1913. 
THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
t29 
M X JL. K. 
In effect January 1, 1913, the N. Y. 
Milk Exchange price was reduced 20 cents 
per 40-quart can, now being: 1 $ (selected 
raw and pasteurized), $1.91 per 40-quart 
can: C (for cooking and manufacturing), 
$1.81, netting four and 3% cents to ship¬ 
pers in the 26-cent zone. 
The zflnes are fixed by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission as follows : 23 cents 
for the first 40 miles from New York; 20 
cents for the next 60 miles; 29 cents for 
the next 90 miles; beyond this, 32 cents. 
The railroads allow a discount for car lots 
of 10,000 quarts of 10 and 12 % per cent. 
The dairy business is not very old 
through this section, but has made a good 
gain in the last few years. Farmers are 
putting up silos. Each year shows an in¬ 
crease of the dairy business instead of 
raising hay and shipping to Eastern mar¬ 
kets. Our creamery pays 32 cents for but¬ 
ter fat; at the stores we get 27 cents for 
butter. Milkmen get seven cents for 
milk delivered through the town. Com¬ 
mon cows sell for $G0, grade cows higher, 
Jerseys and Ilolsteins from $100 to $150. 
Market cattle bring $4 to $7 owing to 
what it is and condition; hogs, $7.25; 
sheep, $2 to $3; lambs, $5 to $ 6 . Corn, 
GO cents per 100 pounds; oats, 30; barley, 
50; rye, 54; wheat, $1.04; clover seed, 
$8.50 to $9; Timothy seed, $1.50; Timothy 
hay, $ 12 ; mixed hay, $ 11 , and clover nay, 
$10. Last year it was up to $23 ana $25. 
Plenty of roughage for stock this season. 
The oat crop was the largest for 20 years. 
Good horses are high and not easy to pick 
up, $200 to $250 being paid for them. 
A good many auction sales are being held, 
and every article is bringing top prices. 
Several farms have changed hands, and 
some still for sale, bringing from $90 to 
$150 per acre. Fruit crops are not re¬ 
ceiving as much attention as they should, 
and garden crops are only handled locally. 
Montpelier, O, c. c. t. 
Dairying is the principal business of the 
section. Creamery prices for butter fat 
for January, 40; dairy-made butter, 35; 
milch cows, $45 to $60; good horses $125 
to $200 according to style and quality; 
hogs, dressed, light weight, 11, heavy, 9; 
potatoes, 55 at railroad. Considerable 
maple sugar and syrup is made during 
season. Local prices maple sugar, eight to 
15 cents as to quality; syrup, 65 to 85 
cents per gallon. Hay in barns, $12 per 
ton; baled, $15. This is a great egg-pro¬ 
ducing section ; White Leghorn hens pre¬ 
dominate. Eggs are shipped direct to New 
York and bring top prices for nearby 
hennery fancy selected whites. At present, 
January 27, about 35 cents; local markets 
very poor for farm produce. Local dealers 
pay for eggs, 18 to 22. No grain is 
grown for market here. Oats and buck¬ 
wheat are grown but not in quantities suf¬ 
ficient for local use. Most feeds are ship¬ 
ped in. We pay for corn, 65; cornmeal, 
$1.25 per 100 pounds; wheat feed, $1.40; 
hominy, $1.45; cotton-seed meal, $1.65; 
oats. 45 ; buckwheat, 70. Elevation of this 
section 1,500 to 2,000 feet. Land brings 
for average farm with good buildings $20 
per acre; without buildings, $7 to $12 as 
to location. Census of 1910 shows a de¬ 
crease of 2,998 in total population of 
county, but the population in the villages 
have increased one-third during the past 
10 years. H. R. D. 
Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
This is the center of a dairy and gen¬ 
eral farming section. Unusually mild 
weather has prevailed up to this time, and 
several sugar bushes have been tapped, 
and good runs are reported. Ilay is plenty, 
and demand light. Cows are very scarce 
and high. Much milk sent to this city and 
Buffalo markets, much to Borden and 
Mohawk condenseries. Cheese factory divi¬ 
dends for last week in December show 
cheese bringing 16 to 17% cents; milk 
netting from $1.80 to $1.91 per hundred. 
Butter factories netting patrons from $1.50 
to $1.65 per hundred. Hay in barn, $9.00 
to $10.25; baled and delivered at car, $12 
to $13.50; average dairy cows, $60. Ilay 
delivered in city, $15 to $16. Buckwheat, 
$1.20 to $1.30 per hundred; oats, 40; corn, 
50 to 56; poultry, live, 14 and 15 cents; 
dressed, 18 to 20. Dairy butter, 30 to 
82; eggs, 25 to 28; potatoes, 55 to 65; 
cow beef, in quarters, hind, nine, fore, 
eight cents. All farm produce delivered at 
city market at from 10 to 20 per cent, 
advance over above quotations. Farmers 
are paying for feeds in 100 pound lots, or 
larger up to carload orders, yellow feed 
meal, $1.05; ground oats, $1.40; bran, 
$1.25 to $1.30; standard middlings, $1.30; 
distillers’ grain, $1.50; 41% linseed meal, 
$1.65; Buffalo gluten, $1.60; cotton-seed 
meal, $1.65; buckwheat middlings, $1.45. 
Parcel post not available in practice in 
delivering farm produce in city, but largely 
taken advantage of by city merchants de¬ 
livering merchandise to country patrons. 
Jamestown, N. Y. a. m. l. 
Good farm horses around $200; cows, 
fresh, around $50 ; silage, sweet corn, 
husks from a canning company, $1.50 per 
ton ; pea vines, $2 per ton. Strawberries, 
from $1 to $1.50 per case, 16 quarts ; rasp¬ 
berries, red, from $1.25 to $2 per case, 12 
quarts; blackberries, $1.50 per case, 12 
quarts. Market good last Summer. Wood 
hard green, $4 per cord. H. m. a. 
Eau Claire, Wis. 
Horses, $150 to $250; cows, $50 to $80; 
dressed hogs at dealers, eight cents; pigs, 
per pair, $5 to $8; lambs, five cents per 
pound. Ilay, about $18 per ton. No 
grain raised for sale now. Selling prices 
are as follows: Corn, 60; bran, $27 per 
ton; oats, 40. Milk is largely becoming 
the main industry with our farmers; it is 
sold in the many mining and manufactur¬ 
ing towns here. Dealers pay five cents per 
quart, sometimes taking it from the door; 
retails at nine cents per quart. Butter at 
store, 30; retails at 35. Eggs, 28 to 80, 
retail at 35; had been 40. Chickens, 12 
cents per pound ; potatoes, 75 cents at 
store. Beef sells at $4.75 to $5 per 100 
on foot; dressed, nine cents per pound. 
Apollo, Fa. m. 
The Alto Creamery pays 36 cents per 
pound for butter; butter fat, 39 cents 
per pound. Eggs, 22; good wheat, $1.10 
per bushel; most wheat, $1 per bushel. 
Apples, 50; beans, $1.80 on basis of hand 
picked ; corn, 25 per crate; oats, 32 cents, 
per bushel; rye, 50 cents per bushel; buck¬ 
wheat, 65 cents per bushel; baled hay, 
$12 per ton ; potatoes, 30 cents per bushel. 
April beef cattle. $6.50 per 100; hogs, live 
weight, $7 per 100. j. l. 
Alto, Mich. 
Horses, $150 to $250; cattle, milch cows, 
from $40 to $75; beef cattle, from $4.50 
to $5 per 100 ; veal calves, from $6 to $7 
per 100; butter, 25; butter fat, 32; milk, 
five cents per quart. Hogs, $7 per 100; 
sheep, $4 to $8 per 100; corn, 43; wheat, 
$1 ; oats, 30. Hay, Timothy, from $10 to 
$14.50; clover, $10 to $12; oat straw, $4 
to $6; eggs, 23 ; hens, 10; potatoes, 60; 
apples, $1. We have had very dry weather 
all through the Fall and Winter, up to the 
present month, but at present are having 
an over supply of rain; a good deal of 
suffering along the river bottoms caused 
by overflows. We have had an extra mild 
Winter but very little snow. Very little 
wheat sown in this county, quite a good 
deal of ground plowed for Spring work. 
Our produce, vegetables and live stock 
mostly, is shipped to Indianapolis, Ind.; 
grain and seeds to Toledo, Ohio. Almost 
everyone is pleased with parcel post; will 
make rapid progress with the support of 
the general public. p. e. r. 
Fountain Co., Ind. 
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