The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-11
NEWS SERVICES OF
BUREAU OF MARKETS
Depended Upon by Many Produc-
ers, Distributors and Others.
Information Scattered to All Sections
Of Country Over Practically $4,000
Miles of Leased Wires
How 1t Works.

Prepared by the United States DEPART
ment of Agriculture)
Many producers, distributors and
others have come to depend on the
market news services of the bureau
of markets and to make less use of
commercial price-quoting agencies,
which are not able to furnish data so
reliable, accurate, prompt and compre-
hensive, according to the annual re-
port of the secretary of agriculture.
The market news services were
greatly enlarged in the fiscal year 1918
until branch offices numbered approx
mately ninety. They were distribut-
ing market information to all sections
of the country over practically $4,000
miles of leased wires.
The news service on fruits and veg
etables was made continuous through
out the year for the first time since
it was instituted. Reports were issued
in season covering approximately 80
commodities and indicating daily car
load shipments, the shipping prices in
the particular markets throughout the
country, and other shipping-point
facts. Temporary field stations were
operated at 80 points in two produc-
ing sections, more than twice as many
as in the preceding year.
| The news service on live stock and
meats was extended to include addi-
tional important live stock and meat
marketing centers and producing dis
tricts. New features to make the
service more useful to producers in
the trade were added. The daily re-
ports on meat conditions, which for
merly gave information on the de-
mand, supplies and wholesale prices
| of western dressed fresh meats in
four of the most important western
| markets, now cover Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Pittsburgh also. AS a
supplement to the daily reports a
weekly review is published. The daily
telegraphic report on live stock ship
ments west of the Allegheny noun
tains was extended to include all live
STOCK loaded on railroads throughout
the united States. Information re-
garding the "in' and "out" movement
IN certain feeding districts is being
| published.
The department took over on June
1, 1918, the furnishing of all tele-
graphic market reports distributed
daily from the Chicago Union stock
yards on livestock receipts and
prices, not only those regularly sent
over the leased wire of the bureau of
markets, but all reports used by COM
mercial news agencies and press as
sociations. The substitution of a gov
eminent report for the previous IN
Official services has exerted material
influence in restoring confidence in the
reports of market conditions, the lack
OF which has been a fundamental OBJ
stacle to the development of the live
stock industry.
The news service on dairy and poul-
try products gives prices of butter.
eggs and cheese, trade conditions.
market receipts, storage movement
| ana supplies in storage and in the
| hands of wholesalers and iobhers
Since the fall of 1917 it has covered
Washington, Boston, New York, Phila-
deiphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and
san francisco. Data were secured
each month from approximately 14,OOO
dairy manufacturing plants in the
United States, showing the quantities
produced of such products as whev.
process butter, oleomargarine. cheese
OF different kinds, condensed and
eVaporated milk. various classes of
powdered milk, casein and milk sugar.