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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
Thursday, June 6, 1907.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
A Progressive Farmer Representative
Keeps Our Readers Posted as to
the Trend of Prices on All Farm
Products. 5
New York June 1, 1907.
Yesterday and to-day constitute
about the first "bunch" of season
able weather we have had. The
whole situation is thirty days late,
and in this backwardness New York
is not alone. Your correspondent
heard a representative of a prominent
woolen-cloth concern say that while
their sales on a Saturday were usu
ally about $1,500, the whole amount
for the week for several weeks past
was only $750, and that actually
they would be about as well off to lock
up and go fishing. The big stores,
especially those dealing In clothing,
must be on the anxious seat, too.
People have until now been wearing
their winter clothing, and summer
stocks are practically untouched.
; This backward weather extending
as it does all over the cotton belt
nearly, has caused renewed interest
in this great staple. The wires have
been kept hot with reports of "20 to
30 days late," and no man can see
the end. The whale' tendency is
upward, and middling spot is now
worth 12 c. If Sully could have
put off his operation looking to 15c.
cotton until now he might have been
on the highway to success. While
these high prices may cause rejoicing
among planters, what will they profit
if they have no cotton to sell? Seats
on the Cotton Exchange have ad
. vanced from $10,000 to $14,000
Within a short time and the top has
not been reached.
Grain. Wheat is not so feverish
and quotations generally tend -to
lower basis, closing at $1.05 for July,
against 8 8 c. a year ago. Corn'
61 'c against 55 c. Oats firm at
49 c.; elevator, and 50c. track.
Potatoes and Vegetables. Old po
tatoes are weak. Quality in many
cases is lacking, and quotations show
some further decline. New stock in
good request and firm. Georgia and
South Carolina are worth S4rra
per barrel for No. 1, and $3 3.50
for No. 2; Florida, Rose, $5g5.75;
Texas, Red, $4.25 4.75. Onions,
steady, with New Orleans selling at
about $1.401.50 per bag. Texas,
per crate $3 3.25, for white, and
$2.25 for yellow. Peas are in freer
supply but quotations are fairly well
held at $22.75 per large basket
for North .Carolina, for large peas,
and $1.50 2 for large basket, small
size. Rhubarb, per 100 bunches, $1
1.50. Cabbages well sustained at
$2 2.50 per crate for North Caro
lina and about the same for Virginia
and Maryland stock. String beans in
more liberal supply and somewhat
lower; North Carolina, per basket,
$33.50; Georgia and South Caro
lina, $2.50 4. Tomatoes are held
at about $2 2.50 per carrier for
choice Florida. Beets, $2.505 per
100 bunches. Cucumbers, $1.502
per basket for Floridas. Oysterplant
per : 1 00, $ 4 6'r- Lettuce in larger
supply and held at $11.75 per bas
ket for Southern. Marrow squash
per barrel-crate, $l 1.50. Spinach,
per barrel, $11.75. Watercress
per 100 bunches, $11.75. Corn'
per 100 ears, $2 4. Asparagus
shows some advance;' prime, $2g
2.75 per dozen bunches. Carrots,
$24 per 100 bunches.
Butter has been in excellent re
quest all the week, especially for top
grades, which are called for by out-
of-town hotels and watering places.
Extra creamery, 25c; imitation
creamery, 21 c; factory, 20 21c:
and renovated, 20 22c
Eggs.- The supply of eggs con
tinues more than ample, and some
decline has taken place. Fresh-gatft-
I ered Kentucky, 15 1 6 V c : same
for Tennessee. Duck eggs, 20c, for
Maryland and Virginia.
Provisions are somewhat higher.
Mess pork, $17.5018.50 for clear,
and $19 19.50 for family. Extra
India mess beef, $2 2&2 3. 00.
F. J . R.
Our Weekly Tobacco Report.
Danville, Va., May 31, 1907.
The loose tobacco sales this week
have amounted to about 175,000
pounds, and consequently have not
been sufficiently large to be of very
great interest to the buyers. Fur
thermore the stock sold has been
more inferior than usual and mostly
damaged.
The market for redried stock in
hogsheads has been quite active, and
there has been considerable Inquiry
that has resulted in sales that foot
up a respectable total. The inquiries
are from widely separated foreign
markets.
The weather for the week has been
unusually cold and windy for the
season. The result has been that
what little tobacco there was set out
on the rain of the 25th has been
damaged by cut worms or the weath
er. To-day we have had a gentle,
though cold, rain on which, no doubt,
much tobacco in the Old Belt will
be set, out. While the crop is being
planted under adverse circumstances",
still there is no reason why good
seasons may not overcome all of the
set-backs. It is probable, however,
that the poor planting seasons will
result -in a smaller acreage than was
intended to be planted in the Old
Belt.
The following shows the increase
in sales:
Pounds.
Sales May, 1907..... 2,090.681
Sales May, 1906. .... . . . . 528,477
Increase, May, 1907. .... .1,562,204
10 Months, 1906-'07. . . . .35,108,196
10 Months, 1905-'06.... .33,844,659
Increase, 1906-'07 1,263,537
-Very truly yours,
DIBRELL BROS., INC.
Cotton, eoort
Tinges and Stains.
Raleigh Cotton.
Balxigh, June 3, 1907.
.I314 to 13
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Baltimore Provisions.
um BALTIM0B1B Md., June 3,1907.
Flour-Winter patent fin Qn
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Wheat
Spring patents.
Corn Southern white!
uais no. 2, mixed
y in o.
5 10 . 5 40
80 90
Butter Ffttiflv iTnit7TZr
. west uuii
Butter Fancy creamery
Butter Store packed!
Eggs Fresh
unease.
62
47
87
64
Sugar Fie granulated
Sugar Coarse 'granulatart 5
22 a
25
15 a
17 UK
6 10- 4
88
23
26
16
10
Wilmington Markets.
(Corrected by W. b. Cooper, Wholesale
Wilmington, N. c, June 3, i07.
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