Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1561 
All Sorts 
That Acre of Sweet Corn 
Tiie It. N.-Y. came today, and I want 
to sit right down and write my objection 
to the Hope Farm man’s figures on page 
1450. I don’t object to his items given 
for expenses, nor to adding rent of land 
and charge for managing same, but don’t 
put more overhead charges in when you 
figure horse power and labor as you have. 
The man whose team you hire houses and 
feeds them on $7 per day, if you can’t 
better hire him altogether. Before giving 
us any more on overhead charges (which 
are interesting, and we shall be glad to 
see them), why not figure one way or 
other? Either figure, liorse power and 
labor on what it costs you, or what the 
other fellow charges. The way you figure 
your horses at .$7 for 200 days is $1,400, 
not bad. I’ll let a team for that and pro¬ 
vide plow, harrow, etc., and driver. I'm a 
“back-to-the-lander.” I came on a run¬ 
down farm six years ago with very little 
capital, and have no kick. I’m a believer 
in the farmer getting cost and percentage, 
but figure cost right. GEORGE TIIORNE. 
New Jersey. 
The figures relative to the sweet corn 
patch seem wrong to me, possibly because 
my. farming was done so many years 
ago that we did not then know how to 
put the time on an acre that can now 
be used up in that interesting and health- 
giving employment, following the plow. 
The following statement is from mem¬ 
ory, of the amount of time normally 
chargeable to the production of an acre 
of corn in the corn country, 40 years ago: 
Breaking, raking and burning stalk* .10 
Blowing ...33 
Marking .05 
Planting .06 
Cultivating—three times.50 
$1.04 
These figures were frequently varied by 
pursuing different methods. “Listing” 
saved more than a fourth of the work, as 
it did in one operation—.12 day per acre 
—plowing, marking and planting. It 
expect to feed more cattle this Winter 
than last. j. s. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
There is not as large a seeding in rye 
in this section as compared with other 
years. Rye in this section has been lower¬ 
ing for the last five years, farmers are 
raising wheat instead. About the same 
number of cattle will be fed this Winter, 
1 might say about one-third more. ii. s. 
Albany Co., N. Y. 
There will not be the rye acreage of 
former years the way prospects look now. 
A great many are short of help, rye straw 
is not selling for a good price, and rye 
is selling for $1.30 per bu. So take the 
average yield it is not a great paying crop. 
There is quite an acreage being planted to 
plow under in the Spring for green 
manure. There will be quite a number 
Various Crops 
September pigs, pair, $12; pigs in gen- 
oral, cwt.., $18.50; wheat, bu.. $2.10 at 
mill; rye, bu., $1.50; bran, $2.70 cwt.; 
oats, bu., $1; grasshoppers destroyed 
crop; brown middlings, cwt., $3.15 at 
mill; cornmeal, $4.50; cottonseed meal, 
$7.50; dairy feed, $3 to $4; ear corn, 
bu., 90c; No. 2 yellow shelled corn, bu., 
$2.25; flour middlings, cwt.. $3.50. Pota¬ 
toes were badly struck by blight, $3 bu. 
Sweet corn, doz., 20c; onions, bu., $2; 
tomatoes, bu., 50c to $1.25; sqush, lb., 
6c; endive, head, 5c; string beans, lb., 
10c; mushrooms, lb., 50c; apples, bu., 
$2.75 to $3; good-sized pumpkins, 15c; 
cauliflower, 20c; head lettuce, 20c. 
Pennsylvania. v o. B. w. 
ITay, Timothy, $18 to $22 per ton; 
clover, $18; wheat, $2.16; barley, $1.25; 
rye, $1.30; grapes, $100 ton; apples, 
from $3.25 to $3 50 per cwt.; butter, 52 
to 54c; eggs, 55c. Grapes are an un¬ 
usually good crop this year, and the 
years, with a nominal price of 80c at 
mill, and one for sale. Hay, fair crop, 
nominal price. The Spring here was 
very wet up to May, then warm and quite 
dry, and the Fall so far is warm and 
vegetation green; no frost. Silage corn 
the very best crop known here. Apples 
scarcer than hens;’ teeth; worth 5c apiece 
in grocery to the buyer. j. k. h. 
Crawford Co., Pa. 
In this part of the country corn, wheat, 
oats and rye are the main crops. Old 
corn in the ear is bringing 75 to 9<)c, 
according to quality; wheat $2.20 at the 
mills. Apples are bringing $1.50 bu. 
Hunterdon Co., N. J. w. w. 
Following an unusually wet Spring we 
had an extraordinarily dry Summer. 
Peas, oats and Spring wheat mudded in 
during the wet days of April and May, 
baked and rusted during the drought of 
June and July, and made poor crops. 
Winter wheat a smaller acreage than 
usual, make an average crop of good 
quality. Corn, both silage and grain, is 
good, rather above the average. Potatoes 
Bunch of Turkeys on a Canadian Fruit Farm 
should be remembered that no farmer of 
action or energy expected to use only two 
horses. Horses were cheap and horse food 
was cheaper. Three horses were a neces¬ 
sity. and a fourth was usually kept as a 
reserve. 
An active man expected to “make” his 
crop with one day’s work per acre and 
“gather” it with another. These were 
for-sure days! No “patent time” then. 
Did we work from “sun to sun?” Not 
a bit of it. We worked like fools: we 
enjoyed it. Did the “dew”—that bug¬ 
bear of farmers—bother us? No! We 
went to work in the cornfield as soon as 
we could get to work and were highly 
pleased if the dew was on. It meant the 
corn was growing all right. In those 
days of high-priced money a man was 
usually priced at about the same as a 
good two-horse team, and the two could 
usually be had—outside of harvest—for 
$2.50 per 10-liour day. 
Is it not more than possible that those 
young peach trees not only added much 
to the time consumed, but detracted much 
from the yield? Let us say—as was my 
custom in the corn country—that 720 
rods of row makes an acre. With an 
ear to the foot there is well on to 12.000 
ears—let us say 10.000 to the acre. These 
at $2.75 would bring $275, which would 
leave something more than wages, even 
after a fair overhead charge and "super¬ 
intendence.” If a man puts in 1V 2 days 
plowing an acre and charges $7 per day 
for his time he must think those that pay 
him can stand almost anything—are like 
the Government. w. s. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
Wheat and Rye Reports 
The wheat crop in this section will be 
larger than pre-war years, but I should 
say about 10 per cent less than last year. 
A few more cattle may be fed this Winter 
tban last. n. <. a. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
The average of wheat will be about 
70 to < SO per cent of last year’s crop, 
about the former amount sown before 
1018. There will not be any more cattle 
fed than usual. W. 11. G. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
I believe there is about 20 per cent 
more wheat seeded this Fall than last, in 
my immediate vicinity, and the farmers 
A 
of cattle fed this Winter; almost every¬ 
one has lots of hay. G. 11 . G. 
Albany Co., N. Y. 
I think the usual amount of wheat 
sown this Fall. This year’s crop poor. 
The usual number of cattle will be fed 
this Winter. There are not many fed in 
this town. c. F. l’. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
The wheat seeding this Fall will aver¬ 
age normal in this vicinity. There are 
fewer cattle being kept, and dealers in 
livestock claim that farmers are not buy¬ 
ing feeders as freely as usual. Livestock, 
especially swine, is on the increase. 
Tractors gained in this section last 
Spring, owing to the extreme heat right 
at the plowing and planting season. 
Monroe C’o., N. Y. b. v. h. 
I do not think there is as much rye 
sown here this Fall as usual, and there 
will be about the same number of cows 
fed as in former years. F. F. 
Albany Co., N. Y. 
The acreage in wheat seeding this Fall 
will compare favorably with former years 
in this section. Not as many cattle will 
be fed this Winter. Feed is too high to 
make it profitable. • C. E. D. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
The acreage of wheat is more than 
double what it was last year in this sec¬ 
tion. The number of cattle' to be fed will 
be about the same as usual. T. 11 . w. 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 
Should judge the acreage was about 
the same as last year; some sown the first 
week in September has top enough to go 
in Winter now. but does not look very 
rugged on account of the dry weather. It 
is better now, as we have had frequent 
showers. Some are still sowing. It is 
surprising that the farmers are putting 
out as much as they have, as all the help 
tl y can get is old men and some women. 
If the unions keep demanding more pay I 
don’t know what the farmers will do. It 
all comes out of the producer. Had to 
pay 40 and 50 cents an hour and board, 
and some of them poor help at that. 
Corn is the best crop we have had in 
three years, mostly hard; no frost yet. 
Potatoes, good quality but yield very 
light. Very few cattle to feed. Young 
stock has been bought up and shipped to 
slaughter houses. Meat very high, steak 
40 cents per pound. Beans were a nice 
crop, but a very few were planted. Ap¬ 
ples very scarce and quality poor. 
Seneca (5).. N. Y. F. D. H. 
I think just about the usual amount of 
wheat will be sown. Not any cattle will 
be fed in this section this Winter. 
Lakeside. N. Y. W. W. T. 
price will help to make up for last year’s 
failure. Apples are a very short crop in 
our county this year. The quality of the 
staple crops this year is much improved, 
due to careful selection of seeds, seed 
treatment, spraying, etc. S. Y. 
Yates Co., N. Y. 
We grew tomatoes, sweet corn, field 
corn and other truck, and asparagus, 
which we sold at retail, having two ped¬ 
dling wagons out nearly every day. Beans 
(early) brought 15c per qt,; later, 10c; 
asparagus mostly 40c per bunch, had 
about 5%acres, wholesale, about 100 doz. 
bunches, $3.60 per doz.; carrots and beets, 
5c per bunch; corn. 60c per doz., for 
Evergreen. 45c Golden Bantam; tomatoes, 
20c per qt., at height of season 15c per qt. 
No. 2 wheat, $2.10 per bu. at ware¬ 
house ; hay. baled, $35 at warehouse; 
oats, 00c bn.: new corn. $1 bu.. basket 
ears ("home market). Butter, til) to 80c 
per lb.; milk. 4 per cent, 40c per gal. at 
wholesale, or 14c per qt. at retail; eggs. 
55c wholesale, 65c retail. Potatoes, $2 
for 60 lbs. or 65c per peck; tomatoes, $1 
per bu. Westmoreland has become a 
manufacturing county, dotted with coal 
mining towns, which use all products of 
farms at fair prices, and farmers are 
doing well, if they have good farms, but 
on thin land the lime and labor bills eat 
up all the profits. And many such farms, 
located on t e Anticlinal ridges, are being 
cut up into small tracts and sold to mill 
and factory workers (mostly foreign 
born), at'priees ranging from $80 to $200 
per acre, so as to produce less grain and 
live stock, and more garden and hen 
pr ducts, but on the better farms the 
owners are holding on, using tractors, etc., 
and fewer hired men. Corn best crop in 
25 years; potatoes poor crop and rotting; 
wheat, oats and rye, average. 11. b. j. 
Westmoreland Co., Pa. 
T 11 this western part of Crawford 
County, l*a., milk is perhaps tin' leading 
product, handled by the Reick Mc.Tunkin 
Co., the Butler Pure Milk Co. and the 
Mohawk Co., the first two companies go¬ 
ing to Pittsburg and Butler. Pa., and the 
Mohawk to New York towns. For Au¬ 
gust and September tin* price was $3.25 
for 3.5 milk, with 5c added or subtracted 
for each point up or down. I am told 
(not official) that the price for October 
will be $3.(50. This is delivered at the 
factory. Ours goes to Linesville, four 
miles away from farm. The company 
does the testing, which is not always sat¬ 
isfactory. Potatoes and buckwheat are 
not harvested yet. and no movement of 
hay. Wheat was a fair crop, and they 
allow in exchange for flour 82 10 per 
bushel, with $3.50 to $3.(50 per sack 
patent flour. Oats were the poorest in 
slightly smaller acreage, much replanted 
or planted late, look line; less trouble 
from bugs and blight than in many years. 
Some rot is being reported, however. 
$1.50 to $1.65 per bu. on the wholesale 
market at Buffalo. Cauliflower, of which 
a good bit is grown in this county, is a 
smaller acreage, but a better quality than 
average; $1.50 to $1.85 per crate of one 
dozen heads. Cucumbers and pickles are 
a poorer crop and later than usual here; 
now bringing 90c to $1.10 per bu, and 40 
to 65c per 100 for the pickles. Apples 
practically a complete failure, the Buffalo 
market buying at $2.25 to $3.50. as to 
quality and variety: Duchess, Wealthy 
and Snow selling readily. Pears are also 
very few and hardly average quality, and 
prices up to $4.50 for Bartletts. Eggs 
are 68c; butter, 62c. Hay, which made 
an excellent crop, both as to tonnage and 
quality, is selling from $21 to $26 per 
ton. as to grade, delivered in Buffalo. 
Buckwheat is late and looks good, if frost 
holds off for a few more days. Consider¬ 
able dairying hereabouts. League prices 
for milk and dealers’ prices for grain. 
New seeding of clover is looking well. 
Erie Co., N. Y. g. t. 
Northeaster today. Corn all cut; some 
wheat up. some to sow. Corn a fairly 
good crop; wheat and oats not very good ; 
barley good. Early potatoes a failure, 
also apples; late potatoes a half crop. 
Wheat, No. 2. $2.10; oats, 62c; barley, 
$1 25 ; corn, $2.10 per cwt.; potatoes, 
83 60; hay, $19 to $21; fat steers, 9 to 
12c; hogs, best, $17.50; lambs, 16c; 
sheep. 7 to 10c; butter. 42c; eggs. 45c. 
Our shipping association is returning the 
farmers some profit. No building being 
done; material out of reach. A. s. c. 
De Kalb Co.. Iml. 
T notice in the Copper Farmer a man 
out in Washington Co.. Iowa, writing to 
the paper, said he raised 60 tons of clover 
hay on five acres. Land is worth on the 
average in this county $400 per acre. We 
can beat this here in New York State. I 
raised two tons to the acre on land that 
was bought for $25 per acre. One of my 
neighbors raised on six acres of land 24 
tons of weighed lmy. People out West 
think the land here in New York State is 
all worn out. One neighbor rented farm 
for $200. planted l ;l t acres to potatoes, 
raised 350 bu., sold 500 bu. for $1 per bu., 
paid his rent, had $100 left and 50 bu. of 
potatoes. Besides this he pastured 20 
head of cattle on this farm and cut 50 
tons of hay. Can you rent a farm of 250 
acres in Iowa that will pay the rent from 
1% acres? It is not uncommon here to 
get enough on two or three acres to pay 
the interest on the money invested iii 
$5,000 farm. ' c. W. Y 
Tioga Co., N. Y„ 
