THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
677 
Crops and Farm Notes 
The maple sugar harvest in Northeast¬ 
ern Ohio is not over three-quarters of a 
crop. E. 
I’ierpont. O. 
Potatoes are 25 to 80 cents for 65 
pounds; flour, good. $8.60 a barrel. Corn- 
meal $1.80 per 100 pounds; oats 65; 
buckwheat 80; hay $10.50. d. p. b. 
Clinton Co.. N. Y. 
April 26. Cows are slow sale, but a 
few are selling from $50 to $70. Young 
horses from $150 to $200. Cggs in local 
market, 19; butter. 28; potatoe 35. 
Eminence, N. Y. it. f. 
Wheat growing fast, a good stand and 
a large acreage sown. Stock looking well. 
Oats looking well, but not many sown; 
no corn planted yet. Ground almost all 
sown to wheat, so there will not be much 
corn or oats planted this year. 
Mullinville, Kan. n. ir. m’c. 
April 21. This is the county seat of 
Lenawee County. Wheat. $1.51 to $1.55; 
oats, 55; apples, $1 per bu.; eggs. 19; 
butter, 28; milk, $1.30 per cwt. ; no 
gardening (home grown) crops on the 
market yet, but lettuce about Sc. per lb. 
Good grade cows sell around $100. 
Adrian. Mich. c. ii. c,. 
April 22. Corn on ear, 35 cents per 
basket; hogs dressed, nine cents per 
pound. ITay. baled. $12. Fresh cows 
at auction from $65 to $100. Veal calves 
eight cents live; steers, fat. seven cents. 
Potatoes 25 to 30 cents. Eggs 19; butter 
24: wheat $1.45; oats 55; beans $2.80. 
Cabbage $1.05 per barrel. Apples 50 
cents oer bushel. j. f. 
Alma, Mich. 
April 20. The maple sugar and syrup 
crop this year has amounted to only from 
one-half to three-quarters the usual out¬ 
put. The syrup brings from $1 to $1.25 
a gallon, and the sugar from 12 to 15 
cents per pound. The last, runs were of 
an inferior quality as compared to other 
years. E. E. 
Lexington, N. Y. 
April 26. Fresh milch cows scllin"' 
from $50 to $75; native beef cows. $10 
per cwt., dressed; sheep, from $7 to $8: 
calves, fat, 8 cents live weight; six- 
weeks-old pigs, $8.50 to $4 apiece: year- 
luig hens. $1 each: butter. 80 to 32; po¬ 
tatoes. 50; rye, 80; corn. $1.00; buck¬ 
wheat. 90; oats, 75. These prices are as 
they are selling at auction sales. Apples 
are nearlv all sold in the Fall. Hay is 
selling for $15; rye straw, $12. 
Cairo, N. Y. w. ir. c. 
April 25. The farmers in my section 
are not complaining about not being able 
to secure adequate help; The wages are 
about the same ns formerly; the help is 
generally satisfactory. The farmers tire 
changing in their plans and methods so 
as to get along with less hired help, only 
by means of some of the late inventions. 
Take for example the potato planter 
that does the work of five or six days 
and a greater number of help, and does 
the work in one day with better results. 
Wyandanch, N. Y. w. V. 
The farmers are receiving, in Leroy, 
Genesee Co., $14 for hay, 88 for potatoes, 
28 for_ butter. Eggs 20; beans $3.50; 
oats 65; wheat $1.48; cows tire selling 
for from $40 to $60 per head. Horses, 
good ones. $450 to $500 per pair for good 
weight, while the lighter weight are sell¬ 
ing much cheaper in price. Wheat is 
looking fairly well, but needs more rain, 
as some fields look a little brown yet, 
due to cool dry winds. Clover seed is 
selling for $10 ner bushel for good clean 
seed; only small acreage barley and oats 
sown yet; but the teams are moving and 
will soon be in their busy season. 
Leroy, N. Y. \v. I), s. 
April 21. Weather dry and cool. 
Spring work well advanced. Oats pretty 
well in ; more potatoes than usual plant¬ 
ed. Fall grain looks fairly well. Farm 
products sell here now at the following 
prices to stores. Potatoes, 50 to 65: 
apples, 75; parsnips. 75; carrots, 75; 
onions. $1 ; eggs, 20; butter, 32; poultry, 
ol. live. These are sold at stores: pota¬ 
toes, 85; onions, carrots and parsnips, 
four cents a pound; apples, 40 cents a 
peck; eggs. 27 dozen; butter. 38. Horses, 
$150 to $250 each for sound ones, some 
even higher; good cows, $60 to $75. Hay, 
$18 a ton ; corn, $1 and milk retails for 
nine and 10 cents a quart; wholesale, 25c. 
gallon. h. w. s. 
Midland. Pa. 
The heaviest snowstorm and blizzard 
we had during the Winter came April 3, 
which was followed a week later by a 
severe wind and rain storm. A number of 
barns were wrecked and trees uprooted. 
Pear, cherry and peach trees have just 
blossomed out. Grass is very backward 
which is due to the continued dry cool 
weather. Some who are short of feed 
have turned out their stock on grass. 
8<>me are through plowing for corn and 
will commence planting soon. Land that 
has not been plowed is plowing hard, 
fruit growers say that prospects are good 
tor all kinds of fruit. Eggs are plentiful 
•'.ad bringing 18c; wheat $1.60; hogs, 
:'ve weight, 6%. Gunners are contract- 
mg tor tomatoes at 14 cents per basket 
or 89 per ton. Early potatoes have been 
planted. The acreage is smaller than 
last year. The prospect for Crimson 
clover is the poorest it has been for years. 
Dover, Del. c. h. 
Connecticut Beekeepers’ Association. 
The twenty-fourth annual meet of the 
Connecticut Beekeepers made the record 
for the association. It is naturally one 
of the smaller farm societies of the State, 
but its steady growth for past years re¬ 
sulted in a membership of 160, a balance 
in the treasury of $110 and no debts, and 
a meeting full of interest, science of keep¬ 
ing bees and good fellowship. The meet¬ 
ing was held April 17 in one of the Legis¬ 
lative Committee rooms in the Capitol, 
Hartford. The room was filled to its cap¬ 
acity all day. Pros. Sherman Bunnell of 
Winsted and his fellow officers were re¬ 
elected and their reports for the past year 
were very gratifying. Things move in 
this society. Ten o’clock means ten 
o’clock with its membership. The first 
speaker was Dr. Tom L. Scranton of 
Madison, a veteran as years go. but 
young and wideawake and interesting in 
his life. He is an enthusiast among the 
bees and told .his life story with the 
workers, what they had been to him 
from his boyhood up and what lie had 
learned in the last 20 years, in a talk full 
of interest. He showed among his an¬ 
tiques in beedom. one of his first “bough- 
ten” hives, one of his first frames for 
comb extracting honey and various items 
that gave zest to the discussion by the 
members. His address bumped up against 
the dinner hour and he had to give way 
till late in the afternoon. After dinner, 
promptly at one o’clock, George H. Yale 
of Wallingford, another veteran gave a de¬ 
lightful sketch of things he had “learned 
in beekeeping.” Mr. Yale was one of the 
early presidents of the society and is 
looked to by the members as a safe coun¬ 
sellor in bee love. lie said his bee life 
began with old-fashioned hives and brim- 
stoning the bees to get the honey. “I 
soon learned better. My beekeeping real¬ 
ly began with the Sunday hiving of a 
stray swarm that a neighbor told me of. 
In the second year I saved two swarms 
that were on the same tree and had a live¬ 
ly experience with them. They stung one 
of my wrists badly and my whole arm 
swelled to a great size, but I had learned 
how to hive swarms of bees and felt re¬ 
paid. I have learned that when bees be¬ 
gin to rob a weaker colony we must 
check it at once. Quimby has said dis¬ 
aster will overtake the beekeeper sooner 
or later and I am of the opinion this is 
true. Spraying, foul brood or old queens 
have driven me almost to zero, but I am 
not going to give up. I have learned that 
bees do not like dark clothing, nor that 
made of wool. They don’t like quick 
motions. It is best to be protected, when 
caring for them. I face my hives east or 
south. A wind-break near them is best. 
Fse a Porter bee escape in taking off 
honey. Hive a swarm in a box. King 
birds and martins eat bees, especially 
drones. They are liable to catch the 
queen.” 
State foul brood inspector A. W. Yates 
of Hartford gave an excellent account of 
his work, when, how and where in foul 
brood inspection. He urged cleanliness 
in the beeyard ; leave no comb exposed or 
hives in which bees have died ; be careful 
as to honey for feeding unless it is boiled. 
The inspection starts May 1 and August 
1. The limit. August 1. is a good time to 
dequeen and requeen. Wear and tear of 
a queen who has a foul brood seige is 
enormous. The society listened with evi¬ 
dent. pleasure to Allen Latham of Nor¬ 
wich who tfld about “Bulk Comb Iloney” 
as to how to get it, strain it and sell it. 
His advocacy of it developed a lively con¬ 
troversy over the merits of his proposi¬ 
tion. but none questioned his knowledge 
of the subject. Indeed Mr. Latham is in 
a class by himself in this association. 
Everyone looks to him as an authority. 
The proposal to hold a Summer meeting 
at Storrs College, with the Bornological 
or the Connecticut Poultry Association, 
was referred to the program committee 
and the secretary, Mr. Adams, for a two 
days’ session. c. p. ives. 
BOSTON MARKET REVIEW. 
All fruits are shorter and slightly high¬ 
er than a week or two ago. Apples are 
getting short and on their last run. Best 
Baldwins brine' $3.50 and $4 per barrel; 
good $2.50 and $3, with Greenings at 
about the same price as good Baldwins. 
Ben^Davis and Russets go at from $2 to 
$2.75 per barrel; Western box stock $2 
to $2.50 per box. Florida oranges are 
also about done and prices rule higher 
and range from $3 to $4.50 per box. Cal¬ 
ifornia stock still plenty but sells well at 
good prices on account of the few Flori- 
das about; these range from $2.50 to $3 
per box. Lemons cheap and plenty at 
$2.75 to -.25 per box. A few pine¬ 
apples are about and bring $4 per crate. 
Strawberries not plenty and prices are 
30 to 40 cents per box. Bananas in fair 
supply and medium demand at from $1.50 
to $3.50 per bunch, according to size and 
quality; reds $2 to $44.50. Cranberries 
in poor demand and prices about what 
buyer will pay. which is $3 to $4 per 
crate. California and Southern aspara¬ 
gus is very plenty and cheaper than usu¬ 
al at this time, $2.50 to $3 per dozen 
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Woods Tested Strength 
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Post Oak.7,380 
White Elm.6,950 
Silver Maple.5,820 
Crushing 
Woods Tested Strength 
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Shagbark Llickory.3,890 
Hard Maple.3,850 
Rock Elm.3,740 
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