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A agust 17, 1918 
LIVE STOCK NOTES 
T’ntil July 15 avo receh'ed for o.C 
milk 5%c per qt. from the Abbott Milk 
Co. I'liiladelphia. 1 think there is to 
he a change in the price for the last 
half of this month. This county pro¬ 
duces more milk than any other in this 
end of the State. It is now extremely 
dry, pastures are about driod up, mil 
with about 75 per cent < the us\ial 
number of cows on hand there will he 
material decrease of the amount. 
Wheat was a good cTop, yield ahoA-e the 
average year, .selling for .$2.15 per hu. 
Hay, about an ai'erage crop, AA'orth .$25 
per ton. I*otatoe.s, about ready to dig. 
badly hurt by the drought, Avill have 
about .'lO per cent of an average crop. 
Com is fair, but Avill be a failure unless 
rain comes soon. Tomatoes, the largest 
truck crop in this county, look good 
and there is about 1.50 per cent of the 
average acreage. The first shipment 
of can-house tomatoes for this season 
to Baltimore AA'as .sent last AA'cek and 
sold for 70c per %-basket. The fii\st 
a year ago brought 30c. These are 
second earlies, the main crop of can- 
house tomatoes Avill not be ready to 
pick for a month or six AA’eek.s. About 
75 per cent of the crop is contracted 
for by the local cannerie.s, the rest Avifl 
be bought by outside buyers and 
shipped to various places. Contract 
price this year is $25 and .$.30 i)er ton, 
before last year it Avas around $10 per 
ton. Apples are bringing around 40c 
a ba.sket. Tenant farmers Avho get 
one-half are letting them rot on the 
gi'ound as that does not pay the cost 
of^ marketing. Farm labor is high- 
priced, scarce and poor qualitv. Dav 
labor is $3 and board: month men. $50 
to ,$00, board, hou.se rent. fire-AA’ood, 
milk 51 nd potatoes and hor.se to driA'-e. 
Munition plants in this county are pay¬ 
ing .$50 to ,$G0 a Aveek for unskilled 
labor. The relatiA’e imiiortance of the 
crops in this county is in order 
named > Milk, corn, hay, tomatoes, 
Avheat, iiotatoes and truck. .t. p. r. 
Salem Co., ISb ,T. 
We got 10c per lb. for bit calves, live, 
last Aveek; IGc per lb. for hogs, live. 
The local meat markets pay 22c to 23c 
per lb. for dressed i>ork and 15c per lb. 
for dressed beef. Eggs, -dOo per doz., and 
45c per lb. for butter. Most all of the 
milk within a radius of 10 or 12 miles 
goes to the chee.se factories. Coavs are 
selling anywhere from $50 to $100. Heavy 
hor.ses are very high, but there is not 
much sale for small horses and there 
seems to be a lot of them for sale. • I.ittle 
pigs, four to six Aveeks old, $0 each. 
This is a dairy section, but most of the 
farmers depend on mill feed for their 
grain, or most of it. Most of the farms 
in the northern part of the county have 
silos, but right around here there .are not 
so many. The general report is that the 
hay crop is not nearly as good as last 
year, Avhile oat crop is much better; but 
corn is not looking A’ery good. Nearly all 
of the farmers are trying to raise wheat 
enough for their OAA'n use this year and it 
is looking good. There is some buck- 
Avheat and some millet groAvn here, but 
no great amount. The grain Ave buy at 
the local dealers is not quite as high in 
price as it Avas last Winter; cornmeal, 
$3.75 per ^cwt.; oats. $3.25 per CAvt.; 
bran, $2.25 per CAvt.; cannot get mid¬ 
dlings : ready mixed coav feeds about 
$2.00 per CAvt. I do not think that tliere 
is much chance of the farmers making 
much uule.ss the price of feed comes doAvn 
more yet, as coavs are milking A'ery poorly. 
St. LaAvrence Co., N. Y. ’ e. u. * 
The leading products here are dairying 
and potatoes. Potatoes, none in marivet. 
Butterfat, 40 6/lOc per lb. Hay (ncAv), 
$18; hens, 25c per lb.; eggs. 45c. Hats, 
fiOc per bu.; buckAvheat. $4 per CAvt.; 
milk, $1.40 per CAvt.; avooI, 6,5c per lb.; 
beef cattle, Oc per lb.; coavs, from $50 to 
$125. Pork (dressed), 22c per lb.; pigs 
(four weeks old), $7 each. Outlook for 
bats and potatoes good. Hay is fair. Ap¬ 
ples light. I,, r. T. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
The farmers’ oecupation in this locality 
is dairying. Milk, $2.25 per 100 lbs. 
Hay, .$16 to $18. Old potatoes, lH)c per 
bu. Veal calves, 15c to 16c; more veal 
calves this year than in many years. 
Eggs, 40c: butter, fancy, 47c' to" 50c. 
There are a good many potatoes planted 
and they are looking Avell. The farmers 
in this section have planted more corn 
than usual. Cold and rainy Aveather is 
liolding the corn back. No market for 
horses. Hay looks like a 50 per cent crop 
this year. Oats good. There is quite an 
: creage of Spring AA’heat planted; the out¬ 
look for this crop in this section is vei\v 
rood. T/abor is sciirce; the majority of 
f.irmers are unable to get help to do their 
bit. s. II. n, 
Herkimer Co., N. Y. 
It is too early in the season for farm 
products in this section. Milk is the 
j rincipal article, which brings $2.28 per 
cvvt., and Summer boarders, which are a 
wry poor crop up to the present time. 
Those Avho keep poultry get a good price 
fa- eggs. 60c per doz.; for 1% to 2-lb. 
broilers, dressed, .50e per lb. Light hogs, 
dressed, 23c per lb.; A’e.al calves, live. 
Lie per lb.; beef cattle, $9 per cwt. Too 
e.rrly for potatoes, A'ery feAV dug, the 
1 1 ice about $2 per bu. Hay is about all 
cut, no sales to speak of. Old meadows 
UAe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
very poor; neAv seeded very good, jibout 
7.5 per cent of croi). Bye came through 
the Winter in poor shape, about 50 per 
cent of a crop. Oats are nearly ready to 
cut. and are 100 per cent of a crop. Buck¬ 
Avheat Avill be a failure if Ave do not have 
rain soon. The ground is very dry and 
hard. ’Lhere is a poor stand of corn on 
account of poor .seed. Pigs, four to five 
Aveeks old, $7 each. Good corn. $.3.40 per 
cwt.; Avheat bran. $2.40 per cwt. Oats, 
9.5c per bu. At the market one h,as to 
pay 48e for a good cut of beef, 25c for 
codfish. Iliiy help is ,$3 to .$4 a day, and 
scarce at that. There are more apples 
than there have been for years. Pasture 
is A'ery short, too dry for feed to grow. 
I haA-c been feeding green fodder for. a 
month; began Avith green clover, then 
oats, then oats and peas. j. c. 
Sullivan Co.. N. Y. 
Orleans Co., N. Y,, Wool Association 
I have been noticing in The R. N.-Y. 
accounts of association sales of wool, and 
thought perhaps you Avould be interested 
in the consignment of avooI sent by the 
Orleans County Sheep Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion, Avhich, I think, is the largest lot 
CA-er handled by any association in the 
State. On .Tune 24. 25 and 20 our asso¬ 
ciation took in. sacked and loaded 55.830 
pounds of AA’ool at Medina. Albion and 
Holley and consigned same to .Tohn E. 
McMurtry & Co., Avhich firm will have 
wool ajipraised and turned over to the 
government, when Ave shall expect our 
final returns. This avooI Avas all graded 
by Mr. McMurtry, who pronounced it a 
A'ery nice lot, and adA'anced our 327 mem¬ 
bers Avho contributed to the consignment 
the sum of .$.35,563.71 Avhen the avooI was 
t ken in. The officers of our association 
feel that this is a fine showing for little 
Orleans, inasmuch as this is our first sale, 
our association being organized last Feb- 
I’uary. r. w. brace, pres. 
Buffalo Markets 
The Summer crops are about all rep¬ 
resented at the city markets. Home- 
groAvn potatoes are bringing $1.50 to 
$1.65 per bu., and Southern ,$.3.25 to .$5 
per bbl. The groAving crop looks fine. 
. The apple market is strong at $1 to .$2.50 
per bu.; supply rather light. Onions are 
Aveakening at $1.50 to $1.75 per bu.. but 
beans are as high as ever, $7.80 to $8.40 
per bu. The public hopes to resume eat¬ 
ing beans on the new crop, Avhich is doing 
AA'ell. The acreage is rather small here, 
as farmers did not care to risk money 
for seed at the big prices and lose it 
again, as they had done formerly. 
Peaches are of fair quality, selling at 
$4.2.5 per carrier from Georgia. Cherries 
are going out at 50 to 60c per 7-lb. basket 
for late sour. Currants are firm and ac¬ 
tive at 80 to 90c for red and 90c to $1 
for black i)er 7-lb. basket. Gooseberries, 
never in such quantity here, are 32 to 16c 
per qt. Raspberries are firm and active 
at 20 to 2Sc _for red. 20 to 23 c fori purple 
and 2.3 to 2.5c for black and dewberries 
per qt. Huckleberries are strong and 
rather scarce, from lack if pickers, at 
20 to 22c per qt. 
___Watermelous are very active at 35 to 
75c each' muskmelons, .$4 to $5 per 
crate; bananas, $2.25 to .$0.50 per bunch; 
oranges and lemons are loAver, at $7 to 
$7.50 for Valencia oranges and .$S to $9 
for California lemons per box, and $1.75 
to .$2 for limes per 100. 
Sales of vegetables ai.. heavv. quality 
good, prices fair. Cabbage is .$.3 to $4 
per 100 heads; green beaus, 50 to 75c; 
turnips, i5 to 80c per bu.; beets, 15 to 
25c; carrots. 19 to 25c: radishc- 
20c. all per doz. bunches; c . .bers, 75c 
to .$1.,35 ! tomatoes. $1.2." ,^.1.35, all per 
basket; ^celery, 40c r home-groAvn per 
bunch, 15 to .30c '" .r Kalamazoo per doz.; 
egg plant, $2 to $2.50; lettuce, 60 to 65c, 
all per box; peppers, $1.50 to $1.75 per 
hamper; peas, $1.50 to $1.80 per bag. 
Dairy and egg market steady, firm for 
loAV-grade eggs. Butter as formerly, 
creamery, 4.3 to 47c; dairy, 42 to 4,3c; 
crocks, .36 to 40c; Ioav grades, 32 to .33c. 
Cheese is 26 to 27c for best new. Eggs 
are 46 to 48c for Avhite hennery, 42 to 
46c for State and Western candled. 
Poultry is firm, demand good, list nar- 
roAv; frozen turkey, 40 to 41c; chickens 
same; dressed foAvl, 35 to 37c; dressed 
broilers, 42 to 48c; live ducks, ,33 to .35c; 
live roosters, 25 to 26c. Comparison of 
prices of eggs and poultry does not bear 
out the stories of farmers killing off their 
poultry to escape feeding high-priced 
grain. Maple syrup is quoted at $1.85 
to $2 per gallon, and honey at 30c per 
qt., both scarce. j. av. g. 
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