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Hay Crop on Low Ground. 
I have a piece of ground, clay and sand, 
that is a little late, being a trifle low. I 
wish to seed it down in the Spring with 
some crop for hay that will not hurt or 
would you advise sowing, only chemical fer- 
would you advise sowing only chemical fer¬ 
tilizers used? Would bone finely ground 
be desirable? What amount of Timothy and 
Ued-top per acre and would you advise sow¬ 
ing clover with it? If so, what variety 
and how much per acre? Corn was on this 
ground last year. c. L. s. 
Connecticut. 
You can seed with oats and cut these 
oats when in “milk” or soft for hay. 
Then let the Timothy and Red-top come 
on. Fine bone alone will not give all that 
such a seeding needs. A good “top dresser” 
or equal parts of fine bone, nitrate of soda 
and muriate of potash will make oats and 
grass grow. We use about 12 pounds of 
Timothy and eight of Red-top seed per acre. 
Use about sis pounds of Alsike clover. 
Another Smoke House. 
I have built one smoke-house for this 
farm. I put up a square house 10x10, eight 
feet in height, with brick, stone and cement 
floor, and underneath the floor I laid an 
eight-inch pipe to bring the smoke to the 
smoke-house. I built a fireplace about eight 
feet away from the smoke-house, and in the 
ground. My smoke-house I built on a hill¬ 
side, so you can see in cut I have the smoke¬ 
house high up, and the fire eight feet below 
it. In this way I can make a good fire. 
I use oak or hickory wood, burning stumps 
and all, and when I start the fire it lasts 
for three or four days. The meat is much 
better smoked by cold smoke, tastes better 
and last longer. I can keep my meat 
all the year round without trouble. Warm 
smoke is no good for any kind of a 
meat; the smoke-house described is in no 
danger from fire. You can make a cover 
over the smoke pipe, about eight Inches over 
the outlet pipe, so the smoke will be thrown 
all over the house. w. z, e. 
Warren ton, Va. 
The “Wonder” Forage Plant. 
Could you give any information about the 
Wonder forage plant advertised in John 
Lewis Childs’ catalogue? If it will do all 
Mr. Childs claims for it, it certainly is 
worth growing. Perhaps it would solve the 
problem of restoring vegetable matter to 
the soil, which is growing more serious 
each year. L. e. g. 
Long Island. 
It -would appear from the illustration 
and description of the “Wonder forage 
plant” that it may be pearl millet, Pen- 
nisitum typhoideum, a coarse, luxuriant 
grass, supposed to be a. native of India, 
where it has long been grown for forage 
and for the seeds, which are used for poul¬ 
try and cattle feed and occasionally as 
human food. It Is grown to some extent 
in the Southern States and may be culti¬ 
vated farther north, where it does not ripen 
seeds, for forage. On good soil, cultivated 
in rows like broom corn, it makes a tre¬ 
mendous growth and affords a great quan¬ 
tity of coarse stems and leaves, readily 
eaten by stock, when green, but difficult to 
cure and quite tasteless when dried out. 
Sown broadcast on ordinary soil it does not 
amount to much. As a soil restorer it 
probably would not prove more useful than 
ordinary corn stover, affording some humus, 
but contributing no nitrogen that it did not 
secure from the soil. Pearl millet is no 
novelty, having been offered to American 
farmers for the last 25 years. v. 
Spring or Hairy Vetch. 
I am planning to sow some vetch with 
oats for hay this Spring. Would you ad¬ 
vise sowing Spring or Hairy vetch? I have 
for several seasons sown the Winter vetch 
in the Fall to plow under the following 
Spring, but have had no experience with it 
as a forage crop. j. j. b. 
Gallipolis, O. 
Spring vetch would be best to sow with 
oats, but we believe Canada field peas will 
give more and better forage. 
Silage for Horses. — I noticed an inquiry 
on feeding silage to horses. We feed our 
horses one-half bushel every noon during 
the Winter and never saw any bad effects. 
We have fed it for 25. years, and can show 
you a horse that has been so fe4 for 13 
years, and he shows no bad effects. Brood 
mares and colts are alike fed and have 
never known them to be sick when not over¬ 
fed. J. F. CONVERSE & CO. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
Tell your inquirer to cut out the silage 
for horses. We killed five last year with 
forage poisoning brought on by feeding pea 
and oat silage, and I know of dairymen 
losing horses by feeding corn silage also. 
Spring Church, Pa. c. G. T. 
NOTES ON PRICES. 
Timothy hay is selling for $20 a ton; 
mixed hay is $18. Fat cattle are now sell¬ 
ing at 5 (4 cents; hogs at six cents, and 
calves at eight cents. Corn, 65 cents a 
bushel; wheat, 99 cents; potatoes, $1.20. 
Madison, Ind. h. w. b. 
Horses, sound, from $100 to $300 ; cows, 
common, $35 to $50; extra, $100; coming 
two years, $25 to $30; yearlings, $15 to 
$25; hogs, live, six cents; dressed, eight 
cents; veal, eight cents; lambs, six cents; 
eggs, 35 cents; butter, 30 to 40 cents ; po¬ 
tatoes, $1.25 a bushel; meal, $1.50; oats, 
65 to TO cents; milk, four cents. Hay, 
$15 to $20 in barn, $20 to $25 delivered. 
No silage or manure sold. H. D. a. 
Guilford, Yt. 
Hay in barn here of good quality about 
$15 to $16 per ton. No silage sold about 
here. Potatoes are $1.25 per bushel, and 
hard to find at that. 1 have just shipped 
a car of Baldwin apples, No. 1, at $3.50; 
No. 2, $2. Veal calves are about 13 (4 cents 
per pound dressed. No milk sold in this 
section; cream all goes to Cummington 
creamery. Butter selling the 17th inst. re¬ 
tail at 39 cents per pound, 37 cents per 
pound wholesale. Cows going from $40 to 
$50, according to what they are. Dressed 
hogs about eight cents per pound. 
Worthington, Mass. c. si. c. 
Cattle sell for from 3% to four cents; 
milch cows $50 to $75: good horses from 
$150 to $200 ; good mules from $300 to $450 
per span. Stock hogs five cents, hay $21 
per ton on the market. I cannot quote 
prices on silage and manure; they arc not 
sold very often in my neighborhood. Milk 
is sold for six cents per quart; butter 25 
cents per pound; eggs. 25 cents per dozen; 
hens, eight cents : Snring chickens, 15 cents. 
Potatoes, $1.25 per bushel; corn, 75 cents 
per bushel; wheat. $1 Der bushel; oats, 
40 cents per busheL a. r. 
Bedford. Ind. 
We have no auction sales except when 
farmers sell out to move away. Good farm 
horses sell at $200 to $250 ; purebred cattle 
at almost any price, $100 up to $1,000. 
Good grade milkers bring $40 to $60. Milk 
retails in the city at five cents the year 
round. No manure or silage is bought or 
sold. We are in the heart of the potato 
belt. Thousands of our big farmers have 
2,000 to 4,000 bushels and are getting 
rich. Land brings from $50 per acre up. 
Farms that were bought for $2,000 10 years 
ago bring $5,000 to $10,000 now. Taxes 
are also three to four times as high and 
growing all the time. j. m. h. 
Waupaca, Wis. 
Hay $23 per ton; new corn, 65 cents; 
wheat, $1 per bushel; oats, 55 cents; rye, 
85 cents; rye straw, $15 per ton. Apples, 
$1 per bushel; potatoes, $1.15 per bushel; 
tomatoes at factory last season, $9 per ton, 
average about 12 tons per acre; eggs, 36 
cents per dozen; butter, 38 cents per pound; 
milk, eigiTt cents retail, 4% cents whole¬ 
sale. Poultry, young roasters, live, 13 
cents per pound; live pullets, $1 apiece, 
l'ork, dressed, at the station, eight cents. 
Live veal calves, 9% cents per pound. 
Fresh cows from $45 to $70. Horses, 
young, from $150 to $200. Farm land from 
$30 to $100 per acre, according to loca¬ 
tion. Those along the railroads and trolley 
lines bring the most. L. C. v. 
Hopewell, N. J. 
Farms are selling well; it depends on 
their locality. On the ridges they are 
fetching from $100 to $400 per acre, and 
farther south in Lake County on clay or 
clay loam $50 to $75 per acre. Prices pre¬ 
vail about the same in Ashtabula County. 
We get manure from adjoining cities for $25 
per carload. Young cattle are bringing a 
good price, fresh $50 to $75. Jerseys are 
taking the lead where they have been tried 
out. Holsteins are good in some places, but 
are bringing about $6 per 100 alive. Hay, 
about $22 per ton; straw, $10. Silos are 
very popular here. Potatoes, $1.20 per 
bushel; onions, $2 a bushel; carrots, 60 
cents. Milk is selling at eight cents per 
quart from wagons ; butter, 40 to 50 cents 
per pound. These are figures from Lake 
and Ashtabula Counties. d. X. 
Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 
Grade stock from one year to two years 
sells at from $35 to $60; milch cows, from 
$50 to $125; purebreds at one month to 
one year, $50 to $200 ; older, from $150 to 
$800. Grade draft horses, $150 to $250; 
light horses, $100 to $200. Hay at present 
sells at $18 to $22 per ton. Butter, cream¬ 
ery, 37 to 38 cents; dairy, 31 to 42 cents; 
eggs, 27 to 28 cents. Flour, per barrel, 
$5.50 to $6.50; oats, 40 to 50 cents; rye, 
70 to 75 cents; potatoes, 78 to 80 cents; 
barley, 90 cents to $1.20. Silage not sold 
in this vicinity, and only a few loads of 
barnyard manure can be bought from a few 
barns in our village at $1.50 to $2 a load. 
Our farms are rich in humus, as we all 
keep our farms well stocked, and the village 
of Iola has one of the largest creameries 
in the State. u r. l. 
Iola, Wis. 
Corn is selling at from 48 to 52 cents per 
bushel, according to how close to the mar¬ 
ket. Oats, 50 to 55 cents per bushel; seed 
oats are going to be scarce and seed high. 
Timothy hay, $1 per 100 pounds; clover, 
75 cents per 100; straw, 30 to 45 cents 
per 100. No silage in this neighborhood. 
No manure bought or sold. There is no 
milk sold in this vicinity, as the dairy herds 
are farther south and closer to the bigger 
markets. Good sound and young farm 
horses, weighing from 1200 to 1450 pounds, 
are worth $140 to $180 per head; about 
$20 to $30 lower than last year. Milch 
cows,, good, $50 per head. No hogs in this 
vicinity, as the cholera cleaned things up 
here. What few are offered for sale arc 
very high, $7 to $10 per 100. Almost 
everything sold at farm auction sales brings 
higher prices than the average sales. 
Murrayville, Ill. r. d. m. 
Farm produce is scarce ana high in price 
at the present time. Hay is selling for 
from $15 to $25 per ton, according to 
quality, and hard to get owing to short 
crop. Not many auction sales held in this 
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vicinity. Milch cows are very scarce; prices 
from $40 to $75 for grades. Young stock 
sold cheap last Fall, although beef cattle 
aret selling for $8 and $10 per 100, dressed 
on farm. Working oxen from $150 to $250 
per yoke according to weight and age. Sil¬ 
age or manure are not sold here; very few 
farmers have silos. Potatoes bring from 
$1.20 to $1.40 per bushel; rutabagas, white, 
50 cents per bushel; apples, $2 to $3 per 
barrel. Butter, 30 to 45 cents, and some 
get 50 cents per pound; eggs, fresh from 
farm, 35 to 50 cent.4 per dozen. Not much 
milk sold here, butter being made chiefly, 
and those who sell their milk get four cents 
per quart. Pork is selling cheap according 
to price of grain, selling for only $9 dressed. 
Wo have to pay for grain as follows : Corn- 
meal, $1.50 per 100; bran, $1.60; middlings, 
$1.00 and $1.75. Other feeds just as high. 
Horses are 20 per cent higher in price than 
last year. Draft teams are from $400 to 
$800, a two and a half year old colt being 
sold here yesterday for $200, farm raised, 
The dairy here has had a setback owing 
to many farmers selling their farms and the 
buyer’s not doing much with the property. 
There are, however, several purebred herds 
being introduced. a. h. p. 
Becket, Mass. 
The following are prices obtained for 
farm produce, etc.: Pork, $8 per 100 
pounds; beef, $7 to $9; lambs, $4 and $5; 
shotes, about $6 per 100 pounds on the 
hoof. Wheat, $1 to $1.05 per bushel; corn, 
65 and 70 cents per bushel, $3.50 and $4 
per barrel; hay, about $24 per ton ; wheat 
straw, $12 per ton. We have very few 
auction sales unless some one discontinues 
farming and. sells off his stock. Then 
horses sell according to age and size, about 
$25 up to $250; mules, young and able, 
will bring $400 to $500 per pair; cows, $15 
to $50; farming implements bring various 
prices, good farm wagons, $65 to $100. 
Butter, 25 cents per pound; have no regu¬ 
lar sales of milk. When any is sold it is 
retailed at 20 cents per gallon. Chickens, 
live, 15 cents per pound ; turkeys, 20 cents ; 
Kent Island geese, large white, $2.50 to 
$3.25, weigh from 20 to 30 pounds; Pekin 
ducks, about 14 cents per pound. Hen j 
eggs, 25 cents; duck eggs, 30 cents per 
dozen. Main crops here are wheat, corn 
and tomatoes. Potatoes a total failure in 
1911, both early and late crops, w. a. s. 
Chester, Md. 
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Auction sales are not very numerous in j 
this part of the country; cows at auction 
bring $35 to $60 ; hay, baled, $15 to $16.50 
(Timothy). Steers are seldom raised in this 
part of country ; all bull calves are generally 
sold as veal on Chicago market, sent there 
by express. Silage is never sold here, but 
all fed on place where raised. Hogs are i 
$6.25 live at local butchers, and $7.50 
dressed. Manure has no selling value here; j 
everybody glad to get nis own manure pile 
cleaned up and out of yard annually. In 
town they gladly give it away for the haul 
lng. Soil is very fertile here on these new 
cut-over lands. It is bard to raise small 
grain here on account of lodging nearly al¬ 
ways fiat. Sugar beets bring by contract 
$5 per ton for October delivery, $5.25 for 
November delivery at station. Sugar beets 
yield from 15 to 30 tons per acre, without 
fertilizers. Cabbage under contract brings 
$4.25 per ton ; private buyers paid $5.50 
last Fall. Potatoes are 55 cents per bushel. 
Peas for seed houses under contract are 
from 2% to six cents per pound. Improved 
land with fair buildings has changed hand 
at $70 per acre; wild cut-over lands ean 
be had for $15 to $20 per acre at six miles 
or more from station. Milk Is not sold 
here ; hand separator cream is 38 cents but¬ 
ter fat test at local creameries and cream 
stations buying for St. Paul and Minne¬ 
apolis creameries. A farmer’s creamery at 
Emerald, five miles west of here, paid 42 
cents per pound for butter fat test for the 
month of January. w. h. h. 
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