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American Agriculturist, June 7, 1924 \ 
Reviewing the Latest Eastern Markets and Prices I 
Milk Prices 
Dairymen’s League 
T HE Dairymen’s League Cooperative Asso- 
ciation^announces the following prices for 
milk during June in the 201-210 mile freight 
zone, for milk testing 3 per cent.: Class 1 , used 
chiefly for fluid purposes, $1.86 per hundred 
pounds; Class 2-A, used chiefly as fluid cream, 
$1.70: Class 2-B, used chiefly in the manufac¬ 
ture of plain condensed milk and ice cream, 
$1.85; Class 2-C, used chiefly in the manufac¬ 
ture of soft cheeses, $1.85; Class 3, for milk 
used chiefly in the manufacture of whole milk 
powder, evaporated whole milk and sweetened 
whole condensed milk, $1.55; Classes 4-A, and 
4-B, based on butter and American cheese quo¬ 
tations in the New York market. Prices for 
April were: Class 1 , $2.33; Class 2-A, $2.00; 
Class 2-i 8 , $2.25; Class 2-C, $2.25; Class 3, 
$1.95. 
Sheffield Producers 
Sheffield Farms Company Producers an¬ 
nounce that the price of 3 per cent, milk in the 
201-210 mile freight zone is $1.7034- 
Non-Pool Cooperative 
Non-pool Assn, prices are: Class 1, fluid 
milk for city consumption, $1.86; Class 2, 
milk for cream, plain condensed and ice cream, 
$1.70; Class 3A, milk for evaporated, con¬ 
densed, etc., $1.60; Class SB, milk for fancy 
cheese, $1.45; Class 4 determined on butter 
and cheese quotations on the New York 
market. 
Inter-State Producers 
Interstate Milk Producers’ Association (Phil¬ 
adelphia plan) June receiving station prices, 
3 per cent, milk 201-210 mile zone, $2.19; 
101-110 mile zone, $2.29. 
Platform Price 
The N. Y. platform price is $2.60 per can for 
pasteurized milk in shippers’ cans F.O.B. New 
York City; where an allowance of 10c per can 
is made city dealers furnish can, making it 
$2.50. Competition from unorganized milk 
has forced this price lower in many instances. 
BUTTER CONTINUES FIRM 
The excellent demand that has prevailed in 
the butter market has created a very firm tone 
and a healthy situation exists. Turnovers 
have been heavy, in fact some buyers have gone 
a half cent above quotations to get their re¬ 
quirements of fancy goods. There seems to 
have been quite a bit of this of late. Consider¬ 
able butter has been arriving that shows too 
much color, more than most buyers are ac¬ 
customed to. These lots are discriminated 
against by a considerable number in the trade. 
This high color is not solely due to the artificial 
coloring on the part of creameries, but is un¬ 
doubtedly due to change from dry feed to 
grass. Right now the butter market is going 
through a rather critical period. Changes in 
rations are reflected in the product and as a 
result the irregular situation is apt to exist. 
For that reason it is pretty hard to predict 
just what is going to happen in the market 
even for the ensuing week. 
FRESH CHEESE MARKET FIRM 
There has been a general improvement in 
the fresh cheese market during the last few 
days and prices have advanced slightly since 
last week’s report. Demand has been fairly 
good for fresh State flats and in view of the 
fact that offerings are comparatively light, 
we may still see a slightly stronger tone in the 
near future. This, of course, depends on the 
fluid market and on the producing end as well. 
Advices report that up-State markets are very 
closely clearing and are maintaining a firm 
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tone with price, in some instances above those 
in New York. This is a very good indication 
that we may expect a continued strong tone 
in the cheese market for a while at least. 
Fresh State flats, whole milk, grading fancy, 
white, 17 to 1734c; colored, inside quotation 
1734c; average run on white 1634c with half a 
cent premium on colored. Undergrades vary 
from 13 to 16c on both colors. The market is 
not as strong on these undergrades as we 
would naturally find in the market for better 
class goods. 
The market on old cheese is steady and the 
movement is quiet. Quotations on fancy held 
State flats, specials 2434 to 25c. In some 
special channels, fancy sharp old cheese is 
selling higher than 25c. Average run varies 
from 23 to 2334c. 
EGG MARKET IRREGULAR 
The lively tone is missing in the egg market. 
In general it is quiet, even dull. Buyers are 
becoming more and more critical in making 
their selections for storage packings and are 
passing up some marks that have heretofore 
found a ready market. The market on near- 
bys has collapsed during the last few days 
although prices are holding. In view of the 
fact that the supplies are plentiful, prices 
generally favor the buyer. Stock that is un¬ 
usually fancy and very closely selected is 
holding prices usually from 33 to 35c. Average 
lots have been selling rarely above 32c, any 
higher prices being paid only for stock in 
specially packed cartons. The great bulk of 
the supply has been going from 2734 to 29c, 
mostly at 28c. Where cases contain mixed 
marks, quotations are considerably lower. 
most of the trading going over to new potatoes, 
coming from Florida and South Carolina, 
States have been bringing in the neighborhood 
of $2.35 to 2.50 delivered, while Maine Green 
Mountains have been bringing from $2.75 to 
2.85 on the docks. Only one extra good car 
of Maines has been reported sold at $3. This 
indicates pretty clearly that the market on old 
stuff is going down. 
However, shippers of old potatoes can get 
some consolation out of the fact that the south¬ 
ern trade is not getting all of the gravy. Ar¬ 
rivals from Florida and South Carolina have 
been heavy and with considerable stock that 
has been carried over from previous arrivals, 
the market is weak and in an unhealthy condi¬ 
tion with offerings taking frequent drops. 
Most Floridas are turning at $5.50 to 5.75 
per barrel on No. 1 with No. 2 going down to 
$3.75 and 4 and some real poor down to $1.50 
to 2.50 on the docks at New York. 
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HAY MARKET STEADY 
LIVE AND DRESSED POULTRY 
Contrary to the order or things, the live 
fowl market is working backwards and prices 
on heavy fowls are being shaded from a half to 
a cent a pound. In fact, in some instances the 
trading has taken place at a cent and a half 
under market. Even light fowls are being 
shaded slightly. The demand is quiet and 
there is by far too much stuff coming in. The 
market is holding fairly steady on freight 
broilers. Express broilers have been coming 
in in very heavy supply and as a result the 
market is a whole lot weaker. Extra fancy 
colored stock has been reported up to 55c 
but 50c is the more common extreme and 45c 
would be nearer the average market. White 
leghorn broilers are not much above 42c for 
the very finest and 40c is the top of the market. 
Express fowls have been in good supply selling 
at freight prices, 26 to 27 cents. 
In the dressed poultry market the demand 
has been some what disappointing. The un¬ 
favorable weather has had a tendency to keep 
folks at home and with heavy arrivals coming 
and light buying it doesn’t look good for a 
poultry market. However on the 29th, re¬ 
ports from some houses indicate an increase. 
NO CHANGE IN POTATOES 
There has been no change in the potato 
market. The dull situation still exists. In 
fact, there is not a whole lot of interest being 
shown any more in the old potato market. 
LIVE STOCK AND DRESSED MEATS 
Top grades on live calves have 
approximately 50c per, hundred. 
declined 
This 
is 
Quotations From Eastern Markets 
The following are the prices at which farm products of special interest to Eastern farmers 
sold on May 28: 
Eggs, Nearbys (cents per dozen) 
New York 
New Jersey beanery whites uncandled, extras. S3 to 35 
Other hennery whites, extras.... 31 to 32 
Extra firsts. 28J4 to 30 
Firsts...... 27^1 to 28 
Gathered, whites, first to extra firsts. 27)^ to 30 
Lower grades. 26 to 27 
Hennery browns, extras.. 30 to 33 
Gathered browns and mixed colors, extras. 27J4 to 29 
Buffalo 
Phila. 
27 to 29 
27 to 28 
25 
26 to 27 
Butter (cents per pound) 
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 No. 1. 
Alfalfa, second cutting No. 1. . 
Oat Straw No. 1. 
Live Poultry, Express Lots (cents per lb.) 
Fowls, colored fancy, heavy . 
Fowls, leghorns and poor . . . 
Chickens, colored fancy... . 
Chickens, leghorns. 
Broilers, colored.. 
Broilers, leghorns. 
40^ to 41 
42 to 43 
42 
42 
40 to 41 
41 
37 to 38 
31 to 36 
IJ. S. Grades 
Old Grade 
Standards 
$29 to 31 
$21 to 22 
$28 to 29 
27 to 28 
26 to 27 
18 to 24 
29 to 30 
29 to 30 
31 to 33 
15 
16 to 17 
26 to 28 
26 to 27 
27 
26 to 28 
22 to 24 
25 
43 to 48 
45 to 52 
45 
SO to 40 
Live Stock (cents per pound) 
Calves, good to medium.. Stoll 
Bulls, common to good. 4 to 4% 
Lambs, spring common to good . lSJ^ to 17 
Sheep, common to good ewes. 6)4 to 8 
Hogs, Yorkers..-... 8 to 
The hay market continues to maintain its 
steady condition both in Manhattan and 
Brooklyn. No. 1 and No. 2 are in demand. 
Under date of May 23rd, F. M. Williams of 
the W. D. Powers Company, one of the largest 
hay firms in the Metropolitan district, issued 
a statement covering a two weeks’ trip he had 
taken through the hay-producing sections of 
New York State. On his trip he conversed with 
a large number of shippers on the amount of hay 
in the hands of farmers and the amount of hay in 
storage. It develops that there is not a section . 
in the State where there is near as much baled 
hay on farms or in warehouses as there was at 
the same time last year. Furthermore accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Williams, the 1923 hay crpp in the 
middle west and the east was about 50 to 60 
per cent, normal. As New York’s hay crop 
was one of the largest ever produced, this State 
has supplied a large amount of the hay con¬ 
sumed in the southern States that have for¬ 
merly drawn on the midwest for hay. Further¬ 
more, a large percentage of the hay in the 
hands of the shippers in central and western 
New York at the present time has been con¬ 
tracted for by several buyers. 
Mr. Williams states that the Canadian situ¬ 
ation reveals that a large per cent, of the good 
merchantable hay has been shipped from that 
territory. The bulk of the hay in the hands of 
Canadian shippers and farmers, unavailable for 
market, is of inferior quality and owing to the 
high cost of handling this product, can not be 
handled at a profit. Therefore, it is not un¬ 
reasonable to expect anything more than only a 
moderate movement of Canadian hay to this 
market during the remainder of the season. 
In conclusion, Mr. Williams stated that “If 
shippers exercised the proper judgment during 
the next two or three months, they will have 
very little cause for complaint as to results. 
If, however, they become alarmed on account 
of the promising outlook for the growing crop 
and forward shipments to the extent that will 
overstock the market, the result will be unsat¬ 
isfactory.” 
undoubtedly due to the fact that arrivals 
have been so heavy. On Monday there were 
6,400 head of live calves received at the Jersey 
City and uptown New York yards and on 
Tuesday, the 27th, there were close to 2,000 
head more received. Top prime live veals are 
quoted at about $12 per hundred and other 
grades ranging downward to $6.50 on culls. 
Live spring lambs from Virginia are meeting 
a steady market with quotations on top grades 
varying from $18 to $18.50 per hundred. There 
have been practically no receipts of winter 
lambs. 
Country dressed veal calves have not been 
meeting an extra good market demand and in 
view or the fact that they have been in moder¬ 
ate supply and stocks have not been cleaning 
up welt the market has not been any too good. 
Advices indicate that considerable stock , will 
arrive just before the holiday and with un¬ 
favorable weather forecasts and slow trade, the 
market ruled weaker. It may be that on the 
dressed calf market we will find a slump that 
will hold over for at least a week. A few very 
fancy and selected markets have brought from 
16c to 17c with prime marks ranging from 13c 
to 14c, common stock and small going as low 
as 8c. Fancy dressed hot-house lambs selling 
lower and most of the stock being unattractive, 
quoted $17 to $10 per carcass. 
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GRAINS AND FEEDS 
According to New York State Department 
of Farms and Markets, the following prices 
prevailed, through billed from western points: 
The quotations given in this report show the approximate 
prices at which feed can be purchased per ton, and grain per 
bushel, in straight carlots delivered on track at points in the 
different freight zones as indicated. Mixed carlots cost 
approximately S2.00 per ton more. 
Retail feed and grain prices vary with different local dealers, 
depending upon their individual costs of doing business, 
volume handled, etc. In the case of feeds the retail price may 
sometimes be as high as S5 per ton above the wholesale prices 
given in this report. May 23,1924. 
Albany 
Ogdens- 
burg 
Utica 
Roch¬ 
ester 
Syra¬ 
Buf¬ 
falo 
.59 
.60 
.58K 
cuse 
.58 
.555* 
.58 
.59 
•57K 
.57 
•545* 
.94 
.93 
.92 
.83 
.92^ 
.94 
MX 
■90/2 
MH 
41.00 
41.60 
40.60 
40.30 
38.90 
25.50 
26.10 
25.10 
24.80 
23.40 
26.00 
26.60 
25.60 
25.30 
23.90 
24.75 
25.35 
24.35 
24.05 
22.65 
35.00 
35.60 
34.60 
34.30 
32.90 
29.75 
30.35 
29.35 
29.05 
27.65 
37.50 
38.10 
37.10 
36.80 
35.40 
31.00 
31.60 
30.60 
30.30 
28.90 
35.25 
35.85 
34.85 
34.55 
33.15 
34.75 
35.35 
34.35 
34.05 
32.65 
36.50 
37.10 
36.10 
35.80 
34.40 
38.25 
38.85 
37.85 
37.55 
36.15 
46.50 
47.10 
46.10 
45.80 
44.40 
45.00 
45.70 
44.60 
44.10 
42.90 
48.75 
49.45 
48.35 
47.85 
46.65 
49.75 
50.45 
49.35 
48.85 
47.65 
42.50 
43.10 
42.10 
41.80 
40.40 
43.50 
44.10 
43.10 
42.80 
41.40 
37.50 
38.10 
37.10 
36.80 
35.40 
No. 2 W. Oats.. 
No. 3 W. Oats.. 
No. 2 Yel. Com 
No. 3 Yel. Corn 
Ground Oats... 
Sp’g. Wht. B 
H’d. Wht. Bran 
Standard Mids. 
Soft W. Mids... 
Flour Mids.... 
Red D. Flour... 
D. Brew. Grains 
W. Hominy_ 
Yel.Hominy... 
Corn Meal__ 36.50 
Gluten Feed.... 
Gluten Meal... 
36% Cottonseed 
41% Cottonseed 
43% Cottonseed 
31% OP Oil M.. 
34% OP Oil M.. 
Beet Pulp. 37.50 _ _ _ 
Note—Quotations on local Buffald prices not received in 
time to be included in this report. 
BOSTON WOOL MARKET QUIET 
The Boston wool market has been very 
quiet during the past week. The fleece and 
territory wools, domestic, are showing an 
easing tendency in several different grades. 
The movement of fleece wools has been ex¬ 
tremely light in all lines. Fine Delaines are 
quoted from 52c to 53c and some lots have 
been offered at slightly lower figures. How¬ 
ever there is a certain element in the trade that 
considers 54c the lowest figure on choice wools 
of this grade. Following are the average quota¬ 
tions on better class of fleece wools similar to 
Ohio and Pennsylvania on the grease basis: 
Fine combing, 52c to 5ib; fine clothing, 42c 
to 43c; J4 blood combing, 52c to 53c; J4 blood 
clothing, 45c to 46c; yi blood combing, 51c to 
52c; 3 /i blood clothing, 45c to 46c; blood 
combing, 49c to 51c; 34 blood clothing, 43c. 
New York quotations on the average run 
about lc below the foregoing. 
■a. 
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Barrels, (apple, potato, slat, etc.) Baskets, 
Butter Tubs, Carriers, Crates and Egg Cases. 
Also all varieties of new and used Fruit ana 
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BABY 
CHICKS 
V 
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I ,H( KS Barred Rocks, $11 per 109; White Rocks, 
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