour Mids . 
Red Dog Flour.. 
D. Brew. Grains. 
W. Hominy. 
Yel. Hominy. .. . 
Corn Meal . 
Gluten Feed . 
Gluten Meal . 
36% Cot. S. Meal 
41% Cot. S. Meal 
43% Cot. S. Meal 
31% OP Oil Meal 
34% OP Oil Meal 
Beet Pulp . 
.62 M .63K .61>£ 
.61)4 .59 
mi .mi .59 
m/, .56 H 
1.32 
1.331. 
; 1.31 
1.30 
1.26 
1.31 
1.32 >2 1.30 
1.29 
1.25 
45.00 
45.60 
44.60 
44.30 
42.90 
34.00 
34.60 
33.60 
33.30 
31.90 
34.75 
35.35 
34.35 
34.05 
32.65 
35.50 
36.10 
35.10 
34.80 
33.40 
41.00 
41.60 
40.60 
40.30 
38.90 
40.00 
40.60 
39.60 
39.30 
37.90 
48.25 
48.85 
47.85 
47.55 
46.15 
43.00 
43.60 
42.60 
42.30 
40.90 
46.75 
47.35 
46.35 
46.05 
44.6.5 
45.75 
46.35 
45.35 
45.05 
43.65 
47.25 
47.85 
46!85 
46.55 
45.i.5 
45.66 
45.70 
44.66 
44. i 6 
42.66 
47.25 
47.95 
46.85 
46.35 
45.15 
49.25 
49.95 
48.85 
48.35 
47.15 
51.50 
52. i 6 
s'l'.io 
50.80 
49.40 
38.00 
38.00 
37.60 
37.30 
35.90 
Since Buffalo is an important milling center for wheat feeds 
and linseed meal, quotations are given for this point on both 
a through-billed and a local basis. No. 2 White Oats, --; 
No. 3 White Oats,-No. 2 Yellow Corn, ——; ’No. 3 
Yellow Corn,-; Ground Oats, 40.00; Spring Wheat Bran, 
529.50; Hard Wheat Bran, $31.50; Standard Middlings, 531.50- 
Soft Wheat Middlings, $36.50; Flour Middlings, 537.50; Red 
Dog Flour, 513; Dry Brewers Grains, -; White Hominy, 
$45; Yellow Hominy, 544; Corn Meal, 548; Gluten Feed! 
543.75; Gluten Meal, 552.75; 34% Old Process Oil Meal. 
547.00. 
For points taking New York rate add to Albany price }£ 
cent on oats; % cent on corn, 10 cents on cotton seed meai; 
and 20 cents on other feeds. 
Just previous to Thanksgiving holiday, 
fancy poultry made a very active market. 
Express colored fowls sold well when fancy. 
Average run Leghorns dragged badly, falling 
as low as 17c to 19c. Express chickens enjoyed 
the same kind of market as fancy colored 
fowls, meeting active trading and a firm mar¬ 
ket consistently. As has been true with the 
poultry market on holidays previous to this, 
shippers have taken the stand that because it 
is a holiday anything will sell. This is not true. 
Mediocre stock is dragging and only fancy 
marks are getting real attention. 
The turkey market was a an unknown quan¬ 
tity up to within a day or so before Thanksgiv¬ 
ing. Prices were not well established and with a 
more or less weak market, quotations covered 
a wide range. The main trouble with the tur¬ 
key market has been the heavy storage holdings 
of last year. A lot of this storage stock has to 
move and prices were cut to the bone with the 
consequent reaction of this year’s fresh stock. 
Express turkeys had to be extremely fancy to 
bring 40c and a precious few were able to meet 
the critics. Most arrivals brought from 35c 
to 38c. 
BEAN MARKET DULL 
There is no improvement in the bean mar¬ 
ket, business continues to drag and there is a 
dull movement in all varieties. Values show 
no material change from last week. The gen¬ 
eral feeling is steady, however. Pea beans are 
offered freely at which is about the top 
price for that variety. Red and white kidneys 
are barely holding their own. It is very seldom 
that red kidneys exceed 9c and white kidneys 
are slow at about 10c to 10)4c. Arrivals are 
not very heavy due to the fact that the New 
^ork market offers little encouragement to 
shippers. The best inquiry is for small white 
beans. 
HAY SLIGHTLY EASIER 
Trading on the hay market has been rather 
light of late and if anything the market shows 
more of an easier tendency. Hay has got to he 
extra fine to bring $27. For these really fancy 
grades, there is a good demand. However, 
there is an over-supply of small bales and with 
advices indicating more stocks rolling, it is 
quite natural that we will see a slightly easier 
tone. 
CASH GRAIN PRICES 
Cash grain prices, F.O.B. NEW YORK, 
are as follows: IV HEAT, No. 2, hard winter, 
$1.69)4; No. 2, red, $1.73; No. 2, mixed, 
$1.67)4- CORN, No. 2, yellow, $1.30)4; No. 
2, mixed, $1.29)4. OATS, No. 2, white, 61c; 
fancy white clipped, 66c to 67)4c; ordinary 
white clipped, (if%c to 62)4c. RYE, $1.44)4. 
BUCKWHEAT, sound milling, $2.20 per hun¬ 
dred pounds. 
Cash prices, F.O.B. CHICAGO, are as 
follows; WHEAT, No. 2, red, $1.65)4; No. 2, 
hard, $1.55)4. CORN, No. 2, mixed, $1.14; 
No. 2, yellow, $1.16; No. 2, white, $1.13. 
OATS, No. 2, white, 51)4c. 
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