IShe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Crops and Farm News 
This is a mining country, coal oil and 
gas. and all our produce is sold in our 
local market. Farmers don’t raise enough 
to supply our home market. Spring 
wheat bran. $.3.3; Winter, $.34 ; corn and 
oat chop, $40; Red Dog. .$45; middlings, 
.«J0; oats, bu., 64c; old corn. bu.. $1.25; 
wheat. $1.55; hay. baled. $1S; pot.vtoes. 
bu.. $2 ; butter, 40c; eggs. 40c; dressed 
hogs. 13 to 14c; chickens, 15c. c. K. 
Farmington, W. Va. 
Farmers have been receiving here in a 
place of 500 inhabitanis. the following 
prices: Milch cows ,$,50 to $100; October 
milk, $2.05 for 3.5 per cent, test; hogs, 
alive. 8c per lb.; veal calves, alive, 10c; 
poultry, alive. 12 to 14c: turkeys, alive. 
2.3c to 25c ; ducks, alive, 15c ; cabbage, per 
ton. $30. Potatoes when first commenced 
to car at 05c ; now $1..50 per bu.; apples, 
hand picked, 50c per bu.; cider, SOc per 
100 lbs.: hay. pressed at car. lOc per ton. 
Cincinnatus. N. Y. F. M. D. 
Wheat. $1.70 per bu.; corn, $1; oa*'s, 
SOc. Dairy feed. $40 i)er ton ; bran. ,$.34 ; 
shorts. $37*; cotton.seed meal. ,$47 ; gluten 
feed, .$.38; milch cows, $.50 to .$125; 
milk. .$2 per cwt. at creamery for De¬ 
cember. Hogs. lOVic, live. 12VtC dressed; 
butter, 40c lb.; eggs, 44c.; chickens, 14c 
lb., live. E. A. E. 
Bain bridge. Pa. 
Grade dairy cows from $40 to $80; .3 
per cent, milk, $2.05 per cwt.; ,3c for 
each point above at creamery. Dairy 
butter. 42c. Veal calves, live. lOl^c; 
dressed pork. 1.3 and 14c; potatoes. $1.50 
ini.; onions. $1.75; buckwheat, $1 ; buck¬ 
wheat flour. 5e lb. Cabbage, 2c lb.; 
beans, 12c. lb. A. J. G. 
Hop Bottom, Pa. 
Prices on ton lots are : Wheat bran, 
.$20; middlings. $37; cottonseed meal, 
.$45: oil meal, .$45; corn oil meal, .$,30; 
gluten, ,$.34; Alfalfa and molasses. $.30; 
not very much feed stuff bought by far¬ 
mers. They :ise what they can raise. 
Hogs are Avorth from $8.50 to .$0 per hun¬ 
dred on foot; calves, steers and heifers, 
6 to 6%c; old cows canners, 4c. 
Kahoka, Mo. c. M. s. 
Baled h.ay $14 to .$10; straw $10; 
wheat, bu.. $1.60; r.ve $1.10; oats GOc; 
corn $1.15: potatoes $1.80. scarce; 
buckwheat $1; beans .$7.,50 bn.; apples, 
bn.. 80c; butter 40c; eggs 48 to 50c. 
Chickens, live. 14c: turkeys .30 to .3,5c; 
lard 18c; pork, dre.s.sed. 12c lb.; cows 
$.50 to .$75; horses $150 to $200. 
Lock Haven, Pa. J. n. G. 
Dairying taking the lead: cows arc 
selling at from $35 for common run up 
to .$75 and $80 for good ones. Milk Is 
sei)arated at home and cream sold to 
creamery; price of butter is 40c per lb. 
at present. As most farmers here have 
jdenty of pasture young cattle are raised 
for beef; prices of yearlings are from 
$.30 to $.35 per head ; two-year-olds from 
.$40 to $00. These prices are for steers 
of the dairy breed.s. Hogs are selling at 
12c dressed. Young pigs. $.3 to .$4 per 
pair. Lambs brought .$0 pet* head sold 
to the butchers ; avooI 40c. Potatoes are 
$1..35 per bu.. delivered to the imilroad. 
.\pples are dull; shippers are offering 
.81.25 per bbl. for the best, and furnish 
the barrels; 25c per cwt. for cider ap¬ 
ples, loaded on cars, 
light crop; shippei’s 
j er cwt. No other grain 
almost all fed on the farms, 
a good crop; shippers are 
per ton delivered, but it is 
$1.3 to $10 in nearby towns. 
Liberty, Pa. 
row.s. $05 to ,$,80; calves, live, 12c. lb.; 
hogs, dressed. 14c; butter, .38c; eggs. 50c: 
ajjples ,$1..50 bbl. ; pears .$3 bu. Few veg¬ 
etables raised in this section for market. 
Rye. oats, corn and hay principal crops, 
with fruit G. n. s. 
Columbiaville, N. Y. 
Potatoes $1.00 and $1.70 per bu. 
Milk is now bringing $2.25 per_ cwt. 
New milch cows from .$50 to $75 per 
head; cows due to freshen in the Spring 
from $.35 to $40; yearlings from $18 to 
$20; calves .$12 to $15. Beef by the 
quarter from $9 to $10 per cwt. Pork, 
dressed, $12 and $13 per cwt. Chickens 
15e per lb., live weight. Hay is plenti¬ 
ful here; there is not much being sold 
yet, it is bringing from $10 to $12 per 
ton. J. F. c. 
Constantine, N. Y. 
At a neighboring auction cows to 
freshen in the Spring brought about $52; 
new milkers from $80 to $82. I sell my 
cream for $7 per 40-quart can. This 
week I got $4.50 per barrel for pota- 
toe.s. I sold my pork in Septeniber for 
$14 per cwt.; now it is worth $1.3. Rye 
$1.40 for 60 lbs.; buckwheat flour $5.25 
per cwt. s. G. F. 
Cropseyville, N. Y. 
I take milk to the condensery. But- 
terfat is 55c per lb. now, but look for 
drop. Milk 8c per qt.; veals 10 to 11c 
per lb.; cows $75 each or more; cow 
beef 3 to 5c per lb.; bulls 4 to 5c; steers 
5 to 6c; hogs 91/^ to lOc; hens 14 to 
14i/4c; eggs .50c; "hay .$8 to $11; pota¬ 
toes $1.50 per bu.; beans .$7 per bu.; 
cabbage 3c to 4c per lb.; corn $12 ner 
100 lbs.; oats G5c per bu.; apples oOc 
per bu.; butter 40c. aa. H. T. 
Mansfield, Pa. 
Buckwheat was a 
are offering .$2.80 
sold here. 
Hay was 
offering ,$8 
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The Life of 
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A. D. 1917 
Total \ 720 
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