790 
June 10, 1917. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
the barn. T thoiiRlit I wonlfl “hit the 
hay” for a little while, and see if my 
head wouldn't ease up. but I had hardly 
made the mow, when the boss came in 
the lower part of the barn and began to 
c.all for me. I felt then that I would 
give almost anything if T could rest and 
keep quiet for an hour, so I tol 1 him I 
Avould take the forenoo.i “off.” and the 
half day was taken out of my time when 
I settle<l. although I had worked till 8 
o’clock or later a number of nights to 
try to take care of the hay. 
And yet on the whole I think the far¬ 
mer means to be fair, and thinks he is 
treating the hired man “white.” I will 
say that as a rule they boaid a man 
well, and are good about lending him a 
team to plow his garden, or a horse to go 
to church, or on a little trip occasionally. 
I have worked for at least three different 
men who did not require such long hours 
of a man. and w'ho were equally consid¬ 
erate in other matters -which I have men¬ 
tioned here. Rut what I have -written 
has been the general rule in my expe¬ 
rience. It has become a custom to work 
about so many hours and to plan work in 
a certain way, and nearly all have the 
same methods. That is why there is so 
little difference in woi*king on one farm 
or on the next, and may explain to some 
extent why boys do not care to stay on 
llie farm. j. n, B, 
New York. 
that they have been abundant. Now we 
are getting really good pea.s, Gradus, Sut¬ 
ton’s Excelsior and Thomas Laxton, and 
our old favorite (’hampion of England is 
blooming. I jdant some (fradus because 
of its fine quality, but it has always been 
a very unproductive pea with me, and 
evei-y Spring I contemplate leaving it 
out, but it is so good that I alwavs give 
it some space. The Champion of England 
I grow on my woven wire fence, and no 
l>ea is better and none makes more peas. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Boston Produce Markets 
early 
begin 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
T had thought that the cold Spring had 
kept i>ur gardens back more than I had 
ever known, but going south the last 
week in May as far as Raleigh, N. C., and 
from there around through Eastern North 
Carolina, I found a worse state of affairs 
on the farms than here. All down 
through the Eastern Shore counties of 
Virginia and around Norfolk the 
Irish potatoes, Avhich they usually 
shipping early in .Tune, were just show¬ 
ing above ground, and it did not look as 
though there would be any to ship till 
late .Tune or in .Tuly. In fact our pota¬ 
toes here have heavier tops than at Nor¬ 
folk. 
In the rolling uplands of North Caro¬ 
lina cotton died in the cold nights and has 
either been replanted or the land turned 
to corn or some other crop, and we were 
well over towards the coast in the 
■v\-armer .section before any corton could be 
seen above ground from the car windows. 
And in all the ride of over tlOO miles I 
saw but two or three fields in which the 
corn Avas up enough to be seen from the 
train, while here I have corn over a foot 
high. I am told that the same late con¬ 
dition prevails all over the South. This 
condition the last of May means a very 
small crop of cotton for 1017. If it mean's 
more corn it may be for the best. 
The whole Sju-ing has been a fight in 
the garden to get anything to groAv and to 
lu-otect the tender plants. One notable 
thing has been the scarcity of cutworms. 
I h.ave had but one tomato plant cut this 
Spring. The Colorado potato beetles 
have also appeared to have taken a vaca¬ 
tion. for I have not seen one this Sitring. 
Rut the rose-chafers are making up for all 
other pests in their abundance. They are 
trying to consume all the roses and the 
blooms on the grapevines, but they are 
eating up the peonies, of which we have a 
better bloom than usual, owing to the 
cool Spring. Of course, we are fighting 
them with lead arsenate, glucose syrup 
■ and water, but we have to keep spraying 
when the rain washes the poison off, and 
eA'cn with the most diligent spraying, 
they will by force of numbers get a very 
considerable share of the things they 
attack. 
We are now in the height of the straw¬ 
berry season, and about two weeks later 
than usual, so that we will run in on the 
New .Tersey crop and get lower prices. 
The berries are sold very largely at auc¬ 
tion. as the Avagons drive up and the buy¬ 
ers pay the cash and load the refrigera¬ 
tors. The exchanges also ship a great 
many sold by carloads. 
I have not seen a peach tree this 
Spring that does not haA'e more fruit on 
it than it should be alloAved to bear. The 
same is true in the peach groAving sec¬ 
tion of North Carolina, and doubtless 
they haA’e a crop in Georgia, though I 
have not heard directly from there. 
While the early Irish potato crop is 
late, there Avill be an enormous amount 
of potatoes on the market ere long. The 
SAveet potato crop, too, Avill be late, as 
very feAv fields haA'e been planted in the 
great SAA-eet potato groAving section of 
Accomac and Northampton counties, in 
Virginia, up to la.st May. The plants, 
AA’hich AA-ere sIoav in appearing, are noAv 
abundant and many hundreds of acres 
are being set here. 
We alAA'ays plant some of the extra 
early peas to begin on, and the cool 
Spring has been favorable to these, so 
TRADE COXDITIO.XS QUIET AXD EASY. 
The talk of Roston commission dealers 
is that demand is rather light, especially 
in _ lines that cannot be considered as 
prime neces.sities. and there is a ten¬ 
dency' toward easier prices in such lines, 
including poultry, butter, cheese, fruits 
and green^vegetables. In most of these 
lines the supply- cannot be termed exces¬ 
sive, but the buying power seems to be 
.very limited, and most dealers are dissat- 
i.sfied because their profits depend, not on 
ju'ices, but on commissions on a large 
A'olume of trade. The cool reception giA'en 
to the first heaA'y receipts of nearby 
vegetables may he an indication of coming 
conditions. Asparagus, lettuce, spinach, 
radishes, etc., dropped decidedly in price 
as soon as receipts hecame liberal. If 
such conditions are to meet the prcxluce 
.throughout the season it looks as if the 
period of high prices for such goods may 
,be nearing its end. Dealers are wonder¬ 
ing Avhat will be the effect of the hun¬ 
dreds of small gardens started in every 
diucction this yeai-. They feel that the 
effect may be to check demand, although 
not much of the stuff Avill come to the 
.big markets. As one dealer said: ‘‘The 
man AA’ho has a garden may' not raise any 
good stuff, hut he Avill use it and will 
have an excuse not to buy anything.” 
POTATOES FIRM. 
The market for old potatoes is closing 
the season in good shape, Avith prices 
firm at 87 or more for 2-bu. bag. E. M. 
Ely quotes bulk potatoes in carload lots 
at $3.85 per bu. “Demand is not quite 
so good, receipts of neAV and old pota¬ 
toes are quite liberal. The trade will 
buy old .stock at this price, but doesn't 
seem to Avant to pay any more. From 
talk AA’ith Maine groAvers, I estimate the 
increase in planting in that State from 10 
to 15 per cent. area. It looks as if 
there AA’ould be no potato famine next 
season, unless the West should be short 
again, as it Avas last year.” A. F. Ileald 
agrees substantially with the foregoing, 
that the increased acreage in northern 
Maine is about 10 to 15 per cent. “It 
is the first time that the prices of old 
gnd new potatoes were so near alike. The 
market is strong and likelv to continue 
so throughout the month. South Carolina 
is cleaning up the crop, and we do not 
look for lower prices until the Virginia 
potatoes come along, then the market 
should ease up a little.” The Farmers’ 
T’nion of Maine quotes potatoes in bulk 
at $3..35 and $3.40 per bu., and finds the in¬ 
creased acreage in Maine not OA'er 15 per 
cent. This is based on a 25 per cent, in¬ 
crease in fertilizer shipments. It is reck- 
om'd that some farmers AA'ho could not get 
fertilizer last year, and Avho planted 
without fertilizer have been able to get 
it this year, and others are using it 
more freely, hence the increased acreage 
is less than the larger use of fertilizer 
Avould indicate. They report a fcAv con¬ 
tracts for seed potatoes for Texas as 
high as $.3.05 per bbl. No contracts 
for table stock are reported but it is 
thought farmers Avould contract to some 
extent for $2.50 per bbl. of 11 pecks, but 
Avould not sell in advance for much less 
than that. 
XEARBY VEGETABLES LOAVER. 
Although asparagus is a short -crop so 
far, it is not high, at $3 per box. Rhu¬ 
barb is loAV at .35e per box. Radishes 
are doAvn to .35e and outdoor lettuce 
dropped to 50c but the hothouse stock 
still brings .$1.25. Choice cucumbers 
hold fairly well at $5 to $5.50. Spinach 
is low at 25c and kale at 50c. Scullions 
are 7.5c per box of 3 doz. Hothouse 
beets $1 per doz; hothouse carrots $1 
per doz; hothouse tomatoes 12 to 15e 
per Ib..^ compared with recent prices of 
20 to 2.5c. Reet greens are 75c per box, 
and dandelions 75 to 80e. Somebody out 
in the Arlington district seems to expect 
a surplus of Ioav cost vegetables, and a 
plant is being started on a kind of co- 
operatiA’e plan for drying such products 
to be sold for domestic use, or possibly 
for the needs of the army and export 
trade. Agricultural Secretary Wheeler is 
encouraging the plan and is also trying to 
interest people elsewhere in a portable 
plant to traA'el _ about and take care of 
the surplus fruit and vegetable.s. Indi¬ 
cations point to a good fruit year. 
Native fruit is -practically done at this 
.season with the exception of a fcAv cold 
storage apples, which find a dull sale at 
about the prices last quoted. Southern 
straAvberries range from 6 to 1,5c a box. 
The best ones are coming from Tennessee. 
.Their prime condition, as compared A\'ith 
a_ good share of the nearby stock, that ar- 
rh’es later in the season, shows the value 
,of good shipping facilities. 
yet announced. The attitude of GoA’ern- 
.ment officijils towards high prices of food 
.products seems to liaA’c scared the trade 
and not many- are holding in excess of pres¬ 
ent demands. The neAv crop is expected 
to sell much loAver and the contracts 
.Avhich are being placed by the State Food 
.('ommittee betAA-een farmers and dealers 
at $0 per bu. for the ucav crop are con- 
.sidered f.aA'orable to the groAvers. FoAA'le, 
Hibbard and Co. quote NeAv York pea 
beans at $!) to $ll..50; ye.lloAv eyes. $8 to 
$8.50 and red kidneys $8.50 to ,$S.75. 
BUTTER IX AVAITIXG POSITION, 
Trade is quiet and prices tend to ease 
off a little. Receipts are fairly liberal, 
although beloAv last year and quality is 
noAV full grass. Those Avho buy for stor¬ 
age seem to be Avaiting in expectation of 
loAver prices, since current receipts are 
in excess of demand. The quantity in 
.storage at pre.sent is nearly 2.000.000 lbs. 
in excess of last year. This situation 
tends tOAvard checking extensive buying. 
Charles IT. Stone and Company observe: 
"Recent declines in prices Avere in ex¬ 
pectation of the more liberal supply AA'hich 
is now arriving . The extreme high price 
lessens consumption, and there is very 
little speculative demand. The season is 
ten days to tAvo Aveeks backAvard. Cheese 
is lower. -Our eastern markets have been 
.so high that much of the foreign buying 
has been diverted to Wiscon.sin and Mich¬ 
igan, causing our eastern markets to ease 
off.” A ('hatham Street dealer quotes 
best lots at 24 to 2.5i^>c and fairly good 
at 23 to 24. and remarks: “The trade 
does not expect the price to go below 20c. 
We hear of one contractor AA'ho offered 
20c for ‘20.000 lbs. late .Tune deliA'cry, 
but couldn’t buy at that price. Export 
.trade is checked because of the limit of a 
little OA’er .32c placed in the Rritish mar¬ 
ket by their food authoritie.s. Our ex¬ 
porters could not pay recent prices Avith 
4c_ freight and make a profit, and the 
.jirice here had to come doAvn. On the 
other lunul aa’p do not look for excessiA’c 
receipt.^ because of the demand for milk 
in other ways. Avhile milk production is 
lessened by sale of coavs. and because 
farmers are not feeding grain hardly any- 
Avhere this season.” 
EGG A'ALX'ES XVEAKEX SLIGHTLY. 
Liberal supplies are on the way while 
present receipts are ahead of the demand. 
8ome damage is reported from heat con¬ 
ditions in western stock. Accordingly, 
prices are inclined to ease off a little, 
demand Avhile fair is not brisk. Stock 
packed for cold storage is about a half 
cent lower. FarnsAA'orth, Renjarain and 
IVIills quote nearby stock at 40c, eastern 
extras at .38c. and Avestern storage packed 
firsts .30 to ,37c. Some lots shoAA’ing heat 
defects S(>]1 ,3 or 4c loAver. Stock in 
storage is about 10.5.000 cases in excess 
of last year at this time. 
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1 Factory prices 
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FIELD BEANS LOAA'ER. 
market is off about 25c a bu. 
seems to be in ,a AA'aiting con¬ 
dition. Rids for a large GoA'ernment or¬ 
der have been put in, but the result not 
The 
The trade 
POULTRY QOET AND LOAVER. 
Values tend to sag off because of light 
demand although receipts are not heavy. 
The AA’eak feature of the -market is an 
abundance of cold storage poultry AA'hich 
is ste.adily forced upon the market, reduc¬ 
ing the price obtainable for fresh re¬ 
ceipts. For this rea.son, poultry has not 
advanced sharply like other lines of fresh 
meats. S. L. Rnrr and Go. quote live 
foAvl Ic loAver at 23 to 24c; live chickens, 
28 to .3Qc: land roosters 15 to lOc. 
Dressed fowl, choice fre.^ih killed north¬ 
ern, 20 -to 27c; roosters, 10c; broilor.s, 
35c, and report the outlook as pointing 
to present prices or a little loAver for a 
Avhile. Dealers AA’ithout exception report 
demand A-ery quiet and the tone of the 
market rather Aveak. Kimball & Co, 
AA'ho seem to have nearly a monopoly of 
duck trade by arrangements Avith large 
groAA-ers quote duckling.s 25*to 20c dressed. 
“Prices are ,5 or Oc above normal for the 
season,” they obseiwe. “but not high 
enough to offset cost of production about 
tAvice normal figure.^. AYe estimate that 
shipments Avill be 50 per cent, less than 
last year owing to curtailment by large 
producers.” 
CAIA'ES HIGHER. 
Veal calves are up another cent at the 
Rrighton stock yards, choice ones selling 
at 14 to 1414c; others 13 to 13i^c; 
fancy beef cattle, 12 to 12i/6c; most good 
stock,^11 to 12c; good coavs, 0 to 10c; 
fair, 7c to 8c: canners Oc, Hogs sell 
around 10c. No recent receipts of live 
sheep or lambs. Milch coavs are in light 
supply and prices are strong. Not many 
good COAVS are offered below $100. 
BEST HAY SELLING WELL. 
Dealers report improved demand for 
the best grades of horse hay and the 
price AA'hich is $23, is noAV the top so 
far this season. Said G. F. and G. W. 
Fddy and Co.: “The demand is almost 
entirely for good to choice Timothy. A 
little eastern fine hay is selling from $13 
to $14. Glover hay is quoted at .$10.50 
to $17. but not much of it is offered or 
Avanted. Timothy has sold as high as 
.$p4 for best stock, but $23 -would be con¬ 
sidered the standard quotation. While 
the general outlook for the crop is good, 
we look for some reduction in acreage on 
account of so much hay land being plowed 
for crops this year. Some large growers 
are inclined to_ hold their surplus in ex¬ 
pectation of prices being higher next sea¬ 
son. The immediate outlook would be 
for loAver prices on resumption of ship¬ 
ping after the planting season is over. 
Dairy herds are being reduced which 
would increase the surplus of hay avail¬ 
able. As one of the Roston newspapers 
said, “A Avet May fills the barn with 
hay. but Avhat’s the use if the butcher 
buys the cow.” g. B. F. 
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