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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 25, 1915. 
I have just thrashed the wheat; had 
038 bushels from slightly over 17 acres. 
I believe this is the best crop harvested 
on the farm in over 50 years. Oats are 
good, but too much smut. We have to 
do something with this smut nuisance. 
An old friend on a near-by farm was 
telling me bis experience. He had been 
treating his seed, and last year had so 
little smut that he thought it useless 
to treat it this Spring, so he sowed with 
untreated seed, and had a beautiful dose 
of smut, and when he investigated he 
found that the machine had come from a 
badly infested barn, and as a result he 
got badly infected. The only safe way 
is to treat the seed every year, unless 
you are sure about where the machine 
was used last. Some pieces I have seen 
I am sure were 25% smut. Barley is 
also good; cannot tell how well it will 
yield, but on an adjourning farm they 
thrashed 100 bushels from two acres, 
and we are sure we will get a good crop. 
Corn is looking good but is late and 
weedy. Too much rain. Potatoes are 
surely fine. AVe were in our lot this 
week, but could find no evidence of blight. 
Across the road my neighbor said he had 
some late blight. I have not seen so few 
bugs since they first became a nuisance 
in this country nearly or quite 40 years 
ago. There is no explanation I can give, 
unless it is that the continual spraying 
has had its effect. I remember that 20 
years ago they simply ate up the crop 
after this time. Our man thought that 
the vines were so strong, that, as he had 
used Paris green, they could do no dam¬ 
age, but they came by the thousands, 
yea, millions, and I think cut the yield 
fully 30%. Now we take no chances. 
If they are there we use the poison. It 
seems very hard work to get any line on 
the potato outlook though rot is reported 
bad in some sections. AVe have had 
much less rain in this section than in 
many parts of the State. AA r hile it has 
been very catchy Monroe County has not 
had an excess of moisture up to this time. 
The rains have in many cases been just 
enough to stop harvesting and still not 
wet the ground excessively. c. I. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
Sept. 6 . This section has had an un¬ 
usually wet season since the last of May. 
The corn crop has suffered much for cul¬ 
tivation on account of so much rain, and 
will be about two-thirds of a yield. The 
wheat and oat cx-ops were not very good. 
Meadows and pastures have beeii extra 
good. Cultivated land on hillsides has 
been considerably damaged by the heavy 
washing rains, probably more than in 
many years. Some crops of hay on creek 
bottoms have been entirely ruined by the 
heavy overflow of water. Corn, 75c.; 
wheat, $1.15; oats, 50; potatoes, 75; ap¬ 
ples, 50; eggs, 20; butter, 15; hens, 10c. 
pound; good milch cows, $50 to $75; beef 
cattle, 5c. to 7c. pound; hogs, 7c. to 10c. 
pound. Iloi'ses cheap and not much de¬ 
mand. Good Spring colts about $50; 
would have been $75 a year ago. W. H. 
AVashbuim, Tenn. 
Buffalo Markets. 
An overstock of peaches selling at 
$1.25 to $1.35 per bushel for fancy, and 
as low as 50 cents a home-grown third- 
bushel basket at retail is the feature 
of the market. The quality has seldom 
been better, and though the New York 
State peach belt is often bare of fruit, 
the prices are all low. The season has not 
been very favorable to the growth of 
tomatoes here either, and yet they are so 
plentiful that they are selling at 20 
to 35 cents the half bushel, wholesale. 
The excess hardly comes from AVestern 
New York fields. Other vegetables are 
stronger, though all are decidedly low in 
price. Wholesale prices: String beans, 
00 to 00 cents per bushel; cabbage $1 to 
$3.75 per barrel; cucumbers, 25 to 50 
cents per bushel, pickle size 35 to 20 cents 
per 100; lettuce, 25 to 50 cents per doz; 
radishes, 15 to 18 cents per dozen 
bunches; peppers, 50 to 00 cents per 
bushel; yellow turnips, $1.25 per bar¬ 
rel. There is a little celery, retailing at 
10 cents per small bunch. 
A few strawberries have returned to 
market, evidence that the everbearing 
idea is working, but retailing at 15 cents 
a pint. The blackberi-ies are still here 
in small amounts, at 11 cents per quart, 
retail. Huckleberries are about the same 
price, the wholesale quotations being 8 
to 9 cents per quart. Melons are steadier 
than most things, watermelons still 
bringing 40 to 50 cents wholesale for 
large, and cantaloupes $1.50 to $1.75 for 
fancy, large crates. Apples are good 
quality, but rather high, wholesaling at 
$3 per barrel, down. No good apples are 
to be had at less than $1 per bushel, 
wholesale. Pears are also high, the Bart¬ 
lett price being $4 to $4.50 per bushel, 
wholesale. No other valuable sorts are 
offered. Plums are 14 to 15 cents for 
7-pound basket, home grown. They are 
very fine. Potatoes are stronger, the lo¬ 
cal crop not being promising, from wet 
weather and blight. The retail price is 
75 cents and the wholesale from 40 te 00 
cents. The local bean crop is an entire 
failure, but market prices remain at 
$3.50 for medium, with marrows out of 
market. Onions are firm at 60 to 65 
cents per bushel for fancy home-grown, 
and $1.40 to $1.50 for Spanish, small 
crate. 
Butter is firm, but prices remain at 29 
cents for best and 23 to 24 cents for fair 
to good dairy. Cheese is still 15% cents 
for best. Eggs are firmer, the top price 
being 32 cents, although most retailers sell 
what they call fresh-laid, for 30 cents. 
The poultry market is active and firm, 
no turkey offering except frozen, at 21 
to 22 cents. Live fowl is 17 to 18 cents 
for fancy ; springers, 17 to 20 cents; old 
roosters, 11 cents; ducks, fancy, 15 to 
16 cents, with dressed poultry only slight¬ 
ly higher. 
The hay prices continue to drop, though 
that does not hurt the westeim New York 
farmer who has none to sell. Prices are 
$23 for best Timothy. J. w. c. 
Boston Market. 
The general opinion seems to be that 
onions have seen the last of their low 
prices for this season, as a general short 
crop is reported and prices are moving 
upward. Good native stock now sells at 
75c. to $1 per box. Connecticut $1.50 to 
$2 per bag; fancy Spanish, $2 per small 
crate. The short supply and poor quality 
of Maine potatoes, and small supply of 
Jersey stock, has caused a rise in the cost 
of these, and as the general crop of these 
is not too large this season, and many 
sections are rotting badly; average prices 
for the season are apt to rule better than 
last season. Jersey stock about $1.30 per 
bag; Maine, $1.10 and $1.15. Sweets are 
also much lower at $3 per barrel. A gen¬ 
eral blight on cucumbers has spoiled the 
crop in many cases, yet demand is so 
poor that prices are only fair, $3.50 for 
best. $2.50 down to $1 tor others ; pickles, 
$1.50 to $3.50 per barrel. Lettuce is a 
little more plentiful, but poor, as a rule, in 
quality; much is brouglit in from New 
Yoi-k State, which sells at $3.50 to $2.25 
per crate, while the native brings 50c. and 
75c. per box. Parsley only brings 50c. 
per box. Summer squash very plentiful 
at 40c. to 50c. per box; Marrow not 
plentiful as yet, $1.50 and $2 per barrel; 
tomatoes getting plentiful, at 50c. to $1 
per bushel, with a little call for green 
ones at 50c. to 75c. per box; rutabaga 
turnips, $1.50 per barrel, and AA r hite Egg 
$1 per bushel. Other root crops still 
high. Beets, 75c. per box; carrots, 85c. 
parsnips, $1, and radishes 75c. Cauli¬ 
flower at 75c. and $1 per box is a paying 
crop. Egg plant sells at $1 to $1.50 per 
box ; peppers 75c., and in a few cases $1 
I>er box ; corn is much more plentiful and 
brings 50c. to $1 per box; most sales 
average 65c. and 75c; spinach, 50c. to 
75c. per box. 
Best apples not too plentiful at $3 and 
$3.50 per barrel, and $1.50 per box. Much 
common stock on hand sells at $2 and 
$2.50 per barrel and 50c. to $3. per box. 
Blucbei’i’ies still plentiful at 10c. to 15c. 
per box; plums plentiful and cheap for 
common stock, California, $1 to $2 per 
crate. Native stock rules small and poor 
flavor, with general prices at 25c. per 
basket of 8 pounds. One of my neighbors 
carried in a load- over the road nearly 30 
miles, and only received 75c. per crate of 
32 quart boxes. Peaches plentiful at 
$1.25 to $1.75 per caiTier, $1.50 and $1.75 
per bushel, and 50c. to 75c. per half basket 
of 16 quai’ts. California Bartlett pears, 
$2 to $2.50 per box ; native, $1.50 and $2 ; 
Clapp, $1 and $1.50; Bananas, $3.75 
per bunch for best quality, large bunch, 
others at $3, $2.50, $2 and $1.50 fox- 
small bunches; reds, $4.50 down to $2; 
Southern cantaloupes, $1.50 to $2.50 per 
crate; oranges, $4.50 to $5.50 per box: 
lemons, $3 to $4 per box; grape fruit, $5 
per box; pineapple, $3 and $5 per cx-ate; 
watermelons, 25c. to 40c. each; native 
celery, 75c. to $1.25 per dozen; cabbage, 
both drumhead and savoy, 75c. to $1 per 
barrel, and red $1 per box; string beans 
bring good money at $1.50 to $2 per box; 
shell, 75c. to $1.25; lima. $1.50 and $2. 
Fancy butter in short supply and slight¬ 
ly higher, other grades plenty; sales slow 
on all but the best, which sells at 30 to 
31c. per pound; good, 27 to 28c., and 
fair goes at 25c. and 26c.. Cheese sells 
a little better, as more demand is shown 
than in the past few weeks, 14c. to 17c. 
per pound is the range on this. Eggs are 
ruling higher, especially in the best 
grades, which are not in heavy supply, 
and bring up to 40c. Othei-s a little 
more plentiful at 33c. to 36c for good 
medium grades; storage stock, 25c. to 29c. 
Best beef goes at about 13c. per pound ; 
other good grades at 12 %c. and 10 c. Good 
mutton. 10c. to 12c. per pound; Spring 
lamb, 14c. and 15c.; Winter lamb, 12c. 
and 13c. Best veal, 16c.. others at from 
15c. down to 12c.; dressed hogs, 8 %c. and 
9%c. per pound. 
At Brighton a few of the best cattle 
in demand at 8 c. or 8 %c. per pound ; 
other grades not so much wanted with 
price ranging from 6 %e. down to 3c. for 
poor quality. Live hogs about 7%c. aver¬ 
age per pound ; veal calves in fair demand 
at 7%c. to 9c. per pound; cattle hides, 
11c. to 15c. per pound; calf skins, 22c. 
and 24e. Brighton stock yards were 
opened to milch cows on September 
1 st; a good supply of stock was 
brought in but sales were not as good 
as expected as cow tniying is a little 
dull just now. Most farmers have 
enough milk to supply trade at present 
demand, which is none too good. Horse 
sales for local use are slow, with prices 
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