'6/ie RURAL N E W-Y O R K E R 
519 
Northern Ohio Notes 
It will hardly do to say that the agri¬ 
cultural district of Northern Ohio is in 
a state of unrest, and that much doubt 
exists in the minds of a great number of 
farmers as to the wisest course to pursue 
the coming season, yet I have never—^by 
half—iknown so many auctions of the en¬ 
tire personal effects, everything from the 
line horses and cattle, to chickens, and 
all the farm implements of every descrip¬ 
tion, and in some cases the major part of 
the household belongings, and such crops 
and grains as may be on hand. Last 
week tliero were seven such sales in our 
immediate vicinity, and it was no more, 
numerically, than has been going on for 
weeks. It is not a matter incident to the 
changing of tenants, but included as large 
a number of the real down-to-the-soil 
farmers, and these sales have been espe¬ 
cially strong in dairies. Whole herds, 
nearly all of which were high grades, but 
hundreds of cows with the “papers,” went 
under the hammer. Strange, with the 
eagerness to sell, corresponding numbers 
were as anxious to buy. A sale brings 
large “audiences,” and the bidding is as 
a rule fast. It is astonishing what prices 
everything brings, notably cows and farm 
machinery. It is difficult to say Avhere 
the cows go. A sale brings the stock buy¬ 
ers for miles around, and the butchers are 
ready to bid high on anything that looks 
beefy, and stock of every description is 
eagerly sought by some one, the cows go¬ 
ing all the way from .$80 to .$150, and 
best horses at .$1.50 to ,$200. At a gre.at 
sale last week at a noted farmer's, quite 
1,200 people were present, and about all 
the buyers seenied to be strangers. Ev¬ 
erything sold disappeared beyond the bor- 
dm-s. The sale of the 70 hogs brought 
semsational Jn’ices’, a'nd at 'tigui’es no 
farmer could afford. Fine breeding .sows 
brought about the same as good cow.s. I 
imagine that the cows about all will go 
West, where most of the cows at other 
auctions have gone. Very few cows are 
wanted al>out here, as Cleveland is over¬ 
supplied now with milk, and until 'the 
government dairy commissioners “shake 
out” and give the farmers a square deal, 
so that milk can be sold at a margin of 
pi'ofit over what it costs to produce, there 
will not only be no demand for more cows, 
but the steady decline in cow population 
will go on. 
; The great advance in the price of farm 
machinery this Spring makes fair-looking 
machinery at these sales api)ear attract¬ 
ive, and everything is quickly bid in at 
seemingly high prices. Hundreds of the 
things bid off seem of little titility to the 
buyer, and who it is that buys all these 
things is as difficult to locate as to fore¬ 
cast the destination of the cows ns they 
disaiipear down the road. 
Actually hundreds of families—more 
than ever before—are changing habita¬ 
tions. It seems as if it was a pretty near 
toss-up between tenants changing farms 
and other families moving to town. Quite 
a few who last year heard the cry of 
“back to the land” are this year changing 
back to the city and turning their backs 
upon the alluring temptations of a year 
ago. The real e.state men are busy in 
farm properties, and now and then they 
bring out a moneyed buyer for a farm to 
build up into a “country seat.” All the 
Spring there has been a steady going by 
of these movers by <^eam and motor vans. 
We hear daily about the fabulous amounts 
the farmers are making, often something 
about their hoarding their crops, and 
driving the city people to desperation by 
their combinations to force up already 
high prices, “as it costs farmers nothing 
to raise and put produce upon the mar¬ 
ket,” but one year of actual fai-m life 
puts these city imported farmers “very 
wise.” and at first opportunity they motor- 
van back to the city. 
Hut the real farmer is having his “blue 
days,” especially if he is a dairyman, 
bi'tween actually no help and high prices, 
and going up all the time of feeds, the 
uncertainty of what the government is 
going to allow him for milk. The farmer 
cannot see why he should not he allowed 
to sell in a competitive market, as are all 
the other producers, and given reasonable 
transportation, and can hardly compre¬ 
hend why the government pays such lav¬ 
ish wages to its employees for an eight- 
hour day and then a.s'k him to spe<‘d up 
and do more, and employ labor at i)rices 
that ai’e utterly impossible for him to 
pay. These and a hundred other things 
are all disquieting the farmer. If he is 
to win the war, why not see that he has 
war compensation, the same as govern¬ 
ment contractors get, 10 per cent over 
actual cost of production, to stimulate 
him? The farmer is not escaping taxa¬ 
tion as an offset to stimulation. Ilis boys 
are going to war and he is turning out his 
offerings to the w'ar beneficiaries without 
hesitancy. His Liberty bonds are as 
large in proportion to his wealth as can 
be found elsewhere. He is restless, but 
he will not quit until age compels him 
to, but he is a little tirwl of the instruc¬ 
tions of a lot of swivel-chair farm direc¬ 
tors, whose living in the past has been the 
cream from some other man’s labor. 
J. G. 
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