American Agriculturist, August 11,1923 
93 
Eastern Pennsylvania News 
OLIVER D. SCHOCK 
E astern Pennsylvania farm¬ 
ers claim that this season’s crop 
of wheat will not realize the actual cost 
of production. In many localities deal¬ 
ers are paying only 90 cents per bushel. 
The Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance 
Companies are levying assessments 
upon policyholders at an average rate 
of $1.50 per $1,000 insurance. Up to 
the present time the fire losses through 
lightning have been smaller than in 
many preceding years. 
The farmers of Lehigh, Berks and 
Schuylkill Counties are becoming ac¬ 
customed to seeing deer associate with 
their cattle in the fields. The deer 
are increasing in number and Schuyl¬ 
kill and Berks Counties will not permit 
them to be shot during the next two 
years to come, the Game Commission 
having just issued this edict. 
Early Irish potatoes in the great po¬ 
tato-growing belt, Berks-Lehigh Coun¬ 
ties, proved a disappointment, the ag¬ 
gregate yield being hardly 50 per cent 
of the normal production. The long- 
continued drought caused the serious 
loss to growers. The late potatoes are 
making a better showing, but the crop 
will be materially reduced as compared 
with 1922. 
Farms in the Blue Mountain section 
are overrun with snakes as a result of 
the long-continued drought, as the rep¬ 
tiles were compelled to visit the valleys 
to obtain water. Austin Berger, a 
farmer near Hamburg, made a timely 
discovery of a rattlesnake in his bed¬ 
room. Several persons were bitten by 
snakes while engaged in farm opera¬ 
tions. There is a demand for a State 
or County bounty for killing rattle¬ 
snakes, the only poisonous kinds in this 
section. 
The tobacco fields of Lancaster and 
York Counties were greatly benefited 
by recent showers. A special effort will 
be made to secure a large and repre¬ 
sentative display of the various kinds 
of tobacco grown in that great tobacco¬ 
growing district at the coming Lancas¬ 
ter Fair. The crop thus far escaped 
damage from hailstorms. 
PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY NOTES 
Cumberland Co.—We are having a 
siege of very dry weather again. The 
cornfields and gardens are suffering. 
We had some very destructive hail¬ 
storms in some sections of the county. 
Practically all harvesting is done, ex¬ 
cept in the case of oats. Hay made a 
short crop with the exception of al¬ 
falfa. Hay is selling from the fields 
at $16 to 20 a ton, baled. Wheat was 
not as heavy as last year, but what has' 
been threshed is turning out fairly well. 
Much threshing is being done from the 
field. There would be a great deal 
more if machines were available. 
Farmers fear the moth, which is very 
bad here. Corn looks well, but needs 
rain. Wheat is 90c a bushel. . Corn is 
the same price as wheat, something 
unusual here, and the farmers are talk¬ 
ing of corn instead of wheat.—J. B. K. 
Snyder Co.—We have been having 
some very good rains during the last 
week. They were certainly badly 
needed. In fact, some crops were part¬ 
ly ruined on account of the extremely 
dry weather. Wheat will only make 
half a crop. Oats are about the same. 
The corn crop looks fairly promising, 
pastures are short, potatoes are small. 
Threshing grain has started. Wheat 
is bringing $1 a bushel; oats, 40c; rye, 
70c; corn, 85c; butter, 38c a pound; 
eggs, 22c; ham, 25c a pound; shoulders, 
15c a pound; bacon, 15c a pound; 3 
per cent milk, $2.71 a hundred; 4 per 
cent milk, $3.11 a hundred. Not much 
sickness.—D. D. S. 
Crawford Co.—We have had cool 
nights for the last week and a half. 
The weather has been very dry. What 
showers we have had have been very 
light ones. Almost all of the wheat 
crop is in the barns and haying is about 
over. Hay did not make much more 
than two-thirds of a crop. New seed- 
ings are mostly all dried up. Oats are 
ripening rapidly and indications are 
that they will make a very poor crop. 
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has fallen off about one-half. Butter 
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