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mire,  Auction  sales  are  quite  numerous. 
Hay  $20  per  ton;  straw  $0;  potatoes  One 
per  bn. :  eggs  2Se ;  veals,  live.  Sc  per  lb. ; 
liog-dressed  10c  per  lb.  Oats  50e  per 
bu. ;  oo ru meal  $22  per  ton.  u.  t.  j. 
Clinton  Co.,  N.  Y. 
Retail  stores  are  selling  strawberries 
at  20c;  new  potatoes  GOe  per  peck;  new 
cabbage  5c  per  lb. ;  eggs  20c  per  doz., 
new  laid;  butter  40c  lb.;  fowls  25c  lb. 
Orlando,  Fla.  J,  .r.  w. 
Feb.  20. — 1  lay.  $18;  straw  (wheat), 
$7.50;  oat.  $0;  wheat  per  bn..  $1.15;  po¬ 
tatoes.  $1.25;  cows,  $45  to  $00  per  bead. 
No  dairying  in  this  section.  Apples,  50c. 
per  bu.  E.  L.  S. 
Branch  port,  N.  A*. 
Cattle  from  $18  to  $100;  milk,  $1.45, 
$1.55  and  $1.05  at  R.  T.  Stevens;  butter, 
24c.;  potatoes.  00c.  to  81.05;  cabbage,  $5. 
Hay  all  prices  from  $0  to  $1S  per  ton. 
Beans,  $4.25  per  bu.  w.  M. 
Locke,  N.  Y. 
Farm  crops  the  past  season  were 
rather  poor.  Hay  and  oats  a  good 
crop.  Corn  poor  on  account  of  the  wet 
and  cold  weather;  it  did  not  ripen  very 
well.  About  70  per  cent,  of  a  crop,  both 
for  grain  and  silage.  Potatoes  about  50 
per  eent.  of  crop  selling  for  $1.40  bushel. 
Apples  a  failure.  Carden  below  the  aver¬ 
age  yield  on  account  of  wet  and  cold 
weather.  Dairying  is  the  principle  source 
of  income  in  this  section  ;  milk  testing  2.8 
$1.81  per  cwt.  Cows,  $50  to  $80  u  head. 
(5uod  beeves.  $5.50  ewT.  Horses,  matched 
teams  of  1.500  lbs.  each,  $500;  light,  and 
chunks,  $125  to  $175.  Ilay,  $10.  Butter, 
20  to  20  lb.  Eggs,  25c.  C. 
Loomis,  N.  Y. 
This  section,  known  as  the  Marble-  Pears  .>I.b 
head  Peninsula,  being  a  peninsula  15  ou  kind  i 
miles  long  by  IV2  to  two  miles  wide  markets, 
formed  l>\  Lake  Erie  on  the  north  and  city  or  to 
Sandusky  Bay  on  the  south,  is  devoted  $1.10  per 
almost  ’exclusively  to  fruit  growing,  to  5c  per 
peaches  predominating,  although  apples  Leeds,  J 
are  coining  in  more  each  year,  and  in  wheat  ' 
another  live  years  the  apple  production  ,  i.-.  ~ 
will  be  large.  The  above  district  pro-  ( ,.  \  t  * 
d lin'd  and  shipped  last  Fall  approximate-  V.  * 
lv  1100.000  bushels  of  peaches,  DO  per  R  , 
cent,  of  which  are  handled  by  coopora-  n  ' 
five  packing  houses  of  which  there  are  .  „  .,r •  * 
five.  Peaches  arc  picked  b.v  the  growers  L- 
and  delivered  to  the  packing  house,  where  , 
they  arc  graded  and  sized  b\  mechani¬ 
cal  graders  into  live  sizes.  Fancy,  AA,  Ilay  $2( 
A.  B  and  C.  and  packed  in  % -bushel  bu. ;  rye 
baskets,  into  which  a  full  bushel  of  cows  $45  1 
peaches  is  packed,  resulting  in  a  heap-  $55;  pure! 
ing  basket.  Experiments  have  proved  bu. ;  cam 
that  a  %  basket  with  a  full  bushel  of  $1  bu. 
peaches  in  it  sells  better  than  11  full  Saranac 
bushel  of  peaches  iu  a  bushel  basket,  be- 
cause  it  looks  fuller.  The  house  to  which 
1  deliver  my  peaches  is  of  fireproof  con-  *>.  ' 
struct  ion.  cement  and  steel,  with  asbestos  J'71 
tier  roof.  250  feel  long,  It!  feet  wide.  '’j1 
with  trackage  so  12  cars  can  be  loaded 
at  once.  We  graded,  packed  and  loaded 
as  high  as  55  carloads  in  one  day  last  -!/  1 
Fall  during  the  Elbert u  rush,  and  aver-  *  jj 
aged  25  to  40  cars  daily  for  two  weeks. 
Cost  of  packing  and  marketing  averages  F: 
about  six  cents  per  bushel  exclusive  of  ton 
packages.  Our  location  is  to  my  mind  boar 
the  most  favorable,  taking  into  con-  eye 
sidcrution  all  requirements,  of  any  in  failu 
me  country  for  growing  peaches;  owing  Bi 
to  our  water  protection  we  never  lose 
a  crop  by  late  Spring  frosts,  and  very  ... 
seldom  by  winter-killing  of  luids.  The  I*  '"! 
orchard  adjoining  mine  has  a  record  of  1  ‘ 
17  successive  fruit  crops  and  contains  w  .  ; 
trees  28  years  old  in  flourishing  cornli- 
tion.  Our  trees  Iasi  longer  than  in  most  {lo  ** 
peach  sections,  owing  no  doubt  to  the 
character  of  the  soil,  which  is  a  heavy 
clay  and  day  loam  underlaid  with  and 
heavily  impregnated  with  lime.  Alfalfa  m 
produces  a  good  stand  without  inncuhi-  Foui 
tion  and  is  the  main  hay  crop.  Man 
Ohio  M.  R.  w,  .  27  t 
the 
Bad  weather  and  bad  roads;  the  froez- 
ing  and  thawing  has  been  very  bad  on  s],.ig 
wheat  and  clover,  which  does  not  look  jjuni, 
very  promising  at  this  time }  bad  time  gUj,., 
for  candidates  to  do  electioneering,  .  _ _ 
although  the  like  was  never  known  in  ” 
this  territory.  Health  has  improved.  I 
Large  number  of  public  sales  are  being 
held.  Stock  and  produce  bring  good 
prices.  Feed  scarce  and  high.  Large 
crops  of  oats  and  corn  will  be  planted  (L 
this  season  as  Ihere  has  been  one  or  Jr" 
two  almost  complete  failures  here.  To-  h  - 
baceo  about  all  marketed  and  is  bring-  F-;" 
ing  better  prices  than  at  the  opening  of 
the  season.  Wheat.  $1.15;  corn  85e  ;  oats, 
75c;  potatoes,  $1;  clover  seed.  $10  to 
812.50;  old  hens.  12  cents;  turkeys,  15 
cents;  ducks,  10  cents;  geese,  10  cents;  $ 
eggs.  17  cents;  butter,  10  to  20  cents.  'gjl 
Boonville,  I ud.  K.  s.  k. 
The  freeze  on  February  1  I  fixed  ntost  ft 
of  the  peach  crop  in  Southern  <  thin,  and  \vj 
probably  in  other  parts  of  the  country,  iy 
too.  It  had  been  warm  before  that,  and  (r< 
swelled  the  buds  so  they  could  hardly  g 
stand  zero  weather,  which  wc  had  on  the 
hills,  and  it  was  considerably  lower  in  /S* 
the  valleys.  A  few  of  the  cherries  are 
killed,  too,  on  the  Id, Ms,  and  it  is  reported  y? 
that  about  all  of  | hem  are  dead  ou  low 
land.  T  find  some  thrifty  Carman  peach 
frees  may  have  enough  buds  left  for  n 
nice  crop,  also  some  of  tin*  extra  early 
kind,  and  some  Belle  of  (leurgift  promise 
some  fruit.  The  Klbertu  lias  almost 
nothing  left  alive.  We  hope  it  will  make 
e  better  market  for  early  apples,  which 
are  very  promising  now.  The  growers 
have  ordered  their  fertilizer  for  the 
orchards  just  tlm  same  as  in  former 
years  in  spite  of  the  advanced  prices, 
but  we  do  not  yet  apply  potash.  The 
spraying  material  is  coming  in  too,  and 
all  growers  are  expecting  to  do  good 
work  and  harvest  line  apples,  for  which 
this  county  is  famous.  The  roads  have 
been  worse  than  common  lately,  due  to 
wet  weather  and  freezing  and  thawing 
out  so  many  times.  We  have  several 
pieces  of  fine  Slate  road  in  the  county 
and  likely  four  more  pieces  of  about 
seven  miles  will  be  built  this  year.  Two 
other  great  needs  we  long  for  are  a 
bridge  across  the  Ohio  River  at  Hunt¬ 
ington.  W.  Yn.,  and  electric  lines  through 
the  county.  u.  T.  cox. 
Lawrence  Co.,  Ohi.o. 
March  22.  Eggs  at  store,  22c.;  butter. 
22c.;  hogs,  10c.;  live,  Tjgc. ;  beef  dressed. 
Do. ;  veal,  bog-dressed.  15c. ;  fed  veal, 
d  essed,  10c, :  live  veals.  0c.  Milch  cows, 
845  to  $75;  dry  cows,  $25  to  $50.  Hay, 
No.  1  Timothy,  at  barn,  $20;  clover  and 
Timothy,  in  barn.  $15;  straw,  $10;  pota¬ 
toes.  $1.25.  Apples.  Baldwins  and  Hreen- 
ings,  $1  per  bushel.  A  severe  storm  in 
progress  ;  temperature  .  22  to  2.4  degrees 
below  zero.  o.  n.  n. 
Kennedy,  N.  Y. 
Cattle,  beef,  $20  to  $70,  depending  on 
size  and  quality,  at  private  sale.  Cows, 
mileli,  $20  to  $00,  according  to  quality, 
private  sale.  Calves,  veal,  Sc  to  10c  per 
lb.,  town  markets  for  live  weight.  But¬ 
ter,  28  to  28(g  private  sale.  25  to  25c, 
town  market;  milk  in  Summer  5  to  Gc. 
Don't  miss  anotliel'  (fay  of  this  glorious  sport.  I 
pot  a  liieyi-lo  am!  five  in  Hit'  eimiitr.v  this  sum-  I 
nun*.  Hoys — plan  11  Hiun  milt-  tour  for  \ u<  a tion.  , 
Tha  uur.  model  Tver  Johnson  is  the  highest  [| 
grade,  fastest,  strongest  and  best  tinislied  hi-  .1 
cycle  we  ever  produced,  it  is  made  of  seam-  /I 
less  steel  tubing, drop  forg-  ___  ,jf 
tings,  hearings  g . 1  for  ten  sx/fZ&iPt  l\ 
years,  four  coats  of  baked. 
hand  nibbed  enamel.  $30 
to?33.  Juveniles $20  to  Sgo.  kjj'  kl! 
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Weedy  Ai,eai,e.v. — The  Kansas  farm¬ 
ers  are  warned  that  unless  they  watch 
the  Alfalfa  fields  of  that  State  will  gn  to 
weeds  after  the  first  Spring  rutting.  Last 
year  there  was  a  riot  of  weeds  due  to 
the  damp  season,  and  they  will  come 
back  into  the  Alfalfa  fields  with  a  swarm 
when  the  first  load  is  taken  away.  'The 
spring-tooth  harrow  with  the  teeth  sharp¬ 
ened  in  a  fine  point  is  suggested  for  cul¬ 
tivating  the  Alfalfa  after  this  first  crop. 
This  will  rip  out.  many  of  the  weeds  and 
give  the  new  crop  a  start.  Formerly  the 
disk  harrow  was  advised  for  similar 
working,  but.  it  seems  to  chop  off  and 
split  up  too  many  of  the  crowns.  Farm¬ 
ers  generally  are  divided  in  their  opinion 
about  the  wisdom  of  cultivating  the  Al¬ 
falfa  in  this  way.  We  think  the  ma¬ 
jority  of  them  are  opposed  to  it,  but  in 
this  coming  weedy  season  there  may  he 
an  explanation. 
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