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THE 1-i URAb NEW-YORKER 
January 20, 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
Cows are bringing .$35 to $40; horses 
from $150 to $200 ; hay, $12 to $18 ; straw, 
$4 to $8; potatoes, 65 to 75 cents; apples, 
35 to 65 cents; milk, f. o.. b., 2% cents; 
manure from 50 to 75 cents per ton. 
Addison, N. Y. A. J. H. 
At a farm auction held here last week 
the following prices were secured for live 
stock and farm produce: Horses, $100 up 
to $125; cows, $45; hay, $23 per ton: 
corn, 85 cents per bushel; cornstalks, five 
cents per bundle. G. s. f. 
Monmouth Co., N. J. 
Milch cows are bringing $50 to $60 ; fat 
cattle, steers, $5 to $5.25 per 100 pounds; 
heifers. $4 per 100; hogs, $5; stockers, 
$3 to $3.25. Manure is not sold much but 
brings about 25 cents per ton. Potatoes, 
60 cents per bushel; hay, Timothy. $15 to 
$17 per ton. Milk, six to seven cents per 
quart. F. B. 
Dr.vden, Mich. 
This is a small place here in the woods ; 
prices about as follows: Cows, fresh, $40 
to $50 : strippers and dry. $20 to $30 ; two- 
year-olds, $25 ; yearlings, $10 to $15 ; calves, 
$5 to $8; hay, $15 to $18; no silage. Milk, 
five cents per quart; butter, 30 cents per 
pound; potatoes, $1.25 per bushel; eggs, 
40 cents a dozen. Very little for sale. 
Adirondack, N. Y. b. s. c. 
Cows are bringing $30 to $50; horses. 
$150 to $200 ; hogs, eight cents to 10 cents 
dressed: potatoes, 75 cents: apples, hand 
nicked. 80 cents; hay, $16 to $18; straw, 
$6; oats, 45 cents; corn, 40 cents; chick¬ 
ens. nine to 10 cents per pound ; eggs. 40 
cents; butter, creamery, 42 cents; dairy 
35 cents; milk wholesale, 14 cents per gal¬ 
lon. ' C. s. H. 
Albion. Pa. 
Common cows will sell from $30 to $50: 
a good horse from 1,400 to 1.600 will 
bring $200. Hogs, five cents a pound live ; 
poultry, 10 cents live weight; eggs, 32 
cents a dozen; hay, from $12 to $15 a ton, 
baled; potatoes. 60 cents a bushel. But¬ 
ter, 33 cents a pound; hauling and making, 
four cents leaves 29 cents: oats, 42 to 45 
cents: rye, 72 to 75 cents; onions $1 
a bushel. No silage here for sale. Cab¬ 
bage one cent a pound. Barley 85 cents 
a bushel; peas, $1.50 a bushel. c. n. 
Withee, Wis. 
The prices of farm products and live 
stock in Southern Illinois are as follows; 
Horses from $100 to $150 each: mares. 
$125 to $200; mules. $100 to $200: milch 
cows, $35 to $75. No. 1 beef, corn fed. 
five cents per pound; other cattle from 
three to 4% cents. Hogs scarce, from five 
to six cents. Poultry eight to nine cents 
live weight. Wheat. 90 cents; corn. 60 
cents : oats, 50 cents. Clover hay. $20 ; 
Timothv, $16 to $20 per ton. Eggs. 30 
cents; milk, 30 to 40 cents per gallon ? 
butter. 30 cents; buttermilk. 10 cents; 
skim-milk, 12% to 15 cents. J. T. w. 
Harrisburg, Ill. 
Cattle sell at from $60 to $75 a head. 
Pigs, a breeding sow with shotes, $18. 
shotes, three to four months old. $5 apiece. 
Hay in bulk, marsh hay. $15; Timothy and 
Blue grass, mixed, $20 per ton. Alfalfa as 
high as $20. Corn in the shock sold at 
60 cents to $1.40, and standing corn at 
from $13 to $25 an acre. Oats 42 cents 
per bushel; barley, 90 cents to $1.1 o; 
wheat SO to 90 cents per bushel. Milk 
sells according to test, all the way from 
$1.30 to $1.65. Potatoes, $1 : onions, 
$1.50 • cabbage, five to 10 cents a head: 
poultry. 15 to 20 cents a pound, dressed: 
hogs, dressed, $9 a hundred: beef, five to 
seven cents, dressed. Silage and manure 
have never been sold here that 1 know of. 
Watertown, Wis. J- F - 
In this country (Central Tllinoisl there 
is seldom any farm produce sold at public 
auction: we.are noted for grain and hay, 
which is usually rushed to market at the 
earliest day possible. Nothing is stored in 
the farmer’s hand. Corn this year is 
very poor, i. e.. wet and badly rotted, 
so ‘much so that after .much sorting the 
elevator shelters clog down with juicy sour 
corn, vet we get 50 cents per bushel of 
70 pounds. The better grade of horses are 
picked up for the city markets. Those 
more or less suitable for farm purposes 
bring at auction from $150 to $175. No 
cattle sold at auction: good cows bring 
around $50. No. 1 Timothy hay baled, about 
$18. We do not raise potatoes: good No. 
1 apples brought 35 cents for 50 pounds, 
never stored. After January 1 there is 
practically nothing to market in this sec¬ 
tion. all having been rushed to market. As 
to the price of manure at auction T have 
lived here for more than three score and 
ten years and have never seen or known 
of manure being gathered or sold. How¬ 
ever, the stablemen about the city sell 
strawy manure at $1 per big farm wagon 
load. ‘ I have never seen silage, for the rea¬ 
son we don’t try it. Butter finds a ready 
market at 30 cents and eggs the same. 
Milk is delivered at a local creamery, but 
on what basis I am not informed. Live 
poultry, chickens, ducks and geese, have 
brought seven cents during the holiday sea¬ 
son. Naked corn land is held at around 
$200 the acre. Rents are one-half the 
crop delivered at the elevator in the town. 
We are a free-and-easy improvident peo¬ 
ple : never think of tomorrow. The stock 
law is in force here, so we have no fences, 
and hence not tempted to raise live stock 
of any kind in a commercial way. No 
sheep whatever. h. a. s. 
Pana. III. 
Condition in Central Illinois. 
Horses off $20 or more compared with 
this time a year ago. Extra fine drafters 
range in price from $190 to $240 each. 
1.200 to 1,500 pounds at $160 to $175; old 
blemished, good, $100 to $140. Cows. _beef 
grades and good Jerseys, milkers, $45 to 
$80 each. Others range at. $30_ to $45. 
Sheep not many kept or fed. $3.50 to $5. 
Hogs, Chicago prices, less 40 to 50 cents 
per hundred. Cholera cleaned central Il¬ 
linois of hogs so that many farmers had 
to look quite a good deal for bogs to 
butcher for their own use. No hogs to 
ship to speak of. Feeder cattle are. bought 
at Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, 
brought in and finished up for beef; very 
few fed here any more. About 80 per cent 
of the farmers are tenants now and sell 
their grain. Hay is selling for $18 to $22 
per ton, higher than any time I can call 
to mind in 50 years. No silage sold. I 
do not know of 10 silos in the country. 
Farmers are just beginning to study them. 
Shippers are paying 90 cents for wheat; 
only one mill left in this county now, 
pays 90 to 95 cents per bushel. No wheat 
left to speak of. A big crop put out very 
late and the Winter is very hard on it 
now; no snow to protect it. No oats are 
being sold; market for them is 38 to 42 
cents per bushel. Very little corn cut 
up; stalk fields sell at 50 to 60 cents per 
acre. Corn not all husked yet: the season 
has been so wet. Corn is badly damaged. 
Shippers pay 50 cents per bushel; some 
corn being shipped south unshelled at 55 
cents per bushel. Many creameries have 
been built in Central Illinois; very few 
run three years and sell for about 25 cents 
on the dollar of their cost. I do not know 
of creamery running ; our farmers know but 
little about dairying and farmers’ wives 
find it worse than pulling teeth to get the 
men to milk. A woman who is a clever 
butter-maker and makes good butter finds 
more consumers that she has butter to sell 
to at 30 cents per pound, and who will take 
it each week the year round. All think 
they make good butter. The groceryman 
does not pay on an average in trade over 
20 cents per pound, and in May, June, part 
of July, November and December, gets more 
than lie can retail, so sells to the shipper, 
who sends it to the butter renovators, good, 
bad, dirt, rancid and all mixed in a bar¬ 
rel. The renovator in turn ships it back 
here and elsewhere under various brands 
of Elgin and creamery butter, when butter 
is scarce in small towns. In July. August. 
September, January and February, ana 
part of March. 
Our poultry shipper paid as low as seven 
cents per pound for chickens in October, 
and then raised to eight cents for hens 
and roosters three and four cents a pound : 
geese, eight cents; ducks, same; turkeys, 
13 to 15 cents up to date. They dry- 
pick turkeys and chickens, steam ducks and 
geese, and ship almost all when the weather 
is cold enough in boxes to Boston and New 
York. When warm they ice and ship in 
barrels. A friend will average a ton a 
week of poultry, and in egg season ships 
about six cars of eggs total the season; 
he runs two wagons to gather up from the 
farmers. No milk sold except local trade. 
I get 14 quarts for a dollar and pay my 
butter woman 30 cents per pound for but¬ 
ter year around. We had the finest apple 
crop for quality and quantity the past sea¬ 
son. Fine apples went begging, for buyers 
as low as 20 cents per bushel, now come 
from cold storage at 80 cents to $1.20. 
Potatoes not enough raised for seed, now 
retailing at $1 to $1.25 per bushel. So 
far what we call an open Winter, bad 
roads, freezing and thawing makes the 
chances great on Winter wheat. No Spring 
wheat is seeded in Central Illinois. Clover 
and Timothy seed almost out of sight. $18 
to $20 per hundred pounds. AVliat was 
sown last season almost a failure on 
account of drought. J. b. a. 
Christian Co.. Ill. 
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