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Nov.  19 
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AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
Seven-eighths  of  London’s  bread  is  made  from  for¬ 
eign  wheat. 
Roosters  were  in  tremendous  demand  just  after 
the  election. 
American  Horse  Show  at  Chicago  November  27  to 
December  3. 
More  cattle  will  be  fed  in  northwestern  Iowa  this 
season  than  ever  before. 
The  Whisky  Trust  will  feed  40,000  head  of  cattle  this 
fall,  against  25,000  head  last  year. 
In  a  corn  husking  contest  in  Australia  the  winner 
husked  500  ears  in  20  minutes  and  10  seconds. 
Secretary  Rusk  says  that  experiments  so  far  indi¬ 
cate  that  iodide  of  potassium  will  prove  a  sure  cure 
for  lumpy  jaw. 
Of  late  the  weather  on  the  Atlantic  has  been  al¬ 
most  unprecedentedly  rough  and  terribly  fatal  to 
live  stock  in  transit. 
Sir  John  B.  Lawes  estimates  the  British  wheat  crop 
at  7,428,483  quarters,  or  59,427,804  bushels,  one  of  the 
lowest  estimates  ever  made. 
England  imported  for  use  the  past  year  1,200,000 
hens,  cocks,  capons  and  cockerels,  over  1 ,000,000  ducks 
and  more  than  10,000  partridges. 
The  harvest  in  southern  Bessarabia  has  proved  a 
complete  failure.  The  inhabitants  are  without  grain 
and  the  cattle  without  fodder. 
At  the  recent  chyrsanthemum  show  in  this  city 
$0,500  were  offered  in  premiums,  some  of  which 
amounted  to  $150  or  $200  apiece. 
R.  H.  Price,  Horticulturist  and  Botanist  of  the 
Texas  Agricultural  College,  has  also  lately  assumed 
the  duties  of  State  Entomologist. 
The  Texas  State  Swine  Breeders’  Association  will 
hold  its  next  spring  meeting  and  Institute  at  Wax- 
ahachle  the  last  Tuesday  In  February. 
During  the  summer  packing  season  closed  October 
31,  a  total  of  7,750,000  hogs  were  handled  by  packers 
in  the  West,  against  0,990,000  in  1891,  and  9,540,000  in 
1890. 
Glucose  factories  are  not  feeding  as  many  cattle 
on  slop  as  formerly,  having  adopted  a  process  of 
drying  their  waste,  which  they  are  selling  to  dairy¬ 
men. 
Clover  seed  has  advanced  materially  at  leading 
Western  points  such  as  Chicago  and  Toledo.  At  the 
former  city  receipts  are  decidedly  small,  and  a  fair 
demand  exists. 
A  scheme  is  mooted  in  Chicago  to  hold  a  fat  stock 
show  at  Tattersall’s,  16th  and  Dearborn  Streets,  be¬ 
ginning  about  December  12.  without  the  aid  of  the 
Illinois  Board  of  Agriculture. 
The  Japanese  use  chrysanthemum  blooms  for  food, 
and  a  gardener  in  New  Zealand  has  just  hit  upon 
the  idea  of  using  a  meat  refrigerator  company’s  ap¬ 
paratus  to  prepare  them  for  shipment  to  England. 
The  Texas  Experiment  Station  reports  that  many 
hogs  experimentally  fed  on  cotton  seed  or  cotton¬ 
seed  meal  exclusively,  have  died. 
The  Chicago  pork  packers  having  economically 
utilized  every  ether  part  of  a  hog,  are  now  puzzling 
their  brains  for  some  means  to  utilize  its  squeal. 
Good  comb  honey  will  be  scarce.  Even  California 
fails  to  roll  in  her  usual  supply  to  the  Eastern  mar¬ 
kets.  From  nearly  all  sections  comes  the  mournful 
declaration,  “  It  has  been  a  poor  year.” 
A  Petersburg,  Va.,  dispatch  early  in  the  week  says 
not  more  than  half  a  peanut  crop  will  be  made  in 
that  State.  The  failure  is  due  to  dry  weather  in 
August.  The  crop  is  also  said  to  be  very  short  in 
North  Carolina. 
A  prodigious  army  of  gray  squirrels  invaded  the 
|  country  about  Peterville.  Ky.,  Monday,  and  did 
l  immense  damage.  They  have  destroyed  tens  of 
■  thousands  of  bushels  of  corn.  Bears,  deer  and  wild- 
!  cats  are  also  numerous. 
There’s  a  project  on  foot  to  build  another  trans¬ 
continental  Canadian  railroad  to  be  called  the 
Canada  Western.  It  is  to  be  1,045  miles  long,  opening 
up  thousands  of  square  miles  of  good  grazing,  tim¬ 
ber,  agricultural  and  mining  lands. 
Railroads  have  increased  their  freight  rates  since 
lake  navigation  has  closed  from  Chicago  to  Atlantic 
seaboards.  The  rate  from  Chicago  to  New  York  is 
$1.30  per  hundred  pounds  against  64  cents  per  hun¬ 
dred  pounds  before  navigation  closed. 
Lord  Melrose,  the  largest  St.  Bernard  dog  in  the 
world,  died  Monday  at  the  Melrose,  Mass.,  kennels. 
He  was  sired  by  Ben  Lomond,  out  of  Recluse,  and 
had  won  first  prizes  at  many  bench  shows.  He  was 
35  inches  high  and  weighed  210  pounds. 
According  to  estimates  by  the  Cincinnati  Price 
Current,  stocks  of  lard  November  1  in  this  country 
and  Europe,  and  afloat,  are  155,000  tierces  less  than 
at  the  same  date  one  year  ago,  and  63,000  less  than 
the  average  for  this  date  for  10  years  previous. 
According  to  a  California  exchange,  240  tons  of 
fruit  have  been  sent  to  England  this  season  from 
California.  Of  this  large  amount  two-thirds  are 
pears,  which  fruit  colors  finely  during  the  voyage 
and  is  in  good  condition  for  market  on  its  arrival. 
Inquiry  into  the  condition  of  the  phosphate  lands 
at  Buckingham,  Quebec,  show  that  little  mining  will 
be  done  during  the  coming  year.  Prices  are  so  low 
that  owners  consider  it  more  advantageous  to  har¬ 
bor  their  mines  than  eompete  with  the  phosphate  of 
Florida. 
The  development  of  rice  production  in  Southeast 
Texas  is  truly  wonderful.  Some  counties  that  never 
had  a  seed  planted  until  this  year,  have  the  present 
fall  harvested  more  than  100,000  acres.  The  yield  has 
been  entirely  satisfactory  and  more  will  be  planted 
next  year  than  this. 
The  cranberry-picking  season  on  Cape  Cod  is  now 
at  its  height,  and  thousands  of  the  poorer  people 
have  been  profiting  by  the  opportunity  to  make 
money.  Of  late  years,  however,  it  has  been 
found  that  the  native  workers  are  insufficient,  and 
foreigners  have  been  introduced. 
In  Paris  the  court  is  hearing  an  application  made 
by  a  syndicate  of  wine  growers  of  Champagne  for  an 
Injunction  to  prevent  the  chief  houses  of  Saumur, 
outside  the  Champagne  country,  from  labeling  their 
wines  “champagne.”  The  defendants  claim  that 
there  exist  Swiss,  Italian,  Crimean  and  Californian 
champagnes  and  that  Saumur  has  a  prescriptive 
right  to  the  title. 
A  French  scientist  lately  obtained,  it  is  reported,  a 
yield  of  42  tons  of  potatoes  per  acre  by  treating  the 
seed  tubers  with  sulphate  of  ammonia.  He  steeped 
the  potatoes  for  24  hours  in  a  solution  of  six  pounds 
of  saltpeter,  six  pounds  of  sulphate  of  ammonia  and 
25  gallons  of  water.  He  then  al  owed  them  to  stand 
and  drain  for  a  day,  in  order  that  their  buds  might 
swell,  before  planting  them.  What  an  absurdity! 
In  spite  of  all  the  earnest  efforts  of  our  Canadian 
neighbors,  all  Canadian  cattle  arriving  in  the  United 
Kingdom  alter  November  21,  must  be  slaughtered  at 
the  ports  of  debarkation  within  10  days  from  their 
arrival.  The  government  has  put  on  the  embargo  on 
the  petition  of  the  Royal  Agricultural  Society,  Short¬ 
horn  Society,  Central  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Smith- 
field  Club  and  other  important  cattle  interests  in 
England. 
The  London  Times  advises  the  British  Govern¬ 
ment  to  Issue  a  permanent  order  for  the  slaughter 
of  all  foreign  cattle,  sound  as  well  as  diseased,  at 
the  ports  of  entry  This  could  not  be  objected  to  by 
any  foreign  country  and  would  remove  all  charges 
of  unfriendly  discrimination. 
Secretary  Edge,  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Board 
of  Agriculture,  announces  the  dates  of  the  following 
farmers’  institutes:  New  Hope,  Bucks  County,  De¬ 
cember  1  and  2;  Warrior’s  Mark,  Huntingdon  County 
December  6  and  7;  Greencastle,  December  14  and  15; 
Somerset,  December  27  and  28;  Graysvllle,  Greene 
County.  December  13  and  14;  Huntingdon  Mills,  Lu¬ 
zerne  County,  January  12  and  13.  The  next  annual 
meeting  of  the  Board  will  be  held  in  Pittsburg  on  the 
fourth  Wednesday  in  January. 
Press  telegrams  early  in  the  week  stated  that 
American  roads  with  Mexican  connections  figure  on 
a  total  shipment  of  over  4,000,000  bushels  of  corn  to 
our  Southern  neighbor.  Fully  half  this  amount  haB 
already  been  shipped  into  Mexico  and  sold  or  given 
to  the  famine-stricken  natives  by  different  gover¬ 
nors.  The  balance  is  now  on  the  way  or  is  side¬ 
tracked  at  the  Mexican  border  for  lack  of  equip¬ 
ment  on  Mexican  roads.  This  unexpected  market 
has  been  opened  by  the  almost  complete  failure  of 
the  Mexican  corn  and  bean  crops. 
Was  it  a  cyclone,  tidal  wave,  earthquake  or  land¬ 
slide  or  a  combination  of  all  four  with  some  other 
wonderful  upheavals?  Not  the  least  marvelous  phen¬ 
omenon  was  the  prominent  position  captured  by  the 
Populists  or  People’s  party  at  a  bound.  According 
to  the  latest  Democratic  figures,  it  has  secured  the 
following  votes  in  the  Electoral  College:  Colorado  4; 
Idaho  3,  Kansas  10,  Nevada  3,  North  Dakota  3,  South 
Dakota  4,  or  27  in  all  out  of  a  total  of  444.  As  it  is 
necessary  according  to  the  Federal  Constitution  that 
the  successful  candidates  should  have  a  majorlty-not 
a  plurality— of  the  electoral  votes,  at  first  glance 
after  the  election,  it  looked  as  if,  owing  to  its  suc¬ 
cesses,  the  election  would  be  thrown  into  Congress, 
when  the  present  body  would  elect  President  and 
Vice  President,  and  as  the  House  is  overwhelmingly 
Democratic,  while  the  Senate  is  decidedly  Repub¬ 
lican,  Cleveland  and  Reid  would  be  elected.  The 
overwhelming  victory  of  the  Democratic  ticket,  has 
however,  rendered  this  result  out  of  the  question. 
From  present  appearances,  it  seems  as  if  the  new 
party  would  hold  the  balance  of  power  in  the  Senate, 
as  from  present  indications,  it  will  elect  one  Senator 
in  each  of  the  following  States:  Kansas,  Montana* 
Nebraska,  Nevada,  North  and  South  Dakota,  or  six 
in  all.  As  the  Democrats  are  likely  to  have  43  and 
the  Republicans  39,  the  Populists  would  hold  the  bal¬ 
ance  of  power.  Of  course  a  large  share  of  the  party’s 
success  was  due  to  its  fusion  with  the  Democrats  in 
every  State  in  which  it  triumphed;  hence  the  latter 
will,  nodoubt,  have  a  good  deal  of  influence  in  the 
election  of  United  States  Senators.  Its  success  as  a 
party  is  due  to  the  discontent  of  a  large  number  of 
farmers  and  workingmen  with  the  policies  of  both 
the  old  parties.  The  chief  objects  it  will  advocate 
will  doubtless  be  laws  for  tariff  reform  and  exten¬ 
sion  of  the  currency  by  free-silver  or  greenback 
legislation,  and  against  trusts  and  all  other  monop¬ 
olistic  agencies.  The  Democratic  victory  is  hailed  by 
many  as  a  triumph  of  the  masses  over  the  classes,  of 
toilers  over  the  millionaires  and  plutocrats  ;  how¬ 
ever  this  may  be,  the  success  of  the  Populists  is 
emphatically  in  this  line.  They  are  likely  to  make  a 
strong,  indeed  a  verv  strong  show  at  the  Presidential 
election  in  1896.  In  the  South  where  they  expected 
most,  they  were  snowed  under  in  every  State  where 
they  made  an  effort. 
CROP  AND  MARKET  NOTES. 
Hudson  River  grapes  are  out  of  market. 
All  public  markets  in  this  city  were  closed  after  10 
A.  m.  on  election  day. 
The  stock  of  calf  skins  is  extremely  small,  and 
prices  are  on  the  rise. 
Now  that  election  is  over  and  the  country  safe,  an 
improvemsnt  in  market  prospects  is  to  be  hoped  for. 
The  net  returns  to  the  Florida  orange  growers  for 
last  years’s  crop  were  said  to  average  71  cents  per 
box. 
Some  of  the  Chautauqua  grape  growers  shipped 
four  car-loads  of  choice  fruit  to  England  as  an  ex¬ 
periment. 
The  number  of  cold  storage  plants  in  New  York 
and  throughout  this  country  is  continually  increas¬ 
ing.  This  method  of  handling  perishable  products 
is  growing  in  favor. 
Reliable  eggs  are  scarce  in  Boston,  and  prices  are 
made  at  a  decided  advance.  Eastern  extras  at  24  to 
26  cents;  Western,  23  to  24;  Nova  Scotia,  22  to  23.  and 
nearby,  27  to  29.  Limed  eggs  are  quiet,  buyers  pre¬ 
ferring  cold  storage. 
The  vineyardlst  who  plants  Champion  grapes  for 
market,  should  be  compelled  to  eat  his  crop.  This 
miserable  variety  does  more  injury  to  the  market  by 
disgusting  people  with  its  sour,  insipid,  unripened 
flavor,  than  a  half  dozen  good  varieties  can  overcome 
in  half  the  season. 
Grape  growers  in  the  lake  region  of  western  New 
York  are  trying  to  devise  some  plan  for  insuring 
better  prices  to  themselves.  The  vaunted  scheme  of 
the  Niagara  White  Grape  Company,  which  was  to 
accomplish  such  wonders,  seems  to  have  fallen  far 
short  of  its  promised  achievements. 
Malaga  grapes  are  reported  to  be  a  short  crop,  and 
as  Catawbas  take  their  places  to  a  certain  extent 
the  demand  for  the  latter  variety  is  likely  to  be  con- 
siderab  y  improved. 
An  Australian  farmer  asserts  that  if  fruit  trees 
are  mulched  in  winter  with  eucalyptus  leaves  they 
will  be  entirely  free  of  blight  or  fungi  of  any  kind 
the  following  season. 
The  apple  crop  of  England  is  reported  very  light; 
that  of  France  is  - light,  and  of  Holland  very  small. 
Belgium  has  a  good  crop,  Germany  poor— not  nearly 
enough  for  its  own  use. 
A  California  operator  is  said  to  have  made  $30,000 
to  $40,000  this  year  by  buying  and  evaporating  apri¬ 
cots;  a  sum  which  might  just  as  well  have  been  made 
by  the  growers  themselves.  Great  is  the  middleman. 
The  Boston  butter  market  still  continues  a  few 
cents  behind  New  York  and  Chicago,  and  from  this 
fact  shipments  from  Boston  are  not  as  large  as  from 
other  markets.  Dealers  feel,  notwithstanding  the 
light  shipments,  there  is  enough  stock  in  the  cold 
storage,  and  this  will  satisfy  all  demands  of  the 
trade,  at  the  same  ttme  giving  a  good  profit  at  its 
cost  price. 
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