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AGRICULTURAL  NEWS. 
Paris  makes  false  teeth  for  horses. 
In  Cape  Colony  there  are  earth  worms  six  or  seven 
feet  long. 
The  St.  Paul  Plow  Works,  of  Gladstone,  Minn., 
have  been  destroyed  by  Are;  loss  $300,000,  insurance 
$162,000. 
With  a  humorous  sparkle  of  the  eye,  Uncle  Jerry 
Rusk  says  he  Intended  to  resign  on  March  4  next, 
anyhow. 
“  To  abandon  or  not  to  abandon  wheat  growing  ” 
Is  now  a  lively  question  among  the  farmers  of  tb# 
British  Isles. 
Australia  Is  diligently  cultivating  her  butter  trade. 
Between  2.000  and  3,000  tons  are  annually  exported, 
mostly  to  London. 
The  value  of  the  honey  and  wax  produced  in  the 
United  States  during  the  past  year  has  been  esti¬ 
mated  at  $20,000,000. 
One  of  the  most  significant  signs  of  the  English 
times  Is  that  the  British  farmer,  always  a  persistent 
hunter,  has  ceased  to  be  so,  owing  to  bar.  times. 
Upwards  of  100,000  pounds  of  snails  are  eaten  every 
day  by  the  residents  of  the  gay  French  capital,  the 
snail  market  being  the  busiest  industrial  mart  in 
Paris. 
The  61  lump-jawed  cattle  condemned  and  shot  by 
Inspector  Howard  at  the  Omaha  market  In  October, 
were  bought  by  the  rendering  company  for  an  aver¬ 
age  price  of  $3.22  per  head. 
In  1891  Canada  exported  to  England  31,664  sheep 
and  the  United  States  10,350.  Now  that  our  sheep  are 
admitted  as  freely  as  those  of  our  neighbor,  what 
will  be  the  proportion  next  year  ? 
A  special  from  New  Orleans  says  the  cotton  crop 
prospects  grow  worse  every  day,  and  the  yield  will 
be  45  per  cent  less  than  last  year,  with  a  total  not 
exceeding  4,000,000  bales. 
Secretary  Rusk  says:  “Veterinarians  of  the  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture  are  now  inspecting  over  3,000,000 
cattle  a  year  at  the  time  when  slaughtered,”  to  cer¬ 
tify  to  the  wholesomeness  of  the  meat  for  home  us# 
and  export. 
TITTT’S  PILLS  cure  Chills  and  Fever. 
The  Western  Meat  and  Refrigerator  Express  Com¬ 
pany,  which  will  build  and  operate  cars  for  the  trans¬ 
portation  of  meat,  and  provide  suitable  terminals, 
etc.,  was  incorporated  in  Topeka,  Kan.,  the  other 
day.  Capital,  $500,000. 
The  greatest  meat  eaters  in  the  world  are  the  peo¬ 
ple  of  America,  whose  average  consumption  is  175 
pounds  per  annum.  The  English  come  next,  with 
an  average  of  a  little  over  110  pounds.  The  French 
eat  only  half  as  much  meat  as  the  English. 
There  has  lately  been  a  great  deal  of  talk  out  West 
about  the  decrease  in  the  number  of  cattle  on  the 
plains  and  prairies;  but  there  appears  to  be  little  or 
no  decrease  in  the  number  of  Texan  and  plain# 
cattle  In  the  markets.  Can  the  supply  of  these  cattle 
be  sensibly  diminished? 
Recent  investigations  show  that  all— well,  nearly 
all— Chicago  milk  1#  adulterated  with  from  15  to  45 
per  cent  of  water.  The  swindle  is  attributed,  not 
to  the  producers,  but  to  the  dealers.  The  sickly  and 
perishing  Infants  are  crying  aloud  for  a  rigid  milk 
Inspection  law  In  the  Windy  City. 
According  to  the  report  of  the  Japanese  Cotton- 
Spinning  Mills  Association  34  spinning  mills,  repre¬ 
senting  324,800  spindles,  were  at  work  during  the  first 
six  months  of  the  present  year.  During  that  period 
the  quantity  of  yarn  spun  by  these  mills  amounted 
to  41.138,791  pounds,  giving  employment  to  5,420  men 
and  16,110  women. 
The  flock  masters  of  Ohio  are  already  selling  out 
as  rapidly  as  possible.  More  sheep  have  been  sold  in 
Licking,  Knox,  Guernsey,  Carroll,  Morrow  and  other 
wool-growing  counties  in  the  past  week  than  in  any 
similar  period  for  years.  Wool  growers  believe  that, 
under  the  promised  wool  legislation,  Australian  wool 
will  kill  the  domestic  business,  and  are  getting  out 
as  rapidly  as  possible. 
The  November  Government  crop  report  estimates 
the  yield  of  potatoes  at  62  bushels  per  acre.  The  yield 
is  82  in  Maine,  63  in  New  York,  60  in  Pennsylvania, 
62  in  Michigan,  70  in  Minnesota,  51  in  Iowa  and  47  in 
Kansas.  The  crop  is  almost  everywhere  light,  the 
tubers  small  and  rotting  considerably  in  New  York 
and  throughout  the  West. 
The  determination  of  the  Sugar  Trust  to  abandon 
barrels  and  use  bags  in  the  packing  and  shipping  of 
sugar  is  likely  to  revolutionize  the  sugar  busine##. 
The  Rice  Trust  is  likely  to  make  a  similar  change. 
There’s  a  great  saving  in  cost,  freight  and  handling, 
and  farmers  grow  the  materials  for  burlaps  while 
Nature  grows  those  for  barrels. 
Out  of  a  total  of  427.214  cattle  sent  by  ocean  vessels 
to  the  British  markets  last  year  from  Canada,  United 
States  and  Argentina  only  5,971  were  lost  at  sea  and 
323  landed  dead.  Of  63,155  sheep  sent  from  the  same 
countries  2,665  were  lost  on  board  ship  and  101  landed 
dead.  Besides  these  losses  471  cattle  and  113  sheep 
were  so  injured  as  to  necessitate  slaughter  on  arrival 
at  port. 
The  second  annual  meeting  of  the  Dorset  Horn 
Sheep  Breeders’  Association  of  America  will  be  held 
at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  New  York  city,  January 
11,  1893,  beginning  at  10:30  A.  m.  Morning  session,  de¬ 
voted  to  business  and  the  election  of  officers.  In  the 
evening,  addresses  by  Prof.  Wing  of  Cornell,  and 
John  A.  McGilllvary,  Esq.,  of  Canada.  M.  A.  Cooper, 
secretary,  Washington,  Pa. 
Latest  Government  estimates  of  the  corn  crop 
place  the  average  yield  per  acre  at  22.4  bushels,  or  an 
aggregate  of  something  over  1,600,000,000  bushels. 
The  average  yields  for  corn  in  the  seven  surplus 
States  are  as  follows:  Ohio,  29  bushels;  Indiana,  28; 
Illinois,  25;  Iowa  28;  Missouri  28,  Kansas, 28.3;  Ne¬ 
braska  28.7.  The  average  yield  of  buckwheat  is  14.1 
bushels  per  acre  ;  in  New  York  14.7  ;  Pennsylvania 
14.5;  Wisconsin  13.5;  Iowa  10.7. 
Senator  Peffer  of  Kansas,  says  delightedly:  “The 
next  President  will  be  a  Populist.  Our  issues  will  b# 
silver  and  taxation  questions  and  on  them  we  are 
sure  to  win.”  He  says  the  Populists  in  the  Senate 
will  vote  with  the  Democrats  on  the  tariff  question. 
In  Kansas  the  two  Democratic  legislators  seem  to 
hold  the  balance  of  power,  and  are  likely  to  vote  with 
the  Republicans  for  United  States  Senator  to  succeed 
Plumb.  Mrs.  Lease  is  the  chief  Populist  candidate. 
The  British  Commission  to  investigete  the  evic¬ 
tions  of  tenants  in  Ireland  is  likely  to  prove  a  com¬ 
plete  fiasco.  The  I’arnelllte  organs  bitterly  denounce 
it  as  useless  to  tenants;  the  Tory  landlords  refuse  to 
testify  before  It  on  the  ground  that  it  is  a  partisan 
organization  and  from  its  very  constitution  opposed 
to  them,  and  it  is  the  center  of  attacks  from  all  quar¬ 
ters.  It’s  prompt  relief  from  their  grievances  and 
not  interminable  investigations  of  them  the  Irish 
agriculturists  demand. 
Farmers  who  need  big  safes  to  protect  their  stocks, 
bonds,  mortgages  and  other  evidences  of  wealth, 
should  buy  them  at  once  as  another  big  safe  combine, 
with  a  capital  of  $5,000,000,  has  just  been  formed.  It  is 
the  Dlebold-Mosler-Damon  Safe  Company,  and  with 
the  Marvln-Hall -Herring  Company  will  practically 
control  all  the  safe  manufacturing  business  of  th# 
country.  It’s  to  be  hoped  the  party  coming  into  power 
will  be  able  effectually  to  legislate  against  such 
trusts— for  trusts  they  all  are,  “working”  under  so 
many  aliases. 
Owing  to  outrageous  frauds  in  land  entries  on  tbs 
public  domain  discovered  and  Investigated  under 
Land  Commissioner  Sparks,  all  government  land 
surveying  was  suspended  on  the  government  lands 
in  California.  New  Mexico,  Wyoming,  Washington, 
Idaho,  Oregon  and  Arizona.  The  losses  amounted  to 
millions  of  dollars.  At  last  the  accused  parties  are 
to  be  brought  to  trial  at  San  Francisco.  J.  B.  Hall, 
J.  R.  Glover,  J.  A.  Benon  and  G.  H.  Perrus  are  the 
worthies  to  be  tried.  Most  of  these  were  expert  sur 
veyors  and  are  said  to  have  formed  a  syndicate  in 
San  Francisco  to  swindle  the  government.  A  num¬ 
ber  of  banks  are  implicated  as  aiding  the  alleged 
rogues. 
Captain  Lugard,  who  has  lately  been  in  command 
of  Ugunda,  a  large  territory  in  central  Africa,  in  an 
address  to  the  British  Chamber  of  Commerce  the 
other  day,  declared  that  the  country  was  admirably 
adapted  for  raising  cotton,  and  that  enough  could  be 
raised  there  to  make  Lancashire  independent  of 
America.  Egypt  has  this  year  the  largest  and  finest 
cotton  crop  ever  raised  in  the  country.  Cotton  cul¬ 
ture  is  rapidly  extending  in  the  southern  sections  of  Ml. 
Asiatic  Russia.  In  India,  too,  the  industry  is  steadily  \ 
spreading,  and  even  China  and  Japan  are  trying  to  N 
raise  enough  to  supply  their  own  needs  with  cotton  ^ 
fabrics,  the  manufacture  of  which  has  been  recently  0 
introduced  into  both  countries.  Several  of  the  other  0 
African  settlements  lately  founded  by  the  European  0 
powers  are  said  to  be  well  suited  to  the  growth  of  ^ 
the  staple.  Just  now  It  seems  that  hardly  any  other  N 
American  industry  is  threatened  with  such  severe  \ 
foreign  competition  in  the  near  future  as  that  of  ^ 
cotton  production.  The  American  staple,  how-  0 
ever,  is  still  the  best.  0 
Cornell’#  new  Pre»ldent,  Dr.  Jacob  Gould  Schur-  0 
man,  lnaugerated  on  November  11,  wants  the  State  0 
to  contribute  1150,000  a  year  towards  the  expenses  of  ^ 
the  Unlversltv  on  the  ground  that  it  1#  strictly  a  State  ^ 
Institution  and  is  compelled  by  its  charter  to  give  ^ 
free  tutlon  to  512  sons  of  the  State,  though  it  receives  ^ 
not  one  dollar  from  it.  When  Cornell,  with  other  0 
State  Institutions  of  the  kind,  competed  for  the  • 
assignment  by  the  State,  of  the  Government  land  0 
grant  under  the  Morrill  Act,  didn't  it  voluntarily  J 
agree  to  grant  free  tuition  to  ihose  512  students  as  a  \ 
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sell  those  land#  for  an  average  of  $7  per  acre  while  Q 
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establishment  of  an  agricultural  and  mechanical  col-  ^ 
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circulation.  As  a  SPECIAL  INDUCEMENT  to  new  readers,  both  papers  will  be  sent  from  time  subscrip¬ 
tion  1b  received  until  January  1, 1894,  for  ONLY  $>2.00. 
Send  a  postal  card  to  THE  OHIO  FARMER,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for  a  FREE  specimen  copy. 
Send  your  orders  for  this  combination  to  either 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER  or  THE  OHIO  FARHER. 
