1913. 
THE HURAI> NEW-YORKER 
CROPS 
OHIO OUTLOOK. 
The outlook for oats is as good as in 
1912. What wheat there is looks good. 
Corn is doing finely, but it is a little 
small. f. h. F. 
Henry Co., O. 
We have no fruit of any kind. Wheat 
about one-third crop; oats, good; rye, 
fair; potatoes are not promising; corn, 
looking good; hay, fair. New potatoes, 
80 cents ; corn, 80 ; wheat, $1; oats, 40; 
hay, $9; hogs, eight cents; cattle, eight 
cents. c. m. m. 
Monroe Co., O. 
Corn is doing finely where the ground 
was worked well before planting. The 
poorly-worked land did not stand the 
drought. Hay is below an average cx - op; 
oats short and ripening, will make a fair 
crop. lave hens are 14 cents, and broil¬ 
ers, 25 cents at the farm. g. ii. 
Stark Co., O. 
July 25. The corn crop does not com¬ 
pare with last year. Early potatoes are 
almost a failure and poor quality. New 
wheat is 80 cents; milk, $1.35 per 100 
pounds; butter, 25 to 30 cents; eggs, 21; 
apples are selling at $1.25 per bushel. 
Oats are short; they are gathering what 
they can with mowing machine. 
Tuscarawas Co., O . b. j. c. 
Oats looks better here than last year. 
We have about 90 acres of oats, but no 
wheat this year. Wheat looks well around 
here, better than I have seen for years. 
We have SO acres of corn, and it is better 
than in 1912. Our rye is going to be 
good. Everything in the stock line is 
hearty and healthy with ns. We have 
125 hogs. j. c. L. 
Marion Co., O. 
The flood of March damaged the farm¬ 
ers so much that very little oats were 
sown, and much of the wheat and mea¬ 
dows on the low ground were covered so 
deep with mud that the crops were 
ruined. Fruit of all kinds very scarce. 
Tomatoes and cucumbers are coming in 
now, bringing good prices. Many acres 
of both are grown near Marietta and 
they bring in large returns. E. D. l. 
Washington Co., O. 
Warm with showers; has been very 
dry. Hay harvest is in full blast, crop 
not very good. Gardens look poor; also 
tomatoes set for the canning factory. All 
live stock is scarce and high; not many 
for sale. Many think the corn crop will 
be a failure in this section. Oats are 
very short, much of it being cut with a 
mowing machine. Wheat, $1; corn, 75; 
oats, 50; mill feed, $28 a ton; hay, $12 
to $15; eggs, 20; butter, 25. ‘Most 
cream shipped to Dayton and Columbus. 
Jackson Co., O. j. b. w. 
Wheat is nearly all harvested, and 
while it was damaged some by late frosts, 
is of very fine quality, and will probably 
be 60 or 70 per cent of a full crop. Oats 
have very short straw, but there is a 
good stand. Hay is nearly all taken 
care of. but is very light, being not more 
than half a crop. Corn is rather slow, 
hut in the last two weeks has been grow¬ 
ing fast. Eggs are bringing IS cents per 
dozen, and butter from 20 to 22 cents. 
Fruits are scarce; apples were hurt by 
the late frosts. H. d. w. 
Medina Co., O. 
Crops in general for 1913 will be far 
better than 1912. Wheat in places not a 
full crop. Hay crop is fair; oats a bumper 
crop. Potato crop will be good. Apple 
and all fruit crops light, having been 
blighted by the late frosts. Berries of 
wild and cultivated varieties were plenti- 
lul, but the scarcity of other fruits has 
made them expensive. Wheat, SS cents; 
oats, 41 to 45; corn, ear, 26; shelled, 60; 
potatoes, 30 cents; hay, Timothy, per 
ton, $12.50. These prices are being paid 
by the Akron merchants. j. ii. w. 
Summit Co., O. 
The corn crop for this section promises 
to be the best we ever had. Oats are 
poor, not more than half an average 
crop. Hay about an average. New seed- 
ln S good in oats, but almost a failure in 
wheat where seeders were not used to 
work the seed in the ground. Sov beans 
a good stand. Alfalfa extra good, but 
acreage is still small. There was a light 
crop of Spring pigs. But they are doing 
well and no disease to speak of. Wheat 
making 20 to 25 bushels where it was 
fertilized and sown early, but poor where 
sown late. a s b 
Fayette Co., O. 
July 30. This has been the hottest 
week I ever experienced, and people and 
animals are suffering. The dust is dread¬ 
ful and the humidity unspeakable. We 
are all hoping for cooling thunderstorms, 
put none is in sight. I think our section 
is better off than many parts of the 
country, but we have troubles enough, 
the milk is thick and tastes of weeds, 
the pastures are parched, the oats are 
poor and fruit so scarce that it is hard 
to get anything. However, the hay is 
wonderful and the corn promises a big 
yU 14 • v M. I. K. 
Hardin Co., O. 
Corn is a fair average, but a week or 
tu days behind on account of cold Spring. 
" neat is a big crop. Hay is a full aver- 
but is weedy. Pasture never was 
bettor with a large growth of red, white 
<ind alsike clover. Oats are below last 
jear s crop in acreage and yield. The 
< i op of laborers is few and far between. 
In fact, an ordinary fife and drum would 
not get over three for a corporal’s guard. 
Prices, corn, 85 cents per 100 pounds 
ears; wheat, new, 83 cents; hay, new, 
delivered in town, $7 per ton; butter, 21 
and 22 cents; eggs, IS cents; milk, six 
cents; beef, dressed. 13 cents; red rasp¬ 
berries, 14; blackberries, $1.90 per 
bushel, packages furnished by buyer. 
Pork on foot, $8.90 per 100 pounds; la¬ 
bor. per day, $2 to $3; month hands, $25 
to $35 per 10 months. d. ii. 
Erie Co., O. 
Apples, 75 per cent; Duchess 60 to 80 
cents per bushel. Peaches, 60 per cent; 
plums, 75; cherries, 75, $1.50 to $2 per 
bushel; berries, 50, $2 to $2.75 per 
bushel. Fruit crop about the same as in 
1912 with the exception of apples, which 
is lighter. n. z. cumings. 
Kent Co., Mich. 
The berry crop is generally lighter 
than last year, but prices are good. 
Grapes will he about two-thirds of a 
crop as compared with last year. Pears 
and apples are about one-half to two- 
thiids of a crop. Peaches a light crop. 
Berrien Co., Mich. l. a. 
Wholesale butter. 24 to 25; eggs, 20 
to 22; buttermilk calves, nine cents live, 
grassers, six; hogs. 8*4 ; butcher cows, 
six cents; fowls, 14; potatoes, bushel, 
$1; cows, as to quality, dairy, $50 to 
$125 yer head; horses from almost noth¬ 
ing to $300. Grain very little in farm¬ 
er’s hands, we pay at mill for corn about 
72 ; oats, 50; not much wheat grown in 
this section. Hay about an average crop; 
oats looking fine; corn above an average 
at this time of year. a. m. a. 
Bear Lake, Mich. 
The frosts of May 8 and 9 killed nearlv 
all our peach buds. I have about 100 
three and four-year trees and I don’t 
think there will be five bushels of 
peaches. Some orchards in the neighbor¬ 
hood will have 40 per cent of a crop. 
Apple, about 50 per cent of a crop and 
quality not as good as last year; cherries 
about 25 per cent of a crop; plums, a 
full crop on all trees that blossomed; 
pears nearly art killed by the frost; 
grapes a good prospect now. Potatoes, 
oats and corn a fair crop for this section, 
not being adapted to grain; hay, a very 
short crop. a. w. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. 
Strawberries and all small fruits about 
15 per cent of last year’s crop, except 
marsh huckleberries, which promise to 
be equal to last year. Grapes about 40 
per cent condition at this time; plums 
about 30 per cent of last year. As many 
pea. ’On the trees as last year, but of 
very poor quality. Peaches will make 
about 25 per cent of 1912 crop, quality 
very good so far. All early apples about 
as last year, but quality off. Winter 
apples about 60 per cent of 1912, more or 
less scabby, even with our best orchard- 
ists. Practically all orchards here are 
sprayed and well cared for. j. t. w. 
Van Buren Co., Mich. 
July 29. We are having very dry 
weather, just enough rain so that the 
autos cannot make dust all the while. 
It is very bad to have to take their dust 
just because _ they must drive so fast. 
Our roads in this section are being 
spoiled by them. They have spoiled a 
State road, and now they are on our 
gravel road making deep ruts, sucking up 
the sand, and whirling it in the air, and 
leaving it on the roadside. Every auto 
should have a speed limit on it before it 
leaves the shop. Our highway tax is 
something extravagant and needless. We 
have had fine weather to secure the hay 
and wheat crop. Hay was a good crop 
and secured in fine shape. Alfalfa has 
cut a good crop. Wheat that is thrashed 
yields well; one piece 38 bushels per 
acre. Apples will be a light crop and 
poor in quality. Beans are not looking 
as well as last year. Barley is a heavy 
crop, and being harvested. Oats not 
ripe yet; some good pieces. We had a 
heavy wind two weeks ago which did 
much damage to fruit, trees and grain. 
New wheat, 90; veal, 9*4; butter. 22; 
eggs, 22. “ e. t. b. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
Average cows, $50; beef cattle about 
six cents per pound; sheep, four cents; 
lamb, seven cents. Milk, retail, eight 
cents per quart; country butter, 25 to 
30; creamery, 38. Potatoes, $1 per 
bushel. Fruit about all frozen by late 
frosts, not much garden truck on the 
market yet. Hay plenty, selling at $10 
per ton; wheat $1 per bushel; oats, 50 
cents per bushel; corn, 75 cents. 
Bald Eagle, Pa. j. u. f. 
Cows averaged at public sale, $85. We 
received for June butter fat. 35 cents 
per pound. Eggs, 24. No fruit and gar¬ 
dening crops sold. Ground very dry at 
present. i. l. k. 
Bedminster, Pa. 
Farmers are getting about $1.50 per 
100 pounds for milk delivered to the 
milk station. Eggs are bringing 22; po¬ 
tatoes. $1 per bushel; wheat, new, 85; 
rye, 65; corn, 70; oats, 50. Fat cattle 
about $8 per 100 pounds, live weight. 
Barto, Pa. s. b. l. 
July 24. The following are prices at 
which these articles are selling at retail: 
Potatoes, 30 cents a peck ; cabbage, three 
cents a pound; tomatoes, 20 cents one- 
quarter peck; lettuce, 5 cents head; 
onions, 10 cents one-quarter peck; ap¬ 
ples, 20 cents one-quarter peck : corn, 30 
cents dozen; berries, 16 cents a quart; 
eggs, 25 cents a dozen; butter, 38; hens. 
936 
19; springers, 28; ducks, 20; tenderloin 
steak, 30; sirloin, 30; round, 25; roast, 
15 to 25; lamb, leg, 20; chops, 20; stew¬ 
ing, 15 ; pork, loin, 20. Country butter, not 
reliable, no market except for cooking 
purposes. Good country butter if it 
could be had would bring 30 cents. 
Braddock, Pa. f. s. c. 
July 28. Wheat, 95; oats, 45; corn, 
shelled, 65. Hay, $15. Horses from 
$150 up Jo $250. Fresh cows, average 
price, $65. Fat cattle, eight cents per 
pound; veal calves, eight cents per 
pound. Butter, 28; milk, retail, eight 
cents per quart; wholesale, 17 cents per 
gallon. Eggs, 25; chickens, old, 12; 
young, 20. Strawberries, 12 y 2 cents per 
quart; raspberries, IS cents per quart; 
apples, $1 to $1.50. Peaches, plums, 
pears all killed by late frosts. Potatoes, 
new, $1.25 per bushel. w. w. 
Indiana Co., Pa. 
We are getting quite dry again after 
having been greatly favored with timely 
showers. The potato harvest has be¬ 
gun, very light crop of Cobblers in this 
county. Tomatoes and sugar corn as 
well as apples form the large part of the 
loads finding their way nightly to Phila¬ 
delphia. Auto trucks are being used 
more each year, making three trips daily 
instead of one and occasionally two when 
the rush is on. Except in a few orchards 
the peach crop is very light. H. g. t. 
Burlington Co., N. J. 
July 26. This is a dairying and truck¬ 
raising country, with most of our prod¬ 
uct sold through the Exchange and deal¬ 
ers. This week we are loading potatoes, 
car lots, at Pemberton. Hay and straw 
to press. Grain mostly fed to stock. Por¬ 
tion of milk is shipped and remainder de¬ 
livered fii creamery under contract. Po¬ 
tatoes, 70 cents, 56 pounds; corn, old, 
75 cents, 60 pounds; rye, new, 50, 56 
pounds; wheat, 98; hay, $12 per ton; 
straw, rye, new, $14 per ton; butter, 
creamery, 35; tub. 30; farmer’s, 25. 
Poultry, old, 12 to 16; Spring, 28 to 35; 
egg, 24. .Cows, fresh, $60 to $90. Horses. 
$200 to $300 each. Mules, $600 to $700 
per pair. s. c. L. 
Birmingham, N. J. 
Hay $8 per ton; good horses, $200 
and up; cows from $50 to $S0; chickens, 
live, per pound, old, 10 cents; young, 18; 
butter, country, 20; fresh farm eggs, 20; 
blackberries were eight cents a quart; 
strawberries^ 10 cents in season. Wheat, 
90; oats, 45; rye, 60; corn, 65. 
Beavertown, Pa. c. w. B. 
EUROPEAN HOP CROP PROSPECTS. ' 
Full reports from the hop gardens in 
every hop-growing district in Bavaria 
point to a good crop. Reports received 
by the leading hop houses here indicate 
that equally promising conditions exist 
ing the hop gardens of Baden, Wurtem- 
berg, Posen, and the Altmark. Of all 
the German hop districts only Elsass re¬ 
ports unsatisfactory conditions and a 
probable partial crop failure. Many of 
the hop gardens there have already suf¬ 
fered much from insect pests, the ravages 
of which continue in spite of all efforts 
to check them. 
From Austria-Hungary conflicting re¬ 
ports are still received. The Bohemian 
hop gardens have suffered considerably 
from insect pests. In the Steiermark 
the stand is good and in Siebenburgen 
promising; in Galicia and Upper Austria 
rather uneven, but not entirely unprom¬ 
ising. In Hungary the hop gardens 
seem again this year to be among the 
most favored. 
Reports from the Belgian hop dis¬ 
tricts indicate a fairly good crop. Latest 
reports from Russia are much more fav¬ 
orable than the earlier indications prom¬ 
ised. The insect pests have almost en¬ 
tirely disappeared and the plants have 
shown new vigor. Present indications 
are for a satisfactory although somewhat 
late crop. 
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