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May  18.  The  Spring  is  more  than  two 
weeks  late,  seareely  a  bushel  of  oats  was 
sown  May  1,  and  about  a  quarter  of  Ilia 
acreage  is  to  he  sown  yet.  The  soil  was 
saturated  with  water  so  long  that  when 
it  did  dry  off  it.  worked  up  in  bad  shape, 
especially  Fall  plowed  clay  soils;  with  an 
extra  amount  <>f  disking  and  rolling  it 
was  impossible  to  gel  a  line  seed  bod. 
Wheat  and  rye  that,  was  seeded  in  good 
order  last  September  will  average  100  per 
cent,  or  better;  the  snow  remained  on 
it  till  nearly  April  first.  Few  people 
have  planted  their  gardens  yet,  and 
planting  corn  has  not  been  thought  of, 
as  there  has  not  been  one  warm  day  yet 
this  Spring.  If  a  crop  of  blossoms  de¬ 
notes  a  crop  of  fruit  we  certainly  ought: 
to  have  one  this  year;  more  apple  trees 
have  been  set  this  Spring  in  this  section 
than  in  any  one  year  before.  Clover 
seeding  has  wintered  well,  and  it  now 
promises  a  bumper  crop  of  bay  which 
we  have  not  had  in  some  years  The  Al¬ 
cove  Creamery  returned  its  patrons  27% 
cents  for  their  butter  for  the  month  of 
March  and  25 %  cents  for  April.  Some 
of  the  most  progressive  farmers  of  the 
town  of  Coeymans  have  bought  a  lime¬ 
stone  grinder  with  a  grinding  capacity 
of  three  tons  pet  hour.  We  have  some 
of  the  best  limestone  ledges  in  the  State, 
and  should  produce  a  good  product. 
What,  has  been  carried  in  at  our  station 
has  cost  about  $8  per  ton  and  we  expect 
to  produce  it  for  $1.00.  Our  farm  bu¬ 
reau  agent.  Mr.  Crouch,  takes  well 
among  the  farmers;  through  his  advice 
most  farmers  treated  their  seed  oats  fur 
smut  this  Spring.  ,T.  A.  V. 
Iiavena,  N.  Y. 
Season  cold  and  backward ;  some  snow 
May  17-1H,  very  unusual  for  this  sec¬ 
tion.  Oats  almost  all  planted;  an  un¬ 
usual  amount  of  rain  has  retarded 
Spring  work,  Wheat  has  shown  a 
marked  improvement  and  pasture  is  very 
good.  The  cold  weather  has  retarded  the 
fruit  butte  and  the  outlook  at  present  for 
fruit  is  good.  A  Farm  Congress  for 
Northwestern  Michigan  was  belli  at.  Ca¬ 
dillac  May  1718,  The  purpose  as  out¬ 
lined  was  to  "consider  the  essential  facts 
relating  I"  the  present  situation  of  these 
counties  as  to  their  possibilities,  and  to 
construe!  a  general  program  for  their 
development.’’  Ilopresentafives  from  IS 
counties  were  present,  and  the  following 
questions  were  given  particular  atten¬ 
tion:  (1)  How  I >est  to  assist  the  new  set¬ 
tlers  iu  developing  their  lands.  (2)  llow 
to  induce  i  rnfitable  advancement  of  the 
livestock  industry  In  Northern  Michigan. 
Cl)  Suggestions  that  will  assist  the  more 
rapid  advancement  of  Northern  Michigan. 
The  land  runs  generally  sand.v  in  this 
section,  and  the  staple  market  crops  are 
beans  and  potatoes.  'The  section  was 
hit  quite  hard  by  the  August  frosts  in 
1015.  Unimproved  lands  can  be  bought 
for  from  $10  to  $25  according  to  qual¬ 
ity  and  locations  and  improved  for  from 
$40  to  $75  per  acre.  Prices  to  producers 
are  as  follows:  Potatoes  75c;  beans, 
white,  $2,50;  red  kidnev  $4.50;  corn  SOc; 
oats  50c;  hay  $15  to  $10;  wheat  $1.05; 
eggs  l!l-22e;  butter  2H-20c ;  pork,  dressed, 
0-1  lc;  cattle  on  hoof  2%-5%u ;  sheep  5- 
Gc.  F.  D. 
Cadillac,  Midi. 
It.  is  impossible  to  give  uniform  prices 
of  various  produce  under  one  heading. 
We  both  wholesale  and  retail,  and  deal¬ 
ers’  prices  comes  under  neither,  as  they 
buy  as  low  ns  the  locality  and  people 
will  stand.  Potatoes,  for  instance,  we 
are  getting  retail  $1.20  to  $1.40  per  1m., 
and  Scranton,  wholesale,  would  net  us 
00c  to  $1,  the  difference  being  more  than 
the  whole  value  per  bu.  last  year.  Most 
crops  will  follow  nearly  the  same  ratio, 
excepting,  milk,  which  does  not  fluctuate 
by  supply  and  demand,  but  in  fat  test, 
season  and  barn  score.  Again  quality, 
handling,  grading,  packing  and  the  hon¬ 
esty  of  the.  producer,  has  much  to  do  with 
the  selling  price.  As  these  price  cards, 
from  various  localities,  have  been  very 
instructive  to  me,  they  help  to  gauge 
the  season’s  crop  and  where  good  and 
poor  crop  sections  are  located,  and  I 
should  like  to  see  the  day  when  producers’ 
exchange  wns  a  fact  between  such  local¬ 
ities.  (i rn do  cows  from  $10  to  $05 ; 
purebreds  $00  to  $200;  veal,  live  weight, 
dealers,  $0,50  to  $H  ewt. ;  pigs  $0  to  $8 
per  pair,  retail;  hogs  $7  to  $8.  Butter, 
retail,  20  lo  22;  wholesale  25  to  2Se. 
F.ggs,  retail.  24  c;  wholesale  20c. 
Fowls,  rela i I  11  to  15c;  wholesale,  12  to 
12c  lb.,  live  weight.  Potatoes,  retail, 
$1.20  to  $1.40;  wholesale,  00c  to  $1. 
Beaus,  yellow  eye  8c  lb.  liny  $12  to 
$10  in  barn.  Oats  70c  per  bu.  seed, 
wholesale.  50c.  Buckwheat  $1.20  to 
$1.50  per  bu.  for  seed.  Onions,  apples 
and  green  vegetables  are  out,  only  as 
shipped  ill.  C.  A.  M. 
Montrose,  Pa. 
We  work  the  pork  product  from  Octo¬ 
ber  to  April,  then  I  plow  our  ground  and 
plant  it  in  Lima  beans,  sweet  coin,  and 
tomatoes,  with  just  a  little  small  truck, 
for  we  work  the  team  out  for  other  peo¬ 
ple  as  much  as  we  can.  1  go  to  Phila¬ 
delphia  market,  every  Saturday  in  the 
Summer;  have  a  route  for  the  last  10 
years,  but  I  find  that  the  demand  rules 
the  prices.  This  week  stewing  chickens 
were  selling  for  27c  per  lb.,  our  own  but¬ 
ter  40c;  rhubarb  three  for  10c,  and  eggs 
25c  per  do/..,  but  if  I  had  any  left  after 
we  had  been  around  our  own  trade  I 
would  have  to  sell  them  for  20c  to  clean 
them  up.  1  can  always  get  a  good  mar¬ 
ket  price  from  my  own  trade  for  they 
know  what  they  are  getting,  but  with 
strange  people  it  is  different. 
Media,  Pa.  w.  jt,  M. 
May  22.  Cool  and  wet  weather  lias 
helped  pastures,  meadows  and  wheat, 
but  has  delayed  Spring  work;  and  many 
farmers  have  not  sown  their  oats;  no 
other  Spring  seeding  done.  It  rained 
20  days  iu  April,  and  we  have  not  had 
one-half  dozen  days  nf  sunshine  to  dale 
this  month.  Stock  is  looking  well.  Hogs 
nre  selling  at  $0.40  per  ewt.,  live  weight; 
steers  He  per  ewt.;  poultry  16c;  eggs 
20c;  but terfat.  21c.  Apple  crop  is  very 
promising.  Old  potatoes  are  selling  at 
SOo  per  bu.  ,  15.  Y. 
Tuscola  Co.,  Mich. 
May  10.  Cows  from  $50  to  $75;  but¬ 
ter.  per  I h.,  20c;  potatoes  00c ;  wheat 
$1.10;  oats  40c  to  15c;  corn  05  to  70; 
fat  hogs  7c  to  He;  eggs  20c;  poultry  12c. 
McAlisterville,  Pa.  C.  .\r.  L. 
Wheat,  bu.,  $1.08;  rye  05c;  oats  35c; 
corn  70;  potatoes  $1;  onions  00;  butter 
22;  eggs  20.  Chickens,  lb.,  12c;  ducks 
If);  turkeys  18;  cows  $40  to  $80;  horses 
$100  to  $200;  lard  Oe ;  ham  lfie. 
Logania,  Pa.  0.  I.  C. 
May  22.  Wheat  $1.20:  corn  05c; 
oats  00c;  potatoes  5)0e  to  $1.25;  butter 
22  to  20r;  eggs  21  to  25c;  apples  10  to 
20c  per  V| -peek.  Asparagus  1.0  to  20c 
a  bunch;  rhubarb  5c  a  bunch;  cut  let¬ 
tuce  5c  to  7c  a  qt,  box ;  watercress  5c  a 
qt.  box;  onions  5c  a  bunch;  radishes  5c  a 
bunch.  Cows  $40  to  $00;  fat  cattle  6 
to  0c  per  lb. :  live  weight  dressed  poultry 
25  to  20c  per  lb;  live  IS  to  20c.  The 
above  are  the  prices  we  get.  at  borne  or 
at  the  Heading,  Pa.,  markets,  which  near¬ 
ly  every  farmer  iu  this  section  attends. 
Pending  is  a  eity  of  120,000  population 
and  has  seven  large  market  houses  which 
are  open  Tuesday  a.  in..  Thursday  a.  m„ 
Saturday  a.  in.  and  a  few  Saturday  even¬ 
ing.  In  these  market  bouses  the  fanners 
and  truckers  rent  stalls  and  display  their 
products,  and  the  city  people  (mostly 
women)  come  and  buy  what  they  need. 
People  who  have  never  been  iu  such  a 
market  have  no  idea  how  much  is  sold 
and  carried  away  in  the  large  market 
baskets,  thousands  of  dollars  worth  every 
week.  a.  E.  O. 
Mohnton,  Pa. 
The  spraying  season  in  this  vicinity 
has  been  much  delayed  on  account  of 
ground  being  too  wet,  and  not  us  much 
dormant  spray  will  be  used  as  some  other 
seasons,  hut  think  that  will  only  cause 
more  spraying  later,  if  conditions  allow. 
According  to  every  appearance  there  is 
a  good  prospect  on  the  blossom  of  all 
kinds  of  fruits,  without  making  any  ex¬ 
ceptions.  it  being  apparent  that  every¬ 
thing  will  blossom  full.  Crop  conditions, 
however,  arc  dependent  on  the  conditions 
of  weather  during  blossom  time,  as  that 
is  a  very  important  time  of  the  year. 
Webster,  N.  Y.  o.  ii. 
May  22,  During  the  last  three  days  I 
have  been  around  in  Western  "Wayne. 
Monroe  and  Orleans  Counties  quite  ex¬ 
tensively  and  I  think  I  am  safe  to  sa.v  we 
have  the  largest  blossom  1  ever  saw,  on 
early  cherries,  late  eherrieS,  pears  anil 
all  varieties  of  apples.  Apples  are  not 
quite  far  enough  to  be  accurate,  but.  from 
my  observation  they  seem  to  he  going  to 
blossom  very  full.  Wo  have  had  cool 
weather  and  lots  of  rain,  and  in  fact 
from  May  14  to  night  of  May  1(1  it  was 
one  thunder  shower  after  another,  but  the 
weather  bureau  only  reports  2 %  inches 
rain  in  that  time,  though  it  seems  to 
me  we  must  have  had  five  or  six  inches 
iu  a  good  many  sections.  All  the  muck 
in  Western  New  York  was  under  water, 
most  of  it  gut  off  in  48  hours,  but  do  not 
think  it  has  ruined  the  onions,  as  the 
weather  was  cool.  This  morning  it  looks 
like  more  rain  w.  i\  B. 
Wayne  Co.,  N.  Y. 
Snow  on  the  ground  so  deep  and  late 
that  pruning  was  but  partly  done  and  the 
dormant  spray  in  many  instances  entire¬ 
ly  abandoned  because  of  the  rush  of 
Spring  work.  Many  growers  will  not 
spray  at  all  until  after  blossoming,  which 
undoubtedly  will  mean  a  lessening  of 
quality.  Apples  promise  a  fairly  good 
bloom  ami  tin*  prospects  are  for  a  crop 
of  about  same  size  as  last  year.  Only 
few  peaches  are  planted,  and  the  first 
buds  of  these  were  killed  a  year  ago  and 
again  the  past  season.  It  is  doubtful  if 
peaches  can  be  raised  with  profit  north 
of  Poughkeepsie  in  the  Hudson  Valley. 
All  kinds  of  berries  wintered  in  line  con¬ 
dition.  B.  n.  v. 
Niverville,  N.  Y. 
The  bloom  on  apple  and  pear  trees  is 
very  abundant,  but  the  present  cold  storm 
will  probably  reduce  the  set  of  fruit,  espe¬ 
cially  on  the  later  varieties.  Grass  is 
making  a  fine  growth  but  Winter  grain 
does  not  look  as  promising.  The  season 
has  been  very  backward  and  planting  will 
be  much  later  than  usual.  Farm  help 
very  scarce  and  wages  almost  prohibitive. 
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per  quart,  and  milk  is  practically  all  that 
is  produced  in  Ibis  section.  n.  d.  n. 
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