No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



217 



Farm wages, harvest, by day, |1.80. 



Hoiiseliold help, female, with board, per week, $3.20. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Automohilcs — xVpproximale uumber of farmers using at the be- 

 beginuing of the year, 15,000. 



Lime — Number of farmers using for agricultural purposes, 48 

 per cent. 



Commercial Fertilizers — Farmers using, 88 per cent.; average 

 amount used by each farmer, 2 tons; average amount used per acre, 

 2;J5 pounds; total number of tons used, 381,920; average price paid 

 per ton, |20.80; total amount paid, |7,048,900.00. 



Stable Manure — Approximate value of produced on the farms, 

 $14,322,000.00. 



Spraying — Farmers spraying for insects pests and plant diseases, 

 27 per cent. 



Silos — Farmers using silos, 9 per cent. 



The following comparison of tables for the past nine years shows 

 the prices of the various products of Pennsylvania: 



TABLE OP COMPARISON 



Wheat 



Corn 



Oats 



Rye 



Buckwheut, 



Hay, clover 



Hay, timothy 



Horses, average 



Mules, average, 



Cows, average, 



Lambs, average, 



Ewes, average 



Steers, fat, per pound 



Steers, for feeding, per pound,.. 



Swine, shoats, per pound 



Hogs, fat, per pound 



Chicliens, dressed, per pound, 



Chickens, live, per pound 



Apples, per bushel 



Peaches, per basket 



Pears, per bushel, 



Plums, per quart 



Cherries, per quart, 



Blackberries, per quart, 



Raspberries, per quart, 



Potatoes, per bushel 



Butter, per pound, at store, 



Butter, per pound, at market, .. 

 Milk, wholesale, per 100 pounds. 



Milk, retail, per quart 



Eggs, per dozen 



1915 



$1 05 

 76 

 46 



S5 



78 



I 15 90 



121 00 



128 00 



55 50 



5 00 



5 40 



07 



06 



08 



08 



18 



12 



68 



45 



85 



06 



09 



08 



10 



SO 



I 33 



1 7( 



SHEEP KILLED AND INJURED BY DOGS 



It has been a well known fact all these years that the dogs have 

 been detrimental to the sheep industry of this State. In order that 

 the public may know the extent of this damage this Bureau, through 

 the County Commissioners' offices, secured the data for the year 

 1914. This information has been tabulated in detail and is submitted 

 herewith and made a part of this report. I desire to add that esti- 

 mates received from our correspondents places the number of sheep 

 in the State at seventy per cent, compared with the number ten 

 years ago. There seems to be a decline of about three per cent, per year. 

 It is very evident that we need additional legislation to protect this 

 important but fast declining industry from the ravages of the dogs. 



Sheep killed and injured by dogs, amount of damages paid, dog 

 tax collected, how expended, etc., in Pennsylvania, by counties, for 

 the year 1914. Collected and compiled by L. H. Wible, Statistician, 

 Department of Agriculture. 

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