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Is linn* Hay Part of the 10% 
Crops and Farm News 
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Grades 
“Choice” 
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The farmers of Northern Ohio are 
surely being tormented on account of the 
weather. Perhaps there are other sec¬ 
tions of country just as badly off. For 
three weeks now we practically have not 
been able to do any farm work. It has 
been raining, wet and cold continually; 
00 per cent of the oats are not sown yet, 
and no prospepts of sowing them. It has 
been wet and cold so long that everything 
is backward. Wheat, and pasture grasses 
have only made a nominal growth. The 
pasture is too short to turn stock out. We 
have not even turned our sheep out yet 
(April 28). Last year we turned them 
out on April 13. We have had a long, 
expensive feeding season of high-priced 
feeds. The farmers’ prospects right now 
for this year are not very bright. The 
wheat around here has been badly winter- 
killed. We are not able to sow our oats, 
and but very little land is plowed for corn. 
If we are not.able to sow and to harvest. 
I wonder what our city friends are going 
to eat?- n. h. 
Huron Co., Ohio. 
I live on one of the oldest farms in 
this vicinity, handed down from my 
great-grandfather. It is situated on 
boundary line between Summit and 
Springfield, about 10 miles from New¬ 
ark. N. .T. The farms run around 
fid and 100 acres, including pasture 
and woodlots. Those who farm their 
grounds raise a variety of fruit, garden 
crops, poultry and eggs, sold as much as 
possible direct to the consumer. Consid¬ 
erable damage was done to young fruit 
trees up to four years old by mice and 
rabbits during the past Winter while the 
snow was so deep. I think we should 
have a good season after the old-time 
Winter we have just gone through. Baled 
hay. dealers’ price. $3 per cwt.; loose hay, 
“2.25 per cwt. Apples, basket. $1.25 to 
1.50, $7 to $8 per bbl. Potatoes. $2 per 
basket, $7 to -80 per bbl. Eggs, 75 to 80c 
retail, about 62c wholesale. Chickens, 
broilers. 75e per lb. in market: fowls. 50c. 
Cows, fair ones, from $200 up. Work 
horses. $800 up: very few raised here. 
Most of them come from Pennsylvania 
and Indiana. Young pigs, $12 to $15 
per pair. Milk. 18c per qt.; butter. 80 
to 84c per lb., for best. Price of labor, 
men. $3 to $4; teams with driver, $0 per 
day. j. a. s. 
Union Co., N. J. 
This has been a discouragingly cold, 
backward Spring here, and much fruit has 
been injured. Just how extensive this in¬ 
jury is cannot yet he determined, as the 
cold winds and frequent freezes have held 
the opening buds at a standstill for many 
clays. The young, tender apple foliage 
surrounding the blossom buds is dwarfed 
and “crimped” in such a way that it 
seems past further development, while 
many of the fruit bud clusters which are 
showing pink are much browned, stunted 
and discouraged in appearance. The 
Rome Beauty apples being Cjuite a little 
later in their time of blooming, have held 
back in such a way that they yet appear 
all right, but all early blossoming varieties 
are in a bad way apparently. Plume, 
especially Lombard, have suffered serious¬ 
ly in blossoms. A number of other vari 
eties are yet in good condition, but the 
weather is yet cold and dangerous. Cher¬ 
ries have suffered badly. Strangely, peach 
buds and blossoms are in better condition 
at this particular time than are any of 
the other fruits. *’• H, B. 
Licking Co., O. 
Notes on 
Florida Crops 
place the 
increase in 
at 12 per 
Last year’s 
which would 
at 203-410 
Crop estimates 
early Irish potato acreage 
cent over that of last year, 
acreage was 182.250 acres, 
make this year's acreage 
acres. 
Of the strictly Southern Stales, Ala¬ 
bama made the greatest percentage in 
increase of this crop Hi 1020 over 1J1J. 
where the increase was from 3.000 to 
4.500 acres, making the increase ;>3 i«‘> 
cent. Florida jumped from 18.050 acres 
last year to 22.380 this year; Louisiana 
dropped from 16.600 last year to 11- 
this year; Texas increased from o.4;>u 
acres* in 1010 to 11.950 in 1920. riu- 
increase in the States of this section 
amounted to practically 10 per cent. 
The bulk of the Florida crop is planted 
in the St. -Tohns-l’utnam county belt, and 
the acreage this season is about the sane 
as last, totaling around 16,000 ane-. 
Plantings were made in this section at 
usual time (January) but excessive wet 
weather followed by several cold SP' 7 
lias held crop back so that digging v 1 
be delayed at least a month later than 
usual. Some few cars have been movt 
from the section, and light movement wm 
continue during last week of April, 
first week in May will sec an ''"•rease .n 
the amount of stock dug. with the n > 
mont of prime stock becoming ' 
about May 10. Conditions have 
favorable during the latter par 
growing season that indication 
to a normal yield. If majority V* '"j ^ 
are allowed to grow to full maturity, th 
section will place upon the ms e .>•’< , 
June 1 some 600.000 to bOO.OOO bane!, 
of potatoes. 
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