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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  6 
crop  and  Market  notes. 
Hickory  nuts  are  very  dull— not  selling  as  well  as 
usual,  which  Is  rather  uncommon  for  this  best  of  all 
our  nuts. 
The  boys  who  occasionally  shoot  or  trap  a  mink, 
muskrat  or  other  fur-bearing  animal,  will  find  quota¬ 
tions  of  furs  In  our  market  report.  Some  of  them  are 
quite  valuable. 
Lady  apples:  this  beautiful  little  desert  fruit,  should 
reach  New  York  before  the  holiday  season  early 
In  December,  In  order  to  realize  the  best  price.  After 
the  holidays  they  do  not  sell  so  well. 
We  believe  the  grape  growers  who  would  put  up 
eight-pound  boxes  of  grapes  of  assorted  varieties, 
red,  white  and  purple,  would  find  the  experiment  pay. 
Will  some  of  our  growers  try  It  and  report  ? 
New  Bermuda  potatoes  are  coming  In  freely  and 
are  selling  at  $0  and  $8  per  barrel.  They  are  poor  In 
quality  and  only  sell  at  such  high  prices  because  they 
are  “  new."  It  is  a  fad  or  fashion  to  eat  them. 
in  1889  we  exported  309,658  gallons  of  American  wine, 
largely  to  France.  In  1890  the  amount  had  grown  to 
447,333  gallons.  It  Is  thought  the  figures  for  1891,  when 
attainable,  will  show  a  still  larger  exportation. 
In  looking  over  the  wholesale  prices  quoted  for  teas 
In  the  New  York  Journal  of  Commerce,  we  note  that 
the  prices  range  from  17  to  40  cents  per  pound.  Some¬ 
body  makes  great  big  profits  on  teas  before  they  get 
into  the  consumer’s  hands. 
The  cold  snap  of  January  2(i  caught  numerous  small 
lots  of  apples  and  potatoes  In  transit  and  froze  them 
solid.  The  apples  are  sold  for  what  they  will  bring, 
the  potatoes  are  worthless.  We  hear  of  no  car-load 
lots  being  damaged— these  are,  as  a  rule,  In  cars 
which  afford  protection  against  extreme  weather. 
The  Vlneyardtst,  of  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.,  urges  on  grape 
growers  the  adoption  of  a  uniform  basket,  one  hold¬ 
ing  7^  pounds  of  fruit.  The  suggestion  Is  a  good  one, 
but  look  out  that  there  Is  not  a  diminution  In  fruit 
and  an  Increase  In  weight  by  reason  of  a  bottom  In 
the  basket,  a  half  inch  thicker  than  Is  necessary. 
One  reads  In  the  market  reports  the  prices  of  Rose, 
Burbank,  Peerless  and  Hebron,  rarely  any  other 
sorts.  The  market  men  class  them  all  under  the 
above  heads  and  sell  them  to  consumers  who  don't 
know  a  Hebron  from  a  Burbank,  and  who  never  heard 
of  a  Rural  New-Yorker  No.  2  or  a  Monroe  Seedling. 
Farm  and  Fireside,  of  Springfield,  O.,  complains 
that  at  one  time  last  summer  when  peaches  were  sell¬ 
ing  in  some  of  the  larger  cities  of  that  State  for  $2  per 
bushel,  thousands  of  bushels  were  rotting  on  the 
ground  In  fruit  districts  not  75  miles  away.  The  cause 
was  In  the  excessive  transportation  charges,  added 
to  the  cost  of  picking,  etc.,  which  made  the  shipping 
unprofitable  to  the  growers. 
There  Is  much  to  encourage  the  careful  dairyman 
In  the  market  reports.  While  poor  butter  and  poor 
cheese  sell  at  low  prices,  a  good  article  sells  promptly 
at  profitable  figures.  There  Is  no  danger  of  an  over¬ 
supply  of  the  best  goods.  There  has  not  been  a  time 
In  years  when  the  market  had  so  small  a  supply  of 
good  butter  In  store  and  the  demand  Is  so  great  that 
this  condition  is  not  likely  to  soon  change. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
The  Central  Poland  China  Record  Association  met 
at  IndlanapollB  January  20.  W.  H.  Morris,  Indian¬ 
apolis,  Is  the  secretary. 
The  Chester  White  Record  Association  met  at  In¬ 
dianapolis  January  23,  and  had  a  very  Interesting 
meeting.  For  particulars  address  the  secretary,  W. 
H.  Morris,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
A  farmer  In  Cavan  County,  Ireland,  applied  half  a 
ton  of  salt  to  an  acre  of  oat  stubble  in  January.  In 
spring  he  planted  potatoes  on  It.  The  potatoes  on 
this  salted  laud  were  a  good  crop  and  free  from  dis¬ 
ease,  while  those  on  adjoining  unsalted  land,  were 
hardly  “worth  lifting." 
The  entire  tobacco  crop  of  the  country  amounted,  in 
1890,  to  488,255,890  pounds,  and  the  area  devoted  to  to¬ 
bacco  culture,  exclusive  of  counties  cultivating  less 
than  one  acre,  to  085,990  acres.  The  total  value  of  the 
crop  of  the  producers,  estimated  on  the  basis  of  actual 
sales,  was  $114,844,448,  an  averuge  of  7.1  cents  per 
pound,  or  850.28  per  acre. 
A  writer  in  Scribner’s  Magazine  says:  “  Many  of 
the  Australian  stations  are  of  magnificent  propor¬ 
tions.  ’Old  Jimmy  Tyson,’  as  he  is  familiary  known, 
who  is  reputed  to  be  the  wealthiest  man  in  Australia, 
and  worth  at  least  £2,000,000,  pastures  70,000  head  of 
cattle  upon  a  single  one  of  his  properties,  and  owns 
stations,  both  in  New  South  Wales  and  Queensland, 
each  of  which  is  larger  than  Bavaria.  Mr.  Allison, 
of  New  South  Wales,  in  his  two  adjoining  stations  of 
Mergular  and  Canonbar,  holds  an  area  greater  than 
Belgium,  and  in  the  same  colony,  Mr.  William  Ualll- 
day’s  ‘  Brookong  ’  station  (one  of  the  finest  In  Austra¬ 
lia)  comprises  200,000  acres  and  carries  250,000  sheep.” 
It  Is  reliably  reported  that  in  northwestern  Minne¬ 
sota  and  the  Dakotas  not  less  than  30,000  000  bushels 
of  wheat  are  still  In  stacks,  and  it  is  feared  that  a 
good  deal  of  It  will  never  be  marketed.  The  abund¬ 
ance  of  the  crop,  the  scarcity  of  help  and  of  thrashing 
machines,  together  with  rainy  weather  toward  the 
end  of  harvest  made  It  impossible  to  clean  up  and 
house  the  grain.  Moreover,  the  crop  was  stacked  in 
such  a  hurry  and  to  a  large  extent  by  such  inexperi¬ 
enced  help  that  a  great  deal  of  the  grain  is  likely  to 
be  spoiled  before  the  thrashers  can  get  to  It.  Then  hi 
spring,  farmers  will  have  all  the  work  they  can  man¬ 
age  in  attending  to  plowing  and  putting  In  next  sea¬ 
son’s  crops.  The  South  is  not  the  only  section  in 
which  an  enormous  crop  may  entail  losses  on  the  pro¬ 
ducers. 
The  first  annual  meeting  of  the  Dorset-Horn  Sheep 
Breeders'  Association  was  held  at  Pittsburg,  Penn¬ 
sylvania,  January  13,  1892.  The  membership  fee  was 
increased  to  $10,  and  the  records  were  left  open  until 
April  1, 1892.  The  society  will  offer  from  $500  to  $1,000 
to  the  Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago  for  the  ad¬ 
vancement  of  the  Interest  of  the  Dorset-Horn  sheep. 
The  first  sheep  was  admitted  to  record  In  the  associ¬ 
ation  on  June  23,  1891.  From  that  day  to  Janharv  1, 
1892,  1,035  were  admitted  to  record.  Of  this  number 
598  were  imported  and  437  American-bred.  Of  the  lat¬ 
ter  128  were  reported  to  be  twins.  The  membership 
numbers  09,  representing  10  States,  viz., Pennsylvania, 
21;  New  York,  10;  Connecticut,  0;  Massachusetts,  5; 
Minnesota,  3;  Indiana,  3;  Ohio,  2;  New  Jersey,  2; 
Virginia,  2;  Wisconsin.  1;  Oregon,  1;  Colorado,  1; 
West  Virginia,  1;  Iowa,  1;  Kentucky,  1;  Maryland,  1; 
Canada  and  New  England  one  each.  Dorset-Horn 
sheep,  so  far  as  is  known,  were  first  introduced  in  the 
United  States  by  William  Daley,  Lockport,  N.  Y. ,  on 
March  25,  1887,  he  having  purchased  one  ram  and  two 
ewes  from  U.  E.  Fuller,  of  Hamilton,  Canada,  for  $170. 
The  first  importation  of  Dorsets  into  the  United 
States  was  by  E.  F.  Bowdltch,  of  Framingham,  Mas¬ 
sachusetts,  In  July,  1887.  During  the  year  the  Dorset- 
Horn  flock  book  was  established  in  England,  which 
will  be  of  great  assistance  to  the  American  associa¬ 
tion  by  protecting  it  from  that  class  of  sheep  known 
as  “culls.”  The  old  officers  were  reelected,  and  It 
was  agreed  to  hold  the  next  annual  meeting  at  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  In  New  York  on  the  second  Wed¬ 
nesday  of  January,  1893. 
Condensed  Correspondence. 
Dki.awake,  Kent  County,  January  21.— We  had 
a  splendid  fall  and  but  little  real  winter  till  New 
Year's  Day.  Corn  a  fair  crop  and  housed  in  good  con¬ 
dition.  Wheat  looks  well.  Have  had  several  light 
falls  of  snow  and  three  days  of  rather  poor  sleighing. 
Times  are  dull ;  farm  produce,  excepting  butter,  rules 
very  low:  hay  scarce.  Wheat,  94;  corn,  4(i;  hay,  $12 
and  $15;  butter,  25;  eggs,  20;  potatoes,  40  and  50; 
sweet,  45  and  50;  apples,  40;  pork,  $0  per  100  pounds. 
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