American Agriculturist, December 22, 1923 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
APPLES MORE ACTIVE 
HERSCHEL H. JONES 
T HERE was a slackening of receipts of boxed 
apples and a fairly good supply of barreled 
apples last week, more coming in from the 
' iouth than from other sections. The demand 
was good for large and fancy fruit. Prices were 
about the same for the average A Grade 2 
inch stuff. Increased demand for apples is 
hardly to be expected with oranges and other 
fruit so cheap. 
Toward the end of the week there was lighter 
receipts and a more favorable turn in the mar¬ 
ket. Buyers are quietly picking up desirable 
lots. 
The latest available figures as to quantity of 
apples held in storage on December 1, 1923, 
stated in terms of barrels, are 14,639,216 
bbls., compared with 11,440,893 bbls. on same 
date last year. This large increase in current 
holdings with a dull market and slow demand 
at a season which is ordinarily active, is not 
encouraging. This amount includes 6,375,249 
actual barrels and 24,791,901 actual boxes in 
storage Dec. 1, 1923. The increase in barrels 
over last year is 1,268,663 and in boxes 5,788,- 
980. In the past there has usually been an 
increase, one year in barrels and the next in 
boxes, but this year both are in excess. It is 
reported that approximately 50,000 barrels are 
held by farmers. 
Following are quotations on A Grade mini¬ 
mum 2^-inch N. Y. State barreled apples at 
N. Y. December 13: per bbl., BALDWINS, 
mostly, $4 to 4.50; few, fancy, $5 to 5.50; 
ordinary, $3.50 to 3.75. BEN DAVIS, $2.50 
to $3. GREENINGS, best, $5.75 to $6; fancy, 
$6.25; fair stock, $5.25 to 5.50; ordinary, $4 to 
4.50. HUBBARDSTON, $3.50 to 3.75. 
POTATO DEMAND LIMITED 
In New York City wholesale markets the 
demand for potatoes was very limited last 
week and the prices were low. On the other 
hand in the producing sections prices were a 
little firmer. 
Long Island potatoes are sold at the loading 
point in carlots from $3 to $3.10 per 150 lb. 
sack. Some shippers were quoting $3.20 bulk. 
South Side sold for $1.15 bu. loaded. 
“Maines” firmed up to $2.80 per 150 lb. 
sack delivered New York City; bulk $1.70 
cwt. “States” sold in bulk from $1.40 to $1.50 
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per cwt., delivered in 150 lb. sacks from $2.25 
to $2.35 per sack. “Michigans” and “Minne- 
sotas” sold from $1.75 to $2 per 150 lb. sack 
on the docks. 
This year doesn’t look good for the turkey- 
raisers. 
HAY UNCHANGED 
CABBAGE MARKET FIRM 
The demand for good medium Danish cab¬ 
bage was fair and the price steady. Most ship¬ 
pers up-State were quoting bulk from $20 to 
$23 ton loading point. Some sacked cabbage 
sold as high as $25 per ton in the country. In 
the city the wholesale price ranged from $30 
to $35 per ton for fancy stock. 
Hay trading showed little change with prices 
for No. 1 ranging from $29 to $30 on best lots. 
Hay continues to move out freely. State rye 
straw brought $20 to $21 per ton and oat 
straw $14 to $15. 
LITTLE DEMAND FOR LIVE CALVES 
BROWN EGG PRICES EQUAL WHITE 
The egg market took a severe slump last 
week and prices generally declined 5 to 7c per 
dozen. There is an over-abundance of white 
eggs on the market. Pacific Coast whites 
have been arriving in great abundance as well 
as nearby fancy white eggs. As a result brown 
eggs sold in some cases as high or at higher 
prices than white eggs of the same quality—an 
extraordinary thing in New York City where 
there is usually a high premium for white eggs. 
For a long time it has seemed impossible to 
fill the New York demand for fancy whites but 
the high prices have brought new producers 
into the business and induced better grading 
and packing, until it appears the demand, 
temporarily at least, is filled. 
There was but little demand for dive calves 
in the past week and the market was quiet. 
Top prices would hardly reach $13. On dressed 
veal the market was generally steady, choice 
grades realizing 20c to 21c with a few bringing 
22 c. Very few lambs arrived at the yards and 
prices were firm. 
SELECT DEALERS AS WELL AS 
BETTER SEED 
BUTTER MARKET EASIER 
Following a strong market, butter eased up 
considerably the past week and prices declined 
slightly. Probably high retail prices have done 
much to check the consumptive demand. At 
any rate supplies exceed the demand and deal¬ 
ers showed little tendency to buy. 
A large shipment of butter arrived from 
Auckland, New Zealand, during the week. This 
is a forerunner of other shipments due. The 
butter was of fine quality but a slightly differ¬ 
ent flavor from the domestic grades. It sold 
well at 47 to 51c per pound. 
U SE the same care in selecting the com¬ 
mission man to sell your products that 
you did in selecting the seed to grow the 
crop.” 
Marketing officials of the State Departments 
of Agriculture make this recommendation, 
following investigations of complaints regard¬ 
ing questionable practices of certain concerns 
in Newark who solicited business from growers 
during the last season. 
With the large field of reliable commission 
houses from which to select a firm to handle 
his products, there is no reason for any farmer 
to risk loss through contact with unreliable 
concerns. The commission men themselves are 
continually elevating the ethics of their trade, 
and are seeking the cooperation of merchants 
and growers in eliminating the tricky dealer. 
CHEESE MARKET QUIET 
Cheese markets generally were quiet with 
little trading. State flats sold at from 25 to 
26f£c. According to latest reports there is on 
hand in the four principal warehouses 19,- 
478,000 pounds compared with 11,942,000 
pounds last year at the same time. In New 
York City holdings are 4,062,000 pounds as 
against only 1,525,000 pounds a year ago. 
TURKEY PRICES RUINOUS 
The Thanksgiving turkey market was dis¬ 
astrous to all but the earliest shippers. By 
the day before Thanksgiving the housekeeper 
could buy from her retail store cheaper than 
the wholesale price a week earlier. 
Dealers are hoping that the usual will happen 
and that low Thanksgiving prices will mean 
high Christmas prices. But there are still 
large quantities in the country, many of which 
will not even reach the market for the holidays, 
and storage holdings are unusually heavy. 
TO GUARD AGAINST AUTO 
THIEVES AND TRESPASSERS 
A N amendment to Section 1425 of the Penal 
. Law has been suggested by Mr. H. M. 
Brigham, which will be introduced in the 
Legislature this year. It should, if passed, go 
a long ways toward stopping the robbing of 
farmers by automobile thieves. 
The suggested amendment reads as follows: 
A person who wilfully ente"s upon the lands 
of another or of the people of the state and 
cuts down, girdles, destroys or in any way in¬ 
jures any shrub or vine being or standing upon 
such lands or destroys or in any way injures 
any building, fence, structure or improvement 
erected thereon or destroys, injures or carries 
away any domestic animal or fowl or any fruit, 
vegetable, grain or product of such lands is 
punishable as follows: 
a. If the value of the property destroyed, 
taken or carried away, or the diminution in 
value of the property injured is more than two 
hundred and fifty dollars by imprisonment for 
not more than four years. 
b. In any other case by a fine of not more 
than two hundred and fifty dollars or by im_ 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to eastern farmers 
sold on December 13, 1923: 
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 .1. 
Gathered browns and mixed colors, extras 
Pullets No. 1 . 
Butter (cents per pound) 
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.. 
Fowl®, leghorns and poor. 
Chickens, colored fancy... 
Chickens, leghorn... 
New York 
Buffalo 
Phila. 
62 
62 
59 to 60 
56 to 58 
50 
57 to 58 
47 
57 to 59 
50 to 56 
61 to 65 
52 to 60 
53 to 55 
45 to 53 
45 to 48 
54)4 to 55 
57 to 58 
54 
55 to 56 
55)4-... 
52)4 to 53)4 
52 to 53 
48 to 52 
45 to 50 
U. S. Grades 
Old Grade 
Standards 
$27 to 28 
$17 to 18 
27.50 to 28 
23 to 26 
24 to 25 
16 to 19 
29 to 30 
27 to 27.50 
31 to 32 
15 to 16 
16 to 17 
28 to 30 
25 to 27 
26 to 28 
22 to 24 
17 to 20 
20 to 23 
23 
23 to 25 
24 
21 
17 to 19 
23 
Live Stock (cents per lb.) 
Calves, good to medium . 
Bulls, common to good . 
Lambs, common to good . 
Sheep, common to good ewes . 
Hogs, Yorkers . 
11 to 13M 
3M to 4f4 
11 to 13 
3 to 4 >4 
7 X to 7y 2 
prisonment for not more than six months or 
by both such fine and imprisonment. 
c. In addition to the punishment here¬ 
inbefore prescribed by a fine which shall be 
equal to treble the damages of the injury done 
and which shall in any event be for not less 
than twenty-five dollars. Such fine shall be 
payable to the owner of the property injured. 
As the law now stands, the only way an 
owner could recover damages is by the long 
drawn out process of suing for same through 
the courts. As offenders are usually financially 
irresponsible, such action was generally of no 
avail. You will note section “c” of the proposed 
amendment provides for definite fines to be 
paid to the owner of the property. If this 
amendment is passed it will also be possible, 
should any person violate any of its provisions, 
to have his automobile license cancelled and 
no new license issued to such person for a 
period of thirty days and thereafter only at 
the discretion of the tax commission. 
It seems to us that thi amendment is fair 
and is a sensible way of stopping the auto¬ 
mobile fruit and vegetable thieves. Un¬ 
doubtedly, a bearing later in the winter will be 
given. If farmers show enough interest in this 
hearing to attend it in large numbers and to 
write letters to their legislators, the amend¬ 
ment can be passed. If you are enough inter¬ 
ested to be willing to attend such a hearing 
when the time comes, write the American 
Agriculturist, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York 
City, and we will give you the time and place 
when we have that information. 
FEEDING PULLETS FOR 
WINTER EGGS 
H AVE all laying birds in winter quarters. 
Pullets roosting in trees during cold, 
weather often contract roup, the most danger¬ 
ous winter disease of poultry. 
Keep before the birds at all times a good lay¬ 
ing mash, like one of these: Bran, 100 lbs., 
middlings, 100 lbs., ground oats, 100 lbs., corn 
meal, 100 lbs., meat scrap or tankage, 100 lbs.; 
or, corn meal, 135 lbs., ground oats, 135 lbs., 
ground wheat, 135 lbs., meat scrap 100 lbs. 
If the birds are thin, feed more grain in the 
morning. If in good condition, feed less grain 
in the morning. Regardless of their condition, 
feed a heavy grain ration in the evening. 
Feed unlimited supplies of milk, if you seek 
a high egg production. With as much milk as 
they want, the birds will not need so much 
meat scrap or tankage in the mash. 
Pullets require 12 pounds of scratch feed 
a day per hundred birds. This should be made 
of equal parts of cracked corn and wheat. If 
artificial lights are used, then 14 pounds cf 
scratch feed should be fed each day. Mash 
should be available to the birds at all times. 
Feed either the standard New Jersey ration or 
a good commercial mixture. Do not allow the 
pullets to lay more than 50 per cent, of normal 
production for the next few months. 
Putting Small Fruits to Bed 
(Continued from page f2S) 
“cover” for raspberries, blackberries, dew¬ 
berries and grapes in any stage of growth, and 
if tall weeds or some better cover-crop (es¬ 
pecially the climbing winter vetch which may 
safely be seeded during the last June or early 
July cultivation) be not there in abundance, 
and also if the plants are only one or two 
years set—by all means drive right into your 
patch in December and strew through the 
rows at least 3,000 pounds per acre of some 
such protection. 
Still Something to Be Learned 
And we are learning yet. Last spring’s 
weather, the forepart of April, tempted us to 
take away these protections too soon. As a 
result it cost us some hundreds of dollars for 
thus disregarding Nature’s law. These thus 
exposed small fruits rushed on toward flower¬ 
ing too soon and too fast, and a medium-hard 
frost the 11th of May blighted the crop—even 
our grapes. 
How are we so sure? Well, we didn’t clean 
out all of those berry rows, and over behind 
the buildings there is another lot of grapes 
whose roots were still tucked that cold May 
night in bed as they had been through the 
winter. In both these cases the flower-buds 
were about five days behind the injured ones — 
and everyone escaped and have fruited well! 
To be sure our method encourages mice, and 
they do gnaw a few blackberry canes some 
winters, but two very gentle cats, trained to 
ignore the birds, live almost the year around j 
in those berry bushes, and—well we are more 
and more studying to follow Nature — merely 
intensifying her ways. 
