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| THE RURAL NEW-YORKER E 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
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The latter part of April and first part 
of May was far from being Spring weath¬ 
er, which has made sowing late, and, 
coupled with a heavy downfall of rain, 
practically covering all o” Maine, has 
made matters serious in regard to sow¬ 
ing oats, and unless the weather is more 
favorable to the farmer less grain will be 
sown than in former years. Farm labor 
is scarce, and those who hire are paying 
high wages. It is very noticeable how the 
New England Milk Producers’ Associa¬ 
tion is making rapid progress in this sec¬ 
tion of Maine; meetings have been well 
attended and have organized in most of 
the tow.is. In this section farmers state 
they v\ 11 see this through as the final 
effort to get a reasonable profit for their 
milk. This is a good dairy section, with 
milk stations handy; new milch cows are 
in good demand and bring from $100 to 
$150. Sheep raising has increased and 
farmers are getting good flocks to show 
for their efforts. We have had two severe 
frosts the pas' week and have not. deter¬ 
mined what damage has been done. Hay 
prospects do not look good at the present 
time. Farmers are getting 50c per doz. 
for eggs; meal, $1.80; oats, .32 lbs., 90c; 
corn, $2 per bu.; bran. $2.70; mixed feed, 
$2.90; middlings, $2.80. Hay, loose in 
barns, $16 to $20 per ton. w. n. B. 
Penobscot Co., Mo. 
The only thing that gets to market 
from here that amounts to much is milk. 
The price for May for Grade II is $3.00 
per ewt., three per cent, and Grade A is 
15c higher per ewt. Taking the county 
ns a whole the western part is mostly 
owned by a city millionaire. The central 
part furnishes milk for Feekskill (south 
central) and the northern central Storm- 
ville factory. The eastern part is all milk 
which goes to Patterson, Towners, Car¬ 
mel, Maliopac and Baldwin Place. The 
indications are that there will be a fair 
crop of apples, some peaches. Potatoes 
are selling for $4.50 to $5 per barrel. 
Some farmers are getting disgusted 
with the help problem, and are seeding 
their farms down to grass and going to 
do what they can themselves only. Good 
many milking machines being installed. 
Help $35 and $40 with board, $50 and 
$60 other ways. I do not believe that 
there will he as much raised this year as 
there was last. Talk about the soldiers 
hunting farms; none coming in this sec¬ 
tion. Cows are as high as horses. Cows 
sell for $150 to $175, often more. This 
is the average. Tigs plenty at $3.50 to 
$4 each. Feed, $70 per ton. Pasture 
short for the time of year. Good many 
have turned cattle out rather than pay 
the price for feed. Farmers are getting 
plowing pretty well along, most of them 
doing less than usual. A. B. c. 
Putnam Co., N. Y. 
Products mostly raised in this section 
are berries, fruit, potatoes, tomatoes, 
beans, peas and corn. Berries, fair crop; 
weevil working hard on strawberries; 
raspberries and blackberries looking well; 
peaches hurt some by frost. Fairly heavy 
acreage of potatoes; white potatoes doing 
well. Farmers busy planting sweet po¬ 
tatoes. Eggs bringing 48 to 50<* doz. 
Milk, 10c qt. g. ii. d. 
Camden Co., N. J. 
Milk. $2.92 for 3 per cent, with 4c 
extra for every one-tenth of 1. per cent 
above 3 per cent. Butter, 55 to 60c; 
eggs. 40c; potatoes, $1; apples, $1.25; 
veals, live, 12c per lb.. Hay, $15; oats, 
80c per bu. Milk is the largest product. 
The milk plant here is receiving about 
70.000 lbs. per day. Not many oats plant¬ 
ed yet; all farming is two weeks late. 
Clover and wheat looking very good. Hav¬ 
ing lots of wet weather and roads are 
very bad. I travel 18 miles every day, so 
I see the condition of most crops and 
roads. c. .7. T. 
Crawford Co., Pa. 
Crop conditions at present do not look 
good; such a wet Spring; hardly any 
oats or grain of any kind put in the 
ground as yet. and we have just had a big 
rain that will keep us off the ground for 
at least another week. Wheat and grass 
are our principal crops, and they look 
promising for a good crop, except that it 
is too wet. Wheat is getting yellow at 
the roots from too much moisture. Ilay 
sold lately. No. 1, $28 per ton ; oats, 65c; 
barley, $1.20. I notice the food control¬ 
lers do not get after the miller who puts 
the price on flour. Farmers here are blue 
enough on account of the lateness of the 
Spring, and so wet all the time. Corn 
ground not even plowed and it keeps on 
getting wetter. Our business outlook does 
not look good at all. j. D. p. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
The farmers are very late with their 
Spring work, owing to the cool, wet sea¬ 
son. Cows are out to pasture as a rule, 
hut the feed is rather short. Rather more 
Spring wheat sown this Spring than 
usual. About the usual acreage of po¬ 
tatoes and cabbage will he cultivated in 
this locality. Hay is high and scarce. 
Many farmers are unable to secure help, 
consequently farming is an up-hill job. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. H. N. W. 
Our fruit here seems to be all killed, 
and is falling off now. Fruit is important 
Jxere for home use, and not commercially, 
«but the'loss of the fruit will be "keenly- 
felt. We have had a wet, cold spell, and 
corn planting is already a week late. 
Highland Co., O. w. E. D. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
ACTIVE ADVANCING MARKETS ARE THE 
RULE IN MOST VEGETABLE LINES 
Movement is becoming more active, 
shipments running 10 to 20 per cent heav¬ 
ier than a year ago. Most leading lines 
show moderate increase as the season ad- 
vane's, but of course the early stuff, like 
spinach, lettuce and celery, is going 
lighter, and so are old vegetables and 
nearly all fruits. Prices are persistently 
strong in most lines. 
SLUMP In CABBAGE 
The only important weak feature is 
Southern cabbage, which is fairly abun¬ 
dant and is often small, soft and poor this 
season. The market broke to all sorts of 
figures, ranging in various cities from 
$1.50 to $4 per bbl. The heavy shipments 
from the Norfolk section are overloading 
the market, although the Virginia crop is 
apparently only a little over one-half that 
of last year. Prices look low beside $5 
and $7 quoted earlier in the season, but 
the level is still double the figures of a 
year ago. 
POTATOES IN STRONG POSITION 
Steady movement of old potatoes con¬ 
tinues at 200 ears per day. The price is 
high enough to bring out much No. 2 
stock that went to feed live stock and to 
the starch factories last year. Actual ship¬ 
ments have been considerably larger than 
last season, despite the smaller crop; a 
result 'Inch shows the power of good 
prices to tem,,t forth the reserves. Quo¬ 
tations for carlots in Chicago are back 
to above $2 per 100 lbs. Best Maine 
stock brings $2.50 to $2.75 in Eastern 
markets. New potatoes average about $8 
per bbl. They come from Florida. Louisi¬ 
ana and Texas, mostly, but South Caro¬ 
lina an,l the second tier of Southern 
States is beginning. New potato move¬ 
ment is only one-third to one-lialf that of 
May last year, and this light supply of 
new potatoes is one of the strongest fea¬ 
tures of the situation. 
niGII ONION PRICES 
Old onions reached top notch of $10 
per 100-lb. sack in New York, but not 
much old stock anywhere exceeded $5. 
The active markets brought out the last 
remnants of stored onions. The first sup¬ 
plies of new “Northern” onions came from 
Central California, where they are ex¬ 
ceeding $4 per ewt. to growers, or about 
double the usual price of preceding years. 
These are Red Weathersfield onions. The 
Southern »r Bermuda onions have been 
doing well also. Sales of nearly 200 cars 
of yellow Texas stock to the Government 
at $3.50 per crate in shipping section 
brought the Texas market to about that 
price, while Northern markets averaged 
about $4 per crate. 
BERRIES LIGHT THIS YEAR AND NEXT 
Strawberry shipments are very moder¬ 
ate in volume, and prices so far have 
averaged higher than last year, mostly 
15 to 30c wholesale in city markets, com¬ 
pared with 10 to 25c last year and 7 to 
25c in 1917. They are likely to he high 
again next year, planting having been 
cheeked this Spring in some sections by 
scarcity of plants. 
Field beans are jogging along at $8 and 
$9 per 100 lbs. in city markets. Now 
that foreign markets have mostly opened 
up the prospect is fairly good, hut retail 
prices in parts of Europe seem to be 
nearly as low as in this country, c. B. T. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Gooseberry Bush Drive. —Two large 
forces of men are busy in the Saranac 
Lake region clearing the land of goose¬ 
berry hushes to protect the trees from the 
destructive white pipe blister rust dis¬ 
ease. The hushes serve to multiply the 
pest. One of the forces destroyed over 
600 bushes in one day. 
Seed Growers Organize. —Cortland 
County, seed growers perfected their or¬ 
ganization last Saturday. They will pro¬ 
duce seed of potatoes, oats, cabbage, corn, 
etc., which will be duly certified by Gov¬ 
ernment inspectors. They arranged to 
have Dr. N. F. Bern’s, plant pathologist 
of Cornell University, come to Cortland 
late in July for a scries of field demon¬ 
strations. During the past six months 
these growers have shipped over 6,000 
bushels of Certified seed potatoes to Long 
Island and New Jersey growers, at $1.50 
to $1.75 per bushel, practically all in the 
county which passed inspection being sold. 
An effort will he made to increase this 
output, as well as that of several other 
kinds of seed of extra quality. 
State Grange Exchange. —Richard 
Hall, manager of the New York State 
Grange Exchange, says the Exchange has 
sold farmers more than $250,000 worth 
of goods since November 29, 1918, and 
expects to turn over $500,000 in sales 
before the year is ended. Most of this 
has been for seeds, with a good share in 
farm implements, fertilizers and sprayers. 
The Cheese Market. —Cheese this 
week on the Utica Dairy Board sold at 
31 cents a pound. There were 2,900 
boxes offered. Canadian cheese is re- . 
ported as lower,- and Northern New York 
May 31, 1919 
markets are holding about oven with the 
Utica market. 
Rose Show Prospects. —It is likely 
that Syracuse’s annual rose show will bo 
hold the week of June 16, the tenth exhi¬ 
bition ‘the local rose growers of the city 
have arranged. Many thousands of roses 
are set out in the city parks each year 
here. Generous premiums are’offered by 
the rose society, of which Dr. Edmund 
M. Mills is president. 
Home Bureau Women Meet. —The 
first annual get-together meeting of the 
pioneer home bureau of the State, that 
of Onondaga County, was held in Syra¬ 
cuse last week ; 30 clubs were represented 
and representatives from each told briefly 
of work done. The Elbridge and Jordan 
clubs have established community club 
rooms and home nursing, sanitation, civics 
and other important subjects are regu¬ 
larly studied. Mrs. Ruby Greene Smith. 
State leader of extension workers, gave 
an address. Miss Lulu Graves, of Cor¬ 
nell, spoke on phases of nutrition, and 
Mrs. Katherine Whittemore, the State 
supervising nurse, spoke on raising eom- 
inunity health standards. Americaniza¬ 
tion work was one strong line of endeavor 
carried on by the Syracuse club. 
Transportation Taxes. — Becoming 
operative April 1 motor trucks that carry 
household goods and other freight in com¬ 
petition with rail and water rates must 
pay a three per cent transportation tax. 
Motor van operators find this a hard 
ruling, but such taxes are now called in 
by the internal revenue office. 
No Canal Terminals. —The Governor 
has vetoed a bill appi*opriating $350,000 
for the construction of canal terminals 
at Kingston, Newbm-gh, Poughkeepsie 
and Yonkers. His veto was based on his 
objection to using money in this way. as 
the policy has been to make permanent 
canal improvements from the proceeds of 
bond issues. He believes before more 
terminals are built the question should be 
submitted to popular vote. 
Directors for New Milk Plant.— 
Recently the Onondaga County Milk Pro- 
ducers’ Association met to elect a board 
of managing directors for the new central 
milk plant, and a manager, who is to 
have a salary of $3,500. An unused 
brewery is to be remodeled in time to be 
opened October 1. and a fund of $90,000 
has been raised to develop the plant with. 
The plant will be run on a non-dividend 
basis, and the retail price of milk is to 
lower after it begins business, m. g. f. 
I ABM AND GABDEN.—Declaring 
it would be many years before the 
prices of livestock Peach the low level 
of before the war, W. B. Tagg of Omaha. 
Neb., president of the National Livestock 
Exchange, told delegates to the exchange’s 
thirty-first annual convention, which 
opened at Pittsburg, Pa., May 15, that 
Government ownership of packing houses 
and stockyards “would he a serious handi¬ 
cap to the business.” “The country needs 
more business and less agitation, more 
study and less talk.” Mr. Tagg declared, 
speaking of industrial unrest. He said 
many benefits had been reaped from Gov¬ 
ernment supervision, but recommended 
that powers of the Bureau of Markets 
be fixed by statute if supervision is to 
continue. Government control of stock¬ 
yards, however, he said, is not necessary, 
adding it would not he for the public 
good to divorce packing interests from 
those of the stockyards. 
Conferences for the purpose of working 
out a policy of forestry for the United 
States are being planned by the Forest 
Service, United States Department of 
Agriculture, to he held in 10 or more 
cities in various sections of the country. 
The first conference was in Washington, 
attended by men representing especially 
Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Vir¬ 
ginia and West Virginia. 
The Pennsylvania State Thrashermen’s 
Association has met at Lancaster and pre¬ 
pared a protest against the pending hill 
to prevent the use of traction engines 
with cleats on improved highways and 
bridges in the State. Thrasliermen claim 
it will render woi'thless $10,000,000 worth 
of thrashing machinery and handicap the 
farmers of the State in thrashing 75.- 
000.000 bushels of wheat. 
Marshall II. Duryea, New York State 
Bepresentative of the American Seed 
Trade Association, announces that fol¬ 
lowing a hearing held on May 7, at the 
Executive Chamber, Albany, Gov. Smith 
vetoed Assemblyman Witter’s seed bill. 
Two provisions of this bill were vigor¬ 
ously denounced as unfair to the seed 
trade, the fii-st ealliiffe for an absolute 
percentage guarantee as to germination 
and purity, the second discriminating 
against seedsmen in favor of farmers 
who might wish to sell seeds among them¬ 
selves. 
The Missouri road law, authorizing 
officials to issue road bonds and levy taxes 
therefor upon a vote of county residents, 
was declared constitutional May 19 by 
the Supreme Court in disposing of pro¬ 
ceedings involving the validity of $3,000,- 
000 road bonds issued by St. Louis 
County. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New Jersey State Horticultural Socie¬ 
ty, Summer meeting, locality not fixed, 
July 11-12. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair, Burgettstown, Pa,, 
Sept. 30-Oct. 1-12. 
New Jersey State Horticultural Socie¬ 
ty. annual meeting, Atlantic City, prob¬ 
ably Dec. 3‘-o. 
