THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
January  16 
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Agricultural,  news. 
C.  S.  Plumb,  of  La  Fayette,  Ind.,  has  sold  Agri¬ 
cultural  Science  to  Prof.  Wm.  Frear,  of  State  College, 
Pennsylvania. 
The  Berks  County  (Pa.)  Agricultural  Society  held 
its  40th  annual  meeting  January  2  It  has  a  balance 
of  $52.48  In  its  treasury. 
Chas.  A.  Keffer,  Professor  of  Agriculture  in  the 
South  Dakota  Agricultural  College,  has  accepted  a 
similar  position  In  the  University  of  Missouri,  at 
Columbia. 
Prof.  P.  M.  Harwood,  of  Barre,  Mass.,  for  the  past 
year  manager  of  the  Crystal  Lake  Herd  of  Holstelns 
at  Ravenna,  O.,  has  accepted  the  Professorship  of 
Agriculture  in  the  Michigan  Agricultural  College  at 
Lansing. 
The  Agricultural  Department  at  Washington  reports 
the  aggregate  production  of  cereals  for  1891  as  fol¬ 
lows:  Corn,  2,060,154,000  bushels;  value,,  $836,439,228. 
Wheat,  611,780,000  bushels;  value,  $513,472,711.  Oats, 
736,394,000  bushels;  value, $232,312,267. 
To  have  early  tomatoes  on  the  farm,  plant  seeds 
now  In  a  box  and  when  two  or  three  inches  high, 
transplant  into  old  fruit  cans.  It  is  very  little  trouble 
and  for  such  farmers  as  live  at  points  remote  from 
greenhouses,  it  will  pay  very  well  for  the  labor. 
Senator  Washburn  has  introduced  a  bill  in  the 
United  States  Senate,  which  prohibits  gambling  in 
grain.  We  should  like  to  see  every  grain  gambler 
made  to  pound  stone  on  the  highways  for  the  next  six 
months  and  thus  learn  what  it  means  to  make  an 
honest  living. 
Tourists  visiting  New  York  during  the  winter  will 
find  the  Erie  passenger  service  unsurpassed,  and  the 
scenery  along  the  route  most  picturesque.  It  has 
the  further  advantage  of  being  the  only  railway  that 
runs  solid  trains  over  its  own  track  from  Chicago  to 
New  York,  insuring  through  travel  without  change  of 
cars. 
The  statistics  from  Washington  show  that  the  aver¬ 
age  production  of  wheat  for  1891  was  about  15Rj  bush¬ 
els  per  acre.  When  we  take  into  consideration  the 
fact  that  many  thousands  of  acres  produced  at  a 
much  higher  rate,  we  can  easily  see  that  some  of 
these  crops  were  so  small  that  they  never  paid  for 
labor  and  seed 
A  movement  is  on  foot  looking  to  the  establishment 
of  a  milk  condensery  at  Pine  Island,  N.  Y.,  the  termi¬ 
nus  of  the  branch  railway  from  Goshen  to  that  place. 
Howell  Bros.,  who  are  conducting  a  similar  establish¬ 
ment  near  Goshen,  are  interested  iu  the  proposed  new 
venture.  If  the  requisite  quantity  of  milk  can  be  se¬ 
cured,  the  prospects  for  the  condensery  are  prom¬ 
ising.  The  Rural  would  be  glad  to  see  it  estab¬ 
lished. 
Condensed  Correspondence. 
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interest  of  every  reader  to  help  increase 
our  list.  So,  in  addition  to  any  and  all 
other  premium  offers,  we  shall,  until  fur¬ 
ther  notice,  each  week  present  to  the 
woman  who  shall  send  us  during-  that 
week  the  larg-est  club  of  yearly  subscrip¬ 
tions,  the  handsome  decorated  china  tea 
set  described  among  our  premium  offers; 
or,  if  preferred,  $5  worth  of  any  Ameri¬ 
can  books  (not  held  as  “specials”  by  pub¬ 
lishers). 
To  the  man  who  shall  send  in  the 
largest  club  in  any  week  will  be  given 
his  choice  of  $5  worth  of  books,  as  above, 
or  the  United  States  Cook  Stove  Fruit 
San  Juan  County,  Wash. — This  year  the  weather 
has  been  remarkable  on  Puget  Sound.  The  spring 
was  very  wet  and  rather  cool,  but  from  June  22  to 
August  5  there  were  only  two  or  three  light  showers; 
but  on  the  night  of  December  5th  we  had  the  greatest 
rainfall  of  the  season,  followed  by  a  still  harder  one 
on  the  18th,  and  since  then  we  have  had  the  wettest 
season  for  40  years,  as  the  records  show.  All  grains 
are  the  heaviest  ever  known  in  the  county,  but  fully 
three-fourths  were  damaged,  and  probably  one- 
eighth  was  ruined  by  the  wet.  Early  potatoes  a  short 
crop;  late,  good;  but  they  rotted  considerably.  The 
apple  crop  was  short— about  one-fourth  of  the  usual 
crop  of  the  county— owing  to  continuous  cold  rains 
while  the  trees  were  in  bloom.  Prunes  about  half  a 
crop;  but  all  small  fruits  were  immense  crops.  lean 
pick  fresh,  ripe  raspberries  and  blackberries  now,  and 
the  bushes  are  still  blooming,  chough  not  sheltered  or 
protected  in  any  way.  Roses,  as  well  as  many  other 
flowers,  are  yet  blooming  b.  t. 
Here,  in  Springfield,  Ill.,  prices  for  farm  products 
are  as  follows:  wheat,  86  cents;  corn,  35;  oats,  35 
cents,  with  a  good  demand  for  them;  hay  from  $10 
to  $12  per  ton;  potatoes,  50  cents  per  bushel.  By  the 
way,  on  half  an  acre  of  ground  I  got  125  bushels  of 
merchantable  R.  N.-Y.  No.  2  Potatoes  from  six  bush¬ 
els  of  seed.  I  farm  500  acres  and  for  the  year  my 
crops  have  been  as  follows:  corn,  45  acres;  wheat, 
130;  oats,  65;  clover,  85;  Timothy,  35;  potatoes,  6; 
onions,  one  acre.  The  rest  is  in  pasture.  1  handle 
only  a  few  cattle  and  hogs.  I  am  raising  horses  on  a 
small  scale — Shires  for  draft  and  Morgans  for  road¬ 
sters.  The  latter  are  the  pride  of  the  farm  and,  like 
The  Rural,  have  only  to  be  known  to  be  highly  ap¬ 
preciated.  J.  c.  B. 
Drier,  or  $5  worth  of  any  American  farm 
implements,  or  $5  worth  of  packet  seeds 
or  plants,  selected  from  the  catalogue  of 
any  advertiser  m  these  columns. 
To  the  boy  or  girl,  on  the  same  condi¬ 
tions,  we  will  present  a  pair  of  fine  club 
skates,  worth  32.75,  or  his  or  her  choice 
from  our  premium  offers  of  any  other  ar¬ 
ticles  of  equal  value. 
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Polk  County,  Iowa.— Never  while  I  have  been 
iu  the  State  have  our  roads  been  bad  bo  much  of  the 
time,  and  bad  roads  with  us  mean  extra  expense  for 
marketing.  Up  to  this  time  we  have  had  no  winter 
except  a  short  cold  snap  in  November,  which  froze 
many  apples,  potatoes  and  other  vegetables.  Since 
then  we  have  been  having  rain,  light  snows, 
light  frosts  at  night  and  thawings  in  the  day,  so 
that  our  roads  have  become  impassable.  To-day 
(Christmas)  we  are  having  the  worst  snow  storm  of 
the  season,  with  the  prospect  of  some  winter  hence¬ 
forth.  The  warm,  changeable  weather  has  been  hard 
on  apples  and  all  vegetables,  so  they  are  not  keeping 
well,  and  our  market  is  too  overstocked  to  relieve 
growers  of  their  surplus.  An  unusual  quantity  of  all 
these  was  stored  by  growers,  and  the  weather  has 
been  so  mild  that  there  has  been  but  little  demand 
and  prices  are  but  little  better  than  they  were  in  the 
early  fall.  In  looking  back  over  the  closing  year 
we  realize  the  fact  that  this  has  been  a  year  of 
the  greatest  abundance  of  nearly  everything  that 
will  grow  In  our  soil  and  climate;  yet  we  feel  keenly 
that  prices  have  been  very  unsatisfactory  throughout 
the  year  to  growers  of  small  fruits  and  vegetables. 
Farmers  also  complain  of  low  prices  for  hogs  and 
cattle,  yet  they  do  not  have  so  much  cause  to  com¬ 
plain  as  gardeners  and  fruit  growers.  Grapes  were 
shipped  from  here  that  did  not  bring  the  grower  the 
price  of  his  baskets  and  freights.  Thousands  of  good 
cabbages  were  left  in  the  fields  for  want  of  a  market 
that  would  pay  a  reasonable  price  for  handling,  to  say 
nothing  of  the  cost  of  production.  We  had  an  unusu¬ 
ally  large  crop  of  winter  apples,  and  shippers  were 
here  buying  all  they  could  get  at  40  to  60  cents  per 
bushel;  but  as  many  of  our  growers  had  big  crops  of 
corn  to  shuck,  they  did  not  have  time  to  market 
their  apples.  Others  thought  to  make  money  by 
storing.  For  the  past  two  weeks  our  market  has 
been  glutted  with  apples,  and  only  a  few  choice  lots 
of  Jonathans  would  bring  over  50  to  60  cents  per. 
bushel.  Very  few  potatoes  are  moving  now,  and  they 
are  worth  25  cents  per  bushel,  wholesale,  on  account 
of  our  extremely  bad  roads.  Corn  has  kept  up  well 
and  has  ranged  in  price  from  30  to  40  cents  per 
bushel.  Hay  has  also  kept  up  well  in  price.  The  corn 
is  nearly  all  gathered,  though  a  few  crops  are  still  out. 
Stock  generally  are  in  good  condition  and  have  been 
kept,  so  far,  at  small  expense.  f.  s.  w. 
CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
The  crop  of  broom  corn  is  short  and  broom  manu¬ 
facturers  have  recently  advanced  the  price  of  brooms 
20  cents  per  dozen. 
With  live  veals  selling  at  eight  cents  per  pound, 
there  seems  to  be  no  excuse  for  the  existence  of  the 
“bob  veal  man,”  or  apology  for  the  dairyman  who 
sells  him  one  of  his  calves. 
Up  to  December  23,  590,209  barrels  of  apples  had 
been  received  in  Liverpool  from  the  United  States 
and  Canada— the  largest  number  ever  received  in  a 
season  up  to  that  date.  Prices  are  not  essentially 
changed. 
There  is,  as  usual,  plenty  of  low-grade  butter  in  the 
market,  but  for  the  best,  the  price  still  keeps  firm  and 
the  demand  good.  The  dairyman  who  makes  winter 
butter  will  have  no  fault  to  find  with  his  average  re¬ 
ceipts  this  season. 
The  leather  markets  for  the  year  1889  show  a  grad¬ 
ual  shrinkage  in  prices,  averaging  about  2%  cents  per 
pound  in  different  grades.  The  exports  of  sides  show 
an  increase  of  194,000  over  those  of  1891  and  84,000  over 
those  of  the  previous  year. 
Onions  have  been  a  very  profitable  crop  the  past 
season.  They  are  selling  now  at  prices  ranging  from 
$1.75  to  $5.50  per  barrel,  depending  on  the  kind  and 
quality.  Red  onions  can  be  profitably  grown  at  50 
cents  per  bushel  and  pay  better  at  that  than  any  or¬ 
dinary  farm  crop. 
The  Giant  Pascal  Celery  sent  out,  we  believe,  by 
Burpee,  the  Philadelphia  seedsman,  has  made  a  very 
creditable  record  the  past  season.  Unlike  most  of 
the  large  varieties,  this  proves  to  be  of  excellent 
flavor,  tender,  solid  and  delicious.  It  is  worthy  the 
attention  of  growers. 
There  is  room  for  another  feature  in  the  milk  busi¬ 
ness,  and  that  is  the  sale  of  cream,  bottled  on  the 
farm.  It  should  be  put  up  in  bottles  holding  half 
pints,  pints  and  quarts— bottles  to  be  returnable. 
Such  a  business  has  been  long  carried  on  in  London 
.and  could  be  made  to  pay  here. 
There  has  been  considerable  growling  done  the  past 
season  by  grape  consumers,  over  the  bottoms  of  the 
grape  baskets.  Originally,  the  bottom  was  as  thin  as 
was  compatible  with  durability,  but  of  late  some  grow¬ 
ers  have  shipped  in  baskets  in  which  the  bottom  was 
three-fourths  of  an  inch  in  thickness.  It  is  not  a  wise 
policy — it  reacts  against  the  grower  in  the  end. 
Black  turtle  soup  beans  will  sell  for  a  higher  price 
than  any  other  in  the  market  and  they  make  the  best 
bean  soup.  We  think  they  are  just  as  easily  grown 
as  the  others;  then  grow  them.  Boston  could  not  live 
without  them  a  single  week  and  New  York  and  the  re¬ 
mainder  of  the  world  are  fast  coming  to  be  of  the 
same  opinion  as  Boston  on  the  subject  of  black 
beans. 
There  is  more  than  the  usual  quantity  of  the  Ben 
Davis  Apple  in  our  market  the  present  season,  which 
would  indicate  that  it  has  been  planted  considerably 
of  late.  We  regret  this  fact,  if  fact  it  be.  The  Ben 
Davis  is  a  handsome  apple,  productive  and  a  good 
keeper,  but  the  quality  is  poor— so  poor  that  few  peo¬ 
ple  in  this  part  of  the  world  will  knowingly  buy  the 
second  barrel  for  their  own  use. 
Readers  of  market  reports  can  find  many  suggestive 
points.  Among  others,  they  furnish  ample  illustra¬ 
tions  of  the  epicurean  habits  of  many  of  our  city 
folks.  A  good  domestic  duck  is  worth  from  50  to  75 
cents— a  canvass-back  from  the  Chesapeake  sells  for 
$2.  Capons  sell  for  three  or  four  cents  per  pound 
more  than  ordinary  fowls.  It  is  well  to  utilize  these 
traits  of  human  nature. 
There  were  exported  from  this  port  during  the  year 
1890,  122,942  barrels  of  apples.  In  1890  the  amount 
reached  395,851  barrels.  Of  wheat,  in  1890,  we  shipped 
12,857,665  bushels,  while  in  the  year  just  closed  the 
amount  reached  the  enormous  figures  of  45,639,250 
bushels.  The  exports  of  corn  were  double  in  1890 
wThat  they  were  in  1891.  Pork  exports  swelled  from 
225,799  in  1890  to  317,930  barrels  in  1891  In  1890  we 
exported  20,038,654  pounds  of  butter ;  in  1891  the 
amount  was  reduced  to  11,372.009  pounds,  and  cheese 
was  also  exported  In  reduced  proportions.  We  shall 
manage  to  bring  John  .  Bull  in  debt  to  us  in  good 
round  numbers,  especially  when  we  know  that  the 
imports  of  dry  goods  into  this  port  aggregate  about 
$30,000,000  less  than  we  imported  the  previous  year. 
It  is  always  pleasant  to  have  the  balance  on  the 
right  side. 
One  Cold  is  Sometimes  Contracted  on  Top  of 
Another,  the  accompanying  Cough  becoming  settled 
and  confirmed,  and  the  Lungs  so  strained  and  racked 
that  the  production  of  tubercles  frequently  follows. 
Many  existing  cases  of  Pulmonary  Disease  can  be 
thus  accounted  for,  and  yet  how  many  others  are 
now  carelessly  allowing  themselves  to  drift  through 
the  preliminary  symptoms,  controlled  by  the  fatal 
policy  of  allowing  a  Cold  to  take  care  of  itself!  On 
the  first  intimation  of  a  Cough  or  Cold,  or  any  Throat 
or  Lung  trouble,  resort  promptly  to  Dr.  Jayne’s  Ex¬ 
pectorant,  a  safe  curative  of  long  established  reputa¬ 
tion,  and  you  may  avoid  the  consequences  of  such 
dangerous  trifling.— Adv. 
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WOOD  ASHES. 
Screened  and  in  store,  for  direct  shipment  on  short 
notice,  in  carload  lots  or  barrels.  Our  thirty  years' 
experience  in  selecting  and  importing  Wood  Ashes 
enables  us  to  fully  guarantee  the  strength  and 
purity  of  all  our  Ashes.  Price,  sample,  pamphlet  and 
other  information  sent  on  application.  Agents 
wanted  in  every  town. 
MUNROE,  JUDSON  &  STROUP,  Oswego,  N.  Y. 
MADE  ONLY  BY 
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Now  located  at  NASHUA,  N.  H. 
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&c.,  & c.,  &c.  We  make  or  furnish  everything 
needed  in  a  Butter  Factory  or  Family  Dairy. 
WE  WILL  SELL  YOUR  PRODUCE  “,d.”c“K 
TROTH  a  MOORE,  313  H.  Water  St.,  Phila. 
Poultry,  Eggs  and  Game.  Apples,  Potatoes  and 
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obtained.  Write  for  Inventory  Guide 
niTTIITO  FRANKLIN  H.  HOUGH,  Washington 
mJ  A  I  L.N  I  \  D.  O.  No  attorney’s  fee  until  patent  ii 
1  H  I  LI*  I  v  obtained.  Write  for  Inventor's  Guid*. 
30  NEW 
8TYLE8  OF  CARDS  FOR  1892  AND 
AOKNT’8  MONEY  MAKINO  OUTFIT 
TUTTLE  Co..  NORTH  HAVEN. CONN. 
2c. 
FARMERS 
Saw  and  Grist  Mill.  4  H.P. 
and  larger.  Catalogue  free. 
DeLOACli  HILL  CO.,  Atlanta.  «a. 
TO  SHERWOOD  HARNESS  CO.,  Alfl 
SYRACUSE,  N.  Y.,  for  particulars  how  to  get  the  Sherwood  Vk  I  I 
Celebrated  Double  Harness  for  ten  dollars,  with  CASH  MB  ■  ■  m 
Prizes  offered  for  January,  February,  March,  April  and  May,  1892. 
PLANTS 
Com, 
Beans, 
Ensilage, 
Etc.,  Etc. 
ASPINWALL 
DISTRIBUTES 
FERTILIZERS. 
Absolutely  Guaranteed. 
Illustrated  Circular  sent  Free. 
( Mention  this  paper.) 
Three  Rivers,  Mich. 
