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Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 0, 101^ 
This is a 750-pound latest style 
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96 bushels of wheat would have been needed 
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55 bushels of wheat will buy it now. 
139 bushels of corn would have been needed 
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The principal occupation in this locality 
is dairying. We are .sending our milk to 
the Merrell-Boule Company at I.ittle Val¬ 
ley. getting .$1.04 per cwt. for three per 
cent milk, with 4e extra for every one- 
tenth per cent over three per cent. This 
is for the month of .Tune, a decrease of 
about 72c from the previous month, al¬ 
though butter, which is 50 to .52c per lb., 
and cheese oOc per lb., did not diminish 
in price at all, something I fail to under¬ 
stand. A^'e are told there is a surplus of 
dairy products throughout the country. 
Very few farmers have found the price of 
milk sufficient to p the cost of feed. The 
price of cattle feed is approximately $00 
per ton. Hay is selling from $15 to $1S 
per ton. Cows (milch) sell from $75 to 
$100. Veal (live), 12c per lb. Poultry, 
20 to 22c per lb. Potatoes, GOc per bu. 
Pork (dressed), 30c; pigs, four weeks 
old. sell for $8 apiece; eggs, 3Se. The 
outlook is good for all crops at present; 
about everything being all planted or 
sown except the buckwheat. Haying is 
coming early and with fairly good tonnage 
per acre. Labor is scarce and some are 
offering .$3 per day. As to the outlook 
in general, this being, as I have said, a 
dairy section, the farmers must have more 
for their milk, or there will be a larger 
decrease than any previous year in dairy 
products. Something is wrong when the 
man in the city is paying 12 to 14c a 
quart for milk and the farmer gets 4c, 
or perhaps 5e a quart. E. c. B. 
Salamanca, N. Y. 
^lilk brings about $1.00 per 100 lbs. at 
cheese factory. Potatoes. .*500 to $1; hay, 
$12 to $14 per ton in the barn. These 
are the main crops in this country. Put¬ 
ter, 4.5c lb.; eggs, 3.3e doz.; veal calves. 
12e lb., live weight; pork. 15c. live weight; 
good grade cows are worth $100. Acreage 
of jiotatoes not over 50 per cent of last 
year. The farmers in this section have 
planted more corn than usual. There is 
quite an acreage of Spring wheat, which 
is uncommon for this section, and it is 
looking very good. The general outlook 
for crops in this section at present is very 
good; we appear to be about two wrecks 
ahead of what we usually are, w. B. S. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
Local Yankee cheese factory netted 
patrons week ending May 28, $l‘.SSi^ per 
cwt. for^ milk; station price for May, 
.$2.00. Kggs, 35c. Season lute; acres of 
oats ground sown forepart of .Tune, 
partly due to wet weather, jiartly to lack 
of help. Fall plowing is advisable in this 
section. Majority of farmers were unable 
to finish until this Spring. State road 
men paying $3.25 to .$3..50 per 10 hours 
for men and .$0..50 to $7 for teams. Far¬ 
mers are unable to Compete. Outlook for 
hay is good. Corn planted about as 
usual, but weather has not been favor- 
aWe. A.E. ir. 
.Teffersou Co., N. Y. 
In this part of the county the staple 
products are hay, milk and potatoes, with 
considerable live stock and pulp out by 
farmers on their own land. The season is 
very bad and the outlook gloomy in the 
extreme. I have just finished going over 
m,v corn and bean field, replanting beans 
where the corn and first beaus missetl; 
about half the corn missed and died after 
coming up. Milk is not sold; it is 
skimmed and the factory gathers the 
cream, makes the butter and markets it 
for the farmers at so much a pound ; 4c, 
I think, is charged now; formei’lv it was 
oc. Butter at the factory is 45c: potatoes 
sold last week for $1.10 per 100 lbs.; a 
short time before they sold for 00c jier 
cwt. I sold some hay at $12 and ,$14 a 
ton. I have heard of some offered for $S 
a ton lately ; straw sells for half the price 
of hay. generally. Pigs, four weeks old, 
$5 to $7 each; eggs. 30c, store pay. Store 
pork, 32 to 35c per lb.; chickens, no mar¬ 
ket; stove wood. $3 a cord. Calves, live 
weighty 12 to 13e; cows. $50 to $100. I 
paid $7.5 each for two yearling purebred 
Ayrshires; $100 for one coming two in 
•Tanuar.v. and $100 for a grade freshen- 
in.g in May. A moderately fat cows sells 
for $50 for beef. There is a great deal 
les.s demand for cattle. I asked ,$175 for 
a fine coming three-year-old colt, but no 
sale; no market for horses; at an auc¬ 
tion sale young trotting stock with 
records under three minutes sold for $150 
to $180. Seed oats werp $1.35 a bushel; 
sheep are very scarce. I saw two herds, 
one of them containing five or six, in a 
20-mile drive. Beans are a drug; no de¬ 
mand. I paid at the rate of $300 a ton 
for some 20-gauge galvanized sheets with 
nothing done on them ; $2.50 for a gross 
of 1%-ineh No. 10 brass screws, $2.50 
for a common roll of tar paper. 7c a 
pound 'or wire nails and staples; gal¬ 
vanized roofing cannot be bought any¬ 
where. I paid S^c a pound for for corn- 
meal and $1 a gallon for corn sirup. I 
asked the jn'ice of a land roller; it was $40 
and the price was fixed for next year at 
$4.5. Hay looks like a 00 per cent crop 
this year; oats poor and backward. Driv¬ 
ing through familiar country and listen¬ 
ing to the statements of the bushels of 
potatoes planted, I think more acres are 
planted than last year. Planting is bare¬ 
ly finished by June 10. Last year’s high 
price of potatoes brought man.v back to 
the land who are now sick of it. On all 
sides farm buildings are going to ruin 
for want of repair ; roofs and painting in 
p.articular are wanted. I saw in a 20-' 
mile drive only one building newly painted 
nicely ; even the picket fence Avas angelic 
white, and the well-kept surroundings 
were a midday dream. This was a pros¬ 
perous farmer? No, he is a middleman, 
whose customers are farmers almost cx- 
clu.sively. The fields are tilled by oid 
men, children and women, and some farms 
are let on shares and some are shutting 
down. All the crop I sold for the season 
of 1917 did not pay for the labor I hired, 
throwing my own labor in and the land 
and equipment. n i> b 
Clinton Co., N. Y. 
_ We get for milk New York prices; this 
IS mostly a dairy section. Potatoes. 05 
to 85e bu.; eggs. 35 to .3Sc. I’eal calves. 
12 to 13c; more veal calves this year than 
in many years. Beef is as high ‘or higher 
than veal. No grain sold. Fann crops 
are late, owing to wet weather; msual 
amount put in. Sonte said they were not 
going to plant as many potatoes as last 
year. It looks to me as if there would 
as many; not half planted yet. Cold 
weather is holding the corn back; some 
have not planted yet. Mostly silage corn 
r.aised. Pastures good; CA-erything ahead 
of last year. Farmers hardly knoAV Avhat 
to do AA’ith their avooI. The business out¬ 
look ma.v be affected by the GoA'erniuent 
regulations. Everyone is uncertain. 
Broome Co., N. Y. k. f. aa'. 
Milk, $2..59 per 100; hay, .$20 ton : po¬ 
tatoes, oOc per bu., some selling for 00c; 
beans, no market, only as taken to citv • 
eggs, home market. 33e, mixed eggs. No 
use stating aa'ooI prices; some people avIio 
have paid high prices for sheep feel rather 
.sole about the price they are getting. 
Schuyler, N. Y. p. j^. g. 
Milk brings League prices. .Alilk is the 
main product around here, (rood coaa*s 
bring from $100 to $125. and occasionallv 
a fcAV choice ones go above that. Cheaiie'r 
coAA's go as to value. Veal calves. 13c: 
poultry 2.5c. We get about 40c per doz. 
for eggs in New York. Plenty of old hav 
also of potatoes, Avith not n uch call ^r 
either. This is the best Spring for crops 
we hiive had hi some time. Cra.ss is look- 
fine. It is a little wet foi* some pieces 
of corn, but on an average everything is 
in fine shape this year. a. h. si 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Cows froni $.50 to $100; pigs, $0 to $7. 
.nine milk, $l.,Sa i>er cwt.; butter. 44c- 
eggs, Sac: potatoes, old, $1 per bu There 
are a good many potatoes planted, and 
they are looking well. Corn looks to be 
a tailiire; the Aveather is .so cold. There 
was frastm places .Tune 16. There is no 
small fruit here; pears, plums, quinces 
aiid many apple trees are dead, frozen ]a.st 
\\ inter, it was so severe. Hay crop jiot 
veiT promising; very short; frozen out. 
DelaAvare Co., N. Y. a. .s. 
Cheese. 21^,c: eggs. .3Sc; butter. 40c; 
milk, per 100 lbs.,.$2.01 for .Time: pota¬ 
toes. per bu.. 80c; hay. $12 to $15 per 
ton. (Trass or hay very good; oats, bar- 
ley. corn and potatoes, good. R. AV. E. 
Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
The Future of a Dairy Country 
The more I thin.k%bout it the more do 
I realize there is going to bo a very 
great change in our working conditions 
and everything around us. ■ I think today 
the farm is the safest place for a mail 
who wants to be sure of Avork. The Avorld 
has got to be fed, and the food has to come 
tioin the farm. AVhen the war ends mil¬ 
lions of men and women will be thrown 
out of work on account of the munitions 
tactones closing up. and the close-uj) mav 
be very sudden. Then, also, thousands of 
soldiers Avill be going back to civilian life. 
IIOAV long AA'ill it take to readjust condi- 
tions, and can it be done without hard- 
ship and hard times? I do not think it 
wise for farmers to change their liue of 
farming, such as selling all their cows 
and buying sheep, as some have done. I 
do think that the O.CKX)-- ixiuud coav aatII 
have to go to the block in the future, and 
the standard raised to 8,000 pounds, or 
over pounds of milk per voar 
The prospect is bright for the mau'Avho 
OAviis high-jirodueing stock. lu this sec¬ 
tion the hill lauds Avill ahvavs remain a 
dairy country, aud I am pretty sure that 
we Avill have to iise more lime and groAv 
legumes. Avhich Avill balance up the sihige 
and make us more independent of mill 
feeds. The condensed milk people seem 
to be confident of their future: they are 
building ncAv plants aud extending 'terri¬ 
tory, and I AA’ould not be surprised if 
more milk Avould pass through their luinds 
on the way to the consumer; that tliere 
will be larger consuniptiou of the con¬ 
densed milk in preference to fresh milk. 
Taking things as a AA'^hole, I do not look 
for any great change in our methods, but 
Ave haA'e to be more efficient, and avc have 
to be organized. Effieienc.v is the Avatch- 
Avord the country over today, and so must 
be oil our dairy farms. Organization Ave 
must luiA'c. .so that aa-c can speak ns a 
Avhole. and iu this Avay secure a price for 
our products Avhieh will he fair and just. 
J W. TUCKEB. 
Chautauqua Co., N, Y. 
