1913. 
THE RURAL NEC VV-YORKRR 
1131 
CROPS 
Apples, $2 to $.3 per barrel according 
to variety; pears, $1 per bushel; grapes, 
15 cents per basket; peaches about done. 
Tomatoes, 90 cents per bushel; potatoes, 
.$1.20; turnips, 50; oats, 50; rye, 70; 
wheat, $1; corn, 80. A good rain fell 
September 21 and 22. All later crops 
improved. E. c. B. 
Athens, N. Y. 
Farm and dairy products in this local¬ 
ity are selling at the following prices: 
Wheat, $1.20 per 100 pounds; corn, 
$1.50; oats, $1.30; rye, $1.02; hay, $10 
to $12. Milk delivered at shipping sta¬ 
tion, $1.60 per 100 pounds; sour cream, 
30 cents for butter fat; sweet cream, 38 
cents; dairy cows, $50 to $75; beef cat¬ 
tle, six to seven cents a pound; hogs, 
$7.50 to $S.25 per cwt.; poultry, hens 
delivered in Denver, 14 to 15 cents; tur¬ 
keys, 17 to 18 cents live weight. Eggs, 
15 cents. There is very little fruit or 
vegetables sold here by the farmers; not 
enough to establish prices. w. L. F. 
Elbert Co., Col. 
There is very little fruit grown in this 
section, and buckwheat is the money crop 
in this vicinity; at present selling at 
$1.50 per cwt. Oats 50; potatoes $1; 
apples 90 to $1. New milch cows $50 to 
$75 a head; horses $100 to $200. Lambs 
six cents per pound live weight; veal 
calves nine cents per pound live weight. 
Our milk is sold to a local creamery and 
we get the highest average price per 
pound for the butter fat, plus three cents, 
that butter brings in the New York mar¬ 
ket. We pay 20 cents per 100 pounds for 
hauling the milk to the creamery. 
Breesport, N. Y. s. G. c. 
Prices for cow t s and heifers, $5 per 
cwt.; steers are $8 per cwt. on foot. 
Pork $10 and $12 per cwt.; fowls 16 
cents per pound; chickens 18; veal calves 
10%. October price for milk $1.60 per 
100; cheese at the local factory 15%, 
retail 20; butter 35 and advancing; eggs 
30. Apples very scarce selling for $1 to 
$1.25; pears $1 to $1.50, according to 
quality; plums $2 per bushel. Hay, $12 
per ton ; oats 60; potatoes 75; beets 75; 
turnips 50; sweet corn $1 per 100 ears. 
Present prices on hops from 35 to 40 
cents per pound. w. H. m 
Brookfield, N. Y. 
Our nearest shipping markets are New 
York and Brooklyn; the only crop shipped 
in quantity is potatoes, selling now at 
95 and $1 per bushel. Prices current in 
the locality for home use: Fresh cows 
$75 to $100; strippers $50 to $60; fat 
cows $50; bottled milk 7 and S; milk 
shipped 5; creamery butter 38 to 
40; cheese 22; sweet corn 15 cents 
per dozen; tomatoes 50 cents a 
basket; plums $2 basket; peaches $1.25 
16-qt. basket; pears $1. Apples no mar¬ 
ket as yet. Hay, Timothy, loose, No. 1, 
$25 per ton; hay, Timothy, clover mixed, 
$18 to $20; rye straw loose, $10 to $12 ; 
rye straw, pruned in sheaves, $15; 
wheat from thrasher $1.10; seed wheat, 
$1.25 to $1.50. 
Corn not a- very good crop, and of poor 
quality; oats a fair crop. There is not 
much farm products to spare except the 
dairy products in this locality, c. H. l. 
Briar Hill, N. Y. 
This is a stock country, farming 
enough to feed the cattle out for market, 
but this year’s corn crop is nearly a to¬ 
tal failure, a great deal being cut up for 
fodder. Corn shipped in to feed 75 cents 
a bushel; oats 45; wheat 70. Very lit¬ 
tle for sale as most expect to feed it in¬ 
stead of corn. Fat hogs $7.50. and 30 
to 50-pound pigs slow at $1.50 to $2 
each. Old hens 10; chickens 12. But¬ 
ter fat 27; fresh cows $60 to $70; dry 
cows $45 to $55; yearling steers $25 to 
$35. Horses $70 to $100 for common 
and no good ones for sale. Apples 
shipped in by car lots $1.10 to $1.40 a 
bushel; cabbage $1.25 a hundred from 
car. Several tried raising onions having 
one-half to two acres, but dry weather 
ruined them. Very few raise enough 
garden for their own families, nut when 
a family does have surplus there is a good 
market. No fruit except wild here unless 
shipped in. Wild plums $1 a bushel; 
wild grapes 75 cents a bushel. 
Farnam, Nebr. MRS. E. s. s. 
The potato crop is being harvested and 
will be about half a crop, nearly the same 
amount as harvested last year, when the 
rot spoiled the crop. Shippers, are paying 
60 cents. As a general thing the crop 
is being held for higher prices. There is 
no rot. The hard freezes we have had 
has destroyed about 35 per cent of the 
corn crop. This will be a hard blow to 
the dairymen, who were depending upon 
their silos to help out their hay this 
V inter. Dairymen are receiving from 
$1.34 to $1.50 per can for their milk at 
the stations. The Bordens pay $1.70 
for October, same as last year. Buck¬ 
wheat is very light and not of good qual¬ 
ity. The roads were never better than 
they are at the present time, owing to 
the new automobile laws, being a vast 
improvement over anything we have ever 
had. We have had no rain in several 
weeks to speak of, something very badly 
needed to fill the empty wells. Many of 
the dairymen on the hill farms have had 
to draw water for several weeks. Stock 
never does well where they have not got 
plenty of good water, and this year has 
been a very dry one. If we do not have 
rain before Winter sets in it will prove 
a hardship for the farmers. We have 
no apples this year, this being an off 
year for fruit. Eggs are bringing 36 
cents per dozen. f. e. w. 
McGraw, N. Y. 
Bridgehampton, N. Y. 
J. B. B. 
Our fruit and vegetables are sold in 
the Middletown market. Teaches from 
35 to 90 cents a basket; they were a 
good crop here this year. ' Concord 
grapes, a full crop this year sold for 
three cents a pound. Tears, Clapp and 
Bartlett, 50 cents a bushel. Apples are 
selling at $1.50 a barrel, they returning 
barrel. Totatoes, short crop, 80 to $1 
bushel. Cabbage from three to six cents 
a head. Hay, from $16 to $18 a ton ; rye 
straw, $14 to $15. If one wishes to buy 
cows, owners ask from $75 to $100 for 
ihem; if you want to sell and have to 
sell to dealers you can get from $35 to 
$p0 for them if they are grade Ilolsteins. 
\ eal, good, five to six weeks old, 15 cents 
a pound ; hog-dressed in Middletown. Our 
milk is sold at Borden’s prices. 
Bloomingburg, N. Y. c. E. D. 
Milk brings at shipping station (for 
Aew York City) $1.60 per 100 pounds; 
butter fat at creameries, for August, 31 
to 32 cents per pound. Fed calves five 
to seven cents per pound. Bulls for ship¬ 
ment about five cents per pound; good 
dairy cows from $45 to $65. Good work 
horses very scarce at from $160 to $250, 
about $200 being the ruling price. Good 
drivers from $200 up. Dressed pork in 
good demand at from 11 to 12% cents 
per pound; eggs 30. A few potato sales 
are reported at 50 cents per bushel. No 
apples or fruit for sale, as they were 
totally destroyed by late Spring frosts; 
doubtful if there will be five barrels of 
apples all told raised in St. Lawrence 
County this year. Cornmeal $35 per ton; 
wheat bran $28; brown middlings $30. 
Brasher Falls, N. Y. h. p. d. 
, at milk station from $1.65 to 
M.iO; cheese 16%; butter from 32% to 
•>o; poultry 13; chickens, live, 16; pota- 
_oes, (o; oats, 95; buckwheat 75; apples 
M > mu-ley 90; beans, hand picked, $2.50; 
f'ggs from 28 to 30; honey from 12% to 
V ; pork, dressed, from 11 to 12, live 8; 
Mieep 9 to 11; Spring lamb, dressed 13 
in iVo “ utton 10 to 11; veal 13 to 14; 
aial 1 ~% to 35. Hay buyers are paying 
•Mo, not much doing in hay business; 
very tew farmers have more than will 
winter their stock in this loealitv. Live 
springers, $70; calves al- 
nost $30 to $35; fat cattle from $40 to 
'i to * le Brockville, Canada cheese 
arket September 27, cheese was 11 to 
••o’ mu< ‘h sold, salesmen holding for 
<9;. 1 rac ticaUy no fruit; apples a total 
failure. Totatoes almost one-half crop. 
Sept. 26 I was on the Ro¬ 
chester public market. About 1,000 
farmers and market gardeners were 
present. Everything cleaned up at 
satisfactory prices, and very quickly. 
Totatoes in small supply, many of them 
about the size of walnuts up to hen fruit 
size. Best ones commanded quick sale 
at $1 per bushel. Hand-picked apples 
80 cents per bushel. Cantaloupes by the 
crate, bushel, 75 to S5. Celery 5 cents 
for two small bunches. Small pickles, 
size of the little finger, 25 cents per 100; 
supply limited. Grapes, market basket 
weighing about 25 to 28 pounds, 45 cents. 
Teaches, one-third bushel basket, best 50 
to 60; only the very best commanded out¬ 
side figure. Broilers 20 cents per pound. 
Eggs, strictly fresh, 35. Cabbage two to 
five cents per head, depending on the size, 
or $23 to $25 per ton. Onions rather 
limited supply and very small. 80 to 90 
cents per bushel. Hubbard squash 1% 
to two cents per pound. Retail prices 
from the stores are hard to average. For 
instance in the suburbs sweet potatoes 
five cents per pound, or six pounds for 
25 cents; down town anywhere 10 pounds 
for 25 cents. Hubbard squash in the 
suburbs four to five cents per pound, 
down town 1% to 2% cents will get 
them. Totatoes in the suburbs 35 to 40 
cents per peck. If one will go to the 
market he can reduce the cost of living 
very materially, and is assured of perfect¬ 
ly fresh fruits and vegetables. c. I. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
All farm crops have been exceptionally 
good this year, and weather conditions 
have been all that could be desired to 
harvest them. Following is list of prices 
to the farmers at the present time: Oats, 
35; wheat, 75; clover seed, 10 cents per 
pound; hay, $10 per ton. Wool, coarse, 
37 cents per pound, medium, IS, mohair. 
32. Hogs, eight cents per pound live 
weight; beef cattle, seven cents; eggs. 
32; fat hens, 10% cents per pound; 
Spring chickens, 15; potatoes, $1 per 100 
pounds sacked ; hops, 25 cents per pound ; 
butter fat, sour cream, 33, average for 
the past year 32; sweet cream three cents 
better. Dairy cows, $65 to $100, accord¬ 
ing to test, which method is largely used 
iu arriving at the value of dairy stock, 
principally Jersey and Holstein.. The 
former predominate in the valley, but 
there are some very good herds of the 
latter along the Columbia River. Young 
gelding horses weighing from 1.300 to 
l,o00 sell for $17o to $200; mares aver¬ 
age $225. Beef cattle’ are very scarce, 
mostly fattened on grass, very few being 
stall fed. Mutton sheep have been in 
demand lately, and when good and fat 
have brought as high as five cents. Land 
is very high and is largely of a specula¬ 
tive nature, the natural sequence of the 
eternal boosting of the real estate men 
and land speculator, and ranges from $75 
for ordinary farms where there is not 
over half in cultivation to $400 per acre 
for small tracts of 10 to 30 acres. 
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