250 



for pies, puudings, sauce, and preserves. Farmers' wives often scald and put down from 

 one to three bairels for common table-use, and so far as I know, they keep good until they 

 are used up. 1 have known them to be good in the spring after they were put up. From 

 the time they are nearly ripe, children are allowed to eat them at will, at least after the 

 first few days. They are considered a very sure cure for summer-complaints. 



Eain-fall extraoedinary. — A correspondent in Juab County, 

 Utah, reports that the prospect for all kinds of crops is very bright in 

 that county, and that with less than usual labor. Writing May 26, he 

 says : 



For the last five or six weeks we have had rain about every seven or eight days, which 

 is something wonderful in this part of the world. The farmers are looking cheerful, and 

 well they may, as it relieves them of a great amount of labor in irrigating, and thus gives 

 them time for other important work. The season is all of a month iu advance of that of 

 last year. 



Field-pease as a fertilizer. — A planter in Montgomery County, 

 Alabama, reports that last year he sowed cow-pease freely between the 

 rows in a field of corn. A drought came on before the pease matured 

 and so dried the vines that they died. These he covered by turning two 

 furrows between the rows. This spring, cotton planted on that field is 

 far superior to that on other parts of his plantation. From the results, 

 thus far apparent, he judges the pea-vines equal to a coat of guano in 

 fertilizing value. 



MARKET PRICES OF FARM-PEODUCTS. 



May and June, 1875. 



The following quvtations represent the state of the market, as7iearly as practicable, at the iegin- 



ning of the month. 



Articles. 



NEW YORK. 



Flour, superfine State and western per barrel 



extra State do.. 



extra to choice v/estern do. . 



common to fair southern extras do.. 



good to choice southern extras do . . 



Wheat, No. 1 spring per bushel 



No. 2 spring do.. 



winter, red, western do.. 



winter, amber, western do . . 



winter, white, western do.. 



Rye do.. 



Barley do.. 



Corn do.. 



Oats do. . 



Hay, first qrrality per ton 



second quality do . . 



Beef, mess per barrel 



extra mess do . . 



Pork, mess do.. 



extra prime do.. 



prime mess do.. 



Lard per pound 



Butter, western do... 



State dairy do . . . 



Cheese, State factory do... 



Price. 



$4 60 

 5 0.5 

 .5 05 

 5 JO 

 5 20 

 1 27 

 1 19 

 1 33 



1 33 

 1 40 



95 



I 28 



91 



73-1- 



17 00 



12 00 



9 50 



10 50 



22 25 



16 50 



19 75 



15* 



12 



15 



14 



to $4 90 

 50 

 25 

 75 

 25 

 31 

 23 

 42 

 42 

 45 



« 



5 



8 



1 



1 



I 



1 



1 

 to — 

 to 1 

 to 

 to 



to 20 00 

 to 13 00 

 to 10 50 

 to 12 00 



to 



to 17 50 

 to 20 00 



to 



to 17 

 to 28 

 to IGi 



45 



93i 



78i 



June. 



Price. 



|4 70 

 4 95 

 4 95 



to|o 00 

 to 5 50 

 to 8 25 

 to 5 90 

 to 8 25 



12|to 

 07 to 



22 to 

 22 to 

 25 to 

 10 to 

 nominal, 

 73 to 

 69 



16 00 



13 00 



18 00 



16 



12i- 



32 



32 



33 



81 



7» 

 00 



to 



to 21 

 to 14 00 

 to 19 00 



20 70 to 20 75 

 15 37^ to 15 75 



18 75 to 



to 14f 

 to 24 

 to 28 

 to 12+ 



13| 

 14 

 16 

 10 



