7ft* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1891 
| Crops and Farm News' 
Hay was a good crop; oats - fine. but 
low in price, only 40c per bu. Potatoes 
turned out good, but rotted badly; sold 
as low as 70c per bu. Milk was received 
at our station right along’ by Slawson- 
Decker Co., while ■our neighbors across 
the line had to .start a creamery and 
made butter. Milk was refused by Bor¬ 
den’s at League prices for the last two 
months. Cows dropped in price; new 
milk cows are offered as low as $65. 
Everybody likes to sell stock ; also many 
farms for sale. Feed came down consid¬ 
erably. We bought gluten feed for $54 
per ton some time ago; wheat feed is 
now $45 per ton; corn at $2.45 per cwt. 
Apples were plentiful in this locality, but 
no sale for them: farmers make some 
cider. We fed them out to the cows, sold 
a few bushels of Winter apples for $1 
per bu. Everybody seems to be glad the 
milk price is settled for another month, 
especially those who had to make butter. 
We receive $3.18 for 3 per cent milk. 
Delaware Co.. N. Y. R. k. 
The middlemen have entirely too much 
say as to what we are to get for the 
products of our labor. We seem to have 
very little to say about it. The products 
of our side (north side) of the county are 
very much diversified, but the grains, 
wheat, corn, rye, oats and hay are the 
principal, while such things as potatoes, 
apples and peaches are getting to be quite 
important. Milk, butter and poultry are 
quite a source of income, more especially 
to the tenant farmers, to whom they are 
the chief products. We have a good 
county for all these things, and a great 
crop this year. The farmers are well- 
night panic-stricken with the outlook. 
The farm labor situation is alarming to 
those who have no help of their own. Day 
labor from $3.50 to $5. up to 75c to $1.50 
an hour for so-called skilled labor, which 
is not very efficient in many cases. The 
quantity and quality of crops this year 
are very good, but outlook for a living 
business is pretty blue. Wheat. $1.60; 
rye. $1.30; corn, 70c; oats, 50c; potatoes. 
78c; apples. 20 to 50c; no buyers; noth¬ 
ing but scalpers in the race. Many ap¬ 
ples and potatoes not harvested through 
lack of help and the discouraging outlook. 
Eggs S2c; butter. 40 to 60c; milk. $1.80 
per cwt. Cattle, hogs, poultry and all 
other things very much below what they 
were three months ago. I have not been 
able to get a bid at all on apples that 
was worth taking. We have a good 
country here, but things are knocked 
crazy for the time being. Think of lard 
at 12c per lb.! j. a. f. 
Franklin Co.. Pa. 
This immediate district is not farming 
country ; right here it is more lumbering 
aud wood. I only keep six cows and 
make butter. Most of the farmers who 
keep 15 to 20 cows ship their milk. 1 am 
sure of three or four of them within 
three miles who use oleo; they claim they 
cannot buy good butter; but they will not 
buy butter when they cau get oleo so 
much cheaper. I have never tasted oleo. 
The milk business is so bad many people 
are selling their cows and young stock; 
yearling heifers only bring about $25 a 
head, and cows a little more. I killed a 
nice bull, and a dealer offered me 2c per 
lb. for the hide. G. o. B. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
We find that apple-picking was a poor 
speculation, and it would have been the 
wiser thing to have left the apples alone. 
We paid $1.54 for the barrel, 30c per bar¬ 
rel for picking. 30c for putting them up, 
to say nothing about drawing them off. 
We received per barrel the grand sum of 
$3.25 for A grade, 2y 2 minimum. Would 
it not have been better to sell them by 
bulk, aud let the help that has been taken 
from our farms to the cities put them up 
to please themselves? Fall work is be¬ 
hind; acres of potatoes are not dug; most 
of the corn is in the fields, aud very little 
Fall plowing done. November was a 
dark. cold, gloomy mouth; the sun did 
not shiue' for many days: neither the 
moon aud stars by night. We have had 
a bad snow storm, which froze fast to 
fruit trees which had not shed their foli¬ 
age. Some orchards have been ruined, 
and iu others many large limbs have been 
broken off. This, with what they suffered 
from being overloaded with fruit, has 
been a severe strain on them. k. t. b. 
Ontario Co.. N. Y. 
^ Not a large crop of Fall wheat sown. 
Farmers here have been raising more 
Spring wheat for several years; it has 
been more profitable than Fall wheat, al¬ 
though the Fall wheat looks fine and has 
a good set for Winter. Corn is a fair 
crop, but not as good as last year; a good 
deal to husk yet. Wheat is selling for 
$2.25 per bu.: corn, 80c; oats. 65c; hay, 
loose. $27 a ton: baled. $31 ; butter. 70c 
per lb.; eggs, 00c a doz.; hogs. 23c. 
dressed; veals. 26c. hog-dressed. 18c, live 
weight. Butcher cattle from 0 to 12c. 
Good fresh cows selling from $125 to 
8140; poor. $60 to $80. Farmers have 
to pay $3 a day for corn Imskers and 
board them. $4 for thrasher hands. We 
have 10 mills school tax. 10 mills road 
tax; have a fine high school iu center of 
township. H. F. F. 
Westmoreland Co., Pa. 
Over Another Threshold 
S OON you will put the calendars of a new year up on 
your walls. You have weathered the labors of the past 
four seasons—with what benefits and damages you recall 
full well. Now the cycle of a new year looms ahead, and we 
must prepare to gather the fruits of 1921. 
It is a time when conservative manufacturing enterprises 
and business houses are reviewing the past, taking stock of 
resources, and building future campaigns. Leaks are 
stopped, needs are reckoned with, and plans are made with 
extreme care. 
Winter is the best time in most sections for complete 
farm inventory, for overhauling machines and making 
repairs, for accurate reckoning of profit and loss, for plan¬ 
ning crop changes, for discarding old habits and considering 
new methods. 
Every farmer knows this. It is good to see that there is 
more and more definite planning of full year’s work at the 
close of every December, on the farms of America. It is so 
easy a matter to slide through the comparative resting 
period of Winter, and then Spring with its hundred duties 
bursts forth and finds many important matters and details 
unattended to. 
We are glad to note this trend toward business-farming 
because we hope to be allied with Agriculture many more 
years and because our interests are so closely mingled with 
the interests of the farming world. So then, while we are 
setting our own house in orderfor 1921, we pause to publish 
-the hope that you, the reader, may set forth into a new year 
of farming enterprise with all plans laid for a most profitable 
twelve-month. 
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