The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1825 
Crops and Farm News 
This is a dairy section. We have had 
a very wet Fall. Farmers are generally 
dissatisfied. There are more auctions this 
Fall than ever known before. Cattle of 
all kinds have taken a big drop in the 
last two months. Stock brings the fol¬ 
lowing prices at public auction : Fresh 
milkers from $75 to $125 ; strippers, from 
$50 to $85; yearlings, from $25 to $40; 
calves. $20. Farmers are receiving the 
following prices at the stores: Butter, 
55 to GOc; eggs, 65c; potatoes, $1.50. No 
grain sold here by the farmers. Price for 
mill feed: Cornmeal, $3.30 per cwt.; 
wheat middlings. $3.50; wheat hran, 
$3.25; barley. $3.60; oilmeal, $4; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $3.90. Beef and pork have 
taken a big drop to the farmers, but the 
retailers do not know anything about the 
drop when you buy a piece of meat. 
Farmers are receiving from 10 to 13c for 
beef, dressed; 18c for heavy pork; 21c 
for light pork. It is almost impossible 
for farmers to get any help; what little 
they can get is very poor, and they have 
to pay 30 to 40c per hour and board, so 
they are doing what they can themselves 
and letting the rest go. Potatoes a fail- 
crop. but rotting badly; oats about half 
crop. Ilay and corn good; not much 
buckwheat or barlev raised here. S. P. 
Fulton Co., N. Y. 
Potatoes, $1.50 per GO lbs, more than 
50 per cent sold. Corn, not much raised, 
and a good deal bought. Farmers have 
to pay $1.35 per 70 lbs. Quite a few 
steers bought by farmers and fed for 
manure to feed potash land. Oats mostly 
bought by farmers at 05c per 32 lbs. 
Wheat mostly all sold, crop below normal. 
20 to 25 bu. per acre. Price was $2.15 
per GO lbs. Bye, $1.40 per 100 lbs.; not 
much raised and practically all sold; crop 
the poorest in years. Apples scarce. $1.25 
per bu. Eggs scarce, and bring 68c pr- 
doz.; butter. 65c per lb. Dressed hogs. 
20c per lb.; scarce. Dressed beef. 20c 
per lb. ; scarce. Help very scarce; day 
labor, $2 a day and board ; hired help. 
$40 to $45 a month and board ; leaving 
the farm for higher wages, those left be¬ 
ing undesirable. Farmers very dissatis¬ 
fied with prices they get from the middle¬ 
man. Lots of tomatoes, corn, quinces, 
pears and apples rotted on tree because 
we could not preserve and cook apple 
butter, etc. L. E. H. 
Lehigh Co., Pa. 
Poultry, 30c per lb.; eggs, at store. SOc. 
Pork, live, 14c; dressed, 20c. Butter. 
70c; milk. November. $3.49. three per 
cent. Cows average $160. Wheat. $2.15 : 
corn, 60 lbs., 71c; apples, 75c. bu.. aver¬ 
age. ^ c. R. c. 
Hunterdon Co., N. ,T. 
The past month has been very favor¬ 
able for farm work. We have had no 
very hard freezes yet. Only two snowy 
days. and not enough rain to make it 
plow well. A large amount has been 
plowed. Quite a large acreage of corn in 
the field vet; some are paying Sc per bu. 
to have it husked by hand. Corn is an 
extra good crop this year. Many farmers 
are selling their lambs for 12c per lb. 
Stock doing very well, but not much being 
fed, only hogs as a rule. There is a big 
call for' milch cows, good ones bringing 
from $125 to $150 with calf by side. 
Potatoes are doing better in price, but 
must advance moi-e yet. as they were a 
light crop, and some complain they are 
not keeping well. Not much cabbage in 
storage. Wheat. $2.15 ; butter, 70c; eggs, 
70c; veal. 17c; chickens, 22c; ducks, 26c; 
turkeys are very scarce and high ; geese, 
26c. E. T R. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
Apples, $6 per bbl.; potatoes. $5.50 per 
bbl.; carrots. $2.25 per bbl.; beets. $2.50 
per bbl.; all retail prices. Cabbage. 
$1.25 to $1.50 per bbl.; Savoy cab¬ 
bage. 75c per bbl. ; knob-root or Ham¬ 
burg parsley, $2.50 per 100 bunches, 
six roots in a bunch. Chickens, live 
weight. 35c per lb.; ducks, live, 40c 
per lb.; eggs, strictly fresh, $1 per doz. 
Wheat and rye, good crop, but all lost 
with wet weather ; corn, good crop; some 
parts some frost. Potatoes a failure in 
this section. We raise quite a lot of to¬ 
matoes here. Squash was a failure; also 
pumpkins and turnips. A. M. 
Union Co., N. J. 
Hay, from $1.50 to $1.60 per cwt. at 
Philadelphia: corn at the farm. $1.25 to 
$1.40; oats. 60 to 80c; wheat, No. 1, 
$2.25 per bu., but very few are getting 
that, as the wheat was spoiled by rain. 
Potatoes at Philadelphia, $2.40 for first. 
$2 for seconds : private trade about $2.15 
wholesale. Apples, $1 to $1.25 per basj 
ket at Philadelphia at stores. Poultry. 35 
to 40c per lb. at home. Eggs, 85c at 
home. The leading crop, corn, was very 
much damaged by the heavy rains; I do 
not think the average yield would be over 
about 40 bu. to the acre. We have a fair 
yield of hay and a very large yield of 
second-crop. Wheat ran about 18 bu. to 
the acre, and oats were very nearly ruined 
by rain. Fruit very scarce. There is a 
large acreage of wheat sown for the fol¬ 
lowing year. The outlook for the farmers 
is that if we do all our work we can make 
a fair living, but if we hire $75 men. why, 
the poorhouse for us. w. w. J. 
Columbia Co., Pa. 
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Dept. 84 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
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A* OTTAWA FNCIHE - ^ 
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Prices on Portables 
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165 also very 
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345 West Main St. 
WAYNESBORO, PA. 
Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard work by Henry & Mor¬ 
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which price we can supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street New York 
