7t* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1471 
Crops and Farm News 
We are 30 miles from Albany ; all pro¬ 
duce is sold at door to speculator. Eggs, 
55c; butter. 50c; fowls, 30c, alive; light 
pork, 25c per lb.; potatoes .$5 per bbl. 
Potatoes are rotting badly in this section. 
Buckwheat not yet cut; is good on dry 
land, but on low land, where we always 
look for the best, there is nothing this 
season on account of so much wet weath¬ 
er. No grain is sold here except buck¬ 
wheat, and it is too early for prices. 
Beans, $5 per bu.; rye straw, $9 per ton 
at railroad, 15 miles from here. Apples, 
a very light crop here; pears a full crop. 
All crops are good, in line of hay and 
grain. H. B. 
Albany Co., N. Y. 
Haying generally finished early; grass 
not heavy in growth, but good quality 
and secured in good condition. Oats light 
to medium; buckwheat promises well; 
not much cut yet. Corn very good ; no 
June frosts and no early frosts. Potatoes 
medium ; no rot reported. Dressed pork. 
22c; beef, 15 to lGc; new potatoes, $1.50 
per bu.; apples, no crop; old hay, baled, 
about $40 per ton. Live stock of all 
kinds very high ; sales of cows, bulls and 
young cattle have averaged over $300 per 
animal as reported; milk, League price. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. si. 
Tomatoes, %-bu. basket, from $1.50 up, 
according to quality ; white potatoes, from 
$1 to $1.25; Lima beans, $3 to $3.25; 
sweet potatoes, $1 to $1.50; cabbage, 
$1.15. Apples, 50c to $1, according to 
quality. Sugar corn, 75c to $1. Some 
have a px-etty fair crop of white potatoes. 
Sweet potatoes not dug yet. The last two 
weeks things have improved very much ; 
if frost holds off will do better than ex¬ 
pected. ^ s. w. w. 
Burlington Co., X. J. 
The potato crop, as far as I have seen, 
has been a failure; the tops look healthy 
in some pieces, but the yield is light. In 
the southern part of the county early frost 
killed the potato tops, also injured the 
corn. The corn crop is very light. In 
my travels I have seen very few good 
pieces of corn ; so much rain the crop 
could not do anything. The grain in 
some sections is exit and still in the field, 
unable to get it dry. Oats ax-e good, but 
wheat is unusually light. The hay crop 
was great; clover so heavy many pieces 
had to be cut with a scythe. The cabbage 
crop seems to be very light. Horses are 
plenty and many for sale; good horses sell 
for $200. Many farms for rent and sale. 
Owing to the fact the farmei-s cannot get 
help they are forced to leave their farms. 
Farming and wages are no temptation 
only while they were drafting. Eggs, 50c; 
apples, $1.25 per bu. (Duchess) ; pota¬ 
toes, $2 (early) ; pork, $27 per cwt. 
Butter, creamery, 56c per lb.; daii-y, 
54 and 55c; fowls, 25c; beef, 17 to 20c 
per lb. Milk at creamery brings $2.34 
per cwt. Lambs, $12 to $15. Wool, So 
to 90c per lb. Fresh milking cows range 
from $100 to $175; average, $150. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. o. B. s. 
Strawberries were about half a crop, 
owing to the early Summer di-ought. 
Prices ranged from 22 to 30c per qt. 
We paid as high as 5c per qt. for pick¬ 
ing, and $8 per 1.000 for baskets. Then 
came the peas, which were almost an en¬ 
tire failure, price $3 per basket; that did 
not pay for seed, which cost $15 per bu., 
and fertilizer, 4-10 goods, $55 per ton. 
The early corn, which was fairly good, 
brought in our market $2 per 100 ears. 
Just as the tomato crop begun to pick 
came the terrible rain, and in this section 
the loss on that particular crop was very 
great, so that the price started at $3 per 
20-qt. crate, and by the time tomatoes 
began to ripen freely the price had 
dropped to 50c and stayed there about 
two weeks. Now we are getting from 
$1 to $1.50 for good stock, but crop very 
light. All melons and cucumbers are al¬ 
most a failure. The outlook for the po¬ 
tato crop was fine, but they have rotted 
very badly from the heavy rains. Acres 
of cabbage have been lost in our county; 
what remains is only fair, selling at 
about $6 per 100 head. The low ground 
on which most of the farmers depend for 
hay for feeding their stock was so sub¬ 
merged that the grass is a total loss, and 
all upland grass which was not gathered 
befoi'e the rain was also lost. One man 
in my neighborhood lost a 20-acre plot 
on low ground, which cuts all Bed-top, 
and from which he figures from $700 to 
$800 per year of a crop. From what I 
hear from the farmers of the county they 
will have hard work to make ends meet 
this year; everything planted was a great 
expense. Labor hard to get. price of 
seeds and fertilizer high; machinery also 
away up in price. One man in my neigh¬ 
borhood paid $19 for a one-horse culti¬ 
vator which we always used to buy for $5, 
so we feel the season in general has been 
a bad one, and the outlook for a long 
Winter makes the farmer do some think¬ 
ing- j. ir. v. k. 
Morris To., N. .T. 
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