'Gh4s RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Crops and Farm Notes 
TliPi’o is not much stock raised in this 
locality, hut what there is came through 
the Winter in good shape. A good many 
farmers have to buy feed. Itran, $2.20 
per cwt.; ship stuff. $2.2r» to $2.50; corn. 
.$1.35 per bu.; oats, 78 to SOc per bu. Tim¬ 
othy hay, $1.15 to $1.25 per cwt.; wheat, 
$2..35 bu.; potatoes, .$3.15 to .$3.30 per 
bu.; butter, .35c; eggs, 30c. There is not 
much dairy business done in this locality. 
We had a very cold and dry Winter, no 
snow to amount to anything. The wheat 
came through in bad .shape; it is greening 
up now, but do not look for more than 
half a crop. Oats all sown and coming 
up well. Potatoes all planted. Pastures 
coming out well. The peach buds seem 
to be all killed, but there are good pros¬ 
pects for apples, pears, plums and cher¬ 
ries, small fruits also promi.sing. Quite 
a lot of last year’s clover winter-killed. 
Timothy meadows are coming out well. 
St. Clair Co., Ill. A. R. B. 
The wheat prosi)ects here are very 
poor, and will only make half a crop in 
most places. The rye crop looks good. 
Milk is selling for 18c per gallon ; butter- 
fat, 45c lb.; eggs, .3.5c dozen ; bran, $4!) 
per ton; middling.s. white wheat, ,$51 ; 
cornmeal, .$52; union grains, $51; hom¬ 
iny, $.50; whole corn, ,$1.42'bu..; cracked 
corn. .$.54 per ton; oil meal, $.53; oats, 
SOc bu.; Timothy hay, .$21 i)er ton; 
clover, $21; cottonseed meal, $45 per 
ton. Hogs are .$1()..50 per cwt.; calves, 
$13 per cwt. I just received a letter to¬ 
day from my cousin in Dighton, Kan. 
The.v have in 200 acres in wheat. It is a 
total loss. No rain since last S(‘ptemb»“r 
and not a snow all Winter. It never even 
came up. G. A. 
(’lermont Co., O. 
Hay, baled, $22; straw, $1.3; middlings, 
.$2.50 cwt.; bran, .$2.10 cwt.; corn, $1.,30 
bu.; oats, 8,5c. AV. o. f. 
Cecil Co., Md. 
Sugaring stopped 'for a few days, but 
will soon run sap again. There has been 
the usual amount of syrup made, but is 
not ns good flavor as usual for some rea¬ 
son. Most of the farmers are .sending 
their milk to the Merritt-Soule plant, but 
we are having a little controversy over 
buying the cans* just now. ’Fhe lA'ague 
says no. Pork is very high ; eggs 28c and 
scarce, and so are potatoes; butter, 4,3c. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. K. s. ii. 
Being a retail dairyman we do not have 
much else besides milk to sell. We retail 
at 9c per (jt., 5c per pt.; those who whole¬ 
sale receive 22 to 24c per gal.; country 
butter, 50c; cows in milk, $7,5 to $100; 
dry to butcher, 7 to 8c; calves, 11 to 12c; 
hogs, 14 to 1.5o; six to eight week.s’ old 
pigs, $10 to $12 per pair. Potatoes, $.3 
per l)u.; wheat, $2 ; oats, 78c ; corn, $1.34. 
Washington Co., I*a. c. c. p. 
Butter, 45c; eggs, 30c; milk, 8c retail 
to customers; wheat, .$2 bu.; oats, 74c 
bu.; potat(K‘s, .$2..50 bu.; dairy cows from 
$75 to $100; veal calves, 10c per lb. live 
weight. ■ ,T. A. w. 
Carbon Co., Pa. 
Wheat is very poor with few excep¬ 
tions; I expect only a .50 per cent. crop. 
Tlye looks better, a 75 per cent. crop. 
Fat bulls from 9c to 10c per lb. live 
weight; steers, 10c. I sold to-day to a 
Philadelphia butcher cows from 0 to 8c 
l)er lb. Hogs, dressed, ny^c per lb.; 
chickens, live, 20c. Our co-operative 
creamery paid 63c for butterfat, but the 
average test is very low. Feed very high. 
Corn, $1.50 per bu.; gluten, $45 per ton ; 
wheat bran, .$40; cake meal, .$2.00 per 
100 lbs.; middlings, .$2.40; cobmeal, 
.$2.20; rye middlings, $2.20; eggs, last 
week, .30c. A. B. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
The Winter wheat here is badly in¬ 
jured : some have sown oats on the 
ground. Some will let it go, thinking they 
may get half a crop, which at the price 
may pay them. Here is about $1.50 per 
bu.; the highest ever known. J. i.. c. 
McDonough Co., Ill. 
Hay, $10 to $12; cows, $100 to $1.30, 
and some more. Butter, 40c; eggs, 30c; 
lard, 25; dressed pork, lO^/^c. Middlings 
.$2.25 per cwt.; distillers’ grain, .$2.50; 
bran, $2.20; cottonseed, .$2.00; gluten, 
.$2.40; cornmeal, .$2.50; flour, $12 per 
hbl.; milk at station, $1.94 per cwt. I’o- 
tatoes, ,$2 per bu., 2 lbs. Fverything is 
very high; Avages, $10 more than last 
year. A. B. B. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. 
It has been a cold Winter in Maine. 
SnoAA' and freezing weather came early, 
and it has been a regular “old-fashioned” 
Winter all the way till the present time, 
one of the severest storms with snow and 
cold coming April 11. There has been so 
much snoAV that the ground is not deeply 
frozen, so that many think we can get to 
Avork on the land earlier than usual. 
Cattle are coming through the Winter in 
fair shape; there is plenty of hay, but 
grain being so high not so much is being 
fed as usual. Potatoes, $1.50 at railroad 
•station. In February potatoes Avere $3 
per bu. and about everything Avas cleaned 
out. Most farmers sold their potatoes 
last Pall at around .$1 per bu. Some sold 
all they had at that figure thinking that 
they could buy their seed back for less 
money in the Spring, Potatoes have ruled 
high, but the farmers in this section have 
not profited thereb.v to any great extent. 
No potatoes are going to market now. 
Corn, $1.55 per bu.; meal, ,$1.47Vi ; cot¬ 
tonseed, .$2.,50; gluten, ,$2.45; eggs. 28c; 
butter, .38 to 40c; flour, $12 per bbl. at 
our local stores. Coavs range from .$.3.5 
to $125, according to (piality and condi¬ 
tion ; many Avill raise no chickens this 
year, and will ship their hens to Boston ; 
city people Avill be lucky to get eggs at 
any price next Winter, it seems. There 
is a prospect that the potato acreage will 
be greatly increased, more fertilizer is 
being hauled than for .several years. Not 
much increase in acreage of other crops. 
Waldo Co., Me. k. av. n. 
In the zone that furnishes milk to Bing¬ 
hamton for the first time in history the 
producer has set the price, and the dealers 
are taking the milk at the farmers’ price 
which is. commencing April 1. for .3 per 
cent, milk, April 5c per qt.; May, 4%c; 
.Tune, 4c; .Tuly. 5c; Augu.st, 514c; Sep¬ 
tember, ,5%c. E. P. B. 
Broome Co., N. Y”. 
Wheat has been exposed nearly all 
March and looks anything but good. Not 
much maple syrup l>eing made. Fanners 
are engage<l in sav/ing up Avood, and trim¬ 
ming orchards. Auctions h.aA'e been A-ery 
plentiful. Stock of all kinds doing Avell; 
feed of any kind biih. hence not much 
stock fattened. Young pigs, $5 to .$6 
apiece; veal. 1.3c; lambs, 15e; pork, 12c; 
fat cattle on foot, 10c; wheat, $1.95; 
oats, 75c; barley, .$1..3(). Seed corn 
scarce and high. Butter, ,30c; eggs, 28c; 
potatoes, .$2.75. E. T. B. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
I am raising potatoes, beets, com, 
AA'heat and hay. I haul most of my pro¬ 
duce to a commission man, have been get¬ 
ting from ,$2.75 to $3.25 per bu. for po¬ 
tatoes ; beets, .$,3..50 to $5.75 per bbl. 
Wheat I sold in November at $1.50 per 
bu. Corn is brint Ing at public sales from 
$1.20 to $1.2.5 per bu.; hay from $14 to 
.$18 a ton. I only keep one cow just for 
my own u.se. Cows in this section are 
bringing from $75 to .$125 apiece. Pigs 
.$10 a pair six Aveeks old. o. R. M. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
Cows are selling for .$80 to $100; not 
man.v sheep raised around here. Hogs 
.scarce and high, six-weeks-old i)igs sell¬ 
ing for .$0. Holsteins and Ayrshires are 
the leading breeds kept here. Apples, 
,50c per bu.; potatoc.s, .$2.50; chee.se, 24c 
per lb.; eggs, ,32c; butter, 35e; grain re¬ 
tails at the mill for the folloAving prices 
per hundredweight: Bran. .$2..30; gluten, 
.$2..3.5 ; oilmeal, .$2..50; middlings, ,$2.45 ; 
cornmeal. .$2.(>0. .7. ,7. o. 
Allegany Co., N. Y'. 
After some effort in the Fall, an agree¬ 
ment Avas reached by Avhich the farmers 
shipping milk to Philadelphia Avere to 
receive Oc per quart for milk delivered 
on platform in Philadelphia. We far¬ 
mers delivering to the local creamery 
received .$2.50 per CAvt. for November 
and December. A reduction was made 
for some cau.se .Tanuary 1st to 5j4c 
Philadelphia and .$2.30 at creamery. This 
in the face of a continued rise in price 
of mill feed. OAving to the impos.sibili'ty 
of getting and keeping help on the farm 
at any price, many have sold their en¬ 
tire dairies at auction at good figures. 
Nineteen cows at a farm sale averaged 
.$109 April 6. Good fat cows are bring¬ 
ing 15c dre.saed, consequently a well-kept 
dairy of large coavs sells well regardless 
of their milking condition. Nearly all 
corn fed to stock, so price doesn’t benefit 
the farmer here. Corn ,$1..50 bushel and 
going higher daily. Most farmers sold 
Avheat to local mill $1.00 to $1.85, of 
course could get more iioav. Corn was a 
fine crop here last year. The potato 
crop Avas a partial failure. Some sold 
la.st Fall for 70c per basket; some re¬ 
ceived as high as $.3.00 per bu. in 
Chester about tAvo months ago. I re¬ 
ceived .$2.25 bu. in cellar for some sold 
before the rise, afterward .$.3 and $1.60 
per basket. $2.25 per bu. for seconds, all 
in cellar; .$2..50 'to $.3 per bu. in Chester 
now, according to quality. Eggs .32 to 
35c per doz. Hay selling at sales, .$12 
to $1.5 per ton. No demand for baled 
hay only at nominal figures, $15 and $16 
f. o. b. car. Barge crop. Apples scarce 
and high. I didn’t have any for Win¬ 
ter use off an orchard of 30 trees. Most 
farmers are afraid to plant largely of 
crops fearing they cannot give the proper 
care as all the good help is employed at 
the plants along the river at Chester at 
fancy wages. Several have been buying 
plows and other modern machinery, and 
we are going to do the best we can un¬ 
der the circumstances. Some few far¬ 
mers have made money the past year, but 
I believe the majority are breaking about 
even and just as well off last Spring as 
this Spring. av. t. l’. 
Delaware Co., Pa. 
Eggs (home market), .30 to 32c; hut- 
tei% .38 to 42c per lb.; potatoes, ,$2.00 to 
.$2.75 i)er bu. Coavs at auction, .$75 to 
$90. Hay and straAV market very quiet. 
Most of the milk i)roduced about here is 
sold to either the Borden Co., or to the 
Bocust Farms Co. Apples are in nearly 
all cases disposed of in the Fall, as we 
have no storage facilities. av. j. av. 
Columbia Co., N, Y. 
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