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July If), If) 19 
over the care of protecting us, but there 
seems no immediate prospect of suc-h 
action. In the meantime we can only 
hope that the game will not get too 
numerous on our land. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. Alfred c. weed. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
SOME LINES ABUNDANT AND LOWER. THE 
TUZZLING TOMATO OUTLOOK. 
The most interesting feature recently 
in the leading lines of fruits and vege¬ 
tables is the increasing volume of 
peaches, melons and cantaloupes, at¬ 
tended. excepting cantaloupes, with a 
downward trend of prices as a result of 
heavy offerings. 
HEAVY DEMAND FOR BEST QUALITY. 
Cantaloupes, although in enormous 
supply, seem to be well taken at prices 
which must be very profitable to growers, 
although below the very high prices of 
last season. The active market for the 
heavy shipments received seems to be a 
resul of the excellent quality of the 
Southern California crop, which will 
amount probably close to S.OOO carloads, 
or considerably more than one-half of 
the cantaloupe output. This outcome 
suggests an almost unlimited market for 
really choice fruit products. For the 
season as a whole the cantaloupe price 
has been fairly close to last year's level 
and has even reached higher points at 
times, especially so at the opening of the 
season. Cantaloupes are coming in in 
moderate quantities also from the East¬ 
ern States as far north as Virginia, but 
these sections now rank far below the 
West as shippers of this product. 
NO LACK OF GENERAL SUPPLIES. 
The heavy shipments of these three 
lines just mentioned in addition to a 
considerable increase in shipments of po¬ 
tatoes from the Virginia section have 
brought the total carlot movement again 
above the 10.000 per week line, the gains 
of these three or four lines more than off¬ 
setting decreases in most other fruits 
and vegetables, which are now at low- 
mark as far as concerns movement to 
distant markets. Of course the markets 
are well supplied at this season with 
nearby stock, and for that reason do not 
draw so heavily from distant producing 
sections as they do early in the season. 
Carlot shipments give a fairly good idea 
of the amount of produce available and 
it appears that notwithstanding the 
lighter acreage in many lines this year 
the shipments are coming in at about 
the same rate as they did a year ago. 
Decreases in cabbage, beans, peas, let¬ 
tuce and miscellaneous lines being offset 
by heavy gains in melons, onions, etc. 
Potatoes are in light acreage this year, 
but shipments are now in about the same 
volume as a year ago. 
TRICES MOSTLY HIGHER THAN LAST 
SEASON. 
As compared with last year, prices of 
tomatoes, potatoes and onions are slightly 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 19, 1919 
FARM TOPICES 
Dirt Roads and Cheap Farms...... 1090 
Preservatives for Fence Posts. 1090 
Burning Wheat Stubble. 1093 
Disinfectant; Analysis of Wood Ashes. .. 1093 
Hope Farm Notes.1100. 1101 
Farm Power Demonstration. 1103 
Getting in Behind a Scamp. 1103 
New York Co-operative Work. 1103 
Up-State Farm Notes. 1103 
Farm Bureaus in New York State_1111, 1114 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings..*. 1112 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Consumer and His Milk Prices. 1103 
Milk Prices in Indiana. 1103 
Building Up Weak Heifer. 1112 
Forage Crops in Silo. 1112 
Ration for Young Pigs. 1112 
Value of Milking Shorthorns. 1112 
A High-priced Shorthorn. 1112 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1112 
Making Ice Cream. 1114 
Sheep in Orchard. 1116 
THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contest . 1117 
Precocious Crowing . 1117 
HORTICULTURE 
Beautifying the Home Surroundings. .1069. 1090 
Cover Crop for Hand Cultivation. 1093 
Lime on Strawberries. 1093 
Fruit Notes from Missouri. 1101 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Feeding the Hired Man—Part 1. 1094 
The Question of Diet. 1094 
Payment of Soldiers’ Insurance. 1107 
A Dairymaid Seeks a Job.. 1107 
A Man to be Tamed. 1107 
"Helping” the Busy Farmer’s Wife. 1107 
The Home Dressmaker. 1108 
Neighborly Spirit at the South. 1108 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman.... 1109 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks... 1110 
Value of Yeast Cakes and Milk. 1110 
Investments at Home. 1110 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Raising Brook Trout: Game Laws... .1091. 
Prohibition in New York. 
New Schools for Old. 
Cleaning Flues . 
Carbonated Root Beer... 
Sawdust for Fuel..... 
Testing Machine Oil. 
Discolored Water .. 
The Price of Gold... 
Face Powders; Effect on Shaving. 
Removing Oil from Glass. 
Slaughter-house Refrigerator . 
Installing Pump in Kitchen. 
Editorials . 
Rural Mail Delivery in New York. 
Camping in a Car. 
Publisher’s Desk . 
1092 
1096 
1096 
1098 
1098 
1098 
1098 
1098 
1098 
1098 
1098 
1099 
1099 
1102 
1103 
1116 
1118 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
higher and watermelons about the same 
ae a year ago. when they were selling at 
$.'100 to $500 per carload of about 1.000 
melons. The present range is about $100 
higher, at $400 to $600. including the 
principal northern and western cities. No 
1 Virginia potatoes a year ago were sell¬ 
ing $5.25 to $6.50 a barrel for best 
grades. This year the range at about 
the middle of July was $4 to $7. prices 
above $6 applying to Middle Western 
markets only. It appears that the South¬ 
western crop, which usually sends heavy 
supplies to Middle Western markets, is 
insufficient this year, and Virginia pota¬ 
toes are drawn upon to a considerable 
extent, thus increasing the price of all 
stock in Western markets owing to 
heavier cost of transportation. 
PRICES OF ONIONS AND THE OUTLOOK. 
Onions from Virginia and New Jersey 
were selling a year ago at $1.50 to $2.25 
per hamper; this year the range is $2 50 
to $3.25. Georgia Elberta peaches a 
year ago were selling in city markets at 
$2 to $2 50 per bushel or per six-basket 
carrier. This year the price started high, 
hut declined quite steadily, and ranged 
$2 to $3 the second week in July. Scat¬ 
tered reports continue to suggest that the 
Northern onion acreage will be somewhat 
reduced. The loss is not too great, hut 
the decline seems quite general in leading 
Eastern and Middle Western onion pro¬ 
ducing sections. The Michigan onion 
acreage, the latest to report, seems to be 
about five per cent less than last year. 
Some reductions are also reported at the 
heavy onion producing sections of New 
York. < )hio and Massachusetts. Weather 
conditions the early part of the season 
seemed to be the chief cause of the re¬ 
duction. According to present conditions 
neither acreage nor yield per acre will 
he equal to last year, but the crop still 
may be a heavy one as compared with 
most years. There is considerable agita¬ 
tion for co-operative or . general storage 
facilities in the leading onion sections. 
California is the leading shipping State. 
I) combines early and late varieties and 
ships the year around, not competing at 
any time very severely with other stock 
in Eastern markets. Massachusetts 
ranked second as a shipping State last 
season and New York third. States 
which are rapidly becoming heavy ship¬ 
pers are Colorado. Minnesota and Michi¬ 
gan. The range of prices of Northern 
onions throughout the season has been 
fairly good. Eastern yellow stock began 
in September at an average in leading 
city markets of about $2 per cwt. The 
high point was reached at about the 
niddle of May. at $4.50 to $7.50, which 
was practically the close of the season. 
The range did not at any time go much 
below the opening figures, although in 
October the average descended to about 
$1.50. After that improvement was 
quite steady. East season. 1017-101S. 
the top price in late Fall averaged about 
$3 per cwt.. and the extremely low prices 
reached in the Spring of that season are 
still fresh in the memory of onion 
growers. 
THE TOMATO SITUATION. 
This is Tatber interesting because of 
its uncertainty. The Government has 
large stocks of canned tomatoes which 
will not be wanted for the army. At 
first it was announced that the canned 
goods would he held until wanted, but 
recently the Government has been selling 
these stocks at auction at low prices 
compared with the regular market. The 
result has been to cause hesitation among 
canners and. in most sections, they have 
as a general rule refused to make con¬ 
tracts with growers at anything like the 
prices the growers ask. This policy re¬ 
sulted in reduction of setting and the de¬ 
crease was made still greater in some 
sections by scarcity of plants Fanners 
seem to ho paying $13 to $20 per ton 
to growers, both East and West. The 
demand in the city markets has been good 
and prices were high for the large ship¬ 
ments from Texas. Tennessee and Miss¬ 
issippi. growers receiving equivalent to 
$2 to $3 per bushel for the best stock. 
Since the greater part of the Northern 
crop is used for canning (lie problem 
seems to rest upon the policy of the can¬ 
ners. and whether they will buy freely 
or will reduce the canning output so 
much as to throw a larger proportion 
than usual of the crop upon the general 
market. G. B. F. 
The farmers around here have planted 
more corn than I have ever seen before, 
and the outlook for same seems very good. 
For silage corn we use the Northern seed 
and field corn. We use the native white 
flint, as others would not mature here in 
time. The outlook of the crop on my 
own farm is better this year than ever 
before; also oats and the hay crop. b. k. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Hay and wheat will be extra good. 
The fruit crop very poor; not more than 
10 per cent of a crop of apples. Store's 
pay for butter 40c. eggs 42c. strawberries 
20c. Wool started at 52c and 58c is now 
offered. Heavy thunder shower last week 
washed the roads so they are very rough. 
Venango Co., Pa. A. J. M. 
Corn. $1.80; wheat, $2.70; rye. $1.60; 
farmers’ butter. 58c; eggs, 46c. Wheat 
looks No. 1 and promises a good yield. 
Grass i« extra good; haying in full pro¬ 
gress just now. Oat fields look fair; oats 
are long in the straw and a little rusty. 
Lehigh Co., Pa. c. L. P. w.' 
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