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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
We have one of the finest farming sec¬ 
tions in the State excepting possibly Lan¬ 
caster, and as we are so near the great 
cities of New York and Philadelphia we 
have the very best of markets. This is 
largely a dairy section, and general farm¬ 
ing, including hogs, hens, grain and hay, 
as well as some fruit and vegetables. We 
follow a four-year rotation, corn, oats, 
wheat and clover. We get Sc per qt. for 
milk shipped to Philadelphia, .but the 
freight costs about %c. Some local men 
sell to the milkman here and get 7Hc at 
the door. Some creameries are paying 
75c for butterfat. Eggs sell here for 50c. 
white eggs shipped to New York about 
65c; pork, if24 per cwt.: berries. 25c per 
qt. Milk is one of our leading products, 
but we produce large quantities of po¬ 
tatoes. grain, hay, fruit and poultry. 
Wheat is worth $2.50, corn $1.90, rye 
$1.50. hay about $2 per cwt.. depending 
upon quality. The acreage is larger than 
usual in wheat, and it is looking well. We 
think the general farm conditions are 
promising here in some ways. One thing 
is very noticeable. Even in the face of 
present high prices for farm products 
many young men are going into other 
lines of work where they can have short 
hours and big pay. We believe there is 
a bright future for the dairy business as 
well as fruit and other lines of farming 
for those who are willing to stick. The 
public are being educated that they must 
pay the cost of production, and the farm¬ 
er is coming into his own. w. M. s. 
Bucks Co., Pa. 
As a whole, crops in this section are 
looking good. Hay is much better than 
the average; especially is this true where 
lime has been used. Few farmers through 
here use lime, but in a few years I think 
we shall all come to it. Corn looks good. 
Oats look like about one-half crop: it 
has been too hot and dry for them to do 
well: however, we just had a good rain 
and they may be a fair crop. There is a 
large acreage of rye. and it is in fine 
shape. I doubt if there is much buck¬ 
wheat sown. It has been very dry, and 
now harvest is here and not much time to 
plow. There seems to be a general com¬ 
plaint that baby chicks have not done as 
well as usual. Most of the rye in this 
section was sold for $1.75 per 60 lbs. 
Hay is bringing around $35. delivered at 
cars. Butter, 50c at store, but not much 
made, as nearly all the farmers sell milk 
to Borden’s at League prices. We are all 
pleased with the Summer price for milk. 
We get 50c for eggs at the store. It 
would seem that, taken as a whole, the 
farmers in this section would have a pros¬ 
perous year. Rye straw is about the only 
thing that does not bring a good price. 
Recently I went in a store where I was 
not known and asked for butter. The 
clerk said, “No kind but cocoanut.” Think 
of calling that stuff butter! All our local 
stores sell more oleo than butter. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. p. M.m. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
HEAVY SUPPLIES, RUT SHIPMENTS ARE 
CHIEFLY IN A FEW LEADING LINES 
Interest and activity continue to cen¬ 
ter around about four leading lines. 
These rank as follows in order of the size 
of carlot shipments : Potatoes, waterrael- 
ons. peaches and cantaloupes. Some 
weeks watermelons have actually exceed¬ 
ed the shipments of new potatoes. The 
four lines taken together have comprised 
from one-half to three-fourths the total 
shipments of native fruits and vegetables 
the past few weeks. It does not follow 
that all these lines possess this relative 
position of importance. Some other lines 
not figuring extensively in carlot ship¬ 
ments on account of the perishable nature 
are produced very heavily near the cen¬ 
ters of production and are transported by 
express or wagon. The supplies of near¬ 
by perishables and nearby products of all 
kinds are extremely large, comprising two- 
thirds or more of the total production and 
not more than one-third of the crops of 
fruits and vegetables move in carlots. 
MODERATE POTATO SUPPLIES AND FIRM 
PRICES 
Old stock is practically done, although 
a few scattering cars have been coming 
from Maine, the Pacific Northwest and 
elsewhere. Closing quotations were ex¬ 
tremely irregular and ranged anywhere 
from 40c to $2 per cwt. Shipments for 
the season from the 13 heaviest shipping 
Northern States were 111,349 cars, aver¬ 
aging about 700 bu. each. Shipments for 
the 1917-18 period from these States were 
S6.634 cars. Thus the principal North-’ 
era potato States shipped 25,000 cars 
more this sea-son, although the estimated 
crop of these States was 30,000.000 bu. 
lighter this year. In some cases the crop 
report may have been under-estimated, but 
it seems likely that the heavy shipments 
at the end of the season were owing chief¬ 
ly to the encouragement of high prices 
which brought out all sorts of stock, much 
of which was of very poor quality, hence 
the heavy supplies of old stock and the 
wide, low range of prices at the close of 
the season. Even later, good, sound old 
stock brought fairly high prices even in 
June and July in most markets. The 
course of prices in a few leading cities 
may be of interest. New York quoted old 
potatoes $2.25 to $2.40 per cwt. the last 
of October. Prices declined as shipments 
increased, reaching $1.85 to $2.40 the 
middle of November, then advanced to 
$2.20 to $2.50 the middle of January. 
The Winter decline began about that time 
and prices reached $1.72 to $1.77 the third 
week in February; then prices recovered 
to $2 to $2.90 about the middle of April, 
after which the course of the market be¬ 
came somewhat irregular and demoral¬ 
ized. owing to poor quality of old stock 
and the active competition of new pota¬ 
toes. In Chicago the October price was 
$1.90 to $1.95 per cwt.. declining to $1.50 
to $1.60 the middle of November, advanc¬ 
ing to $1.90 to $2 the middle of January 
and closing the season late in June at 
$1.25 to $1.50. Philadelphia in late Oc¬ 
tober quoted $2.35 to $2.50. declined to 
$1.90 to $2.20, recovered to $2.10 to 
$2.25 the middle of January, and closed 
the season at wide range late in June. 
65c to $2. The Pittsburgh market fol¬ 
lowed practically the same course as Phil¬ 
adelphia. Present supplies of new po¬ 
tatoes come chiefly from the Eastern 
Shore of Virginia and Maryland. Fully 
two-thirds the shipments around the mid¬ 
dle of July were from Virginia. With the 
practical disappearance of old stock, 
prices tended to recover somewhat, most 
markets exceeding $5 per bbl., and some 
reaching $7. The general level is slightly 
higher than that prevailing a month ago. 
the sharp decline since that time having 
been just about recovered by recent gains. 
The advance has been more notable in 
Middle Western markets, where the short¬ 
age of Southwestern stock has tended to 
raise the level for the Eastern shipments 
to those markets. Recent increases in 
volume of new stock have kept general 
supplies of potatoes about up to usual 
average, offsetting the disappearance of 
the old potatoes. 
The outlook for potato production indi¬ 
cates a crop somewhat between the heavy 
production of the past two years and the 
moderate acreage production. The official 
July forecast predicts 391,000.000 bu.. 
compared with 400,000.000 bu. last year, 
and with 366.000.000 bu. the average of 
the five preceding years. 1913 to 1917, 
inclusive. On this basis the average yield 
per acre would be 97.6 bu., compared 
with 95 bu. last year. It is plain that the 
crop will be a large one if season con¬ 
tinues fairly favorable, and it must he 
reckoned also that the sweet potato crop 
this year will be more than one-fourth as 
large as that of white potatoes. The gain 
of about 16.000.000 bu. of sweet potatoes 
much more than offsetc any indicated de¬ 
crease in white potatoes. 
ONION MARKETS SATISFACTORY 
The onion shipping season has com¬ 
pleted its annual course and Northern 
onions are in the market again from such 
sections as New Jersey, Maryland and 
Kentucky. The price continues high and 
supplies limited. Eastern stock sells 
around $3 per hamper containing nearly 
a bushel in leading city markets. Cali¬ 
fornia and Kentucky stock selling by the 
95 or 100-lb. sack brings relatively about 
the same price. Reports of onion acreage 
continue to show moderate reductions and 
apparently the yield per acre will hardly 
be equal to that of last year. 
WILL NORTHERN PEACHES SELL HIGH? 
The situation of the peach crop and 
market is interesting. Prices of Georgia 
stock have ranged without fail from $2 
to $3 in consuming markets this season. 
This price is about like that of last year, 
July 20, 1919 
except toward the end of the season when 
values advanced owing to the evident 
scarcity of stock from Northern sections. 
It will be interesting to note whether 
values advance again this year. Northern 
peaches are evidently a much better crop 
this year than last. The official forecast 
of shipments indicates that perhaps twice 
as many cars of peaches may be shipped 
this year as last year, and the gain is 
chiefly in the Northern producing sec¬ 
tions. Late reports considerably reduce 
the probably shipments from New York, 
Ohio, Michigan and other important sec¬ 
tions, but the total will be large compared 
with last season, and New York may ship 
twice as many as in 1918. New York 
peaches last year brought in the vicinity 
of $3 per bu. basket at shipping points. 
Growers in all sections are looking for 
high prices again this year and may not 
be disappointed, notwithstanding the 
larger crop. 
EASTERN APPLES SHOULD SELL READILY 
The apple situation seems to he shaping 
for good prices again this season. While 
the total crop is apparently about the 
same as last year, there are heavy losses 
in the barrel shipping section. New York 
State, which usually supplies the lion’s 
share of barreled apples to the great East¬ 
ern markets, has a very light crop, which 
is only partly offset by reasonably good 
yields in New England, the Southeast and 
some of the Middle Western States. On 
the whole, the barreled apple supply will 
be much lighter this year than last year, 
but the Northwest will have an extremely 
heavy crop of boxed apples, which wifi 
about offset the shortage in the East, but 
evidently the boxed apples will stand at 
high prices when received at Eastern 
markets and accordingly it seems that 
Eastern apples should find a good market, 
especially the lower grades, because 
Northwestern producers cannot afford to 
ship any but the top grades. G. b. f. 
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York, and next to our plow® ronelder thorn the moot Import- 
Ant agricultural lrrrlonont In handling froeh breaking and 
packing old ground, 
W« have Juat finiehed eoedlng on our f iret unit or 
7000 ecree, every foot of which hae been packed twice witn 
Dunham Packer®. Wo flret uaod the packer directly behind 
t bj plow® and again used them directly behind the drills, 
seeding and packing at the oaao operation. By using these 
machines we wore able to plow the eod and turn It over per¬ 
fect l y flet, thereby eliminating air epacoe and helping to a 
greot extent to retain the moisture. 
Through a dolay In ohipiterrt during the summer part 
of our land wae plowed without packing and the difference in 
the ooieture content of the soil ae a result woe very notice¬ 
able. The field which wno packed having moisture pructloally 
for ton lncheo, while the unpacked field had no moisture bo- 
low the plowed ground, fle plowed in each case about four and? 
pne-half lnc'nee deep. We packed overy aero we eoeded direct¬ 
ly after seeding and fool that thie trill give ue a yield of/ 
two to three bushels ooru per acre. 
The packer not only soeouj to compreee the eoll but 
Been® to pulworiio it aloo leaving a very finely powdered 
ourface. It Is Our belief -that all froeh breaking should be 
packed and in seotion* known aa dry forming sectione we think 
-that till seeded lands should be packed. 
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Culti-Padders For Sale by 
Your Local Implement Dealer 
According to The Country Gentle - 
man of October 26,1918, the Montana 
Farming Corporation has lie largest 
wheat farm in the world — 200,000 
acres of Indian land specially leased 
from the Government to increase 
wheat production. 
Read what Thomas D. Campbell, 
president of this Company, has to say 
abou DunhamCulti-Packersand the 
increased crop lie secured. 
Then consider — that wheat is only 
one of many crops where the Culti- 
l’acker is being successfully used — 
that a fifty-acre farmer can use it just 
as profitably as Mr. Campbell did — 
that it can be used not only for seed¬ 
bed preparation but before and after 
seeding and on the growing crop from 
early spring until late in fall. 
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