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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
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CROPS. 
THE FARMERS’ MARKET. 
“I am going to stay right here and be 
a farmer, and make them other folks come 
over the hills to me.” 
The reader who has read ‘‘The Child” 
identifies that remark. If any do not, they 
would better buy or borrow a copy and 
study the line of thought which calls out 
its expression. There are many more just 
as good, but this one is worth the whole 
cost of a de luxe library, as it shows the 
way for the producer to And a good mar¬ 
ket. “The Child” concluded he would pro¬ 
duce things and make the middleman and 
consumer "come across” and he finally did. 
We have all found, when hunting customers, 
that they wanted to do more than their 
share in setting the price, but when one 
hunted us up on our own ground, his 
business dictation was more moderate. 
They have been spoiled by our persis¬ 
tency in seeking them. Formerly there 
were too many of us, but now there are 
only about six millions growing the neces¬ 
saries for one hundred millions. Soon they 
will be plentier while the lure of the city 
will make us scarcer, and even if they have 
the money, we will be harder to find. It 
seems that young, industrious, intelligent 
farm boys who conclude to “stay right 
here” have a “snap.” buckeye. 
Markets in York, Pa. 
York, Pa., has a population of about 
55,000, and is the third largest manufactur¬ 
ing town in Pennsylvania. It is a large 
manufacturing and generally prosperous city 
because living is cheap. Living is cheap 
because its wants are supplied more directly 
by the producer than any other city I know 
of. In fact I do not believe there is an¬ 
other city or large town in the country 
where the consumer deals so directly with 
the producer. There are five large and 
well-equipped market-houses in the city. In 
each of these houses there is a market 
from two to three times each week. Be¬ 
sides there is a curb market twice a week 
in Centre Square, which is well attended 
both by sellers and buyers during the Sum¬ 
mer. Not only this, but go to York any 
day of the week you will find dozens of 
farmers on the streets selling direct from 
their wagons. But how about the producer, 
the farmer? If you make circumference 
within a radius of 15 miles around York 
you will find that a very large proportion 
of the farmers attend these markets at 
least once a week, and more of them twice. 
To illustrate this, I live eight miles south 
of the city, on one of the main roads. One 
mile north of my place there are several 
roads that lead to this main road. By 
actual count there are between 55 and 60 
farmers who pass this point each week on 
their way to market. But you will say if 
these are all market gardeners they will 
overstock the market. But they are not 
market gardeners, in the way we generally 
use that term. They are simply general 
farmers. Each one has a number of 
dairy cows, from two to three to 15 or 
18. About all have their hand separator 
and make butter; and few there are who 
do not make first-class butter. This al¬ 
ways brings good prices. It is seldom that 
they get less than 30 cents a pound, and 
often as high as 40 cents. 
Besides cows, all keep chickens. Of 
course they sell nothing but fresh eggs, and 
they always bring good prices. In the line 
of fruit and vegetables there are no ex¬ 
tensive growers as you often find close to 
other cities, with the exception of potatoes. 
Many farmers now grow from a few acres 
to eight or 10 acres. In the Fall these are 
hauled to York in large loads and sold to 
regular customers who lay iu their Winter 
supply. But all manage to grow all the 
other vegetables in sufficient amounts to 
make at least one load each week. In the 
way of fruit, both small and tree fruit, all 
manage to have a fair supply. Not being 
so extensively engaged in the business they 
are able to have ever thing of the best qual¬ 
ity. In this way the farmers manage to 
sell all their produce at good prices, while 
the consumer buys the best and freshest 
at a reasonable price. 
But this is not all. Many of our best 
farmers have learned that it does not pay 
to feed corn, or at least not much, to dairy 
cows. So they buy the by-products of mills 
and factories for their dairy cows and feed 
their corn to hogs. These are butchered at 
home and worked up into sausage and pud¬ 
ding, while the ribs, backbones and other 
parts are sold fresh; the hams are sugar 
cured and smoked. These always bring 
good prices during Spring and Summer. Of 
course all this is taken to market and sold 
at a fair price. But in this practical age 
the important question always is, does it 
pay? Yes, it does pay. I do not believe 
you could find five per cent of our farmers 
who follow this method of farming who are 
dissatisfied. While not all are making 
money as fast as they would like to, yet 
the large majority are doing nicely, while 
many are making money and are not asking 
for a change of our monetary system so as 
to make the borrowing of money easier. 
Pennsylvania. e. b. goodling. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
. The sudden turn to severe weather with 
the incoming of February has driven all 
the city stall holders in the markets in¬ 
doors, so far as their temporary structures 
will afford shelter, and set the dealers at 
the Chippewa market, the principal up¬ 
town retail center, wishing that the re¬ 
building of the stalls had not been staved 
off so long by labor troubles. It is now 
too late to get much northern-grown green 
vegetables of the more perishable sorts, 
even celery coming chiefly from Florida. 
Strawberries have been offered more gen¬ 
erally this Winter than usual, mostly re¬ 
tailing for 40 cents a quart. As a rule 
the market dealers complain of poor busi¬ 
ness. Prices are lower than they have 
been in recent Winters, and are often very 
weak at that. Apples are so plentiful that 
they have almost driven Pacific-coast 
competition out. An odd feature of the 
apple trade is that Greenings are much 
scarcer than red sorts, and are sometimes 
retailing above them. They are usually a 
dollar a barrel lower. Apples in storage 
and in farmers’ hands in bulk are said' to 
be very plenty yet. They bring all sorts 
of prices, on account of being so varied 
in quality. 
The oiiion market is weak, 50 cents a 
bushel being a good price to retailers. The 
late warm weather has brought in very 
many potatoes. There is no longer any 
complaint of rot. In some sections farm¬ 
ers are getting 50 cents a bushel for them, 
the retailer not paying over 65 cents. The 
sweet potato trade is quite unsatisfactory, 
mostly because a good, medium size is hard 
to get. The price is low, probably so as 
to compete with northern potatoes. There 
is much better showing of grape fruit this 
Winter than usual. They sell about on 
a par with Florida oranges by the box. 
Butter and eggs are stronger, mainly on 
account of the weather, but the advance 
is slight so far; The enterprising farmer 
is bringing in good, homemade butter and 
delivering it for 35 cents a pound, and is 
able to sell his product readily enough 
if it is good. As a rule, no town consumer 
likes to buy butter miscellaneously at the 
groceries and the same is true of eggs. This 
trade ought to be multiplied indefinitely. 
It would please everybody except the mid¬ 
dleman. Some day in the near future 
we are going to see the farmer delivering 
his taole products in the city from his own 
automobile and avoiding the big license tax 
by getting his orders the day before, so 
that he will not in any sense drop to the 
level of a “peddler.” We shall be better 
fed then and the cost of living will be 
merely what it must be to live and let live 
between producer and consumer. 
JOHN W. CHAMBERLIN. 
Market prices here are as follows : Cows, 
desirable springers, $45 to $60; backward. 
$30 to $45 ; fat cows, 4 to 5% cents, live 
weight; fat steers all gone. Stockers and 
feeders four to six cents offered but none 
obtainable. Hogs nearly all cleaned out. 
Good horses not offered. Plugs and crow- 
bait still two prices but plenty on the mar¬ 
ket. Butter, 25 cents; eggs, 23; potatoes 
50; cream at depot, Elgin prices for butter 
fat. Beans, badly damaged but buyers of¬ 
fer $1.90 on a hand-picked basis and for 
some of the best pay a little more than they 
sell culls for, for feeding purposes. 
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