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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 12 , 
CROPS 
INDIANA FARM NOTES. 
Ill this section the season was not very 
favorable to growing crops up to the mid¬ 
dle of June. The past few weeks, how¬ 
ever, we have had ideal growing weather, 
and crops of all kinds are doing well. 
The thermal conditions are up in the 
nineties and on several occasions the 
mercury in the tube reached the hundred 
mark. Corn was somewhat checked by 
the cool weather and frosts on the 9th 
and 10th of June, and is looking rather 
uneven, as it was more severely frozen in 
low places than on high ground. It is 
making rapid progress now, as our farm¬ 
ers understand the value of correct as 
well as diligent cultivation while it is 
yet small. Some is about knee-high at 
the present. Alfalfa growers made their 
first cutting about the 20th, and making 
the clover hay is in progress at the 
present. The crop is quite heavy as will 
also be the Timothy. Hay caps have 
not yet come into use here. Wheat har¬ 
vest will begin about the 5th of July, and 
will be a heavy crop—the heaviest in 
years—and farmers are very much en¬ 
thused over it. Oats are in head and 
promise a heavy crop, although it is re¬ 
ported to be a little short in the straw in 
some places. Early potatoes with hardly 
an exception are in an excellent condi¬ 
tion, and are beginning to mature. Late 
potatoes are just coming out of the 
ground. While the orchards have been 
heavily loaded with all kinds of fruit, the 
apples' are dropping off some, yet no 
doubt enough will remain on the trees 
to make a good crop. The strawberry 
harvest is over and the crop was light. 
Bush fruits such as raspberries, black¬ 
berries and huckleberries will be quite 
plentiful and are just beginning to ma¬ 
ture. Wool growers are at sea on ac¬ 
count of the tariff agitation at Washing¬ 
ton. not knowing whether it would be 
best to continue in keeping sheep or dis¬ 
pose of them, if wool is put on the free 
list. Anolier problem troubling some of 
our farmers here is that of getting farm 
help. While help by the year can usu¬ 
ally be obtained without very much 
trouble, extra help during a busy time, 
as during haying and harvest, is very 
hard to find. Still more difficult is the 
task of getting good help in the house. 
The demand for servants capable and 
willing to do general housework is much 
greater than the supply, and I know of 
several places where the farmer himself 
will no doubt have to take the place of 
a domestic, or at least try to till her 
place, during the busy season this year. 
I quote some of the prices of produce: 
wheat, 96; corn. 52; oats, 36; rye. 55; 
potatoes, old, 30; new, $1.50; clover 
hay, old, $9.50; new, $7.50; dressed 
chicken, 17; live, 12; dressed veal, 13; 
dressed beef, 12; dressed pork, 12; eggs, 
18; butter, 20; milk at condensery, $1.40 
per 100. d. L- 
Elkhart County, Ind. 
WAYNE COUNTY FRUIT NOTES. 
Now that the “June drop” has spent 
its force in the apple orchards the ques¬ 
tion of the best time to thin the fruit in 
preparation for the permanent growth 
arises. In many orchards this year, es¬ 
pecially among the Spy, Ben Davis and 
Baldwin, the thinning process will be 
largely an unnecessary procedure, but in 
other orchards of substantial production, 
as the Bellflower, Wealthy and Greening, 
the best time to care for the trees where 
they need any thinning of the fruit is im¬ 
mediately after the “June drop” ceases. 
In providing for the permanent growth 
at this time, the vitality of the tree is 
conserved for the developed fruit and no 
expenditure is made for diminutive fruit, 
to make a drain on the vitality of the 
succeeding season’s crop later on. The 
“June drop” this year has been far-reach¬ 
ing, and many have attributed part of 
the effect to the unusual run of cold 
weather in the early season. The Ben 
Davis orchards this season will quite 
generally disappoint their owners. Judge 
T. W. Collins, of Lyons, who owns an 
orchard in this section, x-eports that his 
crop is most seriously impaired. The 
Ben Davis variety began to fertilize at 
just the right tixne to get the effect of 
the cold stretch in early June. The 
judge holds that the apple tree is better 
able to stand cold weather after fertiliza¬ 
tion than during the process. The apples 
that opened early this year had all the 
advantages of warm weather. Reports 
from Edward Catchpole and other grow¬ 
ers from his vicinity indicate a great 
falling off of the Ben Davis after a fine 
showing at first. In the case of Bald¬ 
wins they did not blossom out well, as a 
general fact, but where they did blossom 
the prospects are good for a fair crop. 
The last car of green apples from the 
Wayne Cold Storage at East Williamson 
was released the last week in June. The 
fruit was in excellent shape when re¬ 
leased. The plant is now running with 
holdings of evaporated apples, of which 
more were placed in storage last season 
than since the plant lias been in busi¬ 
ness. The factories at East Williamson 
are busy preparing for the fruit season. 
Over 100,000 peach baskets and a larger 
quantity of bushel crates have been 
turned out already by the local factories. 
One of the chief problems confronting all 
growers in the fruit belt is developing in 
the matter of transit facilities. William¬ 
son is just now striving to obtain addi¬ 
tional rail connections southward to 
connect with New York, Philadelphia. 
Baltimore, and other centers of popula¬ 
tion. The problem has reached that 
point where the discerning ones can see 
that a gi'eater production of fruit and 
produce must cease or better shipping 
facilities be obtained. With about 500 
acres of peaches in bearing in William¬ 
son a car famine is experienced each 
Fall. There are over 2,000 acres sot out 
to peaches in this town. The dilemma is 
easily disclosed when it is seen that un¬ 
der present conditions great difficulty is 
experienced in moving the crop in sea¬ 
son on a basis of 500 bearing acres. 
With the yield averaging one car per 
acre it will require eventually, and that 
in not too distant time, over 2.000 cars 
to care for the peach production of Wil¬ 
liamson alone. And in addition are her 
enormous and ever-increasing yields of 
apples with other fruits and produce. In 
Sod us and other lake towns the same 
conditions prevail. Every year a vast 
increase to the bulk production of all 
kinds of vegetable and fruit industry is 
offered and the percentage consumed lo- 
cally^s infinitesimal to that moved on to 
the centers of population. A. n. p. 
Wayne County, N. Y. 
Baldwins are very scarce, perhaps one- 
quarter crop. Gi'eenings and other early 
varieties average yield. Peaches on old 
trees short crop; on young trees full. 
Pears full and many are thinning or in¬ 
tend doing so. Cherries a fall yield as 
far as we can see. I am sending a clip¬ 
ping from Union and Adv. which speaks 
for itself. In my orchard the worm 
seems to have left or is not doing so 
much damage. 
“Expert assistance has been asked of 
the Cornell Agricultural College and an 
appeal will probably be made to the 
State Agricultural Department by or- 
chardists in the western part of the 
county for some means for staying the 
ravages of the leaf roller, a small worm 
which is stripping foliage from both 
fruit and shade trees. According to Mr. 
Collamer. spraying seems to have little 
or no effect upon the pest, which has 
already caused thousands of dollars of 
damage and seems bent upon the com¬ 
plete destruction of some of the finest 
orchards in the apple belt. The presence 
of the leaf roller is denoted by weblike 
nests woven all over the trees attacked 
and working from inside these nests the 
worms speedily denude a tree of all 
foliage.” w. R. B. 
Kendall, N. Y. 
June 29. Owing to the hard freezes 
we have had this Spring our crops are 
not looking as well as formerly at this 
time of the year. Meadows are very poor 
and hay left over from last year is being 
held. Corn is coming slowly, this being 
considered to be a poor corn crop for 
this time of the year. Potatoes look 
very good, the absence of potato bugs be¬ 
ing noticeable, with the acreage much 
larger than last year. Cabbage is look¬ 
ing nicely, acreage being smaller than 
last year. The apple tree worms proved 
to be very troublesome this Spring, many 
fine orchards being almost ruined. Pear 
ti-ees also were attacked and suffered. 
Why would it not be a good plan to pass 
a law making it compulsory for every 
one owning fruit tx-ees to destroy these 
pests? The acreage for buckwheat will 
be very large, this being one of the crops 
that can be raised with profit. Alfalfa 
is being haxwested. As a general thing 
the crop does not do well in our county, 
this not being a limestone country. Good 
dairy cows are in demand and are selling 
at fabulous prices. With milk averaging 
at the present time $1 per can for 40 
quarts just when* is the buyer who pays 
from $80 to $110 for grades going to 
get his money out of the milk? Our 
creameries are making mostly “hard 
skims” in cheese, but few making full 
creams which are bringing around 14 
cents. Most of our milk is being shipped 
to New York and Philadelphia mai-kets. 
The dairymen from 25 creameries re¬ 
ceived for the month of April an average 
of $1.15 per 100 pounds of milk with 
whey. Eggs are bringing 22 cents per 
dozen and from now out will go higher. 
Poulti’y raising is being increased through¬ 
out our county, many of our farmers 
claiming to receive more money out. of 
their poultry than from their dairies. 
June has been a cold month, the coldest 
June in several yeax*s, too cool by far 
for crops to do well. F. E. w. 
Cortland Co., N. Y. 
NEW YORK STATE CROPS. 
The State Agricultural Department 
has issued its July report as follows: 
Hay and forage, oats and corn indi¬ 
cate a crop approximately 10 per cent 
less than last year, with chances for 
much improvement in corn. 
Wheat, rye and potatoes, average crop 
with normal conditions. 
Beans and cabbage, conditions favor¬ 
able for normal crop. 
Apples, Fall varieties in excess of last 
year; Winter varieties should equal last 
year in Hudson Valley and indicate 25 
per cent decrease in Western New York. 
Pears, plums and peaches, promise not 
to equal last year’s crop. 
Sour cherries will equal last year, but 
sweet varieties will be less. 
Grapes outside of the belt are reported 
light, while the Western New York belt 
promises about 75 per cent of last year’s 
crop. 
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