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American Agriculturist, April 5,1924 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices 
T HE first boat load of hay from the Hudson 
River section arrived in New York during 
the past week with a cargo of 200 more bales 
of No. 3 clover mixed and shipping hay. Due 
to the poor quality of this cargo, it only served 
to maintain a low price on the undergrades, 
not affecting to any marked degree the market 
on better grades of hay. With the opening of 
the River, however, we may expect slightly 
heavier shipments for a time at least. Unless 
the quality changes it is doubtful if there will 
be any material effect on prices received by 
shippers of the better grades of timothy. 
The New York Central Railroad has called 
a temporary halt on the issuing of permits 
until the present accumulation has an oppor¬ 
tunity to work out. Most of the hay that was 
received by boat has been going out at $20 
to 25, which shows that it is not top quality 
stock, which is reported at $27 to 29, some of 
the finest bringing $30. 
POTATO MARKET EASIER 
From all indications the only factor that 
seems to be holding the potato market up to its 
present fairly steady position is that of bad 
roads in the country. It is quite evident that 
haulings have not been heavy. With easier 
transportation at the farmers’ disposal, it is 
expected, at least by men in the market, that 
shipments will take on a renewed activity with 
the result that car-lot movements will be 
heavier. With this in mind, the market men 
have not shown any disposition to buy heavily, 
with the result that the market is trending 
toward an easier condition. Long Islands 
are bringing from $3.80 to 3.85 per 150-pound 
sack delivered. That means they are bringing 
around $3.60 f. o. b. Riverhead. Maines are 
not doing as well lately. Quality is of slightly 
wider range with the prices varying anywhere 
from $3 to 3.30 per 150-pound sack delivered. 
“States” are dull at $2.50 to 2.60 a 150- 
pound sack delivered. Some reach as high as 
$2.7j5, but they are only the more fancy. 
Several receivers in the market state that there 
has been an unusually large percentage of 
damage by wireworms in “States” this year. 
APPLE MARKET WEAKER 
In spite of the dull situation that has ex¬ 
isted in the apple market of late, nevertheless 
it is now turning even weaker. Last week the 
men in the market worked hard to clear their 
heavy holdings and for a while there was a 
stronger tone to the market for Baldwins and 
Macintosh. However, the weather turned 
mild and as we go to press it is just like mid¬ 
spring. As a result the state of nervousness 
and uneasiness has again crept into the mar¬ 
ket and the apple men are making a conces¬ 
sion to turn stock. To show how weak the 
market is, the very finest Winesaps from the 
West Coast are bringing only $1.80 per box. 
Another example of the unsatisfactory situa¬ 
tion is that the very best Baldwins, grading 
i 1 % inch, are bringing only $4. 
TEXAS CABBAGE COMING IN 
There is very little doing in the market as 
far as State cabbage is concerned. Little or 
nothing is being shipped and reports indicate 
that there is very little old cabbage in the 
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ity. The price varies from $2 all the way up 
to $4.50 a 100 pounds delivered. There is 
very little that is bringing the top figure, 
$3 being nearer to average price at the 
present time. Indications are that move¬ 
ments are going to be very heavy within the 
next week or two and the price will undoubt¬ 
edly come down considerably. 
ONION MARKET WEAK 
The market on State onions shows no par¬ 
ticular change from the same steady dull 
condition that has existed for the past weeks. 
Recent receipts have been light but accumula¬ 
tions on hand from previous arrivals kept the 
market well supplied. The demand is slow 
and as a result prices are tending downward. 
No. 1 yellows are mostly bringing $1.75 to 
2 with a very few going above that figure. 
$1.50 to 1.60 is the more general price for 
medium stock. Ordinary reds bring from 
$1.75 to 1.85, with some of the large finer stock 
going as high as $2. These prices are all for 
100-pound sacks. 
POULTRY MARKET BARELY STEADY 
Receipts of live poultry by freight have been 
extremely heavy with the result that trading 
has been slow. In fact, the accumulation has 
caused quite an unsatisfactory situation and 
considerable stock has been placed at railroad 
terminals at concessions under the market. 
There is quite a tight situation in the live 
poultry trade and as we go to press buyers are 
as firm in offering nothing higher than 26c 
for fowls, as receivers are in refusing anything 
under 27c, resulting in a deadlock. 
Fowls coming in by express are having a 
quiet sale and much of the business is based on 
the freight market when it is once established. 
Live broilers by express are in very heavy 
receipt with the result that the market is 
barely steady at prices varying from 50 to 
55c for the very best stock. Heavy ship¬ 
ments of Long Island ducks have been coming 
in of late with the result that the market has 
been holding barely steady at 34c. 
Dressed spring broilers are coming in in 
scattering lots. They are selling promptly 
but due to the irregular quality prices have 
been variable. Fowls packed in boxes are 
in light supply and meet a good outlet. Dressed 
fowls in barrels are going fair but have got to 
show top quality to bring anywhere near the 
better prices. 
EGGS TAKE STEADIER TONE 
In spite of the heavy tumble that eggs ex¬ 
perienced during the past week or so, the mar¬ 
ket has taken on a fairly steadying tone, es¬ 
pecially for prime to fancy qualities that show 
good grading, both as to cleanliness and size. 
Nearby whites have been moving much better 
of late and the market shows a decidedly 
steadier tone for prime and fancy qualities. 
It is very evident that the man who takes 
extreme care in grading during this period is 
going to get a decidedly better deal than the 
men who are sending in indiscriminate pack¬ 
ings. Nearby whites are topping the market 
at 34 to 35c for the most closely selected stock. 
Mediums to bests are bringing anywhere from 
26 to 30c, showing that the market averages 
closer to 28c. 
BUTTER TAKES A DROP 
Butter prices are dropping rapidly to a 
storage basis. Offerings have been extremely 
liberal, and under pressure to effect quick 
trading, dealers have been cutting prices quite 
freely. The market is about 5c under what it 
was last week. There seems to be a general 
tendency all around to work the market down 
to lower figures as quickly as possible in order 
to justify storage. Quality of current receipts 
are reported high enough for storage. 
Fancy marks have been going as high as 43c. 
The majority of sales are turning at 42c or 
thereabouts. 
The cheese market continues to maintain its 
quiet tone on both held and fresh stock. Those 
dealing in fresh cheese, however, are clearly 
showing signs of uneasiness due to the lack of 
activity in the market. The market on old 
cheese holds fairly steady. State whole milk 
flats, held, fancy, are bringing from 23% to 
24%c with the average run bringing from 23c 
to 23%c. Fresh States of fancy quality are 
bringing from 19c to 20c with fair to average 
run stock varying from 17c to 18c. 
MILK PRICES 
Prices for Milk delivered in April are as 
follows: Dairymen’s League Cooperative As¬ 
sociation, 3% 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, $2.00; 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, $1.95; 
Class A and \-B, based on butter and Amer¬ 
ican cheese quotations on the N. Y. market. 
Sheffield Producers organization announce 
the price of milk in the 201-210-mile freight 
zone for milk testing 3 per cent., is $2.20%. 
LIVE CALF MARKET STRONGER 
The market for live calves lias turned de¬ 
cidedly firmer. The best grades are bringing 
a dollar more than lately with small and under¬ 
grades bringing 50c better than they have of 
late. Prime veals are bringing $15 with a few 
choice head bringing a very small concession. 
The price varies as size and color decreases 
down to small veals that are bringing from 
$5.50 to 6. 
Country dressed calves are in liberal supply. 
A small percentage of receipts of strictly 
choice character are finding a firm market at 
19c with some bringing as much as 20. Primes 
are bringing from 16 to 18c and fair to good 
12 to 15c. Smaller stock ranges lower. 
CASH GRAIN QUOTATIONS 
Prices f. o. b. New York, WHEAT, No. 2, 
bard winter, $1.18%; No. 2, red, $1.17%; 
No. 2, mixed durum, $1.17%. CORN, No. 2, 
yellow, 96%c; No. 2. white, 97%c; No. 2, 
mixed, 95%c. OATS, fancy white clipped, 
60% to 61c; ordinary white clipped, 59 to 59c; 
No. 2, white, 57%c. 
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Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to eastern farmers 
sold on March 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. 
New York 
34 to 35 
31 to 33 
£9 to 30 
27 to 28 
27 to 30 
25 to 26 
28 to 30 
26 to 27 
Phila. 
24 
23 
Butter (cents per pound) 
Creamery (salted) high score. 43% to 44 
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. 
Yi 
43} 
42 to 43 
41 to 42 
U. S. Grades 
$27 to 28 
23 to 25 
16 to 21 
25 to 26 
31 to 32 
15 
44 
Standards 
$26 to 27 
25 
26 to 27 
' 18'to 19 
Buffalo 
29 to 31 
27 to 28 
49 to 50 
47 to 48 
43 to 44 
37 to 42 
Old Grade 
$18 to 19 
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. 
28 to 29 
27 to 29 
27 to 28 
27 to 28 
25 
21 to 23 
30 to 35 
(Broilers) 50 to 55 
25 to 26 
25 to 27 
21 to 23 
11 to 15 
4 to 414 
13 to 16% 
434 to 7% 
7% to 7) 2 
F. O. B. Chicago, WHEAT, No. 2 , Wh 
$ 1.09%. CORN, No. 2, yellow, 80 to 8® 
OATS, No. 2, white, 48% to 49c. 
New York Cabbage and Potato 
Growers Organizing 
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standard of quality that they have practically 
eliminated the prejudice that existed against 
the Maine stock. 
Any extensive advertising put out by even 
the largest handler of these commodities in 
western New York territory would be 90 per 
cent, wasted to him because he handles such a 
small percentage of the whole output. It ; s 
only through an organization of their own, con¬ 
trolling a majority of the entire output of these 
commodities that the growers can afford to 
spend the money necessary for waging an in¬ 
telligent merchandising campaign to increase 
the consumption of these commodities. 
A Means of Determining Plantings 
It is only through an organization, with its 
members pledged to furnish it with statistical 
information asked for, that accurate estimates 
of plantings can be arrived at. Of course, 
every one knows that organizations can not 
curtail production by contract, agreement, 
coercion or otherwise with its growers; at the 
same time, by compiling accurate data cover¬ 
ing these points within its producing territory 
as well as all competitive territory, it can lay 
the figures before the individual growers with 
certain definite recommendations that have 
been found to be very potent factors in de¬ 
creasing acreage when over-plantings have 
been impending. 
After 50 Per Cent, of Acreage 
The organization now going forward in 
central and western New Y T ork has set as its 
minimum sign up 50 per cent, of the commer¬ 
cial acreage of potatoes and cabbage in twenty 
or more counties in the territory. This will 
make the organization the dominant factor in 
the handling and marketing of the potato and 
cabbage crops from this territory. This or¬ 
ganization is based on a five year, legally bind¬ 
ing contract which is executed between the 
grower and his local county association. 
When the twenty or more counties shall have 
been organized, they will federate through 
their duly elected representatives to form a 
central body which will act in an agency 
capacity for and in the interest of the county 
associations. Each county association will 
delegate to the central body the power to do 
for it the things that the county associations 
want done in a centralized manner and all 
functions that can be performed in a county 
way more satisfactorily and economically will 
be retained and performed by the county 
associations. 
The growers are being urged to look upon 
their marketing problems in their larger as¬ 
pects and to join with their fellow growers 
in the big effort to apply the real and effective 
remedies to the faults of the system which 
can not be applied except through an organiza¬ 
tion big enough, permanent enough and with 
sufficient authority to go forward with the 
program of intelligent merchandising which 
must be substituted for the present haphazard 
and uncontrolled method of individual selling. 
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