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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Crops and Farm News 
New York State Horticultural Society 
The eastern meeting will be held at 
Vassal- Institute, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
February 19-21. The State Experiment 
Station .will bring their large display of 
fruit, and the liberal premiums 'offered 
ought to bring out a tine display from the 
Hudson Valley. A program has been 
prepared to suit the needs of the fruit 
growers in the eastern part of the State, 
and every grower in the Hudson River 
section should make an effort to attend 
this meeting. It is the desire and aim 
of the new organization to become the 
largest and most useful horticultural so¬ 
ciety in the United .States. That can 
only be accomplished by a large support¬ 
ing membership. Our aim is .‘{.000 mem¬ 
bers in 1920. E. C. GILLETT. 
Penn Yan, N. Y. Secretary. 
Hay. $.‘12; straw, oat, rye and wheat, 
$18; wheat, $2; buckwheat, $2; rye. $2; 
oats. 90c; ear corn. $1 per bu. Potatoes, 
$1.50; apples, $1.25. Crops are looking 
well. t. K. 
Clearfield Co., Pa. 
Hay. $2S to $32. according to quality 
and kind; corn, $1.50 to $1.75; oats, 75 
to 80c; wheat, $2.10 to $2.12; potatoes, 
$1.50 to $2 per bu.; cabbage, 2 to 3c per 
lb. This part of the county is not farmed 
as extensively now as it was before the 
development of the coal and coke industry, 
as the companies bought a large amount 
of tin- surface to get the coal, and where 
the coal is removed and the surface poi¬ 
soned by black dam]) and moisture drawn 
out, it does not produce so readily. Wheat, 
corn, oats and hay are the items produced 
and some places potatoes are grown quite 
extensively. Some of the farmers keep 
cows and ship milk, which brings 40c 
per gal., less 2 1 / &o freight. O. w. R. 
Westmoreland Co.. Pa. 
We think we are in the garden spot of 
the world, and Hunterdon County right 
at the head of the onion bed; general 
farming, with dairying in the lead. This 
was at one time the leading county in the 
State for peaches, but that day is past. 
A few farms for sale, and more for rent. 
Owners think land here is good stuff to 
own. We all belong to the Dairymen’s 
League and get League prices for milk. 
Corn, ear, $1.70 to $1.80 per 100 lbs.; 
buckwheat. $3 per ewt.: wheat, $2.10 per 
bu,; oats. 75c; rye, $1.-10; flour, $12 per 
bble. Fair to good horses, $100 to $250: 
cows, $75 to $1501 We have no large 
dairies, but one man’s milk check was 
over $2,500 last month. A. w. M. 
Hunterdon Co.. N. J. 
1 am located in what is known as the 
southern end of Lancaster County, Pa., 
and almost every farm product is raised. 
Most of us practice what is called four- 
year rotation system, such as corn, oats 
and potatoes and tobacco and silage, then 
wheat, then grass for two yearn. The 
milk business is carried on quite exten¬ 
sively through here, and farming in gen¬ 
eral looks much better this year than last. 
The outlook for wheat is good. Last year 
most all froze out; some farmers hardly 
got their seed. Wheat is worth Govern- 
ment price. $2.20; potatoes, $1.50 per 
bu.; oats, 75c; corn. $1.60 per bu.; hay, 
$25 ton. Not much grain sold except 
wheat. Corn and oats mostly fed to 
stock. All kinds of cow feed is very 
high, from $50 to $00 per ton. Milk 
price varies, according to location. We 
sell to Abbott Co.: they have a receiving 
plant about two miles from us; we re¬ 
ceived for December milk, $3.95 for four 
per cent fat. J. B. T. 
Bartville, Pa. 
We are having a mild and open Win¬ 
ter so far. Wheat is looking well. Fod¬ 
der plenty; hay, $30: straw, $10; wheat, 
$2.15; oats. 90c per bu.; corn, $1; buck¬ 
wheat. $3.50 per ewt. Potatoes, $1.75; 
apples scarce and hard to get sit any 
price. Butter, 60c per lb.; eggs. 55c. 
Chickens. 25c per lb. Not much Fall 
plowing done. With the war closed the 
farmers in this vicinity are looking to 
1919 as being a prosperous year. j. c. A. 
Indiana Co., Pa. 
This is mostly a dairy county; chiefly 
Holsteins. Some parts of this section 
they raise plenty of potatoes and cab¬ 
bage. The crop was not as good as com¬ 
mon this year; in the Fall potatoes were 
$1 per bu., and cabbage $10 to $14 per 
ton at the car. Quite a lot of young 
stock raised around here, selling the fresh 
cows. They bring from $125 to $150 for 
good cows. There was an auction a few 
days ago of Holstein stock which brought 
good prices The best price paid was 
$1,200 for a three-months-old bull calf. 
They raise quite a lot of pigs around 
here; last Fall they brought $5 to $6, 
six weeks old. This Spring they will ask 
$8 for them. Dressed pork, 23c per lb. 
Quite a lot of poultry raised. c. A. s. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Countrywide Produce Conditions 
SOME LEADING LINES RANGE LOWER UNDER 
PRESSURE OF HEAVY SUPPLIES. 
Movement, of produce has declined con¬ 
siderably from the heavy volume of the 
middle of January, but is still about 50 
per cent above the amount at the corre¬ 
sponding time last year. Transportation 
conditions are quite favorable for Win¬ 
ter and the prices in most lines are high 
enough to bring out ample supplies. Gen¬ 
eral buying power of the public continues 
good, although there is considerable un¬ 
employment at some points. 
POTATOES WEAK AND DULL. 
Declines of the past few weeks pro¬ 
duced the usual effect upon buyers afraid 
of being caught before the bottom i« 
reached, and demand is rather slow and 
hesitating. Chicago, usually regarded as 
the best single indicator on potatoes, is 
relatively steady around $1.80 per 100 lbs. 
for car lots. Most Eastern markets are 
lower, mostly $2.15 to $2.50. Producing 
sections quote sacked white varieties at 
$1.30 to $1.65 f. o. b. West, and $1.85 to 
$1.95 in the East. Considerable bulk 
stock in the .West and North is purchased 
as low as $1 to $1.25 to growers. Various 
sections, especially the Great Lakes re¬ 
gion, are cleaning up quite satisfactorily, 
but, there is more or less hesitation on tin- 
part of both the holders and tin- buyers. 
One thing is certain; liberal movement 
all through this Winter is the best safe¬ 
guard against a repetition of last Spring’s 
slump in the market. 
NEW CABBAGE COMPETES WITH OLD. 
Movement of old cabbage is slowing 
up, but new cabbage is offsetting the de¬ 
crease, iind prices tended steadily down¬ 
ward through January, now mostly $20 
to $35 per ton, bulk, for hard, long-keep¬ 
ing s-tock. Southern cabbage snows much 
smaller acreage this year than last, and 
the same is true of Southern onions and 
Southern potatoes, although movement of 
seed potatoes is fully as active as last 
year. Probably later planting will bring 
up the acreage considerably. 
ONIONS DOING WELL. 
The onion situation, continues favorable 
to holders. Stocks are firmly held and 
prices have tended upward since the first 
of the year, some city markets reaching 
$2.75 per K)0 lbs. for best stock. Indica¬ 
tions are that the surplus is being fast 
reduced to a point where the outlook will 
be fairly safe. Apparently the Spring 
markets will not be flooded with Southern 
stock to any such extent as the past two 
seasons, and the prospects look good for 
both classes of producers because of the 
limited supplies in sight. 
APPLES STILL HIGHER. 
Changes have been always upward for 
quite a while, both for barrel and box 
apples. Best grades cold storage Bald¬ 
wins exceeded $8 per bbl. in some markets 
and have ranged around $7 in most cen¬ 
ters. Russets sell almost 50c below Bald¬ 
wins, and Ben Davis about $1 below. 
Southern Yorks sell about the same as 
Baldwins. Not much common storage 
stock is appearing, and most of.it is be¬ 
low top grade or size, but it sells fairly 
close to price of cold storage stock Bald¬ 
win, B2% reaching $5.50 f. o. b. in New 
York State shipping sections. Export 
demand keeps the market at a tension 
very favorable to holders. The main ad¬ 
verse feature is the abundance of oranges 
which art- coming in twice the volume of 
last season’s movement. G. B. F. 
Buffalo Markets 
The season for keeping green food in 
the open has seldom been equaled, though 
it keeps badly enough indoors. We can 
dig parsnips and vegetable oyster just as 
in Spring, and if the condition of the 
Winter had been understood it would 
have been easy to give cabbage, lettuce 
and the like a little protection now and 
then and kept them growing. It. has not 
snowed for 17 days, and there is no snow 
in sight. Farmers are still plowing. 
Winter onions are all green on the tops. 
Onions and even potatoes are sprouting 
in the cellars. 
The wholesale price of butter is down 
several cents and a further reaction is 
predicted. Potatoes, onions and cabbage 
are low, but apples keep up to former 
Winter prices. Beans do not drop off, 
and poultry is kept up by light receipts. 
Smaller prices are. offset by the ease of 
handling products. They say February 
will even up, and if it does not the wise 
men who think it was the war that 
brought on such violent weather while 
it lasted will be sure they are right. 
Potatoes are in light demand at 60 to 
S5e per bu., with small ones as low as 
45c per bn. Sweets are $2.50 to $3 per 
hamper. Apples touch the top at $7.50 
February 8, 1919 
per bbl. for Kings and Spys and are not 
below $4 for ungraded Baldwins. Wind¬ 
falls are 75c to $1.25 per bu. Onions 
are easy at 60c to $1.25 per bu. Beans 
dull at $6 to $7 per bu. 
In vegetables cabbage leads for cheap¬ 
ness, at $1.50 to $2, with squash at $2 
to $2.75, both per 100 lbs. String beans 
are $4 to $7.50 per hamper; Brussels 
sprouts, .18 to 25c per qt.; carrots. 75c 
to $1; parsnips, $1.25 to $1.75; spinach, 
$1 to $1.25; white, turnips, $1 to $1.25; 
all per bu. Celery is 75c to $1.40 per 
doz. bunches, and $10 per crate for Cali¬ 
fornia. Lettuce is $3.50 to $4 for Flor¬ 
ida, hamper; yellow turnips, $1.50 to $2 
per bbl.; hothouse cucumbers, $3 to $3.50 
per box; tomatoes, Cuban. $5 to $7 per 
crate; endive, imported, 25 to 35c per 
lb.; parsley, 40 to 50c; radishes, 25 to 
30c; shallots, 75 to 80c; all per doz. 
bunches. Peppers, $6.50 to $7 per box; 
a little California cauliflower at $3 to 
$3.25 per crate. 
Fancy and Southern fruits are quiet, 
at $4 to $6.25 for oranges; $4 to $4.75 
for lemons; $2.50 to $6 for grapefruit; 
all per box. $1 to $1.25 for limes, per 
100; $6.50 to $8 for pineapples, $6 to 87 
per keg for Malaga grapes; $21 to $22 
per bbl. for cranberries. 
Butter has steadied up some just now. 
but is not very firm, at 52 to 6Gc for 
creamery; 47 to 54c for dairy; 42 to 4sc 
for crocks, and 30 to 36c for common, 
with 28 to 34c for oleomargarine. Cheese 
is quiet at. 37 to 38c for flats and daisies; 
33 to 35c for limburger, and 42 to 45c 
for Swiss. Eggs weak, at 6(5 to 68c for 
white hennery ; 62 to 64c for State and 
Western candled : no storage offered. 
Poultry is in good demand, with light 
supply at 40 to 46c for dressed turkey; 
28 to 34c for fowl; 27 to 35c for chick¬ 
ens ; 27 to 28c for old roosters; 28 to 30c 
for geese, and 38 to 42c for ducks. Live 
poultry is about 3c lower than dressed, 
except ducks and geese, which are about 
the same. The rabbit supply is heavy at 
50 to (55c for cottontails and 60 to 90c 
for jacks, per pair. 
Maple sugar has reappeared and is 
already weak in price on account of the 
general “sugar” weather, at $1 to $1.75 
for syrup, per gal., and 18c per lb. for 
sugar. Honey is firm at 35 to 36c for 
No. 1 extract and 27 to 38c for buck¬ 
wheat, per lb. J. w. C. 
A 
TRADE MARK 
The City of 
GOODRICH 
Akron. Ohii 
hut 
on 
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a Goodrich Basis 
T AKE up your farm account book, 
and run your pencil down to the 
item, tires. Write Goodrich before 
the item, and cut its figures for 1919. 
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Make Goodrich tire costs your standard. If 
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Have a close face to face look at the burly, 
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Notice how their extra wide SAFETY 
TREAD, with anti-skid bars set well up the 
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the grinding of road ruts. 
All through and all around, Goodrich Tires 
are built to render service value up to the last 
cent of their cost. 
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BEST 
THE LONG RUN 
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