1022 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 14, 191o. 
Crops and Farm News 
Prices of produce are as follows, oft 
the wagon : Strawberries and raspberries 
10 cents per box. Fruit of all kinds is 
scarce here, as it mostly all froze in May. 
Blitter 25 per pound, eggs 25 per dozen, 
veal calves 9c live weight. Green beans 
and peas in pod $1 per bushel. New po¬ 
tatoes $1 per bushel. Cows (fresh) _at 
$50 to $00; milk delivered, per quart Tc. 
Horses, good heavy draft. _ about $200 
and some more; mares $250. Smaller 
animals in proportion. Not much hay 
and grain raised for sale in this section. 
Coalport, Pa. B. c. w. 
July 23. We are buying new potatoes 
at 70 cents per bushel; lettuce five cents 
per bunch, raspberries 10 cents; huckle- 
berries 8 cents; eggs 25; butter 27. 
Milch cows bring from $60 to $100 and 
are hard to get at times. There is very 
little meat raised here, and always get 
top prices. Hay out of the meadow is 
bringing $17 per ton. The crop outlook 
here is poor for hay but good for oats. 
Corn is not grown very much. The sea¬ 
son is too short, and it seldom matures. 
There is quite a lot grown for silage. 
The County Commissioners have a farm 
expert now to help the farmers along and 
it is expected that before long there will 
be a decided change in the methods of 
farming in this county. Cambria County 
boasts some very fine farms, and the Pa¬ 
trons of Husbandry are up to date in 
their methods, and are using their best 
efforts to make this county one of the 
best in the State. The amount of lime 
and fertilizers now used is double what 
it was five years ago, and the use of 
sprays for the orchards is now evident 
everywhere. The business men and some 
professional men are now giving their 
attention to farming and in many places 
are the owners of nice places. Here in 
our own little town, we have a popula¬ 
tion of perhaps 3,500 to 4,000; we have 
several merchants who have nice farms 
and live on them during the Summer. 
Some others live on them the year around, 
and do very well. A. J. 8. 
Gallitzin, Pa. 
July 30. Apple crop 40 per cent.,_50c 
per bu.; peach crop 70 per cent., 65 to 
75c per bu. Irish potatoes 40c, sweet 
$1 per bu. Beans 60c per bu., other 
truck crops have the market glutted and 
selling very low. Wheat $1; oats 65c; 
corn $1.10; new crop for table use 15c 
per dozen ears, prospects best in 10 
years for full crop. Horses $150 to $200, 
mules $125 to $175, dairy cows $50 to 
$75, hogs 9c per pound gross, creamery 
butter 30c, eggs 15 to 20c; hens 10c, 
Spring chickens 20c per pound. 
Stanley, N. C. a. c. t. 
August 2. There is not much trucking 
done around here. New potatoes 75; 
butter on market 26 to 27 ; cheese 14 to 
14 y 2 . Old hay, per ton, $18 to $20. 
Shippers pay for bulls 5c and from 3 to 
5c for cows. A few have sold here for 
local market, dressed at 10c; eggs 22; 
fowls 14; Spring chickens 22. Price at 
station for milk $1.35; pork, dressed, 11; 
veal, live, 8 to 9c. J* a. k. 
Salisbury, N. Y. 
August 2. We are certainly having one 
of the most gloomiest periods for doing 
farm work I have ever experienced. Ever 
since the first of July we have had one 
rain after another. It has been one of 
the worst times to do work in I ever saw, 
especially haying, harvesting and thrash¬ 
ing. Farmers cannot make any headway 
at‘all. The work we have done for 30 
days has been between showers. The 
rainy season began just about the beginn¬ 
ing of the haying season, and only a very 
few loads of hay were made without get¬ 
ting wet. We did not nave two good hay 
days one right after the other during the 
whole season, and today there is still some 
hay to cut greatly overripe. There will 
be' lots of weedy corn and late potatoes 
as practically farmers cannot do any¬ 
thing worth while cultivating, and a great 
deal of the corn and potatoes are un¬ 
finished. Our work is piling up beyond 
our efforts. Most of the wheat crop 
is still out. Only a small portion 
has been taken care of either by putting 
it in the barn or thrashing. Oat cutting 
is right at hand and yet it rains nearly 
every day. The thrashing machine in our 
neighborhood worked only 2)4 days last 
week (July 26-31) and neither half day 
was the wheat just fit to thrash and both 
half days it rained before night. Such 
has been the record of our weather in 
our busv season and there is no prospect 
yet of a let-up, as this morning, it is 
raining again. Quite a few farmers con¬ 
tracted their wheat to be thrashed and 
delivered in July. It is still in the held 
spoiling and deteriorating in quality. 
Bellevue, O. s - 
Milk Report of the Boston Chamber of 
Commerce. 
The report of the agricultural commit¬ 
tee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce 
which has taken nearly a year to com¬ 
plete is a very instructive and interesting 
document, and contains much valuable in¬ 
formation. The recommendations of the 
committee are in the right direction, but 
perhaps easier to say than to carry out. 
The idea of grading the milk according 
to quality, conditions of production, etc., 
end labeiing all milk for what it is, will 
give the consumer a better chance to 
know what he is buying perhaps, yet to 
work this problem out properly and be 
fair to producer and consumer both will 
in itself be quite an undertaking and re¬ 
quire much further study. The commit¬ 
tee’s recommendation in regard to book¬ 
keeping by the producer is also much 
easier to advise than to cary out, and will 
if carried out in nearly all cases be an 
extra item of expense to the producer for 
which he must receive better pay for his 
product or be further in the hole. Book¬ 
keeping and record keeping is the correct 
thing, but if done properly requires some 
time by an intelligent person, and time 
is money, yet it is much easier to spend 
the time and money also than to get it 
on most farms. 
The establishment of country milk sta¬ 
tions by producers in cooperation with 
local business men, where milk could be 
graded and processed and the surplus 
made into butter, etc., might be a success 
in a very few sections where it is possi¬ 
ble to practice this, and where coopera¬ 
tion between these different parties and 
the railroads could be carried out suc¬ 
cessfully. In most cases it would be like 
hauling a cord of wood with a balky 
horse, or trying to do this, and you 
would get about as far with one as the 
other. The two chief enemies of the 
scheme would be distrust and expense, 
but other objections are also very num¬ 
erous. The reform of present railroad 
transportation abolishing the leased car 
and establishing a per can rate for the 
whole New England territory, is one of 
the strongest and best recommendations 
made by the committee and the quicker 
all interested parties get busy on this die 
better. Massachusetts has this lav. at 
present and while it has been and is 
much criticized, it is for all of that the 
best and fairest transportation system 
we ever had. This Massachusetts law 
could be improved on or amended to 
meet requirements, and this should be 
done, as there are some important points 
it does not cover properly, but its mean¬ 
ing is all right and all should unite in 
supporting and improving where neces¬ 
sary. Reform and improvement of pres¬ 
ent system of city delivery, collecting, 
etc., is also a very proper and extremely 
important recommendation ; equally so as 
railroad reform along transportation 
lines. A dealers’ cooperative arrange¬ 
ment of cost accounting, a ticket system 
and other improvements are along the 
right line, and should be adopted and 
practiced as soon as possible to do so. 
The report further states were these re¬ 
commendations carried out, there is rea¬ 
son to hope for a large increase in busi¬ 
ness and profit, both to producers and 
dealers, and that this could be done and 
yet these products still be sold at a rea¬ 
sonable price to consumers. The report 
further says, if agitation, individualism 
and lack of cooperation continue, the 
dairy interests of New England must ma¬ 
terially suffer, and also seriously affect 
bankers, merchants and railroads depend¬ 
ent on the farmers’ trade, and further 
reacting on the prosperity of the large 
centers of trade of New England gener¬ 
ally. The increase of only $100 per year 
to the individual income of New England 
farmers would mean about $20,000,000 
per vear to our general prosperity. 
A. E. P. 
August 3. A recent ride through Sen¬ 
eca County, revealed a crop situation 
quite unusual. That is, we saw hay, 
wheat, barley, and oats all being cut at 
the same time. The hay harvest has been 
greatly delayed by the wet weather and 
some pieces in cock seem to have been 
abandoned entirely. A very small per¬ 
centage of Timothy will be gathered this 
year in nrime condition. The apple crop 
will be light in this section. The rains 
make the . grow, but fungus is growing 
also. In a neighbor’s orchard we saw 
Greenings covered with fungus that were 
sprayed with Bordeaux when the blos¬ 
soms fell, but not sprayed since. Our 
own Greening promise very fine. We 
have sprayed three times since the blos¬ 
soms fell, ° nd have controlled the fungus 
thus far. We used the home-boiled lime- 
sulphur. Fire blight is quite bad in 
some orchards, being worse where culti¬ 
vated. w. A. B. 
Interlaken, N. Y. 
Government Cotton Report. 
The outlook is for 11,970,037 bales, 
compared with 16,134,930 last year. The 
condition of the growing plant is 75.3 
per cent, of normal, or, nine under last 
year. The area in cotton is 31.535,000 
acres, or 5,871.000 less than in 1914. 
Percentage outlooks in the various States 
are: California, 96; Tennessee, 85; Mis¬ 
souri. 83; Arkansas, SO; Virginia, 79; 
N. Carolina and Florida. 78; Georgia, 
Mississippi and Texas, 76; Louisiana, 
75; S. Carolina, 72; Alabama, 71; Ok¬ 
lahoma, 69. The total areas in cotton for 
the past 13 years are: 1903, 28.907.000 
acres; 1904. 26,900.642; 1905. 28.120,- 
000; 1906, 32.049.000; 1907, 32,000,000 
1908, 33,370,000; 1909, 32,292,000 
1910, 33,418,000; 1911, 36,681.000 
1912, 34.283.000; 1913, 37.089,000 
1914, 36,852.000; 1915. 31.535.000. 
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange es¬ 
timates the total yield at 15,108.011 
bales, an increase of 225,518 bales over 
last year. Total receipts at Galveston 
are the largest ever recorded at this sea¬ 
son, 4,039,022 bales. Shipments from 
that port this season have been : 1,202,- 
881 bales to continental Europe; 113,- 
059 to China and Japan; 303,222 to 
France; 1,341.958 to Great Britain and 
6,065 to Mexico. 
Government Vegetable Report. 
The Crop Estimate Bureau gives the 
following figures on three staple crops : 
Cabbage 
Onions 
Tomatoes 
Virginia . 
, . . 95 
100 
90 
California . 
. . . 97 
96 
98 
Delaware . 
. .. 100 
100 
86 
Maryland . 
. .. 100 
100 
94 
New Jersey ... 
... 95 
98 
85 
Kentucky . 
100 
88 
Tennessee . 
... 90 
93 
91 
Oklahoma . 
. . . 90 
98 
79 
Arkansas. 
• • • • • 
100 
85 
Washington . . 
. .. 95 
70 
95 
New York . ... , 
... 99 
89 
94 
Ohio . 
... 98 
53 
91 
Indiana . 
190 
. . 
Illinois . 
f . „ 
100 
90 
Michigan . 
95 
84 
. • 
Wisconsin . . ., 
;9 
75 
. . 
Minnesota .... 
. .. 84 
75 
, , 
Iowa . 
.. . 97 
88 
# . 
Missouri . 
99 
91 
Colorado . 
. . . 73 
91 
80 
The Geological Survey gives the 1914 
production of petroleum as 400,483,000 
barrels, 66.26 per cent, coming from this 
country. Since 1857 the total yield of 
petroleum has been 5,593,262,000 barrels 
of 41 gallons each. 
Canadian Fruit Report. 
The apple prospect in the Annapolis 
Valley, Nova Scotia, has declined nearly 
5C per cent, in the past month, owing to 
bosvy dropping, fungus and scab. The 
yield is not expected to go much above 
1,000,000 barrels. Ontario is light, es¬ 
pecially the western part, and on late 
varieties. British Columbia will have 
fewer than last year, with heavy propor¬ 
tion of low grades, caused by scab and 
aphis. 
The Niagara peach crop is maturing. 
The quality and size are good, but yield 
only moderate. British Columbia has 
considerably more apricots and peaches, 
the yield of Crawfords in the Okanagan 
Valley being very large. 
Grapes in the Niagara section will be 
about 75 per cent, of normal, Worden be¬ 
ing heaviest and Niagara lighter. 
The pear yield will be light except in 
British Columbia, where the crop is 25 
per cent above 1914. 
Grain Notes and Movements. 
Shipments from Atlantic and Gulf 
ports for week ending July 31, and since 
July 1, 1915, were: 
Since July 1, 
Week 1915 
Wheat . 2,395,000 11,216.000 
Corn . 317.000 2,431.000 
Oats . 2,540.000 9,870,000 
Flour, bbls. 133,000 S91.000 
B. W. Snow estimates the condition of 
corn August 1 at 80.6, a drop of 1.7 from 
July 1, indicating a yield of 2,890,000,- 
000 bushels. The outlook in the south is 
above the 10-year average, but below 
north of Southern Iowa boundary. 
Thrashing of Winter wheat thus far in¬ 
dicates a yield of 17.1 fiushels per acre, 
or a total'of 6S9,000.000 bushels Winter 
wheat. Acreage yields are above expecta¬ 
tions in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Ne¬ 
braska. 
Oscar Lyle reports favorable conditions 
in North Dakota. No wheat rust, oats 
very good, and barley still better. 
Inglis says that in South Dakota all 
.small grains are heavy. Cutting of Vel¬ 
vet Chaff has commenced. It will run 15 
to 25 bushels. Blue Stem is blighting 
badly there and in Minnesota. 
The Kansas State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture estimates the wheat yield of the 
State at 116,700,000 bushels, a decline 
of 23,000,000 from the June outlook. 
Corn conditions have improved 9.6 per 
cent., now standing at 74.6. The area 
in oats is about 1,402.943 acres, with 
probable yield of 28 bushels. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Gladiolus Show, Gladiolus Society of 
Ohio, Ilollenden Hotel, Cleveland, O., Au¬ 
gust 13-14. 
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, Bel- 
videre, N. J., August 18. 
American Pomological Society, Berke¬ 
ley. Cal., August 23-25. 
‘Cambridge Valley Fair, Cambridge, N. 
Y., Aug. 23-27. 
Northern Nut G owers’ Association, 
Powers Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 
1 - 2 . 
Farmers’ Exhibit, Solebury Deer Park, 
Soleburv, Pa., September 3-4. 
Orleans County, N. Y., Fair, Albion, 
Sept. 8-11. _ 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 13-18. 
Bergen County Fair, Hohokus, N. J., 
Sept. 14-18. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, N. Y., 
September 21-25. 
Trenton Inter-State Fair, Trenton, N. 
J. Sept. 27-Oet. 2. 
Farmers’ National Congress, annual 
meeting, Omaha, Neb., September 28-Oc- 
tober 1. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver, Colo., Oct. 4-7. 
International Wheat Show and Expo¬ 
sition, Wichita, Kan., Oct. 4-14. 
i '*4i annual apple show, Indiana Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, 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 Figeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Dec. 6-11. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., January 3-8, 1916. 
Products, Prices and Trade 
Wholesale Prices at New York. 
Week ending Aug. 6, 1915. 
The commercial values of farm pro¬ 
ducts are what they sell for—not neces¬ 
sarily their food value, or what some one 
thinks or wishes they were worth. Hence 
representative sales, rather than opinions, 
even though unbiased, are the correct ba¬ 
sis for quotations. 
Live Stock and Dairy Markets. 
MILK. 
The Borden contract prices for the six 
months beginning with April are based on 
the fat content of the milk, there being a 
difference of 60 cents per 100 pounds be¬ 
tween three and five per cent fat. The 
price increases uniformly three cents per 
100 pounds for every tenth of one per 
cent, fat increase. 
3% 
3.5% 
4% 
4.5% 
5% 
April .. 
.. $1.31 
$1.46 
$1.61 
$1.76 
$1.91 
May ... 
.. 1.06 
1.21 
1.36 
1.51 
1.66 
June .. 
.. 1.00 
1.15 
1.30 
1.45 
1.60 
July .. 
.. 1.16 
1.31 
1.46 
1.61 
1.76 
Aug. . . 
.. 1.32 
1.47 
1.62 
1.77 
1.92 
Sept. . . 
. . 1.41 
1.56 
1.71 
1.86 
2.01 
BUTT Kit. 
Prices have dropped one-half cent on 
practically the whole list of qualities and 
buying is conservative on the possibility 
of further changes. The effect of hot 
weather is seen in current receipts of me¬ 
dium and low-grade creamery, which is 
selling mainly under 22 cents. 
Part of these defects are unavoidable 
because of long hauls for the cream or 
unsuitable temperature in the churning 
and working rooms, but in many cases a 
little extra care at this time would pay 
a large proportionate profit. In hot 
weather we feel disposed to do as little 
additional work as possible, yet the dif¬ 
ference between 22 and 25 cents per 
pound for butter may depend on it. 
Creamery, best, above 92 score, lb. 26 ® 26t£ 
Extra. 92 score . 25 @ 25t£ 
Good to Choice . 23 @ 24 
Lower Grades. 20 ® 22 
8t«te Dairy, best. 24^@ 25 
Common to Good. 21 ® 24 
Ladles . 20 @ 21 
Packing Stock. 18 @ 20 
Process . 20 @ 23 
Elgin. Ill., butter market 24M> cents. 
Philadelphia, western creamery. 27 cents. 
Boston, western creamery. 25Mj. 
Chicago creamery. 23@24. 
Kansas City, 24@26. 
CHK1CS K. 
The demand has improved slightly. The 
general range of prices remains at about 
last week’s figures but considerable price 
cutting is noted where necessary to make 
sales, and this is seen in the fancy as well 
as lower grades. The Utica market is 
running at 12)4 to 12% cents which is 
1)4 cent under last year, and Litle Falls. 
12)4 cents. 
Whole Milk. State specials. 14 @ ]il4 
Average fancy . 13 @ 13J£ 
Under grades. 11 @ 13 
Daisies, best. 15 @ 15*4 
Young Americas. 15t<>@ 16 
8kims. special. 11 @ Mbs 
Pair to good. 7 @ 10 
EGGS 
The price range has widened two cents 
on top grades though this figure does 
not cover much business as eggs of that 
quality are not here. On lower grades 
there is a decided surplus unfit for stor¬ 
age and going at 16 to 18 cents. West¬ 
ern eggs of good quality are bringing 18 
to 20 cents at Boston and Philadelphia, 
16 to 17 at Chicago, and 17)4 iu St. 
Louis. 
W hite. choice to fancy, large . 31 @ 32 
Medium to good. 22 @ 28 
Mixed colors, best. 25 @ 26 
Common to good. 18 @ 22 
Duck Eggs . 24 @ 26 
LIVE POULT BY. 
Broilers are in considerable surplus 
and three cents lower. Fowls in fair de¬ 
mand and one cent higher on best grades. 
Broilers, lb, 
Fowls .. 
Boosters ... 
Ducks. 
Geese. 
17 @ 19 
laM® 16 
10 ® 11 
14 ® 18 
11 @ 12 
DRESSED POUIjTRY. 
Fowls are the dullest item in fresh- 
killed stock ; broilers plentiful but selling 
at previous prices. Fresh turkeys scarce, 
but market well supplied with frozen 
which sell at rather uniform prices week 
after week during Summer. This applies 
to other poultry as well as turkeys. 
(General Markets on page 1027.) 
