‘Uhts RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1185 
Crops and Farm News 
Wheat is a fairly pood crop, and we re¬ 
ceived $2.20 a bushel at the Palmyra 
warehouse. Oats, extra good crop, worth 
about 90 cents per bu. Potatoes one- 
fourth crop here and sell for $2 per bu. 
out of the field. Tomatoes, 12c per quar¬ 
ter peck; sweet corn, 2.5 to 30c a dozen. 
Apples are about one-half crop, $2..50 per 
bu. Cabbage is scarce. Corn looks like 
a fair crop. M. F. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
We are getting .$2.98 per cwt. for ,3.80 
per cent milk ; .30c per lb. for chickens; 
48c for eggs. Hay, $.30 per ton; old corn, 
$2 per bu.; wheat, .$2.20; rye, .$2. Put¬ 
ter, r>5e at the creamery. There was no 
rain here for nearly three months. 3'here 
will be a fair cro;) of corn; wheat is 
good; oats and potatoes poor crop; one 
man had three bushels off half an acre; 
we shall get only my seed. Grapes, $l 
per five-eighths basket; tomatoes, $1 per 
l)asket. Peaches not a good crof), $1.50 
per basket. My father is plowing for 
wheat; I (daughter) am cutting corn 
whi’e he plows. We had a fine lot of 
pumpkins; good luck with chickens: no 
luck raising turkeys; they live until they 
weigh five pounds, then they die. Wo 
have two high-testing cows, but a poor re¬ 
sult when we get our monthly test. One 
heifer tested 7.70, another 0.10. M. I,. 
Chester Co., Pa. 
The quality of oats is good, yield about 
40 bu.; wheat fair but yield light; pota¬ 
toes practically a failure; corn not over 
7.5 per cent of average crop; buckwheat 
fairly good. Farm land is high, most of 
it priced at $100 per acre, and if under¬ 
laid with a three-foot vein of coal. $200 
to $2.50. Rut few farms are well culti¬ 
vated on account of .scarcity of labor, ^he 
high prices paid in the tin and iron-milhs 
lake all available labor. When men can 
get from $0 to $20 a day in the mills, who 
can blame them for deserting the farm? 
From this little village a young man just, 
out of high school last year works six 
days of eight hours in a week and at the 
end of the second week brings home .$214. 
Another boy not yet 10 years old averages 
$7 a day in a tin mill, I.. A. T. 
Lawrence Co., Pa. 
The weather was very dry during .fiily 
and August and the corn crop was dam¬ 
aged at least one-half. Hay crop was very 
good. The tomato crop, which is almost 
over, has been fair, but prices to those 
who had not contracted have been low. 
The contract price is 50e per five-eighths 
basket, and those who contracted have 
netted from $100 to $200 per acre. Kief- 
fer pears are bringing from 40c to 50c per 
five-eighths basket; a few years ago 10c 
per basket was the average price for Kief- 
fers. The grape crop, which is about 
over, has brought unheard-of prices, and 
some growers have received as high as 
$100 per acre for their grapes. Eggs 
bring 48c; chickens, .30c; white potatoes, 
$1.50 per bu.; corn dull at $1.50; wheat, 
$2 2.5. Farm laborers scarce and corn 
cutters demand .$4 per day. c. il. 
Kent Co., Del. 
Potatoes, per bu., .$2.20; peppers, [)er 
peck basket, $1.25; sweet pejiper.s, $1. 
P.utter, sold at stores, 45c to 50c; on mar¬ 
ket. 00c to 0.5c. Eggs, sold at stores, ,50c 
to 5.5c; on market, 00c to 0,5c. String 
beans, 8tore.s. Oc per lb.; shelled beans, 
25c per qt. T.ive veal calves, at door, 
20c to 2.5c per lb.; hogs. 20c. Peaches, de¬ 
livered in town, $1.50 to .$2 per bu.; 
plums, the same. Farmers have to pay 
feed stores for shelled corn $2.25. They 
receive for wheat, $2.10; oats, 7,5c. Al¬ 
most any kind of a co\/ will bring $100. 
No sale for horses. T/ast May a man 
from Kansas brought in a car of honses 
and mules, splendid large draft stock, and 
has sold only one ns yet. j. 
Mahoning Co., Ohio. 
Wheat, $2.10 per hu.; rye, .$1..50; oats, 
00c; hay, $18; milch cows, $50 to $125; 
veal calves, 10 to 18c, live; 20 to 22c 
dressed; pork, 20c live, 22c dres.sed; beef, 
16 to 18c dressed. Live chickens, 25c; 
dressed, 30c. Butter, 45c; creamery but¬ 
ter, ,50e; eggs, 45 to 48c; potatoes, .$2 
per bu.; onions, $2 ; sweet corn, 20 to 25c 
per doz.; tomatoes, $1.50 to $2 per bu. 
The general outlook for the farmer is 
good; there has been some wheat sown, 
also a number of farmers have commenced 
cutting corn. The corn crop promises to 
be extra good; wheat and oats yield well 
to the acre; potatoes are a good crop, 
with a few exceptions. Tobacco, which 
is being farmed along the river, is a good 
crop. The varieties raised are moat Ha¬ 
vana, and here and there a plot of seed 
leaf. W. 0. B. 
Indiana Co., Pa 
Hay, $20 per ton ; straw, $5; oafs, 70c 
per bu.; wheat, $2; potatoes. $2; butter, 
4.5c per lb.; eggs, 4.3e per doz ii. w. a. 
Mercer Ci'o., Pa. 
The products here are potatoes, 
peaches, apples, grain, corn, hay ami 
asparagus. Giant potatoes, ,$3..50 bbl.; 
round stock, .$4.50 bbl.; peaches. $1 to 
$1.25; corn, sweet, 2c V>er ear; apples, 
40 to 50c basket; milk, (Ic per qt. Crops 
as a rule this season are fair. Potatoes 
are fair. Potatoes are turning out good, 
ns they are larger this year. Some are 
digging 100 bbl. to acre. Peaches are 
bringing .$1.75 to $2.50 retail. More po¬ 
tatoes were planted this year than before. 
Monmouth Co., N. J. 0. H. 
THE MAILBAG 
Cultivating a Sod-Bound Orchard 
M'y apple orchard (trees from 30 to 35 
years old) has not for the last two years 
been bearing much nor making growth. 
The orchard is in r;od and has not been 
plowed since I owned it (five years), al¬ 
though mo.st of the trees have had a 
heavy mulch of straw and cornstalks. 1 
think of having it plowed. Is Fall or 
Spring the better time, and how deep 
should it bo plowed? Will it be practical 
to have it done with a two-plow tractor? 
Pennsylvania. J. C. II. 
We think this orchard is “sod bound.” 
The plowing and cultivating will help it 
and start it into growth. We prefer 
Spring for such work, and would plow 
about six inches deep. In a sod orchard 
the roots are welt at the top, and deep 
plowing is not desirable. After plowing 
give a thorough W'orking with cultivator 
or disk, and, if possible, use some form of 
I)hosphate around these trees. We should 
BOW a cover crop in August. 
Continued Cropping of Potatoes 
How many seasons can you plant pota¬ 
toes on the same ri.se of ground? E. c. F. 
Three seasons is about the limit on our 
own soil. After that the ground seems to 
fill up with the scab germs and the crop 
is usually scabby. There will not be so 
much trouble if a catch crop of rye is 
plowed in before planting. We have heard 
of 10 or 12 crops being grown on the 
same soil, but that is uncommon. 
Unslaked Lime on New Seeding 
Would it be safe to put unslaked lime 
on a new seeding of rye or wheat this 
Fall? J. n. c. 
We never tried it, and can see no rea¬ 
son for using caustic lime in this way. If 
the soil or the plants were wet we think 
the lime would burn the crop. If the soil 
should be dry We should not expect much 
damage. I'.ut why not slake the lime 
first? Who has tried it? 
Peach Borers 
Several peach trees, three years old. 
otherwise healthy, leak gum at the grotind 
and below ground. I have scraped the 
hark olT one; do not know whether borers 
are tlu're or not. I incline to i)ut tree 
tanglefoot on after cleaning the parts 
thoroughly; perhaps by rubbing earth on 
all over the part affected. .t. e. p. 
The gum is probably the result of in- 
juc.v from bf)rers. The eggs are laid b.v 
Cl moth in Summer at the base of the 
tree. The little borers hatch and begin 
eating their way down to the root. They 
grow ns they bore down, and at this sea¬ 
son are of good size. 'Fhe gum indicates 
nature’s efforts to heal the wounds in the 
wood. It is not n sure sign of the borer. 
Any wound will bring out this gum and 
some diseases also produce it. When the 
b(u-er is at work the gum will contain 
sawdust or little chips. The beat plan is 
to hoe the earth away, scrape the gum 
and follow the hole or burrow down until 
.you find the borer. A sharp knife blade 
is good for this-^cutting down and not 
acro.ss. Dig out the borer and kill him. 
'I'here will be several in each tree. We 
have found 15 or more. The root can be 
soaked by pouring boiling water or hot 
lye solution around it. We would not 
use the “tanglefoot” under ground. Hoe 
(he soil back around the tree and make 
a little mound of coal ashes around the 
trunk. 
Leaching of Stored Fertilizer 
If a burlap bag of “Nltrapo,” advertised 
to contain 35 per cent each of available 
nitrogen and potash, is stored in close / 
contact with a similar bag of bone meal, 1 
the “Nitrapo” being very hygroscopic, does 
any reaction occur deleterious to either? 
The bag of “Nitrapo” is continually so 
wet as to communicate considerable dami)- 
ness to the other bag. e. a. 
This Is probably a mixture of nitrate 
of soda and nitrate of potash. Both have 
the tendency to draw moi.sturo from the 
air. This moisture will have no effect 
unless the bag becomes so moist that 
there would be a drip or leaching away 
from it. A good plan would be to j)ut Ihe 
bag of hone on the floor and the “Ni¬ 
trapo” on top of it. Then, if there was 
any leaching, the bone would absorb it. 
There will be no chemical action between 
the two. _ ! 
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