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Wheat,  bu..  $1.70;  corn,  bn..  $1;  oats, 
bu.,  55c;  potatoes,  bu..  $1.70;  apples,  bu.. 
$1:  turnips,  bu.,  $1;  eggs  55c;  poultry, 
choice  old.  21c  lb.,  young  24c ;  butter 
50c;  milk,  $2.30  cwt.,  wholesale;  cabbage 
4c  lb. :  veal  calves  lie  on  hoof ;  hogs  14c 
dressed.  Some  of  the  above  prices  are 
high  owing  to  drought.  Wheat  and  corn 
were  very  good  crops  in  this  section. 
Kimberton,  Pa.  M.  c. 
This  vicinity  is  not  farmed  much.  Po¬ 
tatoes,  private  sales,  $1.50  bit.:  ruta¬ 
bagas,  50  to  75c.  Fruit  is  a  failure ;  ap¬ 
ples  about  all  that  is  grown  in  any  quan¬ 
tity.  Since  the  dairymen’s  strike  here 
(they  won)  ;  they  are  li tiding  out  one  by 
one  that  they  really  get  less  profit  per 
cow  than  before.  Butter  brings  57c  here 
for  home  consumption.  My  line  poultry 
exclusively.  I  receive  65c  clear  for  my 
white  eggs  (Minorcas)  ;  stores  pay  50  to 
53c.  c.  K. 
Lookout.  Pa. 
Wheat  $1.70  to  $1.75  bu. ;  corn,  old, 
$1.10;  corn,  now,  80  to  00c,  at  auction; 
rye  $1.10;  potatoes  $1.50  to  $1.00;  cows 
$00  to  $100;  milk  oa/-*c.  farmers  pay 
freight;  hogs  $12  to  $14  per  cwt.;  hay, 
$20  per  ton.  The  staple  crops  in  this  sec- 
limi  are  wheat,  corn  and  potatoes;  dairy¬ 
ing  is  carried  on  to  some  extent  also. 
Langhorne,  Pa.  f.  k.  b. 
Milch  cows  $75  to  $80;  beef  cows  $50 
to  $00;  calves,  prime.  11  to  12c;  pork, 
dressed,  13e  to  lie  lb.;  lambs  9c  to  10c; 
sheep  $7  to  $.8;  butter  38c  to  40c.  Ap¬ 
ples  75c  to  $1;  potatoes  $1.40  to  $1.50 
bu.  at  the  car.  Cabbage  2c  per  lb. ;  oats 
70c;  buckwheat  $1.75  to  $1,80  per  cwt. 
Little  Meadows,  Pa.  j.  j.  ar. 
At  a  public  sale  here,  cattle,  just  scrub 
stock,  ranged  from  $50  to  $65;  good 
stock  from  $70  to  $100.  Pork  13c  to 
14c,  dressed;  kill  ter,  farmers,  32c; 
creamery  40c;  ini . K  8c  per  qt.  Apples 
are  moving  slowly  and  low  in  price.  My 
next-door  neighbor  loaded  a  car  of  choice 
|  picked  Winter  apples  nt  DOe  per  100 
lbs.  for  green  ones,  and  95c  for  red. 
Peaches  sold  for  $1  a  basket,  pears  sold 
for  50c  per  basket.  Horses,  big  and 
heavy.  $275.  weighing  1500  to  1000  lbs.; 
weighing  1350  $235 ;  scrubs  $100  to 
$1 50.  n,  n. 
Henry ville.  Pa. 
This  is  a  dairy  country;  part  of  the 
milk  is  shipped  in  8-gallon  cans  to  cities 
and  part  is  sold  to  creameries.  The 
creamery  price  averages  $2  per  cwt.  for 
six  months  beginning  Oct.  1.  Can  prices 
are  $1.30  average;  railroads  charge  21e 
per  8-gallon  can  for  40  miles.  They 
raised  this  rate  two  years  ago  from  15c 
to  21c.  <  >ur  county  agent  went  to 
Washington,  D.  C\,  a  short  time  ago,  to 
a  meeting  of  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission,  and  expects  a  reduction 
soon.  The  principal  crops  are  corn,  oats, 
hay  (Timothy,  clover  and  Alfalfa)  and 
wheat.  North  end  of  county  is  mostly 
truck  fanning;  center  dairy,  and  south 
grain  and  slock  raising.  There  are  more 
than  700  silos  in  the  county.  Prices  are 
good :  Oats  52c :  corn  85c  for  75  lbs. : 
Timothy  hay  $10  per  ton  ;  wheat  $1.75 
MINERAL  HEAVE  REMEDY  CO.,  461  Fourth  Ave.,  ritbburg,  Fa. 
Oc  lb. :  chickens  loo  lb.  Eggs  40c  per 
doz.  Butter  37c.  Potatoes  $2  per  bu. 
Apples  $5  per  bbl.  Cabbage  5c  lb. 
Hired  help  $3  per  day  with  board,  for 
thrashing  and  silo  filling.  Month  bands 
cannot  be  had,'  as  common  laborers  get 
from  $3  to  $4  per  day  in  the  Gary  mills. 
Farms  are  selling  at  from  $100  to  $250 
per  acre.  j.  u.  P. 
Lake  Co.,  Ind. 
Ilay,  good,_$18  and  $20  per  ton;  pota¬ 
toes  about  125  to  130  bu.  per  acre,  selling 
$1.75;  cabbage,  pool*  crop,  $40  per  ton; 
milk  at  the  dairy,  ic  per  qt.,  about  100 
farmers  on  strike  for  5c  per  qt. ;  apples 
about  $1.50  per  bbl.  Our  market  is 
Scranton.  W.  L.  A. 
Glenburn.  Pa. 
Potatoes  retail  from  stores  $1.50  per 
bu.,  price  to  grower  $1.25.  Apples  00c 
per  cwt.  for  picked  fruit,  25c  per  cwt. 
cider  or  shaken  fruit.  Cows,  as  to  looks 
and  quality,  grades  $50  to  $100.  Ilay 
$10  to  $13  per  ton,  pressed.  Milk  at 
condensery,  Nov.  $2.15,  Dec*  $2.25  per 
cwt.  Onions  $1.50  per  bu.  to  grower. 
Beans  $0.  Ducks  13c,  live  weight ; 
chicks  15c;  hogs  9c.  E.  G.  K. 
Knoxville,  Pa. 
The  prices  being  paid  for  beef  cattle 
are  7  to  7  (4  c  per  lb.  Ilogs,  live  9  to 
10c;  lambs,  live,  8*4  to  0c.  Good  cows 
$50  to  $05.  Butter  direct  to  consumer 
35  to  38c.  A  considerable  amount  of 
cream  is  being  sent  to  creameries  now, 
giving  good  satisfaction.  Eggs  35  to 
38c  per  dox.  Apples  are  quite  plentiful. 
Tlie  windfalls  have  kept  the  hand-picked 
fruit  out  of  the  market  as  yet,  and  there 
is  hardly  any  market  for  the  Winter 
fruit,  hut  the  price  runs  from  50  to  75c* 
per  bu.  Potatoes  a  very  short  crop, 
$1.25  to  $1.50  per  bu.  U.  G.  S. 
Jackson  Center,  Pa. 
Butter  35c ;  eggs  40c ;  dressed  pork 
15c;  whole  carcass  25c.  from  butcher 
i  shop.  Spring  chickens  22c,  old  hens  14c ; 
steers  7  to  9c  on  foot.  25  to  30c  for  beef 
l  at  butcher  shops.  Potatoes  $1.75  per 
bn.:  apples  $1  per  bu. ;  wheat  $1.50 
corn  $1;  oats  60c ;  buckwheat  $1  per 
bu. ;  cows  $40  to  $90:  flour  $10  to  $12 
per  bbl. ;  bran  $35  per  ton :  white  mid¬ 
dlings  $38  per  ton,  j.  l.  b. 
Ligomer,  Pa. 
New  York  State  Dairymen’s  Association 
Part  III. 
Prof.  Warren,  of  Cornell,  said  the  cost 
of  producing  milk  is  no  longer  a  private 
question.  It  is  exceedingly  desirable  that 
each  farmer  study  his  own  business  care¬ 
fully  in  order  to  use  every  feasible  means 
of  reducing  costs  so  that,  be  may  prosper. 
It  is  also  important  that  laws  and  regu¬ 
lations  be  based  on  a  much  better  knowl¬ 
edge  of  t lie  scientific  and  practical  facts 
involved  than  has  been  the  case  in  the 
past.  The  best  that  can  be  hoped  for  is 
that  we  may  prevent  the  cost  of  milk 
from  rising  as  high  as  it  otherwise  would. 
Agriculture  is  a  very  old  and  highly  effi¬ 
cient  business.  It  is  not  like  city  indus¬ 
tries  that  ure  so  new  that  it  is  easy  to  de¬ 
vise  means  of  reducing  costs.  When  the 
farmer  asks  more  for  his  milk,  the  ifliblio 
demands  to  know*  whether  he  is  entitled 
to  an  inerense  in  price.  The  public  is  en¬ 
titled  to  an  honest  and  accurate  answer. 
In  the  long  run  public  opinion  will  con¬ 
trol.  It  was  public  opinion  that  con¬ 
trolled  this  Fall  in  the  milk  strike  in  New 
York,  There  are  two  ways  in  which 
profits  may  be  calculated.  Wliat  are 
dairy  fanners  making  on  the  farm  as  a 
whole?  What  are  they  making  on  dairy 
cows  ? 
Considering  the  farm  as  a  whole,  rec¬ 
ords  for  1,742  farms  in  13  counties  in 
New  Y  ork  show  that  the  average  farmer 
made  $473  for  his  year’s  labor  in  addi¬ 
tion  to  farm  expenses,  five  per  cent,  in¬ 
terest  on  bis  capital,  in  addition  to  having 
a  house  to  live  in  and  some  farm  pro¬ 
ducts.  Hired  men  on  farms  now  receive 
over  $400  a  year  in  addition  to  a  bouse 
and  farm  products.  The  average  farmer 
gets  about  hired  men's  wages.  For  the 
best  interest  of  city  ns  well  as  country, 
the  farmer  should  receive  bis  fair  share 
of  the  prosperity  of  the  country,  and  no 
more.  As  a  conservative  estimate,  I  be¬ 
lieve  that  the  farmer  is  entitled  to  ask  at 
least  20  cents  an  hour  for  his  time. 
Some  farmers  aro  worth  much  more  than 
this.  Certainly  very  few  should  be  ex¬ 
pected  lo  work  for  less.  On  this  basis 
the  desire  for  an  increase  on  prices  for 
milk  is  fully  justified.  Every  increase  in 
the  price  of  wages  of  one  cent  per  hour  in¬ 
creases  the  cost  of  milk  over  3(4  cents 
per  hundred  pounds.  An  increase  in  the 
cost  of  grain  of  $1  per  ton  increases  the 
cost  on  milk  over  two  cents  per  hundred 
pounds. 
With  feed  prices  as  they  were  in  the 
years  given  and  with  labor  at  29  cents  an 
hour,  milk  in  Delaware  County,  in  1912 
cost  $2.57  per  100,  and  $222  <n  1913.  In 
Broome  County,  in  1915,  it  cost  $1.91  for 
milk  mostly  produced  in  the  Summer. 
Prof.  Warren  said  that  no  bulletin  or 
statement  has  ever  covered  the  whole 
cost  <>f  producing  milk.  8 mall  items  are 
left  out,  for  instance,  washing  powder  for 
dairy  utensils,  even  cost  of  dairy  paper 
probably  can  be  charged  to  the  cost  of 
milk  production. 
Senator  Charles  W,  Wicks  said:  “We 
have  evidence  that  the  dairy  business  has 
become  so  unprofitable  that  there  has 
been  in  the  last  year  a  decrease  of  one 
per  cent,  iii  the  number  of  cows  kept, 
when  there  should  have  been  an  increase 
of  10  per  cent,  to  supply  the  increased 
population.  It  has  been  demonstrated 
that  at  present,  prices  milk  production 
cannot  be  profitable  if  the  production  fall 
below  0.000  lbs.  per  cow.  Many  unlawful 
practices  have  been  revealed,  as  skim 
milk  being  mixed  with  new  milk  and 
shipped  to  the  city.  We  have  found  in 
the  State  Feed  Dealers’  Association  prac¬ 
tices  so  vicious  that  the  matter  is  in  the 
hands  of  the  Attorney  General.  It  is 
necessary  that  the  farmers  organize  to 
protect  themselves  and  stand  for  a  fair 
deal,  and  the  enactment  of  just  laws.” 
Frank  Sherman,  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  Dairymen’s  League,  on  the  work  of 
the  League,  said :  “Don’t  rest  on  your 
oars,  as  the  preliminary  fight  is  only 
won.  Maintain  and  strengthen  our  or¬ 
ganization.  Co-operation  has  succeeded 
and  will  succeed  if  intelligent  men  co¬ 
operate.  Our  permanency  depends  on 
owning  every  milk  shipping  plant  in  the 
State.  Now  proceed  to  place  co-operative 
creameries  all  over  the  State.  We  must 
provide  means  for  taking  care  of  surplus 
milk.  If  there  is  surplus  milk  prices  will 
be  based  on  what  companies  get  for  it.  It 
is  our  purpose  to  continue  the  work  of  or¬ 
ganization  until  all  the  territory  of  the 
Eastern  States  is  organized  so  we  can 
control  all  the  milk  shipped  to  New  York 
City.  YVe  are  going  to  send  a  legislative 
committee  to  Albany  to  work  for  the  in¬ 
terest  of  the  dairymen.  We  are  going  to 
have  builders  and  manufacturers  submit 
plans  for  co-operative  creameries.  The 
principle  we  have  fought  for  and  main¬ 
tained  is  worth  more  than  dollars,  for 
primarily  it  is  a  question  of  principle  we 
are  fighting  for.” 
G.  F.  Hong  was  elected  president  of  the 
New  York  State  Dairymen’s  Association 
and  8,  C.  Shaver  secretary.  w.  H.  j. 
