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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
May 24, 
CROPS 
Ohio Crop Report. 
The Ohio Department of Agriculture 
makes the following report of crop condi¬ 
tions in that state: 
Wheat, compared with average, 93 per 
cent; oats, 1,615,151 acres; rye, condition 
93 per cent; clover, average compared with 
last year, 95 per cent; fruit prospect com¬ 
pared with normal, 90 per cent; berries, 
93 per cent. 
AVERAGE PRICES. 
Wheat .$ 1-01 per bu. 
Corn .56 per bu. 
Barley .60 per bu. 
Oats .37 per bu. 
Rye .72 per bu. 
Potatoes .. • • • -57 per bu. 
Hay . 10.40 per ton 
Alfalfa . 13.45 per ton 
t THE POTATO CROP. 
The acreage in Texas and Louisiana is 
about the same as usual, but the crop pros¬ 
pects in these States has been considerably 
cut because of unfavorable weather condi¬ 
tions, and in Louisiana on account of high 
water. The planting in this section is about 
the same as usual, and although it is very 
early in the season for predictions here 
we are informed by the growers that the 
ground is in perfect condition and that the 
outlook is satisfactory in every particular. 
Old potatoes are still quite plentiful in Min¬ 
nesota, the Dakotas and in the extreme 
West. There are without doubt enough po¬ 
tatoes in the North and West to supply 
the demand completely at reasonable prices 
until the new arrive in sufficient quantities 
to take their place. We have been handling 
Florida potatoes for some time in a car- 
lot way and have been jobbing them to 
wholesale dealers at $1.65 to $1.90 per 
hamper, regardless of the fact that the 
best quality of old has been plentiful and 
jobbing at 55 to 60 cents, so you see new 
stock has been bringing practically three 
times as much per bushel as the old. We 
find the movement of new potatoes surpris¬ 
ingly good under the circumstances. The 
market on old potatoes is now somewhat 
firmer and we are inclined to believe there 
will be a fairly healthy movement of both 
new and old at fair prices from this 
time on. o. c. evans & co. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
As far as we are able to learn the old 
potatoes in the North are cleaning up far 
better than was anticipated, considering 
the large stocks that were on hand, and 
while we do not look for any material ad¬ 
vance in old potatoes we believe tile mar¬ 
ket will steady up sufficient to give a good 
tone to it. From what we can gather the 
south Texas crop is going to be very short 
and undesirable on account of bad weather 
conditions. We also understand Virginia 
has had a severe setback due to frost. The 
potato crop in this section has never looked 
better, we having almost a perfect stand. 
The weather conditions are ideal, having 
sufficient rain to insure a good yield. We 
expect to start to dig about .Tune 10, and 
barring unforeseen conditions our crop 
should yield 125 to 150 bushels to the 
acre. As to the old crop affecting the new 
crop prices, a surplus of old stock on the 
market is bound to have some effect, espe¬ 
cially if it is forced, but from what we 
can learn there will be very little that 
will have to be forced on the markets, as 
we understand it is going into consumption 
Very rapidly. a. T. PAYNE & CO. 
Muskogee, Okla. 
May 5.—Wheat about 80 cents per 
bushel; corn, 50; oats, 35; potatoes. $1. 
Cattle, from about 3 to 6 cents per pound, 
according to kind. Good milch cows, from 
$35 to $75 per head. Fruits and garden 
truck are not raised enough to market. 
Callaway, Neb. c. l. w. 
Beef cattle, $6.50; hogs, $8; butter, 25 
cents; eggs, 15; corn, 50; oats, 40; hay, 
baled, $10 ; apples, 50 to 60 i strawberries, 
50 cents a gallon; potatoes, old, 50; 
cherries, 30 cents a gallon; beans, 25 
cents a gallon ; peas, 20 cents a gallon ; 
cabbage, 2 cents a pound ; plums, 30 cents 
a gallon ; pears, $1 a bushel. J. w. d. 
Ardmore, Mo. 
Potatoes, $1 per 100 pounds; cabbage, 
$1 per 100 pounds; onions, 15 pounds for 
25 cents; rhubarb, 8 pounds for 25; aspara¬ 
gus ,2 pounds for 25; green onions, six 
bundles for 5, three onions to the bunch ; 
lettuce, three bunches for 10 ; strawberries, 
15 to 20 per quart box; eggs, fresh ranch, 
20 to 25; case, from 17 % to 20; butter, 
creamery, 35 to 40; ranch, 25 to 30; 
bacon, from 22 to 30 cents per pound; 
hams, 21 to 26; lard, 15; compound, 13 to 
15; beef, round, 20; sirloin or short cuts, 
25; porterhouse, 25 ; pork chops, 20; fresh 
ham, 15 to 17% ; shoulder 12% ; Alfalfa, 
loose, $13; bailed, $15; Timothy, $20; 
wheat, $1.70 per 100 pounds; oats, $2; 
corn, $1.65 ; bran, $1.40; dry beet pulp, 
$26 per ton; horses, good, from 1.200 to 
1,400 pounds, $150 to $200; plugs, $50 
to $125; ponies at all kinds of prices. 
Cows, good, from $50 to $100; scrubs, $35 
to $50; milk, $1.75 to $1.85 per 10-gallon 
can; cream, sweet, 4 cents per pint; sour 
about 28 per pound butter fat. J. N. 
Manitou. Colo. 
A DAY’S WORK. 
An Illinois Fruit Farm. 
The clock struck four on the morning 
of Monday, April 28, and the head of the 
house knew it was time to get up. We 
practice the eight-hour system on this farm 
at this season of the year—eight hours' 
work in the forenoon and eight in the 
afternoon. Back-to-the-landers will please 
take note. Hustling on my clothes I made 
for the kitchen and soon had a roaring 
fire, and the tea kettle on the range. Then 
I started for the barn, well knowing that 
some one else would soon have charge of 
things in the kitchen, and that I needn't 
concern myself further about affairs in that 
quarter. Coming home from church the 
uiglit before we agreed that we would deem 
ourselves fortunate if we escaped a frost, 
perhaps a hard,freeze, the air was so chill, 
and so as I walked to the barn 1 noted 
with satisfaction that the sky was overcast 
with clouds and that there was no frost. 
Cherry, plum and peach trees looked ghost¬ 
like in their garbs of white and pink, and 
it was pleasant to know that they still hau 
a chance to make good their promise oi 
an abundant crop. Further on the apple 
orchard stretched out before me, and 1 
was glad that it also was still safe. The 
horses attended to, I returned to the house 
and found breakfast ready. Soon after the 
help began to arrive and we got busy with 
preparations for work in the field. 
Continuous rains had prevented any 
breaking of ground until past the middle 
of April. The previous week we had man¬ 
aged to set a couple of acres of strawberry 
plants on Fall plowed land, and had also 
prepared for planting about three acres 
more of ground. Our work to-day was to 
set this ground. A few thousand plants 
had been taken up the previous week and 
we had these to start with. A good strong 
team was hitched to the transplanter, the 
barrel was tilled with water and the ma¬ 
chine was taken to the field. Another 
team was hitched to the plow and the 
work of preparing more ground was con¬ 
tinued. A man and three boys were set 
to work taking up plants and another man 
was detailed to follow the machine and 
firm the earth about the plants with his 
feet. Fear of a dry spell decided me to 
take no chances, and I knew it was best 
to have the dirt packed tightly against the 
roots. We want our plauts set so they 
will stand a decided pull. It is only a 
short time until we shall be running over 
them with the weeder, and we don't want 
them jerked out. With the soil packed 
tightly against the roots the plants soon 
start to growing. If set earlier in the 
season less care would be necessary in 
this respect, as rains would be more fre¬ 
quent. 
Don, the new horse, was soon found to 
be unfitted for the job. He was not ac¬ 
customed to such a slow gait and didn't 
seem to want to learn it. After repeated 
attempts to hold hyn down to a slow 
walk I decided to put him to the plow, 
where he could be really useful, lie en¬ 
joys hard work and is never so happy as 
when called on to make a hard pull. Old 
Dell took his place at the planter and the 
job was just to her liking. The slower 
the better in her case, and the dearest word 
in her vocabulary is the one which sig¬ 
nifies “stop." Then the work proceeded 
smoothly, and the long rows of green plants 
began to show across the field like ribbons. 
Back and forth, back and forth the outfit 
went. “We set that row in eight minutes,” 
shouted Russel; or, “We only missed one 
plant in that row,” proudly claimed Alva. 
They were the droppers and were having a 
good time. It was more fun than work 
for them. Dick did the driving, and he 
has to acknowledge that this day he rode 
on the water wagon, as his seat was on 
top of the barrel. When evening came it 
was found that 50 rows, 450 feet in length, 
had been set. Eight hours was the actual 
time employed in setting plants. Every 
one felt that it was a very good day’s 
work, but that with certain better condi¬ 
tions it could be beaten. 
While the men put away the horses the 
boss took a shipment of plants to the ex¬ 
press office. Supper was ready on his re¬ 
turn and he did full justice to it. as to 
the other two meals. Back-to-the-landers 
may also make a note of that. Outdoor 
work makes everything taste wonderfully 
good and gives you capacity for storing 
away large quantities of it. The day’s 
entries made, I picked up the evening pa¬ 
per and found that the Montenegrins had 
left Scutari; that Bryan had reached the 
capital of California, and that one faction 
in Congress believed we had just started 
in on an era of prosperity, while another 
contended that we were "going to the dogs” 
just as fast as “revision downward” could 
take us. And as I made the circle of the 
globe through the medium of the daily pa¬ 
per I thought how blessed it is to be able 
to work ; how sweet it is to rest, and how 
enjoyable to keep in touch with mankind 
everywhere and to feel the pulsations of 
the world's great, beating heart. 
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