17c. ;  oggs,  22c. ;  butter.  35  to  42c. ; 
strawberries,  10  to  15<\;  honey.  20c.;  fat 
cattle,  s  to  10c. ;  milch  cows,  $40  to  $75; 
shotes.  10c.  Ib.  Vegetables  shell  as  let¬ 
tuce.  green  onions,  asparagus,  and  nearly 
all  farm  products  arc  sold  directly  to 
consumers,  in  the  mine  villages  and  largo 
towns  in  the  anthracite  coal  field.  Crop 
conditions  and  prospects  are  favorable, 
grain,  grass  and  fruit  full  average  while 
Spring  plantings  are  promising.  We  have 
had  nearly  a  week  of  cloudy  weather, 
with  light  rain  and  little  sunshine,  favor¬ 
able  for  oats,  grass  and  potatoes.  All 
business  in  this  section  is  dependent  upon 
the  coal  industry,  which  is  not  very  satis¬ 
factory  on  account  of  light  demand  and 
misunderstanding  between  operators  and 
miners  about  the  recent  agreement. 
Pine  Grove,  Pa-  w.  ir.  s. 
June  13.  We  have  had  one  of  the 
worst  Springs  to  get  out  crops  I  have 
ever  known.  The  farmers  are  a  month 
belli  ad  with  their  work.  There  is  still 
some  corn  to  be  planted.  We  had  very 
heavy  rains  last  week  which  delayed 
all  farm  work.  The  corn  that,  is  up  is 
looking  good.  Wheat  not  as  good  a  crop 
as  last  year.  Some  oat  fields  look  good, 
while  others  are  turning  yellow  in  many 
spots.  We  expect  a  larger  hay  crop  this 
year  than  last,  except  Alfalfa,  for  a  good 
many  fields  were  winter-killed.  Farm¬ 
ers  arc  realizing  the  value  of  silos,  and  a 
good  many  will  he  erected  this  Fall. 
There  is  very  little  dairying  done  in  Ibis 
county,  except  as  a  side  line;  more  sil¬ 
age  is  fed  to  beef  cattle.  Horses  sell 
from  $l,r>0  to  $22o ;  cows  from  $10  to 
$80;  veal,  live  weight.  8 Ur ;  hogs  Oe. 
Corn  $1  per  cwt.  Wheat  $1.03  per  bn.; 
oats  38c  per  bn.  Hay  $10  per  ton.  Im¬ 
proved  farms  sell  from  $150  to  $200  per 
acre.  o.  it.  u. 
Napoleon,  O. 
June  15.  The  hay  outlook  is  good, 
the  new  grass  seeding  seems  to  have 
come  through  the  Winter  all  right.  We 
are  having  a  good  many  cool  nights, 
which  keep  the  corn  and  vegetables  from 
growing  as  fast  as  they  should,  hut  as 
we  have  plenty  of  rain  it  is  helping  the 
hay  crop  and  newly  sown  Alfalfa,  also 
the  wheat  crop,  which  is  looking  line. 
Alfalfa  has  not  been  much  grown,  but 
is  fust  gaining  favor,  and  many  are  now 
trying  to  get.  it  started.  I  sowed  about 
an  acre  last  April  and  it  is  doing  fine, 
is  about  knee  high  now.  There  are  a 
good  many  farmers  shipping  milk  to  Bal¬ 
timore;  the  wholesale  priee  is  from  It!  to 
20c  per  gal.  My  next  neighbor.  Oh  as. 
Ebaugh,  has  a  retail  route  in  Keisters- 
town,  Glydon  and  O  wings  Mills;  his 
price  is  Sc  per  qt.  lie  keeps  about.  20 
cows,  has  a  tile  silo  10x30  foot  which 
he  fills  each  year.  Cherries  arc  rotting 
on  the  trees  as  fast,  as  they  get  near 
ripe,  owing  to  the  many  rains.  Straw¬ 
berries  arc  at  their  lie'glit  and  are  fine, 
selling  wholesale  at  from  6  to  Sc  qt. 
Cherries  are  bringing  from  2c  to  5c  per 
lb.  1  have  1200  everbearing  red  rasp¬ 
berry  bushes,  which  arc  in  full  bearing 
this  year;  took  my  first  pickiug  to  Balti¬ 
more  today,  got.  Do  pt.  box  for  them. 
They  will  hear  continuously  until  they 
freeze  next  Fail  Lust  year  we  picked 
from  June  12  to  Nov.  3,  twice  weekly, 
sold  about  $100  worth  during  that  time. 
This  year  they  ought  to  yield  three  or 
four  times  that  imuiy  from  the  look  of 
the  bushes  UOW.  C.  E.  W. 
Reisterstown,  Md. 
June  10.  The  season  in  Cayuga  Coun¬ 
ty  is  very  lute  this  year,  on  account  of 
the  over-abundance  of  rain.  Most  of  the 
corn  is  planted,  although  some  farmers 
arc  just  fitting  the  ground.  This  is  a 
grain  section,  although  of  late  years  more 
attention  has  been  given  to  dairying,  sev¬ 
eral  creameries  and  rnilk  stations  having 
been  put  in  operation.  The  principal 
crops  raised  are  wheat,  oats,  corn,  barley, 
buckwheat,  potatoes,  milk,  butter,  hay, 
calves,  bogs.  Wheat  and  grass  are  doing 
fiuel.v,  and  hid  fair  to  be  a  bumper  crop. 
Prices  are  on  the  whole  favorable  to  the 
farmer.  Wheat  is  bringing  $1  per  bushel ; 
last,  year  was  worth  $150,  but  many  held 
it.  thinking  it  would  go  to  $2.  Corn.  75c. 
to  $1,  but  more  corn  is  bought  for  feed 
than  is  sold;  oats.  45c.;  buckwheat,  75c. 
for  seed;  potatoes.  $1.25  to  $1.40;  bay, 
No.  1  Timothy,  $20;  No.  2.  $15;  clover 
and  mixed,  $10  to  $12;  five  stock  and 
meats  are  high.  Cows  are  from  $50  to 
$100;  horses,  $150  to  $200;  calves, 
lOt/.c.  live;  dressed  hogs,  light.  10c.; 
heavy,  Do-;  eggs,  30c.;  milk,  $1.40  per 
cwt.,  creamery  butter,  30  to  38c. ;  dairy 
29  to  30(*.  Not  many  calves  raised  as  veal 
is  so  high  that  a  five  weeks-ild  calf  brings 
as  much  as  u  yearling.  The  farmers  were 
getting  interested  in  raising  cabbage,  but 
last-  year's  low  prices,  and  no  sale  dis¬ 
couraged  the  cabbage  business,  and  this 
year  they  are  all  going  into  raising  pota¬ 
toes.  The  result  will  probably  be  that 
this  Fall  potatoes  will  be  low  in  price 
and  cabbage  will  be  high-  Farm  help  is 
scarce  and  wages  high,  farmers  paying 
from  $30  to  $40  per  month  with  board. 
Day  help  impossible  to  get.  road  work 
and  shops  in  the  city  absorbing  all  trans¬ 
ient  men.  The  land  in  Southern  Cayuga 
is  somewhat  rolling,  level  with  fall 
eniiigh  for  drainage;  limestone  subsoil 
with  a  surface  loam,  that  responds  geu- 
I  am  selling  to  store  hero  as  follows: 
Boxed  eggs.  Sic.;  dressed  broilers,  45c. 
per  lb. ;  dressed  fowls.  22  to  23c. ;  live 
fowls,  2ftc.  Wc  buy  corn  $1.05  per  100; 
bran.  $1.35;  good  middlings,  $1.00;  tine 
red  dog  flour.  $1.75;  butter  retails  32  to 
38c.  w.  r. 
Port  Chester.  N.  Y. 
.Tune  12. — The  cool  rainy  weather  has 
made  a  banner  crop  of  hay  here,  (tats 
and  corn  are  looking  very  poor.  Good 
ha.v  is  selling  for  $18  per  ton.  (hits.  54c.; 
corn.  85c,;  potatoes,  $1.  Little  or  no 
garden  produce  ready  for  market.  But¬ 
ter.  32c-;  rows,  dairy.  $00  to  $85;  hogs, 
live.  8c.  lb.;  poultry,  dressed.  10c.  Ib. 
Sheep,  $10  to  $12  per  head  ;  wool.  35c.  lb. 
Putnam,  N.  Y.  J.  x.  r. 
June  15.  The  outlook  for  hay  is  good; 
wheat  and  oats  look  well.  New  grass 
seeding  wintered  fairly  well.  Not  a 
great  deni  of  Alfalfa  grown  in  this  sec¬ 
tion.  Weather  conditions  at  present  very 
wet  ;  hard  to  cure  Alfalfa.  Milk  is  pro¬ 
duced  for  the  market  and  sells  for  10  to 
20c.  wholesale  and  from  25  to  40c.  retail 
per  gallon.  Beef  cattle  are  selling  from  8 
to  10c.  on  the  hoof.  Why  is  it  milk  does 
not  advance  more?  G.  J*  z. 
Catonsville.  Md. 
June  12.  The  prices  of  dairy  cows 
Imre  are  from  $40  to  $80  at  private  sale, 
according  to  quality;  fat  steers.  8  to  9 
cents  per  lb.;  bulls,  7c.  to  8c.;  veal 
calves.  9c.  These  prices  are  paid  by  nur 
local  butchers-  Milk  for  local  condensing 
and  Philadelphia  market,  $1.40  per 
hundred  delivered  at  milk  station,  or 
$1.25  at  door  for  June;  butter,  28c.; 
eggs.  20c.  Very  little  fruit  or  gardening 
crops  raised  here,  only  for  home  use. 
The  prices  of  grain  at  local  elevator  are; 
Wheat.  $1;  corn.  70c,;  oats.  40c.  The 
people  here  are  not  satisfied  with  the 
Summer  prices  of  milk.  M.  R. 
Ottawa.  Pa. 
June  10,  Local  prices  are  as  follows: 
Butter  27c;  eggs  22;  wheat  $1;  barley 
05c;  rye  90c;  oats  45c;  lambs  8  to  9c 
per  lb.  Sheep  3  to  5c ;  calves  7  to  9c ; 
hogs  7  to  SV, ;  dressed  beef  10  to  11c. 
I  lay  $10  to  $20  according  to  grade. 
Tangled  rye  straw  $7.  Potatoes  arc  the 
principal  money  crop.  The  market,  for 
them  is  now  closed,  the  last  price  paid 
was  $1.  We  notice  new  Southern  pota¬ 
toes  on  the  market  at  8c  lb.,  0  lbs.  for 
25c.  What  does  the  grower  get?  There 
is  not  enough  fruit  grown  here  to  cre¬ 
ate  a  market.  s.  o,  C. 
Prattsburg,  N.  Y. 
June  18.  The  best,  crop  is  mud.  The 
streams  are  higher  now  than  when  the  ice 
goes  out  in  the  Spring.  Grass  looks  good, 
both  new  and  old.  The  wet  weather  is 
hard  on  wheat,  putting  it  down.  Plenty 
of  corn  to  be  planted  yet  and  it  is  a 
question  what  the  corn  already  planted 
will  l)e  like.  Oats  very  late  and  as  a 
whole  weedy.  Petersburg  Go-operative 
Creamery  paying  29c.  per  111.  for  butter 
fat.  Practically  no  Alfalfa  is  grown. 
Unless  the  heavy  rains  of  the  past  few 
days  have  knocked  the  green  fruit  off.  the 
apple  crop  will  be  good.  Eggs-  are  20c. 
and  plenty-  J.  C.  K. 
Water  St  ret,  Pa. 
Woodstock  is  a  quiet  little  town  nestled 
among  the  hills.  12  miles  from  White 
River  Junction  on  the  east,  and  25  miles 
from  Rutland  on  the  west,  with  the  beau¬ 
tiful  Oltanqiiochee  River  flowing  through 
it.  We  have  had  a  very  cold,  wet  Spring 
and  much  of  our  planting  is  yet  unfin¬ 
ished.  Corn  crop  is  grown  almost  en¬ 
tirely  for  silo.  Grass  is  coming  fast  and 
we  have  the  promise  of  an  abundant  har¬ 
vest,  Fifty  years  ago  there  could  be 
found  a  flock  of  sheep  on  nearly  every 
farm.  To-day  probably  not  one  of  20 
farmers  keeps  any  sheep.  With  the  pres¬ 
ent  prices  of  wool  and  lambs  New  Eng¬ 
land  may  return  to  sheep  breeding  and 
m?nte  n  profit.  Woodstock  lias  a  few 
fields  of  Alfalfa  that  certainly  may  as¬ 
sure  us  that,  this  crop  may  be  grown  suc- 
cesfuly  in  Vermont.  K.  i>.  R. 
Woodstock,  Vt. 
June  16.  The  present  outlook  for  hay 
is  better  than  for  seven  years  past  in 
Washington  County.  The  new  grass 
seeding  came  through  the  Winter  in  fine 
shape,  for  as  little  snow  as  we  had.  As 
for  Alfalfa  there  is  very  little  grown. 
Washington  County  is  not.  much  for 
dairying  or  hog  raising.  The  price  of 
milk  at  Hagerstown,  wholesale,  20  cents 
per  gallon,  and  retails  for  seven  cents 
per  quart.  You  can  hear  all  sorts  of  re¬ 
ports  about  the  peach  crop.  The  crop  is 
much  lighter  than  expected  30  days  ago. 
The  drop  is  heavier  than  l  ever  saw  it. 
There  were,  a  hundred  cars  shipped  from 
Smithsburg  last  year.  One  hundred  cars 
will  take  every  peach  shipped  this  sea¬ 
son.  1  have  an  orchard  of  40  acres  and 
have  carefully  examined  many  others, 
and  conditions  are  the  same.  The  apple 
crop  promises  to  be  a  good  one.  Some 
few  orchards  suffered  with  blight. 
Smithsburg,  Md.  ,T.  n.  b. 
.Tune  12.  Timothy  hay,  $20;  baled 
straw.  $12;  corn,  90c, ;  wheat.  $1.05; 
rye,  95;  potatoes,  $1.30;  chickens  (old), 
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