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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 5, 
CROP NOTES. 
The crop of Aliueria grapes is estimated 
at 2,000,000 barrels. 
The yield of honey in Missouri in 1910 
was 7,649,915 pounds. 
At Hatton. Wash., wheat is yielding 25 
to 30 bushels per acre. 
The Georgia peach crop will total less 
than 800 cars, about one-fifth of last year’s 
yield. 
Prunes in the Santa Clara Valley, Cali¬ 
fornia, are expected to yield about 90,000,- 
000 pounds. 
Hat in Nez Perce county, Idaho, is a 
heavy yield this year. The current market 
price for Timothy is $11. 
The first bale of 1911 Georgia cotton was 
sold at McRae, Ga., July 25, at 25 cents 
per pound. T. J. Smith was the seller and 
T. W. Booth, buyer. 
The National Onion Assoiciation reports 
that Ohio has 4,500 acres in the crop this 
year, and Indiana, 4,100. The yield in both 
States will be about 25 per cent under last 
year. 
Des Moines, Iowa, has recently improved 
its market facilities, so that farmers are 
able to sell direct to the consumers. Prices 
reported from the first day’s business were 
said to be about half ordinary store prices. 
At Winnipeg and in the Canadian North¬ 
west the weather has been unseasonably 
cold, seriously hindering the growth of 
wheat. In some sections moisture is exces¬ 
sive, so that there is more straw than 
grain. 
The storm of July 25 did great damage 
to apple and pear crops in Orleans and 
Niagara counties, N. Y. The loss is esti¬ 
mated at 35 per cent or a total of at least 
$500,000. In some sections standing corn 
was ruined by the wind. 
July 27, Gov. Dix signed Senator 
O’Brien’s bill establishing a commission to 
investigate purity, prices, production, dis¬ 
tribution and consumption of food stuffs 
and farm and dairy products, and Assem¬ 
blyman Cosad’s bill to create a board of 12 
to look into the work in agricultural edu¬ 
cation throughout N. Y. State. 
Farmers raising fruit and Alfalfa organ¬ 
ized a union at Richland, Wash., July 9. 
The officers are: O. R. Allen, president; C. 
1). Mitchell, vice-president; B. F. Knapp, 
secretary. The five directors are: A. E. 
Granlund, Fred Johnson,' It. McGhan, W. 
K. Rowland and T. Lozier. The corporation 
will handle farm and orchard produce. The 
capital is $2,500 in shares of $10 each. 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture gives the following monthly crop esti¬ 
mate. in hundred weights: Wheat, Spain. 
42.630.000: Hungary, 47.323.000: Ttalv, 53,- 
500.000; Roumania, 33,124.000; British In¬ 
dia, 100.596.000. Corn in Spain, 6,901,000; 
rice, 2.074.000. Condition of wheat in Ger¬ 
many and Austria is between good and av¬ 
erage. Corn outlook in Italy and Roumania, 
and rice prospect in Italy, good. 
A mercantile house asked a large num¬ 
ber of its traveling salesmen scattered 
throughout the country to report on crops 
as they saw them. The following is a sum¬ 
mary of the result: Winter wheat damaged 
hv fly in Pennsylvania, Southern Ohio. In¬ 
diana and Illinois, cut by drought in Okla¬ 
homa and Texas; Spring wheat damaged in 
the Dakotas and Southern Minnesota. Corn 
acreage 10 per cent, higher in the South ; 
hurt by drought in Kansas and bordering 
States.' Outlook more promising east of the 
Mississippi. Oats badly hurt by heat in 
the largest producing sections. Hay crop 
generally poor; likewise tobacco, except in 
Wisconsin. Apples hurt by frost and 
drought in Oregon, Washington and Mis¬ 
souri, hut crop as a whole promises to be 
better than last year. 
We are suffering from a fearful drought 
here. With the exception of one rainstorm, 
practically no rain in over two months. 
Crops are about all lost, and prospects dark 
for growers. e. j. w. 
Rhode Island. 
Apples as a rule are a light crop and di’op- 
ping badly. Cranberries are all right with 
prospects of large crop in this section at 
present time, but as the crop is young yet 
we cannot count for sure until later or in 
fact until gathered in and stored. 
Ilopkinton. Mass. A. E. p. 
On July 21 a heavy rain and hail storm 
passed over this section and did much dam¬ 
age to all growing crops, killing many small 
chickens. It also destroyed about 1,000 
lights of glass and some damage to Rtoek. 
loss about $250 to me. Hail the size of 
stove coal. h. k. l. 
Dorothy, N. J. 
We are having fine Summer weather, with 
nice showers. Wheat all harvested; hay 
all made. Quite a lot of oats cut. Oats 
will be a light crop. Will have a good crop 
of apples, peaches, plums and grapes. 
Wheat, 83 cents; corn, 60 cents; oats, 45 
cents; potatoes, new, $1.50; butter, 16 
cents; eggs. 16 cents. d. d. s. 
Snyder Co., Pa. 
All of the fruit and truck raised around 
here is sold in the local market. I sell my 
strawberries for 12% cents and they retail 
for 15 cents. Honey in comb, 17 cents, sells 
for 20 cents; extracted. 12 cents, retails for 
15 cents. Potatoes, $2.50 bushel, retail, $3. 
The milk dealei'S pay three cents a quart 
and retail for six to seven cents. Cabbage, 
36 cents a dozen, retail for five cents each. 
Other truck about the same. Eggs bring 12 
cents in trade; retail for 14 cents. Yours 
for parcels post. h. r. b. 
Cedar Falls, Iowa. 
On account of the drought we lost our 
oat, potato and corn crops. No rain, with 
the exception of three or four very light 
showers, fell in this immediate vicinity 
from April 10 until July 13, when we had 
about one inch of rainfall. We also had 
one inch of water on the 16th, which put 
the ground in fairly good condition. We 
have been busy this week drilling in cow 
peas and Kaffir corn, and if we have rain 
enough from now on will raise enough feed 
to keep stock through the Winter. There 
are no peaches, and apples will make from 
25 to 50 per cent, of a crop on orchards 
that have been sprayed and cultivated, but 
there is only about one man out of 10 that 
will spray and cultivate. • G, w, C. 
Fayetteville, Ark. 
Drought and heat still threaten all vege¬ 
tation. Even tree fruits are suffering. Lo¬ 
cal showers give but little relief. Feed situ¬ 
ation getting serious. Farmers are baling 
their straw for feeding purposes. No hay 
for sale at any price. Potatoes early and 
late in poor condition. Corn in the river 
lowlands looks well but on uplands it is 
hurt. Fruit scarce, and high. Our cannery 
firms planted 1,500 acres sweet corn for 
their use; from appearance now the yield 
will be very light. Pastures are bare and 
stock living on short rations. Unless rains 
come soon plowing for wheat will be hin¬ 
dered. Farmers must study plans to head 
off droughts as they are becoming almost a 
yearly occurrence. Too dry to risk second 
crops for feed purposes unless it would 
be rye or vetch for pastures. J. H. 
Indiana. 
Canadian Croi\s. —The Dominion Agricul¬ 
tural Department reports that the apple 
yield of Nova Scotia will be very heavy, 
and. in most of eastern Canada, fair. In 
British Columbia the outlook is for 85 per 
cent of last year’s yield, which was very 
heavy. Pears are light in all sections ex¬ 
cept the Montreal district. riums and 
prunes are generally light. Peach orchards 
being well cultivated have suffered less with 
drought, and the crop, except of the Craw¬ 
ford type, promises fair. Insects and fun¬ 
gus diseases are reported less than usual. 
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FEAR CL0VERJ1AY SHORTAGE 
Seed Killed by Heat in the North and 
Central West. 
WASHINGTON, July 19.-A shortage of 
clover hay threatens the Central Western and 
Northern States. The clover and grass seed 
sown in the Spring in wheat, rye and other 
grain fields has been parched and killed on 
thousands of farms. 
For years we have been preaching Fall seeding. 
Grass sown in the Spring with oats or other ‘‘nurse” 
GUANO BASE 
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growing grain. 
The young plants are shaded and become soft and 
delicate. 
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feeble grass dies under the fierce, blistering rays ot the 
early Summer sun. 
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Timothy Hay selling at wholesale in New York City at 
$27.00 to $28.00 per ton, and No. 2 Timothy at $24.00 to 
$26.00 per ton. 
The American Cultivator quotes No. 1 Timothy at 
Boston at $26.00 to $27.00 per ton. 
Advices from some sections where the drought has 
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