AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. 



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Wool importers have just opened a great 

 Wool Exchange in New York. It is an 

 eleven story tire-proof building and cost 

 $1,000,000. This enterprise alone indi- 

 cates what the free traders in wool ex- 

 pected. But the best laid plans, etc. 



Transcontinental freight rates will be 

 advanced by the Panama Railroad Com- 

 pany and all of the overland roads at a 

 meeting soon to be called in Chicago or 

 New York. The advance, it is said, will 

 be the result of the new contract recently 

 made by the Panama road and the Pacific 

 Mail Steamship Company, by which the 

 former is given the right to fix rates on 

 west bound shipments. 



George L. Bowen, president of the Text- 

 ile Manufacturers' Association of the 

 South and West, has called a meeting of 

 the association in Chicago on the 14th inst. 

 for the purpose of deciding on the associa- 

 tion's position in recommending legisla- 

 tion calculated to relieve the financial 

 stringency. The association numbers 

 1,200 manufacturers of cotton and woolen 

 goods, operating 2,000,000 spindles and 

 1,000 sets of wool cards. 



Patriotic decorations and patriotic 

 speeches were the order at the American 

 commercial banquet given at Delmonico's, 

 New York. It was the centennial celebra- 

 tion of the Jay commercial treaty with 

 Great Britain as well as the inauguration 

 of the annual observance of "Commercial 

 Day" by all organized commercial bodies. 



A blanket mortgage for $175,000,000 

 given by the New York. Lake Erie & 

 Western Railroad to the Farmer's Loan 

 and Trust Company of New York has just 

 been filed. 



Some Illinois postmasters just con- 

 firmed are: A. M. Davis, at Rossville; C. L. 

 Corneau, at Forrest; W. W. Twist, at Tol- 

 uca; E. K. Mercer, at Princeton; D. C. 

 Marsh, at East St. Louis; D. F. King, at 

 Roodhouse; F. Friede, at Mount Olive; R. 

 Forester, at Murphy sboro; J. A. Dufield, 

 Woodstock; J. Clark, Morrison ; N. Flack, 

 Milf ord ; H. S. Coff een, Homer ; M. Maloney, 

 Dixon; E. S. Clemens, Chester; J. D. 

 Martin, Carmi; W. B. Fleming, Bement. 



An assignment has been made in the 

 County court in Chicago, by the Illinois 

 Live Stock insurance company. Homer 

 S. Galpin is named as assignee. 



But recently Manitoba and the Cana- 



dian Northwest Territory were the home of 

 men little better than savages; and yet, in 

 the past year, nearly as much wheat has 

 been raised in that region as in the whole 

 of the United Kingdom. 



H. C. Wheeler, the big Sac county 

 (Iowa) farmer who ran for governor four 

 years ago and who changed from horse- 

 breeding to dairying, has got his milking 

 machine in operation, with which 100 cows 

 are milked in one hour. A gas pipe 

 passes along the stalls to which is at- 

 tached a rubber tube and cup, which is 

 clasped over the teats of the cow. The 

 milk is drawn by suction or pressure fur- 

 nished by machinery. The milk is car- 

 ried to a large reservoir. But two men 

 are required to do the milking. The cows 

 seem to enjoy Ihe process better than 

 when the hands are used. 



Postmasters just confirmed in Kansas 

 are as follows: A. G. Patrick, at Oska- 

 loosa; J. L. Mattingly, at Sedan; G. W. 

 H. Lucas, Cherokee; Robert Kennedy, 

 Pleasanton; J. C. Haskett, Baxter Springs; 

 L. B. Davidson, at Girard; C. P. Bald- 

 win, at Belleville. 



A correspondent writing from Hillsboro, 

 New Mexico, says he has what can be 

 called a true hybrid a cross between 

 wheat and winter barley. It has a ten- 

 dency to take the two- rowed barley head, 

 but is very large and plump. 



Government reports just made show 

 that the exports of gold during November 

 aggregated $14,066,460, an excess of ex- 

 ports over imports of $13,473,876, against 

 an excess of $1,507,388 in imports over 

 exports for the same month in 1894. The 

 exports of gold during eleven months in 

 1895 amounted to $89,130,639, as com- 

 pared with $92,017,535 for the same 

 months, in 1894. 



The exports of silver coin and bullion 

 during November amounted to $5,418,091, 

 and the imports $1,017,503. The exports 

 during November, 1894, were $3,608,778, 

 and the imports $727,050. 



The new Kaffir corn, grown in Okla- 

 homa and Kansas, is pronounced wonder- 

 ful. A Medicine Lodge (Kan.) miller 

 experimented and finally produced Kaffir 

 flour which will create a revolution in the 

 world's breadstuff s. Bread made from it 

 is sweet to the taste, highly nutritious and 

 satisfactory to the eye, being about tho 

 color of the best graham bread. 



