The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
953 
Crops and Farm News 
I do not, of course, get so much of real* 
useful information from a New York farm 
paper, our conditions are so different, but 
I do enjoy Tiie R. N.-Y". and get in closer 
touch with farmers’ lives there in the East 
than I could otherwise. Small grain, 
wheat and oats, and "Winter wheat and 
rye, are looking fine, though the Spring 
grains are late, on account of the cold, 
wet season. Though there is an occa¬ 
sional field of corn up, the main crop is 
just now being planted. I surmise that 
many of the Eastern farmers would very 
much better their condition by coming to 
this Western country, even though land 
prices are much higher than in the East. ; 
Blue Earth Co., Minn. f. c. r. 
This is a fruit and boarding section 
mostly, fruit being the main money crop, 
with dairying as a side line. There is 
some talk of Borden’s establishing a milk 
station at Catskill; in that case farmers 
will keep more cows. At the present time 
butter is (>7c retail and about 55c whole¬ 
sale, but very hard to sell, as a|I the gro¬ 
ceries use creamery butter. Eggs are 40c 
and scarce, and some say they will be $1 
in boarding season. The cold weather of 
the latter part of April did considerable 
damage to the fruit, especially sweet cher¬ 
ries, plums and peaches also to some ex¬ 
tent, but there is enough left for a good 
crop. Apples and pears look like a big 
crop, excepting Baldwins, which are very 
uneven ; one side of the tree full of blos- 
some, the other side none at all. This 
condition, I think, is due to the hard Win¬ 
ter of two years ago, as the tree's have 
not recovered yet. It has been so rainy 
for the past two weeks farmers have been 
unable to get their corn ground plowed, 
as in some fields water has been standing 
for two weeks. With spraying coming on, 
what Cum is planted wili be very late; 
perhaps too late to mature. Quite a good 
deal of property is being sold to city peo¬ 
ple this Spring. J. w. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
Many farmers lere sowed their oats 
early and report them up in tint' condi¬ 
tion. Those who believed in sowing later 
have been held up by rain. Farmers ex¬ 
ited to put in the usual amount of crops 
this season. Grass is looking well at this 
time. The general opinion among farm¬ 
ers is that the conditions look favorable 
this year. The only product being sold 
here at this time is milk at League prices. 
Veal calves, 15c per lb. Cows, fresh and 
nearby, $100 to $150 per head and hard to 
buy at these figures. Hay, $15 per ton 
at barns. Pigs, four to six weeks old. $0 
apiece. H. n. H. 
Broome Co., N. Y» 
We have been having a cold rain for 
the past three or four days, and even be¬ 
fore that it rained about every other day. 
While not much water fell since our snow¬ 
storm until this last storm, there has been 
a lot of water, which has wetted our 
ground so that it will be several days 
before wo can go on to it again, and it is 
still raining hard this morning. Our early 
cherries, and a few of our peaches. Car¬ 
mans in particular, have opened a little, 
about a quarter of them. I think : the re¬ 
mainder of the buds are held. What dam¬ 
age has been done is very hard t<> esti¬ 
mate, but 1 am fearful that our fruit crop 
will be very light in this locality. Farm 
work is very much delayed. Very few 
oats sown. The only thing the rain is 
benefiting is the grass. Wheat has had 
too much. About three-quarters of the 
onions have been sown, and 1 am fearful 
that they will not all come up. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. w. p. sogers. 
Wheat has been doing well the past 
week, it being much warmer. It is look¬ 
ing much better than 10 days ago. Oats 
are being sowed, but many fields are still 
unsown on account of rains making tin' 
soil too wet to work. Very little or no 
plowing is done for corn and potatoes 
(May 20). Fruit is promising well, ('spe¬ 
cially pears and peaches. Sweet cherries 
bloomed well, but are hurt by last: freeze. 
Other fruits have shown no signs <>f dam¬ 
age as yet. Pears are in bloom : contin¬ 
ued rain may injure fruits, especially 
pears, which are open now. Apples are 
in the pink now and show up well, consid¬ 
ering the large crop last year; probably 
50 per cent of a crop. Grass meadows 
are looking well. This is a very back¬ 
ward season after such a mild Winter. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. j. j. n. 
Potatoes, $1.25 per bu.: eggs up to 
44c.; milk, League price, $3 cwt. Hay 
very scarce, $20 to $25 ton (Timothy and 
mixed). Young pigs are very scarce at 
SO each. Butter, 60c; calves. 14 to 15c 
per lb. Seed corn, $4 to $5 per bu. Oats. 
90c bu. We have had much wet weather; 
crops will till be in late. Many Long i 
Giants for Long Island seed were planted I 
last year, but were graded down so cl os 
that farmers have practically discontinued j 
planting them, for the present a ’east. 
Labor is very scarce and wages average 
$30 to $40 per month and board. Oats 
seem to be plentiful, as last year was a 
good oats year. Corn and potatoes are 
somewhat scarce. The usual crops are 
being put in, and if things remain where 
they now are, business will look fair the 
coming year. w. M. 
Washington Co., N. Y. 
Just as water escapes in the 
form of steam, more than 
half of the average motor 
oil evaporates through the 
oil filler and is wasted. 
Important points 
on tractor lubrication 
A T harvest time a whole crop may 
depend upon getting the grain 
k. in from the field at a certain 
time. That is when your tractor must 
give perfect, uninterrupted service. 
At this critical period a layup for 
repairs might cost you much more than 
the value of the tractor itself. Yet 90 % 
of tractor engine troubles are prevent¬ 
able. They are due to inferior oil. 
There are three important points 
about tractor oil. 
1. Sediment — Ordinary oil breaks 
down under the intense heat of the 
engine, forming large quantities of 
black sediment which has no lubri¬ 
cating value. Sediment displaces 
the good oil from the moving parts, 
causing friction and wear. 
2. Evaporation —Ordinary tractor oil 
not only forms large quantities of 
sediment but it evaporates rapidly. 
This causes high consumption and 
often breaks the piston oil seal. 
Overheating, scored cylinders, rapid 
carbonization, etc., follows. 
3. Contamination — Ordinary tractor 
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past the pistons contaminating the 
lubricating oil in engine base. The 
piston oil seal is destroyed, causing 
great damage. The thinned-out oiL 
fails to lubricate, power losses result; 
burned out bearings are inevitable. 
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