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C*/»c RURAl. NEW-YORKER 
Crops and Farm News 
At this tinip lof.-il markets are not much 
thoujjht alxuit. Tills Spi-iiiK potatoes. Xo. 
1, were from 00 to 80c; No. 2. much 
clieaiier, and tlien some of the hu.vers 
would take the No. 2 and throw in the 
hin for No. 1. Hay. good; No. ] was 
from .‘jt20 to $40 ]ier ton. <)ats good; 
$1.25 per bn. Huckwheat for seed is ver.v 
high. Milk. 3 jier cent., $l.(i0 this montli, 
4c added for ever.v tenth of a point over, 
('heese. 23c: butter. 45c; veal from .8 to 
•lie. Hay throughout the county is very 
short; about one-fourth crop. Hats ver.v 
good at this time. Weather conditions 
will tell the .story with the corn ; it looks 
fairly good at this time. The potato 
acreage will be short this year on account 
of low price and hel]) being so scarce and 
high; there is 50 jier cent more beans 
raised in this county than five years ago. 
The heav.v frost on .Tune 20 damaged po¬ 
tatoes and beans, in some paits of the 
county to a large extent. A. w. k. 
l‘otter Co., Pa. 
Outlook for future rather blue for Mich¬ 
igan farmers. AVe have had but little rain 
since earl.v Spring, and to wind up with 
had a freeze the night of .Tune 22. which 
completely ruined 50 to 75 jter cent of 
the corn, potatoe.s. beans and garden stuff. 
Hay will not cut over 20 per cent of av¬ 
erage crop. Oats will be no good unless 
we get rain at once. A. A. I-. 
ICent Co.. Mich. 
This is a potato growing section to the 
exclu.sion of nearly everything else ; this 
Spring they sold for $1.50 per cwt. and 
were raised from $.3 per bushel seed 
stored all Winter and fired for six weeks 
through the c(ddest Winter ever remem¬ 
bered. 3'here is a decided decrea.se in the 
acreage i)lanted this year, with a good 
stand and i)romising prospects; some 
damage from frost June 20. flats looking 
fine ; Spring wheat fine; rye fair ; Win¬ 
ter wheat poor. Hay very light, owing 
to late freezes this Spring. Butter, 40c; 
eggs. .34c. A large acreage will be sown 
to buckwheat. M. E. W, 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
'riie leading products in our county 
are pot.atoes, 75c i»er bu. ; h-ay. $20 per 
ton; buckwheat, $3.20 per 1(X) lbs.; but¬ 
ter. 45c; eggs, 30c. The weather condi¬ 
tions are not very favorable. We had a 
heavy frost on .Tune 19. which did con¬ 
siderable damage, to all tender plants. 
Gi'ass looks not very good ; oats, good ; 
corn at a standstill. Our market condi¬ 
tions are none of tbe best. Our best m.ar- 
ket is Benovo. Pa., a distance of 35 
miles. R. M. w. 
Potter Co., Pa. 
Buyers are offering from $10 to $18 for 
No. 1 and 2 bay. I .sold some .seed bar¬ 
ley for .$2.05 ju'r bu.. and oats have been 
as high as $1.10 per bu. Veal calves 
two weeks ago, 14c. live weight, si.x- 
weeks-old pigs. $5 a))iece. Eggs. 32 to 
37c; butter, 40c per lb. 33ie Tthaca 
CondeiisSery is paying $1.80 ])er cwt this 
month for 4 per cent milk. Nearly all 
the wool in this section was bought for 
O.oc per lb. Tt is very hard to find a 
market for beans just now. Some have 
been selling hand-picked beans for $7 ])er 
bu. All the Spring crops ar gener.ally 
good, it having been a very favoi-able sea¬ 
son for oats, barley and corn. New seed- 
ings have a great stand of clover. AA’heat 
is not very good, especially the pieces 
sown late last Fall. The general outlook 
for farmers in this county is good except 
the fruit growers. Cherries are almost a 
total failure, and very few peach trees 
bloomed. Strawberries were winter- 
killed and have been bringing 22c a qt.; 
now 1.5c. Laboring men are, scarce and 
wages high. F. P. A. 
Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
Oats are looking well at this writing 
on a very good acreage', and old oats are 
selling around $1 iter bu. here. A good 
acreage of buckwheat will be sown; $2 
per bu. for seed. Corn and pf'tatoes 
through this section seem to bo a small 
average acreage. Beans and small truck, 
such as onions, peas. etc., ai'o not heavily 
sown here this season. Il.-vy bids fair to 
be a ver.v light crop here ; new seeding is 
fair. Old hay is bringing the farmer $14 
to $20 per ton, pressed and delivered. 
Fruit, such as apples, pears, itlums and 
chei-ries. bids fair to be a good crop 
here. Milk is selling to the plants for 
$1.90 or thereabouts, and milk at the 
cheese factories about $1.95 per cwt.. not 
counting the whey or whey butter, Avhicli 
are of quite a value above the cheese. 
The average crops look well except oats, 
which are below average here. F, w. n. 
Allegheny Co., Pa. 
Aly opinion on conditions after the w.ar 
is that it will be hard for the fai-iucr. 
Farmers are not buying much machinery 
on account of the high price, but are get¬ 
ting along with what they hiive until 
after the war. The manufacturers will 
try to keep their prices high after the 
war. and sell their products at war ]trices. 
Taibor will undoubtedly be high, as few 
of the soldiers will want to work on the 
farm afterwards. Common laborers here 
now ask $3 a day and board, and they 
will want more as soon as harvesting be¬ 
gins. AA'heat that was not dragged up in 
the Spring has failed to develop as ex¬ 
pected. and will be about half a crop. 
Spring wheat, oats and barley that were 
pl.'inted on time ai'e good. Coiai is good 
where good seetl was used, but it has beeu 
set back by the cold weather, but will 
grow fast if the weather warms up. 
Some nice fields of beans, but unless the 
wi'.ather gets wtiiuner soon they will not 
be much of a crop. (Mover hay a heavy 
cri>p. and 3'imothy medium : will cut about 
oni'-half as much tf> the acre as l.'ist .vear. 
3'his is not much of a fruit country and 
the apples did not set very well, so the 
crop will be light. Noiunal acreage of 
buckwheat. Some old hay still held by 
farmers, No, 1 selling at $12 to $14. 
I’lenty of beans held by farmers, there be¬ 
ing no market for them. .r. w. K. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Our main crops are hay, wheat, corn 
and tobacco, which look a little below nor¬ 
mal. Corn looks promising so far. To¬ 
bacco is our money crop. Cattle are fed 
on a large scale. Hay a full croj). l-oo 
much desk advice and labor scarcity. 
AA’heat, .$2.10; corn. $1.00: oats. 90c. 
Milk. May. $2..50 for 3.5 per cent fat; 
butter. 30c at country store; eggs. .34c; 
cows high, from .$80 to $150; cliickens, 
24c per lb. K. s. M. 
Lancaster Co.. Pa. 
Hay. from $12 to $22 a ton. an aver¬ 
age of $15 to $18. Hay that went for 
$22 was clear Timothy, which was i-jiised 
by dairymen who did not want it for 
cows and had too much for their horses, 
selling from 5 to 10 toms. Most of the 
buyers bought hay in the clear, and if 
hay sold for $22 it only brought $19.50 
after taking out tlu' press bill. AA'hen 
dealers come to look at hay. such as feed¬ 
ing ha.v, clover, I'imothy and a few weeds 
mixed,' they call it no grade hay and 
claim this will not sell well in the city, and 
freight rates are so high, with a short¬ 
age of cars, that the.v cajinot pay near the 
cit.v market prices. M'here will be more 
ha.v this year than last, if help can be 
obtained to harvest it, but help is scarce. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. o. k. .s. 
Crops are coming on fairly well. Grass 
and 0 ,‘its are our leading crops, with buck¬ 
wheat and potatoes following. Farmers 
get $25 per ton for hay, $1 per bu. for 
oats. $1 per bu. for jiotatoes. Buck¬ 
wheat. $1.50 per bu. Not much wheat 
raised in this part of the country. Cows 
are milking well. Cheese sold on Cuba 
market for 21 %c. The creamery at I’ort- 
ville is shipping 200 cans of milk daily 
;ind making 25 cheese a day. The out¬ 
look for farm crops is good generally. 
Bmsiness is good-for farmei-s in this part 
of the county. AA'e are generally buying 
Tfiberty bonds. ^ _ N. A. c. 
Cattaraugus Co.. N. Y. 
M'here are no farmi'rs around here who 
are selling an.v gi'ain. I bought one load 
of green corn husking time for 2ViC per 
lb.; now it is bringing enough so shelled 
corn is 5c per lb.; Indian meal. 7c. Oats 
the miller sells for .$2.0.5 to .$2.90 a bag. 
T got 10 bushels from a neighbor to .sow; 
he a.sked the miller the price and was told 
they wei’e $1 iter bu. by carload. I paid 
$1.10. then sowed m.v own, as it was 
better. Outlook for hay. grain, apples, 
Itears and pbims is unusually good, but 
help is so scarce and wages so high farm¬ 
ers cannot utilize their land. Powder 
works take most men left after the draft 
and volunteers, and those left want short 
hours and $2. and often more. _for com¬ 
mon work ; mechanics, .84 and $5. T had 
shown me Ji trick to keep dash churn 
from sp.attering on floor; so simple that 
everyone should know it. Many still use 
them. M<'lt the ends off a pint tin can, 
such as corn or tom.atoes come in. and 
drop it over the dash, and it fits close 
to lid and iirevents its splashing on oil¬ 
cloth or floor and is ea.sy to clean and 
light to handle. W. A. W. 
Morris Co.. N. .T. 
The f.-irmers in this vicinity are setting 
out far more tomato plants than they 
will ever be able to get hel;) for when har- 
ve.sting the crop. Nearly every farm has 
some tomatoes this season, and many 
farms have acres of them. AA'ith the 
shortage and high wages for farm labor, 
and coming at tbe same time that peaches 
are ripe, many thousands of bushels of 
tomatoes may rot in the fields. c. .t. l. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
The main product here is milk, which 
sells for $1.90 to $2 per cwt., while it is 
peddled in the city six miles away iit 12c 
l)er qt. I'otatoes are in good demand 
and are selling at $1 to $1.25 per bu.; 
new Southern potatoes are 70c per i)k. 
llggs are selling at 40c per doz., and but¬ 
ter is .50c per lb. Dressed veal sells at 
20c per lb., and pork is 22 and 23c. whole- 
sile. New se('ding looks good, but old 
meadows are thin; the other crops are 
looking i»oorly just now on account of the 
recent lieavy rains and cold Aveather. 
Help is .scarce and Avages high. AV. n. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
Shippers are paying 50c for potatoes ; 
stores are buying a few at 75c. Oats. 90 
to 95c ix r bu.; veal cahms, 12 to 13c; 
six Aveek.s’ old pigs, $7 each. Eggs, 34c 
per doz. in trade. Wheat $2.10; dairy 
butter, 38 to 40o; buckwheat, $3 per 
CAvt. Hay. No. 1 Timothy, $20; No. 2 
MTinothy, $17.50. Milk, 5c per qt. AAMieat 
is in good condition, with a much larger 
acreage than last year, K. >i. w. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
Country-wide Produce Conditions 
Local supfdies are taking the place of 
Southern truck all through the i)opulous 
Noi'th. Accordingly, the carlot movement 
is a little lighter, although still somewhat 
heaA’ier than at this time last year. It 
is between Northern and Southern sea¬ 
sons. Avith such crops as onions, cabbages 
and potatoes, and ludces of these have 
been gating ui> because sui>iily Avas hardly 
e(|ual to demand. * 
I’OT.ATOES STI!0.\G .A.\l) ACTIVE. 
'file iiotato demand is very active and 
the suppl.v. although still very large, has 
been decreiising the last i)art of .Tune and 
the first part of .Tilly. Old potatoes prac¬ 
tically stojiped coming after ,Tuly 1. and 
the ncAV crop in A’irginia and adjoining 
States is light, and is supplying less than 
half as many potatoes as last year. 
Prices have been tending upAvard. and 
seem likely to keep rather high until the 
siqiply is increased from Northern ship¬ 
ping sections. Best A’irginia Avhite stock 
exceeded $7 per bbl. in some Northern 
markets, and evmn at .shipping points 
came close to that figure at one time. But 
consumers held off someAA-hat at the top, 
and prices receded to .$5 or .$0 per barrel 
in the large cities. Best red stock from 
tlu' SoutliAvest .sold at $2 to $.3 per 100 
lbs. Old potatoes closed the sea.son in a 
fairly creditable manner, at $1..50 to $2 
l»er 100 lbs., mostly about $1.85. 
O.XIOXS niGIIER. 
33ie Texas onion season also is clo.sing 
in fair shape at about .$2 per crate. In 
midse.'isDii a good many Avere sold at 75c 
to $1, Avhich no more than paid for freight 
charges and crate. Califoiuii.a onions are 
noAV filling the markets, also some from 
Kentucky and Ncav .Tersey. It looks as 
if the Northern cro)) Avould be lighter 
(Inin last year in most sections. 
GOOD CAUBAGE V.ALrES. 
Cabbage is coming lightly from the 
.8uuth and Northern early crcqi seems un¬ 
able full.v to suppl.v the markets. Prices 
of .$3 to $4 i)er barrel now argue fairly 
well for the late crop, and there is still 
time to ]»ut in a fcAV more plants of the 
earl.v kinds. 
THE TOMATO OITTI.OOK. 
Tomato markets have been in iioor or¬ 
der oAving to much soft, overidiH' stock, 
and prices ranged all the Avay from .50c to 
$1..50 in leading Avholesale markets. M'he 
earliness of the Southern season Avill tend 
to clear the Avay for Northern tomatoes, 
Avhich are reported likcAvise early. Can- 
iiers in various sections ari' reported offer- 
$15 to $20 per ton. 
MORE FKUIT COMING. 
Sujqily of tree fruits should increase 
rapidly now. Orange-s are going out, but 
ni'AV apples arc uoav being shipped. 
Georgia peaches are still moving very 
heavily at fairly steady prices for the 
larger! later kinds ai'ound $2 per carrier, 
and $3 per bushel in city markets. Sea¬ 
son continues at lea.st a month longer, 
('alifornia iilums and cherries are coming 
liberally, and soon there Avill be a great 
deal of fruit from the Pacific Coast. 
Alelons, both musk and Avater, are selling 
lower on account of increasing supplie.s. 
StraAvberrii'S are about done, but North¬ 
ern Ncy’ A'ork and New England are still 
moving a few cars. G. R. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—TAA-enty miners Avere 
killed .Tune 27 as the result of an explo¬ 
sion of dynamite, set off by a bolt of 
ligbtning during .a heavy storm at the 
Silver Mine of the AT. A. Hanna Com¬ 
pany at A'irginia. Minn. Thousands of 
tons of ore fell in as a result of the ex- 
]»losion. bui-ying the tAventy men. .Several 
others Avere injured seriously. 
Eugene Y. Debs, four times Socialist 
candidate for the l*residency of the United 
States. Avas arre.sted at Cleveland, O., 
June .30. by I’niti'd States Alarshal 
Charles W. Lapp and Dejiuty Alar.shal 
Charh's Boehme as he aagis about to de¬ 
liver a Socialist address. The arrest Avas 
made on a Fi'deral Avarrant in connection 
Avith Debs’ speech at the Sociali.st State 
convention in Canton, O.. .Tune 10 last. 
Demands that six hours hereafter con¬ 
stitute a day’s Avork for ca'cit person in 
Ncav York State, and that the anti-loafing 
laAV be repealed Avere incorporated as 
planks of the Socialist party’s platform 
at the State convention held .Tune .30 in 
Ncav York city. The candidates for State 
oflices nominated by the convention are 
pledged to agitate in their campaign 
sjieeches for a six-hour day. and all of the 
Sociali.st A'oters in the State, appi-oxi- 
matcly 180.000 in number, are to be urged 
to AVork to obtain it. In opposing the 
anti-loafing laAV, Avhich Avent into effect 
.Tilly 1. as a war measure, the party de¬ 
nounced it as threatening “the workers 
Avith industrial conscription for the ben¬ 
efit of the employing class.’’ 
Henry S. Bubenheim. naturalized Ger¬ 
man and president of a truck and tie man¬ 
ufacturing concern at Pittsburg, Pa., Avas 
arrested June 28 by Federal officials. It 
is alleged that Bubi'uheim recently di- 
I’ccted a young inventor of Pittsburg to 
take a ucav style gas bomb to the German 
Consul General in Mexico, and that he 
attempted to contract with the Carbon 
Steel ('omiiany of Pittsburg for the manu¬ 
.Tuly 1.3, 191 
facture of steel trucks used to transport 
artillery, invented by him. The trucks 
Avere to have been .shipped to Germany 
through Mexico. 
Seven persons Avere killed and a score 
injured June 28 at Elmhur.st. Ill., by the 
Avrecking of an Elgin. Aurora and Chicago 
electric limited four-car train. The train 
struck a truck at a grade crossing. 
.Tilly 1 the Ruff Building at Sioux 
City. loAva. collapsed carrying Avith it 
tAA’o smaller buihlings and imprisoning 
many persons. Fire folloAved ; .39 persons 
AA-ere killed and 33 injured. 
Airs. Emma C. Bergdoll. Avealthy AvidoAV 
of a Philadelphia breAA’er, Avas held .Tiily 
1 in .$10,000 bail for a further hearing b.A’ 
a United States Commissioner on a charge 
of aiding her son. Grover ('. IJergdoIl, to 
UA'oid serving in the .National Army. 
Bergdoll. Avho is Avidely knoAvn in auto¬ 
mobile racing circles and is an expert 
aviator, failed to report to his local board 
for physical examination last Summer 
and disappeared. He Avas reported to 
haA'C gone to Alexico. Government agents 
searched the home of his mother several 
days before, and. according to Department 
of .Tiistice officials, found papers that in¬ 
dicated Airs. Bergdoll probably had knoAvn 
the Avhereabouts of her son. 
.Tilly 2 tAA’o terrific explosions at Split 
Rock, a suburb of Syracuse. N. Y.. oc¬ 
curred in the Semet-Soh'a.v factoi’y. AA’here 
3'N3’ is manufactured. The Avliole city 
Avas rocked by the explosion. The first 
li.st of dead Avas put at 10. but the total 
number of c.-isualties is said to be much 
larger, and the property loss is enormous. 
FAR AT AND GARDEN.—The first an¬ 
nual picnic of the .Tersey Cattle Associa¬ 
tion of Ncav .Jersey Avill be held at AV. R. 
Spann’s residence. Burr Oak Jersey Farm, 
Alorristown, N. .T.. on AA’ednesday. .Tul.y 
31. Alany matters of importance Avill be 
taken up, and a good program is being 
arranged. The breeders in NeAA^ .Jersey 
are looking forAA'ard to an interesting and 
enthusiastic meeting. 
AA’.ASHTNGTON.—AATth a minimum of 
di.scussion. the House June 28 passed the 
Fourth Libert.v bond act granting author¬ 
ity for the issuance of .$8.0(X),000 more 
of bonds. Not a single dissenting vote 
Avas east. Representative Kitchin (N. 
C.). chairman of the AA'^ays and Aleans 
Committee, confined his remarks on the 
bill exclusively to an explanation of the 
rejiort which accompanied it from the 
committee. 
Federal appropriation of .$6,0(K),0(X) for 
the construction of a tunnel under the 
Hudson River is .sought in a bill intro¬ 
duced jointly in the Senate and House 
.Tune 28 by Senator Calder of New Yoi'k, 
and Representative Egan of New .Tersey. 
’Phe tunnel is to be utilized for vehicular 
traffic. The bill provides that NeAV York 
and Ncav .Jersey each appi’opriate the 
sum of $.3,000,000 within a period of tAvo 
years to aid in the construction. 
Flour millers who made excess profits 
in the last fiscal year, as charged by tlu' 
Federal Trade Commission in its report 
to the Senate Saturday, must return the 
amount of such profits to the Government 
in the form of milled flour, under regula¬ 
tions made public July 1 by Food Ad¬ 
ministrator Hoover. The Federal Trade 
Commission charged that the millers had 
made a profit of 45 cents a barrel on 
flour despite the Food Administrator’s 
order limiting the difl’erential to 25 cents. 
Tt developed that the commission’s re¬ 
port was anticipated, since the Food Ad¬ 
ministration’s regulations Avere sent out 
on .Tune IJ last. Alillers Avhose profits 
at the clo.se of the fiscal year. June .30, 
Avere in exce.ss of the maximum permit¬ 
ted are required to credit the amount of 
the excess to the Food Administration to 
be liquidafi'd by flour to be sold to the 
Army, Navy. Alarine Corps and the Food 
.4dministration's grain corporation in Ncav 
A^ork at $1. a barrel. 3’he millers’ books 
Avill he balanced as of .Tune .30 and again 
as of .Tilly 1 to sboAv the amount of the 
excess profits. 
Investigation of the action of the rail¬ 
road administration in taking over con¬ 
trol of the so-called AIcAdoo tubes be- 
tAA-een Ncav York, Jersey City and NeAV- 
ark, N. ,1.. Avas jiropost'd .July 2 by Sena¬ 
tor Frelinghuysen of Ncav .Terse.v. in a 
resolution declaring the tunnels do not 
come Avithin the terms of the railroad act. 
Senator Fi-elinghuysen contended that the 
tubes are no iiioi-e railroads than a mu¬ 
nicipal trolley system, and that they are 
not used for the transportation of Avar 
supplies or soldiers, but are dcA'pted al¬ 
most entirely to commutation seiwice be- 
tAveen NeAV York and the two Ncav .Ter.se.v 
cities. Since the control of the tubes Avas 
taken over, he addl'd, rates have been in¬ 
creased, those betAveen Ncav York and 
NeAvark being advanced from 17 to 27 
cents and betAveen Ncav York and .Ter.sey 
(^ity from 5 to 10 cents. The resolution 
Avould authorize the Senate Interstate 
Commerce Committee to conduct hearings 
and subpipua Avitnessi's. It Avas referred 
to the contingent expenses committee. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
July 24—NeAV .Tersey State Ilorticul- 
turral Society Field Meeting, GlasgOAV, 
N. .L 
.Tilly .31—.Tersey Cattle Association of 
NeAV .Tersey, first annual picnic. Burr Oak 
.Tersey Farm, MorristOAvn, N. .T. 
Aug. 20-30—Ohio State P'air, Colum¬ 
bus, (4. 
Oct. 10-19—National Dairy ShoAv, Co¬ 
lumbus, O. 
