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CAe RURAL NEW-VORKER 
_Milk. per 1(K> Ihs., ; huttcrfat, 
4~»c; fhcosi*. «!ggs, ‘{5c; niMi>le 
sugar, 20 t<) 25c per Ib.; maple syrup, 
$1.50 to .$2 jier gal. liens, alive, 25 to 
2Kc. (lows, fat. about $00; bob veal. $5; 
I)ork, heavy. 10c per lb.; light, 20(; j)er 
lb.; veal, alive, l.'lc; potatoes, bu., 50 to 
Otk-. We have had very cold wet weather 
this Spring, so that a good many crops 
are being put in very late, especi.nlly on 
low land. On an average, I think grass 
and crops generally are looking fairly 
well. c. C. L. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
I'lie main product here is milk, which 
is taken to the local creamery. For May 
we got 40%c for butterfat. Speculators 
buy most of the calves ; they are paying 
15c per lb., live weight, at i)resent. Eggs, 
.‘{Oc. We closed most of our old potatoes 
out at ,$1 per bu. Oats look well; corn, 
poor stand and yellow; too much wet. A 
large acreage of buckwheat is being sown. 
Hay is the lightest in years. C. I). S. 
Albany Go., N. Y. 
This is a dairy section; principal crops 
sold are hay, ijotatoes and beans. A few 
farmers raise sheep; .3 per cent milk is 
.$1.71 per 100 lbs. Hay, about $20 per 
ton. Potatoes. 75c to $1 per bu.; not 
many left. Peans, .$7 per bu. Eggs at 
local stores, .‘{Oc. Fowls, 25c per lb., 
live. Very few chicks raised this year. 
Many are closing out their fowls owing 
to high price and scarclt.y of feed. Cows, 
gi-ade, .$75 to .$125 each. Good heavy 
horses, .$200 to .$250: Hay looks poor, 
about one-half crop; clover winter-killed 
badly. Normal acreage of oats that look 
good. Corn is very backward, some not 
I)laiited yet. The main i)art of crop is 
not out of the ground. Many farmei’S 
have from one to two acres Spring wheat; 
looks fair; normal acreage of beans and 
potatoes i)lant(>d. Very cold and wet dur¬ 
ing .Tune. P’rost has injured some beans 
and garden truck. Help very .scarce. 
Tbiless corn improves rajudly there will 
be much live stock sold this Fall owing 
to .scarcity of fodder. 1». 
.Tefferson Co., N. Y. 
Dairying is our main occupation. ^lost 
of the milk in this vicinity is taken to 
cheese factories. Milk nets about .$2 
per cwt. at present. Cheese is selling 
5>r 22%c per lb.; butter, 45c per lb.; 
eggs, 40c per doz. ; wool, CHc per lb.; hay, 
$20 per ton ; beef, dressed, IGc i)er lb.; 
I»ork. dressed. 22^* per lb. Potatoes are 
mostly all sold ; the main price is .50c per 
bu. Cows, from .$70 to $1(M) each. Oats 
and Spring wheat are looking fairly gotyl ; 
hay will be a light crop; corn is looking 
pretty .small for time of the season. P^arm 
help is scarce and high. Ii. G. n. 
St. Lawrence Vg)., N. Y. 
Dairying is the piincii)al business; most 
of the milk go(*.s to stations and we receive 
League price, $1.00 per cw't. Eggs. 34c; 
butter, 44c: potatoes, 0.5c per 00 lbs. 
t'eals, 1.3c, live. Cows sell fivun $50 to 
$75 each. Cats, $1 bu.; buckwheat, $2 
bu. ‘riiere is no market for ha.v now. 
Hay crop looks very bad ; weather too dry 
and cold. Spring grain is looking fairly 
good, and a large acreage sown ; every 
farmer is doing the very be.st he i-an. 
and mast of them are short of help'. 
3'bere has been a large acreage of beaiis 
planted in this section, and the crop is 
looking very good now. A. J. M. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
3’his is a general dairying section, with 
very poor accommodations for milk, as 
the' station is owned by the Standard 
Dairy Company and League members 
•seem to get a poor show. I have only 
been drawing since the muklle of ^lay. 
as they claim a surplus of milk, but liave 
taken in non-Tjcague members this Spring 
after the League memlau’s had been re¬ 
fused. However, I am drawing through 
permission of the clu'cse-maker with the 
understanding to .stop any time the com- 
l)an.v orders: milk. .$1.S{) per 100 lbs. for 
.3 per cent. 3'he wet weather has greatly 
hindered Spring work. Corn rotting; 
has to be replanted, and seed .$4 to .$0 a 
l)ushel. The frost the juist week has dam- 
agcHl i)ot.atoes and beams and garden stiiff. 
Hay not half a crop. Pork. $20 to $2.3 
per 100 lbs.; veal, $12 to $15; deacons, 
.$.5 to .$7; bulls, on foot, .$8 to .$10 per 
cwt.; pigs, four weeks old, $7 to $8 
each. Chicks. 18 to 2.5c per lb. Potatoes, 
50 to 80c per bu. Butter, 45 to 50c; 
eggs. .30 to .3.5c. M. D. 
.Tefferson Co., N. Y. 
‘riie Spring opened earl.v in Central 
IMaine. Conditions were favorable for all 
farm operations. About the same acreage 
was planted as last year. Wheat and 
sw«*et corn were increased ; other crops 
about the same, except potatoes, which 
are decreased 40 per cent or 7nore. .Tune 
has been very cold, with killing fi'osts on 
low land on the mornings of the 20rh .and 
21st. While there i.s consideT’able damage 
done, yet I think the situation is not seri¬ 
ous on the whole; high land escaiied and 
beans on low land can be replantc'd ; corn 
and potatoes will only be put back, I 
think. The recent rains have helped the 
glass and a good hay crop is assured, 
I»erhap.s as heavy as last year. Pastures 
are good. Milk and cream are sold to 
the creameries. D. Whiting & Son paid 
.50<‘ per lb for butterfat and $1.20 per 
cwt. for the skim-milk last month. I 
think the other cfunpanies paid about the 
same. E.arly time lurt a success, getting 
up so early keeps both men and horses 
tirfKl and the best hours of the day are 
lost entirely. Efliciency of crews at work 
on road reduccxi 25 per cent. Still, new 
time is popular with most hired men, as 
it gives them a long evening for a good 
time. We are situated on a brancdi of the 
Maine Central Ilailroad. All service 
seems to be run on “any old time,” trains 
anywhere from on time to two hours late. 
However, people make no complaint, real¬ 
izing that it is only one of the incidents 
due to the war, and will be cheerfully 
borne if it helps win the victory. 
Waldo Co., Me. ii. w. n. 
Local merchants are selling chicken 
feed at $4.50 per cwt., ground horse feed, 
$.3.50 per cwt, with nothing in sight to 
indicate low’er prices. Milch cows, $00 
to $150, tw'o choice ones near here bring¬ 
ing the latter price. Horses from $50 
up to .$2(X), according to quality. Corn 
l»lanting has been in progress here since 
first of May, with most of it planted and 
up. The stand will average bad on ac¬ 
count of inferior seed being used. The 
acreage of corn planted is about normal. 
The present outlook for wheat is excep¬ 
tionally good, with more than an average 
acreage. liye and oats, average acreage. 
and looking fine. Vegetable gardens ev¬ 
erywhere and looking well. No fruit in 
farmer.s’ orchards to amount to anything 
except apples, which are about one-half 
crop. People are buying their flour at 
price set by the Government, but the sub¬ 
stitutes they are compelled to buy with 
flour are costing' them excessive prices. 
AVhen taken into consideration with their 
sales as farm pro<luct sthey bring their 
accustomed .35-cent dollar. This is no 
dairy district. Farmers are fairly well 
stocked with hogs and cattle, but only 
scattering flocks of sheep left on account 
of depredations of worthless curs. Con¬ 
sidering the shortage of farm labor, the 
jtresent prospect for all farm crops is 
fairly good, and farmers here are putting 
in their regular eight-hour day. That is, 
eight hours in the forenoon and eight 
hours in the afternoon. w. n. B. 
Lawrence Co., Ind. 
The leading products here are potatoes, 
hay, butter, maple sugar and sirup and 
honey. It has boon a hard Winter on 
fruit trees, but it looks like a good apple 
year. This is a great country for wild 
berries, blackberries and huckleberries. I 
have not done as much this year as I in¬ 
tended to, as I expected to be called soon 
for service. It is going to be hard for 
farniers to get help for haying and har¬ 
vesting. Help scarce. The leaves are 
drying up and falling off the trees. It 
was good deer hunting last Fall, and it is 
good for us Fall deer is getting so plenty, 
as feed is getting better out in the second 
growth. Eggs, 38c; butter, 45c; maple 
July i:i, 1918 
sugar, 20c per lb.; sirup, $1 to $1.75 per 
gal.; old potatoes, $1 per bu. Grass looks 
sood. A. c. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
Buckwheat, $4; potatoes, $1; seed coim, 
$4.60; feed, $3.25; hay, baled, $25; un¬ 
baled, $10; pigs, $7; horses, $175 to 
$200; cows, milch, $75 to $100. Oats, 
$1.20 bu.; hens, per lb., 35c; rye, per bu., 
$4; eggs, per doz., 35c; milk, farmer gets, 
5%; veal, per lb., 10c. Wages on the 
farm for hired help, $2.50 per day and 
board. Corn planted; good corn weather. 
Oats about all up. Potatoes planted; 
some coming up. Grass coming, but slow; 
pastures are backward. n. o. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Butter, 32%c per lb.; cheese, 21 %c; 
eggs, 32c. Dressed pork, 2.3c per lb.; 
hens, alive, 22c per lb. The price of live 
stock is very high owing to the high co.st 
of securing hired help on our farms, and 
farmers are in hard conditions. G. A. S. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
In this section there is very little farm 
produce sold at present except milk and 
hay. Farmers are getting for milk $1.03 
per can for this month. Hay is bringing 
.$20 for No. 2. No grain being sold, about 
everyone buying for feed, corn and oats 
Very poor last sea.son. Old meadow's are 
? oor. New seeding looking very good. 
i’^heat looking good, but very little sown 
here. Early sown oats look very prom¬ 
ising. Veal, 22c. hog-dres,sed. ii. A. ii. 
Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
A business 
that is as big as its job 
K EKPING a nation of over 100 
million people regularly sup¬ 
plied with meat and meat products 
is a big and complex job. 
And a still bigger job when to it 
is added the needs of the American 
soldier here and in Europe and of 
the Allies as well. 
It is a job of converting the live 
stock of the West into meat and 
meat products and distributing 
them in perfect condition over long 
distances to the consuming centers 
—the North, South, East, West 
and abroad. 
A job of supplying with unfail¬ 
ing regularity products that in 
the main are perishable, in the 
exact qualities and quantities need¬ 
ed, to the smallest out-of-the-way 
village as well as to complex and 
congested metropolitan centers. 
Only organizations like that of 
Swift & Company, with its highly- 
specialized methods of meat-dress¬ 
ing, its hundreds of branch- 
distributing houses, and its thou¬ 
sands of refrigerator cars, could 
have handled such a job efficiently 
and at a minimum of expense in 
the present war emergency. 
Today American meat and meat 
products are the recognized stand¬ 
ard of the world. 
And the economy with which 
these products are produced is in¬ 
dicated by the fact that today the 
meat of a steer, dressed, is sold 
for less than the cost of the 
steer on the hoof! The proceeds 
of by - products, made out of 
what once was waste, have made 
this possible. 
The size of the job has dictated 
the size of America’s packing in¬ 
dustry. And America’s packing 
industry has proved itself to be 
equal to its job. 
Swift & Company, U. S. A 
A nation-wide organization with more than 20,000 stockholders 
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