THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
603 
Crops and Farm Notes 
The Department of Agriculture esti¬ 
mates a damage of 35 to SO per cent, in the 
southern and central portion of the Texas 
peach area, embracing, Jacksonville, Ath¬ 
ens. Marshall and Lindale. The northern 
points appear to have suffered but little. 
In 1913 shipments from these stations 
ranged from five to 150 carloads. In 1914 
the Texas crop was practically a failure. 
Despite the recent damage estimated 
shipments from these points will range 
from 50 to 400 cars. 
Frost, March 21, destroyed three-fourths 
of the strawberries in the Louisiana dis¬ 
trict which last year shipped 1,300 car¬ 
loads. The Carolinas, Central Alabama 
and Arkansas report no damage, but the 
crop is two weeks late. 
The foreign trade of the United States 
in fruits and nuts was $92,840,172 in 
1914. Imports were $59,231,394, and ex¬ 
ports, $33,608,778. Some of • the items 
imported were: Bananas, $16,000,000; 
lemons, $5,500,000; olives, $2,500,000; 
grapes, $1,500,000; pineapples, $1,300,- 
000; currants, $1,250,000; preserved 
fruits, $1,000.000; figs, nearly $1,000,- 
000. Of nuts we imported: Cocoanuts, 
$5,250,000; walnuts, $3,500,000; almonds, 
$3,500,000; peanuts, $2,000,000; filberts, 
$1,000,000. Imports of lemons have in¬ 
creased 50 per cent, in 10 years; figs, 60 
per cent.; cocoanuts, 500 per cent.; and 
bananas and walnuts doubled. A most 
striking development is in Hawaiian 
canned pineapple of which we bought 
$6,000,000 worth last year, or 2% times 
as much as in 1911. 
The National Office of Markets, which 
has been making monthly reports of ap¬ 
ple holdings in cold storage, is to make 
the statement twice a month instead of 
once during the coming season. The in¬ 
formation is furnished to anyone on re¬ 
quest, and all who have been sending in¬ 
formation about this matter to the De¬ 
partment at Washington are requested 
to note the change. 
Very little land damage was done by 
last week’s storm along the upper At¬ 
lantic Coast. Farmers who had been 
planting truck gardens had the novel ex¬ 
perience of wading through snowbanks, 
where the day before they had been seed¬ 
ing, but the warm weather of the follow¬ 
ing two days removed the snow, so that 
its effect was about the same as a grad¬ 
ual rain which was needed in many sec¬ 
tions. 
Grain Stocks and Movements. 
Exports from Atlantic and Gulf ports 
for week ending April 3 were: Wheat, 7,- 
091.000 bushels; corn, 2,572,000; oats, 
2,034,000; rye, 350,000; barley, 161,000; 
flour, barrels, 316,000. 
Total exports since July 1 last: Wheat, 
150.242,000; corn. 3.24S,000; oats, 8.- 
711.000; rye, 1,118,000: barley, 8,397,- 
000; flour, 9,109,000 barrels. 
Present grain 
stocks 
in store 
in thou- 
sands of bushels 
are: 
Wheat. 
Corn. 
Oats. 
New York . 
4,525 
1,141 
984 
Boston . 
353 
92 
7 
Philadelphia .... 
1,171 
512 
380 
Baltimore . 
80C 
2,128 
1.043 
New Orleans ... 
2,400 
150 
520 
Galveston . 
1,025 
20 
Buffalo . 
1,385 
1,900 
930 
Chicago . 
911 
11.450 
11.134 
Duluth . 11.819 
1,977 
3,309 
Minneapolis .... 
9,397 
922 
2,019 
Kansas City .... 
1,780 
2.901 
549 
Government Grain Report. 
worth 30 cents a day, and for this reason 
a great many have decided to do without 
help, and do what they can themselves. 
When the State puts a ban on the sale of 
all liquors, then we can expect to employ 
men who will come to work with a clear 
head and steady hands. a. s. 
Woodbury Falls, N. Y. 
Trees looking well. Water level, un¬ 
usually low this Spring; am not looking 
for early Spring; too much April weath¬ 
er in February and March. g. m. t. 
Kennebec Co., Me. 
April 4. We had a regular blizzard 
yesterday. Our mail carrier did not get 
around. Today is Easter. We are snow¬ 
bound, will not get to either church or 
Sunday school. This morning father, 
brother and myself spent nearly the en¬ 
tire time digging out our sweet potato 
beds. The snow was fully four feet deep. 
Down in the pit near the furnace doors 
it was eight or 10 feet deep. This after¬ 
noon the sun is warming things up and 
the snow is going fast but it will be a 
long time before we forget this blizzard. 
Never knew anything like it for this time 
of year. trucker, jr. 
Gloucester Co., N. J. 
April 4. I have had the same help for 
the past three years, and expect to keep 
it the coming year as I have extra good 
men and I pay $2 per day, nine hours’ 
work, and they find themselves. I have 
no trouble; they know the work has to 
to be done, and that I will not put on 
any extra men, so th ?y just hustle and 
do more work in the nine hours than my 
neighbors who have more men who work 
by the month and board. I have tried 
both ways and find my way is the cheap¬ 
est for me. j. c . 
Woodstock, N. Y. 
M eather stays cool, with snow covering 
the ground every few days. Farmers are 
busy, sowing ground stonelime, as this is 
proving a great benefit to clover and on 
sandy soil for corn. Stock has wintered 
well; veal calves are selling for 8 to S^c 
per pound at the stockyard. Butter 33; 
eggs 18. There is a feeling that hens’ 
eggs should be sold by the pound, one 
man saying nine Plymouth Rock eggs 
weighed one pound and 14 Leghorn eggs 
the same and the writer weighed six 
Black Minorca eggs which tipped the 
scales at 18 ounces and they all sell for 
the same price. Following are the prices 
offered for six months milk in the Evans 
Mills cheese factory: From and after 
April 1 until September 13: April $1.30, 
May $1.20, June $1.20, July $1.25, Au¬ 
gust $1.30, September $1.50 for milk 
testing 3.4 for all but September, which 
is 3.6. A deduction of two cents per 
hundred pounds will be made for each 
one-tenth of one per cent, testing below 
the standard of that month, and in in¬ 
crease of three cents per hundred pounds 
for each one-tenth of one per cent, test¬ 
ing above the fixed standard for each 
month, no whey or skim milk being 
given the patron. c. D. 
Evans Mills, N. Y. 
March 22. New milch cows are worth 
anywhere from $50 apiece up to $200. 
Butter 35; eggs 20. Potatoes 50 cents 
a bushel; apples 75; pork $12 per cwt.; 
beef $10 per cwt.; veal 9% cents a 
pound, live weight. j. m. 
Stephen town, N. Y. 
The condition of Winter wheat April 
1 is put at 88.8 per cent, an improvement 
of .5 over the December report. The con¬ 
dition last April was 95.6 per cent, but 
as the present area is at least 5,000.000 
acres larger, this will offset part of the 
difference in conditions. Report on the 
amount abandoned through Winter-kill¬ 
ing will be made in May. Conservative 
estimates of the probable crop of Winter 
wheat range from 600.000,000 to 620,- 
000,000 bushels. The amount actually 
harvested last year was 684,990.000 
bushels. The rye crop is estimated at 
45,000.000 bushels, or 3,221,000 more 
than last year. 
States estimated at 90 or more per cent 
in Winter wheat condition are: Indiana, 
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, 
Nebraska, Oklahoma, Montana, Wyo¬ 
ming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, 
Ftah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Ore¬ 
gon and California. 
Between 85 and 90 are: New York, 
Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro¬ 
lina, Georgia,^ Michigan, Minnesota, Mis¬ 
souri, Ohio, Kansas, Alabama, Texas and 
Arkansas. 
Mississippi and South Carolina are es¬ 
timated at 84; Delaware, 83; Tennessee 
and Maryland, 81; Kentucky, 79; Penn¬ 
sylvania, 78; and New Jersey, 74. 
It is almost impossible to get reliab 
tarin help. The farmers as a rule expe 
too much from a hired man, and regai 
mm as a piece of machinery, that ougl 
never to slow up or expect a day off om 
in a while, and for these reasons the be 
ter class will not work on farms, and 
do not blame them a particle, as yc 
surely know that farm work, under tl 
general run of fai’mers Is slavery. Tl 
men in this town who will do farm worl 
start at seven in the morning, half hoi 
at noon and quit at four-thirty and tl 
wages are one-eighty-five to two dollai 
I’ei day. Half of these men are in 
March 19. Spring is here and farmers 
are busy sowing oats, building tobacco 
beds, fencing, etc. Stock has wintered well; 
considering shortage of feed caused by 
drought last year. More feed bought this 
Winter than ever before. Great efforts 
will be made to get out large crops of 
most crops except tobacco, which is slow 
sale at low price $7 to $7.50 for leaf and 
$2 for lugs. Morses $100 to $200; cows 
$50 to $100; hogs 7 cts; hens 11; eggs 
15; butter 30; potatoes 60; sweets $1. 
Apples all shipped here selling at $2 to 
$3 per barrel. u. w. p. 
Calvert City, Ky. 
Milch cows, Spring $70 to $80; Fall 
$.>;> to $125. Beef cattle 3^> to 7c per 
pound; veal calves 10% to 12%c per 
pound; bob calves $3 to $6. Milk, the 
selling of which is the main business here, 
3%c per quart this year. Apples $1.25 
to $4 per barrel of three bushels. Po¬ 
tatoes, usually 70 to 85c per bushel, this 
year would be glad to get 50 cents, can 
hardly give them away. There are no 
gardening crops sold. E. F o 
Quaker Hill, N. Y. 
March 22. Cattle sold at auction at 
\\ est Cambridge, good grade Holstein 
cows five to nine years old $51.50 to $61; 
two grade Holstein yearlings $27 each. 
I'tiU' corn 95c per 72 pounds; one horse 
$50; same lame and about 15 years old 
Seed potatoes are 90c per ISO pounds and 
they go to the Monmouth Co. Farmers 
Exchange at Freehold and along line of 
^ K- R. of N. J. Pigs that dress about 
1-0 to 14o are worth $10 per cwt. Eggs 
lo. g 
West Cambridge, N. Y. 
March 29 Potatoes 26; eggs 18; hay 
$!-• Live hogs, per pound 6%e; live 
poultry, per pound, 14 to 15; creamerv 
butter 29 to 30. Cows, new milkers, $50 
to $80. Maple syrup, per gallon, 90; 
maple sugar, per pound, 10. g. w. s. 
Strykersville. N. Y. 
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69 Years to 
Make a Suit 
Back in 1846 the 
makers of Clothcraft 
began to manufacture 
medium-priced clothes 
for men and young men. 
Their idea was to keep 
in that field—about $10 
to $20—and make the 
best possible Clothes for 
the money. 
This sticking at it for 
69 years has produced 
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through continuous ad¬ 
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methods, training of 
workers and so on. 
We haven’t any more 
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We know what you’ll say 
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Blue Serge Special at $15 and 
the other spring models at 
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A Widow Lady Having a Fine Farm 
stock and tools; 350 acres; house cost fifteen 
thousand dollars: buildings fine: all kinds of 
tools; .horses; cattle; hay: grain; husband died 
and must go for less than price of building; with 
a hnej stock. Price, for all, $19,000. H mile to 
town. Muck creek flats. For description write 
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Official Denial 
NO WAR TAX on HOMESTEAD LAND in CANADA 
The report that a war tax is to be placed on Home¬ 
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considerable circulation in the States, this is toad- 
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and there is no intention to place a war tax of any 
nature on such lands. 
_ (Signod) W. D. SCOTT, 
Oftawa Can;, Mar, 15, 1915 Supt. ol Immigration 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St., New York City 
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