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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 20, 1915. 
Crops and Farm Notes 
New England Fruit Show. 
The New England fruit show held in 
Boston October 23 to 30, will be remem¬ 
bered as one of the best exhibits of 
apples, both in numbers and quality that 
could be brought together. The general 
average in looks was as good as the finest 
apples that ever come from the Far West. 
The Greenings were especially worthy of 
great praise, in fact, better than I ever 
expected to see, large, smooth and perfect 
in color and shape. One exhibit of these 
grown by T. K. Winson of Rhode Island 
and packed in barrels, ordinary market 
pack, could not fail to attract any buyer 
and make his mouth water. .T. II. Hale 
had (50 boxes of fine red fruit, well col¬ 
ored, large and well shaped, well worthy 
to keep up that grower’s reputation. Con- 
yer Farms of Connecticut had an equally 
fine exhibit of 50 boxes of Baldwin and 
50 of Greening as fine as one could wish 
for. 
The plate fruit while extra good and of 
almost if not quite every known variety, 
did not show as attractive as the box and 
bairel fruit, simply because it was not 
arranged as artistically, but rather just 
as it happened to come to hand. The 
pear show was weak and only of fair 
quality. 
The market garden exhibit was very 
good. A string of loaded wagons was a 
feature and along both sides of these veg¬ 
etables of all kinds in boxes somewhat as 
is seen at the market regularly in their 
season. Among these were some extra 
good quality specimens of various vege¬ 
tables, a credit indeed to the growers in 
as bad a season as the present has been. 
A very good exhibit of flowers by the 
Flower Sales Association of Boston at¬ 
tracted attention, also tables set with 
dishes as for a meal and decorated with 
various designs of flowers. 
A few pens of fancy fowl and a pen of 
skunks were the only live stock of the 
show, the latter were the object of much 
curious gazing and comment. A few fine 
large cranberries should not be forgotten. 
Two cases of fancy cakes and confections 
made partly or largely of apples certainly 
looked good enough to sample, and could 
not help make all who saw them wish to 
know more about them and study apple 
recipes and thus enlarge the outlet for 
this king of fruits. Other attractions in 
the form of baby shows and other side 
shows about as seen at an agricultural 
fair were in evidence but the latter did 
not seem to draw very well while I was 
there. 
The agricultural colleges were advertis¬ 
ing their work and giving out general and 
special information regarding their work 
in teaching better farming and better sys¬ 
tems of farming and farm management in 
its various lines. This show had been 
largely advertised as a county fair in 
everything but the cattle and horses. It 
was a long way from being one, having no 
farm implement exhibit whatever. As an 
apple show it was the best ever, but as a 
fair not much could be said. A. E. P. 
rot, and the growers state that the qual¬ 
ity was never better. In the northern 
section the local markets opened a little 
stronger, with a likelihood of going higher 
before the season is over, the demand 
being as good as the offerings. w. ii. b. 
Maine. 
Nov. 0. Cows, bologna, $15 to >20; 
fresh, $40 to $55. more or less as condi¬ 
tion warrants. Butter, 31 ; cheese, re¬ 
tail, 24; apples, barrel, $2; potatoes, 
bushel. 80 lb., $1.20, very poor crop; 
eggs, 55; beets, bu., (50; onions, bu., $1; 
cabbage, per head, 6c. The producing of 
milk is very closely followed here, and 
sent to Sheffield Farms creameries. 
Halcottville, N. Y. c. ir. s. 
Nov. 5. Cows are selling all the way 
from $40 to $100; hogs 6% to 7c, live 
weight. Cheese 14%, factory price; milk 
for October $1.50 per hundred at cream¬ 
ery. Fruit and potatoes are scarce in 
this section, and not any for sale. Wheat 
$1 per bushel; beans, white, $3; 
young pigs four to eight weeks old no 
demand and a drug on the market. Cab¬ 
bage 3c each ; onions 75c per bushel. 
Bennington, N. Y. f. w. 
Nov. 9. Farmers have their crops all 
secure and a much larger acreage has 
been plowed in Clinton County than 
usual this Fall on account of the fine 
weather through October. Cows are dry¬ 
ing up rapidly. Most creameries are 
only taking milk every other day. There 
is practically no feed in pastures, all 
kinds of stock is being fed in the barns. 
All kinds of cattle bring very good prices, 
dairy cows $40 to $50 each. Butter 26 
to 28 cents per pound; oats 50; pota¬ 
toes 55 to (50c bn. h. t. j. 
Clinton Co., N. Y. 
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Crops are better than usual in south¬ 
ern Idaho this year. This is an irrigated 
country, and of course we have no crop 
failures, but climate conditions often 
help out. Wheat, which grows luxuriant¬ 
ly, usually suffers from the very hot 
weather we have in June. This year 
June was remarkably cool, and instead of 
20 to 30 bushels per acre the yield was 
from 30 to 50 bushels of extra quality 
and many yields of over 60 bushels per 
acre were reported. The potato yield is 
below the average and the acreage plant¬ 
ed is much less than last year. Corn is 
becoming staple crop here in the Boise 
and Payette valleys and the yield per 
acre is much larger than is secured in 
the corn belt. Fields of corn, however, 
seldom exceed 20 acres, though the yield 
is frequently over 100 bushels to the 
acre. This is the home of Alfalfa. It 
grows with no care, except occasional 
irrigation and three to four cuttings are 
secured. The yield runs from seven to 
10 tons per acre and usually sells at $5 
per ton in the stack, though this year on 
account of high price of sheep and range 
cattle, it sells readily at $6. The dairy 
industry is growing rapidly, and has 
proven quite profitable. There are nine 
creameries and three cheese factories here 
in a radius of 40 miles. The price paid 
for butterfat now is 30 cents. The prune 
crop was about an average, yet the price, 
$20 to $25 per ton, was not so good as 
last year, yet it gave a profit of $300 per 
acre for many orchardists. The apple 
crop is estimated at 800 carloads for this 
section, and prices for extra fancy per 
box ranges from $1.10 to $1.50, according 
to variety. The leading varieties grown 
are Jonathan, Winter Banana, Delicious, 
Grimes, Winesap and Stayman. 
Southwestern Idaho. w. n. p. 
Nov. 10. The potato markets opened 
strong, the demand being larger than the 
offerings, the average price at sidings 
early part of this week paid to growers 
were $1.80, with a tendency to go higher 
before the season gets older. The farm¬ 
ers are very busy plowing throughout 
this section. Although the crop was 
light, the quality is extra good, with no 
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