1136 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 18, 1915. 
Crops and Farm News 
The Apple Crop. 
There is about half a crop of apples in 
this section. Some fungus has shown 
up lately. There have been no sales made 
as yet. Buyers have made no offers. 
East Bloomfield, N. Y. c. w. N. 
Fall stock about 40 per cent. Buyers 
offering SO cents per cwt. Winter ap¬ 
ples, 25 per cent. No offers as yet. 
Stock very good. E. A. F. 
Pittsford, N. Y. 
There has not been any sellers be¬ 
tween Medina and Rochester as far as I 
know. The crop is about one-half what 
it was a year ago. The quality is good. 
Holley, N. Y. G. c. t. 
The outlook for apples in this section 
is about one-third of a normal crop. Ex¬ 
cepting in a few localities where hail 
damaged fruit early in the season, the 
prospect is that apples will be of fair 
size, good color and smooth. One firm 
of dealers are reported to have offered 
$3.50 per barrel for A grade. No or¬ 
chards have yet been sold here. A. ir. 
Stanley, N. Y. 
The app? crop in this section will be 
about one-fourth to one-third normal. 
My orchard produced 1.000 barrels last 
year, and I will not pack more than 200 
barrels this year. A few are reporting 
good yield, more r- porting nothing. No 
sales being made; no prices established 
for Winter fruit as yet. A. w. w. 
Fulton, N. Y. 
ting very badly after being dug and -whole 
fields of late ones are as brown as though 
they were ripe. Cabbage is very low in 
price $2 per ton. Hay seems to be the 
only article that the buyers are after, 
offering from $15 to $18 per ton. Apples 
are scant in quantity and quality ; some 
of our best orchards suffering from hail, 
and some from fungus. One man has it 
that sprayed five times. Bartlett pears 
two cents per pound. Ptums very plenti¬ 
ful and a drug. Pasturage is very plen¬ 
tiful as new r seeding has come on well. 
Wheat, $1; oats, 70; corn, 80; veal, 10 
per pound; pork, 8c.; butter, 22; eggs, 
22. e. T. B. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
Dairying is about as usual; more cattle 
being raised this year. There is plenty 
of hay, but a shortage in silage. The pas¬ 
tures are unusually good. The price of 
good cows is about $75. There has been 
a large number of cattle shipped from 
these parts this Summer. w. E. g. 
Upper Lisle, N. Y. 
August 30. Potatoes, 50; eggs, 21 to 
23; butter, 25 to 27. Apples are scarce. 
Milk, flat rate, July, $1.25 per 100. Cows 
sell for $50 to $70, and some as high as 
$100. Horses $125 to $200. M. A. n. 
Windsor, N. Y. 
Sept. 5. We are not getting the milk 
flow we did last Summer although the 
pasture has been good. I think the sea¬ 
son has been too wet; no bottom to the 
feed. The corn crop is light although 
some of the farmers will have enough to 
fill their silos. The hay crop is very 
good, quite a little damaged by high wa¬ 
ter. Oats are a good crop here this sea¬ 
son, 40 to 50 bushels per acre. Good cows 
are selling around $75. new milkers; 
strippers are going at $25 and up. Po¬ 
tatoes are about half a crop and rotting; 
price very low. Most of the farmers 
think it has been a hard season. D. J. S. 
Ouaquaga. N. Y. 
Canada Fruit Prices. 
The Dominion Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment gives the following current whole¬ 
sale prices: 
Quebec. P. Q.—No. 1 Duchess and 
Alexander, $3.75 t > $4; No. 1 pears. $7 
per barrel, and $2.75 to $3 per box. 
Tomatoes. 35c. to 45c.; plums, 45c. to 
50c., and peaches, 60c., all 11-quart 
baskets. 
Montreal.—Duchess and Alexander, 
$3.50 to $3.75. Canadian pears, 40c. to 
60c.; tomatoes. 30c. to 35c., and peaches, 
40c. to 50c.. all 11-quart baskets. New 
Brunswick blueberries, in crates, 0c. per 
quart. 
Ottawa.—Large supply of Duchess 
apples, selling from $1.75 to $2.50 per 
barrel; peaches, Yellow St. John, 50c. to 
60c. for 6-quart basket: 75c. to 80c.. for 
11-quart; pears, 45c. to 50c. for 11-quart; 
plums, 20c. to 25c. for 6-quart, 35c. to 
45c. for 11-quart; tomatoes, 20c. to 25c. 
for 11-quart baskets. 
Winnipeg.—British Columbia, Craw¬ 
fords, No. 1, 90c. to $1 ; Bartletts, $2; 
apples, $2; crabapples, $1.25. All boxed 
fruit. Ontario Duchess apples in bar¬ 
rels, poor color, $4 to $4.50. Auction 
prices fruit in 6-quart baskets : Peaches. 
19c. to 21c.; plums, 21c. to 25c.; toma¬ 
toes. 21c. to 26c.; pears. 30c. to 35c.; 
I hiehess apples. 20c. to 22c. 
Calgary.—Demand for preserving fruit 
steadily improving. Demand»strong at 
country points. Crabapples moving much 
better. Okanagan peaches scarce; Yaki¬ 
ma shipments, five cars per day. Prunes 
moving readily; Okanagan Wealthies, 
from $1.10 to $1.40 f. o. b. 
Lethbridge.—Apples, $2; crabapples, 
$1.65; pears, $2.20; peaches, 90c. per 
box; plums, 95c. per crate. 
Toronto.—Apples, Duchess, per bar¬ 
rel^ $3.75; 11-quart baskets lenos. 50c. 
to 75c.: 11-quart basket flat. 30c. to 40c.; 
peaches. Yellow St. Johns. 11-quart bas¬ 
kets lenos. 50c. to 85c., flats, 35c. to 50c; 
6-quart baskets lenos. 30c. to 60c., flats, 
20c. to 30c. Pears. Bartletts. eleven- 
quart baskets lenos. 50c. to 75c.. flats, 
40c. to 50c.; Bradshaws, lenos, 40c. to 
60c.. flats, 35c. to 40c.; Japanese, 11- 
quart, 20c. to 30c.; tomatoes, 11-quart 
lenos, 25c. to 35c., ll-quart flats, 20e. 
to 25c. 
Little Lillian’s parents were well to 
do, and kept several servants. She was 
allowed to go for a visit to a friend’s 
house whose family did their own house¬ 
work. When Lillian returned home, she 
was telling her mother about the good 
time she had. “But, mother, dear,” con¬ 
fided the child, solemnly, “they do one 
thing that is very dreadful! I hate to 
tell you about it. for it is really kind of 
cruel, and I’m afraid you won’t let me go 
there again.” “Why, Lillian,” urged the 
mother in some alarm, “you must tell 
me, dear.” “Well, mother.” replied the 
child, in a shocked whisper, “they use 
their own grandmother for a cook!”— 
Credit Lost. 
The fruit crop is a problem, to say the 
least.. This section will harvest about 
50 per cent, of Winter fruit. Fall vari¬ 
eties somewhat heavier. Pears about 
15, while peaches are almost a total 
failure. Crop is nearly all bought up at 
figures mainly from $1.75 to $2.00 for 
both apples and pears; instances where 
pears do slightly better, this price is for 
the fruit, orchard run. There are still 
many growers ignorant of the new pack¬ 
ing law, and rather than get posted in 
regard to same, will sell, seemingly, at 
any price. Undoubtedly they will lose 
heavily (the growers) through this, as 
prices are already advancing, as they al¬ 
ways do when the crop gets in the buyers’ 
hands. The grower who has not sold will 
no doubt be a winner. Regarding our 
new packing law, it is working splendid¬ 
ly and should not be troublesome to the 
man who has always packed honestly. 
West Coxsackie, N. Y. P. V. B. V. 
Canadian Crop Report. 
The apple crop of the entire Dominion 
will be much smaller and of lower qual¬ 
ity than usual, continual rains having 
increased fungus development. Large 
shipments of peaches have been made 
from the Niagara section. The yield is 
not heavy but of good quality. Grapes 
are considerably affected with mildew. 
Blums have rotted badly. Bartlett pears 
scarce in Ontario, but heavy crop in 
British Columbia. 
Report on Maine Potato Crop. 
Aroostook Co. farmers will not get 
down to digging in earnest until about 
Sept. 15. Potatoes are opening at a dol¬ 
lar. and few have been sent to market; 
there is still good prospects for fair 
prices. A well-known farmer has con¬ 
tracted for a dollar a barrel and ex¬ 
pects to get abou; 9,000 barrels, and 
other farmers are following suit, and if 
the buyers did not expect to see prices 
over that mark, these experienced buy¬ 
ers would not buy if the promise did 
not look good. It is estimated that the 
crop in Maine will be only 60 per cent, 
of its normal crop. In the northern 
part of Maine, a good deal of sunshine 
is needed badly. The citing of these facts 
does not mean that Maine is in a bad 
condition; there are parts of Maine 
where crops were never in better condi¬ 
tion, and the quality of potatoes are 
good, but in sections, the rust seems to 
have played an important part, and 
helped to increase the low percentage 
of the crop this season. w. H. B. 
Sept. 5.—The potato vines in this sec¬ 
tion died the past week except those that 
have been thoroughly sprayed with Bor¬ 
deaux, which is a small proportion of 
the total acreage. Many fields which 
were entirely green and looking fine a 
week ago, are now the color of my sec¬ 
ond crop of Alfalfa after it had soaked 
in three w> eks’ rain. Well-sprayed fields 
are still looking good, and show pros¬ 
pects of a fair yield if the blight can be 
kept off for another month. A conser¬ 
vative estimate will, I believe, cut the 
yield one-third from what it should have 
been, and only time will tell how much 
more it will be cut by rot. o. L., jk. 
Albion, N. Y. 
August was somewhat catchy for the 
oat harvest; places in the fields being so 
wet that it clogged the binder down, and 
had to be left until they dried up, but 
oats will be better in quality than last 
year. The weather August 31 was more 
like a Fall day than the last day of Sum¬ 
mer. We are having remarkably cool 
nights which makes corn mature very 
slowly. The wet weather and hot sun¬ 
shine at times has given beans and pota¬ 
toes the blight. Early potatoes are rot- 
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