W» RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1069 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
MAKING T11K DENTS HELD—STICK TO THE 
( HOPS—WEEVIL, St'Af.K AND BEETLES 
BOOSTED DEICES CAREFUL Sid.I T NT, 
NEEDED FOR THIS TEAK’S APPI.KS AND 
POTATOES 
The boll weevil has spread all Over lire 
main cotton region, as far north as Ark¬ 
ansas and North Carolina. Some growers 
write as though they were expecting to he 
forced out of the crop. By no means! 
This is the time to stick to the cotton 
crop and learn all about it. A new pest 
is a benefit to those who lind out ho', to 
control it. 
When tin 1 potato beetle came East, 
many farmers soon tired of picking Imgs 
and smashing eggs. They were afraid of 
poison. They didn’t know how to use it. 
and the manufacturers didn’t know how 
to make it. Those who stuck to the po¬ 
tato crop had less competition and made 
it pay better than ever. 
WINNERS MEM. PAID 
The San .lose settle seemed to have a 
strangle hold oil the orchards about -0 
years ago. and there was less tree plant¬ 
ing for a while. Those who kept on light¬ 
ing the pest saved their orchards and im¬ 
proved their general condition h.v the 
troutine;... I’ripos of apples have aver¬ 
aged higher ever since. The scale, the 
<Jyps.v. Browninil and Leopard moths at 
one lime threatened the Northeastern 
fruit industry as it seemed. None of 
these, nor all together, are now considered 
very seriously in the commercial orchard. 
They add something to the cost of pro¬ 
duction; that i< about all. and nobody 
feels discouraged if he lind them among 
Ins trees. It is the unexpected and un- 
spraynble: a May freeze or a September 
gale, for instance, that causes most of the 
real trouble. 
As for the cotton pest, some growers 
have beaten it with spray: therefore, 
others cam do the same. A first-rate 
grower should never he scared out of the 
crop he knows best. One immediate re¬ 
sult is that cotton promises to sell higher 
than most other crops this season. The 
weevil has done more actual restricting 
than all of the associations and agitators 
put together. 
SET.1.1 NC. THE BIO CHOPS 
How about the lug. unrestricted crops 
of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and 
fruit? They will hardly sell themselves 
this season. Probably it will pay best to 
sell curly, even if the price looks low. 
The poorer grades should be pushed into 
nearby markets. Do not risk paying long 
distance freight on anything but the best. 
Probably the local traders in some sec¬ 
tions will be afraid to buy. In such 
cases, the holder will have to ship on 
commission, which is always risky during 
a big crop season, yet always worth try¬ 
ing fop the grower who studies market 
reports enough to know when and where 
to ship. 
The export trade may help the apple 
grower. By shipping Winter kinds, extra 
early, he sometimes hits a good Septem¬ 
ber market in England. Bate storage is 
also hopeful, because the supply of 
earliest fruit suitable for long storage 
does not seem relatively as large as (lie 
early crop. The Fall varieties will crowd 
the markets for some months, together 
with the main crop wind-falls and a large 
supply of pears and peaches, but if the 
Baldwin crop turns out to be only mod¬ 
erate. as reported, the mid-Winter and 
Spring market may show much improve¬ 
ment. Fall varieties are selling at rate to 
$1.50 per bushel, and $2 to $4 per barrel 
in the cities. 
WEST MEETS EAST 
Tt looks like a hard market season for 
Western boxed apples. They have about 
as many of them as last season, and 
nearly three times ns many Eastern ap- 
p'es in competition. This is the first sea¬ 
son when there has been a largo crop in 
both sections. 
With potatoes, the greatest chance of a 
rise in price is the possibility of extensive 
rot in the East on account of the moist 
weather. There is surely little market 
promise in the present crop figures, these 
being over one-fourth greater than those 
of last season. 
Field beans have been greatly injured 
bv wet. weather in the East, and the de- j 
struetive Mexican beetles in the South- 
Most. This is one of the few Northern 
crops which promises to command good 
prices for choice bright stock. 
The commercial onion and cabbage 
cups have about held their own in con¬ 
dition during the past month. They both 
exceed last year's acreage and arc far 
ahead of last year’s condition. Celery 
crop in New York and Michigan is !t(t to 
02 per cent in condition. In fact till the 
important truck crops are promising a 
good yield. G. R. F. 
At first we were selling potatoes at 
$1.75 and $2 Prices lowered about 25c 
a week until we arc getting $1. with the 
prospects of 75c. The late fields, (hat is. 
planted iu June, are not a full stand. 
Most farmers planted in May mid are 
digging them now. They seem to have 
;m idea that August is the best lime to 
dispose of their crop. The question that 
bothers me most is this: This New York 
gmie mostly to parlies? Really, the Juue- 
nlanted fields are scarce in our locality. 
Perhaps it is just a local condition. The 
Soutbeen potatoes that should have found 
a market in this State until September 
have come against this competition. 
Seneca Co.. N. Y. E. u. r. 
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