American Agriculturist, July 7,1923 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
LONG ISLAND DUCK GROWERS IN 
FIGHT 
HERSCHEL H. JONES 
T HE Long Island Duck Growers’ Co¬ 
operative Association which has done 
so much to stabilize the marketing of 
cks and put the Long Island duck 
dustry on a sound basis, is having its 
roubles with unfair and unscrupulous 
competition. The organization has 
since it inception been fighting to elimi¬ 
nate some of the sharp practices and 
unsound methods prevailing in the West 
Washington live poultry market. To 
accomplish this it finally became neces¬ 
sary for it to refuse to distribute its 
ducks through certain firms. These 
firms are now seeking to break the 
Association by underselling and reck¬ 
less competition. They are reported 
to have been buying quantities of ducks 
at 25 cents per pound and selling them 
at 23 cents. The worst part of it is 
that members of the Association itself 
have aided and abetted them by violat¬ 
ing their agreements with the Associa¬ 
tion to sell through it only and selling 
to the' very men who are trying to 
break the growers’ Association. 
The bulk of the live ducks which 
come from the Association are handled 
through three firms. The Association 
places a value on the ducks which seems 
justified by existing conditions of 
supply and demand and their prices 
have been satisfactory to most of the 
buyers. In fact, buyers generally are 
very much in sympathy with the grow¬ 
ers’ Association because of the way it 
has regulated and stabilized the market. 
One of the practices which the buyers 
are in accord with the Association in 
trying to eliminate is that of forcing 
buyers to take a quantity of fowls or 
chickens along with ducks, making a 
sort of combination sale as the grocers 
did with sugar and things that they 
wanted to get rid of during the war. 
The competition of the firms that are 
fighting the Association has created a 
range of prices instead of a firm quo¬ 
tation and has made it difficult to de¬ 
termine what the market really is in 
cases where buyers have standing 
orders or contracts to take so many 
ducks at the current market quotation. 
The Association has during the last 
week been selling its live ducks at 25 
cents, whereas the independent compet¬ 
itors have sold at 23 cents. Dressed 
Long Island ducks, dry picked, are also 
selling at 25 cents per pound. 
POTATO PROSPECTS 
In Southern New Jersey there is this 
year a small increase in the number of 
acres planted in potatoes over 1922. 
Except for lack of rain growing con¬ 
ditions have been generally favorable 
and there is about 85 per cent of a 
stand. Due to unseasonably cold 
weather at planting time the bulk of 
the crop will be later than usual. 
These conditions hold for Monmouth 
County, Freehold section, where the 
rainfall has been exceedingly light. 
Some growers believe that the yield 
will be reduced to about 60 per cent of 
normal and even less if the drought 
continues. At this time the vines should 
be filling the rows, but with few excep¬ 
tions there is over 18 inches space and 
some wilt due to the very hot weather. 
The Long Island potato fields seem 
to have'been better favored with rain 
and if the growers have no bad luck' 
for the next few weeks, there will be a 
good crop of both Irish Cobblers and 
Green Mountains. Some growers be¬ 
lieve that potatoes from the far East¬ 
ern end of the Island will appear in the 
New York City market in baskets about 
the last week in July. It will be a week 
or two later before shipments will be 
made in carlots. 
IN THE TRUCKERS’ MARKETS 
The Wallabout, Gansevoort and Har¬ 
lem farmers’ markets in New York were 
fairly well supplied last week with 
fresh green vegetables from Long 
Island and other nearby sections. The 
prices showed some slight advance 
toward the end of the week and demand 
was fairly active. The following prices 
represent sales made by farmers to 
jobbers and retailers on June 28: 
ASPARAGUS—per dozen bunches, 
white and green, prime, best $2.50 @ 
$2.75, fancy $3 @$3.25, culls $1 @$1.25; 
BEETS—per bunch, best 6 @ 7c; ordi¬ 
nary 5c; CAULIFLOWER—per slat 
barrel, best $3 @ $3.50, fancy $3.75 @ 
$4, No. 2’s $1.25 @$1.50; CARROTS— 
per bunch best 5 @ 6c, fancy, few sales 
large stock 7c, ordinary 4c; CABBAGE 
—per head white best 8c, fancy, few 
sales 10c, ordinary 6 @ 7c, per slat 
barrel $1.75 @ $2; ONIONS—per bunch 
best 4 @ 4%c, fancy, few sales 5c, 
ordinary 3 @3%c; RADISHES, per 
bunch, red and white tip best 3 @ 4c, 
white radishes 2 @ 4c, black radishes 
4@6c; RHUBARB — per bunch 1% @ 
2c, few sales 2% @ 2%c; RO MAINE— 
per crate (32 qts) best $1 @ $1.25, 
ordinary 75c, per slat barrel best $2 @ 
$2.25, fancy $2.50, ordinary $1.25 @ 
$1.75; SPINACH—per crate (32 qts) 
Savoy best $1.50 @ $1.75, fancy $2, 
New Zealand, 75c @ $1; STRING 
BEANS—per bushel bag, green best 
$2.25 @ $2.50. 
are liberal. The following are quota¬ 
tions on Hudson Valley berries June 
28, 1923: 
CHERRIES, 
Black, sweet, qt. 
Red, sweet. 
White, sweet, qt. 
Red, sour, qt. . . . 
GOOSEBERRIES, 
qt. 
RASPBERRIES, 
pint. 
CURRANTS 
Red, qt.. 
Best 
Fancy 
Ordinary 
■ 20@22 
23@25 
IS 
.16(5)18 
20 
15 
13 @15 
10@12 
15@16 
12 @18 
12 @14 
18 
20 
15@16 
10@12 
14@l5 
8@9 
15@16 
17 @18 
12% @14 
UP STATE GREEN PEAS MOVING 
The first shipment of green peas 
from Western New York were received 
in the New York market last week and 
sold from $3 to $3.25 per bu. basket. 
Madison County supplies are light but 
steadily increasing. A few small sales 
BUTTER SUPPLIES HEAVIER 
Supplies of butter received in the 
New York market last week were much 
heavier than previously and the offer¬ 
ings were in excess of the trade demand. 
Considerable quantities are being put 
into cold storage by the owner^, and 
large chain stores and jobbers are 
putting away a considerable supply for 
their fall and winter needs. The buy¬ 
ing for speculative purposes is not very 
active but is still a factor in determin¬ 
ing the market. Wholesale quotations 
on creamery high score were 39 @ 39 %c 
June 28, compared with 391/2 @ 40c a 
week previous. It is very interesting to 
note that the price of 39 @ 39Vac of 
June 28 is exactly the same as the quo¬ 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to 
eastern farmers sold on June 28: 
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. 
New York 
41 @42 
38 @39 
32 @35 
28@31 
28 @33 
24 @27 
33 @ 35 
28 @32 
24 @28 
Buffalo 
Phila. 
27 @28 
27% 
24% 
25 @26 
Butter (cents per pound) 
Creamery (salted) high score. 
Extra (92 score). 
State dairy (salted), finest. . . 
Good to prime. 
38% @39% 
38% 
38 
36% @37% 
42 @43 
40 @41 
38 @39 
32@37 
40 
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. 
U. S. Grades 
$22 @24 
19@21 
12 @ 16 
21 
29 @30 
10 @12 
Old Grade Standards 
19 @ 20 $22@23 
19 @20 
21 @ 22 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cents per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy. 
Fowls, leghorns and poor. 
Broilers, colored fancy. 
Broilers, leghorn. 
22@23 
18 @ 21 
45 @50 
30 @40 
24 @25 
21 @23 
45 
35 
24 @25 
53 @ 55 
30 @32 
Live Stock (cents per pound) 
Calves, good to medium. 
Bulls, common to good. 
Lambs, common to good. 
Sheep, common to good ewes. 
Hogs, Yorkers . .. 
9% @10% 
4 @4% 
'10 @ 14 
2% @4% 
8 @ 8 % 
8 @15 
. 8 % 
of fancy peas were made at $4 per bu. 
basket,, and ordinary sold at $2.50 to 
$2.75 on June 28. Long Island peas 
were quoted by the State Department 
of Farms and Markets at $1.50 to $3.50 
per bu. basket. 
Wayne County lettuce also made its 
first appearance in the market last 
week. Shipments were of very poor 
quality and were in light demand at 
50 to 75c per crate. Supplies of lettuce 
from Orange County, Long Island, and 
other nearby sections were liberal and 
generally of inferior quality. A few 
sales of fancy Orange County lettuce 
went as high as $1.50 @ $1.75, and poor 
as low as 50c. 
tation for creamery high score on the 
same date last year. 
Creamery extras (92 score) quoted 
at 38 %c on June 29 were 38 @ 38 %c on 
the same date in 1922. 
OSWEGO STRAWBERRIES COMING 
First shipments of strawberries from 
Oswego County and Western New York 
arrived in the New York market last 
week to supplement the liberal supplies 
from the Hudson River Valley. The 
bulk of the berries were of inferior 
quality. 
Monroe County berries sold at 15 to 
20c per qt., best Oswego County 25 @ 
30c, Long Island 10 @ 35c, and Hudson 
Valley at various prices ranging from 
10 to 25c, with a few small sales of 
fancy upper River berries at 28 to 30c. 
The total strawberry shipments this 
season to date from New York State 
sections are about half of what they 
were up to the same time last year. 
Currants, gooseberries, raspberries 
and cherries are now arriving from 
Hudson River Valley sections and the 
supplies of cherries from New Jersey 
CHEESE MARKET WEAK 
The market on average run fresh 
State whole milk cheese showed some 
weakness last week. It is reported that 
high prices are still being .paid up¬ 
state, and one sale in the New York 
market was reported as high as 26 V 2 C 
per lb. Straight cars of fancy State 
flats were offered in New York last 
week at 25c, however, an average run 
could be easily bought at 24. The offi¬ 
cial trade quotation on State whole milk 
flats, fresh, average run was 24c. On 
the same date last year State fresh 
average run was quoted at 18% to 
19 %c. Receipts of cheese at New York 
last week were 100,000 lbs. in excess of 
the previous week. 
FANCY EGGS HIGHER 
With decreasing proportion of really 
fancy quality eggs in the New York 
wholesale market last week, prices ad¬ 
vanced and the market became increas¬ 
ingly firm. New Jersey hennery whites, 
closely selected, extras, were quoted at 
41 to 42c per dozen at end of last week. 
The prospect is for advancing prices 
on the highest qualities from now on. 
Only eggs that are exceptionally fresh, 
of large size, light yolks, and either 
chalk white or brown shells come in 
this fancy class. Producers are often 
tempted in a rising market, as we shall 
probably have in the next two months, 
to hold eggs in anticipation of higher 
prices. It is a blind policy, for held eggs 
deteriorate so rapidly in the summer, 
that by the time they reach the market 
their quality is so far down that they 
are thrown into competition with west¬ 
ern gathered eggs and storage eggs, of 
which there is usually an abundant 
supply.. 
Receipts of nearby eggs are falling 
off. There are still some accumulations 
of ordinary quality nearby whites in 
hands of dealers, which can only be 
moved at low prices. Average nearby 
extras during the week sold at 35 to 
38c, with sales mostly at 36c or above at 
end of week. The bulk of the nearby 
eggs, however, sold within a range of 
25@32c, with a large proportion at 
around 28c. 
ACTIVE DEMAND FOR BROILERS 
In spite of a liberal supply of express 
shipments of broilers last week, the 
market was firm, due to very active de¬ 
mand. Prices averaged higher than 
last week by about 2 c per lb. The usual 
pre-holiday demand before July 4th will 
probably continue Monday of this week, 
but if heavy receipts come in late, 
prices are likely to fall off. 
Express broilers, colored, sold June 28 
at 50c per lb., compared with 42@48c on 
the same date last year. White leg¬ 
horn broilers, large, sold at 40 to 42c, 
average 36@38c, compared with a gen¬ 
eral range at same time last year of 
35@40c. Fancy selected nearby broilers, 
however, sold easily last week at 52c. 
Express fowls sold better toward the 
end of last week, most of the white 
leghorns at 22 c, and colored stock at 
23 @ 24. 
LIVE CALVES SLIGHTLY HIGHER 
Although there was some fluctuation 
in supplies and prices on live veal calves 
at New York last week, prices were 
slightly higher toward the end of week, 
than previous week. Most veals ranged 
from $8 to $12.50 per cwt, with $12 as 
the top late in the week. Following 
were prices on calves June 28, per cwt: 
prime, $11 @$ 12 ; good to medium 
$9.50 @ $10.50; common $8 @ $9; culls 
$6 @ $7; buttermilks $5 @ $5.50. 
Country dressed veals arrived mostly 
in bad condition and many were con¬ 
demned by Health Department. Choice 
dressed veals were scarce and sold at 
15 to 16c per lb. 
HAY MARKET WEAK 
With liberal receipts of poor quality 
hay, the New York market became 
very weak last week. Trading was ex¬ 
tremely quiet. Boat shipments added 
to supplies by rail. Large bales sold 
much more readily than small. U. S. 
Timothy No. 1 of which there was prac¬ 
tically none on the market was quoted 
at $25 per ton. Rye straw was over- 
plentiful and hard to sell at $22 per ton. 
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358 Greenwich St., New York City 
Farmers Supplied with 
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520 Washington St. NEW YORK 
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AGENCY, 150R Nassau St., New York City. 
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lbs., $1.25; 10 lbs., $2.00. 
Pay when received , pipe and recipe free 
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