American Agriculturist, July 21,1923 
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June Milk Pool Price $2.00 
Farm News From New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
T HE Dairymen’s League Cooperative 
Association announces that the 
gross pool price for the month of June 
is $2.00, which is 10 cents more than 
the gross pool price for May. From 
the gross pool price, the Association 
has deducted 10 cents, which is bor¬ 
rowed on Certificates of Indebtedness, 
and 8% cents, which is to defray ex¬ 
penses of administration, advertising, 
etc. This leaves a net cash price to 
farmers of $1.81%. 
It is most significant that the June 
price is above the May price. Ordi¬ 
narily June prices are lower, due to 
the heavy surplus resulting from flush 
of production. 
Better prices for by-products, such 
as skim milk, taking care of the sur¬ 
plus, increased business due to adver¬ 
tising, are all tending to increase the 
efficiency of the organization. 
NEW JERSEY COUNTY NOTES 
Salem Co.—We have had a great deal 
of dry, hot weather. The drought has 
cut short the hay crop. If we are 
lucky, we may cut a second cutting 
that will help fill the mows, so that we 
may have a little to sell, which we 
usually do, profitably. The drouth cut 
short the pea crop, but growers will 
come out fairly well as prices are 
unusually good. The strawberry crop 
was cut something terrible. Some who 
expected reasonably good results did 
not pick a quart of berries Those who 
were lucky enough to have berries had 
a terrible time getting pickers. We al¬ 
ways used to get for pickers Italian 
families from the city, but this season 
they were not to be had at any price. 
The industries in the cities are so ac¬ 
tive that all the available help is used 
to better advantage, therefore they were 
scarcer and more independent than 
ever. Those we did get we had to pay 
their transportation both ways as well 
as a big bonus for the agent who pro¬ 
cured them. After paying for picking 
and transportation, which by the way is 
just about double what it was a few 
years ago, we just about break even. 
Some farmers were not as fortunate. 
We have been having difficulty in 
setting out tomatoes, cabbage, peppers 
and sweets as the ground is terribly 
dry. Corn is looking fair, while early 
potatoes are quite the contrary. Grapes 
and fruit trees look fairly good. The 
crop however, will not be abundant. 
Rhubarb and asparagus paid very well. 
The latter cut quite late and brought 
good prices. The bottom has fallen out 
of the egg market and hens do not seem 
to be laying well either. Farmers 
throughout this section planned to plant 
about as many late potatoes as usual, 
although general conditions are not 
known. Still the farmer keeps on 
planting and sowing and more than 
likely will probably have difficulty in 
getting prices to dig up the potatoes.— 
S. B. 
Hunterdon Co.—Wheat harvest was 
in full swing during the first week in 
July. The drought still continues and 
has been very hard on the farmers. 
The hay crop is very scant, not being 
over twenty per cent of a crop. The 
oats crop will be short. Some farmers 
are cutting it to feed to cows. Corn 
is looking good. Early potatoes will be 
a failure. Prices are holding up very 
well. Cherries find ready sale at $2 
a basket. Potatoes are selling at $2.50 
a bushel at retail. Eggs 25c a dozen, 
butter 60c, corn $1 a bushel, wheat 
$1.25, oats 50c, hay $20. However there 
is no hay in this part of the State for 
sale. The market for cows is very 
dull. Farmers are exchanging help as 
there is no help to get on the farm. 
Many farms are lying idle.—J. R. F. 
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA NOTES 
Making hay is in full swing and the 
weather has been favorable for the 
job. The crop is short, but hay is fine 
in quality. Pastures are short. Corn 
is being cultivated for the last time. 
It has grown well during the dry 
weather. Potatoes are suffering on ac¬ 
count of drought. Wheat is coloring 
rapidly and will be ready to harvest by 
the last of this month. Oats are very 
short in the stalk and need rain to make 
a good crop. 
Cherries are a good crop. Peaches 
and plums will be fair, but apples will 
make only a half crop. Strawberries 
were a short crop due to dry weather. 
Owing to scarcity of help, many 
tenants on large farms are either buy¬ 
ing small farms or are going to quit 
in spring. Maine Turner bought Peter 
Stohl’s farm of 40 acres in Buffalo 
township for $3,500. Harry Klinger 
bought Seth Zimmerman’s 40-acre farm 
near Miffiinburg for $10,000. Emma 
C. Beifer sold her farm of 167 acres 
in Buffalo township to James H. Straub 
for $14,500. George Boyer, the tenant, 
will have sale in the spring and move 
to Vicksburg. The White Deer Water 
Company bought Jacob Bowersox’s 62- 
acre farm for $3,000. At a recent pub¬ 
lic sale, Henry Frock’s farm of 40 acres 
near Vicksburg was bid to $8,500, but 
not sold, as he wants $8,800 for it in¬ 
cluding part of the corn crop for the 
silo.—J. N. Glover. 
Tioga Co.—The dry spell of late June 
was broken by nice showers that did 
a world of good. The farmers are well 
along with haying, which will be a short 
crop on account of the dry weather. 
Oats look fairly good. Corn is l’ather 
late, but is growing nicely now. Pas¬ 
tures look like August on account of 
the dry weather. The apple and pear 
crop will be rather short this year. 
Strawberries brought 25c a quart.— 
Mrs. W. C. G. 
LONG NEWS IN SHORT 
PARAGRAPHS 
The Carded Wool Manufacturers’ As¬ 
sociation of Boston, Mass., is sending 
a statement to the wool growers of 
the country attempting to prove that 
a law which would compel manu¬ 
facturer's who label the amount of 
wool in garments would result in in¬ 
jury to all concerned. They say that 
such a law would be impossible to en¬ 
force and that any increased demand 
for wool resulting therefrom would 
benefit only the importers of wool and 
not the domestic producers. 
It is possible that the manufacturers 
are right and that the law would be 
difficult to enforce, but their point 
seems to be very poorly taken, that in¬ 
creased demand would not affect the 
price of domestic producers. Increased 
demand always helps prices. 
Sheep in the United States have for 
several years produced about 110,000,- 
000 pounds of wool (scoured weight). 
This is about one-third of the amount 
of wool consumed for clothing by the 
American people. Domestic require¬ 
ments are increasing with the growth 
of population while the number of sheep 
remains about stationary. This would 
indicate that the farmer who likes and 
understands sheep, and has a farm 
adapted to them, can be fairly certain 
of making a success with sheep during 
the next decade. 
* * * 
Wheat went down to a dollar in the 
Chicago market on July 9. On this day 
also the first carload of new wheat ar¬ 
rived. Before the war, dollar wheat 
would have seemed a wonderful price 
to the growers. To-day it is far below 
the cost of production and the world’s 
surplus bids fair to keep it there. It 
would seem that diversified farming is 
the only answer to the American wheat 
farmers’ problem. 
* * * 
For some time there has been a great 
migration of colored farm hands from 
the farms of the South to the cities in 
the North. This has gone so far that 
in some sections where the negroes once 
greatly predominated in number, there 
are now more whites than negroes left. 
In Georgia alone, during the past year, 
32,000 colored farm hands migrated. 
* * * 
The seventeen-year locust has 
appeared in several sections this sum¬ 
mer. The appearance of this insect 
always causes interest and comment 
chiefly because the same brood comes 
back only once in seventeen years. 
However, because there are several 
different broods, wf see them fairly 
frequently. 
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