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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEK 
October 10, 
NEW YORK STATE APPLE OUTLOOK. 
A BOUT 60 per cent of trees, have fair 
crop of good quality but a little un¬ 
der size. Local buyers are offering 
$1.50 for 2 y 2 inch Greenings, $1.70 for 
Kings, packed A grade. L. V. F. 
Charlotte, N. Y. 
Apple buyers here are not taking hold. 
One local dealer has bought a few or¬ 
chards at a lump sum, and another has 
paid $1.50 tree run. barrels included. 
Growers generally are going to handle the 
apples according to the new law. 
Brockport, N. Y. H. L. b. 
Our apple market is very dull. 
A few growers have sold Greenings at 
$1.50 per barrel “A” grade, packed 2% 
inch. Others have sold Greenings at 50 
cents per 100 pounds. Twenty Ounce 
are selling at $1.75. As yet there is no 
market for Baldwins. Most of the apples 
in this locality will be handled through 
a branch of the Eastern Fruit Exchange 
recently organized in Churchville and will 
be packed at central packing plant. 
Churchville, N. Y. y. d. 
I have heard of one sale at $1.20 per 
barrel for New York standard grade A, 
2% inches and upwards, and this price 
has been offered us. The same buyers 
take the seconds at 20 cents per hun¬ 
dred. Evaporators are buying some or¬ 
chards at 25 cents per hundred for the 
crop, shaken and picked up. Twenty 
Ounce and King A have sold for $1 per 
hundred. Fall Pippins and Maiden 
Blush 75 cents per hundred. G. w. c. 
Union Ilill, N. Y. 
Buyers are only looking at orchards 
and some are not even offering any price. 
Local dealers are offering $1.25 for A 
grade for fruit and barrel and $1 for B 
grade. Growers who barrel their fruit 
will try to handle them according to the 
new law. Some are going to make three 
grades. Growers who do not spray or 
thin their orchards well have an inferior 
quality and nearlv all of them are taken 
to the canning factory at a low price this 
year. We shall pack our fruit under the 
new law and store it in Philadelphia. 
Sodus, N. Y. A. D. 
I have heard of but one or two sales 
of Winter apples at $1.50 for A grade, 
Baldwin 2^/ inch and up. Greening are 
bringing from $1.30 to $1.60 for A grade, 
2% inches. They sort out one half or 
more. Twenty Ounce are from $1.75 to 
$2.25. A grades. There has been no mar¬ 
ket for drying stock yet. One carload of 
ciders sold at 12 cents per hundred. 
Speneerport, N. Y. L. E. c. 
I do not know of any sales or any of¬ 
fers being made by buyers. I think this 
is due to the reluctance of the banks to 
advance money on storage receipts, as 
they usually do. I believe that all grow¬ 
ers who are in the hahit of storing and 
shipping their own apples are striving to 
live up to the new law. Others denounce 
it and are trying to dispose of their crop 
by the bushel. F. w. c. 
Pultneyville, N. Y. 
Wealthy, Twenty Ounce and Alexan¬ 
der have brought about one cent per 
pound or $2 for A grade packed accord¬ 
ing to the new law. I know of no sales 
of Greening or King. No offers made on 
Winter fruit yet. The buyers say there 
is no market and the export trade is 
spoiled for the present. There has been 
a new growers’ and shippers’ exchange 
formed here in the last few days with 20 
members. Winter fruit seldom looked bet¬ 
ter than at present, .and a good crop of 
most varieties. G. j. A. 
' Ililton, N. Y. 
Buyers are offering $1.50 for King, 
Spy, Twenty Ounce and Pound Sweets. 
I have heard of one sale of Baldwins at 
that price, all to be packed standard A 
grade. I think nearly all the growers in 
this locality intend to pack in accordance 
with the new law. I understand the 
evaporators intend not to run. d. d. s. 
Wyoming, N. Y. 
Some buyers are offering $1.50 for 
Winter apples, but not many sales. It is 
about impossible for buyers to get money 
to buy apples with, or for farmers to get 
money either, and the uncertainty makes 
a man think twice before he buys ap¬ 
ples at $1.50, even if he can got the 
money. I do not believe, however, that 
the apple crop will barrel up nearly as 
big as reported. c. A. 
Medina, N. Y. 
There are no outside buyers in here 
and the local dealers are not on the road 
looking for apples. They are buying 
some. Prices ranging from $1 per bar¬ 
rel, including the barrel, to $1 per bar¬ 
rel for the fruit. Growers who are pack¬ 
ing their own apples seem to be making 
an honest effort to comply with the law 
and all seem to agree that the law is a 
good one so far as its intent is concerned. 
There will be comparatively few “fancy” 
grade apples here as they are running 
small. Grades will be mostly A and B, 
A grade being packed down to 2% inch. 
Evaporator men are buying orchards, tree 
run. for from 25 to 40 cents per 100 
pounds with chops out. c. P. F. 
Williamson, N. Y. 
The situation here is hard. Practically 
no sales have been made at this time; 
no buyers here and all local men seem 
to be talking less than $1. About 50 
per cent, of the growers are packing in 
accordance with the New York standard 
pack. The rest are. selling tree run. The 
inspectors have been around among the 
buyers and ordered several to either re¬ 
pack or mark unclassified. About 40 
per cent, of the fruit will go as 
Fancy or A brand, here. Reports have 
it that buyers from out of the State are 
shipping out fruit, unbranded and a very 
poor class of fruit at that. T. w. A. 
Holley, N. Y. 
Dealers do not seem to be buying in 
large quantities, whether from lack of 
financial backing or confidence. I do not 
know. One dealer with whom I have 
talked, says he is going to store about 
three thousand barrels—enough to take 
care of his regular trade—and will buy 
only in small lots through the Winter. 
This man ordinarily stores 20,000 or 30,- 
000 barrels and buys small lots besides. 
Greenings, N. Y. standard A grade, min., 
size 2*£ inches, are bringing $1.50 per 
barrel, packed. I have not been able 
to, get an offer on a very nice lot of 
Kings and Baldwins and have not heard 
of any sales or bids. Wealthys and 
Twenty Ounce I received $2 for. Cold 
storage space is all taken and I know 
of several lots which are going into com¬ 
mon storage. We are all packing under 
the new law and I believe it will help 
us in marketing this crop. l. m. b. 
Albion, N. Y. 
It is not my opinion that the buyers 
are making a concerted effort to work 
the price down. I believe the truth is 
that the buyers are entirely at sea as to 
what they are going to do with the ap¬ 
ples after they buy them. This, we 
think, is borne out by the fact that very 
few buyers are in sight anywhere, and it 
seems to us that if the buyers were act¬ 
ing in concert to work the price down, 
they would be in evidence, talking low 
prices. The writer has been connected 
with a line of canning factories for the 
past ten seasons and has been interested 
in the buying of apples for canning pur¬ 
poses and has had to follow closely the 
barrelled apple situation. During that 
time I have never known the buyers to 
be avoiding apples as they are this year. 
The reason vould seem plain that they 
have fear of their ability to dispose of 
the fruit on almost any basis. Most 
farmers who are marketing their own 
barreled apples are doing so in accord¬ 
ance with the new law. I find them more 
or less conversant with this law, hut find 
also that many prefer to market their 
apples to the buyer tree-run and let the 
buyer assume all of the trouble in the 
marketing of the fruit under this law. 
Batavia, N. Y. r. m. d. 
Sept. 28. Fruit raising and dairving 
are the principal occupations in this, 
the Southern part of Ohio. People are 
beginning to turn their attention to fruit, 
as this section is more adapted to graz¬ 
ing and fruit raising than to raising 
grain. Price for butter at stores here 24 ; 
eggs 24; peaches $1 per bushel; apples 
not much sale, talking 50 cents per 
bushel. Potatoes $1; hogs 8%; cattle 
6 to 7; chickens 10; veal calves 11. 
Wheat around the dollar mark, while 
flour sells by the single sack for from 
70 to 75 cents. One mill offers 95 cents 
for wheat while flour from their mill is 
retailing at 70 cents per sack. The po¬ 
tato crop here is a failure, owing to 
drought, yet prices remain low. 
Alice, O. e. L. t. 
NEW YORK STATE NEWS. 
IIE REST DAY LAW.—The cheese- 
makers of the State are of the opin¬ 
ion that the one-day-of-rest law, en¬ 
acted by the last Legislature, is uncon¬ 
stitutional, and they are going to try it 
out in a test case. Win. .T. Peach, one of 
the largest cheese manufacturers in the 
State, has been made defendant in a 
friendly suit to test the law. It is to get 
a decision of the courts on an important 
matter, as the cheese men think, for milk 
must be taken care of on Sunday as well 
as on any other day of the week at cheese 
factories. 
Tiie Dkf.r Season. —October 1 the deer 
season officially opens. It is well for 
those who shoot deer, or shoot at them 
even, to bear in mind that male deer only 
may be shot, and these must have horns 
at least three inches long. The fine for 
violation of the law in this respect is at 
least $50. 
The Apple Trade. —There is less ac¬ 
tivity in the apple business in Western 
New York than last year, but growers and 
buyers will be likely to get on better terms 
before the week closes. Farmers have 
been holding No. 1 Kings and Greenings 
at $1.50 and some were sold at that price 
but Baldwins went for $1 to $1.25. It 
appears that the foreign war is not ham¬ 
pering shipments as badly as it was 
feared early in the season. In fact the 
export movement from Atlantic ports to 
European ports was greater by 10,000 
barrels, up to last week, than for the 
same time last year. Last week’s move¬ 
ment from New York was 17,000 barrels, 
the shipments being divided between Liv¬ 
erpool and Glasgow, the latter getting 
the big end of the trade. 
Indicted For Road Graft.—A former 
first deputy State highway commissioner 
and a Troy contractor have been indicted 
by the Ulster County grand jury on 
charges of conspiracy and grand larceny, 
also a labor foreman. These indictments 
hinged on a comparatively small contract 
for building two and a half miles of road 
in Saugerties township, the allegation be¬ 
ing that the stone used on this road cost 
only $3.30 a cubic yard, while the State 
paid $6.25 for it. It also appears that 
the road was a Avretched piece of work,. 
and one end had Avorn out. before the 
other end Avas completed. 
Foreigners Wanted in Jefferson.— 
A plan is under way in Jefferson County 
to organize an association for the pur¬ 
pose of inducing desirable immigrants to 
locate there. This is done in view of the 
shortage of farm help, both indoors and 
out, and it is believed that if a stream 
of immigration can be started from a race 
or nationality to this locality that it Avill 
continue for many years. Of course, no 
immigration is expected from tin* nations 
Avhile at war, but Avhen it ends there will 
be a rush for this country, as the promo¬ 
ters of the plan aver. Senator Brown, 
State Grange Master Vary, D. C. Doug¬ 
las, and others, are interested in tin 1 mat- 
tei;. It is hoped that 500 or 1,000 farm 
laborers may be induced to settle in that 
county, and it is estimated that there are 
now enough vacant houses to accommo¬ 
date them. 
Grange Hall Dedicated. —The fine 
ncAv grange hall of Chapel Corners 
Grange, in Poughkeepsie, was dedicated 
recently. State Master W. II. Vary offi¬ 
ciating! The building is of concrete 
blocks and cost $3,000. The assembly 
hall is on the second floor, and on the 
first floor there is a kitchen and smaller 
rooms. 
Coav Judging Contests. —The Farm 
Bureau of Tompkins County has conduct¬ 
ed coav judging contests at three county 
fairs, and thereby 44 boys haA’e received 
a lesson in judging, while 31 were bene¬ 
fited by actually testing their skill in 
placing the coaa t s, in the judging ring. It 
would seem to be a good plan for other 
farm bureaus to adopt where there is 
much interest in the breeding of pedi¬ 
greed stock. <7 • W. d. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
National Apple Day, October 20. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago. Ill., 
October 22-31. The folloAving meetings 
and conventions will be held in connec¬ 
tion Avith the shoAV: American Associa¬ 
tion Creamery Butter Manufacturers, 
Oct. 26. I-Ioistein-Friesian Association 
of America. Oct. 26. International Miljc 
Dealers’ Association. Oct. 26 and 27. 
Conference, Secretaries of State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association, Oct. 27. Official Dairy- 
Instructors’ Association, Oct. 27. Nation¬ 
al Dairy Union, Oct. 28. American Dairy 
Farmers’ Association, Oct. 28. Council 
of the National Dairy Show, Oct. 28. 
National Association of Creamery Man¬ 
agers and OAvners. Oct. 28. American 
Jersey Cattle Club. Oct. 28. National 
Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers. 
Oct. 28, 29 and 30. International Asso¬ 
ciation of Dairy and Milk Inspectors. 
Oct. 29, American Guernsey Cattle Club, 
Oct. 29, Congress of Marketing, Oct. 29. 
Milk Producers’ Association, Oct. 30. 
New England Fruit Show in connec¬ 
tion with the Rhode Island Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association annual meeting, in Prov¬ 
idence, R. I.. November 9, 10, 11 and 12; 
secretary, A. M. Parmelee, Nonvood, 
R. I. 
National Grange, annual meeting, Wil¬ 
mington, Del.. November 11-14. 
Maryland Week Exhibition, State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. Maryland Crop Im¬ 
provement, Dairymen’s and Beekeepers’ 
Association, Baltimore, November 16-21. 
Annual Show of the Paterson, N. J.. 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion, November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis. Ind., November 18-24. 
Western Connecticut Poultry Associa¬ 
tion of Danbury. Conn.. Inc., nineteenth 
annual exhibition. Hull’s Armory Hall, 
Danbury, Nov. 26, 27, 28; secretary, 
Thomas Deans, 39 Hoyt St., Danbury, 
Conn. 
Second annual seed exposition, Montana 
Seed Growers’ Association, Bozeman, 
Mont., December 8-10. 
January 9tli to 15th, inclusive, 1915, 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds, Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry SIioaa'S combined. 
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