Century-old Ti — Wool and hay

This is the latest in a series of posts about news reported a century ago in the Ticonderoga Sentinel.

Area farmers in 1920 received bonus payments ranging from 10 cents to about 20 cents per pound, depending on variety, of wool they had originally sold for 50 cents per pound the previous spring.

“This seems like a present to farmers,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on May 6, 1920.

Meanwhile the cold, wet start of May bode well for the profitability of the hay crop.

“The ground is white with snow again this morning,” the Ironville correspondent wrote on May 4. “Never mind, ‘A cold, wet May is good for grain and hay.’ At the present price of hay and grain the prospect looks good.”

“It has rained a little every morning this month. This morning the hill tops were white with snow,” the Street Road correspondent wrote on May 4. “Some of the farmers are trying, between rains, to get their land ready for sowing, but those on the clay flats are about as discouraged as they can’t even yet get on their land. It ought to be a good hay year, and there is as much money in that as anything, only we can’t all eat hay.”

The rain at Street Road on May 4 did not cancel a baseball game with the visiting “boys of Ticonderoga,” who defeated the home team 9–7.

Horace Duell of Graphite began work as a fire observer on Spruce Mountain.

Raymond Hall brought his “lady friends from Ticonderoga” to meet his parents in Chilson.

The Ticonderoga Knights of Columbus mourned the death of member Thomas Holleran.

Click here to read the most recent previous post in the series.