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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  6,  1023 
GOOD  REASONS 
for  FALL  PAINTING 
( Things  the  property  owner  should  know  about — ) 
1.  Unless  the  surface  is  thoroughly  dry  it  cannot  be  success¬ 
fully  painted.  In  the  Fall  surfaces  are  dry  and  in  good 
condition  to  receive  paint. 
2.  Dry  wood  absorbs  more  paint  than  damp  wood.  The 
paint  penetrates  deeper,  gets  a  firmer  hold,  adheres  better 
and  lasts  longer. 
3.  Weather  in  the  Fall  is  more  uniform,  being  sunny  and 
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Mixed  Paints  must  be  used.  They  spell  QUALITY,  DURA¬ 
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Crops  and  Farm  News 
Countrywide  Produce  Situation 
BETWEEN  SEASONS  IN  SOUTH;  SOILING 
CROPS;  WINTER  VEGETABLES;  WEEVIL 
KEAOHES  VIRGINIA  ;  GREAT  PEANUT 
LAWSUIT. 
'What  are  they  doing  in  a  Southern 
trucking  section  when  their  early  stuff 
has  been  sold  and  the  big  market  cen¬ 
ters  of  (he  North  are  full  of  native  pro¬ 
duce?  Partly  they  raise  something  else 
and  partly  they  get  ready  for  next  sea¬ 
son.  It  is  what  happens  in  “leisure” 
time  that  counts  for  their  greater  success, 
just  as  with  other  folks. 
Down  in  the  'Norfolk  district,  the 
great  early  garden  of  the  East,  many  of 
the  progressive  gardeners  could  be  seen 
last  week  disking  their  tomato  'fields 
with  tractor  harrows  to  make  ready  for 
Soy  beans,  vetch,  Crifftson  clover  or 
something  else  that  can  be  plowed  under 
with  good  results.  Manure  is  more  and 
more  scarce  every  year  of  the  automobile 
boom,  and  something  besides  fertilizer 
is  needed  to  keep  up  these  sandy  loam 
soils.  The  old  vines  are  scratched  under, 
too,  and  they  help  some.  Other  fields 
will  he  planted  to  spinach  and  kale  for 
the  Winter  market. 
Late  potatoes  are  quite  important. 
Hundreds  of  carloads  of  them  go  North 
in  early  'Winter  to  find  buyers  who  want 
even  their  potatoes  fresh  dug  the  year 
around.  They  help  bridge  the  gap  until 
the  first  Florida  stock  comes  along  in 
March.  The  late  crop  of  potatoes  often 
yield  better  than  the  early  crop  in  the 
South.  It  meets  more  cool,  moist  weather 
and  not  so  many  blights  and  hugs.  The 
South  as  a  whole  raises  far  more  late 
white  potatoes  than  early  ones,  but  keeps 
most  of  them  for  home  use  and  local 
markets.  The  early  ones  are  shipped 
from  a  few  sections  that  specialize  in 
them,  like  Central  Florida,  one  or  two 
counties  in  Louisiana,  the  region  around 
Charleston,  S.  C.,  Louisville.  Ky„  and 
the  Eastern  shore  of  Virginia  and  Mary¬ 
land.  but  the  whole  South  raises  late  po¬ 
tatoes.  Many  of  them  are  the  old  Peach- 
blow  under  various  names,  a  big  yielder, 
rather  watery  and  coarse,  but  adapted  to 
the  climate  and  a  great  keeper.  Dug  in 
November,  they  will  keep  all  through  a 
Southern  Spring  and  'Summer  without 
softening,  shrinking  or  sprouting  much. 
For  this  reason  they  are  a  favorite  for 
export  to  Cuba  and  to  other  warm  coun¬ 
tries. 
THE  MARCH  OF  THE  WEEVIL 
Quite  a  lot  of  trucking  land  in  South¬ 
ern  Virginia  was  planted  to  cotton  this 
season.  The  ravages  of  the  weevil  further 
south  mean  opportunity  for  the  northern 
end  of  the  cotton  belt.  A  thousand 
pounds  or  more  of  cotton  to  the  acre  at 
10  cents  a  pound  in  the  rough  pays  well 
compared  with  the  days  of  3  to  5  cents. 
But  the  weevil  is  coming.  The  buds  of 
the  cotton  plants  are  opening,  and  here 
and  there,  is  one  with  a  perfectly  live 
and  business-like  weevil  inside.  Troublp 
has  begun  but  it  may  'be  several  seasons 
before  the  pest  will  do  much  harm.  Some¬ 
thing  depends  on  weather.  In  Okla¬ 
homa  the  temperature  went  to  115  de¬ 
grees  for  a  day  or  two  and  killed  the 
weevils;  pretty  nearly  finished  the  crops, 
too.  It  seems  a  pity  the  pest  couldn’t 
have  been  held  in  the  Far  'South,  but 
in  these  days  of  touring  autos  the  insects 
may  move  scores  of  miles  at  a  jump. 
THE  PEANUT  LAWSUIT 
In  much  of  the  cotton  country  the  pea¬ 
nut  has  been  next  in  popularity  as  a 
cash  crop,  but  the  growers  in  the  great 
Virginia-Carolina  peanut  region  have  been 
playing  in  hard  luck,  partly  a  result  of 
their  efforts  in  co-operative  marketing. 
The  association  obtained  control  of  fully 
half  the  crop  by  an  iron-clad  contract 
with  the  growers. 
Then  somebody  blundered  and  may  be 
the  old-line  dealers  tricked  them.  The 
association  borrowed  3  cents  a  pound  on 
the  peanuts,  .  obtaining  Government 
money  and  it  distributed  the  proceeds  of 
the  loan  among  the  growers,  but  decided 
to  hold  the  peanuts  for  higher  prices.  At 
that  time  the  price  was  6  cents  a  pound 
and  security  looked  good.  Next  thing 
the  growers  knew  the  price  had  tumbled 
to  2 14  cents,  and  the  peanuts  were  not 
worth  enough  to  pay  the  loan.  The 
growers  were  tied  hand  and  foot  and 
bound  bv  contract  had  to  dig  up  money 
to  make  good  the  Government  loan.  The 
association  claims  the  dealers  conspired 
to  break  the  price  and  smash  the  asso¬ 
ciation  and  it  attempted  to  take  away 
the  business.  It  is  suing  the  dealers  now 
for  millions  of  dollars  on  this  claim  and 
the  whole  peanut  country  is  watching 
the  trial  at  Norfolk. 
Other  associations  of  growers  have 
bad  suspicious  of  dealers  fighting  them, 
but  to  prove  it  in  court  and  collect  the 
money  has  been  no  easy  thing  to  do. 
Holding  a  large  crop  on  borrowed  money 
is  a  policy  that  naturally  invites  attack 
and  is  even  more  risky  for  associations 
than  for  individuals.  g.  b.  f. 
Common  to  good . 3()@ 
Broilers,  best  . 42® 
Fair  to  good  .  .33® 
Fowls  . 20® 
Roosters  .  14® 
Ducks  . ;  .25®  .27 
Squabs,  11  to  12  lbs.,  doz 
.do 
.43 
.40 
.32 
10 
9  to  10  lbs . 
6  to  S  lbs . 
COUNTRY-DRESSED 
Choice  . 
CALVES 
Good  to  prime  . 
Grassers  . 
LIVE  STOCK 
Steers,  100  lbs . 
Bulls  . 
$9.00@$10.00 
4.50@  5.00 
1.50®  4.75 
14.50®  15.50 
5.00®  9  50 
4.00®  6.50 
8.00®  14.00 
6.50@  9.75 
Cows  . 
Calves,  best  . 
Lower  grades  . 
Sheep  . 
Lambs  . 
Dogs  . 
HAY  AND  STRAW 
HsLV— Timothy,  No.  1 - $27.50@$28.00 
O-0-  ~  .  20.00®  27.00 
a/'0-  3  . .  23.00®  24.00 
Straw— Rye  .  22.00®  23.00 
GRAIN 
M  h  ea  t — N o .  2  red . $1.10 
No.  1  dark  Spring .  1.40 
No.  2  hard  'Winter .  i  111 
No.  2  durum .  jjq 
Corn — No.  2  yellow .  i'oo 
Oats — No.  2 
Rye  . 
Barley 
white .  52 
. '.78 
. 77 
BEANS 
Pea.  100  lbs . $7.00® $7. 25 
Medium  . 6.50®  7.00 
Bed.  kidney  .  8.10®  8.50 
Turtle  soup  .  6.50®  7.00 
Mushrooms 
White.  3-lb.  basket . $1.7o®$2.25 
Brown  and  cream .  1.25®  165 
guttons  .  1.00®  L25 
Damaged  . 50®  .75 
$0.18 
.15 
.10 
.10 
.28 
.17 
.10 
.30 
.57 
.38 
.67 
.56 
.45 
.60 
.50 
.05 
.10 
.15 
Retail  Prices  at 
New  York 
Milk — Grade  A.  bottled. 
Grade  B.  bottled,  qt.. 
Grade  B.  bottled,  pt.  . 
Grade  B,  loose,  qt.  .  .  . 
Certified,  qt . 
qt . ; 
Certified,  pt . 
Buttermilk,  ot . 
Cream,  heavy,  %  pt.  . 
Butter,  best . 
Cheese  . 
Eggs.  best,  doz . 
. 34® 
Gathered  . 
Fowls  . 
Broilers,  lb . 
Turkeys,  lb . 
. 55® 
Potatoes,  lb . 
Onions,  lb.  . 
Lettuce,  head  . 
. 04® 
. 05® 
Wool  Notes 
At  the  London  sales  buving  has  been 
active,  particularly  on  crossbreds.  Prices 
for  greasy  crossbreds  have  run  from  1!) 
to  27  iience;  and  merino,  24  to  31  pence. 
Dealers  in  this  country  regard  the  sit¬ 
uation  as  somewhat  improved.  A  Phila¬ 
delphia  concern  gives  the  following  opin¬ 
ion  :  1 
“We  confidently  believe  that  manufac- 
hirers  will  find  in  the  course  of  prices  at 
Lfondox),  good  ground  for  the  view  that 
prices  have  touched  bottom,  and  that  any 
change  will  be  for  the  better.  Such  'a 
conviction  would  act  as  a  stimulus  to 
buying,  and  bring  about  a  better  state  of 
trade  in  this  country.” 
Quotations,  furnished  by  the  U.  S.  Bu¬ 
reau  of  Agricultural  Economics,  co-oper¬ 
ating  with  the  New  Jersey  Bureau  of 
-Markets,  are  for  transit  and  nearbv  ship¬ 
ments.  Monday.  Sept.  24.  1923,  anil  show 
fhe  approxnnate  cost  of  feed  per  ton  (all 
111  l()6-lb.  sacks)  and  grain  per  bn.  (in 
hulk)  in  carlots  (sight  draft  basis),  de- 
livered  on  track  at  Belvidere,  Milford 
Washington,  IJighbridge.  Freuclitown, 
4  lemington.  Passaic,  Hackettstown.  Belle 
Mead,  Califon,  Lebanon,  Newton, 
Branchville.  Sussex,  Lafayette,  Hope- 
well,  New  Brunswick,  Mt.  Holly,  Morris- 
town.  Dover,  Paterson,  Elizabeth,  Som- 
erville.  Newark.  Trenton.  Perth  Amboy 
and  Montclair :  Grain — No.  2  white  oats 
52% c ;  No.  3  white  oats,  51%c;  No  2 
’  ^°-  3  yellow  corn, 
$1.06%.  Feed — Spring  bran,  $36.15; 
soft  W.  W.  bran.  $37.40;  hard  W.  W. 
bran.  $36.40 ;  Spring  middlings,  $36.40; 
flour  middlings.  $36.15;  red  dog  flour, 
$41.40:  brewers’  grains  (drv),  $45  40- 
white  hominy,  $40.90;  yellow  hominy, 
$40.40;  gluten  feed.  $51.75;  36  per  cent 
cottonseed  meal,  $48.65  ;  41  per  cent  cot¬ 
tonseed  meal.  $52.65;  43  per  cent  cotton¬ 
seed  meal.  $54.65  ;  30  per  cent  linseed 
meal.  $49  60  ;  34  per  cent  linseed  meal. 
$50.60.  For  Phillipsburg,  deduct  from 
above  quotations  40c  per  ton  on  feed"; 
%c  bu.  on  oats;  l%c  bn.  on  corn. 
Wholesale  Markets 
(Continued  from  Page  1252) 
DRESSED  POULTRY 
Turkeys,  best  .  <*A  ^8® $0.39 
Country  Boy:  “Naw.  I  ain’t  sellin’ 
this  big  trout,  mister.  Yer  ain’t  got 
money  enough  to  buy  it.”  City  Angler : 
“Well,  at  least,  let  me  measure  him,  so 
I  can  truthfully  say  how  big  the  trout 
was  that  got  away  from  me.” — ‘Boston 
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