C>>cf RURAL N E W-Y O R K E R 
959 
Crops and Farm News 
This is a dairy section in which we 
live. Our milk goes to the Swiss factory. 
$2 per hundred for June and July. The 
pastures in this section are good. The 
hay crop is of good quality ; old meadows 
are 25 per cent less than last year: new 
meadows are 100 per cent; grain 85 per 
cent. Early sowed corn in fair condition, 
late poor. Beans came rather thin. Pota¬ 
toes are looking good. Potato bugs and 
haying is what we have to contend with 
now. Old potatoes are worth $1 per bu. 
at house, about all disposed of. There 
are quite a few beans in the farmers' 
hands yet; unable to sell them. Farm 
help very .scarce, unable to hire a man. 
IVe have 107 acres. Milk 10 cows, the 
woman and me. So far we have _ left 
nothing undone, but during haying it is 
hard for one man to get up at live o’clock, 
work till nine P. ^ M. Thank you for 
the stand you took in regard to the school 
law'. _ s. II. 
Wyoming Co., N. Y. 
I 
There is not very much moving, as 
potatoes are our main crop, and they are 
rather green as yet. However, a few 
Gobblers are moving; prices range from 
$.2..50 to $5 per bbl. for No. 1; ^1.50_ to 
,$2.50 for No. 2. Raspberries are selling 
in the Freehold market for ,$0 to $7 per 
crate. I understand that the pressers 
are paying .$15 per ton for rye, un- 
tlirashed. Grain crops were very good ; 
acreage about normal. Hay usually good, 
acreage normal. I’eaches are almost an 
entire failure. Apples about 75 per cent 
of a crop. I’otato acreage about normal; 
the continued dry weather is hurting 
them now, and if it does not rain soon the 
damage will be considiwablc. ,Tust now 
the farmers are up in arms about the 
grading situation. In a great many places 
the dealers absolutely refuse to_ do it, and 
the farmers, ow'ing to the scarcity of help, 
do not see how they can do it. w. R. 
IMonmouth Co., N. ,T. 
Most crop prospects in this part of the 
State are excellent. Oats abo’ut all 
headed out and wheat about ready to 
turn. Second cutting Alfalfa coming on 
in good shape, while some of the first is 
still uncut because of showers and scarcity 
of help. , w. c. T. 
Montgomery Co., Kan. 
Potatoes and beans are about the only 
crops to be sold from the farm in this 
county. We get 75c for potatoes, and 
have 75 bu. of marrow beans and no mar¬ 
ket for them. Butter, 42c per lb.: eggs, 
.‘’.5c. Pork is 10c lb., and veal 14c. Al¬ 
falfa is very good, and is ready for first 
cutting. Wheat is very poor, and many 
have plowed it np. Oats' and hay are 
fairly good, but nothing extra. We need 
rain’very badly; have _ not had a good, 
soaking rain this Spring. Apple trees 
are loaded with fruit, but on some of the 
l iter trees they have set and fallen off. 
T’eaches are nothing extra this year. 
There was a very large crop last year. 
Invingston Co., N. Y. A. h. tv. 
Hay. $12 to $15. Yeal calves, at sta¬ 
tion, ‘l,5c per lb.; hogs, 14c. Eggs, 40c. 
Dairy butter, ,35c. Farm crops are look¬ 
ing good, except corn. Hay good, but 
fighter than last year. Pastures fine. 
Nearly all hay cut up to present badly 
damaged by rain. R- J- S- 
Essex Co.„ N. Y. 
totally cut to pieces, but the sun is shin¬ 
ing today and we still have the land, and 
.strong faith in the future. We are not 
down and out by a long shot. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. ii. E. cox. 
Eggs are bringing 40(’ here. 42c in 
some nearby places. Butter, 40 to 45c. 
Live calves. 14c. Old potatoes. $1 bu. 
No oats for sale; no hay being sold just 
now. .Seed buckwheat. $2 to $2.50. 
Fowls, 24 to 25c, live weight. No mar¬ 
ket for milk since April 15. The oat 
crop here is looking good. Old meadows 
light; new seeding good. Buckwheat 
starting well. I think about the average 
acreage sown. Corn doing poorly; po¬ 
tatoes looking good; an average amount 
planted around here. There is usually a 
good sale for potatoes here in this farm¬ 
ing country, as many do not raise enough 
for their own use. Some plant a few 
beans now, as the price is high. Our hay 
and milk market is in poor shape this sea¬ 
son. D. M. c. 
Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
. Old hay is bringing $2,5 per ton ; corn, 
$1.80 per bu. There are 100 tons or more 
of old rye straw around here that the 
farmers have not been able to move ; price 
offered, $10 per ton ; cannot get cars to 
ship. Potatoes bringing $2 per bu. Clover 
hay a large crop; Timothy light and 
weedy. Rye a good crop; wheat crop 
fair.. Corn looks bad; too cold and wet; 
early weeds got the start, and there are 
very few good fields of corn ; lots of poor 
stands. I\Iost farmers have grain stacked, 
but have more hay to cut. ir. R. 
Somerset Co., N. .1. 
Late plantings of corn do not look very 
promising. Corn which was planted be- 
Kn’e the rainy period has a good color, 
but has grown slowly. Wheat and rye 
promise very good yields, and oats appear 
unusually good in this section. The hay 
crop was fair, with quite some still to be 
cut. I’otatoes look very promising. Cows, 
$75 to $150; eggs. 50 to 5,5c. Good horses, 
,$200 to ,$.‘100. C. H. f. 
Mercer Co.. N. J. 
Did potatoes, .50c jier bu.; no new ones 
on market. Oats, 95c; eggs, 40c; pork, 
dressed. 2:>c per lb.; beef, by side, IGc; 
fowls, live, 29c; broilers, live. o7c; but¬ 
ter, 48c. Milk, per cwt., at cheese fac¬ 
tory, with whey back, for first half of 
.June, $2.11. Spring grains are looking 
good. Corn is very backward; i>otntoes 
are good. Hay crop only about 75 per 
cent of last year. R. II. w. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
We receive at retail for butter 50c; 
eggs, 4Sc; dressed old fowls, 40c lb.; 
live, old, 32c. Apples, new, about $1 
per pk. ; beef, dressed. 15c lb.; pigs. 8 to 
10 weeks old, $15 to $18 per pair. Small 
horses not much in demand and price 
anything you can get foi' them. Large 
horses go from $175 up. Crops generally 
are looking fine; hay and wheat harvest 
are in full swing, with prospects of aver¬ 
age crop. Apples a fair crop ; some peach¬ 
es and plums; cherries almost a failure. 
We pay for feed : Corn, shelled, $2 per 
bu.; oats, 9,5c jter bu.; corn,^ oats and 
barley chop, $.3.25 per cwt. IVheat mid¬ 
dlings and bran cannot be got at present. 
Beaver Co., Pa. R. n. E. 
Speeds UpWorkAtHarvestTime 
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John Schoepf & 
Sons, Seward, Ne¬ 
braska. write: 
“We plowed 42 
acres with 60 gal¬ 
lons kerosene in 5 
days; we shelled 
10 loads corn in 
2h hours; we 
threshed 16 loads 
clover and alfalfa 
in 4i hours with a 
No. 6 huller, the 
largestin this sec¬ 
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as powerful and as 
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One man can harvest 25 acres per day with the 
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of 16 loads clover in 4^ hours. 
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The Waterloo Boy motor has pulled a 25-H, P. 
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eight months showed average kerosene consump¬ 
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14" bottoms in heavy soil, with ample reserve power. 
Light weight, large, wide wheels, with powerful 
quick-starting motor and easy control enable the 
Waterloo Boy to do good work ‘'where heavier trac¬ 
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[^\Slniplex Farm Ditcher Co., Inc. 
Box Owensboro, IQr, 
Light Weight All-Purpose Cushman Motor 
Saves a Team on Potato Digger 
Butter. 3Sc to 40e per lb._; fapiers 
]' iving regular customers receive 42c to 
45o. Butter fat, 48c per lb. at Broad- 
r'biu creamery. Eggs. 42c. 5'eal, 21c 
1 'r lb., hog-dressed. New milch cows, 
.$70 to .$90 each. Wool. Goverument 
] rices. No lambs sold yet. Fowls, 2,5c 
to 28c per lb. Old potatoes, 50c to (iOc 
pf-r bu. This is quite a timber country 
and lumber and pulp wood is high. Hem¬ 
lock, peeled and cut into foiir-foot lengths, 
brings $10.50 per cord, delivered at river 
l ank. Spruce,' higher still. Crops are 
biickward and help is hard to get. 5Ve bad 
a bad frost in June, injuring gardens, 
corn, beans and iiotatoes. Hay will be 
rather light, although it is growing well 
now. ^ C. F. 
Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
Milk is bringing $1.87 per hundred; 
cheese, 22%c; butter, 45e; eggs, 38c. Po¬ 
tatoes, .50c to G5c. Cows, from $75 to 
8100. Hay, $18 to $20 per ton. Pota¬ 
toes are looking good, but grain and 
corn are very backward. A light crop 
of hay. Farmers paying $5 a day for 
iielp in haying. T. N. E. 
Lewis Co., N. Y. 
Hav, first grade, $14; potatoes, bu., 
75c; ‘milk, 3 per cent, $2.30; eggs, 45c; 
butter, 50c. Hay is very light. Cab¬ 
bage, potatoes, oats and corn are good. 
The leading products are milk, potatoes 
and cabbage. F. T. 
Madison Co., N. Y. 
July 3 we had one of the heaviest hail- 
5.'onus covering a narrow stretch of ter- 
l itory through our township that I have 
ever witnessed. On a neighbor’s farm in 
places the hail lay in drifts over a foot 
in depth, being partly covered with de¬ 
bris. Where the storm struck the heaviest 
untold damage has been done to all crops 
and gardens. I saw one field of rye that 
w as quite completely cut down, and much 
^vheat was thrashed from the earlier rip- 
eaing heads. Many fields of beaus almost 
Old potatoe.s, from 85c to 90c per bu. 
Wheat. $2.10; oats, $1; corn, .$2. Hay, 
.$.30; straw, .$18 to .$20. Butter, 50c'; 
milk. Sc per qt.; eggs, 35c to 40c. Chick¬ 
ens. 2.5c per lb. J. K. 
Behuylkill Co., I’a. 
Eggs, 32c; butter, 45c; veal calve.s, 16c 
per lb.; hogs, 15c; cheese, 24c. _ Our bay 
crop is good in this place. Grain is look¬ 
ing good here. Potatoes are good; we are 
looking for a big crop. M. R. 
.Teffersou Co., N. Y. 
Wheat in this section has improved 
much in the last few weeks; will make 
about 75 per cent normal crop; meadows 
about the same. They need rain. Oats 
are looking good ; corn, poor stand. Garden 
truck doing well, an abundance of small 
fruit. No cherries nor peaches; a nor¬ 
mal apple crop. Pastures are short for 
time of year. No farm improvement be¬ 
ing done. Home market: Wheat, $1.05; 
oats, 65c; corn, $1.15; rye, $2; barley, 
$1. Hay—Timothy, $18; clover, $16 : 
Potatoes, 40c; eggs, 30c butter, 40c. Live 
poultry, 22c. Bran, $34 per ton; mid¬ 
dlings, $40; chop feed, $02; cornmeal, 
$6.20. Wool, 62c per lb. Hogs, per cwt., 
.$14.50; beef cattle, $10; veal, $12. No 
horses nor milch cows changing hands 
now. The acreage in oats and corn has 
been much increased over last year. 
DeKalb Co., Ind. a. s. c. 
I live in the northern i)art of Oneida 
County ; dairying is the chief occupation 
here. Butter sells at 45c; milk, League 
price. Potatoes are getting scarce at 65c 
per bu. Veal calves. 15c live weight. 
Eggs, 38c. Cows are shrinking more than 
usual for this time of year, though pas¬ 
tures seem good. Hay is about two-thirds 
crop. Oats and potatoes are looking good. 
Corn very poor. Help is scarce and we 
pay from $2.50 to $3 per day. We do not 
think much of the daylight saving plan in 
this section. T. u. K. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
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