TIIH  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
May  28 
356 
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AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
The  first  Delaware  strawberries  of  the  season  were 
shipped  Wednesday  morning.  Twenty- five  crates 
from  Seaford  were  consigned  to  Philadelphia  and 
New  York. 
The  frosts  which  prevailed  early  In  the  month  are 
reported  to  have  greatly  reduced  the  grape  crop  of 
California.  It  is  stated  that  a  great  many  of  the 
vineyards  will  not  bear  over  half  an  average  crop. 
The  Czar  has  signed  a  ukase  permitting  the  ex¬ 
portation  of  oats  and  corn.  This  Is  Intended  more 
especially  for  the  relief  of  the  Black  Sea  districts, 
where  the  inhabitants  have  a  surplus  and  no  market 
except  through  exportation. 
A  somewhat  famous  suit  at  law.  which  was  pro¬ 
voked  by  the  slaying  of  a  25-cent  rooster  in  expiation 
of  the  death  of  a  neighbor’s  $3  canary  bird,  has  just 
been  settled  at  Rutherford,  N.  J.,  after  four  trials 
in  court,  at  a  cost  of  $2(J0  to  the  embroiled  families. 
Governor  Flower  has  vetoed  the  bill  appropriating 
$550,000  for  Improving  and  increasing  the  lockage 
capacity  of  the  State  canals.  This  is  a  sop  to  the 
farmers  of  the  State,  who  naturally  object  to  an  In¬ 
crease  in  their  taxes  mainly  to  cheapen  transporta¬ 
tion  of  Western  products  that  compete  with  their 
own. 
President  C.  K.  Adams  of  Cornell  University,  has 
resigned  through  disagreement  with  the  trustees  as 
to  the  scope  of  the  studies  there.  He  has  been  suc¬ 
ceeded  by  Prof.  Jacob  Gould  Schurman,  for  years 
connected  with  the  institution.  The  attendance  had 
more  than  doubled  during  President  Adams's  admin¬ 
istration. 
Governor  Flower,  of  New  York,  has  just  signed  the 
following  bills  of  special  Interest  to  farmers:  An  act 
prohibiting  the  adulteration  of  maple  sugar;  an  act 
providing  that  commission  merchants  must  make  re¬ 
turns  for  goods  sold  within  a  specitied  time;  an  act 
appropriating  $5,000  to  be  expended  by  the  State 
Dairymen’s  Association  in  the  promotion  of  the 
dairy  interests  of  the  State.  He  has  also  vetoed  an 
act  granting  $100,000  for  distribution  as  premiums  on 
agricultural  products,  tools,  implements  and  house¬ 
hold  handiwork  by  the  agricultural  societies  of  the 
State. 
At  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  the  other  day,  a  company  was  or¬ 
ganized  for  the  construction  of  one  of  the  largest 
reservoirs  in  the  world  for  irrigating  purposes.  The 
site  taken  was  Box  Canon,  400  yards  below  the  junc¬ 
tion  of  Conto  Creek  and  Salt  River.  The  height  of 
the  dam  will  be  200  feet,  and  the  back  water  will  ex¬ 
tend  16  miles,  making  a  capacity  of  103,058,040,800 
cubic  feet.  Owing  to  the  abundance  of  lime  rock, 
timber  and  other  building  materials  on  the  ground, 
the  cost  of  building  is  not  expected  to  exceed  $1,500,- 
000.  The  enterprise  is  backed  by  New  York  capi¬ 
talists. 
Condensed  Correspondence 
New  York,  Ridgeway,  May  16.— The  show  for 
fruit  in  Orleans  and  Niagara  Counties  is  very  prom¬ 
ising.  Many  of  the  peach  buds  were  killed  by  the 
early  freeze  of  last  fall ;  yet  there  seems  to  be  enough 
now  In  full  bloom  to  make  about  half  a  crop.  Apple 
trees  are  looking  fine  and  beginning  to  show  blossoms 
for  a  large  crop.  Pear,  plum  and  cherry  trees  are  in 
fine  condition,  being  over  loaded  with  blossoms.  .J.  H. 
Minnesota,  La  Crescent,  May  13.— We  are  hav¬ 
ing  the  most  backward  and  unfavorable  season  for 
the  farmers  known  for  many  years.  The  temper¬ 
ature  for  a  month  past  has  been  below  the  average. 
There  has  been  but  little  sunshine  and  the  weather 
has  been  excessively  wet.  Oats  are  not  all  in.  No 
corn  has  been  planted  and  but  little  plowing  has  been 
done.  Pasturage  and  meadows  are  two  weeks  behind 
what  they  were  at  this  time  last  year.  Some  seed  has 
rotted  in  the  ground  and  the  young  grain  needs 
warmth  and  sunshine.  Wagon  roads  are  nearly  im¬ 
passable:  we  cannot  get  to  market  with  hogs  and  sur¬ 
plus  grain,  and  many  farmers  are  becoming  discour¬ 
aged.  Unless  there  is  a  favorable  change  in  the 
weather  soon  the  acreage  of  spring  crops  will  be 
greatly  reduced.  j.  s.  H. 
Iowa,  Humboldt  County,  May  16.— Very  wet  and 
cold.  No  planting  of  corn  or  potatoes  yet.  Oats  and 
wheat  drowned  out  In  the  low  places.  Pastures  late, 
but  getting  so  as  to  afford  some  feed  now.  It  will  re¬ 
quire  a  week's  good  weather  to  dry  the  ground  so  as 
to  make  it  fit  to  plow  afnd  plant.  O.  E.  F 
CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
According  to  a  large  number  of  late  reports  from 
Central  and  Northern  New  York,  grass  has  an 
excellent  body;  winter  wheat  is  very  promising;  hops 
are  getting  along  fairly  well.  Potato  planting  was 
two  weeks  behind,  and  In  some  sections  a  small  black 
worm  is  eating  the  vines.  Oats  and  rye  promise 
well.  Corn  planting  will  be  late,  although  there  will 
be  an  increased  acreage,  especially  In  Oneida  County. 
A  large  number  of  crop  reports  collected  from  all 
parts  of  the  country  by  one  of  the  large  N.  Y.  daily 
papers  confirm  The  R.  N.-Y.’s  previous  reports  with 
regard  to  the  two  great  export  staples.  Instructed  by 
the  ruinously  low  prices  of  last  year,  the  result  of 
world-wide  over-production,  growers  of  cotton  have 
restricted  their  acreage,  devoting  part  of  their  fields 
to  corn.  On  the  other  hand,  farmers  in  the  spring- 
wheat  region  of  the  Northwest,  encouraged  by  the 
accidental  high  prices  of  last  year,  have  increased 
their  acreage  of  wheat  from  10  to  40  per  cent  in  dif¬ 
ferent  States.  These  wheat-growers  might  better 
have  taken  warning  by  the  fate  of  cotton-growers 
of  last  year.  With  a  surplus  from  1891  of  about  200.- 
000,000  bushels,  and  unduly  stimulated  wheat  culture 
all  over  the  world,  it  is  not  improbable  that  prices 
will  fall  as  much  below  the  normal  this  year  as  they 
went  above  laBt  year.  Nothing  can  serve  the  farmer 
so  well  as  intelligent  foresight.  Still  the  stocks  in 
hand  all  over  the  would  will  be  extraordinarily  low 
when  the  next  harvest  comes  into  market. 
Prof.  Morrow  reports  from  the  Illinois  Experiment 
Station  that  the  situation  as  regards  the  corn  crop 
for  1892  is  serious  in  Illinois  and  in  other  corn-grow¬ 
ing  States.  Much  corn  land  remains  unplowed.  The 
temperature  is  low,  the  soil  cold.  Many  thousands 
of  acres  of  low-lying  land  are  either  covered  with 
water  or  thoroughly  saturated.  Trials  at  that  sta¬ 
tion  for  four  years  past,  however,  show  that  good 
crops  may  be  expected,  in  seasons  of  ordinary  char¬ 
acter,  from  planting  any  time  In  May.  If  the  plant¬ 
ing  can  be  completed  in  central  Illinois  by  May  25,  the 
land  being  in  good  condition  and  late-maturing 
varieties  avoided,  there  need  be  little  anxiety  so  far 
as  date  of  planting  is  concerned.  Fair  crops  of  corn 
may  be  secured  by  planting  early-maturing  varieties 
as  late  as  June  10.  Late-planted  corn  will  mature  in 
a  less  number  of  days  than  corn  of  the  same  variety 
planted  earlier.  It  is  believed  to  be  better  to  wait  until 
the  ground  is  fairly  dry,  rather  than  either  to  plow 
or  plant  while  it  is  very  wet.  Where  overflowed 
lands  do  not  become  dry  until  too  late  for  the  corn 
crop,  and  then  do  get  in  good  working  condition,  it  is 
probable  so  large  a  crop  of  good  stock  food  can  be 
procured  in  no  other  way  so  quickly  and  cheaply  as 
by  sowing  the  land  to  millet,  which  can  be  harvested 
in  time  to  permit  the  sowing  of  a  wheat  crop  in  Sep¬ 
tember. 
The  vast  basin  between  the  Alleghanies  and  the 
Rockies— nearly  as  large  as  all  Europe— is  drained  by 
the  Mississippi  and  Its  tributaries,  and  never  since 
the  settlement  of  the  country  along  their  courses  have 
these  rivers  inflicted  such  disastrous  losses  in  life  and 
property  on  those  living  on  the  adjacent  lowlands. 
Already  a  low  estimate  of  the  money  losses  amounts 
to  over  $50,000,000,  while  the  known  losses  of  human 
life  reach  at  least  150.  High  up  the  Missouri,  swollen 
by  the  melted  snows  of  the  Rockies  and  heavy  rains, 
the  disasters  began,  and  devastation  and  destruction 
swept  down  with  the  yellow  flood  on  the  lowlands  on 
both  sides  of  the  Big  Muddy  till  its  junction  with  the 
Mississippi,  opposite  Alton,  111.,  22  miles  above  St. 
Louis  and  1,285  miles  from  the  Gulf.  On  the  rich, 
thickly  settled  bottom-lands  all  growing  crops  have 
been  destroyed,  and  most  stored  crops  ruined;  fences 
have  been  swept  atfav,  and  hundreds  of  houses  have 
followed  them.  Thousands  of  cattle  have  perished; 
and  the  impoverished  settlers  are  homeless  on  the 
highlands  behind,  whence  they  can  see  the  ruin  of  the 
results  of  years  of  thrift  and  labor.  The  towns  and 
cities  along  the  river  bottoms  have  been  submerged 
and  suffered  disastrously,  Sioux  City  alone  having 
already  lost  over  $2,000,000  in  money  and  37  human 
lives.  After  the  junction  of  the  Missouri  with  the  Mis¬ 
sissippi,  the  latter  already  brimful  became  a  raging 
torrent  to  the  Gulf.  Extraordinarily  heavy  and 
protracted  rains  for  the  last  two  weeks  throughout 
the  vast  extent  of  country  drained  by  Its  eastern  and 
western  tributaries  have  added  tremendously  to  the 
Missouri  flood,  and  along  the  course  of  the  Father  of 
Waters  to  the  Gulf,  the  lowlands  on  both  sides  are 
flooded  from  2  to  30  feet  deep,  except  here  and  there 
where  protected  by  levees  or  artificial  embankments 
along  the  river  front.  Much  of  the  land  back  of  these 
is  overflowed,  however,  by  water  from  crevasses 
above  or  below  them.  Lowlands  along  the  Ohio, 
Arkansas  and  Red  Rivers  as  well  as  the  multitute  of 
smaller  tributaries  of  the  great  river  and  those  of  its 
confluents  are  also  overflowed,  and  incalculable  dam¬ 
age  has  been  done.  Never  in  the  history  of  the  coun¬ 
try  has  such  terrible  disaster  been  caused  by  floods, 
and  the  end  is  not  yet.  The  latest  reports  say  that  it 
is  probable  all  the  levees  from  St.  Louis  to  the  Gulf 
will  be  swept  away.  It's  a  national,  not  a  sectional 
calamity.  Alas!  the  farmers  are  the  heaviest  sufferers 
LONG  MAY  IT  WAVE! 
Every  man  and  boy,  and  woman,  too, 
who  is  a  true  American,  loves  that  good 
old  flag  as  the  emblem  of  what  is  best  in 
government.  The  principles  for  which 
it  stands  can  not  be  too  early  instilled 
into  the  minds  and  hearts  of  newcomers 
on  the  field  of  action,  be  they  youths  of 
our  own  blood,  or  men  of  other  lands 
come  newly  to  these  shores.  That  flag 
should  ever  wave  in  sight  of  Americans. 
Every  School  House, 
Every  Town  Hall, 
Every  Grange  Hall  • 
should  have  its  flag-staff,  and  every  flag 
staff  should,  of  course,  bear  its  flag. 
BUT  a  flag  of  cheap  and  poor  stuff 
is  a  disgrace  to  the  flag  itself,  and  the 
regular  bunting  is  very  expensi  ?e.  What 
is  known  as  “  cotton  bunting  ”  makes  a 
flag  that  is  creditable  to  any  man  who 
owns  it,  and  which  cannot  be  distin¬ 
guished  from  the  expensive  bunting 
flags  except  on  close  examination.  The 
colors  are  guaranteed  absolutely  fast. 
We  will  furnish  these  flags,  not  mounted, 
to  our  subscribers  as  follows : 
SIX  feet  long,  for  one  new  subscrip¬ 
tion  from  date  to  January,  1893,  and  $1.50; 
the  flag  alone  for  $1.25,  prepaid. 
SEVEN  feet  long,  for  one  new  sub¬ 
scription  from  date  to  January,  1893, 
and  $2.00.  Or  alone  for  $1.65  in  cash  ; 
prepaid. 
NINE  feet  long,  for  two  new  subscrip¬ 
tions  to  January,  1893,  and  $3.50.  Or 
for  sale  at  $2.75,  prepaid. 
DO  YOU  LIKE  ICE  CREAM  ? 
OF  COURSE  YOU  DO. 
Well,  then,  if  you  have  no  Ice-Cream 
Freezer,  or  a  poor  one,  read  this. 
Ice  cream  well  made  is  a  wholesome 
refreshment.  Almost  every  farmer  now¬ 
adays  has  his  own  ice,  and  can  spare 
a  little  milk  and  cream  now  and  then. 
In  fact  the  farmer 
who  does  not  pro¬ 
vide  ice  cream  for 
his  family  at  least 
once  a  week,  does 
not  live  up  to  his 
privileges.  We  have 
arranged  to  offer 
this  wonderfully 
effective,  yet  very 
low-priced  freezer. 
The  stirring  motion 
is  applied  by  means 
of  the  Keystone 
Whip  Beater,  which 
may  also  be  used  in 
whipping  cream, 
beating  eggs,  fruit, 
giving  many  recipes  for  ice  creams,  water 
ices,  and  many  new  dishes  for  the  table 
by  aid  of  the  freezer  and  the  beater  which 
accompanies  it.  Price,  $1.50.  Given  to 
any  present  subscriber  sending  two  new 
subscriptions  to  The  R.  N.-Y.  from  date 
to  January,  1893,  and  $2. 
A  CUP  OF  COFFEE 
from  our  premium  coffee  pot  will  brighten 
the  good  wife  and  send  the  husband  to  the 
fields  in  a  cheerful  frame  of  mind. 
It  saves  40  per  cent  over  ordinary 
methods  of  coffee  making. 
It  is  no  more  trouble  than  the  ordinary 
coffee  pot  and  insures  delicious  coffee. 
It  allows  no 
aroma  or 
strength  t  o 
escape. 
It  filters  the 
coffee,  mak¬ 
ing  it  bright 
and  clear, 
and  allows 
no  sediment. 
It  keeps the 
boiling  water 
in  contact 
with  the  cof- 
f  e  e  grounds 
the  proper 
time  for  extracting  all  the  aroma  and 
strength  and  none  of  the  bitterness. 
The  coffee  pot  is  handsomely  nickel- 
plated  and  has  a  wooden  handle.  Price 
$1.20,  by  express.  This  is  the  two-quart 
size,  holding  three  to  seven  cups.  With  a 
yearly  subscription  to  The  Rural  New- 
Yorker,  $2.25  ;  with  a  subscription  from 
receipt  of  order  to  Dec.  31,  only  $1.50. 
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Drier  for  the  price  of  the  latter. 
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Latest,  Cheapest,  Best. 
A  Veritable  Little  Bread- 
Winner. 
Weight,  25  Pounds. 
Metal  Base, 
Can  be  used  on  any  kind 
of  Stove. 
Dimensions:  Base,  22x1(5 
inches;  Height,  26  inches. 
Stove  Fruit  Drier 
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Eight  Galvanized  Wire- 
Cloth  Trays,  contain¬ 
ing  12  square  feet  of 
tray  surface. 
No  Extra  Fire. 
Always  ready  for  use,  and 
will  last  a  lifetime. 
Easily  and  quickly  set  on 
and  off  the  stove  as 
needed,  empty  or 
filled  with  fruit. 
Has  it  ever  occurred  to  you  that,  with  a  little  labor,  wasting  apples,  berries  and 
vegetables  can  be  quickly  evaporated,  and  are  then  worth,  pound  for  pound, 
flour,  sugar,  coffee,  butter,  rice,  oatmeal,  etc.,  or  go  far  towards  purchasing  clothes 
and  little  luxuries  and  necessaries  ? 
Recall  the  Waste  of  Fresh  Fruit  on  the  Farm  or  Town  Lot  for  Seasons  Past. 
This  wasted  fresh  fruit,  with  a  little  labor  added,  represents  just  about  one- 
tenth  as  many  pounds  or  busliels  of  evaporated  fruit  No  other  business  than  farm¬ 
ing  now  allows  such  a  large  waste,  or  could  long  sustain  it.  The  drier’s  capacity 
is  ample  for  domestic  use.  Up  to  two  bushels  of  fresh  fruit  per  day. 
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three  years’  subscription,  $7. 
from  the  date  of  expiration 
substituted  if  preferred. 
.  Price  of  the  Drier  alone,  $7.  Special  price  to  our 
•  subscribers,  $5  ;  or,  better  still,  together  with  a 
This  will  pay  your  own  subscription  for  three  years 
of  time  already  paid  for :  new  subscriptions  may  be 
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