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CROPS 
Our grain market at Appleton is as 
follows: Wheat, No. 1 Northern, 83 
cents; No. 2 Northern, 81; oats, No. 3, 
white, 31; oats, No. 3, 21); barley, from 
35 to 45; flax, $1.18 to $1.20. lave 
stock, steers, $G.50; feeders, $5.75 to 
$(>.25; cows and heifers (butcher’s), 
$5.50 to $6; hogs, $7.60 to $7.70; horses, 
$150 to $250. Baled hay (mostly wild 
hay), $9 to $12. Eggs, 15; butter, 18 
to 25; cream, 25; potatoes, 20. e. j. f. 
Appleton, Minn. 
The fruit crop in this section is much 
larger than usual with the exception of 
apples which will be about 50 per cent of 
a crop. Pears and peaches fully 100 per 
cent and an enormous crop of cherries 
and all cane fruits. Factory prices are 
four cents per pound for cherries and $1 
per 12-quart can for raspberries. Bulk 
of crop, outside of that sold to factory, 
goes to the Chicago and Milwaukee mar¬ 
kets. Most of the growers contract half 
of their crop to the factory and ship the 
remainder. I understand that the fac¬ 
tory has contracts for 15,000 cases of 
raspberries. c. f. c. 
Benzie Co., Mich. 
We have a public market here con¬ 
sisting of five square blocks where all 
farmers and truck gardeners bring their 
produce and offer it for sale, usually find¬ 
ing plenty of buyers. This is a great 
place for truck gardening and dairying. 
We also have three large creameries."The 
wholesale price of milk is $1.15 per 100 
pounds, retails at six cents per quart; 
good farmer’s butter, 30 cents per pound ; 
fresh eggs, 22 cents per dozen. The 
berry crop is lighter than last year, while 
apples and plums are a good crop. Wind¬ 
falls are selling at 40 cents per bushel, 
picked 50 cents; tomatoes, 60 cents per 
bushel; potatoes, $1 per bushel; cabbage, 
six and seven cents per head; milch cows 
sell from $50 to $75, while registered 
cows bring from $75 to $150, according 
to age and breed. The hay crop was 
good; it is bringing from $12 to $15 per 
ton ; oats and barley fair. Late potatoes 
not looking very promising on ac- 
Corn never looked 
it does this year. 
are _ _„ ... 
count of the weather 
more promising than 
Bubuque Co., Iowa. 
f. p, 
This is proving the worst crop season 
in more than 20 years. Crops except 
wheat will be more nearly a complete 
failure than in the great drought year of 
1900. Wheat outside the hailed district 
made from 15 to 30 bushels per acre. In 
the hailed area many fields were plowed 
up and planted to cow peas. The fields 
left have thrashed from two to 10 
bushels per acre. There will be no corn 
to speak of in this portion of the State; 
hay, potatoes and fruit almost nothing 
with the exception of peaches. Pastures 
are about burned up. and it is difficult 
to see where Winter feed for stock is to 
come from. Prices of stock still high, 
and all animals not absolutely needed 
will be sold. Many silos being built, but 
it will be a problem to fill them. A one- 
inch rain July 25, and about three-quar¬ 
ter inch on August 12 is all that has 
fallen in this immediately locality since 
May 17. w. c. 
Billings, Mo. 
Butter, 30 cents; eggs, 28; early ap¬ 
ples, 75 cents per bushel; pears, Clapp’s 
and Bartlett, $1 per bushel; peaches, 50 
cents per basket; plums, $1 per bushel; 
tomatoes, $1.25 per bushel; green corn, 
$1 per 100; cabbage, five cents per head. 
Greene Co., N. Y. E. c. b. 
I took a trollev ride this week to Ge¬ 
neva. We have had some showers but 
no good rain in several weeks and the 
country shows it. Hay is all cut. and 
was a pretty good crop, above the aver¬ 
age. Wheat all in, and so far as I can 
see and from talking with growers, it is 
above the average and very much better 
than a year ago. Barley all harvested 
and about an average crop. Oats all in 
around Rochester, but as we got nearer 
Genova saw a good many pieces in the 
shock, and one piece very light and short 
uncut. The crop is good if straw is any 
indication of a crop. Beans are looking 
a' ,e - I never saw so many good pieces. 
1 hey seem to have come up good and 
are very clean. Cabbage, few pieces and 
poor stand, and many of them very 
weedy. I was told of one man who hail 
live acres ready to cut and was offered 
N’0 per ton on cars. Potatoes did not 
come up very well and are generally 
spindling and late. Bugs have been as 
had if not worse than ever. Late rains 
may help to get a fair yield, but from 
present outlook the crop will not be over 
io to 90 per cent of an average crop. 
Acreage, I think, is not nearly as large 
as a year ago. The poor returns last 
season did not induce growers to plant 
as big an acreage as usual. Price at 
present on this market 90 cents to $1 per 
bushel. No accumulation of early grown 
stock. Market cleans up every day. 
.c. i. 
Rochester, N. Y T . 
Dry weather is working great distress 
among the farmers and fruit growers of 
ibis section. One of the developments, 
seldom seen here, is a partial withering 
ot the foliage on fruit trees before the 
truit has reached the mature stage. All 
clocks, and streams are at the lowest 
point in years. Unless relief comes soon 
many crops will suffer heavily. The for¬ 
wardings from Sodus village for July 
snow a general expansion along all lines, 
i lie shipments by items were as follows: 
cherries, 10 cars; lettuce, 10 cars; ber¬ 
ries, eight cars; canned goods, 20 cars; 
apple waste, four cars. There were 40 
cars of canned goods held in storage on 
the first of the present month. During 
the last month IS carloads of baskets, 
cans and material for the manufacture 
of barrels, crates, etc., were received at 
the local station. Other stations of the 
township did a proportionate business. 
The general forecast on the apple situa¬ 
tion has not changed from a few weeks 
ago. Greening and King will make the 
favorite showing with Baldwin and Spy 
showing a light prospect. Very few own¬ 
ing Ben Davis orchards report a good 
showing. Farther west it is thought the 
Baldwin orchards have a better show 
this year. Pears will be a remarkably 
big crop. It is rumored that in the west¬ 
ern district the crop does not average 
nearly as well. Teats Brothers, of Wil¬ 
liamson, will have their usual good crop 
of peaches. They are the heaviest peach 
growers in Wayne County and one of 
the largest producers in this section. 
Sodus, N. Y. a. h. p. 
Corn, 60 cents per bushel; oats, 37; 
early potatoes, $1; hogs, $S.10 to $8.40 
live; eggs. 16 cents per dozen; creamery 
butter, 32 cents; hay, Timothy, $10 to 
$12. f. s. B. 
Denver, Iowa. 
August 18, We are about SO miles 
from Chicago anfl prices there govern us 
mostly. Wheat, 85; oats. 40; barley, 65; 
potatoes, $1; corn, in ear, per ton, $18. 
Cattle, we sold May 1 steers 1,000 pounds 
at $7.25; heifers, $7. Now they are $1 
off. Good grade cows, for milk, $75 to 
$100. This is a dairy county. For .Tune 
four per cent milk last report $1.41 per 
100 pounds three miles away. Hogs, 
July 30, $8.10. Good apples, $1; wind- 
falls.50 cents. The garden crop is in the 
hands of some two or three, and the re¬ 
tailer, so you can guess what the prices 
are. Southern watermelons at 40 cents 
each. Peaches in small baskets about 
two cents each. Land is selling at from 
$100 to $225 per acre, the $200 and over 
is on Delevan prairie. Interest is 4*4 to 
six per cent, with money enough. Oats 
are stacked and yielding to 80 bushels. 
Elkhorn, Wis. s. d. h. 
August 14. We are having very dry 
weather, corn needing rain badly; thrash¬ 
ing more than half done; wheat turning 
out well for the amount of straw, but 
very poor to the acre; oats, fair yield, 
but not as good as expected. Clover seed 
will be a failure in this part of the State. 
Cattle selling high; sheep, low; wool 
selling at 23 cents; blackberry crop was 
good; no other fruit except a very few 
apples on high ground. Old wheat, 90 
cents; new, SO; corn, 80; oats, 40; but¬ 
ter, 20; eggs, 18; chickens, 12. 
Morgan Co., O. w. b. h. 
I have traveled over the greater por¬ 
tion of Iowa and find corn in the south¬ 
ern part quite poor, though the copious 
rains the past week will no doubt im¬ 
prove it very materially. The central 
and northern sections are very good, and 
with the timely rains which we have had 
will, without doubt, barring an early 
frost, make an average Iowa crop. I 
have just returned from a trip in South¬ 
ern Minnesota and their prospect for 
corn is the best in years. Hay has been 
an average crop, and has been put up 
without rain. Oats are said to be quite 
short, especially in the central and south¬ 
ern parts. L. D. LELAND. 
Iowa. 
Grapes will be about 50 per cent of a 
crop in this locality. Potatoes are rather 
poor; apples, very light, llay and oats 
were both fairly good crops, though not 
heavy. A large acreage of oats was 
planted. Butter, 28 cents; eggs, 24 cents; 
milk, $1.25 per 100 pounds at cheese fac¬ 
tory. , a. N. 
North Collins, N. Y. 
We are having dry weather now, Au¬ 
gust 9, though rains were abundant un¬ 
til recently and crops good. Prices of 
truck _ and fruit crops have been quite 
high in our local markets, so much so 
that an Akron paper had a cartoon of a 
chauffeur guarding a crate of cabbage 
in the absence of the mistress, with a pis¬ 
tol, and a bride thankfully receiving a 
wedding present of two carrots, and stat¬ 
ing that their scarcity would soon make 
them as much esteemed as diamonds and 
pearls. Cabbage has not got much be¬ 
low five cents per pound retail or 2% 
to three cents wholesale. Tomatoes, five 
cents pound wholesale. Beans and peas, 
five cents pound and most other vegeta¬ 
bles accordingly. Strawberries mostly 
12 to 18 cents, and raspberries and black¬ 
berries about the same. The fruit crop 
was much injured by late frost. Apples 
seemed to suffer most of all. Only those 
on high ground escaped. I took 'up an 
orchard proposition on a hill by a five- 
year lease on shares, and had no injury 
there. The trees are mostly full, while 
on our own ground, with altitude not 
much lower, but air drainage not so 
good the crop is a total failure. The 
pears in the lower part of orchard with 
those on lower limbs in the higher part 
all froze, and most of these remaining 
not first quality. c. w. 
Doylestown, O. 
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