1913. 
49 
TPI-TC RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture states that in Argentina the estimated 
production this season of wheat is 235,161,- 
000 bushels; oats, 115,882,000 bushels; 
flaxseed, 51,180,000 bushels. In Brazil the 
estimated production of coffee, this season, 
is 1,322,720,000 pounds. 
Butter 30 cents; eggs, 35 ; apples, 50; 
milk, eight cents a quart; celery, 15 cents 
a bunch; cattle from $45 to $65. Cattle 
are looking well for this time of year. 
Bedford, Pa- c. F. 
Cabbage $3 per ton; potatoes 55 cents 
per bushel; apples 90' cents per 100. Milk 
$2; hens 10 cents a pound; turkeys 16. 
Cows, fresh, $60 to $90 ; Spring cows $30 to 
$40; horses $125 to $200. r. p. 
Cuyler, N. Y. 
The following are the prices current here 
at present: Wheat 90 ; corn 40 ; oats 27 ; 
potatoes 45; apples 50; steers six cents a 
pound; butchers’ stuff 4*4 cents; hogs, 
seven cents; butter 25; butter fat 35; 
milch cows $45 to $50 ; hay $12. 
Timewell, Ill. w. h. p. 
Oats here, 26 cents; corn, 35 ; hay, $15; 
crops of every kind of grain so huge we 
speak of it in whispers; expletives fail. 
When it really commences to move it will 
be as Pomona in “Rudder Grange” said, “I 
know'd when Lord Edward seen the bull¬ 
dog there’d be times.” n. k. j. 
Gemell, la. 
Cattle, steers, 514 to seven cents per 
pound ; cows, fat, four to five cents ; good 
veal, 8y 2 cents; hogs, 6% to seven cents; 
lambs, six cents ; sheep, three cents. Pota¬ 
toes, per bushel, 35 cents; onions. 50 cents 
apples, 50 cents. Butter, dairy, 25 cents; 
creamery, 31 cents. Eggs, 30 to 32 cents a 
dozen. p. m. W. 
Camden, Mich. 
I list below such farm products as are 
In market here: Cattle, fat, 5 cents; 
stockers, $4.50 per 100 pounds; hogs, fat, 
seven cents; lambs, 8 cents; fowls, 14 
cents; turkeys, eight cents; geese, eight 
cents; wheat, red, $1; white, 98 cents; 
oats, 35 cents; rye, 65 cents; peas, 75 
cents to $1; beans, $2; eggs, 25 cents; 
butter, 30 cents; potatoes, 40 cents. 
Harrison, Mich. w. e. a. 
Wheat, $1.03 per bushel; rye, 80; oats, 
45; corn, 75; hogs, per 100, $6.50 to 
$6.75 ; cattle, per 100, $3 to $6.50; Spring' 
lambs, per 100, $5 to $7 ; milch cows, $33 
to $50 ; apples, per bushel, 50 to 55 cents; 
potatoes, 60; veal calves, per 100, $8 to 
$9.50; butter, per pound, 26; eggs, per 
dozen, 27; hay, per ton from $S to $12; 
cheese, per pound, 15 cents at factory. 
Gienmont, Ohio. d. w. f. 
Corn, 36 cents; poor crop of wheat, 90 
cents; poor crop oats, 26 cents; good crop 
potatoes, 50 cents ; good crop hay, $8 to $10 
per ton ; good crop apples, none are grown 
here, but New York Baldwins sell at 85 
cents. Hogs are worth $7.50; fat cattle, 
seven cents; cows, from $40 to $75. But¬ 
ter, 25 cents; eggs, 25 cents; cream at 
creamery, 33 cents per pound of butter fat; 
poultry, eight cents. j. g. t. 
Clay City, lud. 
Milch cattle, strippers, $20 to $40 ; fresh, 
$40 to $75, grades; cattle for beef, $8.50 
per 100; hay, $10 to $20, according to 
quality; butter, fresh from creamery, 35 
to 40 ; cheese, 10 to 16 ; potatoes, 65 cents 
per bushel; apples, 50 cents per bushel, 
picked Winter fruit, Al. Eggs, 33 to 35 
cents. Most grains raised in this locality 
are fed on farm. No gardening for profit 
in this locality. n. j. g, 
Beaver Meadows, N. Y. 
Butter, 34 cents per pound; potatoes, 50 
cents per bushel; eggs, 32 cents per dozen ; 
fowls, 10 cents a pound; pork, dressed, 
10; beef, eight; deacon skins, $1; cow 
hideSj 12 cents a pound; milch cows, $35 
to $60. Little hay for sale, bringing SI8 
per ton. Buckwheat was a good crop but 
some was totally ruined by hail. Apples 
poor and wormy, not much attention paid 
to same. j. c . w. 
Schcnevus, N. Y\ 
The local markets are paying as follows: 
Timothy hay, $13; mixed, $12; clover, $10; 
wheat, 90 cents; corn, yellow. 52 cents per 
100; white, 50 cents; oats, 26 cents; rye, 
60 cents; clover seed, $8. Chickens, 10 
cents a pound; ducks, eight cents; geese, 
eight cents; turkeys, 16 cents. Rutter, 30 
cents; eggs, 32 cents; lard. 10 cents; pota¬ 
toes, 50 cents; hogs, $7.05 to $7.40 per 
100; cows, $2 to $5 per 100 ; calves, $4 to 
$7.50 per 100; steers, $4 to $7 per 100. 
Logansport, lud. s. g. 
Corn, No. 1, 40 cents, retail, 50; oats, 
28, retai.l 40; rye, 60, retail, 70; wheat, 
$1; cattle from two to nine; cows, $40 
up to $150; hogs, three to seven cents; 
sheep, two to four cents; lamhs, 4% to 
6; poultry, 10, retail at 15 cents; turkevs, 
15, retail, 20; ducks, nine, retail, 14; 
eggs, 30, retail, 35 to 40; potatoes, 
40 to 50 cents; horses, $75 to $250; 
mules the same. Lettuce, eight to 
15 cents per pound; onions, 50 cents to $1 ; 
cream testing two pounds butter fat, 60 
cents gallon, retails at 12 cents per pint 
Butter from 20 to 25 cents, retails from 
38 to 40 cents. M. s. 
Muncie, Ind. 
We had a good oat crop, a fair wheat 
crop; a good deal of the corn was poor 
In quantity as well as quality. 1 do not 
think that the corn crop is up to the 
government report. We are gettiug 40 
cents a bushel for corn; 29 for oats; 
wheat, 86 to 92; rye, 58; potatoes, 50; 
apples, $1 a bushel; hay, $10 to $15 per 
ton; straw, $6. Cattle on the market are 
from $4.50 to $8 a hundred net; 1)1*01 by 
the quarter, 11 cents for fore quarters, 13 
‘ ov quarters. Milch cows bring from 
$o0 to $75. Country butter from 20 to 
30 cents a pound. Some ship their milk 
and receive from $1.40 to $1.60 a hundred 
pounds; eggs, 30; chickens, nine cents; 
turkeys, 16. The horse market is dull; it 
takes a good one to bring $200. w. a. 
Frankfort, Ind. 
Brices in this community run about as 
follows: Potatoes 65 to 75 cents per 
bushel; wheat, $1.20; oats. 45 cents. Corn, 
none for sale, but feed dealers in Ellwood 
City ask 80 cents. Cows from $40 to $60. 
Milk eight cents per quart in Ellwood; most 
milk in this county goes to Pittsburgh. 
Hogs 11 cents dressed; calves 13 to 14 
cents dressed. Prices for garden truck rule 
about the same as Pittsburgh prices, owing 
to the nearness of our local markets to that 
city. Not many apples for sale In this 
county; orchards mostly old and in need 
of care. Butter 35 to 38 cents; eggs 38 to 
40 cents; people having private customers 
get 45 to 50 cents a dozen. No cattle 
worth mentioning in this county, as the 
dairymen sell their calves when four to 
six weeks old. o. l. c. 
Celia, Pa. 
Cattle are selling at from four cents to 
six cents as to quality and grade. Milch 
cows from $40 to $60 ; Spring calves about 
$15; hogs, fat, seven to eight cents; pigs, 
six and eight weeks old. $5 to $6 per pair ; 
sheep, fat, $4, ewes, $3.50; Spring lambs, 
five cents. Horses are not selling very 
readily, but are bringing good prices when 
a sale is made, from $150 to $175, and 
occasionally $200. Apples have sold at 
from 40 to 60 cents, not much call at this 
time. One of my neighbors has 700 bush¬ 
els on hand now of very fine apples. 
Dexter, O. j. ir. 
^Potatoes, per five-eights bushel basket. 
35 to 45 cents; tomatoes average perhaps 
25 cents per five-eighths bushel basket; 
loupes, 40 cents per five-eighth basket; 
sugar corn, 30 to 90 cents per basket; 
sweet potatoes, 40 to 60 cents; strawber¬ 
ries, six cents per quart; apples, 30 cents 
to $1.15, according to quality. Williams 
Early Red bringing $1.15 and windfalls 
30 cents; pears, Kieffer are now bringing 
10 cents per live-eighths bushel, hut brought 
30 to 40 cents when picked and ripened 
early; hay $18 to $20 per ton; milk, 
wholesale, 4i% cents per quart, retail, 8 
cents per quart; common cows are selling 
at $60 to $80 apiece. Those are the prices 
received for products sold through Phila¬ 
delphia commission men, who handle nearly 
all the farm products of this section, e. g. 
Ashland, N. J. 
I live nine miles from Chilton and follow 
mixed farming. Hogs, live, $6 to $6.50; 
dressed, $9 to $9.50; calves, $8.75 to $9; 
lambs, $5.50 to $6; sheep, live, $3 to $3.50. 
Poultry, chickens, live, 10; dressed,' 12. 
5 heat, hard, 85 to 90, soft, 85. Barley, 
lSO. 2, 5;> to 60; No. 3, 50 to 55; oats 28 
to 30; rye- 55 to 60; corn. old. 46V£ ; pota¬ 
toes 35 to 40 ; onions 50 to 55. Creamery 
prints 36 ; separator 32 to 34 ; dairy butter 
2a to 2S ; eggs, fresh. 32; eggs, * current 
prices, 26; cheese, American. 17; twins 
16y a . Aples, best grades, 75 cents; beaus, 
hand picked. .$2.90 a bushel. Stock we 
ship to Chicago; beeves $5.65 to $11- 
stockers and feeders $4.35 to $7.65 ; cows, 
$2.75 to $7.65. Sugar beets $6 per ton; 
our town shipped 1,000 tons to Menominee 
Sugar Beet Company this season. We also 
raise Alaska peas for the canning com¬ 
pany, the bulk sold at $3 per bushel for 
seed. The Pacific Milk Condenserv, at 
Chilton, pays $1.75 per 100 for four per 
cent. milk. Clover seed Alsike $10; red I 
think, is around $14 per bushel at present. 
1 hilton, Wis. ^ 
Selling prices for farm produce are as 
follows, mostly retail for delivery: Pota¬ 
toes, No. 1, 60 cents per bushel; corn, $1.60 
per 100 pounds. Beef, $7 and $8 per 100 
pounds alive; fresh pork, 8 to 9 cents per 
pound dressed. Fresh eggs, 40 cents a dozen. 
Chickens, a limited sale, at 20 cents per 
pound, dressed ; fowls, 14 cents, alive. But¬ 
ter, choice dairy, 30 cents per pound. Ap¬ 
ples bring $1.25 per barrel; it costs 25 cents 
a barrel to get them to the nearest railroad 
station, and barrels at 40 cents make it a 
losing proposition. Some people are cutting 
down their trees to avoid hunting the 
Brown-tail moth; others are leaving the 
apples on the ground. Still others have 
made their grafted fruit Into cider. I won¬ 
der how this bumper crop of apples affects 
the consumer; the producer cannot get his 
money back for labor, barrels and transpor¬ 
tation charges. We have to pay $1.75 per 
day for comomn farm help. If city people 
will figure a little they will see that, it 
costs the farmer all he gets for his produce 
and a little more. q. 
Moultonboro, N. H. 
ago, is “worth it” for the most part. Only 
the middleman is too numerous and must be 
weeded out till he is able to obtain his 
profits more from the quantity of his sales 
than from the percentages. We could all 
live well enough then. On the other hand 
even farmers are laughing about the outcry 
against the high price of eggs. As a rule 
the complaint has been made as an echo 
of the general objection to the cost of 
meats and made by people who have no 
idea that this is the time of year when 
hens lay very few eggs, so that they would 
naturally be high now if ever. They retail 
here at 40 cents for best fresh and as low 
as 22 cents for storage, the latter not guar¬ 
anteed and likely to be more or less bad. 
One thing much needed is to regulate the 
storage of eggs. To cripple the industry 
would be foolish. 
JOHN W. CHAMBERLIN. 
You ask In The R. N.-Y. why are social 
conditions so much better in the older coun¬ 
tries of Europe than they are here in 
America. Having lived in both continents 
for years, and having made a study of 
social and political economy, I can give 
you the reasons. There are' two of them. 
First of all, when laws are made in Ger¬ 
many and the older countries they are en¬ 
forced impartially. When they are made in 
America they are enforced against only 
those who are very poor and have no 
friends. There are exceptions, but I givfc 
the rule. Then again the public conscience 
is much more highly educated in these 
older countries, and things that are con¬ 
sidered permissible here are considered 
highly disgraceful there. It is another 
noteworthy fact that where the laws are 
strictly enforced the land values are al¬ 
ways very much higher. 
I notice one mistake in one of the letters 
of your European correspondent. He states 
that where the land is the richest the 
pines grow fastest. Anyone who knofrs 
anything about arboriculture knows that 
just the opposite is true. On our very rich 
Mlssissinnl River lands it takes a hundred 
years for a pine to grow 30 feet, while in 
pure sand it will grow a hundred feet In 
50 years. Our crops are very fine in spite 
of the great floods. It left a deposit of 
untold value. sam h. James. 
Louisiana. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
The warm, moist Fall has kept the'vege¬ 
tables plentiful and fairly cheap in market, 
and prices promise not to soar this Win¬ 
ter as they have done for several Winters 
of late. Such cool-growing vegetables as 
lettuce have grown remarkable well. I 
have seen heads that resembled small cab¬ 
bages for size and shape selling at seven 
cents retail. The middleman is disgusted 
with the cabbage trade. One of them said 
the other day that he had found it useless 
to buy it, for it must be sold for three 
cents a head, and often there was no sale 
for it at all. Last Winter it was so scarce 
that it was hard to get any, even at four 
cents a pound retail. 
Potatoes have stiffened a little, some ask¬ 
ing so cents a bushel, though the farmer 
seldom gets more than 50 cents. There is 
now less complaint of their rotting than 
during digging time* Possibly the difficulty 
is now over. Apples displaved for small 
sales are still pretty poor quality if home 
grown, but as fair as ever if from the 
Pacific coast. It really looks as if our 
orchardists were anxious to play into the 
hands of the display people, though I am 
sure they will wake up after awhile. 1 
believe there is no farm industry today that 
will better repay scientific management and 
1 know of some enterprising Buffalo people, 
one of them a woman, who are studying the 
problem. 
Other vegetables are not as low as cab¬ 
bage and lettuce, but they are* not high. 
Parsnips retail at 75 cents a bushel, onions 
at 60 cents, turnips at 50 cents and car¬ 
rots at 40 to 50 cents. It seems a little 
hard that when the consumer begins fairlv 
to feel satisfaction over the prices lie has 
to pay the farmer suffers. There arc a 
good many crops on the market now that 
cannot be raised for what they are bringing, 
if the midleman is to be paid what he 
usually demands. One thing is sure. There 
must be a readjustment of the course of 
foodstuffs from the producer to the con¬ 
sumer if any headway is to be made against 
the cost of living. I am not usually among 
those who see so much that is terrifying tii 
the situation, for one can often say that 
the extra cost, as compared with the long 
Prices of farm products are ruled bv 
Louisville, Ky. prices. Wheat, four cents 
under Louisville prices on day of sale. 
Lorn, 40 cents; hogs, 50 cents per 100 
under Louisville prices. Cattle, good, 
nearly always shipped to Louisville. Local 
butcher buys for what ever he can get 
them for. Cows, from $25 up, some real 
goods cows have sold as high as $65 to 
$io in past few years. Butter, 25 cents 
a pound, very best or poorest. Egg's, 30 
cents a dozen; this is two cents higher 
than Louisville quotations. Apples, only 
$1 offered barreled and I believe delivered 
at Louisville. Orchardists shook apples 
picked up good and bad. and delivered at 
nver for 40 or 45 cents a barrel, bought 
by distillers; Kieffer pears, 40 to 60 cents 
bushel, later not salable. Grapes, 1% to 
three cents a pound. Garden crops prices 
good, but market glutted soon. Straw¬ 
berries first, 10 cents a quart, soon dropped 
to $1 a crate. At auction sales, prices rule 
much higher than at private sales on ac¬ 
count of six to nine months’ time al¬ 
lowed to pay. C- s 
Leavenworth, Ind. 
Eggs per dozen. 28; butter, pound. 25; 
lard. 12; potatoes, bushel, 30; wheat, $1; 
corn. 55 ; oats, 30; rye, 56; Timothy hay, 
$10; cattle, pound, five; hogs, seven cents. 
Forest, Ohio. w. G. s. 
Wheat, 96 cents per bushel; corn. 62 
cents per 100 pounds; oats, 31 cents a 
bushel; barley, 50; clover seed, $9.50 to 
$10 per bushel; potatoes, 45; cabbage, one 
cent per pound; butter, 25 cents; eggs, 
30 ceuts; apples, 50 cents; turnips, 25 
cents; milk, 5 jeents per quart; milch 
cows, $45 to $7.» per head; hogs, seven 
cents per pound on foot; beef cattle, cows, 
from 1 V_> to 5 ceuts per pound ; steers, fair 
to good, three to seven cents; sheep, old 
and good, 2% to four cents; lambs, fair to 
good, five to seven cents. Turkeys. 16 
cents; geese, 11 cents; ducks, 12 cents; 
chickens, 11 cents-. z. m. k. 
McClure, O. 
Milk. $1.70 per can to farmers; cows 
from $50 for fair to $100 for good; horses, 
$75 to $200; potatoes are selling for 50 
cents. Sellers are holding for 75 . nay 
from $15 to $1S; straw, $8 to $10; buck¬ 
wheat, $1.25 a hundred ; butternuts, 50 to 
75 cents per -bushel; eggs, 30; hens. 10 
cents per pound; calves, eight; bobs, $1.25 
Per 100. j. H . a. 
Cortland, N. Y. 
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