Profitable Farming de¬ 
pends as much on sell¬ 
ing as on producing. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER’S 
A crop which is well 
grown is only 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 more 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 ivisdom 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 is easier. Money is more plentiful and 
rates a trifle lower. The apparent defeat of 
the Free Coinage Bill has a favorable effect 
upon the business world and increased con¬ 
fidence has resulted. Large amounts of 
money have been accumulated in the 
Treasury, but the banks have not suffered. 
In regard to business transactions the 
Journal of Commerce says that there have 
not been very marked movements in mer¬ 
chandise through the week, rather a con¬ 
servative handling of supplies, except for a 
few specialties which may have been af¬ 
fected by statistical positions to activity in 
the belief of secure positions. Thus sugar 
has had a prompt sale and at prices which 
have been on the upward move with the 
supplies narrowed and an offer with a good 
deal of reserve, while wants of the out-of- 
town trade of refined have been general and 
to a full extent. A singular feature in trade 
has been the large outlet for New Orleans 
molasses to the United Kingdom and the 
Continent, not only from this market but 
from the primary point because of the low 
prices which were forced for the season by 
the easier competition of the Cuba product. 
The distributions of coffee and general 
groceries have been larger and for the most 
part at well-sustained prices. The specula¬ 
tion in most articles has been fitful, in 
grain on the whole at stronger prices on 
diminished offerings, while for hog pro¬ 
ducts at steady declining figures on the rush 
of supplies of hogs. The cotton movement 
from planters’ hands has been beyond ex¬ 
pectations, and the course of the market 
has been to lower prices. 
A firm of millers in Mooreville, Ind., 
bought 16,000 bushels of wheat in the State 
of Washington for milling purposes, it be¬ 
ing impossible to get wheat enough at 
home to fill orders. It required a train of 
7 cars to transport the grain. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
New canning factories are to be started 
in various parts of New Jersey. 
The next meeting of the National Farm¬ 
ers’ Alliance will be held at Chicago. 
A company is being organized at Ocala, 
Florida, for the purpose of establishing a 
wagon factory. 
The Farmers’ Alliance is endeavoring to 
secure the erection of a cotton-seed oil mill 
at Denton, Tex. 
The exports of mutton during 1890 were 
over 3,000,000 carcasses, being about 15 times 
greater than 1883. 
The total value of dead meat exported 
from the United States during 1890, in 
round numbers will amount to $100,000,000. 
The Fort Payne Basket and Package 
Company of Fort Payne, Alabama, is in¬ 
creasing the capacity of its basket factory. 
A dispute between two Texan farmers 
over a calf was promptly ended by the 
death of one and the incarceration of the 
other for murder. 
The Alliance storekeeper at Spartan¬ 
burg, S. C., is reported short in his 
accounts anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000. 
Gross mismanagement is charged. 
The Richmond Hill arrived last week 
with a large number of Thoroughbred 
horses for breeding in this country. Ossian, 
a $10,000 stallion, died on the voyage. 
Nichols & Shepard, of Battle Creek, 
Mich., manufacturers of thrashing ma¬ 
chines, etc., have just made their em¬ 
ployees a present of $50,000 of stock in the 
firm. 
An application was filed recently at 
Chattanooga, Tenn., to wind up the affairs 
of the McDowell Wagon Company, caused 
by a disagreement among the partners of 
the concern. 
Cuban sugar planters are much hindered 
in their operations by insufficient help. 
Some ef them have not yet begun grind¬ 
ing. A severe drought has considerably 
diminished the flow of juice. 
Hog cholera is reported spreading with 
unprecedented severity in several counties 
of Kansas. Farmers are shipping hogs 
rapidly to market and it is feared many 
diseased ones may be included. 
In the German Reichstag last week, a 
motion was made to repeal the prohibition 
of the importation of American pork. 
After some discussion the motion was put 
to a vote and was defeated by 133 to 103. 
Senator Paddock last week reported from 
the Committee on Agriculture his bill, 
known as the Pure Food Bill, with two un¬ 
important amendments. The amendments 
are merely verbal and in no way affect the 
general purpose of the measure. 
Aultman, Miller & Co., of Akron, O., 
manufacturers of the Buckeye Mowers, 
have notified their hands of a cut in wages 
ranging from 20 to 60 per cent. The fierce 
competition incident to the failure of the 
Harvester Trust is given as the cause. 
The milk producers of the five States 
supplying the New York city market have, 
through their commissioners, organized a 
stock company for conducting their busi¬ 
ness. They are incorporated under the 
laws of New Jersey. The capital is $1,000,- 
000 . 
The Pine Fiber Factory of the Aiken 
Pine Fiber and Bagging Company, was re¬ 
cently destroyed by fire at Aiken, S. C. A 
new company will be organized with $50,- 
000 capital stock for the purpose of rebuild¬ 
ing the plant. 
The Wichita Live Stock Association has 
been organized at Wichita, Kan., by prom¬ 
inent Alliance men. The capital stock is 
$100,000, in shares of $25 each, to be placed 
among the Alliance farmers, no stockholder 
to have more than 20 shares. Each stock¬ 
holder will have one vote. 
A new organization, known as the San 
Jose Dried Fruit Company, has been incor¬ 
porated at San Jose, Cal. The declared 
purpose of the corporation is to buy, can, 
dry, preserve and sell green fruits and 
vegetables. The capital stock is $200,000, 
divided into 2,000 shares of $100 each. 
A Civil Service Examination will be held 
in Washington City on the 10th inst, com¬ 
mencing at 9 A. M., to fill the position of 
assistant pomologist in the Department of 
Agriculture. Salary, $1,600. The subjects 
of the examination will be: Orthography, 
penmanship, copying, letter writing, arith¬ 
metic and pomology. The last named is 
weighted at thirteen twentieths of the 
whole examination. Special training on 
pomological science and skill in practical 
pomology are required for the place. 
The following are the newly-elected Na¬ 
tional Alliance officers : President, John 
H. Powers, Nebraska; vice-presidents, 
Charles Morgan, Pennsylvania; Thomas 
Finks, New York; W. H. Sickens, Ohio; 
Wm. Klnerd, Indiana; Milton George, Illi¬ 
nois; G. M. Butts, Wisconsin; G. O. Col¬ 
lins, Missouri; A. J. Westfall, Iowa; J. J. 
Furlong, Minnesota; W. A. Jones, Ne¬ 
braska ; G. F. Cravens, Washington; sec¬ 
retary and treasurer, August Post, Iowa; 
national lecturer, George Lawrence, Ohio ; 
first assistant national lecturer, MNs Eva 
McDonald, Minnesota ; second assistant, J. 
W. Ravens, Washington. 
The Columbia Oil and Huller Company, 
with a capital of $1,000,000, was incor¬ 
porated in Chicago last week. The object 
of the company is stated to be the manu¬ 
facture and refining of cotton-seed oil and 
the manufacture of all kinds of cotton and 
of other seed products, including incident¬ 
ally lard, soap and fertilizers. Arrange¬ 
ments have been made, it is said, to start a 
mill and refinery in Chicago, and a mill in 
Memphis is to be in the combine from the 
start. The company, according to a pro¬ 
moter, proposes to be a competitor of the 
Cotton-seed Oil Trust and attract the sup¬ 
port of the discontented planters and 
refiners not members of the trust. 
Reciprocity is beginning to bear fruit. 
The President has issued a proclamation to 
the effect that Brazil will hereafter admit 
free of duty the following articles provided 
the same are manufactured or produced in 
the United States : Wheat, wheat flour; 
corn or maize and the manufactures there¬ 
of, including corn meal and starch; rye, rye 
flour, buckwheat, buckwheat flour and bar¬ 
ley ; potatoes, beans and pease; hay and 
oats; pork, salted, including pickled pork 
and bacon, except hams; fish, salted, dried 
or pickled; cotton-seed oil; coal, anthracite 
and bituminous; resin, tar, pitch and tur¬ 
pentine ; agricultural tools, implements 
and machinery; mining and mechanical 
tools, implements and machinery, including 
stationary and portable engines, and all 
machinery for manufacturing and indus¬ 
trial purposes, except sewing machines; in¬ 
struments and books for arts and sciences; 
railway construction material and equip¬ 
ment. The following are to be admitted with 
a reduction of 25 per cent duty under same 
provisions as those admitted free: Lard 
and substitutes therefor; bacon hams; 
butter and cheese; canned and preserved 
meats, fish, fruits and vegetables; manu¬ 
factures of cotton, including cotton cloth¬ 
ing ; manufactures of iron and steel, single 
or mixed, not included in the foregoing 
free schedule; leather and the manufac¬ 
tures thereof, except boots and shoes; 
lumber, timber and the manufactures of 
wood, Including cooperage, furniture of all 
kinds, wagons, carts and carriages; manu¬ 
factures of rubber. Brazil’s products will 
be admitted to this country duty free. 
This treaty takes effect January 1, 1892. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y.-We had nice 
winter weather till within a week ; since 
then rain and wind have prevailed. Winter 
wheat is looking nice. Times are improving 
and farmers are more cheerful. Hay is low. 
Prices of all kinds of stock have advanced, 
especially those of sheep and good horses! 
Potatoes are selling at 90 cents to $1 per 
bushel, and will probably be considerably 
higher before planting time. Butter 22 to 
25 cents per pound; eggs 25 cents per dozen. 
C. H. F. 
Jo Daviess Co., III.—We have had the 
finest winter imaginable—only one bad 
snow storm and a blow at New Year’s—and 
we are having the second rain to-day. 
There has been scarcely any windy weather 
and the mercury has been to zero but once, 
and then only for a few hours. Feed is 
plentiful, but stock is more so. Roads 
have been good most of the time as the 
weather has been dry and not warm enough 
to thaw very deep. Corn is rather scarce 
at 40 cents. There was very little profit in 
running a thrasher or clover huller last 
fall. I ran the thrasher six weeks at VA 
cent for oats and three cents for rye and 
wheat; net profit, $60; capital invested, 
$1,000. We had but one breakdown. I ran 
a huller two weeks at $1 per bushel for 
clover seed; net profit, $32. A good many 
hogs died in these parts with some swine 
fever. The hair all came off of those that 
recovered and their skin was red. I have 
lost none for 15 years. Scarcely any snow 
now. Help us get the Paddock Pure Food 
Bill passed. W. 8. 
On The Columbia River, Washington. 
—It makes me shiver to read the accounts 
of the severe winter east of the Rockies in 
the northern, middle and Atlantic States. 
Up to the end of January we have not seen 
a flake of snow this winter. On the morn¬ 
ing of the 8th we had our first hard frost; 
the mud was stiffened just a little, and the 
thermometer stood at 30 degrees. For the 
week following we had similar frosts every 
morning, the thermometer in the early 
morning generally standing at about 26 
degrees, except once, when it fell to 22 de¬ 
grees ; bright, sunny days, though there 
was no thaw in the shade. On the 15th we 
had a change—southerly wind and a 
little rain; but nice weather, the ther¬ 
mometer ranging from 40 degrees to 56 de¬ 
grees. We are preparing to start the 
plow. On January 11 commenced to feed 
my young stock, dry cows and horses run¬ 
ning out. The cattle come to their feed—a 
little hay, ouce a day—pretty regularly; 
horses pay little attention to it. All are in 
fine condition. I was raised on the south¬ 
ern shore of Lake Erie, and used to enjoy a 
pair of skates, and thought a nice sleigh- 
ride, with a bright young lady by my side, 
between two buffalo robes, the height of 
felicity, but when I arrived at manhood I 
strayed a long way from home, and have 
never been sorry. j. B. K. 
Parke County, Ind.— Wheat in Western 
Indiana is very promising. In the last num¬ 
ber of The Rural, it says a slight mulch 
would much preserve the wheat. In passing 
a field of wheat sown on oat ground I ob¬ 
served that the crop looked better than that 
sown on other ground adjacent. I examined 
it carefully and left satisfied that the killed 
oats were acting a3 a mulch and benefit¬ 
ing that field. If so, would it not be a 
good idea to sow a small amount of oats 
with the wheat at seeding time to act as a 
mulch? Our live stock is living finely 
through the winter with but little feeding. 
A. c. B. 
Pike County, Illinois.— Wheat looks 
tolerably well. Since June 14, we have not 
had two inches of rain. Corn about half 
a crop, worth 50 to 60 cents; oats one-thi rd of 
a crop, worth 40 cents; wheat very good, 
having averaged probably 20 bushels per 
acre; worth 87 cents. I am now hauling 97- 
cent wheat for 87 cents. I kept it expecting 
to get $l,and “got left” as did scores of 
others. When wi 11 we as farmers learn to sell 
on an advancing market rather than on a de¬ 
clining one. We practice mixed farming 
here: wheat, hogs and corn are the main 
products, and fruit is coming to the front 
very rapidly. j. w. H. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
The Fruit and Produce Trade Associa¬ 
tion, with principal offices in this city, has 
been incorporated at Albany. 
New York City Milk Exchange directors 
have fixed the February price of milk at 
$1-57 per can, the same as the price for 
January ; this nets the farmer three cents 
per quart. 
The first auction sales of Colonial wool 
for the season opened at London with large 
quantities of wool offered and brisk buying 
by a large number of buyers. The prices 
were fully up to last year’s closing rates 
and in some cases five per cent higher. 
