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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
April  16 
CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
New  Orleans  molasses  sells  on  'change  at  prices 
ranging  from  25  to  35  cents,  according  to  quality. 
Good  apples  are  bringing  good  prices,  but  the  mar¬ 
kets  have  a  surplus  of  low  grade  and  unsound  fruit. 
The  bulk  of  the  cattle  received  in  New  York  at  this 
season  are  for  export— but  little  Is  doing  at  the  cat¬ 
tle  pens. 
Chicago  consumes  about  10,800  cans  of  milk  dally. 
Centennial  year  will  see  the  demand  largely  In¬ 
creased. 
There  Is  no  marked  Improvement  In  the  cotton 
market.  The  price  has  got  below  the  point  of  profit¬ 
able  production. 
The  bittom  has  fallen  out  of  the  egg  market.  One 
rarely  sees  eggs  during  the  Lenten  season  selling  at 
the  low  prices  which  now  prevail. 
Sperm  oil  sells  at  wholesale  at  about  75  cents,  and 
crude  cotton  seed  oil  for  25.  Between  cotton  seed 
and  petroleum,  the  old  whaling  business  Is  made 
rather  unremunerative. 
Florida  oranges  are  ruling  high.  The  cheap 
oranges  of  our  markets  are  to-day  coming  from  Va- 
lentia  and  other  points  on  the  Mediterranean.  They 
are  not  equal  In  quality  to  our  native  fruit. 
Two  things,  pop-corn  and  hickory  nuts,  have  been 
very  low  and  dull  of  sale  for  several  months  past, 
and  continue  In  the  same  condition.  Pop-corn  will 
rally  later  In  the  season,  when  the  fairs  and  races 
bring  out  the  vociferous  pop-corn  man. 
We  noted  a  large  specimen  of  the  carp  a  few  days 
since  In  Washington  Market.  It  came  from  a  Long 
Island  fish  pond,  and  would  probably  weigh  12  or  15 
pounds.  The  wonder  Is  that  anybody  will  buy  such 
a  poor  fish  when  there  are  so  many  better. 
The  butter  market  has  fallen  heavily.  The  de¬ 
mand  for  fresh  goods  consumes  the  offerings— the  dull 
end  of  the  trade  Is  In  old  butter  of  varying  quality. 
Cheese  holds  its  own  as  it  has  through  the  season, 
and  there  are  no  signs  of  weakness. 
A  Southern  paper  complains  that  Texas  pays  $12,- 
000,000  for  pork  and  bacon,  $6,000,000  for  lard,  and 
other  millions  for  beans,  etc.,  and  $50,000,000  for 
whisky — all  produced  outside  that  State.  They  ought 
to  be  able  to  grow  their  own  pork  and  It  would  net 
hurt  them  to  omit  the  whisky. 
The  sales  of  leaf  tobacco  during  March  at  Dan¬ 
ville,  Va.,  were  5,889,000  pounds,  the  largest  sales  ever 
made  there  in  a  single  month.  The  sales  for  the  first 
half  of  the  tobacco  year  were  more  than  20,000,000 
pounds.  This  is  a  slight  falling  off  as  compared  with 
the  same  period  last  year. 
A  stroll  through  the  retail  fruit  markets  of  New 
York  the  other  day  gave  one  a  good  Idea  of 
what  Is  to  be  had  In  this  line  of  articles,  both 
seasonable  and  unseasonable.  Oranges  and  lemons 
are  abundant,  the  latter  retailing  at  a  cent  each. 
Pineapples  and  strawberries  are  to  be  had.  Apples 
of  all  the  best  sorts,  choice  pears,  grapes  from  Spain 
and  grape  fruit  from  Florida  look  especially  tempt¬ 
ing.  Japanese  plums  from  Florida  are  occasionally 
seen,  and  there  are  still  plenty  of  cranberries.  In  the 
vegetable  line  the  show  is  not  less  complete.  Aspara¬ 
gus,  lettuce,  tomatoes,  radishes,  celery,  cress,  string 
beans,  green  peas,  cucumbers,  onions,  chives,  olives, 
spinach,  Brussels  sprouts,  kale,  carrots,  parsnips, 
sweet  potatoes,  white  potatoes  and  cabbage. 
Agricultural  News. 
Dogs  kill  $4,000,000  worth  of  sheep  in  the  United 
States  each  year.  As  some  one  once  said  of  an  Indian, 
we  are  inclined  to  the  opinion  that  the  only  good  dog 
is  a  dead  one. 
Arbor  Day  In  Iowa  has  been  set  down  for  April  22, 
and  the  Department  of  Public  Instruction  has  Issued 
a  neat  pamphlet  containing  aids  to  an  appropriate 
celebration  of  the  day. 
The  Indiana  Experiment  Station  planted  27  so-call¬ 
ed  varieties  of  oats  last  season.  The  greatest  yield 
was  made  by  the  variety  known  as  American  Im¬ 
proved,  about  74  bushels  per  acre. 
Inoculation  as  a  preventive  of  hog  cholera  is  a  cal¬ 
amitous  failure  and  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  has 
about  made  up  his  mind  to  that  effect.  Very  many 
sensible  men  reached  that  conclusion  long  ago. 
Exports  of  pork  product  from  the  Atlantic  seaboard 
vary  considerably  from  week  to  week.  Week  before 
last  25,945,000  pounds  were  sent  out,  against  31,512,000 
pounds  for  the  preceding  week  and  27,652,000  pounds 
for  the  same  week  one  year  ago. 
A  ship  arrived  at  Boston  recently  from  Australia 
carrying  5,840  bales  of  wool,  considered  to  be  the 
largest  cargo  ever  landed  at  that  port  on  a  sailing 
vessel.  Another  ship  now  on  the  way  to  Boston  from 
Australia  has  5,839  bales  on  board. 
Many  years  ago,  rye  flour  sold  at  about  one-half  or 
two-thirds  the  price  of  wheat.  To-day  it  averages 
as  high  or  higher  than  wheat,  though  the  fancy 
grades  of  wheat  sell  at  a  few  cents  above  the  price 
of  rye.  Buckwheat  flour  Is  cheaper  than  either. 
1  have  eaten  apples  from  nearly  all  the  States,  even 
the  most  uneatable  ones  of  California,  and  I  am  of 
the  opinion  that  for  quality  of  flesh,  and  abundance 
of  juice  and  general  tine  quality,  the  apples  of  the 
Blue  Ridge  region  from  Virginia  to  Georgia  will  lead 
the  whole  United  States.— Orchard  and  Garden. 
The  new  census  is  authority  for  the  statement  that 
in  the  United  States  in  1890  we  had  the  following 
areas  of  land  devoted  to  tropical  and  semi-tropical 
fruits;  13,515  to  almonds,  677  to  bananas,  170  to  citron, 
9,864  to  cocoa-nuts,  4,477  to  figs,  550  to  guava,  1,362  to 
kaki,  7,256  to  lemons,  496  to  limes,  12,180  to  Madeira 
nuts,  7,097  to  olives,  184,000  to  oranges,. 2, 190  to  pine¬ 
apples,  172  to  pomelo  and  27,419  to  pecans. 
A  recent  instance  of  man’s  inhumanity  to  woman 
Is  related  by  a  Maine  exchange.  After  she  had  milk¬ 
ed  the  cows,  strained  the  milk  into  13  stone  crocks 
carried  the  crocks  down  into  the  cellar,  skimmed  the 
cream,  washed  the  crocks  and  put  them  on  the  fence 
paliugs  to  dry,  heated  skim-milk  for  the  calves  and 
carried  it  to  the  barn  for  them,  got  the  cream  ready 
for  churning,  put  her  husband’s  supper  on  the  table, 
and  then  hurried  to  take  the  crying  baby,  the  farm¬ 
er’s  wife  said  that  she  was  tired,  and  asked  her  hus¬ 
band  to  buy  her  a  portable  creamery,  in  order  to 
lighten  her  labor.  The  farmer  replied  that  he  couldn’t 
afford  it,  and  the  next  day  he  went  to  town  and 
bought  a  riding  plow,  paying  for  it  with  the  butter 
money. 
Pecan  culture  In  northwest  Florida  and  all  the  Gulf 
States  has  apparently  just  begun  to  develop  some  of 
its  wonderful  possibilities  as  a  reliable  and  profitable 
crop,  while  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that 
within  a  few  years  the  flgs,  olives,  Madeira  nuts, 
and  lemons  of  California,  will  rival  in  value  her 
wondrous  crops  of  oranges;  and  yet  a  comparison  of 
the  tables  of  bearing  and  non-bearing  trees  will  show 
three  times  as  many  non-bearing  as  bearing  orange 
trees  in  the  census  year,  and  as  planting  has  been 
going  on  more  rapidly  than  ever  since  the  census  was 
taken,  the  number  of  orange  trees  now  growing  in 
California  must  be  nearly  double  that  of  18  months 
ago,  all  of  which  means  an  output  of  at  least  10,000,- 
000  boxes  of  oranges  from  California  before  the  end 
of  the  present  century.— Census  Report. 
Condensed  Correspondence. 
Macon,  Georgia,  March  19.— Last  night  was  the 
coldest  of  the  season;  the  thermometer  this  morning 
marks  26  degrees.  Early  vegetables  are  considerably 
damaged,  and  I  fear  that  peaches,  plums  and  Le 
Conte  Pears,  which  were  all  out  in  full  bloom,  are  de¬ 
stroyed.  D.  M. 
Knowlton,  Iowa,  March  20.— The  winter  has 
played  havoc  with  the  prospect  for  peaches.  It  does 
not  require  a  severe  freeze  to  destroy  the  bloom  buds. 
A  zero  cold  will  at  times  kill  them.  I  am  satisfied 
the  matter  depends  largely  on  the  state  of  the  tree 
itself,  the  amount  of  sap  in  circulation,  and  the  ma¬ 
turity  of  the  year’s  growth.  However,  if  the  trees 
are  laid  down  there  is  no  danger.  We  can  all  have 
an  abundance  of  this  delicious  fruit  with  a  little  care 
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