1913 . 
733 
CROPS 
May 6. We are 20 miles from Den¬ 
ver and within five miles of Brighton. 
Cattle, milch cows, from .$75 to $120 per 
head; calves (veal) from 11 to 15 cents 
per pound; butter, 30. Milk at con- 
den sory has been 40 cents for butter fat. 
There is no fruit grown near this sec¬ 
tion. There are a good many acres of 
gardening crops raised for the canneries, 
cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers and beets. 
The beets are sold to sugar factory on a 
sliding scale, but average is $5.50 per 
ton. H. A. w. 
Brighton, Col. 
The early indications were for a large 
fruit crop in Schoharie Co., but the re¬ 
cent frosts are thought to have done con¬ 
siderable damage, especially to small fruit 
and apples. Hops had a. fine start, but 
the frosts have done much damage to 
them. Young clover in many sections 
was so badly frozen that it turned black 
and would crackle under foot when 
stepped on. Butter is bringing from 30 
to 32 cents, eggs from 18 to 19 cents a 
dozen; oats 50 cents a bushel. H. E. 
Cobleskill, N. Y. 
Everything is looking prosperous in 
Oneida County. ■ Alfalfa is looking fine, 
standing nearly a foot high in some 
places. A warm rain is needed for the 
good of crops, and also to soften the 
ground. Milk prices remain about the 
same, the farmer receiving $1.50 for 100 
pounds. Eggs are selling at 18 cents a 
dozen, butter 35. Veals are high, as 
there is good market, eight cents a pound 
live weight is being paid. Potatoes 85 
cents a bushel; pigs four weeks old from 
$4 to $5, as they are very scarce. Oats 
and hops are looking fine, hops are be¬ 
ginning to climb up the poles. c. j. E. 
Clinton, N. Y. 
May 10. Horticulture, vegetable gar¬ 
dening and dairying are the chief occu¬ 
pations. This is a Summer resort town 
and we have no street markets. Eight 
to 10 miles south of here at Chaska and 
Shakopee they have mostly street mar¬ 
kets. Good cows bring from $50 to $80; 
Spring pigs, four to eight weeks old, 
from $3.50 to $0 each. Milk put up in 
quart bottles brings the dairyman 16 
cents per gallon, the consumer paying 
from five to seven cents per quart. Good 
dairy butter, 35 cents per pound from 
private customers, dealers pay aboxxt 28 
or 30. Meat markets pay 11 cents per 
pound for dressed veal. Potatoes and 
onions ai’e a drug on the market, pro¬ 
ducers get about 25 cents per bushel for 
them providing he can find a market 
for them. The stores pay us 75 cents 
a dozen for asparagus and two to three 
cents per pound for pie plant. Apples 
retail at about $1.25 per box. 1 am 
told that some Minneapolis commission 
houses are loaded with them and are 
working on a losing game; they are 
mostly western apples shipped in last 
1'all. Hay brings $8 to $10 per ton. 
Eggs bring the producers 16 cents per 
dozen. The prospects are for a good 
fruit crop; the weather seems to stay 
cool, which holds the bloom back. Plums 
are in bloom and the apples are just 
starting to open. There was very little 
dormant spraying done this Spring. 
There is not enough attention paid to 
pruning and thorough spraying. Clover 
and Alfalfa wintered well and the weather 
is favorable for this Spring’s seeding. 
The ground works nicely this Spring, but 
the subsoil is dry and very little snow the 
past Winter; lately we have had some 
nice rains every week. Hix*ed help is 
scarce; farm hands get $30 to $35 per 
month and board, day laborers 20 to 25 
cents per hour. G. T. 
Excelsior, Minn. 
May 10.—Wheat, best, 83; rye, 47; 
barley, 40; flax, $1.12; oats, 30; eggs, 
per dozen, 14; dairy butter, 30; butter 
fat, 33; live hogs, 8; veal, live, 6 to 7; 
dressed hogs, 10; dressed veai, 8 to 11; 
hides, 8 to 9. No fruit and garden prod¬ 
ucts here. Comb honey last season 
brought about an average of 12 cents for 
all the grades. This is an excellent bee 
country. a. t. m. 
Ramey, Minn. 
Irost in this section early "in May 
will result in reducing expenses 
in thinning apples this year. Usually 
thinning is done three times, and 
adds materially to expense of the crop. 
Gne ranchman, believing that varied 
tanning is better, put in 27 acres of 
corn and realized $800 last year. It 
shows what can be done aside from 
apple orchards. Another man has raised 
i uroc pigs, purebred stock only, and 
his income was $1,000 per mouth the 
Past year. Cream is collected at the 
an< * l' as given careful dairymen 
•Vi oow * u this land of Alfalfa and 
mild Winters. j. K . o. 
Grandview, Wash. 
15-—The continued dry, colt 
eather has been very favorable to tin 
111 of Spring crops, so that t 
ii,, i er acreage has been sown thar 
' ua . At this time last year the farmers 
vie in despair on account of so mud 
V " t i We , ath , er - Much land had to be left 
, buckwheat and the early sowings ant 
were all made in such bat 
■ • pe that everything was very weed\ 
ai ?y cultivation could be done. Al 
, ? ats are coming up in goot 
aa( l all that is needed is a tun 
' r ° r the planting of corn. Farm 
• i al not relish four frosts running, as 
in ( 'h 'I a ° C a ‘ sl: 'wok, but as a rule no! 
damage was done. Some vineyards 
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were hurt, but apple trees were not in 
full blossom. There are reports that 
some orchards are not blossoming very 
full, but it is too early to say much about 
the apple crop. With favorable weather 
soon the crop situation will continue ex¬ 
cellent. Wheat and grass are looking 
fine, but the weather is too cool now for 
them to grow much. Small prospect of 
raising cattle full size when our butchers 
are paying 13 y 2 cents for 100-pound veal 
calves. j. w. c. 
Erie Co., N. Y. 
May 17. Prices here are as follows: 
Hay, $12 per ton; veal, eight to 8% 
cents per pound; pork, 10 cents and 
scarce; butter, 30; eggs, 18. Dairying 
is the mainstay here, but dairymen are 
not satisfied with the share of the con¬ 
sumer’s dollar that they are getting. 
Good dairy cows are scarce at $70 to 
$90. Weather is dry, oats about all in, 
but coming up thin, due perhaps to 
weather. Farm help very scarce, farmers 
depending on their own help mostly. 
New Milford has a good live Grange, and 
they are doing good work, buying fer¬ 
tilizers and seeds at prices that are 
quite a saving to their members. Perhaps 
having learned to buy together we may 
learn to sell together. p. 
New Milford, Pa. 
I would feel safe in saying 80 per 
cent, of the farmers are selling cream 
this season, receiving three cents over 
Elgin butter quotations, for a pound of 
butter fat, less cost of hauling the cream. 
We have mostly full-blood Jerseys and 
have always made butter, selling to pri¬ 
vate families at 35 cents per pound the 
year around. Holstein and Jersey cows 
are kept by some but most dairymen 
have grades of Durham, Jersey and 
Holstein, and some of doubtful origin. 
Where butter is made Holstein does 
not appear to fill the bill, but milkmen 
who sell milk in the city think the 
Holstein all right if they have a small 
part of the herd Jersey to take the 
“curse off” as one man said. I think he 
meant to make the milk stand the test, 
3% per cent., as required by city ordi¬ 
nance. I think dairying and raising 
heavy horses are the most satisfactory 
lines we can engage in at present. 
Crawford Co., Pa. w. t. k. 
We live at one side of our district, near 
the mountain. General agriculture and 
dairying is the occupation of nearly all 
of the rural population. We have a 
creamery 10 miles northeast at Dewart, 
one seven miles east at Milton, skimming 
station five miles south at Taylorville, a 
condensery and creamery nine miles 
south at Lewisburg, and a creamery 13 
miles southwest at Mifflinburg. The 
Reading Railway carries milk along its 
road and passes through this section, 
so we have the facilities for either milk 
or butter with a ready sale for either. 
Those living near railway or condensery 
use th(> heavy milking strains while 
Those of us producing butter live farther 
away and use the butter producing 
strains. Those producing milk use pure¬ 
bred Ilolsteins and Shorthorns, while 
those producing butter use purebred and 
grade Jerseys and Shorthorns. There 
are not as many purebred cattle as 
should be and Ilolsteins and Jerseys 
take the lead. Prices are satisfactory and 
the future looks bright. 
JOHN A. BECK & SON. 
Union Co., Pa. 
May 17. Corn is mostly planted; 
wheat and oats looking fine. Pastures 
are fine too this year, which is quite a 
relief after two years of short pastures. 
A little spraying done here; I find it 
is cheaper to buy my apples than to try 
to grow them in this county. South¬ 
east Nebraska is all right for orchards, 
but I don’t believe they pay there unless 
one makes a specialty of it and attends 
right to the spraying, pruning, etc. We 
have the promise of a big Alfalfa crop 
this year. Cows, $50 to $80; horses, $75 
to $250. Stores pay 15 cents for eggs, 
sell them at 18; liens, 13 cash. Fair¬ 
mont creamery has a big poultry plant 
here; they buy, feed, dress and ship all 
sorts of poultry. A great many potatoes 
are shipped in here, sold out of the 
car for 70 and 80 cents this Spring. 
Lots of hay shipped in here too; prairie 
hay sold for $12.50 to $13 this Winter 
and Spring; good Alfalfa. $15 or $16. 
Corn, 52; wheat, 76; oats about 40. 
I.ots of that shipped in too last Fall 
and Winter. Corn sold here in the Fall 
at 35 to start. I had some corn sold 
in western Kansas in the Winter for 
33, but I presume it was soft; there 
was lots of that kind in western Kansas 
and Nebraska the past season. A man 
here in town has been advertising apples 
this month at $2 per barrel. Butter fat. I 
25. I sold 20 bushels ripe tomatoes j 
last Fall nearly all at $1 per bushel, i 
Parsnips through the Winter. 2% cents 
per pound. Raspberries, black, 15 cents 
per quart; red, 10 cents a pint to private 
customers, so I got more than the 35- 
cent dollar. Tomatoes were sold in same 
way, also parsnips. Eggs I sell mostly 
for cash at store price, when I have a 
surplus—ship a good many for hatching. 
I take some town cows to pasture at $2 
per month. My neighbor, a little far¬ 
ther out, charges $1.50, but not as good 
pasture. Pasturage eight or 10 miles 
out, $4 to $5 per head for the season— 
five months for cattle. Prospects good 
for a big crop of berries, plums and 
cherries, and a few peaches. For feed 
we pay for shorts $1 per 100; bran, 90; 
screenings. 95; hominy feed, $1.10. 
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