852 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 0, 1918 
A lV)l(jrET KOK ('IJ)VEI{. —A clovor 
lii‘l<l at blossoming time is a tliiug 
of baanty. and its ownoi- has something 
of value, ('lover is the best and surest 
gem-ral i)urpose grass, and there should 
be a field of it on every pla<‘e. every year, 
and all substitutes or helps should be 
seeondary to it with nine men out of 
ten. If the one has land adapted so he 
van make a sure thing he is safe in mak¬ 
ing elover seeondary. but if he will make 
as liberal eontributions to elover as he 
must to Alfalfa, it will surprise him. I 
ean grow as mueh weight of elovi-r i)er 
.•lere as 1 ever saw of .Mfalfa. We now 
havi> over two tons ofl’ the field, and only 
.Tune l.l. while it is good for two more 
or a crop of seed, and luxuriant Fall 
jtasture for the lambs. We have nev<’r 
got more than four tons of Alfalfa, and 
(‘aeh set has cost $20 i)er acre more than 
•■lover. Tdkewise. to the best of my 
knowledge, clover hay will give as good 
returns on stock. Not moldy, weedy 
clover compared with Alfalfa green as 
Paris green, but hay like ours, that grew 
so short, fine and thick on the ground 
that it took two double harpoon forks, 
•me on each side •>! the load, to lift it 
t^) the mow. I surely believe in <'hiver 
and in the other hays after it. 
Ohio. w. W. REY.XOEDS. 
Jewish Farmers and Co-operation 
Attracted by cheap lands and a health¬ 
ful climate, lo years ago, many of the 
Jewish population of New York City be¬ 
gan to buy up farms in Sullivan County, 
N. Y. It is not an ideal farming country. 
The surface is rough and stony, and the 
soil none too productive, though some good 
farms and many prosperous farmers are 
to he found there. Farming was practi¬ 
cally a new art to these land-seekers, but 
they bought farms, enlarged the houses 
and many of them keep Summer Jwarders 
during July and August. They are not 
ideal farmers by any means. Most of 
them are poor. The farms are heavily 
mortgaged. They pay high rates of in¬ 
terest and yet they are making progress. 
.\long the b. .& W. Ilailroad from Sum- 
mitville to Liberty and reaching back as 
far as Ellenville there arc perhaps one 
thousand Jewish farmers. 
They have three co-operative farm- 
owned creameries and they are imw or¬ 
ganizing a fourth to complete their re¬ 
quirements. They have a half-d^tzen co¬ 
operative stores or agencies f*n- buying 
groceries, feed and supplies genei-ally' 
They figure a saving on this w^n-k alone 
of from $40,000 to $.50,000 a year. They 
have the first purely farmers’ saving and 
loan association in the State and it is a 
member of the Land Board of the State 
of New York. The associ.-ition has 1.50 
membei-s. They also have several hx>al 
branches of the Federal Loan Bank, and 
have made over 200 api)lications for loans. 
They have a mutual insurance company 
with over GOO members and $1,800,000 in 
policies. 
In Centreville, their principal <-enter. 
they have sewers in the streets, one of 
the best xvater systems in the State, 
small though it be. electric lights and a 
national bank with half a milli^m de¬ 
posits. Fifteen years ago ihe t^iwn had 
none of these improvements, and a dis¬ 
trict school with one teacher. Today it 
has a high sclmol which employs 10 
teachers. 
These Jewish people have the commun¬ 
ity well developed, and while theii pies- 
ent condition is by no means ideal, they 
are jointly working out their problems for 
themselves. Their co-^)perative work 
may yet serve us an insi)iratiou foi ••thei 
farmers more fortunate in early training 
. and opportunity than themselves. 
They have had good leadership in .1. II. 
Pincus, Fli (Jreenblat and S. Hein, 
through the Jewish Federation of Farm¬ 
ers. 
Frost in Maine 
The past week has seen huiidreds of 
acres of beans, corn, potatoes, and garden 
stuff laid flat or killed by frost. 1 wish 
we could charg<‘ that to s^unebody we 
could fight. It's a big. big loss to Maine 
gro,;ers, and too late to plant over and 
hop-.- to win a crop, though our city agri¬ 
culturists tell us “it is fortunate the 
freeze came as it did. giving amide time 
to replant and gro\. bigger crop.” What 
unlimited faith these fellows have in what 
they know nothing about I 5Ve lost fully 
•ine million api)le frees by freezing, chiefly 
Baldwins. The pa.st week we have had 
a UHU'ting of grow^'rs to consider what 
varieties we can take up to make new 
orchards. We want coloi', hardiness, good 
bearing (lualities as well as keeping, and 
as good or better eating than the Baldwin. 
M'e had a full discussion of strong as well 
as weak features of many, and then did 
the right thing, appointed a committee to 
investigate and rep^u't in November. 
Meanwhile growers are urged not to order 
new and untried varieties simply because 
s^une agent wants to .sell. The chief ob- 
j^'ct is to make haste slowly, and so .save 
fr^)m futur(' loss or multiplied varieties. 
! ight hay crop in Maine, though the rain 
which started last Friday and‘continues 
t^)day will help greatly. My litth' place 
is doing good -service. Iluuigh I did not 
g^‘t a plum blossom where last year I 
picked 11.5 bushel.s. Ai)ple cro]) will b<‘ 
• iff fully (iO i)er cent in Maine, g. ,m. t. 
Countrywide Produce Conditions 
GEXEKAI. 7*ROUrCE MOVEMENT CONTINUE.S 
MODERATE. 
About 10.000 cars a week were shiiij)ed 
file last •^f June, which is about 10% 
heavier than the corresponding figure for 
last year. The shipment of new potatoes 
seems to have passed highest point for the 
jtresent. but the falling off in potatoes is 
made up by increase in peaches, canta- 
loiipes, melons, etc. Shipments •»f Texas 
onions are becoming light and mov<‘ment 
is just beginning from more Northern sec¬ 
tions. 
Old potatoes ai-e nearly done and are 
offered in only a few markets. Last year 
the_ movement of new potatoes from Vir¬ 
ginia was extremely heavy at this time, 
comprising the greater part of the supply, 
but it looks as if the Virginia output 
would be much lighter this year owing (•> 
a very moderate acreage and yield in that 
section. The price of new i)otatoes has 
been moving in market .swings of about a 
month in length. Prices went down grad¬ 
ually in April, tended upward in May and 
totdv a downward turn the greater part of 
June. At this time the range is wide in 
the •\vh<desale markets, ranging from $.5.50 
to $5.25 per barrel. The wide range is 
cau.sed_ partly by the variation in (piality. 
top i)rices being commanded by the stock 
just beginning to move in quantity from 
eastern shore sections of Virginia. ('•»- 
siderable new stock from Arkansas is 
coming to western markets, but quality 
is only fair. Apart from Virginia, the 
main supply is from North Carolina. 
Louisiana and Texas. The last two 
States, and also Arkansas, ship mostly 
red varieties. ()ld potatoes were offered 
in a few markets, and ranged mostly $1.50 
to $1.80 i)er 100 lbs. 
Cabbages are between the northern and 
southern seasons and siijiply is much 
lighter than in May or the first part •)f 
•Tune. Prices fairly high, ranging around 
$.5 per ci-ate in mhny leading markets for 
Virginia ainl Mississippi stock. 
The volume of the tomato movement is 
less excessive than earlier in the season, 
but prices tend lower. The earlier parts 
of the northern crop are nearly ready. 
Prices in .southern shipping sections 
i-anged last week around 75 cents for a 
four-basket carrier, and sales in noi-therii 
markets ranged 75 cents to $1..50. 
Peaches from Ceorgia are going for¬ 
ward at the rate of 150 cars a day, which 
is very heavy compared with eitlier recent 
weeks or with last seas<m. Pi-ices hav(' 
held fairly wtdl in the shipiung sections 
at $2 per carrier t^) growers. Sah's in 
northern markets b)!* choice varieties 
ranged $2.25 to $.‘5.25. 
Shipments of new api)le.s have not be¬ 
come very imi)ortant yet either in •luan- 
tity or in quality, and the old aj»i)le m^tve- 
ment amounts to hardl.v half a d^)zen cars 
per week. Besides iteaches there is hardly 
any abundant supjdy •)f fruit ••r similar 
l)r^>duce. although cantalouite of Calib)r- 
nia is abundant, coming at the rate •>( 
nearly 200 cars i)er' day at the height of 
the season. 1‘rices in eastern markets 
range $.‘5..50 to .$5. California growers 
get ab^iut $2 per crate. (Jeorgia has pass¬ 
ed Florida as a watermeh)n .shipper, and 
t^>tal nmvement is about 150 cars p«>r day 
fnmi all sections. Demand is very g^i^id 
in (••msuming markets and ranges have 
r^mded upward the past two weeks. 
G. ]?. F. 
Philadelphia Markets 
BUTTER. 
Dimiand for creamery is active and 
market lii’in. Be.st prints. .50 t^i .52c: tub. 
fancy, 40 to 47c; common to g^K)d. 42 to 
45c. 
EGGS. 
Receipts aj-e light. Best nearby. 40 to 
-!7i-' •,T’.tlu-rcd g^wid t^i •■hoice. .‘lO t^i 41c: 
hiwt'v grades, .54 t^i .lic. 
J.IVE POULTRY. 
Fowls, .51 to .‘‘..‘Ic: chickens, best. 50 to 
5.5c; common t^> go^'d. 40 to 4.Sc: •ild 
roosters, 22 to 2.‘5c; ducks. 20 to 30c; 
pigeons, jiair. 40 to 4.5c. 
DRE.SSED POULTRY. 
l-5iwls. .‘52 to .‘5.5i/5c; old roosters,_ 20c; 
turkeys. .‘50 t^i 34c; S])ring ducks, 35 t^> 
:50c ; s^)ual)s. d^)z.. .$7 t^) $8.25. 
FRESH FRUITS. 
Appb's. Baldwin, bbl.. $5 to $S; Ben 
Davis. $4 to .$0.50: new apples, bu., .$2 
to .$.'5..50; peaches. 0-basket crate. $1.75 
to $2.,50; blackberries, qt., 20 to 22c. 
VE(iETARLES. 
Potato market firm. Old jjotatoes, lOO 
lbs.. $1.05 to .$1.75; 7iew. N5.. 1. bbl., .$3.25 
to $.3.7.5; No. 2, .$1.,50 !•• .$2 ; sw(?et pota¬ 
toes. bu.. .$2.,50 t^) $.3 ; cucumbers, bti., $1 
to $2.2.5; sweet coi'ii. bu.. $4.50 to $0; 
cabbagi*. bbl.. $2 !•> .$.1; ••nions, Im., $1.2.5 
to .$1.(;,5. 
II AY AND STRAW'. 
Receipts of hay are light, but market 
weak. No. 1 Timothy, .1^27 to $28; N^>. 
2. .$24 to .$‘25; No. .3, .$10 to .$20; clover 
mixed. $24 to $20; straw’, rye. $17 to 
$18; oat and wheat, $15 to $1<5. 
Receipts at N^'w I’^uk bir week ending 
.Tune 20; 
Butter, lbs. 5.52.‘5.020 
Eggs, doz. 4.;:82.700 
Oats, bu. .‘577.000 
Barley, bu. .315.780 
('orn, bu. 170..800 
Rye, bu. 00.250 
Wheat, bu. !).800 
(Iranges, bxs. 42.045 
(''heese, bxs. :{5,7.‘5f) 
Potatoes, bids. 20.fK>2 
Onions, bu. 18.821 
('ottou, bis. 17.057 
Rosin, bids. 15,010 
Hay. tons . 0.381 
Apples . 4.101 
.Straw', tons . :>oo 
lor this particular .se<-tion I w’ould say 
the leading crops have been hay. grain 
(wheat. •lats. barley, c^u-n and buck¬ 
wheat 1 and beans. S<»me stock is kejit to 
eat u|) roughage, though this is not a 
heavily stocked section. S^ime butter is 
made, some cream is shipped, and s^une 
wool and lambs are'sold; a few' c^ilts are 
raised, and .some hogs. The b<‘an market 
seiuns to be dead. I have neighlmrs who 
have beans to sell an^l im buyer is ready 
to buy. This seems peculiar when at 
this time we have so many soldiers in 
camp to feed, and beans always were 
considered an •>ld standby in the soldier’s 
diet. I lay was bringing a good ijrice 
early iii_ the Spring, about $18 bir clover 
and .$25 for Tinmthy, but about seeding 
time it t^j^dc a dr^))). They were paying 
$2 for barley, but th.-it, too, has taken a 
drop. Wheat has been practically the 
same all Winter, .$2 jier bu. Winter 
wheat in this s«'ction has been quite large¬ 
ly harrowed uji and seeded t^> oats •>r 
barley or some •ither crop. Considerable 
Spring wheat is jdanted, which h)oks 
well. I'^iung clover, oats and barley an* 
looking well, due to the recent rains and 
warm weather, and those W’ho have their 
corn planted can feel happy because it 
has come uj) •pii^'kly, and s^une have been 
over it with cultivator.s. In spite of the 
higher prices of hay and grain, old cows 
and steers sell for no more than several 
years ago. Veal calves bring only I2c, 
alive. .Tune 2 I was offered, for w'heat 
.$2.05, oats 7()c, barley .$1, Timothy bay 
.$15, clover $10. There is iiractically no 
corn or buckwheat being sold by farmers 
now in this section. They (dealers) are 
asking $5 per cwt. for seed buckwheat. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. w. S. L. 
WELL WELL 
Ovm a machine of your own. Cash or easy 
terms. Many styles and sizes for ali purposes. 
Write for Circular 
WILLIAMS BROS.. 432 W. State St., Itbaca, N. Y. 
QAntlUalfa $111, oi" Soarilled Sweet cTo»«r. $18. Sow j'cek 
OeSlAITaila pei-aci e aow. A. BLOOMINGDALE, Seheneclady. N.r. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Pepper, Tomato, Brussels Sprouts, 
Beet. Celery, Egg, Kale, Onion, Parsley, Sweet Potato, 
Rhubarb, Asparagus. Horseradish plants. Also Aster, 
Geranium and oilier flowering plants. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
planting* Pot-jerown 
and runner plants that will bear fruit next summer. Also Rasp- 
berrVi Blackberry* Gooseberry, Currant, Grape plants. 
Fruit Trees, Shrubs for fait planting. Catalogue free. 
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Acnovaaiie ROOTS, HORSERADISH SETS. CABBAGE, 
ASparaSUS beets, onion plants, lettuce. TOMA. 
TOES. EGG PLANTS. PEPPERS and CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. 
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Planted now will produce a full crop 
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714-716 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
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