1912. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
683 
PRICES AND TRADE. 
Cows, $20 to $75 ; horses, $100 to $300; 
a few still higher. Grain at mills, wheat, 
$1; corn, 95 cents; oats, 55 cents; rye, 
90 cents. Hay, $20 to $25 per ton. Silage, 
none sold. Apples, 30 cents a basket (16 
quarts). Eggs, 19 cents per dozen. Milk, 
$1.50 per 100 pounds at creamery. Milk 
stations a little higher. Potatoes scarce, 
for seed $1 to $1.25 per basket. d. 
Pittstown, N. J. 
Hay, $20 a ton; potatoes, $1.20 a 
bushel; oats, 75 cents a bushel; cows, from 
$50 to $80; 1300-pound work horses, $250; 
dressed hogs, 10 cents per pound; 12-week- 
old lambs, $5 ; milk at the farm, four cents 
a quart; in town, eight cents. No sale for 
silage. Butter retails for 30 cents per 
pound; cheese, 24 cents; eggs, 20 cents a 
dozen. Good smooth matched 3500-pound 
oxen arc worth $200 per pair. j. n. 
Fairfleld, Me. 
Potatoes $1.60 per bushel. Timothy hay 
$25 per ton taken at the barn, $27 per 
ton delivered. Cattle, nice Devon, four to 
six years old, well broken, weighing from 
2700 to 3000, per yoke, $225 to $250. 
Common breeds not much more than they 
weigh for beef. There are very few of this 
breed in our vicinity. Milk taken at the 
house five cents, delivered, six to seven 
cents. Fresh cows are worth from $30 to 
$65, according to quality. n. d. 
Iladlyme, Conn. 
Cows in good demand, bring at auction 
$29 to $75; when black and white bring 
$5 more. Yearlings $23 to $35; two-year- 
old $32 to $50. Hay $20 to $25 in mow 
or stack, and scarce. Very little silage 
sold, $3.50 per ton. Anything that looks 
like potatoes $2 a bushel; very few for 
sale. Practically all milk sold at New 
York Exchange and Borden’s prices, 3% 
cents May 1. No manure sold, worth from 
$2 to $6 per cord. >i. C. M. 
Ilawleyville, Conn. 
Good average cows sell from $40 to $50 
per head; yearlings, $15 to $20; steers, 
three-year-old and up, $150 to $200 per 
pair; sheep, $6 to $8 per head; horses, 
weight 2600 pounds, $550 per pair; horses 
weighing 3200 pounds, $700 per pair; pigs, 
four weeks old, $3.50 to $4 per head. Hay 
sells at $14 per ton in barns. Silage and 
stable manure not sold. Milk is selling at 
3% to 4% cents per quart wholesale in 
our vicinity. Potatoes at present $1.50 per 
bushel; butter, 35 cents per pound. 
Brier, Mass. g. e. m. 
No auction sales of farm produce here 
except occasionally a carload of western 
horses; prices from $175 to $300. New 
milch cows from $45 to $65; farrow cows 
from $30 to $40. No silage sold; loose 
hay on the market $13 to $17. Stable 
manure (horse) from $2 per cord or $2 
for each horse kept. Milk seven cents 
retail; farmers get 12 cents per gallon in 
Summer, 16 cents in Winter. Potatoes $1 
to $1.25; yellow eye beans, $2.25 to $2.50. 
Apples 65 cents to $1; all good ones gone. 
Bangor, Me. H. C. P. 
Cows sell for from $40 to $80 for good 
grade Holstcins ; young cattle $15 to $25 ; 
sheep $9 to $9.50; hens 90 cents to $1.15 
apiece. Horses are high ; good ones $225, 
some poor ones for much less. No silage 
sold; some manure sold from the village at 
50 cents a load. Hay is bringing from $25 
to $30 per ton; oats about 60 cents; buck¬ 
wheat 90 cents to $1. Not much milk sold 
from our station ; most of it goes to Albany 
at three and four cents per quart, accord¬ 
ing to season. H. H. R. 
Esperance, N. Y. 
Good new milch cows $65; loose hay, ton, 
$26; pigs, per pair, $8; potatoes, bushel 
$1.50; butter, a pound, 32 to 40 cents; 
milk, quart, six cents, solid manure cord, 
$4, light, 50 cents. No silage sold. Last 
season was so very dry here that the 
farmers have no grain of any kind to sell, 
but will give you a few prices that they 
have to pay for grain: Corn, bag, $1.90; 
cracked corn, $1.80 ; stock feed, $1.75; oats, 
$1.65; wheat, $2.25; bran, $1.65; chops, 
$1.70; baled hay, $25 to $30 ton. Calves 
are worth seven and eight cents a pound 
live weight. I do not know what oxen and 
sheep are worth, as hay is so high that 
theer have not been any sold around here. 
East Lyme, Conn. f. h. s. 
Everything is high; draft horses go at 
from $300 to $400 each, farm chunks $200 
to $250; drivers $150 to $250, as to age 
and condition. Cows (just cow) $45 to 
$55; good ones, $65 to $100; pigs $7 to 
$8 per pair; shotes $2 each. Fowls 14 
cents; eggs, 25 cents; butter, 35 cents. 
Farmers are getting 4% cents per quart 
for their milk this year. Potatoes $1.75; 
oats 70 cents ; hay $22 to $27, as to qual¬ 
ity. Bran $1.70; cornmeal $1.70; gluten, 
$1.80; cotton-seed meal $1.70; oil meal 
$2.65; manure $1.25 per ton; no silage 
sold. Oat straw $12 a ton; hay and pota¬ 
toes in good demand, but crop very short. 
Apples $3.50 per barrel; crop a failure last 
Fall. G. m. c. 
Adams, Mass. 
Cattle are scarce and very high, bringing 
from 5(4 to 6(4 cents per pound for Stock¬ 
ers and hard to buy at that. Milch cows 
bring from $40 to $75 per head depending 
on quality of milk, etc. Heavy draft 
horses from four to eight years old and 
sound bring from $200 to $300 each; 
driving horses, well broken, about the 
same. Hay is very scarce and high ; we buy 
hay instead of selling at from $20 to $25 
per ton. There is but little silage here and 
none sold. Corn is shipped here and re¬ 
tailed at about 80 cents per bushel; pota¬ 
toes $1.50 per bushel, all shipped in. As 
for manure from stables in the city, it can 
be had for the hauling, most of which is 
used on the truck farms and gardens in 
and near the city. We have a good mar¬ 
ket here for all kinds of garden truck, 
berries, small fruit, etc.; butter brings 
30 to 40 cents per pound; eggs from 25 
to 40 cents per dozen; milk at retail eight 
or nine cents per quart delivered to con¬ 
sumers by the dairymen. Sheep are not 
as high as cattle on account of dogs; hogs 
are or have been bringing nine to 12 cents 
per pound dressed. We had a severe 
drought last year; our crops were light, 
potatoes almost an entire failure and hay 
and corn less t han one-half crop. We 
are in a manufacturing, coal mining, oil 
and gas producing and electric railroad 
building district, so that it is difficult to 
get farm help, and on this account we 
ship a large amount of feed and provisions 
as well as garden truck, especially at this 
season of the year; but the year round 
prices are high and there is a good demand 
for almost everything that we produce 
here. p, i. l. 
Clarksburg, W. Va. 
There has been but few auction sales 
in this neighborhood, 10 miles from the 
city of Parkersburg, W. Va., so far this 
Spring, and where a credit is given prices 
obtained are somewhat higher than when 
sales are for cash. Yearling steers go at 
from $20 to $25; two-year-olds, $30 to 
$35; three-year-old, $40 to $45; common 
milch cows. $25 to $50; best Jerseys, $50 
to $60. Work horses $150 to $200; driv¬ 
ing teams, roadsters, $350 to $450. Hay 
$22 to $25 ton. No silage nor manure sold. 
No milk sold here, the dairies all market 
butter, and where sold by the year on 
contract we get 25 cents per pound. Hogs 
scarce, about six cents on foot; pigs $5 
to $6 per pair. Eggs before Easter 18 
cents to 20 cents per dozen at home. A 
great many farmers market regularly once 
a week in the city, and they usually buy 
all the eggs and butter of those who do not 
market, paying within five cents per pound 
and five cents per dozen of the prices they 
get from the consumer, so we manage to 
get more than 35 cents of the consumer’s 
dollar. z. e. t. 
Mineral Wells, W. Va. 
No auction sales of stock and hay this 
Spring. Cows are worth from $30 to $50; 
loose hay at the barn, $12 to $15. No 
silage sold; when there is a surplus hay 
is sold instead. Milk at the station, 28 
cents a can, retail, five cents a quart. But¬ 
ter, creamery, 33 cents; dairy, 30 to 32 
cents; butter fat, 30 cents. Fat cattle, 
$6.50 per 100 pounds; veal, $6.50; hogs, 
$6.50; eggs, 18 cents. Potatoes, $1.10. 
There is no manure brought in, as Boston 
is 190 miles from the station at Littleton, 
N. H. In the school district where I 
was raised 50 years ago one of the neigh¬ 
bors collected for the county fair 80 yokes 
of oxen and steers, one of many strings 
near town, and now in the same district 
there is none. Then there were from 600 
to 1,000 sheep, now possibly 25. At that 
time many horses were raised; almost every 
farmer raised one colt or more, now prac¬ 
tically none. Horses come from the West, 
and good ones are said to cost $500 a pair 
and up. Now if any one has any live 
stock to dispose of it must be got to the 
station and sold to the trust before 7 a. m. 
Those old farmers are all dead and gone, 
and but very few of their descendants left 
on the farms. What can the matter be? 
Franconia, N. H. l. f. n. 
Corn, northern flint. $1 per bushel; pota¬ 
toes about $1.50; turnips 50 to 60 cents, 
and hard to get. Hay is bringing $20 to 
$22 in the barn, yery little that is not 
sold. Silage is not sold, very few silos in 
this locality. Cows, new milch, from $45 
to $65, according to quality. Farrow, dry 
and nearly dry, $20 to $35, according to 
grade and quality. The local butcher has 
been paying for dressed hogs $8 per 100 
pounds; beef cows $6 pen 100 pounds; pigs 
eight weeks old $4 to $5 each. Veal calves 
eight cents per pound. Eggs are 20 cents 
per dozen at the stores. Milk is retailing 
for six cents per quart, delivered at the 
railroad station for shipment to Providence, 
45 cents per 10-quart can the past Winter, 
now, May and .Tune 40 cents per 10-quart 
can. We have to pay for grain as follows 
pei‘ 100 pounds: Oats $1.85; seed oats 
$1.90; corn $1.80; bran $1.80; mixed feed 
$1.80; chops $1.85; meal $1.85; cotton-seed 
meal $1.75; baled hay $32 per ton. 
Alton, R. I. a. K. C. 
There is not a silo anywhere around 
here; we are on the Potomac River about 
52 miles south of Washington, and have 
no train service nearer than Laplata, the 
county seat. All poultry and farm produce 
have to be shipped by boat to commission 
men at Washington and Baltimore. We have 
never sold any farm produce excepting 
poultry, sheep, cattle and hogs, and very 
little wheat; the rest of the grain and hay 
being fed on the farm, and the little sur¬ 
plus butter we make sells readily for 20 to 
25 cents per pound right here. Turkeys 
averaged me about 20 cents per pound 
right through last year; I sold 49 and they 
brought about $2.50 apiece. Ducks and late 
Summer chickens from 75 to 80 cents 
apiece after the holidays and up to Easter; 
duck eggs were from 33 to 36 cents per 
dozen. I do not know of any milk being 
sold. o. d. w. 
Riverside, Md. 
Good sound horses from $150 to $250; 
fresh cows, $30 to $50; springers, $25 ta 
$45; yearling heifers, $15 to $20 • ewes, 
$5 to $7 ; sows, $15 to $40. Wheat, $1.15 
per bushel; oats, 50 cents; corn, 75 cents; 
potatoes, $1; hay, $25 a ton. Milk at cheese 
factory, $1.20 per 100 ; butter, 30 cents per 
pound; eggs, 17 cents per dozen, j. c. s. 
Fredericksburg, O. 
In this country we do not have auctions 
of fruit or products. The first that comes 
is asparagus; most of that is sold in the 
Boston market on commission price, 18 to 
20 cents; strawberries come next; they are 
sold mostly to houses at 20 cents to two 
for a quarter. Milk is selling for 10 cents 
a quart. Fotatoes sold last Summer for 
$2 a bushel. In the Fall they sold for $1 
at the store, now are asking $2. What po¬ 
tatoes there are come from Boston. This 
being a Summer resort, everything sells 
high during the season, peas 80 cents a 
peck. No silos around here. Horse manure 
sells from $2 to $4 a cord. Cows are high ; 
common cows sell from $40; extra from 
$75 to $100. Loose hay, $28 a. ton; baled 
hay, $27. Grain, store price, oats, $2.15; 
cracked corn, $1.85; corn, $1.80; eggs, 22 
cents. Teams for plowing, $5.85 for nine 
hours; labor, $2, nine hours. Horses are 
high around here; poorest sell at $100 
readily. Young pigs, $5 a piece. b. 
Centerville, Mass. 
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