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THE RURAL NEW>YORKER 
Crops and Farm News 
May 14. Eggs, 20; butter, 30; pota¬ 
toes. 50; apples, 60. Good cows any¬ 
where from $40 up to $60. Hay. $20. 
Good horses from $200 to $250. 
Blooming Grove, Pa. C. S. F. 
May 14. There are about 20.000 gal¬ 
lons of maple syrup made in Windham 
and Londonderry, Vt.. and about 12.000 
in Chester and a little of the towns of 
Rockingham. The price is off about 25 
cents this year; syrup, $1 per gallon; 
$1.25 in 1914. L. g. m, 
Bartonsville, Vt. 
to show a good increase, chiefly to supply 
the eondenseries. Wheat is $2.90 for a 
two-bushel sack. Potatoes are $40 a ton. 
Strawberries are early and fairly abun¬ 
dant. and bring about $2 a crate. There 
will be a good crop of raspberries for ship¬ 
ment East. R. S. P. 
May 17. Apples show tremendous blos¬ 
som. clusters almost ready to burst. 
Frost permitting we should have two mil¬ 
lion barrels this year again. Horses 
cheap $120 or less; oats. 70-80 cents. 
Apple prices were fair. J. R. 
Berwick, Nova Scotia. 
Our peach trees about hero did not 
blossom to speak of. although we had 
plenty of fruit buds. We had a few 
days about Christmas below zero, as low 
as 18. Is this too cold a climate for 
peaches at a profit? We have not had 
any for two years now? A. J. K. 
Millport. N. Y. 
May 12. No. 1 h y is selling at $25 a 
ton; very scarce; oats, 75 and 80; no 
market for potatoes; they are selling for 
30 cents a bushel, and the farmers in this 
vicinity must have 10.000 bushels in their 
cellars. Good cows are selling at $60 to 
$100. Butter at the stores, 33 to 35; 
veal. 12% ; milk, 7c. quart. J. M. 
Saranac Lake, N. Y. 
May 14. Not many beef cattle fed here. 
Steers. 6-7 cents; dry cows and bulls. 5 
cents; hogs, 7 cents; sheep. 5 cents live 
weight; horses. $100 to $200. Chickens, 
12 to 15 cents; eggs, 18 centsj^ creamery 
butter, 30 cents; cheese. 15; wheat, 
$1.50; corn, 85; rye and buckwheat, $1. 
barley, 80; oats, 60; potatoes to car. 30 
cents; retail, 40; hay, $14. w. w. I. 
Canoe Camp. Pa. 
May 8. We have had a heavy rainfall 
in this section during the last w r eek. and 
wheat, oats, meadows and pastures are 
looking just fine. Strawberries are ripe 
and a good crop; apple crop will not be 
so good as indicated at blooming time, as 
they are dropping badly since bloom shed. 
Prospects very good for peaches. Corn 
mostly planted. Horses and cattle not 
selling much for the last few months. 
Wheat, $1.40; corn, 95; oats, 70; hay, 
$15; eggs. 17: butter, 15; hens 12c. 
Washburn, Tenn. w. H. 
May 17. Potatoes are almost a dead 
letter, price to car about 20 or 25 cents 
per bushel. No fat cattle here; milch cows 
$50 to $65; veal calves. 7 to 7% cents 
per pound. Eggs, 18 to 20 at the stores. 
Butter, 25. No fruit here at present, 
will be later if we do not get a frost to 
kill everything; it is cold here to-day; 
unless it warms up before weather clears 
off we shall get a big frost. Our factory 
gets 16% cents per pound for cheese de¬ 
livering at the station. Hay $12 at the 
barn. J- L - c. 
Flysses, Pa. 
May 17. We are all fruit and vege¬ 
table farmers, onions and celery especial¬ 
ly. Butter selling for about 30c; cows 
from $60 to $80. This has been a very 
fine Spring for farmers, so dry that they 
could work all kinds of wet land. Grain 
has come up well. The season is about 
three weeks earlier than last. Fruit all 
in full bloom. Indications of a large 
fruit crop of everything. A large acre¬ 
age of onions put in ; they have come up 
well; will be a big acreage of celery put 
in. Grass looking very good; everybody 
ready to plant corn this week. Orchard 
well sprayed before the bloom; lots of 
tent caterpillars. E. D. w. 
Wayne Co., N. Y._. 
After making a full and careful in¬ 
spection of our fruit conditions in this 
county, (Fremont), I find they were 
never better. Our small fruits, princi¬ 
pally cherries, show that they will aver¬ 
age a good crop and our apple bloom has 
never s-t better. If good conditions pre¬ 
vail during the growing season, our ap¬ 
ple crop at Canon City, Col., and locali¬ 
ty will amount to 1,200 cars of apples. 
The recent freeze in the Western part of 
the State fortunately did not do any 
damage here. It was not necessary to do 
any smudging in this section and Canon 
City expects a full crop of apples. 
G. M. RICE, 
Fremont County Horticultural Inspector. 
May 12. Prices farmers get for produce 
are : Wheat. $1.50. What he pays at mill 
for feed, corn. 75; flour, $3.90; shorts, 
$1.80; rye, 90; bran, $1.60; chop, $1.90; 
oats, 55; fat steers. 7; calves, veal. 7 to 
30; cows, from $40 to $140 at public 
sales. Milk retailed by dairy wagons, 6 
cents. Cream, 40 cents per gallon ; but¬ 
ter fat, 30; butter, creamery, 30 to 35; 
country butter, 24 cents. Chickens, 12; 
price paid at stores and markets; eggs, 
15; potatoes, old, 60; onions, 80. Fat 
hogs 7, lard 12, hams 14; shoulder, 11; 
cows and steer hides, 13%: bulls, 12. 
Horses, $100 to $250; mules, good span, 
$500. s. a. n. 
Belleville, Pa. 
Mills are paying at present SO cents 
per bushel for corn. $1.50 for wheat, $1 
for rye. -60 cents for oats. Eggs are sell¬ 
ing at 22 cents per dozen retail. Farmers 
are getting 15 and 16 cents per gallon for 
milk; retail dealers are selling milk at 
seven cents per quart. Gardening crops, 
retail prices, salad, seven to 12 cents; 
radishes, five and seven cents a bunch: 
parsley, five cents a bunch : watercress, 
six cents; old potatoes. 50 cents per 
bushel; mint, six cents per bunch; as¬ 
paragus. 30 to 50 cents: rhubarb, five 
cents per bunch : new potatoes. 15 and 20 
cents per quarter peck: garden lettuce, 
10 cents per quarter pound. New cab¬ 
bage. 10 to 15 cents per head: rod beets. 
10 cents per bunch. Creamery butter. 42 
cents and roll butter, 38 cents, g. h. 8. 
Catasauqua. Pa. 
In Western Washington and Oregon— 
the Pacific slope proper—Spring condi¬ 
tions have been generally favorable, 
though local cold rains and a frost or two 
did some damage. Plums will be a light 
crop. Apples have set very heavily. 
Cherries will be about an average crop. 
Oats could hardly look better. All forage 
crops look exceptionally well. There is 
an increase in corn planting—for the 
silos, of course, as this is not a corn 
country. There is an increased number 
of silos, not much land changing hands 
but prices have not been out. Hogs are 
a little lower in price, but there is a good 
demand for young pigs. Local egg ship¬ 
ments have been unusually heavy and 
prices are about two cents a dozen below 
that of recent years. Dairying continues 
May 14. After nearly two months of 
dry weather we are now having plenty 
of rain, and everything has come out. 
wonderfully. Corn mostly all planted; 
people preparing ground for tobacco, 
which will be a small crop on account of 
plants, dry weather causing them to die 
in the beds. Gardens are looking fine, hut 
cutworms are doing'great damage. Win¬ 
ter oats almost a failure, but Spring oats 
look fairly well after dry spell. Mea¬ 
dows look fair. Stock is in good shape 
and fair demand: have had no foot-and- 
mouth disease in this section, cattle 
(milch stock) are tested for tuberculosis 
at the State’s expense. They have been 
testing each year, but have not found 
over 1% or 2% diseased and have de¬ 
cided to test only every third year. Very 
little hog cholera; never kills enough to 
amount to anything. Some good farmers 
but many are like the cotton farmer, de¬ 
pend on the one crop. IT. w. P. 
Calvert City. Ky. 
May 7. The Spring was unusually 
early, with plenty of sunshine and mois¬ 
ture and the soil is in excellent shape. 
The dry farmer has about completed the 
sowing of small grain, and is getting a 
large acreage ready for corn. The sudden 
advance in the price of wheat early last 
Fall, caused a large acreage to be sown, 
which, with a liberal fall of snow came 
through in the best of condition, and 
Eastern Montana expects to harvest the 
largest crop in the short agricultural his¬ 
tory of the State. This goes to show that 
farming is no longer an experiment in 
the Old Cow country, which less than a 
decade ago was considered a rainless, bar¬ 
ren region, fit only for the flocks and 
herds that for nearly a century had fed 
on its nourishing grasses and brought fat 
bank rolls to the rancher. The different 
European buyers have bought up all the 
available horses, paying from $100 to 
$180. Milch cows sell for $75 up and are 
hard to get. Swine are being rapidly in¬ 
troduced. Round-up starts June 1. 
Montana. M. si. 
Grain Notes by Experts. 
Exports at Atlantic and Gulf ports for 
week ending May 15 and since July 1 
last were: 
Week. Since July 1. 
Wheat, bu. 5,684.000 277.402.000 
Flour, bbls. 283.000 13.203.000 
Corn, bu. 530.000 35.072.000 
Oats, bu. 2,426.000 77.961.000 
Stocks in store were, in thousands of 
bushels: 
Wheat. 
Corn. 
Oats. 
New York .. , 
.. 2,535 
207 
1.044 
Philadelphia 
.. 1.025 
199 
1.065 
Baltimore ... 
.. 1.028 
1.124 
1.736 
Chicago . 
.. 2.745 
7.000 
6,327 
Buffalo . 
. 2.353 
2,485 
1.535 
Duluth . 
. . 2.390 
17 
399 
Minneapolis . 
. 4.774 
636 
973 
R. W. Snow reports favorable weather 
conditions over the wheat belt. The dam¬ 
age is serious in Kansas and Missouri, 
and noticeable in Oklahoma, Indiana, 
Illinois and Ohio. 
The Santa Fe Railroad estimates the 
Oklahoma wheat crop at 65,000.000 
bushels. 
Harris-Winthrop Co. states that 80 per 
cent of Kansas wheat and half of Nebras¬ 
ka is damaged by fly and chinch bug, the 
latter being particularly numerous in 
Eastern Kansas and Missouri. 
Adolph Kempner figures 210.000.000 
bushels of wheat for Texas, Oklahoma 
and Kansas. 
Shearson, Hammill & Co. hear from 
Dallas that the Texas corn stand is firm, 
and that considerable areas will be 
plowed up for cotton. 
Paul Kuhn reports fly damage in Knox 
County, Indiana and Edgar County, Il¬ 
linois. 
Edwin Beggs finds a fine stand of 
wheat in Cass County, Ill., some fields 
promising 30 to 40 bushels per acre. 
Our meat imports from Argentina dur¬ 
ing a recent week were 45.000 quarters of 
heef and 44.000 carcasses of lamb and 
mutton. Since January 1 we have re¬ 
ceived from Argentina 80.000 carcasses of 
mutton and nearly 200.000 quarters of 
beef. 
A co-operative marketing plan is soon 
to be tested in West Philadelphia, Pa. 
Seventy-five members of the West Phila¬ 
delphia Marketing Club will place their 
orders on a weekly price list of farm pro¬ 
ducts in sections accessible to the 69th 
street station by railroad and trolley. 
Auto delivery will handle the goods from 
this station to the members’ homes. The 
railroad has 2.000 feet available floor 
space for storage. Produce from a dis¬ 
tance will be bought through the agents 
of the express companies, but the special 
effort will be made to get supplies from 
nearby. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
IIolstein-Friesian Association of 
America, thirtieth annual meeting, Syra¬ 
cuse. N. Y., June 2. 
American Sweet Pea Society, Special 
show, Panama-Pacific International^ Ex¬ 
position, San Francisco, June 4, 1915. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Summer meeting, Seabrook Farms, 
Bridgeton, N. J., June 9. 
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-July 30. 
American Nurserymen’s Association, 
fortieth annual convention, Detroit, 
Mich., .Tune 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 18, 19, 
1915. 
Warren County Farmers’ Picnic, Bel- 
videre, N. J.. August IS. 
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-Oc- 
tober 1. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver, Colo., Oct. 4-7. 
Southwestern New York Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation, consignment sale, Randolph, 
N. Y., Oct. 1. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
Annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, November 
10-14, 1915. Special show, San Francis¬ 
co, Cal. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
May 29, 1915. 
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