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The  now  smooth  surfaced  roads  aro  de¬ 
veloping  a  sol  of  special  problems.  By 
the  use  of  a  tar  product  it  was  found  pos¬ 
sible  to  put  on  a  new  concrete  top  that  is 
free  of  dust  and  first  class  for  travel 
when  new  and  dry.  But  after  u  while  it. 
wears  full  of  holes,  giving  a  hnmp-the- 
luimps  e fleet,  especially  when  one  is  trav¬ 
elling  tit  night.  When  the  tarred  surface 
is  wet  it.  becomes  slippery  and  when  it 
freezes  over  it  becomes  dangerous,  espe¬ 
cially  for  horses.  So  the  situation  comes 
about  that  in  some  towns  the  farmers  are 
unable  to  travel  over  the  tar-surfaced 
roads  a  good  share  of  the  time,  but  are 
often  forced  to  drive  on  hack  roads,  while 
out-of-town  autos  throng  the  patent  coat¬ 
ed  road  and  wear  big  holes  in  the  rtriie- 
ture,  which  the  farmers  tire  taxed  heavily 
to  pay  for  and  to  keep  in  repair,  In 
Massachusetts  it  is  proposed  to  give  the 
horse  a  chance  by  making  either  one  or 
two  foot  pill  Its  in  the  highway  so  that 
while  the  hard  surface  part  is  still  avail¬ 
able  for  the  wheels,  the  horse  can  travel 
on  the  no-slip  material  of  thejiath.  The 
plan  provides  for  at  least  a  15-foot  space 
between  the  paths,  and  this  surfaced 
space  would  be  used  by  the  motor  vehi¬ 
cles.  It  remains  to  he  seen  whether  an 
experimental  toad  of  this  kind  will  solve 
the  problem  or  whether  they  will  find  a 
surfacing  material  that  does  not.  become 
slippery. 
In  Windham  County,  Vt.,  the  bureau 
demonstration  work  will  center  on  or¬ 
chard  pruning  and  on  soil  fertility.  Agent 
S.  W.  Sweeton  argues  that  this  will  he 
apple  year,  and  a  good  pruning  will  thin 
the  fruit  and  improve  its  grade.  Dem¬ 
onstrations  and  field  meetings  will  he 
held  wherever  needed.  The  county,  like 
many  others,  seems  to  abound  in  neglected 
orchards.  The  fertilizer  problem  will  he 
approached  by  a  campaign  for  lime  and 
Soy  beaus  to  develop  the  supply  of  home¬ 
grown  fertility  and  a  quantity  of  grain¬ 
saving  fodder. 
“We  want  to  place  Cheshire  County, 
New  Hampshire,  on  the  map,”  declares 
County  Agent  P,  N.  Darling.  They  are 
doing  two  very  practical  things;  ordering 
their  fertilizing  material  together  by  the 
carload,  and  trying  to  locate  a  canning 
factory  to  take  the  surplus  products.  The 
sheep  growers  of  the  comity  are  expect¬ 
ing  high  prices  for  wool  this  Spring,  and 
they  are  planning  co-operation  in  market¬ 
ing  their  output.  The  milk  producers  of 
the  county  are  taking  lively  interest  in 
the  cow-testing  contest.  The  best,  cow  so 
far  seems  to  be  a  Bussell  Ellis  grade  Hol¬ 
stein  with  a  month’s  record  of  1,280 
pounds  4.8  per  cent,  milk,  or  about  00 
pounds  of  butter  fat.  One  result  of  the 
last  and  resulting  discussions  is  that  the 
farmers  are  now  more  reluctant  to  let 
buyers  pick  out  their  best  cows. 
The  system  of  breeding  for  eggs  at  the 
Maine  Experiment  Station  is  showing 
some  very  definite  results.  The  cham¬ 
pion  hen,  a  Barred  Plymouth  Bock,  laid 
*298  in  her  first  12  laying  months,  and  is 
starting  off  her  second  year’s  work  at  the 
same  pace.  She  was  a  May-hatched  bird 
but  was  laying  well  when  her  record  be¬ 
gan  in  November.  8he  laid  25  to  29  eggs 
a  month  all  Winter  at  the  time  when 
common  flocks  take  life  ensy.  If  that 
style  of  Winter  laying  ever  becomes  gen¬ 
eral  there  would  be  no  more  fancy  prices 
for  Winter  eggs.  Shu  would  lie  described 
as  a  trim,  smart-looking  bird  weighing 
6%  to  seven  pounds,  but  not  of  remark¬ 
able  appearance  in  any  way.  It  iR  in  the 
breeding.  The  Maine  Station  works  on 
the  claim  that  the  egg  tendency  is  inher¬ 
ited  from  the  male  side,  but  this  ben  is 
true  blue  on  both  sides;  her  mother  and 
all  her  grandmothers  and  great  grand¬ 
mothers  being  of  200-egg  stock.  .Many  of 
her  sisters  are  in  the  same  class,  although 
none  has  quite  equalled  her  record. 
Boston  Produce  Markets 
PRODUCE  MARKET  ST1U.  DEPRESSED. 
Shipments  to  this  market  in  almost  all 
lines  continue  heavy  and  prices  have  not 
recovered  from  the  low  level  recorded  last 
week.  Eggs,  potatoes  and  green  vege¬ 
tables  continue  in  over-supply  and  show 
no  improvement  in  value.  Dairy  products 
and  poultry,  however,  continue  to  bring 
good  prices,  and  even  the  egg  market  is  in 
pretty  good  condition  for  the  lime  of 
year.  Apples  continue  a  drug  on  the  mar¬ 
ket  and  the  situation  is  no  better,  owing 
to  pressure  on  the  part  of  holders  to  get 
the  accumulated  stock  off  their  hands. 
BITTER  IN  LIMITED  SUPPLY. 
Receipts  are  beginning  to  show  the 
usual  Spring  increase,  but  the  supply  is 
not  heavy,  and  the  excellent,  demand  read¬ 
ily  takes  cure  of  all  offerings,  especially 
of  the  choicer  grades.  The  market  acts  a 
little  unsettled,  but  prices  have  held  firm 
thus  far  at  around  30  cents  for  extra 
creamery  in  tubs  and  24  to  25  cents  for 
firsts.  Not  much  cold  storage  butter  re¬ 
mains  unsold  here  and  holders  are  firm  in 
their  views,  refusing  to  consider  offers  of 
less  than  25  cents  for  desirable  lots.  Buy¬ 
ers  are  looking  for  the  usual  seasonable 
decline  in  butter  and  are  taking  only 
small  lots.  Said  A.  I).  Menus  &  Co.,  ‘‘The 
market  is  rather  short,  of  supplies  and 
acts  nervous,  with  a  fluctuating  tendency 
of  values.  The  make  is  increasing  slowly. 
Demand  is  excellent  and  there  is  even  a 
tendency  to  advance,  blit  sonic  days  prices 
have  been  unsettled,  owing  to  the  desire 
of  holders  to  work  off  surplus  stock  in 
some  <>f  the  less  desirable  grades.  Com¬ 
mission  men  do  not  like  to  see  stock  on 
hand  unsold.” 
Said  t'hapin  &  Adams:  ‘‘Butter  is  ab¬ 
normally  high  for  the  season  and  we  think 
prices  will  remain  as  they  arc  for  a 
while,  owing  to  the  slow  increase  of  the 
make  and  the, brisk  demand  from  con¬ 
sumers.” 
EGGS  IX  GOOD  DEMAND. 
Receipts  of  eggs  are  now  about  normal 
for  the  time  of  year,  but  prices  have  held 
lip  pretty  well.  Buying  for  cold  storage 
lias  been  so  active  that  the  storage  men 
have  been  obliged  to  pay  more  than  they 
were  paying  last  year  at  this  time.  They 
all  say  prices  are  too  high  to  show  any 
profit  for  them,  nnd  about  every  one  of 
them  asserts  it  is  the  other  fellow  who  is 
doing  most  of  the  buying.  “The  fact  is.” 
said  one  dealer.  “We  are  all  obliged  to 
store  some  eggs  every  year* whether  they 
will  show  11s  a  profit  or  not.  "We  must 
supply  our  regular  trade  no  matter  what 
the  conditions  are  at  the  time  of  storage. 
Western  receipts  are  very  heavy  Brices 
are  too  high.  Wo  are  paying  1 V2  cents 
per  dozen  higher  than  last  year.  Demand 
is  good  and  if  prosperity  continues  the  sit¬ 
uation  may  work  out  nil  right  for  the 
storage  men.  hut  it,  is  a  risky  business. 
Shipments  from  the  West  are  extremely 
heavy.” 
Nearby  hennery  eggs  are  quoted  at  24 
cents  and  prime  Western  221/,  cents  If 
the  present  brisk  buying  continues  and  we 
do  not  have  unseasonably  warm  weather, 
these  prices  ought  to  he  close  to  the  bot¬ 
tom  of  the  season. 
POULTRY  IX  LIGHT  SUPPLY. 
Poultry  of  all  classes  continues  scarce. 
It  is  seldom  that  dealers  make  so  much 
complaint  of  shortage  in  desirable  stock. 
The  higher  prices  have  chocked  demand 
somewhat,  but  supplies  are  are  so  ex¬ 
tremely  light  that  there  is  no  accumula¬ 
tion  in  any  direction.  Even  the  cold  stor¬ 
age  stock  seems  to  he  cleaned  up  pretty 
thoroughly,  especially  turkeys,  geese  and 
ducks.  Nearby  poultry  of  all  kinds  has 
been  very  short  and  choice  fresh  killed 
fowls  have  sold  readily  nt  22  cents,  with 
less  desirable  lots  selling  at  18  to  21 
cents.  The  market  for  live  fowls  shares 
the  strength  of  the  general  market  and 
choice,  heavy  stock  has  been  selling  read¬ 
ily  at  20  cents  a  pound.  Both  fowls  and 
chickens  were  in  unusual  demand  the  past 
fortnight,  owing  to  (he  Jewish  holidays, 
and  it  seems  likely  that  prices  have  seen 
their  best  for  the  season.  From  now  on 
the  supply  of  broilers  will  increase  and 
the  scarcity  of  older  stock  ivill  be  re¬ 
lieved.  but  the  shipments  are  so  very  light 
that  dealers  do  not  look  for  any  pro¬ 
nounced  decline  in  the  general  market, 
at  least,  not  until  late  Summer. 
APPLE  MARKET  WEAK. 
The  apple  situation  fails  to  show  im¬ 
provement.  Conditions  seem  worse,  if 
anything,  owing  to  urgency  in  disposal  of 
stocks  by  those  who  have  held  them  all 
Winter  in  hope  of  at  least  getting  back 
their  purchase  money.  Now  they  find  it 
necessary  to  sell,  owing  to  lateness  of  the 
season  and  the  poor  condition  and  keep¬ 
ing  quality  of  all  classes  of  apples.  Even 
the  cold  storage  stock  is  mostly  off  condi¬ 
tion  and  calls  for  prompt  sale.  Said  Hall 
&  Cole:  “The  market  is  no  better;  rather 
if.  is  growing  worse,  and  we  do  not,  see 
much  hope  of  improvement.  There  is  a 
good  deal  of  New  York  stuff  being  sold 
here,  and  rather  heavy  shipments  are 
coming  from  Maine.  Fresh  packed  stuff, 
mostly  Baldwins,  sell  nt.  .$2.50  to  $2  for 
No.  1  and  $1.25  to  $1.50  for  No.  2.  Ben 
Davis  sell  mostly  at  $1.75  and  Russets 
about  the  same,  but  the  market  does  not 
want  Russets  as  long  ns  it  can  get  plenty 
of  rod  apples.  There  may  be  a  chance 
for  Russets  a  mouth  later.  In  cold  storage 
stock  the  range  generally  is  from  $2  to 
$2.50.  A  few  strictly  fancy  cold  storage 
Baldwins  not.  showing  scald,  firing  $4. 
Nearly  all  apples  show  a  loss  to  ladders 
of  50  cents  to  $1  per  barrel,  when  all 
charges  and  expenses  are  reckoned.  The 
market  might  have  worked  out  all  right 
this  year,  except,  for  the  loss  of  the  for¬ 
eign  outlet.  Instead  of  thousands  of  bar¬ 
rels.  the  steamship  companies  would  allow 
exporters  to  send  only  TOO  or  150  barrels 
at  a  time.  Returns  from  foreign  sliip- 
incuts  have  been  good,  netting  lately  $5 
to  $<>  per  barrel,  Boston  basis.” 
VEGETA RLE  SUPPLY  INCREASING. 
There  is  the  usual  Spring  increase  in 
receipts  of  Southern  truck,  and  prices  are 
now  low  enough  to  take  off  the  edge  of 
the  demand  for  Northern  apples  and 
stored  vegetables.  Northern  hothouse 
products,  however,  have  been  holding  up 
quite  well.  The  weather  was  cold  enough 
in  the  South  at  one  time  to  cause  a  set¬ 
back  in  cucumbers  and  other  tender  Spe¬ 
cialties.  t'hoiee  native  cucumbers  still 
firing  $7  per  box.  Lettuce  holds  the  im¬ 
provement  to  $1  or  more  per  box.  Toma¬ 
toes  are  lower,  few  lots  bringing  more 
than  25  cents  per  pound.  For  hothouse 
rhubarb  six  cents  is  now  the  top  figure 
quoted.  Nearby  radishes  continue  scarce 
and  bring  $2  per  box.  Babbages  are 
doing  somewhat  better  with  a  range  of  $1 
to  $1.25  per  barrel.  Beets  hold  at  75 
cents.  Native  Hubbard  squash  is  quoted 
at  the  unusually  high  price  of  $100  per 
ton.  Native  turnips  are  $1.25  to  $1.50 
April  22,  1916. 
per  box.  Hothouse  dandelions  $1  to  $1.50 
per  box.  The.  onion  market  is  still  de¬ 
pressed  on  account  of  heavy  supplies  of 
Southern  white  stock.  Connecticut  Val¬ 
ley  onions  are  quoted  at  $1  to  $1.25  for 
100-pound  bag.  Many  receipts  are  soft 
and  in  poor  condition.  I’otato  prices 
show  no  improvement,  Stock  of  good 
grade  has  been  selling  in  the  freight  yards 
at  $2.10  per  two-bushel  hag.  Some  lots 
below  grade  in  size  and  condition  sold 
five  cents  lower.  The  expected  rise  in  the 
potato  market,  has  failed  to  develop,  and 
dealers  are  no  longer  talking  about,  the 
high  prices  they  were  to  get  for  the  rest 
of  their  holdings.  Receipts  have  been  con¬ 
siderably  less  than  for  the  corresponding 
time  last  season,  hut  the  higher  priced 
.level  maintained  this  year  has  checked  de¬ 
mand  and  fully  offset  the  effect  of  the 
reduced  supply. 
HAY  MARKET  STRONG. 
Demand  has  been  good  and  prices  fully 
maintained.  It.  has  been  a  very  favorable 
time  for  marketing  hay  wherever  ship- 
tiers  eonhl  get  freight  accommodation. 
The  top  quotation  is  $20.  Eastern  hay 
of  a  good  standard  grade  brings  $25.  and 
No.  1  clover  mixed  $20.  Rye  straw  holds 
at  $15  to  $16. 
MEATS. 
The  increased  supply  of  veals  continues 
the  feature  of  the  fresh  meat  market. 
Very  few  choice  lots  now  bring  above  15 
cents.  Lower  grades  arc  selling  slowly  at 
10  cents  to  12  cents.  Country  dressed 
hogs  are  in  light  supply  and  hold  at  12*4 
cents.  Eastern  Fall  Iambs  are  steady  at 
15  cents  to  It!  cents  and  hothouse  lambs 
good  to  choice  $8  to*  $10  each.  These 
should  weigh  25  to  22  pounds. 
MILK  TULLS  TURNED  DOWN. 
All  the  excitement  about  milk  legisla¬ 
tion  may  amount  to  nothing  after  all. 
The  Massachusetts  legislative  committee 
has  declined  to  report  any  of  the  numer¬ 
ous  hills  presented  and  declare  that,  in 
the  committee’s  opinion  no  legislation  is 
needed.  This  verdict  nicks  very  closely 
with  the  view  of  the  average  producer. 
“It  is  the  same  old  story.”  declares 
Dairy  Agent  P.  M.  llarwood.  “It  has 
happened  year  after  year.  Nobody  really 
wants  this  restrictive  legislation  except 
the  Hoard  of  Health  officials  and  a  few 
people  acting  for  the  so-called  Consumers’ 
League.  I  understand  the  committee  has 
turned  down  the  excellent  l’rntt  hill,  as 
well  as  the  others,  hut.  the  situation  is 
left  at  least  no  worse  than  before,  and  the 
ground  is  already  quite  well  covered  by 
existing  legislation.  Every  year  the  same 
people  ciimc  up  to  the  State  House  ex¬ 
pecting  to  solve  the  whole  situation,  but 
as  s<  11  >13  ns  the  real  facts  are  brought  for¬ 
ward  something  happens  to  the  Dills. 
Either  they  are  suppressed  by  the  legis¬ 
lative  committee,  or  in  one  of  the  branch¬ 
es  of  legislature  or  are  vetoed  by  the  tJov- 
eriior.  This  year  most  likely  the  attempt 
will  be  made  in  the  legislature  tu  substi¬ 
tute  tin*  State  Board  of  Health  Dill,  or 
some  one  of  its  modified  forms  for  the  ad¬ 
verse  report  of  the  committee,  but  ac¬ 
cording  to  precedent,  there  is  every  rea¬ 
son  to  expect  this  class  of  attempted  leg¬ 
islation  will  fail  to  become  a  law.”  G.  b.  f. 
April  2.  We  have  had  a  very  cold  and 
stormy  Winter  iu  Southwestern  Minneso¬ 
ta  with  more  snow  than  usual,  which  as 
it  is  melting  with  the  warmer  weather 
of  Spring  make  the  rivers  overflow  their 
banks;  but  this  county  (Lyon)  has  an 
altitude  of  1,200  to  1,600  feet,  being  al¬ 
most  on  the  divide  between  the  ba.in  of 
the  Missouri  and  Mississippi  Rivers,  and 
we  are  seldom  troubled  with  the  damages 
caused  by  the  high  waters  as  in  the  lower 
counties.  We  are  now  waiting  for  a  few 
warm  dry  days  to  begin  the  field  farm 
work  The  grain  market  is  very  un¬ 
steady.  the  prices  at.  present,  wheat.  No. 
1,  $1.08;  oats  lido;  barley  51  to  55c;  rye 
78c;  flax  $2.02;  hatter  25e  per  pound; 
eggs  10c  per  dozen;  good  milch  cows  $00 
to  $70  nnd  horses  from  $100  to  $175,  ac¬ 
cording  to  quality.  This  country  is  fast 
changing  from  wheat  raising  to  dairying 
and  ling  raising,  and  the  land  prices  going 
Up  to  $85  and  $125  per  acre. 
Russell,  Minn.  T.  c.  J. 
April  5.  Potatoes  are  now  selling  for 
$1  per  bn.;  pea  beans  anywhere  from 
$2.50  to  $4  per  bu.  Eggs  25  to  28c. 
strictly  fresh.  Milch  cows  from  $00  to 
$85  and  even  higher.  Pork  $11  a  hun¬ 
dred.  Milk  selling  at  the  station  for 
New  York  markets  $1.70  per  hundred. 
Massena,  N.  Y,  n.  s.  o. 
April  0.  No.  1  wheat  is  wortli  from 
$1.15  to  $1.20  per  bu. ;  corn  from  80  to 
90c  at  public  sales;  oats  15  to  50c;  first 
size  potatoes  about  $1.50  per  bu.  At  a 
public  sale  of  seed  potatoes  in  this  neigh¬ 
borhood  they  brought  from  $1.42  to  $1.67 
per  bu.  Apples  are  worth  from  $2  to  $4 
per  barrel,  according  to  quality.  Live 
poultry  15  to  20c  per  lb.;  butter  25  to 
40e;  eggs,  strictly  fresh  25  to  30c;  milk 
5  to  8c  per  qt.  At  a  public  sule  oL’  west¬ 
ern  horses  in  Newtown,  Bucks  Co.,  Pa., 
recently,  10  head  averaged  $186  and  or¬ 
dinary  acclimated  farm  horses  bring  from 
$125  to  $150  at  farmers’  sales.  Milch 
cows  $6  to  $80;  veal  calves  $10  to  $11 
per  100  lbs.  and  bogs  about  the  same. 
Ivylanil,  Pa.  J.  M.  w. 
April  4.  Draft  horses  $175  to  $200; 
grade  cows  as  high  as  $140:  whole  milk 
$1.85  per  hundred;  butter  28;  eggs  18; 
potatoes  $1.15  bu. ;  corn  70c;  oats  42c; 
wheat  $1.05;  apples  SOc ;  chickens  14c 
per  lb.  I.  J. 
lekesburg,  Pa. 
