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CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
Onions  are  coming  In  freely  and  are  rather  weak 
In  price. 
A  very  large  proportion  of  the  cattle  reaching  this 
city  are  for  export. 
Strawberries  have  disappeared,  last  week  bringing 
the  last  from  the  Oswego  district. 
Peaches  are  yet  poor  in  quality  and  are  selling  at 
very  moderate  prices  for  the  season. 
Niagara  grapes  from  Florida  made  tlielr  appear¬ 
ance  last  week.  They  were  in  fairly  good  condition. 
The  peach  crop  of  Delaware  will  undoubtedly  be 
much  below  the  average  this  season.  Much  of  the 
fruit  has  fallen  off. 
A  steamer  arrived  at  Marseilles  on  Saturday  with 
1,179  bales  Tonquin  (Annam)  cotton,  the  first  ever 
brought  to  that  port. 
Muskmelons,  when  fine,  bring  good  prices,  but  the 
bulk  of  those  arriving  are  not  of  line  quality  and 
seU  at  corresponding  rates. 
Butter  is  doing  very  well  for  this  time  of  year, 
prices  averaging  better  than  for  last  year  at  this  date. 
There  is  no  falling  off  In  price  at  Interior  points. 
Cheese  is  also  holding  its  own. 
The  total  sugar  bounty  paid  during  the  fiscal  year 
ended  June  30,  1892,  was  $7,330,046,  of  which  $7,065,285 
was  paid  on  cane  sugar.  Of  the  total  bounty  on  cane 
sugar  $6,870,506  was  paid  to  the  planters  of  Louisiana- 
The  stock  of  wheat  in  country  elevators  of  Minne¬ 
sota  and  the  two  Dakotas  is  reported  at  2,542,100 
bushels,  a  shrinkage  of  205,700  bushels.  The  aggre¬ 
gate  Northwestern  stock  is  thus  made  14,910,852bush¬ 
els,  a  decrease  of  584,199  bushels  for  the  week.  A  year 
ago  the  total  stock  was  11,533,000  bushels. 
Montana  has  forbidden  the  shipment  of  sheep  into 
her  borders  from  the  following  States  :  Oregon, 
Washington,  Nevada,  California,  Idaho,  Wyoming 
and  Utah,  The  reason  for  this  embargo  is  the  preva¬ 
lence  of  scab. 
The  first  car  of  new  winter  wheat  of  the  present 
crop  was  received  at  Chicago  a  few  days  ago,  or  11 
days  later  than  In  1891.  The  wheat  In  question  was 
shipped  from  Anthony.  Kansas,  weighed  61  pounds  to 
the  measured  bushel,  graded  No.  2  red  and  sold  at 
83  cents. 
The  American  Tobacco  Company,  or  “Tobacco 
TruBt,”  has  a  capitalization  of  $35,000,000,  and  last 
year  paid  dividends  amounting  to  $5,700,000.  By  buy¬ 
ing  up  all  the  patents  on  machinery  for  manufac¬ 
turing  cigarettes,  it  has  for  some  time  had  nearly  a 
monopoly  of  the  business,  to  the  loss  of  producers 
and  consumers.  The  Cigarette  and  Tobacco  Com¬ 
pany,  having  bought  a  new  and  superior  patent  for 
cigarette  making,  has  just  started  as  an  opponent  of 
the  Trust,  with  an  “  unwatered  ”  capital  of  $2,500,000 
The  cereal  production  of  Wisconsin  for  the  census 
year  ending  May  31,  1890,  was  as  follows:  Barley. 
474,914  acres,  15,225,872  bushels;  buckwheat,  77,458 
acres,  1,064,178  bushels;  corn,  1,120,341  acres.  34,024,216 
bushels;  oats,  1,626,751  acres,  60,753,152  bushels;  rye 
275,058  acres,  4,250.582  bushels;  wheat,  744.080  acres( 
11,698,922  bushels.  The  total  area  devoted  to  cereals 
was  4,318,602  acres,  as  compared  with  4,327,294  acres 
at  the  10th  census.  There  was  an  increase  in  acreage 
In  all  cereals  except  wheat,  as  follows:  Barley, 
270,579;  buckwheat,  43,341;  corn,  104,948;  oats,  671,154; 
rye,  105,366  acres.  The  decrease  In  wheat  was  1,204,- 
080  acres. 
The  following  directions  for  picking  and  marketing 
turkey  feathers  should  be  remembered  by  poultry- 
men:  In  picking,  save  all  the  feathers  that  grow  on 
the  tall  of  the  turkey;  also  those  on  the  two  joints 
of  the  wing  next  the  body.  The  pointed,  one-sided 
quills  that  grow  on  the  outside  or  tip  of  the  wing  sell 
at  a  low  price,  and  should  be  surely  kept  separate 
from  the  others.  Lay  the  feathers  straight,  in  as 
light  boxes  as  possible;  do  not  stuff  them  into  bags, 
as  it  breaks  them.  Before  packing,  weigh  your  boxes 
with  the  covers,  and  mark  the  weight  In  plain  figures 
on  the  side  of  the  box. 
The  Superintendent  of  Census  has  issued  the  fol¬ 
lowing  statistics  of  cereal  production  in  West  Vir¬ 
ginia  for  the  census  year  ending  May  31, 1890.  Barley 
336  acres.  6,387  bushels;  buckwheat  13,696  acres,  120,- 
469  bushels;  corn  592,763  acres,  13,730,506 bushels;  oats 
180,815  acres,  2,946,653  busheis;  rye  14,962  acres,  117,113 
bushels;  wheat  349,616  acres,  3.634,197  bushels.  The 
total  acreage  devoted  to  cereals  was  1,151,578  acres  as 
compared  with  1,133,821  acres  at  the  tenth  census 
There  was  a  decrease  of  63,195  acres  In  barley,  buck¬ 
wheat,  rye  and  wheat,  and  an  increase  In  corn  of 
26,978  acres,  and  in  oats  of  53,884  acres. 
In  several  of  the  leading  tobacco-growing  towns  of 
Massachusetts  and  Connecticut  the  planters  have  al¬ 
ready  contracted  to  sell  this  year's  crop  at  from  25  to 
30  cents  a  pound.  These  are  very  high  prices,  and 
the  fact  that  they  were  offered  before  the  plants  were 
set  out  in  the  spring  causes  much  excitement  in 
the  tobacco  markets  later  on.  Asa  matter  of  fact; 
such  contracts  are  all  in  favor  of  the  buyer,  as  in 
most  cases  they  are  so  made  that  the  buyer  can  back 
out  if  either  quality  or  price  is  against  him,  while  if 
these  are  favorable  he  is  so  situated  as  to  insist  on 
delivery  of  the  goods.  The  1891  crop  has  been  cleaned 
up  as  never  before.  The  latest  sale  was  five  cases  of 
the  choicest  Havana  seed  wrappers  at  the  enormous 
price  of  60  cents  a  pound— the  highest  price  paid  to 
the  grower  since  the  great  gamble  just  before  the 
panic  of  1878. 
Out  of  a  total  production  of  corn  amounting  to 
2,060,154,000  bushels  In  1891  our  exports  for  the  last  10 
months  have  amounted  to  only  66,310,710  bushels 
against  25,769,107  bushels  in  the  corresponding  time 
last  year.  In  the  same  period  the  exports  of  corn 
meal  have  declined  from  274,869  barrels  to  236,337 
barrels.  On  the  other  hand,  the  exports  of  wheat 
have  Increased  from  41,692,108  bushels  to  137,204,467 
bushels,  and  of  wheat  flour  from  9,739,182  barrels, 
to  12,753,553  barrels.  While  the  exports  of  wheat  and 
wheat  flour  amounted  in  value  to  $206,275,526  in  the 
last  10  months,  the  value  of  the  exports  of  corn  and 
corn  meal  was  $37,338,447.  Of  this  exportation  of  corn 
31,964,854  bushels,  or  nearly  one-half,  were  sent  to 
Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  against  12,141,083  bushels 
in  the  previous  10  months;  but  much  of  this  expor¬ 
tation  was  distributed  to  other  countries.  The  ex¬ 
ports  of  corn  to  Germany  Increased  from  3,085,186 
bushels  to  12,272,960  bushels,  in  consequence  of  the 
great  demand  In  Germany  for  cheap  bread.  France 
has  taken  only  1,721,058  bushels  of  corn  from  this 
country  in  the  last  10  months,  while  to  the  rest  of 
Europe  the  exports  have  amounted  to  15,515,464  bush¬ 
els— an  increase  of  5,655,268.  Very  little  increase  of 
exports  of  corn  to  other  portions  of  the  world  are  to 
be  noted. 
AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
Judge  Wellhouse,  of  Tremont,  Kan.,  has  an  or¬ 
chard  of  1,078  acres. 
Several  girl  students  at  Cornell  are  taking  the  ag¬ 
ricultural  course.  One  girl  Is  studying  veterinary 
surgery. 
The  largest  bee-keeper  In  the  world  is  Mr.  Harbi- 
son,  of  California,  who  has  6,000  colonies,  producing 
200,000  pounds  of  honey  yearly. 
Prof.  S.  Mal.vvan,  of  Florida,  advocates  the  estab¬ 
lishment  of  orange  wineries  in  that  State  to  utilize 
the  unmerchantable  and  surplus  oranges. 
The  Kansas  wheat  crop  is  unprecedentedly  large 
according  to  all  reports.  Farm  hands  have  been  ex¬ 
tremely  scarce  and  from  $2  to  $3  a  day  has  been  paid 
them  with  board. 
Mrs.  J.  G.  Safley,  of  Traer,  la.,  owns  1,040  acres  of 
line  prairie  land,  and  does  her  own  farming.  Last 
year  she  sold  $5,000  worth  of  fat  cattle,  $450  worth  of 
horses  and  $1 ,205  worth  of  hogs. 
Cyclones,  tornadoes,  cloud-bursts  and  floods,  un 
usually  numerous  and  disastrous  this  season,  have 
been  as  ruinous  to  farmers  and  others  the  past  week 
as  in  any  other.  A  list  would  fill  a  column 
A  company  has  been  formed  in  Buffalo  to  es¬ 
tablish  flour  mills  in  the  wheat  districts  of  Sonora, 
Mexico.  The  first  mill  is  now  under  construction  at 
Hermosillo,  and  will  have  a  capacity  of  125  barrels  a 
day. 
Some  of  our  exchanges  are  again  circulating  the 
oft  exposed  canard  that  the  Agricultural  Department 
is  endeavoring  to  Introduce  the  bulb  of  the  Calla 
illy  as  an  article  of  food.  There  Is  no  foundation  for 
the  rumor. 
Hovey  County,  S.  C.,  has  20,000  wild  sheep  running 
unmolested  all  the  year  around  except  when  the 
county  officers  corral  and  shear  them  in  spring,  The 
money  derived  from  the  wool  Is  divided  among  the 
tax-payers. 
A  dispatch  to  the  Secretary  of  State  from  the 
United  States  Minister  in  Mexico  announces  the  ex¬ 
emption  from  duties  of  maize  in  grain  or  In  meal  and 
beans,  imported  through  the  Mexican  maritime  and 
frontier  custom  houses,  during  July  and  August,  1892. 
The  Hillsdale  (Mich.)  Fair  offers  $100  for  the 
three  largest  and  best  cabbages,  $20  for  the  second 
best.  They  also  offer  $40  for  the  best  five  varieties 
of  apples  for  market.  $20  for  second  best.  Entries 
close  September  27.  The  fair  will  be  held  October 
3 — 7. 
In  all  parts  of  Ohio  there  are  many  complaints  that 
wheat  heads  which  appear  plump  and  full  turn  out 
on  examination  to  have  few  grains,  while  in  many 
there  is  no  semblance  of  grain,  all  being  chaff.  It  is 
feared  that  there  will  be  a  serious  shortage  of  the 
crop. 
An  importation  of  mongooses  lately  arrived  in  San 
Francisco  from  the  Sandwich  Islands.  The  Collector 
asked  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  whether  ne 
should  admit  them.  The  Treasury  referred  the  mat¬ 
ter  to  Secretary  Rusk  who  was  very  emphatic  in  his 
wish  that  they  should  be  excluded.  Rats,  field 
mice,  and  other  vermin  have  cause  to  rejoice;  but  so 
have  all  sorts  of  poultry. 
The  Canadian  egg  trade  with  the  United  States  last 
year  was  valued  at  $1,177,831,  as  compared  with 
$2,095,435  In  1885.  Since  the  McKinley  Bill  went  Into 
operation  Canadian  eggs  have  sought  a  market  in 
England.  For  the  six  months  ending  with  September, 
1890,  the  exports  from  Canada  to  Great  Britain  were 
only  $1,208,  but  for  the  year  ending  September  30  last 
the  figures  reached  $250,000. 
A  late  number  of  the  London  Gardener’s  Chronicle 
says,  the  Orient  Company’s  steamer  “  Orotava  ”  is  l 
to-day  (June  8)  unloading  at  Tilbury  Dock  6,671  cases 
of  apples  from  Hobart.  A  few  days  previously  the 
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