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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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HOW THE OHIO FARMERS FEEL 
Over That Fertilizer Hold Up. 
The farmers of Ohio have not gone to sleep while 
this fertilizer fight is on. They recognize the humilia¬ 
tion and injustice of their position while the Smith 
Company holds up the State, but they have had no 
medium through which to express their feelings. 
They should have been told the facts from Indiana, 
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Kentucky long ago. 
Since we put the figures before them they are com¬ 
ing to us with hot words of indignation. One of 
the most prominent farmers in Ohio writes: 
“If our Ohio papers had taken up the subject as 
The R. N.-Y. has done the present disgraceful condi¬ 
tions never could have arisen.” 
The following letter from a working farmer tells 
what the people are thinking about: 
If the Smith 'people can have the Board of Agriculture 
restrained from carrying out their “malicious” designs 
against the said company why cannot the Board have tin 1 
Smith people restrained from sowing broadcast printed re¬ 
ports of the Board's “pernicious” work against this com¬ 
pany, provided the reports are false as the secretary of the 
Board claims? It seems to me the Board lias something 
it wishes to keep covered, or it is lacking in good Yankee 
fighting blood to sit down and whine because the Smith 
people have had their hands tied. I.el them get up and use 
file toe of their shoes at the first opportunity. It certainly 
makes one’s blood boil to think that a company such as 
the Smith company is purported to be. can hold np the 
whole State of Ohio. If our lawmakers were as par¬ 
ticular in looking after their constituents' Interests as their 
own no such opportunity to rob the people would ever 
present itself. While the agricultural press of the State 
deplores the condition of affairs they are, to my way of 
thinking, a little too passive. While they could not settle 
the legal points involved they could exert a powerful influ¬ 
ence on the moral side of the question. They could un¬ 
doubtedly make ii so warm for the Smith people that life 
would be intolerable here in Ohio. I have no doubt the 
people will win this tight, but the situation at present is 
certainly humiliating. an onto farmer. 
It is the moral side of such a question that should 
be brought home to the farmers. We venture to say 
that in New York State such a case as has arisen 
in Ohio could be put squarely before our farmers, 
and they would force a settlement with the weapon 
which is always in their power. 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
There arc very few sheep kept in this part of the coun¬ 
try, hay and potatoes being the main crops. ITay is very 
heavy. Potatoes a light crop, owing to the dry weather 
and blight. Wheat and rye np to average, early planted 
corn looking well; apples scarce. ii. w. v. 
Bucks Co.. l’a. 
Very few sheep are kept in this vicinity, and no pros¬ 
pects'of any material increase. Cranberry crop in this 
immediate vicinity is small, caused by drought and vine 
worm. Corn crop looking fine: poultry doing well con¬ 
sidering high price of feed stuffs. N. C. 
East Dennis, Mass. 
Corn is good. Tomatoes not over half, owing to wet 
weather. Hay is looking good; late potatoes short crop, 
lack of sun rotted them after planting. Sweet potatoes 
are good. Peaches full crop and no price. Apples about 
half a crop: Kieffer pears not half a crop. Strawberries 
newly set not looking as well as common. I think the sun 
has been too hot for them. Our Chesapeakes are looking 
good but they stand hot sun the best of all berries. 
Selbyville, Del. .T. n. n. 
Apples n fair crop; small fruits of all kinds scarce. 
Plums a full crop. Corn and grain look very well, while 
the hay crop was the lightest in years. Early potatoes 
about half crop and late potatoes much less is the present 
indication. This unfavorable outlook is owing to the 
severe drought, which has prevailed through New England 
since early Spring. Pastures have not been so poor for 
years, and cows not. receiving additional feed at the barn 
are shrinking badly. i.. <•. i,. 
Barton Banding, Vt.. 
August 7 we had a tint* rain, the first in six weeks. The 
drought lias done serious injury to all garden and small 
fruits, and the tree fruits are smaller in consequence. I 
think the outlook fairly good on the whole. The 
early apple crop is only fair, and not perfect. The later 
apples look better, but still far from perfect. The pear 
crop will be fair but the quality not extra. Grapes look 
line, and we are looking for a lug crop. The peaches are 
very shy and Elberfas seem to Is* the only ones that are 
hanging on. Some of the earlier varieties Sire being picked 
now l>nt I do not believe tin* peach crop will he nearly as 
large as we hoped. Corn is seriously injured from the 
drought. Beans look well ; potatoes are not very promis¬ 
ing. Melons are entirel*' killed in certain locations. 
Benton Harbor, Mich. R. A. S. 
The prospects are very good taken as a whole. Apples 
I should judge about (>0 per cent and very fair for this 
section. Plums good, full crop, not much rot at present. 
Pears good, 50 to 75 per cent crop. Crapes a good crop, 
not loaded as heavy as last year, but good, clean, full 
bunches that promise to ripen early. Not many peaches 
grown here, the few orchards here not more than Jialf 
crop. Small fruits were abundant and sold for fair prices. 
Most of tin* farmers here grow considerable small fruit 
and the large crop harvested has put them in very good 
financial condition. b. w. 
No. Collins, N. Y. 
Berry crop was the very best and largest; apples, pears, 
plums and peaches each probably a fair half crop, but. 
no great quantity of any raised in this part of the State. 
Early potatoes two-thirds average crop. Wheat is between 
Nil and '.Ml per cent of .a good crop. Oats between and 
45 per cent. Corn is promising a fair crop but is late, 
and liable to be injured if frosts come before September 
” 0 . May was a large crop of fair quality. Honey was 
much above average yield. Forepart of season too wet 
for getting crops in and then too hot for oats, but best 
possible for corn. w. ri. 
Elm Grove, \V. Va. 
Western New York lias perhaps 75 per cent of an apple 
crop. Of course the bulk of them will be Baldwin, 
Greenings, Kings and Twenty Ounce. They are larger 
and of better quality than they have been before in 
lid years. Most of the orchards are entirely free from 
fungus, although a good share of the apple orchards have 
a few side worms, still they look good. Potatoes and 
cabbage the lowest per cent on record in a good many 
years. Oats a large acreage and good. Beans a large 
acreage and looking fine. We have had tropical weather 
here for the last six weeks. Generally speaking, the 
farmers are well pleased with their crops and orchards. 
Carlton Sta., N. Y. am;but wood. 
We have had a. very favorable season as regards rains 
and temperature, and most of our crops have been good. 
Bye was a short crop, as much of it was put in late last 
Fall, and it came through the Winter in bad shape. Oats 
made a tine growth, and the crop has been a good one. 
Hay in this section litis been much better than last year, 
and went in the barns in the very best condition. Apples 
I should say are one-third less than last year, and many 
of the orchards show the effects of the scale, but some of 
the large orchards have a good amount of first-class fruit 
on them. Pears are very heavy, and the fruit is fine. 
Most of tin* Bartlett trees arc* full, which is true of most 
of the other varieties. Corn is looking fine and bids fair 
to be a heavy crop, with a good growth of stalk and well 
loaded with ears. Take it all in all this country never 
looked better. I.. r>. M. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Reports to the effect that tile York County. Pennsyl¬ 
vania. potato crop is a failure are greatly exaggerated, 
declares John W. Wogatt, president of the York County 
Agricultural Society. Mr. Wogan said to a York Daily 
reporter: “The potato crop is not the failure it is said to 
lie. It is true that potatoes have not yielded well in some 
parts of the county, but there are other sections where 
the yield has been up to the usual standard. In the lower 
end of the county especially, tin* yield has been good. 
There are many patches of line and large potatoes to be 
found down there. The price of the tubers is not going 
to be as high as some people assert. I do not think the 
price will go above one dollar a bushel. This has been 
a year of abundant harvests for the farmers. All crops 
turned out well. Earlier in the season it was thought the 
tobacco crop would be a failure, but it is going to Ik* a 
tint* crop. The leaves art* large and there has been little 
damage to the plants. If nothing occurs between now 
and cutting time to injure the plants, farmers will realize 
profits from their tobacco fields. The oat crop is a fair 
one this year and so is the corn crop.” 
The green tipple deal about Wolcott lias suddenly quieted 
down. For several days past no sales of orchards have 
been reported and at present everything is al a standstill 
between growers and buyers. They can't get together on 
the price. Earlier several large orchards were sold al 15 
cents per bushel, buyer to take everything and grower to 
do all the work. In case any of the fruit was picked this 
was to lie done by the buyer. In this wav several orchards 
were sold and then the buyer, who was an evaporator 
owner, sold the No. 1 barreling stock to apple dealers for 
7o cents per barrel for the fruit. These prices do not 
scent to appeal to the majority of growers and they are 
holding off a little longer before making sales. Dealers 
say they are willing to wait, and if they have to pay more 
later on it will be liecause the market warrants it, which 
it does not at present. The conditions of buying vary 
greatly from year to year. In 1!I0(5. when there was an 
immense crop of apples, by the middle of August the bulk 
of the crop bad been sold. Instead of buying by the 
bushel nearly every orchard was sold for a lump sum. 
The bushel prices were 15 lo 20 cents and take the entire 
crop. The price per barrel was one dollar for the fruit. 
That year the fruit matured early and the picking of 
Winter fruit was begun by the middle of September. East 
year the crop was much later in maturing, as it will Ik* 
this year, and the prices ruled high. One dealer opened 
the season by buying 5,000 bushels at $1 per bushel and 
take all picked fruit at two inches and above in diameter. 
Later many thousand bushels were sold at 7o and so 
cents per bushel. But little attention was paid to qual¬ 
ity and almost anything that looked like an apple was put 
in the barrels. Then came the day of reckoning, and for 
weeks dealers found if almost impossible to unload their 
stock at any price. All Winter long they sold out at a 
loss, and the farmer who bad sold bis crop early was tin* 
winner. Many of the strongest wholesale houses went to 
the wall. This year the crop is considered the best in 
quality that lias been produced here in several years. The 
fruit is attaining good size and looks well. The picking 
season will open rather late, as the fruit is still growing 
well. Dealers will be particular this season to put up 
only apples of first quality, and there is no danger of the 
markets being filled with cull apples. Evaporator owners 
are looking for the seconds and will run all cull stuff into 
evaporated stock. .t. \. 
Wayne Co.. N. Y. 
This has been the best growing season to date, August 
17, in my recollection, and generally good for the farmers 
in this section. Potatoes are to my knowledge about the 
only thing generally disappointing; they are almost with¬ 
out exception poor. Corn, both Dill and fodder, is the 
best I have ever seen. Beaches almost a failure. Straw¬ 
berries were light: all cane berries a heavy crop. Bears 
promise to be a very heavy crop with prices good at this 
time at both Boston and New York market. Yet buyers’ 
offerings are low, so at present nearly everyone is ship¬ 
ping. Apples are very uneven in the same orchards; 
some trees are loaded to the ground, while others hardly 
show an apple. They promise at this time to average up 
a fair but not a large crop of good quality, where spray¬ 
ing has been well done, although tin* second brood 
of Codling moth is doing much damage. While the buy¬ 
ers are very distant, good apples are selling well, and 
there seems to be no inclination among the growers to 
sell cheap. Rains have been pretty well distributed. Fall 
plowing is well under way: pasture good and stock look¬ 
ing tine. Local help plentiful, while hundreds of men 
pass back and forth along the roads, most of them looking 
for jobs but not for work. w. H. 
Columbia Co., N. Y, _ 
FARM CROPS IN IOWA. 
May is a wonderful crop, but there is now no question as 
to the real status of the corn crop. An unusual drought 
lias prevailed in tin* West for nearly a month and a half; 
before that it was very wet for four weeks, nearly six in 
some places, and tDo early growing of corn was in a wet 
soil, very wet, so that culture had to Ik* in ground over¬ 
moist. It baked and corn has been since last plowing 
grown shallow-rooted in this baked soil, and tasseled out 
and silked out in a temperature running last week from 
02 to 101 in shade up to 120 in sun. Such conditions 
interfere with pollination, and make many blind earless 
stalks, so the corn is an injured crop in this, a best corn 
location. This is in Dill lands. Where lands were level 
over the West it was so wet that whole fields were under 
water to past middle June, and that was replanted and 
late, and will be short. I feel sure that corn crop is hit 
hard : will average a regular crop of 25 to .‘‘,0 per cent 
over I lie whole West, and we will have coining year 
very high-priced corn. Corn is 58 to 70 cents per bushel 
now. and every crib and bin nearly empty all over the 
West. I predict pork to be high—very high—as breeding 
operations and pig raising have been shut off by this un¬ 
usual priced corn. Cattle are lowering now. but will 
spring again early Winter and get to unusual altitudes 
after January: corn-fed meats very high. The poor have 
a hard Winter ahead of them. w. m. bomrf.roer. 
Iowa. 
OBIT BA BY.—Warren W. Bawson. widely known as a 
seedsman and market gardener, died at his home. Arling¬ 
ton. Mass.. August 9, following an operation for appen¬ 
dicitis. He was born in Arlington fn 1847. and com¬ 
menced business with his father in 1807. About five years 
later In* bought out his father's business and started for 
himself, and in 1880 lie built his first greenhouses and 
commenced I lie growing of vegetables under glass. Air. 
Raw son added to his greenhouse establishment from time 
to time, and he was the first to use steam extensively as 
a method of heating. Me was also the first to use 
electricity to develop his vegetable crops. In 1884 Air. 
Bawson bought out the seed firm of Everett & Gleason, 
and tin* firm of AV. W. Bawson & Co. lias been well 
known ever since. They make a specialty of high grade 
vegetable and flower seeds. Air. Bawson was the organizer 
of the Boston Alarket Gardeners’ Association and was its 
president for over 20 years. Warren AY. Bawson took an 
active part in the welfare of his native town of Arlington. 
Me served on the town committee and was moderator at 
town meetings for 10 years. He served on the board of 
selectmen for three years, being chairman for one year. 
Tn State affairs, he was a member of the Governor’s 
Council in 1005-00. He belonged to many dubs and fra¬ 
ternal organizations, including the Masons and Odd Fel¬ 
lows. He was a director of several banks and other 
corporations. He belonged to nearly all the agricultural 
societies in eastern Massachusetts, was a member of the 
Gardeners and Florists’ Club of Boston and of tin* Alassa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society. He is survived by a 
widow, son and daughter. 
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