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•Ghe RURAi- NEW-YORKER 
Septcinbor 14. lOl.s 
Crops emd Farm Notes 
In Tount.v liayinp: is about 
fiiiislird. and. thanks to tho woathor. it 
was frof in in lino shapo. and a grood crop 
is ro))<irr<-d. ('orn was lato starting, but 
is JH'W lookinj; lino. <biis aro good and 
many I'annors aro tiirashing from tbo 
liold. IVlioat doos not soom to bo as good 
:is usual on aooount of iho hoavy snow 
last Wintor. J'otatoos aVo yiolding woll 
and aro soiling for iil.To and $2 per bu. 
Milk is falling oil' fast on account of dry 
woallior and lliop. IIolp is vor.v soarco, 
.‘IS most of tbo men aro going to cjimp.s. 
I’annors arc paying from .'?2.7ri to 
.‘1 day for help. J. K. T. 
J trad ford Co., I'a. 
Tbo loading produots boro aro bay, 
grain and dairying. I’otatoos (now), 
Jfl.oO to .$2 ])or bu. Ituttor. oOc; oggs, 
dSc to r»0c. lions. 22 , 0 . Hay (now). $lo. 
lakon diroct from tbo Hold. Oats. .SI .10 
per bu.: buckwboaf. .S.'k.oO por owt.: 
wheat. .S2.2r> i)or bu.: corn, .S.‘!.!)."> por 
owt.: corn and oats chop. .$2 70 jior 
cwt.; bran. .$2 per owt.; shorts. .$2 2.7 por 
cwt. tJood cws. SKKl. Apples. <H)c to 
SOc; plums. .$2.40 to .$2.S0 por bu. Very 
liltlo ryo and barlo.v raised. A _good crop 
of oats yiolding as liigh as 0.7 bu. ])or 
:icro. Corn, whore jdantod early, looking 
good. Potato outlook rather disoourag' 
ing, afloctod with blight. Too hot and 
dry for hoavy yield of buckwheat. A 
fair crop of F.-ill apples, but not so many 
Wintor ones. Labor is very scarce and 
farmers aro working together to harvest 
crojis whorovor possibhe r. n. r. 
Tioga Co., I'a. 
The r'l'op f»f oats was good, from .70 to 
70 bu. por aero. Corn is jioor. Potatoo.s 
very jioor. K.vo and wheat fair. Ituck- 
who.at looks good, .\bout half of the milk 
is .shipped to Newark, the re.st goes to 
rroamories at League prices. n. I), s. 
Sussex Co., N. .7. 
Fruits aro very high. Apples. .$0 por 
bid., hand picked (sprayed) ; windfalls 
from $1..70 to .$.2 por bbl. P>oots for can- 
lung. .^2 per bu.; Lima beans sell readily 
(shoilod) for 2.7c per qt.; cabbage. .$1 70 
por bbl. of 20 or 20 beads: oggidant. 77c 
por 1.‘l or .$2 por bbl.: pejipors. 2.7c jior 
lO-qt. basket or .$1..70 per bbl.; jiotatoes. 
,$1.27 per 00 lbs.: squash. $2 to .$2 per 
1)1)1.; tomatoes, per lO-qt. basket, from 
20c to 70c. Hay. new. .$20 per ton. 
Corn, dry, for feed. .$1 SO to .$1 0.7; corn, 
gi‘oon. from .$1 to .$2.2.7 per 100 oars. 
The early cro])s. such as asiiaragiis. rad- 
isiios ami early ])otatoos. were above nor¬ 
mal. Sweet corn, melons and late i)ota- 
toos aro about <50 i)or cent of noinial. 
Wintor applo.s in Fast Brunswick town¬ 
ship will bo about .70 per cent of 1017 
croj). tv.Jt. 
Dliddlosex Co., N. .T. 
These piicos are on the Wilkes-Barre 
f-urb market; Fggs. .70c to 7.7c; butter, 
70c to 7.7c. Ai)plos. .7c to .$1 27 per bu.; 
pears, bu., .$2 to $2.27; tomatoes, basket. 
70c; ))otatoos. bu.. $1.7.7 to $2. Hay. $20 
to $22; straw. .$10 to $18. Oats, a good 
crop; corn, looking fair: rye, good; buck¬ 
wheat, almost a failure; ])ot.atoos. a light 
rroj). 
Luzerne Co., Pa. 
Potatoes. .$2 per bu.; onions. .$2; to¬ 
matoes, $1.20 iier peach basket; corn. 20c 
per doz.: eggs. 44c i)er doz.; cabbage, (ic 
to 7c i)or lb.; fallen apples, $1.00 por 
l)u.; ))icked. $2.40; jieaclies, .$1. to .$1 2.7 
per basket; lard from near-by farmers, 
2.7c ))(“!• lb. t'. K. <’. 
Lebanon Co.. Pa. 
ITav .$20 to .$.20 jior ton : mill f“od, 
,$2.27'to .$7.27; chick feed, .$2.70 to $2.70, 
with all other food stull iiroportiouate. 
Horses. $12.7 to .$200; cows. $100 to $1.70 
for good ones: .$14..70 to $10.70 por cwt. 
for hogs: 10c to 18c and 22c for chickens. 
Tlie apple crop in this section is not .7 
per cent of normal. Corn almost ruined 
with frost and drought. The farm crops 
of all kinds look rather gloomy. 
Elkhart. Ind. i^. ii. G. 
This locality has a pretty good market 
for all farm produce iu New Brunswick, 
which is a manufacturing city and has a 
large foreign population, Poles, Italians, 
.Tews and Hungarians, who use large 
amounts of vegetables .and fruits. Milk 
is one of the principal^ products and the 
producers are now getting about seven or 
Other staple crops are corn, 
oats, wheat, rye. hay (both Alfalfa and 
Timothy), with some fruit raisers and 
truckers. Not much of the grain crop is 
sliipped away, but .sold locally or fed out 
on the farm to stock or i)oultry, and the 
milk, eggs or poultry sold in New' Bruns¬ 
wick. At present jirices are about as fol¬ 
lows: IMilk. 7'(iC: corn, $1.77 per bu.; 
wheat. .$2.17 per bu.; oats, no price es¬ 
tablished, as they are used at home. Hay, 
,$20 per ton; eggs. .70 to .72c; farm butter. 
40c per lb. In fruits, apples are aboiit 
7,7c to $1 per peach basket. Peaches are 
a very short crop and any price that the 
c‘onsumers will pay. Vegetables are about 
.‘IS follows: Green sweet corn, $2 per 
liundred; tomatoes, .70c per basket; cab¬ 
bage. .7 to 8c per head: potatoes, $1 .70 
per bu. In general gi’ow'ing conditions 
.‘ind crop prospects this year are good in 
this loc.ality, w'ith the exception of fruits, 
w'hich have been %'ery short, flats are 
fine and gathered in good shape; w’heat 
good; corn, since the last rains, bids fair 
to be a large crop and quality good. The 
only great trouble this year is the lack of 
lielp to do the farm work and har^’est the 
increased croj)s that have been planted, 
and prol)ably the only way to solve this 
jiniblein will be to get together and help 
each other. Altogether the outlook is 
good for the farmers in all respects but 
one—the lack of helj). as before stated. 
Middle.sex Co., N. .1. F. X. B. 
Potatoes ,‘it i)resent time, $2.40 per bu.; 
a))ples. $1 and .$2; butter. 70<>; eggs. 7.7c; 
(‘.‘ibbage. at store. 10c ))er head; we get 
.Sc. Ha.v good. .$20 per ton; oat and 
straw. $14; oats, $1.27 jier bu. Beets 
sell three for .7c; carrots, three for 5c. 
Our principal crops are corn, potatoes, 
oats and buckwheat. Wheat and oats .a 
good crop; buckwheat good. Potatoes 
are blighting in some ))laces badly, ('oru 
a good crop if it gets three weeks before 
frost. Wheat a good crop. We receive 
tliese i)rices by peddling; the middlemen 
wiil.jiay as mu<‘h and we do not sell much 
to them. The busine.ss outlook is good, 
but help is scarce. j. c. 
Flk ('o.. Pa. 
Wheat. $210 per bu.; rye. .$2; oats, 
nOc; corn. .$2; ha.v, :ibout .$20 i)er ton, 
not much sale; api)les. .$1 per bu.; broil¬ 
ers. 27c per 11). ; old hens. 2.S to .20(*. 2’his 
is about all farmers in this section have 
to sell except milk, and that all goes at 
League pri<‘e. Prosi)ects for corn about 
•SO jier cent of i)erfect. Not much en¬ 
couragement for Winter or Fall Avork; 
monthly men not to had at .$40 per month, 
board and Avashing. Day labor $2 .70 to 
.$2, Avith dinner, and they only Avant to 
Avork nine hours. Most of u.s are doing 
what AVI' l•an and let sill other Avork slip 
by. p. K. M. 
Sussex Go., N. .1. 
Butter. -I,Sc; eggs, 4,7c; chickens, 
Si)ring, .2()c. Apples are selling for TOc 
per l)u., and are plenty. Cider-making 
has begun. Hay crop Avas short. Hye 
and Avheat Avere an excellent croi); oats 
short, as the grasshoppers spoiled about 
half. ItuckAvheat is about half crop; last 
Aveek's hailstorm ruined some fields thiit 
they are ploAving under. Potatoes are 
little more than half crop, .selling at .$1..70 
to .$1.,S() j)er bu. J'asture is short, streams 
.'ind Avells very Ioav. Corn looks jiromis- 
ing; some farmers IniAe most iilowing 
done. Good coavs are selling at .$70 to 
.$1)7 each and hard to buy at that price. 
Good demand for Fall pigs. F. K. K. 
Monroe (.’o., Pa. 
Farming in this neighborhood is not 
carried on to any great extent. Small 
soAvings of Avheat. buckAvheat, i)Otafoes 
and corn constitute the main products, 
.'ind mostly all raised for individual con¬ 
sumption. Where iiroduce is sold, eggs 
are bringing OOc per doz.; SAveet corn, 
2()c, and string beans, 32c. Other vege¬ 
tables. except tomatoes. Avhich are selling 
at $1.27 ])er Iti-qt. ba.sket, have not been 
marketed to an.v extent. As to farm con¬ 
ditions in this immediate vicinity, OA’ery- 
thing except potatoes looks good. Our 
Avheat Avas of the best, oats fine, and 
buckAvheat and corn promise an unuji.ually 
good yield. A. J. Y. 
Fnion <’o., N. ]. 
Stajile crojis are i-oi'n, Avheat, oats and 
hay. Many steers are fattened each Win¬ 
ter; the jirice Avas 32 to Itlc per lb. Corn, 
$1.77 Jier bu.; Avheat. .$2.07 per bu.; oats, 
TOc; potatoes, new', $1; old potatoes, last 
Spring, .7()c per bn. Apples, .70c to $1 
j)(‘r bu.; j)eaches, this year. $3 70 to $2.70 
per bu. Horses and cattle in good de¬ 
mand at fair prices. Our crops of Avheat, 
oats and hay Avere normal, or a little 
better than normal. Corn Ava^ retarded 
by the cold Aveather .'ind drought, but we 
are having lots of rain noAV, also Avarm 
Aveather, and corn Avill make a fair croj). 
The main difliculty the farmers have is 
high cost of everything, and .scarcity of 
labor. F. A. 
Perry Co., Pa. 
Hay here is about three-fourths the 
usual croi). ('orn generally looks rather 
l)oor. Oats seem to be A’ery good, but 
liadly lodged, liarly iilanted potatoes are 
good, but dry Aveather has kept back the 
later ones. BuckAvheat looks good, and 
the acreage nearly double that of last 
year. Fresh coavs bring .$8.7 to $0.7; but¬ 
ter. 47c; eggs, .70c; early jiotatoes, $2 
lier bu. Pears and i)lums scarce and very 
fcAV apples. Day help on the farms get¬ 
ting $2 and board. f. d, 
DehiAvare f'o., N. Y. 
White potatoes, .70 to OOc iier bu.; 
boiling corn, jier doz., 20 to 2.7c; Lima 
beans, per bskt.. .70 to 7.7('. No rain; 
no SAveet, potatoes yet. (^antaloupe.s, per 
bskt., 70 to OOc. String beans, jier bu. 
bskt_^ .70 to 00c; tomatoes, per ba.skt.. ,70 
to 7.7c; can-house tomatoes, $20 per ton. 
I'ery dry ; outlook for I'all cro])s poor. 
Cape May ('o., N. .L K. AV. i). 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—On the ground that 
Canada could not submit to an invasion 
of treaty rights even to increase produc-: 
tb.ti of aluminum, much needed by the 
United States in Avar AVork, counsel for 
the ('anadian Government protested to 
the International .Toint WaterAvays Com¬ 
mission at ^lontreal -\ug. 2f) against the 
construction of a submei'ged dam across 
the Long Sault section of the St. Law¬ 
rence Biver. intended for use by the 
Aluminum Company of America at Mes- 
.‘ina. N. Y. Canadian counsel maintained 
that any interfi'rence with navigation 
Avould be a violation of treaty right.s. The 
Dominion attorneys believed that in- 
i reased jiroduciion could be obtained by 
other means. 
William D. IlayAvood. “uncroAvned 
king’’ of the Industrial Workers rhe 
World, and 34 of his chief aids in the 
conspiracy to overtui'ii the American Avar 
lirogramme, were sentenced to 20 years 
cacii in the Federal piniitentiary at Leav- 
eiiAvorth. Kan., by Federal .lodge K. M. 
J.andis at f'hicago Aug. 20. Teu year 
si'iitences Avere imposed upon 2.2 of the 
organization’s leaders, live .vear sentences 
on .’>2. one year and one day on 32 de¬ 
fendants, and ten-da.v sentences on tAA'o 
other.s. Cases against Ben.iamin Schrae- 
der. Chicago Avriter, and Pietro Nigra of 
Spring Valley. Ill., were continued. All 
sentences 0 )i the four counts in the indict¬ 
ment Avill run I'oncnrrentl.v. Fines rang¬ 
ing from $20,000 on lla.vAA'ood and his 
chief aids doAvn to $.7,000 Avere imi'osed. 
Ninety days is granted in Avhich to tile 
a bill of excejitions and a stay of scA’ch 
days in Avhich to jietition for bail. 
Tavo firemen Avei-e in.lured. 20 families 
were, made homeless and damage esti¬ 
mated at .$270.IKM) resulted from ;i fire of 
unknown origin Avhich sAviqit the business 
sec'ion of Dobbs I’erry. N. Y.. Aug. 20. 
2'he new I’lorence Hotel and three 
buildings, occiipii'il by six stores and 
knoAvn as the Rogers, Dunbar and .lohn- 
son blocks. Avere burned early Aug. 20 at 
Bar Harbor. Me.. Avith an estimated ag¬ 
gregate loss of .$100.(M)0. 
Fire caused by the ignition of creosote 
b.v an exhaust fi'om an engine Sept. 2 
damaged jiart of a ])ier under construction 
at the army supply depot near Norfolk. 
Va. The loss is estimated at more than 
$70,000 and completion of the jiier Avill 
be delayed several Aveeks. Firemen had 
to dynamite concrete sections of the pier. 
Federal .Tudge D. ('. Westenhaver 
ovei'ruled at Cleveland. O.. Sept. .2 a 
motion filed by attorneys for Eugene Y. 
Debs, four times a candidate for President 
on the Socialist ticket, to quash the in¬ 
dictment of ten counts against Debs for 
violation of the espionage act. 'Phe trial 
is set for Sept. 0. Debs Avas arrested on 
.Inly 3 as the result of his sjieech at the 
Sociali.st State coiu’ention at Canton. 
Ohio. .Tune Ifi. In their motion to quash 
the indictment attorneys for Debs c'laimed 
that the espionage hnv Avas unconstitu¬ 
tional as it relates to the free speech si'C- 
tion of the Constitution. 
W.VSHINGTON.—A bone dry nation* 
.‘liter .lune 20, 3030, for the remaindei' of 
the Avar and the period of demobilization 
to follow is guaranteed under the rider to 
the food production stimulation bill. 
Avhich passed the Senate Aug. 2!) Avithout 
a record vote. This action by the Senate 
folloAved live hours of debate. 
F.'.eful Christmas gifts for adults and 
toys and iilayfhings for children Avill be 
available in retail stores of the conntr.v 
by reason of an agreement reached by the 
('ouncil of National Defence and manu¬ 
facturers and merchants of American 
toys, it Avas announced Sept. 2 by the 
council in modifying the ban iireA’iousl.v 
placed on Christmas buying. In return 
for iiermitting the sale of so-called non- 
essential holida.v gifts the council calls 
upon the merchants not to increase their 
Avorking for(*es or the hours of emiiloy- 
ment and to conduct a camiiaign for early 
Christmas shojijiing. 
22ie Postmaster General announces 
that OAving to the necessity for conserA’ing 
labor and material and^ to eliminate a 
cost Avhich is uoav borne by tbe permanent 
user of the telephone, a readine.ss to .serA'e 
or installation charge Avill be made on 
and after Seiitember 3, 3038, for all ucav 
installations, also a charge for all change.s 
in location of telephones. 
I'LVPvM AND GARDEN.—An amend¬ 
ment to the emergency agricultural appro¬ 
priation bill, now ])ending in the Senate 
Avith its national prohibition rider, AA-as 
inti’oduced Sept. 2 b.v Senator Gore, of 
Oklahoma, projiosing an appropriation of 
$ 1.70 (JOO.OOO to be used for the temporary 
relief of farmers in drouth stricken sec¬ 
tions of the country. Under the amend¬ 
ment the mone.v Avould be adA'anced to 
banks in such' districts as Inu’e made 
loans to farmers. 
Farmers near Camp Dix. N. .T.. Avho 
liave been hoiiing for an opportunity to 
employ soldiers to aid tbem in bar-vesting 
were disaiipointed Sept. 2 Avhen Ma'oi*- 
Gen. Scott, the cami) commander, received 
an order froifi the War Department dis- 
approA’ing of the pro.iect. Agricultural 
organizations and the Ncav .Tei’sey State 
Department of Agriculture have urged 
that men transferred from training bat¬ 
talions as unfit for overseas serA’ice be 
])ermitted to aid in getting in the crops 
in A’icAV of the labor- shortage. Farnrers 
Avei'e Avilling to pay the high scale of 
AA’ages noAA’ lU'OA’ailing to all such soldiers 
Avlio Avould volunteer for the Avork. 
I’etition of the Avomen of Petersbur'g, 
Alaska, through Gov. Thomas Riggs, .Ir.. 
to permit them to manufacture coats 
lined Avith deei'skin for Amerii-an aA’iators 
has been r‘e.iected by the Department of 
.Vgriculture. acen-ding to notice I'eceived 
1)V Gov. Rigg 'he refusal Avas made on 
the ground i he elloi't irlauimd^ likely 
AA’ould “promote the illegal killing of 
deer." It is said that there is an annual 
enormous-Avastage in deerskins in south¬ 
eastern Alaska, partly because it is quite 
a ta.sk to tan the skins. Thus came the 
suggestion that the skins might prove of 
great value iu providing warm coats for 
the Amei-ican fl.A’ei‘s. 
OBITUAR7L—Dr. Byi-on David H.al- 
stod, formerl.v professor of botany at Rut¬ 
gers (College, died Aug. 28 at his home ,at 
Ncav BrunsAvii'k, N. at the age of 
sixty-seven. He Avas born in Venice, 
('ayuga (’ount.v, and came from a Quaker- 
family of educators, iih.A’sicians and Avri- 
ters. He aasis a graduate of Michigan 
.Agricultural College. llai-A-ard conferred 
the degree of doctor of science upon Dr. 
Halsled in 3 878. He Avas managing edi¬ 
tor of "The American Agriculturist” and 
later professor of botan.v at Ames College, 
loAva. He had been at Rutgers College 
since 38.S!). He AA-as a former president 
of the Botanical Society of America and 
the author of a number of agricultural 
books, jiapers and bulletins. A widow 
and fbree children sui-Aive him. 
Fruit Growers at N. Y. Experiment Station 
I’.ART I. 
The Snmmer lield meeting AA’.as held at 
Ihe NeAA" York Experiment Station at the 
time of the dedication of the ucav ad¬ 
ministration and auditorium building. 
Speakers Avere Governor Whitman. Clar¬ 
ence ()usle.v of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. Dr. Liberty TI. 
Bailey of Ithaca, and Dr. .Iordan, di¬ 
rector of the e.x))erimei‘it station. 
(Commissioner of Agrii'nlture Wilson 
introduced Governor Whitman. aa’Iio Avas 
the lirst speaker. One of his jioints Avas 
that increased demand of agricultural 
jiroducts after the Avar Avill call for the 
best elVorts of farmers, aided b.y their 
experiment stations, agricultural colleges 
and all agricultural institutions, hence 
the need of the best buildings and the 
most complete equiimient. The Avar vet¬ 
eran soldiers Avill come liack efficient to 
take up the Avork of reconstruction and 
Avill all be absorbed in the Avork. 
Dr. .Toi'dan said : “For several rea.sons. 
Avhich are quite obvious, the Avork of this 
institution has related very largel.y to our 
dairy and fruit interests. It is perhaps 
fitting that this should be so, because the 
dairy indiistrj' leads all others in this 
State in the value of its output, and the 
fruit industry. Avhile Yiorhaps not leading 
some others in the point of financial re¬ 
turns. is oxceedingl.v important. More 
than all this, these tAAO lines of produc¬ 
tion iiresent very iL linite iiroblems. What 
is very imi)ortant in the Avork on an in¬ 
stitution like this is the co-operation of 
its constituency. So it has happened eA’en 
from the earlii'r da.vs of the station that 
much attention has been given to our 
dairying interests and it is Avithin the 
limits of fact to claim that in our records 
of iiroduction b.v the various breeds of 
dairy coavs, iu the standardizatiou of milk 
and its products, in a severe and comple.x 
study of the chemistry and reaction of 
milk, and later in a comjn-ehensive elTort 
to improve and iheapen methods of milk 
sanitation, this station has cei-tainly ren¬ 
dered A'aliiable aid to the dairy farmer, 
and has heljied to place in the consumers’ 
hands the means of defending himself 
against an inferior jirodiict. 'Phe horti¬ 
cultural dejiartment has given its atten¬ 
tion largely to studies in fruit breeding, 
fruit culture and the adaptability of aui- 
rieties of fruit to the A-arious sections of 
this State. The studies in fruit breeding 
have not been merely to develop ncAV 
kinds but to remove from tbe effort of 
improving fruits the element of chance by 
devi'loping the hiAVS Avhich govern the 
production of ucav varieties. Incidentally, 
IioAvever, some very A-aluable new varieties, 
esi)eciall.v of our .small fruits, have been, 
or Avill be, jdaced in the possession of the 
consuming jiublic. 
“It seems to have been the_function of 
the botanical and entomological depart¬ 
ments of the station to serA'e in defending 
our field crops and fi'uits from the dcA-as- 
tations of fungous and insect pests. It is 
impossible, of course, to estimate the 
value of this Avork iu the added mone.v 
returns and iu the elements of safety and 
satisfaction afforded to the farmer and 
the fruit groAver. It is probable, hoAvever. 
that if Ave could really measure these 
benefits in terms of dollars, especiall.v 
with such field crojis as potatoes and cab¬ 
bage, and such fruits as aiiples. pears 
and peaches, the figures Avould justify ex- 
Iienditures for such puruoses far beyond 
Avhat this or an.v other State has dreamed 
of making. Other lines of inve.stigation 
and experiment have been pursued. 
“There are Iaa'o main factors which de¬ 
termine the extent and qualitj' of the re¬ 
sults of scientific inouiry.^ AA'hether in 
agriculture or in !iny other field—the man 
and the man’s opjiortunity. We should 
force to the front in all our plans the 
fundamental fact that science is a jn-od- 
uct of the human mind and the ipialit.v 
of the scientjlic ai-hievement Avill rise no 
higher than the quality of the producing 
intellect. And because no investigator 
faces problems more difficult of solution 
or more important to human Avelfare than 
those related to the soil, to the jilant and 
to the animal, the ablest minds of the day 
.should be found in the field of agricul¬ 
tural science, and the public should de- 
maml that this be made possible.” 
The addresses during tlie day Avere in a 
large tent. They Avere folloAved in the 
evening b.v an agricultural pageant. Be¬ 
cause of the rain tbei-e Avas not as large 
an attimdance of fruit groAvers as Avas 
(‘xpected, yet tln'.v Avere fairl.y Avell repre¬ 
sented. ’Phe Avriter, Avith other.s, spent 
some time in going over the experiment 
station grounds, noting results of experi¬ 
ments Avith the orchard and .small fruits. 
AV. ir. .T. 
