1910. 
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THE FARMER’S SHARE. 
Recently, when Bartlett pears were near¬ 
ly ready to pick, thinking we had more 
than the local market demanded, we wrote 
to one of the commission houses in an in¬ 
land city asking about the market prices 
and prospects for the sale of pears and 
apples. The reply came promptly; the 
Bartlett pears commanded from $1.50 to 
.$1.75 per bushel and thought they could 
sell some at that figure. We had advised 
them that because of the high price for 
double-headed barrels they would be sent in 
open-head, burlap covered. On the strength 
of the encouraging letter we packed four 
barrels of pears, three No. 1, one No. 2, 
one barrel Summer Kambo apples and three 
of Jefferis,.one of the best dessert apples, 
while the Rambo needs no recommendation. 
All were hand-picked carefully handled 
fruit. Inquiring from the station agent 
about rates we were informed that the 
rate on pears was five cents per 100 
pounds more than on apples. Although 
shipped in the same car in similar pack¬ 
ages the scheme of what the traffic will 
bear was applied by the railroad. In due 
time an account of sales with check came, 
four barrels apples sold for $5, one pears 
$2.75, two $1.50, one lost, decayed, $5.7o, 
which left after paying freight, cartage and 
commission $5.76 for about 23 bushels, 
about 25 cents per bushel net, out of which 
packages worth 80 cents, picking and pack¬ 
ing $2.50, drayage to station 75 cents, or 
$1.71 for the shipment to add to our bank 
account, besides a useful experience. The 
fruit kept and sold here brought us SI 
per bushel for pears and 60 and 80 cents 
for apples. This is, however, not as bad 
as one occasion we sent several new berry 
crates with Astrachan apples as fine as 
grow, to a commission house, getting the 
report that the market was glutted and we 
received no return in either money or 
crates. We are not reflecting upon the 
commission dealers, as they perhaps get 
all that is offered them by purchasers, but 
how many of those who are dependent 
upon disposing of their product receive any 
remuneration from their labor is a mys¬ 
tery. ’ sv> s ‘ 
Pennsylvania. 
PRICES FOR APPLES. 
The apples in our place are very poor, 
onlv one-fourth crop. Brice for choice to 
medium is $2.50 to $2.75 F. O. B. car on 
red fruit, $3 on green. J. F. W. 
Marlboro, N. Y. 
Buyers in this section are paying $2.50 
per barrel for Greenings and Baldwins 
No. 1 and No. 2. In most cases buyers do 
the packing. Apple crop light, but quality 
good. _ c - J - L - 
West Coxsackie, N. Y. 
Apple buyers are offering $1 per barrel 
on the trees. That is what they offered me 
THE RURAL 
and it is what they say they can buy for; 
but as mine are very free-from worm holes 
and very smooth and nice 1 have concluded 
to keep‘them until Christmas and take my 
chances for more money. My trees were 
sprayed twice and I feel I should have 
more for them than for those that have 
not had that expense of spraying. I picked 
23 pint baskets of strawberries September 
29. They were Pan Americans. I sold the 
strawberries for 25 cents per pint. We 
have been picking this strawberry bed 
since September 1. s. h. w. 
Massachusetts. 
So far $2.60 has been the top for No. 1 
stock ; more have sold for $2.50; No. 2 for 
$1.35 to $2 per barrel. One dollar per 
hundred in bulk for hand-picked tree run, 
and 30 cents a hundred for drops and cider 
stock. Crop is light and much of it was 
lost in wind storm of October 1. T. M. C. 
Kddytown, N. Y. 
Buyers are offering for apples $2 to $3 
per barrel as to quality. Some orchards of 
choice apples are sold as high as $3, tak¬ 
ing all that come from the trees with cider 
apples thrown out. Some orchards are 
poor, apples wormy and are being sold in 
bulk at from $1 to $1.50 per 100 pounds 
for picked fruit with cider apples out; drop 
apples bring from 25 to 50 cents per 100 
pounds at evaporators. F. E. v. E. 
Stanley, N. Y. 
Some buyers have paid $3.35 for choice 
per barrel, and medium runs $2.50 to 
$2.75, canning factories paying 80 cents 
per hundred, evaporators 30 cents per hun¬ 
dred, cider mills paying 25 cents per hun¬ 
dred. Farmers that sprayed for the Cod¬ 
ling moth have good fruit, but where they 
did not spray they are all on the ground. 
We had a wind that blew all day October 
1 and half of our apples are lying on the 
ground. Buyers are very anxious to buy 
early and are out looking for all they can 
get to buy. c - v * 
Lyons, N. Y. 
A large majority of the apples in this 
town are sold. Hardly any two are sell¬ 
ing in the same way or for the same price. 
Some have sold tree run for $2 without 
the barrel, others have sold for $2.75 with 
barrel. Choice and medium are selling for 
from $3 to $3.35. There are less apples 
than last vear, but the quality is better. 
The wind has been blowing to-day almost 
a gale and hundreds of barrels of fruit 
are on the ground. All the first drop has 
been gathered and drawn to the cider mills 
and evaporated for 25 cents per hundred. 
Now the evaporators will be able to get a 
good grade of fruit for which they will be 
willing to pay a fair price. n. w. B. 
Hilton, N. Y. 
Apples are not a heavy crop here, yet 
somo orchards arc yielding: crood crops and 
where well sprayed fruit is good quality 
except some of it is badly marked with 
hail. Because of the comparatively short 
crop and small percentage of strictly No. 
1 fruit buyers have not been as numerous 
as some years for this reason. Some 
growers have shipped their fruit. Prices 
NEW-YORKER 
Ijave rob'd good in New York for fruit- 
weH packed,- mine having sold for the fol¬ 
lowing prices Golden Sweet. $3; Olden¬ 
burg, $3.50; Holland Pippin. $4 ; Wealthy 
(small), $3.25; McIntosh, $4; Sutton, $4; 
Greening, $4.25; less abont $1 ner barrel ex¬ 
pense for barrel, freight, commission, cart¬ 
age, etc. Some of the larger growers have 
sold to buyers. Among them, one man got 
$3 exclusive of barrels, packed and deliv¬ 
ered on cars. This was a very desirable 
lot, there being a large percentage of 
Kings, Greenings, Suttons, etc. Another 
grower after disposing of his Fall Pippins, 
Greenings and Suttons for good prices, 
sold the remainder of crop for $2.75 net 
for fruit packed and put on cars. An¬ 
other grower having mostly Ben Davis had 
to sell for $2 packed. For mixed lots of 
ordinary quality buyers are offering $2 to 
$2.50, and many are selling for these 
prices. In every case buyers pay for barrels 
and take No. 1 and No. 2 stock whether 
packed in one or two grades. w. H. 
Ivinderhook, N. Y. 
This section of Pennsylvania does not 
produce surplus apples for other markets. 
The climate and soil is not adapted to 
best success with apples, and there are no 
commercial growers except in a small way 
in the county. Apples in quantities are 
shipped to the large markets nearly every 
season from New York, Oregon and that 
section. We usually have a surplus of 
earlv fruit and Fall varieties that are 
forced on the market, at times at $1 per 
barrel. September 30 we delivered a load 
of Smokehouse apples to retail dealers in 
Pottsville at 70 cents per bushel, but the 
market is limited and demand light at this 
time. The crop is fair, yet first-class fruit 
the exception, and many trees are ruined 
by San ,7os6 scale. Most of the fruit pro¬ 
duced here is sold with other produce by 
farmers marketing.their products in the coal 
mining towns. H. s. 
Schuylkill Co., Pa. 
CROP NOTES. 
August was dry; September gave us 
plenty of rain. People are _ busy seeding 
and cutting corn. County fairs are plenti¬ 
ful, also political mass meetings. Peach 
and apple crops good. Hogs scarce, bring¬ 
ing 10 cents per pound. Considerable 
thrashing done ; wheat, 90 1 cents ; oats, 55 ; 
corn, 65; buckwheat, 60 cents, d. d. s. 
Snyder Co., Pa. 
The outcome of the season is not the 
best, but fair. Potatoes are small and 
short crop. Corn and hay arc good ; apples 
are good, but one-fourth cron only. Good 
cows bring $50 to $60 each and horses 
$200. Work is plenty and help scarce. If 
the city people would come out and work 
for farmers they would get a better living 
and farmers get bigger crops, and so the 
cost of living would be reduced, a. f. d. 
Itoyalston, Mass. 
Corn is pretty good in this locality for 
the most part. A good many are filling 
their silos as fast as they can. Apples 
are about an average crop. Oats were 
extra good this year. Hay was • a good 
crop, more so than for several years, and 
of good quality. Milch cows are very high, 
$60 and more for black and white cows. 
Horses are high and not many raised 
around here, and what there are are a 
kind of a mixture of race horse, Morgan 
and in some cases Percheron crossed in 
too, so you see there is a chance for some 
intelligent horse breeding in Vermont. Most 
of the horses around here do not weigh 
over 1100 pounds, except what are brought 
from the West. T. w. K. 
Cavendish, Vt. 
The farmers in this vicinity have had a 
prosperous year. The maple sugar crop was 
light, but the Spring plowing was com¬ 
menced in March. We had a fine Spring 
for doing Spring work. The drought did 
not strike us until June, and did not last 
very long. Early potatoes were damaged 
somewhat. Since then we have had an 
abundance of rain. Crops all did well. 
The hay crop was the best in a number 
of years, and the after feed is fine, some 
places as much as two feet high. There 
was a very good corn crop and grain was 
good. Farmers have hardly got to digging 
potatoes yet. Dealers are buying, or try¬ 
ing to, for 35 cents a bushel. 1 have kept 
track of my work, fertilizer, seed, etc., of 
a piece of potatoes and when dug will send 
in my report. n. H. M. 
Copenhagen, N. Y r . 
This season has been rather an excep¬ 
tion with us, as we have had neither 
drought nor flood and crops as a conse¬ 
quence have been good. As this town, 
Phelps, has three kraut factories, we raise 
lots of cabbage, 20-acre fields are very com¬ 
mon, and some of these large fields are 
this year producing an average of 20 tons 
of cabbage to the acre. The market opened 
up the latter part of August at $15 per 
ton, but September 1 offered $7 and at 
that time a great deal was contracted to 
the kraut factories for $6 per ton for the 
entire crop. At present, October 3, there 
is scarcely any market, the local produce 
buyers paying $3.50 when they find a place 
for a car. Potatoes are better than last 
year. The few who have dug report yields 
from 100 to 250 bushels per acre. Price 
at car at present 45 cents per bushel. 
Corn has eared well and indications are 
that the yield will be above the average. 
The apple crop is, if either way, below 
last year’s in quantity, but far superior 
in quality. I believe the bulk of the A1 
apples are sold now and at prices from 
$2 50 a barrel and fruit to $3.50 for fruit 
alone. Cider apples are bringing 40 cents 
per 100 pounds, and dry apples, that is the 
windfalls, including cider apples, _ are 
bringing 50 cents per 100 pounds. W heat 
is looking fine this Fall, and the acreage 
is considerably more than common. By 
following suggestions given in The It. 
N.-Y. I have succeeded in securing a beau¬ 
tiful stand of Alfalfa. July 3, 1909, I 
sowed 60 pounds of seed on two acres of 
well-prepared ground, and this year I put 
nine big loads of Alfalfa in the barn from 
that same two acres. L- G. B. 
Phelps, N. Y. 
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Crude Rubber Has Doubled in Price 
but You Get the Same “Ball-Band” Quality 
The price of crude rubber has more than doubled m the last year or two, owing 
to the greatly increased demand in the automobile tire and other mdustnes. 
And the temptation is strong for the unscrupulous manufacturer of rubber 
footwear to cheapen the quality of his product by introducing 
a large proportion of inferior compounds. 
You couldn’t tell the difference at sight, but you’d begin to 
tell it mighty soon in the wear. 
Your protection is to look for the RED “Ball-Band trade¬ 
mark when you buy Rubber footwear, and to take no substi¬ 
tute that a dealer may offer you because there happens to be 
more profit in it. We use the best materials that money can 
buy; the most skilled labor obtainable. 
And it’s true that under such conditions we make but a 
fraction of the profit that the unscrupulous manufacturer, 
skimping on materials and workmanship, can make. 
But it’s also true that 8,000,000 people wear “Ball-Band” 
goods and will have nothing else. And the poor-quality man 
must fool a new lot of people each season, while 
we make thousands of new customers 
every year on the recommen¬ 
dations of the old ones. 
Always Look for 
the RED “Ball-Band” Trade-mark 
If you’re not one of the “Ball-Band” wearers, get a pair 
from your dealer at once and note their superiority for yourself. 
Forty-five thousand dealers sell “Ball-Band” goods. Some of them sell other 
brands, too. But look for the RED “Ball-Band” trade-mark. If by any chance your 
dealer can’t supply you. write us, mentioning his.name, and we will see that you are fitted. 
“Ball-Band” Arctics 
are the same quality as -Ball-Band” Rubber Boots. They give you the same comfort, 
the same long wear, the same perfect satisfaction. 1 he same thing is true ot our 
All-Knit Wool Boots and Socks 
which are worn by millions of outdoor workers. The “Ball-Band” guarantee of quality 
is back of them. * 
But be sure to look for the RED “Ball-Band” trade-mark^ Nowa¬ 
days, while crude rubber is jumping in price all the time, it s more 
than ever your only protection. 
MISHAWAKA WOOLEN MFG. CO. 
MISHAWAKA, INDIANA 
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