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THE) Fi.UR.AI> NUW-YOKKER 
April 2(5, 
CROPS 
The price of cows now varies from .$50 
to $100 per head. A cow that is any good 
will bring $50, hut a few years ago $35 
would buy a pretty good cow. Feed is 
worth about $24 per ton compared with 
$36 a year ago. The outlook for pasture is 
good; farmers consider the outlook more 
hopeful than for the past. The price for 
milk and butter is the highest ever known 
for this season of year, except war times. 
Butter is selling for 3S cents; the price of 
milk varies. Creameries are paying an 
average of 3Vi cents per quart for the year, 
with a premium of 1-10 of 1 cent per quart, 
when butter is quoted above 35 cents per 
pound for each 1 cent advance. I consider 
the dairy outlook for young men very prom¬ 
ising. Good farms can be bought for from 
$12 to $40 per acre, owing to location and 
condition of buildings. A. C. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
Corn. 44; wheat, 74; potatoes, 50; bar¬ 
ley, 45; oats, 28; hogs, $8.00 ; chickens, 7 
to 9% ; cream, 31; butter, 30; eggs, 16. 
Hay. wild, per ton, $S; Timothy, $10. 
Milch cows, from $50 to $00, according to 
quality. Horses, from $150 to $200. Calves, 
six months old, $15 to $25, and hard to 
get. Butter and eggs are in trade at store. 
Correetionville, Iowa. j. b. 
The following are about the retail prices 
farmers receive for their products: Wheat, 
$1.01 per bushel; corn, 55; oats, 37; pota¬ 
toes, 65 to 75; country butter. 35 per 
pound ; creamery butter, 40 to 45 ; eggs, 16 
cents per dozen; milk, $1.80 per 100 
pounds ; horses about $175 ; cows, $55 ; fat 
cattle, 8% to 9 cents per pound, live 
weight; fat hogs, 10 to 11 cents per pound, 
dressed. We have five market houses in 
Lancaster, which is the county seat, where 
farmers take their produce and sell it 
direct to the consumer. We are, without 
doubt, among the best markets in the 
country from both selling and buying point 
of view. J. w. b. w. 
Bird In Hand, Pa. 
I quote you local prices as nearly as I 
can: Hay (baled), clean Timothy, $18; 
good mixed, $16, received for mine in the 
barn. City quotations slightly lower at 
present. Corn on ear, 70 pounds to bushel, 
60 to 70 cents at public sale. Good clean 
oats (good for seed!, 40 to 45 cents, 32 
pounds. Strictly fresh eggs, 18 to 20 cents; 
potatoes, 75 cents per bushel, 60 pounds. 
This is in the cellar or delivered on trolley. 
Potatoes, seconds, 50; rutabagas, 15 cents 
a bushel, worth more for stock feeding. 
Dairy cows are high ; good fair grade stock 
cows, $60 to $100 at public sale. Milk to 
Philadelphia market. 4% to 5 cents per 
quart, including freight, % cent by trolley, 
% cent by steam road. We ship by trolley. 
We pay 45 cents at retail for butter. At 
our nearest creamery they quote 41 cents 
as the price of butter and pay 45 cents per 
pound for butter fat to customers. Beef 
cattle, fat cows, or steers. 5 to 6 cents on 
the hoof. Beans, white marrowfat, $3 a bush¬ 
el, 60 pounds. We raise but little truck, ex¬ 
cept for house use, and cannot quote prices. 
This section of the country, Southeastern 
Pennsylvania, about 25 miles nor fill of 
•Philadelphia, is mainly devoted to general 
farming—hay, grain, potatoes and dairy 
work. We ship milk. On account of the 
stringent milk rules same farmers are going 
out of the dairy business, while others are 
remodeling their stable, and increasing 
dairies. This we are doing ourselves. 
Farmers are progressing in this section, 
using generally better methods of cultiva¬ 
tion, more machinery, using power, mostly 
gasoline, for many things. We were the 
first in this section to use steam tractor 
power for plowing. This Spring we have 
just finished 16 acres of corn stubble, using 
a gang of five 14-inch plows with two 
harrows, a 14-wheel disk and spike tooth 
behind a 20-horse-power engine, and doing 
very fine work, and in much less time and 
at less expense than for hand work. Al¬ 
though farmers claim that our farms are 
too small to use tractor power profitably, 
Our own experience thus far has proved 
its advantage. But little fruit is raised 
round here and what there is is sold 
usually to local trade, but fruit culture is 
receiving much more attention. Farmers 
are looking to other crops—fruit, asparagus, 
etc. f. o. D. 
Edison, Pa. 
The outlook for dairying not good, neigh¬ 
bors paying $90 to $100 per head for cows. 
The prices of feed do not vary much ; the 
outlook for pasture is good at present. 
Dairymen discouraged with the business: 
milk averaged three cents per quart last 
season. Clover Farms Co. has a station 
here; several farms for sale in this locality 
for the price of the buildings and land 
thrown in. More money in dairying 15 
years ago; the price of cows has doubled 
and the city inspection has made great ex¬ 
pense for the dairymen. M. m. ii. 
Staatsburg, N. Y. 
The prices of produce out West are as 
follows: Hogs, $8.80 to $8.90 per hundred : 
steers, $6.50 to $7 ; cows and heifers, $5.50 
to $6 ; calves, $6 to $7 ; sheep, $5 to $5.50. 
Poultry, old hens and pullets, 12; roosters, 
6; roosters, young, 12; old turkeys, 11; 
ducks, 10; geese, 8. _ Oats, 37 to 40; corn, 
45 to 50; barley, 65 to 70; Timothy hay, • 
loose, $16; wild hay, $8 to $12. Good but¬ 
ter. 35 ; fresh eggs, 20 ; potatoes, 60; sweet 
potatoes, $1.20. Good milch cows from $60 
to $75. Horses, $150 to $200. 
Columbia Junction, Iowa. w. n. 
These prices apply to Boone, Fort Dodge, 
Marshalltown and Des Moines. In Boone 
as follows: Potatoes, 75; eggs, 20-23; but¬ 
ter, 30-32. Good steers, $8 to $9 per hun¬ 
dred : hogs, $8.50 to $9. Oats, 42 ; corn, 60; 
no sheep, as very few are raised in Boom- 
County. Weather is very wet and rainy; 
some oats are being sown and some plow¬ 
ing being done, but it is too wet on the 
prairie. Land values are at standstill; 
prairie land is held $175 to $250 per acre 
and timber land is $75 to $200 per acre, 
farms being cut up and better tilled. 
Boone Co., Iowa. l. w. b. 
This is not a farming section; the glove 
industry is taken up at practically every 
farm house, and the land is hilly and 
wooded, though the wood is mostly stunted 
spruce or pine, and of little value in this 
vicinity. The soil is sandy through the 
valleys and rocky as one approaches the 
mountains. Some potatoes are raised in 
this region, with very good success. The 
tariff question is being discussed by every¬ 
one here at present. Coal is being sold 
and delivered by one company here at $8.50 
a ton. Best eggs sell from store at 35 to 
3S cents. c. L. J. 
Gloversville, X. Y. 
The staple farm products and prices re¬ 
ceived in this locality are about as follo'ws : 
Corn, 40 ; oats, 28 ; hay, $8 to $12 per ton. 
Live hogs, $8 to $8.60 per 100 pounds; 
cows, $50 to $100 each; horses, $150 to 
$250. Live hens, 10 ; eggs, 15; butter, 25. 
Farm land, $75 to $125 per acre. Very lit¬ 
tle fruit or garden truck is raised here for 
the market. Those who farm grow the field 
crops as indicated above. Potatoes are 
shipped in from the Northern States, and 
fruit and garden truck from the South. 
Some Winter wheat is grown, but as a rule 
is not profitable; 1910 and 1911 were dry 
seasons with high prices for grain. Many 
farmers, especially the x-enters, sold their 
stock to save feed and to sell the gi’ain. 
Now the grain is cheap and cattle and hogs 
high and scarce. Yearling steers (coming 
two year olds)) have sold for $50; calves 
(coming yearlings), $35. Farmers are pay¬ 
ing $10 for new-born calves in town to put 
with their fresh cows on the farm. We 
have had five days' continuous drizzly rain 
making roads and feed lots mud wallows. 
Some oats have been put in. Grass and 
wheat growing finely. j. n. s. 
Chariton, Iowa. 
The weather in Jackson Co., Ohio, is 
cool with rain. Wheat and other crops 
are growing nicely. All live stock looks 
well and some are on pasture. Farm¬ 
ers are plowing sod. and sowing oats and 
getting ready for all Spring crops. There 
will be a lai - ge acreage of corn planted 
this season, as there will be many new 
silos built. There will be a large canning 
factory erected at Wellston, O., and many 
farmers will furnish tomatoes and other 
farm crops. Most farmers of this section 
practice mixed farming; some are going 
in the dairy business. Most of the cream 
is shipped to Columbus and Dayton. There 
is a good prospect for all kinds of fruit. 
Peach trees are in blossom now. Early 
strawberries are budding. We sold our first 
last season May 15 in Wellston at 15 cents 
a quart. We have had several frosts here 
of late which may injure them. Farmers 
have received very little mail since the 
Hood ; some have not had a letter or paper 
for two weeks. Early sown wheat looks 
well; some of it is six inches high. Horses 
are scarce and high, $100 to $250; cows, 
$30 to $60; hogs, $8.50 per 100, and few 
for sale. Potatoes mostly shipped in, 75 
cents per bushel. Butter, 30 ; butter fat at 
the creamery, 35; eggs, 15; hay, $12 to 
$14; mill feed, $28; oil meal, $36. A 
few farm are changing hands, from $15 to 
$30 per acre. This is a mining section but 
most of the coal has been worked out. 
Many are going into the dairy, poultry and 
fruit business. j. b. w. 
Jackson Co., Ohio. 
At the present time farmers are getting 
from 7 to 8% cents per pound for fat cat¬ 
tle, calves 8 Milk delivered to shipping 
station, $1.70 per 100 pounds; eggs, 16; 
chickens, 14 ; wheat, $1 ; rye, 70 ; oats, 40 ; 
corn, 60; hay, about $12 per ton. Farm¬ 
ers do not make any butter, but buy what 
they need; they pay from $60 to $90 fox- 
fresh cows, according to quality, weight, 
etc. Good farm horses sell for from $200 
to $250 per head. s. B. l. 
Bar to, Pa. 
Con- 
Jobbers. sinner. 
Beef (native), dressed 
,13y 3 
Sheep, dressed . 
.15 
Lambs, dressed . 
.23 
Ilogs, dressed . 
.14 
Veal, dressed . 
.17 
liens, live . 
.21 
’.25 
Cheese, cream . 
. 18 
9*> 
Cheese, Swiss . 
.18 
.22 
Cheese, brick . 
.17 
22 
Butter, creamery .. . 
.371/3 
.45 
Butter, country . 
.30 
.38 
Eggs, country . 
.20 
.25 
Apples, barrel .. 
. 3.00to3.50 
B11. $1.50 
Parsnips, barrel .. . . 
. 1,50to1.75 
“ .80 
Carrots, barrel . 
2.00 
“ .95 
Turnips, barrel . 
1.50 
** .75 
Beets, barrel . 
2.25 
“ 1.00 
Rhubarb, doz. bchs... 
. .75 
Bcb. .08 
Onions, doz. bchs.... 
.15 
“ .02 
Radishes, doz. bchs.. 
.20 
“ .03 
Potatoes, bushel .... 
.65 
Bu. .80 
I think the floods 
through Ohio, having 
1 l 11 111 iv tin iiuuuo t-iii wiiiUj iic» » Din 
interfered with transportation, have helped 
to stimulate prices somewhat, and slight 
reactions will take place under normal con¬ 
ditions. 
Braddock, Fa. 
s. c. 
INDIANA FARM NOTES 
In this section, the Winter of 1912-13 
was somewhat a peculiar one—peculiar 
in the fact there was scarcely any snow. 
Up to the first of Februax-y, there was 
but little genuine Winter weather, the 
temperature often being as high as 50 
degi-ees for several days at a time. March 
was a stormy month throughout, with high 
winds.* and considerable damage was sus¬ 
tained, such as tearing roofs from houses 
and barns, upsetting small buildings, and 
blowing down fences. Never iias there 
been a more flattering prospect for wheat 
and clover, as neither have been affected 
in the least during the past Winter by 
freezing anti thawing. Normally plowing 
for oats begins about the first of April, 
but it is impossible to know when farm 
operations of any kind will begin this year, 
as there seems to be no let-up to the rains 
which we have been having almost daily 
ever since the first of April. But little 
clover- has as yet been sown, as between 
showers there has usually been sxich high 
winds as to make sowing impossible. The 
price still remains high. Pasture is com¬ 
ing on quite rapidly, owing to the abun¬ 
dant Spring rains. Fruit is safe, as yet. 
but the critical time for this is no doubt 
yet to come, the last serious frost usually 
not striking us until after the middle of 
May. Some of our farmers who had con¬ 
templated again planting heavily of sugar 
beets this year, are in a quandary because 
of the proposed action of the extra ses¬ 
sion of Congress as to the tariff on sugar. 
The sugar beet industry has become quite 
extensive of late years in many localities 
throughout the State, and it is thought by 
manv beet growers that the industry will 
suffer if the tariff is taken off entirely 
from sugar. In the event of its entire re¬ 
moval. our farmers will no doubt take to 
dairying more extensively, and the l'aising 
of oats and corn. The potato crop hav¬ 
ing been good last year, and as prices have 
been low, there still remains in Cellars a 
great many bushels. Prices of the various 
kinds of produce.are, wheat, $1 per bushel; 
oats, 28; corn, 43: rye, 55 ; dressed veal. 
12 : dressed pork, 12; dressed chicken, 17 ; 
butter. $50; eggs, 16; potatoes, 35 to 40: 
clover hay (loose), $9.50; Timothy (loose*. 
$10.50: milk at condensery, $1.60; fresh 
cows, grades, $40 to $70; thoroughbreds, 
from $100 up; horses. $150 to $250, and 
verv few raised. Judging from the numer¬ 
ous' public sales held this Spring, one 
might almost conclude that our farmers 
intend to go out of the business. But that 
this is not the case is shown by the fact 
that there are very few farms offered fox- 
sale. Here and there a farm changes hands, 
prices ranging from $150 to $200 per 
acre, depending on location. d. l. 
Goshen, Ind. 
PARCEL POST EXPERIENCE. 
I would like to give you a few notes in 
regard to my experience with the parcel 
post. I have frequent occasion to send to 
Springfield, Mo., 20 miles from where I live, 
for medicines and other articles that cannot 
be obtained in ttfe local stores. The lowest 
charge made by the express companies was 
25 cents, and now by parcel post I receive 
packages for eight cents, that always had 
cost 25 cents by express. Two weeks ago 
I received a package from New York City 
that would have cost by express at least 
50 cents, and in all likelihood 75 cents 
would be nearer the proper express limit; 
by parcel post it came for 28 cents. We 
are more than pleased with the parcel post. 
To-day our first misfortune in pai-cel post 
expci'ience happened. My wife received two 
packages, one worth one dollar, and one 
worth $10; the one Worth a dollar was a 
piece of cloth, and it was almost entirely 
ruined, the other and dearer package was 
uninjured. The injury was due to the fact 
that when the mail bag was thrown from 
the fast mail train it was thrown under tin- 
wheels. We have made no complaint and 
do not intend to make any. Not however 
because we think that we would be laughed 
at, but because we know that accidents will 
happen even to the parcels sent by mail. 
Well-founded complaints respectfully and 
properly presented to the Post Office De¬ 
partment are never laughed at, but are al¬ 
ways carefully investigated, much more 
cai-efully and conscientiously than when 
presented to an express company, but owing 
to the large volume of work before the de¬ 
partment complaints may not receive imme¬ 
diate attention. The writer worked for 
your Uncle Sam for 16% years in the 
city of Washington and he can assure your 
readers that although the old gentleman is 
slow as befits one of his age and dignity, 
he is always faithful; and like the mills 
of the gods, he grinds exceeding small. Nor 
will it do to count always on his slowness. 
I know that on one occasion when one of 
his humblest people was maltreated by three 
of his sworn servants, the fastest mail train 
was too slow for him, and he flashed his 
displeasure over the wires and the political 
heads of the unworthy servants fell into 
the basket. x>. e. nagle, m. d. 
Christian Co., Mo. 
We have been shipping butter in 10-pound 
pails to our customers in Long Island 
and New Jersey, and Auburn, N. Y. We 
can send by expi-ess to Long Island and 
New Jersey 10 to 30 pounds for 35 cents, 
parcel post to same places 86 cents for 
11 pounds. By express to Auburn, N. Y., 
which is within 50 miles from here, is 55 
cents, parcel post on, 11 pounds 35, so we 
shipped by parcel post to Auburn and by 
express to Long Island. I do not see how 
it costs the government so much more than 
the express company to carry this pail of 
butter from hex-e to Long Island. 
Hall. N. Y. J. w. c. 
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This tractor is built to 
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It has plenty of power, pulls up 
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will plow and disc 10 to 14 acres 
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threshes, shreds—does the work 
of four men and a dozen horses. 
The OilPull is built to be used 
with profit on small farms, and 
it’s a mighty handy machine on 
a big one, too. It is the only 
tractor that burns kerosene or 
distillate successfully at all 
times— a real fuel saver. 
See your dealer about it or write 
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Ellis Champion 
Threshers 
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