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THE RURAL >CE W-YORKER 
July 24, 1915. 
Crons and Farm News 
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ITay—Timothy. 05 per 100; butter, 50; 
eggs, 40; peas and beans, 20c. one-half 
peck; calves, 9 to 11c.; squabs, 75c. per 
pair ; poultry, 20 to 35c. ■ P. P. 
Three Tuns, Ra. 
June 30. Milch cows. .$40 to $00; but¬ 
ter fat, 34 for May. Calves, 9c., live ; 14 
to 15c. dressed. Farmers around here 
market their own products, mostly in Al¬ 
bany ; we are about 23 miles from the 
city. We raised a few potatoes last year, 
sold most of them around home for $1.75 
a barrel of three bushels. C. s. 
South Berne, N. Y. 
July 6. Weather has been wet and 
muggy. Apples on young trees have not 
set very well. Spot is quite common and 
will probably be still worse, as the foliage 
is good. There has been much injury 
from soluble sulphur applied at strengths 
recommended, but not where it was weak¬ 
ened. I believe we encourage the bugs 
and fungous where we damage the leaves 
from too strong sprays. Apple crop in 
Xova Scotia looks like 1,250.000 barrels 
to 1.500,000 barrels, against 700,000 bar¬ 
rels to SOO.OOO barrels of the recent past. 
This nearly all goes to England. J. B. 
Berwick, Nova Scotia. 
June 30. In this, the great Elgin dairy 
district, farm and crop conditions are 
now very satisfactory. Long continued 
cold and wet Spring weather put a se¬ 
rious damper on early prospects for corn, 
potatoes, etc., and greatly hindered work¬ 
ing of the soil, but it has given us a 
bumper oat and hay yield, fine pastur¬ 
age and nice supply of cherries and small 
fruits, and now that the quarantine, on 
account of foot and mouth disease has 
been lifted business is assuming normal 
conditions throughout our rural commun¬ 
ities. Prosperous farms, equipped with 
commodious down-to-date dairy buildings 
and silos, fine herds of Holstein cattle, 
good fences, good roads, etc., with close 
proximity to big markets, make this an 
important and attractive agricultural sec¬ 
tion. • w. a. w. 
Kane Co., Ill. 
This is a trucking region, not much 
fruit is grown. Asparagus brings per 
hunch from 30 to 15c. for fancy; prime, 
15 to 8c.; second 10 to 5c. Early toma¬ 
toes run from $2.50 to 15c.; peppers, 50 
to 10c.; eggplants, 25 to 10c.; string 
beans, early, 75 to 15c.; string beans, 
late, 35 to 80c.; late tomatoes, 15 to 85c.; 
sweet potatoes. 75c. to 30c. per 
% bushel basket. These prices are 
very changeable—the early truck only 
brings the big price for about five days, 
then it drops suddenly to the bottom 
price. Late stuff usually rises to the top 
price slowly. Some years-One crop may 
sell better than others; it is a big game 
of chance with three possibilities, the con¬ 
dition of the soil, the weather and the de¬ 
mand of the eating public or the con¬ 
sumer. A. E. N. 
Westville, N. J. 
June 30.—At the Spring sales a few 
months ago milch cows sold in this neigh¬ 
borhood at from $40 to $75; few if any 
fresh cows sold under $50 and good speci¬ 
mens brought $100, extra fine occasion¬ 
ally $125. Butter is now selling at 20c. 
to 25c. per pound at the local stores. Old 
wheat not much above the $1 mark at 
present. Old potatoes have been dull sale 
this Spring and Summer. Local dealers 
have not 'been buying. When hauled to 
York limited quantities brought 50c. per 
bushel, but were hard to sell as many 
of the working men were idle and had no 
money. Tobacco dull, good lots selling 
at five cents per pound or under. There 
is not much doing in fruit and garden¬ 
ing in this immediate neighborhood, ex¬ 
cept for family use. Sweet corn is con¬ 
tracted for at the local canneries at $9 
and $10 per ton. J. F. M. 
Muddy Creek, Pa. 
June 28. Hay, $20 per ton; rye. straw, 
$11; grain, $1.05 per bushel. We only 
raise enough corn and oats for our own 
use. More fruit trees are being set out 
every year. Apples bringing but a dollar 
a barrel last Fall, but generally $2. This 
is a great apple section and people are be¬ 
ginning to see the income that is derived 
from fruit. Farmers are seeing the neces¬ 
sity of keeping as great a number of cat¬ 
tle on the farm as possible. We go for 
dairy cows. A good many farmers take 
their milk to the creamery getting on an 
average for this the year around three 
cents. We have a milk route in the vil¬ 
lage two miles hence, selling our milk at 
six and seven cents. Of course, we buy 
part of our milk from some of the farm¬ 
ers, paying 3% and four cents. Garden¬ 
ing crops are very light in this section, 
but we are setting out between 8.000 and 
10.000 cabbage plants this year. Gener¬ 
ally speaking framers in this section raise 
only enough garden truck for their own 
use . F - A. H. 
Aquetuck, N. Y. 
July 8. Rain was needed in this vicin¬ 
ity, and now it has been pouring. If it 
continues much longer it will be a week 
before work on the ground can be re¬ 
sumed. Cherx-ies are plentiful in spite of 
frost, as many who supposed their crop 
entirely gone are reaping a fair harvest. 
The rain is hindering the picking greatly. 
Prices are 3% and 4c. per pound. Pick¬ 
ers receive one cent per pound for pick¬ 
ing. The peach crop can hardly be esti¬ 
mated and is very irregular. Out of one of 
our orchards where we expected at least 
10.000 baskets, will now do well if we 
have 2.000. Some of the small peaches 
are just di’opping. An orchard to the 
right acts tlie same as ours, while an 
orchard to the left protected on two sides 
by woods has such a crop it can hardly 
stand under it now. I find conditions 
very much the same all about. A large 
acreage of cabbage is being set, also 
beans. Wheat is good, oats good, corn 
fair to good. Warm weather would mean 
a fine corn crop. Haying is under way 
with fair to good crops. A small acreage 
of potatoes about here, what there is, is 
just coming up. Eggs sell at 20 cents per 
dozen, butter 22 cents per pound. 
Barker, N. Y. M. H. L. 
Cows bring from $50 to $125. accord¬ 
ing to quality. Cabbage, five cents a bas¬ 
ket. ; white potatoes, 25 cents a basket. 
Milk, five cents a quart. White potatoes 
are blighting badly, some patches all 
gone. Hay, $20 to $22 a ton. E. A. T. 
Blackwood, N. J. 
The United States Hay Fever Asso¬ 
ciation will hold its annual convention 
at Bethlehem, N. II.. Sept. 2. The secre¬ 
tary of this association is P. F. Jerome, 
125 E. 27th St., New York, who will sxxp- 
ply available literature on remedies and 
health results for hay fever sufferers. 
The International Apple Shippers’ As¬ 
sociation will hold the annual apple show 
in connection with the twenty-first annual 
convention at Hotel Sherman, Chicago, 
Ill., August 4-6. The chairman of apple 
exhibit is C. A. Kerr, Hotel Sherman, 
who will furnish entry blanks and rules 
for the exhibit. 
We are having plenty of rain at pres¬ 
ent ; grass that was thought to be a poor 
crop the first of June now looks well. 
Oats are looking fine; corn not so well. 
Some fruit but a hard hail the middle of 
June injured what was left from the fx’ost 
the first of the month. Strawberries are 
just being picked and are quite plentiful; 
raspberries look well. Cherries would 
have been a fair crop if the hail had not 
injured them. Peaches, pears, plums 
and apples are good in places. The frost 
and hail seemed to go in streaks. There 
will probably be a fair amount of fruit 
for home use and as this is not a fruit 
county it is never a money crop. Butter 
is 30 cents, eggs 20; milk in cheese fac¬ 
tory is $1,253 per hundred. Hogs, live 
weight, $7. E. A. B. 
Delavan, N. Y. 
July 7. Our early Spring was followed 
by two mouths of cold, disagreeable wea¬ 
ther with heavy rains and some hail, 
which did but little damage to the grow¬ 
ing crops. Small grain and especially 
winter wheat, promise a bountiful yield. 
Corn, potatoes and gardens look sickly 
but with plenty of hot weather and our 
usually warm September will reach ma¬ 
turity. Shearing is about completed. 
The number sheared was the smallest in 
a quarter of a century, the falling off be¬ 
ing due to the influx of the dry farmer, 
who has appropriated the grazing lands 
for wheat fields. Foreign buyers have 
bought all the horses suitable for their 
pui’pose and the Eastern buyer all the 
brood mares, both paying above the mar¬ 
ket price. Range stock is in the pink of 
condition. M. H. 
Prairie Co., Mont. 
New England Farm Matters. 
One extreme follows another in Mas¬ 
sachusetts up to July 1; extreme drouth 
held this section in its grip and crop 
prospects looked dubious. On that date 
commencing about 1 o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing, it began to rain and shortly to pour 
and kept at it steady until about noon 
and still continued at intervals all day, 
being the greatest fall of water seen at 
one time for over 15 years. One neigh¬ 
bor who has spent some time in the 
South at different periods, has often told 
how it rains down there, coming in 
streams from the sky, said this was the 
first time he ever saw it rain here like it 
does there. Everything was soaked and 
we thought we were fixed all right for a 
time. But after a day or two of fair 
weather another soaker came; then one 
good day and another soaker; two more 
fair days followed, and to-day it started 
to rain a little after sunrise and then to 
pour again ,and has kept at it most of the 
day. A good streak of fair weathex- would 
look good as every one is now anxious to 
get in the very light crop of hay we have. 
The general opinion has been that no 
cattle would be exhibited at any of the 
New England fairs this Fall, in fact fair 
managers and directors had so decided, 
but as the foot-and-mouth disease seems 
to have been conquered there is talk of 
having at some fairs local cattle, but 
none from other States cattle. A fair 
without cattle would be no fair in many 
people’s opinion, and probably by fair 
time a few exhibits of stock will be seen at 
any rate, and competition between local 
herds is better in some ways, education¬ 
ally and locally, does more good, perhaps, 
than to have stock from far distant sec¬ 
tions grown under entirely different con¬ 
ditions. 
Farm bureaus in Massachusetts are do¬ 
ing good work. Franklin County Rureau 
has purchased several registered bulls to 
head grade herds in different sections 
where only scrubs had been kept before. 
This is a step in the right direction and 
should be continued. Oi-ehard spraying 
and pruning has been demonstrated quite 
largely and reports are that orchards in 
the past much neglected have been taken 
in hand and much improvement has re¬ 
sulted along this line. Much work is 
also being done all about in the line of 
boys’ and gilds’ clubs in different lines of 
agriculture and stock growing. Several 
local towns have hii*ed instructors for 
this work; much interest is shown, and 
results are expected to repay this effort 
by having the coming farm population 
educated to meet the needs of our grow¬ 
ing local markets and be able to supply 
them to a large extent. 
A Vermont writer states in his section 
(Oxdeans County) a calf can be raised to 
milking age for about $20, and is valued 
at about $40 at that time. If this is true 
it certainly will pay land owners in that 
section to stay in the business and raise a 
big supply as many other sections need 
them and would be glad to find a place 
where they can be bought at a reasonable 
price. In this section (Eastern Massa¬ 
chusetts) $40 to $50 is nearer the cost 
partly owing to the fact that pasturage is 
very poor, and also because feed of all 
kinds is high, but we must raise them just 
the same and a good 2% to three-year old 
heifer well matured is easily worth $60 
or better and will bring it when fresh. 
This Yennont man depends largely on 
skim-milk and linseed meal; a tablespoon¬ 
ful is used at start and gradually work 
up to a small tea cup full, which is the 
limit. One bag, costing about $2. is the 
usual amount one calf will use the first 
season. After that bran and hay are the 
stand-bys. Reckoning $1 to $1.50 as cost 
of pasturage per season as he does, no 
doubt his total cost figure is about right 
in his case. Stock l'aising should be 
largely practiced in that section, and 
Massachusetts will buy gladly from such 
a near-by source. a. e. p. 
Summer Meeting of the Maryland State 
Horticultural Society. 
The Summer Meeting of the Maryland 
State Horticultural Society will be held 
at Pen Mar, July 29-30. Pen Mar 
is in the great peach-growing section of 
Western Maryland. The fruit grow¬ 
ers of this section and throughout Wash¬ 
ington County have extended a cordial in¬ 
vitation to the members of the Society 
and their friends to visit their orchards 
during the meeting. A special automobile 
trip is being arranged for Friday, July 
30, leaving Pen Mar about 9 a. m. For 
those who are able to remain over two 
or three days, there are many points of 
interest in Pennsylvania and Maryland 
that are easily accessible by trolley, in¬ 
cluding Waynesboro, Greencastle, Chain- 
bersbui-g, Braddock Heights, Iveedysville, 
Sharpsburg and Antietam Battlefield on 
the South. The Western Maryland RaU- 
road has granted a special rate of $2.50 
round trip, from Baltimore, leaving 
Thursday, July 29 and returning Mon¬ 
day, August 2. The company will also 
run a special train to Pen Mar on 
Thursday afternoon, if there is a suffi¬ 
cient number to justify same. This will 
return Friday evening, July 30. 
Regular express train'leaves Baltimore 
for Pen Mar at 3:25 p. m., July 29th. 
If there is no special train, all desiring 
to return that day can do so by taking reg¬ 
ular express train leaving Smithsburg or 
Pen Mar about 4 :30 p. m. 
All persons desiring to make this trip 
will kindly notify the Secretary, Mr. T. 
B. Symons, College Park, Md., in oi-der 
that ari-angements can be made for trans¬ 
portation accommodations. Everyone Is 
invited. The Pen Mar Inn will be the 
headquarters of the Society at Pen Mar.. 
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