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Crops and Farm Notes 
The condit 
ion of 
wheat and rye i 
in N. 
Y. State 
as 
comp; 
a red with the U 
nited 
States. A 
, pril 
1. Wil 
1S l 
New York. 
U. S. 
Wheat . 
86 
88.8 
Rvc_ 
86 
89.5 
Prices 
to product 
•rs on 
April 1, w 
ere: 
New 
Y ork 
United States. 
1914 
1915 
1914 
1915 
Wheat - 
1.38 
.97 
1.31 
.842 
Corn ... 
.84 
.77 
.751 
.707 
<)h ts . . . 
.62 
.48 
.534 
.395 
Bailey . 
.79 
.70 
.647 
.517 
Kvc . . .. 
1.13 
.72 
1.004 
.63 
Buckwheat . 
.87 
.81 
.853 
.769 
Potatoes 
.36 
.85 
.478 
.70 
1 lav ... 
15.10 
14.80 
11.64 12.20 
Butter . 
.31 
.29 
.258 
.249 
Bggs ... 
— 
.20 
.22 
.166 
.176 
The Ohio 
Agricultural Commission 
gives the 
following 
statement of crop 
out- 
look and 
holt 
’ 7gS, 
the figures being 
per- 
eentages: 
Wheat— 
Condition compared with average.. 88 
Crop of 1914 still in producers’ 
hands. 12 
Weeks of snow protection. 6 
Winter Barley— 
Condition compared with average.. 93 
Rye— 
Condition compared with average. 91 
('oru— 
Condition in crib, compared with 
average . 96 
Remaining unhusked in field. 8 
Damage to unhusked in field. 12 
Damage to fodder during Winter. 21 
Fruit— 
Prospect compared with normal 
yield . 88 
Buds Winter killed . 7 
Apple Storage Reports. 
The National Office of Markets reports 
apple holdings in 270 storages, April 1, 
as 871.792 barrels. Reports of 210 stor¬ 
ages, with capacity of 5,381,402 barrels, 
for four months past were: o 
Barrels. 
December 1 . 2,881.056 
January 1 . 2,573,217 
February 1 . 2,080,568 
March 1 . 1,448,634 
April 1 . 755,652 
In these figures boxes were reduced to 
their equivalent in barrels. 
It seems that the Kansas weather 
broke some records last Winter. There 
was more snow in Kansas than for 56 
years before. The weather record seemed 
to give out at 50 years back. At Man¬ 
hattan the snow fall w‘ ~5 inches for 
the Winter, 55 inches for the three 
months of December, January and Feb¬ 
ruary. For four months, the total 
amount of rain and melted snow was 1(1 
1-3 inches. During March the snow kept 
away from Kansas for two-thirds of the 
time and there were nearly 15 inches of 
snowfall. The whole of this weather per¬ 
formance ought to help the Kansas wheat 
crop by filling the ground with water 
and giving the soil a good send off. 
April 7. Prices of farm produce are 
very irregular; the foot-and-mouth dis¬ 
ease has broken out in several (daces in 
this section. Several hundred cattle have 
been killed. The quarantine has not been 
strict enough. Price of butter 35; eggs 
15 to 18; potatoes dull, 30c per bushel 
in retailing. Apples mostly sold from 50 
to 75 cents. Veal calves from 12 to 13c. 
North Point, Pa. c. n. G. 
THE POTATO SITUATION. 
The following statement is made by a 
New York business man who is interested 
in the potato market. 
“I have just returned from a northern 
trip to the potato country. When I got 
up there late in March, potatoes were 
selling for 40 cents per barrel, and buy¬ 
ers were unwilling to take many even at 
that price, as the markets were flooded. 
They were racking and sorting the pota¬ 
toes very severel., and the average dis¬ 
card or waste amounted to at least 40%. 
When I left Aroostook County to come 
hack to New York tin* price had advanced 
to 70 cents per barrel, and telegraph ad¬ 
vices from Aroostook County now tell us 
that the price is $1 per barrel even in 
the extremely northern regions, and that 
there is a prospect for the potatoes go¬ 
ing to $1.25 or perhaps a little better. 
“There are several reasons for this ad¬ 
vance. First and foremost, we are put¬ 
ting the fact that The It. N.-Y. has been 
booming the potato i. -a proper and legi¬ 
timate way and urging people to eat 
more of them. Honestly, I think your 
campaign has done a lot of good, and 
while it would have done more good had 
it been commenced earlier, it has helped 
very materially. 
“Second, the waste in the potato crop 
in Maine has amounted to about 40%, 
and I am advised on good authority, that 
it has amounted to about 30% in New 
York State. All the figures that were 
quoted to show the enormous over-stocks 
on hand made no account of this waste, 
and stocks on hand were quoted as being 
all merchantable, whereas the really mer¬ 
chantable stock was 30% or 40% less 
than computed. 
"In the third place, the roads in Aroos¬ 
took County and in Northern New York 
are now just breaking up. Mud is about 
up to the hubs, and it is impossible to 
draw potatoes to the railroad from any 
distance. This means that shipments for 
the present are confined to those stocks 
that are already stored in potato houses 
adjacent to the railroad tracks. This 
shortens the supply for some two to 
three weeks. Also, Florida potatoes are 
not coming in strong yet, and are bring¬ 
ing $6.50 per Darrel. 
“Now if potato men who have stocks 
in store along the lines of the railroads 
will sell at $1 or a little better, and not 
hold for a higher advance, things will 
work out pretty well. If these men sell 
now at $1 or a little better, their stocks 
will be moved and out of the way 
by the time the roads improve, and 
the farmers begin to bring in their stocks 
from the potato houses located on the 
farms. The chances are that they also 
will then get $1 or a little better. If 
however, those having stocks in the po¬ 
tato houses adjoining the railroad tracks 
hold too hard and too long, the whole 
business will go slump, because their 
stocks and the stocks coming in from the 
country will all be thrown on the market 
at once.” 
April 2. It has been a remarkable 
March in Maine. The snow went off, 
all except some drifts by the stone walls, 
the last week in February, and the roads 
wore down smooth so the travelling for 
nearly all the month was as good as Sum¬ 
mer, and much of the time the dust flew 
in clouds like a drought in August. There 
was very little rain or snow for the 
month, considerable wind, but on the 
whole the temperature was about what 
April usually is. Cattle have come 
through the Winter in good shape, and 
there is hay enough to last till they get 
out to pasture which in central Maine is 
about the 10th of May. There is much 
dissatisfaction with the creamery com¬ 
panies because they are behind with their 
payments. For example one company did 
not pay for the January cream or milk 
till March 13. Cows are selling all the 
way from $40 to $85, according to quali¬ 
ty. Butter 26 cents at local stores; eggs 
18 cents; potatoes 25 cents a bushel. 
On the other hand articles we have to 
buy continue high. Corn $1.75 for two- 
bushel bag; meal $1.65 per hundred; 
gluten feed $1.70; cottonseed $1.75; bran 
$1.45; mixed feed $1.55. Many are feed¬ 
ing diamond gluten meal that carries 
about 40% protein and costs $1.90 per 
cwt. Not much maple syrup is made 
now, not one-quarter as much as 25 years 
ago, principally because there is a lack 
of help to do the work. liens are laying 
well, but many are discouraged and some 
disgusted at the low price of eggs and 
the high price of grain. r. w. h. 
Waldo County, Maine. 
April 10. There is no market here for 
large quantities of products of any sort, 
but to quote what we can obtain at pri¬ 
vate sale in small lots: Milch cows 
(grade) $45 to $70; butter 30 to 35; 
milk 0 to 7 cents quart; eggs 20 to 60 
(following closely the Boston market). 
Apples, No. 1, selected $2.50 barrel; po¬ 
tatoes 60; hay (best) $18 to $20. Maple 
syrup $1 to $1.25 gal; garden produce 
sales difficult, fair price obtainable. Corn 
80. No other grain raised. We pay high 
prices. This is not primarily a farming 
country, and above list is limited. Large 
quantities of produce are shipp <1 to Bos¬ 
ton where they net considerably less than 
as quoted above. i<\ l. s. 
Tam worth, N. II. 
TILE DRAINAGE 
ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS WRITES US AS fOLLGWS : 
" It is hard for us to tell just how much tiling 
has increased our crops, but our experience has 
been such that if we had a limited amount of 
money with which to buy a clay farm, we would 
only buy enough land so that we would have re¬ 
serve enough to drain every foot of tfcwith ditches 
two rods apart. During the past live or six years 
we have put in twenty-eight miles of ditch on 
our farm in Westfield. N. Y.. and have done 
most of it with that CYCLONE OITCHER. Tiling, in 
our opinion, not only increases the crops each 
year, but also takes out an appreciable propor¬ 
tion of the gamble in farming, insuring reason¬ 
able crops in spite of the fact that during the 
growing time there may be an unprecedented 
drought or wet season. The drains appear to 
tiave a beneficial effect in either event, whereas 
if no drains are in. the crop might have been 
almost a total failure.” 
WHY NOT INSURE YOUR CROPS ? 
BAKER-BARRON, Inc. 
221 WEST BROADWAY, NEW YORK 
Eastern and Export Sales Managers for THE JESCHKE MEG. CO. 
April 1*4, 101.1. 
Mammoth White Dent, 
corn of Northern origin and is Northern 
grown. Produces ears as well as stalks. 
It. B. Anderson, Guilford. Conn., says : “ Stalks 12-22 feet 
high according to soil. Ears hardened by Sept. 28th, filled a 
300-ton silo from 12ti acres.” 
J. C. Dreiclier. Dalton, Pa., reports : “ My silo corn was 
fine, some standing 20 feet high.” 
it. B. Fraser, Ferndftle, N. Y., writes: “Each stalk had 
from one to three well-tilled ears, filled my 14 x 26-foot silo, 
refilled it and sold a neighbor 10 tons from 4 acres.” 
Best big Yellow 
Dent for the East¬ 
ern States, 10 days earlier than common 
Learning. Recommended by the Agricul¬ 
tural Colleges. 
K I,. Parmelee, Putney Vt., testifies : “ Learning grew 15-16 
feet tall, many stalks having four ears. Six acres filled a ’ 
ton silo.” 
L. Baldwin & Son, Cayuga, N. Y.• “Had a tremendous 
crop, grew from 18-20 feet high.” 
II. It. Bennett, Barker, N, Y.: “Filled a 14 x28-ft. silo from 
seven acres. It would easily have husked 125-150 bushels of 
oars per acre.” 
The best large 
growing early 
Improved Learning. 
Early Yellow Dent. 
Dent for Ensilage. 
Wm. Smeck, of Pennsylvania, reports : “ Stalks 10-12 feet 
high, filled two silos each 12 x 28 from 11 acres.” 
Chas. Stein, Seneca Co., N. Y.: “Stalks 1014 feet high, 
would husk close to 150 bushels per acre.” 
M. E Griffith, Litchfield Co., Conn.: “Planted May 28th. 
ripe first week of September, average height 12 feet. 
Addison Stewart, of Vermont: “ Your corn was the talk of 
the town ; grew 10 feet high and was well eared.” 
You, too. can fill your silos and have 
good silage, if you use Dibble's Seed Corn. 
Price of above kinds: bushel, $2.00; 2-bu. 
bag, $3.00; 10 bushels or over, 81.35 per 
bushel. 
Dibble’s Big Red Dent t °“ e 
ing. Earlier than the Learning, with big¬ 
ger stalks and ears and more of them. 
Bushel, $2.50; 2-bu. bag, $4.50; 10 bushels, 
$ 20 . 00 . 
Dibble's Mammoth Yellow Flint, 
the earliest, largest growing, most pro¬ 
ductive Flint. 
Sanford’s White Flint, £K S" ing ' 
Price: bushel, $2.25; 2-bu. bag, $4.00; 10 
bushels or over, $1.75 per bushel. 
StowcU’s Evergreen Sweet Fodder Corn, $1.50 per 
bushel as long as stock lasts. 
Dibble’s Seed Corn J££*S£r2S 
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Address EDWARD F. DIBBLE SEEDGROWER 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y., Box B 
DIBBLES ENSILAGE CORN 
GROWS THE BIG STALKS 
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