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'XHE RURAL, NEW-YORKEH 
9 
CROPS 
A few have gathered corn worth 40 
cents a bushel. Weather warm in daytime, 
cool and frosty nights. Building opera¬ 
tions coming to a standstill, owing to 
nearly all work being finished. Corn yield 
hardly as good as was expected. Lots of 
galvanized roofing and siding being used. 
Wood and coal in abundant supply. 
Brashear, Mo. M. b. s. 
I am a coal miner by trade, work In 
the mines in Winter, and in Summer I 
spend my time on about 1 % acres of land 
in the outskirts of the city, raising a little 
fruit and garden stuff for family use, and 
some to sell. Besides, I have about 180 
swarms of bees. Some seasons I make more 
from them than I could havS made in a 
whole year working in the mine. r. J. x. 
Spring Valley, Ill. 
We expect the clover liullers this eve¬ 
ning, and that means a dirty nose and sore 
eyes for several days, and a man feels as 
though he had the itch. But that is the 
way and only way clover seed comes. We 
had corn buskers last week and expect 
thrashers next week. It is frozen up now. 
Farm field work about done; ground bare 
and wind blowing. We have not quite fin¬ 
ished filling the silos yet; expect to finish 
this week anti then get a water wagon and 
soak the dry cut fodder for keeps. 
Waupaca, Wis. F. R. c. 
Prices for cattle, such as fresh cows, 
from .$60 to $110 at sales; cows coming 
in next Spring, $30 to $60; fat cattle, not 
much sold, but are subject to Cleveland, 
O., markets. Milk sells for $1.85 per 100, 
delivered at milk plant. Butter at Elgin 
quotations. Not much cheese made; used 
to be lots made, but milk is being bought 
up by the Belle Vernon Mapes Dairy Co., 
who pasteurize the milk and ship to Cleve¬ 
land. Fruit and gardening crops not much 
raised, except for own use. v. d. m. 
Benton, O. • 
New corn, 40 cents per bushel; oats, 31 
cents; wheat, 95 cents; rye, 65 cents; 
barley, 70 cents ; Timothy seed, $1.25 ; Red 
clover seed, $9; Alsike seed, $11; apples, 
60 cents; potatoes, 40 cents; butter, 30 
cents per pound; butter fat, 33 cents per 
pound ; eggs, 30 cents per dozen ; live chick¬ 
ens, 10 cents per pound; good lambs, six 
cents per pound; old sheep, two to three 
cents per pound; hogs, seven cents per 
pound; fat cattle, 6% cents per pound; 
milch cows, $40 to $90 per head; horses, 
$200 to $300 per head ; good Timothy hay, 
$12 per ton; mixed hay and clover hay, 
$10 per ton. These are our local dealers’ 
buying prices. b. w. h. 
Dunkirk, O. 
Owing partly to bad weather and the 
scarcity of help, it is estimated that 100,000 
bushels of apples have gone to waste In 
the southern part of this county this Fall. 
The evaporators and cider mills have 
enough piled around them to run till 
Christmas, which have been bought at 25 
cents per 100. There has not been much 
chance of selling hand-picked apples, as 
buyers could not get barrels; $1 is all they 
offer for the fruit. Some have tried ship¬ 
ping them to New York and Philadelphia, 
but barrels cost 40 cents each, freight 40 
cents per barrel (in less than car lots), 
commission 10 per cent, cartage 7% cents 
per barrel; it does not leave very much 
when they sell at $1.75 to $2 per barrel. 
Produce has been selling at the following 
prices: Wheat, $1 ; corn, 60 cents; oats, 
35 to 40 cents; buckwheat, $1.25 to $1.30 
per 100 pounds. Colored eggs, 36; white, 
50; creamery butter, 33 to 35. Hay, $10 
to $14; cows, $75 to $210; dressed hogs, 
eight to 9% cents. About a foot of snow 
fell November 24-25; settled six inches; it 
came on mud and roads are very bad. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. J. w. c. 
For mutton, the butcher gives 8 cents a 
pound dressed; lamb, 10 cents dressed; 
chickens alive, 16 cents, dressed, 22 cents. 
Milk, 6 cents a quart at the farm, 8 to 10 
cents when delivered on regular route; 
home-made butter at store or consumer, 30 
cents ; beef, dressed. 6 to 7 cents a pound ; 
hides, 7 cents; tallow, 2 cents. Situated 
as we are, on an island, prices are some¬ 
what different from the ma' ,ilo nd. The 
retail price of meats is relatively higher 
here, but the price at the farm or to the 
farmer is less, with a limited market at 
that. In selling sheep and lambs to the 
butcher, he comes for them, dresses them 
out at his slaughter house and pays 8 
cents a pound for mutton, 10 cent for 
lamb, for the meat only; for the pelt we 
get nothing. Same with calves ; for cattle 
the hide is paid for. I have tried to put 
the sale of sheep and lambs on a live 
weight basis, but there we have the same 
condition as In all places where custom is 
established and no competition. The extra 
freight and cartage makes an “off island” 
market next to impossible unless for extra 
good articles. s. H. 
North Tisbury, Mass. 
We have one of the best markets In the 
Summer to the beach people who come 
here; we sell our lambs and dress them 
ourselves at 30 cents for hindquarters and 
20 to 25 cents for the fore. I cannot 
understand why people will not raise more 
sheep; the dogs do not trouble us often, 
not half as much as the poor fences we 
have to contend with. Broilers bring 
throughout the season $1.25 per pair; milk, 
10 cents; cream 50 cents per quart; skim 
separator milk. 5 cents; this at retail. 
Hens dressed, 25 cents per pound ; veal, 8 
cents to market. This Fall we get 75 
cents for potatoes retail; turnips, 50 cents 
retail, 40 cents wholesale; pork, local mar¬ 
ket offers eight to nine cents; an order 
from Hartford for private trade of 12% 
cents per pound. Eggs bring now 50 cents 
per dozen, not much young stock raised. 
The .Tews from New Haven come through 
and pick up all the old cows and what 
young stock they can find at a cheap price. 
I’igs sell for $5 per pair and not much call 
for them, not so many raised as there 
used to be. Good Timothy hay sells from 
$20 to $30 per ton; salt hay, $10 to $15 
per ton; rye straw, $10 to $12 per ton. 
Bows, ordinary, from $35 to $50; horses 
not raised to any extent. We find apples 
about a failure in this section. Not much 
butter made around here that I know of. 
Clinton, Conn. c. D. m. 
A severe snowstorm the last of Novem¬ 
ber delayed the Fall work here, but for 
past week the weather has been pleasant 
and most of the farmers are taking ad¬ 
vantage of it by getting in their crops. 
This is quite a milk county, most of it 
being shipped to Syracuse at 3% cents 
per quart. Alfalfa is raised all through 
the county with good success. Buyers are 
paying from $14 to $16 per ton. Potatoes 
were a failure this year, some farmers 
losing over one-half their crop on account 
of rot. Cabbage is a good crop this year, 
but the market is poor at present. Other 
prices are as follows: Eggs, 48 to 50 cents; 
butter. 32 to 34; Timothy, per ton, $18 
to $20 ; potatoes, 65 to 75 cents; pork, 10 
to 10% ; cabbage, $2.50 to $3 per ton. 
Syracuse, N. Y. e. n. c. 
Potatoes are selling for 65 cents at 
stores, 70 to 75 cents at houses. No. 1 
red apples, $1 per bushel; seconds, 60 to 
75 cents. Market flooded with cheap bulk 
apples. Bartlett pears were very scarce 
and sold from $1.75 to $2.50 per bushel; 
Kieffer pears sold from 40 to 75 cents 
per bushel, with no demand. Wheat, about 
$1.05. Hay, $16 to $18 per ton on the 
Cleveland market; as low as $10 or $12 at 
some auctions; baled straw, $11 to $12 
per ton. Dressed hogs. 10 to 11 cents per 
pound. Feeders scarce and high. Good 
horses, $175 to $250. Butter, 37 to 38 
cents per pound. Eggs scarce, 30 to 35 
cents per dozen. Hubbard squash, $1 per 
100 pounds, wholesale. Rabbits, about 
$2.50 per dozen. Live fowls, 13 to 14 
cents per pound. o. A. R. 
Chesterland, O. 
Cows bring on the average $35 to $50; 
butter 35 cents per pound, milk six cents 
per quart delivered, live cents undelivered 
and 2% to three cents when put on cars; 
cream 30 to 40 cents per quart. Apples 50 
cents per bushel. Potatoes 50 to 60 cents 
per bushel. Eggs 16 to 40 cents per dozen. 
Chickens, broilers, $1.50 per pair, 18 to 25 
cents per pound, dressed: turkeys 30 cents. 
Wood, per cord, delivered, $4 to $5; horse9 
$150 to $175. Hay. $15 to $20 per ton. 
Grain is not raised much and only enough 
for our own use. Our farmers have trouble 
in getting help out on the farm ; the young 
people do not care to farm, and so, when 
older people are left at home alone, no 
wonder the farms run down, and at last 
come under the head of deserted farms. It 
is not to-day the city that calls our young 
people away, but the factory is, the attrac¬ 
tion ; it is with us here and our farmer 
boys prefer that life to the farm. 
Arlington, Vt. m. h. c. 
We are located in the north central 
part of Ohio, about 50 miles southwest of 
Cleveland. Many of our products are 
shipped to Cleveland and prices are based 
on the market there. Hogs sell for about 
$7 a hundred pounds. Good fat cattle are 
worth $5 and $6 per 100; milch cows 
from $40 to $60 for good cows. We sell 
cream to a firm in Akron. O. We have 
been getting from 24 to 35 cents for a 
pound of butter fat: that is about the 
range of prices for last year. Eggs are 
30 to 32 cents now a dozen. This is not 
much of a country for fruit growing on 
a commercial scale. The prices obtained 
for fruit vary so much it would be hard 
to quote. There is not much gardening 
or trucking done, except a little near Ash¬ 
land, our county seat, a city with a popu¬ 
lation of between 6.000 and 7.000. We do 
not raise garden crops except for our own 
use. Wheat is worth $1 at elevator, oats, 
30 cents; corn sells for about 50 cents per 
70 pounds; potatoes, 40 cents; hay about 
$12 a ton; live chickens, nine to 11 cents 
per pound. Horses that are large enough 
for farm work, not too old and sound, 
$125 to $200 as to size and quality. 
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