B»e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Crops and Farm News 
This is ii good fanning county; its 
climate is adapted to all kinds of grain 
and fruit. A good deal of the land being 
hilly, it is a good county for stock rais¬ 
ing. The southern part is a good farming 
country; the northern part is very moun¬ 
tainous. We have Sugar Valley, Nitney 
Valley and Bald Eagle Valley, which is 
good farming country and mostly lime¬ 
stone land, but on account of being far 
from railroad it makes it very inconveni¬ 
ent for the farmers. Some of the valleys 
are HO miles long and from one to if) 
miles wide. These valleys lie two to five 
miles apart, with ravines where there will 
be a public road from one valley to the 
other. The mountains are from 1,000 to 
2.000 feet high. The roads in the val¬ 
leys are nearly all State roads, made of 
limestone, but others are in poor condi¬ 
tion. The Winter crops are looking fine. 
There was more wheat sown last Fall 
than ever before. The Winter has been 
very warm so far, very little ice and only 
about five inches of snow, and it is all 
gone. The only industry we have here in 
Beech Creek is the manufacturing of fire 
brick. They pay 35c per hour for com¬ 
mon labor. The outlook for the farmers 
was never better than at the present 
time; they are keeping more stock than 
ever, and labor looks as if it would be 
plentiful this year. In this county the 
farmers have raised more grain and stock 1 
in the last few years than ever before 
with less help. There are going to be 
very few sales this .Spring, and the farm¬ 
ers are prepared to have the bumper crop 
for Clinton County this year. There is a 
great deal of Fall plowing done. The 
farmers with 70 or 80 acres cleared land 
eeem to be making more money than the 
larger farmers. These farms are more 
ready sale than the larger ones, and most 
of the farms in this county have good 
buildings. The small farms range in price 
from $3,000 to $7,000. They use a good 
deal of lime and phosphate, and the trac¬ 
tor is coming into use. The prices are as 
follows on produce: Eggs, 60c doz.: 
milk, $3.50 to $4 per 100 lbs.; butter. 00c 
lb.; potatoes, $1.25 bu.; onions, $1.50 
bu.; chickens, live weight, 25c lb.: pork, 
dressed. 20 e lb.; shotes. $10 to $15 apiece. 
Beef by quarter, 14-to 15c lb. Hay. Tim¬ 
othy. $30; mixed. $25 per ton. bailed. 
Wheat. $2.20: corn. $1.50; oats. 75c: 
buckwheat. $3.20 per 100 lbs. ; shorts. $58 
ton. Cows, fresh. $80 to $00. Horses, all 
prices; the best. $200, and one can buy a 
pretty good horse for $50. a. b. b. 
Clinton Co.. Pa. 
Path Valley, in which Fannettsburg is 
located, is a beautiful, productive, moun¬ 
tain valley, about 30 miles long and from 
one to three miles wide. The principal 
products are wheat, corn, oats, hay, live 
stock and apples: also some lumber. 
Steer feeding is gaining in popularity, as 
it makes a good market for the farm 
roughage and corn. Apple growing is at¬ 
tracting some attention and should grow 
in favor. Our soil and elevation is well 
suited to the production of apples of fine 
quality. Wheat, $2.20; corn. $1.55; oats, 
75c: feeding steers. 8 to 13c per lb., as to 
quality. Cows, $75 to $100. Apples sold 
from orchards in Fall at about $5 per 
bbl. f. o. b. K. w. M. 
Franklin Co., T’a. 
Wheat prices range from $2.10 to 
$2.20; rye. $1.70; corn. $1.75 to $2: 
oats. 70 to 80c; barley. $1; buckwheat, 
$3 per cwt. Potatoes, 00c to $1 ; apples, 
$1.50 to $2. Pork, 20 to 22c per lb., 
dressed. Beef. 18 to 24c, dressed. But¬ 
ter. 05c; eggs, 00 to 70c. Poultry, 22 to 
25c pei' lb.. The whole of Morrison’s 
Cove is farm land and of the best quality 
<>f limestone. The business outlook is 
good at present, as there is ready market 
for everything the farmer produces, and 
everything looks favorable for a prosper¬ 
ous year ahead ; the fine weather we are 
having gives the farmer a chance to get 
mil manure and to push along work that 
would lie if the weather was rough. There 
is no reason for complaint as to the stat¬ 
us of things in general; all we need is 
push and energy at the right end of the 
work, and everything will go well. 
Bedford Co.. Pa. i„ f. b. 
A mild, moist Winter thus far. with 
hay and roughage scarce and high. Farm 
stock generally healthy. A Federal in¬ 
spector every two or three counties the 
last few years has done much to abate 
hog cholera. Owing to a short corn crop 
hogs are being marketed light, with pros¬ 
pects of few for Spring and Summer 
sales. Farmers receive 60c and above per 
lb. for butterfat, which is churned in 
Omaha. Lincoln and other large towns. 
The buttermilk is now being condensed 
to a semi-solid and sold to farmers for 
pig feed. Slowly increased interest in 
dairying for production of cream is gen¬ 
eral. Poultry, 20 to 25c per lb.: eggs, 
around 50c. Tin 1 shortest apple crop of 
recent years, with New York and Moun¬ 
tain State apples supplying the markets. 
Prospect for Winter wheat never were 
better, with a large acreage. More than 
average rainfall in the last three months 
with indications of continuance. Co¬ 
operative marketing and dairying on a 
healthy basis is growing. Increase of 
migratory bird life, so important to agri¬ 
culture in the prairie States is notice¬ 
able; hence regret at reported decision 
of unconstitutionality of Federal law. 
Nemaha Co., Neb. k. a. 
You Ridden. In The Essex? 
It Is The New Moderate 
Priced Fine Car—Price 
The Essex must have made a hundred, 
thousand friends since January 16th, the 
day on which it was first shown in all parts 
of the country by hundreds of dealers. 
It is the new light, moderate priced car that 
has the endurance, comfort and rich com¬ 
pleteness that you expect only in large and 
costly automobiles. 
Most of the hundreds of dealers who will 
sell the Essex have been doing business with 
us for a long time. They know the kind of 
cars we build. 
Under those circumstances they were not 
as skeptical as they might otherwise have 
been about a car of which no details were 
given. But even if they had felt uncertain 
because of the newness of the Essex, all 
doubt was removed as soon as they had 
ridden in it. 
That is a distinctive characteristic of the 
Essex. It is remarked by nearly everyone. 
Pride of ownership does not alone spring 
comfortable cushions, with their high backs, 
associates the moderate priced Essex with 
costly cars. The owner need never apologize 
for either its appearance or performance. 
Squeaks do not develop, as in other cars of 
its type, because an unusually heavy frame 
assures absolute rigidity. Body bolts cannot 
work loose. The finish will long retain its 
freshness. 
Ride In The Essex Over 
Rough Roads 
Every dealer is demonstrating the Essex 
over the roughest pavements in his locality. 
It reveals a new distinctive motor car qual¬ 
ity. You might easily think you are in a 
long wheelbase car weighing two or more 
tons. This feature alone will appeal to you 
with more than ordinary interest. 
The Essex motor deserves your special 
attention. Note how r it is arranged to get 
the maximum power from every drop 
of gasoline. See how stable it 
See how stable it 
is and why it is free from the 
need of tinkering and atten¬ 
tion. The Essex has stability. 
It has quality as well as light¬ 
ness; endurance and comfort 
as well as a low first cost. These 
things will be apparent when 
you see and ride in the Essex. 
A Light Car Anybody 
Will Be Proud To Own 
The Essex is beautiful to be¬ 
hold. The very feel of the 
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