1913. 
665 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
CROPS 
Fat cattle $8 per hundred ; stock cattle, 
$ 7 ; milch cows from $00 to $100; fat 
hogs, $8.50 per hundred; red wheat, No. 2, 
about 95 cents per bushel; corn, 50; oats, 
35. c. 0 . 
Bluffs, Ill. 
Eggs 19; bacon, country hams, 20; side 
and shoulder, 15 ; potatoes, 75 to 85; corn, 
75; wheat, $1; lard 10 2-3; butter, 30 to 
35; oats, 50 to 55. s. J. p. 
Academy, W, Va. 
I give you the following quotations: Two 
to three-year-old cattle for grazing, C to 7'^ 
cents a pound; yearlings, $30 to $35 each ; 
veal calves, 7 to 7% cents; hogs, fat, 8 to 
sy 2 ; butter, 18 to 25; eggs, 14 to 15; 
apples, 65 to 70; potatoes, 00 to 70; corn, 
05 to 75. Buyers are talking 10 cents for 
wool as against 26 to 28 cents last year. 
Ashton, W, Va. j. g. 
Corn shelled and delivered to warehouse, 
54; wheat delivered to mill or warehouse, 
$1.02; cow peas delivered to warehouse, 
$1.90 per bushel; cow-pea hay thrashed, per 
ton, $10 to $14, as to quality; cow-pea hay, 
unthrashed, per ton, $12 to $14; milch 
cows, $60 to $80 for good cows. Hogs, 
seven to enght cents per pound live weight, 
as to size and quality. Irish potatoes not 
grown in this immediate section for mar¬ 
ket. Sweet potatoes, eating and seed, now 
$1.20 per bushel. Good cattle fed 90 to 
100 days corn and cotton cake sell on 
St. Louis market around eight cents. Very 
little dairy business. This county raises 
wheat, corn, cow peas, watermelons; no 
fruit or gardening. Watermelons sell from 
$30 to $150 per car, 950 to 1100 melons per 
car; do not think melons were more than 
$120 per car any time in 1912. t. l. l. 
Bertrand, Mo. 
The law of supply and demand obtains 
very forcibly in this part of the Ozarks. 
More grain, hay, vegetables and apples are 
shipped in than are shipped out, and in the 
Spring when feed stuffs run short every¬ 
thing of that kind is high. Very little if 
any spraying is done in Christian County, 
and apples will not go on the market. 
Greene and Lawrence counties do some 
spraying but this Spring and last Fall and 
Winter the market was so sluggish it 
would be impossible to quote prices. No 
vegetables are shipped out, and prices on 
potatoes, cabbage and onions are fixed in 
the local markets by the “shipped in” 
stuff. Following are some prices: Wheat, 
90; corn, 55-60 : oats, 50 ; hay, baled, Tim¬ 
othy, $15; Alfalfa, $15 to $17 ; potatoes, 70 
eeuts; apples, anywhere from two cents 
each down to 25 cents per peck; peaches, 
usually about 75. Ilogs, $6.50 per 100; 
cattle, canners, two cents per pound ; fair 
cows, three cents; good cows, fat, and 
heifers, four cents; fat steers, five cents. 
Butter fat, 35 (March) ; liens, nine; eggs, 
14. Horse buyers offer from $75 to $100 
for good common horses, 1100 to 1200 
pounds, but get few at the price. Ixically 
such stock changes hands at $150 to $175. 
Mule market seems dull this Spring; no 
auctions and prices offered ranging" from 
$100 for two-year-olds to $150 for tliree- 
year-old. Bran’ $1.20 per 100; corn chop, 
$1.30. w. c. 
Billings, Mo. 
We are in Jackson County, Mo.. 20 miles 
from Kansas City, 10 miles from Independ¬ 
ence, a town of 10,000. Grade Jerseys from 
$10 to $75; grade Jersey yearling' heifers 
$20 to $25 ; butter 25 to 30. Little if any 
milk sold, too far to haul and none shipped. 
Apples 20 to 35 cents per bushel. Thou¬ 
sands of bushels rotted in orchards for lack 
of market. Eggs 15. Corn 50. Practically 
no wheat in farmers’ hands. Considerable 
gardening; all stuff hauled to Kansas City. 
Gardeners obtain about prices quoted in. 
Kansas City papers. e. a. r. 
Blue Springs, Mo. 
Wheat $1.10 per bushel, with a prospect 
for about 85 per cent of normal crop to 
be harvested this year. Oats recleaned for 
seed, 50, common, 40 to 45; corn, 65 to 
i0; ear corn per barrel, $1.10 to $1.15. 
$ced corn, hand shelled and graded, $1.50 
per bushel; tested for germination $3 per 
bushel. Plowing about all done. Oats 
about all sown. Some potatoes planted; 
good seed potatoes $1 per bushel. Garden¬ 
ers and truckers are very busy this nice 
weather. The wet weather first of this 
month put everybody back with early 
• pung work and planting Horses very 
much in demand and prices high, as much 
' ! s $"00 has been offered for good horses, 
uggs plenty, stores pay 18 and sell 22 to 
-•» cents per dozen. Good country butter 
, c cnts per pound. Farm help' is very 
bard to get and want $1.75 for eight to 
mne hours. Domestic help for the farm 
hmue is also scarce, wages $3 to $5 per 
' wi t'i , Sundays off. Weather cold, 
,ce was Yisible this morning 
'-M’m 19). Peaches show a large amount 
or Dioom. Apples promise a large bloom. 
l uiontown, Pa. j. G . H . 
Everything sold around here goes to Chl- 
0r „? V 7 ria ’ except what is retailed in 
i,, n)! We 1,ave an honest commission man 
i i to "hom we send our calves 
m uni v s ’ so , J ’. ou see we employ but one 
conmii««f U ’ rllis business of shipping to 
th « ° ! -V n, i\ n has become so general in 
hen- w! Ut > y jfk** tll ° local poultry house 
getting i - ? ad , D to closo - While we were 
tbol ll> to ] . S cents for fowls in Chicago. 
'f c paying but 11 here in town, i 
dronnini ?! 64 * v f ars ol( l and am slowly 
hivn i” the iu ' tlv ‘tics of farm life. I 
believo boon a workingman and still 
miwt- w n * le Sospel of work, but find I 
must lessen my labors or hire help. Good 
help is very scarce and high as in other 
places. My work now is with milch cows, 
fruit, vegetables and fowls, and can give 
you prices for the past season. I am milk¬ 
ing four cows; customers come to the 
house and pay six cents per quart, cream 
40 cents per quart. Butter 30-35 cents 
per pound; eggs 15-30; potatoes are selling 
now at 20 cents per peck; asparagus 8-15 
cents per bunch ; rhubarb 3-8 cents per 
pound. My fruit is all sold in quart boxes 
direct to the consumer. Raspberries, red, 
20; raspberries, black, 15 ; gooseberries, 
12y 2 -15; currants, 8-10; sweet corn, 12-15 
per dozen. Fowls were sold in Chicago 
this Spring at 14%-18 cents per pound. 
Calves 141/.-16 per pound. I think I get 
good prices for what I raise. I watch the 
market and sell as high as I can and 
employ no middlemen except in Chicago 
for calves and fowls. h. r. m. 
Bradford, Ill. 
We sell hogs,’ cattle, oats, barley and 
some wheat. There is no fruit sold here, 
only what is shipped in. One grocer sold 
over 100 barrels of apples last Fall at 
about $4 a barrel. Most of us grow what 
strawberries and raspberries we use, and 
a few apples. There are no market gar¬ 
dens away from Crcsco, each of us farmers 
has a garden of some kind, but most of 
them are not very good. We had a good 
crop of potatoes last year and we get 
25 cents a bushel for them now. The 
following prices are now obtained in 
Cresco; Hogs, live, about $8.30 per hun¬ 
dred ; cream, 35 cents per pound ; oats, 
26; barley, 45. Cows are from $50 to 
$75 and hard to buy good ones. Horses are 
about $200, drivers are a little more. 
Most of the farmers here ship their own 
hogs and cattle; if one does not have 
enough for a car or two, two or more 
farmers ship together. All cattle and hogs 
are shipped to Chicago. w. g. 
Cresco, Iowa. 
Ear corn, 68 cents per 70 pounds; oats, 
50. Horses are very high ; good heavy 
brood mares bred from Belgium’ blood, 
$280, and a colt ten months old from 
mare, $S5. Good common young mares, 
$230 to $250; horses, $125 to $200. This 
is all young stock ; for older horses, $75 is 
the average. Cows, depend on the breed. 
$45 to $85; old cows and dry ones, also 
poor and small, average $30. Sheep and 
hogs sell as high at the sale as in New 
York. My milk goes to Gettysburg and 
is pasteurized for town market; they pay 
$1.65 per 100 pounds for milk. Eggs, 16*4 
to 17 cents per dozen; grocery stores pay 
a cent less for eggs. Apples, wholesale, 
$1 ; retail, $1.40 per bushel. Potatoes 
dull, 60 cents; retail, 80 cents per bushel. 
Hens, 14 to 15 cents a pound. 
Gettysburg, Ta. j. e. f. 
Trices are: Milk, $1.50 per hundred 
pounds, delivered; cows, $80 to $100: 
horses, $200 to $250; hogs, 8 to 8)4 cents; 
hay, $12 to $15; corn, 45; oats, 32; eggs. 
15 to 18. No fruit or garden truck raised 
for market. Every effort seems to be for 
milk, sold to factory, bottled and resold 
in Chicago, 40 miles east, at 9 cents per 
quart retail. e. m. m. 
Batavia, Ill. 
April 18.—Butter, 30 and 35 cents; we 
get that the year ’round. Eggs at present. 
15 and 20 cents, in Winter as high as 40 
cents a dozen. Jersey cows from $50 to 
$100, mostly $60 to $85. There are no 
beef cattle fed here. As the Hope Farm 
man says, we live in the hill country, in 
the great Prairie State of Illinois. ' We 
sold a bunch of hogs last week for $8.80, 
price in St. Louis same date, $9.20. 
Wheat, six to 10 cents less than St. Louis 
price; corn, 45; oats, 35; potatoes, 50 
to 65. a. I. 
Bethalto, Ill. 
The outlook for dairying in this localitv, 
has been good for years, and is on the in¬ 
crease; it is the leading industry here. 
Practically everything centers on dairying. 
Cows have increased in price over last year 
from $10 to $25 each ; prices of feeds are 
about 20 per cent, less than for several 
years. The only obstacle in the wav of 
young men starting out here is the high 
price of land, which is from $100 to $140 
per acre, and equipping same with ma¬ 
chinery, and stock, but a young man with 
the right stuff in him could make a good 
thing here if he has two or three thousand 
dollars to start with. 
Outagamie Co., Wis. w. g. Jamison. 
The price of cows in this vicinity is 
higher I think than any time since the 
Civil War. We have a cheese maker here 
who told me a few days ago that his fac¬ 
tory paid (this past season) $1.50 per 100 
pounds for milk. This was the average for 
the year. Niue years ago his average price 
was 70 cents per 100 pounds, an advance 
of 100 per cent, since then. We have 
no way of knowing how the pastures will 
turn out. but they promise well at present. 
1 know of several young men who are build¬ 
ing silos, and everyone seems to think that 
the dairy is now a profitable business. 
Oswego Co., N, Y. f. a. p. 
Wheat, 80; corn. 40: oats, 28; hav, 
baled, $9 to $10; Timothy seed, $1.20 a 
bushel; eggs, 14, cash at home; butter fat, 
31; hens, 12; turkeys, 15; ducks, 10; po¬ 
tatoes, 80; fat cattle, $7.25 to $7.50; fat 
heifers, $5 to $6; fat cows, $4 to $4.50; 
hogs, $8.60; milch cows at sales, $40 to 
$75; steers, one year old, $30 to $45; 
steers, two years old, $40 to $55 ; calves, 
coming one year, $20 to $24. j. s. s. 
Cromwell, Iowa. 
Cows (good), $60; cattle, $5 to $8.50 
per 100.; extra prime, $9; hogs, $8.50; 
potatoes, 65; seed potatoes, 90; creamery 
butter, 35 ; country butter, 28 to 30 ; eggs, 
15; apples (Western), $1.85 per bushel; 
oranges and lemons, 40 cents per dozen; 
Navy beans, 4 pounds for 25 cents. These 
are retail prices in market here. e. b. g. 
Casey, Iowa. 
Farm prices in this vicinity are: 
Horses, $2-5 to $350; cows, new milch, 845 
to $75, springers, $30 to $45; hav. $16 to 
$20 per ton ; wood, $4 to $5 per cord; milk, 
4 to 7 cents; potatoes. 70 cents; eggs, 20 
cents; pork, dressed, 11 cents; fowls, 20 
cents; young pig, $S to $10 per pair ; veal, 
live, 8 cents. j, l. 
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