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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 28, 
CROPS 
Lima beans and English walnuts are 
being harvested, which are not quite up to 
the yearly average. No rain yet, hut may 
have before September is out. Rain has 
.fallen in some parts of the State, but no 
serious damage done. o. N. C. 
Carpinteria, Cal. 
During the first half of September, 
19,428 ears of grain were received at Du¬ 
luth. Minneapolis and Chicago. This is 
much in excess of all previous shipping 
records. Most of this grain is coming 
from Noi-th Dakota, which has a 150,- 
000.000-bushel wheat crop, twice last year's 
yield. 
The peach crop for 1912 tallies one for 
neglect. The man that cultivated his trees 
and cared for them has nothing and the 
trees that were allowed to do as they 
pleased may have a full crop. It is simply 
a question of ripe wood and buds, which 
the cultivated tree did not sufficiently ma¬ 
ture to stand the severe Winter, r. T. j. 
Rhode Island. 
People in our vicinity have begun cutting 
corn, though most fields are not ripe 
enough yet. Much of the corn is fiat on 
the ground, result of wind and heavy 
rains. We set our corn in 100-hill shocks. 
It has to be quite ripe to cure well in 
large shocks, otherwise it will mold. Ma¬ 
chines are thrashing clover seed, but there 
is only a little raised this year. s. j. 
Bronsa, Mich. 
This particular section is principally a 
fruit section, and is just beiug developed. 
Very little grain is grown here and not 
much dairying; however, no better dairy 
country could be found anywhere, and it 
is growing into this rapidly. All butter 
that is produced so far can be disposed of 
at home at about 30 cents per pound on 
the average. We have our fruit growers’ 
association, which helps us a great deal in 
disposing of our fruits and vegetables; 53 
cars or strawberries were shipped out of 
here this season. Our greatest trouble 
seems to be transportation and sometimes 
commission men. Up to this season we 
have obtained good prices for our straw¬ 
berries and other small fruits, but this 
season we did not do so well, and do not 
believe that we will net more than 81 for 
16-quart case of strawberries, taking the 
season through. Dutchess apples are sell¬ 
ing at $1 per bushel and Transcendent 
crabs about the same. The fruit is very 
fine. We have a splendid association here, 
and hope to solve some of our problems by 
banding together in this way. Potatoes, 
25 cents in car lots. H. N. 
Bayfield, Wis. 
I shipped the first cantaloupes (Ford- 
hooki August 6, price 65 cents per % 
basket for No. 1; shipping every day the 
price finally got down to 40 and 35 cents 
for No. 1 and 20 and 15 cents for No. 2. 
Shipped the first watermelons August 13, 
received 816 per 100, No. 1. They fell 
from that to $15, $14, $8 and $6 per 100 
for No. 1 and No. 2 from $4 to $2.50. The 
first sweet potatoes were shipped Au¬ 
gust 13, price per basket, $1 to $1.25 for 
No. 1 and 60 cents for No. 2. From that 
the price gradually fell until September 7. 
when 1 finished, which sold at 55 and 
60 cents per basket for No. 1 and 40 cents 
for No. 2. 1 sell nearly everything either 
in Philadelphia or Chester, Pa., all shipped 
by boat; the chai-ges are: Philadelphia, 
three cents per basket freight, two cents 
per basket cartage and 10 per cent on sales 
for selling; watermelons $1.50 per 100 
freight, $1 cartage, 10 per cent for selling. 
In Chester the charges are: Two cents per 
basket freight, the distance being much 
less, and three cents per basket for sell¬ 
ing ; watermelons, freight $1 per 100 for 
No. 1, 75 cents per 100 for No. 2 and $1 
per hundred all around for selling. My 
entire crop of cantaloupes averaged 38.7 
cents per basket, gross; deducting freight 
and commission, 8 3.7 cents, net. Sweet 
potatoes, 60.8 cents, gross; deducting 
freight cartage and commission. 49 cents, 
net. Watermelons, $6.02 per 100, gross; 
deducting charges, $4.88 per 100, net. 
Bridgeport, N. J. J. k. 
Almost daily rains since oat harvest have 
pretty nearly ruined the crop here. The 
crop was lair, though late. Corn is rather 
poor, except on the di-ained land. This 
season especially emphasizes the need of 
tiling. Potatoes will be a good crop. Early 
potatoes were injured by dry weather in 
early season—worth 75 cents per bushel. 
Butter is scarce at 29 cents, most milk 
going to cheese factory at $1.20 per hun¬ 
dred ; eggs, 24 cents. Early apples, a good 
crop—first class picked fruit bringing 80 
to 90 cents in Buffalo market: good wind¬ 
falls, about 50 cents. No local market for 
early apples. Crop of late varieties seem 
light to fail’, except Baldwins, which are 
heavily loaded. Apples are not grown ex¬ 
tensively here, but nearly every farm has 
an orchard. • The grape crop will be large, 
very early varieties cracking some owing 
to prolonged wet weather. We shipped our 
first Early Champion and Lutie September 
9. All early varieties have been delayed 
in ripening, which will bring them in the 
market with late kinds. There is a scarcity 
of boxes for shipping the main crop, which 
goes in bulk. One buyer estimates the 
North Collins shipments this year at 100 
carloads, with boxes enough for 30 carloads 
in sight at present. A large proportion of 
the erop goes to Buffalo by wagon and 
motor truck, and buyers at Angola will 
get some again this year. Land values 
have increased 100 per cent here in the 
last year, though the pi-ice of farm prod¬ 
ucts lias not advanced materially. The 
only reason for the high price of land is 
the fact that Italians can be found who 
are willing to pay it. Farms which went 
begging for $4,000 and $5,000 two years 
ago have been sold for $8,000 and $10,000. 
No American could make a living from 
them and pay interest on his investment 
and depreciation of stock, tools and build¬ 
ings. The political situation has cleared 
up quite a little since the State conven¬ 
tion. Many feared to vote for Roosevelt 
lest they hurt Wilson’s chances against 
Taft, but now Roosevelt has many sup¬ 
porters. I know of no farmer who will 
vote for Taft. Most men I have talked 
with seem to prefer Wilson personally, but 
are afraid of Tammany. They feel the 
need of a new party and will give it their 
support. A. il. 
North Collins, N. Y. 
Corn prospects in central Illinois are 
rather above an average. If no frost be¬ 
fore October 1, larger portion will be out 
of danger. This is no potato countx-y, 
extremely rare to produce enough for home 
use. Potatoes arc worth at present 70 
to 80 cents from farmers. Corn at ele¬ 
vators, 70 cents bushel; wheat crop, from 
10 to 30 bushels per acre, worth 90 cents. 
An immense crop of clover hay put up, 
worth about $8 to $9 per ton, baled. An 
extraordinary crop of second growth clover 
is now being hulled, yielding from two to 
as high as five bushels per acre, selling at 
$8 to $9 per bushel. But little Timothy 
raised except for pasture. Winter wheat 
only grown and all sown to clover if 
left in the Spring for a crop. A large 
portion of oat land is'al30 sown to clover, 
the rule being to cut a crop of clover 
hay first season after sowing, and second 
crop same season for either feed or seed, 
following season put to corn. Farms are 
largely occupied by tenants at $5 to $6 
cash rent, or from two-fifths to one-half 
corn delivered in market and two-fifths of 
wheat or oats as rent. Iiogs are scarce, 
having been nearly exterminated by disease. 
Stock hogs are worth $7 per 100 pounds. 
Good horses. 1.100 to 1,200 pounds, $125 
to $150; drafters, 1,400 to 1,800, $150 to 
$225; mules per span, from $250 to $500, 
according to quality; cows, $35 to $60. 
Cattle are not raised to much extent, land 
being too valuable. Stock cattle, steers, 
five cents; heifers, 3% to four cents. Dairy 
butter, 30 cents; best country butter, 20 
to 25 cents. Eggs from the farm, 18 to 
20 cents. Chickens, eight cents per pound. 
Most of vegetable garden produce in this 
section is sold in vicinity at better prices 
than can be obtained by shipping to the 
large cities. As to fruit, the apple crop 
when good will not much more than pay 
expense of handling. When poor, we pay 
good prices for apples from New York. I 
mav say that apple raising commercially is 
a failure, many orchards being pulled out. 
Other fruits are mostly raised for local 
consumption. Farms are mostly in tracts 
of 160 acres, but comparatively few of 
less extent, and are worth $125 to $225 
per acre, according to improvements. Ex¬ 
cepting timber soil, quality of soil is uni¬ 
form. J. H. A. 
Taylorville, Ill. 
ArrLE shipping from Virginia has begun. 
The Warren Sentinel says : “Two thousand 
barrels of export apples were shipped from 
Front Royal on Friday of last week. They 
were raised by William L. and J. E. Key- 
ser, John J. and R. L. Miller, of Rappa¬ 
hannock, and were Yorks and Pippins, with 
a few Bens. Returns from previous ship¬ 
ments to Liverpool and Glasgow show that 
these gentlemen are receiving about $2.80 
to $3 net per barrel. This is rather early 
for exporting these varieties, but the Eng¬ 
lish market demands them and is willing 
to pay a good price for them.” 
Kansas Fruit Crops. 
For the State, as compared with the re¬ 
port for September, 1910 and 1911 : 
Apples 
Pears . 
Peaches 
Grapes 
Sept. 
Sept. 
Sept. 
1912. 
1911. 
1910. 
. 65 
24 
62 
. 73 
27 
42 
. 50 
10 
57 
. 73 
49 
53 
An increase of 7 per cent in pear pros¬ 
pects, and a decline of six per cent in 
apples and thi-ee per cent in peaches, is 
shown since the June report. The greatest 
decline in apple prospects, 15 per cent, is 
in the Seventh Congressional District, 
while a slight increase is shown in the 
First, Second and Sixth Districts. The 
yield of all principal fruits will be larger 
than for several years. All owners who 
have given their orchards proper care re¬ 
port the fruit in good condition. 
WALTER WELLllOUSE, 
Topeka, Kan. Sec. 
ONTARIO CROPS. 
The Ontario Department of Agriculture 
gives the following statement of crop con¬ 
ditions and yields in the Province: The 
area in wheat was 882,968 acres, probable 
yield. 16,999,066 bushels; barley. 647.382 
acres, 18,938,489 bushels; oats, 2.601.735 
acres, 96,115,119 bushels; peas 221,524 
aci'es, 4,118,883 bushels; beans, 69,703 
acres 1,203.420 bushels; rye, 105,949 
acres, 1,861,575 bushels; hay not including 
Alfalfa 3,177,410 aci-es, 4,760,502 tons. For 
the following crop areas no yields have yet 
been estimated: Buckwheat, 205,893 acres; 
corn, 679,233 acres; potatoes, 158.888; 
beets. 81,157; turnips, 101,529; Alfalfa, 
189,959 aci-es. The corn crop of the 
Province will be the poorest in many 
years. The potato outlook is promis¬ 
ing, but little blight and rot being noted. 
Grapes are late, but promise a large yield. 
Fall apples are abundant. Winter varieties 
rather scarce. Farm wages are $1.25 to 
$2.50 per day, and $20 to $40 per month 
with board and labor scarce. 
Wheat. $1.10; oats, 30 cents; rye, 65; 
corn, 00; Timothy hay, new, $12. old, $20; 
Red clover hay, $14 ; Alsike, $13 ; Timothy 
seed, $1.75. Hogs from five to nine cents; 
cattle, three to six cents; veal calves, 
seven cents. Good dairy cows, $75 to $125. 
Butter, 26 to 35 cents. Potatoes, 60 cents; 
sweet potatoes, $1.10 ; onions, 50 cents; to¬ 
matoes, 50 cents. c. s. 
Lafayette, O. 
The list following is up to date and 
actual pi-ices paid or offered at this point: 
Milk. $1.45 per 100 pounds; butter, 28 
cents per pound; veal calves, 10 cents; 
fat cattle, eight; fat ewes, 5 % ; fat lambs, 
eight; hogs, 10% ; eggs, 28 cents a dozen; 
chickens. 12% cents a pound; wheat, 
bushel. 90; corn, 90; oats, 40; Timothy 
hay. No. 1. $15 a ton ; mixed hay, $13.50; 
straw, $7; potatoes, 45 cents a bushel. 
Fruit and gardening crops are not market 
crops in our vicinity. e. a. p. 
Chatham, Pa. 
The following are the local prices at this 
place: Hay, No. 1, $15 per ton; corn. 85 
cents a bushel; oats. 40 to 45 cents; wheat, 
90; potatoes, new, 45. Milk. August, $1.45 
per 100 pounds; butter, 33 to 34 cents at 
creamery : eggs, 25 cents per dozen (We 
ship to Brooklyn, private customers, at 40 
to 45 cents this month). Peaches, $1.25 
per basket; pears, 50 cents per basket. 
Sweet corn, 15 cents per dozen. Veal, 8% 
cents per p’ound, live weight; beef, nine 
cents; pork, nine to 10 cents w. m. p. 
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