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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[June, 



that season. During the "Crystal Palace" 

 exhibition in New York — nearly a quarter of 

 a century ago — we were surprised to find 

 green peas and green corn on the table near 

 the close of the month of October, a State 

 that is meteorogically two weeksjjlater than 



Pennsylvania. 



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EXPORTS OF CHEESE. 



The following are the exports of clieese from 

 New York to the under-mentioned poits since 

 May 1, ]881 (begii.ning of tlie trade year), 

 and for the same time last year : 



18S1-1S82 1881-1880 



Liverpool 7fi,Gi5,312 81,099,788 



LopJon 17,ei9,.')12 13,078,326 



Glassow 40,359,B07 17,649,700 



Bristol 8,417,547 11,74s, 528 



Cardifl' 395,000 1,277,721 



Hull 1,336,013 375,841 



Newcastle 914,-J39 59-!,660 



Havre 148,670 121,145 



Hamburg 978,524 119,373 



Bremen 1,159,226 575,480 



Other ports 3,489,070 2,693,831 



Total 131,442,726 129,303,098 



Exports of Butter. 



The following are theexportsof butter from 

 New York to the under-mentioned ports since 

 May 1, 1881 (beginning of tlie trade year), and 

 for the same time last year : 



1881-1882 ISSl-l.'SO 



Liverpool 6,195,023 10,775,U9G 



London 475,017 936,144 



Glasgow 3,122,986 6,481,729 



Bristol 864,000 1,781,602 



Carditi' 357,000 973,089 



Hull 63,600 108,130 



Newcastle 84,200 171,076 



Hamburg 337,699 340,520 



Havre 674,.510 1,252,301 



Bremen 6:-4,209 1,048,247 



Other ports 5,069,449 3,913,442 



Total 17,027,693 27,783,566 



Exports of Oleo-margarine. 

 The following are the exports of oleo-mar- 

 garine from New York to the under-mention- 

 ed ports since May, 1, IbSl, and for the same 

 time last year : 



1881-1882 1881-18S0 



Liverpool 451, ;74 790,250 



London 13,165 64,180 



Glasgow 1,641,553 1,380,.500 



Bristol 47,0S0 179,744 



Rotterdam 6,8.56,667 5,360,180 



Antwerp 1,447,665 490,875 



Hamburg 25,430 75,007 



Bremen 45,8.50 81,712 



Other ports 1,135,-585 561,250 



Total 10,464,769 8,983,668 



The above, which we clip from the columns 

 of The American Dairyman, exliibits an ap- 

 preciation in our exportations of Cheese dur- 

 ing last year, of 2,13'.),(528 pounds, which, at 

 only ten cents per pound, Would auiount to the 

 handsome sum of .1f215,S02.80. That is 

 certainly some advance, so far as the exporta- 

 tion of cheese is concerned. 



Our exports of Oleo-margarine during tlie 

 same period shows an increa.se of 1,481,101 

 pounds. (Whether Oleo-butter or cheese, the 

 tables don't state,) but, at the same rate per 

 pound, it would amount to 8148,110.10, also a 

 a very respectable advance as a domestic ex- 

 portation. 



These two items of increase aggregate 3,- 

 0:20,738 pounds, amounting to ^362,072.90. 

 Does this indicate that oleo-margarine — 

 whether in the form of butter or cheese — is 

 becoming more popular than it formerly was 

 in the foreign market V If oleo-margarine is 

 healthful and can be furnislied at a lower 

 price than genuine butter or cheese there cer- 

 tainly will grow up a market for it, because 

 the masses of the people cannot afford to pay 

 the prices that are now demanded for the 



genuine article, especially butter. And, as to 

 quality, nine out of ten would prefer good 

 oleo-margarine to rancid, oily butter. 



The exhibit of the butter exportation does 

 not look so favorable. From the same tables 

 we discover that there was a depreciation in 

 the item of butter, during the same period, of 

 9,854,873 pounds, which, at the nominal price 

 of ticenty cents per pound, would amount to 

 $1,970,974.00, which absorbs the increase in 

 cheese and oleo-margarine, and exhibits a re- 

 duction iu last year's operations amounting 

 to 6,234,135 pounds, and »1, 608,901.70. 



The absence of rains and the short grass 

 crop of last year may have been the cause of 

 the short butter crop, although we miglit 

 naturally suppose it would have had the same 

 effect upon the production of cheese, unless, 

 indeed, the oleo-margarine had been " smug- 

 gled in " as genuine cheese. 



We ought to do better in the butter busi- 

 ness the present year; and yet, just now, 

 (May 13th,) it looks more likely that we may 

 be " drowned out," or " rotted out," than be 

 "dried out." 



As pertinent to the subject we append the 

 following from the source above named : 

 Marketing Farm Products. 



Whatever may be said against oleo-marga- 

 rine, truthfully or otherwise, it is an undeni- 

 able fact that since it has been put upon the 

 market butter has presented itself in better 

 garb, sweeter, sounder, cleaner, and in every 

 way more worthy of being recognized as a 

 prime product of the American dairy. 



Mr. Starr, of Echo Farm, was one of the 

 first to get a dollar a pound for the delicious 

 butter sent to New York, Boston and other 

 cities. This came to market in neat half- 

 pound packages wrapped in snow-white linen, 

 and was as fragrant and sweet as the June 

 grasses upon which the cows fed. If there is 

 a iKirudise for cows on earth Echo Farm is 

 one, and a worthy model, creditable to the 

 heart of a humane farmer. 



Now, we have many dairies sending sweet, 

 waxy, golden and aromatic butter to the 

 market, perfectly gratifying the most fastidi- 

 ous tastes of our citizens. These dairies and 

 these products honor such names as Have- 

 meyer, Coe, Crozier, Holly, Dinsmore, Park, 

 Valentine, and scores of others. 



The great Western States are worthy com- 

 petitors in gilt-edged butter. 



Cheese, eggs, poultry and fruits, put up in 

 a neat manner, are always acceptable to tlie 

 purchaser, and bring remunerative prices to 

 the producer. 



In Baltimore and Philadelphia, for many 

 years, poultry came to market nicely drawn, 

 fresh, sweet and ready for the cook ; and now, 

 in New York and Boston, the hotel-keepers 

 demand drawn poultry. They are posted in 

 such matters, for they cater to the most ex- 

 travagant tastes ; and a man who knows how 

 to keep a first-class hotel knows what human 

 provender should be. 



Compare our first-class retail groceries now 

 with wliat they were' twenty years ago. The 

 demands of consumers require goods neatly 

 put up, the stores to be kept clean, and the 

 clerks aproned in immaculate white. In fact, 

 some of the spruce clerks now wax their mus- 

 taches, a la Napoleon III. , to please the ladies. 



The neat and tasty marketing of farm pro- 

 ducts pays a handsome profit on all the extra 

 taste and labor bestowed upon them. 



Our best merchants understand the art of 

 displaying their goods and tlie profit it brings. 

 A visit to Thurber's will convince the most 

 sceptical. In this house, where twenty mil- 

 lions are annually sold, the goods are put up 

 in the best possible style. Even the canned 

 goods are radiant witj colors and rich in gilt. 



The packages of coffee, tea and spices are 

 clothed with beautiful pictures of the Oriental 



shrubs that produced them. Thurber's labels 

 are exquisite specimens of taste and art. 

 "Straws tell which way the wind blows." 



Let farmers' wives and daughters tastefully 

 decorate the packages of farm products and 

 they can afford to dress in silk. 



THE CONESTOGA FLYING FISH. 



In regard to the rumor of a flying fish hav- 

 ing been caught in the Conestoga, at Wabank, 

 some time ago, if not a canard, it has, at 

 least, turned out to be a " gurnard." Before 

 the week was out I handled three specimens, 

 and that "settled it." Now, it is not impos- 

 sible that the fish in question should have 

 been caught in the Conestoga, but it is alto- 

 gether improbable. About forty years ago a 

 genuine sturgeon was caught in the Susque- 

 hanna, above Marietta, in a "fi.sh basket," 

 and, I think, is still extant, iu possession of 

 Judge Libhart, of Marietta ; and just here 1 

 would suggest that that specimen ought to be 

 in the museum of tlie Linna:an Society. This 

 supposed Conestoga fish is a species of the 

 "Flying Gurnard," Prionotus caroUnus of 

 Dekay, also called "Sea-Robin " and "Grun- 

 ter," from a grunting noise it makes when 

 taken out of the water. It belongs to Cuvier's 

 first order, and second family of Bony-Fishes, 

 the first family|(Perc!cZce') being typified by 

 the common perch. The family to which this 

 subject belongs includes the " hard-cheeked '' 

 fishes, and the attempt to "palm it off" as a 

 Conestoga fish smacks very much of a hard- 

 cheeked adventure. I have now two speci- 

 mens of it, obtained from second persons, who 

 could not tell whence they originally came, 

 and representing them to have been caught 

 in the Conestoga and the Susquehanna, may 

 have been more to enhance the value of the 

 fishes than to "sell" the naturalists. They 

 are an Atlantic coast fish, and abound from 

 the Carolinas as far northeast as Nantucket, 

 feeding, according to Dekay, on small mollnsks 

 and crustaceans. They have the power of 

 making a short flight by the aid of their large 

 pectoral fins, when pursued by their enemies, 

 but they are not the true flying fish (Exocetus 

 volitans) and do not belong either to the 

 same family or the same order. The pectoral 

 (ins of the true flying-fish are longer than the 

 body of the fish, but in this subject they are 

 only about one-third the length of the body. 

 These fishes attain a length of from twelve to 

 eighteen inches, and their edible qualities are 



not of a very high order— too dry and insipid. 



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PYRETHRUM ROSEUM. 



The illustration of this comparatively new 

 Insecticide, which we publish in this number 

 of the Farmer, was originally intended to 

 have accompanied the history, etc., of the 

 plant, which appeared in our May number, 

 but which we did not receive in time. To 

 those of our patrons who possess regular files 

 of our journal, it will be little or no incon- 

 venience to have the history and the illustra- 

 tions in two consecutive numbers, if it does 

 not facilitate reference thereto. We believe 

 that both amateur and professional flower 

 gardners might do many worse things than to 

 cultivate this plant, both for utihty and orna- 

 mentation. By carefully gathering the flow- 

 ers after they had accomplished their orna- 

 mental functions and preserving them for fu- 

 ture use, they would have ready access to an 

 antidote against those insect and other pesti- 

 ferous vermin which so often damage or de- 

 stroy the fruits of their labor in the house, the 

 garden and the field. 



