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CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
Holly  wreaths  sold  for  50  cents  each. 
Mistletoe  from  England  and  France  was  In  the 
Christmas  market. 
The  crop  conditions  of  Oregon  and  Washington  are 
reported  to  be  quite  favorable. 
Christmas  trees  from  Maine  sold  for  $1.50  per  inch 
of  diameter  at  the  base.  There  weren’t  enough  to  go 
’round.  Last  year  there  was  a  surplus,  12  car-loads 
being  dumped  on  the  garbage  scows. 
Philadelphia  received  some  fine  cattle  for  the 
Christmas  market  from  Pennsylvania  breeders.  Six 
of  them  averaged,  live  weight,  2,100,  the  largest 
weighing  2,450  pounds.  They  sold  for  seven  cents  per 
pound,  live  weight. 
A  noteworthy  feature  of  Washington  Market  this 
year  was  a  fine  showing  of  beef  from  a  lot  of  Polled 
Angus  steers.  The  animals  were  two  years  old,  aver¬ 
aged  1,000  pounds  each  and  cost  $7.15  per  100  pounds 
wholesale  In  the  Chicago  market.  They  were  said  to 
be  the  finest  lot  of  cattle  seen  In  Chicago  for  several 
years. 
Reports  from  the  Pacific  coast  show  that  the  rain¬ 
fall  generally  over  California  has  been  very  light.  A 
full  acreage  of  summer-fallowed  grain  has  been  sownj 
However  favorable  the  conditions  may  be  for  this 
acreage,  a  full  average  yield  cannot  be  looked  for 
unless  the  winter  seeding  receives  plenty  of  rain.  So 
far  this  has  not  been  the  case.  The  conditions  in  the 
Sacramento  Valley  and  In  the  northern  portions  of 
the  San  Joaquin  are  moderately  favorable,  but  in  the 
large  territory  to  the  south  practically  no  farm  work 
has  been  accomplished. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
The  Cherokee  Indians  want  $2  per  acre  for  their 
surplus  lands. 
An  electric  plow  Is  the  latest  invention,  and  halls 
from  Minnesota. 
Baltimore  has  a  grain  glut  and  the  elevators  have 
discriminated  against  the  grain  from  Maryland. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Illinois  Swine  Breeders’ 
Association  was  held  In  Springfield,  December  15-16. 
The  American  Berkshire  Association  will  hold  its 
sixteenth  annual  meeting  at  Springfield,  Ill.,  January 
21. 
The  American  South  Down  Association  will  expend 
$1,000  In  special  premiums  at  the  World’s  Columbian 
Exposition. 
A  large  cattle  exporting  firm  has  contracted  for  the 
transportation  of  8,000  head  of  cattle  to  Liverpool  and 
Antwerp  at  $12.50  per  head. 
The  New  York  Poultry  and  Pigeon  Show  will  be 
held  at  Madison  Square  Garden,  New  York  city,  from 
February  3  to  9,  Inclusive,  1892.  T.  Farrer  Rackham, 
Secretary  and  Superintendent,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
The  trouble  between  the  Chicago  Junction  railways 
and  the  Union  Stock  Yards  Company,  and  Messrs. 
Armour,  Swift  and  Morris  has  been  settled  so  that  the 
packers  will  continue  to  transact  their  business  at  the 
old  stand. 
The  University  of  Illinois  will  give  a  special  11 
weeks'  course  in  agriculture,  beginning  January  4. 
The  special  topics  will  be  :  Farm  Crops,  Farm  Ani¬ 
mals,  Diseases  of  Farm  Animals,  Vegetable  Physi¬ 
ology,  Insect  Enemies,  Agricultural  Chemistry.  The 
fees  will  be  $7.50.  Address  Prof.  G.  E.  Morrow,  Cham¬ 
paign. 
It  is  learned  from  statistics  that  during  the  last  10 
months  there  have  appeared  in  England  more  than 
5,000  outbreaks  of  swine  fever  and  that  30,000  pigs  have 
been  attacked  by  the  disease.  The  disease  is  steadily 
increasing,  largely  owing,  It  is  said,  to  the  fact  that 
each  county  has  Its  own  laws  in  regard  to  the  treat¬ 
ment  of  disease  in  animals,  and  few  of  these  regula¬ 
tions  agreeing  to  details. 
The  shipments  of  cranberries  for  the  Beason  of  1891 
from  the  stations  of  the  Cape  Cod  division  of  the  Old 
Colony  Railroad,  between  Middleboro  and  Province- 
town,  will  exceed  by  over  45,000  barrels,  the  largest 
yield  of  any  previous  years.  The  total  shipments  this 
year  are  134,324  barrels,  with  3,400  yet  to  be  shipped, 
against  89,886  barrels  last  year.  The  crop  of  1883 
amounted  to  only  32,079  barrels. 
Long  Island  In  the  vicinity  of  Brooklyn  is  gaining  a 
bad  name.  An  establishment  has  just  been  un¬ 
earthed  where  steers  are  fattened  on  the  refuse  slops 
and  swill  gathered  from  the  hotels  and  restaurants  in 
New  York.  Many  of  them  die  from  starvation  rather 
than  eat  the  stuff.  They  are  chained  in  close  quar¬ 
ters.  indescribably  filthy,  and  are  never  released  until 
death.  The  meat  of  course  is  totally  unfit  for  food, 
but  it  is  sold  somewhere.  It  Is  said  that  it  muBt  be 
frozen  before  it  can  be  sold. 
The  Union  Stock  Yards  managers  have  decided  to 
erect  a  horse-barn,  which  in  the  point  of  equipment 
and  area  will,  it  Is  said,  excel  anything  of  the  kind 
in  the  country.  It  will  be  erected  close  to  the  old 
Dexter  Park  grounds,  and  will  be  400  by  250  feet,  and 
will  have  a  track  35  feet  wide  circling  the  building, 
the  bed  being  of  dirt.  It  will  be  lighted  by  electricity 
and  heated  by  steam.  The  building  is  part  of  a  plan 
to  make  Chicago  a  formidable  rival  of  New  York  for 
the  sale  of  thoroughbred  horses. 
The  Illinois  Short-horn  Breeders’  Association  met 
in  annual  session  at  Springfield,  December  17.  Com¬ 
mittees  were  appointed  in  regard  to  a  fat  stock  ex¬ 
hibit  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  to  confer 
with  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  as  to  the  man¬ 
ner  of  the  distribution  of  the  $40,000,  set  aside  from 
the  State  appropriation  for  the  Illinois  live  stock  ex¬ 
hibit  ;  and  to  secure  a  large  exhibit  of  Short-horns  at 
one  of  the  leading  fairs  of  the  State  in  1892.  A  special 
meeting  will  be  held  in  Springfield,  January  7. 
The  Silk  Association  of  America  and  the  Silk  In¬ 
dustry  Association  of  Paterson, N .  J. ,  acting  conjointly, 
are  considering  means  for  an  exhibition  of  the  silk 
industry  at  the  World's  Fair  in  Chicago.  To  do 
this  they  desire  from  all  persons  engaged  in  the  silk 
industry  information  on  the  following  points  :  Who 
will  exhibit  ?  What  they  will  exhibit,  whether  manu¬ 
factures,  or  the  process  of  manufacture  by  ma¬ 
chinery  in  motion,  or  both ;  and  the  number  of 
square  feet  in  floor  space  they  will  require  for  their 
exhibits.  B.  Richardson,  secretary,  New  York. 
Under  instructions  from  Secretary  Rusk  and  in  ac¬ 
cordance  with  the  law  of  March  3, 1891,  which  pro¬ 
vides  for  the  inspection  by  an  approved  veterinarian 
of  all  meat  intended  for  export,  government  officials 
in  New  York  seized  75  barrels  of  “hors  meat ’’just 
as  it  was  about  to  be  shipped  to  Antwerp,  Belgium. 
The  meat  came  from  an  establishment  on  Long  Is¬ 
land  where  all  kinds  of  broken-down  and  diseased 
horses  had  been  slaughtered  with  nothing  but  a  pre¬ 
tense  of  an  examination  by  some  some  quack  veteri¬ 
narian  or  other  equally  unreliable  examiner. 
P.  J.  Cogswell  reports  the  following  tests  of  Jerseys: 
Pearl  Pogis.  No.  38304,  a  solid,  silver-gray  cow,  five 
years  old.  She  was  fed  during  her  test,  and  for  a  few 
weeks  previous,  about  18  quarts  of  mixed  feed  per  day, 
corn  meal,  oil  meal  and  wheat  bran.  She  gave  for  the 
seven  days  ending  October  24, 1891, 203  pounds  8  ounces 
of  milk,  and  made  16  pounds  10-%  ounces  of  butter. 
Jennie  Stoke  Pogis,  No.  32010,  a  solid,  dark-fawn  cow, 
six  years  old.  She  was  fed  about  the  same  as  Pearl 
Pogis,  and  gave  206  pounds  8  ounces  of  milk  for  the 
seven  days  ending  August  10,  and  made  15  pounds 
10M  ounces  of  butter.  The  butter  in  each  case 
was  salted  one  ounce  to  the  pound,  and  was  well 
worked  twice  ready  for  market. 
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