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February 15, 1019 
<Ibe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
is Corn was grown solely with 
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Government Cabbage Report 
The eight States leading in shipment 
of late cabbage are New York, Wisconsin, 
Michigan, Colorado, Ohio, Minnesota, 
Iowa and Indiana. These States pro¬ 
duced this season an estimated crop of 
33,505 cars, of 15 tons each, compared 
with 30,704 cars in 1917, and 16,016 cars 
in 1916. Shipments for the season of 
1918-19 to January 1, 1919. were 13,430 
cars. Shipments for the whole season of 
1917-18 were 15,639 cars, and for the 
whole season of 1916-17 shipments were 
6,204 cars, from these States. Shipments 
in carlots were about one-half total esti¬ 
mated crop in 1917-1S and were between 
one-third and one-half the estimated crop 
in 1916-17. 
Of the large balance of the total esti¬ 
mated crop not shown as moving in car- 
lot it is estimated that kraut manufacture 
will have taken nearly 6.000 cars this 
season, compared with 7,340 cars last 
season. The rest of the crop may be 
accounted for by nearby use and market¬ 
ing and by waste, freezing, cattle feed, 
etc. There is also a considerable shrink¬ 
age during storage, and this shrinkage is 
likely to be heavy when the keeping qual¬ 
ity of the crop is below normal. 
The season for Northern cabbage 
started very high at $70 to $80 per ton 
in August, but declined rapidly as soon 
as supplies became fairly abundant and 
reached a low point of $12 to $25 in lead¬ 
ing consuming markets during the height 
<>f the harvest season in early November. 
A recovery followed with rapid advance 
in November and a range of $28 to $35 
in leading jobbing markets was reached 
in early December. During the remain¬ 
der of December and throughout January 
the general trend has been downward, 
although considerable of the early ad¬ 
vance has been retained. 
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Wheat iu all parts of Portage and Sum¬ 
mit counties looks well, and at this date 
promises a good crop; nevertheless the 
farmers are complaining of the weather; 
so much freezing of nights and then thaw 
during the day. which they say will kill 
the wheat. The way wheat and grass 
looks now there will he a bumper crop. 
Stock is wintering well; cows very high 
in prices ; horses low. J. B. S. 
Portage Co., O. 
Dairying and poultry raising are two 
leading branches of farming in this coun¬ 
ty. The milk is sold to cheese factories 
and creameries, or shipped to nearby 
cities, prices from $3.25 to $3.80 per 100 
lbs. for January. Butter, 50c, but not 
very plentiful. The poultry business has 
been less than normal for the past year j 
or two on account of high prices and 
poor quality of feed, and the outlook for 
the coming Summer is not very bright at 
present. Eggs are 55c at local stores. 
Thousands of cases of eggs are shipped 
out of here to New York and Pittsburg 
and other nearby cities every year. We 
got a check today from a New York deal¬ 
er for fancy white eggs which netted us 
64c. If you want to have trouble with 
i the express company try shipping eggs. 
Corn, none raised for sale, but would sell 
for about $1.50 per bu. Oats, 70c per 
bu.; wheat. $2.10; 1918 crop good for this 
'■ section, but has been slow sale all Fall 
and Winter. Potatoes, fair crop; $1.25 
to $1.50 per bu. Chickens, 22c, live 
weight. Veals, 14c per lb.; hogs, 16c per 
lb.; ordinary fat cattle. 8 and 9c. Hay, 
$21 per ton. Wool, 65c. From all ap¬ 
pearances there are more dogs raised in 
this county than sheep. I never saw 
wheat going through Winter iu finer con¬ 
dition. although badly infested with Iles- 
sittu fly. Farmers are getting $3.60 to 
$4.80 working at railroad improvements 
this Winter. Most farms around here 
are run on a one-man basis. I believe 
that if TTncle Sam wants to make farmers 
out of some of his soldiers he could im¬ 
prove some of our abandoned farm land 
here in Crawford County to better ad¬ 
vantage than some desert or swamp. 
Farmers seem to he optimistic regarding 
the future, but I believe if we don’t or¬ 
ganize and stand together big business 
will come out ahead, as usual. If we 
do not help ourselves no one else is likely 
to. After keeping fairly accurate ac¬ 
counts for the past few years I And that 
we make a very small profit above cost 
of production and interest on investment. 
The truth is that with the present stand¬ 
ards of living a man has a job on his 
hands to make a decent living and pay 
for a farm home at the same time, with 
conditions as they are at present. It is 
rny opinion that the farmers in the great 
Western States doing business on a large 
scale have a better chance for success 
than us Eastern farmers, but of course 
we have the advantage of good markets. 
Crawford Co., Pa. w. A. f. 
Wheat, $2.20 per bu.; rye, $1.50; oats, 
80c; corn, $1.60; butter. 60c per lb.; 
eggs, 58c; chickens, 26c per lb.; calves, 
16c per lb., live weight. The farm con¬ 
ditions around here were, for the last 
crop, as follows: Wheat, exceptionally 
good; rye, ordinary ; oats couldn’t be bet¬ 
ter in quality, and yielded from 10 to 60 
bu. per acre. Corn was somewhat a fail¬ 
ure on account of the drought. Dairying 
never was better for prices received for 
the products, hut the price of the feed and 
labor is entirely too high to pay the farm¬ 
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products. Tf no other means are followed, 
and the farmer not better protected, 
things must go sky-high, for nobody wants 
to farm any more, for he can earn much 
more elsewhere. F. J. P. 
i Berks Co., Pa. 
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