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Ttdfe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Crops and Farm Notes 
An Educational Exhibition. 
An agricultural exhibit booth, which 
young and old sought, found and exam¬ 
ined, proved an interesting novelty at the 
Binghamton Industrial Fair this Au¬ 
tumn. The Broome County Farm Bu¬ 
reau, through its manager, E. R. Minns, 
here displayed “crops” from seeds of in¬ 
spiration and information which were 
sown early last Spring. Side-shows and 
grandstand attractions proved secondary 
while boys and girls, teachers, parents 
and friends from city and country, lin¬ 
gered over the attractive results achieved 
by rural school boys’ and girls' clubs, and 
by city school gardeners. Poultry Club 
members exhibited vigorous pullets and 
cockerels of Wyandotte, Rhode Island 
Red, White Leghorn or Plymouth Rock 
varieties. The girls of the Bread-making 
Club presented cuch an array of well- 
made, well-shaped and well-baked whole¬ 
some loaves as would have done credit to 
any college domestic science department, 
or to any housewives’ league. The 
weather man’s Summer plans had inter¬ 
fered with the harvest ingathering of 
some of the potato clubs and tomato 
clubs, but many excellent specimen were 
shown. The judge remarked to the Farm 
Bureau man: “The professional exhibit¬ 
ors would better come over to the boys’ 
and girls’ exhibit and get some seed stock, 
for the boys and girls have better pota¬ 
toes than have the professionals.” When 
he had awarded first, second and third 
prizes, he reached into his pocket and 
handed a cash prize to the Farm Bureau 
man, saying: “The boy who raised this 
fourth lot must have a prize too—such 
fine potatoes!” 
The essays, which accompanied each 
entry for the tempting prizes, proved that 
boys and girls write interesting essays 
when the writer has been doing interest¬ 
ing work and really has something to say. 
Such a display of vegetables did those 
city school gardeners produce!_ Variety 
and quality proved that any intelligent 
arid industrious gardeners may 'obtain 
abundant yields from small city plots. 
The popularity and educational value of 
such an agricultural exhibit was demon¬ 
strated ; a missing link between home and 
school was found. daisy amick MINNS. 
Stone and Brick Crops. 
There are crops beside food and fiber 
which come out of the soil. Take for ex¬ 
ample stone and brick. How many peo¬ 
ple realize that during the year 1914 the 
income from the production from stone 
alone in this country was $77,412,292, 
while the income from clay products, 
mostly brick, amounted to $164,986,983, 
yet the removal of this brick and stone 
did not make even a dimple on the face 
of nature! The following table shows 
what different kinds of stone brought on 
the market. 
Granite .... 
“Trap rock” 
Marble .... 
Limestone . 
Sandstone . 
$20,028,919.00 
7,865,998.00 
8,121,412.00 
33,894,155.00 
7,501,808.00 
The building stone used in 1914 was 
worth $17,796,552. There were $7,047,- 
572 spent for monumental stone, $1,- 
869.676 for curbstones, and $3,936,383 for 
paving stone. Pennsylvania stood at the 
head of the stone-producing States, while 
Vermont was second, followed by New 
York, Ohio, California and Massachu¬ 
setts. The stone business in this coun¬ 
try is growing to a large proportion. In 
clay products brick and tile brought 
$129,588,822. These clay products are 
made in every State and territory except 
Alaska and Hawaii, even Porto Rico 
producing $5,978,000 worth. The Hud¬ 
son Valley is the greatest brick-making 
district in this country and probably in 
the world. This region sent out in 1914 
888,266,000 common brick. Ulster 
County, N. Y., leads the Valley, report¬ 
ing 186,381,000 brick. New Jersey is 
also a great brick-making section, and 
it is evident that bricks are coming back 
as building and paving material. 
Oct. 27. Farmers are almost through 
seeding wheat, which has been much de¬ 
layed by wet weather. The acreage seed¬ 
ed is larger than usual. Owing to show¬ 
ery weather during the thrashing season, 
there has been a great demand for good 
seed wheat, as much of the wheat went 
into the granary in a damp condition 
and became heated in the bin. Late ap¬ 
ples and Ivieffer pears have about all 
been harvested. Large quantities of ap¬ 
ples were sold at the railroad stations 
and shipped to cold storage houses for 
the Winter markets. They brought 
around 35 cents per bushel, while Kieffer 
pears brought from 12 to 14 cents per 
%-basket Corn husking is the order of 
the day now. The crop is from 25. to 50 
per cent short this season, which is 
thought by some corn growers to be due 
to a severe wind and rainstorm breaking 
the roots loose while the corn was grow¬ 
ing, while others believe the storm pre¬ 
vented proper pollenizing. Sweet potato 
growers are almost through digging 
sweets. The crop is a fine one both in 
quality and quantity. The bulk of the 
crop is being stored in the potato houses. 
About 20 members of the agricultural 
Classes of Delaware College visited sev¬ 
eral Kent Co. farms recently and noted 
the different methods used by the large 
apple growers. Scarlet clover has made 
a fine growth this season, and there is 
a prospect for a big crop of hay next 
season. The crop of cow pea and Soy 
bean hay which has just been harvested 
is a fine one. There was an increased 
acreage of these crops. c. n. 
Kent Co. Del. 
Cattle, fat stock, dressed 7^ to 9c; 
on foot, 7^c; sheep, fat stock, dressed, 
10; on foot 7c; hogs, fat stock 
dressed, 8% to 9c; on foot 8%. But- 
terfat 34c; potatoes 50c. Cabbage $22 
per ton. E. J. D. 
Ashland, Wis. 
Oct. 27. Apples are being bought for 
$1 to $1.25 per 100 pounds. Cabbage, 
$3 to $5 per ton ; potatoes all blighted, 
very scarce $1 to $1.25 per bu. Grapes 
$25 per ton. Hay $10 to $14 per ton. 
Beans, Marrows, $4 per bu.: yellow eye 
$3 to $3.25. Red Kidney $3.50 to $3.75; 
peas and mediums $2.90 to $3.10. 
Onions $1. Beans suffered badly with 
water, consequently are very poor on 
low ground. Hogs, live weight. 7c; beef, 
live weight, 5c; fowls 10c to 13c; lambs 
8c to 9c; wheat, 90c to $1; rye 95c; 
buckwheat 80c; oats 40c; bailey badly 
stained, most will have to go for feed 
value. Butter 26 to 30e; eggs very 
scarce and prices unreasonable, ranging 
from 35c to 42 per dozen. Farm pro¬ 
ducts in general will bring good prices, 
potatoes very scarce with lots of growers 
having to buy; hay starting off very slow, 
buyers not looking for it. Acres of beans 
will never be harvested, too poor. Buck¬ 
wheat also a failure in this vicinity. 
Large acreage of Winter grain being 
sown late. c. M. K. 
Barnes, N. Y. 
Oct. 25. Crop conditions in Jefferson 
County, Nebraska, continue good. The 
close race between the corn crop and 
frost was won by the corn by a close 
margin and this county will harvest one 
of the largest crops in its history. Re¬ 
ports of conditions in other parts indicate 
that in some localities rain continued 
longer, and much corn was caught by 
frost and is badly injured thereby. 
Thrashing wheat is not finished yet, but 
so far stacked wheat is coming in good 
shape, and is selling at 95 cents and bet¬ 
ter. There is still some land to be seed¬ 
ed to wheat. Although it seems late, it 
is believed to have a good chance, the 
land being in fine condition, and the 
weather ideal. Potatoes are a fine crop, 
never better, and ought to be very cheap, 
but dealers are asking 70 cents per bush¬ 
el. Apples are plenty at present at 30 
to 75 cents a bushel. The quality is 
very good. The fourth crop of Alfalfa 
hay has just been cut, the yield being 
about one-half ton per acre, or about 
three tons per acre for the season. Al¬ 
falfa hay at present is in large supply 
and cheap at $6 and $7 per ton. Al¬ 
falfa mills have been built to make meal 
of the surplus hay, but they have mostly 
gone out of business. A herd of over 20 
head of dairy cows was sold lately at 
an average of $71, ranging from $60 to 
$101, Jersey and Holstein grades. Fat 
hogs are about $6.50 per hundred; have 
dropped over a dollar in a week. 
Fairbury, Nebr. H. M. R. 
Nov. 1. Wheat $1 bu.; corn 75; oats 
45; rye 90. Buckwheat $1.50 a hun¬ 
dred. Wheat bran $28 a ton. Wheat 
middlings $30 a ton. Hay $18; potatoes 
80c bu.; apples, retail, 75c bu.; butter 
34; eggs 36; chickens, retail, 14c lb.; 
veal calves 10c lb.; pork 10c lb. Fresh 
cows $45 to $60. No fat cattle fed here 
and no regular price for them. 
Bloomsburg, Pa. L. H. w. 
J ‘ r 
Oct. 30. Potatoes have taken a slight 
slump in the market this week, due no 
doubt to the heavy offerings. The aver¬ 
age prices obtained by the growers were 
from $1.70 to $1.75. The continued 
warm weather in the northern section 
this week, has a lot to do with the slump¬ 
ing of the local markets; until the sea¬ 
son gets to the usual cold weather, which 
prevails in this section at this time of 
the season, prices will change continual¬ 
ly. Receipts became too heavy the early 
part of this week, the weather being 
warm, and the heavy receipts caused the 
slump. The quality is excellent in this 
section, and growers are looking for high¬ 
er prices later. W. H. B. 
Oct. 30. Prices here on the main line 
of the M. C. R. R. are fairer and more 
easily determined than at many rather 
back points. Detroit usually governs our 
prices on all grain except corn, as we 
ship corn in rather than out it takes an 
advance over Chicago usually. Most 
grades of hogs run $1 per cwt. below 
Buffalo when that market is eight to nine 
cents, the difference being smaller as the 
price lowers so that a 4%c market used 
to give four cents. The farmers cannot 
judge of the grade of cattle and sheep 
so well and so many times make poorer 
sales except on good steers and lambs; 
these run fairly near Buffalo. Most of 
the butter here is sold through the Par¬ 
ma Cooperative Creamery to a Detroit 
;firm at a rather fancy price. We get 
pay for butterfat a little more than they 
get for outter, as the moisture more than 
pays for making. The difference between 
here and Detroit seems unfair on grain 
many times, 10 cents on oats at present. 
But still the Detroit quotations are sup¬ 
posed to govern our market and at pres¬ 
ent that is the best we can do. c. H. 
Albion, Mich. 
Oct. 30. Cows, fresh and springers, 
$50 to $100; cattle for bologna, live 
weight 4c to 5c; veal calves 9c to 10c; 
hogs, light 6c to 7c. Hay, moving slow¬ 
ly, $15 to $16; oats 50c; buckwheat 
$1.60 per cwt.; cheese, current price less 
2c for manufacturing; butter 30 to 33c; 
eggs 32c. F. L. 
Argusville, N. Y. 
Good cows sell for $50 to $75. At a 
sale I attended recently Spring calves 
averaged $13 each. Butter retails at 31 
cents. Potato crop nearly an entire fail¬ 
ure, selling readily at $1 a bushel and 
difficult to obtain at that price. Apples 
bring $3 a barrel, light crop. Hay is a 
light crop and harvested in poor condi¬ 
tion owing to so much wet weather. Oats 
are good and corn fair crop. Hogs sell 
from 10 to 12 cents. P. R. Y. 
Barbourville, N. Y. 
We have had a good fruit year—a 
bumper peach crop sold at one cent per 
pound right in the crates, as against 3% 
cents last year. Quite a difference, but 
mighty glad to feel they are sold. Apples 
very good for Geneva, which location 
right here is not an ideal apple region. It 
is strange, but five miles or less in any 
direction except right out in the lake, is a 
better apple region. w. L. m. 
Geneva, N. Y. 
Very wet in Northeastern Ohio. Far¬ 
mers having a hard time to fill silos. 
Wheat sowing two weeks later than usual. 
It will be a very remarkable season if the 
1916 wheat crop anywhere near reaches 
the 1915 crop. Potatoes in this section 
are the nearest failure I have ever seen 
them. Many large fields will not he har- 
vsted. All other crops good, although 
corn needed a little more time. f. l. a. 
Burton, O. 
Butter, 30c; eggs. 24c to 30c; chickens, 
12%c live, dressed 20c to 24c; fowls, 
live, 12c to 14e, dressed 20c to 22c; 
hogs, live, 6c, dressed 10c; veals, live, 
10c; steers, live, 8c; milch cows, $50 
to $75; young sheep, $7 to $12; Spring 
lambs, live, 7c; hay, $10 to $10; straw, 
no market; wheat, 90c ;• barley and oats, 
no sale; corn and oats retail $2 cwt- 
Poplar Ridge, N. Y. s. w. M. 
Destroying Yellow-Jackets. — On 
page 1191 V. B. S. asks how to destroy 
nests of yellow-jackets. I once destroyed 
a nest of hornets under my barn eaves 
with kerosene. I waited until the hor¬ 
nets were all in nest at evening, then 
placed a dish of water with kerosene 
floating on surface just under opening of 
nest, and high enough to close opening of 
nest. I used a tall step ladder to got 
the dish in position. I left the dish un¬ 
til morning. The paper nest had become 
saturated by soaking up the kerosene and 
every hornet was dead. I think if V. 
B. S. will arrange to soak yellow-jackets' 
nests with kerosene he will have no more 
trouble. MONROE MORSE. 
Massachusetts. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Paterson Poultry Association, annual 
show. Paterson, N. J., Nov. 16-20. 
Wisconsin State Potato Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, annual convention, Marinette, 
Wis., Nov. 17-18. 
Bergen Co., N. J., Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Hackensack, N. J., 
Nov. 24-27. 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, Nov. 27-Dec. 4. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Winter meeting, Freehold, N. J., 
Nov. 30-Dec. 4. 
Auburn Poultry Show, Auburn, N. Y., 
Nov. 30-Dee. 4. 
New York Palace Show, New York, 
Dec. 7-11. 
Poultry Raisers’ Association of Ilam- 
monton, N. J., fifth annual show, Ham- 
monton, N. J., Dec. 7-9. 
Philadelphia Poultry Show, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., Dec. 14-18. 
University Horticultural Society of 
Ohio State University, fifth annual show, 
Columbus, O., second week in December. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
6 - 11 . 
Pacific International lave Stock Ex¬ 
position, No. Portland, Ore.. Dec. 6-11. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
New York Poultry Show. Madison 
Square Garden, Dec. 31-Jan. 5. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
Boston Poultry Show, Boston, Mass., 
Jan. 11-15. 
Vermont State Poultry Association an¬ 
nual show, St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 18-21, 
1916. 
National Western Stock Show, Den¬ 
ver, Colo., Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
Amherst Poultry Association, second 
annual show, Amherst, Mass., Jan. 18- 
19. 1916. 
National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, 
Fort Worth, Tex., March 11-17, 1916. 
