UhB RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Milk and Farm News 
Eggs, 35c; butter, 38c per lb.; apples, 
$1 to .$1.25 per bu.; potatoes, 60 to 75c 
per bu.; oats, !)0c per bu.; buckwheat, .$4 
per cwt.; hay, .$18 to .$20 per ton; straw, 
$10 to $12; rutabagas, 75c per bu.; pars¬ 
nips, .$1 per bu.; carrots, .$1; inilch 
cows, $80 ’to $100; farm horses, $200 to 
$.350; veal calves, 18 to 20c per lb.; beef 
cattle, 15 to 16o, dressed. Butter fat at 
creamery, which is located at Austin, Pa., 
three miles from here, 40c per lb. Farm 
conditions seem to be getting better right 
along; that is, for prices, etc. The farm¬ 
ers around here seem to realize that it is 
up to them to help Uncle Sam out at this 
time, and they are all putting in all the 
potatoes, oats, corn for silage, as the .sea¬ 
sons are too short for corn to mature, for 
the c.attic. There is plenty of available 
land here for beef cattle, and to a certain 
extent the farmers have availed themselves 
of this opportunity. ii. L. S. 
Potter Go., Pa. 
Mo.st farmers about me sell milk and 
fruit in its season. For milk we receive 
League price. In our freight zone that is 
$2.r^ per cwt. for 3 per cent milk. Most 
farmers have a little hay tj sell; s<une 
make but little milk and sell a lot of hay. 
Prices this Winter for fair Timothy have 
ranged from $10 to $25 per ton, pressed, 
varying according to sea.son and quality 
of hay. Veal calves at present arc bring¬ 
ing 1.5c per lb. Eggs at local store.s, 36c; 
private trade a little higher. Hewl potatoes 
are advertised by farmers for $1.25 per bu. 
Seed corn at $4 per bu. Seems to mo 
farmers are not so enthusiastic over rai.s- 
ing bumper crops as they were a year 
ago. Help is very scarce, incompetent and 
wages are high. Milk has an overproduc¬ 
tion and feeds are i)oor, scarce and very 
high. Prices for milk are only fixed from 
month to month. By the time one threat- 
eiHHl strike is over the farmer can begin 
to look forward to the next one 30 day.s 
later. II. I). ]?. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Many changes in the shipping of milk 
have been made, principally with those 
having milk picked up by condensery, as 
the condenseries are now charging 25c per 
cwt, for hauling. If they desired to di¬ 
minish their supply 1 am sure they suc¬ 
ceeded. Cow sales have not been so nu¬ 
merous this while back. Fresh cows are 
slightly lower in price. Local market is 
paying 8c for April milk. Some few in¬ 
stances where dealers call for the milk, 
price is ^/Ijc less. Labor question forces 
many farmers to keep a few less cows and 
increase the young stock. Grade suckling 
jiigs bring $8 to $10; purebi’ed sucklings, 
$10 to $14, without and with papers, re¬ 
spectively. Hatcheries in this locality 
have paid a premium of 5 to 10(; a dozen 
for purebred poulti'y eggs. Good hay 
sold last Winter’ at public farm sales at 
$16 to $26. Implements, much worn, 
sold many times near cost, and sometimes 
over cost. Winter wheat in this locality 
is, as usual, depending largely on the 
farmer. A large trucker in this hx’ality 
has made a contract with Gami)beirs 
Soup (to. of Camden, N. J., to grow for 
them 12 acres of tomatoes. A. M. K. 
Venango Co., Pa. 
There is not much produce going to 
the markets from around hero at the 
present time. Potatoes are selling in the 
Philadelphia markets from 40 to 6()c i)er 
%-bu. basket. Eggs selling around 40e. 
Sweet potatoes, $10 to $1.2.5 i)er %-bu. 
basket. Rhubarb, ,3c per bunch; scal¬ 
lions, l%c per bunch. Milk is .selling to 
the dealer for 7%c per qt. Not much 
milk produced around here; this is a gen¬ 
eral trucking district. The main crops 
around here are peas, beau.s, tomatoes 
and sweet corn; quite a lot of apples and 
peaches. Many have contracted with 
Campbells of Camden for peas and to¬ 
matoes. They are paying .$0.5 per ton 
for peas <lelivered in %-bu. baskets in 
Camden, $32 i)er ton for tomatoes in 
August, and .$30 per ton for all after that. 
This is for B grade; if tomatoe.s grade up 
to A, a bonus of .$3 is paid, and if grow¬ 
ers arc careful and do not pick them too 
green they will get the A mark. ir. s. F. 
Burlington Co., N. J. 
Grade Holstein cows, $7.5 to $100. Veal, 
dressed, 2()c. Potatoes cheap, some sold 
for ()0c per bu. Hay, $20 per ton in barn. 
Spring pigs, $7 at four weeks old. Milk, 
$2.32 per cwt. at Merrill-Soule Co. pow¬ 
dered milk plant. Eggs, 3.5c. w. ir. a. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
Lackawanna County is favored with a 
nearby market; Scranton and adjoining 
towns make a population of over 2(X),00() 
people, and our anthracite miners liavc 
been earning good wages, from $75 to 
$100 every two weeks. Our farmers pro¬ 
duce milk, hay, fruit and truck for the 
Lackawanna Valley. Most of thus is sold 
during Fall and Winter. Curb markets 
were established in different parts of the 
city for the first time last year, and were 
very satisfactory in disposing of truck and 
fruit. Potatoes brought $1.50 to .$2 per 
bu.; at this time are bringing 90c whole¬ 
sale, .$1.25 retail; good apples, $1.50 per 
bu.; hay, $27 to $28 per ton, delivered to 
customers, and .$20 per ton in barn. Pork 
is sold alive to Polish people for 20 and 
22c per lb.; four weeks old pigs, $15 per 
pair. Milk is picked up by motor trucks ; 
.$3.46 per 100 lbs. for March, and $2.75 
for April. Those who retail get 12c per 
qt. Truck was high and brought good 
prices during Pall and Winter. Cows 
bring at public sale from $75 to .$1.50 for 
good purebred; Holsteins from ^200 to 
$.300. Good help is scarce and high; 
single men with board and washing, .$40 
per month; married, from ,$.50 to $75 with 
house. Very little grain is raised in this 
county; oats, $1.15 per bu.; corn, .$.3.80 
per 100; cottonseed meal, $60 per +on; 
wet brewer.s’ grains at the brewery, 30c 
per bu.; dried grains, $40 per ton at 
brewery. A great amount of manure is 
hauled from the city and mines. Mine 
manure, .$1..50 per ton and city manure 
$1 per two-horse load. We can get wom¬ 
en help to work on farms in Summer and 
Pall to gather fruit and vegetables, $1.^ 
and $1.50 per day. Our farmers seem to 
be prosperous and produce good crops. 
Lackawanna Co., Pa. ii. j. n. 
Farming in thi.s section looks very dis¬ 
couraging at present. The leading pro¬ 
ducts in this .section are hay, potatoes, 
cabbage, grain (wheat and oats), and 
milk. The prices the f.armers are receiv¬ 
ing now are ns follows: Hay, $15 to .$20; 
potatoes, 66c per bu.; cabbage, $10 per 
ton. Wheat, .$2.25 per lui.; oats, $1.25; 
milk, $2..3.5 per hundred. Farm help is 
very scarce sind if able to get them we 
have to pay $50 to $()0 a month and 
their board and handle them with kid 
gloves or they leave. Farmers are t.alking 
of selling their cows as feed is $3.75 a 
hundred, and cracked corn $4.05 a hun- 
dr<'(l. h'armers have to got to the cream¬ 
ery with their milk at 8.30; if later the 
doors are closed. 'Phis is an early hour 
for the men to milk a dairy ami drive 
three or four miles, and some further, ami 
then, if a few minutes late the <loors arc 
clo.sed. If they got an. over-supply the 
farmer has to throw his milk away or do 
what he can with it. .\t present milk is 
the only thing the farmer gets any money 
from, and then the biggest share goes for 
feed. J. B. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
A Letter from the Northwest 
In a late is.sue .some one in New York 
State reported growing scarlet runner 
beans in his corn for stock forage. That 
is .something worth thinking about. Why 
are not any of our common climbing 
beans suitable for stock as well as the 
velvet bean of the South? Have we not 
been overlooking the value of many plants 
for_ stock food? Stock are very fond of 
artichoke forage. They are now growing 
.sunflowers for silage in the Northwest. 
The sunflower has proved to bo equal to 
corn silage as a milk producer, and the 
stock keep in better flesh on same. They 
are now u.sing the kudz i vine (.Tack and 
bean stalk) as a forage plant, and it is 
said to outyield every plant tried in 
Florida. The Northwest is very lame on 
Winter forage. Sweet clover gives us 
pasture in abundance, though is of little 
value as hay. We will have to got the 
best forage producer among the bush 
beans, as corn would be sure to go down 
with pole beans growing on .same. 33ie 
winds hero are too strong. It is not at all 
uncommon to see the grain laid bare after 
seeding, and all grain is drilled. One of 
iny neighbors had to seed three times 
last Spring. It has been blowing almost 
a hurricane all of the week. So a great 
deal of grain will be laid bare, and wild 
gee.se by the thousands are feeding on 
same. The 3.5-cent dollar certainly is not 
any myth out here. 'Phis is our black 
rust year. It is like the locusts, always 
on time. Most every farmer you si)eal< to 
has something to say regarding the black 
rust. They all expect it to appear this 
year. Many are ju.st di.sking in their 
crops on that account and wishing to save 
all they can in l.alxA’ cost on crop. 'Phe 
685 
best of years disked grain never produces 
much grain. Only a light grain crop can 
be hoped for from this State, that is cer¬ 
tain. High cost of labor, $50 to $75 
per month, has forced many to disk in 
their crops. The help gets board and 
washing also. My neighbor’s little boy 
1-3 years old has been using a six-horse 
team on plow, disk and drag all Spring. 
So you see the Western boy can about 
measure up to a man on farm. Very few 
city men could do as well as he does. 
You can .see many like him in an hour’s 
drive with car. Such lads can and will 
drive the binders this year and dad will 
shock. Here a man shocks 20 acres a 
day in the harvest grain. Is the city help 
going to measure up to that? Hardly. 
Yet they will demand farm help wages. 
So there is certainly going to be trouble 
and plenty of it. In recent issue a sub- 
.scriber a.sks about velvet beans. They 
are too late. I wrote the Alabama Sta¬ 
tion in regard to the velvet bean, and 
they said that the very early varieties 
were too late for North. The bu.sh va¬ 
rieties of cow peas arc not heavy yielders 
of forage, yet they produce a very fair 
yield of ripe peas. No doubt they would 
be a good crop to bring down, though I 
believe we can get a good substitute 
among our commoji Northern beaus. 
Hero in this dry climate I believe we can 
grow pole beans by letting same trail on 
ground as they do in California, I fear 
there would be some danger in feeding the 
dry beans in any <|uantity (left in pods). 
All except lir.st cutting of Alfalfa inter¬ 
feres .so with grain growing that people 
do not like it out here. More, the yield 
is too light, about oiie-third of clover in 
Minnesota or Wisconsin. This season 1 
shall grow .sorghum cane for hay; will 
cut .same twice, as it makes far better 
hay then. It is the only real substitute 
for hay in ))lace of the gra.sses grown fur¬ 
ther east. 'Phe editorial pages of Ttie 
Rijuap New-Youkiou make it the one 
real 
tanners paper. 
S. C. TAYLOR. 
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Practical dairymen who are in the business 
for the money as well as for pleasure all agree 
that summer feeding of a balanced ration 
pays. Their experience proves that cows 
fed concentrates while on pasture are in 
more vigorous health and better producers— 
not only in summer, but all through the year 
Eight Cows Give 616 Gallons More Milk 
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..P weeks with 16 cows, cited by Prof. Henry in his book on 
reeds and reeding, gave the following results: 
8 cows on pasture with concentrates gave. 22.624 pounds milk 
o cows on pasture without concentrates gave. 17,698 pounds milk 
Excess of milk in favor of lot No. I.~4,^ pounds milk 
.Inadclition tothis the eight cows on pasture with concentrates gained in weight 166 pounds and maintained 
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alone, those fed concentrates the previous summer gave 16% more milk than the others. ^ 
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