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AGRICULTURAL.  NEWS. 
The  dairymen  of  Massachusetts  have  succeeded  in 
convicting  a  peddler  of  illegally  selling  hog  butter, 
and  propose  now  to  go  on  with  the  fight. 
The  summer  meeting  and  exhibition  of  the  Indiana 
Horticultural  Society  will  be  held  at  the  Purdue  Uni¬ 
versity,  Lafayette,  Thursday  and  Friday,  June  9 
and  10. 
The  Delaware  peach  crop  will  be  an  average.  In 
some  sections  the  buds  have  been  killed,  but  there 
will  be  enough  left.  Other  peach-growing  sections 
will  have  a  moderate  crop. 
Selectman  8.  Byron  Brownson,  of  Ansonia,  Conn., 
has  two  remarkable  eggs.  One  measures  seven 
inches  around  the  longest  way  and  the  other  \%  inch. 
Both  were  laid  by  the  same  hen  on  the  same  day. 
Thebe's  a  movement  In  Congress  to  repeal  the 
half  a  cent  per  pound  duty  put  on  refined  sugar 
by  the  McKinley  Tariff,  in  order  to  give  foreign  re¬ 
fined  sugar  a  chance  to  compete  with  the  Trust 
product. 
Reports  from  every  county  in  South  Carolina  show 
that  there  has  been  a  great  falling  off  in  the  cotton 
acreage.  In  some  sections  it  will  amount  to  5  to  10 
per  cent;  in  others  to  50  per  cent,  and  some  large 
planters  haven’t  set  out  an  acre. 
Deputy  United  States  marshals  are  warning  the 
rustlers  of  Johnson  County,  Wy.,  against  conducting 
or  participating  in  round-ups  other  than  those  au¬ 
thorized  by  United  States  officers.  United  states 
District  Judge  Rlter  has  granted  an  injunction. 
Many  complaints  of  drenching  rains  and  floods 
early  in  the  week  from  the  Mississippi  Valley,  with 
great  destruction  of  property  and  the  loss  of  many 
human  lives.  Spring  seeding  has  been  much  delayed 
in  the  spring  wheat  belt  and  is  still  unfinished  in 
North  Dakota. 
Planters  in  many  parts  of  Arkansas  are  greatly 
alarmed  at  the  exodus  of  negroes  who  are  leaving 
the  State  in  large  numbers  so  that  the  planters  are 
very  short-handed.  Several  recent  lynchings  and 
other  outrages  on  colored  folks  have  determined 
thousands^  negroes  to  leave. 
Imports  of  American  cattle,  sheep  and  dead  meats 
into  Liverpool,  England,  during  the  first  three 
months  of  the  current  year  were  50,167  cattle,  2,831 
sheep,  and  215,173  quarters  dressed  beef.  This  is  an 
increase  over  the  same  period  of  1891  of  9,443  cattle 
and  1,677  quarters  of  beef. 
The  New  Nation  proposes  a  milk  delivery  by  muni¬ 
cipal  authority,  as  the  mail  is  delivered  by  the  gen¬ 
eral  government.  It  sees  no  other  way  to  prevent 
fraud.  There  is  quite  a  widespread  opinion  that  gov¬ 
ernment  or  the  people  as  a  whole  can  do  a  good  many 
things  better  than  they  are  now  done  by  individual 
effort. 
The  Cummiugton,  Mass.,  creamery  made  22,150 
pounds  of  butter  in  March,  which  was  sold  at  26centB 
per  pound  and  netted  the  patrons  23  cents.  For  the 
year  ending  March  31  it  made  201,711  pounds,  which 
were  sold  on  an  average  for  26  cents  per  pound  and 
netted  the  patrons,  of  whom  there  are  126,  22.5  cents 
per  pound. 
The  other  day  the  steamship  Duke  of  Buckingham, 
from  Wellington,  New  Zealand,  arrived  at  Liverpool, 
England,  with  860  packages,  or  about  25  tons,  of  choice 
antipodlan  fresh  butter,  the  first  shipment  ever  made 
from  those  islands.  It  arrived  in  good  condition  in 
the  refrigerator  room,  and  met  with  much  favor  in 
the  London  market.  Colonial  butter  is  likely  hence¬ 
forth  to  form  an  important  feature  in  the  English 
markets. 
Mr.  John  Smith,  formerly  a  corn  merchant  in  Liver¬ 
pool,  has  settled  at  Cotton,  some  16  miles  from  Bris¬ 
bane,  Queensland,  and  is  devoting  his  attention  to 
the  production  of  eucalyptus  honey  on  his  farm.  The 
position  of  his  place  is  favorable  to  this  industry. 
His  bees  cull  the  juicy  sweets  from  the  flowers  of  the 
eucalyptus,  and  care  is  exercised  that  the  product  of 
their  work  is  prepared  in  the  best  possible  manner. 
It  will  be  good  news  to  influenza  sufferers  to  know 
that  this  product,  which  contains  all  the  essential 
qualities  of  the  eucalyptus,  is  believed  to  be  effica¬ 
cious  as  a  preventive  of  the  disease. 
A  Cattle  Men's  Congress  was  held  the  other  day  at 
Ogden,  Utah,  with  the  purpose  of  uniting  all  existing 
cattle-growers’  associations  in  the  different  States 
and  Territories  into  one  grand  association  with  per¬ 
manent  headquarters  at  Ogden.  An  executive  com¬ 
mittee,  consisting  of  one  delegate  each  from  Nevada, 
Wyoming,  Colorado  and  Utah  has  been  elected,  to 
whom  matters  from  the  subordinate  organizations 
will  be  referred;  resolutions  were  adopted  protesting 
njkiinst  legislation  now  pending  on  the  manufacture 
of»i''omargarine,  providing  for  the  showing  of  hay- 
fed  -tattle  at  the  World’s  Fair,  for  a  record  of  all 
stock  brands  in  the  several  States  and  Territories 
where  subordinate  stock  organizations  exist,  these 
records  to  be  distributed  to  each  secretary  for  mutual 
protection.  Much  sympathy  was  expressed  for  the 
cattlemen  who  recently  failed  in  their  efforts  to  wipe 
out  the  rustlers  of  Wyoming. 
Condensed  Correspondence. 
New  york,  Seneca  County,  May  12.— The  snow 
was  not  all  gone  by  April  1,  but  a  few  hot  days  put 
the  land  into  shape  for  work,  and  a  fair  share  of  the 
sowing  was  done  by  May  1.  The  ground  worked  up 
into  a  splendid  seed  bed,  and,  though  the  weather 
was  cold  and  dry  for  a  while,  the  rain  came  in  season 
to  cause  germination.  The  past  few  days  have  been 
wet  and  cool,  with  frost  some  nights.  Wheat  and 
grass  look  fine  and  spring  grain  gives  good  promise. 
Cherry  trees  are  just  in  bloom  and  promise  an  abund¬ 
ant  yield.  Apple  and  pear  trees  will  bloom  well,  and 
peach  trees  will  produce  a  good  crop  if  not  injured 
later.  We  have  had  some  severe  thunder  storms. 
The  last  did  a  good  deal  of  damage  and  was  accom¬ 
panied  by  some  rain  and,  in  some  places,  high  winds. 
Cattle  are,  for  the  most  part,  in  pasture.  The 
weather-wise  predict  a  frost  on  May  28  on  account  of 
a  fog  on  the  same  date  in  February.  Eggs  have  been 
down  to  12  cents  per  dozen,  but  are  now  selling  at  14 
cents.  Veal  calves  bring  about  four  cents  per  pound. 
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his  butter  at  25  cents  is  fortunate.  This  is  the  only  way 
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