Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-04-02

EDITOR PREss:-Thinking, perhaps,
few lines from here might be of in
terest to my old associates in Cameron
county, and being snow-bound, and
obliged to stay home for day or so,
take the liberty of writing a few items,
which l trust may find space in your
valuable paper.
This month has been remarkably fine
weather for an Iowa March. Up till
the 21st, for the past two weeks, the
weather has been warm and no snow
on the ground, the frost going out so
fast that roads became next to impas-
sable; so much so that the rural mail
carriers in some instances have given
up trying to make their route, while
others are making, or have been max
ing their twenty and twenty-five mile
trips to deliver their mail on foot
But the night of the 21st it began snow
ing and to-day there is foot of snow
on the ground, which is drifting badly
Those that have to go out now will
have a job on hand. The weather is
warm, the sun is beginning to show
up, and that means that the drifting is
pretty nearly over.
Last summer was very wet summer
here and consequently crops We're of
the poor order-the quality was poor:
There is fear that corn will not keep
in warm weather. Prices for the pro-
duct of the farm are about as follows:
Corn, so to 35c; oats, 25c; barley, 35c;
Rye, 40c; wheat-none raised here for
sale. Hogs $500 cwt live weight
Prices on all stock here is on foot
Fat steers, $3.50; feeders, So so to S4.00;
COWS from S25 to $40, according to
quality and breed. Short horn Dur
ham and Arbadine Argus in the lead
with Herfords following closely Jer-
seys not much sought after-they are
alright for milk, but not of much ac-
count when it comes to turning them
on the market for beef purposes.
Horses are selling high this spring,
from $3.50 to 5000 for 1900 to 1900 horses.
Egg and all kinds of poultry is high
Eggs 12c to 15c, according to location
from market, causing the difference in
price. Chickens, Sc per pound; ducks,
lie; geese, 12c; turkeys, 13c. Doubtless
these prices will seem small to Cam
eron county poultry raisers, but here
where feed is plenty and the range is
unlimited it is nice business Two to
three hundred hens at farm is moth
ing unusual. Many are robbing the
hens of the old comforts of sitting and
raising their broods-do the Matching
by incubators. My wife matches from
eight to twelve hundred every sum
mer. She sells many of them when
three days old for five cents each; has
now orders for five hundred to be de-
livered by May goth. Our experience
with an incubator is that they will
hatch about S5 per cent of fertile eggs.
And an incubator of 200 egg capacity
can be handled and managed as easily
as three or four old sitting hens
Farming lands are selling high here
from sixty to seventy-five dollars an
acre. Farms rent from 1925 to 50 90
per acre, location and improvements
making the difference in rental price.
Inclosed find remittance for sub
scription renewal. We watch for the
paper eagerly, as it is like getting a
good long letter from home every
week. Would like to see our Rich
Valley correspondent little more
| prompt. More anon.
CHARLES NJ. LEWIS.
Powersville, Iowa, March %, 1903.