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AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
Col.  SIngerly,  of  the  Philadelphia  Record,  will  have 
a  steer  weighing  about  5,000  pounds  at  the  World’s 
Fair. 
Mr.  L.  N.  Johnson  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  has  been 
appointed  Instructor  of  botany  at  the  University  of 
Michigan. 
There  are  now  in  France  419  beet-sugar  factories, 
the  majority  of  which  are  situated  In  the  northern 
departments. 
The  prizes  at  the  Eighth  Annual  National  Horse 
Show  at  Madison  Square  Garden,  New  York,  already 
amount  to  $34,000.  It  will  be  held  November  14-19. 
A  drought  Is  prevailing  In  Poltava,  a  government  in 
South  Russia,  and  the  crops  are  being  blighted.  The 
sheep  and  cattle  are  perishing  for  the  want  of  fodder. 
True  bills  have  been  returned  by  the  grand  jury  in 
Beaver  County,  Pa.,  against  parties  prosecuted  for 
dishorning.  The  State  Humane  Society  is  the  prose¬ 
cutor. 
The  Hatch  Anti-Option  Bill  has  been  side-tracked 
in  the  United  Srates  Senate,  and  will  not  be  passed 
unless  its  friends  throughout  the  country  squeeze 
that  plethoric  corporation. 
The  general  tenor  of  crop  reports  is  favorable, 
though  there  are  localities  where  the  agricultural 
averages  will  be  very  low  indeed.  On  the  whole,  we 
shall  do  very  well  this  season. 
Common  horses,  we  are  told,  sell  in  some  parts  of 
Australia  for  $14  per  dozen.  In  New  South  Wales  they 
are  so  numerous  that  property-holders  have  them 
shot.  With  two  years  between  60.000  to  70,000  head 
were  destroyed. 
The  Elmira  (N.  Y.)  Gazette  assigns  Signal’s  Lily 
Flagg  a  yearly  production  of  6,029  pounds  of  butter! 
As  she  now  weighs  850  pounds  at  the  age  of  eight 
years  and  five  months,  according  to  this  account  she 
must  have  yielded  over  seven  times  her  own  weight 
in  butter  in  a  year! 
The  Society  for  the  Promotion  of  Agricultural 
Science  will  meet  at  the  Rochester  (N.  Y.)  University, 
August  15-16,  immediately  preceding  the  meeting  of 
the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science.  Prof.  I.  P.  Roberts,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  is  presi¬ 
dent;  L.  O.  Howard,  Washington,  secretary. 
For  years  the  farmers  of  Harrison  County,  O.,  have 
complained  that  local  buyers  did  not  pay  them 
enough  for  their  wool.  Finally  they  have  this  season 
refused  to  sell  and  are  shipping  their  staple  to  the 
East  themselves,  and  realizing  from  three  to  eight 
cents  a  pound  more  than  they  were  offered  at  home. 
The  Franklin  County  Creamery  Association  cream¬ 
ery  at  St.  Albans.  Vt.,  was  burned  on  June  20.  and  50 
tons  of  butter  and  1,000  tons  of  ice  were  destroyed. 
The  loss  is  nearly  covered  by  insurance  of  $20,000.  It 
was  the  largest  creamery  in  the  country,  producing 
17.000  pounds  of  butter  per  day  and  using  the  milk  of 
15.000  cows. 
The  total  area  of  land  devoted  to  the  cultivation  of 
flax  in  the  United  States  in  1889  was  1,318,698  acres,  or 
2.G60.47  square  miles;  the  production  of  flax  seed, 
10,250,410  bushels;  the  production  of  liber,  241,389 
pounds;  the  amount  of  flax  straw  sold  or  so  utilized 
as  to  have  a  determinable  value,  207,757  tons,  and  the 
total  value  of  all  flax  products,  $10,436,228. 
Official  statement  just  issued  of  exports  of  bread- 
stuffs: 
1892.  1891. 
May .  $3,171,926  $3,585,276 
Eleven  months  ended  May  31.  40,718,240  47,273,930 
And  of  provisions  (hog  products): 
1892.  1891. 
May .  $10,501,592  $7,068,006 
Five  months  ending  May  31..  74,289.191  71,352,901 
The  Standard  Butter  Company  of  Owego,  N.  Y.,  is, 
we  are  glad  to  learn,  doing  a  thriving  trade.  At  the 
present  time  it  is  making  something  over  6,000  pounds 
of  butter  dally  and  it  is  all  sold  when  made— indeed, 
at  times  there  is  difficulty  in  filling  orders.  There  is 
nothing  of  the  hap-liazzard  style  in  the  company’s 
method  of  doing  business— the  separator  and  the 
Babcock  tester  being  both  in  constant  requisition. 
The  Rurai,  wishes  there  were  more  such  establish¬ 
ments  in  the  country. 
The  Antl-Oleo  law  of  Maryland  prohibits  the  im¬ 
portation  as  well  as  sale  of  bogus  butter  in  that  State. 
Judge  Bond,  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court,  how¬ 
ever,  has  just  decided  that  the  provision  forbidding 
its  importation  in  the  “  original  packages  ”  is  uncon¬ 
stitutional,  inasmuch  as  it  Interferes  with  the  Inter- 
State  commerce  jurisdiction  of  the  Federal  Govern¬ 
ment.  The  State,  however,  may  regulate  or  alto¬ 
gether  forbid  tbe  sale  of  the  product  within  its  bor¬ 
ders  under  its  “  police  powers  ”  as  being  injurious  to 
the  public  health. 
The  Horticultural  Building  at  the  World’s  Fair, 
908  feet  long  and  250  wide,  will  contain  the  rarest 
specimens,  and  the  high  dome  of  the  building  will 
give  space  for  the  growth  of  tropical  plants,  palms, 
and  Japanese  bamboos,  tree  ferns,  etc.  Besides  the 
choice  and  varied  collection  of  flowers  in  the  interior 
of  the  building,  including  2,000  varieties  of  orchids, 
embracing  15,000  specimens,  400,000  hardier  flowers 
and  flowering  shrubs  will  be  planted  in  the  exhibi¬ 
tion  grounds,  many  of  which  are  now  growing  there. 
A  part  of  the  building  is  to  be  given  up  to  a  viticul- 
tural  exhibit,  for  which  space  has  been  sought  by 
contributors  from  33  foreign  countries.  Everything 
pertaining  to  the  manufacture  of  wine,  and  samples 
of  the  European,  South  American  and  California 
wines  will  make  it  a  notable,  as  well  as  an  instruc¬ 
tive  display. 
Since  the  Presidential  nominations  of  the  Repub¬ 
licans  and  Democrats  and  the  publication  of  their 
platforms,  the  People's  party,  whose  backbone  is 
formed  of  the  agricultural  organizations,  has  gained 
fresh  vigor  in  the  face  of  brighter  prospects.  It  is 
gaining  great  strength  in  some  parts  of  the  South  and 
West.  It  expects  to  carry  North  and  South  Carolina, 
Georgia  and  Texas  and  has  strong  hopes  of  capturing 
Alabama,  Arkansas  and  Florida.  It  also  believes  it 
can  win  in  Kansas,  Nebraska  and  South  Dakota.  With 
these  States  the  party  expects  to  obtain  the  ’’balance 
of  power”  in  the  next  House  of  Representatives  and 
compel  the  election  of  the  President  and  Vice-Presi¬ 
dent  by  that  body.  In  case  the  candidate  of  neither 
party  receives  an  absolute  majority  of  the  electoral 
vote,  the  election  must  go  into  the  House,  where  the 
Democrats  would  certainly  elect  their  man  as  each 
State  would  have  one  vote. 
After  the  last  general  elections  many  of  the  Con¬ 
gressmen  sent  to  Washington  by  the  Farmers’  Alli¬ 
ance  put  faith  in  the  vaticinations  with  regard  to  the 
speedy  dissolution  of  the  organization,  and  forgetful 
of  their  pledges,  threw  their  lots  and  votes  with  the 
Democratic  party  against  measures  advocated  by 
their  constituents.  They  are  now  being  catechized 
with  regard  to  their  conduct,  and  when  found  guilty 
dropped.  Hemphill,  of  South  Carolina,  has  already- 
been  forced  through  the  ordeal,  and  Is  now  flounder¬ 
ing  “in  the  soup,”  where  he  is  likely  soon  to  be  joined 
by  a  number  of  other  delinquent  Congressmen  from 
other  States.  In  Texas  Roger  Q.  Mills  carried  his  dis¬ 
trict  for  the  Democrats  in  1888  by  a  plurality  of  5,385 
in  a  vote  of  16,247.  On  his  election  to  the  United 
States  Senate  the  other  day,  the  Farmers'  Alliance 
indorsed  the  Republican  candidate,  who  was  elected 
by  over  400  majority.  In  Florida  the  Alliance  has 
utterly  swallowed  the  Democratic  party  and  appears 
to  be  very  comfortably  digesting  it.  All  through  the 
South  the  organization  is  giving  simllarsigns  of  a  very 
lively  existence, and  the  Northwestern  Alliance  is  now 
likely  to  become  equally  active  after  the  Presidential 
nominations  of  the  two  great  parties.  With  regard 
to  the  political  action  of  the  various  agricultural  and 
industrial  organizations  during  the  Presidential  cam¬ 
paign  a  great  deal  will  depend  on  the  National  plat¬ 
form  and  ticket  of  the  People's  party  at  its  conven¬ 
tion  which  opens  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  on  July  4. 
Condensed  Correspondence 
Massachusetts,  West  northfield,  June  15.— 
The  prospects  for  a  good  crop  of  fruit  were  never 
better.  The  Lady  Rusk  Strawberry  is  doing  wonder¬ 
fully  well  with  me.  b.  s.  C. 
Vermont,  west  Charleston,  June  20.— The 
weather  through  the  spring  until  May  18  was  cool  and 
very  dry.  After  that  there  was  so  much  rain  that  it 
hindered  the  putting  in  of  late  crops.  We  have  had 
some  very  hot  days,  and  frequent  heavy  thunder 
showers  with  hard  winds.  The  hay  crop  is  very  prom¬ 
ising  and  other  crops  look  fairly  well.  C.  f.  w. 
New  York,  Elba,  Genesee  County,  June  20.— 
Rain,  rain  all  the  time,  up  to  a  week  ago.  Wheat 
looks  tine  and  promises  a  little  better  crop  than 
nsual,  with  a  fine  catch  of  clover.  Oats  are  looking 
well  for  as  wet  a  season  as  we  have  had.  Barley  will 
be  a  good  crop.  Beans  are  looking  well.  A  larger 
acreage  than  usual  has  been  planted.  Probably  not 
many  apples  this  year.  Greenings  and  Russets  have 
nearly  all  blasted;  a  fair  crop  of  Baldwins  may  be 
expected,  and  also  of  fall  fruit.  Strawberries  did 
not  fertilize  well  on  account  of  so  much  rain.  Rasp¬ 
berries  are  loaded.  Butter  is  selling  from  13  to  15 
cents.  No  wonder  farmers’  daughters  do  not  want 
to  be  farmers’  wives.  They  do  not  want  to  work  for 
nothing  and  board  themselves.  C.  f. 
Crop  and  market  Notes. 
Peaches  are  coming  in  freely  from  the  South,  but 
the  quality  is  yet  far  below  the  standard. 
Cherries  are  abundant  and  of  fair  quality.  Many 
are  coming  in  from  the  Hudson  River  district. 
Good  cherries  bring  good  prices,  while  the  poor 
ones,  as  usual,  sell  at  rather  unremuneratlve  rates. 
The  new  crop  apples  have  made  their  appearance 
and  we  drop  old  ones  from  our  market  report  from 
this  date. 
Both  red  and  black  raspberries  are  now  abundant 
in  our  markets,  as  are  currants  and  gooseberries. 
The  strawberry  season  is  nearing  its  end. 
Huckleberries  and  muskmelons  are  with  us  and  we 
may  now  be  said  to  have  a  very  generous  assortment 
of  fruits.  California  apricots  are  plentiful  and  poor 
in  quality. 
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