American Agriculturist, October 13,1923 
, 258 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
A CHAT WITH THE RAILWAY 
EXPRESSMAN 
HERSCHEL H. JONES 
“TT is the small egg producer with 
Xfrom 50 to 150 hens who causes 
the most trouble in the market,” said 
an official of the American Railway 
Express to me recently. “I wish I 
could talk personally* with every such 
shipper and tell him what I have seen. 
Take, for instance, washed eggs. There 
are a lot of farmers who still persist 
in washing eggs before sending to mar¬ 
ket in spite of the fact that a dealer 
invariably detects washed eggs and dis¬ 
counts heavily on prices. 
“The small shipper must ship every¬ 
thing to get a full case without regard 
to grade. He fails to give attention to 
the care of eggs and he holds them too 
long before shipping. He neglects to 
candle his eggs and has no information 
as to thin shells and other defects which 
will not permit his eggs to stand up 
under critical buying. Nevertheless, he 
imagines he is putting real goods in his 
case and is disappointed if he does not 
get the top prices. 
“Of course, it is sometimes difficult 
to grade eggs properly, but there is no 
excuse for holding eggs too long. Held 
eggs, especially at this season, come in 
in abundance and they always firing 
SHEEPSKIN COATS 
For MEN 
For BOYS 
u- 
T HE right cold weather coat for men and 
boys direct from manufacturer at a big 
saving! A full-cut, 36-inch length. Heavy 
drab Moleskin Cloth Coat, lined with selected 
long napped, bark-tanned, Sheepskin pells. 
Sleeves lined with heavy felt and fitted with 
double-knitted wristlets. Double breasted style, 
with large beaverized sheepskin shawl collar, 
Has two muff pockets and two flap pockets, and 
all around belt 36 to 48 chest measure for men, 
and 6 to 16 years for boys. Give chest measure 
for men’s coat, or agfc. for boys’ coat. Send price 
with order and we will pay postage. Or, you can 
pay for coat and postage on arrival. Money re¬ 
funded if not pleased in every way. 
New York Tanning & Clothing Co. 
Dept. 53, 417 LAFAYETTE STREET 
NEW YORK, N. Y - 
“The Truth About Wire Fence’ 
SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY | 
THAT HAS COST FARMERS 
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 
A cedar post outlasts a pine.so 1 
two rolls of wire fence may J 
look alike, and cost the same. I 
yot one will last twice as long I 
as the other. Our circular I 
solves the puzzle and shows | 
you how to save that 100 per I 
cent. You can know what you I 
are baying just as surely as I 
Write for a copy today. you can tell Oak from Poplar, f 
I BOND STEEL POST CO., 28 East Maumee St., ADRIAN, MICH. 
$1500 Gets 227 Acres with 
16 Cows, 3 Horses, Furniture 
Season’s crops, bull, implements, tools, etc.; income from 
start,; in beautiful valley, close K. K. town; 100 acres 
heavy cropping fields; Un-cow pasture, valuable wood and 
limber; - large bouses, running spring water, ‘1 big stork 
barns, poultry bouse, etc. Owner called away; all for 
$8,000, only $1,500 needed. Details natge H, New Ulus. 
Catalog. bargains many slates. Copy free. STR0UT 
FARM AGENCY, I50R Nassau St., New York City. 
POSTPAID 
if Made for oil or electricity. Has 
long reel of pictures, show tick¬ 
ets. posters and full directions. 
.. Yours for setting only 20 bottles high 
J duality LIQUID PERFUME at 16c.Won- 
derful value. Everybody buys. Send 
k no money, tuet your oarne and address. 
Bell Perfume Co..Dent.D10,Chicago 
low prices. Moreover, many eggs have 
defects the farmer is unaware of unless 
he candles. In our recent Poultry 
Demonstration Tour on the Erie we 
candled many eggs and found a great 
many weak shelled. When we talked 
with the producers, we found that many 
were not feeding sufficient of, or the 
right materials.” 
In a word, the express company has 
found that it cannot stop its educational 
work with the packed eggs. It must 
go clear back to proper feeding of the 
flock. But egg losses are still enormous 
from poor packing. 
“It is hard to believe that farmers 
■will still pack in old second-hand fillers. 
If they could see, as I have seen, the 
loss to the shipper from such fillers, 
they would never use anything but new 
flats and fillers. Yet just recently, I 
have seen many cases with the fillers 
dirty, and stained, and broken down. 
The finest eggs, packed in such cases, 
will never bring the prices they 
should.” 
APPLE SUPPLIES HEAVY 
The New York market was heavily 
supplied with apples last week and 
prices were low except for very fancy 
stock. Poor and average qualities of 
barrel and basket apples were neglected 
and the market for them demoralized. 
It was difficult to move them, even at 
low figures. Only fancy large McIn¬ 
tosh and Greenings were scarce and in 
demand. Boxed apple shipments were 
heavy and many buyers turned to them 
instead of barrels. 
Western New York shipped quite a 
number of cars of both barreled and 
baskets to New York; Vermont ship¬ 
ments Increased. 
The bulk of Hudson River and State 
shipments were of ordinary quality and 
not desirable for storage, on which it 
is impossible to give representative quo¬ 
tations. Some small sizes of B and un¬ 
classified Hubbardsons sold as low as 
$2.45 bbl. A Grade McIntosh, 2%-inch 
up, sold at $7.50, and even $8 bbl. 
Large A Greenings sold as high as $7 
to $7.25 bbl., hut mostly around $6.50. 
CABBAGE MARKET WEAK 
Due to heavy supplies at most of the 
loading points in New York State, the 
price of cabbage has steadily declined. 
Early last week, some cars of kraut 
cabbage sold for $18 per ton f.o.b. Fri¬ 
day, shippers were quoting freely at 
$14 and the buyers we - e holding off. 
Grocex*y stock was offered at $16. 
POTATO MARKET STRONGER 
After selling down to $2.50 per 150- 
lb. sack delivered New York City 
points in carlots, potatoes from both 
Maine and New York found a better de¬ 
mand toward the end of last week. 
Shippers began to quote up to $2.80 for 
sacks and $1.80 cwt. in bulk. 
Long Islands hit $1 bu. and then trav¬ 
eled back to $1.15 for the best South 
Side stock. Most of the growers have _ 
been storing and have practically fin¬ 
ished digging. 
The market in New York City has 
been extremely dull and the buyers have 
been having everything their own way. 
CHEESE MARKET FIRM 
The market on State cheese remained 
firm during the week due to high costs 
up State. The competition of buyers in 
New York and Wisconsin has tended to 
hold prices steady. Weather conditions 
have become favorable and Wisconsin 
reports a larger production. On Octo¬ 
ber 4, fresh fancy State flats brought 
28 cents and average run 27 to 27 %e. 
BUTTER MARKET STEADY 
The market for butter in New York 
City, which held steady during the 
week, became firmer under the influence 
of the sharp advance in Chicago. On 
October 4 creamery extras brought 47c 
and firsts, 45 to 4614c. Imports of for¬ 
eign butter during the month of Sep¬ 
tember were over 800,000 pounds. Last 
year, on the other hand, there were no 
imports of butter to the United States 
during any of the three months of Au¬ 
gust, September or October. 
POULTRY TRADING ERRATIC 
Prices on express shipments of poul¬ 
try 'fluctuated greatly during the “week, 
running to as high as 34c on Friday, 
September 28, dropping under a slack 
demand on the first of the following- 
week and strengthening to 30c again 
on Thursday, October 4, for colored 
fowls. Chickens continued to meet a 
dull market. 
CASH GRAIN QUOTATIONS 
Cash grain quotations on October 5 
were as follows: 
New York : WHEAT — No. 2 red, .$1.24. 
CORN — No. 2 yellow, $1.19 % ; No. 2 mixed, 
$1.18l/i : No. 2 white, $1.1914. OATS — No.-2 
white, 54c: No. 3 white, 52% to 53c; ordi¬ 
nary, white clipped, 56 to 57c. RYE—80%c. 
BARLEY — 78 to 80 %e. 
Chicago: WHEAT — No. 2 red, $1.09% to 
1.10. CORR — No. 2 white, $1 to 1.00% ; No. 2 
yellow. $1 to 1.01. OATS—No. 2 white, 48% 
to 45%c; No. 3 white, 42% to 43 %c. RYE- 
73 %c. BARLEY — 60% to 76c. 
CHEAPER HAY IN DEMAND 
Buyers demanded a cheap feeding hay 
during the week and No. 3 was easier 
to sell than the better grades. Prices 
advanced two dollars per ton on No. 3, 
which sold on October 4 at $25 to $27 
per ton. 
MEDIUM VEALS OVERSTOCKED 
Outside of a good demand for fancy- 
dressed veals the market on medium 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
« * 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to 
eastern farmers sold on October 5: 
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 
66 to 68 
64 to 66 
53 to 66 
48 to 52 
48 to 64 
42 to 47 
56 to 60 
47 to 54 
40 to 49 
Buffalo 
49 to 51 
45 to 47 
Phila. 
42 
38 
48 
Butter (cents per pound) 
Creamery (salted) high score. 47% to 48 
Extra (92 score)... 47 
State dairy (salted), finest. 45% to 46% 
Good to prime. 43 to 45 
Hay and Straw, Large Bales (per ton) U. S. Grades Old Grade Standards 
49 to 50 
47 to 48 
45 to 46 
38 to 40 
Timothy No. 3. 
Timothy Sample. 
Fancy light clover mixed 
Oat straw No. 1. 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cents per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy. 
Fowls, leghorns and poor. 
Broilers, colored fancy... 
Broilers, leghorn. . . 
Live Stock (cents per pound) 
Calves, good to medium. ....... 
Bulls, common to good. 
Lambs, medium to good.>. 
Sheep, common to good ewes. 
Hogs, Yorkers . .. 
$28 to 29 
$17 to 18 
$26 to 26.50 
25 to 26 
16 to 20 
. 
22 to 23 
29 
........ 
26 to 26.50 
30 to 32 
11 to 12 
29 to 30 
26 to 27 
29 to 30 
24 
19 to 21 
18 to 20 
23 to 26 
27 
27 
21 to 23 
20 
26 
11 to 14 
3% to 4 
11 to 13 
3 to 4% 
8 % to 8 9-1 
grades was generally weak under heavy 
supplies. Good small veals brought on 
October 4, 12 to 14c while fancy sold 
as high as 22c. » 
Live calves brought as high as $15.50 
during the week under a market that 
varied from steady to slow. The de¬ 
mands for lambs generally remained 
steady. On October 4, five cars were 
sold at prices ranging from $13 to 
$14.50. _ 
Harvesting Potatoes 
{Continued from page 250) 
are ruled out of U. S. No. 1 Grade. 
Whether a tuber is to be classed as 
misshapen in determining how to grade 
mus’t, of course, be decided by the grow¬ 
er's best judgment. However, all 
pointed or dumb-bell shaped tubers 
found in such types as Rurals and 
Green Mountains should be removed. 
Tubers with either surface or internal 
cuts are also taboo, the latter being 
especially undesirable since they result 
in much internal dry rot by the time 
tubers so injured have reached the con¬ 
sumer. Although hollow-heart is most 
commonly associated with large tubers, 
size is no criterion of this defect. 
Every shipper should sample his erdp 
for hollow-heart by cutting tubers se¬ 
lected at random from various parts 
of his field or bin.- This will enable 
him to judge whether his crop is likely 
to qualify as to grade. 
SALE OF 
State Ditching Machines 
Notice is hereby given that I, Berne A. Pyrke, Com¬ 
missioner of Farms and Markets, by virtue of the power 
and authority conferred on me as such by provision con¬ 
tained in- Chapter No. 72!), Laws of 1923, will sell to the 
highest bidder lire following farm machinery, now the 
property of the State of New York; to wit: 
One Buckeye Tractor Power Ditching Machine No. 1820 
now located at Williamson, Wayne County. N. Y., which 
machine can be seen in operation at that place October 
15 and 16. 1923; one Buckeye Tractor Power Ditching 
Machine No. 1825 now located at Savannah. Wayne Coun¬ 
ty. N. Y.. which machine can he seen In operation at, 
that place October 24 and 25. 1923; one Buckeye Tractor 
Power Ditching Machine No. 1827 now located at Dundee. 
Yates County. N. Y., which can he >een in operation at. 
that place on October 30 and 31. 1923; unit one Buckeye 
Tractor Power Ditching Machine No. 1831 now located at 
Castile. Wyoming County, N. Y., which tun be seen in 
operation at that, place November 5 and 6, 1923. 
, These machines have been thoroughly overhauled. They 
are unit each of them Is equipped with No. 3 Motor, 
automatic, heavy duty, gasoline, four-cylinder engine; dirt, 
chute and dirt, conveyor for extra deep ruts; armored 
cleaner shoe to prevent dirt rattling into trench while ma¬ 
chine is in operation. These machines are built to cut 
trench 15 inches to 20 inches in width, and tip to 5% 
feet, in depth, to a perfect grade, in one operation, at the 
rate of 1% to 10 feet per minute. 
Sealed bids for one or more of the above named ma¬ 
chines will be received by the Commissioner of Farms and 
Markets at, tin- office of the State Department of Farms 
and Markets, City of Albany, County of Albany, State of 
New York on each separate machine, up to and within five 
days from the last demonstration date as set forth for 
each machine. 
For further information regarding machines or the de¬ 
monstration or sale thereof, address the Commissioner of 
Farms and Markets, Department of Farms and Markets, 
Albany, N. Y. 
, BERNE A. PYRKE, 
Commissioner of Farms and Markets, 
i Dated at Albany, N. Y., this 
1st day of October, 1923. 
NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO 
Chewing 5 lbs , $1.75; 10 
lbs., $8,00. Smoking, 5 
- Ibs.. $1.25; 10 lbs., $2.00. 
Pan when received, pipe and recipe free, 
FARMERS TOBACCO UNION, Dl, PADUCAH, KY. 
PATENTS 
Booklet free. Highest 
references. Best results. 
Promptness assured, 
WATSON E. COLEMAN, Patent Lawyer, 624 F Street, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
POST YOUR FARM 
and Keep Trespassers Off 
We have printed on iinen 
lined board trespass notices 
that comply in all respects to 
the new law of New York State. 
We unreservedly advise land 
owners to post their farms. 
We have a large supply of these 
notices and will send a baker’s 
dozen (thirteen) to any sub¬ 
scriber for 75 cents. Larger 
quantities at same rate. 
Address : 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
Dept. A 
461 4th Ave,, New York City 
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