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February 7, 
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L LIVE stock reports. 
I have the honor of being vice-president 
of the only truly cooperative creamery in 
our State. We have been operating for 
the past 16 months very successfully. 
We are growing some good corn hero, and 
with our fine Alfalfa, good water and 
fine mild climate, this is an ideal dairy 
country. We paid, at the creamery, 31 
cents per pound for butterfat in the 
month of December last. Alfalfa is sell¬ 
ing at .$5 per ton. i. b. 
Nampa, Idaho. 
We have had up to this date (Jan. 
20) a very mild open Winter, and stock 
is in fine condition. Trices about as fol¬ 
lows : Ilogs, $S to $8.10; cattle, milch 
cows with calves, $40 to $70; feeding 
cattle from $6 up. There are no sales of 
sheep, as the lambing season is now on, 
and no horses or mules are offered for 
sale yet. The buyers get their stock 
from Illinois and Iowa, and have them 
on sale through March and April. Wheat 
is about 92; corn, 65; hay, $12 to $15 
as to quality. Clover seed from $7 to 
$8; veal calves from $9 to $10.50 per 
l00. Turkeys, 15: chickens, 10 and 12; 
eggs, 25; butter, 25; creamery pays 32. 
Tobacco has a splendid crop, and the 
price good; some have sold at 17 and IS 
cents all around. Growing wheat looks 
fine. Lots of Fall plowing has been done. 
Brookville, Ind. T. A. M. 
Cows from $40 to $150 each if new 
milch. Oxen of about seven feet girth 
around $275 per pair. Hogs dressed 11 
and 12 cents per pound. Butter 30; 
eggs 30; potatoes 60; cabbage 1% cents 
per pound. Apples, No. 1 and No. 2, 
$2.50 per barrel, very scarce in this sec¬ 
tion. Sweet corn to can at the factory 
2% cents per pound. Very little young 
stock raised, calves too high. In the last 
50 years f till j’ one half of the farms have 
been abandoned (left to grow up) in this 
part of York county; others will soon 
follow (in spite of printer’s ink of the 
back-to-the-landers). We have excellent 
land for fruit and crops of all kinds, but 
hard to cultivate, rooky and hilly. It 
has raised lots of stalwart people, located 
from Portland. Maine, to Portland, Ore¬ 
gon, and would do it now if it only had 
some one to tickle it with plow and hoe. 
Maine. s. w. B. 
Wheat, So; buckwheat, 85; rye, 70; 
oats, 45; corn on cob, 75 cents per 100 
pounds; shelled. 65; potatoes, 75 cents 
a bushel, 60 pounds; apples, $1 a bushel 
(good quality) ; beef, dressed, carcass, 
12 to 14; same oil hoof, eight to 10; at 
retail, 16 to 20; pork, live, eight; same 
dressed, 12; poultry, live, 14, dressed, 
16; milch cows, $60 to $100; calves, live, 
9% to 10; milk delivered to creamery 
by farmers, 4% cents a quart; eggs, 
mixed colors, brought in by farmers, 
fresh, 34; butter, dairy, 36: horses from 
$50 to $250; hay, No. 1 Timothy. $14 
to $15; rye straw, long, $13 per ton, 
bearded, $1 extra; wheat bran, $2S per 
ton; mixed feed, $30; beet pulp, $27; 
dry brewers’ grains, $27; molasses feed, 
$27. All the prices I have mentioned 
are in open market. £lieep and lambs 
are limited in numbers. All farm 
products are plentiful. E. D. ai. 
Delaware, N. J. 
Weather warm and pleasant, no zero 
weather so far this Winter. Farmers 
busy dragging the roads, as it is the main 
topic being discussed everywhere. We 
may be able to produce a good article of 
any kind, and if no road to haul it to 
market, we are compelled to sell in tho 
Fall, when the market is crowded, thereby 
receiving small prices. Sentiment in the 
rural districts now is much in favor of 
centralization of schools. Farmers having 
plenty of hay, and other roughage are 
not wishing to sell any stock ; cattle, five 
to seven cents; liogs, eight; sheep, $3 to 
$4.50. Hay, $14 to $16 per ton; corn, 
75; wheat, 90. Farmers are organizing 
farmers’ clubs at the school house, and 
debating topics in relation to the soils 
and farm life in general, uniting in the 
buying of lime and fertilizer. Wheat 
looking fine, covering the ground nicely. 
Farmers are planning for next Summer’s 
work and farming much better than a few 
years ago. w. p. e. 
Athens, Ohio. 
Conditions in Southern Nebraska are 
very favorable. We have had a very 
mild Winter, with no storm to speak of 
since November, when we had about six 
inches of rain in one week, which came 
down slowly and all went into the soil, 
thus giving wheat what it needed to go 
through the Winter. There is some com¬ 
plaint of wheat heaving out, by freezing 
and thawing. There is a large acreage 
of wheat and it is looking fine. The 
mild Winter is favorable to stock feed¬ 
ing. since there is a shortage of hay. 
There are fewer hogs than ever before. 
Hog cholera prevails to some extent, 
some farmers losing their entire herds. 
Milch cows, $60 to $100, occasionally 
one at the latter price; last Spring 
calves, $20 to $30; good horses, $200 
down; hogs, live, $7 to $7.50 per hun¬ 
dred ; butcher’s cuttle, $6 per 100. Hay, 
$12; corn, 70; oats, 40; wheat, 75; Al¬ 
falfa seed, $6; potatoes, 90; butter, 30; 
eggs, 32; chickens, nine. Real estate 
(farms) prices not changed, but sales at 
a standstill. Good farms held at $100 
per acre and up. li. M. k. 
Fairbury, Neb. 
CORTLAND COUNTY FARM NEWS. 
We have had the coldest weather for 
six years. As a result of weather favor¬ 
able for the work, several creameries have 
already filled their icehouses with ice of 
unusually fine quality, clear as glass and 
10 inches to one foot thick. The ice 
harvest at Little York Lake began this 
week. This work engages a large num¬ 
ber of men, the first day’s output being 
60 carloads. The Little York Ice Co. 
h;is the contract for filling the Lacka¬ 
wanna icehouses on both the Syracuse 
and Utica divisions, the house at Chen¬ 
ango Forks being the largest. The work 
usually lasts four to six weeks. The 
equipment is most efficient and modern, 
the greatest difficulty benig to secure 
cars fast enough to handle the product. 
About 50 of the most progressive po¬ 
tato growers of the county met at the 
office of the Cortland County Farm 
Bureau recently and organized a Potato 
Growers’ Association. Prof. J. L. Stone, 
head of the farm corps department of 
Cornell University, was present and 
talked very interestingly and instructively 
on potato growing. Every farmer present 
was genuinely interested and it is hoped 
to make the organization a means of 
much improvement. Another meeting 
will be held this week. 
Our county sees many great auction 
sales of fine dairy cows. One of the 
greatest in number of cows to be sold 
will be held on the J. E. Crittenden farm 
near Willet, January 29, when 184 head 
of cattle will be sold. This is one of the 
largest farms in the country, and the 
sale will include a large equipment of 
fancy farm tools. 
The stock on the well-known Peck 
dairy farm was moved into its new barn 
last week. This barn is a marvel of 
quick construction, having been built in 
60 days from the burning of the great 
barn which required the whole of last 
Summer to build. The latter barn was 
only just completed, the workmen’s tools, 
some of them, having not as yet been re¬ 
moved when it burned, with all its fodder 
for the year. The loss was estimated at 
$18,000, over and above a reasonable 
amount of insurance, which was canned 
on it, something like $40,000. A de¬ 
plorable feature of the eonflagation, 
which was supposed to be incendiary, 
was the destruction of 26 head of valua¬ 
ble cattle, including two bulls valued at 
$3,000 each. The new barn is entirely 
fireproof, or as nearly so as can be. The 
lower story is of cement construction, the 
next one of hollow tile, and the top of 
brick, with a roof of fireproof material. 
The new barn will furnish quarters for 
about 200 head, instead til' the 300 
housed by the one destroy'd. E. G. F. 
\ 
THE BUFFALO MARKETS. 
The Winter season shows to the city 
authorities and the poor market people 
the good and had points of the new 
Chippewa market, now just fairly fin¬ 
ished. The good things in it are suffi¬ 
ciently apparent to decide the city to re¬ 
build the Broadway market in a some¬ 
what elaborate fashion also. At the same 
time the long east side, which is pro¬ 
vided with roof only, is not habitable in 
severe weather, and must be provided 
with booths of some sort. The market 
has about 250 tenants, of whom about 
50 are butchers and the others produce 
dealers. There is well towards a mile of 
booth frontage. 
Potatoes are weak, sometimes being 
sold as low as 75 cents a bushel to the 
consumer, the price to retailers running 
to S5 cents for best grades. The quality 
is generally good. New red Bermudas 
are $6 a barrel down, to retailers, and 
sweet potatoes $1.25 a hamper down. 
This is the best season for Winter ap¬ 
ples, some dealers selling nothing else at 
this time of the year, carrying both east¬ 
ern and western fancy to common stock, 
including Palouse or Spitzenburg, Bell¬ 
flower, Spy, Grimes Golden. Baldwin, 
Tallman, Wagner, at 12 to 15 cents a 
two-quart measure, sometimes selling to 
grocers at the same rate per bushel. The 
class of green stuff, except celei’y, that 
farmers keep in a pit and open every 
day when needed, is still pretty cheap. 
It includes vegetable oyster at five cents 
a hunch, carrots, leeks, about the same 
and parsnips, beets and onions in small 
measures at five to seven cents. Cabbage 
is not as plentiful accordingly as cauli¬ 
flower, being 2^ cents a pound and 
cauliflower 12 cents a head up and in 
fine color. Celery improves very slowly, 
as it has been burned in storage or in 
transit. Bunches are small at five to 
10 cents each, to consumers. Lettuce is 
more plentiful than usual, small heads 
retailing at five cents and large ones at 
10. Endive is more plenty than formerly, 
but is uot much known yet, cucumbers 
have about disappeared. There is an oc¬ 
casional egg plant at fancy prices. 
Winter squash has run low early, as the 
crop was poor and decayed much faster 
than if it had been more mature. It 
sells at about four cents a pound to con¬ 
sumers. There is a good showing of 
green beans at 20 cents a quart and 
spinach at 25 cents a peek, both in fine 
quality. Both butter and eggs are some¬ 
what lower, butter not being quoted at 
more than 36 cents to the retailer and 
eggs, with offerings increasing, now dif¬ 
fer not more than five cents a dozen 
between fresh and the better storage 
grades, the average to consumers being 
34 to 39 cents. There is a storage grade 
that is enough lower to make it open to 
suspicion. j. w. c. 
