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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  2 
AGRICULTURAL.  NEWS. 
Florida  strawberries  are  In  our  markets,  but  do  not 
average  very  high  In  quality. 
Hickory-nuts  have  seldom  been  as  low  as  at  pres¬ 
ent.  selling  for  from  50  to  70  cents  per  bushel. 
A  company  has  been  organized  In  New  Jersey  for 
making  cranberries  Into  jam  and  canning  them.  It  is 
likely  to  build  up  a  successful  business. 
Mr.  L.  J.  Coryell,  the  noted  Canadian  pea-grower, 
recommends  sowing  seed  peas  on  land  that  has 
grown  a  crop  of  grain  the  previous  season. 
The  Berrlgan  Separator  is  a  new  candidate  for 
dairy  favor.  It  does  not  operate  on  the  centrifugal 
system  and  Is  said  to  be  both  cheap  and  efficient. 
It  Is  said  that  on  a  recent  big  cattle  day  In  Chicago, 
only  one  In  17  of  the  Immense  number  received  was 
good  enough  for  export.  This  Is  not  flattering  to  the 
cattle  growers  of  the  WeBt. 
The  flrst  annual  meeting  of  the  Western  New  York 
Breeders'  Association  was  held  at  Hornellsvllle, 
March  17.  The  programme  was  an  Interesting  one 
and  drew  a  large  meeting  of  those  Interested. 
The  sub-committee  having  charge  of  the  Pure  Food 
Bill  In  the  House  of  Representatives,  has  agreed  to 
recommend  favorably  to  the  full  committee  a  bill 
substantially  the  same  as  the  Paddock  Bill  lately 
passed  by  the  Senate. 
John  Craig,  of  the  Experimental  Farm  at  Ottawa, 
Canada,  says  the  following  plum  trees  are  uninjured 
by  the  winters  at  that  place  :  Glass  Seedling,  Heine 
Claude,  Yellow  Egg,  Richard,  Newman,  Pond’s  Seed¬ 
ling  and  Lombard. 
The  Czar  of  Russia  has  offered  to  exchange  with 
Senator  Stanford  of  California,  a  number  of  Orloff 
horses  highly  bred,  for  an  equal  number  of  standard 
bred  American  mares.  The  Senator  has  accepted  the 
proposal  and  will  also  Import  some  Orloff  mares,  so 
that  he  can  breed  the  stock  In  Its  purity. 
In  1890,  1,588,800  cases  of  two  dozen  cans  each,  of 
green  corn  were  put  up  by  canners.  In  1891  the  pro¬ 
duction  was  swelled  to  2,799,453  cases— with  one  ex¬ 
ception,  the  largest  ever  known.  In  1888  the  product 
was  3,491,474  cases.  The  pack  of  tomatoes  for  1891  was 
8,405,305  cases,  which  varies  but  little  from  that  of 
previous  vearB. 
A  contemporary  tells  how  a  12-year-old  boy,  wish¬ 
ing  to  remove  a  huge  boulder  from  some  plow  land, 
covered  It  with  a  great  quantity  of  brush,  set  the 
brush  on  fire,  and  when  the  stone  had  become  very 
hot,  threw  several  pails  of  water  on  it.  The  stone 
broke  Into  fragments  by  the  sudden  cooling,  and  was 
small  enough  to  be  put  on  a  drag  and  removed  from 
the  field. 
M.  Duclos,  the  French  revenue  expert  sent  to  the 
United  States  to  Inquire  Into  the  American  system  of 
Inspecting  pork,  certifies  heartily  that  the  Inspection 
Is  thorough  and  effective.  His  Investigations  In  the 
great  pork-packing  centers  of  the  West  have  con¬ 
vinced  him  “that  It  Is  neither  possible  nor  advan¬ 
tageous  for  anybody  to  pack  a  single  hog  that  has  not 
undergone  microscopic  Inspection.” 
Very  much  of  the  California  evaporated  fruits — 
apricots,  peaches,  etc.,— are  so  highly  flavored  with 
sulphur,  used  in  bleaching  them,  as  to  be  quite  obnox¬ 
ious  to  a  refined  taste.  Subjecting  the  cut  fruit  to  sul¬ 
phur  fumes  makes  it  whiter  and.  It  Is  said,  preserves 
It  from  the  attacks  of  worms.  But  we  don’t  like  our 
fruit  made  so  vile  In  taste  that  the  worms  won't  eat 
It.  Give  us  unsulphured  fruit,  even  if  It  be  not  so 
white. 
The  Mark  Lane  (Eng.)  Express  tells  of  a  clever 
swindler  as  follows:  “  A  man  advertised  in  the  Lon¬ 
don  papers  announcing  that  he  had  for  sale  a  great 
quantity  of  rabbits,  pigeons,  and  geese  at  prices  much 
below  the  market.  Purchasers  were  to  remit  half  the 
value  of  their  orders,  and  the  remainder  on  receipt 
of  the  goods.  Hundreds  In  London,  Liverpool,  Cardiff, 
Manchester  and  Sheffield  answered  the  advertise¬ 
ment  and  sent  remittances,  but  heard  nothing  from 
the  advertiser,  who  Is  now  missing.” 
The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  has  issued  an  order  to 
the  effect  that  after  Aprill,  1892,  no  animal  for  breed¬ 
ing  purposes  shall  be  Imported  free  of  duty  unless  Its 
ancestors  for  five  generations  on  the  male  side  and 
for  four  on  the  female  side  have  been  recorded  In  the 
bookB  of  appropriate  registry.  The  American  Shire 
Horse  Association  at  a  meeting  held  in  Chicago 
March  3,  passed  resolutions  protesting  against  this 
action.  They  assert  that  it  will  practically  exclude 
the  best  Shire  horses  from  the  country,  and  that  It 
will  in  no  way  conduce  to  the  improvement  of  the 
herd,  but  rather  the  reverse. 
Philadelphia  was  the  flrst  to  send  a  ship-load  of 
flour  to  the  relief  of  the  starving  Russians,  and  the 
steamer  Indiana's  cargo  was  received  at  Libau  with 
public  rejoicings  and  hearty  thanks.  The  Minneapo¬ 
lis  millers  sent  the  next  cargo  through  New  York, 
and  this  Is  still  at  sea.  The  Philadelphians  have  al¬ 
most  completed  another  ship-load,  and  the  Western 
millers  will  send  another  also  In  a  few  weeks.  Mil¬ 
lers,  farmers  and  others  all  over  the  country  are 
generously  joining  In  the  good  work,  and  probably 
a  dozen  or  more  cargoes  In  all  will  be  donated.  Of 
course,  this  will  be  a  godsend  to  a  comparatively 
few,  but  would  hardly  be  a  mouthful  among  the 
millions  In  distress. 
One  of  the  most  curious  products  of  China  is  insect 
wax,  of  which  1,539,287  pounds,  worth  $460,000  In  gold, 
were  shipped  from  Ichang,  on  the  Yangtse  River,  In 
1889.  Early  In  the  spring  numerous  brown,  pea¬ 
shaped  scales  appear  on  the  bark  of  the  boughs  and 
twigs  of  the  Chinese  evergreen  tree.  They  contain  a 
mass  of  small  animals,  like  flour,  whose  movements 
are  almost  Imperceptible.  The  female  wax  Insects 
develop  the  scales  and  deposit  their  eggs  in  them, 
and  the  males  excrete  the  substance  known  as  white 
wax.  It  is  spread  over  the  whole  branch  to  a  depth  of 
aquarter  of  an  Inch.  When  the  deposit  appears  to  be 
complete  the  branches  are  cut  off,  and  as  much  of 
the  wax  as  possible  is  removed  by  hand.  The  rest 
Is  secured  by  boiling  the  branches,  which  destroys 
the  scales  and  larvae.  The  wax  is  skimmed  off  and 
put  Into  molds.  It  melts  only  at  a  high  temperature, 
and  Is  used  chiefly  to  cover  candles  made  of  animal 
and  vegetable  tallow,  to  prevent  too  rapid  combus¬ 
tion. 
What  is  More  Common  or  Distressing  than  a 
Bilious  Attack?  Who  1b  not  familiar  with  the  well 
known  symptoms,  Oppression  across  the  Stomach 
and  Chest,  Low  Spirits,  Restlessness,  Gloominess  of 
Mind,  Weariness,  Dull  Headache.  Dirty,  Greasy  Ap¬ 
pearance  of  the  Skin,  Yellow  Tinge  of  the  White  of 
the  Eyes,  Loss  of  Appetite,  and  Costiveness  ?  Few, 
Indeed,  of  the  more  ordinary  ills  of  ltfe  are  more 
widely  prevalent  than  these  Bilious  Disorders,  and 
yet  they  may  readily  be  got  rid  of  by  using  Dr.  Jayne’s 
Sanative  Pills,  by  whose  operation  the  Liver  will  be 
rapidly  restored  to  healthy  action,  the  vitiated 
secretions  of  the  Btomach  changed,  all  costiveness 
removed,  and  the  whole  system  assisted  in  recover¬ 
ing  its  normal  condition. — Adv. 
EVERY  FARMER 
Something  entirely  new.  Send  for  special  descrip¬ 
tive  circular.  Agents  wanted  in  every  town.  THE 
CUTAWAY  HARROW  CO.,  Higganum,  Conn.,  Sole 
Manufacturers.  New  York  office,  18  Cliff  Street. 
BEST  LINE 
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The  Illinois  State  Board  of  Agriculture  has  offered 
for  the  State  Fair  In  September,  1892,  prizes  aggre¬ 
gating  $6,450  for  county  exhibits  of  cereals,  grasses, 
textile  and  forage  plants,  vegetables  and  fruits.  The 
rules  governing  entries  permit  the  winning  of  nine 
cash  prizes,  and  all  counties  making  displays  may 
receive  $50  each  for  their  exhibits,  even  if  they  do 
not  secure  one  of  the  large  premiums.  The  exhibits 
will  become  the  property  of  the  State,  and  from  them 
will  be  selected  the  display  of  Illinois  at  the  World's 
Colnmblan  Exposition.  This  will  make  a  grand  ex¬ 
hibit  of  agricultural  products— one  of  which  the 
citizens  of  the  whole  country  may  be  proud.  The 
Board  is  in  earnest  in  keeping  Illinois  at  the  front. 
The  latest  flax  report  of  the  Agricultural  Depart¬ 
ment  shows  the  total  area  of  land  devoted  to  the  cul¬ 
tivation  of  flax  in  the  United  States  in  1889  to  have 
been  1,318,698  acres,  the  production  of  flax-seed  10,250,- 
410  bushels,  the  production  of  fiber  241.389  pounds,  the 
amount  of  flax  straw  sold  or  so  utilized  so  as  to  have 
a  determinable  value  207,767  tons,  and  the  total  value 
of  all  flax  products  $10,436,228.  Although  flax-seed  Is 
reported  from  31  States,  Minnesota,  South  Dakota, 
Iowa  and  Nebraska  produced  80.06  per  cent  of  the 
total  amount,  or  1,045,613  bushels  in  excess  of  the 
entire  production  of  the  United  States  at  the  census 
of  1880.  Flax  is  now  cultivated  almost  exclusively 
for  seed,  and  In  the  old  liber-producing  States  its  cul¬ 
tivation  is  almost  entirely  abandoned.  South  Dakota 
had  the  largest  acreage  in  1889  and  Minnesota  the 
largest  production  of  seed.  Of  the  States  containing 
1,000  acres  or  upward  in  flax,  Wisconsin  had  the  high¬ 
est  average  yield  of  flax-seed  per  acre,  11.42  bushels, 
and  the  highest  average  value  per  acre  of  all  pro¬ 
ducts,  $13.39.  The  average  yield  for  the  entire  coun¬ 
try  was  7.77  bushels  per  acre. 
Pacific  Coast. 
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