1913. 
TRTC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
763 
CROPS 
Cows, $75 to $100; calves, nine cents, 
live; 15 cents, dressed; milk, five cents 
at door. H. c. R. 
Abbottrun, R. I. 
May 20. The local prices here are 
about as follows: Cows, $80 per head; 
beef cattle, 5 cents per pound ; corn, 48; 
oats, 37; Timothy hay, $15 per ton. 
llogs, S cents per pound. Butter, dairy, 
1 * 8 ; eggs, 15. Red onions average for 
Winter 40 cents per bushel; Holland 
cabbage, $20 per ton for season, and sold 
locally. Potatoes, 30. w. T. 
Belle Plaine, Iowa. 
May 20. Farm horses in this vicinity 
bring" $175 to $250 each; six or seven 
carloads have been brought here from 
Iowa this Spring. Cows, $45 to $05 each. 
I lay, $11 per ton; wheat, $1.03; oats, 
39 "cents; rye, 45 cents; corn, 59 cents; 
buckwheat, 05 cents; beans, hand picked, 
$1.50; potatoes, 25 to 30 cents per 
bushel, and no sale, farmers feeding 
fine potatoes to hogs and poultry. Hogs, 
9 cents; calves, 10 %; steers, 11 %; mut¬ 
ton, 10; fowls, 14 to 15; live turkeys, 
IS; Spring lambs. $5 to $0 each. Eggs, 
17%; butter, best, dairy, 28; creamery, 
32. " The fruit was largely destroyed by 
tbe freeze May 8 and 9, the thermometer 
showing 28 degrees. Canning factory 
contracts were made before the freeze 
as follows: Strawberries, $1.40; black 
raspberries, $ 2 ; red raspberries, black¬ 
berries and dewberries, $ 2.00 per bushel; 
string beans, $35, and tomatoes, $10 per 
ton. Heinze pays 90 cents a bushel for 
pickles, four inches and below. Few 
sugar beet contracts were made in this 
vicinity, as farmers have not found them 
profitable. Up to last year they could 
get the fresh pulp for the trouble of 
hauling, but the factory now dries the 
pulp and charges $22.50 per ton for it. 
The factory up to now has been reported 
to earn from 30 per cent, to 05 per cent 
on the capital stock per year, and 
farmers seem to think free sugar would 
be all right. D. H. c. 
Ottawa Co., Mich. 
May 23. Present prices to farmers 
are: Butter, dairy, 40; milk, per gallon, 
14 to 10; poultry, old hens, 20 ; Spring 
chickens, 22; potatoes, per bushel, 35 to 
40; carrots, old, bushel, 05; parsnips, 
per bushel, 70; radish, per dozen bunches 
of 12. 75; lettuce, per dozen, 40. Straw¬ 
berries in season, fancy, retail, 25 per 
quart box; ordinary, 12% to 15; honey, 
in comb, per square, retail, 25. Not much 
<4 an agricultural section about here, but 
developing fast. s. G. s. 
Duluth, Minn. 
May 23. There are no large dairies 
in this vicinity, but almost every farmer 
keeps from five to ten cows, and a few 
keep as high as 20. We have a creamery 
here in Bedford and three others in 
the county. The one in Bedford sends 
out wagons to gather cream and ships 
some in beside. We have quite a few 
butter dairies from which the butter is 
shipped to Altoona, and Cumberland, Md. 
In Altoona' the wholesale market price 
ranges from 30 to 40 cents a pound for 
first-class butter. Our country here is 
well adapted for dairying, there being 
good pastures and spring streams. Al¬ 
falfa is extensively grown by some. One 
has as high as GO acres, and we find it 
a very profitable feed, as it does well 
in our soil. I have cut as hign as six 
tons to the acre in one season. The 
cows kept are mostly high-grade Jerseys, 
with some purebreds and some Holsteins. 
The Bedford Grange has more than 
doubled its membership in the last year 
and the farmers are becoming more wide¬ 
awake and enthused with new and up- 
to-date methods and realize more than 
ever the good to be derived from or¬ 
ganization, as we see plainly that Is the 
only way to get our just rights. Cattle 
are in demand and higher than ever 
known here, bringing from $40 to $90. 
Bedford, Ta. 6. E. L. 
I attend many farm auctions. Fair 
good horses sell from $200 to $275 eac 
an occasional one going at $300. Cow 
ordinary grade with calves by side, $' 
t ■ $115; without calves, $50 to $85. T 
above are sold on one year’s credit, 
months without interest. Calves, foi 
weeks old, 8 to 11 cents per pound aliv 
Milk prices for the past 10 months ; 
follows: August, 1912, 3% ; Septembc 
;' i 1 October, 3%; November, 4; Decei 
Jjer, 4%; January, 1913, 3%; Februar 
•mi ; March, 3% ; April, 3%, to lOt 
" t to end of month; May, 3. The 
1 'rices are net to farmer delivered 
hipping station. I copy them fro 
my book of account and they are exa< 
r arm-made butter 30 at local store 
. here is not much fruit or gardenii 
\r» ™ 1S sp Ction except for home us 
o heat, corn and oats are princip 
crops raised to sell; hay is nearly t 
used on farms. Wheat sold for 90 to $' 
ern nearly all sold in ear and from < 
0 A; le present price, per 100 pound 
oats, 40 cents for 32 pounds. Hay 
arm auctioiCthis Spring $15 to $17 p 
ton on one year’s time. Dairying is doi 
ere as a side line to general farmii 
>o help out toward paying the labor ai 
'inning expenses of the farm, and : 
a rule outside the hours for field wor 
winch means about one-quarter day befo 
■leaktast, and another quarter aft 
mipper. Almost all farms here are occ 
pied by tenants and the owners requi 
a certain acreage planted to each of t! 
above mentioned crops; the dairy is ti 
teimnts’ entirely. j. a. w. 
Warren Co., N. J. 
May 20. Hay, Timothy, $15; clover, 
mixed, $13; clover, $11 ; rye straw, $ 20 ; 
butter, creamery, wholesale, 28; retail, 
32; dairy, 20 to 28; eggs, 18. Beef very 
scarce. Cows, good, $50; calves, eight 
cents; fowls, live, 14. j. j. l. 
Indian Fields, N. Y. 
Fruit badly injured here in southeast¬ 
ern Ohio; during first part of May heavy 
frost and freezing weather. Cherries, 
plums, pears and peaches nearly all 
killed; apples not over 10 per cent, of 
crop ; all apple orchards below about 900 
feet fruit all dropping off. The very high¬ 
est ridges have some apples. Much rainy 
weather; grass, wheat, growing finely. 
Cattle and hogs scarce and high; not 
much shearing done yet. w. P. E. 
Athens, O. 
Dairying is the principal business 
here, selling to the Bordens at our 
shipping point, but with other shipping 
stations three miles either side of us. 
The exchange is paying more for milk 
so far this season and is drawing many 
Borden patrons. Prices at present are 
Bordens, $1.15 per hundred (with two 
10-eent premiums) exchange $1.47 for 
grade B milk. Butter sells locally at 30 
cents and eggs at 18; potatoes, 00. No 
truck crops raised here. At auction 
sales good grade Holstein cows have sold 
for from $00 to $90, others from $50 
to $ 00 , with some old cows selling as 
low as $38. Horses, as to age and size, 
from $125 to $250. Horses in this sec¬ 
tion mostly small and second grade. 
One sale of dressed pork was noted at 
14 cents per pound ; five weeks’ pigs are 
a ready sale at $7 per pair. h. a. g. 
Lakewood, Pa. 
May 27. Prices of farm products are 
about as follows: Hay, $13; oat straw, 
$10; oats, 50; potatoes, 00; eggs, 18; 
butter, 30; chickens, alive, about 12; 
dressed, 18 to 20 ; pork, 10 , dressed; beef 
cattle, four cents per pound live; milch 
cows from $30 to $75, according to qual¬ 
ity. The farmers here who are selling 
milk ge.t about IS cents a gallon in the 
Winter and 10 in the Summer. Cream 
about 00 cents per gallon. Horses are 
very high ; some large teams have brought 
$700 and $800, common horses bring 
from $100 to $200 per head. These prices 
are what the farmer gets from the retailer. 
Lane’s Mills, Pa. w. n. 
Hay, $12 to $14; straw, $10; wheat, 
$1.01; oats, 42 ; corn, G5 ; potatoes, 80; 
tobacco, six to nine cents per pound; 
earlier 10-12-13. Trucking not engaged 
in. Cattle, steer. $7.50, $ 8 . $8.75 per 
hundred; cows, $40, $60, $80 to $110; 
butter, 35; milk, $1.40 per 100. a. g. k. 
Lancaster, Pa. 
Cows are_in great demand, prices rang¬ 
ing from $50 to $90 for grade cows, ac¬ 
cording to quality ; farm horses from $150 
to $.300. Milk for April paid at the Mer¬ 
rill Soule Co., powdered milk plant about 
$1.50 on the stand. Veal is 11% cents 
per pound; pork, 11; hens, 17 cents per 
pound; eggs. 18 cents; potatoes. 65 cents. 
Farm help is scarce and high. Dairy 
butter, 27 to 29 cents; eggs, IS and 19 
cents. Hay is about $10 per ton deliv¬ 
ered, but the prospects are that the crop 
will be below average. Oats look well, 
corn is just being planted; about the 
usual average of potatoes are planted. 
Pigs have been sold here for $4 apiece. 
Fx-ewsburg, N. Y. f. e. t. 
Few cattle are kept in this section. 
The principal crops are potatoes and 
cauliflowers. Potatoes are 70 cents. 
About 80 acres of cauliflowers are con¬ 
tracted for at Heinze’s pickle house at 
this station for 2 cents a pound for 
primes, three-fourth cent for seconds. 
Jamesport, N. Y f. ii. t. 
May 24. The long drought this Spring 
in Windham County, Vermont, was 
ended by a recent downpour of rain last¬ 
ing two days. Surplus water is stored 
up in the Connecticut River at Brattle- 
boro by the big dam. The farmers make 
considerable butter for sale in this sec¬ 
tion. It is put up in attractive style, 
flat cakes or brick form and wrapped in 
clean prepax-ed paper, selling at 35 cents 
per pound. Eggs are sold at 27 cents 
per dozen. i. w. w. 
Brattleboro, Vt. 
The crops in Niagara County are look¬ 
ing well. Wheat looks better than usual, 
so much is often Winter-killed. Clover 
is doing its best now since the recent 
heavy rain. Oats are very backward, 
sown so late; they will have to hurry if 
they make good. Only one field of •corn 
planted yet, except on the Ridge, where 
they plant early for mai-ket. There it is 
large enough to cultivate. The fruit 
crop is doing well, the Baldwins are a 
little shy. but thei’e will be enough if 
nothing happens. Everything else seems 
to be promising a good crop. The coopers 
have started making barrels, selling when 
they get a chance for 40 cents. The 
farmers are getting for wheat, $ 1 ; oats, 
45; hay, $14 ; potatoes, GO; butter, 30; 
eggs, 18. w. D. s. 
Newfane, N. Y. 
No-Rim-Cut Tires 
10% Oversize 
11 % Less This Year 
Rubber has dropped a little. 
And our factory cost, because of 
multiplied output, has dropped 
a little more. Our new facto¬ 
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Now we have a capacity 
pretty close to 8,000 motor 
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clinchers. And that oversize, un¬ 
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today. 
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More Goodyear tires were sold 
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tires? 
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