1012. 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
743 
AN AGRICULTURAL PARCELS POST. 
In South Africa they have a postal privi¬ 
lege known as the above. Consul Guusau- 
lus sends this report: 
“Prior to the date of Union, the post 
was called in the Transvaal the ‘agricul¬ 
tural parcels post’ and in Natal the prod¬ 
uce post.’ In the Cape Colonv and the 
Orange Free State it had not been - intro¬ 
duced. It is now described as the ‘agricul¬ 
tural parcel post,’ but nevertheless all 
products of the Union, such as gold, dia¬ 
monds, minerals, wool, ostrich feathers, 
saddlery and boots and shoes manufactured 
from leather produced in the Union, con¬ 
fectionery, fruit, plants, seeds, and eatables 
and drinkables the product of the country, 
are allowed to pass. The interpretation 
as to what articles can pass is necessarily 
a wide one. Boots, shoes and saddlery have 
imported rivets and eyelets in their pro¬ 
duction ; confectionery has imported flavor¬ 
ings ; and medicines and drinkables gener¬ 
ally have to be fortified with ingredients 
that arc not produced in the country. Pro¬ 
vided, however, the imported additions rep¬ 
resent but a small percentage of the mar¬ 
ketable articles the latter circulate at the 
agricultural rate. Liquids, butter, eggs, 
and fruits which easily liquefy have to be 
packed in boxes filled with absorbent mate¬ 
rial. Nevertheless as agricultural parcels 
are inclosed in bags with ordinary mail 
matter in the majority of instances, occa¬ 
sional cases occur of breakages resulting 
in damage to, other contents. In a country 
like the Union of South Africa where there 
are no less than 1,445 cart, horse, and na¬ 
tive-runner mail routes it is imoraeticable 
to make up agricultural parcels in separate 
boxes or baskets excepting between the 
larger centers. That the producer and con¬ 
sumer have been brought together through 
the introduction of the agricultural post 
is beyond question. The post is largely 
availed of and is increasing in bulk.’’ 
Land Transfers in Germany. 
I note those letters by Mr. Price in re¬ 
gard to farmers’ loan associations in Ger¬ 
many and whereas conditions are somewhat 
different here. I think it could be done 
here. One of the differences here, for in¬ 
stance, is that people roam about more 
from one place to another, the country be¬ 
ing so large, which has a tendency to change 
values. In Germany most people stick 
where they are born, at any rate, they 
could not go far. But there are other 
things in Germany that we would do well 
to follow. For instance you need no law¬ 
yer to transfer property, every house and 
parcel of land is plotted and recorded in 
the town or village office. Hence if A 
wants to sell his farm to B both go to the 
city hall and inform the clerk. The clerk 
looks in his book and informs B, the buyer, 
if the place is encumbered or not. All 
being satisfactory B turns over the price 
to A, the corresponding changes are made 
in the records and B pays a small fee, I 
think one mark (25 cents) for every thou¬ 
sand in the transaction, and B has a clear 
title from the government. You see how 
easy the transaction is compared with our 
cumbersome and uncertain way of transfer. 
WM. KOETTIN’G. 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
At a public auction here to-day the fol¬ 
lowing prices were paid: Ten good cows, 
common stock, part fresh and others strip¬ 
pers or dry, averaged $50.50 per head; 
three good work horses, age about 12 years, 
respectively $129, $140 and $179 per head: 
live hogs, $6.25 per 100; hay, $21.75 per 
ton; two-year-old registered Holstein bull, 
$47. L. L. V. 
Orwell, Pa. 
We are late with planting here; grass 
looks well. Hay, $20 per ton; cornmeal, 
$40 per ton. Pork, $9 per 100 ; butter, 25 
cents a pound; eggs, 15 cents per dozen; 
potatoes, 85 cents per bushel; rhubarb, 
five cents per pound. Muriate of potash. 
$46 per ton ; nitrate of soda, $56; acid 
phosphate, $19. Farmers are planting more 
potatoes this last year. w. n. 
Bridgewater, N. S. 
The farmers here in northwestern Hun¬ 
terdon Co., N. J., have very little left to 
sell in the way of hay, grain, etc., many 
of them having sold more than they should, 
and are now short and compelled to buy 
at much higher prices or let their stock go 
on short allowances. Hay has been sold all 
the way from $20 to $30 per ton ; ear corn, 
$1.10 to $1.30 per bushel; wheat, $1.10 to 
$1.25; oats, 65 to 67 cents, and rye, $1 per 
bushel. The creameries at this writing are 
paying 3% cents per quart for milk. Retail 
price, five and six cents. Fresh cows, $40 
to $65 ; dry cows for butchering, four to 
4% cents per pound; calves 7% cents per 
pound. D. c. c. 
Glen Garden, N. J. 
After reading the reports of prices re¬ 
ceived for their farm and dairv products 
from several sections and States as given 
in The It. N.-Y. 1 am led to believe that 
there is no bettor farm location to be found 
in this country than right here in the 
Berkshire Hills. Only a small percentage 
of farm, garden and dairy products con¬ 
sumed in our manufacturing towns is pro¬ 
duced in this locality, much of it being 
shipped in from the large city markets. 
The reason seems to be the lack of ener¬ 
getic producing farmers, many of whom 
neglect their farms and take positions in 
the city as shop help. Many fine farms 
are for sale at very reasonable prices by 
those who prefer shop to farm work. Trices 
of farm products at writing are as follows : 
Cows, $40 to $80; horses, $150 to $300; 
pigs, eight weeks old, $5 each. Milk four 
to 4% cents quart, wholesale, and eight 
to 10 cents retail; cream, wholesale'. 35 to 
40 cents quart; butter, wholesale. 33 to 35 
cents; retail. 38 to 42 cents pound. Eggs, 
wholesale. 25 cents; retail. 30 to 32 cents. 
Poultry, dressed, retail, 25 to 28 cents a 
pound. Pork, wholesale, 10 to 10% cents 
pound. Potatoes, wholesale, $1.50 bushel. 
Hay, $20 to $30 ton. Feed prices high ; 
meal $1.70; bran, $1.65; manure $1 to $2 
per load. No silage sold. L. a. t. 
Lanesboro, Mass. 
We are located in eastern Ohio, Belmont 
County 25 miles west of Wheeling, W. Va. 
I .and is hilly but fertile; altitude 1300 
feet. Farms range in value from $30 to 
$100 per acre, as to improvements. Farm¬ 
ers are largely engaged in the dairy busi¬ 
ness, Jersey stock predominating. Regis¬ 
tered Jersey cows sell from $75 to $125; 
grade stock. $40 to $60. Milk, 16 cents a 
gallon at wholesale. Horses, $100 to $250. 
Sheep, $4.50 to $6 per head ; hogs, six cents 
a pound. Hay, $25 a ton. straw, $12; 
silage, $4 a ton. Potatoes, $1.50 per bushel. 
Eggs, 18 cents; butter, 30 cents. Timber 
nearly all gone except enough for farmers’ 
use, but occasionally a small tract of virgin 
oak timber is found and sells for a big 
price. r. s. s. 
Flushing, Ohio. 
Eastern part of Schoharie and western 
part of Albany counties, upland, clay soil 
Main crops are hay, buckwheat, oats. About 
10 per cent of farmers engaged in dairy 
business, land mostly good, responds to 
small amount of fertilizer. Land values 
low. A small farm of 33 acres, good house, 
new barn, etc., adjoining us. recently sold 
for $750. We purchased two years ago 
73 acres, with house, barn, poultry house 
13x30. good small orchard and other fruit, 
for $1,250. Hay now bringing $24; oats 
60 cents; buckwheat 80. Corn costs 95 
cents; bran $1.60. Eggs bring 20 cents; 
butter 26 cents. Good work horses bring 
an average price of $150 ; cows $30 to $60. 
A neighbor offers a Jersey six years old 
testing 5.8, eligible to registry, for $75. 
Schoharie, N. Y. a. j. h. 
Horses, good farm chunks, from $200 to 
$250; light and road, $150 to $200. Cows, 
good grade Holsteins, $50 to $85; common, 
$30 to $50. Hogs, shotes, $6 to $9 ; pigs, 
$2 to $3.50; sheep, good ewes, $5 to $7; 
common. $3 to $5 ; chickens. 50 to SO 
cents; hay, good Timothy. $20 to $23; 
clover, $18 to $21 ; corn fodder, four to 
seven cents per bundle; straw, $10 to $12 
per ton; corn, 60 to 70 cents; oats. 50 to 
65 cents; wheat, 90 cents to $1.12 per 
bushel; potatoes, 75 cents to $1; milk, at 
cheese factory, $1 per 100 pounds. Cream¬ 
ery pays Elgin price and gets the cream at 
farmer’s door. 
Apple Creek. O. R. s. 
Everything very scarce, hay from $25 to 
$30; wheat, $1 ; oats, 75 cents; corn, 80 
cents to $1 ; horses, fair, from $150 to 
$250; cows, $40 to $80; eggs, 15 cents; 
butter, 30 cents; pigs, six weeks old. $6 to 
$8 per pair ; hogs, eight and nine cents. No 
straw or silage sold, and very little manure, 
and that just by the wagonload; at the 
livery or feed barns brings from 10 to 25 
cents per load. No milk shipped ; five cents 
per quart in the country; six. seven and 
eight in village and town. Wet weather 
has held corn planting back greatly, but 
most of it is in by this time. Good pros¬ 
pects for fruit. Meadows look better than 
at this time last year. w. w. d. 
Gloucester, O. 
Not many auction sales around here. At 
one on May 23 the prices were for grade 
cows, freshers, $45 to $55 ; registered milch 
cows, $90 to $110; sound young horses, 
$150 to $200; plugs, $50 to $90 ; beef cat¬ 
tle, four to seven cents; calves, suckers, 
seven and eight cents ; drinkers five to six 
cents. Four weeks’ pigs, $3 each : sows $18 
to $25 each; no sheep sold. Hay $15 to 
$18 per ton at barn; potatoes, $1.50 per 
bushel; corn. 85 cents; oats, 75 cents; 
wheat, $1.20; Timothy, $18. Alsike $21. 
At stores eggs 20 cents wholesale, 25 cents 
retail, per dozen. Most farmers separate 
their milk and send cream to factory. Last 
month butter fat was at 33 cents. This 
has been a very backward, cold and wet 
Spring; had frost on June 7, turning beans 
and corn yellow. H. b. 
Northfield, Vt. 
There is not in this section a farmer who 
raises enough, or has the last four or five 
years, to justify his owning a farm. Since 
they sold their coal they are living on the 
interest of the money and are letting their 
farms go to the dogs. You can get good 
prices for produce in our town. Rhubarb, 
beets, onions and carrots, 40 cents dozen 
bunches, seven to the bunch. Beans, green, 
50 cents to $2 per bushel through season. 
Tomatoes 50 cents to $4; potatoes, 80 
cents to $2; peas, $1 to $2; Lima beans, 
15 cents to 25 cents per quart, all hulled: 
green corn, 15 cents to 40 cents per dozen : 
rye, per bushel, $1; wheat. $1.05; corn. 
90 cents: hay. $30; straw, $10. Eggs 25 
cents to 50 cents per dozen ; butter. 30 cents 
to 40 cents pound; chickens, hens and 
roosters, 12 to 15 cents per pound, live. 
These are the prices I got or was offered; 
did not sell my hay or straw. C. G. 
Lafayette Co., Pa. 
Hay about $25 a ton; wheat $1.25 a 
bushel wholesale, corn 88 cents a bushel 
wholesale; oats about 65 cents a bushel; 
potatoes $1.25 a bushel; good horses $150 
to $200. and more; good mules per pair 
$400 to $475. Cows $50 to $90; stock 
bulls $35 to $50. Fat steers $7.25 to $8 
per 100. Eggs, 16 cents a dozen; butter 
28 cents a pound this week, preceding 
weeks 30 cents and 32 cents a pound. A 
grocer from Lebanon has a route through 
here and the price of butter and eggs is 
what he pays at the house. Not much 
butter is made; the Hershey Chocolate Co. 
of Hershey, Pa., gets most of the milk: the 
present price paid is about $1.50 per 100; 
the price during the Winter months was 
$1.90 per 100. The milk has to be hauled 
each morning to local stations by the farm¬ 
ers, where it is fetched by the company’s 
gasoline truck. s. e. s. 
Lebanon, Pa. 
At public sales hay brought $20 at barn; 
oats 65 cents, corn 35 pounds, 40 to 45 
cents; wheat $1.12 to $1.15; potatoes, 
$1.50; silage not sold, cannot get enough 
for the farmers’ own use, as this is a 
dairy section, also market garden. Milk 
from 12% to 16 cents at barn ; butter 35 
to 40 cents per pound; eggs 20 to 25 
cents; apples $1.25 per bushel. Garden 
stuff, onions, three bunches for 25 cents, 
three to four to bunch ; pie plant 20 to 40 
cents per dozen bunches, three to four 
stalks to bunch. Horses $200 to $350 per 
head as to quality; cows from $25 to $150 
as to kind and quantity of milk ; hogs $9.50 
per head dressed; veal calves 12% cents 
dressed; chickens 12% to 20 cents, either 
live or dressed. No manure sold but would 
cost 50 cents per load or about 35 cents 
per month per horse. Very few sheep in 
this section, dogs all loose. c. m. xx. 
Girard, Ohio. 
I can give you prices which we are re¬ 
ceiving—mostly direct to consumer: Eggs, 
25 cents per dozen; butter, 35 cents per 
pound; milk, six cents per quart; cream, 
25 per cent fat. 40 cents per quart. Po¬ 
tatoes. $1.25 per bushel. Pork by the side 
to local dealers, 10 cents; salt pork, 11 
cents. 1 have made inquiries from some of 
the butchers and they say live hogs are 
worth six to 6% cents. Beef on the hoof, 
three to five cents. There is no beef grown 
here—mostly Jerseys, a few Guernseys, Hol¬ 
steins and more scrubs. Potato buyers from 
Boston are offering $1.25 per bushel for po¬ 
tatoes. Loose hay is selling for $10 to $12; 
marsh hay, $7 to $9. Corn is selling for 
$2.10 per 112-pound bag. Our apples— 
Spy, Bellefleur, McIntosh and Fameuse, 
nearly 200 barrels in all—sold for an 
average of $3 per barrel. Dairy cows are 
selling from $25 to $60. Nothing is sold 
here at auction. Cattle, hogs, poultry, etc., 
are bought by dealers and shipped alive to 
Brighton market. D- F. 
Addison, Me. 
Horses, as to size and condition, $100 to 
$250. Milch cows, $35 to $75. Beef cat¬ 
tle, 5% cents a pound live, dressed beef, 
12 to 22 cents per pound. Sheep, any old 
price, $3 to $10, the $3 is generally what 
is given on the market. Pigs, eight weeks 
old, $2 to $5, according to breeding; Stock¬ 
ers, seven cents a pound, fat, ■ nine cents 
pound. Veals, seven cents a pound live, 
dressed, 12 to 18 cents a pound, retail. 
Chickens, roosters, 11 cents, hens, fat, 
12 cents a pound, dressed. 17 to 20 cents. 
Milk, eight cents a quart from wagon. 
Butter 28 cents; eggs, 15 cents a dozen. 
Feed of all kinds high. Hay, $25 a ton; 
straw, $7 to $9 a ton; wheat. $1.10; corn, 
70 cents; oats, 55 cents. Bran per 100 
pounds, $1.60; middlings, $1.55: oil meal, 
$2; corn and oat chop, $1.65; hominy meal, 
$1.55; cornmeal, $2.10; cracked corn, $2.25; 
Alfalfa meal. $1.80; gluten feed, $1.70; 
chick feed. $2.75; beef scraps. $3.50; oyster 
shells, 75 cents. Timothy seed, $8 a bushel; 
clover seed, $14. Potatoes sold last Fall 
here at 60 cents a bushel, now those that 
have to buy pay $1.25 per bushel. Beans, 
Lima, nine cents; navy, seven cents a 
pound; onions, eight cents pound; hams, 
18 cents; shoulders. 16 cents; sides, 22; 
sausage, 16; mutton, 18; flour, $1.40 to 
$1.80 per 50-pound sack. C. E. s. 
Columbiana Co., O. 
Horses, heavy. $200 to $300: light $125 to 
$150, with good demand : very few are 
raised in this section. Milk is the chief 
product here; very few farms that do not 
keep a dairy, as we are in touch with 
Cleveland. Youngstown and Pittsburg. 
Whole milk at factories for May. $1.25 per 
100 pounds for 3.5 milk. Cream shippers 
receive for May, June and July three cents 
per point of 24 per cent cream; sour cream 
gathered three times a week, shipped to 
Cleveland, is sold for Elgin prices for the 
butter fat it contains. Many farmers are 
becoming disguested with the rigid and ar¬ 
bitrary inspection, and are patronizing 
the sour cream route. Milk dealers are 
doing all possible to keep sour cream ship¬ 
pers out. in places offering cream haulers 
$50 to leave their route. Oats 60 cents 
per bushel; corn 85 cents. Hay scarce 
and ready sale at $25 per ton. Grass this 
year looking well. Wheat making a good 
showing. Potatoes high and scarce: seed 
potatoes bring $1.25 per bushel. Butter, 
separated, 34 cents, dairy 30 cents. Eggs 
20 cents per dozen, incubator chicks eight 
to 10 cents each. Six-weeks-old pigs $3. 
Cows coming fresh in November $40 to $50, 
good grades, fresh or Fall springers, $60 
to $100. Purebred Holsteins are in great 
demand, and readily bring from $200 to 
$1,000 according to tests and breeding. 
Small heifer calves from such cows bring 
from $100 to $300 at birth. J. L. 
Chardon, O. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
^ 
Ever Notice 
A Field of 
Indian Corn 
in the glory of its growing ? 
The best part of selected 
pearly white Indian Corn is 
used in making 
Post 
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EVERY 
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ON YOUR 
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If there’s a spring or flowing stream where you 
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Sample free. We pay freight 
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<< 
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Sold by Grocers 
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd. 
Battle Creek, Mich. 
UME=SliLPHUR HYDROMETER ive Fruit-Grower? 
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We Pay the Freight 
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