Profitable Farming de¬ 
pends as much on sell¬ 
ing as on producing. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER’S 
MARKET, CROP AND NEWS SPECIAL. 
A crop which is well 
grown is only half 
way to market. 
TRADE WINDS. 
Financial—' The money market contin¬ 
ues easy, money being sufficiently plentiful 
for all demands, and loan rates easy. On 
Friday, $1,790,000 in gold was withdrawn 
for shipment to Europe. The Journal of 
Commerce says that the temper of commer¬ 
cial affairs showed some improvement on 
the precf ding week. The jobbing houses 
generally reported that their out-of-town 
orders were of a more general character, 
and that they were well satisfied with the 
display of buying interest. There has been 
some advance in prices of sugar and for 
the more desirable grades of coffee. The 
feature of the week in the grocery trade 
has been the active interest on the part of 
distributing houses in the purchase of re¬ 
fined sugar for deliveries in the spring 
months when the duties come off raw, 
with the difference in prices in favor of 
buyers on the product taken up as com¬ 
pared with spot goods fully \% to 2 cents. 
The export movement in breadstuffs and 
hog products have been on an enlarged 
scale. Unusually large shipments of flour 
have been made to the United Kingdom 
markets, and the wheat at marketable 
centers throughout the country has been 
rapidly taken up by the millers. The 
country’s supplies of hogs have been much 
beyond expectations, and their rapid mar¬ 
keting kept packers on the bear side of 
the products. The cotton movements from 
planters’ hands exceeded recent estimates 
and the situation of the article has been 
depressed. The wool dealers have not had 
much activity in their trading, but they 
have held their moderate stocks with some 
little confidence. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Oregon has passed a law protecting her 
song birds. 
A Merino ram sold recently in Sydney, 
Australia, for $1,365. 
A sugar mill and refinery are being 
established at Pittsburg, Texas. 
A company has been organized at Jack- 
son, Tenn., to establish a creamery. 
Farmers in Warren Co., N. J., are vary¬ 
ing the monotony by hunting bears. 
An Iowa farmer directs operations on 
his immense farm by means of the tele¬ 
phone. 
The Bee Keepers’ Association of South¬ 
ern California represents over 14,000 stands 
of bees. 
During the week ending January 31 there 
were 416 cars of export cattle shipped from 
Chicago. 
The Ayrshire Breeders’ Association held 
its sixteenth annual meeting in this city 
last week. 
Orange growers in southern California 
are making preparations to import Tahiti 
orange trees. 
G. S. Palmer, the well-known commission 
merchant of this city, starts on a trip to 
Florida this week. 
Mr. George W. Childs, of the Philadel¬ 
phia Public Ledger, has erected a $30,000 
stable at Wootten. 
There were 31,740 cars of stock received 
at Chicago during January, the largest 
number in one month. 
The grain tonnage from the States of 
Kansas and Nebraska will not exceed one- 
half the amount of 18110. 
Hon. William Alvord, of San Francisco, 
has been elected President of the Ameri¬ 
can Forestry Association. 
The George Campbell Company, of New 
Yoik City, will establish a bark and quer¬ 
citron mill at Mosley, Ya. 
The Royal Fertilizer Company with a 
capital stock of $300,000, has been incor¬ 
porated at Charleston, S. C. 
It is estimated that Nebraska has 11,226,- 
400 acres of vacant land which is better 
adapted to grazing than farming. 
Total receipts of live stock at Chicago 
during January were 274,359 cattle, 7,499 
calves, 1,068,260 hogs, 205,132 sheep. 
A Cleveland drygoods merchant has sued 
H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, for $364,- 
000, which he claims he lost by going into 
the Cattle Trust at the solicitation of the 
defendants. 
The receipts of cattle at Chicago the first 
five days of February were 41,084, corres¬ 
ponding time 1S90, 55,380—1889—38,221. 
The Nickerson Fertilizer Factory of Tal¬ 
bot County, Md., has been organized at 
Easton, with a capital stock of $100,000. 
Two Indiana farmers became involved in 
a quarrel over a line fence when one fatally 
shot the other. Down with the fences 1 
The Alliance Mercantile Manufacturing 
Company, with a capital stock of $20,000, 
has been incorporated at Woodstock, Ga. 
The receipts of hogs at Chicago the first 
five days of February were 163 083; corres¬ 
ponding days of 1890, 104,304—1889—112,021. 
The California Legislature is to be 
petitioned to provide for the free analyz¬ 
ing of all fertilizers offered for sale in the 
State. 
The average weight of hogs received at 
Chicago during the last three months is 
14% pounds less than for the same time in 
1889-90. 
The shipments of hogs from Chicago 
during January were 230,000, the largest 
since October, 1887, when 250,880 were 
shipped. 
A. W. Schmitt & Co., will establish a 
sausage factory at Middlesborough, Ky., 
and also a packing house in connection 
therewith. 
The Farm Manufacturing Company of 
Norfolk, Va., has established a factory in 
that city for the manufacture of ventilated 
barrels for truck. 
There were nearly 1,300,000 more hogs 
packed in Chicago during the last three 
months than the three corresponding 
months in 1888-89. 
Large numbers of boomers are reported 
to be invading the Indian reservations in 
the Indian Territory. Getting ready for 
another Indian war, probably. 
A company is being organized at Gal¬ 
veston, Tex., by Mr. Felix Fremery for the 
culture and manufacture of ramie, jute 
and okra. The company will have a capi¬ 
tal stock of $10,000. 
For some years it had been generally 
known that the cork oak was a success in 
California, but the first attempt at planting 
a large grove has just been inaugurated in 
the Santa Clara Valley, 
Terrible reports of depredations by 
wolves come from Hungary. On one es¬ 
tate alone, 20 peasants have been devoured; 
the government is taking measures for the 
extermination of the pests. 
The Macon (Ga.) Produce Exchange has 
been organized with a capital of $10,000. It 
proposes to handle 2,000 cars of melons and 
other fruits, also all kinds of Eastern and 
Western fruits and products. 
* The celebration of the beginning of the 
second century of the American patent 
system will be celebrated in Washington, 
April 8—10. Whether this iB matter for 
congratulation or otherwise is a question. 
The Richmond Agricultural Implement 
Company has been organized with a capital 
stock of $25,000, and has opened and will 
conduct an agricultural implement busi¬ 
ness in all of its branches at Richmond, Va. 
The joint resolution passed by the Cali¬ 
fornia Senate some days ago, asking Con¬ 
gress for laws providing for a government 
tax on land and loaning money on farm¬ 
ing lands, was passed in the Lower House 
also. 
An Englishman who has been working 
in Prof. Koch’s hospital in Berlin claims 
to have discovered a cure for the disease of 
anthrax in cattle. His method is exactly 
the same as that of Koch as regards inocu¬ 
lation, but he thinks he has found the an¬ 
thrax killer in rats. 
Secretary Rusk announces that owing to 
the unprecedented demands for seeds from 
local branches of the Farmers’ Alliance 
and other agricultural and horticultural or¬ 
ganizations as well as from persons all 
over the country, the Department is un¬ 
able to furnish any more seeds. 
Mr. Hatch, from the Committee on Agri¬ 
culture, has reported to the House a bill as 
an amendment in the nature of a substl 
tute for the Senate bill to provide for the 
inspection of live cattle, hogs and the car¬ 
casses and products thereof which are the 
subjects of inter State commerce, etc. 
Brown’s University has actually appoint¬ 
ed a committee of seven to decide whether 
the institution will be justified in accept¬ 
ing the whole or only part of the Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station fund. Some—or 
at any rate one—institutions of learning 
appear to have some conscience where the 
usually despised agricultural interests are 
concerned. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has issued 
his Texas fever regulations to transporta¬ 
tion companies and others. They are in 
effect from February 15 to December 1. He 
concludes by the statement that a rigid 
compliance with the regulations will in¬ 
sure comparative safety to Northern cattle 
and render it unnecessary to adopt a more 
stringent regulation. 
At the third annual meeting of the Ver¬ 
mont Maple Sugar Exchange, the Manager 
stated that the exchange now had 1,000 
regular customers on its books, enough to 
take'.every dollars’ worth of sugar and syrup 
produced ; 25,000 pounds of sugar and 10,000 
gallons of syrup were handled the past sea¬ 
son. The sugar averaged 10 cents a pound 
and the syrup $1 a gallon. 
The Arkansas Horticultural Society, 
through its president, recently sent a reso¬ 
lution to the Lower House of the Arkansas 
Legislature asking for the appropriation 
of $25,000 to make a horticultural display 
at the World’s Fair, the money to be ex¬ 
pended under the supervision of the society. 
The resolution was referred to a committee 
and will probably be acted upon in a few 
days. 
It is stated that fertilizer analyses at the 
North Carolina Experiment Station will 
be somewhat late this season. The delay 
is caused by the necessity of a change by 
the legislature from a license tax on each 
brand to a tonnage charge. This law is 
now passed and no further time will be 
lost. Four inspectors will rapidly take 
samples of all fertilizers in the State, and 
the samples will be analyzed at the station 
as fast as possible. 
The present Legislature of North Caro- 
lin a will be petitioned to reclaim the rich 
bottom lands lying along the Roanoke 
River, in the northern part of North Caro¬ 
lina, which property is now subject to 
overflow. These lands are among the 
richest in the State, and it is claimed that 
sufficient grain can be raised thereon, to 
supply the entire population of North 
Carolina. It is proposed to build dikes 
with convict labor. 
A Kansas man has just received letters 
patent for the invention of machinery for 
the manufacture of artificial eggs. The arti¬ 
ficial is said to resemble the natural pro¬ 
duct in all particulars. The inventor says 
that he can manufacture at least one car¬ 
load per day at a cost of three cents per 
dozen, with machinery that will cost only 
$500. This humbug bobs up serenely about 
once in so often, but is no less a humbug 
because fathered by the Patent Office. 
The bicyclers are taking active measures 
in the agitation for better roads. The New 
York and Connecticut divisions of the 
League of American Wheelmen have offer¬ 
ed $100 in gold, in three prizes of $50, $30 
and $20 for photographs of bad roads. The 
subjects suggested are such as are all too 
common on the “dirt” roads of the country: 
breakdowns, “stuck-in-the mud” photo¬ 
graphs, etc., as well as such scenes as illus¬ 
trate the beauties of good roads. Partic¬ 
ulars may be obtained of Isaac B. Potter, 
Potter Building, New York, or Charles L. 
Burdett, Hartford, Conneeticut. 
The Earl Fruit Company, which ships 
large quantities of California fruits to this 
and other Eastern cities, has secured a large 
number of refrigerator cars of a new and 
improved pattern, which will be used in 
the transportation of fresh fruits and 
vegetables the coming season. The car* 
are so arranged that they can be made 
ventilator cars while passing through a 
warm climate, and are readily converted 
into refrigerator cars when in higher 
altitudes or cold climates. It is claimed 
that they are impervious to frosts and 
superior to anything that has heretofore 
been built for the purpose. They will be 
used in moving a portion of the orange crop 
of the Southern counties. 
The Anti Pool and Trust law passed by 
the New Mexico Legi-lature went into 
effect last week. It declares as illegal 
every contract or combination between in¬ 
dividuals, associations or corporations, hav¬ 
ing for its object or which will operate to 
restrict trade or commerce or control the 
quantity, price or exchange of any article 
of manufacture or product of the soil or 
mine. Any individual agsnt or officer or 
stockholder of any corporation or associa¬ 
tion who shall make any such contract or 
engage in any such combination shall be 
held guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con¬ 
viction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 
and by imprisonment at hard labor not ex¬ 
ceeding one year or until such fine has been 
paid. 
Representative Stock bridge, of Mary¬ 
land, from the Committee on Commerce, 
has reported in the House a bill to pro¬ 
vide for the safe transportation and hu¬ 
mane treatment of cattle expoited from 
the United States to foreign countries. It 
authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to 
examine all vessels carrying export cattle 
from the ports of the United States to for¬ 
eign countries, and to prescribe, by rules 
and regulations, the accommodations which 
they shall provide for these cattle as to 
space, ventilation, fittings, food and water 
supply and other requirements for the safe 
and proper transportation of the cattle. 
Vessels failing to comply with the regula¬ 
tions shall not be granted clearance papers; 
and if the master of any vessel shall will¬ 
fully violate any of the regulations while 
the cattle are in transit, the vessel may be 
prohibited from again carrying cattle from 
any United States port for such length of 
time as the Secretary may direct. 
The estimates of numbers and values of 
farm animals, made at the end of each year 
and returnable in January to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, have been consoli¬ 
dated. There appears to have been little 
change In numbers except on the Pacific 
coast and in certain portions of the Rocky 
Mountain area, where the winter of 1839-90 
was unusually severe. Losses were espec¬ 
ially heavy on the Pacific slope. The num¬ 
ber of horses on farms, as reported, is 
14 056,750. Average price of all ages, $67, a 
decline from last year of $184 The num¬ 
ber of mules is 2,296,532, having an average 
value of $77 88, a decline from last year of 
37 cents. The number of milch cows is 
16.019,595, an increase of 66,708 from last 
year. The average value per head is $21 62, 
which is less by 52 cents than last year’s aver¬ 
age. There is a tendency to increase of dai ry- 
ing in the South, especially in the mountain 
region which offers inducements of cheap 
lands and abundant grasses. Other cattle 
aggregate 36,875,648, including those on 
ranches. The highest value is $28.64 in 
Connecticut; the lowest $8 46 in Arkansas. 
In Texas the value is $8 89. The estimated 
number of sheep is 43,431,136. The average 
value is $2.51, an increase of 24 cents, or 
more than 10 per cent. All other kinds of 
farm animals have declined slightly in 
price. A tendency to increase of numbers 
is seen in most of the States, though the 
heavy losses from the severe winter of last 
year on the Pacific slope have decreased the 
aggregate. The aggregate number of swine 
is 50.625,106, showing adecline of nearly two 
percent. The average value is $4.15, a de¬ 
crease of 57 cents per head. The scarcity of 
corn caused a slaughter of stock hogs in poor 
condition, tending to glut the market and 
reduce the price temporarily. 
COMPLETED TO DEAD WOOD. 
The Burlington Route, C., B. & Q. R. R., 
from Chicago, JPeoria and St. Louis, is now 
completed, and dally passenger trains are 
running through Lincoln, Neb , and Cus¬ 
ter, S. D., to Deadwood. Also to New¬ 
castle, Wyoming. Sleeping cars to Dead- 
wood.— Adv. 
