1913. 
SIS 
THE E4UR.-A.lv NEW-YORKER 
CROPS 
Michigan Frosts. —An unprecedented 
June frost June 8-9-10 nipped vegetation 
in Western Michigan, and did consider¬ 
able damage to early vegetables, espe¬ 
cially in the lowlands. String beans, 
early potatoes, tomatoes and peas were 
farthest advanced, and were hardest hit. 
Little damage was done to fruit in 
this immediate section of the fruit belt. 
The frost was not severe enough to reach 
the orchards, its havoc being confined al¬ 
most exclusively to vegetation in the 
lower lands. In some sections of Michi¬ 
gan the damage to grapes and other fruit 
is reported to»be severe, but there were 
sections where the mercury fell much 
lower than it did in western Van Buren 
County. In Berrien County and in the 
district around Mattawan the damage to 
both fruit and vegetables is said to be 
more severe. In the vicinity of Grand 
Rapids vegetables of all kinds are report¬ 
ed badly damaged. Similar damage is re¬ 
ported at Jackson and in other sections 
through the central part of the State. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. a. 
June 1G. The frost of June 10 did not 
do much damage in this immediate vicin¬ 
ity, but some places in the county corn, 
beans and potatoes were badly cut, and 
strawberries were badly hurt. This is 
getting to be quite a dairy section ; there 
are cheese factories and creameries that 
take all the milk and cream. There is 
some talk of a condensery being built in 
Ohio. The prospect for a hay crop is the 
poorest we have had in 20 years; it was 
badly winter-killed and is very thin on 
(he ground. Oats are looking fine and 
there is a large acreage sown. Wheat 
looks well and will be fully up to the 
average; it is just beginning to head out, 
but there was a small amount sown last 
Fall. It has been too cold for corn, and 
most of it is too small to cultivate yet. 
Beans are just finished planting; while 
late potatoes are to be planted yet, most 
of them this week. The fruit crop will 
be about an average. The early apples 
are very full, the plums are full and 
where they have been sprayed they will 
be a full crop. The frost the second week 
in May killed nearly all the pear blos¬ 
soms so that there will be very few pears. 
This is not a peach section, but what 
trees there are, are full of young peaches. 
There is no garden truck grown here for 
sale. Cheese, wholesale, 14; butter fat, 
27; butter, 24 at the store; eggs, 18; 
hay, No. 1, baled, $10; there is a good 
deal of hay in the farmers’ barns, but 
they are holding for higher price. Oats 
were 35 cents all the Spring, but for the 
last two weeks the dealers have been 
paying 45, but there is none for sale. 
Beans bring $1.85 per bushel on a hand¬ 
picked basis, but there is none for sale; 
last year’s bean crop was the poorest 
that we have had in a good many years. 
Potatoes bring 35 cents, but 10 day's ago 
they were 75 for a few days. Fat hogs, 
eight cents on foot, but there are very 
few in the country ; pigs six weeks old $3 
each and are very scarce. Veal calves, 
eight cents live; cows, fair to good, $60. 
Wool, 19, but there are not many sheep 
kept around here now; a good many 
farmers have sold their sheep and are 
keeping more cows. There are no beef 
cattle kept. Horses are high, good young 
ones that weigh from 1,200 to 1,500 
pounds bring $250. O. M. F. 
Genesee Co., Mich. 
There is a prospect for a fair crop of 
peaches. Fibertas on old trees which 
bore heavily last year are very light 
We have had too much rain and cold 
weather. w. g. m. 
(Eastern) Ottawa Co., O. 
June 14. The warm sunshine of the 
bitter part of this week has greatly im¬ 
proved the prospects for the cultivated 
crops. This section did not suffer much 
damage from the late cold weather. The 
growing corn wilted pretty badly, early 
vegetables affected some, tips of the 
wheat heads in places showing thev had 
been nipped, but about the extent of the 
damage. The prospect for a peach crop 
remains about normal. Early cherries 
are beginning to come into market. The 
Cherry producing sections of this part 
ot the State, taken as a whole, will pro¬ 
duce about a half crop. The cherry 
belt extends farther inland, and suffered 
trom tlie early frosts. The prospect for 
apples seems very good at present. Crop 
prospects good, corn a little late, had a 
aanl time getting started, and a pretty 
rocky road after starting, for a while, 
nit favorable weather from now should 
mature a crop. Meadows a little short, 
"neat should be an average crop. Oats 
looking fair. f n 
Erie Co., O. 
June 14. The frosts of June 9-10-11 
•imaged all the corn and potatoes in 
f belaud in this section; has also af¬ 
fected the wheat in the lowlands. Gar- 
leu vegetabies are practically killed; 
• e is some Alfalfa hay being cut and 
birllv 10p 1S ®? 0( ^ The crops need rain 
da.v.s Q ° rU1U iu this soc,tion for 10 
Columbiana Co., O. 
June 14. Butter, 20; retail 24 • eir^s 
S' "--tail. 24/ Vot'afoViK: 
15 ’ utail > 90; strawberries, 12 %; retail, 
Salem, O. w " c ' 
th. A1 f.n° Ugh We , have had frequent rains 
wheat ZT, I vho aro Plowing for buck- 
of tii,. 8 « e P ( . )ta toes are complaining 
need ot rain. A severe freeze on 
the night of June 10 did immense dam¬ 
age in the southern part of the county, 
meadows, corn, early potatoes and gar¬ 
dens being badly hurt in places. Oats 
are looking fine, seldom better; wheat 
and rye promise a good yield. The freeze 
did not affect them so far as I could 
learn. Pastures are good and all kinds 
of stock looking well. Dairymen report 
good yields of milk. Fruit will be very 
much scattered, but there will be :m im¬ 
mense crop along the Lake, however. 
Ashtabula Co., O. h. a. m. 
These are prices obtained by the 
farmer: Broilers, 30 to 32 a pound ; old 
fowls, 17 to 18; eggs, 22; calves, 8 to 
9 cents a pound, live weight. Straw¬ 
berries average $2 a crate. Onions will 
be on the market by June 15. The ter¬ 
ritory through Deerfield Street is rated 
to be the best farming section in Jersey, 
that is for heavy ground. The crops 
such as wheat, corn and potatoes looked 
fine, better than any I have seen in 
South Jersey. The places are kept up 
well; the buildings are all in good order. 
Elmer, N. J. u. j. m. 
Prices obtained by the farmers are: 
Asparagus $2.25 a dozen or $4.50 a 
crate; strawberries $2.75 a crate for best. 
Average price for berries $2.50 a crate. 
Calves, live weight, $9 a hundred. 
South Jersey. j. s. M. 
Apples a fair crop except Baldwins; 
the latter about 50 per cent of an aver¬ 
age Baldwin crop. Pears promise a 
heavy yield. Quality fair, but unless 
thinned are likely to be small. Peaches 
ordinary crop except tender varieties like 
Crawford which were injured by late 
frosts. Cherries light on account of 
frosts. Plums 100 per cent of average 
yield. h . 11. B . 
Clyde, N. Y. 
Pork, live, 8; veal, live, nine -914 ; beef, 
eight to nine. Poultry, live, 15; tur¬ 
keys, 18; ducks, 15, live; geese, 12, live; 
lambs, $4-$5 per hundred. Spring broil¬ 
ers, 22-25 cents per pound. Creamery 
butter, 25. Eggs, 20; hay, A No. 1, $20 
per ton. The farmers are getting 14 
cents a pound for cheese. Potatoes, 40; 
maple syrup, $1 per gallon; maple sugar, 
12%. Oats are growing well here. Corn 
is up about five inches. Grass is fine 
here. Some of the farmers are cutting 
Alfalfa. New onions are selling for 15 
cents per dozen. l. a. y. 
Fillmore, N. Y. 
Wheat is just fair, straw will be rather 
short this year. The crop was damaged 
some by frost during season. Oats look¬ 
ing fairly good; there will be the usual 
acreage of beans sown in this region. 
Apples are looking as though there will 
be a fair crop from present indications; 
Baldwins and Kings leading in this sec¬ 
tion. No peaches and about one-quarter 
of average crop of cherries; late apples 
were hurt some by the late frosts. I also 
notice that the corn that was up got the 
tips of blades nipped by the recent irost. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. e. e. l. 
Potatoes, 60; butter, 28 to 30. Milk 
at the milk station brings $1.20 a hun¬ 
dred for the month of June. Eggs, 20; 
veal, 7% to eight; young hogs, $4 to $5 
and are very scarce in this section. 
Spring work is later this season on ac¬ 
count of the rain and cold weather. 
Brasher Falls, N. Y. e. w. 
Northern Lancaster County is having 
quite a drought. Already vegetation is 
suffering, but crops generally promise 
fair returns should the drought soon end. 
The. hay crop is not as good as promised 
earlier on account of the cool weather. 
Wheat will be a fair crop, the straw 
yield not as good as a year ago. Farm¬ 
ers are busy planting tobacco, but plants 
are scarce and sell at a high price. The 
acreage will be a trifle less than last 
year. Strawberries in this section not 
very productive owing to the frosts while 
blooming followed by the present drought. 
The late Spring frosts destroyed many 
blossoms and cherries, peaches and apples 
are a short crop. The 1912 tobacco is 
about all sold. The last was put into 
market at sacrifice sales. The produce 
of this section is generally disposed of at 
the Lancaster markets, where good prices 
prevail. b. a. b. 
Lititz, Pa. 
Prices of farm products and current 
events are about as follows: Hay, $14 
to $15; straw all sold that was for sale. 
Wheat, $1.05; oats. 50; corn, shelled, 70; 
butter at stores, 25; good country butter 
sells to private customers for 35. Eggs, 
retail, 25, stores pay IS to 20. Ileus, 
live, _1G. Strawberries, home grown, 15 
to 17; strawberries are a poor crop; 
owing to cold, wet, frosty weather in 
May much of the bloom was hurt. Black¬ 
berries are blooming nicely and favorable 
fur a crop. Peaches about all killed. 
Apple prospect about 20 per cent of nor¬ 
mal crop; no cherries of any kind; no 
pears. Gardens are very backward ow¬ 
ing to cold, wet May. Potatoes did not 
come up well, many rotted. Cows sell for 
$50 to $80 apiece; 1,000-pound steers sold 
recently for 7 *4 cents. Meadows are go¬ 
ing to be light. j. g. H. 
Uniontowu, Pa. 
May 31. As far as I can learn there 
will be but little fruit in Mineral Co., 
West Va., this year. The severe freezes 
that we had the last of April and first 
of May froze about all the fruit on the 
south and east sides of our mountains. 
There will be some fruit on the north 
and west sides. 11 . 11 . hoffiian. 
West Va. Hort. Society. 
WEATHER DAMAGED NEW JERSEY 
CROPS. 
The -weather of the past Spring was a 
disappointment to the farmers of New 
Jersey, according to a bulletin just issued 
by Franklin Dye, Secretary of the State 
Board of Agriculture, surveying New 
Jersey crop conditions up to June 1. 
The bulletin shows a general injury to 
all crops except grass, grain and apples. 
„ Early potatoes were seriously damaged, 
and in some sections destroyed. Peaches 
were all killed in many localities and in¬ 
jured to some extent all over the State. 
The bulletin is in part as follows: 
The Spring weather to the farmers of 
New Jersey was disappointing. Favor¬ 
able farming weather set in early and 
potato growers and truck farmers began 
planting early varieties. Later, cold and 
wet weather set in, culminating in frost 
and ice on May 11. and 12, the ice form¬ 
ing in some localities one and one-half 
inches in thickness. About this time 
peaches and cherries were in bloom and 
many acres of early potatoes planted. 
Peaches were all killed in many localities 
and injured to some extent the State over, 
so that the crop of this fruit will be very 
light. 
Professor M. A. Blake, State Horti¬ 
culturist, reports the crop of peaches in 
the extreme southern section of the State 
will be very light. This is especially true 
of such varieties as Elberta, Early Craw¬ 
ford, Mountain Rose and other early 
blooming sorts. Somewhat better sets 
of fruit occur in the south central and 
northern districts. In the northern half 
of the State varieties like Carman, Ililey 
and Belle of Georgia promise a fair crop 
in some orchards, unless there is further 
damage by insects. The crop of Kieffer 
pears will'be light except possibly in the 
northern counties. Some other varieties 
of pears have a good set, however. Cher¬ 
ries will also prove to be a very light 
crop, while the apple crop promises to be 
a good one, in fact, much better than 
last year. 
The directors of the State Board of 
Agriculture report a general injury to all 
crops except grass, grain and apples. 
Early . planted potatoes rotted in many 
localities to such an extent in some cases 
the ground was plowed and planted to 
corn. Potatoes that were up were frozen. 
The per cent rotted and killed by frost 
was from 20 per cent in Gloucester 
County to 30 per cent in Union County. 
The acreage planted to white potatoes is 
but little if any in excess of 1912. The 
decrease and injury from wet weather 
and frost will no doubt give a largely re¬ 
duced total yield for the State for 1913, 
unless unusually favorable weather 
should prevail throughout the remainder 
of the growing season. While it is too 
early to give exact estimates as to wheat, 
rye, oats and hay, present appearance of 
these crops would seem to indicate hay 
7G per cent of a full yield, wheat 84 per 
cent, rye S4 per cent. d. t. ii. 
.Tune 24. Horses from $140 to $200; 
cows, $50 to $80; calves, eight weeks 
old, $12 to $15; butter, 20 to 30; eggs, 
1G to 20; spring chicks, 18 to 20; year¬ 
ling cattle, about G cents per pound. 
Some grazers have sold good-sized cattle 
for eight cents per pound, to be delivered 
later. Lambs are bringing from 7 to 8 
cents per pound. No fruit of any con¬ 
sequence just at this time for sale; will 
have some apples and peaches here. 
Arco, Va. c. B. s. 
Strawberries very short, crop selling 
at 15 cents a quart or two quarts for 
25. Good grade cows, $65 to $85; pure- 
breds, $100 to $150. Dairying is the 
main business, farmers selling their milk 
at the creamery. Brices were, April 1 
to 10. 3% cents per quart; April 10 to 
30, three cents; May, 2%, and suppose 
June will be 2%, or much less than it 
costs to produce it. Butter, dairy, 26 
to 28; creamery, 32 to 35. Merchants 
are paying 22 cents for eggs, while the 
creamery company is paying 19 cents 
cash, and shipping them to its cold stor¬ 
age plant. r. d. 11. 
Laceyvilie, Pa. 
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