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THE HURAIi NEW-YORKER 
HAY AND FEED OUTLOOK. 
The crops this year through all sections 
are very heavy. The hay crop is very 
large, although good strictly A Mo. 1 is not 
in abundance, and for such grades it looks 
as if we were going to have good Arm 
prices all season, notwithstanding there is 
considerable clover mixed and No. 3 which 
is of a very poor quality, especially in New 
York State ; for such grades we do not look 
for much improvement. The oat crop is 
exceptionally large, also the corn crop, and 
we do not look for much higher prices than 
we arc getting to-day. We cannot see any 
high prices ahead of us. The present fea¬ 
ture for this year will he the best grades 
of hay, which are not selling at a steady 
price, about $22 per ton. We look for those 
prices all through the season. 
CAKSCAI.LEN & CASSIDY. 
Jersey City, N. J. 
We see nothing to warrant the present 
prices of hay, basing our views upon the 
returns of all forage crops. We also ex¬ 
pect Canada to ship freely into the United 
States, from now on. Were it not for the 
fact that shippers are having trouble in 
getting cars we would have had lower 
prices ere this. franklin feed stores. 
New York. 
I believe that bran, cotton-seed meal, 
gluten feed, and in fact all good commer¬ 
cial feeds are now at the bottom, and are 
worth present prices as compared with hay 
and grain. There will not be the advance 
in prices of the last few years, on account 
of^the reported mammoth crops of hay, 
corn and oats, but the tendency will be up 
instead of lower. In some sections of the 
country we are now having as heavy move¬ 
ment of hay and grain as the railways can 
care for, and market on corn and oats firm, 
tending higher. Hay is now highest of the 
whole line of feeds, and will probably go 
lower; will be forced lower by farmers 
shippiug a large amount of poor, off-grade 
hay that should be kept on farms. I look 
for slow but steady advance on corn, oats 
and all good commercial feeds, until June, 
1913. I wish to emphasie the word good, 
as there are a lot of feeds that are no bet¬ 
ter than the farmer's musty hay, cut or 
ground with some molasses mixed in ; and 
conditions are right for such feeds to go 
begging, and they may be sold lower. 
Detroit, Mich. c. R. hoston. 
The future in the feed 1 business is rather 
a hard thing to prophesy. The farmers 
seem to be holding, and are filling their 
cribs and are only marketing what corn 
they have that they will not put into 
cribs. They are also holding back their 
oats and hay, and eonti'ol the situation, 
as they have for the past two years. We 
rather" think that there will he a steady 
market on feeds for some time, but when 
the grain and hay gets to moving freely, 
we, of course, could not say what the 
markets will prove to be, as it depends a 
great deal upon conditions. 
THE IRVIN T. FANGBONEI. CO. 
Bellevue, O. 
The supply of feed in our section of the 
country is fully equal to the demand. We 
have a good crop of corn, oats and wheat 
all over our Kansas City territory. The 
only thing we are likely to be short on ts 
Alfalfa, which is moving from here all over 
Eastern States, as well as the South and 
Southeast. The only crop that was short 
was clover. The severe Winter kiled out a 
large per cent of clover meadows; con¬ 
sequently there is scarcely enough clover 
and clover mixed coming into our market 
to supply the demand. We Lave, however, 
been advising all of our shippers in Kan¬ 
sas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska that 
we believe the highest prices of the year 
will be before January 1. With, the excep¬ 
tion of Alfalfa we believe this will be true. 
We look, however, to see the market on 
Alfalfa remain firm ail through the sea¬ 
son. THE KANSAS CITY HAY CO. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
The crop of hay was probably five to 
10 per cent above an average in tonnage. 
The quality was the poorest we ever ex¬ 
perienced in 35 years. Probably not over 
10 or 20 per cent will grade No. 1. Re¬ 
mainder will be No. 2. No. 3 and no grade. 
About one-fourth will run no grade, be- 
canoe of late harvest and rainy weather. 
With a large amount of second growth 
clover and a vast amount of millet corn 
fodder saved, will certainly give us all the 
feed that we wanted. We had the finest 
Fall pasture ve ever had. Yet no more 
than usual has coine forward, because local 
shippers have not been able to buy at 
prices they were justified to pay. And the 
difficulty to get cars has retarded the move¬ 
ment. The "above conditions may let the 
crop come off so gradual that we may have 
little change from present prices. Hay and 
oats are about on the same level, a vent 
a pound. The impression is, however, that 
better prices have ruled on this crop the 
last half of this year than will the first 
half of 1913. 1 am quite certain they will 
when cars can be obtained and farmers 
make up their minds to sell. There has 
been too much holding back, and no doubt 
there will be times when prices will be 
much higher than at present. Future 
prices will be governed by car situation 
and disposition of farmers to sell their 
stuff. We have the largest crop on record, 
matured in fine condition, but we need 
some cold crisp weather to dry the grains. 
Let us hope we will get the ideal cold 
weather to complete Nature’s beautiful 
crop. We have had ideal weather for the 
granary. Hay crop looks fine. 
Cincinnati, O. whitcomb & hoot. 
The markets are in a healthy condition 
except in the case of cotton-seed meal, 
which in my opinion is too high as com¬ 
pared with other concentrates. Whether 
this is due to a conspiracy in violation of 
the Sherman anti-trust hiw or to natural 
conditions I do not know. Crop reports 
show a large crop of cotton as compared 
with 10-year average. Bran is as rea¬ 
sonable as may be expected as long as 
American railroads are permitted to dis¬ 
criminate in freight rates on flour against 
wheat for export. Corn is low. Not likely 
to be much lower. Wheat is reasonable, 
being on an export basis. Oil meal, gluten 
feed, distillers’ dried grains, hominy feed, 
etc., all appear to be reasonable. A gTeat 
many dealers laid in a Winter supply of 
feed during July, August, September and 
October, when prices on the various ar¬ 
ticles were $1 to $3 higher than the pres¬ 
ent market, and as a result are trying to 
sell at higher than present market basis. 
This accounts in part for the wide varia¬ 
tion in prices of same article reported from 
different places. In conclusion, I believe 
that there is not likely to be a great deal 
of change either way. The present low 
prices are due to a certain extent to the 
exceptionally warm weather we have been 
having, and if we get some cold weather 
it looks as though it would stiffen up the 
market a little, possibly $1 or $2 per ton 
<on feeds and grain. j. w. G. 
Ohio. 
From Monday last week until Sunday, 
December 1. there was good sleighing here. 
Yesterday it rained nearly all day and the 
ground is bare now. muddy and warm. 
Chautauqua, N. Y. T. E. M. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture 
gives its preliminary estimate of the area 
of Winter wheat sown this Fall as 32,387,- 
000 acres, or 928,000 acres less than last 
j’ear. The present condition of the stand 
is 93.2' per cent., or 6.6 per cent, better 
than one year ago. The Winter rye area 
is 2,443.000 acres, 7,000 acres more than 
last year. 
Corn, oats and barley are our staple 
grain crops. New ear corn, 70 to 75 cents 
per 100 pounds; oats, 27 ; barley, 50 to 75 ; 
potatoes, 40. Corn, oats and potatoes a 
heavy crop this year. Timothy hay, $16 to 
$17. Every farmer has a few apple trees 
for home use and a few cherry and plum 
trees. I have never seen in northern Illi¬ 
nois as inuvn as one acre of apple trees 
owned by one man. It is not a paying 
crop here. This year we are all buying 
apples that are shipped in at $2 to $3 per 
barrel. We sell our milk at the creamery 
and buy what butter we use. Milk, $1.75 
for November. We now pay 38 cents for 
butter. Milch cows, $50 to $60 ; beef cows, 
$3.50 to $5; steers, $6 to $7. Horses are 
cheaper than one year ago. Good dralt 
horses, from $125 to $200; drivers, $100 to 
$125. llogs, $7 to $7.50; sheep, $4 to $5; 
fresh eggs, 28 ; chickens, 10 ; dressed ducks, 
14; dressed geese, 12*4 ; honey (comb), 20. 
Caledonia, Ill. m. m. m. 
The past month has been quite favorable 
for farm work. Work is quite well along, 
with the exception of corn, most of which 
was in the fields on Thanksgiving Day. 
Those who have drawn in complain of its 
heating in the mow. Corn did not mature 
as well as last year, and is not as good a 
crop as we had then. Many are thrashing 
beans, which are not yielding as well as 
last year on account of blight, and not 
coming up well, as it was dry last Spring. 
We have had a light fall of snow, which 
drifted in some of the crossroads so that 
drivers went in the fields. It is all gone at 
present. There has been quite a large 
amount of plowing done; ground has 
plowed hard on account of being too dry. 
There are tons of domestic cabbage in tlie 
fields, as there is no market for it. A 
large crop of Danish is in storage, extra 
fine in quality. Potatoes are not keeping 
well, dry rot; they are worth about 60 
cents per bushel. Wheat, $1; oats, 35 cents ; 
corn 70. Veal 9%; turkeys 28; chickeus 
12; butter 30; eggs 40. Hay $15; red kid¬ 
ney beans $2.25; rod marrow $2.10. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. e. t. b. 
The crops harvested in Cambria County, 
this past harvest were the largest gathered 
in years. The season was particularly wet, 
and rains were continuous through July 
and August, making the task of gathering 
the harvest a difficult one. Much hay and 
grain went to the mow in had condition 
as a result. Rome corn, a small crop, is 
still in the field as a result of delay in 
thrashing and baling. Timothy hay is 
selling around $18 per ton, Alfalfa" $30, 
straw $10, rye 75 cents, buckwheat 60, corn 
80. Potatoes rotted badly and a poor yield 
resulted. Many potato fields could not be 
cultivated at all on account of rain. Po¬ 
tatoes sell for 80 cents; apples around $1; 
turkeys were scarce at 22 to 30 cents; 
chickens 22 cents dressed. Many farmers 
are killing and handling their own pork. 
Gasoline engines and farm feed mills are 
on most of the farms. Fall plowing con¬ 
tinued up until Dec. 7, but to-day (Dec. 9) 
Winter weather seems to be here. Sulky 
and gang plows are in use on some places 
and a demand for heavy horses on the 
farms comes with them. Babbits are plenti¬ 
ful. hut other game scarce. Farmers are 
paying more attention to the business end 
of the calling, and this Fall upset the 
plans of the gang politicians here com¬ 
pletely, electing Progressive and Demo¬ 
cratic candidates to office. This is fast be¬ 
coming a mining center, and coal deals ap¬ 
proaching the million-dollar mark were con- 
su mated in this vicinity this Fall. 
Ebensbnrg, Pa. l. e. K. 
Ohio Afple Notes.—W e had a fine crop 
of the best apples this year we ever grew. 
They averaged larger than any I ever put 
up. Some people had Borne Beauties 
larger than mine, some were too big, weigh¬ 
ing 20 ounces each, and I saw one that 
weighed 21 ounces correct weight, hut the 
largest I ever saw before of Rome Beauties 
was 17 ounces. Other varieties run in pro¬ 
portion iu size. The color was good, too, 
and few defects where spraying was thor¬ 
oughly done at the right time, hut where 
treatment was not well directed in time or 
place and continued late, the crop of fruit 
was badly scabbed aud wormy. There were 
nearly 100,000 barrels of apples in tills 
•(La/wrcnce) county this year, and the 
prices paid by dealers was $2 per .barrel 
for No. 1 Rome Beauties, packed and deliv¬ 
ered at shipping point, and $1.50 for Ben 
Davis. There are almost no apples left in 
the country in common storage now, but 
quite a lot are held in cold storage in dif¬ 
ferent cities. It seems to me that fancy 
stock will command a good figure later, so 
we are holding 7,000 barrels, of which 
nearly 6,000 are Rome Beauties. The En- 
see apple did much bettor this year than 
ever before, it seems to me. We have 
some young trees which have come into 
bearing, and nothing else I ever saw looked 
so good to me as they did when we picked 
them October 19, and they had fallen then 
no worse than Rome Beauties had October 
1. They run very large, were as high col¬ 
ored as Jonathans, hung as well as Ben 
Davis, very prolific, and the fruit was 
thinned where necessary, and in quality as 
good as Jonathan, and about as pleasing to 
the taste as Grimes Golden, and remained 
juicy to the last. They keep well, both in 
storage and in cellar. The tree had a bet¬ 
ter leaf than Rome Beauty and the fruit is 
not so subject to scab. Bordeaux seems to 
russet the skin, but it responds well to 
lime-sulphur treatment. 1 faced a barrel 
standard size with 15 apples of Ensee and 
had a small space left in the second row 
from the staves where a two-inch apple 
would go in, and could not get one in the 
center, and the best we could do with large 
Rome Beauties was 18 in the face. I have 
that barrel saved out for our State apple 
show at Zanesville, January 20-24. As soon 
as we got through the apple deal I bought 
500 more Ensee trees to set out, for I am 
convinced that it is as good a commercial 
sort here as anything I know of. It is an 
early bloomer and late hanger, so it re¬ 
quires a long season to mature properly. I 
have many inquiries about how it has been 
doing and I give this as my findings this 
year, and still have the fruit to hack it 
up. u. x. c. 
Ohio, 
Indiana Apple Show. 
The exhibit held at Indianapolis, No¬ 
vember 13, was a great success. There 
were 63 varieties entered in 12 classes. 
All classes were full and every apple was 
raised in Indiana. Mr. Van Deman, who 
judged the fruit, said that the quality and 
packing were greatly improved over last 
year. II. V. Elrod, who had nine boxes 
entered in the exhibit, won seven prizes be¬ 
sides the sweepstakes ribbons In the single 
and five-box classes. His prizes totaled 
$255.75, besides the ribbons and a silver 
cup. Mr. Elrod’s success shows what can 
he done with neglected orchards, when 
handled under proper directions. Four 
years ago his present orchard of 115 trees 
was a “jungle” used as a calf and hog lot. 
He turned out the hogs and calves, mulched 
the trees with a load of straw to each tree, 
pruned and sprayed, and the first year 
harvested $500 worth of apples. With In¬ 
creased care the yield has improved until 
this year the output brought $1,600. 
The Indiana Apple Show and the Indiana 
apple have both gone beyond the experi¬ 
mental stage. The day of the cider apple 
is past. Indiana apples, grown by proper 
methods and packed in fancy, honest pack¬ 
ages, can compete with those of any sec¬ 
tion. Over-production need never be feared, 
for the Indiana markets are to-day import¬ 
ing three or four times as much fruit as 
is produced in the State. When Indiana 
production overtakes the Indiana demand 
the best markets of the world are to be 
found within 300 miles of Indianapolis. 
_ M. W. R. 
THE BUFFALO MARKETS. 
The freeze-up of November 27 was about 
the latest of the Fall season on record in 
this section, and as the weather has been 
excellent for outdoor work right along, the 
farmers of Western New York are much 
better prepared to meet it than usual. 
There was some snow with it, enough to 
cover the wheat crop till the thaw fol¬ 
lowed, but not enough to block the roads, 
as in certain sections both north and south 
of us. It has been a problem to find place 
for the last of the apples, a problem which 
becomes more and more urgent as farmers 
realize that they should reduce the waste 
of their crops as they have not previously 
done. The farm waste is often more than 
other people’s profits. It must not con¬ 
tinue if farmers are to do well and take 
rank with future money makers. All that 
most of them need is a system of true 
economy to set them right. One farmer 
I conferred with, who had a good many 
low-grade apples, has fed them about ail 
to his pigs. He keeps a good drove of 
them and found that he could make them 
eat large amounts of poor apples, though 
that was likely on account of the fact that 
he had few Greenings or other very sour 
apples. He has always depended on re¬ 
ject beans rather than corn for fattening 
pigs and was even willing to pay $20 a ton 
for them. They are so plenty now that he 
figures on getting them for $10 soon. He 
merely boils them and puts in a little salt, 
feeding what meal he uses separate. Cold 
storage and favorable weather have pro¬ 
longed the market season of our home 
grapes, though they still sell at very mod¬ 
erate prices. We are also getting large lots 
of both the purple Californias and Malagas, 
which are made by competition to sell often 
as low as 10 cents a pound at retail. About 
the cheapest eatable now is celery, which 
goes for five cents a bunch of "three or 
four fair-sized whole tilants, or “roots,” as 
the market people say. The competition of 
home apples of the most taking appearance 
with those from the Pacific Coast continues. 
I saw Fameuse or “Snow” apples offered 
at 10 cents a measure of about a dozen, 
the same price asked for the far-western 
Jonathans of about the same size. There 
is complaint that cabbage is soft this year 
(maybe it is ashamed of selling for $3 a 
ton) and I saw a little of the juicy Savoy 
variety that was severely soft, "i have 
raised the Savoy as hal'd as any and I 
would never raise the common sorts for 
table use. There ought to be a missionary 
sent to the principal Buffalo retail market 
when it is rebuilt, all in the interest of 
teaching the dealers the meaning of appear¬ 
ance in their products. It will he a solid 
brick structure, but lanor troubles have 
held it back till it is not more than half 
done. Unlike the European parfcitionless 
market, it will he made up of a maze of 
stalls, more like a cluster of stores than a 
real market. Potatoes are running so poorly 
in quality that dealers are offering good 
ones as “Winter” potatoes, as a sort of 
guaranty that they will not rot. The price 
has advanced to 75 cents at retail, or 40 
cents to the farmer. 
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