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TTHTE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 0, 
CROPS 
Corn in southern part of county is very 
good this year, especially fields that were 
planted early and properly cared for. 
As to the acreage I cannot tell, but it is 
an important crop. Extreme dry weather 
is badly affecting the late planting. 
Wheat was very good this year, but the 
oats are generally poor and straw short. 
Not many people raise rye and barley, 
but we always have some for stock. Hay 
was very heavy and good. Alfalfa looks 
as if it would make four cuttings. 
Shelby Co., O. J. M. m’n. 
The oats are all harvested, and plowing 
for Winter grain is well under way, but 
rain is necessary, and plowing goes hard. 
No second crop hay to speak of; late 
cabbage not very promising. Veal 
calves have advanced to S 1 /^ cents on the 
farm and nine cents per pound delivered 
to the butcher. When we buy veal from 
the butchers we pay from 12 to 25 cents 
per pound. Fresh cows from !‘50 to $90; 
butter 36 and 38; eggs, 30 and 32 ; pota¬ 
toes, 25 cents a peck or SO cents a 
bushel. Pears, 40 to 50 cents per half- 
bushel basket; cucumbers, five cents a 
dozen; beans, 20 cents a peck ; Stowell’s 
Evergreen corn, 10 cents per dozen ears. 
Spring chickens, 18 cents a pound; old 
hens, 16. J. H. K. 
Barnesville, Pa. 
Apples will be about 50 per cent of a 
crop here as compared with an average 
year, and only about 40 per cent as com¬ 
pared with last year. Cherries were a 
full crop here this year. Too early yet 
to know what prices of apples will be, 
but it is predicted that they will be a 
good price. R. E. M. 
Antrim Co., Mich. 
The acreage of corn is less this year 
than in 1012. but the crop is better, as 
we have had fine growing weather up 
till now. It is getting dry, as we have 
had no rain for about 10 days or two 
weeks. The oat crop is fair, owing t> 
the early dry weather. Wheat fair. Fol¬ 
lowing are present prices: Corn, 75 to 
80: oats, 50 to 55; wheat, $1 to .$1.15; 
eggs, 22 ; butter, 25 ; milk, per gallon, 15 ; 
Spring chickens, 22 to 25. Fruit is 
scarce, apples four to six cents per 
pound. No peaches worth mentioning. 
The hay crop is good, young meadows 
looking fine. Fall plowing just starting 
now. G. M. H. 
Mingo Jet., O. 
The hard freeze at the blossoming time 
in May has resulted in one of the most 
peculiar fruit conditions we have known. 
In our vicinity, for instance, there are 
orchards, both apple and peach, that are 
very full. Not far away with localities 
and sites equally as good there may be 
only one-quarter to one-half crop of ap¬ 
ples and scarcely any peaches, and in the 
same orchard (apples) where trees blos¬ 
somed equally, some tree or trees are 
loaded and others with scarcely any. As 
a rule, the Spy trees on account of later 
blossoming, are fairly loaded, and the 
fruit promising in quality. Some of the 
Fall varieties are also fair; Baldwins, 
our chief variety, dropped heavily, and 
though there are still many left, show 
freeze marks around the blossoming end. 
Greenings average a little fuller and 
show less freeze injury. Early varieties 
are about 25 per cent of a ci'op; Fall and 
Winter between 30 and 40 per cent, be¬ 
ing difficult to estimate on account of the 
unevenness of bearing both as regards 
the whole county and also in the same 
vicinity. Peaches, plums and pears are 
all a short crop, pears especially. The 
blight with pears is the worst ever 
known in this section, the so-called im¬ 
mune Kieffer being as badly affected as 
the Bartlett. There is some scab this 
year in spite of the fact that our people 
have sprayed very thoroughly as well as 
other years. My own farm is typical of 
the unevenness of bearing and peculiar 
fruit conditions. With an unusually fine 
location I have this year practically no 
peaches, few pears and perhaps a one- 
quarter crop of apples, though my va¬ 
riety in apples is mainly Baldwin, and 
this is not my “Baldwin year.” The 
prices thus far received for early apples 
are disappointing to most growers. We 
have had good rains lately and think the 
later varieties will be of better quality 
or rather larger size. L. A. u. 
Bangor, Mich. 
There are hardly any apples in this 
neighborhood, except those from the dem¬ 
onstration orchards, of which mine is 
one, under the supervision of Prof. II. 
A. Surface, our State zoologist. We sell 
at the present time apples out of the 
orchard at $1.20 per bushel. We can 
do much better with apples ripening this 
time of the year than we can with Win¬ 
ter apples. There are no large apple or- 
chards here, and this neighborhood never 
has enough of its own. There are always, 
every Fall, apples shipped in here by 
the cai'load. Last Summer we also sold 
our eaxdy apples out of the orchard to 
our surrounding neighbors at $1.20 a 
bushel, and when the shipped apples 
started coming in, in the Fall you could 
buy any amount of Winter apples at 60 
cents a bushel. There are no apples 
shipped out of this neighborhood, since 
the scale has killed nearly all the or¬ 
chards, except the few that spray. There 
are lots of apple trees planted, some real 
large orchards, but too young to bear 
yet. Our intention in the future is to 
raise more early apples and less of the 
Winter varieties. c. B. S. 
Eplirata, Pa. 
The ci’ops in Goshen township are very 
unsatisfactory; wheat and hay crops 
very light, some fields of each not worth 
cutting, while some fields of hay were 
medium. Oats about one-half crop; pros¬ 
pect for a crop of coni not nearly so 
good as this time last year. Good horses 
sell for $150 to $300; cows, $50 to $80; 
cattle, five to seven cents per pound; 
hogs, eight; veal calves, eight to 10. 
(sheep no good). Wheat, $1; corn, 75; 
oats, 50; hay, $12 per ton delivered. But¬ 
te r, 25 to 30; eggs, 25; cream at cream¬ 
ery, 40 to 65 cents per gallon as to 
amount of butter fat. R. w. P. 
Belmont Co., O. 
THE JAKWAY FRUIT-PACKAGE BILL 
IN MICHIGAN. 
The new Jakway fruit package bill 
which has gone into operation in Michi¬ 
gan has been framed to improve the pack¬ 
ing conditions among Michigan fruit 
growers. A “closed package” is defined 
as any barrel, basket, carrier, or crate of 
which the contents cannot be seen or in¬ 
spected when the package is ready fox- 
market. Fresh fruits or vegetables 
packed in closed or open crates or pack¬ 
ages covered with tarlatan or slat cov¬ 
ers are considered “closed packages.” The 
prolusions of this act only apply to fruits 
and vegetables that are grown in Michi¬ 
gan. 
Any pei-son who by himself or agent 
packs or repacks fruit or vegetables to 
be sold in the open market in closed pack¬ 
ages must *4ace his full name and ad¬ 
dress on the package. This name and ad¬ 
dress must be stamped or printed on the 
package in letters not less than one- 
quarter inch in height. No person can 
sell or offer for sale any fruit that is 
packed in closed packages unless it is 
marked with the name and address as 
stated in the act. 
The bill also designates the various 
grades of fruit so that there may be no 
misunderstanding among the growers 
and dealers. A fruit package cannot be 
marked as “No. 1,” “Finest,” “Best,” 
“Extra Good,” “Selected,” “Prim- • 
“Standard,” or any other superior gx-ade 
or quality unless the fruit and vegetables 
contained in that package are sound and 
well-grown specimens, normal in shape 
and uniform in size and good color for 
the variety. Not less than 90 per cent 
of the fruit and vegetables must be fi'ee 
from bruises, diseases, and insect injuries 
or other defects, but natural deterioration 
and decay in transit or storage is ex¬ 
cepted. 
The law will prevent the dishonest 
packer from placing good fi-uit on the 
faced surface that shows, and filling up 
the bottom of the package with blem¬ 
ished and cull specimens. It is consid¬ 
ered a misrepresentation when 20 per 
cent of the fresh fruit or vegetables are 
substantially smaller in size or inferior 
in grade or different in variety from the 
specimens that are exposed to the pub¬ 
lic view. The exception is again made 
when fruit has been injured in value by 
natxiral detei-ioration or decay in transit. 
Violations of the Jakway fruit pack¬ 
age bill are to be punished by a fine not 
exceeding $10 or by imprisonment in the 
county jail for a pei'iod not exceeding 30 
days, or by both such fine and imprison¬ 
ment in the discretion of the court. This 
bill should be a great aid to the Michi¬ 
gan fruit growers in the marketing of 
fresh fruits and vegetables and will do 
much to eliminate the poor packer and 
bring a greater financial reward to the 
farmer who puts up high quality fruit. 
The industry has sxiffered through poor 
packing and now that the farmer can 
make a definite guarantee of the quality, 
size, and variety of his fruit, he will be 
able to put up better packs and be as¬ 
sured that they will i-eceive the proper 
consideration on the market. R. G. K. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowkex-’s 
Fertilizei-s; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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29 Eliu Street, DaustlJle, N. V. 
TREES AT HALF AGENT’S PRICE 
We are the growers that sell direct to the planter at 
wholesale. We guarantee all stock First-Class in 
every respect: True to name and free from Scale and 
disease. Send for 1913 Catalog and new fall price list. 
THE WM. J. REILLY NURSERIES,22 Ossian St.. Dansville. N.Y. 
Standard Apple Barrels 
Car lots or less. ROBT. GILLIES, Medina, N. Y. 
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32 PAGES 
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bdUUdge rlallla $i porlOOO. Tomato, Sweet 
Potatoes. *1.50 per 1000. Caulitiowor, Peppers,82 per 
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Modern Methods of Harvesting j]j 
Grading and Packing Apples 
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