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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
August 9, 1919 
Crops and Farm News 
The main crops raised in this section 
are wheat, oats, corn and hay, also buck¬ 
wheat and potatoes. Wheat sells at $2; 
oats. 85c; corn, on ear, $1; hay, per ton, 
$25. The condition of crops is not very 
good. Wheat is pretty good, having a 
good stand, but not filled as well as it 
might be. Oats and hay are short crops 
on account of dry weather, having had 
no rain since the latter part of May. 
Corn is good; if we get rain soon will 
be a good crop. Potatoes are being hurt 
by dry weather; not much buckwheat 
sown, being too dry. Butter. 45c lb.: 
eggs, 40c. c. h. a. 
Armstrong Co., Pa. 
Retail prices as follows : Butter. 05c ; 
eggs. 55c; milk. 14c per qt. Hay is scarce 
and dear, No. 1 old hay bringing as high 
as $40 per ton ; new hay from $30 to $35. 
The feed stores are selling corn at $2.25 
per bu.; oats. 00c per bu ; bran. $2.60 per 
cwt.; white middlings. $20 per cwt.; red 
dog. $3 35 per cwt. New potatoes bring 
at retail about 0c per lb. Berries are 
scarce and very high. There will be a 
few apples, but all other kinds of fruit 
were killed by the late frost in this sec¬ 
tion. Harvest is going nicely. Wheat is 
good, and lots of it. Corn never looked 
finer this time of year here. Hay is 
generally light. r. b. e. 
Beaver Co., Pa. 
cwt. We pay about three times as much 
for what we buy as before the war. Ilay 
is a good crop; oats, potatoes and corn 
good prospect for good crop, owing to 
recent rains; dairying is principal income 
of farmers in this section ; practically no 
grain or potatoes raised for export. Co¬ 
operative buying and selling by the farm¬ 
ers will lessen the cost of living to both 
the farmey and consumer. Farmers’ 
banks will enable the farmer to hold his 
produce and make union of farmers pos¬ 
sible. o. w. o. 
Washington Co., N. Y. 
Farmers in Franklin County are very 
busy haying, which is nearly completed, 
the largest crop in a number of years 
having been secured. Corn and potatoes 
are more backward than last year; pota¬ 
toes especially will be a light yield, as 
a very large percentage of the seed 
planted this season failed to come up. 
Labor is rather scarce and men in haying 
are getting from $4 to $5 a day. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. H. T. j. 
We are having much rain. Wheat 
thrashing much delayed and sprouting in 
the shock. About one-third thrashed and 
marketed. Corn is making a rank growth. 
Tomatoes looking well, but it is feared 
the heavy rains have washed off the blos¬ 
soms. Young clover is doing well and 
pastures are good. The hay crop was 
almost a failure. The early varieties of 
peaches have commenced to ripen. The 
general crop will be on in about . two 
weeks. The trees are quite full, and the 
growers, are expecting fancy prices, 
Choice early apples are bringing as much 
as $3 per bu., of which there is a fair 
crop. The Kieffer pear crop will be a 
failure. Eggs bring 45c; young chickens, 
50c; milk at cooling station, $2.50 per 
cwt.; butter, 40c; veal calves, live 
weight, 17c. Corn. $2; wheat, $2.27; 
bran, $2.60; Crimson clover seed, $12; 
Red clover seed, $30. Much plowing is 
being done for Scarlet clover, cow peas, 
buckwheat and next year’s wheat crop. 
Kent Co., Del. c. H. 
Dauphin County is having a very wet 
spell, and lots of liav to make in some 
sections. Some wheat to get under cover, 
some oats ripe and the crop coming fast 
to harvest. Under these weather condi¬ 
tions it makes it almost impossible to 
harvest oats. Prices for produce are 
generally high. Cows, from ordinary to 
good, $75 to $125 and higher. Horses 
not brisk, but with good ones no trouble 
to find good prices. Corn, $1.22 to $2.30; 
oats, 95c to $1, and still feed is advanc¬ 
ing. Cottonseed meal, $65 a ton ; bran, 
$2.60 to $2.75 per cwt. Butter, 60 to 
65c; lard, 3Sc per lb.; ham, country 
cured, 40 to 45c per lb.; beef, retail, 20 
to 45c; lamb, up to 65c per lb. Of course 
there is cheaper meat; that is, prime cuts, 
and good fresh meats cost anywhere from 
20 to 65c. Young or .Spring chickens, 
65c per lb.; dressed, old, 45 to 50c per 
lb. Beans are 10c per qt., but slow; 
market is overstocked. Apples, qt., 10 
to 15c; beets, bunch, 5c; onions, 5c; new 
potatoes. 15 to 20c one-fourth peck ; eggs, 
5c; raspberries, 20 to 25c a box; black¬ 
berries. 20c a box; whortleberries, 25c a 
box ; peaches, 25 to 40c one-fourth peck : 
fish, 15 to 35c a lb. a. s. b. 
Dauphin Co., Pa. 
The onion crop in the Breere Hill Val¬ 
ley, amounting to about 365 acres, about 
the same as 191S, looks very good, not¬ 
withstanding that we had very heavy hail 
hero June 20. hail as large as 25-ceut 
pieces. It broke lots of glass in win¬ 
dows. I think the yield will be probably 
25 per cent less than last year. Potato 
crop looks fine; some began digging July 
20. M. o. c. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
In lower Milford Township, Lehigh Co., 
Pa., general farming leads; wheat, rye, 
oats, corn, hay, potatoes are raised. We 
have the soil to put quality in potatoes, 
but cannot raise as big crops as on 
heavier soils. Dairying used to be the 
chief occupation, but since scarcity of 
help, high cost of feed stuff and low 
prices for producer, dairymen sold their 
cows, preferring not to work so hard to 
working for nothing. Some farms carry¬ 
ing as high as 25 or 30 cows now have 
one or two. New wheat brings $2.15 per 
bu., but millers are buying very sparingly. 
The crop is below the average, being 
small. Rye not well filled. Corn very 
promising, tasseling now. No old corn 
for sale by farmers. Dealers ask for 
corn $1.95; oats, 90c; bran, per cwt., 
$2.25; gluten, $3.20; cob meal, $3.10. 
For butter store pays 59c; eggs, 50c; no 
prices yet on new potatoes. Help very 
scarce. Young chickens, 40c per lb., live 
weight; old, 32c. Veal calves 17c per 
lb., live weight. J. H. G. 
Lehigh, Co., Pa. 
The leading crops are wheat, oats, bar¬ 
ley. beans, hay and small acreage of rye, 
some potatoes, but this is not a large 
potato-raising section. This is 15 miles 
west of Rochester, and perhaps as good 
a grain section as there is in the State. 
Most wheat sold last Fall at $2.10 per 
bu.; some sold this Spring at $2.50. Oats 
were mostly sold at 65 to 70c; barley, $1 
to $1.05. Top for navy or white pea 
beans was $4.50 per 62 lbs.; most of 
Winter beans were practically unsalable. 
Rye, $1.65 per 60-lb. bu. last Fall, but 
has been as low as $1.25 per 60 lbs. since. 
Potatoes were mostly sold at $1.60 per 
cwt. There was one big advance this 
Spring to $2.50 per cwt., followed by a 
sudden drop to $1 per cwt. Rochester 
is our county seat, and naturally land 
within five or six miles of the city is 
devoted to truck gardening. Buffalo is 
by far our best market for live stock. 
Some stock is bought by country butchers, 
dressed and sold in Rochester. A very 
fine outlook for fruit of all kinds here 
this year. Fat steers, 11c lb.; Stockers, 
lie lb. New milch cows, $100 to $125. 
Veal calves. 15 to 17c per lb.; hogs, 20c; 
wool, 55c; hens, 30c per lb.; sheep. $8 
to $15 per head; lambs. $8 to $10; bulls, 
10c per lb.: small pigs. $15 per pair. 
Farm conditions as a rule are rather 
backward. We had continuous rains 
here this Spring for two months: 
hundreds of acres of land are still 
lying idle. Some oats and barley 
were sown at all times up to June 15, a 
very small acreage and a very poor out¬ 
look for them. Rye rather poor: wheat 
on land that withstood the water is 
immense straw, but lodged badly and in¬ 
jured considerably by the midge ; will be 
rather a poor sample, and not a large 
yield ; a very expensive crop to harvest, 
it takes so much labor and twine. Hay 
was a fine crop here, and mostly har¬ 
vested ; some fields not cut, labor shortage 
here. Corn looks good ; has made a fine 
growth, but a large acreage is rather late 
to hope for maturity. Possibly a late 
Fall will pull it through. Potatoes were 
planted late, came up slender, and we 
hope for the best, but they have got a 
long way to go to make a full crop. T 
don’t think farmers as a rule are pessi¬ 
mistic; most of them are always looking 
for something good to come. The worst 
drawback we have had for the last few 
years has been poor seasons. Navy beans 
were one of the leading crops here, but 
farmers often buy seed at large prices, 
with crop failures three out of four times 
have almost given up the crop. Naturally 
they have keenly felt the lost of one of 
our most remunerative crops. Farmers 
who have kept a large amount of live 
stock and given them good care have 
reaped generous returns. I must admit, 
though, that farmers as a rule are more 
prosperous than they were before the 
war. I do not wish to make a guess to 
the cause of conditions; possibly poor 
seasons, labor shortage and the excessive 
price we pay for the things we buy and 
inferior quality of same may be the cause. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. c. s. p. 
Wool this year 53c; last year received 
67c: figuring 5 lbs. of wool to the suit 
of clothes for which we have to pay $30, 
the difference between $2.65 and $30 rep¬ 
resents the middleman’s profit. Calves 
are bringing 15c live weight, highest price 
received was 16c; hogs, 16 to 18c; chick¬ 
ens, 25c; butter, to the consumer. 60c 
per lb.; creameries, 62c for cream. Oats, 
80c per bu.; corn on the ear, $1 per bu.; 
hay, $17 to $20 per ton. loose. New 
potatoes, $2 per bu.; milch cows, $100; 
beef cows, $50 to $60; lambs. $10 per 
cwt.. Milk, delivered to consumer. 10c; 
to dealer, around 6 or 7c per qt. Hides 
around 14c per lb. Labor, $3 to $4 per 
day, board and washing; mowing ma¬ 
chines, $75; rakes, $43; harness, double, 
$100; single. $30; feed around $4 per 
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