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American Agriculturist, December 8, 1923 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
MARKET OVERSUPPLIED 
WITH TURKEYS 
HERSCHEL H. JONES 
B Y Tuesday, November 27, the New York 
market was completely overstocked with 
turkeys. The Thanksgiving trade reached its 
highest about the end of the previous week and 
earlier shipments of fancy turkeys brought 5 to 
6c more then than later. There was a large 
accumulation of freight turkeys in the hands 
of wholesale receivers, quantities of which were 
placed in cold storage to be held over for the 
Christmas trade. Fancy dry picked Virginia 
and Maryland turkeys sold at 35 to 45c just 
before Thanksgiving but earlier brought as 
high as 48 to 50e wholesale. Western dry 
packed turkeys were freely offered at 35c and 
many sales were made as low as 30c. Some of 
the best southwestern tin-keys moved at 31 to 
32c but 30c was the prevailing price toward the 
end of the market. Live turkeys, fancy selected 
by express brought 34 to 35c, average run 
32 to 33c. 
Dressed chickens were in liberal supply and 
sold slowly unless of exceptional fancy quality. 
Dressed fowls worked out slowly at irregular 
prices. The supply of ducks and geese was 
liberal and most of the stock was of medium 
and low grade. The best Maryland ducks sold 
as high as 25c per lb. just before Thanksgiving. 
For the Long Island ducks were held at 30c. 
The market was firm on express shipments of 
live poultry. Fowls, colored, fancy, heavy, 
by express sold at 30 to 31c; average 25 to 29c 
per lb. Leghorn fowls, fancy, large 23 to 24c; 
average run 20 to 22c. Chickens, fancy 
roasting, 30 to 32c; average run 26 to 28c. 
Rabbits, live, 26 to 30c. Pigeons, per pair, 45c. 
APPLES CONTINUE DULL 
The demand for barreled apples last week 
centered chiefly in the high-colored stock of 
large size and fancy quality. Receipts at New 
York were moderate but more than required 
for a dull market. The quality of a large part 
of the receipts was poor. 
New York wholesale prices on barreled stock 
last week averaged about as follows, on A 
Grade Minimum 23^> inch stock: BALDWINS, 
best, $4.50 to 5; few, fancy, $5.25 to 5.50; 
ordinary, $3.50 to 4. GREENINGS, $5.75 to 
6; fancy, $6.25; ordinary to fair, $4.50 to 5.50. 
HUBBARDSTON, $3 to 4; KINGS, $4 to 
4.50; fancy, $5. McINTOSII, best, $8 to 
8.50; few, fancy, $9; ordinary, $6.50 to 7.50. 
NONE SUCH $3 to 4. NORTHERN SPY, 
best, $5 to 5.50; fancy, $6; ordinary, $4 to 
4.50. NORTHWESTERN GREENINGS, 
best, $5 to 5.50; few, fancy, $5.75 to 6. PE- 
WAUKEE, $3 to 3.50. ROME BEAUTY, 
$3.50 to 4; fancy, $4.50 to 5. SNOW, $5 to 6; 
ordinary, $3.50 to 4. STARK, $3 to 3.50. 
SUTTON, $3 to 3.50. 
Export shipments of barreled apples fell off 
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Wagon parts of all 
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NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO [bs! SLOO* * 'sin ok ing 5 
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Pay when received, pipe and recipe free 
FARMERS TOBACCO UNION, Dl, PADUCAH, KY. 
last week considerably. Shipments the week 
ending November 24 were only 108,000 bbls. 
and 120,000 boxes compared with 136,000 
bbls. and 338,000 boxes the previous week. 
This decline should bring a better tone to the 
British market. Total figures of exports of 
both barrels and boxes show about twice the 
volume this year over last. 
Car lot shipments of apples fell off all over 
the country last week. There were about 1,000 
carloads less of both boxes and bbls. shipped 
last week than the previous week. 
POTATO PRICES LOWER 
The holiday last week affected the potato 
trade in the New York City wholesale markets 
because the buyers were busy with other items 
and bought only what they needed for imme¬ 
diate use. With prices in their favor they had 
everything their own way. 
14.25. The market on country dressed veals 
has been very dull. Prime veals sold slowly 
at from $13 to 15. 
CHEESE MARKET UNSETTLED 
The market on cheese remained unsettled. 
There has been light trading during the past 
week and generally at lower prices.- Sales of 
fresh cheese both in New York City and up- 
State points have been made at lower levels. 
BUTTER MARKET RECOVERS 
Following the decline of last week butter 
reacted to a stronger position going back 
almost to the high point of the season. There 
is still a sharp demand for high grades. For¬ 
eign butter of good quality commands good 
prices. In New York City fresh Danish and 
Canadian brought 51 to 52c per lb. Imports 
were received from Syria, Italy, Argentine 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to eastern farmers 
sold on November 27: 
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. 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cents per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy. 
Fowls, leghorns and poor. 
Chickens, colored fancy. 
Chickens, 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.. 
New York 
77 to 78 
77 to 78 
67 to 70 
62 to 66 
62 to 69 
50 to 60 
62 to 68 
53 to 61 
45 to 55 
Buffalo Phila. 
73 to 76 
60 to 62 
53^to 54 56 to 57 
53 54 to 55 
51J^to52J^ 52 to 53 
48 to 50 hi 45 to 50 
U. S. Grades Old Grade Standards 
$26 to 28 $17 to 18 
24 to 25 . 
15 to 19 . 
28 to 30 . 
31 to 32 . 
15 to 16 . 
30 to 31 23 to 24 
20 to 22 16 to 17 
30 to 32 22 to 23 
26 to 28 16 to 18 
10 to 12 
3M to 3M 
11 to 13 
3 y 2 to 4 M 
714 to 
Long Islands dropped to $1 bu. to the grower. 
150 lb. sacks in earlots sold for as low as $2.95 
at loading point. 
Maine cars were sold in bulk for $1.65 cwt. 
delivered; in 150 lb. sacks, $2.70. 
States sold in bulk for $1.50 cwt. delivered; 
150 lb. sacks, $2.30. 
CASH GRAIN QUOTATIONS 
Cash grain quotations were as follows on 
November 28: 
NEW YORK—WHEAT, No. 2 red, $1.22^. CORN. 
No. 2 yellow, 94c; No. 2 mixed, 92c; No. 2 white, 94c. 
OATS, No. 2 white, 53)4c; No. 3 white, 51J/ 2 to 52c; 
ordinary, white clipped, 55 to 56c. RYE, 77 %c. BAR¬ 
LEY, 75 to 80c. 
6 CHICAGO—No. 2 red, $1.05 to 1.05 y s . CORN, No. 
2 yellow, 82c; No. 3 yellow, 72 to 81c. OATS, No. 2 
white, 44 to 46e; No. 3 white, 43)4 to 44% c - RYE, 
73c. BARLEY, 61 to 65c. 
CABBAGE HIGHER 
Medium Danish cabbage sold in earlots as 
high as $21 ton at loading point. It is prac¬ 
tically' all in storage and the shippers are not 
anxious to sell. 
HAY MARKET FIRM 
The market on hay was firm toward the 
latter part of the week with No. 2 bringing 
from $27 to 28 per ton. 
EGG PRICES SLUMP 
In the last week eggs fell eight cents per 
doz., extra firsts bringing on November 7 
55c per dozen and firsts 50c per doz. High 
retail prices for fancy near-by eggs has checked 
the demand and prices have likewise declined. 
The effect of lower prices has already made 
itself felt and on November 27 there was 
reported a steadier tone in the market under 
heavier buying. 
CALVES AND VEAL 
Following a sharp advance on live calves 
prices declined a dollar per 100 lbs. to $13 for 
best quality. A stronger tendency was felt in 
the lamb market prices ranging from $13 to 
and Denmark making thirteen countries thus 
far this season which have shipped to this 
country. 
WALNUTS IN DEMA'ND 
Black walnuts, when of good quality and 
packed for commercial shipment, have been in 
active demand this fall. At present they are 
quoted, at $1.75 to 2.25 wholesale per bushel of 
50 lbs. Fancy southern chestnuts are bringing 
$4 to 5 per bu. of 60 lbs. and average quality 
$2 to 3.50. 
DAIRYING IN NEW MEXICO 
HE following letter was received by Mr. 
Kinne, advertising manager of American 
Agriculturist, from a friend who is now 
dairying it in New Mexico. It was interesting 
to us so we thought it would be to you.— 
The Editors. 
“I am advertising manager for this country 
weekly, a farmer’s paper with a circulation of 
2400, mostly farm bureau members. Also 
I am looking after a small farm with a Jersey 
herd. We are milking 12 cows now and ship¬ 
ping our milk to El Paso by truck. 
“It might interest you to have a few figures 
on what we get for milk and the way our 
association handles the business. There are 
two organizations: One is known as the Rio 
Grande Cooperative Dairy Association. It 
is composed of dairy farmers. It might be 
called the collecting agency, whose business 
it is to get milk into the distributing plant, 
which is known as the Rio Grande Valley 
Dairy Association. This organization main¬ 
tains a big plant in El Paso, pasteurizes, 
bottles and delivers milk and cream, wholesale 
and retail. They get 13c a quart wholesale 
and 15c retail. 
“At present they are paying us $3.50 a 
hundred for 4 per cent milk with a sliding 
scale of five cents a poinLfor fat. The associa¬ 
tion is making money and plans distributing 
a fair sized bonus the first of the year. Our 
farm is 42 miles from El Paso On a cement 
road and we get our milk hauled in a refriger¬ 
ator truck for 28 cents for 10-gallon can. 
“Thought you might be interested in 
knowing that there is cooperation among the 
farmers down here in this corner of the world. 
“We have a whale of a market here this 
year. More prosperity than this country has 
ever seen before. Every farmer has cleaned 
up. Tremendous fruit crop brought fair 
prices. Alfalfa has made four and five tons 
to the acre and selling at the farm for $20 a 
ton. Cotton is making everybody rich, yields 
averaging more than 500 pounds to the acre 
and selling here now at 30 cents a pound. 
Poultry, pigs and cows all making their 
owners money.” 
Alfalfa in the Orchard 
(Continued from page 391) 
twice. About 15 varieties were included in 
this plantation. Except for two trees which 
were killed by fire blight, these trees have done 
as well as adjoining trees in the cultivation— 
covercrop—fertilizer blocks. 
Mice Injure Trees Mulched with Manure 
Forty feet from some of these trees is a block 
which was mulched annually with manure. 
Every tree in this block was injured by mice 
but as long as the alfalfa stand contained 
no weeds none of the trees in the alfalfa blocks 
were touched by mice. 
We should not dismiss the question of alfalfa 
sod in the orchard without a word about the 
general situation in this state. There are 
thousands of acres of splendid apple orchards 
which have stood in timothy and blue-grass sod 
for 20 years or more. So long as these have 
received annual applications of nitrogen either 
in manure or commercial fertilizers they have 
given excellent yields. In the hillside orchards 
of this state it has proved much cheaper and 
equally as satisfactory to cultivate the land 
with 5 pounds of nitrate of soda per tree and 
a mowing machine as to use the plow and the 
harrow.—R. D. Anthony. 
The Winter Fur Market 
(Continued from page 395) 
hunters throw away when skinning their game. 
Thus, rabbit pelts bring a small price, whether 
jack-rabbits or the ordinary cottontails. These 
are generally bought at from 10 to 25 cents 
a pound, according to quality, size, care in 
skinning, etc. A rabbit is not difficult to skin, 
but it must be done with care, because the pelt 
is tender, and tears easily. 
There is a market also for squirrel skins, but 
one dealer told me that this means the Russian 
squirrel. However, I’m sure that as a boy I 
often killed big black or red fox squirrels in 
midwinter (generally on sunny afternoons, 
when they occasionally come out of their 
holes in den trees) whoffe pelts would have sold 
for some price, if carefully taken off, stretched, 
fleshed, dried and sent to the proper market. 
The squirrel pelt is much tougher and stronger 
than the rabbit pelt, and since the latter sells 
certainly the former should do so also. I have 
certainly seen women and girls wearing scarfs 
which I know were made from pelts of the 
American red squirrel. 
Mole skins also bring from 10 to 20 cents 
each, according to quality, size, etc. Some fur 
buyers do not want mole skins, so be sure to 
write your fur buyers before shipping, and ask 
them if they buy such furs. The pelt of the 
house cat also brings from 10 cents to a dollar, 
according to quality, size, etc. They are dyed 
and sold under the trade name of gennettes. 
There is a market also for lamb skins and kid 
skins, no matter how young the animals be 
when killed, though not all buyers handle them. 
That must be determined by correspondence. 
Ship Furs Flat 
Ship small furs to market flat, not rolled or 
folded over end to end. Wrap the bundle in 
stout gunny sack cloth or other stout cloth, and 
tag them with substantial tags which all fur 
buyers furnish you free of charge if you ask for 
them, with your name and address plainly 
written on the tags. It is safest, too, to put 
a small tag on each pelt, with your name and 
address upon it. Instruct the company to 
which you ship to hold your consignment 
separate until you get their grading and prices, 
for your acceptance or rejection. If you think 
the grading unfair to you or the prices too low 
you can either have the furs returned to you, 
to be shipped to some other bityer, or you can 
instruct the buyer to hold them for better prices 
if you think the market is going to be higher 
later on. Keep a carefully made list of all the 
pelts in your shipment of each different kind. 
Hope I ;hall not lose any numbers of the 
paper, as we can’t get along without it.— 
Charles Macey, Cattaraugus County, N. Y. 
