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Jht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Crops and Farm Notes 
Farmers’ Market Position 
MOST CROPS SHORT, BUT PRICES SHOULD 
BE GOOD—FEED FOR LIVE STOCK-IN¬ 
SECT PESTS FLOURISH — THE 
SOUTH TRIES NEW CROPS— 
APPLES HIGH 
The only conspicuous crop not below 
the average is corn. Field men say they 
never have seen corn looking so well in 
some of the States. Corn is the staff of 
life for the meat producing business of 
the farmer. A good crop means that, the 
stock will be kept on the farm and pro¬ 
perly fattened. It means raising more 
young stock. The world is a little short 
of swine compared with before the war, 
and is decidedly short of sheep, but has 
caught up again for cattle, although the 
United States is still short, notwithstand¬ 
ing more heifers are being raised this 
year. 
At the present it pays better to feed 
corn to hogs than to sell it. In many 
sections it pays better to make milk than 
to sell grain and hay. A large crop of 
corn and a fair crop of wheat assures 
plenty of stock and dairy feed. There is 
still much held-over grain, although it. has 
gone to market fast, since the first of the 
year. Russia, which ought to be one of 
the world’s leading grain shipping coun¬ 
tries, probably will need much of our sur¬ 
plus to keep from starving. Hay is short, 
especially in the Middle West, but the 
price is scarcely more than half that of 
a year ago. Ilay prices have been going 
up again lately, and so they, ought, in 
view of the situation. Canada is in about 
the same crop position as the United 
States in a general way, having suffered 
from drought in the Eastern and Middle 
provinces. 
LESS CABBAGE AND ONIONS 
The general crop shortage includes cab¬ 
bage. The two big late shipping States, 
New York and Wisconsin, seem likely to 
have about half a crop, although New 
York has been doing a little better lately. 
East year there was too much late cab¬ 
bage. Very likely there will be as much 
this year as can be sold at a fair price to 
the grower. 
Onion production of 21,000 cars seems 
short beside the 30.000 cars last season. 
Acreage and yield are. both reduced this 
year to about the average of the three 
years preceding 1020. but much above the 
13.000 cars estimated for the crop of 
1010. If the crop turns out as estimated 
the supply should be large enough, but 
not. so large as to prevent fair prices. 
The course of the onion market is always 
hard to guess, because the demand is for 
about so many onions, regardless of price. 
A few thousand cars more cannot be sold 
at any price. A few thousand cars less, 
and the price jumps. The onion eater 
wants what he wants, but no more. 
The field bean crop is below average in 
most of the important producing sections, 
but the crop will be nearly as large as 
last year, although far below the war¬ 
time crops. 
HEAT-BRED INSECT PESTS 
The long, hot Summer favored many 
kinds of bugs, especially plant and tree 
lice. Thrips, blister beetles, flea beetles, 
maggots, wire worms, canker worms and 
cotton weevils. Man and beast were pest¬ 
ered by horse flies and chiggers (wood 
mites) as seldom before. Among new 
pests that seem to be gaining ground are 
the Oriental peach moth and the camphor 
moth in the South, and the Mexican bean 
weevil in the Southwest. Far Western 
Alfalfa and clover, including the seed 
crop, is infested with thrips and maggots. 
Fruit in the East seems wormy, what, 
there is of it. Warm weather favored 
the codling and eureulio, while spraying 
was more or less neglected where the fruit 
crop was light. 
APPLES HIGH 
Good Fall apples are bringing $5 to $7 
per barrel in the cities. Usually the 
price of desirable early kinds sets the 
pace rpiite closely for the late crop. This 
year, when most of the late crop will 
come from the far West, saddled with 
high freight costs, it is hard to see how 
the late supply can sell low with the 
lightest total crop since the years when 
the consuming public was much smaller 
than at present. Europe, with a short 
crop also, will need any available supplies 
if she can find money to pay for it. 
SOUTH LOOKING FOR MONEY CROPS 
Southern farmers are hunting right and 
left for something outside the usual cot¬ 
ton. corn, potato, and peanut combination 
or series. With more crops they figure 
out a better chance that one at least 
will sell high. East year they hit right 
on sweet potatoes, and some of the truck 
crops. This year they have been doing 
well with berries, peaches, and a differ¬ 
ent set of truck crops. They ought to 
do well this season with sweet potatoes, 
with a great crop of them together with a 
short crop of Northern white potatoes. 
In Arkansas, farmers seem to have struck 
something new for the South in the oats 
crop, one farmer having secured 01.3 
bushels per acre from 40 acres, com¬ 
pared with a 24-bushel average for the 
State. Arkansas and some other States 
of the South have a chance to save a part 
of the money paid for Western and North¬ 
ern grain. It seems to be a matter of 
good seed bed. good seed, and consider¬ 
able commercial fertilizer. 
A comparatively new Crop for the 
South is garlic. Some accounts indicate 
too much enthusiasm. The demand is 
limited, and any great increase would be 
hard to sell. Its market is mainly in 
Chicago and Kansas City, and a great 
deal is used by the packing firms. Prices 
range 0 to 10c per pound wholesale. 
Some of the California raised garlic sells 
as high as the imported. A letter at hand 
from Central California reports a per 
acre yield of 75 bags of 100 lbs. each. 
G. B. F. 
New York State Crop Report 
Commissioner George E. Hogue of the 
Division of Agriculture states that the 
estimated acreage for hay is about the 
same as that for 1020. Its production 
per acre may not average for the whole 
State more than three-fourths of a ton. 
East year New York State produced 
5,315,136 tons of- hay, but this year the 
total may be under 3.000.000 tons. Re¬ 
ports from Northern New York indicate 
the lightest hay crop in years. 
Corn unproved in July, and a good crop 
is indicated. The crop of corn for grain 
last year totaled 11.634,402 bushels. 
Winter wheat was slightly affected by 
the dry weather, the crop probably aver¬ 
aging 20 bushels per acre. 
Owing to the drought oats are light. 
East year the yield for the State was 
40.S81.620 bushels. This year the total 
may be less than 30.000,000 bushels. 
Apples will be far below normal in all 
the fruit-growing sections of the State. 
In some counties the crop was almost 
entirely wiped out by the frost. Broome 
County reports 13 per cent of the normal 
crop; Cayuga, 25; Chautauqua, a com¬ 
plete failure; Chemung. 25; Clnton, 70; 
Columbia. 40; Cortland, a failure; Dela¬ 
ware, 25; Dutchess. 60; Erie, 25; Gene¬ 
see, 40; Greene. 05; Jefferson, 40; Mon¬ 
roe, 40; Niagara. 30; Onondaga, 50; On¬ 
tario, 40; Orleans, 40; Oswego, 50; St. 
Lawrence, 60; Washington, 40; Wayne, 
40; Westchester, 00, and Wyoming, 70. 
Peaches and grapes show a consider¬ 
able falling off, some estimates on grapes 
being as low as 30 per cent of the normal 
crop. Cattaraugus County reports a 50 
per cent grape crop; Chautauqua, 33; 
Delaware, a fair crop; Dutchess, a fair 
crop; Erie, 30; Monroe, 50; Niagara, 
50; Onondaga, 50; Ontario, 20; Orleans, 
35; Steuben, 60; Schuyler, 50; Seneca, 
(iO; Wayne, 60; Westchester, 85, and 
Yates, 35. 
Peaches in Monroe County are reported 
at 70 per cent; Niagara, around 50; Or¬ 
leans, 55. Peaches in the Hudson River 
district show much higher percentages, 
Columbia County reporting 00 per cent 
of the normal crop: Ulster, a fair crop, 
and Westchester, 65. 
Acreages in the State are reported as 
follows: 
Commodity Acres 
Winter wheat . 400.184 
Spring wheat. 20.244 
Potatoes . 364.191 
Corn for grain. 406.108 
Beans . 181.365 
Cabbage . 30,416 
Buckwheat . 260.582 
Barley . 015.072 
Rye . 102,462 
Oats . 1.227.170 
Onions. 10,127 
Day . 4,214,520 
Potatoes will probably run around 00 
bushels to the acre. In 1010 the pro¬ 
duction per acre was 100 bushels, and in 
1020 it was something over 100. Eate 
information indicates 50 or 60 per cent 
of last year’s crop. 
Boston Wholesale Markets 
BUTTER 
Creamery, best, 47 to 48c; good to 
choice, 44 to 45c; dairy, 30 to 40e. 
EGGS 
Best nearby, 55 to 56c; gathered, best, 
48 to 50c; lower grades, 35 to 45c. 
LIVE POULTRY 
Fowls, 28 to 30c; broilers, 25 to 27c. 
DRESSED POULTRY 
Roasting chickens. 45 to 58c; broilers, 
35 to 40c; fowls, 30 to 40c; ducks, 28 
to 30c. 
FRUITS 
Apples, new, bbl.. $4 to $7; huckle¬ 
berries, qt., 20 to 30c; blackberries, qt., 
15 to 25c; peaches. 14-qt. basket, $1 to 
$1.50; pears, bu., $2 to $2.50. 
Potatoes 
Nearby, bu. box, $2 to $2.40; Rhode 
Island, bbl., $5.50; sweet potatoes, bbl., 
$6 to $7. 
VEGETABLES 
String beans, bu., $1. to $2.50; beets, 
bu. box, 50c to $1; carrots, bu., $1 to 
$1.50; cucumbers, bu., 81 to $4; sweet 
corn, bu., 75c to $1; eggplant, bu., $2 to 
$2.50; peppers, bu., 75c; radishes, bu., 
50c; squash, bbl., $2 to $2.50; tomatoes, 
bu., $1 to $2; .turnips, yellow, $1 to 
$1.25 ; rutabagas, 150 lbs., $3.75 to $4. 
HAY AND STRAW 
Hay, Timothy, No. 1, $34 to $35; No. 
2. $31 to $32; No. 3. $27 to $28; clover 
mixed, $26 to $30; sFraw, rye, $26; oat, 
$17. 
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