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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
Crops and Farm News 
June 3. Present indications are that 
we shall have a very good crop of most of 
the varieties of apples excepting the 
Baldwin. Pears and cherries severely in¬ 
jured by the late frosts. Liberal estimate 
would be half a crop. Plums full crop. 
Other fruits grown only in small quanti¬ 
ties. N. B. 
Batavia, N. Y. 
June 3. There will not be any Bald¬ 
wins, very few trees blossomed. The 
Greenings blossomed quite well, also the 
Twenty Ounce and Pound Sweets. I am 
quite sure the apple crop around here 
will not be more than one-fourth as large 
as last year. Peaches will be a full crop 
by the appearance now, also plums and 
cherries. W. 8. B. 
Clifton Springs, N. Y. 
June 3. Greenings and early Fall ap¬ 
ples bloomed very full, and seem to be 
setting fairly well. An occasional Bald¬ 
win orchard blossomed, not over 25 per 
cent in this section. Peaches blossomed 
full; Carman has set full, Crawford fairly 
well, Elberta not so good. We had a 
very heavy frost May 27. It is a ques¬ 
tion whether it has hurt the fruit or not. 
Peaches seem to be growing some. Sour 
cherries have not set very heavily, sweet 
fairly good. It is reported that the frost 
hurt pears. I think the prospect at pres¬ 
ent would be Greenings and Fall fruit SO 
per cent; Baldwin, 25 ; peaches, Crawford 
and Carman, 75 to 100; Elberta. 50 to 
75 per cent. _ ^ D- E. c. 
Spencerport, N. Y. 
June 3. There are quite extensive or¬ 
chards of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, 
currants and grapes in this part of the 
Genesee country. The prospects before 
the recent frost were for an average crop 
of all excepting apples. Baldwins this 
vear made a poor showing, perhaps less 
than half of that of last year’s great 
crop. Greenings and some other varie¬ 
ties made a good showing, but conditions 
are now changed. Around Avon the cur¬ 
rants were about one-half destroyed, the 
apples on upland damaged at least 15 per 
cent. Pears totally destroyed, peaches 
and cherries, also grapes in same condi¬ 
tion. except in certain sheltered spots. 
Around Geneseo apples, pears, peaches, 
cherries and grapes destroyed, currants 
about one-half. In the Mt. Morris sec¬ 
tion conditions are about the same. 
Geneseo, N. Y. H. E. P. 
May 31. We have had a very cold 
backward May; indeed, we had warmer 
weather in April than the month just 
closed. On the night of the 27th we had 
a frost that broke all late records; ice 
was formed half an inch thick. Early 
gardens were frozen stiff, cutting off po¬ 
tatoes. corn, beans, and tomatoes. Grapes 
were cut quite badly in places. We are 
having very cool nights at present, and 
dry weather. Grass is not doing much; 
wheat and oats seem to be doing well. 
Corn is verv backward in coming up. 
Alfalfa is doing fairly well. Old hay well 
sold and fed up. We shall have a few 
peaches, not very many pears. Greening 
apples bloomed very full; they have been 
well sprayed. Many farmers are wiring 
their barns for lightning. Wheat, $1.40; 
oats, 60; corn, 80; barley, 70; potatoes, 
30; red marrow beans, $3.25; butter, 20; 
eggs, 20; veal, 7; pork, 7; hay, $14. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. E. T. B. 
June 3. So far this has been the driest 
Spring we have ever experienced until re¬ 
cently ; now we are having too much wet 
weather. Most low lands will have to be 
planted over. Corn looking well with a 
good acreage planted, also a large acreage 
of tobacco is being put out, wheat not 
looking so good, damaged by the fly, all 
meadows looking good and bids fair to 
produce a large crop. The prospect for 
early potatoes was never better. Sheep 
shearing about over, with wool selling at 
from 24c. to 28c. Prospects good for all 
kinds of fruits. Prices farmers get for 
their products; Wheat, $1.40; corn, 70; 
oats, 65; hay, $12 to $15 per ton; pota¬ 
toes, 60; old hens. 11; Spring chickens, 
18; ducks, 8; turkeys, 10 to 12; geese, 
5; eggs. 14; butter. 15 to 22; hogs, $6.90 
to $7.25 per cwt. Milch cows in fair de¬ 
mand and bring from $40 to $75 each. 
Good horses, $200 to $250. Wheat har¬ 
vest will be here in about 14 days, with 
plenty of help to take care of the crop. 
Boonville, Ind. R- S. K. 
May 31. Steers for shippers 6c. to 
6%c. Butcher stuff by local butchers, 
6i4c. to 7c. Yeal calves, 150 pounds and 
tip? 8c. Shippers will pay a little more 
where the calf goes with the cow for the 
Buffalo market, some as high as 9c. Good 
milch cows, private sale, $60 to $80; 
shippers. $40 to $60. Yearling stuff sells 
very high, some as high as $32 privately. 
Everybody seems anxious to get this kind 
of stuff to pasture the Summer season, 
and feed out for next Spring’s market 
before grass cattle come on again. Fat 
hogs, 150 to 250 pounds. 7T4c.; feeders, 75 
to 115, 7c. Corn sells for $1.03 per cwt., 
thus discouraging hog raising to a great 
extent. Some hog cholera exists general¬ 
ly in the Fall and quite a few of us are 
immunizing our hogs. Wheat on local mar¬ 
ket, $1.50: oats on local market, 50c. We 
can get 26c. for butter on the local mar¬ 
ket, generally sell cream through the 
Summer and' churn through the Winter. 
However, Ave always come out best to sell 
the butter. The cream route passes our 
door twice a week, and they have paid for 
the past two weeks 25c. for butter fat. 
Bippus, Ind. a. s. 
The following are the prices paid for 
farm products in Belleville. Ill. : Steers, 
per cwt., $7 to $8; cows. $5.50 to $6.50; 
hogs, $6.50 to $7.25; calves. $8 to $9; 
sheep, $5 to $6; lambs, $6 to $7; hens, 
per lb.. 12c.; Spring chickens, 30; butter, 
25; eggs, per dozen, 15; country bacon, 
pound. 12; lard, 10; wheat, $1.35; corn, 
70 to 75. We had \ T ery dry weather in 
1914, and the farmers have no hay or 
oats for Bale. H. c. E. 
Belleville, Ill. 
June 7. Baldwin apples are about a 10 
per cent crop; other varieties about one- 
half crop; Bartlett pears, 25 per cent, 
and some large orchards on low lands are 
nearly wiped out. Avith frost. Plums, 75 
per cent: cherries, 75 per cent; peaches, 
75 per cent; grapes, 50 per cent; straw- 
berries late, good if avc get rains. Cur¬ 
rants. 25 per cent, badly frozen. Frost 
did most damage north and south of us, 
nearer the lakes, Erie and Ontario. We 
are nearly midway. ,T. M. b. 
Sanborn, N. Y. 
June 7. We have been selling milk to a 
shipping station at Cooks Falls for about 
three years. They are paying this year 
from 10 to 20 cents a can less for milk 
than they did three years ago. They do 
not pay on test, they pay a flat price, no 
matter what the test. The prices for the 
last three months are: April, $1.10 per 
can of 40 quarts, 90 cents for May 
and 90 cents for June. We took our 
milk out when it dropped to 90 cents, as 
did some of the others, and I do not knoAV 
what it. tests, but I do knoAV that it 
makes a little better than five pounds of 
butter to 100 pounds of milk. J. A. F. 
Cooks Falls, N. Y. 
We visited three breeders of registered 
Holsteins and they seem optimistic as 
they are all breeding for better butter 
tests as avcII as quantity. They have re¬ 
cently sold some high-grade stock at sat¬ 
isfactory prices, and have numerous in¬ 
quiries. but they do object to the treat¬ 
ment they receive from the Bordens, and 
eight of them at Berkshire haA r e broken 
off and are shipping cream to a big stor¬ 
age plant in Sayre, and a lot more are 
making arrangements to follow soon. 
Among my near neighbors the new way 
is having a decidedly depressing effect; 
some are buying Jerseys or other butter 
breeds to bring up the standard of their 
herd. A feAV have sold their coavs and 
many others are very much discouraged 
and are trying to find something else to 
do. In spite of what the Holstein men 
say it looks to me as an outsider that it 
will affect their sales to some extent at 
least. G. M. B. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
We live two miles from Lake Ontario 
so escaped the recent freeze with very 
little damage. The frost seemed to go in 
streaks. Our Richmond cherries escaped, 
while our neighbors next door were all 
frozen. However, very few cherries re¬ 
main even in the section hordering the 
lake. Apples were untouched. Peaches 
suffered slightly. All fruit of all kinds 
south of us are frozen. Along the mil- 
lion-dollar higlnvay from Rochester to 
Niagara Falls there is desolation on all 
sides. The truck gardeners hope to re¬ 
place some of their crops, but think it too 
late to grow new tomato plants. One 
man, just as an example, expected 25 
tons of cherries and 15,000 baskets of 
peaches. Everything was frozen. Grapes 
are all frozen with the exception of one 
large vineyard on the shore of Lake On¬ 
tario, which escaped Avithout the least 
touch of frost. Niagara County fruit 
growers feel as though fate was against 
them. Wheat is very good. Oats are 
good. Hay, which promised so well the 
first of the season is poor. Corn is nearly 
planted. OAving to dry Spring work is in 
very good shape for the time of yeai*. 
Eggs are selling at 19; butter 25; veal, 
S^c. per lb.; pork, 7*4c. per lb. 
Barker, N. Y. m. h. l. 
May was cold and unfavorable for 
growing crops. June is opening more 
favorable, but rain is needed badly in 
western Michigan. Wheat is fair; same 
will apply to meadows. Oats not making 
a good shoAving; sweet corn not yet plant¬ 
ed. The large potato growers seem dis¬ 
posed to plant about their average crop 
in spite of the fact that prices of 1914 
crop were very low, and up to June 1 
about one-fourth of last year’s crop Avas 
unmarketed. There may be a slight 
shrinkage in acreage planted this year. 
The high price of beans has induced some 
to switch to that crop, but the acreage 
of each will be about normal. Up to 
May 1 the prospects for fruits were very 
good. The frosts of early May followed 
by light frosts later in the month, have 
caused the prospects to become decidedly 
mixed. Many sections suffered heavy 
losses; some were only slightly affected. 
The small fruits om the low land, except¬ 
ing in the lake front, were badly dam¬ 
aged. In the grape growing sections es¬ 
pecially in Van Buren County, all but the 
high land is reported ruined, and the lat¬ 
ter damaged. Early strawberries were 
damaged but later varieties promise a fair 
crop. Some berries are now coming in 
the market. Cherries promise an aver¬ 
age yield. The outlook for apples is 
June 19, 1915. 
promising and the same will apply to 
peaches and plums. It is impossible to 
make a general estimate, for the damage 
from the frosts was sectional, some places 
suffering heavy losses, apples escaping 
Avith but light damage. Clouds and high 
Avinds were the ruling factors all through 
the month. Potatoes on the local mar¬ 
ket have sold as Inch as 55 cents the past 
Aveek, but the prices at elevators have 
ranged from 32c. to 35c.; Avbeat, $1.18 to 
$1.21; beans, white, $2.80; red kidney, 
$2; hay, Timothy, $12 to $14. Hogs, 8% 
to 9c.; cattle, 11 to 12; sheep, 11 to 12; 
lambs, 12 to 14; Spring lambs, 24 to 25; 
fowls, 13 to 14; broilers. 28 to 30; ducks. 
14 to 16; turkeys, 16 to 17. Butter, 21 
(packing stocks, 17) ; eggs, 17; straw¬ 
berries, $2.50 per case. F. D. 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
May 31. The rain we have had made 
everything look nice, and Ave have pros¬ 
pects for a good hay and wheat crop; 
corn looks fine. Cattle $7 to $7.50 per 
cwt.; hogs $7.40 to $7.70; sheep $6.50 
to $7 per head; horses $175 to $225, 
mules same price. Old hens 10 and 12c 
lb.; young chickens 18 and 20. Wheat 
$1.30; corn 70; oats 50; hay $15; eggs 
16; butter IS to 20; lard 12. c. K. 
Astoria, Ill. 
Hay $18; corn 75; oats 50; potatoes 
50. Butter 20; eggs 15. Hens 11c per 
lb.; barket on live stock fair. Horses, 
chunks $75 to $125, drafts $125 to $175; 
best drafts $200; mules $150 to $200; 
cattle, milch coavs $30 to $50; hogs 6% 
to 7c per lb. Strawberries selling on 
Chicago market at present $2.25 to $3.50 
per six-gallon case; too much rain as ber¬ 
ries are soft and bad colored. Wheat, 
oats, hay, rye and early potatoes doing 
well, regardless of the excessive rain. 
Borden, Ind. N. L. 
In our immediate section (western On¬ 
tario County), the prospect is for a good 
average crop of apples. Not much other 
fruit is raised. Contrary to the general 
run of reports Baldwins bloomed quite 
freely with us. The frost of May 24 com¬ 
pletely ruined the crop in some orchards 
on low ground, but even taking this into 
consideration, I think my first statement 
is fairly accurate for the present outlook. 
I suppose the fact that many of our best 
Baldwin orchards have for some time 
been giving their best crops in the odd 
years explains this to a large extent. 
Holcomb, N. Y. w. c. b. 
The month of May, 1915, will long be 
remembered by the people of Northern 
Minnesota. FolloAving a warm spell of 
two weeks duration in April, the weather 
turned suddenly cold about May 1st, and 
with the exception of a warm day or 
so has been cold and rainy during the 
entire month. On the 18th Ave had a 
snowstorm, Avliieh was followed by a 
severe freeze, greatly injuring the gar¬ 
dens and fruit. The wind has been from 
the Great Lakes to the East and ab¬ 
normally cold. The corn whicli has been 
in the ground tAvo or three weeks is just 
coming through, and will make a fair 
stand. This is a great clover country, 
and raising cattle is a leading industry, 
although the lumber business is import¬ 
ant. This Lake Region is attracting 
many settlers, as the land is yet cheap, 
and the State sells its land on very liberal 
turns, 15 per cent. doAvn and 40 years’ 
time on the balance at five per cent. 
Farmers are very restless and dissatisfied 
with general political conditions and are 
joining farmers’ clubs by the thousands 
and coming out strongly fyr the Govern¬ 
ment ownership and operation of the 
means of transportation. J. av. av. 
Case Co., Minn. 
May 30. Crop prospects in this sec¬ 
tion of Nebraska at present are excellent. 
Abundant moisture and mild weather 
have pushed small grain and Alfalfa rap¬ 
idly. Winter wheat is coming in head, 
and is unusually promising. Oats look¬ 
ing well, but about tAvo weeks late on 
account of unfavorable conditions at 
seeding time. April 1st, when oat land 
should have been prepared for seeding, 
the land was mostly covered with snow. 
This delayed operations for tAvo weeks, 
and thus the crop started out late, but 
has come forward rapidly. There is much 
talk of chinch bugs and Hessian fly, but 
it is a little early yet for them to de¬ 
velop. Corn planting has been broken 
off for a week by rain which has pre¬ 
vailed over the entire State during the 
week. There is yet considerable corn to 
be planted. A large crop of Alfalfa is 
ready for cutting, and already hundreds 
of acres have been cut a week, and crop 
is still lying on the ground this Aveek of 
rain. Clover and Timothy are not grown 
here to any considerable extent, for the 
reason that Alfalfa takes the place of 
clover, and Avild hay is preferred to either 
for horse feed. Ilay is hoav selling at $10 
per ton. There is a limited local market 
for oat straAv at $5 for baled stuff. For 
such horses as are wanted for the Euro¬ 
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from $50 to $80; yearling steers $30; 
fat hogs around $7 per hundred; wheat 
$1.40; oats 52 ; corn 75 ; potatoes $1 to 
$1.20; butter 20; eggs 13. H. M. b. 
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