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New Hampshire Notes. 
Now Hampshire is not noted as a corn 
State, but usually produces more to the 
acre than the average of the country, and 
can do much better. The record this 
year, won in a contest of boys, was by 
Hoyt Quimby of Cornish, who raised 124 
bushels of corn on one acre of land. This 
is far below the record for the country, 
won by a boy in another State wi.th dent 
corn, but it shows what can be done in a 
State that is not supposed to be in the 
corn belt. There is no excuse for the 
farmers of New England who depend 
upon the West for their corn unless they 
are specialized in some crop that pays 
them better. My own crop the past sea¬ 
son was only about half that of Master 
Quimby per acre, but it cost me far less 
than the same amount of western corn 
that has come through several hands in 
getting to me. I was unable to plant my 
field corn till June first. The month of 
June was very dry, and was followed by 
the wettest July for years. Not till Sep¬ 
tember was there any real corn weather, 
but the few weeks then saved the crop 
and allowed it not only to finish its 
growth but to ripen. The cows are eat¬ 
ing the fodder with a relish, and the yel¬ 
low ears are a delight to the eye and the 
mind. 
Fruit growing and bee-keeping natur¬ 
ally go hand in hand. Fruit blossoms are 
insect-pollinated, with honey-bees doing 
most of the work. The cheerful humming 
of the bees among the fruit trees in blos¬ 
som time is not only full of music to the 
lover of bees, but is full of promise to 
the fruit raiser. If bees are necessary 
to a full crop of fruit so is spraying, and 
all directions for spraying against the 
Codling moth warn against spraying be¬ 
fore the petals have fallen, principally 
because of danger to the bees. When one 
does his own spraying it can be done at 
the proper time, but when in the vicinity 
of a city, commercial sprayers do the 
work for a large number of owners of a 
few trees, the spray is applied at the 
time most convenient to the one who does 
the spraying. Some trees are sprayed 
too early and some too late, a few at the 
right time. While New Hampshire is 
not a great bee State many swarms in 
the aggregate are, or have been, kept for 
pleasure and occasional profit. Since 
spraying of apple trees has become com¬ 
mon, in some sections bees have dimin¬ 
ished in numbers. In my own section 
they have almost disappeared. I have 
been informed that a man whose swarms 
had dwindled and perished submitted 
some of his honey to a chemist who dis¬ 
covered a trace of arsenate of lead, not 
enough to be dangerous to the human 
stomach but sufficient to kill the young 
bees. The danger of indiscriminate spray¬ 
ing is no dream. w. xr. H. 
Indiana Conditions. 
We are almost altogether governed by 
the ruling prices of the Chicago Board 
of Trade, live stock, and produce quota¬ 
tions, and the dairy products are priced 
with the Elgin prices, locally applied. 
Cream 26 1 / 4c lb.; butter 25c (and down¬ 
ward) ; eggs 2Sc; lard 10c. Live poul¬ 
try, hens 10c; roosters 6c lb.; Leghorn 
hens Sc; Spring chicks 11c; turkeys 12 
to 15c; ducks 10c; Indian Runner ducks 
8c; geese 8c. Wheat at thrashing time, 
85c to $1; present price 98c to 80c 
(quality ruling price) ; oats, at thrash¬ 
ing, 30c down to 26c; now 30c. Rye 
80c; corn, Summer prices at farm cribs, 
80c per 70 lbs. ear ; elevator lc lb. ear corn ; 
old now 60c; new crop (light and chaffy) 
a little at 50c. Clover seed grade poor; 
Mammoth .$11 early to $7.50 later, little 
Red $11 to $7.75. Strawberries 8 to 15c, 
full qt. (quality and season ruling). 
Gooseberries 6c: currants 6c; raspber¬ 
ries, black 10c, $1.60 per crate of 16 qts.; 
blackberries, (first 8c), $1 per 
crate of 16 qts. Huckleberries 12 J / 2 c 
per qt.; cherries, sour 75c to $1.50 per 
bu. (in one-half bu. baskets) ; plums 35 
to 50c peck (variety ruling the price) ; 
peaches, home crop nearly a failure; 
Michigan raised selling at 65c to $1.40 
per bu. basket; pears, Kieffer, 30c per 
bu. (shipped) ; no home demand. Ap¬ 
ples, Summer 25c to 10c bu.; cider 5c 
bu.; Winter, buyers paying 60c to $1 per 
cwt.; well sprayed and graded $1 per bu.; 
grapes iy> to 2c lb. (supply small, home 
market only). Our town of 1,400 peo¬ 
ple furnishes but a very small and un¬ 
certain maxdtet for garden produce. The 
earliest supply is bought from nearby 
wholesale houses. Beans, bunch and pole, 
2c lb. earliest to 10c pk.; field, (hand 
picked) now $3 per bu. Beets, table, red, 
a few at 15c peck. Cabbage, earliest, 
one-half to 3c lb.; late $1 doz. heads to 
$8 per ton. Corn, pop, shelled 4c lb.; 
sweet, early, 8c to 10c doz., late 6c. Cu¬ 
cumbers 4c lb. to $1 per bu. (small). 
Onions $1 to $1.35 per cwt.; parsnips lo 
to iy 2 c lb.; peas 2c to 4c qt.; peppers 
(mango) 5c to 10c doz.; potatoes, early 
60c to $1 per bu., late 35c to 40c (pres¬ 
ent price) per bu. Pumpkins 5c to 25c 
each, size governing. Radishes 2c to 5c 
per bunch (12 to 20). Squash, Winter 
5c'to 20c each, size governing. Toma¬ 
toes, 8c lb. earliest; to lc main crop. 
Turnips 30c per bu. Cattle, dairy cows, 
$50 to $80 each; butcher cows $20 to 
$40; our buyer’s prices range from 3c 
to 7c lb.; veals 8c and 9c lb. Hogs, 
Sept, average price 7*4c lb.; Oct. 7 y 2 to 
8c lb.; present, around 6c, grade ruling. 
Sheep, ewes, 3c lb.; breeding $6 to $10 
each. Lambs 8c lb. v. c. R. 
Argos, Ind. 
The villages here are small, so there is 
no market for garden stuff. Onions are 
peddled and sold for $1 per bushel. Po¬ 
tatoes bring at shipping points 65 cents 
per bushel; where a man sells to the con¬ 
sumer from one to 10 bushels, 75 cents 
per bushel. Eggs bring at the stores 38 
cents; butter, 30. Hay. the best Tim¬ 
othy, $18 per ton retail, $11 per hundred 
pounds. Clover mixed, $14 per ton, re¬ 
tail $16. Pork, dressed, heavy, nine 
cents; light, 10 cents. Rye straw. $10 
per ton baled, delivered at the railroad. 
Oats from 45 to 50. Nothing doing in 
horses. _ Cattle in good demand; cows, 
from $35 up to $100, according to age and 
quality, Beefsteak and pork steak retail 
by meat peddlers 16 cents per pound. 
Veal calves, live weight, 9 cents per lb. ; 
a large number hogs, dressed and shipped 
to the city. The shippers claim by so do¬ 
ing they get better prices. Apples, $1.50 
per barrel, buyer furnishing barrels and 
packing. Wheat selling in the markets 
here for $1.10 per bushel, but none of it 
is ground into flour. It goes mostly for 
chicken feed. Buckwheat, at Esperance, 
Schoharie Co., $1.70 per hundred pounds. 
Old hens, 8 cents per pound live weight; 
young roosters, 10 cents per pound. 
Plums were plenty and sold for 50 cents 
per bushel in the early season ; lots of the 
late ones went to waste, as there was no 
sale at any price. A great many cider 
apples were delivered at the railroad at 
25 cents per hundred pounds. A. s. 
Breakabeen, N. Y. 
Nov. 17. Potatoes and cauliflowers are 
our staple crops. Potatoes are selling 
now at our station at 75 cents to dealers. 
Cauliflower is auctioned off at the Cauli¬ 
flower Association, and yesterday crates 
containing about 15 heads brought from 
$1.10 to $1.50. Barrels brought from 
$1.50 to $2.25. Of course, many send 
their cauliflower to commission mer¬ 
chants in the city. I have sold seed wheat 
this Fall at $1.25. Nearly all the farmers 
around here only raise enough cattle for 
their own use, also fruit and gardening 
products. e. G. w. 
Riverhead, N. Y. 
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