The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-03-20
ARE UP
BUT FARMERS HOLD
Price Is Quoted as $35 But the
Producers Are Not Prepared
to Dispose of Goods


Potatoes are up. Quotations on
the street Monday were $50 to sS5
per ton. And at that the producers
were not willing to sell They look
for another jump, or maybe three
jumps. On the other hand those on
the other side of the market can't
| see the advance stall. They don't
know where it came from, or what
put the price up, or what is to keep
lit there. And they express fear
| that someone Is likely to get bit The
claim Is made that the buyers at this
end have not been permitted this
year to make cent on their bust
| less; that the producers have asked
as much as the market quotations in
Seattle and that such demands have
endured throughout the season. 1t
is commended also that there are con-
siderable quantities held at one place
or another along the coast, particu-
larly throughout the Yakima valley.
They feel that there are more held
than will be marketed in the time
remaining, particularly as new poto-
toes have already begun to come up
from the south.
The fact just now, however. which
is important to the mass of the
ranchers Of this valley is that the
producer is getting his price. or
nearer approach to it than he has
heretofore this season with the mar
ket jumping upward and apparently
likely to remain unsatisfied until it
reaches a considerable altitude.
Nothing New i'm Hay
1t is the same old story with hay.
There is no especial demand and the
purchaser appears able to get all he
desires at figures which have pre-
vailed for several weeks. 1t was eX-
pected that the beginning of new
work with the spring would advance
the price. 1t has not done so though
it has to some extent stiffened the
demand.
Chickens have advanced to eighteen
cents pound paid to producers. This
is practically the only change in the
meat foods. There are a number of
farmers who have hogs for sale but
who are not satisfied with the prices
now offered Many small animals
have been sold and the larger ones,
! it is thought, will have to go to the
block as they will not put on suffic
lent additional weight to pay for car
rying them over the summer.
Rhubarb and asparagus from Cali
! fornia have arrived in this market
and are on sale here.
| The general market is as follows:
Kalispell hard wheat -four sack s165
Dutcn mill Sl.Zo
Yakima Best -four. per sack ...$1.30
Prosser -four, per sack ...... 81. S5
Washington hard wheat -four .S1.30
Kennewick Best, patent flour $40
Alfalfa, ton, wholesale $500 $500
Wheat hap, per ton $1,000 50. 90
Timothy hay, per ton $136$13.50
Potatoes, per ton .... $500 @ $1,000
| Onions, per ton ................ $25
Fruits. Vegetables. Groceries, Retail
Creamery butter, pound ...... .40c
Ranch butter, pound 30c
Eggs, per dozen zoe
Cheese. Wisconsin, pound Zoe
Brick cheese, pound ....... goo
Imported Swiss cheese, pound ..40c
1Iimburger cheese, pound .....25c
| Dill pickles, dozen zoe
Bananas, dozen 35c
Lemons, dozen soc
| Oranges, dozen 25C, Acc, and SOC
Florida grape fruit ........... 15c
California grape fruit 49,. q for Csc
Turnips, pound &c
Beets, pound &c
Parsnips, pound &c
| Cabbage, pound &c
| Apples for table use ...3 lbs for Csc
| Cooking aDnlaS 1bc for a.
SauerlSraut, per pound ...... SC
Cauliflower, head .15c @2Oc
Celery, bunch ........... Toe % sc
Lettuce, per head 10c
Onions, per ton use
Potatoes, per ton ..S24 to S27
Walnuts (new) per pound 25c
Almonds (new) per pound ..... .25c
Hickory nuts. per pound 25c
Pecans per pound 49,. 25c
Brazils, per pound 26c
Hazel nuts, per pound 25c
lChestnuts, per pound Csc
Prunes (new) ..... 2 lbs. for Csc
Cranberries, pound zoe, for 35c
Sugar, a pounds for .....$1.00
Meats-Prices Paid Producers
Live hogs, pound 5 II "a &c
Dressed hogs. pound ......71a "a Sc
calves, pound .........,.. sc 20 l 1c
Mutton sheep (alive), Id ...31z c@4c
Dressed mutton, pound ...,..7 &c a SC
Beef, cows, pound ...... -. 4c "a " C
steers, pound .....---..... &C a . " C
Dressed cows, pound ......8 c09 u C
Live chickens, pound .......1Sc
Lard, 10-pound can as
Hams, per pound ........ .17c
| Bacon, per pound zoe "a 25c
THREE EGGS IN % HOURS
Barred Plymouth Rock Said to Have
II Worlds Record