The Gem state rural. [volume], October 05, 1905, Page 7, Image 7

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The Markets
BOISE.
Reported and revised weekly for the
Gem State Rural by Plowhead's
Market Grocery, E. H. Plowhead,
proprietor — Wholesale and Retail
dealer in farm products and grocer
ies, 820 Idaho St. Boise. The prices
quoted are those paid by the dealers
for the items named.
12
Cheese, per lb.. .
Butter, creamery,
" ranch,. .
$ 27 per lb
(<
4 4
25
25 " doz
10 per lb
"
Eggs,
Honey, comb,...
4 4
1A
extracted.
4
Beans.
Wheat.
Oats,.
Hay, alfalfa,,
" clover,.
" timothy.
Chickens, live,
90 " cwt
1 00 " "
7 00 " t " n
7 00 " "
10 " lb
12 " "
tt
" dressed...
15
Turkeys, " .
Ducks, " .
Geese, " .
Bacon, domestic,.
Prunes, evaporated,....
10 *
10
12X"
lb
n
4
Popcorn, shelled.
Cabbage, lb.
Apples box.
Potatoes cwt.
Onions cwt.
Cucumbers doz.
Sweet Corn doz .
Cantaloupes crate.
Watermelons cwt.
Plums lb.
Tomatoes lb.
Peaches lb.
Pears lb.
Prunes lb.
Celery doz.
Grapes lb....
4'A
75
90
1 25
8'A
1 50
1 00
05
01
03
05
02
01
25
CALDWELL MARKETS.
Revised and corrected weekly for the
$ 6 50
g 35
12^
10
26
30
25
1 00
1 15
15
16
12A
Gem State Rural.
Groceries, etc., selling price.
Sugar, cane, per cwt.
Sugar, beet, per cwt.
Honey, comb, per lb
Honey, extracted, per tt> 8 cts to
Butter, ranch per 5 » .
Butter, creamery per tt>.
Eggs, fresh, per doz.
Wheat, per cwt.
Oats, per cwt.
Hams, retail, per tt>.
Breakfast Bacon; retail lb.
10 to
Lard, per lb
Barbed Wire, per cwt, Black.... 3 50
- x
Barbed Wire, per cwt., Galv.... 3 »0
6 00
g 00
50
Alfalfa, ton....
Clover, per ton.
Timothy.
6 50
IS to 1
4
1 00
10
22 ^
Flour, per
Pears cwt.
Tomatoes lb ..
Peaches lb ....
2 50
3/2
Plums cwt.
Prunes dried, per lb 4 to.
Apples dried per lb ..
Apples per lb 1c to....
Apples new cwt.
Corn per cwt.,.
Chop corn.
Potatoes, new, per cwt
Cabbage per cwt.
Chops, retail per cwt..
Whole Corn per cwt...
Bran per cwt.
Onions cwt. ;
7 to
02
2 00
156
1 65
1 00
1 60
2 50
1 40
1 35
1 00
'0
Caldwell Butchers pay for
Steers per cwt.
I 2
2 O0
Cows, good, per hundred
Pork, on foot, per cwt. 5 50
Pork, dressed per cwt...
Veal, hog dressed, per lb
Stock salt is still quoted at $1.75 at
the Utah refineries, or $9.75 laid down
7 00
Of
STOCK SALT.
here.
HIDES & PELTS.
13 cents per lb.
Hides
Pelts.
11
CHICAGO MARKET LETTER.
Receipts of cattle for the week total
ed only about 70,000. Following last
wee k' s heavy run there were 29,396
cattle received here Monday and trade
experienced the dullest day of the
year. Most offerings still go at the
lowest point of the year. The top
price of the week, 6.15, was obtained
on Wendesday for one prime lot of
1500-1 b steers but bulk of the good
shipping and export steers went at
5.25 to 5.65. Western cattle totaled
only about 22,000 for the week, and
values closed 10c to 15c higher than
last weeks finish. Cows selling at
$3.00 or under are in best demand,
while buyers are inclined to neglect
the better kinds. The stocker and
feeder division has been flooded with
supplies and values were at the low
point of the year, exceptional cases
finding choice heavy feeders at 4.35
but a very good class of stock can be
bought at 3-25 to 3,75.
Receipts of hogs reached about 90,
000 for the week, closing prices being
about 10c to 15c better than those of
last week. The general quality of the
hogs arriving and the remarkable ab
sence among
dence of the fact that corn in most
sections of the country is well cared
and very little green corn is being
fed. There appears to be plenty of
hogs in sight and it is quite likely
that values will go still lower; in fact
the packers are predicting that the
winter values on hogs will be 4.00 or
4.50. On today's market bulk of the
good hogs sold at 6.60 to 5.70, with the
top at 5 85.
Sheep receipts reached 165,000 dur
ing the week, which was the largest
week's supply ever received at this
trade has a good
well nnder
market.
tone and values held up
However,
There has been a
the heavy runs.
keen demand for all kinds of sheep fit
for the slaughter while orders for
breeding ewes of good quality have
been considerably in excess of thesup
ply. Fancy light-weight black-faced
have sold up to 5.25, while a num
ber went to the country at 5.00. Trade
in breeding stock has been enormous,
nearly half the week's supply going
At the close of the
ewes
on that account.
week choice wethers are bringing 4.60
to 4 . 90 , with feeding wethers quotable
at 4.40 to 4.75.
Best killing lambs
reached 7.75 in the native division,
while fancy westerns sold on Thurs
Best feeders went at 6.60
during the week, while big droves of
feeding lambs went at 6.30 to 6.40.
Trade finished with a strong tone.
day at 7-30.
Clay, Robinson & Company,
Chicago, September 29, 1905.
KANSAS CITY MARKET LETTER.
Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Sept. 29,
1905. Cattle receipts this week 82,000
head, including 12,000 calves. The
best stockers and feeders are steady
to strong, ethers 10 to 15 lower. Pur
chases by country buyers are heaviest
of the season, at something over 1000
car loads for the week. A train of
Nevada steers, 1000 to 1150, not fat
enough for killers, sold Tuesday at
3.00 to 3.25. Killers and stockers from
the range country are selling at 2.75
to 3.25. Cows bring 2.25 to 2.60, heif
ers up to 3.00, calves 3.25 to 4.00 for
heavy weights.
Sheep receipts have been extra
heavy this week, but everything has
been cleaned up in good shape, stuff
suitable for the killers 15 to 25 lower
Several shipments of Utah lambs have
sold in the last three days at 6.60 to
6.75, medium grades from New Mexi
co, Colorado and Arizona at 6.20 to 6 40
wethers for slaughter 4.60 to 4.70, year
lings 4.75 to 5.00, ewes 4.00 to 4.35.
Breeding ewes have been much want
ed for the country, and a string of
6000 Idaho ewes around 100 sold today
at 4.25 to 4.50, feeding lambs 5.50 to
L. S. Correspondent
5.85 this week, wethers and yearlings
4.35 to 4.65. Receipts have been enor
mous at all markets this week, around
60.000 at this point. The demand is
phenominal from all sources,
J. A. Rickart.
The Idaho sheep on the Kansas City
market last week, as reported by our
correspondent, were:—
Beatty Trading Co., 3500 Breeding
Ewes, 102 lb
Holderman & M 881 lambs, 65 lb.
4 50
6.50
347 sheep and yearlings 98 lb
66 ewes 98..,.
4.70
4.25
EASTERN FRUIT MARKETS.
New York, Italians, many ripe, .95 to
Chicago, Italians, overripe
Anjou Pears..
Jonathan Apples .
^
DENVER MARKETS
Supply of cattle here today was close
to 3,000 head, largely feeders. Trade
was slow to start but the demand was
good and the raouement active after
the market got going. Prices about
steady with the close of last week ex
cept on cows, which were scarce and a
.85
$3.15 to 3.30
.$2.36
1.25.
little stronger.
Oct. 2
W. N. Fulton.
an d are
lighter steers from 2A to 3; there is
V ery little call for feeders: best cows
an< j heifers, 2% to 2A- old shelly cows
Good prime steers are very scarce
selling for 3medium and
PORTLAND MARKETS
an( j light half-fat stuff from 1>$ to 2:
stags, 1A to 2>£, owing to quality:
bulls sell from 1 1-2 to 1 3-4 cents per
pound.
Good hard fed well finished hogs,
weighing from 175 to 250 are very
scarce and sell at 6%: lighter china
f a ts and blockers 5A, and stockers
and feeders from 4% to 5 cents per
pound.
Good sheep and lambs are in de
maud and sell about the same as last
week Good 90 to 110 wethers, 3A'
mixed ewes and wethers, 3straight
ewes, 3: and good fat spring lambs sell
at 4% cents per pound.
Veal calves are very scarce and sell
at SA cents, that is for light ISO to 200
calves; heavier and rough stuff at
2%, to 3A cents per pound, with very
little demand.
Portland Union Stock Yards
Idaho Should do Likewise.
The following, from the Greeley
(Colo.) Tribune, shows how a Colorado
canning company is invading the
east with solid trainloads of sugar
peas, and capturing the markets by
the superior quality of its goods.
As the Tribune says, this demand
will no doubt result in establishing
many more canneries, and Idaho should
get in line to help supply the demand.
The sugar pea does well here and the
quality is likewise, excellent.
"The shipping of a solid train of
opened the eyes of Colorado to another
industry in which the state can claim
preeminence. Starting in a modest
way the Empson Canning company
at Longmont, has found its business
reaching enormous proportions. The
big cities of the east have taken to the
Colorado sugar peas and the demand
is steadily increasing.
This demand will undoubtedly re
sult in the establishment of many
more canneries. The vegetables, as
grown here, are firmer and more suc
.
While he has to enter into compe
tition with the with the product of the
eastern states, the present system
under which the transportation of
the country is conducted permits the
shipper to meet this competition and
i nsure s him a share of the big mar
kets.
The Maple Surer Industry.
Bulletin No. 59. "The Maple Sugar
Industry,', by William F. Fox and
William F. Hubbard, Sc. Pol. D., with
a discussion of "The Adulteration of
Maple Products," by Harvey W. Wiley,
M. D., will soon be ready for distribu
tion.
part report
particularly with the development and
present status of the maple sugar in
n the northeastern ana central parts
f the United States are many areas
po n which maple trees may be grown
for their sap, and the purpose of this
bulletin is to show farmers and others
f existing groves, and how to estab
j} 8 h others.
dnstry, and with the means by which
it may be extended. It is shown that
while the demand for maple sugar
and sirup is continually increasing,
the actual production has been nearly
stationary for the last twenty years.
how to make the most rofitable use
Specific directions for
tapping the trees and for making the
sap into sugar and sirup are given,
and the profit that may be derived
from a maple sugar grove is shown.
the real thing.
maple products, which the farmers of
This bulletin
The second part of this report deals
with the adulteration of maple pro
ducts, and shows how little of what
passes for maple sugar and sirup is
There is s constant demand for pure
the conrtry can meet.
tells them how to do it.
plates and ten figures, which serve to
make clear the instructions given in
the text,
be made to—
The bulletin is illustrated by eight
Application for this bulletin should
The Forester,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.