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THE RURAL T^EW-VORKER 
1151 
CROPS AND PRICES. 
The potato crop in our region is about 
one-third as good as last year and prices 
range from 50 to 70 cents per bushel. I got 
about 400 bushels and have not sold any 
less than 70 cents. L. F. H. 
Schuylkill Co., Pa. 
After a wonderful drought potatoes 
turned out a full crop, as high as 200 
bushels to the acre, but not well matured. 
Prices are now 35 to 40 cents and at the 
first of the digging $1. Hay is $15 per 
ton. Cabbage is $6 per ton. s. D. H. 
Walworth Co., Wis. 
The potato crop was nothing to brag of 
or weep over; a fair crop all through this 
section; about two-thirds as much planted 
as other years. The yield was from 100 
to 150 bushels per acre. Prices are 40 to 
60 cents per bushel of 60 pounds. All other 
crops are good, especially corn. w. c. R. 
Ohio. 
Most of our potatoes are shipped in 
here at $1 per bushel. The crop in thi3 
county could not supply the demand this 
year. We had the driest season since 
1873. People here are in good shape ex¬ 
cept the shiftless ones and some of the 
newcomers. J. *• 
Burleigh Co., N. Dak. 
Potatoes were about a two-thirds crop. A 
very large acreage was planted. Present 
prices, 60 to 65 cents wholesale. The 
apple crop was short in this part of the 
State. The late frost last Spring did 
much damage. Quality is poor. Price, 
No. 1, from $1 to $1.50; culls, 75 cents. 
Luzerne Co., Pa. H. e. d. 
The potato crop for 1910 in Lancaster 
Co., Pa., varies from as low as 25 bushels 
per acre to 250 bushels. The present price 
is 50 cents. Wheat crop was about 20 
bushels per acre; price, 86 cents pec 
bushel; corn ran from 50 to 100 bushels 
ears per acre; price, 55 cents; oats, 50 
bushels; price, 40 cents per bushel, p. m. 
Farming is very limited here. Potatoes 
as near as can find would go 80 to o5 
bushels per acre, a little above the aver¬ 
age, retailing at 75 to 80 cents. Baled hay 
retails at $22 per ton, and scarce at that. 
Freezing weather came very early. A few 
potatoes were not dug. There are no other 
crops raised here worthy of mention. 
Dickinson Co., Mich. a. l. c. 
Early potatoes were almost a failure. 
Late ones were of good quality and yielded 
fairly well, probably 80 to 85 per cent of 
a full crop. The local market is dull and 
prices only 25 or 30 cents. Several acres 
have been given away for digging, and 
some local grocers who stocked up early 
in the season paid twice the present mar¬ 
ket price. Oats were about 75 per cent; 
wheat, 95 per cent, and corn, 75 per cent 
of a 10-year's average. Both last year’s 
and this year’s sowings of clover suffered 
badly from dry weather and the clover 
hay was very light. c. F. e. 
Wabash Co., Ind. 
The potato acreage in this locality was 
not as large as usual, but the yield was 
very large, going from 100 to 250 bushels 
per acre. The present price is 25 to 30 
cents per bushel. Hay was light, crop 
bringing about $12 per ton; oats also light, 
25 cents per bushel; corn, good yield; 
beans, large crop, $1.85 bushel hand-picked 
basis. We had a very dry season the fore 
part which damaged the hay and oat crop. 
There is some wheat and rye raised here 
which did fairly well. The principal crops 
here are potatoes, beans and sugar beets. 
Apples were almost a failure, but few or¬ 
chards had any to speak of. They nay 
about $2.50 per barrel now. a. h. o. 
Tuscola Co., Mich. 
Crops and prices in Lehigh County, Pa., 
average good as compared with former 
years, though the Summer drought affected 
the root crops somewhat. Potatoes are 
raised quite extensively in the western part 
of the county, and the drought and subse¬ 
quent rains caused many of them to make 
a second growth or neck. They are sell¬ 
ing wholesale at 50 cents per bushel in 
Allentown and Bethlehem, two good mar¬ 
ket towns for all kinds of garden truck. 
Wheat is selling for about 90 cents; rye, 
80; oats, 40; and new corn, 50 cents tier 
bushel. Apples are a short crop. Poultry 
raising is profitable; chickens 12 to 16 
cents a pound and eggs about four cents 
apiece. H. o. s. 
Lehigh Co., Pa. 
Early potatoes were fair, medium late 
not so good, and late a failure; perhaps 
an average of half a crop or a little less. 
Merchants are paying about 50 cents per 
bushel. This locality is in the “slate” 
land and is not much of a potato country, 
although our potatoes are usually of better 
quality than those raised in limestone soil. 
Corn was about half a crop with us, while 
two or three miles south it was a good 
crop. Oats was good except some fields 
badly smutted. Hay was good and gener¬ 
ally harvested in good condition. Early- 
sown wheat was much damaged by fly and 
yielded poorly; some late fields good. 
Prices at local warehouses: Wheat, 88 
cents; corn, 60; oats, 32, and rye, 70 
cents. P. Q. 
Cumberland Co., Pa. 
Potatoes have yielded from 200 to 361 
bushels per acre, of good quality; prices 
30 to 35 cents in car lots. They retail for 
40 to 45 cents in our local market. Corn 
is a poor crop on account of drought. 
Beans yielded from eight to 15 bushels per 
acre, price $1.80 for white and $2.50 for 
red kidney. Hay yield was one to two tons 
per acre; price $10 per ton. Apples were 
a failure. Hogs, $7 to $8 per 100. Wheat, 
90 cents bushel; yield 18 to 35 bushels per 
acre. Oats, 35 cents; yield, 30 to 50 
bushels per acre. Grapes, about one-third 
of a crop, price according to quality, 15 
to 20 cents a basket. I raised two acre3 
of onions on muck, which yielded 1,000 
bushels. I received 40 cents for firsts, 18 
cents for seconds, of which there were 
about 180 bushels. J. f. c. 
Van Bui'en Co., Mich. 
The potato crop here was very good. 
Allentown is our leading market, with 
about 80,000 inhabitants. Potatoes sell 
all the Fall for 50 cents per bushel, "ome 
were shipped to Philadelphia at 40 cents 
by car lots. We had a very good crop of 
corn. It sold at 50 cents for 76 pounds 
out of the field. Oats were also good and 
harvested without rain, retailing for 48 to 
50 cents per bushel. Winter grain was 
good also. We had a rich year all through. 
Apples are getting scarce on account of 
the scale. Trees are dying away fast. 1 
live in the southwestern part of Lehigh 
County, which is hilly with good water, 
sandy loam, not soon too wet and not soon 
too dry; a very healthy climate. I am no 
farmer myself; I am a stonemason and 
bricklayer, but I have a great interest in 
farming and like to read The li. N.-Y. and 
I think if more people would read it not 
so many people would get caught oy 
rascals. D. b. m. 
Lehigh Co., Pa. 
COUNTRY LIFE MEETING. 
The following notes regarding a rural 
life conference held at Morristown, N. J., 
November 19, show that great interest 
can be worked up in a matter of this sort 
when properly organized and conducted. 
Dr. Henry A. Buttz, 1’resident of Drew 
Theological Seminary, presided. He said: 
“When the rural districts are prosperous 
the country is prosperous, and when these 
districts are decadent the entire country 
becomes decadent and hastens to its final 
downfall.” This served as a fine text for 
the entire conference. President Kenyon 
L. Butterfield, of Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College, spoke on the “Rural Church 
in Country Life.” “Better farming,” he 
said, “is a matter of national importance. 
To have better farming we must have bet¬ 
ter farmers, and to produce these there 
must be better country homes, better coun¬ 
try schools and libraries, better country 
churches, better farmers’ organizations, 
better Granges. All these must work to¬ 
gether harmoniously. With respect to rural 
life the church has three duties: 1st, to 
develop higher ideals. Farm life is likely 
to be monotonous, depressing, discouraging. 
Yet the country is full of beauty anu 
poeti'y. These elements must be brought 
out, pointed out, and dwelt upon in the 
interest of a higher and broader rural life 
2nd, the church must get pastors who can 
interpret and present such ideals; and 3rd, 
it must be so organized and must so work 
that these ideals may become vital in the 
life of the people. It is evident that coun¬ 
try pastors must have more salary. Other¬ 
wise they will go to the city, and the best 
and most powerful men cannot be obtained. 
These pastors moreover must be commun¬ 
ity leaders. They must be sensible, prac¬ 
tical men, who understand the problems of 
country life and are in sympathy with 
country people. To make all this possible, 
churches must federate. It is not possible 
or even desirable that there shall be only 
one church to a neighborhood. Consolida¬ 
tion can be effected In many places, but 
not everywhere. But this is a good motto; 
Consolidate somewhere, and eo-operate 
everywhere. The church must be an in¬ 
tegral part of the community, the servant 
of the community. It must feel that it 
is responsible for the community’s welfare 
in every detail of life, and not merely a 
sort of haven for the righteous.” 
Dr. Butterfield’s address was followed 
by a general discussion, in which Frof. 
Myron T. Scudder, of Rutgers College, and 
others took part. Among the points made 
were that the rural church might well con¬ 
sider the plan of transporting people to 
church in comfortable wagons, after the 
manner of carrying children to a central 
school in consolidated districts. This would 
insure larger and more regular attendance, 
both at Sunday school and church. It was 
also suggested that the old-fashioned cus¬ 
tom of bringing lunch on Sundays, and 
staying at the church from say 10.30 a. m. 
to 3 p. m., might be introduced with pleas¬ 
ure and profit, the people enjoying preach¬ 
ing service, Sunday school, the social hour 
and the section prayer meetings, choral 
class, etc. 
The afternoon session was opened by 
Hon. ex-Chancellor Pitney, of New Jersey. 
He showed in a striking way the great ad¬ 
vance that had been made in our material 
civilization during his lifetime, he being 
able to look back over 80 years of the 
most extraordinary progress the world has 
ever seen. When he was a boy there were 
no railroads, wood was used for fuel, coal 
was a rarity, there were no matches, there 
were no mowing machines, no reapers. 
Thrashing was done with nails. 
Professor Hays’ address came next and 
was illustrated by stereopticon. It was a 
powerful presentation of the importance of 
consolidating our rural schools and of es¬ 
tablishing agricultural high schools. Fol¬ 
lowing Mr. Hays came Miss Sarah B. 
Askew, of the State Library at Trenton, 
who showed how necessary to the moral 
as well as the mental welfare of the rural 
districts are the traveling libraries which 
have come in existence in some StiHes. 
Mrs. Frank Ambler Pattison, President of 
New Jersey State Federation of Women’s 
Clubs, spoke in a very interesting way of 
the possibilities of women’s clubs in rural 
districts, showing what topics they might 
take up and how practical they could be 
made. 
At the close of the afternoon session the 
following motion was carried, namely, 
“that a commission to study rural condi¬ 
tions in Morris and Essex Counties be ap¬ 
pointed for the purpose of seeing how the 
practical suggestions of the conference 
could be brought before the people and 
could become realized in their daily lives. ’ 
The evening session was well attended 
and was occupied chiefly, by the addresses 
of Mr. Preston G. Orwig, Organizing Sec¬ 
retary of the Boy Scouts of America, and 
Dr. George E. Fisher, of the International 
Committee of the Y. M. C. A. Mi. Orwig 
showed how much the Boy Scouts would 
do for country boys. Already the “Rural 
Life Boy Scouts” have been organized in 
the West with the motto "Know the secrets 
of the open country.” In the East, how¬ 
ever, the Boy Scouts of America, with 
headquarters at 124 East 28th street, New 
York City, will fill every need of the coun¬ 
try boy as well as of the city boy. Those 
interested in the work for boys should send 
for the literature on this subject and find 
out about the greatest movement for the 
uplift of boy life that has ever taken place. 
Dr. George E. Fisher’s talk on rural hy¬ 
giene was a revelation. Do country peo¬ 
ple realize that their boys often are under¬ 
sized and under-muscled? That ill-health 
prevails to an alarming extent in the rural 
districts where, above all places, good 
health should be the rule? That, because 
of bad sanitation, diseases like typhoid 
fever claims thousands upon thousands of 
victims every year? Dr. Fisher’s appeal 
for wider information regarding rural hy¬ 
giene, for a physical revival in all coun¬ 
try districts, and the preaching of the gos¬ 
pel of play and recreation was a splendid 
climax to the proceedings of an interesting 
and profitable conference. Grangers, coun¬ 
try pastors, country school teachers every¬ 
where want to render good service for 
rural life and, here is a good wav to do it. 
Organize such conferences as tins at Mor¬ 
ristown, and the results will be seen in a 
far more prosperous and contented rural 
population. s. 
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$12,000 a year 
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