The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
329 
Crops and Farm News 
Wheat. $2.1C ; barley, $1.35; oats, 76c; 
buckwheat, $2.50 per cwt.; Red clover 
seed. $25. without cleaning; Alfalfa hay, 
second cutting, $25 ; Timothy, $21; mixed 
hay, $20; clover. $18; pork, prime, $12 
per cwt.; eggs, 85c.; butter, 62c; apples, 
per bu., good. $2;. The general outlook 
seems to be less help and higher wages 
than last year, therefore shorter produc¬ 
tion. The canning crop growers have 
organized and are setting their prices to 
the preserving company, and it looks like 
a success, because they cannot ship green 
peas and other canning crops far, so the 
works will either pay the price or close. 
A good many farmers are seeding down 
and grazing more stock. I am cutting 
production to the limit, as I will not pay 
the wages asked or put up with the kind 
of help that is looking for farm jobs now. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. w. J. w. 
The Season’s Outlook 
I am alone on my farm, caring for 30 
head of swine of all ages, eight head of 
cattle and three horses. Husking corn to 
provide fodder and grain taxes one’s abil¬ 
ity this cold weather. You say, why not 
hire some of it done? The few day labor¬ 
ers about here are picked up by the Gov¬ 
ernment working on the railroad. Never 
in my memory has a full section crew 
been employed through the Winter at 
$3.15 per day of eight hours. Two men 
are doing the work of one agent at this 
little station. We know who pays the 
bill. We also look for a change March 1, 
when the railroads are returned to private 
ownership and operated on a paying basis. 
We find that published reports of prices 
in our country papers are a little shy of 
what the market actually is, as the re¬ 
ports are corrected by those actually en¬ 
gaged in buying. Our crops are some¬ 
what diversified in this section. Wheat, 
No. 1. 60 lbs., $2.2S; barley, 60 lbs., 
$1.50; red kidney beans. $12 per 100 lbs., 
hand picked. Very few are raised, being 
obliged to discontinue planting myself on 
account of blight. Other varieties much 
lower. Milk, $3.87 per 100 lbs., delivered 
in Penn Yan. This industry seems to be 
growing, many silos being erected last 
Fall. Many farm that were used exclu¬ 
sively for grain growing have been given 
over to the milk industry. Cabbage, our 
main crop, was almost a complete failure 
this last year. Thousands of dollars were 
lost that were invested in cabbage seed 
that failed to germinate, and cabbage 
plants were very scarce. My neighbor 
drove his car to New Jersey for plants. 
Those who were fortunate or unfortunate 
enough to secure plants were discouraged 
to see their crops attacked by aphis, which 
completely ruined some crops depending 
on the variety, Copenhagen suffering the 
most, while All Head Early partially es¬ 
caped. We received on an average $20 
per ton; $35 was top. This price seems 
to stimulate pm-chasing of seed for the 
next year. One agent told me he had 
sold one and a half tons imported seeds. 
I look for heavy planting this year if 
plants can be raised. Quite a lot of hay 
was disposed of at $25 early, not any 
moving at present. This is not a potato 
section. Scarcity of help is causing all 
farmers to plan handling such crops and 
planting such acreage as they are com¬ 
petent to handle alone or with such help 
as thev are sure of. E. L. jones. 
Yates Co., N. Y. 
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Size of Silo Needed 
What size silo do you recommend for 
from 15 to 20 head of stock? Do you 
consider wood superior to metal? How 
far under ground should one go, and is 
it undesirable, on account of frost, to 
put a silo on the north or west side of 
the barn? It is not possible in my case 
to put it on the south side, and not so 
practicable on the east as on either the 
north or west', but I have been advised 
against either of these exposures. 
Taunton, Mass. L. B. w. 
Feeding at the rate of 30 lbs. per head 
per day for 20 cows, a silo should be 
12 ft. in diameter to feed 2 ft. off its sur¬ 
face daily. Figuring 30 lbs. per head 
per day for 20 cows for seven months, 
or 210 days, it would take 63 tons of 
silage. A silo 12x30 will hold about 
65 tons of silage, and would be about 
what you would want. Unless you are 
going in for hollow tile or concrete. I 
would use the wooded staves. While it 
is better to put silo on protected side of 
barn, this does not matter so much. They 
have to be put where most convenient. 
H. F. J. 
Non-breakable Egg Crate 
I would like to know if there is a guar¬ 
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market, such as could be used for parcel 
post? If such is not on the market, and 
I perfected same, do you suppose that 
farmers would be willing to pay 75 cents 
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New Jersey. 
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Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard hook by Henry & Mor¬ 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street New York 
