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CROPS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
•1 uiy 5, 
OHIO CROPS. 
The oats do not look very good; wheat 
is fine. The outlook is far ahead of 1912. 
Corn looks very well, considering the 
weather. H. E. P. 
Madison Co., 0. 
June 11. Prospect for wheat is fine. 
We have promise of at least 20 bushel 
crop in our county. Last year the aver¬ 
age was not over live bushels. Oats look 
well and promise equal to last year. 
Com is not growing much, owing to 
cold weather. We think the acreage for 
this county (Clark) is not over 50 per 
cent, of last year. .Same is true of 
Miami Co. w. n. s. 
Clark Co., O. 
The corn is in healthy condition; the 
acreage is more than in 1912; half the 
crop is plowed once. Wheat is short in 
stalk but heads good. Oats half good, 
half weedy. J. B. 
Auglaize Co., O. 
June 11. Wheat is short; oats, very 
good, and corn looking well, but late 
planted. w. H. t. 
Ilocking Co., O. 
June 10. Wheat is very promising. 
The early part of May was unfavorable 
to oat growth ; a year ago the condition 
was 30 per cent, better. The acreage 
this year is very much less, 50 per cent, 
or more; condition 85 per cent. Corn 
planting was retarded by cool, wet 
weather; considerable has been planted 
since June 1st. Hot weather needed. 
Corn germinated well. u. m. s. 
Greene Co., O. 
Corn in Clinton County is looking 
well; stand almost perfect. Should the 
season continue favorable there will be 
a larger yield per acre than last year. 
Wheat is looking much better than a few 
weeks ago. There will be a larger yield 
than expected. Oats look bad. Farmers 
are dropping oats out of their rotation 
and planting Soy beans instead. 
Clinton Co., O. j. A. s. 
June 12. Wheat looks exceptionally 
good; will average 20 bushels per acre 
in my township. Our own wheat looks 
like 35 bushel crop. Oats backward and 
weedy, owing to dry, cold weather. 
Corn stand is very good. n. M. 
Mt. Gilead, O. 
Crops for the northern part of Defiance 
Co. have the best prospects for a maxi¬ 
mum yield of any season in my exper¬ 
ience. Wheat, with plenty of moisture, 
cool weather and a well-covered seed 
bed can hardly fail to give a large yield. 
Corn planted before the late rains though 
having rather cool weather is a most 
perfect stand. Oats are now making a 
rapid growth, promising a good average 
yield. Hay for the past two weeks has 
made a wonderful growth and present 
outlook would put the yield at 80 per 
cent, of a full crop. Potatoes are being 
planted later than usual but with a 
larger acreage than customary, prospects 
fine for a large yield. A. A. H. 
Defiance Co., O. 
June 10. We estimate the acreage of 
corn at 95 per cent, as compared with 
1912. Condition about the same, with 
the exception, that the stand is very 
much better. Oats, because of late seed¬ 
ing and many weeds, fields are 10 to 15 
per cent, below the average. Wheat is 
a fine crop in our county. The condition 
is good and prospects now for more 
than an average crop and quality prom¬ 
ises good. M. & M. 
Darke Co., O. 
The weather has been very cold and 
dry. Many acres of corn planted first 
week of June. Some early planted corn 
up and cultivated once, but not doing 
well owing to cold nights. Owing to 
the entire failure of the 1912 crop the 
acreage is small. Oats, on the whole, do 
not seem quite as promising as the wheat. 
The hard freeze killed the apples and 
most of the small fruit. There will be 
no cherries. The early growth of grapes 
was frozen back, but they have started 
new shoots and there will be some grapes. 
Cold weather delayed the sheep shearing. 
Wool is selling at 20 cents. More cows 
are milked at the present time and the 
dairy product shipped as cream to the 
creamery. A. H. 
Floury Co., O. 
June 9. Corn held back by the cold 
weather; stand excellent. Oats weedy, 
some being plowed up, but generally 
where help is available farmers are cut¬ 
ting out the weeds. Grass thick but 
short; Alfalfa generally good this Spring. 
Van Wert Co., O. j. w. x. 
We have 25 per cent, better stand of 
corn than last year and most of it has 
been plowed through once. Wheat is 
very good. Oats were mostly disked in 
and the weeds are going to cut the crop 
short. T. M. S. 
Mercer Co., O. 
June 12. Corn is looking very prom¬ 
ising, though planted late. Wheat will 
be better than average. Hay is very 
heavy, and oats looking extra good. Al¬ 
falfa very heavy and is being made this 
week. E. s. B. 
Fulton Co., O. 
June 9. Corn that is up is yellow 
and not doing anything; some are plant¬ 
ing yet. Very little wheat here this year. 
Oats look well but are short; do not. 
grow as they should. Grass good. 
Wood Co., O. g. c. H. 
June 11. There will be an average 
crop of Elbertas, but very few late 
peaches. Light crop of Smock and Sal- 
ways. A fair crop of pears, and a good 
crop of apples. An average crop of 
cherries. G. T. 
Ottawa Co., O. 
Horses about $200 or less, according to 
the horse; cows about $40. We have 
no cattle to speak of in these parts. 
Corn, 50; straw, $5.50 per ton, baled; 
potatoes, old, 50; wheat, $1 ; hens, 11; 
chickens, broilers, 18; hogs, 7%; eggs, 
17; veal calves, 8 for the best; No. 1 
butter, 25. At present there is no fruit 
and no market gardening to amount to 
anything. e. w. h. 
Portland, O. 
June 33. Corn is about the same as 
last year in acreage; some of it has 
just been planted, but most of it up some 
twelve inches high. Oats are in fair 
condition. Not many beets around here. 
Wheat, clover and pasture look fine. 
Paulding Co., O. j. e. 
June 13. Wheat, a large acreage (10 
to one for 1912), a good stand, heads 
large and seem to be well filled with 
plump kernels. Rye promises a good 
yield; very little oats sown this season. 
Corn looks well considering that some 
was slightly nipped by frost. L. F. 
Hamilton Co., O. 
June 11. On well drained land we 
expect a fair average of Winter wheat— 
15 to 25 bushels per acre. Oats thin on 
the ground, caused by very heavy rains 
after sowing, forming a crust. Acreage 
is very much less than for the past three 
years. Corn is small and very backward. 
Early potato vines small and coming in 
bloom ; late, very few planted yet. Apple 
trees are practically bare of fruit; pears, 
hardly one-half crop; cherries, less than 
half; hay, short and very weedy. 
Seneca Co., O. j. a. e. 
June 30. Wheat and oats will be a 
fair average crop. Last year wheat was 
a complete failure in this section. Corn 
is a fair stand, but small and slow. We 
follow mostly mixed farming, composed 
of milk, butter, hogs, cattle, horses, poul¬ 
try and eggs. w. F. H. 
Union Co., O. 
June 13. Fruit here badly injured by 
frost. Corn two weeks late. Oats short 
but in good condition. Wheat is in 
good shape; acreage 25 per cent, better 
than in 1912. Corn here in the river 
bottoms can be made in the next three 
weeks with warm nights and a little 
lain. Acreage about the same as 1912. 
On the whole the outlook compares fav¬ 
orably with last year. p. c. it. 
Muskingum Co., O. 
.Tune 21. Timely rains have put a 
very different complexion on the crops 
in this county. Oats never were more 
promising.. Wheat and rye will be an 
average crop. Old meadows will be light. 
Berries will more than an average crop 
in spite of late frosts. ri. m. 
Ashtabula Co., O. 
Corn good stand, well worked. Oats 
good acreage and most of them looking 
well. Wheat about 70 per cent of an 
average crop, hurt some by frost and 
fly. Potatoes looking good. Meadows 
short, very little clover. No fruit on 
lower grounds, and very little on high. 
Strawberries selling at $4 per bushel to 
grocer. l. f. b. 
Tuscarawas Co., O. 
June 39. Farm products which are 
staples in these, Carroll and Jefferson 
Counties, sell at the following wholesale 
prices: Corn, 70 to 75; wheat, $1; oats, 
45; potatoes, 55 to 60; hay, $12; straw, 
$8; cherries, 12 cents per quart; straw¬ 
berries, 12% per quart. Horses, $175 to 
$300 per head ; milch cows, from $50 to 
$80; veal calves, 8; beef cattle, 4 to 5; 
shotes, 8; sheep dull, no sale. Wool 
buyers are offering 18 cents for unwashed 
and 22 was washed. Butter, 20 to 22; 
eggs, IS to 20. Weather conditions and 
crop outlook—the weather has been very 
dry for almost three weeks, no rain iii 
that time. Wheat will be hbout one- 
half crop. Hay very light, not a half 
crop. Corn and oats doing fairly well 
under conditions. Very small crop of 
fruit. Apples not one-tenth of a crop. 
Peaches about one-fourth crop. w. B. 
Bergholz, O. 
Cattle very scarce and selling from 
wheat, $1.06; oats, 32; corn, 65; eggs, 
3 to 7%; hogs, tops, 8; chickens, 12%; 
17; country butter, 18-25. c. w. 
Ashley, O. 
June 20. Wheat is 98 cents per 
bushel ; corn, 70; in ear, 60; oats, 36; 
hay, Timothy, No. 3, $9; No. 2, $8; 
clover, $6; mixed, $7. Last June same 
grades sold from $38 to $25. Horses 
range in price, for good ones, from $150 
to $250. Plugs and old horses from $40 
up. No mules are raised here. Sheep, 
scarcely any market except to butchers, 
since wool has been put on free list. 
Lambs, $5 to $8 each. Cows range in 
value from $40 to $75, while an extra 
good milker occasionally sells for $80 
to $90. Most farmers sell their cream 
to creameries; 28 cents per pound for 
butter fat is last quotation. A few 
farmers furnish butter the year around 
at 30 cents per pound. Milk, $1.50 per 
100 pounds; eggs, 18; old potatoes, 35; 
strawberries, 17; cherries, 8 to 10. 
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