THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
959 
Government Crop Report. 
The estimated production this year as 
compared with last year’s final result is: 
1015. 1014. 
Wheat .... 063.000.000 050.000,000 
Corn . 2.814.000,000 2,673.000,000 
Oats . 1,300,000.000 1,141,000,000 
Barley .... 208,000.000 105,000,000 
Potatoes .. 303,000.000 406.000,000 
Apples .... 104.000.000 253,000,000 
Peaches ... 58,000,000 54,000,000 
Foreign Crop Outlook. 
The Liverpool Corn Trade News says: 
United Kingdom.—General rains have 
fallen and all crops have improved. Offi¬ 
cial indications point to a crop of wheat 
of 63.000.000 bushels, barley 44,000,000 
and oats 85.000,000. Warm dry weather 
is now wanted. 
France.—Weather continues, and the 
recent heavy rain and otherwise storms 
caused considerable damage and delayed 
harvesting. 
Germany.—Most reports are very fav¬ 
orable and a large yield is expected of 
wheat, with potatoes excellent. 
Russia.—Crop prospects are generally 
maintained, especially for Winter wheat. 
Spring outlook is not altogether favor¬ 
able. Reserves will be large and burden¬ 
some without shipping becomes possible. 
India.—Indications for the monsoon 
are better and moisture is again needed. 
Crop prospects are up to this time favor¬ 
able. Holders of old wheat are very re¬ 
served. 
Australia.—Further good rains have 
fallen, and indications based on actual 
prospects point to a very large yield of 
wheat. 
Italy.—Harvest weather rather better, 
but crop will not be up to expectations. 
Spain.—Outturn reports are not fav¬ 
orable. Early indications pointed to a 
crop of 150.000.000 bushels, but it is esti¬ 
mated that fully 50 per cent, of this will 
not be realized. 
North Africa, 
proving fully 20 
ier indications. 
Scandinavia —The 
and rye is poor. 
Greece.—Official report states that rain 
has caused severe damage and crop pros¬ 
pects have been greatly lowered. 
I’he Canadian crop report gives the 
wheat area as 12.080,800 acres, or 20 
per cent, more than was harvested last 
year: oats, 11,365.000 acres, against 10.- 
061.500 last year. The condition of both 
wheat and oats is above 90 per cent, the 
most favorable outlook in several years. 
Oscar Lyle reports some black rust, but 
estimates a 50,000.000 crop of wheat in 
South Dakota, and a large oat yield. 
B. W. Snow says that the greatest 
need of corn now is heat, which has been 
deficient for the past 40 days. 
Grain shipments from Atlantic and 
Gulf ports for week ending July 17 and 
since July 1. 1015, were: 
-Thrashing results are 
per cent, less than earl- 
outlook for wheat 
Wheat, bu. 
Corn. bu. . 
Oats. bu. . . 
Rye. bu. 
Barley, bu. 
Flour, bids. 
Week. Since July 1. 
- 2.666.000 7.412.000 
- 333.000 1,759,000 
.... 2.112.000 6,420.000 
- 12.000 260.000 
- 282.000 271.000 
- 177.000 601,000 
One evaporating plant in Michigan is 
^•iid to have shipped 20 cars of potato 
n°iir to Europe in the past few months. 
1 ublic Domain Commissioner Carton, is 
urging a thorough investigation of the 
possibilities of handling Michigan’s sur¬ 
plus potatoes in this wav. 
The Maine Potato Crop. 
It is very noticeable when speaking of 
spraying how the farmers view that ques- 
non. One farmer in particular said that 
he noticed the potato bugs were very few 
this season and he was in no hurry to 
spray. There is a point where the ques¬ 
tion of spraying should be seriously taken 
lo illustrate, a certain farmer it‘was no¬ 
ticed every year always had a good crop 
"t potatoes, and was always free from 
the common causes of a bad crop. It 
took the neighbors a long time to notice 
that he was always the first farmer in 
that section to commence spraying; last 
season a neighbor asked him why he al¬ 
ways sprayed so early. He answered in 
a . surprised way, that he believed preven¬ 
tion was better than cure. There is the 
point; spraying is as much a preven¬ 
tive as a cure, so get the snrayer going 
early and notice results. This'year the 
condition of crops is good, due no doubt 
to the weather conditions which have 
been very favorable for potatoes growing 
at this time of the season. The vines look 
good and healthy and it is also noticeable 
that the insects by which the vines are 
usually disturbed are absent this year. 
w. ii. B. 
This is largely a dairy section, the 
black and white cattle predominating. In 
the eastern part of the county are some 
herds of Guernsey and Brown Swiss. 
Gram is raised to some extent and pota¬ 
toes (juite largely. Old potatoes at car 26 
cents; storekeepers pay 30 cents for small 
lots and some farmers are retailing them 
Sytnt 40 cents. New potatoes. $1. Milk 
M.12 for 4 per cent. test. Hay, $12 at 
barn ; butter, 30 cents. Eggs, 20 cents at 
°re, but most farmers having large 
flocks ship to New York. Fowls, 11c.; 
broilers, 16 to 18. Fresh cows bring 
from $60 to $100, and heavy young horses 
around $200. l. e. k. 
Smithboro, N. Y. 
July 15. Ordinary cows, $50 to $60; 
some cows sold at auction $75 to $110, 
purebred Guernsey. Butter, 24 to 30; 
milk selling at boarding houses, six and 
seven cents quart. Potatoes, old, 25 to 30 
cents; new potatoes, by barrel, $1.90. 
Hunter, N. Y. g. w. b. 
Eggs selling at stores at 22c.; fresh 
creamery butter, 30c.; fresh cows, grades 
of all breeds, range from $50 to $75, with 
a few extra choice $90 to $100. Beef cat¬ 
tle, plentiful; bulls, 5e. to 5^c.; steers 
and heifers, 6c.; hogs, 7c. to 8c. Borden 
prices for milk. Lambs not ready for 
market. w. D. F. 
Clark’s Summit, Pa. 
July 13. Here are the prices that I am 
receiving for fruit that, we are shipping 
every day from our farm here: Red 
raspberries from three to five cents per 
box; blackberries, four to six cents per 
quart; gooseberries, 75c. to 85c. per 32- 
quart crate; green peas, all the way from 
five cents per basket to 40c.; corn on the 
cob, 83c. bushel at the store in trade for 
other feed. White potatoes this morning 
sold in Philadelphia market for as low as 
one dollar per barrel. Eggs, 24c. per 
dozen; strawberries sold here from one 
dollar per crate to five and six cents per 
quart box. This section is a fruit sec¬ 
tion, although more truck is raised here 
each year than formerly. b. b. 
Braddock, N. .T. 
The Pomologieal Society of Kinder- 
hook, N. Y.. took an interesting trip on 
Saturday, June 10. to the farm of W. S. 
Teator. As Mohammedans turn their 
faces toward Mecca, so do apple growers 
of the Hudson Valley look toward the 
“Blue Ribbon Farm” to see how Mr. Tea- 
tor will lead them through the intricate 
paths of apple growing. Some think that 
Mr. Teator has a wizard’s rod with which 
he causes the Northern Spy to spring 
from ridges of shale and gravel, and 
others that his trees are human, and thus 
reward his motherly care. In a way, 
they both are right. Everyone who saw 
the young Jonathans, the promising 
Wealthy, the heavily-laden Baldwin and 
the far-famed Sp.vs had something to 
think over. m. w. b. 
New Preston. Conn. 
July 15. One of the wettest harvests 
in the last half century ; if wet weather 
continues most wheat will be injured in 
quality. Eastern growers of wheat who 
have barns and where good stacking is 
not becoming a lost art may profit by 
special care of their grain. Difficult to 
harvest low land wheat except by use of 
gasoline engines on maenlnes to run bin¬ 
der and in semi-flooded fields some are 
removing traction wheels, mounting ma¬ 
chine on wide runnered sleds drawn by 
teams, binding and reel power supplied by 
gasoline engine as is increasingly com¬ 
mon in "\ et seasons and heavy grain. The 
weather demands the Pest of shocking 
which is difficult to attain with transient 
and inexperienced help ; even much of the 
home and younger help have nor. learned to 
shock well; instruction in primary farm¬ 
ing arts is very important and might 
profitably be recognized in rural public 
instruction. Corn though late is now ad¬ 
vancing rapidly ; much lowland can pro¬ 
duce but little. Hay crops are heavy 
though much injured in quality. Fruit, 
especially apples, promises well; some 
scab on susceptible varieties like Wine- 
sap and wet weather has interfered some 
with spraying. Few peaches, but grapes 
heavy. Less acreage, but heavy yield of 
potatoes. k. A. 
Auburn, Neb. 
Our hay is on the river flats and has 
been under two to six feet of muddy wa- 
Gr for several days. It is entirely ruined. 
4he field corn was entirely covered also, 
but that may survive the flood. Roads 
and bridges are washed out and hillside 
pastures are cut deep into the ground 
where the water ran so swift. Our buck¬ 
wheat was up fine, now what of the 
ground is in sight is cut in deep chan¬ 
nels. water still running down them and 
the lower part all under water. It rained 
just as if the bottom had dropped out of 
Jill tlio clouds at oucc. One of our neigh- 
bors has several feet of water over his 
strawberries and early peas. North of us 
a creek left its bed and followed the road 
for two miles, destroying it. About 100 
campers were flooded out below us. Some 
started soon enough to save their tents, 
but more of them had to le ve everything 
behind. Some tents were swept away and 
some are still standing part way out of 
the water. Old timers say it is the worst 
flood this time of the year they have ever 
It certainly looks discouraging. 
We have 46 acres here and about 19 
acres are now under water. Nine cows, 
three yearling, five Winter and Spring 
calves, three horses, and two acres of hay 
left for Winter feeding. Southern pota¬ 
toes are retailing in Binghamton for 19 
to 25 cents per peck ; old ones, 10 cents 
peck. Strawberries are bringing eight 
cents. Tomatoes two for five cents. Did 
you ever see cement walk made with coal 
ashes instead of sand and gravel? My 
father made a strip that way in 1911, and 
it is right at the back door, where it gets 
lots of travel. It is smooth and hard, 
never a bit chipped off, is much smoother 
and easier to clean than the other made 
with sand. It is also whiter than the 
other. He tried it for an experiment. 
Broome Co., N. Y. c. H. 
Wheat, $1.05 per bushel; butter, far¬ 
mers’ separator, 24 cents per pound; milk 
to creamery, $1.30 per cwt.; cattle, na¬ 
tive, $9.50 to $10.40 per cwt.; milch 
cows, $60 up; potatoes, new, 65 cents per 
bushel; potatoes, old, 25c. per bushel. 
Gap, Pa. e. e. h. 
Cattle, fat, bring from 6 to 7 cents, 
live weight; fresh cattle and cows for 
milking, from $75 to $100 for the best. 
Butter at the factory, 33 cents per pound. 
Shipped to the Philadelphia market, 
whole milk, from 4 to 4 y 2 cents per 
quart. g. w. w. 
Chalfont, Pa. 
Horses not selling well; no buyers. 
Dairy cows sell from $50 to $75. Beef, 
small demand; calves, 9c.; hogs, 7 to 
7 1 / £c., no demand; chickens, old, 13c.; 
eggs, 18c.; butter, 26c. at creameries; po¬ 
tatoes, old, 50c.; wheat, $1.20 per bushel; 
corn, shelled, 85 cents; hay, $13 to $15. 
Wheat is fair and ripe, but cutting is in¬ 
terfered with by rain. Hay, light crop; 
oats, extra good; potatoes looking well; 
corn very short, but growing now. Ap¬ 
ples very light crop. g. g. m. 
Fredonia, Pa. 
Country is looking fine. Hay was a 
light crop. The dry Spring caught it 
badly, but other crops are in good shape, 
excepting that corn is backward. There 
is time enough, probably, but we would 
rather see it further along at this late 
date. A big peach grower said recently 
that we would get the greatest crop ever 
in Western New York. Said the frost in 
the Spring, which was supposed to have 
hurt peaches and not apples had actually 
hurt the apples and done very little or no 
damage to the peaches. c. I. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
We had more rain, more cold cloudy 
weather than I ever saw in the same 
time, and it is not only a shower, but a 
pour-down. Lots of corn not planted; 
lots never plowed; wheat harvest has 
been on for two weeks, but much is 
standing yet. too wet to get in the field 
with a reaper to cut it. Very little hay 
is put up well. We dried ours in part in 
the barn. Much low land has been 
flooded and crops ruined. The supply of 
outside help to harvest, was more over¬ 
done than in former years, they began to 
come five or six weeks before anything 
was doing, with no money to pay board, 
hundreds gathered in many towns, and 
lived on what they were offered as char¬ 
ity, in some places they employed them 
on public , work a short time to pay for 
meals, in places they came near to riots 
and other demonstrations to get food, and 
made themselves more of a hindrance 
than a help. The help came in by the 
LOGO and loafed by the 100 in any town, 
so they were a serious burden to the pub¬ 
lic. and some measure may be taken to 
avoid it in the future. a. ii. g. 
Kansas. 
Buffalo Markets. 
The appearance of raspberries in quan¬ 
tity marks the end of the strawberry sea¬ 
son. there now bring only a few of the 
latter offered, the price being five to 11 
cents a quart, as the quality varies a good 
deal. Red raspberries are plenty at the 
outset, wholesaling at 14 to 16 cents and 
blacks at 12 to 14 cents per quart, which 
is low to start with. Blackberries have 
been rather plenty for some time at 11 
to 12 cents, wholesale. There are plenty 
of Pennsylvania huckleberries at 11 to 12 
cents. Cherries are plenty and of better 
qualit.v_thau at first, home-grown running 
from 35 to 60 cents for seven-pound bas¬ 
kets. Currants and gooseberries are fair¬ 
ly plenty at five to seven cents a quart. 
Watermelons are plentier, but high, at 45 
to 50 cents each for large and 18 to 20 
for small, wholesale. The quality is fine. 
As a rule they are more to be depended on 
for quality than cantaloupes. 
Vegetables are plenty and the demand 
is large at fair prices. Asparagus refuses 
to give way to green peas, wholesaling at 
$1.50 per dozen bunches for fancy. String 
beans are $1.25 to $2.25 per bag, and 
down to the usual five cents a quart, re¬ 
tail. Cabbage is low again, at $1.50 to $2 
per 100, cucumbers are 25 to 40 cents per 
dozen, or at retail three for 10 cents. 
Tomatoes are 75 to 85 cents per flat, or 
at retail, five to 10 cents per quart. Let¬ 
tuce. radishes and green onions are very 
cheap, at five to six cents a dozen for let¬ 
tuce. 12 to 15 cents per dozen bunches for 
radishes, and eight to 10 cents for onions, 
wholesale. Home-grown peas are 50 to 
60 cents a bag. Turnips are $1 to $1.25 
per barrel for yellow. 
Butter remains stationary at 30 cents 
for fancy; the market being steady, but 
cheese has declined a half cent, the top 
quotation being 16% cents, after holding 
at 17 cents a long time. Eggs are higher, 
the complaint being that hens do not lay 
as well as they usually do. Quotation's 
are 24 to 25 cents for finest white, down 
to 21 cents for Western candled. There 
is little doing in poultry. Turkey is about 
out of market, only frozen being quoted, 
at 21 to 22 cents. Dressed fowl is not 
above 18 cents and live 17 cents. Dressed 
broilers are 28 to 30 cents and old roos¬ 
ters, 12 to 13 cents. Live ducks are 14 
to 15 cents. j. w. c. 
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