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. 
TRADE WINDS. 
Financial. —Money was easier and plen¬ 
tiful in this city. Good commercial paper 
was in good demand. The supply of money 
from Treasury disbursements was good 
and included about $2,000,000 paid the 
State by the Government Direct Tax Re¬ 
fund Bill passed at the last session of Con¬ 
gress. Exchange was dull and firm early 
in the week at $4.86 for long and $4 89 for 
short. But on the announcement of a new 
policy by the Treasury, the Department 
refusing to sell bars for shipment, even at 
a premium of 40 cents per $1,000, and com¬ 
pelling exporters to accept four sevenths 
double eagles, two-sevenths eagles, and 
one seventh half eagles, the rates for ster¬ 
ling were advanced to $4 87 for 6J day and 
$4 89% for sight, and there was a rise of 
about out fourth of one per cent in the con¬ 
tinental exchanges. The shipments of 
gold were $1,000,000 on Wednesday and 
$2,375,000 on Saturday. Besides imposing 
the above-mentioned restrictions upon the 
export of gold, shippers were required by 
the Treasury Department to state whether 
the metal was wanted for an exchange or 
for an arbitrage operation. 
General Business. — Money has been 
plenty, says the Journal of Commerce. It 
has b;en easy to get accommodation at low 
rates, and when merchandise has been 
unduly depressed or has had a good statis¬ 
tical position, the speculators have been 
around causing some little excitement. 
Of late years the article corn had never 
touched nearly 78, yet there is where it 
stands to-day, and there are parties who 
are going long of it even at that price, 
although the most active business has been 
done with shorts. It has been possible to 
market wheat to exporters at a radical 
advance, while the speculators have had 
a lively time with its upward course. Of 
course damage to the French crop has been 
a source of strength, but not much in the 
way of positive features form controlling 
influences when the specula or is full¬ 
blown for victims. The outlet for flour has 
been wide and general and has covered a 
much freer business with the United King¬ 
dom ports. 
A help to the export business has been 
the full supply of ocean tonnage on offer at 
low rates. While the general trade looked 
for an important rise in provisions from 
low winter rates, they hardly expected a 
material advance thus early in the year, 
but reports were circulated that the hogs 
were coming in of poor quality, and as corn 
was bounding upward it was easy to start 
affaiis for a rise which culminated in a 
most important way for the long interest. 
The coffee speculators have not been able 
more than temporarily to advance prices, 
as the element of force among operators 
appears to have been diverted to other 
commodities. The cotton deals have had 
the feature that while everybody has had a 
full idea of receipts, and the crop and 
prices have weakened with their opinions, 
yet as the cotton actually came forward 
and no more than supposed, the situation 
was disposed to further weakness. In the 
grocery interests, refined sugar has been 
pulled down in price considerably, so as to 
have it well marketed by April 1, when the 
duty comes off. The boilers have for the 
first time this season been operating in mo¬ 
lasses, which is aown to 12% cents for 50 
test in hogsheads ; a tank steamer has al¬ 
ready arrived at Pniladelphia with a cargo 
of molasses, and shipments that way were 
recently made from Cuba of 6oO,000 gallons. 
The following is tne law governing the 
sale of dressed poultry in Massachusetts: 
Sec. 1. No poultry, except it be alive, shall 
be sold or exposed for sale until it has been 
proptrly dressed, by the removal of the 
crop and the entrails, when containing 
food. Sec. 2. Whoever knowingly sells or 
exposes for sale poultry contrary to the 
provisions of Sec. 1 of this act, shall ba 
punished by a fine of not less than $5, nor 
more than $50, for each offense. The 
boards of health in the several cities and 
towns shall cause the provisions of this act 
to be enforced in their respective cities and 
towns. The last clause shows that the 
enforcement of the law is left to the health 
authorities of the places of sale. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Cucumbers find ready sale. 
Choice Timothy hay is scarce. 
Plant red currants for market 
Goose eggs sell for 60 cents per dozen. 
The Bartlett is the leading market pear. 
California Lima baans are in good de¬ 
mand, 
California pears sell at 60 cents to $1 per 
dozen. 
Malaga grapes retail at 25 cents per 
pound. 
Bermuda potatoes are the highest of the 
season. 
Hog-dressed veal calve3 are about out of 
season. 
Gooseberries are always in demand in 
season. 
The smaller the ham the higher the 
price, per pound. 
Choice potatoes for seed purposes are 
most in demand. 
Asparagus from the South continues to 
bring good prices. 
Pop-corn must be at least one year old to 
suit this market. Kiln dried corn is no 
good. 
The grocery trade in pop-corn in this city 
nearly all requires it put up in one-pound 
cartons. 
Importers report any quantity of Scotch 
Magnum Potatoes awaiting shipment to 
this market. 
The Easter trade has made a boom in 
eggs, but don’t ship eggs next week and ex¬ 
pect present prices for them. 
The Pearl White Pop corn is the variety 
to plant for this market. Yellow corn is 
not wanted. The demand for rice corn is 
limited. 
Dealers here offer small potatoes for $2 
per barrel. Some buy them for seed and 
many of tHe Jews buy them in preference 
to larger ones. 
Fifty genuine Smyrna fig trees have 
bean received in California direct from 
their native soil and will be distributed in 
pairs to different parts of tho State. 
Vermont promises an unusually large 
yield of maple sugar and syrup, and the 
quality is said to be superior on account of 
the introduction of new methods and im¬ 
proved apparatus. 
The agricultural department of Kansas 
says that in 90 counties of the State the 
news of the wneat crop is very encourag¬ 
ing. Four-fifths of tne counties report the 
crop better than ever before. 
Russet Apples are now in season. One 
dealer complained of farmers shipping him 
Russets in the fall. No apples, or other 
produce, should be shipped until it is ready 
for the market. Otherwise it must be stored 
and storage is expensive here. Russets are 
no good in the fall. 
News from the Gulf States is to the effect 
that on account of the long-continued cold 
and rainy weather most of the crops of 
those States will be late and much snort 
of the usual yield. The frost about the 
first of the month killed the beans, peas 
and some other varieties of plants in the 
vicinity of New Orleans as well as the 
blown and partly grown strawberries as 
far north as the Tennessee line. 
The total acreage of the leading vege¬ 
tables grown upon the truck farms of the 
United States, according to the last census, 
is as follows: Asparagus, 37,970; beans 
(string or snap) 12,607; cabbage, 77,094; 
kale, 2,962; spinach, 20,195 ; Irish potatoes, 
28,t46; beets, 2,420; celery, 15,381 ; cucum¬ 
bers, 4,721; water-melons, 114,351: other 
melons, 28,477 ; peas, 56,162 ; sweet potatoes, 
12,802 ; miscellaneous vegetables, 82,601. 
The reports of the Missouri State Horti¬ 
cultural Society denote flattering pros¬ 
pects lor apples except wnere a lull crop was 
gathered last year; pears are injured in the 
northern part of the State, and in many 
portions damage is done to the Le Conte ; 
peaches killed in the northwestern and 
badly injured in the northern, less serious 
injury in the eastern part, the southern 
part Iree from injury. Plums badly in¬ 
jured ; cherries little injured. Grape 
prospects never better. Small fruits all 
right except in the northwestern part, 
where the dry weather caused some injury 
last summer. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
The Iowa Farmers’ Alliance completed 
its organization last week. 
A large immigration into Montana is 
expected the coming season. 
The organization of Farmers’ Alliances is 
to b3 pushed in Massachusetts. 
Montana cattle and sheep are reported to 
be coming out of the winter in excellent 
condition. 
A farmer living near Albany, N. Y., came 
to his death from blackberry seeds lodging 
in the intestines. 
The sixth annual meeting of the Holstein- 
Friesian Association of America was held 
in Syracuse, N. Y., on Wednesday. 
A farmer living near Columbus, Ind., 
was terribly gored by a cow while taking 
away her young calf. He will lose a leg. 
Heavy snow and rainfalls throughout 
the Northwest have broken the drought 
and promise abundant moisture for crops. 
A berry growers’ institute, under the 
auspices of the Connecticut State Board of 
Agriculture, was held at Meriden, Wednes¬ 
day. 
Hon. J. H. Brigham, Master of the Nat¬ 
ional Grange has Issued an appeal for help 
for the drought stricken regions of Neb¬ 
raska. 
Why shouldn’t farming pay when a good 
Ohio farm can be bought so cheaply as the 
one offered in our advertising columns this 
week. 
A New Jersey runaway horse struck a 
fast express train with such force as to 
break in the front end of a coach, then 
rolled off and disippeared. 
The State of Washington has a new law, 
which provides that any farm laborer shall 
have a lien upon the crops upon which he 
has labored, for his wages. 
Mayor Grant of this city received a re¬ 
quest from a Maryland young lady for 
$1.40 worth of strawberry plants and cur¬ 
rant bushes. She didn’t specify the vari- 
ties. 
A Long Island man received from a 
friend in England a package of peas grown 
from seeds found in the wrappings of a 
mummy and supposed to be 3,000 or 4,000 
years old. 
All of the Canadian distillery cattle 
have been purchased by New York and 
Chicago parties at 5% to 5% cents per 
pound. This is $5 per head above last 
year’s prices. 
The Albany County, N. Y., Farmers’ 
League petitions the Legislature to repeal 
the sections of the new road law which ig¬ 
nore the town authorities and creates ex¬ 
pensive commissions. 
A San Jose dealer was sued for selling a 
citizen 1,500 pounds of hay for a ton, but 
the suit developed the fact that from time 
immemorial a San Jose ton called^for 1,500 
pounds and no more. 
An Alliance in Calloway County, Ky., has 
passed a resolution to boycott the^residents 
of the county seat who have objected to 
the farmers hitching their team3„to fences 
and ornamental trees. 
The cattlemen are reported to have leased 
several reservations that extend to the 
Cherokee Strip, and it is thought that this 
will practically give them control of the 
strip for pasturage purposes. 
The Pennsylvania State Veterinarian 
examined a herd of cattle near Lancaster, 
which was supposed to be infected with 
pleuro pneumonia, aad reported that noth¬ 
ing was found to indicate the presence of 
the disease, and that there is, none in the 
county. 
A high Russian oflifial has bean in 
Louisiana for the past year studying cot¬ 
ton growing with the object of establishing 
the raising of cotton in Central Asia, 
where he says the choicest qualities can be 
grown at prices which will drive American 
cotton out of Europe. 
The Hamburg local officials are making 
costly permanent improvements in the 
landing facilities now at the disposal of the 
importers of American cattle. The object 
of the Hamburg officials in making these 
improvements is to encourage and develop 
the trade in American cattle. 
The Commisioner of Indian affairs has 
awarded contracts for furnishing the Sioux 
Indians with beef at $14 per 100 pounds, and 
corn $1.41, $1.35 and $1 16% per 100 pounds 
according to place of delivery. He has 
also contracted for 8,000 head of cattle to be 
delivered at the Osage Agency at $11.89 and 
$11.43 per 100 pounds. 
The Holstein-Frlesian Association of 
America at its recent meeting adopted a 
resolution empowering the Executive Com¬ 
mittee to offer $10,000 in premiums at the 
World’s Fair, and also to offer $1,000 a year 
before the fair as premium to keep up the 
interest. The Treasurer’s report showed a 
balance on hand of $17,837.04. 
The collector of customs at Detroit has 
been advised that “Wallace’s American 
Trotting Horse Register ” is the accepted 
authority as to the American trotting 
horse. He has been intructed to recognize 
such register as the book of record and 
established for that class of horses entitled 
to free entry under paragraph 482 of the 
Tariff Act. 
The oleomargerine factory of the “Provi¬ 
dence Dairy Company” at Providence. 
R. I., was seized by the internal revenue 
authorities on Thursday on the charge of 
sending out unstamped packages of oleo¬ 
margarine. The company is liable to for¬ 
feiture of the factory, apparatus and mate¬ 
rial, and to pay a fine of from $500 to $5,000. 
It is claimed that much of the unstamped 
oleo was labelled “ Abbydale Creamery.” 
The Holstein-Frlesian Association of Am¬ 
erica elected the following officers for the 
ensuing year: President, John B Dutcher, 
of Pawling, N. Y.; vice-president, George 
D Wheeler, of Deposit, N. Y.; secretary, 
Thomas B. Wales, of Iowa City, la.; treas¬ 
urer, W. Brown Smith, of Syracuse; direc¬ 
tors, Charles Horr, of Wellington, O.; 
David Burrill, of Little Falls, and C. R. 
Payne, of Hamilton, N. Y. The Convea- 
tion will meet in New York city next year. 
Owing to the untiriDg efforts of United 
States Minister William Walter Phelps, 
Chancellor von Caprivi has removed the 
embargo placed upon American cattle 
landed at Hamburg, and it is likely that 
Mr. Phelps will be able to obtain the 
removal of the restrictions placed upon the 
importation of the American hog. Already 
300 American beeves have been landed at 
Hamburg as an experiment. This landing 
of American cattle has been carried on for 
weeks, and has been known to only the 
Imperial Government, to Mr. Phelps, and 
to the authorities of the port of Hamburg. 
All parties concerned are pleased with the 
success of the experiment. Mr. Pnelps, at 
a series of dinners at his house, has given 
his guests American beef, and has intro¬ 
duced its use in many prominent families 
of Berlin. 
The present course followed in landing 
cattle at Hamburg is as follows: After 
the cattle have been examined by the 
veterinary surgeons of the port, they are, 
when pronounced entirely healthy, landed 
from the steamships and are driven to a 
large, airy building, built of iron and stone, 
where they are immediately sold to the 
butchers. The custom until recently has 
been to keep American cattle under a sort 
of quarantine for four months previous to 
killing them. Model abattoirs are now 
being built at Hamburg at a cost of $800,- 
000. Then there is a separate house for 
hogs, which is already completed and 
ready for the trade which it is expected 
will develop in American hogs as soon as 
the restrictions upon their importation are 
removed. The erection of this hog house 
shows the confidence which the officials of 
Hamburg place in the ability of Mr. Pnelps 
to obtain the removal of the obnoxious 
restrictions. 
