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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 23, 
FRUIT JUDGES AT THE STATE FAIR. 
I am glad to note W. A. Bassett’s 
criticism on page 1020 of the work of 
the judges at the State Fair, as it per¬ 
mits a word of explanation. First, as 
to the prize plate of R. I. Greening: 
Beach, in “Apples of New York,” states 
in his R. I. Greening description: “It 
often has a dull blush and occasionally 
develops a rather bright red cheek”; 
therefore the judges did not feel that 
the color on this plate should count 
against it. As to its being a medium¬ 
sized plate, allow me to state that all 
through our work we endeavored to 
choose plates that were of a good aver¬ 
age size, scoring a plate down nearly as 
much for over size as for under size. 
The prize plate was not chosen because 
of color, beauty or the commission man’s 
standard, but for the reason that it most 
nearly coincided with the acknowledged 
horticultural standard for that variety 
in type, size, uniformity in size and 
color, freedom from blemish, etc. 
There are certain standard varieties 
of apples that should be included in any 
“best” general collection of apples, and, 
further, there should be some attention 
given to season of ripening, as well as 
to quality. An exhibit of seven Fall 
varieties out of a possible 10 was placed 
before us, each plate _ showing great 
beauty and color, but it seemed to us 
these should not be compared on a color 
basis with 10 choice standard varieties 
covering the season, suitable for culi¬ 
nary or dessert uses. In the one case it 
was possible to show practically all ma¬ 
tured varieties; in the other one must 
make allowance for the beauty that 
would develop in the matured fruit. 
These were some of the points consid¬ 
ered in awarding the collection prizes 
your correspondent criticizes. 
FRANK E. RUPERT. 
BEE NOTES. 
Extraction of Beeswax. —Winter is the 
time when wax-extracting is done. There 
is no better way to render capping and 
bits of nearly clear wax than by using the 
sun or solar wax extractor. It will pay 
every beekeeper to have one, even if he 
has only a few colonies. If you do not 
care to "buy one, you can make one. All 
that is necessary is to have a box with 
a glass over it, and you will lind that when 
it stands in the sun the inside of the box 
will be a very warm place. An old drip¬ 
ping pan is put into bottom of box. A 
hole is made in one corner of pan and box 
so as to allow wax which drips to go into 
basin which is placed below. Cappings 
are held up from coming in contact with 
pan by a wire cloth tray. When all the 
wax is obtained by this method, use the 
German steam wax press for remainder 
and any old combs or refuse. 
If a homemade arrangement is wanted 
for this part of the extracting process, it 
may be carried out as follows: l’ut refuse 
into a burlap sack and put into a boiler 
or metal tub, where it is boiled until all 
is thoroughly melted. A few sticks or 
rack is put into bottom of boiler to keep 
sack from burning. Wnen melted sack is 
raised and string is tied close to slumgum. 
The bag is then held by one person, while 
the other applies the pressure. While under 
the pressure just about as much wax is 
squeezed out as came from the solar. Two 
sticks are nailed together at one end by 
a leather hinge, and the other end used 
as handles, where a mighty pressure can 
be brought to bear on the hot refuse. The 
one who holds the sack keeps twisting and 
the other keeps squeezing until refuse 
yields no more wax. 
Hints on Marketing Honey. —Comb 
honey market is at its best before the 
new year. Highest price is obtained by 
selling in an early market. Assuming that 
you have a good grade of honey, which 
everyone should have by use of modern 
methods and appliances, will tell how to 
put it up to get best price. Clean and 
grade your honey for color, and get fancy, 
No. 1 and No. 2 of each grade separate. 
It may be peddled from house to house, 
and good steady customers at good prices 
obtained. An exhibit at a fair will create 
sales for more honey than you can pro¬ 
duce. If you wish to retail at the fair 
you can get 20 cents for each < f your light¬ 
weight sections. Tut a coarse wire cloth 
on top of china dish and lay section on 
top. Take a knife and cut it corner to 
corner. This will make four triangular 
pieces of honey with a piece of section on 
each for a base to set it on or to serve 
as a handle. These can be sold like hot- 
cakes at five cents apiece. 
For grocers, put sections up in cases 
having a glass front ana bolding 12, 18, 
24 or 30 sections. Put up neatly and ask 
more for it than others are selling just as 
good honey, but which is not neat or 
graded. Grocers will pay a higher price. 
Home market is generally the best, but if 
too low prices prevail or with large pro¬ 
duction, distant markets must be looked 
to. Comb honey should not be shipped in 
severe cold weather. When shipped, how¬ 
ever, it should be kept in a warm room 
30 hours before packing. W’ax becomes 
very brittle in cold weather. The new 
cases having corrugated paper on bottoms 
instead of wooden drip cleats are a big 
improvement in shipping honey. The grade 
and color should be marked on every case, 
also gross weight, case weight and net 
honey weight. Cases are put into shipping 
crate, which will hold 12 large or 18 
small ones. Straw should be put on bot¬ 
tom and sides. Sides should be so made 
on crates that they will project and serve 
as handles. “This side up with care,” b? 
put on top. Three cents per pound more 
should be obtained than in home market 
to pay freight, drayage, breakage, etc. 
Eytracted honey may be sold to grocers 
in six-ounce tumblers for 90 cents per 
dozen; eight-ounce tumblers for $1.45 per 
dozen, and 15-ounce ones for $1.80 pel' 
dozen. Honey may be put up in pint and 
quart Mason jars or quart, two quart and 
gallon pails may be used. If honey is to 
be shipped 60-pouiTd square cans with two 
cans in each case are best. n. f. gute. 
Michigan. 
CROPS 
Government Crop Report. 
The following 
figures are given of pro- 
duction and yield 
per acre: 
Yield. Per Acre. 
Corn, bu. 
. .. 3.169.137.000 
29.3 
Buckwheat, bu. . 
19.124,000 
22.9 
Potatoes, bu. ... 
414.289,000 
112.3 
Wheat, bu. 
. .. 720,333.000 
16.0 
Oats, bu. 
. . . 1,417,172,000 
37.4 
Barley, bu. 
. .. 224,619.000 
29.7 
Rye, bu. 
35,422.000 
16.9 
llay, tons . 
1.47 
Tobacco, lbs. ... 
959,437,000 
803.4 
Iowa leads in corn, 432,021.000 bushels. 
Other States above 200,000.000 are: Illi¬ 
nois, 428.452,000 ; Missouri, 243,904.000 ; 
Kansas, 200,361,000; Indiana, 200,354,000. 
Nebraska gave 189,350,000; Ohio, 175,- 
266,000; Texas, 153.300,000; Kentucky, 
109.440,000; and Oklahoma, 101,878,000. 
New York led in production of potatoes, 
39,008,000 bushels. 
Ohio Crop Report. 
Wheat area seeded this Fall, 1,669,656 
acres; condition, compared with average, 
98 per cent. Alfalfa, estimated area, 26,- 
756 acres; total product this year, 88,211 
tons. Rye, acreage sown, 97,644; average 
condition, 98 per cent. Corn prospect com¬ 
pared with average, 100 per cent.; buck¬ 
wheat, 96; clover seed, 70 ; potatoes, acre¬ 
age, 103,262; yield, 11,604,902; affected by 
rot, five per cent. 
State’s average prices are : wheat, $1.01 
bushel; corn, 59 cents; barley, 68 cents; 
oats, 35 cents; rye, 80 cents; potatoes, 52 
cents; hay, ton, $13.46; Alfalfa, $16.20. 
The following shows the condition of 
crops—100 meaning a full yield: Corn, 
100; potatoes, 75; late, 60; wheat, 90; 
rye, 100; apples, 75; peaches, 75; pears, 
100; second crop potatoes, 50; pumpkins, 
75 ; cranberries, 50. g. l. g. 
Moorestown, N. J. 
This is a milk county; everybody sell¬ 
ing milk to New York City. Not any grain 
raised; all farmers buy grain from the 
West and ship it in here. The price of 
milk for the Winter months i« “bout four 
cents per quart; hardly making a living 
at that price. Potatoes are selling at $2 
per barrel. Not any vegetables except 
what they raise in their gardens. Fresh 
cows are selling from $50 to $70 per head. 
Once in a while some of the farmers are 
trying to raise Alfalfa, but with very poor 
success. I have a farm of 200 acres and 
can scarcely make a living. Not any men 
who want to work on a farm ; all want to 
move in town or city; something wrong 
somewhere. Days are too long for men; 
they simply laugh at you if you mention 
farm work to them. Bordens let us know 
what they will give us for milk and we 
take it—have nothing to say. When will 
the change come? t. f. k. 
Carmel, N. Y. 
The past month has been very favor¬ 
able for doing Fall work. Last week was 
a little rainy. We have had only a few 
light frosts. There is a large amount of 
work to do yet on the farm; crops were 
late in maturing, as the drought kept them 
back in getting started, corn will have 
to stay in the field a long time to get 
cured. Beans are just being harvested, 
and not as good as last year, blighted. 
Potatoes are a failure, having been struck 
by a blight, turning to soft rot. The fields 
that are dug and picked up look as though 
none had been taken away; they are as 
bad on sand as on heavier soil. Buyers 
are afraid to handle them. Cabbage is a 
good crop, but-very low in price. Apples 
are nearly all taken care of and bring 
from $1.60 to $2 per barrel. Potatoes, 50 
cents; wheat, $1; oats, 40; barley, 70; 
hay, pressed. No. 1, $14 per ton. Veal, 
9%; butter, 30; eggs are very scarce, 
there being a large call for them at 32 
cents and better. e. t. b. 
Canandaigua, N. 
“This has been the hardest year on 
peaches in the history of the State.” a 
prominent fruit grower of Southern Michi¬ 
gan remarked. The leading fairs in the 
State were destitute of this fruit. Lead¬ 
ing farmers in Southern Michigan report 
potatoes as a good crop. in Hillsdale 
buyers paid as low as 25 cents per bushel 
at the car, but are now paying 35 cents. 
It is the general impression that potatoes 
will bring higher prices, as they are a 
short crop in the State. Corn is generally 
good throughout Southern Michigan. The 
present season was backward. Many of 
the best farmers were unable to plant their 
crop until the first week in June, and 
one or two good stands of corn have been 
observed which were planted near the 10th 
of the month. Dry weather during the 
Summer had a tendency to injure crops. 
Apples are good in Hillsdale and adjoin¬ 
ing counties. Trees which have not been 
sprayed this year are producing fruit much 
more inferior than heretofore. Scab and 
scale are chief enemies of apples in South¬ 
ern Michigan. w. J. 
Michigan. 
We have had a wet Fall; during Au¬ 
gust and September it rained day after 
day. Potatoes blighted and have rotted 
badly. I heard of two fields, one of 30 
acres and another of 20. that will not be 
dug. I know of one farmer who dug 2,400 
bushels; 400 bushels went in his cellar 
and the other 2,000 are lying on the 
ground in the field. Cabbage has been 
selling for $2 to $2.50 per ton, except 
when contracted, when I believe it brought 
$4 to $5. A lot of cabbage is being loaded 
in cars now at $3 per ton. I suppose a 
good deal of it goes to New York City. I 
wonder what you would have to pay for 
it there. g. e. p. 
Geneva, N. Y, 
The prices of grain crops are low as 
compared with last year; potatoes, 40 cents 
at car. Apple buyers are scarce; some 
have offered $1.50 per barrel; barrels 35 
and 40 cents each. Eggs, 30 cents; but¬ 
ter, 30 cents; cream shipped to creamery, i 
paid for butter fat for August, 34% cents. I 
We pay for feed, cotton seed, $1.80; mixed 
feed. $1.65; corn, $1.90; meal, $1.80. 
Belgrade, Me. A. L. C. 
Farmers in this section of Aroostook Co. 
at the present time are getting the prices 
given below at retail. Native beef, cows, 
six cents to seven cents per pound; steers, 
9 to 11; lamb, 12; butter, 30 cents, very 
little for sale; eggs, 35 cents dozen, few 
for sale; milk, seven cents a quart; pota¬ 
toes, $1 per barrel. Potatoes are the main , 
crop raised and the wholesale price this 
Fall is SO to 90 cents a barrel. Sold to , 
local buyers or buyers from Boston and I 
New Y'ork. F. p. 
Ashland, Me. 
Local markets are paying as follows for j 
produce: Wheat, 95 cents; oats. 35; bar- ! 
ley, 55; corn, 70 cents per bushel. Eggs, 
30 cents per dozen: butter, 25 cents per 
pound. For hay, $12 to $15 for Timothy, 
$10 to $12 for mixed hay and clover, and 
$5 for wheat straw, per ton. Evaporators 
are now running full force, drop apples and 
culls bringing 30 cents per 100 pounds. 
While most farmers have already sold their 
hand-picked fruit, some of them are still 
holding it for better prices. C. M. H. 
Kushville, N. Y. 
FROM SOUTHERN NEW YORK. 
Early November provides few changed 
conditions from those of middle October. 
Plowing is the chief concern of the farmer, 
because he realizes that shortly it will be 
too late to plow for this season. It seems 
to me that Fall plowing is as well ad¬ 
vanced as we usually find it at this sea¬ 
son of the year, but on election day there 
remained much to be done. The weather 
is fine, and there have been but two nights 
when the ground has frozen so hard as to 
make plowing difficult in the morning. A 
few potatoes remain undug, and there are 
a few apples yet to be secured, but for the 
most part all products are harvested. While 
corn for husking is now grown only in 
comparatively very small amounts, yet 
there is a rather large proportion not 
husked at this date. Much of it still stands 
in the field. Production of corn seems to 
be fair; of potatoes it may be said to be 
good, but in many fields there have been 
so many rotten that the yield of good 
tubers must be considered no more than 
average. Some fields escaped the rot al¬ 
most entirely. Shipping of potatoes still 
continues and the price has advanced to 
40 cents. Most have sold at 35, and for 
a week or so the price went to 33 or 32 
cents, with a threatened or possibly for a 
day or two actual drop to 30 cents. Some 
pretty poor products have been sold, but 
they brought the same price as the choicest 
quality. , 
There is a good deal of hay on hand, 
with no market for it. Most farmers 
seem to have settled down to the idea that 
it must be carried over. Cows are in fair 
demand, and this month milk brings $1.85 
a hundred at our local creamery. From 
$1.70 to $1.80 is the more common price, 
the latter taking the major portion of the 
milk. After feed has been good all the 
Fall, and milk production somewhat above 
the normal. This seems true in spite of 
the fact that cows are in a somewhat 
shorter supply than in former years. Grain 
feeds have ruled high, but have been gradu¬ 
ally falling. Y’ery little grain has been i 
fed, and dealers have hardly done the usual j 
amount of business. I do not think they 
have made much money, ns some of the 
feeds have been sold at less than cost, 
owing to a falling market. Some attempt 
has been made to hold prices locally 
against the decline, but in most cases 
with rather poor success. There is a pros¬ 
pect that most feeds will drop further in 
price, but as Winter is fast coming on an 
effort will be made to hold up prices as 
firmly as may be. * Distillery grains have 
shown no decline and not much advance. 
Corn and its products have gone down, and 
are likely to go lower. Wheat feeds have 
dropped to $25 a ton, and it seems In¬ 
tended to nold them as high as that. 
The 12 months that have just closed, 
with all the good crops, is not generally 
considered a profitable year for farmers. 
There are those who have made a little 
money, but the number of those who have 
just made a living seems to be much in 
the majority. A few claim with apparent 
sincerity that they are $100 or $200 be¬ 
hind a year ago. The general reason for 
this undesirable situation is laid to the 
low price of milk and the high price of 
grain. The outlook for the Winter is only 
a little if any better, as milk prices prom¬ 
ise no more than a year ago. h. h. l. 
Chenango Co.. N. Y. 
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