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Crops eind Farm Notes 
The leading farm products in our 
county are corn, wheat, potatoes, oats, 
hay, eggs, hogs, and milk. Corn sells at 
.$l!r)0 per bu. to the farmers; wheat. 
,$2.10; potatoes at 70c; oats. 95c; hay, 
.$27 ton; eggs, 34c doz.; hogs, 24c lb., 
dressed; milk, 8 cents qt. Farmers 
around here have a comparatively small 
amount of their crops unsold. _ The busi¬ 
ness outlook for the farmers, in some in¬ 
stances at least, is rather discouraging in 
general for the farmers. j. G. A. 
Lehigh Co., Pa. 
Milk, Gc qt.; butter, 40c lb.; pork, 24c 
Ib.; veal, 20c lb.; hens, 30c lb.; eggs, 35c 
doz.; 4 weeks’ old pige, $7 each. w. S. 
Bullivan Co., N. Y. 
Milk in this section sold to the Inter¬ 
national Milk Products Company, at 
Cooperstown. New York, for which we 
receive I.eague prices. For eggs in the 
New York market we receive 42 cents per 
dozen for hennery whites. ,39 cents for 
browns. Rutter brings 40 to 44 cents, 
loose hay. .$10 to .$15 per ton. Grade 
suckling pigs bring $7 apiece. Potatoes—■ 
market rather dull, prices varying from 
40 to 70 cents a bushel. Grade cows sell 
from $G5 to $150; veal, dressed, IS to 19 
cents; dressed beef, 14 to 15 cents; 
chickens. 25 cents per pound. Maple 
syrup brings from ,$1.3.5 to ,$1.4,5. Farm 
conditions are generally farther advanced 
than at this time one year ago. Most all 
oats are in and quite a lot of them up. 
While labor is scarce, farmers are going 
ahead with their work and^ are doing 
pretty well considering the nice weather 
we have had for the past two or three 
weeks. J. b. T. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
pretty likely to skin himself. We have a 
fair market here, but pay outrageous 
prices for some things, seed corn espe¬ 
cially. J. D. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
The prospect for a hay crop is good, as 
our new seeding is in fine shape and our 
two and three year meadows have not 
suffered by heaving as they do some 
years. Farmers are just beginning their 
Spring sowing, and from the amount ot 
Fall plowing there will be a large acre¬ 
age sown. There is a very small amount 
of hay and grain left in farmers’ hands. 
A great many farmers are not getting 
their usual Spring flow of milk, owing to 
the high cost of both hay and grain and 
other local dairy conditions. The hard 
Winter has had a telling effect on the 
dairy cows in our locality. Eggs, 35c; 
hay at barn, loose, .$20; baled, $25; oats, 
.$1; recleaned for seed, $1.25; potatoes, 
,$1; hogs, dressed, 21c; alive, IGc; cow¬ 
hides, 14c; wood, $4 per cord, 12 to 14 
inches long; raw milk delivered to milk 
plants, $2.35 per 100 lbs. for 3 per cent; 
8.04c a point over 3 per cent for our May 
delivery. Four weeks' old sweet milk veal 
calves, alive. 12c per lb. B. F. H. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
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Wheat is one of the leading products in 
this county; the price paid during the last 
year has been from ,$2 to ,$2.10 per bushel, 
according to grade. In this section tlie 
quality of the wheat has been very poor, 
due to bad weather conditions at harvest 
time, and to the fact that in many instan¬ 
ces the farmers left the wheat in the 
shock in the field until September Out 
of something like .30 cars of wheat shipped 
out of Kendaia, N. Y., none graded better 
than No, 5, and a considerable percentage 
wpiit “no grade.’’ The price of oat3 
ranged from 55c early in the season to 
97c per bushel; barley, .$1.25 to ,$2; red 
kidney beans, .$10 to $12 per 100. Farm 
conditions are at the present time fairly 
gocxl. Winter wheat perhaps 50 per cent 
winter-killed, with a small acreage sown 
last Fall, making perhaps not more than 
2,5 per cent of the normal stand of IVinter 
wheat in this section. A considerable 
acreage of Spring wheat has been sown, 
conditions for same being good at the 
present time. The acreage of oats and 
barley perhaps about normal, with a little 
increase in proportion of barley sown. 
The business outlook for the farmers who 
ai-e properly cultivating their land and 
giving their time and attention to farm¬ 
ing as a business proposition is certainly 
good. For those who are more interested 
in automobiles, politics and social affairs, 
to the exclusion of their farm work, the 
business outlook never can be good under 
any conditions. F. S. W. 
Kendaia, N. Y. 
Farmers are offered GOc for their po¬ 
tatoes here. Corn and potatoes are the 
leading crops. Insects and drought have 
cut tlie crops short the past two years. 
Peaches are looking good. A. w. 
Cape May Co., N. .1. 
No. 1 Timothy hay, $20 a ton; eggs, 
3.3c per doz.; butter, 34c. A few crops of 
beans and potatoes are unsold and buyers 
are not anxious for them. Beans, $11 
per cwt.; potatoes, 70c per bu. The 
wheat crop is a complete failure in this 
county, there being a very few good pieces. 
Most of the wheat was dragged up and 
sowed to Spring wheat or oats. There 
will be a large acreage of oats and barley. 
The bean and potato crop will be about 
half the acreage it w'as last year. Corn 
will be about the same acreage as last 
year. The outlook for a large apple crop 
is good. Most of the farmers have their 
seeding finished and corn planted. Mead¬ 
ows are looking fine; in fact, every crop 
looks favorable now. .r. w. k. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Dealers pay for produce; Potatoes, 50 
to GOc bu.; apples 4 to Gc lb.; eggs, .30c 
doz.; butter, 30 to .3Gc lb. Local grain— 
Wheat, $2 to .$2.10 bu.; oats, 70c; rye, 
$1.75; barley, .$1.75 bu.; corn, .$1..50 per 
100 lbs.; hay, $15 to $19 ton. Steers. 10 
to 12c lb.; heifers, 9 to 10c; cows, ,$50 to 
100 lbs.; hay, $15 to $18 ton. Steers, 10 
Dealers are charging for chick feed .$4.50 
to $5 100 lbs.; bran, $2.2.5, and middlings 
.$3 100 lbs.; oilmeal, $3.35 KM) lbs. Farm¬ 
ers are putting out as large an acreage as 
last year or more of potatoes and corn; 
with the help of tractors and good weather 
will gee through O. K. Wheat, grass and 
small grains growing fine; plenty of rain 
now. ii. c. L. 
Seneca Co., O. 
Onr leading crops are wheat, barley, 
oats, beans, cabbage, potatoes, apples, 
pears, peaches, quinces, prunes and cher¬ 
ries. Farmers are selling potatotes at G(^ 
per bu. and beans at .$10 per KM) Ibd. 
About everything was sold in the Fall and 
Winter at the following prices: Wheat, 
$2; barley, $1.25; oats. GOc; cabbage, .$25 
to .$50 ton. This h.is been a favorable 
Spring for farmers, with a large acreage 
of oats and barley sown on account of 
farmers not being able to get in their 
usual acreage of wheat last Fall. Acre¬ 
age of beans about GO per cent of last 
year. Cabbage. 100; potatoes, SO; corn, 
1.50. The outlook for fruit is good, except 
peache.s, which are 50 per cent of a crop. 
Orleans Co.. N. Y. g. w. ii. 
_ Farnu'rs of this section at the present 
time g('t .32c for eggs, 75c bu. for po¬ 
tatoes. 22c dressed pork, 14c live veal. 
Dividend for first half of April milk from 
cheese sold .at 20c per lb., .$1.G4 per cwt. 
Hay, $15 to $17 per ton. Good milch 
cows, .$100 to $135. Some farmers are 
still sowing wheat; few oats sown. Grass 
and pasture 10 days behind last year. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. H. s. 
Dairying is the principal business, and 
milk at the milk stations goes at League 
prices. Those farmers who sell to the 
Ilinghamton creameries received 8 cents 
during the Winter, but only 5^/^ this 
month. (No test.) The potato market 
has improved a little, paying at the stores 
from 75c to $1. Eggs are selling for 34 
to 37 cents. Veal calves, 12 to 13 cents, 
alive; 20 and 21 dressed. Hay brings 
from ,$1G to ,$21 a ton. Grass and Winter 
grain are looking good. The amount of 
crops put in will not vary much from the 
past few years. Help very scarce; wages 
high ; but the farmers are trying to do the 
best they can. .Just how crops are going 
to be gathered is rather a serious question. 
Success to the “farmers’ helper,” The 
U. N.-Y. D. S. 
Rroome Co., N. Y. 
Farming in this section is not very en¬ 
couraging. The high cost of feed and 
scarcity of help makes it hard for them 
to get work done in time. This is a dairy 
section ; no wheat raised ; some oats and 
buckwheat. Farmers are getting for milk 
.about .$1.G0 at Tumburg factory. Pota¬ 
toes. .50c to $1; butter, 45 to .50c; eggs, 
34c; hay, $14 to $20; cows, .$80 to $100 
for grades. Feed at feed store costs: 
Corn, ,$3.G0 per cwt.; oats, $1.15 bu.; 
meal, $3.G0 cwt.; barley meal, $2.G5 ; mid¬ 
dlings, .$3.10; no wheat feeds to be had. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. c. M. n. 
Reams, $10 per 100, and they do not 
care about buying at that. Imst Fall 
they were as high as .$13. Potatoes, ,$1.20 
100 lbs.; cabbage sold from $15 to $45 
per ton; onions as high as .$1.,50 bu.; 
carrots, $20 ton; celery. $1.20 to .$2.50 
per crate; potatoes as high as $1.40 per 
bu. These last prices are last Fall prices. 
Carrots mostly fed to stock, as we could 
not sell after cold weather set in. Wheat 
now $2.08 to $2.10 per bu.; oilmeal, ,$,3.25 
I)er 100 lbs.; seed corn, $5 to .$8 per bu. 
That is what we have to pay at mill. 
Onion seed, .$4.25 to $G per lb. We will 
have to get a good price next Fall or 
there will not be much money in onions 
with fertilzer at $40 per ton. Farmers 
are not planting as much, because they 
cannot get help with experience. "Wheat 
looks very poor; it winter-killed very 
badly. Hay and oats look good. w. D. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
This is a dairy county; also some pork, 
poultry and young stock raised. Milk, 
.$2.22 per cwt. for 3 per cent test; pota¬ 
toes, $1.25 per bu., but no call for them; 
eggs, 34c. At an auction sale last week 
cows sold from $100 to $185 each; scrubs, 
$80 each; dressed pork, 23c, and dressed 
poultry 25c. Farm conditions are very 
quiet in this section. Feed is very high 
and help scarce. We have to pay $2.24 
per bu. for corn; mixed feed, $52 per 
ton; gluten, $G0; wheat middlings, $52, 
and cornmeal $70 per ton. It doesn't 
look very encouraging for the farmer to 
feed poultry $2.24 per cwt. for corn and 
sell his eggs for 34c. It is the same 
with everything else. There is not much 
fruit raised in Herkimer County. Nearly 
all of the farmers are raising young stock, 
mostly Holsteins. J. W. W. 
Herkimer Co., N. Y. 
I am located near a co-operative cream¬ 
ery at which, for March, they paid 42c 
for butter fat, and also near a creamery 
which Sheffields run. They paid $2.40 for 
4 per cent milk. I received $3.40 for 4.1 
per cent milk. In regard to the prosperity 
of the farming in this locality, it all de¬ 
pends on the man. If he wants to work 
and deal squarely he is in a fair way to 
make a little money at the present time, 
but if he wants to skin everybody he is 
