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Agricultural  Legislation. 
The  New  York  State  Dairy  Commission  got  an  ap¬ 
propriation  of  $95,000,  and  the  State  Dairymen’s  As¬ 
sociation  one  of  $5,000. 
The  bill  appropriating  $32,343,  the  money  received 
from  the  Ives  Pool  law,  to  the  County  Agricultural 
Societies  has  been  signed  by  Gov.  Flower. 
A  law  was  passed  by  the  New  York  Legislature 
making  It  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Health  to  sup¬ 
press  tuberculosis  in  dairy  animals,  and  appropriated 
$5,000  to  reimburse  owners  of  cattle  killed  by  the  or¬ 
der  of  the  Board. 
CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
The  Boston  wool  market  is  quite  steady  and  prices 
are  well  maintained. 
Tho  coal  barons  have  begun  the  skinning  process, 
and  a  rise  in  the  price  of  coal  Is  announced. 
Bailey  Sweet,  Northern  Spy,  Baldwins.  Russets  and 
Ben  Davis  are  about  all  we  see  In  the  market  to-day 
in  the  apple  line. 
The  green  peas  now  coming  to  our  markets  are  of 
very  good  quality,  much  better  than  the  shipments 
earlier  In  the  season. 
Eggs  have  Improved  slightly  in  price  the  past  week, 
owning  to  lighter  arrivals.  The  low  prices  of  late 
have  sent  large  consignments  into  cold  storage. 
Pears,  kept  in  good  condition,  and  with  flavor  un¬ 
impaired,  are  sold  in  our  fruit  stores  to-day.  Clair- 
geau  and  Winter  Nelis  are  most  commonly  seen. 
The  Long  Island  Drying  Co.,  whose  advertisement 
appears  elsewhere,  are  offering  dried  brewers'  grains 
at  very  low  rates.  Those  Interested  will  do  well  to  In¬ 
quire. 
So  far  this  season  there  is  not  much  to  report  of 
damage  by  frosts  to  the  coming  fruit  crops.  Isolated 
cases  there  are,  but  generally  the  buds  or  blossoms 
are  unhurt. 
Tomatoes  from  Southern  markets  are  abundant  in 
New  York  and  are  selling  at  moderate  prices.  They 
are  generally  of  better  quality  than  the  shipments  of 
previous  years. 
The  Sugar  Trust  have  begun  to  squeeze  the  public 
—just  a  little  but  they  will  make  them  shell  out.  all 
the  same,  unless  the  public  pulverizes  the  trust, 
which  they  certainly  ought  to  do. 
We  saw  a  vender  of  spinach  a  few  days  ago,  who 
had  spread  the  contents  of  a  barrel  of  spinach  on 
the  floor  and  was  sprinkling  It,  in  the  hope  of  reviv¬ 
ing  a  wilted  lot  sufficiently  to  make  it  salable. 
There  Is  nothing  especially  encouraging  in  the  but¬ 
ter  market.  The  price  remains  substantially  un¬ 
changed,  but  it  would  require  only  a  small  increase 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER. 
In  the  supply  to  break  the  price.  New  cheese  is  com¬ 
ing  In  freely,  and  prime  is  selling  at  10  cents,  part 
skims  at  from  five  to  nine  cents  per  pound. 
The  milk  market  In  this  city  Is  well  supplied;  there 
Is  really  a  considerable  surplus  most  of  the  time.  If 
there  were  no  water  or  skimmed  milk  sold  In  this 
cltv,  the  demand  for  milk  would  exceed  the  present 
supply. 
White  prime  cotton-seed  oil  Is  quoted  In  quantities 
at  33  cents  per  gallon.  If  consumers  could  get  it  at 
retail  for  50  cents,  it  would  be  much  more  largely 
used  for  culinary  purposes.  They  use  lots  of  it  now 
and  pay  $3  or  $4  per  gallon  for  it  as  olive  oil. 
The  market  Is  well  supplied  with  strawberries  of 
fair  size  and  at  moderate  prices.  They  are  not  at 
all  satisfactory  In  quality— that  must  of  course  be 
the  case,  being  picked  In  such  an  immature  condi¬ 
tion.  Most  of  them  are  sour  and  devoid  of  flavor. 
Pop  corn  Is  still  a  drug  In  the  New  York  market. 
The  demand  will  probably  be  better  In  the  summer, 
when  the  pop  corn  man  gets  at  work  at  watering 
places.  In  the  meantime,  it  should  be  very  carefully 
kept — free  from  mice  and  vermin.  Two  or  three  mice 
will  spoil  a  whole  bln  full  of  pop  corn. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
It  is  said  that  the  crop  of  growing  tobacco  on  the 
Island  of  Cuba  has  been  very  greatly  damaged  by 
floods. 
Jam,  poisoned  with  strychnine,  Is  being  successfully 
used  In  Australia  to  destroy  rabbits  and  seems  to  be 
successful. 
The  creamery  at  Avon,  Conn.,  made  4,733  pounds  of 
butter  In  March,  for  which  the  patrons  receive  26 
cents  per  pound. 
In  New  York  and  most  other  States,  60  pounds  of 
potatoes  are  a  legal  bushel.  Pennsylvania  has 
changed  her  bushel  to  56  pounds. 
There  Is  a  great  scarcity  of  hay  In  Wayne  County, 
Pa.,  and  many  farmers  are  turning  out  their  cattle 
much  earlier  than  usual  on  this  account. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  American  8outh  Down 
Association  will  be  held  May  25,  at  Springfield,  Ill. 
S.  E.  Prather  of  Springfield  Is  the  secretary. 
More  cattle  have  been  and  are  being  fed  In  Texas 
this  season  than  ever  before,  yet  the  feeding  busi¬ 
ness  In  the  State  Is  comparatively  speaking,  In  Its  in¬ 
fancy. 
Remember  that  the  latest  from  the  authorities  Is 
to  the  effect  that  the  Bordeaux  mixture  is  equally 
effective,  with  half  the  usual  quantity  of  sulphate  of 
copper. 
Half  the  vineyards  in  the  Bordeaux  section  of 
France,  including  the  Medoc,  Hautbrion,  Sauterne 
and  Barsac,  have  been  destroyed  by  the  recent  cold 
weather. 
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  American  Pomological 
Society  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  one  man  exhibited  335 
varieties  of  apples  In  behalf  of  the  Virginia  Board  of 
Agriculture. 
A  San  Diego  (Cal.)  dispatch  says  Mr.  John  S.  Hill 
has  purchased  640  acres  of  land  near  Oceanside  and 
proposes  to  plant  the  largest  lemon  orchard  In  the 
United  States. 
Tobacco  culture  Is  receiving  considerable  attention 
in  Sussex  County.  N.  J.  It  is  said  that  the  soli  in 
many  parts  of  that  county  is  admirably  adapted  for 
growing  this  crop. 
The  law  of  Vermont  fixes  the  legal  standard  of 
butter  fat  in  milk  at  3.25  per  cent.  All  milk  with 
less  per  cent  of  fat  Is  considered  Illegal.  The  line 
for  Infraction  of  the  law  is  $50. 
The  muck  meadows  in  Warren  County,  N.J.,  are 
fast  being  reclaimed  and  used  largely  for  onion  cul¬ 
ture,  with  celery  also  coming  In.  The  farmers  there 
are  buying  largely  of  commercial  fertilizers  for  this 
work. 
There  are  very  few  silos  In  Orange  County,  N.  Y.— 
very  few  Indeed.  While  other  dairy  sections  have 
very  generally  Introduced  them,  Orange  County 
dairymen  have  not  adopted  them.  Why,  It  would  be 
hard  to  tell. 
A  California  paper  very  truthfully  remarks  that 
“  exorbitant  stallion  fees  received  quite  a  shock 
when  Allerton  colts  would  bring  scarce  an  even 
$1,000  at  public  auction,  with  the  barons  of  the  Indus¬ 
try  thick  on  every  hand.” 
Whenever  whey  or  buttermilk,  or  any  other  sub¬ 
stance  to  which  salt  has  been  added  is  to  be  tested 
the  sulphuric  acid  must  be  added  with  great  care  In 
small  portions  at  a  time,  shaking  contents  of  the  bot¬ 
tle  at  each  addition. — Dr.  Babcock. 
There  Is  now  in  store  in  Duluth  elevators  more 
wheat,  with  one  exception,  than  has  ever  been  col¬ 
lected  in  one  market  at  one  time  in  the  history  of  the 
American  grain  trade.  The  total  Is  about  15,265.000 
bushels,  and  all  but  140,000  bushels  is  of  the*  finest 
milling  grade. 
One  township  In  Warren  County,  N.  J.,  offered  a 
bounty  of  10  cents  for  woodchucks’  scalps.  A  neigh¬ 
boring  town  in  Sussex  County  offered  the  same  bounty 
for  woodchucks’  tails.  The  boys  did  a  thriving  trade 
for  a  while,  getting  a  double  bounty,  one  on  each  end 
of  their  capture.  The  little  game  was  discovered  and 
now,  to  get  the  bounty,  head  and  tail  must  both  be 
produced. 
W.  M.  Hays.  B.  S.  A.,  formerly  assistant  agricultur¬ 
ist  at  the  Minnesota  State  Experiment  Station,  has 
been  elected  agriculturist  at  the  North  Dakota  Sta¬ 
tion.  W.  H.  Whalen,  Ph.  B.,  who  has  been  connected 
with  the  New  York  Station,  has  been  made  assistant 
chemist  and  the  station  staff  has  taken  possession  of 
its  new  offices  and  laboratories  of  its  farm  close  to 
the  city  of  Fargo. 
Farmers’  Bulletin  No.  7,  just  issued  by  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture,  treats  of  the  prac¬ 
tice,  methods  and  effects  of  spraying  fruit  trees  for 
insect  pests  and  fungus  diseases.  The  subject  of 
spraying  is  presented  in  the  bulletin  In  a  practical 
manner  for  the  Information  of  the  orchardist  and 
fruit  grower,  and  special  attention  Is  given  to  meet¬ 
ing  the  objections  now  being  raised  in  Great  Britain 
and  other  countries  against  the  use  of  fruits  pro¬ 
duced  In  the  United  States. 
It  has  now  been  definitely  determined  to  hold  a  fat 
stock  show  in  connection  with  the  live  stock  exhibit 
at  the  World’s  Fair.  Acting-Chief  Buchanan  now 
has  the  prize  list  under  advisement  and  a  complete 
revised  schedule  of  rules  and  premiums  for  the  entire 
section  will  be  issued  at  an  early  day.  It  Is  under¬ 
stood  that  Chief  Cottrell  will  assume  charge  of  the 
live  stock  division  May  1. 
Prof.  Goessman,  in  the  ninth  annual  report  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Experiment  Station,  reports  on 
899  analyses  of  whole  milk.  The  average  solids  for 
the  whole  amount  are  13.60,  showing  that  the  average 
was  considerably  above  the  Massachusetts  standard. 
The  samples  took  the  wide  range  of  10.58  to  18.27. 
The  average  amount  of  fat  In  these  samples  was  4 
per  cent,  the  range  being  from  2.48  to  7.54. 
Tattersall’s  (Limited)  of  New  York  has  placed  a 
mortgage  of  $100,000  on  McGrathiana,  the  breeding 
farm  of  M.  Young,  of  Bootjack  fame  at  Lexington.  Ky. 
Mr.  Young  has  10  thoroughbred  stallions,  200  mares 
and  500  acres  of  Blue  Grass  land,  all  being  valued  at 
over  half  a  million.  He  will  put  the  Tattersall’s 
money  into  more  mares  and  stallions  until  McGrath¬ 
iana  will  be  the  largest  breeding  establishment  in 
the  Union. 
A  recent  number  of  the  Bakersfield  Californian 
says:  “At  Delano  80  shearers  will  be  engaged  by 
Crevas  and  Vabencla,  with  80,000  head  to  shear.  Just 
a  short  distance  from  Delano,  Harry  Quimm  will 
have  20  shearers  at  work  on  20,000  sheep.  Over  at 
Blanchard’s  camp  at  Paso  Bridge  50  shearers  will  be 
at  work  taking  the  winter  coats  off  the  backs  of  40,000 
sheep;  and  at  W.  L.  Smith’s  place,  near  Delamo,  20 
shearers  and  20,000  bleating  wool-bearers  can  be 
seen.” 
Some  exports  of  produce,  up  to  the  end  of  February 
of  the  present  fiscal  year,  eight  months,  were:  Eggs. 
62.681  dozens,  304,349  dbzen  a  year  ago;  apples,  this 
year,  819,566  barrels,  128,630  barrels  In  1891;  tobacco 
195,591,045  pounds,  as  against  194,740,490  pounds;  beans 
and  peas  494,576  bushels  as  against  166,482  bushels: 
potatoes,  477,508  bushels  as  against  300,141  bushels. 
Our  total  agricultural  exports  for  the  eight  months 
were  valued  at  $580,000,000  as  against  $465,000,000  for 
the  corresponding  period  a  year  ago. 
There  Is  annually  imported  into  Britain  2,000,000 
pounds  of  alpaca  and  llama  wool.  It  is  proposed  to 
Introduce  these  unique  animals  Into  the  English 
colony  of  South  Africa,  where  suitable  conditions 
may  be  selected  for  them.  Large  flocks  are  grazed  on 
the  Andes  Mountains,  where  centuries  ago  the  In¬ 
dians  found  them  a  source  of  wealth  as  a  beast  of 
burden,  a  source  of  only  supply  of  blankets,  ponchas, 
and  cloaks.  They  were  a  sacred  animal  and  offered 
In  sacrifice  to  their  gods.  Their  flesh  is  good  for  food. 
The  hair  Is  now  used  for  coarse  textiles. 
A  New  York  correspondent  of  Hoard’s  Dairyman, 
who  has  grown  Lucern  for  the  last  10  years.  Is  not 
very  favorably  Impressed  with  it,  because,  on  ac¬ 
count  of  Its  rapid  growth,  It  may  become  almost 
worthless  In  three  days  of  bad  weather.  If  It  stands 
two  or  three  days  too  long  it  becomes  too  woody  for 
good  fodder.  He  calls  It  good  for  soiling,  producing 
the  most  feed  per  acre  of  any  crop.  It  is  also  good 
hog  pasture.  He  sows  the  same  as  red  clover,  only 
one-third  more  weight,  on  account  of  being  a  larger 
seed.  He  recommends  sowing  with  a  crop  of  barley, 
In  which  case  you  do  not  lose  the  use  of  the  ground 
the  first  year. 
Assistant  Secretary  of  Agriculture  Wlllits,  who  Is 
preparing  for  a  classified  exhibit  of  the  wool  industry 
at  the  Columbian  Exposition,  desires  to  secure  a  fine 
Merino  ram  to  be  stuffed  and  mounted  on  a  pedestal 
In  the  center  of  the  exhibit.  He  would  like  tenders 
of  such  a  ram,  whose  pedigree  can  be  traced  to  one 
or  more  noted  sires  and  that  Is  now  growing  his 
third  fleece.  The  animal  selected  will  be  exhibited 
with  the  name  and  address  of  the  breeder  attached 
as  In  the  case  of  all  samples  of  wool,  where  these  are 
known.  Although  the  space  available  for  this  ex¬ 
hibit  Is  very  small,  it  is  hoped  that  by  using  great 
care  In  the  selection  of  the  samples,  It  may  prove  of 
value  to  the  wool  growers  of  the  country. 
Condensed  Correspondence. 
Genessee  County,  n.  Y.,  April  22.— Winter  wheat 
has  passed  the  critical  period  of  frosts,  aud  is  looking 
finely.  This  Is  favorable  weather  for  pushing  the 
spring  work.  Barley,  oats,  etc.,  are  now  being  sowed; 
the  ground  works  well  and  Is  in  splendid  condition. 
Fruit  of  all  kinds  promise  well.  We  shall  soon  be 
called  out  again  to  work  over  highway  tax.  Keep  on 
agitating  improved  methods  for  working  the  roads, 
and  the  broad-tire  question  as  well.  I.  D.  cook. 
Delaware,  Kent  County,  April  18.— We  have 
had  a  very  backward  spring.  March  was  cold  and  at 
one  time  more  sleet  was  on  the  ground  and  trees  than 
had  been  seen  here  for  years.  There  were  very  few 
good  working  days  during  the  month.  The  first  few 
days  of  spring  were  fine;  but  ever  since  the  weather 
has  been  cold  with  a  great  amount  of  rain,  and  a 
considerable  snow  storm  one  day  last  week.  Peach 
trees  are  In  full  blossom;  the  crops  will  be  very  light 
from  present  Indications.  Pear  trees  are  coming  out 
and  apples  will  soon  be  in  bloom.  Wheat  looks  fine. 
Grass  is  backward,  a  very  poor  stand  was  obtained 
last  season.  A  few  farmers  are  turning  their  stocks 
out  to  pasture.  A  little  corn  has  been  planted,  but 
a  majority  of  the  farmers  have  not  done  plowing; 
the  bulk  of  the  crop  will  not  be  planted  before  about 
May  1.  Early  gardening  about  all  done.  Business 
has  been  unusually  brisk  the  past  season.  Several 
factories  have  started  up  and  others  are  to  follow. 
Property  has  advanced  somewhat  and  we  look  for 
a  general  Improvement  and  hope  it  will ’extend  to  the 
farming  public.  Potatoes  have  been  a  drug  both 
white  and  sweet;  the  best  of  either  will  not  bring 
over  40  or  50  cents  per  bushel;  corn,  42  cents;  wheat, 
90  cents;  oats,  40  cents;  hay  scarce  at  $12  to  $15;  eggs, 
14  cents;  butter,  25  cents.  Farm  hands  are  getting 
$10  to  $15  per  month  and  board.  Little  demand  for 
horses  or  stock.  Fresh  shad  30  to  60  cents  per  pair; 
herring  one  cent  each. 
April  27.— Since  writing  the  above  we  have  had  one 
weeks  rain,  over  two  inches  fall  of  water,  but  it  has 
again  cleared  off  with  heavy  frost  last  night,  very 
cold  for  this  time.  Wheat  is  about  all  that  seems  to 
grow,  but  little  corn  yet  planted.  A.  G.  8. 
May  7 
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Collingwood,  P.  H.  Jacobs,  J.  H. 
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