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Crops and Farm Notes 
The Great Producing Sections 
(iKOWTII OP SHIPPING SECTIONS SOUTH 
AND WEST—MOST PltUITS AND VEGE¬ 
TABLES IN USUAL SUPPLY, BUT 
PRICES TEND DOWNWARD 
Tho most striking development in re¬ 
pent years is the tendency to centralize 
in the South and in the Far West the 
production of what might be termed “the 
luxury crops,” including the various fruits 
and vegetables not considered as an in¬ 
dispensable article of diet. 
LUXURY CROPS MOVING SOUTH AND WEST 
Tip to l‘)17 New York was the leading 
State in shipment of peaches. In that 
year the 1 New York shipments were one- 
third of the total. Since then shipments 
from New York have been comparatively 
light, while the two States or Georgia 
and California have shipped about, one- 
half of the total. Cantaloupe production 
has shifted largely to California, Colorado 
and Arizona, whore immense areas in 
well-defined localities are planted to this 
crop. Florida and Georgia retain leader¬ 
ship in watermelons, but large areas are 
developing in the Texas-Oklahoma section 
and supply the early markets in the 
South Central States. Oranges, for rea¬ 
sons of climate, are naturally confined 
chiefly to Florida and California, hut with 
a tendency to increase in the South¬ 
western sections. The Pacific Const is in¬ 
creasingly a center of production for such 
fruits as plums, prunes, apricots, cherries, 
grapes and pears, and in seasons of high 
prices an increased percentage of the crop 
is diverted from canning or drying, to be 
shipped as fresh fruit. The Northwest 
now leads in apple shipments in seasons 
when the Eastern barrel apple crop is 
light, and the only recent extensive now 
plantings of apple orchards are in the 
J Northwest. 
The more staple productions, such as 
onions, cabbage and potatoes, are still 
centered in the .North, but the area of the 
early part of the crops has increased very 
fast in the Southeast and in Texas. This 
year supplies of Texas Bermuda onions 
were so abundant as to well at a lower 
price than the Northern crop commanded 
during the height of the season, and the 
same was true of tin* Texas cabbage crop 
] for a short time. Southern and Central 
California is becoming n truck and fruit 
garden, shipping many lines of produce 
throughout the year. 
DISTANCE NOT WHOLLY A HANDICAP 
Another advantage in some sections is a 
well-developed system of marketing, which 
insures good packing and distribution. The 
very distance from the principal markets 
is an advantage in keeping away all but 
the high grade stock. Because transpor¬ 
tation charges are so great for the dis¬ 
tant sections it is often found that the 
most carefully graded stock comes from 
a most distant shipping point, since no 
other kind of stock will pay to ship under 
refrigeration for thousands of miles. Many 
of the newer shipping sections have rich 
land under irrigation and can raise heavy 
crops with the aid of fertilizers, while* 
Northern trucking sections find the sup¬ 
ply of manure less since the livery stable 
has been supplanted by the garage. In 
some instances the distant shipping sec¬ 
tions have found or developed varieties 
of superior quality and commercial 
adaptation. 
NORTHERN GROWERS FAVORED ALSO 
The Northern and Eastern produce still 
has the advantage of comparative fresh¬ 
ness and often is so superior as to drive 
out of market the long distance products. 
Labor conditions also favor some of the 
Northern and Eastern sections. Expenses 
of marketing are lighter. Many crops, 
too, give larger and more reliable yields 
in the North. It is a question whether 
the Southern or Southwestern growers 
average a better net profit than the 
Northern or Eastern producers, taking 
one year with another. If freight charges 
are increased greatly, according to the 
plans of the railroads, the advantage of 
the nearby growers will be increased ac¬ 
cordingly. However, no large grower can 
afford to neglect constant attention to the 
various new developments in tin* produc¬ 
ing sections in order to adapt his plans to 
the changing conditions. G. B. F. 
A Rural Reader in Germany 
Tf conditions should not improve by 
next Fall it is my intention to return to 
the dear United States. 1 was looking 
around for a manager’s position, and was 
offered a job at a salary of 4,000 marks 
and maintenance. I don’t see how they 
get men to tackle those jobs at such a 
laughable salary, because the price of a 
suit is about 1,200 nr 1,500 marks, a pair 
of leather boots 800 marks, shoes 100 to 
325 marks, etc. But there is a surplus 
of help in the farming line, as former 
officers and soldiers of the army and navy 
went farming, and not a few have done 
so. What Germany needs at the present 
lime and what the farmers are fighting 
for is the freeing of the farm products 
from government control. Of course 
everything would become much dearer, 
Imt it would stop this hack door business. 
I can take my meat card, go to the 
butcher to get my allotted meat at 4.50 
marks per pound, without getting any; 
Imt meat without cards at 13 to 14 marks 
per Dound he has. Sugar on cards is 1.00 
marks per pound, hut none to fie had. But 
'any grocer will sell it to you for 14 to 
IS marks per pound. 
Farmers are requested and ordered fre¬ 
quently to sell their surplus grain to the 
government at. a price eight to 10 marks 
below the price they can get otherwise. 
Do you blame them for not doing it? The 
government price of rye is 42 marks for 
200 pounds, but the farmer can get from 
580 to 400 marks for the same amount. 
The government price of cattle is 2.40 
marks per pound; the dealer pays six 
marks per pound. Who gets it? The 
creameries had a meeting last week and 
concluded not to work any more if the 
government does not give up control of 
milk and butter. Whole milk is 1.50 
marks per quart, butter 10 marks per 
pound, oleo 18 marks per pound. Does 
the farmer receive enough for his butter? 
Butter without cards sells up to 50 marks 
per pound, etc. Farmers here have done 
well during the war, but that is not to say 
that they should sell cheap now, as every¬ 
thing they buy, as fertilizer, etc., is very 
high and scarce. The whole trouble is 
that there are men at Berlin at the pres¬ 
ent time who do not know much about 
their business. Germany has men enough 
who would put her back on her feet, but 
they have the socialist parties against 
them. It will bo tho ruin of Germany 
if this party fighting does not stop. 
The season here is very late in spite 
of March being very mild, but April 
fooled everybody; nothing but rain and 
cold weather. On the western const of 
Schleswig-Holstein oats have not been 
sown as yet (May fi). The farmers 
there are prepared to cut oats in Novem¬ 
ber, and that would not ho for the first 
time. h. k. 
The price of milk (our goes to a cheese 
factory) and pork docs not lot us work 
eight hours per day. We must produce 
all we can in order to make both ends 
meet. I think our May milk will net 
about $2.25 per 100. Dressed hogs, 19c 
to 20c per lb., and nearly impossible to 
sell. Eggs, mixed colors, by case, 48c in 
Rome. Low-grade flour, $4.25 per cwt; 
standard middlings. $3 65; meal. $4.25; 
dressed veal, 20c per lb. Common day 
labor $3.50 per day of 10 hours. Not 
many potatoes to sell. It has been very 
dry here all Spring, until now we have 
had some good showers; pastures very 
short. I should think hay about one- 
half to three-quarters of a crop. Oats 
arc looking good. Corn quite backward. 
Potatoes fair; I think about the same 
as usual amount planted, but all small 
pieces. Farmers are vqry much dissatis¬ 
fied over the price of cheese and pork. 
Our section is fast filling up with Polish 
farmers. Most of them do not produce 
very large crops, and n good many work 
out in mills to obtain money to pay in¬ 
terest with. a. p. s. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
This county never was considered an 
agricultural county, lumbering and min¬ 
ing being its chief industries, but of late 
years farming has improved considerably. 
We received from the buyers for pota¬ 
toes in the car per bushel of 00 lbs., 
$2.25; wheat. $2.11; buckwheat, $3 per 
100 lbs. Hay sold from $25 to $35 per 
ton, as to quality; straw, $13 to $20 per 
ton. Pork, 20c; beef, 10 to 20c; and 
veal. 20c; butter, 50c; eggs, 40c. This 
is what tin* farmers have been getting in 
this neighborhood for some time. Last 
Winter we got 75c for butter and eggs, 
and potatoes were from $1 to $1.50, and 
now are $2.50 and $3. Onions sold for 
from $2 to $2.50 per bu. last Winter, and 
early totnatoes about the same. This 
being a great mining and manufacturing 
country, tho prices that the farmers re¬ 
ceive for their produce varies soniewhat. 
There is considerable corn, oats, wheat, 
buckwheat and potatoes raised in this 
county; not much rye, quite a lot of hay. 
The hay crop is going to be poor this 
year, and corn looks bad, but wheat, 
oats and potatoes look good. A. 0. V. 
Clearfield Co., Pa. 
Wheat is being thrashed at a lively 
rate. The yield is fair. Farmers almost 
through harvesting bay. Early apples 
arc an average crop, and prices range 
from $1.50 to $3 per bushel hamper. 
Wheat. $2.90; corn, $2; bran, $5.50 per 
••wt. Eggs. 15c; hay. $25; veal calves, 
10c. Tomatoes arc looking fine. The 
on liners and growers have not agreed on 
a contract price yet. and it looks as it 
all tomatoes would have to be sold on 
the open market. Labor is scarce and 
very high. Men to work around the 
thrashing machines and to harvest hay 
got $4 and $5 per day of 10 hours. The 
early potato crop is being dug. The crop 
is above the average. Those who raise 
peas for the oanners were well pleased 
with their crop and returns this season. 
Kent Co., Del. c. it. 
The sergeant halted tin* new sentry op¬ 
posite the man he Was to relieve. “Give 
over your orders,” he said. Tho old sea 
try reeled off the routine instructions with 
confidence, but one of the special order, 
baffled him. ‘‘Come on, man!” said the 
sergeant impatiently. “On no account 
stammered the sentry, “arc you to let any 
questionable character pass the lines, ex 
cept the colonel’s wife.”—Melbourne An 
stralasinu. 
