American Agriculturist, August 25,1923 
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Among the Farmers 
Of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland 
P ENNSYLVANIA farmers are con¬ 
fronted with a large, but unprofit- 
# able crop of wheat, the present selling- 
price being- below cost of production. 
At Grange gatherings and other farm¬ 
ers’ meetings this subject is much 
discussed. 
Discouraging reports as to the 
Thanksgiving Day supply of turkeys 
come from farming sections, the early 
spring season having been very unfa¬ 
vorable for “poults.” Weather condi¬ 
tions and disease wiped out early- 
hatched spring broods completely. 
Eastern Pennsylvania has an im¬ 
mense crop of elderberries and thou¬ 
sands of gallons of home-made elder¬ 
berry wine is assured. Many farmers’ 
families regard it as an excellent rem¬ 
edy for various illness, such as in¬ 
cipient colds. 
The bee farm of L. H. Swartz, near 
Manchester, York County, was flooded 
during a recent heavy rainfall, causing 
a loss of bees, hives, and honey valued 
at $3,000. The apiary was carried 
away, by the high water. — Oliver D. 
Shock. _ 
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 
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J. N. GLOVER 
The heavy rain on the 3rd, with a 
few showers since, have made it diffi¬ 
cult to dry oats properly to store it, 
but farmers are busy at it and it will 
soon all be stored. Reports are that 
they are yielding better .than was an¬ 
ticipated. Pastures have grown well 
since the heavy rain, when six inches 
of water fell during the night. 
Late potatoes and corn are doing 
well now, and some second crop hay 
may be made later, if the present 
growth of clover continues. Dairymen 
are buying feeds with which to balance 
their cow rations this winter, so sev-r 
eral carloads of cotton and oil meal 
have been sold in a few townships of 
Union County, in addition to cars of 
mixed- feeds. 
Candidates for county offices are 
plenty and they are very busy. Some 
school boards have trouble to get 
coal for the winter, so a few townships 
will try soft coal for a change, at a 
saving* of a few hundred dollars. 
Schools will open August 27 and Sep¬ 
tember 3 in a few townships. New and 
inexperienced teachers are plenty, but 
good teachers and with experience are 
not plentiful. One auctioneer has 110 
farm sales booked for next spring in 
this and Snyder County. Apples and 
plums are better crops than was ex¬ 
pected earlier. Apples sell from 75c to 
$1.25 a bushel. New wheat and old 
corn are each selling at 95c a bushel, 
an unusual occurrence. 
rather severely hit with an unusually 
severe attack of caterpillars. In view 
of the present conditions, farmers seem 
to be inclined to shift to small farms. 
This movement is undoubtedly caused 
by the labor shortage and also owing 
to continued falling prices for farm 
products and rising prices for those 
things farmers buy.—E. R. Dysher. 
Fayette Co.—It has been raining 
here for most of the time. Early ap¬ 
ples have been fed to the hogs as there 
is no sale for them. It is a long time 
since we have had such a glut of apples. 
Peaches and other fruit are plentiful. 
Wheat, oats, and hay harvest is out of 
the question until this wet spell is over. 
—E. W. 
Washington Co.—The weather was 
very dry during June and July. How¬ 
ever, we have had fine rains during 
the past week. Corn is looking fine. 
Wheat is being threshed and marketed 
at 95 cents a bushel, which is very 
discouraging to farmers. Apples and 
peaches are going to market, not in 
large quantities. Berries about over 
with. They brought fair prices. Corn, 
90c a bushel; eggs, 32c; butter, 35c.— 
D. J. W. __ 
NEW JERSEY DROUGHT BROKEN 
Salem Co.—It is now a week (Au¬ 
gust 4) since the drought was broken. 
A blessing is pouring from heaven on 
mother earth and her children; the 
pastures and meadows are growing up 
green again. Corn and garden truck 
are responding nicely. Late potatoes 
are coming through very well. Some 
farmers are availing themselves of the 
changed conditions and are plowing 
considerably. Some alfalfa and vetch 
was sown during this period. Since 
lima beans dropped considerably in 
price on the New York market, some 
farmers have stopped picking them, 
awaiting better prices.—S. B. 
PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY NOTES 
Tioga Co.—A general rain through¬ 
out this section during the first week 
in August saved the corn and potato 
crops. Corn never looked better. Hay 
turned out to be a better crop than 
was expected at first. ( Pastures are 
short. The apple crop will be light and 
apples will be small. Roads in this 
section are very poor for this time of 
the year. Eggs, 25c a dozen; potatoes, 
$2; red and black berries, 20e a quart. 
—Mrs. W. C. G. 
Berks Co. — More wheat than ever is 
being threshed from the fields this year, 
but there apparently is no market for 
it. The sixty-seven-days’ drought was 
partially broken on July 28 by a two- 
inch rainfall. During the dry period 
less than one-half inch of rain fell and 
all crops, pastures, and fruits suffered 
heavily. Pastures and grass in stubble 
fields are completely burnt out. Not 
much of the oats crop was harvested 
this year for more than most of it 
was cut and cured for hay or pastured 
from the fields. The hay crop is the 
lightest this year for half a century, 
yielding about 25 per cent of normal. 
This leaves dairymen short of roughage 
and consequently many have reduced 
their herds. Corn may produce a fail- 
crop, fodder is short. The early po¬ 
tato crop was light in yield and of 
poor quality. Orchards have been 
HARVEST WINDING UP IN 
MARYLAND 
Farmers are rounding up harvest 
operations with varied results as to 
yields and quality. The weather dur¬ 
ing the early or first half of the sea¬ 
son was ideal for haymaking, the 
past three weeks has been less favor¬ 
able though not bad. The work has 
been long drawn out on account of the 
scarcity and high cost of labor. The 
hay crop is probably 25 per cent less 
than last year, both clover and timothy 
headed short and much white-top 
weeds and garlic infested many fields. 
Wheat that has been threshed is yield¬ 
ing- from 15 to 40 bushels to the acre 
and is of good color and plumpness of 
grain. There is a big acreage of corn 
and bright prospects for a bumper 
crop. Plowing for wheat has begun. 
Tomatoes and sugar corn are showing- 
up good at this stage of the season 
and canners are hopeful for a large 
pack. The milk situation is still in 
an unsatisfactory state as regards to 
price and tests at the creameries. High 
costs of feed stuff and the sanitary 
laws are reducing profits to the fann¬ 
ers. Cows are ranging in price from 
$50 to $125, calves 9c per pound. Hogs 
rather plentiful with slow demand at 
about 8c per pound, six week old pigs 
from $3.50 to $10 per pair. The hatch 
of young chicks and turkeys has been 
large, but many are dying from dif¬ 
ferent causes. Old chickens 23c per 
pound, L. W. spring broilers 35c pound. 
All crops and pastures need rain. — 
C. R. H., Maryland. 
Comebacks on Our 
Editorials 
(Continued from page 125) 
dairymen are feeding too large a por¬ 
tion of silage for a well-balanced ra¬ 
tion, but should feed more of the differ¬ 
ent clovers, well cured, and of the dif¬ 
ferent roots, as sugar beets, carrots, 
and turnips. I hope that I may help 
Mr. Van Wagenen in rousing the pres¬ 
ent-day dairymen to a closer study of 
these troubles to bring- about a reform. 
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