Profitable Farming de¬ 
pends as much on sell¬ 
ing as',on producing. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER’S 
A crop which is well 
grown is on ly half 
way to market. 
MARKET, CROP AND NEWS SPECIAL. 
Special to 
Club Organizers. 
The multitude of able men, promi¬ 
nent and progressive farmers who are 
now interesting themselves in organ¬ 
izing clubs of subscriptions for The 
Rural New-Yorker speaks moi'e than 
volumes could of the warm feeling of 
personal interest between the Paper 
and its Readers. This practical co¬ 
operation in forwarding the import¬ 
ant interests of agriculture common 
to all farmers, practical, commercial, 
social, political, is what is actually 
placing The Rural New-Yorker at 
the very head of the farm papers of 
the World, in character, in circulation 
and in influence. By working to¬ 
gether ‘ ‘ we ”— subscribers, readers, 
editors and publishers—shall become 
a compact, strong body of ivorkers 
whose power for good will be limited 
only by our wisdom in using it for the 
furtherance of the objects we all have 
at heart. 
The opportunities for the organiza¬ 
tion of clubs are manifold. The casual 
meeting, at work, on the road, at the 
store, at the Grange, Alliance, Club 
meetings and social gatherings; these 
are the times and occasions for in¬ 
creasing our family of readers and 
subsequent workers in the cause of ad¬ 
vanced Agriculture. 
TRADE WINDS. 
Financial.— The money market in this 
city during the past week was easier, funds 
more plentiful and interest rates lower. 
The same conditions existed at most of the 
interior centers of trade. Collections were 
reported slow and irregular, however, in 
most localities, and although there has 
been a great improvement in the business 
outlook, there is still a great lack of con¬ 
fidence. There are several causes that con¬ 
tribute to this unsettled feeling. The 
country is evidently in a transition period 
in certain respects and business men as well 
as investors are slow to make new ventures. 
The new factors that have entered politics 
in many States and the uncertainty as 
to what legislative action will result have 
doubtless had something to do with the 
situation, but the most potent cause of the 
financial unrest is the pending Free Coin¬ 
age Bill. It was first passed on Wednes¬ 
day in the Senate as a free coinage amend¬ 
ment to the pending silver bill, but 
after this was done, a free coinage 
measure pure and simple, without any 
of the redeeming features of the 
original bill, was substituted and passed. 
The most forcible speech made during 
the debate was by Senator Sherman in 
opposition to the amendment. As the sub¬ 
stitute passed embraces the objectionable 
features of the amendment, the remarks 
apply with equal force to that. He said 
that it was in effect a proposition that 
the United States should pay $1.29 per 
ounce for silver bullion which was valued 
at only about $1.05 in the markets of the 
world. He declared that the effect of the 
bill would be to cause gold to be either 
hoarded or exported to other countries 
where it was in demand, and to reduce the 
standard of value on all contracts and ob¬ 
ligations entered into in the United States. 
He urged the Senate not to lower the stand¬ 
ard of value to join China, Japan and the 
South American States, but to remain in 
company of the great commercial nations 
which now stood hopefully by the best 
standard of value. He declared his em¬ 
phatic belief that the measure, if passed, 
would arrest the growing prosperity of the 
country. 
The amendment was passed by a vote of 
42 to 30, and the substitute by a vote of 39 
to 27. The bill provides that the unit of 
value shall be the dollar of 412K grains of 
silver, or of 25 8-10 grains of solid gold, and 
that the same shall be legal tender for all 
debts, public and private; that owners of 
silver or gold bullion may deposit the same 
at any mint to be coined into standard 
dollars or bars, except where the deposit is 
less than $100, or is so base as to be unsuit¬ 
able for the operations of the mint; that 
certificates issued under the act, and silver 
and gold certificates already issued, shall 
be receivable for all taxes and dues to the 
United States, and shall be a legal tender 
for the payment of all debts, public and 
private, and that the owners of bullion de¬ 
posited for coinage shall have the option to 
receive coin or its equivalent in the certifi¬ 
cates provided for in the act, and that such 
bullion shall be subsequently coined. 
This result is a victory for the silver men, 
but it is to be hoped that it will not become 
a law. It is difficult to see how it can be 
anything else but detrimental to the 
country at large. A gentleman connected 
with the U. S. Sub-Treasury in this city 
made the statement to-day (Monday), that 
already $20,000,000 in gold had disappeared 
from circulation. While people generally 
do not want gold as a circulating medium, 
they do not want a law that enables a class 
of men owning silver bullion to deposit it 
at the mint and receive a dollar certificate 
for each 80 cents’ worth of silver and at the 
same time compels other men to accept 
these certificates as legal tender. If this 
isn’t class legislation we would like to 
know what is. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Australia exported 10,000,000 rabbits last 
year. 
The Farmers’ Alliance is growing rapidly 
in Delaware. 
A shipment of 6,022 sacks of oil-cake was 
made to Antwerp. 
Italy is enforcing laws which practically 
prohibit American patent medicines. 
Wm. Lawrence was elected president of 
the Ohio Wool Growers’ Association. 
Dewey Bros, contemplate the establish¬ 
ment of a creamery at Drewryville, Ya. 
The Window Glass and Tobacco Trusts 
have gone the way of the Harvester Trust. 
The largest steamer shipment of Florida 
oranges for the season, 13,830 boxes, arrived 
Thursday. 
The rise in the price of meat in Germany 
has increased the general consumption of 
horse flesh. 
The Cincinnati packing of hogs for last 
week was 625,000, against 475,000 the same 
week last year. 
The Alliance agent at Lawrence, Kan., 
is reported short $4,000, caused by selling to 
unreliable firms. 
Large quantities of salmon have recently 
been shipped to France and black bass will 
soon be sent to England. 
F. G. Umbach, of Athens, Ga., has re¬ 
cently invented an improved harrow which 
is attached to an ordinary plow stock. 
The Wilmington, Del., Fair Association 
is in debt $25,000 This form of indebted¬ 
ness seems as popular as church debts. 
An English railway company was fined 
£100 and costs for transporting 36 pigs by 
means of which swine fever was spread. 
A new enterprise at Greenville, S. C., is 
the Piedmont nurseries, of which E. B. L. 
Taylor, of Rochester, N. Y., is proprietor. 
The Washburn-Moen Company, will re¬ 
move its plant from Chicago, Ill., to 
Waukegan, Ill., where it has purchased 
250 acres of land. 
A Shetland pony at Cincinnati made a 
mile in 5:49>£ and was presented to the man 
making the best guess as to his time. The 
guess was 5:49}£. 
Two Belgians were arrested at Paterson, 
N. J. t for manufacturing sausages from 
dead horses. The sausages were said to be 
entirely for export. 
In the Kansas Legislature 93 Farmers’ 
Alliance, 24 Republican and eight Demo¬ 
cratic members answered to their names 
at the first roll call. 
Eight palace cars laden with 128 horses 
were shipped from Senator Stanford’s Cal¬ 
ifornia ranch on Thursday, for sale by P. C. 
Kellogg & Co., of this city. 
A cargo of 2,500 bales of cotton from 
Alexandria, Egypt, said to be the largest 
cargo ever received, arrived at this port 
last week. It was valued at $350,000. 
A Connecticut creamery shows in its an¬ 
nual report 210,870 pounds of butter made 
during the year. Average gross sales per 
pound, 27.87 cents ; average net sales, 23.06 
cents. 
The citizens of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., 
held a jollification over the collapse of the 
Harvester combine, which insures the con¬ 
tinuance there of the Walter A. Wood ma¬ 
chine works. 
During a thunder storm early last week 
a barn near Newburgh, N. Y., was struck 
by lightning and five cows were killed. 
Rather an unusual occurence for this 
season of the year. 
Eight firms, doing about 85 per cent of 
the oat-meal business of this country, 
formed a combination at Chicago, on Thurs¬ 
day. The details are not all settled, but 
are expected to be soon. 
An English coffee-house keeper was fined 
£10 and costs for selling oleomargarine. 
This was his second conviction for a similar 
offence, the same penalty having been in¬ 
flicted upon his previous conviction. 
wing tips. The head and bill were two 
feet long. Enough feathers were taken 
from it to make a pillow, but we are not 
informed as to the size of the latter. 
The nurseries at Nashville, Tenn., of A. 
W. Neuson, J. I. Neuson and that operated 
under the title of the Rosebank Nursery, 
have been consolidated under the name of 
the Cumberland Nurseries, with a capital 
stock of $100,000. It is stated that the new 
concern will build 12 greenhouses next 
summer, and will plant next spring twice 
the amount planted in any previous year. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap¬ 
proved the order of the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, designating Rouse’s Point, Cape 
Vincent and Ogdensburg, N. Y., as quar¬ 
antine stations for the inspection of neat 
cattle, sheep and other ruminants. This 
order also applies to all such animals as 
may be Imported for transportation across 
United States territory for exportation to 
foreign countries, but does not apply to 
animals of American origin passing 
through Canada in bond, whether intended 
for domestic consumption or export. 
The wool growers held a meeting at Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio, the other night at which the 
Hon. Columbus Delano, for many years 
president of the National Wool Growers’ 
Association, made a speech. He asserted 
that America’s woolen manufacturers 
were for free wool and higher protection on 
the manufactured product, while on the 
part of the wool growers themselves, who 
had been deceived by the McKinley Bill, 
free wool and free goods or fair and equal 
protection to each is the determination, 
The latter, therefore, favored a modifica¬ 
tion of the existing duties on manufac¬ 
tured woolen articles, if the manufacturers 
were going to insist on free wool, for both 
must go down together. 
The barbed wire manufacturers have 
been holding another meeting in Chicago 
in the vain endeavor to form a combin¬ 
ation. The Washburn and Moen patents 
—over 100 in number—are the impediments 
in the way. 
A rattle-headed Frenchman advises 
Americans to import a pigmy owl found iu 
that country for the purpose of exterm¬ 
inating the English sparrows. He shows as 
little wisdom on the subject as did the man 
who imported the sparrows. 
At Washington last week at a meeting 
of the National Dairy and Food Association 
a resolution was adopted calling on Con¬ 
gress to enact such laws as will require all 
dairy and food products to be true to their 
names, and all adulterations, imitations 
and substitutes to be so labeled. 
Reports from Aroostook County, Me., 
say that there never was a time when there 
were so many potatoes in the cellars of 
Aroostook farmers as this winter. A single 
farmer has 1,600 barrels in his cellar, await¬ 
ing an opportune time to sell. Compara¬ 
tively few of those stored by farmers have 
yet gone into market. 
Oyster culture has become an important 
industry on many parts oi the French sea¬ 
board, the chief center being near Bor¬ 
deaux. Some of these beds were formerly 
productive but became exhausted by over¬ 
dredging. The business is now regulated 
by law. Similar restrictions are advocated 
for the oyster beds of our seaboard. 
The Southern Farm-Tool Co. has been 
incorporated at Atlanta, Ga., with a cap¬ 
ital stock of $100,000. The charter specifies 
that the company is to manufacture, buy 
and sell machinery, mills, labor-saving ar¬ 
ticles and all implements used in agricul¬ 
ture, and property used in connection with 
farms. The company is incorporated for 
20 years. 
A number of London milk dealers were 
fined for selling adulterated milk. The 
per cent of adulteration as well as the fines 
varied greatly, from five to seven per cent 
covering the greater number. *These were 
fined Id. and 2s. cost. An adulteration of 
26 per cent brought a fine of 10s. and costs; 
two of 35 and 38 per cent, 40s. and costs, 
and one of 44 per cent, £5 and costs. 
A Louisiana hunter killed a bird of huge 
proportions the like of which has never be¬ 
fore been seen in this country. It meas¬ 
ured nine ieet from tip to tip of its wings, 
and was snowy white except its black 
A bill has been introduced in the House 
to throw open the Cherokee Strip to settle¬ 
ment. The Cherokee Commission are 
hopeless of coming to an agreement with 
the Indians and therefore the bill was in¬ 
troduced. It had the practical indorse¬ 
ment of the administration. It was framed 
on the proposition in the act creating the 
commission, which was authorized to offer 
$1.25 an acre. The bill recites the law by 
which the government has a right to take 
the land and pay the Indians 47 49 100 cents 
an acre, but it waives the right and agrees 
to pay $1.25. Of the amount paid $5,000,000 
are to remain in trust, drawing six per 
cent interest, and $2,700,000 are to be dis¬ 
tributed among the Cherokees entitled 
thereunto under treaty stipulation. This 
would give to the Indians $106 per capita. 
The Rembert Roller Process Co., of Gal¬ 
veston, Tex., is about to give the world a 
process for baling cotton that will revolu¬ 
tionize the handling of this product. It Is 
claimed that a 500-pound bale can be 
ginned, pressed and tied for shipment iu 28 
minutes. The ordinary gin is used. The 
lint cotton from the gin passes through a 
tube to the condenser, where it is rolled 
into a continuous web of batting. This 
batting is then carried between two iron 
rollers, where it is compressed as much as 
desired. This is where the remarkable re¬ 
sults are accomplished, the immense pres¬ 
sure being exerted upon a thin layer of 
cotton instead of upon an entire bale. 
From the iron rollers the cotton is con¬ 
ducted in regular layers into a hopper. 
When enough is accumulated to form a 
bale, the hopper is released by automatic 
machinery, passes into an ordinary press, 
the lever is turned, the press is set in mo¬ 
tion, and in an exceedingly short time a 
bale of cotton is turned out. The press is 
simply to crowd the layers close together, 
the real pressing being done between the 
iron rollers. Meantime, an automatic con¬ 
trivance adjusts the hopper ready for re¬ 
ceiving cotton for another bale. The 
process is simple and effective. Cotton 
from the field goes in at one end and comes 
out at the other in a well compressed bale. 
Time, money, waste are all saved, besides 
there being less risk from fire and other 
causes. There has always been a fear, how¬ 
ever, that excessive pressure might in j ure 
the fiber of the cotton; but it is presumed 
that experiments have shown that this is 
not done by the new process. 
