TIAtC RUBtA.L, NEVV-VOKKEK 
705 
Crops and Farm Notes 
Varying Land Values. 
The value of land is a subject on which 
men's opinions differ, according to the 
viewpoint. Last year the Lake Shore 
Railroad Co. was suing to condemn a 
strip of land for additional tracks, being 
unable to come to an agreement with 
the owner. At the trial the owner stated 
that he considered his ISO-acre farm to be 
worth .$100,000. but several bankers and 
real estate men put it at $35,000. I be¬ 
lieve the corporation wanted about 30 
acres. Shortly thereafter a piece of 05 
acres, in the same township, but a few 
miles away, appraised at $2,400, failed to 
get a bid higher than $1,350 at sheriff's 
sale. w. .T. M. 
Ohio. 
May 3. Wheat $1.50 per bu.; oats 
SO: corn $1. Cows $30 to $00 per head; 
beef cattle 0 cents lb., live: veal calves 
0 c: horses $100 to $250 per head. Hay 
$16 per ton. Butter 25; milk S cents 
per quart, retail; lard 14 cents lb.; po¬ 
tatoes 50 cents per bu.; apples 00. 
Bald Eagle, Pa. j. n. F. 
May 3. The maple sugar crop is light 
around here, owing to not much frost in 
the ground. The price for syrup ranges 
from $1.10 to $1.15 per gallon, sugar 14 
cents per pound. We tapped 100 trees, 
getting not more than one-quarter of a 
crop. G. o. c. 
East Durham. X. Y. 
I think perhaps the amount of maple 
sugar made here will average about the 
same as the past few years. The yield 
was very good quality. One maker 
reports 600 gallons from 2.000 pails. 
The price runs from 00 cents to $1.10 
per gallon. No sugar made for sale in 
this locality except perhaps in a small 
way for local grocers. a. f.. it. 
Andover. O. 
May 2. Nature has made great strides 
during the past week. The exceptionally 
warm weather has brought out the foli¬ 
age and blossoms in a hurry. All kinds 
>>t' fruit are now in blossom with the ex¬ 
ception of apples and quinces, and apples 
are just on the verge of bloom. This 
is only a trifle behind the exceptionally 
early season of 1910, when some early 
apples were in bloom April 30. A re¬ 
action will probably soon come, and a 
sharp frost some night may spoil all the 
good prospects. This will be the Green¬ 
ing year and the off-year for Baldwins, 
as the bloom of these varieties already 
indicates. Kings also are promising quite 
a heavy bloom. w. a. it. 
Interlaken. X. Y. 
April 27. This is a section of country 
of considerable extent practically with¬ 
out farms. Money comes to us almost 
entirely from sales of oil. gas, leather, 
lumber and wood alcohol products. Most 
of tis are renters and live from the stores, 
credit good for 30 days based upon abil¬ 
ity to work. “Thirty days from starva¬ 
tion.” Natural resources owned by a 
few companies. A few old-timers own 
small tracts of laud that with proper cul¬ 
tivation produce fairly well and respond 
readily to fertilizers. A local dairyman 
delivers milk in town for eight cents per 
quart. Butter mostly traded at stores for 
goods. No fruit grown her*- except a few 
apple trees around gardens. Limited 
sales for garden crops; most buyers pre¬ 
fer canned goods ready to use. We are 
almost entirely buyers of farm products, 
not producers and our prices are store 
prices. \Ve would not know what an auc¬ 
tion sale is. only for “Uncle Tom’s 
Cabin.” a. f. b. 
Barnes, l’a. 
Some of the milk in this section i 
bought by local milkmen at 3 1 / £ cents pe 
quart and retailed at seven cents ii 
1 lonesdale. The rest is sold to butte 
factories and to the Borden Company 
I lie creameries pay for butterfat ; 
think last season it averaged about 31 
cents per pound. Butter is retailing her 
ar cents. Veal calves are sidling her 
at seven to eight cents live weight, but i 
great many are shipped to New York hog 
dressed. New milch cows bring from $5( 
[" f"3; yearlings $25 to $30; not man: 
. 'ef cattle raised. Horses are sbippe* 
in j rom the West and bring from $25( 
to $300. Pork is bringing nine and It 
I' "-Va vressed. Eggs are selling from 1{ 
to _o m local markets; a great many o 
hem are shipped. Potatoes sell for abou 
"" ee . nts I>er bushel. Strawberries sel 
1 1 about 10 cents wholesale and retai 
, 111 12 to 15 cents per basket; rasp 
T 1 ' 1 ' 1 ? 3 ®. C( ‘ ,lts Dnart. Peaches averagi 
aiiout $1 a basket. w. o a. 
Wayne Co.. I*a. 
April 2S. We have had the hottest 
''curlier for April that I remember; it 
l;,s own more like July. The mercurv 
has reached 8S deg. in the shade. We 
have suffered some for want of rain, but 
c had a fine thunder shower yesterday', 
" 111(11 ls just making things jump. The 
n-ees are coming out very fast; plums 
and cherries are in bloom, apples will 
.. b( ‘ if it continues so hot. They have 
been well sprayed, and they were much 
111 need of it. as they are troubled with 
an enemy that threatens to eat the bud. 
arm work is very far advanced for so 
• A • niany gardens are made, and much 
t.if cabbage seed sown for the field 
'i»I>. 1 here will not be as much put in 
as usual, more beans going in. Wheat 
and Alfalfa are looking very fine, clover 
is doing finely. Some have turned stock 
to pasturage. Wheat $1.45; barley 75; 
seed oats 80; corn 75; potatoes, early, 
60; beans, red marrows, $3.25 per bush¬ 
el. Hay, Timothy, $15; young pigs $7 
per pair. Veal 9c; pork 7c; wool 28; 
butter 25; eggs 18. E. T. b. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
The North Chatham. N. Y., corres¬ 
pondent of Hudson Gazette, gives the fol¬ 
lowing account of good work done by the 
local school children : 
“The pupils of the village school gath¬ 
ered egg masses of the tent caterpillar 
during March and April. Prizes were 
donated by Messsrs. Angell, Ackroyd, 
WiltSe and Gigson. In all 23,316 cases 
were collected. Allowing 200 worms to 
an egg mass, over 4,000,000 tent cater¬ 
pillars have been destroyed. The win¬ 
ners of the prizes were Edith Johnson, 
Ruth Brooks, Ruth Whitman and Maude 
Brooks. 
Canadian Crop Report. 
The Ontario Department of Agricul¬ 
ture states that Fall wheat has come 
through in good condition, with consid¬ 
erably increased area. Rye is especially 
promising. But little Winter damage is 
reported to tree and small fruits. The 
rainfall for five Winter months was 4.19 
inches, or 2.08 below the average, and 
the snowfall 67.7 inches, or 5.5 inches 
below normal. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Interstate Cottonseed Crushers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. Birmingham. Ala., May 17-19. 
Southern Maryland Tobacco Growers’ 
Association, Laplata. Md., May 18. 
East Tennessee Farmers’ Convention. 
Knoxville, Tenu., May 18-20. 
Brooks County Animal Industry Con¬ 
vention. Quitman. Ga., May 18. 
Farmers’ Day, Maryland State Col¬ 
lege, College Park, Md., May 29. 
American Sweet Pea Society, Special 
show, Panama-Pacific International Ex¬ 
position. San Francisco, June 4, 1915. 
Cottonseed Crushers' Association of 
Georgia, Tybee Island, Ga.. June 14-16. 
Fourth annual Summer School, under 
auspices of Washington State College, 
Puyallup, Wash.; June 21-.Iuly 30. 
American Nurserymen’s Association, 
fortieth annual convention. Detroit, 
Mich., June 23-25. 
International Viticulture Congress. 
Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francis¬ 
co, July 12-13. 
National Fertilizer Association, annual 
convention. Hot Springs, Va.. July 13-14. 
Ginners’ Association of the Cotton 
Belt, Atlanta, Ga., July 23-24. 
American Gladiolus Society. Annual 
show. Newport. R. I.. August IS, 19, 
1915. 
Warren County Farmers' Picnic, Bel- 
videre, N. J., August 18. 
New York State Fair. Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 13-18. 
Genesee County Fair. Batavia. N. Y., 
September 21-25. 
Farmers' National Congress, annual 
meeting, Omaha. Neb.. September 28-Oe- 
tober 1. 
International Dry Farming Congress. 
Denver. Colo.. Oct. 4-7. 
Southwestern New York Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation, Holstein meeting, Randolph, 
N. Y.. Oct. 11. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
Annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, November 
19-14, 1915. Special show, San Francis¬ 
co, Cal. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Traev, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
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Suppose you READ UP on 
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reference work on Lumber Values) 
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1 26 Hib«rnla Bank Bldf?.« N.w Orleans, La. 
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marked in the following squares: 
□ New Silo Book, Vol. 37. (Plans) 
□ Barn Book (4 plans) Vol. 4. 
□ FarmNeedsBook (8plans) Vol. 20. 
□ Carpentry Book (12 plans) Vol. 36. 
□ Shingle House, Vol. 29. (Plans) 
□ U. S. Gov’t Report on Cypress, 
R.F.D 
Town 
State 
