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Crops and Farm News 
Wc are in a fairly good farming dis¬ 
trict, located about 30 miles southwest of 
Altoona and 10 miles east of the Alle¬ 
ghany Mountains, in what is known as 
Quaker Valley. From this and adjoining 
valleys there were shipped about 40 ear- 
loads of apples the past season. Our prin¬ 
cipal crops are wheat, corn, oats, buck¬ 
wheat and rye. Wheat, .$2.15 per bu.; 
corn. $1.75; oats, SO to S5c; buckwheat, 
$3.10 per 100 lbs.; rye, $1.55. Pork is 
one of our leading products: this is hauled 
by our hucksters to our markets. Altoona 
and Windber. The price at present is 22c 
dressed. Cattle (not many of them), fat, 
are worth 8 to 10c per lb., liveweight. 
Good cows, $00 to $100. Morses, very 
few changing hands. Hay has dropped 
down to about $20; potatoes also have 
taken a drop: they are worth about $1 per 
bu. Apples have been and are yet selling 
at from 70 to 75c per bu. Turkeys, live, 
38 to 40c per lb.; chickens, live, 25c. 
Butter, 55c; eggs. 60c. The outlook is 
good; we had a line Fall to get work 
(lone. The wheat looked line all Fall ex¬ 
cept a few early-sown fields, which are 
affected with the fly. Altogether the past 
season has been very satisfactory and we 
cannot see why anyone should complain. 
The farmers have been busy hauling their 
grain to market. The grain is pretty well 
shipped out of this section, except oats, 
which was a great crop, and is moving 
very slowly. The corn crop was not large, 
but a flue quality. s. I.. II. 
Bedford Co., Pa. 
We have had beautiful Winter weather 
the past month, having a green Christmas, 
with good roads and good cheer. We are 
all very thankful for the end of the cruel 
war and the dawn of peace. We as farm¬ 
ers are anxious that it will he so settled 
that war will be no more, and that 
ultimately the prices of produce will be 
so adjusted between producer and con¬ 
sumer that it shall he equitable to both. 
At present it is very unsatisfactory and a 
losing gitme many times to both. Farmers 
are well prepared for Winter, much plow¬ 
ing having been done. Corn nearly all 
husked; good crop. The State ditcher is 
still at work, and a neighbor has one of 
his own that he is using. Very little 
stock being fed. on account of high price 
of stock and the feed bill. Cabbage has 
taken a drop in price. Potatoes are not 
very strong. Wheat. $2.10; corn. $1.90; 
oats. 65c; barley. 95c; veal, 17c; pork, 
15c: beef. 13c; chickens, 25c; ducks, 26c. 
Hay, $20 per ton. e. T. b. 
Ontario Co.. X. Y. 
Weather moderate, not much snow, 
earth roads very rough. May not a heavy 
crop; reported as selling for $20 loose at 
barn. Oat crop was good, worth 
about 90c per bu. Buckwheat was a fair 
crop generally, with larger sowings; aver¬ 
age price about $3.50 per cwt. Potatoes 
about half crop in this section, hut of 
good quality, without much blight or ret: 
price, 90c to $1 per bu. Fall rye badly 
winter-killed : not very much sown. Corn 
for silage fair. Apple crop not large; 
Winter apples sold in the Fall for $1 per 
bu.; others at 50c per cwt. for cider or 
vinegar. Grade cows sell for around $100. 
more or less, according to quality. Milk 
League prices; butter up to 75c per lb. 
\. ood for fuel sells for $3 per cord, stove 
length, in the smaller villages; $4 in 
larger towns. Coal seems to he in good 
supply, hut high priced. Dressed pork in 
carcass, 22c per lb.; salt pork, 38c; hams 
and bacon. 45c; dressed beef, 24c side or 
quarter for Western beef; native beef, 15 
to 16c: eggs, 05 to 70c per doz. m. 
Delaware Co.. N. Y. 
This section of Michigan. Berrien Co., 
is engaged very largely in fruit raising. 
Grapes, pears, peaches and berries are the 
leading crops in the order named. The 
farms are small, from five to 40 acres, the 
average being 20 acres, yet enough feed is 
raised for home use. We depend almost 
entirely on Chicago for a market. Berries, 
$3.50 per 24-qt. case. ITay, $32 per ton; 
straw. $12.50; corn. $1.50 bu.; oats, 80c 
bu. Corn fodder. 5c per bundle. Butter, 
75c: eggs, 60c; milk, 12c per qt. We are 
having au open Winter, with too much 
rain. Farmers busy trimming trees. 
Berrien Co., Mich. l. b. r. 
Most of my farm products are fed on 
the farm. No. 1 apples are bringing from 
$2 50 to $3 per bu.: potatoes, $1.25 bu.; 
cabbage, $8 per 100. as nil cabbage is 
sold by (he head in the Albany market. 
Hay, $33 t,i $34; rye straw, $18 i<> $19. 
Bye. $150 bu.; oats. 90c bu.; wheat, 
$2.15; buckwheat, $1.30. All milk pro¬ 
duced in this section goes by auto truck 
to Albany and is retailed there. Bottled 
milk is 15c per qt.: dipped milk, 13c. 
Farmers receive League price. The busi¬ 
ness outlook for the farmer is not very 
good, as help is very scarce, and what 
there is demand very high wages. The 
prices we receive do not correspond, on an 
average, with what we have to pay when 
we have to buy. A. o. B. 
Albany Co., N. Y r . 
Wheat, $2.20 per bu.; corn, $1.00; 
oats, 75c; rye. $1.45 ; potatoes, $1 25; 
hogs, 21c per lb.; butcher cattle, 13 to 
14c per lb.; cows. $50 to $200; draft 
horses. $150 to $250. Chickens, live 
weight, 25c per lb. Hay, Timothy, $34 
to $36 per ton. Wheat straw, $18 per 
ton Havana tobacco, 35 to 40o per lb. 
Kggs. 60c; butter. 60c per lb. We pay 
for feed : Cottonseed meal, $65 per ton ; 
cottonseed feed, $51; hurley feed. $51; 
bran. $55 ; middlings, $57.50. A. m. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Ilay a good crop, $40 to $42; rye, good 
crop, some over 20 bu. to the acre, $1.60 
per ini. Wheat about 18 bu to acre, price 
$2.20. Potatoes, 90c to $1.25 per bu., 
wholesale; a fair crop. Green aphis ap¬ 
peared for the first time in our section this 
year, and was quite a serious pest. Oats 
a fine crop. 80c per bu. Cabbage, good 
crop, from $5 to $10 per 100 heads. 
Farm labor scarce. Crops raised in this 
section are corn, oats, rye, wheat, cab¬ 
bage and potatoes. Farmers as a rule 
prosperous. A. D. B. 
Carbon Co., Pa. 
Wheat, $2.10 per bu.; corn, $1 per 
bu.; barley, 80c; oats, 70c; buckwheat, 
$1.50. Chickens. 21c per lb.; _good prime 
steers, 9i4c per lb.; hogs. 15c per lb.; 
lambs, 13c per lb.; hay, No. 1, $25 per 
ton. Blitter, at the store, 50c per lb.; 
eggs. 60c. Beans, no market. Good cows 
from $50 to $75 per head. Clover seed, 
$18 per ton. Wool in Spring, 67c per lb. 
There was a large crop of hay jn this 
section and oats went from 50 to 75c per 
bu. per acre. Spring wheat, 30 to 40c 
bu.; buckwheat, a short crop; Winter 
wheat. 15 to 30c per bu. per acre; beaus 
were failure. Good corn went from 50c 
to $1 per bu. per acre. Potatoes, a fair 
yield. Winter wheat looks fine this Win¬ 
ter. Sheep are a good money-maker if 
the dogs would let them alone ; got in my 
flock and killed half of them, and bit the 
rest of them, so I went out of sheep. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. j. F. w. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
EARLY MATURITY CAUSED RAPID MOVE¬ 
MENT OF RIPENING STOCK 
Fruits and vegetables are moving along 
to market rather faster than usual this 
season, but the public seems to be able to 
take all supplies. Field beans are almost 
the only line that is accumulating just 
now. The reserve supplies of cabbage, 
too. are large, although keeping quality 
is not up to standard. In fact, scarcely 
any lines are keeping well. Over-ripeness 
and shrinkage are complained of from 
West to East and in Canada, the condi¬ 
tion applying to apples, oranges, onions, 
cabbage, etc. The cause is laid to the 
early ripening season and the generally 
mild Fall and Winter. Conditions have 
been favorable to early maturity. Both 
ouions and potatoes have been moving 
about one-third heavier than last seasou. 
The greater part of the apple crop ap¬ 
peared to have been shipped and also con¬ 
sumed. and markets already are filled 
with cold storage stock decidedly earlier 
in the year than they usually come out. 
Heavy supplies of full ripe fruit and 
vegetables tend to unsettle the markets. 
If buying power were not. still good, low 
prices might result. As it is, considerable 
stuff sells lower in the cities than in the 
shipping sections; that is, the over-ripe 
or damaged stuff does, and the range of 
prices is wide. Good ouions. for instance, 
bring $1.40 to $1.00 per 100 lbs., sacked, 
in Eastern producing regions, f.o.b. 
sacked, while city markets range $1.25 to 
$1.75. Cabbage sells $20 to $25 per ton 
f.o.b. shipping points, and ranges $20 to 
$38 in city markets. Over-ripe apples, 
too, can he bought lower in the cities (ban 
they were quoted in the producing sec¬ 
tions. Western box apples have been 
steadily rising in the shipping regions 
until the top price there is only 50 cents 
below the wholesale top in the cities. 
Early in the season the difference was fully 
$1. Poor keeping quality is supposed to be 
the reason. It looks as if apples might 
he high for stock coming out of cold stor¬ 
age late in the season, provided there is 
any stock put away this season that will 
keep well to the end of the storage sea¬ 
son. Exports of apples continue in lib¬ 
eral quantities. 
Potatoes are fully holding their pace 
at about 200 cars per day and selling at 
$2 to $2.50 per 100 lbs. in large lots, 
sacked. This range covers most leading 
market centers. In producing sections 
prices range from $1.25 to $2, varying 
chiefly according to access to the great 
markets. 
Celery has ranged as high as $9 to $11 
per crate in various leading cities. Field 
beans sell a little lower almost every 
weelc. ranging $10 per 1(X> lbs. wholesale 
in the Eastern cities for good white va¬ 
rieties. These sell at $7 to $8 the country 
over, uncleaned and in bulk, in producing 
sections. Probably these beans will be 
wanted and active export buying may 
start any time. .Just now they are hard 
to sell. G. B. F. 
“Tommy Atkins” pleaded exemption 
from church parade on the ground that 
he was an agnostic. The sergeant-major 
assumed an expression of innocent inter¬ 
est. “Don’t you believe in the Ten Com¬ 
mandments?” he mildly asked the bold 
freethinker. “Not one, sir,” was the re¬ 
ply. "What! Not the rule about keeping 
the Sabbath?” “No, sir.” “Ah. well, 
you’re the very man I’ve been looking for 
to scrub out the canteen.”—London Tid- 
Bits. 
