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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 6, 1915. 
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Crops and Farm News 
A Busy Market Street. 
The picture shows a small section of 
West Street, New York, near the Bar¬ 
clay Street pier, at a time when apple 
deliveries were quite heavy. West Street, 
bordering the Hudson River, is one of 
the leading business highways in the farm 
produce trade. All of the railroads ter¬ 
minating in New Jersey and farther up 
town in New York, have piers along 
West Street for the delivery of freight. 
The cars are brought on floats and un¬ 
loaded on the docks by the railroad 
hands. The Old Dominion and other 
coastwise 6teamers frem Virginia and 
farther southern points bring great quan¬ 
tities of string beans, early potatoes and 
other vegetables (in less than a week re¬ 
cently 15,000 bushels of string beans), 
and the New England lines half fill this 
dockage space with potatoes and cases 
of cloth or other manfactured goods. 
West Street is well lighted and busy 
in the night as well as day. During the 
season when perishable products are ar¬ 
riving freely, the docks are open at one 
A. M., and for two or three hours selling 
and delivery are more active than at 
any other time during the day. The 
various large dealers have spaces allotted 
to them at the docks where their receipts 
are piled, salesmen and buyers get to¬ 
gether, and soon the produce is on trucks 
and on its way to the city’s interior, 
ready for the forenoon’s retail trade. 
A Rural School Exhibition. 
The rural district school No. 12 of 
Manchester Bridge, N. Y., held a notable 
exhibit of the products of the school 
gardens on Sept. 25. A number of pub¬ 
lic-spirited people of the district con¬ 
tributed over $10 in prizes, which were 
awarded in first, second and third, rang¬ 
ing from 25 cents to $1 each. Fourteen 
boys and girls exhibited in 14 different 
entries of vegetables, corn, potatoes, flow¬ 
ers, cakes and embroidery. There were 
nine collections of vegetables, first going 
to a splendid collection of 34 varieties; 
two entries squash; five cucumber; eight 
tomato; five corn; seven pop-corn; three 
potatoes; six cakes; 13 pieces of em¬ 
broidery ; five collections of wild flow¬ 
ers, the largest 28 varieties, and two col¬ 
lections of garden flowers, the largest 23 
varieties. 
The girls did most remarkable work in 
embroidery and cakes, and the boys were 
equally successful in corn and vegetables. 
The youngest exhibitor, a little girl of 
seven, contributed to the embroidery, 
while the oldest was 13, also winning in 
embroidery and largest squash. One boy 
of the same age, a winner on corn, vege¬ 
tables and potatoes, also has done all his 
father’s Fall plowing of eight or 10 acres. 
Arlington, N. Y. d. b. s. 
The Maine Potato Crop. 
The prices on potatoes are continuing 
to be on the upward tendency, and the 
outlook is becoming brighter, and before 
the season advances much further should 
not be surprised to see record prices. In 
the far northern section, as high as $2.50 
per barrel has been paid. A large num¬ 
ber of growers have a considerable num¬ 
ber of acres to dig. This is more notice¬ 
able in the southern part of Maine. A 
great deal of discussion is going on lately 
relating to the powdery scab. A long 
and exhaustive study has been made at 
the government laboratories at Presque 
Isle this season, as the removal of the 
quarantine on potatoes does not signify 
that the powdery scab is not as danger¬ 
ous as at any time. In Maine, with the 
co-operation of growers, it is believed 
that in time a great deal can be done to 
remove this disease, which is a great 
menace to the yield and quality of the 
seed potatoes. The observations made 
regarding this disease have shown that 
soil has played a very important part. 
In some soils the powdery scab will not 
take bold like other soils. This seems to 
be the prevailing conclusion of a great 
number of growers. w. H. B. 
Governor Alexander of Idaho said re¬ 
cently: “Idaho can bo justly called an 
electric State. Fair prices for farm pro¬ 
ducts and bountiful crops provide a broad 
basis for good times, and when the farther 
lias money to spend or save, the country 
is usually prosperous. I know of farmers 
living 40 miles from the railroad who are 
using as many electrically driven ma¬ 
chines as the farmers whose land lies 
close to the big towns. There are thou¬ 
sands of struggling farmers who are un¬ 
able to hire help, and who are only too 
ready to adopt electric service and appli¬ 
ances in \ orking their land. I see the 
time not far away when our fanners will 
obtain electric energy as cheaply as they 
obtain water today. In Rupert, Burley, 
Ilayburn, Twin Falls and other sage¬ 
brush towns, more than 50 per cent, of 
all the houses are not only wired for 
lighting, but are electrically heated also. 
Oct. 18. Dairy cattle, $40 to $S0; 
beef cattle, seven cents per pound, live 
weight; milk, average for year, $1.30 per 
cwt.; butter, 25c. to 30c. per pound; 
cheese, 12c. to 15c. per pound ; apples, $1 
per barrel; potatoes, 30c. to (50c. per 
bushel; cabbage, $4 per hundred ; onions, 
$1 per bushel. j. r. h. 
Gilbertsville, N. 1 T . 
Potatoes and cauliflower are the 
staples of this locality. Potatoes are sell¬ 
ing at the cars at 80 cents per bushel. 
Cauliflowers are returning, net, $3 per 
barrel for good stock. On account of the 
nearness to the ocean (one-half mile) 
fruit raising is not a success here, not 
enough for home consumption being 
raised, and garden crops are not raised 
for market, as it is too expensive to ship 
to the city market. In regard to cattle a 
cow will sell for about $100. H. L. L. 
Amagansett, N. Y. 
Oct. 10. Butter soils from farmer at 
28 to 30 cents; eggs, 23. No wheat raised 
here to speak of. Worth about $1 a 
bushel; rye about 90c.; oats a very good 
crop, about 70 bushels per acre, price 
30c. Potatoes very poor in this part, 
running about 60 bu. to acre, when the 
average crop is about 200 per acre. A 
large portion of the fields will never be 
dug this year; price of potatoes from 35 
to 40c. per bushel. Garden truck is not 
worth very much, no sales to speak of. 
This part of the county does not grow 
very many apples, but apples are not very 
high here; shipped in prices from 60c. to 
$1 per bushel. Cows sell from $40 to 
$100 each here; good cows worth more, 
Veal, live, $6 and $7 per 100 pounds; 
hogs, 7c. and 8c. live weight, 9 and 10c. 
dressed. Cheese from factory, 14 and 
15c. per pound, out of the stores about 
20c. Poultry about 12c. per pound at the 
meat markets. Hay around $10 per ton ; 
straw, oat. $5 and $6 per ton. Butter fat 
is worth 32c. at creamery; milk. 7c. per 
quart. We had a very hard freeze here 
August 25, which killed all of the corn 
and potatoes, buckwheat and beans, 
beans bring 7c. per pound out of store. 
Quite a lot of strawberries are raised 
here in the season ; they sell at 12 to 15c. 
per box. It is a very good dairy country 
here; the hay crop is good as a rule. 
Land sells close to the city at about $200 
per acre, cut-over land farther back sells 
for less money. Not a very heavy poultry 
country. Labor is quite plenty; wages, 
from $1.50 to $1.75 per day. We have 
a nice little city of about 8,000. w. w. 
Antigo, Wis. 
A Piece of Apple Pie for New Yorkers. 
