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CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
Strawberries  are  coming  In  freely  from  Maryland 
and  are  really  of  very  good  quality.  Asparagus  Is 
abundant  and  cheap. 
There  is  not  a  very  encouraging  outlook  In  the 
butter  trade  just  at  present.  The  price  is  unusually 
low  for  so  early  a  season  of  the  year. 
Messrs.  Palmer,  liivenburg  &  Co.,  commission  mer¬ 
chants  of  this  city,  received  on  Wednesday.  May  25, 
3,100  quarts  of  strawberries  from  one  grower  at  Nor¬ 
folk,  Va. 
All  kinds  of  vegetables  are  abundant  In  this  mar¬ 
ket — mainly  from  the  South.  Save  In  the  quality  of 
the  goods  shown,  one  might  easily  imagine  It  to  be 
July  instead  of  May  as  he  strolls  through  the  market. 
The  New  Y7ork  markets  were  literally  flooded  with 
green  peas  on  Thursday  morning  last,  and  It  Is  doubt¬ 
ful  if  all  of  them  could  be  sold  at  prices  high  enough 
to  pay  freight  and  cartage.  Beans  were  doing  better. 
We  have  reports  from  the  South  of  a  great  enlarge¬ 
ment  of  the  rice  acreage  this  year;  and  It  is  now 
estimated,  from  the  extent  of  the  planting,  that  the 
area  will  be  about  one-half  larger  than  that  of  last 
or  any  other  recent  year.  Many  planters  In  South 
Carolina,  Georgia,  and  the  few  other  States  In  which 
rice  is  grown  advantageously,  have  increased  their 
planting  of  It  In  proportion  as  they  have  decreased 
their  planting  of  cotton,  while  others  who  had  wholly 
abandoned  its  culture  have  again  taken  it  up.  Before 
the  war  our  yearly  product  of  rice  often  rose  above 
200,000,01)0  pounds;  but  during  the  war  and  after  It 
the  crop  ran  low,  and  In  1870  it  was  only  about  one- 
third  as  large  as  It  was  in  1850.  The  prospect  of  Its 
enlargement  this  year  is  more  promising  than  it  has 
been  any  other  year  since  then,  vye  ought  to  be  able 
to  raise  in  this  country  all  the  rice  that  Is  consumed 
here,  and  there  should  be  no  need  of  Importing  any 
from  other  countries. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
Gen.  N.  P.  Banks,  of  Massachusetts,  has  become  a 
farmer  in  his  old  age  and  expects  a  big  potato  crop 
this  year. 
The  first  car  of  cherries  and  apricots  for  the  season 
was  loaded  at  Vacaville,  Cal.,  on  May  20  and  shipped 
to  Chicago. 
It  is  estimated  the  production  of  compound  lard 
In  Chicago  last  year  was  about  135.000,000  pounds,  or 
about  the  same  as  the  preceding  year. 
A  Florida  farm  of  100  acres  In  the  phosphate  dis¬ 
trict  has,  it  Is  estimated,  lying  beneath  its  surface 
and  accessible  2,400,000  tons  of  phosphate. 
The  State  of  Pennsylvania,  which  formerly  paid  a 
bounty  for  the  destruction  of  crows,  has  repealed  the 
law,  and  now  classes  crows  among  the  useful  birds. 
We  hear  reports  from  sections  where  corn  was 
planted  early  in  May  that  the  rains  about  the  20th 
were  so  cold  that  much  of  the  seed  rotted  In  the 
ground. 
An  increased  area  has  been  planted  to  onions  In  the 
black  meadows  at  Chester,  and  also  Florida,  Pine 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER.  June  4 
Island,  Vernon  and  other  points  In  the  Wallklll  Val¬ 
ley,  N.  Y. 
Six  trees  averaging  40  feet  in  height  have  been  re¬ 
moved  to  the  Chicago  World’s  Fair  Grounds  at  a  cost 
of  8700,  or  over  8100  apiece. 
The  first  cargo  of  this  year's  wheat  was  shipped  last 
Saturday  from  Paso,  Kern  County,  Cal.,  which  for  the 
last  two  years  has  shipped  the  first  wheat  of  the 
season.  . 
North  Carolina  law  requires  dealers  to  mark  on 
each  package  of  vegetables  or  garden  seed  offered 
for  sale  the  year  In  which  it  was  produced,  under 
penalty  of  $50  fine  or  30  days’  Imprisonment. 
Word  comes  from  New  Zealand  of  a  terrible  hurri¬ 
cane  which  has  passed  over  the  Island  doing  enor¬ 
mous  damage  to  property.  The  grain  being  about 
ripe  for  harvest,  the  destruction  of  the  crops  was 
very  great. 
The  managers  of  the  Grangers’  Inter-State  Picnic 
Association  announce  that  the  annual  picnic,  to  be 
held  at  Williams  Grove,  Pa.,  August  29-September 
3,  inclusive,  promises  to  be  a  greater  success  than 
any  preceding  it. 
Dr.  Hill,  of  Indianola,  has  started  an  alligator  farm 
under  and  alongside  his  wharf,  and  intends  to  keep 
next  season  a  hundred  or  so  on  hand  all  the  time. 
He  haB  already  about  three  dozen  collected  as  a 
starter. — Florida  Star. 
it  Is  estimated  that  the  44,938,365  sheep  in  the 
United  States  will  clip  316,051,045  pounds  of  wool. 
This  is  on  a  basis  of  about  7^  pounds  per  fleece.  This 
authority  names  the  number  of  pounds  of  scoured 
wool  by  shrinkage  of  40  per  cent  In  fleeces. 
In  response  to  numerous  petitions,  Gov.  Prince,  of 
New  Mexico,  has  issued  a  proclamation  calling  an 
inter-State  wool  convention  to  assemble  in  Albu¬ 
querque,  July  5  to  7.  The  object  is  to  discuss  sheep 
and  wool  Interests  In  the  States  and  Territories  west 
of  the  Mississippi  Biver. 
A  late  hurricane  In  the  Island  of  Mauritius  to  the 
east  of  Madagascar,  is  said  to  have  caused  a  loss  of 
15,01X1  lives  out  of  a  population  of  375,000.  There  was 
also  an  enormous  destruction  of  crops  and  the  houses 
and  machinery  on  the  sugar,  rice  and  coffee  planta¬ 
tions  were  utterly  ruined. 
The  Ohio  State  Horticultural  Society  will  hold  Its 
summer  meeting  and  strawberry  exhibit  at  Zanes¬ 
ville,  June  8  and  9.  Programmes  and  premium  lists 
will  be  mailed  to  members  without  application,  others 
may  secure  them  by  addressing  the  secretary,  W.  W. 
Farnsworth,  Watervllle,  Ohio. 
During  1881  there  were  received  at  New  York  from 
Mediterranean  ports,  1,570,478  boxes  of  oranges  and 
856,279  boxes  of  lemons.  For  1891  the  figures  were 
636,500  boxes  of  oranges  and  1,973,110  boxes  of  lemonsi 
In  a  year  or  two  it  is  probable  America  may  export 
both  of  these  fruits  heavily  to  Europe. 
In  obedience  to  the  injunction  of  the  United  States 
Court,  the  rustlers  have  given  up  their  proposed 
round-ups  in  Wyoming;  but  the  regular  State  round¬ 
ups  are  under  way.  Those  of  the  rustlers  always 
came  earlier,  in  order,  It  Is  said,  that  they  might  be 
able  to  brand  more  of  other  folks’  calves. 
The  Senate  Committee  on  Agriculture  is  to  enter  on 
an  exhaustive  Investigation  of  the  causes  of  the 
low  prices  of  agricultural  products,  especially  cotton. 
All  staple  crops,  their  areas,  average  yields  per  acre, 
facilities  and  cost  of  transportation  to  market,  annual 
production  and  consumption,  etc.,  will  be  Included  In 
the  work. 
AN  unknown  plague  is  killing  off  cattle  along  the 
Mexican  border,  especially  on  the  Elias  range.  The 
disease  consists  of  a  swelling  of  the  head  of  the  ani¬ 
mals  In  an  extraordinary  manner,  which  is  succeeded 
by  general  trembling  or  chill,  and,  a  short  time  after¬ 
ward,  death.  The  same  complaint  Is  made  by 
Arizona  cattlemen. 
News  has  just  come  of  a  reciprocity  treaty  between 
Austria-Hungary  and  the  United  States.  The  United 
States  admit  sugar,  molasses  and  hides  free  of  duty 
in  return  for  being  placed  on  the  same  footing  as 
Germany  and  Italy  in  commercial  relation  with 
Austria-Hungary.  The  treaty  Is  pretty  certain  to 
afford  an  enlarged  foreign  market  for  our  agricul¬ 
tural  products. 
The  floods  in  the  West  are  subsiding  along  the 
Missouri  and  the  upper  Mississippi  and  their  tribu¬ 
taries,  but  are  still  disastrous  along  the  lower  Missis¬ 
sippi  and  its  affluents,  especially  the  Arkansas  and 
Red  Rivers.  The  bottom  lands  along  the  rivers  are 
still  flooded,  and  the  settlers  are  destitute  and  suffer¬ 
ing.  Arkansas,  Mississippi  and  Louisiana  are  doubt¬ 
less  the  heaviest  sufferers,  and  State  as  well  as 
National  aid  is  needed  to  keep  the  Inhabitants  of  the 
flooded  country  from  starvation.  It  is  hardly  possible 
that  the  floods  will  recede  early  enough  to  leave  the 
land  lit  for  sowing  ordinary  crops  this  year.  While, 
as  a  general  rule,  alluvial  deposits  will  enrich  most 
of  the  flooded  area,  a  great  deal  of  the  soli  has  been 
swept  away  altogether,  whtle  heavy  deposits  of  sand 
have  ruined  many  rich  sections.  Then  again,  the 
currents  have  carried  off  or  transferred  to  the  other 
side  of  their  courses,  large  sections  of  bottom  lands. 
Losses  of  life  and  property  have  been  greatly 
augmented  since  a  week  ago.  and.  In  the  present 
desolate  condition  of  the  country,  and  ruinous 
state  of  the  levees,  much  apprehension  is  enter¬ 
tained  of  the  "June  freshet,”  already  creating 
havoc  along  the  headwaters  of  the  Missouri. 
Gov.  Boles,  of  Iowa,  has  issued  a  proclamation  call¬ 
ing  for  relief  for  the  flood  sufferers  of  Sioux  City, 
where  over  1,000  families  are  homeless,  and  5,000  of 
all  ages  destitute;  167  houses  have  been  swept  away 
and  700  more  rendered  untenantable.  Gov.  Fifer  of 
Illinois,  calls  on  the  people  of  the  State  for  money, 
food  and  clothing  for  the  flood  sufferers.  A  con¬ 
servative  estimate  puts  the  damage  done  in  Madison, 
St.  Charles  and  St.  Clair  Counties— between  St.  Louis 
and  Cairo— at  811,000,000,  mostly  on  farm  lands.  Ten 
thousand  homeless  people  are  living  along  the  St. 
Francis  and  White  Rivers  in  Arkansas,  and  35  lives 
have  been  lost  In  the  Arkansas  River.  All  the 
flooded  people  are  in  danger  of  starvation.  The 
same  stories  of  distress  and  suffering  come  from  the 
lowlands  high  up  the  Missouri  to  the  Gulf,  and  from 
a  multitude  of  the  tributaries  of  the  great  rivers  as 
well  as  from  the  confluents  of  the  latter. 
( Continued  on  next  page.) 
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Nickel  Silver  Watch,  Men’s  Size. 
No.  1  C  Is  a  Waltham  or  Elgin  7- jeweled 
watch  containing  compensation  balance, 
safety  pinion,  etc.  It  is  in  a  solid  nickel 
silver,  open- face  case.  For  boys’  wear  it 
Is  especially  recommended,  because  the 
front  and  back  screw  off  and  on,  mak¬ 
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be  opened  at  all,  because  it  is  a  stem 
winder,  and  it  sets  by  pulling  on  the  stem, 
thereby  doing  away  with  the  risk  attendant 
upon  opening.  The  crystal  Is  made  of 
plate  glass  that  will  stand  a  heavy 
pressure.  This  watch  Is  full  men’s  size, 
and  the  works  are  good  enough  to  go  into 
a  gold  case.  Any  person  who  gets  one  of 
these  watches  will  find  that  some  of  his 
friends  have  watches  which  cost  $15  to  $20, 
containing  the  same  grade  of  works.  Sold 
to  subscribers  only  for  $5.50;  with  a  three 
years’  subscription,  for  $8.50. 
Gold  Watch,  Men’s  Size,  Open  Face. 
No.  2  C,  Waltham  or  Elgin ;  7  jewels  and 
all  the  improvements  mentioned  above. 
The  case,  which  is  open  face.  Is  made  by 
taking  two  plates  of  solid  gold  and  filling 
the  space  between  them  with  a  fine  compo¬ 
sition  metal.  If  the  filling  were  removed 
a  solid  gold  case  would  then  remain. 
This  is  more  durable  and  just  as  hand¬ 
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scription  for  $15. 
Gold  Watch,  Hunting  Case. 
No.  3  C  is  the  same  as  No.  2  C,  but  in 
hunting  case,  richly  engraved  with  Ver- 
micell6  or  frost  work.  Price,  $14  35 ;  with  a 
three  years’  subscription,  $17.35. 
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No.  4  C.  For  those  who  want  the  best,  and 
are  willing  to  trust  our  judgment,  we  have 
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finest  and  simplest  patent  regulator  known, 
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sation  balance  and  Logan’s  celebrated  Breg- 
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will  keep  accurate  time  whether  hot  or 
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as  high  as  $125  for  this  watch,  and  the  usual 
retail  price  is  now  from  $85  to  $105.  We 
offer  it  In  a  solid  14k.  gold,  two  ounces  to 
2%  ounces  (40  to  45  dwt)  case,  hunting  or 
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People  who  want  this  magnificent  watch 
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The  illustration 
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