RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Crops and Farm Notes 
Potatoes, 60c.; beans, about .$8; cabj 
bage, last shipped, $20 per ton. Hay, $15 
to $24 per ton. Butter, 4S^/^C per lb. 
Cows, $75 to $100; this_ is grade stock. 
Farm conditions I consider fairly good 
for time of year; only Alfalfa winter- 
killed badly in this section. I think the 
business outlook good. G. il. B. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
This is largely a milk-producing sec¬ 
tion. the farmers selling to creameries and 
condenseries. At the present date they 
receive for A-grade, 414 pcr cent milk, 
6c qt.; for B-grade, 314 per cent milk, 
4c. Consumers here pay 12c per qt. for 
B-grade. Some farmers are making but¬ 
ter. using the skim-milk feeding pigs and 
calves. Farmers’ butter brings at the 
store from 3.5c to 40c per lb. Consumers 
pav 45c to 55c per lb. for the same. 
This is also quite a potato-growing 
county. The crop was large last sej^son. 
and was selling last Fall for $1.35 to 
.$1.50 for 60 lbs. Today farmers who held 
for higher prices are trying to clean \ip 
at 60c to 75c per 60 lbs., and find slow 
sales. Eggs, 35c doz.; dressed fowls, 
30c lb.; alive, 25c lb. Veal and lamb 
scarce and high, 18c to 26c per lb. 
Spring pigs are from .$8 to $10 each at 
four or five weeks old. Hay, .$16 to $18 
per ton; there is promise of a fair crop 
this season. Owing to continued heavy 
rains, oats are looking poorly, and some 
late-sown not up yet. The corn acreage 
will be slightly larger than last year. 
Quite a large acreage of wheat (for this 
section) is so\vn and mostly looking good. 
Help is scarce and wages high. If the 
new slogan, “Everyone must work,” is 
made to work also, it may help some. 
Washington Co., N. Y. M. J. w. 
Chautauqua is a dairy county, and 
most of the farmers’ trouble centers on 
the milk question. Not only are prices 
too low, but in many places terms of 
sale or handling at receiving points are 
causing dissatisfaction. The question of 
an honest test is one of the chief kicks. 
Some receivers refuse to give a daily re¬ 
ceipt for milk taken in. We have been 
forced to buy new cows at Mayville on 
account of Supplee Company of Phila¬ 
delphia selling out to Mohawk Condensed 
Milk Co. Fir.st thing this new company 
did was to reduce the test to almost every 
patron, in one case a reduction of 22 
points in a month, making a difference in 
price of 88c per hundred cream, blol- 
stein cows, good grades, are selling high, 
20 head averaging $125 at a nearby auc¬ 
tion : other cows not in such good demand. 
Mr. Hoover killed the chicken business 
with his order stopping their sale. Talk¬ 
ing with a neighbor today, he was sure 
there would not be over 25 per cent of 
th^ usual number hatched. Very few are 
running their incubators, and several who 
hatch over 1,000 are not raising any at 
all. This is in this community, and prob¬ 
ably prevails all over tbe country. Po¬ 
tatoes from 75c to .$1 a bushel, best seed 
only getting top price. Average will be 
reduced as compared with last year; some 
are being fed to stock. Spring w'ork pro¬ 
gressing favorably, weather fine. Oats, 
corn, buckwheat, etc., will average with 
other years. Labor very scarce and so 
high it is impossible for a man to pay 
tbeir price and come out even. Taking 
it all together, the average farmer has not 
a bright outlook ahead. Some who have 
extra high-producing herds and are out 
of debt can probably put a little on one 
side, but for most it will be upbill wmrk. 
Tbe Dairymen's League is quite W'ell 
organized. Members willing to stand by, 
but there is an undercurrent of dissatis¬ 
faction with the way the milk price has 
been bandied, most of them agreeing with 
Mr. Dillon on this subject. _ We are 
hoping this question will adjust itself, and 
most, I think, have faith in the dairy 
cow—that she will come out ahead. She 
must. s. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
For some reasons we as a community 
think the prospects for farmers not very 
bright. One of the reasons is the help 
question, a great many getting along 
without help because they cannot afford 
to pay the' price and take the chance. 
We had to sow our wheat late on ac¬ 
count of weather conditions, making 
beans late in harvesting, sowing wheat 
after beans, and a good deal of the wheat 
now looks poor. Some has been plowed 
up, although we are getting splendid rains 
that help. Price-fixing on products grown 
does not work out very well on account of 
cost of production and abnormal weather 
conditions, such as last year, but the 
weather seems a little better so fai^ this 
Si)ring, but not warm enough. We are 
thankful we have the .school law back 
where it should be; now would like to 
have the clock turned back where it was. 
Drleans Oo., N. Y. E. J. ii. 
Milk for May .$2.34 per hundred. Cows 
from $75 to $125. Hay, $25. Potatoes, 
00c per bu. The outlook is for a big 
fruit crop. Conditions for planting have 
been good, and the outlook is for a good 
crop of oats, corn, and potatoes. The 
acreage is larger than last year. Farm 
help scarce and high. The outlook for 
the farmer is better than ever. E. w. T. 
Wyoming Co., Pa. 
The crops we raise most are wheat, 
for which they are paying $2.20, corn 
$1.70, oats $1.70, and hay .$2.5. The 
hay crop does not look very good; w'heat 
fair; oats good; corn just being planted. 
Calves are being sold for 15c per lb.; 
cows from $80 to $150; pigs $5 to $8 a 
pair six weeks old. A few potatoes are 
raised, old ones being sold for ,$1 per 
bu. New crop looks good. w. n. Y. 
Hunterdon Co., N. Y. 
Butter, 38e per lb.; eggs, 34c per doz.; 
oats. 90c per bu.; barley, $2; wheat, 
$2.10. Potatoes. $1 per 100 lbs. There 
were two carloads of beef cattle shipped 
last week that brought 1.3c per lb. About 
one-half of the wool was purchased from 
the farmers for 70e per lb., for the re¬ 
mainder the farmers are all at sea as to 
what the government price will be. The 
general outlook for wheat is about one-. 
half crop. It wintered very poorly. 
Some fields are being worked up and 
sowed to oats and barley. The farmers 
at present are busy planting; corn is all 
of 10 days earlier than the crop was 
planted last year. Last year’s did not 
mature, so there is a scarcity of seed. I 
had to pay .$8 a bu. Orchards are about 
90 per cent in full bloom; little too early 
to tell what the prospect will be for fruit. 
The season is 10 to 15 days earlier than 
last year. y. s. B. 
Yates Co., N. Y. 
Eggs, 35e. Hay, 40 to 55e per cwt.; 
potatoes, 60 to 80c per bu. Chicken, 25 
to .35c per lb.; corn, ear, per bu., $1.80. 
Butter, 45c. Calves, live weight, i6i/4c 
per lb.; steers. 14 to 15e; lambs, 20c. 
Grain, hay, corn, potatoes and sugar corn 
are the principal crops here. Some 
farmers raise a lot of other truck for 
market, others only enough for home use. 
Very little wheat to harvest in this part 
of the country, most of it being plowed 
up, and what is left to stand will not be 
a half crop. One farmer plowed up over 
50 acres. Corn is about half planted, 
and most of the potatoes are coming tip 
well. I cannot see that the general busi¬ 
ness outlook for the farmers in this sec¬ 
tion is very encouraging. o. B. M. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
Farming in this part of the country 
looks very discouraging. Meadows and 
pastures he're winter-killed badly. The 
hay outlook is two-thirds a crop. Grain 
sowing is late. Dairying is the leading 
industry, and it is a hard proposition to 
feed cows at the present cost of dairy 
feed and low price of milk to keep even, 
and in fact can hardly be done. As the 
price of milk declines, feed stays out of 
sight. Farmers are going to sell their 
cows for beef or have them freshen late 
next Spring to save buying these high- 
priced feeds. The condenseries are 
mostly all closed, and are making cheese 
on account of the condensed milk con¬ 
gestion. Grain and potato acreage is 
about normal, with an increase of corn, 
provided the seed will germinate as it 
should. April milk brought the farmers 
$1.60 in cheese. Hay $18 per ton. 
Dre.ssed_^ beef, 15e per lb.; dressed pork, 
24 to 25c., and very scarce. Veal calves, 
12c per lb., live W'eight. Young pigs, $6 
apiece. Potatoes, 6()c per bu. Eggs, 34c 
per doz. Cheese, 20c in April; butter, 
48c. Mill prices bran, $2.40; middlings, 
$2.50; gluten, ,$3.50; distillers’ grains, 
$.3; oil meal. ,$3..50; cottonseed, $3..50; 
red dog, $3.50; oats, $1.10. corn, $3.50. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. e. ir. B. 
The leading crops in this county are 
apples, cabbage, potatoes, onions and ber¬ 
ries. Potatoes at the present time are 
80c per cwt. The berries are contracted 
for 10c per qt. Our last butterfat 
brought 4514c per lb. j. g. k. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
Farm conditions good, and crops at 
this time appear above the average. Cat¬ 
tle bring good prices; good grades bring 
from $75 to $1,50. Pigs, $10 to $14 and 
scarce. Registered yearling heifers, $200 
up, with a demand for better stock. Oak¬ 
land township will have a much larger 
acreage than ever before. Potatoes, 
farmers’ price, $1 per bu.; wheat, ,$2.10. 
Chickens, ,3,5c per lb.; eggs, 35 to 40c per 
doz. Butter, 40c. Farmers receive 70c 
per hour for plowing with team. They 
pay extra men when they can get one 
30c per hour and board. Butler takes 
our young men into munition factories at 
$5 per day up; after all, I believe the 
work is progressing most favorably. 
Grange is flourishing; our county agent 
is the man for the place. c. E. B. 
Butler Co., Pa. 
I sold 150 bushels of potatoes last week 
for one cent per pound, or 60c per bushel. 
We take milk to cheese factory; milk 
brings about ,$1.90 per 100 lbs., one sale 
$1.88, the next ,$1.93. Not much butter 
made here, about 50c per lb. Eggs, 34e. 
Do not think the prospects for farmers 
very good, as help is so scarce and high; 
men want $2 per day and board. Can a 
man raise potatoes and sell for 60c and 
pay .$2 per day? I tbink not. Some hay 
to sell; the price has gone from $15 to 
$20 per ton, which means $7 to .$10 in 
barn. I am an old man, over 70 years, 
and I have seen hard times and I expect 
to see more. a. c. b. 
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