1018 
September 1 
CROPS 
August 20. Harvest about over; a 
few oats out yet. The harvest has been 
two to three weeks later than usual. Fre¬ 
quent showers delayed haying and kept 
the oats growing. Oats were about an 
average crop this year; meadows light, 
old meadows very light. Thrashing has 
commenced, yield to amount of straw 
seems to he good, quality good; no _pri.ee 
for new wheat yet. Old wheat $1.05 per 
bushel; oats. 55. Corn is advancing in 
price about five cents per bushel a week, 
now 85. With frequent showers this 
year corn crop will be up to the average. 
Roasting ear corn is wholesaling at 20 
cents per dozen. Quite a bit of Fall 
plowing has been done. Cattle higher 
in price than a year ago. There is much 
inquiry for native stock cattle; the law 
prohibiting cattle being brought into the 
State without being tuberculin tested has 
caused stock cattle to be scarce and beef 
has advanced recently. Butter, 35; eggs, 
fresh, 2S. Potato crop appears to be 
below the average in quantity and qual¬ 
ity. J. G. H. 
Fayette Co., Pa. 
Most of the products raised in this 
section are disposed of in our local mar¬ 
kets at Auburn. N. Y., either to con¬ 
sumer direct or to retail stores. We sell 
sweet cream and also make butter, which 
is sold to family trade. Butter. 35: 
eggs, 27 ; potatoes. $1 at stores, $1.20 at 
houses; applies* 75- cents per bushel for 
good ripe ones: broilers weighing two or 
three pounds, $1 per pair dressed. Ship¬ 
pers are paying $15 and $10 per ton for 
bay and 90 cents per bushel for wheat. 
Farmers are selling hay, but holding 
their wheat. Cows are worth from $50 
to $80, with the black and white ones in 
best demand on account of many farm¬ 
ers selling their milk to local peddlers. 
Small milk dealers pay 3V 2 and four 
cents per quart for milk delivered, while 
one dairy company which handles be¬ 
tween 10.000 and 15,000 quarts of milk 
daily pays 2 1 / 4 for four months and three 
cents per quart for eight mouths, and 
collects the milk themselves. Hay crop 
was very good. Oats, wheat and barley 
average crop. Corn looks poor and buck¬ 
wheat, except that which was seeded 
around July 1, is nearly a failure on ac¬ 
count of extreme dry weather. No pas¬ 
ture to speak of and necessary to feed 
cows on nearly full Winter ration to get 
results. A few farmers are plowing for 
wheat, but ground is so dry and hard we 
gave it up until rains come. Potatoes 
made good growthy top, but need rain 
badly if we are to have much of a yield. 
One or two light showers, just enough to 
lay the dust, is all the rain we have had 
since the first of July. B. G. w. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
This is a grain and stock country. We 
have had the driest season since 1874. 
Wheat was good, oats fair, but corn is 
almost a total failure. Large fields on 
the prairie will not make more than five 
bushels per acre. Prices are as follows: 
Wheat, 75; oats, 40: corn (shipped in). 
85; potatoes, $1. Hay, $12-50 to $17 
per ton; wheat straw, $6; baled oat 
straw, $S. Cattle, common cows, $3 to 
$4 per 100; stock cattle, $6 to $7 per 
100 pounds. Feeder cattle about same 
as stockers. Milch cows, $40 to $75. 
Butter, 25 to 30; hogs, fat. $7.90 per 100 
pounds; stockers, $5 to $8. Fruit was 
a failure and there is not much garden¬ 
ing done here. R. M. 
Clinton, Mo. 
We were able to sell No. 1 apples for 
from $3 to $4.50 per barrel f. o. b. Cen- 
tralia. The No. 2 we had to put on the 
market on consignment at much lower 
price. Peaches are selling at $1 per 
bushel f. o. b. here, buyer furnishing bas¬ 
ket ; some have sold at $1.50. the grower 
furnishing basket. A neighbor sold a 
bunch of fat cattle recently for six cents 
on foot. w. s. P. 
Centralia, III. 
August 24. Farmers are getting 13 
cents a gallon for milk for five months, 
from May 1 to October 1; 15 cents for 
seven months. Butter. 30; eggs, 26; po¬ 
tatoes, $1210; lard, 12; Spring chicken, 
25; old fowls, 14; ham, 24; cows, $50 
to $80; horses from $150 to $300; veals, 
nine cents a pound, live weight. Grain, 
new, wheat, 85: rye, 70; oats, old, 60; 
hay, $16 to $18. s. s. 
Northampton Co., Pa. 
No doubt you read about the drought 
and hot weather we are having, but I 
wish I could show you the burned out 
strawberries, the parched rhubarb and 
the blistered corn. We feed now like in 
Winter as pastures are fairly dusty and 
not a green blade to be found. Every day 
last week we had a strong wind day and 
night from the southwest and us warm as 
though it came out of an oven and during 
the day went above the 100 mark. I 
wish I could spend a week or two back 
in New Jersey along the beach where 
I used to be! In looking ahead I see 
nothing but a hard time this Winter and 
besides we are crippled for next year as 
our berries, rhubarb, etc., badly hurt al¬ 
ready. Hope we get a soaking rain be¬ 
fore this reaches you. c. P. 
Jefferson City, Mo. 
Eggs, 28; butter, 30; apples. 75 cents 
per bushel; plums, $1 per bushel; pears. 
$1 per bushel; peaches, 50 to 60 cents 
per bushel; tomatoes, 75 cents per 
bushel; green corn, $1 per 100. Weather 
very dry and wells and streams extreme¬ 
ly low. E. C. B. 
THE RURAL 
Wheat a good crop, 80 cents per 
bushel; corn, very little for sale, from 
65 to 70; the new- crop will be short on 
account of dry v r eather. Potato crop 
is a failure here; hay was a failure, also 
oats. Cattle, choice, are worth $7.50; 
hogs, best, $8.50; good milch cows, $40 
to $75; good horses, $150 to $175. But¬ 
ter, 25; eggs. IS; Spring chickens, 14; 
hens, 11. Apples a good crop here, but 
none selling to amount to' anything, 25 
to 35 per bushel. J. G. T. 
Clay City, Ind. 
A Good Country. 
I came to this county last November 
and bought a farm, paying $100 per acre. 
It is in the Colby loamy clay belt, and 
very productive soil when properly 
worked. We have good roads and 
schools, and several small villages and 
cities all around; three railroads within 
a few miles. I paid 32 cents for oats 
to feed and 75 cents for pedigreed seed 
oats; $10 per ton for hay; $400 for a 
fine pair of four-year-old Pereheron 
colts. I have attended several auctions 
and picked up a few cattle. Ordinary 
grade and scrub stock bring all sorts of 
priees. $50 to $75 for cows and $20 to 
$40 for yearling heifers. Pigs are now 
7% cents live weight; butter 32, and 
cheese 16. There is a creamery and 
cheese factory SO rods from our house. 
We have bought berries from our neigh¬ 
bors at 10 cents, all we wanted. We 
have lots of apples on the farm, but no 
sale unless we ship them to the big cities. 
Our big breeders of fancy stock are get¬ 
ting all sorts of priees; well-bred IIol- 
steins $200 and up for calves, and as 
high as $800 for the best cows. One 
NEW-YORKER 
breeder showed me a yearling bull he 
had paid $2,500 for. 
The population is mixed; people from 
all over Europe; Gormans predominat¬ 
ing. They are very kind and hospitable 
neighbors, turned out and made a “bee” 
to bring our goods from the station and 
gave us a kindly reception. A “progres¬ 
sive” young man, if he is born right, 
looks right in the face, and has good cre¬ 
dentials, can buy some of these farms 
with little or no money down and have 
all the time he wants at five per cent in¬ 
terest. Taxes average about two per 
cent. J. M. II. 
Granton, Wis. 
Manure for Garden. 
It is impossible to buy stable manure 
here that does not contain a good deal 
of straw. Does the straw detract very 
much from the value of the manure to use 
to enrich a garden that is worn out, 
weedy and baked hard? How much ma¬ 
nure and lime should be used on gar¬ 
den 40x100 feet. el. b. b. 
Corning, N. Y. 
Most stable manure contains the straw 
used as bedding. While the straw itself 
does not contain much plant food it has 
absorbed the liquids which are the 
strongest part of the manure. Without 
this straw therefore you would lose the 
most valuable portion. This straw also 
will help your soil by bringing in organic 
matter. The fact that this soil is “baked 
hard” shows that it needs humus. The 
straw decaying in the soil will furnish 
what is needed. By all means use the 
strawy manure. Plow under two tons 
or more on this garden and spread 200 
pounds of slaked lime on the furrows. 
Home Canning Plant. 
C. E. L., New Mexico, asks through 
The R. N.-Y. if it would be advisable to 
invest in a $200 canning plant to can 
apples and other fruits and vegetables, 
presumably grown by him self. Whether 
it would be a good business proposition 
to make such an investment would de¬ 
pend on the demand for the stuff he pro¬ 
poses to put up, and he could satisfy 
himself on this point by inquiry of some 
jobber or commission firm through whom, 
if he intends to operate on a scale larger 
than the demands of his local market, he 
will only be able to effect a sale in any 
quantity,especially in carload lots. Most 
fruits do not find a ready sale by small 
eanners, and especially apples. There 
are many of these home canneries in this 
section (the writer lias one on bis farm 
costing $400), but little else is usually 
canned besides tomatoes. Last year, ow¬ 
ing to a bumper yield of apples and low- 
prices, many farmers canned part of their 
crop, but they have found almost no de¬ 
mand for it. Peaches are the best of 
the orchard fruits to put up, but unless 
the price is very low for them in the raw 
state it will not pay to can these. Toma¬ 
toes are so easily handled compared with 
fruits and other vegetables, and are such 
a staple product, that canneries here, 
both large and small, are not inclined to 
risk anything else. H. w. 
Greene Co., Mo. 
“Don’t you think man is greatly influ¬ 
enced by his environment?” “Not al¬ 
ways. 1 once knew a man who drove a 
sprinkling cart for nine years and died 
of acute alcoholism.”—Birmingham Age- 
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