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THE RURAl) NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 
CROPS’ 
Foreign Crops. 
The following figures are given by the 
IT. 8. Department of Agriculture regard¬ 
ing the harvest in the southern hemisphere, 
which begins in November and extends 
through February. In Argentina the wheat 
acreage was 17,095,490. Weather during 
the growing season was favorable, and the 
yield, 198,414,000 bushels, was 30,000,000 
bushels in excess of the previous year. In 
oats there were 2,940,420 acres, yielding 
115,879,287 bushels. Argentina is especially 
suited to flaxseed culture the crop this year 
44,485,679 bushels, breaking all previous 
records. Australia produced 83,181,360 
bushels, an excess of about 9,000,000 over 
the previous year. 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture, gives the following information : The 
estimated production of corn in Argentina, 
this season, is 196,842,000 bushels, or 66.5 
per cent, of last season’s production. 
Prices prevailing here are: Fat cattle, 
$7.25 per 100 pounds ; feeding cattle, $6.50 ; 
hogs, $7.50; sheep, $5; lambs, $7 ; wheat, 
$1.05; corn, 50; oats, 30; hay, $10 a ton; 
butter, 30 cents a pound; egg's, 25; po¬ 
tatoes, 65; apples, 75. J. w. c. 
Coshocton, O. 
Wheat, $1.04; corn, 53, retail 65; oats, 
32, retail, 40. Milk delivered to customers, 
six cents. Cattle, seven to eight; hogs, 
7Mi to eight; veal nine cents a pound on 
foot; butter, 28, retail 31 to 32; eggs, 22, 
retail 24. We pay for sirloin, 20, round 20. 
Cream 34% for butter fat; It runs one 
cent below Elgin quotations, is gathered 
and sent to Canton, O. The price of cows 
varies a great deal, from $35 to as high as 
$100. H. K. 
Bolivar, O. 
I will give you the prices of cows and 
live stock, as I have seen them sold at 
public sales: Milch cows from $60 to $90 
each ; two-year-old heifers, $50; yearlings, 
$20 to $25. Iloi-ses from $170 to $225. 
llay per ton $9 to $12; oats, 37 to 40; 
corn, 40. The farmers get $1.70 per 100 
for milk In Akron, and it is retailed at 
seven cents per quart. Dressed pork, 11 
cents; live chickens, 15 to 16; butter, 
wholesale, 30 cents per pound ; eggs, 25 to 
27 cents per dozen. J. l. h. 
Copley, O. 
On account of the unusually mild Win¬ 
ter farmers as a rule are putting in longer 
hours than are usual at this time of year. 
Some are getting out lumber, others are 
pruning orchards ; hardly anyone being Idle. 
A fair supply of beans Is being handled 
at the local elevators. At the numerous 
auctions about the locality live stock is 
selling at record-breaking prices. At one 
sale held recently sheep with lamb sold 
for $13 per head. Buyers are paying eight 
cents a pound live weight for lambs. Many 
farms have been sold or rented recently. 
Itushville, N. Y. c. M. h. 
Cattle are being contracted for April de¬ 
livery at seven cents, silage fed. Hogs 7% 
cents on foot now, shotes of 100 to 125 
pounds are selling at 7% to 8 cents. Hay, 
loose, $8 to $10, haled, $9 to $12.50 at rail¬ 
road ; chickens, 12; cows scarce, $40 to $75 
as to age and quality; butter, 20; eggs, 
22; potatoes, 65, wholesale and 90 retail; 
corn, 60; wheat, $1.05; bran, $26; clover 
seed, uncleaned, $10, recleaned, $11 to $12; 
apples, 50; lioi-scs (good ones), high, $150 
to $250. At recent sales potatoes brought 
56 and corn 57 cents. Cows in milk, 
five months, best unbred, $48. G. w. g. 
Cutler, O. 
Hay in mow, $10, baled, $12; corn at 
warehouse, 45 ; potatoes from 50 to 60 ac¬ 
cording to quality; wheat, $1 per bushel; 
oats, 35; Timothy seed, $1.75; clover seed, 
$12; hogs, $8 per hundred; cattle from 
$5 to $7.50 per hundred, according to qual¬ 
ity. I have heai-d no price for sheep re¬ 
cently. Chickens and ducks, 10 cents per 
pound ; turkeys, from 20 to 25 ; butter, 
from 20 to 30, according to quality; eggs 
at grocery 20 cents per dozen. Thei'e were 
no apples in this immediate neighborhood ; 
the adjoining county had a few which they 
sold fi'om 75 cents to $1.25 per bushel, ac¬ 
cording to quality. They are the same 
price at present from the commission mer¬ 
chant. c. v. M. 
Canal Winchester, O. 
Local prices for staple farm crops are 
about as follows: Corn, 51; oats, 36; 
wheat, $1.10; clover hay, $13.50; Timothy, 
$15. Milch cows from $40 to $75 each. 
Butter will show a wide range of prices 
according to quality. Good country butter 
sold here to local stores will bring from 
30 to 35 cents per pound. Personally 
mine is engaged to private customers at 
35 cents the year around. Milk when de¬ 
livered to customers direct sells for seven 
or eight cents per quart. Our nearest 
creamery at Reading, Ohio, is now paying 
16 cents per gallon, which must test not 
less than 4 per cent. There are very few 
fruit or gai'dening crops now for sale, but 
in season farmers are able to get very 
near the market quotations either locally 
or by hauling to city markets, with a cor¬ 
responding higher price for selling direct 
to consumers. Our nearest canning factory 
will pay 30 cents per bushel for tomatoes 
the coming years, while the Cincinnati fac¬ 
tories are reported to be going to pay 35 
cents. w. p. K. 
Blue Ash, O. 
OHIO NOTES. 
Gov. James Cox has issued a proclama¬ 
tion calling for a rural life and good roads 
congi'ess in Columbus, March 12 and 13. 
“To arrive at a proper understanding of 
our needs, to devise ways and means of 
solving the problems which confront us” 
are the reasons given by the Governor for 
calling the gathering. The proclamation 
states: “The constant and steadily in¬ 
creasing migration of our people from the 
farms to the cities makes it Imperative 
that we seek the cause, to the end that 
the influx into the cities be lessened. The 
disproportionate number of urban and 
rural inhabitants is a positive menace to 
our well-being as a people. The diminish¬ 
ing food supply grows ever more alarm¬ 
ing, and we must, as a community, begin 
the solutions of the greatest of all prob¬ 
lems.” 
The Ohio Penitentiary is to house a 
new type of highwaymen if the first of the 
good roads measures is passed by the Legis¬ 
lature. The bill provides that convicts 
may be employed by the State Board of 
Administration in the prepai'ation of ma¬ 
terial for road construction and mainten¬ 
ance. It also provides that a portion of 
the earnings of each prisoner so employed 
shall be credited to himself and that 10 
per cent, of the earnings shall be retained 
until his release and then turned over to 
him. Already 25 convicts have been so 
used to the result that a model brick 
highway has just been completed in south 
Fi'anklin County. . 
Plans are under way in this State to 
organize a State oi'ganizatlon of Ohio rod 
and gun clubs. The plan grew out of a 
meeting of the Anglers’ Club of Columbus 
to discuss pending legislation concerning 
the fish and game code and more partic- 
larly, the bill prohibiting Spring fishing. 
Another bill, that has passed the House 
of Representatives and is awaiting the de¬ 
cision of the Senate that should interest 
the farmer Is the one that prohibits the 
killing of skunk until 1915 and the killing 
of quail until 1918. The skunk is the 
greatest natural enemy of the commonly 
known white grub. 
Between 150 and 200 farmers and their 
wives attended the first “Farmer’s Week” 
ever held by the College of Agriculture of 
Ohio State University, February 3 to 7. 
Lectures by men of national reputation, 
demonstrations and laboratory work made 
up the principal part of the work. 
II. W. Gazelle, former Cleveland banker, 
serving a five-year sentence in the peni¬ 
tentiary, has been paroled to take charge 
of the prison farm. He has made farm¬ 
ing the subject of study in prison and 
will now make It Ills life’s work. 
Portage County Is the first in this State 
to engage an agricultural counsellor, II. I*. 
Miller, well-known breeder and feeder, has 
been selected for the position. An im¬ 
provement association has been formed 
within the county which has three main 
objects as their aim, namely, to Improve 
the roads, live stock and farming in gen¬ 
eral. An engineer will be employed to 
superintend the road construction. 
G. B. 
SOUTHERN OHIO FRUIT NOTES. 
We had a few warm days, and buds 
swelled quite a lot, but I cannot find a dead 
peach bud yet. However, there is plenty of 
time to have it happen yet. There is an 
unusually good stand of buds. Spraying 
material has been ordered, and some of it 
is here and will soon be ready for Spring 
operations. Most growers here plan to use 
lime-sulphur as an insurance against San 
Jose scale, as the Ohio law says a grower 
of as many as 10 fruit trees must spray 
between the first of November and the first 
of May to prevent the spread of injurious 
insects' and diseases, etc. Lime-sulphur is 
being sold by all leading dealei's around 
here, and many large growers are making 
their own concentrated solutions. The 
Fruit Growers’ Association bought a carload 
of sulphur and a car of lime for their use. 
Water is cheap here, so why should we 
pay freight on it and haul it seven to 10 
miles? Dilute lime-sulphur will be used 
lai-gely instead of so much Bordeaux the 
coming Spring and Summer. Boi'deaux has 
the reputation of causing the russeting of 
the fruit when applied just after the bloom 
drops. From reports I learn that the spray 
from high pressure causes more russeting 
than lower pressure and as there is more 
or less grit in Bordeaux from particles of 
lime or sediment, and it is sent with such 
force that it bruises or punctures the ten¬ 
der skin and causes the russeting or dwarf¬ 
ing. l’rof. Watkins of Illinois is reported 
as trying the spray on paper, and with 
very high pressure the particles punctured 
holes which could be seen with a glass, but 
with lower pressui'e it did not, and he came 
to the conclusion that 125 to not higher 
than 180 was enough pressure to use. When 
we used Bordeaux with the old hand pump 
and about 40 pounds pressure we had 
almost no russeting but with the power 
sprayers and higher pressui'e we had nis- 
seting on tender varieties, hut seldom any 
worth mentioning on Rome Beauty. How¬ 
ever Rome Beauty has a better color or 
finish when sprayed with dilute lime-sul¬ 
phur than when sprayed with Bordeaux. 
It seems that more applications of a weak¬ 
er solution of lime-sulphur will control 
most diseases, and not cause foliage injury 
or burning of the fruit; still it has not 
been tried thoroughly and long enough to 
prove it conclusively. One part to 50 
may be strong enough for the applications 
in July and August, one to 40 for that in 
May and early June. We are planning to 
use quite a lot of fertilizer on the orchai'ds 
again this Spring, and nitrate of soda 
seems to be the most promising thing we 
can find for results. A carload or two 
will be bought for this locality. 
Lawrence Co., Ohio. U. T. COX. 
R. N.-Y.—The use of nitrate of soda alone 
Is a new one to most of us. Usually 
phosphate and potash give best results. 
Milk, per 100 pounds, $2; dressed 
poultry, 18 cents; undressed, live. 16 cents; 
eggs, 25 cents; hay, $16 to $22 per ton; 
corn, $22 per ton. i. b. 
Hopewell, N. Y. 
Calves, 10; hay, $16 to $17; chickens, 
live, 16; dressed, 18; eggs, 26; potatoes, 
75 to 80; milk, 95 cents per 100 pounds; 
hogs, 10; milch cows, $60 to $70; horses, 
$140 to $275. t. H. G. 
Concordville, Pa. 
As we are only a few miles froixx Cleve¬ 
land the prices are somewhat higher than 
further away. Butter, dairy, 30 cents; 
eggs, 30 cents; poultry, 16 to 17 cents; 
apples, good grades. $1 per bushel; pota¬ 
toes, 60 to 65 cents per bushel ; dressed 
hogs, 11 to 11% cents; veal, dressed, 12% 
to 15 cents; wheat, $1.14; corn. 72 cents”; 
oats. 38 cents. Hay, Timothy, $16 to 
$16.50; clover, somewhat cheaper. Grade 
cows sell from $50 to $60; draft horse 
teams will bring $500; small horses from 
$175 to $200. c . A. v. 
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