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October 25, 
FALL GARDEN NOTES. 
Every year a lot of people want to 
know bow they can keep Dahlia tubers 
over Winter, most of them having lost 
all their plants by improper storage. 
Different ways are used, varying with the 
temperature and humidity of the storing 
place, but one practically sure way is to 
place the clumps on a dry cellar bottom, 
or on boards if the floor is damp and cov¬ 
et with perfectly dry sand or dirt. This 
keeps the moisture of the tubers and ren¬ 
ders them practically immune to sur¬ 
rounding atmospheric conditions. On the 
approach of Spring the sand or dirt 
should be watered enough to start growth, 
so that at planting time division of the 
clumps will be clearly indicated by the 
sprouts. Do not dig the Dahlias until 
cut down by frost, then dig the clump 
and allow to dry for a few hours, but 
do not remove the dirt. Then put in the 
cellar and cover as above. 
A patch of quack sod was effectually 
subdued by plowing twice in the Spring, 
hand-picking most of the roots that 
showed after the second plowing, and 
then planting to field beans. Not a spear 
of quack came up after the beans were 
planted. It was the mellowest, moistest 
place I had all Summer; I have now 
taken off a splendid yield of beans and 
there is not a trace of the hated quack. 
Don’t burn the leaves this Fall. Most 
of the food the trees have taken from 
your soil this year is in those leaves. 
Pile them in a pit in layers, first dirt, 
then leaves, wetting down as you go. It 
will take two years for leaves to rot, but 
they are worth it, and the rotted soil is 
just the thing for the melon hills, all 
potted plants and i>laces where you need 
good leaf mold. 
We read a good deal about planting 
beans for succession. Just as early as 
jjossible I planted Vicks’ Brittle Wax, 
which commenced bearing quite early. 
We picked the row clean every four days 
till the middle of September, had string 
beans on the table about twice a week 
and sold over three dollars’ worth from 
this 80-foot row. We could have kept 
right on picking, but wanted some to 
ripen up for soup beans. This variety, 
at least, does away with the necessity 
of planting every few weeks for a suc¬ 
cession of string beans. The secret, how¬ 
ever, is probably in the systematic pick¬ 
ing every four days, leaving no pods to 
get hard. P. L. W. 
Michigan. 
Potatoes are starting in at 50 cents a 
bushel; butter 25; eggs, 25. Cattle on 
foot (all kinds of feeders) 4% cents a 
pound; milch cows from $40 to $00 for 
good. Corn 50; seed rye 00. Not much 
sale for garden truck. There has been 
plenty of rain, and sometimes enough to 
hinder work, all Summer and Fall till 
Sept. 27; since clear and dry and fine 
for all kinds of farm work. C. s. 
Minong, Wis. 
Very little gardening is done in this 
section, as we are too far from market. 
Dairying, grain, and hay are the money 
crops of this section; most of the milk 
is made into cheese and at the present 
time nets the farmer $1.42 per hundred 
pounds, and he gets his whey back. Hay 
is bringing from $12 to $15 per ton at 
the barn. Oats 47 cents per bushel; 
wheat $1; potatoes $1. Cows are selling 
for $60 to $80 a head; butter brings 36 
cents per pound; eggs 35 per dozen; ap¬ 
ples 60 to 80 cents per bushel. Cheese 
at present is 16 cents per pound at fac¬ 
tory. G- c. 
Bridgeport, N. Y. 
For some time I have taken pains to 
talk with potato growers and also I have 
been about quite a little, and everything 
points to a much reduced crop. Only 
last week I took a 135-mile auto ride, 
and had a good chance to observe the 
crop, and I firmly believe that a 62% 
crop of late potatoes is away above the 
mark. I think 45 to 50% is much near¬ 
er. Taking our own crop, which is bet¬ 
ter by a good deal than the average, and 
which largely escaped the September 
freeze, it is not 50% of a year ago. I 
dug many hills about 10 days since, when 
over the fields, and the potatoes are not 
there. Take a hill where vines were big 
sind you would find about two to four 
tubers large enough for market. That 
kind of a yield does not make a big crop. 
It means a small crop. I know two 
fields on good land that will not go 25 
bushels to the acre, and the crop did not 
blight either. In fact I have seen no 
blight. Of course there may be a little, 
but I think it is a year exceptionally 
free from this dreaded trouble. The 
trouble was the long dry spell just when 
potatoes were setting; that is the trouble 
all in a nutshell. C. I. 
Munvoe Co., N. Y. 
THE RURAL NliW-VOKKIiK 
CROPS 
Wayne County, N.Y., Notes. 
The sales of orchards have slackened, 
and trading is now on a lighter scale, in¬ 
dicating that the big rush is about over. 
This season will go on record as one of 
the earliest of harvest seasons. Last 
year at this time many growers were at 
the height of the work, while this season 
many have already moved their crops. 
Operators in on the deal earlier in the 
season have filled their orders and with¬ 
drawn, while those who did not get in 
before prices jumped have balked at the 
high prices demanded by orchardists and 
are not taking on any stock. A good 
many orchards are still in the hands of 
the growers, and it is probable that this 
fruit will go into cold storage. 
Growers holding good King or Baldwin 
orchards are holding out for anywhere 
from $3.50 to $3.75 per barrel, and this 
tendency has put a stop to many buy¬ 
ing operations. Some operators look for 
a break, with cheaper fruit, but the grow¬ 
ers insist they are posted this year on 
the extent of good Baldwin stock, and 
are insistent on obtaining gilt-edge prices. 
The reports from other fields on Bald¬ 
wins would seem to indicate that the 
growers are well posted on the extent of 
this variety this year. Greenings are 
quoted at $3 per barrel, having appre¬ 
ciated with the colored fruit. It has 
been pointed out that a canvass of the 
storage houses shows that more space 
than ever has been reserved in the names 
of the growers, giving the impression that 
more apples will be stored by the grow¬ 
ers than for many seasons. The large 
dealers have been rather conservative, 
taking at from $3 to $3.50 for tree run 
on No. 1 and No. 2, only exceptional or¬ 
chards. 
Evaporated apple men, canuers and 
mincemeat concerns have also been in the 
market for apples, paying from 35 to 50 
cents per hundredweight for bulk apples. 
Some shipments of bulk fruit have been 
made to New York at $2 to $2.10 deliv¬ 
ered. Cider apples are in demand now 
and a number of mills have already start¬ 
ed up. Maine potatoes are being shipped 
in large quantities into Wayne county, 
the first out of State tubers to come here 
in many years. The county crop will 
not exceed 50 per cent and in some cases 
only a scant 40 per cent. Growers are 
receiving from 80 to 00 cents per bushel 
at the stations. Onions have jumped to 
$1 and $1.10 per bushel, but the bulk of 
the crop is already in the hands of deal¬ 
ers and was purchased at from 75 to 80 
cents. The county yield was very good 
and the quality excellent this year. The 
cutting of cabbage has commenced. 
Farmers are receiving about $20 per ton 
with some better sales. The market is 
firm and growers will do well this year. 
Late rains have greatly improved the 
growth. Last year many growers did not 
harvest this crop as the market went all 
to pieces. A. H. 1\ 
Wayne Co., N. Y'. 
Hillsdale County Crop Repor\ 
A carload of potatoes sold to Hills¬ 
dale, Michigan, people for 90 cents a 
bushel is quite unusual for a county 
which in former years was a great potato- 
producing section, and from which place 
many cars were shipped each year. There 
are some potatoes to sell in the county 
when digging is completed, but Hillsdale 
County will about have enough to supply 
her needs. The crop this year is only 
a part of what has been produced in 
former years, and buyers paid around 30 
to 45 cents. Dry weather is the cause 
of the shortage in the potato crop. The 
apple crop is short, and buyers this year 
are offering from $2.50 to $2.75 a bar¬ 
rel. Hillsdale markets are as follows: 
butter. 28-30; eggs. 27 to 28; shelled 
corn 53; new wheat, 86; oats, 40: rye, 
55: potatoes 65 to 95; cows $2 to $4.50; 
light butcher heifers and steers, $5 to 
$6; choice steers $6.50 to $7; veals $9 
to $10; Spring lambs, $5 to $6; heavy 
hogs $8.50; pigs, $7.50. w. J. 
Hay $15 per ton to press; eggs, 36 to 
40, some get more; wool, 18 cents per 
pound; milk five cents per quart at house; 
cheese factory, last week’s statement, 
$1.68 per cwt. Spring chickens and old 
hens 16 to 18 cents per pound; potatoes 
85 to $1 per bushel; apples 50 to $1 per 
bushel; cows from $50 to $100, accord¬ 
ing to age, color and who owns them. 
Lambs $5 per head." Seed wheat $1.25 
per bushel. Some are sending milk to 
Syracuse at 4(4 cents per quart and pay 
their own freight. Horses at all prices 
according to age and looks. Corn is very 
poor, one-third of it spoiled by black¬ 
birds. Potatoes about one-half crop, too 
dry. Apples poor; lots of farmers draw¬ 
ing water. c. M. 
Brewerton, N. Y. 
The past month has been very dry and 
cool at times. Sept. 14 we had a very 
heavy frost that cut beaus, corn, potatoes, 
and gardens in general. The middle of 
the month we had a rain that helped 
farmers to fit the wheat ground, and 
made it possible to get the wheat in. 
Our county fair was a success notwith¬ 
standing the severe drought. The show 
of live-stock was exceptionally good; 
vegetables were not up to other years. 
Many are picking Greening apples of 
which there is a good crop, but of poor 
quality. Beans are a short crop. Corn 
is under the average. Pasturage is very 
short; some are feeding their stock. 
Water is very scarce. Home drawing for 
stock, who never did so before. I lay, 
pressed. $15; cabbage $20 to $23 per ton ; 
wheat, 85; oats, 35; corn, 65 to 70. Veal, 
10(4 ; pork, 10, live weight; butter. 28; 
eggs, 30. Apples by the barrel $2 to $3. 
Apples in bulk $1.25 per hundred pounds, 
with ciders out. E. t. b. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
Wheat 90; rye 70; corn (old) $1; 
potatoes 75 to 80. Hay short crop and 
very little for sale. Cows are ranging 
from $60 to $80. Milk 4(4 cents a quart, 
delivered at Philadelphia. Eggs at store 
3(4 ; tomatoes at factory $10 per ton. 
These are the prices that we farmers 
can get for our stuff right here at home. 
Apples with me a total failure owing to 
freeze last May. c. 
Cream Ridge, N. J. 
We have fine growing weather for all 
late crops since September 20tli and 
warm weather for the season. Apples 75 
cents per bushel; pears about the same; 
tomatoes 50 cents a bushel; eggs 36, 
scarce; butter 35, scarce; milk seven 
cents per quart. Fowls 18 cents per 
pound liye. Oats 50; rye 70; wheat $1; 
corn 80. E. C. B. 
Athens, N. Y. 
This part of the State had a short crop 
of hay although nothing approaching a 
hay famine. There was considerable old 
hay in the barns, and there will be 
enough to carry the stock through the 
Winter. I notice that some fool member 
of Congress is advocating a law prohibit¬ 
ing the slaughter of veal calves. Farmers 
here are carrying all the stock that they 
can feed, very little hay is sold in com¬ 
parison with 20 years ago. More cows 
are kept and the the cream or milk sold 
to the factories. The reason that more 
calves are sold is that there are more 
cows to produce calves. If we couldn’t 
sell the calves we could not have them 
at all. for there would be no fodder to 
raise all of them on. Farmers here raise 
calves enough every year to keep the 
herds good, enough to take the place of 
the old cows sold. Cows are not kept to 
be over 10 or 12 years old, and make 
good beef, and many young cows are sold 
for beef after they have been tried out 
at the pail and found wanting. Grain 
is a good crop, mostly oats are raised 
here, some barley and occasionally a piece 
of wheat. Corn both sweet and yellow is 
not over half a crop. Potatoes yield well, 
and it bids fair to be a prosperous year 
for Maine potato growers. Many have 
dug or are digging now, and report the 
yield at from 250 to 300 bushels per 
acre. Dealers are buying at railroad sta¬ 
tions, paying 55 cents per bushel. Cream 
last month sold to the creameries brought 
36 cents per pound of butter fat. Eggs 
sold to local store bring 36 cents and but¬ 
ter 30. Fancy eggs shipped to Boston 
bring 45 cents per dozen. Cows $30 to 
$80, and not quite so much called for as 
a year ago. Little pigs $1.50 to $2. 
Very few hogs are being raised, hardly 
enough to supply local needs. A few 
years ago everyone planned to sell a few 
hogs every year. Many sell the milk now. 
Better pass a law to keep the skim milk 
on the farm. R. w. h. 
Thorndike, Maine. 
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