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THR KULtA.1* NEW-YORKER 
October 5, 
The Grape Belt states that in the Chau¬ 
tauqua and Erie sections the crop will be 
about one-half of last year’s. One grower 
is said to have contracted his outpnt at 
$33 per ton. Others predict that prices 
will go above $40. 
The outlook for the Winter is pretty 
good. Just at present it is a kind of a 
hard proposition for many of us, on ac¬ 
count of poor pasturage, but it is about 
time for the Fall after-feed, when condi¬ 
tions will no doubt improve. On the 
whole farmers will be fairly well supplied 
with the Winter feed. The river flats have 
cut an extra good crop of hay, though in 
some instances there will be a shortage 
among the hill farmers on account of the 
early dry weather. At present it does not 
look to me as if the shortage of Winter 
feed is going to have any marked effect 
on the cattle market. Corn, by the way, 
for silage, is a good crop in most instances. 
At present we are receiving three cents 
per quart at the lvillawog station for milk 
The price goes to 3% cents the first of the 
month, whether the exchange price goes up 
or not, since station charges are % cent 
per quart at the Killawog station for milk. 
Many farmers are complaining because the 
exchange price is remaining so seemingly 
permanent. E. h. 
Killawog, N. Y. 
We have just finished thrashing. Oats, 
45 bushels to the acre (1,000 bushels) ; 
wheat, about eight bushels to the acre (192 
bushels) ; wheat smothered so badly last 
Winter that a great deal of it was entirely 
killed. I got 02 bushels of fine Timothy 
seed out of my wheat. The live farmers 
arc fairly well supplied with coarse feed 
and will have a fair crop of corn with two 
weeks more of warm weather. The half- 
alive farmers have not the feed, or cows 
either. Fair cows are worth $45 to $50; 
good, $55 to $60, and choice cows are 
worth more. Cows are scarce in this sec¬ 
tion. The Ashtabula Dairy Co. is paying 
13 cents, delivered, to the first of Oc¬ 
tober. then 15 cents per gallon. Some re¬ 
tailers are paying 15 cents, delivered. We 
should have at least 16 cents per gallon at 
the farms to come out whole, at the price 
of labor and feed. There are not half of 
the cows kept in this section there were 40 
years ago. People are tired of waiting on 
the cow for pleasure. C. J. m. 
Ashtabula, O. 
There is no organization among the farm¬ 
ers in this vicinity that gives any help to 
the producer along the line of giving the 
farmer a correct idea of the condition and 
prospective condition in the markets. Some¬ 
times the same identical price figures stand 
in the daily papers for weeks, although we 
are sure from other sources of information 
that material changes have occurred. We 
are too far from market to do any truck¬ 
ing. We milk a few cows and let calves 
run in the pasture with others. Poor man¬ 
agement, you will say; true, but there is 
no satisfactory market for cattle. Buyers 
and the local butcher (we are fortunate 
enough to have one) pay from 3% to five 
cents per pound for live cattle, old cows 
and stockers, and that is as good as pack¬ 
ers in Quincy pay, considering the cost of 
getting small lots of stock to them. Some 
of my neighbors feed from three to eight 
or 10 carloads of cattle per year and buy 
any good yearlings offered, but they always 
ship to Chicago or St. Eouis when selling. 
Hogs we usually sell at Fall Creek to a 
buyer there, who usually pays more than 
the Quincy packers. He ships to Chicago 
or St. Louis, as market may seem best. St. 
Louis is nearer and less shrinkage results, 
and that is often the deciding factor. lie 
pays about 35 cents per 100 pounds less 
than the market quotations. Of course, 
persons having carloads often ship on their 
own account. Wheat brings 95 cents a 
bushel; corn, 70; oats, 30 to 33; butter, 
25 cents; eggs, IS cents. Potatoes, 75; 
sweet potatoes, 75 to 90; tomatoes, 25, 
market overstocked, they were $2 at one 
time; apples, 25 to 50 cents per bushel. 
We sell to stores. Orchards are being 
bought at about 75 cents per barrel for 
Ben Davis to $1.50 and $1.25 for Jonathan 
and other choice varieties. Unsprayed and 
neglected orchards ‘ are unsalable. At the 
prices named the buyer picks and barrels 
the apples in the orchard, taking No. 1 
and No. 2, leaving the culls, and the farmer 
hauls the empty barrels from the railroad 
to the orchard and hauls the barreled ap¬ 
ples to the station. The price seems to be 
lowering. After the dealers get the crop, 
prices will probably advance, as is usual. 
Hay is from $10 to $14 per ton, accord¬ 
ing' to quality. Prairie hay, $6.50 to $8 
and straw, $5 to $7, in Quincy, 15 miles 
from here. Corn will undoubtedly be lower 
as soon as the new crop is fit for use, as 
an increased, acreage was planted (owing to 
wheat winter-killing) and the yield prom¬ 
ises to be above the average. R. 
Payson, Ill. 
Orleans, N. Y., County Notes. 
Commission men are in the vicinity of 
Albion buying vegetables. They expect to 
remain at least a month longer, when 
produce will be well disposed of. Elberta 
and Crawford peaches are selling for 35 
cents per basket. Lettuce is firm at about 
$2. While no spirited bidding on orchards 
has been in evidence yet this season, what 
has been done has apparently subsided, 
and growers and buyers are awaiting devel¬ 
opments. The bulk of Winter fruit is still 
unbought, which is unusual at this time 
of year. Quotations seem to be in the 
neighborhood of $2 per barrel. One de¬ 
velopment, now more apparent than ever, is 
that there is a good crop of fruit this 
year, but a good portion of it will be 
cluster fruit. The experts, long ago, 
warned the growers to thin all clusters 
to about one apple, and where this was 
done good fruit abounds. Growers of fancy 
and No. 1 fruit are holding for $3 and $4 
per barrel. The weather thus far in Sep¬ 
tember has been ideal for bringing out the 
coloring matter, and as a result we see 
now and then an orchard in the pink of 
Condition. The Genesee Fruit Company is 
handling an immense amount of drying 
and cider apples. The prices for such fruit 
are good. The horse show held at Roches¬ 
ter this week was one of the best ever 
held in New York State. The superb qual¬ 
ity of the horses shown excited the en¬ 
thusiasm of all horse lovers. The attend¬ 
ance was large and beyond a doubt each 
year will find a similar exhibition here. 
Many of the Granges in this vicinity are 
bolding fruit exhibits and discussing meth¬ 
ods of packing and shipping. It is becom¬ 
ing a well-known fact that the honest 
packer always has more demand for his 
fruit, but as yet the price is not raised 
for such packing. Beans are doing poorly 
and many fields will bring but light 
return for the time and labor spent upon 
them. Grapes are ripening slowly ; in this 
section much of this fruit is being sold for 
wine. The late peach crop will be large, 
but prices are not quoted as yet. B. a. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
Western New York Apples. 
A Western New York apple grower ex¬ 
presses himself as follows regarding the 
outlook for prices on Winter apples in that 
section: 
“Boyers say they will not pay more than 
$1.50 and the farmers say they must double 
it. I have heard of no transactions, but 
some offers at higher prices; $2.50 has 
been refused for Twenty Ounce, $2.25 was 
offered for an orchard of Greenings, Bald¬ 
wins. Russets, Spies and Kings, but the 
parties could not agree on the pack; I 
heard of an offer of $2 and the barrel, 
which means about $2.40, but do not know 
the variety of fruit. This year’s crop is 
the largest since 1904, but population and 
demand have increased since then. But the 
fruit is of poor quality, except in Western 
New York and the Virginias 
“A man who claims to have seen most 
of the best parts of the Michigan orchard 
country says the percentage of firsts is 
low; a buyer from Iowa is now in this 
county after apples because he thinks the 
Iowa farmers will barely have enough for 
their own cellars, and I have heard that 
pretty nearly the same thing is true in 
Ohio. This morning I met a buyer from 
Indianapolis who told me he had bought 
the only good orchards in Illinois and 
Indiana and had come to Niagara and Or¬ 
leans Counties to get some fruit to stoi*e. 
These poor apples must be worked off be¬ 
fore freezing weather, as they ai - e not fit 
to store. T think almost every lai’ge 
grower who is financially able to carry his 
crop and has some experience in storage 
methods plans to keep his fruit off the 
market for a time. This is particularly 
true of Twenty Ounce and Gi-eenings, both 
of which are in scant supply.” 
WORLD CROPS. 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture and the United States Department of 
Agriculture give the following crop infor¬ 
mation : Wheat—The preliminary estimate 
of production in France is 335,974,000 
bushels; Roumania, 89.417,000; Canada, 
206,033.000. Total production this year 
in the following countries is given as 3,- 
200.000,000 bushels, or 6.7 per cent more 
than last year's production: Prussia, Bel¬ 
gium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, Great 
Britain, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Swit¬ 
zerland, France, Norway, Netherlands, 
Roumania, Russia, India, Japan, Egypt, 
Tunis, Canada and United States. 
Rye.—Preliminary figures for France are 
51,332,000 bushels; Netherlands, 16,322,000. 
Total this year in the following countries 
is given as 1,588,000,000 bushels, or 17.7 
per cent more than last year : Prussia, Bel¬ 
gium. Bulgaria. Denmark, Spain, France, 
Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, 
Netherlands, Roumania, Russia, Switzer¬ 
land, Canada and United States. 
Barley.—Preliminary figures for Rou- 
mania are 22,248,000 bushels, Canada, 
46.498.000. Total this year in the 
following countries is given as 1,174,- 
000,000 bushels, or 5.7 per cent more than 
last year : Prussia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Den¬ 
mark. Spain, Great Britain. Hungary. Italy, 
Luxemburg, Switzerland, Norway, Nether¬ 
lands, Roumania. Russia, Japan, Egypt, 
Tunis. Canada and United States. 
Oats.—Preliminary figures for Roumania 
are 21,525.000 bushels; Canada, 400,- 
502,000. Total this year in the following 
countries is given at 3,504,000,000 bushels, 
or 17.8 per cent more than last year: 
Prussia. Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, 
Spain, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Lux¬ 
emburg, Switzerland. Norway. Netherlands, 
Roumania, Russia, Japan, Algeria, Tunis, 
Canada and United States. 
Corn.—Estimated production in Rou¬ 
mania is 113,676,000 bushels. Total this 
year in the following countries is given as 
3.616,000.000 bushels, or 17.0 per cent more 
than last year: Hungary (not including 
Croatia and Slavonia), Bulgaria, Spain, 
Italy, Roumania, Russia, Switzerland, 
United States, Japan and Egypt. 
Rice.—Estimated production in Italy is 
24.495,000 bushels; Japan, 386,027,000*. 
Flaxseed.—Preliminary figures of produc¬ 
tion for Canada are 23,144,000 bushels. 
Silk Cocoons.—Preliminary figui’es of 
production for Japan is 351,718,000 pounds. 
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