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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 2G, 
c no r» s 
General farming conditions in central 
New York must be regarded as favorable if 
we are to consider crop productions es¬ 
pecially. It would be difficult to hold that 
farmers are especially prosperous at the 
present time, because we are dairy farm¬ 
ers, and milk is too low and feeds too high 
for us to make any such claim. Those of 
us who are particularly optimistic arc look¬ 
ing for something better to happen in the 
near future. In the first place the hay 
crop was exceptionally good. We had an 
especially favorable time to harvest it, and 
since about the first of August we have 
had rains that have started the meadows 
on the way to another successful produc¬ 
tion. Besides the pastures are making an 
exceptional showing this Fall and cows are 
doing well on the feeds we have. Maybe 
that is one reason why our friends of the 
milk-buying fraternity have discovered that 
they can buy milk at such a low price as 
they seem inclined to pay. 
Potatoes have grown well for two months 
and the crop promises fair. They have sold 
at 35 cents, but some buyers are paying 
40 now, and it is reported that 45 is to be 
the price soon. 1 do not know how that 
may be, but I do know that some are rot¬ 
ting and that there is loss in holding. 
Oats did fairly well, but bad weather in¬ 
jured them greatly at harvest time. The 
same is true of millet and some other 
crops. It is said that many farmers have 
made no money during the past year, and 
some have lost money. This is often men¬ 
tioned and seems to have ground for its 
statement. It is the chief reason given 
for the dissatisfaction over the drop in 
the price of milk for the coming Winter. 
Just nqw there is a prospect of some de¬ 
cline in the price of feeds that the farmer 
has to buy. h. h. l . 
Chenango, N. Y. 
Government Crop Reports. 
The Fall has been favorable for matur¬ 
ing most of the late crops. The present 
year will rank about 10 per cent better in 
crops than the average season. Follow¬ 
ing are the percentages on the principal 
products compared with last year and an 
average yield : 
1911. Average. 
Apples . 113.4 126.3 
Potatoes . 136.6 111.7 
Buckwheat . 109.6 107.1 
Cranberries . 107.2 107.2 
'Flaxseed . 120.4 107.6 
Oranges . 104.1 105.4 
Rice . 104.4 105.2 
Cotton . 97.9 103.1 
Corn . 116.8 102.2 
Tobacco . 101.6 98.2 
Cabbage . 124.1 116.8 
Cloverseed . 132.1 112.2 
Onions . 119.7 109.3 
Tomatoes -.110.9 105.2 
Broom corn. 118.8 1.03.6 
Beans . 105.6 101.1 
Crop Damage in Europe. 
Storms in Great Britain have spoiled 
large quantities of hay and grain, which 
now lies in the fields, beaten down by gales 
and rotten or watersoaked. Potato blight 
has been severe. Damage in France has 
been less, but heavy importations of wheat 
and perhaps other grains will be necessary. 
The barley yield was large, but was so 
badly discolored that bright grain will be 
at a premium. Oats are so badly damaged 
that there will be a demand for a part of 
the large American crop. 
Crop Report, Tioga County. 
After a growing season distinguished by 
its extremes, Tioga County, N. Y„ farmers 
find themselves with good crops that they 
are harvesting with great difficulty. Con¬ 
tinuous rains have so softened the fields 
that upon many of them it is impossible to 
use teams and harvesting machinery, and 
the unusual spectacle of large fields of 
corn and of buckwheat being cut with 
sickle and cradle is presented. Along the 
river flats there are to be seen some fields 
with their crop of weather-beaten oats 
still standing, the steady rains having 
made it impossible to gather them. The 
late, cold Spring was followed by a 
drought during June and July, and this 
gave place to almost daily rains for the 
next two months. Hay was a good crop, 
above the average in quality; oats took 
the brunt of the drought and were almost 
a failure; early potatoes gave a light 
yield, though the late ones, pushed on by 
the rains, have remained green and are 
making a large crop. This crop is not yet 
harvested, and is showing evidences of rot 
that will materially cut down the yield. 
Buckwheat has filled well and will give 
good returns if the price is fair. As a 
money crop this grain stands high with 
our farmers. Corn is a good crop, both 
silage and husking, and, as no killing 
frost came before October, will mature ill 
most fields despite the late start it got. 
While there are some large fields of tobacco 
along the Susquehanna River, and other 
special crops are raised to a limited ex¬ 
tent, Tioga is essentially a dairying county. 
Farmers, therefore, feel the cut in milk 
prices announced for the Winter, and many 
small dairymen, milking from six to twelve 
cows, are retiring from the field, satisfied 
that, for them at least, there is no money 
in dairying. More attention is being given 
to poultry on the farms, and the usual 
number are going into it as a specialty; 
those who go out each year, however, seem 
to about maintain the balance. Timothy 
hay is worth $14 per ton; potatoes, 30 
cents per bushel; buckwheat. $1.25 per 
100 pounds; oats, 37 cents and wheat, $1 
per bushel; veal calves, nine cents per 
pound, live weight; dressed pork, nine cents 
per pound. Butter and eggs bring 32 cents 
per pound and 37 cents per dozen, this in 
the local market. Milk is sold on the 
Borden schedule chiefly. Fall pasture is 
excellent, clover seeding unusually good, 
and apples, while not a commercial crop 
with many farmers, are abundant. 
M. B. D.' 
Potatoes. 60 cents per bushel. Apples, 
barrel, $1.50, at railroad station. 10 miles 
away. Butter, 30 cents, at local grocery; 
eggs, 32 cents. New milch cows bring 
from S40 to $60. Barge oxen, from $200 
to $275 per pair. Four-weeks-old pigs, $2 ; 
fat hogs, eight cents a pound. Fowls and 
chickens, 12 cents a pound, alive. 
Center Harbor, N. H. F. G. G. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS 
What Trucker, Jr., says on page 1048 
in regard to the Superb strawberry is per¬ 
fectly true. Bast week 1 rambled over to 
my neighbor, W. F. Allen’s and ate a good 
mess of the Superb, and saw that the plants 
were still blooming and making berries. 
It is a beautiful, glossy berry of uniform 
conical shape and the sweetest strawberry 
I ever tasted. In fact, sugar would spoil 
it. A little further along 1 came to a 
block of Mr. Alien’s new Nanticoke black¬ 
berry, and ate ripe blackberries. Then fur¬ 
ther along we came to a block of the St. 
Regis raspberry and ate red raspberries, 
all the first of October. Mr. Allen says 
that the St. Regis is a fine bearer of the 
early crop and then makes a Fall crop on 
the now wood. The Nanticoke blackberry 
also makes a heavy Spring or early Sum¬ 
mer crop. He said that the Superb* straw¬ 
berry is the best of the Fall-bearing sorts 
that he has tried, and has given fruit all 
Summer through during a very severe 
drought. 
What Tracker, Jr., says about manure 
reminds me to say that our truckers are 
now putting in the New Y’ork manure for 
their cucumbers and cantaloupes next 
Spring. They find that it is better to get 
the furrows filled with manure and let it 
rot down during the Winter, and then add 
some commercial fertilizer in the furrows. 
The manure is then ready to feed the 
plants better than if fresh manure is ap¬ 
plied in the Spring, and the manure costs 
less at this season of the year than in 
the Spring. 
Our growers try to have their sandy soil 
covered with Crimson clover In Winter. 
Few have got a good stand this Fall by 
reason of the extremely dry weather, and 
those who have sown rye or wheat with 
the clover are better off for Winter cover 
than others. Some who sowed the clover 
with buckwheat have found that they have 
a better stand than they expected, hut 
the buckwheat crop was about a dead 
failure. One farmer told me that he had 
only three bushels au acre. But for the 
clover sown with it it would have paid 
better to have turned the buckwheat un¬ 
der. 
The tomato crop of the Peninsula tifrned 
out larger than I expected. I have seen 
tlie report from but one county, Kent, Md., 
the smallest county on the Shore. There 
they had the same variation in crops that 
are found with any crops produced. While 
one part of the county averaged six tons 
an acre one grower sold 120 tons from 10 
acres. Down here in Wicomico Co. the 
extreme dry weather and the prevalence of 
the leaf blight cut the crop shorter than 
usual, and I hardly think our growers 
averaged lour tons an acre. Even at the 
price of $10 a ton there is little for the 
grower in such crops. The small size of 
the crops is largely due to careless pro¬ 
duction and deficiency of fertilization and 
lack of spraying. Seeds are sown in the 
open ground and pulled directly from the 
crowded rows and set in the field, and it 
takes a long time for such plants to get 
started. If the plants were started earlier 
under glass and transplanted in frames it 
would be easy here to get ripe tomatoes 
the middle of June, while the general crop 
comes off for the canuers late in August, 
and makes the season for packing too 
short and rushed. Earlier plants would j 
produce a crop that could be profitably 1 
shipped, or the canncrs could open up ! 
earlier, and those who pack green peas and 
sweet corn could go straight along with to¬ 
matoes. Good and skillful propagation and 
cultivation pay greatly better than the 
common easy-go-lucky method. Spraying 
must be done beginning in the seed*bed 
and kept up at intervals till the-fruit is 
half grown or the leaf blight will ruin the 
Crop. W. F. MASSEY. 
Maryland. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Eighteenth annual meeting of the New 
Hampshire Horticultural Society, Alton. 
N. IB, October 23-25. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, October 
24-November 2. 
Massachusetts Fruit Show, under aus¬ 
pices of State Board of Agriculture and 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association, 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., Novem¬ 
ber 7-10. 
Annual meeting .of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Farmers’ Institute Workers, At¬ 
lanta, Ga„ November 11-13. 
Annual meeting of the Association of 
American Agricultural Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations, Atlanta, Ga.. November 
11 - 13 . 
Annual meeting of the Maine State Po- 
mological Society, City Hall. Portland, Me., 
November 12-14. 
Pacific Northwest Band Products Show. 
Portland. Ore., November 18-23. 
New England Corn Show, Horticultural 
Hall. Boston, Mass.. November 20-24. 
Indiana Apple Show, Indianapolis, No¬ 
vember 13-19; secretary, C. G. Woodbury, 
Lafayette, Ind. 
Am. Baud and Industrial Exposition, 
71st Regiment Armory, N. Y., November 
15-1 >eeemher 2. 
Negro Farmers’ Conference. Hampton 
Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hamp¬ 
ton, Va., November 20-21. 
Twin City Poultry and Pigeon Associa¬ 
tion, annual pigeon and poultry show, 
Spring City, Pa., November 27-30. 
International Hive Stock, Chicago, No¬ 
vember 30-December 7. 
New Jersey State Horticultural Society, 
New Brunswick, N. J., December 9, 10, 11. 
Fourth Ohio State Apple Show, Zanes¬ 
ville, O., January 20-24, 1913. 
American Breeders’ Association, Colum¬ 
bia. S. C., January 25-27, 1913. 
Apple Show, Grand Rapids, Mich., No¬ 
vember 12-16. 
N. Y. State Dairymen’s Ass’u, Syracuse. 
N. Y., December 10-13. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Rochester, N. Y., December 11-13. 
Cleveland, O., Fanciers’ Show, January 
20-25. 
The season has come for reporting big 
potatoes. Here is one report: D. 11. 
Snavely of Lancaster County, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, reports throe tubers out of one hill 
which weighed together 56 ounces. It is 
said that these wore not particularly large, 
but takeu at random. Any one of them 
would make u meal for a good-sized family. 
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SOUTHEAST 
Farm Lands Average Less Than $17 Per Acre. 
Undeveloped tracts sell from $3 up. Beef, pork, dairying, 
poultry, sheep and horses make big profits. Large returns 
from alfalfa, corn, truck, cotton, apples, fruits and nuts. 
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