1910 . 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
447 
PRICES OF CLOVER SEED. 
Can you tell us what farmers in the 
West are paid for their clover seed? The 
retail price is high this year. 
Clover seed in our local market at 
Noblesville, Hamilton County, is now 
retailing at $8 per bushel. The farmer 
are selling to the seed merchants at $6 
to $7.25 per bushel. All quotations are 
on the basis of recleaned seed. The 
dealers do the work of recleaning. The 
■shrinkage on reclcaning runs from one 
to 15 pounds per bushel. The variation 
is due to the cleanliness with which 
the seed is pulled by the thrashers and 
the quality of the seed, chaffy seed show¬ 
ing the greater loss. Dealers make no 
charge for the work of recleaning, put¬ 
ting their services against the farmers’ 
loss in the shrinkage. M. L. White, the 
dealer through whom I buy and sell, 
usually recleans without cost the grain 
his patrons wish to sow and charges 
them 10 cents per bushel for recleaning 
the seed they intend to put upon the 
market through agencies other than his 
house. There are usually give-and-take 
elements of this character between the 
farmers and dealers, and the usages of 
Mr. White are indicative of an average 
of these customs. The cost of hulling 
is usually $1 per bushel. If a farmer 
has a large crop that promises a good 
quality and first-class yield a huller does 
the work for 75 cents per bushel. He 
cuts the price because the expense of 
moving from one job to another is 
thereby curtailed. If a farmer has a 
small acreage, hullers usually charge 
$1.25 per bushel to compensate them for 
the time and expense of moving their 
machines. During the Winter dealers 
were offering $9 per bushel for seed, 
but the farmers were well stocked with 
the great seed crop of two years ago, 
when the yield was perhaps fourfold, 
the acreage being large and single heads 
yielding 36- to 75 seeds per head, and 
the quality first class. When the $9 
quotation was made farmers began to 
release their grain, and it was esti¬ 
mated that in this country 4.000 bushels 
of the grain had been held back since 
1908. The grain is held in bags kept 
in dry and dark places. When the grain 
retails in the neighborhood of $5 per 
bushel dealers here handle it on a mar¬ 
gin of 75 cents per bushel. As the 
retail price advances the dealer demands 
a greater margin, so that on a retail 
market of $12 per bushel they demand' 
a margin of $2 per bushel. The amount 
of money invested is the standard on 
which they base their margin, the higher 
priced stock exacting a greater margin 
to assure the dealer against losses on 
a -falling market. The yield of seed 
ranges from two pecks to three bushels 
per acre. Less than two pecks is con¬ 
sidered a failure, and the grain is not 
thrashed. We have now in this county 
a surplus of 3,000 bushels held by farm¬ 
ers and a great acreage is being sown. 
Clover went through the Winter in good 
shape, and experienced clover growers 
predict a good yield this year. 
Indiana. w. v. rooker. 
MELON GROWING IN SOUTHERN INDIANA 
G. IP. 8., Batavia, O .—Will you ask S. II. 
Burton, of Indiana, who told us about 
growing cantaloupes in southern Indiana, on 
page 229, to tell us how they prepare the 
hills, or what kind of tool they use in making 
them, what kind of fertilizer to use, and 
how they guard against the striped beetle? 
Do they spray the vines for blight, which 
does so much injury here in southern Ohio 
on clay land, that it is almost impossible 
to grow them, or at least I have no success 
at it? 
Ans.—I n reply to G. W. S. regarding 
the growing of cantaloupes here in 
Southern Indiana, I am thankful to say 
that the striped beetle is a stranger in 
these parts. In regard to controlling the 
blight, very little has been done along 
this line "outside of the experiment sta¬ 
tion, and they are not fully satisfied with 
the results of their work as yet. For¬ 
tunately this is not very serious in this 
immediate locality (Daviess County) 
owing to the field being comparatively 
new. In the Decker, Ind., district, it has 
become quite serious, owing, I think to 
long and continuous cropping of the 
same ground. In preparing the ground 
for cantaloupes a rolling sandy soil is 
thought to be best, and this is usually 
broken up early and the ground thor¬ 
oughly prepared to receive the planting. 
No especial pains are taken to prepare 
the hills separately, enough manure being 
in the box when taken from the hotbed 
to give the plant a good start. If the 
seeds are planted in the open ground 
the field is usually marked off both ways 
and planted by hand at the intersection 
of the furrows, care being taken not to 
plant too deep. If one desires to give 
the vines intensive culture on a small 
scale a shovelful of rotten manure is 
placed on the hill and covered with three 
or four inches of dirt. After seeds are 
planted throw a handful of coal and 
wood ashes mixed on top of the hill, 
which helps to keep the cutworms off. 
In general field culture as much manure 
as can be obtained is scattered broadcast 
during the Fall and Winter, and turned 
under the following Spring. Very little 
commercial fertilizer is used, and from 
my own experience on a clay soil the 
vines do best with plenty of rotten 
manure in the hill. However, I have 
stimulated the vines with nitrate of soda 
when they were just beginning to vine 
with good results. A common corn cul¬ 
tivator or a tool similar to the Planet Jr. 
12-tooth cultivator is used to cultivate 
with, and the man with the hoe plays 
an important part in working up close 
to the hills. s. H. burton". 
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