1913. 
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THE RURA.lv NEW-YORKER 
CROPS 
A change has come in the outlook in 
Nebraska. About Sept. 20 a good steady 
rain of 3% inches came. On account of 
the ground being very hard and dry, but 
little plowing for wheat had been done. 
Immediately the plows were started, and 
at this writing, Oct. 11, are still running. 
A large acreage of wheat will be planted, 
probably the largest ever known, and : in 
a variety of ways; working up the dry 
plowing with disk and harrow; disking 
the unplowed stubble; plowing in the reg¬ 
ular way; disking the corn stubble after 
the fodder had been taken off, and drill¬ 
ing between the corn rows with one-horse 
drill. The weather is ideal, warm and 
fine, and the planted wheat comes up 
quickly. The Alfalfa and Blue grass 
fields started up at once, and there is an 
abundance of Fall pasture on these fields. 
Timothy and clover appear to be killed by 
the terrible drought of 12 weeks’ dura¬ 
tion. Business is good, and everything 
jogging along as though nothing had hap¬ 
pened. There will not be the usual num¬ 
ber of cattle fed this Winter, because of 
the high price of corn. Cows .$50 to 
.$75; butcher stuff $6 per hundred; yearl¬ 
ings $30 to $35 per head; Spring calves 
$20 to $25; good horses $150 to $200. 
Corn 80; wheat 75; oats 50; potatoes 
80 to 90; butter 30; eggs 20. 
Fairbury, Nebr. H. H. R. 
I give you the current prices of pro¬ 
ducts fanners in this locality are realiz¬ 
ing at this time: Wheat, per 100, $2; 
oats per 100 $1.50; buckwheat, per 100 
$1.40; rye $1.25 per bushel; potatoes 75 
to $1.10. Cows $50 to $75. Butter 38 
to 40; eggs 40; apples $1 per bushel; old 
hens 32, live; prime veals $12 per 100 
pounds; hogs dressed 11 cents per pound. 
There are no garden crops to be had at any 
price. Hay $10 to $12; straw $5 to $6. 
Bonney, N. Y. F. P. B. 
Corn, oats, wheat, beef and pork are 
the leading products of the farm in this 
county, while there is considerable dairy¬ 
ing and truck farming done. The drought 
has been very severe in this section. Oats 
and wheat about half crop; corn very 
poor, will not make half crop. Corn is 
selling in a retail way at SO cents per 
bushel, none for shipment. Farmers are 
forced to reduce their stock on account of 
shortage of pasture and feed. Oats are 
worth 36, wheat 80; none for sale, all 
being held to feed on account of short 
corn crop. Butter 30; eggs 22 ; beef and 
pork retailing at 18 to 25 cents per 
pound. Fat cattle are selling from 5*4 
to 8 cents; hogs from 7 to S. Clover 
seed $6.20 per bushel of 60 pounds, but 
none being sold; we shall probably use 
all the seed we have. Farmers who* have 
seed to sell will not sell at present prices; 
it will take $10 per bushel to move the 
seed. B. g. 
Canton, Ill. 
Apples 75 cents to $1 per bushel; 
beans, $1 per bushel; peaches and plums 
over; tomatoes 60 cents per bushel, green 
40; turnips 50; eggs 36 cents a dozen; 
butter 35; milk six cents per quart. 
Heavy rains Oct. 1 and 2 were of great 
benefit to all late crops. e. c. b. 
Athens, N. Y. 
Retail prices are: Baled hay $14 to 
$16; straw $8 to $10; potatoes 80 to 
90; butter 30; eggs 28; dressed chicken 
21 cents a pound; wheat $1; potatoes 
about one-half crop. No fruit except 
what is shipped in. Dressed hogs sold to 
butchers 12 cents a pound. M. D. h. 
Broekwayville, Pa. 
No farm products are sold by auction 
here. About two-thirds of the products 
are sold through commission houses in 
large cities, and the remainder is sold to 
retail stores direct. There are several 
growers’ organizations in this Western 
part of the State, but they are not yet 
strong enough to control any very large 
part of the production. Prices received 
by farmers at present: Apples, 50 to 
$1.50 per bushel box; potatoes $1 per 
hundred-pound sack; tomatoes, 40 to 60 
per 20-pound box; cabbage, average five 
cents a head; peaches, 50 cents a 20- 
pound box; pears 75 cents a box of about 
two-thirds of a bushel; cauliflower, 80 
cents a dozen; carrots 90 cents hundred- 
pound sack; beets. 85 cents a hundred- 
pound sack; turnips, $1 a hundred- 
pound sack; onions, $1.30 a hundred- 
pound sack; horseradish, seven cents a 
pound; lettuce, 20 cents a dozen; string 
beaus, six cents a pound; celery, 75 cents 
a dozen; huckleberries, six cents a 
pound; sweet corn, 15 cents a dozen; 
pumpkins, two cents a pound; Hubbard 
squash, 1 y» cents a pound; hens, live, 12 
cents; ducks, live, 13 cents; turkeys, live, 
1$; eggs, strictly fresh, 38; butter, best, 
hogs, dressed, 9 to 12: beef, dressed, 
■' 4 to 6; hay, $12 to $16; good cows 
bnng $75 to $125; horses, $50 to $75 
tor plugs, around $200 for good big ani¬ 
mals; no grain to amount to anything is 
ra , lsed - We pay for grain: corn $37, 
" heat $31, barley $29, bran $25, oats $31 
ton. b. s. d. 
Ballow, Wash. 
After our exceptionally diy season we 
iU’e beginning to have some very nice 
rains, which have brightened up the past¬ 
ures very much. However the early 
• rests we had were very hard for the 
list frosts (about the middle of Septem- 
i"'r) hurt the corn crop very much, es¬ 
pecially the fodder corn for silage. Very 
few of the farmers had commenced fill¬ 
ing their silos or cutting their corn at 
-he time of this frost. The buckwheat 
Binks, with a yawn, said to a fisher¬ 
man : “Time ain’t very valuable to you, 
brother; that’s plain. Here I been I 
a-watchin’ you three hours and you ain’t 
had a bite!” “Wall,” drawled the fisher¬ 
man, “my time’s too valuable, anyhow, 
to waste three hours of it watchin* a fel¬ 
ler fish that ain’t gettin’ a bite.”—San 
Francisco Call. 
had just begun to fill, and that was in¬ 
jured very much, so buckwheat will be a 
very short crop in this section. Cattle 
are selling at a great deal higher prices 
than would naturally be expected after 
the dry year, the hay and other crops 
being rather short, as there seems to be 
a great demand for cattle of all grades, 
and all those who have any for sale are 
getting good prices. Poultry and eggs 
are also selling at good prices, as fresh 
eggs are retailing at 38, dressed fowls at 
20, and Spring chickens at 22 and 23 
cents per pound. f. a. 
Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
Pears, %-iy 2 cents per pound; apples 
$2 to $2.50 per barrel, green; red, $3 to 
$3.25 per barrel. Hops, 30 to 42 cents 
per pound; raspberries, fresh. 5-6 cents 
per quart; dried, 20 cents per pound. 
Blackberries, fresh, 10 cents quart; cher¬ 
ries in season, 3-3% cents per pound. Cab¬ 
bage started in at $15, now $25 per ton. 
Hay, $12-$16 per ton. Honey, comb, 
12-16 cents pound. Farm labor, compe¬ 
tent, $26-$35 per month; minors, 16 to 
18 years, $16; day labor, common farm, 
$1.50, heavy, $2. Wheat, 90; rye, 60; 
oats, 40; corn, 90. Potato crop light, 
shipped at 60 to 65. Beans, red, $3; 
white, $2.20 to $2.50 per bushel. 
Bristol, N. Y. j. l. w. 
We depend for the most part on the 
sale of White Leghorn eggs, shipping 
them to St. Louis market. We are get- 
three cents over quotations which brings 
us about 15 cents per dozen at present. 
This is unusually low. Butter in our 
local neighborhood is 30 cents per pound: 
apples, 50 and 60 per bushel; peaches, 
best, $1.50; plums, $1. We are paying 
53 cents for oats by the hundred bushel; 
shelled corn, 85; wheat, 80: bran, $1.20 
per 100 pounds; ship stuff, $1.50. Clover 
hay, $18 per ton. Drought and heat have 
been intense since June 1 and the out¬ 
look is gloomy. Only two years ago we 
had much the same experience, and it is 
crippling farmers badly. i. m. c. 
Bunker Hill, Ill. 
These are current prices in the Monte¬ 
zuma Valley, Montezuma Co., Col.: Milch 
cows, $50 to $100 per head; beef steers, 
grass fat, 6 to 7% cents per pound live 
weight; calves or short yearlings, $25 per 
head. Ranch butter 30 cents per pound; 
cream 31 cents per pound at creamery; 
milk 10 cents per quart; eggs 25 cents 
per dozen. Apples 50 cents to $1 per 
box, 50 pounds; pears $1 per box, 60 
pounds; peaches four cents per pound; 
cauliflower five cents per pound; cabbage 
three cents per pound; squash two cents 
per pound; tomatoes three cents per 
pound potatoes two cents per pound. 
Hay $8 to $10 per ton stack measure; 
oats $1.50 per hundred; wheat $1.50 per 
hundred. H . R. R. 
Montezuma Co., Col. 
Michigan Crop Report. —During the 
months of August and September, ac¬ 
cording to Secretary of State Martindale’s 
report for Michigan, over a million and 
a half bushels of wheat were marketed. 
The report declares that the estimated 
yield of wheat was 16.15 bushels per acre. 
The estimated average yield of barley is 
25 bushels an acre, oats 30; corn, 32; po¬ 
tatoes 87; beans, 12; buckwheat, 15. 
I he estimated yield of sugar beets is ten 
tons to the acre. w. j. 
Ohio Rye. —The acreage of rye which is 
being planted in Ashtabula and adjoin¬ 
ing counties this Fall is at least twice as 
great as last year. In eastern Ashtabula 
county in some localities farmers who 
have never planted the crop are now 
sowing a good acreage. They will use it 
for pasturing swine, and for green feed 
Jargely. w . j. 
Soft Mood Scale. —The damage to 
soft woods in Northern Ohio and North¬ 
western Pennsylvania by a scale peculiar 
to soft woods is doing damage which can¬ 
not be estimated in dollars and cents. 
One timber man estimates it around a 
million dollars, and he declares his esti¬ 
mate is extremely conservative. All soft 
woods are being affected. There is con¬ 
siderable demand for soft wood in this 
section for manufacturing purposes, and 
the scale in destroying the life of the tim¬ 
ber, puts the wood in condition to readily 
decay and bo rendered unfit for use. 
Many acres of soft wood are being cut 
down, and worked into wood, while the 
best go into heading for cheese boxes. 
w. j. 
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boys will assemble at Pittsburg, Decem¬ 
ber 1st, tour the city the following day, 
and reach Harrisburg, where they will be 
entertained in the Capitol that day bv the 
Governor. December 3. 4 and 5‘ will be 
spent in Washington where the boys will 
be received by President M’iIson,‘Secre¬ 
tary Bryan, and Secretary Houston. The 
party will start home Friday night. T. 
P. Riddle of Toledo has been making the 
larger part of the arrangements. w. j. 
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