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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 7, 1915. 
Crops and Farm News 
Virginia Fruit Reports. 
Secretary W. P. Massey, of the Vir¬ 
ginia Horticultural Society, gives the fol¬ 
lowing report of conditions in that State: 
There has been a decided increase in 
the estimate of the Pippin crop since the 
issue of the May Bulletin, especially in 
the Pippin areas of the Piedmont dis¬ 
trict. The Winesap estimate from this 
section remains about tne same. York 
Imperials show a decrease in the Valley 
region, while the Ben Davis shows a 
slight gain. The general condition of the 
apple crop is reported to be very good. 
Some damage has been reported from 
cedar rust and rosy aphis. The blossom 
and twig blight has taken a heavy toll 
from orchards which are situated within 
the infection area of blight affected pear 
trees. Percentages based on last year's 
yield are as follows in the districts adapt¬ 
ed to the varieties: Pippins, 100 to 110; 
Winesap, 43 to 00; York, 25 to 37; Ben 
Davis, 30 to 09; Stayman, 50 to 72; 
Mammoth Black Twig, 09 to 129. 
Fruit packing schools will be held at 
Crozet during week of August 23, and at 
Staunton, September 7-10. 
Fresh cows, fair to good. $00 to $80; 
very good, $80 to $100. Horses (home 
raised), range from $75 to $250; West¬ 
ern horses from $200 to $275, and some¬ 
times a fine one brings $300. Beef cat¬ 
tle moved slow on account of the foot and 
mouth disease. Veal calves averaged 
10% cents this year. Wheat, $1.15 to 
$1.30 a bushel; rve, $1; buckwheat, 85; 
corn, $1.10 per cwt.; oats. 50; Milk at 
the present time (July 14), 2% cents; 
malted grains, $8 a ton. Fruit of all kind 
brings good prices in this locality. White 
cherries, $1.25 a basket; strawberries, 12 
cents a quart. Peas are a fine crop, sell¬ 
ing at 45 cents a peck. New potatoes. 30 
and 35 cents a basket. Onions are fine, 
have heard no price on them as yet. 
Bloomsbury, N. J. N. A. 
July 26. Wheat, $1.02 per bu.; oats, 
65 ; corn, 75 ; rye, 65 ; hay, $18 person ; 
potatoes, 50 cents per bu. Cows. $50 to 
$80. These are the staples in our sec¬ 
tion. Eggs, 18; chickens, 11c. per lb. 
Our section of Adams Co. is devoted to 
farming anl poultry ; there is no trucking 
done, only for home use; also fruit, 
i Hampton, Pa. C. 0. C. 
July 25. The season has now ad¬ 
vanced far enough so that a fair report 
can be made of conditions in Nebraska. 
A bumper wheat crop has been grown, 
but on account of excessive rain the har¬ 
vest has been retarded in many locali¬ 
ties, and hundreds, probably thousands 
of acres of heavy wheat are yet uncut, 
for the reason that the ground is too 
soft to allow the binders to run. We 
have now had a week of dry weather, and 
much of this may yet be saved. It is of 
course dead ripe and the grain is dry. 
Thrashing from the shock has com¬ 
menced. Stacking has also been going on. 
Oats in shock and stack, and a heavy 
crop. The month of June was too wet 
for corn, and some loss of stand by 
standing water. July has been more fav¬ 
orable, and corn has come forward rapid¬ 
ly, although two weeks late. Two heavy 
crops of Alfalfa have been harvested, 
much of it damaged by rain. High water 
along some of the streams has done much 
damage to crops, and hailstorms have 
swept many localitiess. Notwithstanding 
these drawbacks, Nebraska is expected to 
make a magnificent showing when the 
season closes. As for prices, new wheat 
is starting out at $1.05; old wheat 15 
cents higher. New oats not yet on the 
market, but old oats 50 cents; corn 74 
cents from the car; all corn shipped in. 
New potatoes plenty, and ought to be 
cheap ; butter 20; eggs 14. H. M. R. 
Fairbury, Nebr. 
July 20. Wheat is the best crop on the 
whole that I believe this county has seen 
in 25 years. There is not a single poor 
field. Many a piece will yield 35 bushels 
to 40 bushels and some even more, we 
think. No rust, no fly, no chess, nothing 
except an occasional head of smut. Oats 
are uneven, but on the whole much above 
the average, at least, 100 to 200 per cent, 
better than a year ago. Smut is the one 
bad feature; saw one piece that was 50 
per cent smut, and was talking with man 
who told of even worse pieces. It has 
come to the point where it is treat your 
seed if you are to have any clean oats. 
Barley is looking good. Not much acre¬ 
age. Corn not quite up to usual size at 
this time of year, but growing like 
Jonah’s gourd, and a few weeks of this 
kind of weather will make a crop. We do 
not get a good enough stand of corn, and 
we think that testing seed corn could be 
made a mighty profitable business Win¬ 
ters by nine-tenths of the farmers who 
grow corn. I did not see a field where 
there was 85 per cent, of a full stand. 
Potatoes looking well. Acreage not as 
great as a year ago. No bugs to speak of. 
Stand not up to what it should be. To 
illustrate, we counted the missed hills in 
a row across a field, and there were 50 
misses out of 300 hills. That is too many. 
Seed that is selected with care shows very 
plainly. Saw two fields where it demon¬ 
strated the value of good A1 seed. A 
blind man could almost tell where the 
carefully selected seed was planted. Cab¬ 
bage looking pretty well and increased 
acreage. Beans also in much larger acre¬ 
age than a year ago. Are looking fully as 
good as usual. Hay hardly an average 
crop. In many meadows not over 75 per 
cent. Pastures are good. The constant 
rains and heat have made them seas of 
green. Alfalfa is being grown more and 
more and there are some fine pieces. 
Seems to be a pretty general sentiment 
among farmers that it is the coming fod¬ 
der crop for cattle, sheep, and in fact all 
animals except horses. c. I. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Apples seem to me to be a better crop 
than the reports we get from the papers. 
I am willing to admit I have not been 
through the strictly apple country, but 
everywhere that I have been it seems the 
crop is fair; not a bumper crop, but a 
good crop, and looking well. They should 
bring a fair price. One farmer said a 
buyer offered him $1 per bushel for his 
wheat when thrashed ; man growing corn 
on contract gets $1.25 per bushel. An¬ 
other growing potatoes for seed is to get 
five cents per bushel above the market and 
delivery any time in November. Oats on 
contract three cents per bushel above the 
market delivery any time up to January 
31, 1916, and 33 pounds to bushel ma¬ 
chine run. c. i. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
We are having the wettest July here 
in New Hampshire that we have had for 
more than 20 years. It is very poor hay 
weather: crops are looking well, except 
grass, which is thin and short, a light 
hay crop, but the second crop ought to 
be good. If it is that and the’ corn fod¬ 
der will help out the hay. j. b. g. 
Exeter, N. H. 
Boston Market Review. 
Lighter receipts on nearly all kinds of 
seasonable fruits and vegetables in the 
wholesale market have caused a better 
demand and slight raising of prices. It 
is a funny thing how this market runs. 
Let any kind of stuff be short and every¬ 
body wants it, while, if the market is 
well loaded, demand immediately drops 
off. Hardly anyone is in a hurry to buy 
except at very low prices. 
Native corn from sections south of us 
is now on the market selling at $1.25 to 
$1.50 per box, and quality is good. Cu¬ 
cumbers and lettuce are both short; the 
former sells at $3.50 per box for best and 
$1.50 to $2.50 for other grades, while the 
lettuce growers smile to receive $1 per 
box of 18 heads. Spinach also is a pay¬ 
ing crop at present price of about 75c 
per box. Local green peas about done; 
those from Maine section sell at $1.50 to 
$2 per box. String beans are a paying 
crop also at $1 and better per box, while 
shell beans go at $3. Beets plenty and 
low, about 50c per box. Carrots 25 per 
dozen bunches; while parsnips bring $1 
for the same amount. Radish 75c per 
box and egg plant $1.50 and better per 
dozen. Indoor tomatoes 15c per pound 
for best; outdoor stock $3.50 per box; 
Southern $1 per crate. Summer squash 
$1 per box; Southern marrow $1.25 per 
crate. Native cabbage 75c per barrel, 
with some at 50c. Native celery $1.25 
per dozen bunches. Onions still plenty; 
Texas $1 per" crate, native 75c per box, 
with Jersey stock 60c to 80c per basket. 
Potatoes, Virginia stock $1.25 to $1.75 
per barrel; sweets $6 per barrel. 
Southern apples $1.25 to $1.50 per bas¬ 
ket; California Bartlett pears $3 per box. 
California peaches $1 per box, Georgia 
$2.50 per 6-basket crate. California 
plums 50c per small basket; pineapples 
$2 to $3.50 per crate. Oranges $4 per 
box; lemons $3 to $4 per box; grape¬ 
fruit $3 to $5. Cantaloupes $2 to $3.50 
per crate, quality Southern rather poor, 
Arizona good. Watermelons 25 and 40c 
each, with lively demand for them. Blue¬ 
berries not plenty in most sections, prices 
12c to 18c per box. Strawberries, Maine 
stock 20c per box, quality good. Jersey 
blackberries 12c per box, native rasp¬ 
berries 12 to 14; native currants 6 and 
8c per box. 
Butter l%c per pound lower than June 
price is the situation at present, with 
storage stock held in heavy supply in 
many cases makes the butter market out 
of the ordinary. That money on butter 
is apt to be lost instead of made by hold¬ 
ers this season is quite a general belief. 
Best tub 29%, best print and box 30 
and 31c per pound ; best Western 28 to 
29; good Western 26 and 28c. Cheese 
in poor demand both locally and abroad; 
15 to 17c are average prices when sales 
are made. 
Eggs of best quality not plenty enough 
to supply full demand, with prices up to 
34c for best, other grades 27 to 30; 
Western 24 to 27. Live poultry in light 
demand; hens 16c per pound; broiler 
chickens 20c per pound; dressed poultry, 
large 19 and 20c per pound; medium 17; 
poor grades 14 and 15; broilers 25c per 
pound. Roasting chickens and turkeys 
range at 22 to 25c; ducks 16 to 18. 
Best beef, dressed. 13 and 14; others 
10 to 12. Mutton 10 to 12; lamb, best, 
15 to 16; medium 13 to 14. Veal, best. 
15, other grades 10 to 14. Brighton beef 
on hoof $7.50 to $S.25 per 100 pounds; 
other grades 5 to 7c per pound. Live hogs 
8c per pound; dressed 10; live veal 7% 
to 8%. Steer hides 16c per pound; cow 
hides 15; calfskins 22. Horse trade 
about as before in prices and demand 
general conditions quiet and slow. Corn- 
meal $1.70 per bag; oats 65c per bushel; 
bran $26 per ton; mixed feed $30 to 
$32; cottonseed meal $32; gluten $29; 
stock feed $32. Best horse hay $30 per 
ton ; other grades $20 to $25 per ton. 
A. E. P. 
Buffalo Markets. 
A superabundance of vegetables and 
Southern fruits is the feature of the city 
produce markets, with plenty of every¬ 
thing. The fact that the season is late is 
of advantage as midsummer comes on, 
for the strawberry crop is but just gone 
and other berries are well ripened and 
plenty at prices that are not high on the 
average. There is a little green corn to 
be had at special groceries, but it has not 
appeared on the «eneral market. Old po¬ 
tatoes are just fairly gone. The season 
was so cool that they have kept longer 
than common, besides the new ones were 
rather high, though they can be had now 
for 20 cents a peck, retail, or $1.25 to 
$1.40 per barrel for Virginias, wholesale. 
Apples arrive slowly, wholesaling from 
$1.25 to $2 per bushel for Southern. The 
home crop is going to be late and very 
scanty. There will be only a moderate 
crop of pears and peaches. Not many 
peaches are offered except in small bas¬ 
kets, retailing at about a cent apiece and 
of only fair quality. They come largely 
from California. Melons are improving 
in quality and going down in price. Wa¬ 
termelons wholesale at 15 to 40 cents, ac¬ 
cording to size and good halves are offered 
at 15 cents, retail. Cantaloupes, Georgia, 
are 75 cents to $1.75 per crate, and Ari¬ 
zona. $2.75 to $3.25. Good ones are re¬ 
tailed at five cents each. Berries are 
fairly plenty, at nine to 10 cents for huck¬ 
leberries. 12 to 13 cents for blackberries, 
12 to 14 cents for reds and nine to 10 
cents for blackcaps ,with a sprinkling of 
purples retailing at 10 cents. Currants, 
gooseberries and cherries are hot very 
plenty, prices for ;.ll running from five to 
seven cents per quart, wholesale. The 
crop is generally light, many trees and 
bushes not bearing. There are no local 
plums, Western plums retailing at 10 
cents a quart. The good showing of vege¬ 
tables promises to keep up. as the rains 
are sufficient to keep them growing. 
String beans are $1.15 to $1.25 per 
bushel for wax and 70 to 90 cents for 
green pods. All retail for five cents a 
quart. Beets, home-grown, are 10 to 12 
cents per dozen; cabbage is $1.50 to $2 
per 100; celery is scarce at 15 to 25 cents 
per dozen ; cucumbers are 25 to 45 cents 
per dozen, a fair grade, retailing at three 
for five cents; lettuce is very cheap at 
five to six cents per dozen ; peppers are 
$1 to $1.25 per hamper; home-grown 
peas, now getting very old and yellow, are 
70 to 90 cents per bag. Poultry is firm 
at 15 to 19 for dressed turkey, 14 to 18 
cents for fowl; 17 to 19 cents for duck; 
with one to two cents reduction for live. 
Frozen capons are 26 cents per pound and 
broilers, dressed. 23 to 25 cents per 
pound. Butter is quiet at 29 cents for 
best, down to 24 cents for renovated tubs. 
Cheese remains at 16% cents for best 
and eggs are steady at 26 cents for best 
white and 21 cents for candled. J. \v. c. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
International Apple Shippers’ Associa¬ 
tion, apple show and annual convention, 
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, August 4-6. 
California State Bee Keepers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, San Francisco, Aug. 5-7. 
Gladiolus Show, Gladiolus Society of 
Ohio, Ilollenden Hotel, Cleveland, O., Au¬ 
gust 13-14. 
Society for the Promotion of Agricul¬ 
tural Science, Be'rkel[ev, CaL, August 
9- 10. 
Highland Horse and Colt Show, High¬ 
land, Md., August 14. 
American Rose Society, San Francisco, 
Aug. 17-19. 
Society of American Florists, San 
Francisco, Aug. 17-20. 
American Gladiolus Society, Annual 
show, Newport, R. I., August 18-19, 
1915. 
Warren County Farmers’ Picnic, Bcl- 
videre, N. ,T., August 18. 
American Pomological Society, Berke¬ 
ley. Cal., Aug. 23-25. 
Cambridge Valley Fair, Cambridge, N. 
Y.. Aug. 23-27. 
Farmers’ Exhibit, Solebury Deer Park, 
Solebury, Pa., September 3-4. 
Orleans County, N. Y., Fair, Albion, 
Sept. 8-11. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 13-18. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, N. Y., 
September 21-25. 
Trenton Inter-State Fair, Trenton, N. 
J., Sept. 27-Oct. 2. 
Farmers’ National Congress, annual 
meeting, Omaha, Neb., September 28-Oc- 
tober 1. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver, Colo., Oct. 4-7. 
Fifth annual apple show, Indiana Hor¬ 
ticultural Soeietv, Indianapolis, Nov. 
6-13. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, November 
10- 14, 1915. Special show, San Francis¬ 
co, Cal. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Dec. 6-11. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., January 3-8, 1916. 
Legal Questions 
Line Fences Along Wood Lots. 
I purchased the farm on which I now 
live April 1st, 1914. There are wood lots 
joining this property which have no line 
fences, except what is built by myself. 
One wood lot is owned by a non-resident, 
the others adjoin cultivated farm lands 
and are partially fenced. One neighbor 
keeps his wood lot fence up in good 
shape; the others do not. I want good 
fences all around and would like to know 
the laAV on line fences adjoining wood 
lots. I have been told that the non-resi¬ 
dent owner could not be forced to build a 
line fence, but would be liable for dam¬ 
ages by my stock going through his woods 
and by neighbor’s stock coming through 
on to my land. E. s. M. 
New York. 
The line fence law is the same respect¬ 
ing wood lots as for a common ordinary 
hay or pasture lot. Nor does the resi¬ 
dence or non-residence of the owner make 
a difference. The law is, then, that each 
owner of two adjoining tracts of land, ex¬ 
cept when they otherwise agree, shall 
make and maintain a just and equitable 
portion of the division fence between such 
lands, unless one such shall choose to let 
his lands lie open to the use of all ani¬ 
mals which may be lawfully upon the 
other’s lands, and does not permit any 
animals lawfully upon his premises to go 
upon lands so lying open. If he chooses 
to let them lie open, he must serve on the 
owners of adjoining lands a written no¬ 
tice to that effect, after which the adjoin¬ 
ing owners shall not be liable for dam¬ 
ages done by their animals going upon 
the lands so lying open or upon any other 
lands of the owner through the lands 
lying open. But you would be liable if 
your animals continued on across his 
lands upon a third person’s lands and 
there did damage. M. D. 
Use of “Right of Way.” 
The Pere Marquette Railroad runs 
through a part of our land and last Fall, 
seeing we were to be short of potato 
ground, we decided to work some of the 
ground along the “right of way,” and 
plant potatoes this Spring, so we plowed 
the ground last Fal’ This Spring we 
disked it up several times, picked and 
hauled off the roots, stumps and stones, 
etc., getting it ready to plant. Of course, 
we did not ask permission to do this, be¬ 
cause some years ago the section foreman 
told us the railroad would be glad to have 
us work the land ; as it would lessen the 
danger from fire. A few days ago the 
station agent ’phoned to us that the road- 
master said we could not use this ground 
unless we pay $10 for a lease and $3 per 
vear per acre for rent. Can they make 
us pay this? We certainly pay taxes on 
the land and this would in no way inter¬ 
fere with the business of the road. 
Michigan. H. S. 
Everything depends upon whether you 
or the railroad owns the land. If you pay 
taxes on it as you say you do, it must be¬ 
long to you and you can work it. If it 
belongs to the railroad you have no right 
to work it without their permission. Is 
it nlonfi, or is it the right of way? If the 
latter, it must belong to the railroad. The 
section foreman probably exceeded his au¬ 
thority in saying in effect that you could 
work the land. 
Failure to Improve Roads. 
There is a road leading to my farm 
about a mile and a half in length which 
from the time money tax came on roads 
the town had neglected to keep in repair 
and a bridge that is gone. The road was 
laid out by two supervisors of the town 
in 1833; I have a copy of the survey. I 
ordered the town to work the road and 
put in a bridge last March, and they have 
never refused to do it, but are holding off 
and trying every way to get out of it. 
What can I do and how can I bring them 
to an immediate settlement, if any? This 
road is my only outlet, and it is not safe 
to travel at present. E. H. s. 
New York. 
There appears to be no cheap and ex¬ 
peditious way of making the authorities 
do the work if they refuse. But the 
courts have held that where the commis¬ 
sioner of highways of a town negligently 
permits the highways to become out of re¬ 
pair a person sustaining injuries thereby 
may bring an action against the commis¬ 
sioner individually, notwithstanding your 
right of action against the town. Possi¬ 
bly if you notify the commissioner that 
you will hold him personally liable, also 
write to the county and State highway 
authorities and raise a dust generally, it 
may bring action. Possibly you can 
make some arrangement to work out the 
amount of your road tax in maintaining 
your own road in accordance with the 
provisions of Section 66 of the Highway 
Law. 
