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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 11, 1920 
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CROPS TURNING OUT WELL, BUT PRICES 
TENDING BELOW LAST Y'EAR’S LEVEL 
A late season following a severe Winter 
often turns out better than an early sea¬ 
son, and with less trouble from drought 
and frost. The present season is no ex¬ 
ception. Early reports of the condition 
of crops were unsatisfactory, chiefly be¬ 
cause of late planting and slow growth 
at first, but most crops have caught up 
by harvest time, and shipments reached 
their height at about their usual time. 
The yield is good in almost all lines of 
produce, and there is less than the usual 
amount of complaint regarding the 
weather conditions. Even the insect posts 
seem to have been less destructive. There 
was too much rain in parts of the South 
and too little in the middle Southwest 
and in some parts of the central North¬ 
west. Nights have been too co<°. • ome- 
tirnes for rapid growth of he;:’ wing 
crops. April frosts damaged the fruit 
crop of the middle Southwest. Georgia 
peach growers lost nearly one-half the 
value of their crop from unusually severe 
attacks of cureulio. Otherwise the sea¬ 
son is a good one for farm produce, and 
the supply of peaches appears to be larger 
than in most recent years. 
POTATOES A FULL CROP 
The potato crop reaches 400.000.000 
bushels, or nearly four bushels for every 
man, woman and child. The production 
is about as large as can be sold at prices 
affording a profit over present, cost. 
Onions and cabbage crops are yielding 
well, and so are the leading kinds ot 
fruits. Crops often go backward in con¬ 
dition during July and August, owing to 
extensive drought in one section or an¬ 
other, but this year the outlook has im¬ 
proved steadily. Prices were high in the 
early part of the season, but declined 
rapidly in midsummer, and are now lower 
than a year ago. 
Potatoes are down to about $1 per 
bushel at some Western shipping points, 
a price which hardly pays the cost of 
production, unless the yield per acre is 
far about the average. Most Eastern 
farmers are getting about $1.50 a bushel, 
at which price they would need a yield 
of at least 150 bushels to get a fair net 
profit, allowing for labor and materials 
at current rates. Last year prices went 
up in August, then declined until Decem¬ 
ber. New York, as usual, is the largest 
producer. Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne¬ 
sota. each will produce nearly as many, 
followed closely by Maine and Pennsyl¬ 
vania. These six States produce not far 
below one-half the total crop and fully 
one-half of the main Northern crop. 
THE LONG-RANGE ONION. OUTLOOK 
Onions have been selling in some mar¬ 
kets at prices which would have been 
low, even before the war, but markets are 
improving right along. The growers of 
the main crop are worrying about the re¬ 
sult. Of course, they will lose heavily 
at any recent level of price,-and many of 
them have gone into debt to pay for labor 
and fertilizer. The situation, is forcing 
growers in some specialized onion sections 
to attempt to organize for disposal of the 
crop. Their plan seems to be to secure 
competitive bidding from buyers, to grade 
the crop well, and possibly., in some in¬ 
stances to provide storage in case a fair 
price cannot be obtained when the crop is 
ready. Lack of storage facilities often 
has ‘been the weak point in the onion 
sections. Even when it was quite plain 
that the price would have to go up later 
in the season growers had to sell at any 
price offered, because there was nowhere 
to store the crop in large quantity. This 
year there is every reason to suppose the 
price of onions will be in line with that 
of other produce, as soon as the remains 
of the big Southern crops are out of the 
way. The Northern onion crop is not 
especially large, according to the official 
reports, and it ought to sell as high as 
potatoes, which are more than an average 
crop. 
WAITING FOR APPLE BUYERS 
Apple growers are wondering how the 
buyers will take hold of the situation. 
Last year the dealers made a good profit 
handling the Eastern crop, but often lost 
heavily in the Northwest because of freez¬ 
ing and the low price for box apples in 
midwinter. They have been traveling 
through the Eastern apple sections telling 
tlie growers what a large crop it is and 
how scarce is money. Few contracts have 
been made, and these were about the same 
as the opening prices a year ago. The 
crop ought to bring about the same price 
as last year. It is larger, b t. the quality 
or appearance. is so much better that it 
should sell without difficulty. 
Early apples of the best varieties are 
selling in city markets at $1.50 to $2.50 
per bushel, still ranging somewhat higher 
from the West, than in the East. The 
apple crop in New York State is nearly 
three times that of last season, and ac¬ 
counts for the greater part of the net gain 
in the apple cron, increases in other East¬ 
ern States being largely offset by de¬ 
creases in the Northwest. 
The peach crop is supposed to he some¬ 
what less than that of a year ago. and the 
shipments so far have been about five- 
eighths of those at the same .time last 
year. The Southern crop did not come 
up to expectations, chiefly on account of 
damage by injects and lwown rot. .The 
crop in New York. New .Ter^ev Michigan 
and most of the Northern States is con¬ 
siderably larger than a year ago, and the 
quality, judging from the shipments and 
from reports by growers, is good. Peaches 
of good quality have brought high prices 
this year, reaching $5 per bushel at times, 
but the bulk of the sales so far have been 
much lower. The general range of fair- 
grade stock has been $3 to $4 most of 
the time. California has shipped a great 
deal of stock that usually has gone to the 
canneries, and the price has averaged 
about $1.75 per box. California fruit be¬ 
ing sold mostly in Middle Western cities. 
The Northern pear crop also will com¬ 
pete to a considerable extent in the fruit 
markets. The condition of the crop im¬ 
proved during July and early August, 
and shows at least a 10 per cent increase 
over last year’s production, the gain, as 
in the case* of,the apple crop, being chiefly 
in the Eastern States.: California, the 
heaviest pear-producing State, shows; a 
heavy decrease, while New York, Michi¬ 
gan, Ohio and Pennsylvania show heavy 
increases. 
The crop of sweet potatoes is likely to 
he as large as that of last year, and about 
one-quarter the size of the white potato 
crop. The experience of last year proved 
that abundance of sweet potatoes does not 
greatly affect the general price of white 
potatoes. . - 
Cantaloupes, a leading money crop of 
the Southwest, have been selling at below 
the price earlier in the season, hut grow¬ 
ers probably have been able to average a 
good profit, even at prevailing ranges of 
$3.75 to $5 per crate. Eastern musk- 
melons have sold mostly at $1.75 to $3. 
Watermelons, also a big cash crop of the 
South, reached very low figures at one 
time, but the market is now considerably 
better, shipments having fallen off about 
one-half, and supplies being fairly well 
cleaned up as fast as they arrive. Best 
lots have been bringing about $500 per 
car in the city market, growers probably 
averaging about one acre to three cars. 
Although land well cared for often pro¬ 
duces at least half a car to an acre of 
melons suitable for shipment, weighing 
about 20 to 30 pounds each. G. B. F. 
Potatoes are retailing for about $6 per 
barrel. Apples are hard to quote, as the 
last returns were next to nothing. . The 
small farmers who make butter retail it 
for from 65 to 70 cents per lb. in the vil¬ 
lage. Eggs retail for 75 cents per doz. 
Milk retails in the village for from 10 
to 14 cents per qt.; cream from 60c to 
$1.25. according to quality. Farm con¬ 
ditions in this section look bad. Some 
farmers are not through haying yet. 
Some have large quantities spoiled on ac¬ 
count of so much rain. Oat harvest is 
on. and they are going the same way. 
Early potatoes are beginning to rot^Corn 
is very backward, and, I think, will be 
a light crop. It was not cared for as it 
should have been on account of the wet 
weather. The small farmers in this sec¬ 
tion make butter and the larger ones ship 
milk. Some farmers in this section have 
sold their dairy cows, and some others 
will do the same this Fall, all on account 
of no help and high wages. Farmers paid 
from 50c to 75c per hour in haying and 
harvest. J. n. c. 
Putnam Co., N. Y.' 
Potatoes. $1.25 to $1.50: butter. 63c to 
70c; eggs, 55c to 60c; apples, $1.50 to $2. 
Fowls, live, 36c; dressed, 42c to 44c per 
lb.; broilers, live, 45e; dressed. 55c; cab¬ 
bage, 2c per lb.; tomatoes, 2c to 3c per 
lb. Milk at factories. Dairymen’s League 
prices; at Endicott. and Johnson City 
markets, 10c per qt. Hay, $30 per ton 
for No. 2; cows, $75 to $125. The aver¬ 
age of potatoes in Broome County is 
slightly above normal; outlook for a good 
crop; not much trace of blight; no rot 
to speak of as yet. Hay was much lighter 
than normal. Apples a fine crop. Corn 
looks well; acreage normal. Oats being 
harvested, and a fine crop. Buckwheat 
and millet each making an extra rapid 
growth, and with good weather will make 
fine crops. Not much wheat sown, but 
what was made a good crop. The out¬ 
look for farming is not. over-bright, be¬ 
cause with proper weather to carry crops 
through, we are apt to have enough to 
depress prices on some crops., but if other 
things we have to buy would lower some¬ 
what, all would be fine. e. e. w. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
Oat harvesting is in progress. In this 
locality the chief occupation is dairying. 
August milk is $3.32 for 3 per cent milk. 
Dairy butter, 60c per lb.; eggs, 55c; 
cheese, 25e lb.; bran, $2.75; oilmeal, 
$3.50; cornmeal, $3.50; gluten. $3.00 per 
100 at the local mill. Labor is impossible 
to get on the farm ; our young men are 
going to the city. Oats a fair crop. Corn 
for silage is looking good. Late potatoes 
promise a good crop. Early potatoes are 
bringing $1.25 a bushel on the Buffalo 
market at this date. The market 19 
flooded with early apples. Winter apples 
promise a large crop. c - A • s> 
Erie Co., N. Y. _ 
“George, dear!” began the worried 
woman. “Yes. wotisit?” grunted George, 
without looking up from his newspaper. 
“Would vou mind helping me with. a nine 
bit of arithmetic?” she pleaded. Not at 
all ” “Well, if we pay the new cook tne 
wages she wants, will we have enough 
money left to buy anything for her to 
cook ?”—Credit Lost, 
