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August 25, 1917, 
^/ye RURAL NEW-YORKER 
An Indiana Vetch Plant 
Mr. E. G. McMurray of Huntington 
Co., Ind., sends us the picture of a 
single plant of vetch shown at Fig. 459. 
There can be no question about the 
value of vetch, both for feeding and as 
a green manure, when grown under 
favorable conditions. We know people 
who insist that there is no plant which 
gives greater value as a quick or cover 
crop. The seed is very high in price 
now, anl on grain farms the vetch will 
work into the rye and wheat—making 
it hard to separate them. The vetch 
when cut early makes a good fodder— 
when grown with wheat. It makes a 
heavier crop with rye, but the rye straw 
Is not so good r.s green feed or hay. We 
of moisture, but when well fed and wa¬ 
tered it makes a great growth. The 
stems are coarse, sometimes almost like 
flint corn seeded thickly, but cattle eat 
the fodder well. It is very good for a 
Summer soiling crop for use when the 
pastures are short The hay makes good 
cow feed, but should not be fed to horses. 
Some reports of success at seeding to 
grass and clover with millet are made, but 
as a rule millet is better as a Summer 
crop, the land to be plowed after it for 
grain or a grass. 
Crops and Farm News 
An Indiana Vetch Plant. Fig. 459 
are seeding considerable rye and velch 
in the corn this year, and under many 
conditions it will pay. As a rule, how¬ 
ever, we should prefer clover. 
A Crop of Millet Hay 
The picture Fig. 456, shows a crop of 
millet hay grown on a farm near Alfred, 
N. Y. The hay was estimated as run¬ 
ning about three tons to the acre. It 
was cut, as we see, in bunches and tied 
up like grain. This makes it very handy 
for feeding out, and in good, dry weather 
the millet will cure well. 'Some farmers 
do not realize the value of millet, but 
many dairymen make a practice of grow¬ 
ing a few acres for Summer green feed¬ 
ing or hay. It is a short growing crop 
and can come in between wheat or rye 
cut early for green fodder and Fall grain 
seeding. It requires good soil and plenty 
War-time Plowing in France 
Some of our people are quite bitter 
because the nulitary authorities will not 
permit real information to come to us 
from the battle front. It seems hard 
to be kept in suspense and ignorance, 
but it is on the whole a much wiser 
policy than the one followed during our 
Civil War. In that war every detail was 
openly discussed, and there is no doubt 
that both sides could obtain full par¬ 
ticulars regarding the enemy’s plans by 
reading the daily papers. There are 
very few “leaks” in this war, and that 
is a military advantage, though often a 
great personal sorrow. Now and then 
letters and pictures get through, and 
from them we get an inkling of what the 
soldiers are doing. The picture on our 
first page was sent home by an Amer¬ 
ican soldier, and his father, Mr. C. E. 
White of Michigan, sends this little note 
regarding it: 
I am going to entrust to your care a 
photographic film taken “somewhere in 
France” by my son while actfing as 
driver in the American Ambulance Field 
Service. He served there nearly a yeear, 
and is now in training at Fort Sheridan. 
lie has named the photo “Wartime 
Plowing in France,” and as you will 
see, it is a horse and cow hitched to a 
curious looking plow. The farmer’s 
wife may be seen in the distance, cutting 
potatoes (I think) while she also “minds 
the baby.” I thought possibly you 
might like to use it for a frontispiece to 
The R. N.-Y. c. k. White. 
Michigan. 
We have bad a terrible drought all 
season. Corn has not much even tasseled 
and cut up for feed; grass all dried up. 
Cattle and hogs-being dumped on market 
at great loss to future breeding supply. 
Wheat, $2.60 to $2.70, light crop; corn, 
$1.75; Alfalfa, $20 to $25; eggs, 20c; 
cream, 37e; files, 12c; hens, 16c; bacon, 
85c; chickens a loss; • preparation for a 
big wheat crop. t. ii. 
Grant Co., Okla. 
The weather has been gi’and for haying 
for the past two weeks. The crop is 
very good. The corn and oat crops arc 
not very good. Potatoes are very back¬ 
ward. The Merrell-Soule milk plant 
pay $2.4.5 for 3 per cent, milk now for 
two months. All mill feeds are vei*y 
high; too high to feed. The league is 
t'llking of selling feed soon. e. B. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
Weather ha.s been cool and showery 
the past few days. Harvesting is prac¬ 
tically done here. All grain crops were 
exceptionally good_ and were secured in 
fairly good condition. Il.ay was below’ 
the average due to dry weather in 
Spring; com and buckwheat look very 
promising. Farmers are busy hauling 
manure and breaking soil for a big 
acreage of grain. Apples are a short 
crop; some peaches and plums. Wheat 
$1.90; chop, $3 per cwt. Butter 30c and 
scarce; eggs 34c. c. s. G. 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. 
These are wholesale prices to the 
farmers at Trenton, N. J.: Apples. 40c 
to $1 per 16-qt. basket. Peaches, $1 to 
$2; blackben-ies, qt., 12t/^e; huckleber¬ 
ries, 13c.; these are all scarce; cucum¬ 
bers, .30c per 16-qt. basket; Lima 
beans, 70c; potatoes, $1.10 bu.; egg 
plant, 90c. bu.; cabbage, 75c bbl.; beets, 
62e per bunch ; lettuce, $2.25 per 2-doz. 
box, scarce; sw’eet corn, $1 t o$1.25 per 
hundred. R. P. r,. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
Hay crops are valuable. It is quite 
interesting to note ci’op reports as they 
appear in The R. N.-Y. Your people are 
most fortunate in having such fine feed 
crops, hay, etc., since this gives them the 
opportunity to hold onto and take care 
of their young cattle and thus reap sure 
profits when that coming beef shortage 
is being felt during the next two to three 
years. Our part of the counti'y and 
nearly all of the beef breeding gronuds 
w’est and south of us are at present in 
the grip of one of the worst droughts 
know’n in the history of our State. Live 
stock on the ranges is suffei’ing for the 
w'ant of w’ater as well as grass and feed. 
As a result trainloads upon trainloads of 
calves, as well as other cattle are 
shipped to the packeries to keep from 
losing them by stamation. Feed being 
so very high, bran $40 to $45, cotton¬ 
seed meal $50 per ton, with hay prices 
in proportion, our cattlemen figure, since 
they cannot afford to pay these prices 
that by disposing of the calves they may 
be able to pull the cows through with¬ 
out buying much feed. This condition 
and with the war going on, can only re¬ 
sult in a great beef shortage during the 
next few years. Fortunate the man 
who has the feed. In our local markets 
the last few months hay (mostly 
sorghum) has been selling at from 90 
cents to $1 per 60-lb. bale. Corn crops 
on many farms are total failures, with 
the sorghum hay but little better. Cot¬ 
ton is with us the shortest crop ever 
known. It will require in many cases 
from eight to 12 acres to make a bale 
of 500 lbs., where the usual yield has 
generally been from one-quarter to one- 
half bale per acre. All would be well 
with us if we could hhve had some of 
that surplus rain many of your people, 
no doubt, were grumbling about. If 
timely rains should come during the 
Fall we can provide and sow for Winter 
pastures, which, far south as we are, 
will be a big help. ^ 
Remarkable as it may appear, even 
with our very dry condition I have 
grown some fairly good peaches, 
though none of full size, nor ai’e any 
over juicy. The crop over the State, 
especially Elbertas, was very light. Of 
my new varieties most of them have 
fairly good crops, some trees even had to 
be thinned. The J. H. Hale is failing 
again, have not a dozen peaches on 
about 60 trees two and four years 
planted. It does not appear to be any 
more hardy here than is Elberta. 
Texas. j. w. stubenrauch. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Summer meeting New York State Po¬ 
tato Association, Kasoag, Oswego Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y., August 25, 1917. 
Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, August 
22-31. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, August 
27-31. 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, August 
31-Sept. 9. 
Kankakee Interstate Fair, Kankakee, 
Ill., Sept. 1-7. 
Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, Sept. 
2- 9. 
Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, 
Sept. 3-7. 
Minnesota State Fair, Hamline, Sept. 
3- 8. 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association, 
annual convention, Stamford, Conn., 
Sept. 5-6. 
Illinois State Fair, Springfield, Sept. 
7-15. 
Solebury Farmers* Exhibit, Solebury 
Deer Park, Solebury, Pa., Sept. 7-8. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. T., 
Sept. 10-15. 
Agricultural Society of Queens-Nassau 
Countie.s, seventy-sixth annual exhibi¬ 
tion, Mineola, N. Y., Sept. 25-29. 
International Wheat Show, Wichita;, 
Kan., Oct. 1-1.3. 
Eastern States Agricultural and Indus¬ 
trial Exposition, Springfield, Mass., Oct. 
12 - 20 . 
National Dairy Show, Columbus, O- 
Oct. 18-27. 
American Pomological Society, regular 
biennial meeting, Boston, Mass., Oct. 31- 
Nov. 4. 
Boston Produce Markets 
GARDEN TRUCK SLOW AND PRICES 
DOWNWARD. 
Trade is dull in the vegetables, and 
some are minded to term it more than 
the usual lull in late Summer. “It is 
the war gardens,” declared a Clinton 
Street dealer. “They are in full swing 
now, and you see how scarce the buyers 
ai’e.” If a man raises a peck of po¬ 
tatoes no bigger tlian marbles be will 
be i)roud of them and will eat them, al¬ 
though they probably cost him more than 
they are worth. Some of the gardens 
are not paying for cost of seed. But the 
stuff help.s cut out the retailer and so 
he is cutting out the wholesaler.” An¬ 
other dealer sees it differently: “It is a 
market reaction,” he explained. “Price 
looked good to shippers and about the 
middle of the month thej’ shipped in 
a good deal of stuff and swamped the 
market with bouas, corn and some other 
things. That forces down the price un¬ 
til shipment slacken, and then up goes 
the price. That is the way with the 
truck market all the season in lines 
that are too perishable to be held over.” 
Anyhow, they had shell beans selling at 
the old fashioned price of 50c per bu., 
and even the large bright colored ones 
bring only $1. Cabbage is down again 
to $1 bbl. Corn sells on a basis of 20c. 
doz. “I can sell yellow corn at $1.25 a 
box,” remarked a wagon salesman, “when 
it is hard to get $1 for white corn. But 
I raise the white kinds mostly because 
they give a heavier yield.” Beets, car¬ 
rots, turnips, parsnips are on basis of 
about three cents bunch. Beets cut-off, 
$1 to $1.25; carrots, $2.50; onions, $1 
to $1.50; cauliflower, $1; tomatoe.s still 
high at $3; good peas, $2; sti-ing beans, 
wide range and quality, 50c to $2; good 
cucumbers, $4; radishes, 75c; parsley, 
40c; lettuce, $1; pickling onions, $4; 
Summer squash, 50 to 75c; egg turnips, 
$ 1 . 
potatoes in moderate receipt. 
The Southern stock seems about 
cleaned up, and prices on the whole have 
held up well. Some very good potatoes 
are coming fi’om New .Jersey and selling 
at $3,25 per 2-bu. bag! Natives bring 
$1.50 per box, but vei*y few reach this 
market. They are selling outside at $1.25 
to $1.50 bu. The crop seems rather 
light per acre, owing to drouth and 
lice. “The crop in northern Maine looks 
well so far,” said the local agent of the 
Farmers’ Union of Maine. “Soil and 
natural drainage make the potato section 
almost independent of weather condi- 
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