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Aug.  20 
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AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
The  Texas  drought  Is  over. 
A  Minneapolis  mill  makes  15,300  barrels  of  Hour  a 
day. 
Seventy  mares  have  been  bred  to  the  great  trotting 
stallion  Allerton  this  season. 
The  cultivation  of  the  grape  in  Prance  gives  em¬ 
ployment  to  no  fewer  than  2,3000,000  persons. 
The  worst  drought  since  1809  Is  drying  up  crops, 
wells  and  streams  In  the  Schuylkill  Valley,  Pa. 
An  electric  storm  In  northern  New  YTork  on  August 
9,  was  very  destructive  to  barns  and  live  stock. 
Mr.  Geo.  W.  Knorr  of  Kentucky  has  been  elected 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Kentucky  Dairy 
Association. 
In  France  an  outbreak  of  phylloxera  is  reported  In 
the  Avlze-Cramant  district,  the  vineyards  of  which 
are  among  the  Bnest  In  Champagne. 
The  Jersey  section  of  the  competitive  breed  test  at 
the  World's  Fair  will  be  In  charge  of  Mr.  Valancey 
E.  Fuller,  the  well-known  Jersey  breeder. 
There  Is  a  report  in  Wall  Street  that  a  gigantic 
jelly  trust,  with  a  capital  of  $12,000,000,  has  just  been 
established  to  act  under  a  New  Jersey  charter. 
A  bill  is  to  be  Introduced  into  the  next  session  of 
the  Pennsylvania  legislature  for  the  creation  of 
forest  reservations  at  the  bead-waters  of  the  princi¬ 
pal  rivers. 
Dispatches  from  Oklahoma  say  that  large  numbers 
of  cattle  throughout  the  Indian  Territory  are  dying 
of  Texas  fever.  The  disease  is  reported  to  be  spread¬ 
ing  rapidly. 
The  University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  has 
lately  added  to  Its  veterinary  department  a  hospital 
for  dogs  which  is  said  to  be  the  finest  institution  of 
its  kind  in  the  world. 
Secretary  Noble  has  appointed  a  commission  to 
negotiate  with  the  Yankton  Indians  of  South  Dakota 
for  accession  of  their  surplus  lands,  which  aggregate 
about  168,000  acres. 
An  analysis  of  the  British  House  of  Commons 
shows  that  of  the  670  members  only  83  are  land 
owners  and  10  farmers;  while  the  lawyers  hold  164 
seats,  more  than  any  three  other  classes  combined. 
It  is  said  that  during  the  past  four  months  2 1,000,000 
bushels  of  corn,  principally  from  Kansas  and 
Nebraska,  have  been  shipped  to  Mexico.  The  move¬ 
ments  of  corn  In  that  direction  is  said  to  show  no 
signs  of  falling  off. 
The  cotton  planters  of  the  South  got  from  the  late 
Congress  what  they  have  been  after  for  10  years— an 
appropriation  of  what  virtually  amounts  to  $10,000,000 
for  building  levees  and  making  other  improvements 
along  the  Mississippi  River. 
Reports  from  the  southern  part  of  Oneida  and  por¬ 
tions  of  Madison  Counties,  N.  Y.,  indicate  that  a  late 
storm  did  great  damage  to  the  hop  fields.  The  vines 
In  many  yards  were  torn  from  the  poles,  and  in  other 
places  the  poles  were  leveled.  The  damage  will 
amount  to  thousands  of  dollars. 
The  exports  of  wheat  from  India  are  running  be¬ 
hind  last  year’s.  Since  the  first  of  April  the  shipments 
up  to  last  week  were  19,080,000  bushels,  against 
23,500,000  bushels  for  the  corresponding  period  of 
1891.  Of  the  total  first  named  11,600,000  bushels  went 
to  the  United  Kingdom  and  7,380,000  bushels  to  the 
continent  of  Europe. 
The  exportation  of  nitrate  from  all  the  Chilian 
nitrate  ports  in  May  was  1,428,739  quintals  (Spanish), 
as  compared  with  995,737  In  May,  1891,  and  870,732  in 
May  1890.  The  total  quantity  loading  on  May  31  was 
1,442,200  quintals  (Spanish),  as  compared  with  738,238 
on  the  same  date  in  1891,  and  4,060,300  on  the  same 
date  in  1890.  A  Spanish  quintal  Is  112  pounds. 
During  the  first  half  of  the  current  year  British 
imports  of  cattle  were  247,346  head,  or  24,000  more 
than  for  the  first  six  months  of  1891 .  Fresh  beef  im¬ 
ports  during  the  same  period  were  101,343,200  pounds, 
an  increase  of  7,629,500  pounds.  Mutton  imports 
were  6,000,000  pounds  below  those  of  the  first  half  of 
1891,  and  the  number  of  sheep  Imported  fell  off  nearly 
two-thirds. 
The  threatened  enforcement  of  a  retaliatory  policy 
by  the  United  States  against  Canada,  is  likely  to  be 
avoided  by  the  Canadians  abolishing  the  rebate  of 
18  cents  a  ton  on  all  grain  shipped  by  the  St.  Law¬ 
rence  Canal  to  Montreal,  and  fixing  a  toll  of  20 
cents,  which  will  apply  to  American  and  Canadian 
vessels  alike,  without  regard  to  the  ports  to  which 
vessels  are  bound.  The  former  Canadian  policy  was 
designed  to  force  grain-laden  vessels  from  the  West 
since 
1861.  1871. 
1881. 
1891. 
The  BRADLEY  FERTILIZER  CO.  use  only  the  best  of  crude  materials,  which  are  care¬ 
fully  prepared  by  approved  machinery  according-  to  formulas  based  upon  thorough  field  tests, 
thus  furnishing  the  best  plant-food  possible  to  secure.  1  hese  essential  requisites,  combined 
with  liberal  dealings  with  the  farmers,  have  made  the  BRADLEY  hERTILIZER  CO. 
the  largest  manufacturers  of  Fertilizers  in  the  world.  For  full  information,  address 
WESTERN  NEW  YORK  OFFICE: 
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No.  27  Kilby  Street,  BOSTON.  Rochester,  n.  y. 
to  unload  at  a  Canadian  port  Instead  of  one  belong¬ 
ing  to  the  United  States,  and,  according  to  American 
diplomacy,  was  in  violation  of  our  treaty  rights. 
Congress  authorized  the  President,  by  proclamation, 
to  levy  retaliatory  taxes  on  Canadian  vessels  pass¬ 
ing  through  canals  In  the  United  States,  especially 
the  Saut  Ste  Marie  Canal  in  northern  Michigan. 
A  strike  that  will  directly  affect  farmers,  as  it  is 
pretty  sure  to  affect  the  price  of  plows,  is  that  which 
has  just  occurred  at  the  Avery  Plow  factory,  Louis¬ 
ville,  Ky.  The  factory  has  been  shut  dotvn  during 
the  summer  months  and  was  just  ready  to  resume. 
The  company  decided  to  reduce  the  wages  of  the 
piece-workers  and  200  men  would  not  accept  the 
reduction. 
Complaints  are  made  In  England  of  the  slim  attend¬ 
ance  at  the  Royal  Counties  Show,  lately  held  at  Red- 
hill,  where  only  15,347  paid  for  admission  on  the  four 
days,  as  compared  with  35,397  at  Portsmouth  last 
year,  and  22,760  at  Winchester  In  1890.  National  elec¬ 
tions  seem  to  have  a  demoralizing  effect  on  public 
e  vhtbitlons,  and  Indeed  to  some  extent  on  all  sorts  of 
b  usiness,  on  the  other  side  of  the  water  as  well  as  on 
this. 
There  are  reports  from  many  sections  of  Texas 
that  the  boll  worm  Is  doing  very  great  Injury  to  the 
cotton  crop.  Many  plantations  have  been  completely 
ruined.  The  general  crop  of  the  State  Is  eight  days 
later  than  last  year  and  already  six  per  cent  worse. 
The  estimated  acreage  of  corn  over  last  year  is  14 
per  cent  more  and  its  condition  In  nine  per  cent  bet¬ 
ter.  The  reports  are  based  on  replies  from  67  coun¬ 
ties,  64  of  which  report  the  corn  crop  sufficient  for 
home  consumption. 
Those  42  Imprisoned  Wyoming  would-be  lynchers 
of  the  ‘'rustlers”  have  been  set  at  liberty  on  $20,000 
bail  each.  The  sheriff  positively  refused  to  feed  or 
keep  them  longer,  and  the  ball  Is  merely  nominal,  as 
most  of  them  aren’t  worth  a  cent,  and  they  them¬ 
selves  alone  signed  the  collective  bail  bond.  None  of 
them  Is  likely  to  be  ever  again  legally  troubled  about 
the  matter,  but  they’ll  get  little  mercy  if  they  fall 
into  the  hands  of  the  “rustlers.” 
On  the  night  of  July  19  a  special  train  of  five  cars 
loaded  with  fresh  fruits  was  dispatched  from  Sacra-  I 
mento,  Cal.,  for  New  York,  where  the  fruit  was 
promptly  tranferred  to  the  Majestic.  On  August  5 
the  fruit  was  sold  at  auction  In  London,  but  the 
prices  were  not  high,  buyers  professing  to  believe 
that  fruits  kept  so  long  under  such  conditions  would 
be  unfit  for  sale.  Plums,  pears  and  peaches  com¬ 
prised  the  bulk  of  the  shipment.  Bartlett  pears  sold 
for  from  7s.  3d.  to  7s.  6d.  per  box.  Crawford  peaches 
brought  from  5s.  9d.  to  6s.  9d.  per  box. 
Kolb,  the  fusion  candidate  lu  Alabama,  declares 
that  he  was  elected  by  40,000  majority,  but  that  he 
has  been  swindled  out  of  his  rights  by  the  grossest 
ballot  box  stuffing  and  most  flagrant  election  frauds. 
He  says  he  will  not  submit,  but  will  appeal  to  the 
majority  who  elected  him.  A  convention  of  the 
Farmers’  State  Alliance  met  at  Cullmen  on  August 
10,  63  out  of  66  counties  being  represented.  A  prop¬ 
osition  that  all  Kolb’s  followers  refuse  to  pay  the 
State  tax  to  the  Jones  government  was  discussed 
and  adopted  next  day.  Jones’s  majority  has  already 
dwindled  from  20,000  to  10,000. 
The  general  opinion  throughout  the  country  is  very 
emphatic  that  Farmer  Governor  Buchanan,  of  Ten¬ 
nessee,  has  made  the  outrageous  blunder  of  his  life 
by  commuting  to  life  Imprisonment  the  death  sen¬ 
tence  just  about  to  be  executed  on  Col.  Henry  Clay 
King,  the  lecherous,  deliberate,  cold-blooded  mur¬ 
derer  of  lawyer  Poston,  his  legal  opponent  In  a  law 
suit.  If  such  is  the  stuff  farmer  governors  are  made 
of,  people  generally  think  the  fewer  of  them  we  have 
to  license  murder,  the  better.  Buchanan  has  been 
hung  in  effigy  in  Memphis,  where  both  parties  to  the 
murder  resided,  and  it  is  doubtful  whether  he  could 
now  be  elected  as  constable  in  even  a  “  moonlight 
whisky  ”  village  among  the  mountains  of  the  State. 
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