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March 8, 
THE RURAh NEW-YORKER 
Apples, 75 to .$1 per bushel; potatoes, 
65 to 75; $1.65 per 100 pounds for milk; 
butter, first quality dairy, 40; eggs, 30. 
BurghUl, 0. G. w. c. 
Hogs, .$8.65; cattle, $7 to $8; veal calves, 
$7 to $11; wethers, $5 to $5.25; butter, 
36% to 37 cents; apples, $3 to $3.25 per 
barrel; corn, 66 cents per 100 pounds; 
wheat, $1.13; hay, $12 to $14 per ton. 
Bradner, 0, D. n. 
Calves, 7% to 8 cents; eggs, 20 cents; 
hogs, 10 cents; potatoes. 50 to 55 cents; 
hay, $15 to $17; straw, $8 to $9; best cuts 
beef, 16 cents; corn, 55 cents; chickens, 
live, 12 cents; dressed, 14 cents. F. ir. g. 
Alburtis, Pa. 
Cows are bringing from $35 to $75 a 
head; veal calves nine cents; hogs 10 to 
12 cents all dressed. Potatoes, 50; apples 
about the same; hay from $10 to $13 a ton. 
Straw it is impossible to get at any price. 
Eggs are bringing from 24 to 28 cents a 
dozen. G. b. p. 
Berkshire, N, Y, 
Draft horses are worth from $175 to 
$250; roadsters, $75 to $125; dairy cows, 
$40 to $75; sheep, $3 to $4 according to 
quality; fat hogs, $7.75; wheat, $1; oats, 
35; rye, 75; corn, 50; potatoes, 75; ap¬ 
ples, $1; hay, delivered, $10; clover seed, 
$10 to $12; Timothy seed, $10 per bushel; 
chickens, 10 to 12 cents; turkeys, 14 to 16; 
geese, 10 to 12; butter, 25; eggs, 20. 
Ashley, O. j. p. 
Butter, 30: eggs, 25; dressed pork, 10; 
good beef cattle 7 to 8; hay in barn, $12, 
delivered, $15. Straw in barn, $8. No 
garden stuff raised here for sale. No 
trouble to borrow money for short time on 
individual note or long-time notes for four 
or five per cent if you are a hustler, but if 
you grow ragweed and Fall grass it is 
hard to get money at any price. c. c. 
Mercer, Pa. 
Butter, wholesale, 25 to 32 cents. Milk, 
shippers gets 18 to 20 cents per gallon, 
two cents freight out; creamery pays $1.75 
per 100 pounds. Cows are selling for $40 
to $80 per head for grades; cows with the 
papers bring from $100 up. Horses, $150 
to $300. Hay, $10 in the barn ; oats, 42; 
corn, 70. More empty pastures than ever 
known before. Lots of farmers quit dairy¬ 
ing : no money in it even at high prices for 
milk. o. H. G. 
Chardon, O. 
Wheat, $1 to $1.10; oats, 40; corn, 60; 
cattle very high, six to eight cents per 
pound. Milch cows, $50 to $75; common 
stockers, five and six cents; butter selling 
in the country at 28; eggs, country price, 
22; hogs are now worth eight cents on 
foot; apples, 75 cents per bushel, No. 1, 
No. 2, 50 cents. They are just establishing 
a creamery in Belmont and no price yet 
fully guaranteed. Potatoes not grown here 
in a commercial way to any extent; general 
price about 75 cents at the coal mines, 
which are numerous in the county, making 
a good market for produce generally. 
Belmont, O. R. G. H. 
Good sleighing for lumbermen here, the 
snowfall being considerably heavier than 
at Little Falls or Dolgeville. Drifts are 
deep in some places but usually there is 
a road around them through fields. Buck¬ 
wheat is largely grown in this section, and 
farmers find a ready market at $1.35 to 
$2 per bushel at this time. Following are 
some of the market prices to producers: 
Corn, 60 cents bushel; oats, 42 cents; cab¬ 
bage, 6 cents head; hay, loose, $13 ton; 
baled, $15; oat straw, $6; potatoes, 75 
cents bushel; apples, 75 cents; cows, best, 
$75; calves (veal), 9 cents; chickens (live 
weight), 12 cents pound; eggs, 25 to 28 
cents dozen ; butter dairy, 35 cents pound; 
cheese, 18 cents pound. Milk, being 
shipped, brings $1.75 per 100 pounds at 
present. C. L. J. 
Norway, N. Y. 
Milk, 20 cents per gallon; cream, 35 to 
36 cents per pound butter fat; butter 
(creamery), 36 to 37; homemade butter, 
25 to 27 at groceries; at private families, 
30 to 35; eggs, 23 to 25. Apples, $1.50 
per bushel; potatoes, 60; sweet potatoes, 
$1; cabbage, 1% to two cents per pound. 
Cattle, prime steers, $6.50 to $7.50; cows, 
$3 to $5; heifers, $4 to $5.50; feeders, $4 
to $5.50; milch cows, $60 to $75 per 
head. Hogs, heavy, $8.15 to $8.50; pork¬ 
ers. $8.30 to $8.80; mediums, $8.30 to 
$8.80; pigs, $8.30 to $8.80; stags, $5 to 
$6.25. Veal calves, $9 to $10.50; sheep, 
best, $4.50; lambs, $8.25. Wheat, $1.08 
to $1.10; oats. 35; corn. 45 to 50; clover 
seed, $12 to $13; Timothy seed, $1.75; hay, 
$10.50 to $11; straw, $6 to $8. 
Carroll, O. w. w. 
Very warm, pleasant Winter for Missouri; 
very little rain and not much snow, no 
zero weather to date. Fruit buds in fine 
condition. Big apple crop 1912, with very 
little shipping demand, caused the farm¬ 
ers to store away plenty for home con¬ 
sumption and some to spare, so they are 
selling in the market at 60 to 70 cents per 
bushel. Potatoes retail 80 to 90 cents 
per bushel; butter, 20; cream, 28; eggs, 20 
dozen. Hens 11% cents per pound. Corn, 
45 cents wholesale, retail, 60; retail ship 
stuff, $1.30 per 100; bran, $1.15; corn 
chop, $1.20. Oats for seed, 40 cents per 
bushel; hay, $8 to $12 per ton; milch 
cows, $40 to $75. Fat hogs, $7.25 per 100 
pounds. Fat cattle, $5 to $7.25 per 100; 
horses and mules, $100 for fair ones, up to 
$250 for good to extra. Coal delivered, 
$3.25 per ton ; cord wood, $2.50 to $3 per 
cord. w. d. p. 
Calhoun, Mo. 
The following are the prices to-day in 
our local market: 
Horses, $150 to $200; cattle, best steers, 
7 cents, light butcher, 4% to 5 cents; cows, 
fat, 4 to 4% cents; milch cows, $50 to 
$65; calves, 8 cents; hogs, $7.50; sheep, 
$5 to $6; lambs, fat, 8 cents; fowls, 10 
cents; ducks, 9 to 12 cents; butter, 24 
cents; lard, 11 cents; eggs. 20 cents per 
dozen; wheat, $1.02; oats, 30 cents; corn, 
65 cents 100 pounds; clover seed, $10 a 
bushel; Timothy seed, $1 bushel; hay, Tim¬ 
othy, $12 ton; clover, $11; straw, baled, 
$7; potatoes, 40 to 50 cents; apples, 40 to 
50 cents ; onions, 40 cents. These are the 
prices paid by dealers to farmers. While 
these prices average what you might call 
good, farmers in these parts have very 
little of the high priced products for sale, 
the shortage and high price of corn, fol¬ 
lowed by the continued drought of 1912 has 
cut the supply of live stock short. The 
wheat has also been a failure the past two 
seasons. Oats, Timothy seed, potato and 
apple crops were good the past season, but 
you will notice prices keep very low on 
these products. Farm help never was so 
scarce and high priced. h. f. d 
Crestline, O, 
The following is quoted this week (Feb. 
21) ; Wheat, $1 per bushel; corn, 50; oats, 
45; Timothy, $12 baled; dover, $11 to 
$11.50. Horses, $75 to $225. Milch cows, 
$50 to $100; beef cattle, 4 to 7% cents 
a pound, but they won’t go far to look at 
the lour-cent kind. Hogs, 7% to 8% on 
foot; veals, 8. Considerable milk and 
cream shipped; whole milk 44 cents per 
pound butter fat; cream, 35 cents per pound 
butter fat, seller paying express, 25 cents 
on 10-gallon can. Local stores pay for 
country butter 20 to 25 cents. Chickens, 
12; eggs 22, but on the way down. Apples, 
60 to 75; potatoes, 60; clover seed costs 
us $9.50 to $14.50 per bushel. Most 
wheat fields looking well and large acre¬ 
age in. w. g. w. 
Beverley, O. 
All of the farm products in this part 
of the country vary in price, the quality 
governs the price of all dairy products. 
Cows bring from $50 to $125 per head; 
beef cattle, good, 12 cents a pound; steers 
bring six cents per pound; fat cows and 
bulls three to four cents. Hogs, good 
smooth, 200 pounds, seven cents per pound. 
Stags and old sows, five and six cents. But¬ 
ter from 20 to 30 cents ner pound whole¬ 
sale ; retails from 30 to 40 cents. Packing 
stock and junk brings 12 to 18. Corn, 50 
cents, wholesale, retails from 55 to 70 
cents, according to the conscience of the 
dealers. Good Timothy hay on the farm, 
$12 per ton; clover and Timothy mixed, 
about half clover, $10 to $12, ns to condi¬ 
tion. Eggs are not sorted, all colors going 
together; they bring from 20 to 22 cents 
per dozen. Potatoes 50 cents per bushel, 
wholesale, retail, 70; good apples, whole¬ 
sale, . from 60 to 75 cents; retail. 80c. to $1 
Oats, wholesale, 30 to 40; retail, 35 to 50. 
Poultry, old hens, from eight to 10 cents 
per pound wholesale, retail from 10 to 14 
live weight; dressed, 16 to 20. No turkeys 
and ducks at this season. c. P. B. D. 
Chandlersville, O, 
Potato Crops. —From Spain comes the 
report of a Spainard who grew four crops 
of potatoes on the same land in 12 months 
The potatoes were grown under ordinary 
conditions and the ground fertilized with 
horse manure. First crop : Scotch seed po 
tatoes, planted August 22 and dug November 
6, 1911; fair size, firm and good quality. 
Second crop: Scotch seed potatoes, planted 
November 9, 1911, and dug February 19, 
1912; fair size and very good quality. Third 
crop: Scotch seed potatoes, planted Febru¬ 
ary 21 and dug May 19, 1912; large size 
and more perfect than those of preceding 
crops. Fourth crop: Spanish seed pota¬ 
toes. planted May 22 and dug August 19, 
1912; poor yield and potatoes small. The 
grower attributes the poor quality of the 
last crop to inferior seed, lack of water 
for irrigation, and to several very hot 
winds that prevailed in July. But as in 
other years the crop of this same period 
has been a good one the low yield of 1912 
does not detract from +he feasibility of the 
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An Unsolicited Testimonial 
A CLEAR-EYED young Iowa farmer stepped up 
to a manure spreader demonstrator at the 1912 Chi¬ 
cago Live Stock Show and, pointing to one of the 
spreaders in the exhibit said: 
“I own one of those machines. It is the strongest spreader I ever 
had on my farm, and I’ve had a number of different machines. I 
honestly believe that if I filled that spreader with soft coal it would 
spread the stuff for me. I wouldn’t trade it for any spreader I ever 
owned or saw.” 
This unsolicited recommendation from. a man who had used an 
I H C spreader, and therefore knew what it would do, carried weight 
with his hearers. They might have doubted whether an I H C 
manure spreader would spread soft coal, but there was no doubt in 
their minds that an I H C spreader had spread manure to this man’s 
entire satisfaction. This is a typical case showing what users think 
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I H C manure spreaders are made in all styles and sizes. There are 
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trussed like a steel bridge. Sizes run from small, narrow machines 
for orchard and vineyard spreading to machines of capacity for large 
farms. The rear axle is placed well under the box, where it carries 
over 70 per cent of the load, insuring plenty of tractive power at all 
times. Beaters are of large diameter to prevent winding. The teeth 
that cut and pulverize the manure are square and chisel pointed. The 
apron drive controls the load, insuring even spreading whether the 
machine is working up or down hill, or on the level. 1HC spreaders 
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