Estimates on the principal grain and 
field crops for 1923 reveal interesting 
figures. Lancaster, York, Franklin, 
Berks and Chester, leading in the order 
named, in wheat production. Lancaster 
County again heads the list in corn, with 
York, Chester, Franklin and Berks follow¬ 
ing. Somerset ranked first with oats, 
Bradford, York, Westmoreland and Craw¬ 
ford, following. As usual Bradford re¬ 
mains the banner buckwheat county; 
Lehigh is far ahead with potatoes and 
Lancaster in tobacco production. Brad¬ 
ford also stands first with hay. 
Good, clean grass seed of all varieties is 
in good demand this spring, and prices 
remain high. Red clover commands $16 
per bushel, white clover $40 per bushel, 
timothy $6 per bushel. Much clover 
growing in last year’s wheat stubbles was 
winter-killed. 
Farmers who have surplus yellow dent 
corn suitable for planting have a ready 
market at profitable prices. It is a singu¬ 
lar condition that prevails in many locali¬ 
ties where ordinary corn brings a price in 
excess of that of the best wheat. 
Central Pennsylvania Notes 
J. N. Glover 
P UBLIC sales, about 'over, attracted 
many buyers this year who need 
stock and implements. Good cows sold 
at $100 and down to $24 for old ones. 
Everything sold lower than last year. 
E. B. Bartges’s sale amounted to $3,306 
including a tractor. 
A. L. Loss kept enough stock for his 
70-acre farm he bought and his sale ran 
to $2,036. L. W. Strunk’s registered 
Guernsey cows averaged better than 
$100, but they were small. Guernseys 
and Holsteins seemed to sell best. 
Roads are getting in better shape and 
they are being dragged to help them. 
Not much grain is being marketed but 
there is some demand for good seed corn. 
Hay is scarce on many farms and there is 
very little for sales in this section. YV heat 
has come through the winter in fair con¬ 
dition only, but grass fields do not have a 
good stand of grass to insure a full hay 
crop. There are many bushels of potatoes 
stored for spring sale, and they will conae 
out at a lower price than could have been 
had in the fall. 
Farm help is not plentiful, so farmers 
try to help themselves. There is consider¬ 
able complaint about high taxes. 
New Jersey 
Jersey Fruit Growers 
T HE Jersey Fruit Growers Coopera¬ 
tive Association, which marketed over 
a fifth of the commercial peach crop and a 
third of the early apple tonnage of New 
Jersey last year, is laying definite plans 
to extend the scope of its sales operations 
and membership during the coming 
season. With several successful seasons 
behind it, the organization has developed 
one of the largest and most successful 
cooperative sales organizations in New 
Jersey. 
A Field Service Department with a 
competent Field Manager in charge works 
with the membership to develop a superior 
quality product. The personnel at the 
various branch units packs the fruit under 
rigid government and association inspec¬ 
tion, and the peaches and apples which 
are marketed under the “Jersey Jerry” 
brand are religiously packed under the 
N. J.-U. S. standard grades. The pack is 
already well-known on distant markets, 
which are' reached through the member¬ 
ship of the association in the Federated 
Fruit and Vegetable Growers. 
Six branch associations controlling 
over 2,000 acres of peaches and summer 
apples comprise the present membership 
of the Jersey Fruit Growers. These local 
units are in the central western part of 
New Jersey and include some of the best 
orchards in Burlington, Camden and 
American Agriculturist, April 12 ,1924 
and Pennsylvania News 
Making Extensive Plans far Coming Season. 
years farm sales showed a material defia- 
f irvn in Tin ^ _ 
Cumberland counties. Plans are prac¬ 
tically completed for the addition of a 
newly formed branch association in 
Atlantic county which will open up a new 
district not previously served by the 
Association. 
With a standard pack, which will live ent from that which exists in the Empire 
up to its reputation on the markets, the State. 
Association last year started commercial 
merchandising of its pack. The organiza¬ 
tion advertised its fruit to the wholesale 
and retail trade in New York, Philadel¬ 
phia and northern New Jersey. Con¬ 
sumer organizations were reached by 
direct personal canvas and by advertising, scriber is not comparable, 
while the support of the general public was 
secured by an informational 
tion in values while “war-time’ assess¬ 
ments not only remain, but in many in¬ 
stances were materially increased, because 
of the demand for more money. The situ¬ 
ation in Pennsylvania is not much differ- 
A proposition to slightly increase tele¬ 
phone rates in general has met with pro¬ 
nounced opposition among rural patrons. 
Many allege that city subscribers have 
greater facilities, and that the service 
rendered or needed by the rural sub- 
an mtormationai service. 
The advertising program for this year 
will be extended considerably, and will 
include direct-to-consumer advertising, 
dealer service work with the trade and 
personal solicitation in various markets. 
—W. H. Bullock. 
Eastern Pennsylvania Notes 
Oliver D. Schock 
W HILE it is inevitable that high 
taxes will continue for an indefinite 
period, many farmers believe that there 
should prevail a better and more equitable 
method of assessments. Within recent 
Eastern and central Pennsylvania was 
visited by an extraordinary heavy snow 
fall on the first day of April, which is the 
customary date for moving. Hundreds 
of families were seriously inconvenienced, 
the snow falling fast all day long. 
! Potato shippers in Berks and Lehigh 
counties report that the surplus stock is 
now being bought from farmers at 75 
cents a bushel. 
Almost incredible as it may appear, it is 
said that the great Cumberland Valley 
will have over one hundred vacant or 
inactive farms this year. The high cost 
of farm help and deflated values of almost 
all farm products are the cause for the 
condition. Similar complaints come from 
other leading agricultural counties. 
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