•Bhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Crops and Farm Notes 
Facts About Atlantic Co.; N. J. 
The Atlantic County Bureau of Agri¬ 
culture wish me to officially oppose and 
contrast the statement printed in your 
paper July 18 regarding Atlantic County. 
Atlantic County is one of the largest 
peach growing counties in the United 
States. On an average Ilammonton has 
from 80 to 50 pars a day. Besides the 
large peach interests Atlantic County is 
the leading small fruit county in the 
United States, huiuTreds of cars are 
packed and shipped annually. Atlantic 
County is also noted for its shipment of 
peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables. 
The eastern section furnishes most of the 
produce consumed in Atlantic City. At¬ 
lantic County is noted for its great in¬ 
terests in wine making. In this county 
can be found some of the most successful 
farmers in America. Here will be found 
the most up-to-date progressive farming 
found anywhere. Atlantic County has the 
soil, it has the climate, it has the men. 
A. E. WIT.KINSON, 
County Agricultural Agent. 
R. X.-Y.—This refers to an item printed 
on page 887 in which one of our corre¬ 
spondents gave his experience in Atlantic 
County. This report was undoubtedly 
true, but it did not give a fair idea of the 
great natural advantages possessed by 
many parts of the county. As Mr. Wil¬ 
kinson says, Atlantic County has great 
farming interests, and we are glad to 
have them reported. 
The outlook for the corn crop is very 
bad. Early planted corn is almost dried 
up. c. w. M. 
Bucks Co., Ba. 
This area is devoted to hay and grain 
on small farms from 40 to 150 acres, the 
usual rotation being corn, oats, wheat or 
rye and hay. The Avheat and rye is sold 
to the mills or dealers; last year the 
wheat brought $2.20 per bu. of 00 lbs. 
This year the prices are not quoted as 
yet, but there were excellent crops of 
wheat, r.ye and oat.s. The oats are usually 
consumed on the farm. Corn this year 
is poor and the fields very uneven. About 
the only corn that is showing up well 
was planted during the first week of May, 
which is very early for this particular 
district. Last year most of the farms 
averaged over 100 bu. flint corn ears to 
the acre, and last Winter corn was sold 
for $50 to $55 per ton on the ear. Hay 
crop is rather weedj% and brings as high 
as .$25 per ton for first grade Timothy at 
the farm at the present time, but there is 
not much call. Eggs at the store, in 
trade, bring 00 to 05 cents per dozen for 
good ones and 50 to 55 cents for gathered. 
Veal calves, 18c per lb. on the hoof. 
Fresh cows and heifers with first calf 
from $100 to $125; six-weeks-old pigs, $8 
to $10 each, with demand active. Buck¬ 
wheat crop is fine, with about .50 per cent 
increase in acreage to supplement the corn 
crop. c. W. M. 
Morris Co., N. J. 
This is a mining and manufacturing 
section, so we farmers usually sell direct 
to the consumer and receive the highest 
retail price. Corn. $2 per bu.; oat.s, 
$1.10 per bu.; rye, $1.75 per bu.; wheat, 
$2.10. New hay, about $25 per ton; 
butter. 55c per lb.; eggs, 60c; milk, re¬ 
tail, 15c per qt., wholesale, 40e per gal. 
There is practically nothing shipped from 
here, but lots of produce shipped in. I 
have sold in the last few days 220 doz. 
sweet corn at .85 and 40c per doz. Six 
weeks’ pigs sell at .$10 each. A good cow 
is worth $150; fairly good horse .about 
.$200. Hay was a fair crop; oats very 
good; wheat poor; corn looks good now. 
Potatoes, $2.50 per bu.; are almo-st a 
failure here this year. We had no rain 
of any consequence during July, and the 
l)otatoes all blighted. Many farmers 
sowed Spring wheat this Spring, and it 
is better than the Winter wheat. Re¬ 
liable farm help is not to be had, as the 
farmers cannot compete with the mines 
and factories when it comes to wages. 
An industrious farmer here can make 
more now than he ever could in my 
memory. I know what it is to farm 
where everything has to be shipped to a 
wholesaler, but lots of farmers here do 
not understand the .85-cent dollar. 
Westmoreland Co., Pa. u. F. p. 
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Wheat, $2.18; corn, shelled, .$1.70; rye, 
$1.45; Timothy hay, $20 to .$22; mixed 
hay, $18 to .$20; -wheat straw, $12 to $14; 
prime steers, .$17..50; more sold at $15 
per cwt.; potatoes, .$2; apples. $1.75: 
peaches, .$1..50; butter, 44c; milk, .$8.40 
per cwt.; per quart, 11c; eggs, .88 to 40c. 
The crops at this time look as if they 
would equal and perhaps pass the records 
of recent years. Recent heavy rains have 
practically guaranteed good crops of corn, 
tobacco and truck. I’otatoes are yielding 
only two to four times the amount of seed 
used. Wheat turned out well, hut the 
stand on the ground was thin. There is 
probably 20 per cent less wheat in the 
county than in former years. Where oats 
were grown they yielded very well. The 
outlook for the farmers is very good. The 
main_ money crop is tobacco and it is 
p'owing well generally. Unless the price 
is cut by Government ruling or taxes the 
farmers wall make out ver.y well with this 
crop. The price received this Spring was 
.80 cents per pound, which is high enough 
to cover the increased cost of production 
and allow a fair profit. Since the farmers 
have work the year around for their men, 
the labor shortage here is not very ser¬ 
ious. _ There are not very many war in¬ 
dustries that draw away the farm labor. 
Without any restrictions on their produc¬ 
tion and the uncertainty caused by price¬ 
fixing the immediate future for the far¬ 
mers in this county would seem to be 
rather certain. w. N. lowry, 
Supervisor of Agriculture. 
T.ancaster Co., Pa. 
To the Farmers of New York 
Corn very backward. Potatoes looking 
good. Hay crop below normal. Eggs 
bringing 42c and 4.5c. Grain looking 
very good. Peas a good crop. Butter, 
4.5c. W. A. 
Jefferson Co., X. Y. 
Wheat crop good, price $2.20; rye, 
good, $1.50; oats, good, 78i/4c. Potato 
crop medium, owing to dry weather con¬ 
ditions, $2 per bu. Onions good, .$2 bu. 
Tomatoes poor, owing to dry weather con¬ 
ditions ; selling at markets at rate of 
$4.50 per bu. Corn drying up except in 
eastern section of county. Sweet corn 
same, selling at 25 and 35c per doz. 
Lebanon Co., Pa. A. B. w. 
Potatoes, $1.40 bu.; cabbage, $1.75 
bbl.; apples, Astrachan, .$1.2.5 bu.; green 
apples, $1 bu. Eggs, 50c; butter, 48c lb.; 
veal calves, 1.5c lb., live; chickens, 45c 
lb.; fowls, 35c. Hay, $18 ton on the 
ground uncut. Crops never looked better, 
although farmers are seriously handi¬ 
capped by reason of the scarcity of labor 
which has assumed serious proportions. 
The fruit outlook is especially good. 
Lackawanna Co., Pa. B. P. F. 
The crops in this vicinity are looking 
very good. Hay was an average crop; 
wheat about two-thirds of an average 
crop; barley, which has been cut in most 
cases, is extra good and much larger than 
usual: oats, very large acreage, and e.xtra 
good ci'op; beans, corn and potatoes are 
looking good, and with the recent rains 
we have had it points toward a good crop 
of the last three crops. Butter and eggs 
command 42c per lb. and dozen. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. 6. A. M. 
Butter, ,50c per lb.; eggs, 50c per doz.; 
Spring chickens, 40c per lb., live; offi 
fowls, .80c per lb., live. Potatoes, 7.5c 
per peck; apples, 50 to 00c per peck. 
I’igs, five to six weeks old, $10 to .$20 per 
j)air. Of course the.se are retail prices 
that one gets at the coal mining towns, 
of which there are quite a number scat¬ 
tered around in this region. If one sells 
to the storekeeper he has to take consid¬ 
erably less, as they have to make a profit 
on it too. This has been quite a dry 
Summer in this locality, although not 
many miles away they seem to get suffi¬ 
cient rain. The storms appear to go 
around us. Wheat is a good crop; rye 
only fair; hay pretty fair; oats good; 
potatoes poor, also buckwheat. Dry 
weather hurt them most of all. Corn 
small. B. J. M. 
Indiana Co., Pa. 
This is a general farming community. 
We are located 12 miles from Easton, 
where most of the farmers haul their 
ju’oducts to the curb market, where it is 
sold retail and wholesale. Most of the 
fanners raise a small amount of truck, 
also some dairy cattle. At the market 
we receive for sweet corn 2.5c per doz.; 
potatoes, about $2 per bu.; eggs, 48c per 
doz.; butter, ,52c i)er lb.; beans, 4c per 
lb.; berries, 20 to 25c per qt.; peaches. $1 
per basket: ijlums. ,$1.25 per basket. 
Live fowls, .85c per lb.; broilers. 40 to 45c 
p(*r lb. : dressed and drawn fowls, .5,5c per i 
lb. Apples, OOc per ba.sket. Milk we sell at 
our local creamery at $8.10 for 4 per cent , 
milk. There are very few silos, as there 
are medium-sized farms, and there is not 
much pasture laud. We had a good har- , 
vest of oats, wheat and rye, also a good 1 
crop of hay. Hay .sells at about $18 a | 
ton; oats, $1.10 per bu.; rye, $2.10. For ! 
feed we pay : Bran, $2.55 per cwt.; mid¬ 
dlings, $8; bai-ley feed, ,$2..80; gluten, 
$2.70. Cows sold at public sales from 
.$00 to $80 for poor ones, and $80 to $185 
for fresh cows. Four-week-old calves 
bring $19.50, live weight, per hundred. 
—the Producers of Food 
For years you have struggled under 
the low prices caused by the free lands 
of the West. The cities have provided 
no public markets for you, the State has 
not protected your shipments. Today 
your sons are at the Front and your 
help is at the factory. Against such 
obstacles you are this year producing 
more food than ever before. When 
your sons return you may truly say to 
them, “Your Mother and I have also 
labored in the Cause.” 
Your industry gives fuel to our war. 
machine from the factory workers to 
the front lines. Nothing that touches 
you should be lightly treated in this 
time of stress. Yet for four years your 
needs have been used to create political 
patronage and no real aid has come to 
you from the State. You have been 
burdened by needless and overlapping 
efforts of Councils and Commissions. 
No other class of our people have been 
subjected to so much annoyance and 
amateur advice at public expense. No 
care has been given to marketing your 
crops. No financial help has been given 
you. You have had to get labor from 
volunteer vacation assistants and from 
the valiant work of women. 
I address you as a candidate for the 
Democratic nomination for Governor 
and I ask those of you who are Demo¬ 
crats to vote for me in the Primary on 
September 3rd. If elected, I will put 
your interests under a single-headed 
department and will consult only the 
farming views in making the appoint¬ 
ment. I will make it my business to 
remove the needless barriers that now 
separate you from the consumer and 
, to secure for you a larger share of 
the price of your products than you 
j now get. I will see to it that your ship- 
I ments are properly protected by the 
^ State and promptly transported. I 
■ will make the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture a practical help to the farmers and 
a principal feature of my administra¬ 
tion. 
This is not a new interest for me. I 
devised and aided in securing the pas¬ 
sage of the Bill for Licensing Commis¬ 
sion Merchants, the Bill creating a 
Bureau of Agricultural Co-operation, 
the Bill for a Food Investigation Com¬ 
mission and the Bill for the Department 
of Markets in New York City. I was 
Chairman of the Committee on Mar¬ 
kets, Prices and Costs, of the Investi¬ 
gation Commission and made the first 
report on that subject in this State. I 
have been active in the Patriotic Far¬ 
mers Fund and the “Million Acre 
Wheat” campaign. 
You and I have the common wish to 
win the war and bring our boys home. 
Let us join to make the production of 
food a mighty contribution to that 
sacred hope. 
Your choice lies between me, a practi¬ 
cal farmer, and the Hon. Alfred E. 
Smith, of Manhattan, New York, whose 
boast is that he is city born and bred. 
Four years of bitter experience have 
shown you what to expect from a City 
man. You can say at the Primaries 
whether you wish two years more of 
the same thing. Respectfully yours. 
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