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THE RURAR NEW-YORKER 
June 5, 1915. 
Crops and Farm News 
Early Potato Area. 
The acreage in early potatoes along the 
Atlantic Coast this year and last is 
shown in the following table: 
Florida: 1915. 
East coast. 12,000 
Central and west coast 4,400 
South Carolina: 
Beaufort County .... 1,800 
Charleston County .. 7,500 
North Carolina : 
Northeastern coast .. 6,500 
Southeastern coast .. 4,200 
Virginia: 
Eastern shore . 100,000 
Norfolk district. 26,500 
1914. 
12,000 
4.500 
2,000 
6,000 
5,900 
2,800 
75,000 
26.500 
Grain Notes and Movements. 
Exports from Atlantic and Gulf ports 
for week ending May 22 and since July 1 
were: 
Week. Since July 1. 
Wheat, bu.4,289.000 286,954.000 
Corn, bu. 1.027.000 248.052.000 
Flour, bbls. 275.000 12,577,000 
Oats, bu. 2,578,000 80,540,000 
Rve, bu. 492,000 12.522,000 
Stocks in store were, in thousands of 
bushels: 
Wheat. 
Corn. 
Oats. 
New York . . 
.. 2,320 
280 
1,216 
Philadelphia 
.. 914 
185 
609 
Baltimore .. 
.. 923 
969 
998 
Chicago . .. . 
.. 2,293 
6.117 
5.081 
Duluth . 
.. 2.475 
96 
106 
Minneapolis 
.. 4.338 
398 
822 
Kansas City 
.. 536 
1,550 
330 
Paul Kuhn reports heavy fly damage to 
wheat in Eastern Illinois and Western 
Indiana, and corn badly delayed by heavy 
rains, water standing in many fields. 
B. W. Snow says that in Missouri 
counties bordering the river, west of Jef¬ 
ferson City, wheat fields covering 400,000 
acres, one-third of the crop is destroyed 
by fly, and the remainder will give one- 
half of normal yield. He estimates the 
crop of the entire State at 20.000.000 
bushels. 
Widespread damage rrom frost is re¬ 
ported in New York and New England 
May 27. In the Lake Keuka region of 
New York one-fourth of the grapes are 
destroyed. Great damage was done to 
strawberries and tender vegetables in 
Niagara, Orleans and Onondaga counties, 
the mercury dropping to 29. At Rutland, 
Vt., it was 26. 
May 24. Grain is about all sowed and 
in some places is up, but needs rain very 
much. Stock is all out to pasture, but 
pastures are rather short. Quite an acre¬ 
age of corn is already planted for early 
fodder; butter brings 22 to 25; cheese 
from 35 to 17. The F. X. Baumert Co. 
paid an advance of 10 cents per hundred 
for milk testing 1-10 per cent lower than 
contract called for. Eggs are 20c. per 
dozen. Little pigs are in good demand at 
$3 each ; many farmers have had bad luck 
with pigs, in some cases losing both hog 
and pigs. A quantity of last year’s hay is 
being pressed and shipped now. C. .T. D. 
Evans Mills, N. Y. 
May 22. Grass looking fine, cattle all 
out to pasture. About one-half acreage 
corn is planted. Potatoes, 20 cents per 
bushel; hay in barn, $8 per ton. Good 
fresh cows, $75 to $80. A very little 
wheat and rye raised in this section. 
This is principally dairy section. We 
have a Farm Bureau under management 
of E. P. Smith. There are several cow¬ 
testing associations connected with Farm 
Bureau, both of which are proving a 
great benefit to farmers. A. n. b. 
Oxford, N. Y. 
May 4. This is a dairy section. April 
butter netted us 31 cents; veal calves. 8 
cents; feed calves, 6; hogs, 6%. Bulls 
that weigh 3.000 and more we can sell to 
the butchers for 6 cents live weight. Good 
big cows, springers, from four to six years 
old. from $50 to $65 at public auction. 
Horses from $150 to $225. The last ear 
of potatoes that was shipped from here 
were 30 cents a bushel, delivered to the 
car. Apples sold last Winter, most of 
them. 50 cents a bushel picked and put 
in the cellar. Eggs, 18c. L. G. 
Burlington, Pa. 
May 25. This is a dairy country. 
Cheese made April 17-23 sold May 8 for 
15%c. This nets the patrons $1.28 per 
100 pounds of milk. Cheese made April 
23-May 1 sold May 35 for 15 %c. Made 
May 1-8 sold May 22 for 16%c. Divi¬ 
dends are not made out. Cream sold at 
three cents per test during April, and 
May 1-15 for 2% per test at the cream¬ 
ery Cattaraugus. Butter at store, 30c.; 
eggs, per dozen, 20c. Hogs sold at 7c. 
per lb. May 8. There is no market for 
horses. They are not dealing much in 
cattle. Potatoes worth 25c. per bushel. 
Cattaraugus, N. Y. J. P. s. 
May 20. As we are within 30 miles of 
the Philadelphia market the chief produc¬ 
tion is milk. We now receive from $1.35 
per 100 pounds; the city price is four 
cents, freight 24 cents for 40 quarts, far¬ 
mers furnishing the cans. Cows sell from 
$70 to $140 for fresh and about $50 for 
dry. Horses from $135 to $200; mules, 
$250. $500 a pair. Wheat is sold as soon 
after harvest as possible, as it is all 
shipped out, and the only buyers are 
those in car lots. Last year the price 
was 75 to 80 cents. Corn sells now for 
83. I sold a carload in December for 67; 
oats, 50; potatoes, 50; calves, 8 to 9c. 
per pound; pigs, 100 pounds, from 7% 
to 30. Hay, $15 to $18 per ton. T. s. D. 
Whitford, Pa. 
Milch cows from $85 to $125. Milk, 
May, $1.30 per 100; June, $1.20; July, 
$1.40; August, $1.50; September, $1.60. 
Milk and dairy cattle entirely here; a 
few apples and potatoes grown for home 
consumption only. g. l. 
Middleville, N. Y. 
May 24. Good milch cows, $70 to $90. 
('alves, fat, skin-dressed, $8 per cwt.; fat 
hogs, dressed, 12c. per lb. Butter, best 
dairy, 30c. per lb.; eggs, 21; poultry, old 
hens, 14. Potatoes very cheap, so we 
are feeding ours to cattle; sold some for 
25c. per bushel. t-,. t. 
Central Bridge, N. Y. 
May 11. I have 480 acres to Summer 
fallow with a tractor. We have had line 
rain for the last three days, something 
new for this dry country. There are good 
prospects for wheat, much of which was 
re-seeded in March. At present I have 
the well-drillers here. They struck water 
at 138 feet, getting into rock at three 
feet. They are down 160 feet. Most of 
the rock was basalt. c. .T. n. 
Oregon. 
May 20. Average cows, $60; beef by 
the carcass, 30c. pound ; veal by the car¬ 
cass, 11% ; dressed chickens per lb., 19; 
butter, country rolls per lb., 28; milk, 
qt., 7c.; buttermilk, gal., 10; eggs. 20; po¬ 
tatoes, bush., 60; buckwheat, 85; oats, 
60; corn, shelled. 75; hay, ton, $16; 
straw, $30; hogs, dressed, per lb.. 10; Oil 
City market, strawberries, qt.. 15; new 
cabbage, per lb., 5c.: lettuce, lb., 14; to¬ 
matoes, lb., 15. IT. m. 
Reno, Pa. 
Peaches about one-fourth as many as 
last year; sour cherries a good half crop; 
plums, a more than full crop of all kinds. 
Blight is causing terrible havoc among 
pears, Kieffers and all. Many apple trees 
are also suffering from twig blight. Early 
apples will not be so plentiful as last 
year, while, thoroughly late varieties 
promise a fair crop ; not many apple trees 
hereabout. Alfalfa looks remarkably 
fine; most Timothy meadows look 
healthy ; pastures short. Wheat on heavy 
soil a great stand, medium soil good, wheat 
heading out. but short, thin soils suf¬ 
fered much from dry weather lately. Po¬ 
tatoes are an average stand and healthy, 
scarcely any beetles so far. Everything 
needs rain ; but a few light rains since 
the midiTe of March. r,. f. 
Southwestern Ohio. 
Boston Market Review. 
Strawberries are at last cheap, while 
grapefruit and oranges are higher owing 
to decreased receipts of the latter. Pine¬ 
apples are following suit to the straw¬ 
berries by coming in more plentifully, and 
prices range lower as a result at $2.50 
per crate, while strawberries sell at 12 
cents to 16 cents per box. Best grape¬ 
fruit sells at $4 per box. Oranges, Cali¬ 
fornia stock, $2.25 to $3.50; Floridas. 
$3.50 and $4.50; lemons. $3 and $4 for 
Californias and $3 and $3.50 for foreign 
stock. Best large bunches bananas, $3.50 
each, others $3. $2.50 and $3.50 for yel¬ 
lows. while reds sell at $4.50 for best and 
$3.50 and $2.50 for other grades. Apples 
hold about the same in price, but demand 
is slow as the season closes. Best Bald¬ 
wins. $5 per bbl.; others, $3.50 and 
$2.50; Spy. $4.50; Ben Davis. $2 and $3; 
Russets, $3.50 and $2.75. Western box- 
fruit, $2 to $2.50 per box. 
Asparagus very plenty just now and 
cheap. Jersey selling at $1.50 to $2 per 
dozen ; Southern, 75c. and $1 per dozen : 
native about $3 per box. Southern peas 
plenty at $2.50 per box; string beans 
about $3 per basket; cabbage, $3 per 
crate. California celery, $1.25 per dozen : 
native cucumbers, best. $4 per box; 
others $2 to $3.50 per hundred a box. 
Native lettuce, $1 per box; spinach, 60c. 
per bushel; dandelions, 50; beet greens. 
75c; tomatoes, native, 20c. per lb.; South¬ 
ern, $3 and $3.50 per crate; native 
onions, $1.75 per bag; Bermudas. $150 
per crate; potatoes about the same, 90c. 
and $1 per bag, with supply large; new 
Floridas, $5.50 per barrel; Bermudas, $7 
per barrel; sweets, $2.25 a box 
Eggs in medium supply with prices 
ranging from 25 to 27 for fresh Eastern 
and 23 and 24 for Western ; good West¬ 
ern stock. 22 and 23. Butter lower and 
demand slow. Best creamery in tubs, 
32c. per pound; prints, 32% ; Western 
stock, 28 to 30c. Cheese firm under fair 
demand for home trade and also for ex¬ 
port, 17% and 18% is the figure most 
sales are made at. 
Corn and meal, 85c. per bushel for the 
former and $1.62 per bag for the latter. 
Bran per ton. $25.50; mixed feed. $28 
and $30; cottonseed meal, $32. Best hay. 
$24 per ton; other grades, $22 down to 
$17. 
Dressed beef. 11% for sides of best 
steers; cows, 10% per pound. Spring 
lambs. 18e. per pound; yearling 15c.; best 
veal. 15c.; others, 11 to 13. Dressed fowls, 
native, 20; Western, 18. Broilers, native, 
42c. per pound; Western, 25; turkeys, 
23; ducks, 18. 
Beef on hoof at Brighton. $6.75 to 
$8.25 per cwt. Live hogs, 8%c. per lb.; 
dressed, 10. The horse market holds 
about the same with demand slow and 
quiet and sales at prices of last few 
weeks. Slow money and not very heavy 
business, combined with the high price of 
feed, forces users of horses to carry as 
few as can be got along with, and no 
extras. A - E - p * 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Summer meeting, Seabrook Farms, 
Bridgeton, N. J., June 9. 
Massachusetts State Board of Agri¬ 
culture, annual Summer field meeting, 
farm of L. L. Richardson, Leominster, 
June 10. 
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 conversion. Detroit, 
Mich., June 23-25. 
Certified Milk Producers’ Association 
of America, eighth annual convention, At¬ 
lantic City, N. J., June 30-July 1. 
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 18. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 13-18. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, N. Y., 
September -23-25. 
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. 
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