1912. 
THIS KURAIi WaW-YOKKBR 
49 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
Hay, loose, is worth $12 in barn. Pota¬ 
toes are worth $1.25 per bushel. Beef 
brings six cents by the side; pork, eight 
cents dressed. r S'. H. N. 
Chestertown, N. Y. 
Hay is bringing about $15 per ton in 
the barn; straw, $7.50. Potatoes are 
worth $1 per bushel. Milk, $1.85 at Poland 
milk station for December. 1 have not 
heard of any auction sales very lately, but 
hardly think cows are as high as last 
year. s - 
Coldbrook, N. Y. 
Horses, sound, $150 to $200; cows, milch, 
fair $45 to $50. Sheep, breeding, about 
$5 per head; lambs, fair, $5.50 per 100. 
Hay, mixed, $14 to $15; Timothy, $16. 
Wheat, 90 cents per bushel; oats, 45 cents; 
butter, 25 cents a pound; eggs, 30 cents 
a dozen. Milk about $1.75 per 100; chick¬ 
ens, eight cents per pound. E. H. 
Butler, Ind. 
Fat cattle, 700 to 800 pounds, bring 
five to 5y a cents; 1200 to 1300 pounds, 
six to 6% cents; cows, $25 to $35. Stock 
sheep, ewes, $3; lambs, $1 to $2; wethers 
per pound, three to 3% cents. Hay, Tim¬ 
othy, $18 to $22; clover, $24. Timothy 
and clover very scarce. Corn very poor, 
much rotten; fodder sells at 25 cents per 
shock of 144 bills, and partly rotten on 
account of much rain. Corn, 50 cents in 
field. Silage not sold here. Milk is not 
sold around here. L. w. c. 
St Louisville, O. 
This Is not a grain section; is given 
more to raising truck and small fruits and 
poultry, which the farmer thinks are very 
profitable, fie is within easy distance of 
several good markets. There is one large 
dairy that supplies the town with milk at 
nine' cents per quart. Eggs, fresh gathered, 
bring 45 cents a dozen; good cows from 
$45 to $75; hay, $26 to $28. Not much 
offered, poor crop. Corn on the ear, 75 
cents per bushel. Straw, rye, $14 to $16. 
Apples, $1-50 up to $4; potatoes, $3 per 
bushel. Manure, $1.50 per ton. Hen 
manure, 75 cents per barrel. p. m. g. 
Freneau, N. J. 
Land does not get any cheaper; almost 
any of it is up to the 100-dollar mark and 
over, and near thriving towns and cities it 
is over $200 per acre. The following prices 
prevail: Hay, $20 per ton; corn, shelled, 
60 cents per bushel: oats, 50 cents per 
bushel; potatoes, 60 to |50 cen*s per 
bushel. Hogs, $5.50 per 100 on foot; beef 
from four to eight cents per pound on 
foot Milch cows from $40 to $75 per 
head for common, almost any price for 
registered stock; in short everything here 
brings Chicago prices with a little out 
for freight and commission. Our State has 
not grown as fast as some, but we have 
had a very healthy growth in the last 10 
years, and I expect to see few States go by 
it in the next 10 years. Keep on as you 
have ; never let up on the fakers and crooks. 
Elkhorn, Wis. m. f. 
New milch cows have been in demand 
and sell all the way from $50 to $100 for 
good big Holstein cows. Sedond-hand 
horses are selling very cheap, all the way 
from $15 to $75; good young horses are 
bringing $200 and up. Hay is very scarce 
and brings from $17 to $23. Cornstalks 
arc five cents a bundle; no silage or ma¬ 
nure sold in this section. Milk is 4% 
cents at the creamery, and about the same 
at Bordens. Cows due to calve next Spring 
are selling at $20 to $30. and the farmers 
are reducing their stock, that is dry stock, 
and keep their new milkers. Spring calves 
are selling at $12 up; yearlings have sold 
at $17. Eggs are bringing 45 to 50 cents. 
Potatoes $1.50 bushel; corn, 95 cents; pork, 
eight cents. Hens have sold at sales as 
low as 40 cents apiece. . c. c. h. 
Campbell Hall, N. Y. 
Dairy cows, old, from $15 To $25; 
young, $25 to $40; high grades, $35 to $60. 
Beef cows, old, from three to 3% cents 
a pound; beef cattle, young, 3% to four 
cents a pound. Registered Holstein calves, 
females, $65 to $110; males, $30 to $75; 
cows, young, $125 to $200; cows, old, $65 
to $90l Hogs, fat, live weight, 5% to 6% 
cents; store and shotes, 6% to seven 
cents. Sheep, good ewes, $5 to $8. Poultry, 
live, per pound, eight to 10 cents. Horses, 
workers, 2600 to 2800. $450 to $500. Hay 
in barn, Timothy mixed, $12 to $15. Straw, 
oat, $6 to $7 ; oats, per bushel, 55% to 60 
cents. Manure, cows fed bran, cotton¬ 
seed, etc, (liberally), $1 to $1.50 a ton; 
young cattle and hay-fed stock, 50 to 75 
cents a ton; horse, coarse, 50 cents a ton; 
under hogs, $1 a ton. Milk at station, 
Howell buyer, $1.75 per 100. These prices 
are from actual auction sales. G. w. R. 
Alfred. N. Y. 
Working cattle (oxen) bring from $125 
to $175 per pair, according to quality; 
once in a while a pair sell for $200, but 
not often. Oxen are used in this locality 
about as much as horses. Cows from 
$20 to $50, as to quality; average price, 
$35 to $40. Sheep, $4 to $6 each. Hay, 
first quality, Timothy and Red-top, loose, 
about $18 per ton in producer’s barn. 
Fair quality. $12 to $15 per ton. More 
of this grade sold than No. 1. Silage, I 
never heard of any being sold. Manure 
very seldom sold except in the village, horse 
manure reasonably free from bedding, $4 
per cord (128 cubic feet). Milk, six to 
eight cents per quart, retail, according to 
season of the year; in 20 and 40-quart 
cans to ship, wholesale, 3% to four cents 
per quart. What milk is wholesaled is 
sold to Providence Dairy Co., they taking 
nearly a carload every morning (except 
Sunday) at station. Potatoes about $1 per 
bushel. Apples (not sprayed) 40 to 50 
cents per bushel in cellar, 65 cents to $1 
per bushel delivered to merchants in city. 
New London and Norwich. None shipped 
that I know of. Eggs, strictly fresh laid, 
38 to 40 cents per dozen, wholesale at the 
present time; 42 to 45 cents per dozen 
the highest they have been here. Fowls, 
12 to 13 cents per pound live weight. 
This is at producer’s door. Chickens 
(young cockerels), 11 to 12 cents per 
pound, live weight. Pullets for breeding 
and laying purposes, 20 cents per pound, or 
$1 each. Farmers’ dairy butter, 30 to 35 
cents per pound. H. a. r. 
Colchester, Conn. 
Owing to the excessive droughts of three 
successive seasons, the price of milch cat¬ 
tle has greatly declined, and from the same 
cause, the price of hay and forage has 
soared skyward. At a recent auction sale 
in this neighborhood, good grade cows 
brought from $25 to $50 each, many of 
which three years ago would have gone 
close to the $100 mark. At the same 
gale, cornstalks brought 4%l cents per 
bundle. Hungarian hay, $20 per ton, and 
late cut meadow hay $22 per ton. Small 
shocks of corn that would produce per¬ 
haps less than one-half bushel of ear corn, 
brought 40 cents per shock. Potatoes are 
being held at $1.40 per bushel, although 
one carload of Western potatoes has been 
run in and sold at $1 per bushel. Eggs 
are selling at the stores for 40 cents per 
dozen, netting to the farmer 35 cents. Milk 
is bringing at the creamery $2 per hundred, 
but owing to the high price of feed and 
hay it seems profitless. Pork selling at $7 
per hundred. Turkeys from 25 to 28 cents 
per pound. Butter retailing at the stores 
at 40 cents per pound. Barnyard manure 
in a few instances has been sold at $2 
per load. j. o. g. 
Blooming Grove, N. Y. 
At auctions in this neighborhood lately 
stock and farm produce brought the fol¬ 
lowing prices : Horses, $50 to $125; cows, 
$16 to $45; sheep, five cents a pound, live 
weight. No. 1 hay, $23 per ton in barn; 
oat straw, $15 in barn. Manure, $1.50 
per cord or $3 delivered. Silage is never 
sold hereabouts. Hogs bring eight cents 
dressed, or 5% cents live to butcher; 
calves, seven to eights cents dressed. 12 
to 13 cents live; chickens, 18 cents a 
pound. Potatoes are high and bring $1.15 
at stores, or $1.25 from the customer, and 
are in large demand. Apples, $1 a bushel 
to customers; eggs, 45 cents a dozen; but¬ 
ter, 35 to 45 cents; buckwheat, $1 a 
bushel; oats, 96-pound bag, $1.70; wheat, 
100 pounds, red, $1.80: white, $2. Most 
of the milk hereabouts is shipped to Provi¬ 
dence; price is 4% cents, or 45 cents per 
10-quart can. A few farmers peddle it for 
6 cents. This is a manufacturing locality, 
there being five cotton, two woolen and one 
paper mill within four miles of my farm. 
This creates an excellent market for any¬ 
thing the farm can produce. A good many 
farmers peddle produce, thus securing top 
prices. Very little fruit hereabouts. Help 
is very scarce on account of proximity of 
mills. J. 11 . r. 
Baltic, Conn. 
Apples 30 to 75 cents; wheat, 93 cents; 
oats, 45 cents; potatoes, 92 cents to $1. 
Hay, No. 1, $20, No. 2, $17, baled. Open 
weather, no snow, temperature 38 degrees 
on Christinas Day; wheat looking fine, also 
meadows. G. d. s. 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 
There are few auction sales being held 
in this vicinity; the values of the pro¬ 
ducts named are about as follows: Fat 
cows, 3% to 4% cents a pound; veals, 
7% to 9 cents; pork, 6% to eight cents, 
dressed; fresh cows, $60 to $80 ; good hay, 
$25 per ton delivered; potatoes, $1.20 a 
bushel. Milk at the station, $1.60 per can ; 
butter, 31 cents; eggs, 40 cents. Young 
western horses sell for $175 to $300. No 
silage sold. g. w. a. 
Clinton, N. J. 
Not many cattle fattened around here; 
some cows changing hands. Farrow cows 
from $25 to $35; strippers, $30 to $40; 
fresh cows. $45 to $60; sheep, ewes, $2 to 
$4; last Spring lambs, five to 5% cents 
per pound, live weight; hogs, five to 5% 
cents, alive; seven to 7% cents dressed. 
Hay, No. 1 Timothy, $20, pressed and de¬ 
livered at railroad station, buyer paying the 
pressing. No silage changing hands. No 
manure sold, except by livery men in town, 
$1 per two-horse load. Most of the milk 
goes to creameries, made into butter which 
now is bringing 37% cents per pound. 
Some patronize the milk station and are 
getting four cents. Peddlers are selling in 
town for six cents. Potatoes started at 60 
cents per bushel, then 75 cents, later 95 
cents to $1 ; now back to 80 cents. Buck¬ 
wheat started at $1.40 per 100 pounds, 
now offering $1.60 per 100. Wheat, 90 
cents; oats, 50 cents; corn. 80 cents. We 
are having a very open Winter thus far; 
very little snow, but lots of rain and mud. 
Many are now Winter plowing, a. h. c. 
Covert, N. Y. 
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