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Reviewing 
American Agriculturist, March 8 , 1924 
the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
RADIO MARKET REPORT 
SCHEDULE CHANGED 
'T'HE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST radio 
markets reports, broadcast from 
WEAF in cooperation with the New 
York State Department of Farms and 
Markets, will be broadcast according 
to the following schedule hereafter. 
On Tuesday the markets will go over 
the air at the usual time, 11.50 A. M. 
On Wednesday they will not be heard 
until 12.20 P. M. On Thursday and 
Friday they will be broadcast as usual 
at 11.50 a.m. 
CABBAGE GOES SKY-ROCKETING 
As was expected with the coming of heavy 
weather, the price of cabbage has started on its 
way up. Country prices now vary from $50 
to $60 a ton. New York prices have not gone 
above $55. The heavy snows that visited the 
up-State sections had a material effect on the 
cabbage market. Growers following the mar¬ 
ket reports right along will recall that Amer¬ 
ican Agriculturist stated that as soon as we 
got some heavy weather we would undoubtedly 
see a turn for the better in the cabbage market, 
which really did come. 
Regarding the future we might say that if a 
man can get $50 or $60 for his cabbage, he had 
better let it go. Of course, if he holds long 
enough he may get $80, but there are several 
factors that we must bear in mind. The first 
is that milder weather which will doubtlessly 
cut the market considerably. Then, there is 
the Southern crop to be watched, and there is 
some cabbage coming in from Holland. 
POTATOES STEADY 
There is a fairly steady tone to the potato 
market. Several growers have written in ask¬ 
ing for our opinion of the potato outlook. It is 
very difficult to say what is going to happen, for 
no one can see into the future. But the indica¬ 
tions are that we will not experience very 
heavy increases in the prices of potatoes. 
Reports from all trading centers and large 
cities in the United States indicate that de¬ 
mands are moderate, supplies are adequate and 
the market steady. Some local markets report 
a strong tone to the potato market. “States” 
are bringing $1.75 per 100 pounds bulk, $2.75 
sacked, delivered in car-lots in New York City. 
Maine prices are holding steady. Long Is¬ 
land’s are bringing from $3.40 to $3.50. From 
now on the market will undoubtedly show a 
firmer tone for bright, well-graded stock. 
FANCY APPLES HIGHER 
There is a slightly stronger tone in the mar¬ 
ket for fancy quality apples and those arriving 
in good condition. This holds true for both 
barrelled and boxed goods. This does 
not mean that there is no poor to 
ordinary stock being offered to the trade which 
means a slow demand and poor prices. Bald¬ 
wins of A grade 24-inch, bring as high as $5.25 
for very fancy stock. Sales on fanciest vary 
from $4.75 to $5.00 with apples classed as best 
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5 lb Lots or more 
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toperfection.and shipped while roasting hot 
from our wholesale headquarters insuring 
you a full, rich, mellow, flavorful coffee 
which you can’t equal in your community. 
SATISFACTION OR MONEY REFUNDED 
ORDER TODAY-WHILE IT LASTS! 
Send Cash, Check. Money Order or 
pay the Postman upon receipt 
of Coffee. 
GILLIES COFFEE CO., 
>235 Washington St., N. Y. City 
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SHIP YOUR EGGS 
WHITE AND BROWN 
To R. BRENNER & SONS 
Bonded Commission Merchants 
358 Greenwich St., New York City 
SHIP 
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321 Greenwich St., N. Y*C. 
Write for Shipping Tags 
to the right house 
ROTH & CO. 
EGGS 
from $4 to $4.50. The highest prices quoted 
on the market for large stock is $6.50. Or¬ 
dinary stock drops as low as $2.to $2.25. 
Greenings are bringing anywhere from $4.50 
to $5.50 for best stock at 2^-inch A grade and 
a few have been turning for $6. Ordinary 
stock falls as low as $3. 
POULTRY MARKET FIRM 
The market on live fowls maintains a firm 
condition in spite of expectations to the oppo¬ 
site. Early in the week there was some anxious¬ 
ness displayed, but light supplies have had a 
tendency to keep matters firm. Demand is 
chiefly for lighter stock. Express fowls that are 
coming in are selling promptly. Large broilers 
——--- 
Maple Producers Association Gaining 
N O members of any cooperative organization have had a harder row to hoe than 
the farmers who have belonged to the Maple Producers’ Cooperative Associa¬ 
tion. During the first year of business, 1922, unsound financing coupled with a 
considerable amount of mismanagement very nearly wrecked the whole movement. 
In order to get in shape to do effective business, it was of course necessary to have 
operating capital for purchasing equipment and establishing trade. In the absence 
of sound financing, the association was forced to use the syrup of its own members 
as capital in equipping and building up its business. The actual cash return there¬ 
fore to the producers was discouragingly small, although considerable progress had 
been made in buying and operating a warehouse and a packing plant. 
Naturally, when the farmers did not receive much for their syrup turned in to the 
association, they became discouraged. Then, too, luck has not broken very well for 
the maple producers as well as for other farmers. There was a low production in 
1923, and it was generally expected that prices would advance toward the end of 
the season. The continual warm weather throughout the fall and winter, however, 
has caused a smaller consumption than usual of maple products and much of the 
No. 1 syrup has had to be sold in the form of bulk sugar or syrup instead of in small 
packages as was originally planned. 
Therefore, everything considered, producers deserve the greatest amount of 
credit for sticking by their organization and seeing it through. As nearly as we can 
judge, their perseverance has been justified and will be rewarded. The situation 
now seems encouraging. If the association can hold its membership this spring 
and get a production of 100,000 gallons of syrup or more, they will win out, and 
most of them are going to stick. Their new management is sincere, economical 
and efficient. Their marketing program in 1923 has been constructive and has laid 
the foundation for a nation-wide distribution of their products. 
Their trade mark of “ Frost Elf Brand ” is now well recognized in the trade. Much 
good “missionary work” and advertising has been done and paid for. Personal 
contact has been established with all of the large manufacturers of table syrup 
and with the highest class wholesale grocers in all the northern markets. An 
efficient and reliable sales agency has been secured to market the products. It 
would seem, therefore, that the maple producers have just gotten into a position 
to really cooperate to some effect. 
York on those days, which means ship¬ 
ping a little earlier. 
EGGS TAKE DROP 
One of the outstanding changes in the market 
during the past week was the sudden drop in 
the price of eggs. Receipts have been very 
heavy and advices from producing areas indi¬ 
cate liberal shipments in transit which has 
resulted in further decline of price and contin¬ 
ued unsettled, irregular and generally weakened 
tone to the market. Prices in general are at the 
present time below 1923 and 1922 prices. 
MILK PRICES 
Dairymen’s League Cooperative Associa- 
by express are dragging somewhat, but birds 
weighing around 1 to 1 4 pounds still find 
ready sale at 65 cents. 
Most fresh-killed chickens that are coming 
in have been a little better than stags and are 
only selling at fair prices. Fresh-killed fowls 
are in fair demand and the market is firm for 
fancy stock. Fowls weighing 4 pounds are 
steady, but larger-sized birds have been accu¬ 
mulating with the result that the pressure to 
move stock has caused a decline of lc a pound. 
March 20 is a Jewish holiday at which 
time heavy fowls and hen turkeys are 
in fairly strong demand. Farmers 
contemplating to hit this market 
should plan to have their stuff in by the 
17th, 18 th and 19th which are the marke t 
days. That means to have it in New 
tion gives the following quotations, based on 
3 per cent, milk in the 201-210 mile zone. 
Class 1 , used chiefly for fluid purposes, $2.33 
per hundred; Class 2-A, used chiefly as fluid 
cream, -$2.10; Class 2-B, used chiefly in the 
manufacture of plain condensed milk and ice 
cream, $2.25; Class 2-C, used chiefly in the 
manufacture of soft cheeses, $2.25; Class 3, for 
milk used chiefly in the manufacture of whole 
milk powder, evaporated whole milk and 
sweetened whole condensed milk, $2.00; Class 
4-A and 4-B, based on butter and American 
cheese quotations on the New York market. 
Differentials in all classes are allowed for the 
disposition of the skimmilk where such enters 
into the use of the product. 
Sheffield Producers organization announce 
the price of milk in the 201-210 mile freight 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to eastern faimers 
sold on February 29: 
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... 
New York Buffalo Phila. 
35 to 36 36 to 39 . 
33 to 34 . 
31 to 32 . 33 
30 to 30 14 . 30 
30 to 31)4 . 
28 to 29 . 
33 to 35 . 
31 to 32 34 to 35 . 
28)4 to 29 32 to 33 . 
49 to 49 V 2 53 to 54 
4852 to 53 
47 to 48 48 to 49 
46)4 to 47 47 
soy 2 
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 Old Grade Standards 
$26 to 28 17 to 18 $26 to 27 
23 to 25 . 25 
14 to 18 . 
26 to 27 . 26 to 27 
27 to 28 . 
15 . 17 to 18 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cents per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy. 
Fowls, leghorns and poor. 
Chickens, colored fancy. 
Chickens, leghorns. 
Live Stock (cents per pound) 
Calves, good to medium. 
Bulls, common to good. 
Lambs, common to good. 
Sheep, common to good ewes. 
Hogs, Yorkers. 
30 to 33 
28 to 30 
28 
21 to 24 
26 to 32 
27 to 29 
19 to 21 
12 to 16% 
4)4 to 4)4 
11 to 15% 
• f • • • • • • 
4)4 to 7 Yi 
7% to 7% 
... *- 
28 to 30 
25 to 28 
42 to 50 
zone for milk testing 3 per cent., is $2.20)4. 
Non-pool prices for 3 per cent, milk in 201- 
210-mile freight zone: flat price, $2.30 (sub- A 
ject to change); Class 1, $2.35 (subject to ’ 
change); Class 2, used for cream, plain con¬ 
densed and ice cream, $2.00; Class 3-A, f or 
milk going into evaporated, condensed and 
whole milk powder, $2.15; Class 3-B, milk used 
in the manufacture of hard or soft fancy 
cheese, $2.00. 
The Interstate Milk Producers Association 
announces the receiving station price in 
effect March 1st, for 3 per cent, milk in the 
201-210-mile zone as $2.19. 
BUTTER MARKET DECLINES 
Throughout the past week there has been a 
general decline in the butter market. The 
weak condition of the market has been more or 
less of an open secret during the past week, 
however it finally came to a head on Thursday, 
with a break of one cent a pound all along the 
line. Supplies have been accumulating even 
on the very best grades. Added to the heavy 
supply of domestics there were considerable 
quantities of Danish and foreign butter that 
finds ready sale on account of the good quality. 
The cheese market is holding steady and is 
featureless with the exception of firmer tone on 
old cheeses of snappy flavor. 
CASH GRAIN QUOTATIONS 
New York, f. o. b., WHEAT, No. 2, hard 
winter, $1.27; No. 2, red, $1.27; No. 2, mixed 
Durum, $1.20. CORN, No. 2, yellow, 99c; 
No. 2, white, $1.01; No. 2, mixed, 98c. OATS, 
No. 2, 59c; No. 3, 58-58)4; fancy white 
clipped, 60)4-61)4; ordinary white clipped 
58)459)4 RYE, No. 2, western, 83c. 
Chicago, f. o. b., WHEAT, No. 2, red, 
$1.11 4; No. 2, mixed, $1.09)4 CORN, No. 
2, yellow, 82)4; No. 3, white, 78)^-80c; 
No. 3, mixed, 784-78)4. OATS, No. 2, 
494-494c; No. 3, 484~49c. RYE, 71c. 
HAY MARKET QUIET 
The New York hay market at West 33rd 
Street was quiet during the latter part of the 
week with fairly liberal supplies. Brooklyn is 
reporting a considerably firmer tone than 
Manhattan. . 
Otsego County, N. Y., Guernsey 
Cow a Champion 
{Continued from page 247) 
test period was estimated at 1300 pounds. 
She has a great constitution and capacity 
for feed and her spring of rib has been 
pronounced excellent. She now holds the 
world’s record in the Guernsey breed for 
milk production under the age of five 
years. She also has a class D record of 
12,760.1 pounds of milk and 620.32 
pounds of butter fat. On January 17, 
shortly after finishing her record, she 
dropped twin calves,—a bull calf weighing 
seventy-three pounds and a heifer weigh¬ 
ing fifty-seven pounds. 
How to File a Rip Saw 
{Continued from page 248 ) 
index finger of the left hand, with the 
palm of the left hand up. Every other 
tooth is filed from one side of the saw and 
then the clamp is swung around or the 
saw placed in the clamp end for end and 
the rest of the teeth are filed from the 
other side of the saw in the same way. 
The point of every other tooth is set or 
tipped to the right and the others to the 
left. File the back of the tooth that pro¬ 
jects away from you and with the same 
stroke the front of the adjoining or next 
tooth. If the teeth are uneven, the file is 
pressed against the larger tooth. This 
will make the teeth tend to become even 
in size. 
The las't step in fitting a rip saw is that 
of setting the saw. The purpose of the 
set is to make a saw kerf wider than the 
thickness of the blade of the saw. Wet 
and green wood require more set than dry 
wood and the amount of set to give a saw 
is determined by the work it is to do. 
Every other tooth is set to the right and 
the rest to the left. So regulate the set at 
hand that not over half of each tooth is 
set. In other words, the point of each 
tooth is set, but not the whole tooth. y 
