1030  &fy<>  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
General  Farm  Topics 
Wheat  Experiments  in  Ohio 
The  Ohio  Experiment  Station  has  is¬ 
sued  an  excellent  bulletin  on  the  result 
of  “Wheat  Experiments.”  Ohio  ranks 
seventh  in  acreage  and  seventh  in  produc¬ 
tion  for  Winter  wheat,  and  owing  to  the 
high  prices  abroad,  the  wheat  crop  be¬ 
comes  more  than  usually  important  this 
year.  Results  show  that  wheat,  grown  in 
a  rotation  which  includes  corn,  oats, 
clover  and  Timothy  gives  a  higher  aver¬ 
age  yield  than  where  the  wheat  is  grown 
continuously,  that  is  year  after  year.  As 
is  the  case  in  most  parts  of  the  East,  the 
yield  of  wheat  is  highest  where  potatoes 
are  included  in  the  rotation.  When  wheat 
follows  potatoes  it  is  sure  to  be  put  on 
good  land  that  has  been  thoroughly 
tilled.  As  a  rule,  too,  the  potatoes  re¬ 
ceive  a  heavy  manuring  or  fertilizing, 
and  so  the  wheat  has  a  better  chance 
than  when  following  corn. 
As  for  fertilizers  these  experiments  ap¬ 
pear  to  show  that  phosphorus  is  the  ele¬ 
ment  most  needed  in  wheat  culture  on  the 
usual  Ohio  soils.  While  complete  fertil¬ 
izers  containing  nitrogen  and  potash, 
gave  good  results,  it  becomes  evident  that 
phosphorus  is  the  element  most  needed. 
These  experiments  would  show  that  on 
practically  all  Ohio  soils  which  have  been 
under  cujtivalion  for  50  years  or  more, 
both  phosphorus  and  lime  are  needed. 
The  lime  experiments  in  Ohio  have 
now  been  going  on  16  years  so  that  the 
whole  opportunity  has  been  given  for  ob¬ 
serving  the  elTeet  of  lime.  The  figures 
show  that  the# use  of  one  ton  of  burned 
lime  or  two  tons  of  ground  limestone  per 
acre  once  iu  five  years  has  increased  the 
yield  of  wheat  2.11  bushels  per  acre  on  a 
10-year  average.  The  effect  of  lime  on 
all  the  crops  of  the  rotation  has  been  to 
increase  their  value  from  $6.17  to  $27-41 
per  acre,  depending  on  the  fertilizer  used 
witli  the  lime.  It  will  he  noticed  that 
these  experiments  asume  that  one  ton  of 
the  burned  lime  is  about  equal  in  effi¬ 
ciency  to  two  tons  of  ground  limestone- 
During  the  past  few  years  there  has 
been  a  revival  of  interest  in  subsoiling 
or  very  deep  tillage  of  the  soil.  As  most 
of  our  readers  understand,  subsoiling 
means  running  a  small  subsoil  plow  deep 
in  the  ground  after  each  furrow.  This 
plow  does  not  turn  any  of  the  subsoil  up 
to  the  surface,  but  simply  breaks  up  the 
lower  part  of  the  ground.  Tools  are  now 
made  for  plowing  or  stirring  the  soil  15 
inches  deep  and  experiments  were  con¬ 
ducted  for  comparing  this  deep  tillage 
with  ordinary  plowing  7 inches  deep. 
No  compensating  advantage  was  found  iu 
this  deep  tillage.  The  subsoiling  gave  a 
gain  of  about  one  bushel  per  acre  over 
ordinary  plowing,  but  the  increased  cost 
was  such  that  this  would  not  be  profit¬ 
able. 
As  a  comparison  of  broadcasting  and 
drilling  the  seed  general  results  seem  to 
he  in  favor  of  drilling.  An  average  of 
five  seasons  gave  a  gain  of  3.8  bushels 
per  acre.  No  difference  was  found  in 
yield  between  a  one-inch  and  two-inch 
drilling.  When  the  seed  was  put  in  to 
three  inches  deep  there  was  a  slight  loss 
of  yield.  Cross  drilling  gave  a  slight  in¬ 
crease.  In  this  half  the  seed  was  drilled 
one  way.  then  the  other  half  put  in  cross¬ 
wise  of  the  first,  thus  making  two  drill¬ 
ings  necessary.  While  there  was  a 
slight  gain  from  this  double  drilling  the 
loss  of  labor  and  time  was  such  that  it 
was  not  considered  profitable.  The  bul¬ 
letin  gives  a  clear  statement  of  one  fake 
variety  of  wheat.  This  is  called  Miracle 
or  Marvelous  as  the  case  may  be.  These, 
two  kinds  appear  to  be  identical  and  are 
both  fakes  so  far  as  the  claims  made  for 
them  are  concerned.  Both  the  Miracle 
and  the  Marvelous  gave  smaller  yields' 
than  the  well-known  standard  Fultz.  It 
was  claimed  for  the  Marvelous  that  only 
one  peck  per  acre  of  seed  will  he  needed. 
At  the  Ohio  Station  Marvelous  seeded  at 
the  rate  of  one  peck  per  acre,  just  as  the 
boomers  claim,  gave  a  yield  nf*7.39  bush¬ 
els,  while  seeded  at  the  rate  of  eight 
pecks  per  acre  it  gave  over  30  bushels, 
while  Mediterannean  under  the  same  con¬ 
ditions  gave  35  bushels. 
Destroying  Grasshoppers 
There  is  great  trouble  with  grasshop¬ 
pers  in  many  parts  of  the  country  this 
year.  It  seems  to  be  local,  and  the  hop¬ 
pers  are  not  generally  distributed,  hut 
where  they  do  come  they  are  doing  great 
damage,  especially  to# Alfalfa  and  clover. 
In  Kansas,  where  they  have  studied  the 
grasshopper,  they  find  a  poison  bait  the 
most  effective  argument  against  him.  We 
have  frequently  described  this  bait  yet 
there  are  calls  for  it,  and  so  we  print  it 
again  as  follows:  »  , 
The  bran  mash  is  made  of  bran,  20 
pounds;  Paris  green,  white  arsenic,  or 
London  purple,  one  pound :  syrup,  two 
quarts :  oranges  or  lemons,  three ;  water, 
‘,\y2  gallons.  Paris  green  is  preferred  to 
the  other  poisons,  but  the.  price  of  it  this 
year  is  very  high,  and  hence  in  some 
cases  it  may  be  well  to  substitute  white 
arsenic  or  London  purple.  In  preparing 
the  bran  mash,  mix  the  bran  and  the 
poison  dry  in*  a  wash  tub.  Squeeze  the 
juice  of  the  oranges  or  lemons  into  the 
water,  and  chop  the  remaining  pulp  and 
the  peel  to  tine  bits  and  add  them  to  the 
water.  Dissolve  the  syrup  iu  the  water 
and  wet  the  bran  and  poison  with  the 
mixture,  stirring  it  at  the  same  time  in. 
order  to  dampen  the  mash  thoroughly. 
This  stuff  is  to  be  sown  broadcast  i* 
the  morning  over  the  places  where  the 
grasshoppers  are  bad.  Use  it  early  who 
the  grasshoppers  first  begin  to  move 
around.  The  quantities  given  above 
make  bait  enough  to  cover  four  or  five 
acres.  , 
Crops  in  Western  New  York 
Wheat  is  about  the  best  we  have  ever 
seen  here.  Some  pieces  on  low  land  have 
been  injured  b,v  too  much  water  but  it  is 
the  exception  to  see  a  poor  piece.  Insects 
do  not  seem  in  evidence. 
Oats  are  just  the  opposite  of  wheat, 
it  being  almost  impossible  to  find  a  good 
piece.  They  were  put  in  late;  too  much 
water  prevented  proper  fitting  of  the 
land.  Have  hardly  seen  what  would  be 
called  a  No.  1  piece,  even  on  the  very 
best:  farms. 
Barley  is  not  much  grown.  Saw  a  few 
pieces,  some  of  which  look  pretty  well  but 
same,  remarks  apply  to  this  crop  as  to 
oats. 
Rye  corresponds  with  wheat,  nearly 
every  piece  looks  well. 
Corn  is  poorest  ever.  Matty  pieces  on 
the  best  farms  are  not  over  three  inchs 
high  now.  The  acreage  is  below  the  av¬ 
erage.  The  wet  weather  prevented  get¬ 
ting  it  in  in  time,  in  fact  prevented  get¬ 
ting  it  in  at  all.  It  is  about  impossible 
to  find  a  good  piece. 
Potato  planting  i.s  just  finishing  (July 
13),  very  late  but  we.  think  that  they 
will  do  much  better  than  corn.  The  acre¬ 
age  will  be  below  the  average.  Wc  see 
fewer  large  fields  than  usual. 
Hay  is  the  crop  of  crops  this  year.  On 
many  fields  it  is  impossible  to  cut  over 
half  of  it  as  it  lias  fallen  down  and 
grown  up  and  fallen  again  aud  grown  up. 
In  many  cases  it  is  just  as  well,  as  the 
bottom  of  the  grass  has  been  injured  for 
good  hay.  Saw  many  mowing  last  week 
where  it  was  impossible  to  see  where  the 
machine  had  been,  it  would  not  make  any 
separation  between  the  cut  and  standing 
grass.  About  the  only  way  to  get  along 
was  for  a  man  to  go  behind  the  mower 
with  a  fork  and  keep  it  poked  away. 
Never  saw  Alsike  so  coarse  as  it  is  now. 
Timothy  is  also  big.  A  good  many  pieces 
of  Alfalfa  will  soon  cut  a  second  crop 
and  it  will  be  big. 
Beans  hatfh  large  acreage  and  many 
pieces  looking  fine.  A  good  many  pieces 
are  not  up  yet.  however,  but  this  kind  of 
weather  will  bring  them  along  rapidly. 
It  has  been  one  of  the  most  back¬ 
ward  Springs  in  many  years.  No  frost 
since  April  1,  hut  rain,  rain,  rain  until 
farmers  were  distracted.  Now  it  is  very 
hot.  Yesterday  was  the  hottest  12th  of 
July  since  Rochester  kept  records.  To¬ 
day  is  better  with  slight  showers  and 
prospect  of  more. 
Pastures  could  not  be  better  and  in 
some  cases  farmers  will  mow  them.  The 
growth  is  so  rank  that  stock  makes  lit¬ 
tle  impression  on  them.  Ilill  pastures 
which  would  ordinarily  be  brown  now  are 
green  with  clover  standing  a  foot  high. 
Cattle  look  fine. 
Apple  trees  never  blossomed  fuller; 
any  old  stub  was  like  a  snow  ball ;  but 
too  much  rain  we  think  spoiled  many 
of  the  blossoms  and  it  seems  to  us  that 
the  crop  has  set  remarkably  light.  This 
applies  to  all  kinds.  To  find  an  orchard 
showing  much  fruit  is  the  exception 
rather  than  the  rule.  c.  I. 
There  will  not  be  many  apples  in  this 
locality.  Bloom  was  profuse  but  set  was 
light  and  dropped  badly  and  much 
fungus.  Some  growers  are  looking  for 
a  few  hundred  barrels  of  fruit.  As  for 
myself,  my  orchard  is  small.  Baldwins 
set  a  few,  but  most  of  them  dropped. 
I  find  a  fair  show  of  Duchess  and  a 
few  Blush,  hut  Baldwins,  King,  Sutton 
Rome,  and  Craveiistein  are  all  minus. 
Very  few  Bartlett  pears,  although  bloom 
was  good.  Some  peaches;  quinces  set 
well.  Season  very  wet  here  and  planting 
late.  Smaller  acreage  than  usual  of  oats, 
and  stand  spotted  by  wet.  Dorn  small 
and  late,  also  beans  and  potatoes.  Beans 
have  come  up  good  and  growing  rapidly. 
Some  potatoes  have  been  planted  this 
week.  July  14.  n.  P.  M. 
Albion,  N.  Y. 
July  7. — Wheat,  95c.;  old  potatoes, 
$1.60;  corn,  80c.;  oats,  55c.:  old  bay. 
$20 ;  eggs,  30c.  per  dozen ;  butter,  35c. 
per  pound;  Spring  chickens,  25  to  30c. 
per  pound.  AVe  have  had  quite  a  lot 
of  rain.  Weather  fine  now  for  making 
hay.  Corn  is  small  yet.  No  wheat  cut 
yet.  Hay  aud  wheat  better  than  tl»: 
general  yield;  oats  looks  well. 
Irvin,  Pa.  G.  n.  k. 
The  apple  bloom  was  full  on  all  kinds, 
but  on  account  of  excessive  cold  rains  at 
time  of  blossom  the  set  of  some  kinds  is 
quite  light.  Greening,  Rox  Russet.  Tol- 
num  Sweet  and  Spitz  arc  poor.  Baldwin 
and  some  others  are  good.  It  is  thought 
there  will  be  more  Baldwin  than  last 
year.  There  may  be  more  scab  than 
usual  on  account  of  so  much  rain:  Rains 
continued  up  to  the  first  of  July.  Since 
I  hat  we  have  good  weather  for  work. 
But.  few  oats  were  sown  and  but  little 
corn  planted  on  account  of  floods.  Some 
potatoes  and  beans  have  been  put  in  the 
ground  since  July  came  in.  We  are  just 
sowing  buckwheat  where  we  expected  to 
plant  corn.  If  we  get  a  crop  we  can 
trade  some  of  it  for  corn  to  feed.  Wheat 
is  a  fair  crop  and  will  be  ready  to  cut 
in  a  week.  Hay  is  heavy  and  but  litrle 
of  it  harvested  as  yet.  Farmers  are  be¬ 
hind  with  their  haying  and  could  not 
have  saved  their  clover  if  they  had  tried 
to  in  June.  I  am  now  81  years  of  age 
and  think  I  never  have  seen  so  long  con¬ 
tinued  flooding  rains  as  we  have  had  this 
Spring.  A.  K.  B. 
Albion,  N.  Y. 
Milk  five  cents  per  qt. ;  butter  32c  per 
lb.;  strawberries  Sc  qt. ;  cherries  10c  qt. 
Eggs  at  present  30e  per  doz.  Parties  are 
going  around  buying  broilers  at  22c  per 
lb,  ^  _  J.  J.  M. 
Rosendale,  N.  Y. 
Pears  bear  about  half  crop;  apples 
about  one-third.  We  have  heavy  clay 
ground  around  here.  Heavy  hay.  wheat, 
rye  and  oat  crop.  Corn  does  not  stand 
well  on  account  of  the  wot  (season.  The 
bay  is  not  doing  very  well  on  account  of 
the  wet  weather.  Last  week  rain  did 
some  damage  on  the  fruit  trees  aud  set 
everything  back  for  another  week.  Labor 
is  very  scarce.  All  the  grain  and  hay 
crops  are  coming  on  at  once.  The  most 
farming  done  here  is  in  grains  and  hay. 
Hay  averages  about  two  tons  to  the  acre. 
< 'berries  rot  on  the  tree,  otherwise  would 
have  been  a  fair  crop.  J.  F. 
Coxsaekie,  N.  Y. 
Buffalo  Markets 
The  full  Summer  reason  is  here,  with 
strawberries  gone  and  vegetables  low*  in 
price.  Southern  potatoes  have  come  in 
and  driven  old  oner  about  out.  They 
wholesale  nt  $2.75  per  bid.  and  retail  at 
$1.50  per  bu.  and  upwards.  Apples  are 
about  confined  to  new  Southern  at  $1  and 
$1.50  per  hamper.  Onions  are  high  nt  $2 
and  $2.25  per  crate  for  Texas.  Rasp¬ 
berries  are  in  fair  quantity  at  14  cents 
for  red  and  12  cents  for  black.  C’herHost 
are  rather  scarce  at  G  and  12  cents  per 
quart  for  sweet  and  sour.  Pineapples 
continue  to  be  the  cheap  fruit  at  $2  and 
$3.25  per  crate,  small  ones?  retailing  at 
two  for  five  cents.  Melons  are  plenty  at 
$4.35  for  ('alifornia  standard  crate  aud 
25  and  50  cents  each  •  for  watermelons. 
The  quality  is  good.  There  are  plenty  of 
Pennsylvania  huckleberries  nt  10  and  41 
cents  per  quart.  Beans  are  about  out  of 
ordinary  roach  at  $7.50  for  marrows  and 
$7  for  mediums. 
The  vegetable  list  is  a  long  one  and 
prices  are  mostly  low.  Small  cabbage  re¬ 
tails  at  three  cents  a  head  and  string 
beans  are  down  to  five  cents  per  two- 
quart  measure.  Tomatoes  are  $2  and 
$2.50  per  Southern  crate.  Lettuce  is 
plenty  and  flue  at  25  and  35  cents  per 
dozen  heads.  There  is  some  Kalamazoo 
celery  at  20  a  rid  35  cents  per  dozen 
bunches.  A  little  asparagus  remains  at 
$1  and  $1.50  per  dozen  bunches.  lVas 
arc  $1.50  and  $2  per  bu.  Spinach  is  S5 
and  90  cents  per  bu.  Peppers  are  $2.50 
and  $2.75  per  box.  Beets  are  30  and  35 
cents  a  dozen  bunches;  radishes,  10  and 
13  cents  same. 
Peaches  are  coming  mostly  in  good 
quality  at  $4.75  and  $2.75  per  basket. 
The  home  crop  is  not  far  away.  Pears 
will  be  quite  plenty,  but  the  apple  crop 
suffered  from  the  cold,  wet  Spring.  But¬ 
ter  remains  firm  at  31  cents  for  best 
creamery,  26  cents  for  choice  dairy  and 
24  cents  for  choice  crocks.  Poor  butter 
is  20  cents.  Cheese  is  firm  at  former 
prices  161,4  cents  for  highest  grade  and 
14  and  15  cents  for  fair  to  good.  Eggs 
do  not  yet  show  much  effect  of  midsum¬ 
mer,  being  30  cents  for  choice  hennery 
and  26  cents  for  Western  candled  Most 
eggs  are  retailed  at  30  cents  or  less.  The 
poultry  market  is  not  very  strong,  at  22 
cents  for  fancy  dressed  fowl,  34  and  36 
cents  for  broilers,  16  cents  for  old  roos¬ 
ters,  22  cents  for  ducks  and  18  cents  for 
geese.  Turkeys  are  quoted  only  in  frozen 
form  at  34  cents  for  old  toms.  Frozen 
chickens  are  26  cents.  Live  fowls  of  all 
sorts  are  3  to  4  cents  lower  than  dressed. 
J.  W.  C. 
Boston  Produce  Markets 
FRUIT  DOING  BETTER. 
The  worst  seems  to  he  over  in  the  glut 
of  perishable  fruits,  and  average  prices 
show  improvement.  The  last  of  the  na¬ 
tive  strawberries  sold  around  9c.  AA’hat 
few  are  coming  now  are  from  Nova 
Scotia,  and  they  bring  11  to  18c.  Cher¬ 
ries  have  been  doing  better  since  the 
height  of  the  season,  native  and  New 
York  sours  bringing  5  to  7c.  per  quart, 
but  there  are.  still  plenty  of  soft  and  mil¬ 
dewed  lots  which  dealers  are  glad  to  sell 
at  3  to  4e.  Native  sweets  range  from  5 
to  10c.  per  pound.  Currants  are  5  to  8c., 
N.  J.  Blacks  8  to  16c.,  raspberries  4  to 
Sc.,  Native  Blues  15  to  18c..  green  goose¬ 
berries  5  to  Sc.  Demand  is  good.  The 
trouble  all  along  has  been  with  conditions 
rather  than  with  quantity  of  fruits. 
Keeping  and  carrying  qualities  have  been 
very  poor  on  account  of  the  prevailing 
weather. 
GREEN  VEGETABLES  IN  GOOD  SUPPLY. 
The  general  supply  of  native  vegetables 
increases  week  by  week  and  average 
prices  tend  lower.  But  no  glut  has  oc¬ 
curred  as  with  fruit,  and  the  market 
loons  clear.  String  beaus  are  coining 
di'uly  29,  19 1G. 
freely;  green  sell  at  $4.75  vc  $2.  and  wax 
at  $2  to  $2.50  per  box.  Nativ'  peas  are 
$1  to  $2,  higher  ranges  being  for  large 
late  kinds.  Peas  have  been  in  light  sup¬ 
ply  right  along.  Spinach  is  60  to  65c.; 
beets,  40c.;  white  turnips,  50c.;  radishes, 
60c,;  rueumhers,  $3  to  $3.50;  cauli¬ 
flower,  $1  to  $1.25  per  box;  squash,  $1  per 
dozen  :  hothouse  or  rather  hotbed  toma¬ 
toes.  18c.  per  Jb. ;  cabbage.  $1  per  bbl. ; 
carrots,  40  to  50c.  per  dozen  bunches; 
lettuce  is  in  over  supply  at  25  to  40c. 
per  box.  Potatoes  are  rather  low  for  the 
season  at  $2 ;  good  Southern  stock  in  bar¬ 
rels.  Choice  pea  beans  are  $6  to  $6.25 
per  bushel,  with  good  supply. 
POULTRY  STILL  IN  LIGHT  SUPPLY. 
Demand  for  poultry,  while  not  very 
brisk,  continues  ahead  of  the  supply,  and 
prices  hold  up  wonderfully  for  so  late  in 
the  season,  although  Values  are  a  shade 
easier  than  last  quoted.  Most  of  the 
nearby  stock  is  coming  alive  ;  19c.  is  top 
for  most  fowls  and  28c.  for  live  chickens. 
Said  Amos  Keyes  &  Co. :  “Dressed  broil¬ 
ers  bring  32  to  33c„  very  high  for  mid¬ 
summer.  Roasters  dressed  have  sold  as 
high  as  42c.  Old  ducks,  live,  bring  11  to 
12c.;  young.  16  to  20c.;  live  broilers.  26 
to  2Ne.  Leghorn  broilers  are  not  so  sala¬ 
ble,  but  can  be  worked  oft  with  the  rest. 
Leghorn  fowls,  on  the  other  hand,  sell 
easily.  Fowls  are  so  scarce  and  high  that 
there  is  very  little  fooling  about  the  size 
or  color.  Poor  people  hate  to  pay  the 
price  of  a  heavy  fowl*  and  will  pick  out  a 
small  one.  Leghorns  sell  as  high  as  the 
others.  Shippers  should  send  notice  of 
number  of  fowls  sent  and  total  weight, 
and  should  write  address  on  box  as  well 
as  on  the  tag.  Often  a  box  arrives  with¬ 
out  name  of  either  dealer  or  shipper.  The 
dealer,  having  no  statement  by  mail  from 
the  shipper,  doesn't  miss  it.  and  the  ex¬ 
press  company  sells  it.  Then  perhaps  the 
shipper  com  phi  ins  to  his  farm  paper  and 
there  is  trouble  for  all  concerned.”  These 
complaints  of  careless  addressing  and 
failure  to  send  description  of  shipments 
are  very  common.  There  is  also  com¬ 
plaint  of  overcrowding  and  use  of  poor 
and  unsuitable  shipping  crates  causing 
shrinkage  in  weight  and  the  death  of  a 
bird  or  two.  One  crate  on  Commercial 
street  came  in  from  Maine  with  six  of  the 
fowl  dead.  The  market  inspector  hap¬ 
pened  along  and  gave  the  dealer  a  certifi¬ 
cate  of  the  loss  over  30  lbs.  which,  of 
course,  comes  out  of  the  shipper’s  re¬ 
turns. 
EGG  MARKET  STRONG. 
The  egg  situation  is  working  out  well, 
and  the  prospect  is  now  better  for  those 
who  stored  at  high  prices.  The  market 
is  already  up  to  a  level  which  might  let 
them  out  without  loss,  but  of  course  not 
many  are  being  sold  yet.  Fresh  receipts 
arc  gradually  falling  off.  and  totals  since 
January  1  have  not  equalled  correspond¬ 
ing  period  last  year.  Best  Western  lots 
bring  26  to  27c.  Eastern.  28  to  30c„  and 
nearby  selected  brown,  33c..  one  cent 
higher  than  last  week.  Holders  of  stored 
eggs  seem  confident,  and  there  is  talk  of 
prospective  sales  to  foreign  buyers. 
BUTTER  IN  FIRM  POSITION. 
While  prices  are  unchanged,  the  trade 
feeling  is  better  on  account  of  improved 
demand  for  choice  grades.  Northern  tub 
creamery  holds  at  29c.  for  extras  and  27 
to  28c.  for  firsts  and  24  to  28c.  for  dairy. 
Said  ('has.  II.  Stone  &  Co.:  "Prices  are 
steady  and  the  feeling  firmer  on  best 
grades.  While  the  prospect  is  for  plenty 
of  butter,  the  hot  weather  has  affected 
quality,  and  the  comparatively  little  that 
can  grade  as  extra  is  selling  readily. 
There  is  more  confidence  and  some  are 
storing.  Most  of  what  comes  is  not  de¬ 
sirable  for  storage.  Much  of  the  cream 
does  not  reach  the  creameries  in  good 
condition,  and  a  great  deal  of  butter 
made  from  it  grades  first  instead  of 
extra.” 
GRAIN  FEEDS  HIGHER. 
Feeds  have  jumped  in  price,  in  sym¬ 
pathy  with  higher  wheat  market.  Meal 
is  $1.77  per  bag,  bran  $23  per  ton  in 
bags,  mixed  feed  $27.  gluten  feed  $28.50, 
linseed  meal  $35.  hominy  $30.25.  Buy¬ 
ers  are  reported  holding  off,  in  hope  of  re¬ 
turn  to  lower  levels. 
HAY  TRADE  SLOW. 
Not  much  demand  appears  for  hay,  al¬ 
though  prices  are  off  $5  or  $6  from  the 
top  since  Spring.  Good  No.  1  in  bales 
can  be  had  at  $23  to  $25  and  clover 
mixed  at  $15  to  $16.  The  trade  is  hold¬ 
ing  off  as  long  as  possible,  expecting  lower 
prices  with  the  arrival  of  new  Western 
hay  soon.  The  demand  is  almost  wholly 
for  grades  suitable  for  feeding  horses. 
LIVE  STOCK  DULL  AND  LOWER. 
Light  demand  and  moderate  supply  ex¬ 
presses  conditions  at  Brighton  and 
Watertown  lately  .  The  result  is  a  lower 
average  level  of  prices.  Choice  calves 
were  hard  to  sell  above  9  to  10c.  Hogs 
are  10  to  15c.  lower,  ranging  from  10  to 
10(4  c.  Sheep  are  6  t < *  Sc.,  aud  lambs  I) 
to  10c.  For  fat  steers,  10c.  seemed  to  be 
top  and  7 (4c.  for  cows,  while  bulls  ranged 
from  5  to  7c,  The  milch  cow  market  is 
no  worse,  being  already  dull  and  unsatis¬ 
factory  to  dealers.  They  blame  the  lack 
of  a  good  sales  barn  for  port  of  their 
troubles,  and  work  has  not  even  started 
on  the  new  barn.  Brices  still  range  most¬ 
ly  from  $40  to  $400.  with  quite  a  number 
held  at  above  the  top  figure,  mostly  large, 
handsome  young  Holsteius  aud  Ayrshire's 
with  big  udders.  G.  b.  e. 
