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TJr-I E RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Wheat, 80; rye, 50; oats, 40; corn, 
70; potatoes, 60; butter, 27; eggs, 21; 
cows, #50 to $75; yearlings, $35 to $40. 
Apples, Duchess, $2.90 per barrel; plums, 
$1 per bushel; peaches, $1.50 per bushel. 
Attica, N. Y. d. l . e. 
A terrible killing frost with ice de¬ 
stroyed the corn, potatoes, tomatoes and 
all other tender vegetables September 14. 
No corn had been put into shock, as the 
crop is late and the calamity is severe 
and unprecedented. j. c. at. j. 
New Wilmington, Pa. 
Trices in this locality are as follows: 
Pears, $2 to $2.25; apples, $1.50 to $2; 
potatoes, $1 per bushel; peaches, 50 
cents per basket; cabbage, five cents per 
head; horses, $150 to $225; cows, $50 
to $100; calves, 10 to 12 cents per pound; 
pork, light, 12 to 14 cents per pound; 
hay, $20 per ton. w. L. w. 
Barrytown, N. l r . 
In this section cows fresh or about to 
freshen are $60 to $70; good horses, 
road or work, $200. Butter, 32; pota¬ 
toes, $1; oats, 42; eggs, 38 to 40. Veals, 
12; lambs, six; hogs, eight to nine cents. 
No fruit in this section this year. Corn 
and buckwheat nearly ruined by late 
frost; no rain since May; no pastures 
or afterfeed. F. H. p. 
Berkshire, N. Y. 
September 12. Cows, from $50 to $110; 
butter, 28 to 35; milk, 14 to 16 cents 
per gallon. Wheat, 85; corn, 85; oats, 
45. Hay, Timothy, $15 baled; tomatoes, 
$1; potatoes, $1; sweet corn, 20 cents 
per dozen; string beans, 10 cents per 
peck; Lima beans, 15 cents a quart; egg 
plant, five to 10 cents each; apples, 10 
cents per peek. j. b. K- 
Balfour, Pa. 
September 14. Fat cattle, five to six 
cents per pound on foot; hogs. 6 1 / to 
seven; veal calves, $8 to $12 apiecer six 
to seven cents a pound, live. Fat sheep, 
six cents per pound; chickens, dressed, 
25; old hens, dressed, 18. Apples, Duch¬ 
ess and all Summer and early Fall sorts, 
1 5 cents to $1 per barrel. Peaches very 
scarce here, selling out of the store at 
$2.50 per bushel. Eggs, 28; butter, 25 
to 27. c. f. w. 
Alden, Mich. 
Creamery butter, 30 to 34; dairy, 2S 
to 30j eggs, 21; new potatoes, $1; ap¬ 
ples, 50; pears, 50 to 75; plums, 75 to 
SI; peaches, $1 to $1.25; new oats, 38; 
wheat, 86; hay, $12; straw, $6. Good 
milch cows are worth from $50 to $75. 
Beef cattle, six to seven cents per pound 
oil foot. Apples about half crop around 
here. Potatoes will also be a light crop 
on account of the drought. t. ii. 
Blissfield, Mich. 
Butcher pays for beef steers eight; 
cows, six; mutton, 3% to four; pork, 
eight to 8 Vz; lambs, six; veal, 10. Stock 
buyer pays seven for steers; two to six 
for cows; two to five for mutton; eight 
to 8*4 for pork; six for lambs; 10 for 
pork. Grocers pay, eggs, 23; potatoes, 
io; onions, #2; cabbage, one cent a 
Pound; carrots, 60 to 80 cents bushel; 
turnips, 35. Mill pays, wheat, 90; oats, 
38-40; com, 72; barley, 55; rye. 55; 
buckwheat, 60. Elevators pay, wheat, 
88; oats, 39; corn, $1.03 cwt.; barley, 
45; rye, 5S. Clover seed, $6; Timothv 
seed, $2; Timothy, $10; light mixed 
bay, $9; heavy mixed liay, $8. H. H. 
New Haven, Ind. 
This is the Lake Keuka grape region, 
and its staple is grapes. The market for 
( uncords, pony baskets, is now 10 cents. 
This is paid by jobbers who buy on com¬ 
mission, usually waiting until the grapes 
are sold before settling, although some 
or all of them will set a cash price if 
sufficiently pressed. Delawares brought 
us 12 i/ 2 cents. We consider these prices 
low in view of the fact that grapes are 
possibly less than one-quarter of a crop. 
Pears brought us 1 % cent a pound and 
were sold to jobbers and apparently sent 
immediately to market. Apples, early, 
D/i cent a pound. Greenings and Bald¬ 
wins sold to a speculator at $2 per bar¬ 
rel for the fruit, he to take firsts or sec¬ 
onds to 214 inch. Other sales of apples 
$2.50 to $3 barrel and fruit. Good stack 
hay $10 to $12 per ton ; mow hay said 
to be $16. All sold to jobbers who press 
and ship it. No dairy products. All 
garden stuff goes to groceries. s. K. 
Bluff Point, N. Y. 
A ride down the Connecticut Valley 
from White River Junction to the Con¬ 
necticut line makes a sad journey for a 
dairyman. This is a milk country, farm¬ 
ers depending upon cows for much of 
(heir income, and upon their silos for 
cow feed. The corn crop is usually good 
m this valley. Strains of early Canada 
hint are largely used, and in most sea- 
s< ? us they mature early and give heavy 
yields of grain or heavy weight of green 
‘odder. In some cases the larger stalk 
varieties like Eureka are used, and where 
rost holds off reasonably well, an acr% 
ot tins corn will give a tremendous yield. 
u September 16, however, we found the 
greater part of this corn blasted by the 
‘tost. Here and there fields had been 
1 ut and shocked in time, and in other 
• uses the corn had been cut and thrown 
',’ u the ground, when it was evident that 
Host was coming down the valley. In 
most cases, however, the corn had not 
heen cut, and it stood as yellow as Tim¬ 
othy hay, the leaves blasted and curled, 
and the stalks bent over. We passed at 
east 1,000 acres of corn ruined in this 
•'ay. It made one think of the times 
when bands of Canadians and Indians 
swept down the valley, falling like light¬ 
ning upon lonely farmhouses or villages, 
and leaving ruin in their trail. In like 
manner Jack Frost and his army had 
swept down the valley over night, laying 
a biting hand upon the corn. Most of 
this frosted corn will still be cut into the 
silo, with water added so as to make a 
fair quality of silage. A good share of 
its value, however, has gone, and it is a 
heavy loss in this dairy section, where 
the Winter milk business not only pro¬ 
vides paying employment for the farmer, 
but gives him his cash income as well. 
To add to the misfortune, the season has 
been very dry, and the hay crop is light 
all through that section. c. 
AN ILLINOIS STOCK COUNTRY FARM. 
This section of country, a little east 
of north from St. Louis 35 miles, has 
been struck with a dry spell this season 
and struck hard: during the month of 
March \ve_ had five inches of rainfall. 
April 3 y 2 inches, May only one-third of 
an inch, June 2^4 inches, July 1 24 
inches, and to date (August 29) in this 
month only 1 y 2 inch, so you see we have 
not had enough moisture. Very hot 
weather beginning early in the Summer 
and still oppressing us has made it very 
trying; as though this were not enough 
the chinch bug has put in its devastating 
work. Two years ago it took our corn, 
last year it cut the crop one-half, and 
this year if we average five bushels of 
corn to the acre (one-ninth of an aver¬ 
age crop) it will do better than I look 
for it to do. The corn is being cut up 
and put into silos as fast as it can be 
done in order to keep the chinch bugs 
from taking all the nourishment from the 
fodder. Many new silos are being built 
in order if possible to get ahead of the 
bugs. Hay, Timothy, was good quality, 
but very short and hard to save, and 
was the nearest of a failure we ever 
knew, averaging a scant one-half ton to 
the acre. Oats were almost a fizzle; 
some were plowed up, a good many pas¬ 
tured them, and some mowed them and 
made oat hay. Wheat was less affected 
by drought and bugs, was a good sample, 
some few pieces made 20 bushels, but the 
general average was 12 or 13 bushels to 
the acre. Many sowed cow peas, but the 
outlook for a crop is almost zero. The 
potato crop was the worst failure I ever 
knew; many did not get back the seed 
they planted. Gardens gave meagre re¬ 
turns and cause the housewife many an 
anxious “what shall I cook?” and 
the men folks are all wondering how 
they can feed what necessary stock they 
must keep till they can raise crops the 
coming year. The money lender will 
have plenty of business for quite awhile, 
for many have not got on their feet from 
the effects of the bug year two years ago. 
Prairie hay (baled) is bringing $17 off 
the ear. Corn off the car is 83 cents, 
oats off the car 46 cents. Potatoes will 
have to be shipped in. 
Recently two cars of fine Holstein 
cows were picked up about here and 
shipped to Colorado, average price paid 
being $65. Yesterday at auction good 
dairy cows brought an average of $64 per 
head, and the hay over $20 per ton. We 
can get for cream net for butter fat sent 
to St. Louis 28 cents and 15 cents net 
per gal. for milk. Butter is 30 cents; 
fat hogs 8 y 2 cents; fat cattle seven to 
< 7 p; veals, eight; hens, nine; Spring 
chickens, 13; lambs, six to seven: El- 
berta peaches, $1.25 per bushel; damson 
Plums, one cent per pound (60 cents per 
bushel). Grapes are about two-thirds 
of a crop, not quite ripe yet; at a guess 
will bring 2*4 cents per pound. Rasp¬ 
berries (black and red) were about two- 
thirds of a crop; gooseberries and cur¬ 
rants were poor; blackberries one-quar¬ 
ter crop. All kinds of apples have been 
falling off badly all Summer; there may 
enough hang on to supply our home mar¬ 
ket, but there Will not be any to ship. 
Health of people and stock is good, al- 
thought water in wells is getting low. 
Government and State inspectors on pure 
food questions bid fair to make the life 
of farmers miserable with the ultra-radi¬ 
cal ideas that are being forced by law; 
but of this perhaps more anon. 
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Blossom End Rot of Tomatoes. 
Can you toll me the cause of the decay 
on the blossom end of tomatoes, before 
they ripen? This is the third year I have 
been troubled with it. and each year on 
different ground and with a different kind 
of tomato. This year half of the fruit 
is badly affected and absolutely unsalable. 
Sometimes it is only a small black spot 
on the surface, but it usually extends in 
to the heart. Is it contagious, so that 
the germs would affect the fruit of an¬ 
other year if infected fruit should be left 
on the ground or find its way to the ma¬ 
nure pile? e. r. m. 
Princeton, Mass. 
This troublesome disease, known as 
blossom-end rot or point rot, is usually 
most injurious to early tomatoes. Its 
history does not seem fully worked out; 
several fungi and bacteria have been sug¬ 
gested as its cause; however, it is be¬ 
lieved to be infective, and probably car¬ 
ried by insects. We should certainly de¬ 
stroy affected fruits, and not permit them 
to remain about the plants. The trouble 
appears most serious upon droughty soils, 
and it is believed that it is lessened or 
prevented by improving the soil texture, 
adding organic matter and giving surface 
tillage, so as to conserve moisture, and 
also by irrigation. 
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