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TL'ETIC KUKAIv NEW-YORKEK 
September 20, 
FARM LACOR SCENES. 
The pictures on page 1039 shows two 
scenes which are more or less familiar on 
our eastern farms. The picture of the 
automobile fruit truck was taken on the 
famous Repp orchard in Gloucester 
County, N. .T. This is the orchard we 
frequently mention for the singular way 
in which its fertility is kept up, for this 
is the place where weeds are used as 
policemen to arrest the plant food which 
might run away after cultivation stops. 
In fact, after many years of fertilizing, 
Mr. Repp is able to keep up the fertility 
of this land very largely by the use of 
ground limestone and the growth of these 
weeds. Many progressive ideas have 
been worked out on this farm. In con¬ 
nection with it is a good-sized cold stor¬ 
age plant, where fruit may be kept at any 
desired temperature, and from which 
large quantities of ice are sold during the 
season. On a big farm of this kind the 
transportation problem comes to be a 
mighty one. In the old days, where it 
was necessary to haul everything in 
wagons, it was impossible to handle the 
crop in the most economical manner. 
Either a small army of horses must be 
hired at a high figure, or else a stableful 
of idle horses must be fed and carried 
through the Winter, when upon such a 
fruit farm there was very little to do. As 
we see in the picture, this part of the 
problem is being worked out by means 
of auto trucks. The big one shown in 
the picture will take as many peaches as 
four or five horse wagons could handle, 
and dash off with them at a speed which 
will enable the truck to go to the rail¬ 
road and come back for another load, 
while ordinary horses were hauling their 
share. On the good roads of Southern 
Jersey these trucks can be used to ad¬ 
vantage. They are not always service¬ 
able on rough mountain land where the 
roads are steep, and where mud is deep 
during the rainy season, but in sections 
where roads are good, and where farm¬ 
ers are raising a quality of fruit which 
makes prompt shipment necessary, these 
trucks are doing excellent service. With¬ 
in a few years we predict that most 
fruit growers who are conducting a busi¬ 
ness of fair size will find some sort of 
motor truck indispensable in their busi¬ 
ness. 
The other picture shows a scene in 
Western New York, where the thrasher 
is at work shaking out the annual sup¬ 
ply of grain. New Y ork is not recorded 
any more as a large grain-producing 
State, as fruit and vegetables are prov¬ 
ing more profitable in many localities. 
Yet most farms through the central part 
of the State in particular, still produce 
a good supply of grain, and the aggre¬ 
gate still foots up to big figures. The 
picture is a typical one for this season, 
and a traveler through Central and West¬ 
ern New York at this time would see in 
his travels dozens of such outfits taking 
out the grain and piling up the straw 
for Winter use. 
September 3. We are parching and 
suffocating in the midst of the hottest 
weather we have had almost. The 
ground is so hot and dry now that it 
seems to throw back the heat as never 
before. It is nearly one hundred in the 
shade from early morning till dusk. It 
has been the hottest Summer I have ever 
known—that is, for steady heat. We 
have had good corn, clover and clover 
seed yields, and pastures are not entirely 
burnt out. We had a .Jersey sale re¬ 
cently and offered 34 for sale, but only 
14 sold, as the bidding stopped when 
that number had been disposed of. AY hat 
sold went well, but it was a great deal 
of trouble for selling a few. M. I. K. 
Hardin Co., O. 
September I. Crop outlook very poor, 
there being very little corn on the up¬ 
lands of this section; no rain of much 
note since April. Wheat, 82; corn, <<>; 
potatoes, $1.50; there being nearly a com¬ 
plete failure of the latter. Eggs, 14; 
liens, nine. Rutter fat at our local cream¬ 
ery 29 cents per pound delivered. Flour, 
$2.60 per 100 pounds. Milch cows are 
cheap at present on account of the short¬ 
age of feed; pastures are all burnt out.; 
cows selling at present from $30 to $50. 
Ilogs are selling at Sha cents a pound. 
A team of young horses (two and three 
years old) recently son! for $175. Many 
auction sales this Summer, farmers 
moving to town. Alfalfa hay, $19 per 
ton; clover hay, 75 cents per 100; straw, 
wheat, 25 cents per bale, this being the 
first time that straw finds a ready sale 
in this section. Very little Timothy hay 
here. In spite of the dry weather a 
large portion of land has been plowed for 
Fall wheat sowing. f. h. 
Washington, Mo. 
CROPS 
September 4. We have had a season 
of more or loss droughty conditions since 
June, with unusual heat at times; how¬ 
ever, field crops have turned out pretty 
fair with exception of potatoes. These 
are a very short crop and of poor qual¬ 
ity in this section (Southwest Michigan) ; 
will sell for $1 per bushel. Corn is 
promising good average crop and_is rip¬ 
ening at this date. Old corn, 75; hay, 
$12 per ton; wheat. 85 to 90; oats, 35 
to 40; milch cows. $50 to $75. No beef 
for sale. Veal, 12 cents, dressed; live 
poultry, old hens, 14; chickens. 17; eggs, 
20; butter, 25 to 30. Fruit short; ap¬ 
ples, 50; peaches, $1.50; plums and 
pears, $1; grapes, 10 and 12 cents per 
eight-pound basket; very short crop on 
account of frost. c. E. w. 
Bridgman, Mich. 
August 30. The past month will be 
remembered as very dry and cool; even¬ 
ings it has seemed very Fall-like. Some 
farmers are drawing water for stock, as 
wells and streams are very low. Pas¬ 
turage is very short, meadows have not 
started since being mown; we shall not 
get the third cutting of Alfalfa. Many 
are feeding their milch cows hay and 
grain. The County Pomona Grange and 
their friends held a picnic on the Ex¬ 
periment Farm grounds the forepart of 
the month; it was quite well attended. 
Corn as a general crop will not be up to 
average crop. Beans have been hurt by 
drought. Potatoes will be a light crop. 
Cabbage is very backward and affected 
by insects. Apples are very small for 
the time of year, poor in quality and a 
short crop. No peaches here. Plums 
a light crop. Pears full crop and small 
and poor quality. Scarcely any plowing 
done as yet for wheat. Many have sold 
their hay and have had it pressed. Ilay 
is on the upward move at present. Wheat, 
88; oats, 40; corn, 90; potatoes, $1; 
veal, 10 cents per pound. E. T. B. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
August 30. Last March this part of 
Indiana was visited by the worst Hood 
ever known, but the farmers got busy 
and the crops were put out in good time 
and made good returns. Meadows were 
not quite up to the average, but the 
wheat harvest was fine, good yield and a 
fine quality; oats hardly up to the aver¬ 
age ; rye a good crop and the corn crop 
will be fine. The clover thrashing is now 
on and making from 2)4 to four bushels 
per acre; that is the “big clover,” the 
little clover not cut yet. Stock of all 
kinds looking well and in good condition, 
and the prices are about as follows: 
Hay from $9 to $12 per ton; wheat, 86; 
corn. 73. Clover seed buyers offer from 
$0.50 to $8 per bushel. Hog buyers giv¬ 
ing $9 per hundred with the preference 
for light shippers. Cattle, not much do¬ 
ing, as farmers have the grass for them 
to graze on yet, and no special prices. 
Butter from 25 to 30; creameries pay 
24y 2 for butter fat; eggs, 18. Apples 
scarcely any sale, peaches from $1 to 
$2.50 per bushel as to grade. Our county 
has about the usual amount of tobacco 
out, but the crop is above the average; 
farmers were cutting this week. Filling 
silos will begin in about 10 days so as 
to seed the fields in wheat. The farmers 
are all users of commercial fertilizers, 
as it is folly to try to raise a crop with¬ 
out them. T. A. M. 
Brookville, Ind. 
September 3. Recently I wrote you 
after a little trip to Geneva about con¬ 
dition of crops and spoke particularly 
about beans. I must revise that estimate 
in the light of l-ecent trips into the coun¬ 
try surrounding this city. The dry 
weather of the past month has cut the 
crop 50 per cent. They are not podding 
well and the pods which are set are so 
small and spindling that the crop must 
be a very moderate one. I think 50 to 
60 per cent of an average crop is all that 
can be expected. Potatoes are going 
to be a very moderate crop. It is a rare 
thing to see a really good piece. I was 
disappointed to go into the very best 
potato growing sections and see them 
looking so poorly. There is something 
the trouble in some fields. How far it 
extends 1 do not know I was in one 
that looked better than the average. Some 
hills were dead, the tops were small and 
when dug nearly every potato had begun 
to rot at tin* stem end. They were, from 
the size of hickorynuts up to the size of 
hen’s eggs. In some the rot seemed to be 
only just starting and in others it extend¬ 
ed all through the tuber. So far there 
is very little evidence of blight. In fact, 
I did not see a blighted field, although I 
learned of some. Last week we had a 
very good rain which will help out late 
potatoes, but the weather still remains 
very hot. Yesterday in this city mercury 
climbed to 92 degrees. We need more 
moisture badly. Plowing for wheat is 
going forward now as fast as possible. 
The rain in most cases going to the bot¬ 
tom of the furrow or below. It is so 
late it is going to make seeding late or 
else put it in poor shape. Oats are not 
turning out as well as expected if we 
judge by the thrasher’s measure. One 
field I know well on an extra good farm 
and sowed early only made 30 bushels. 
This is no better than a year ago on 
that farm. c. I. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
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Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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new and old, and the best 
methods of planting to raise a 
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year, are fully particularized in 
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