THE: RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Crops and Farm News 
Drier and warmer weather has brought 
an improvement in corn prospects, but 
frost must hold off the rest of September to 
mature the corn, which now promises to 
be a bumper crop. It is now in the roast¬ 
ing ear stage and weather conditions are 
excellent at present. Three good crops 
of Alfalfa hay have been harvested and 
a heavy crop of prairie hay is now ready ; 
the quality is excellent. Millet, sorghum, 
Kaffir corn, felerita and milo maize are 
also good crops this year, so fodder will 
be plentiful, except straw, which will be 
practically worthless on account of the 
continued rains of July and August. 
Small grain harvest was a hard job. the 
rains making the land very soft; the re¬ 
sult is that hundreds of acres were not 
cut until a month after ripening. Some 
of this was finally cut with mow¬ 
ers and raked and thrashed at 
once. Probably 25 per cent. of 
the crop was thrashed from the shock 
and sold at SO cents, the quality being 
poor. The bulk of crop was stacked and 
is still in stack waiting to dry out. Some 
has been thrashed and found fairly dry, 
selling for 90 cents. Potatoes are best 
crop in years and of fine quality. Not 
much complaint of hog cholera during the 
Summer, less than usual, perhaps due to 
the use of vaccination with serum and 
virus. Fall apples plenty and prices very 
low. Winter apples will be scarce. 
Peaches and pears brought from other 
parts are_ selling at $1.50 per bushel. 
Cows, $75; horses, $150 up and down. 
Stock cattle on a basis of 0 cents a 
pound; fat hogs, $(5.50 to $7 per hun¬ 
dred. Old wheat $1.05, new wheat 70c 
to 90c as to quality; oats, 40<>; corn, 
05c; bran, $1; shorts, $1.35; Alfalfa hay, 
$7; wild hay, $7; potatoes, 50c; toma¬ 
toes, 75c; butter, 25c; eggs, ISc; poul¬ 
try. 12c. The Nebraska State Fair closed 
September 11; had the largest exhibit 
and largest attendance in its history- 
Fairbury, Neb. H. m! r. 
The Holstein Field Day and basket 
picnic at the Eastern New York Hol- 
stein-Friesian Breeders’ Association, at 
the farm of George C. Hubbard, Red 
Hook, N. Y'., September 10. was a suc¬ 
cessful meeting. There were 140 present. 
The local breeders provided coffee, which 
with Mother Hubbard’s genuine New 
Engl md doughnuts and Father Hubbard’s 
ripe Gravenstein apples gave added relish 
to the well-filled baskets of the pickniek- 
ers. After the festivities Harry B. Davis 
of Chester, one of the youngest success¬ 
ful breeders, gave a convincing talk on 
“Improvement of the Herd Through Sire 
and by the Proper Growing of the Young 
Stock.” A veteran breeder, Alfred II. 
Moore, of Moore’s Mill, then spoke from 
years of experience and urged the import¬ 
ance of not keephig more stock than could 
be well kept. Mr. Hubbard introduced 
It. II- Stiekels of Claverack as the man 
who gave him his first word of real en¬ 
couragement after he bought a herd two 
years ago and whose advice led to the 
testing of eight head, all of which fresh¬ 
ened last Fall, and the making of rec¬ 
ords averaging 4(55.1 pounds milk, 20.96 
pounds butter per head in seven days 
and 1972.7 pounds milk, 85.51 pounds 
butter in 30 days from one each junior 
and senior, two years junior and senior 
three years, and one each senior five, six, 
seven and eight-year old and one average 
of 32(5.(5 pounds milk, 13.95 pounds but¬ 
ter, in seven days from one each senior 
three, six, seven and eight-year-old eight 
months after fresh late in June, the other 
four coming in July when haying pre¬ 
vented giving them equally good records. 
The highest s«ven day fresh record being 
23.(59 pounds butter, and the highest, eight 
months after, being 15.18 pounds butter. 
The president of the association, L. L. 
Lawson of La Grangeville, concluded the 
speaking with some well-put remarks on 
the value of the association to breeders 
and urging exhibits at the Poughkeepsie 
Fair. 
From the “old orchard” where Green¬ 
ings were being picked, an average of 10 
barrels per tree, the party walked through 
the “young orchard” and saw Baldwins, 
Northern Spy and King trees literally 
loaded to the ground with very fine fruit, 
20-year-old Baldwin and Spy "trees carry¬ 
ing up to 12 barrels per tree, there being 
in both orchards some 2.500 barrels of 
apples, which Mr. Hubbard announced 
would bring fully $(5,000 packed and de¬ 
livered on cars at Red Ilook, the stand¬ 
ard varieties having been recently sold 
as a result of the New York Department 
of Foods and Markets auctions at $2.75 
per barrel f- o. b. Red Hook. 
The present condition of the dairy bus¬ 
iness in this vicinity looks rather serious 
owing to the weather during haying time- 
Many farmers lost much of their hay, 
and the rest is of poor quality owing to 
the fact of the lateness of the haying. 
Corn was damaged very much by the 
heavy rains and wind, but has finally 
made quite a growth, but is costing more 
than usual to cut on account of being 
twisted and down in some places. To 
counteract the deficiency of hay, a large 
crop of rowen is being harvested. I think 
that the dairymen are fairly well satis¬ 
fied with prices received. At tins farm 
we market our dairy product in the form 
of cream, and sometimes sell some milk 
to accommodate our dealers. We get 
rather more than the average farmer 
owing to our extra fine equipment for the 
business. Good cows seem to be always 
high in this vicinity, ranging from $85 
to $150 each for a grade cow. A grade 
cow was sold at auction near here a 
short time ago for $134. Pastures in this 
vicinity are not counted for much, but 
of course the heavy rains have kept them 
better than for some years previous. I 
am inclined to believe that the ordinary 
farmer will find it rather hard to winter 
his stock unless some unforseen slump 
comes in the grain market. A. a. b. 
Canton, Mass. 
The apple crop is less than 25 per cent 
of last year and poor quality ; have heard 
of no offers or sales. " w. c. 
Trumansburg, N. Y. 
The apple crop around this section is 
about one-half, where they have been 
worked and sprayed. Buyers have offer¬ 
ed $3 a barrel and a great many have sold 
at that price. c. L- w. 
Naples, N. Y. 
Sept. 16. — Farmers are busy tilling 
their silos in Clinton County. Potato dig¬ 
ging will be next in order; many fields 
have been blighted and rot is reported in 
some sections of the county. It is expected 
about an average crop will be harvested. 
Recent rains have kept pastures in good 
condition and cows are keeping up well on 
their milk supply, but most farmers will 
soon commence to feed at the barn. Pork, 
live, 6%c; butter. 29c; calves, live, 5c 
per pound ; eggs, 26c. ir. T. j. 
Clinton County, N. Y. 
Dairying good, milk being made at less 
cost than years previous, less grain being 
fed to get results. Rains have kept pas¬ 
tures growing. Cattle looking well. Some 
good pieces of corn silage will not aver¬ 
age as well as last year, some almost a 
failure, all late. Hay, big crop, will more 
than make up for the short corn. A dealer 
told me good cows, fresh, could be bought 
at $75 to $80; more for sale than last 
year- He said it did not pay to milk 
Winter cows. There have been a lot of 
beef cattle sold of late. Corn is coming 
on fine this warm weather. 
Sanitaria Springs, N. Y. 11. e. w 
Sept. 16.—This is mainly a dairy section- 
Sweet corn and potatoes are the only staple 
crops grown for sale. There are no gar¬ 
den crops or fruit grown for sale on a 
scale large enough to mention. Good grade 
of cows sell for $60 to $75, common cows 
$30 to $50 ; great demand at present for 
cheap stock. Nearly ail milk is made 
into cheese with a small amount of but¬ 
ter ; prices received are those quoted by 
the Dairy Board of Trade of Utica, N. Y. 
Sweet corn is sold at the canning fac¬ 
tories at 70c per hundred of husked corn. 
The potato market is very dull; 35c to 
50c per bushel; no demand. Food prod¬ 
ucts are sold mostly to retailers with 
a few private sales. Large quantities 
of fruits such as apples, pears, plums, 
peaches, etc., are shipped from the West¬ 
ern part of the State and sold directly 
from the car. h. n. 11 . 
Glenmore, N. 1’. 
Sept. 12.—This is a dairying section 
and there is very little sale of farm pro 1- 
ucts. Those of us who do not sell milk 
to Borden merely exist, and that is all. 
A dealer from Newburgh comes through 
here every week and takes our veal 
calves, for which we receive from 8 to 
10c. Light pigs (60 to 100 pounds) we 
can sell at l’ine Bush 10c to 12c dressed ; 
eggs are now 2Sc (in trade). Onions we 
can get about 75c per bushel in trade 
or private sale. Sometimes the merchants 
will take a few bushels of potatoes at 
from 50c to (50c. Butter they will not 
take. We get the retail price of what¬ 
ever they _ take from us, but we have 
to take it in trade. In the boarding sea¬ 
son we can sell our butter at Dwaarkill 
and get from 26c to 30c per pound. After 
the season closes he will take it in trade. 
Milk sells here at 5c per quart at the 
door. The price of milch cows is from 
$60 to $80 at private sale. At an auc¬ 
tion September 1 they brought from $30 
to $48- Calves from $2 to $3 at three 
days old. Spring pigs six weeks old $3 
per pair. Fall pigs $2.50 per pair. The 
fruit here is very poor. Peaches are now 
selling at from 25c to 40c a basket. 
Apples we get $1 per barrel at the ear 
(loose) ; at the cider mill we get 25c per 
hundred pounds. w. h. 11 
Crawford, N. Y. 
Sept. 16.—Farmers very busy cutting 
corn, saving fodder, harvesting cowpea 
hay and picking tomatoes. The tomato 
crop is said to be 50 per cent short in 
this county. A number of packing houses 
are not running this season and some of 
them still have large quantities of their 
last year s pack on hand- The price of 
canned tomatoes has advanced 30c per 
case during the last 30 days. The 
sweet potato crop is larger than for sev¬ 
eral years. KielTer pears are going to 
market in large quantities at 12c per 
five-eighths basket. The corn crop is not 
so good as it was last year, which is due 
to a severe wind and rainstorm about 
the first of August, which twisted and 
broke many of the roots while the corn 
was growing. Although the pastures are 
better than they have been for some 
years at this season, milk is very scarce. 
Some York .State calves and yearlings 
are being shipped here and sold at auc¬ 
tion. They bring good prices. 
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