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A crop which is well 
grown is only half 
way to market. 
MARKET, CROP AND NEWS SPECIAL. 
TRADE WINDS. 
Financial.— Bradstreet’s, of Saturday, 
says that while no acute disturbance is 
expected in the loan market from the April 
disbursements and settlements, the move¬ 
ment of funds to the interior and the 
expectation of gold shipments to Europe 
have produced a little firmer feeling in 
rates. To some extent the extreme dull¬ 
ness of the security markets checks this, 
but nevertheless rates for call loans have 
during the week ranged from*2 to 4 per 
cent, and the general average is slightly 
higher at 3 to S}4 per cent. Time money, 
too, is not offered below 5 per cent, 
although the demand is light, and in some 
instances a per cent rate is made for 
six months on extra fine collateral. Com¬ 
mercial paper is in limited supply, and 
rates are nominally stationary at 5 to 5X 
per cent for best names. 
Southern Tobacco Pbospects. — A 
Richmond correspondent of the Journal 
of Commerce says that it is generally esti¬ 
mated that about 65 per cent of the crop 
of Virginia and North Carolina has been 
marketed. The quantity of medium to 
good leaf has in a great measure made up 
for the lesser price on fine grades in the 
1890 crop, and although planters are not in 
all cases particularly pleased with the 
values of the best tobacco, as compared 
with those of previous years, yet with 
other good crop? and average produce 
prices they are seemingly as well satisfied 
as usual. The Alliances affect most alarm 
concerning the monopoly of the American 
Tobacco Company, but the former have as 
yet no fixed plan for fighting the so-called 
Cutter Trust. The danger of the latter 
seems not to lie so much in the way of 
present prices paid for brights, as it does in 
their future power to control prices, since 
the number of buyers, with every new acces¬ 
sion of factories decreases the competition 
in all markets, any of which this company 
may prefer to buy and build up. Prices 
of cutters now hold up proportionately as 
well as other grades, and it remains to be 
seen how wrappers and fillers will be 
affected since the late plug factories have 
been added to the combination. 
The Chicago Live Stock Situation.— 
The Live Stock Report says that values for 
good to choice beeves show no change from 
last week, while medium and rough steers 
of all weights are 10 to 15 cents per 100 
pounds lower. Too many of the latter 
class continue to arrive. Many dealer^ 
that feed from one to three car-loads each 
are out of feed, and are shipping the cattle 
rather than pay the high prices that pre¬ 
vail for corn. This state of affairs will 
continne throughout the summer season, 
and grass cattle will be rushed to market 
regardless of flesh. The owner of a prime 
bullock can feel content, as such will be in 
demand and bring good prices at any time. 
Present prices are from 35 to 65 cents per 
100 pounds higher than a year ago, and 60 
cents to $1.10 per 100 pounds higher than 
in 1889. 
The shipping demand for hogs continues 
good, but was checked somewhat when 
values advanced so rapidly; however, ship¬ 
ments exceed those of the corresponding 
time last year, and will likely continue. 
Values have got back to a legitimate basis, 
and we may look for fair receipts and a 
steady market the coming week. The re¬ 
ceipts for the month will be about 895,000 
head, an increase of 360,000 head over the 
corresponding time last year, and the 
largest receipts for the month of March on 
record. The shipments will show an increase 
of 135,000 head. Supplies have been liberal 
this week, and the trade has ruled slow and 
weak throughout. A few fancy sheep that 
just met the wants of the buyer brought 
steady prices, but all others were weak and 
10 to 20 cents per 100 pounds lower. The 
receipts of corn-fed Westerns are decreas¬ 
ing, while the supply of Texans is increas¬ 
ing, keeping the market well supplied. The 
supply of lambs was a little higher, and a 
little better demand existed, although 
prices were not quotably higher. 
Some Delaware chicken thieves robbed a 
farmer’s hen roost while one of their num¬ 
ber kept the owner at bay with a revolver. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
A cooperative colony comprising 500 
people is to locate at Beaver City, in No 
Man’s Land. 
W. H. Bowker has just sold J. J. H. 
Gregory 25 tons of fertilizer of which 10 tons 
were potato fertilizer. 
New Mexico reports much disease among 
live stock. Large numbers of sheep have 
been lost by freezing and starvation and 
the latter probably accounts for the loss by 
disease. 
The Wisconsin House has passed a bill 
prohibiting the manufacture of cheese and 
butter out of substances other than milk, 
and also providing for the proper marking 
of oleomargarine. 
An application has been received by Sec¬ 
retary Rusk from a Chicago firm for in¬ 
spection of hbgs designed for the export 
trade, under a recent act of Congress pro¬ 
viding for such inspection. 
A disastrous prairie fire occurred near 
Arkansas City, Kansas, last week which 
destroyed a large number of farm buildings 
and fences as well as live stock. It is also 
feared that human lives were lost. 
A Cheyenne County, Kansas, farmer was 
killed by “ white caps” for pilfering grain 
from his neighbors. He had taken small 
quantities from each in the endeavor to se¬ 
cure enough for his spring seeding. 
A German syndicate purposes erecting a 
sugar-beet factory at Salina, Kansas, for 
which the farmers are to raise beets at $4 
per ton. There must be something wrong 
somewhere as no sugar beets so far grown 
in this country are worth that price. 
The first public dog sale ever held in this 
country took place last week at the Phila¬ 
delphia Tattersall, when 62 dogs brought 
$1,740. The highest prices were secured for 
St. Bernards, one bringing $250, two $240 
each, and several from that down to $100 
and less. 
A number of Cincinnati capitalists have 
incorporated under the laws of Kentucky 
the Arrow Head Reservoir Company with 
a capital of $1,000,000 for the purpose of 
constructing reservoirs in the mountains 
near San Bernardino, California, for stor¬ 
ing water to be used in the valley for irri¬ 
gation. 
The Canadian government has passed an 
order in council reducing to two cents a 
ton the tolls on wheat and other cereals 
passing through the Welland and St. Law¬ 
rence Canals to Montreal or ports east. 
The order covers the coming season of 
navigation only, and the concession applies 
to United States as well as Canadian bot¬ 
toms. 
The Missouri State Board of Agriculture 
last week adopted a resolution asking the 
governor to issue a proclamation quaran¬ 
tining cattle from the country to the south 
of the State, where Texas fever is said to 
be raging. The governor promised to 
issue the proclamation at once. It will 
prohibit the bringing of cattle into the 
State from Texas, Arkansas or the Indian 
Territory. 
What is said to be the biggest soap man¬ 
ufacturing concern in the world has just 
been organized at Houston, Texas, with a 
capital of $15,000,000. The organization 
proposes to establish plants to cost from 
$50,000 to $200,000 in Houston, New 
Orleans and other Southern cities in the 
Cotton Belt. This is an important matter 
to the cotton growers as it will furnish a 
home market for immense quantities of 
cotton seed. 
Additional rules and regulations recently 
prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture 
for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and 
their carcasses, have just been made pub¬ 
lic. Under these rules the proprietors of 
slaughter-houses and other establishments 
engaged in the slaughter of such animals 
as are to become subjects of inter state or 
foreign commerce are required to make ap¬ 
plication for inspection. The establish¬ 
ments are then to be given official numbers, 
by which the inspected products are to be 
afterwards known. Inspectors are then to 
be appointed who are to have full and free 
access at all times to all parts of the build¬ 
ings used for the conversion of the cattle 
into food products. Diseased animals are 
to be condemned and removed from the es¬ 
tablishments. Carcasses which leave es¬ 
tablishments as dresssed beef are to be 
stamped with a numbered stamp issued by 
the Department of Agriculture,and labeled 
or marked in such a manner as the owner 
of the establishment may direct. The in¬ 
spection of swine for export or inter-State 
trade will be conducted in the same man¬ 
ner, as indicated above, with the addition, 
however, that a microscopic examination 
for trichinae will be required for all swine 
products. 
The Secretary of the Interior has an¬ 
nounced that he will receive bids from 
cattle owners for the use of a portion of the 
Crow Indian Reservation in Montana for 
grazing purposes during the coming year. 
It is estimated that the lands which are 
subject to lease aggregate about one and a 
half million acres. Bidders are expected 
not only to state their offers per head of 
cattle, but also to give the number of head 
to be grazed. None of the lands which 
have been or may be selected by the In¬ 
dians for themselves, under the severalty 
act, will be leased. 
The Farmers’ and Laborers’ Representa¬ 
tives’ Association is an organization con¬ 
sisting of 60 members within the Illinois 
Legislature, whose object is to secure legis¬ 
lation for the regulation of corporations. 
They are now after the scalps of the stock- 
yards people. Their leader last week in¬ 
troduced a bill which makes it unlawful 
to collect a greater rate of yardage than 15 
cents per head for cattle, horses or mules, 
or eight cents when under one year of age ; 
five cents per head for hogs and four cents 
for sheep ; or more than 50 per cent in ad¬ 
dition to the current market wholesale 
price for the food and bedding supplied. 
What effect will the recent decision of the 
United States Supreme Court have on this 
form of extortion ? The bill fixes the com¬ 
mission to be allowed for the sale of live 
stock as follows : Hogs or sheep per single 
deck car, $4 ; double-deck, $7 ; cattle in car¬ 
loads of 24 or over, $7 per car-load ; in less 
number, 35 cents per head ; calves in single 
car-load lots, $6; double deck, $10 ; In less 
number, 25 cents per head. The bill 
furthermore forbids extortion in the way 
of water charges, country stock, the dis¬ 
position of dead animals, etc. The penalty 
provided for infraction of the law is from 
$50 to $200 for each offense. The bill was 
referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
under a suspension of the rules by a vote 
of 96 to 17, which promises well for its 
speedy passage. 
The Convenience of Solid Trains. 
The Erie is the only railway running 
solid trains over its own tracks between 
New York and Chicago. No change of 
cars for any class of passengers. Rates 
lower than via any other first-class line.— 
Adv. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Whitman Co., Wash.— But little win¬ 
ter; stock in fine condition; wheat 54 cents 
clear of sacks; oats $1.30 and barley $1.10 per 
100 pounds; potatoes 80 cents per 100 pounds; 
butter 35 cents per pound; eggs 30 cents per 
dozen. No. 1 horses per span $200; two- 
year-old steers $25. $375,000 worth of school 
land in this county was sold recently at 
$20.50 per acre. This county is all in culti¬ 
vation. We could raise more wheat here 
than could be raised in any other county in 
the United States. The average yield last 
year was near 34 bushels per acre, and there 
are no failures here. No one could grum¬ 
ble at the climate. I have dishorned many 
cattle and think it cruel not to do so. The 
Aberdeen-Angus or polled cattle are be¬ 
coming quite numerous in the Northwest, 
and unless the Short-horn breeders produce 
a hornless Short-horn they are going to 
“ be left.” The Alliance man stands 
head and shoulders higher than any one 
else hereabouts. There are no office seek¬ 
ers, thunder and lightning, rattlesnakes, 
tornadoes or blizzards in these parts of the 
world, nor are there any chills and fever. 
J. C. 
Suffolk County, N. Y.— The farmers of 
the east end of Long Island are waking up 
from their winter leisure, and are begin¬ 
ning to start in on the spring campaign, 
getting the roads in order, which in some 
districts is quite a big job; but with a 
good road machine we can make up tha 
roads and fill in ruts with such dispatch 
that the work is soon done, and there is 
little trouble in keeping them in repair 
until the frost comes again. Some are 
drawing out and spreading manure ; a few 
have commenced plowing, but the most 
general work now is drawing home and 
storing fertilizers for spring. Seed pota¬ 
toes are also receiving considerable atten¬ 
tion. Many hundred bushels are being 
brought in from the North and West, most 
of them very fine stock. The indications 
are that a larger acreage of vegetables 
than usual will be put in this spring. The 
Cutchogue Farmers’ Club, whose influence 
extends over nearly the whole town, has 
brought out and discussed many questions 
of material interest to the farmer and 
settled many points that were before 
doubtful. The Farmers’ League Is expand¬ 
ing here both in town and county, local 
leagues are being talked up in connection 
with the town league, so that all can get 
the full benefit of league work. b. s. w. 
Chester County, Pa.— Potatoes were 
never more plentiful in this section than 
last season. Buyers have come from Phila¬ 
delphia and bought up carload after car¬ 
load at 90 cents to $1 per bushel. I sold 
my lot of White Stars for 95 cents. The 
same dealer offered $1.25 for all the Rural 
New-Yorker No. 2 above two ounces in 
weight. The corn crop was good, but much 
Western corn and bran were bought, this be¬ 
ing a dairy district. The hay crop was very 
large ; but owing to the scarcity of help 
some fields were not cut. Many farmers 
would have been better off if they had left 
much more of it on the ground, as it is net¬ 
ting from $4 to $7 per ton at the barn. 
Loose hay is being delivered at West Ches¬ 
ter at $8 per ton. The wheat crop was poor 
both in yield and quality and the oats 
poorer. E. t. 1. 
Labette County, Kan.— Our planting 
season is about three weeks later than the 
average. Our winter has been compara¬ 
tively mild. The rainfall, which was fre¬ 
quent, was not an average in amount, cis¬ 
terns being generally either dry or low. 
We are not alarmed at being throe weeks 
behind the usual time for planting as we 
have hitherto never failed to make a crop 
on account of a late season for planting. 
Of course we would be pleased with rain and 
sunshine now. The country is thoroughly 
cleaned of corn, the price having reached 
50 cents per bushel since December. The 
amount of the speculative grade is less than 
for many years. There is constantly a great 
rivalry in all the towns of 5,000 to 20,000 
population in eastern Kansas, and Parsons 
is one of them, being 20 miles from the 
northern line of the Indian Territory, with 
a population of 8,000, which is growing fast. 
It is becoming heavily loaded with bonds 
issued for water works, electric lighting, 
schools, etc. The town is fair to look 
upon. Our population is assorted, there 
being over 1,000 negroes in the city. By 
far the greater number of them are church¬ 
going, and two schools for colored children 
are well filled. j. b. 
An Eastern Farmer in the West.— 
Through the drought-stricken portions of 
Nebraska we find the cattle as a rule, in 
fair, and in most parts very fine condition, 
considering the many disadvantages sur¬ 
rounding them. Unless the spring should 
prove unusually severe the loss to stock- 
men must be very small. The experience 
of this drought will in my opinion be worth 
thousands to the farmers, in teaching them 
economy and in years of plenty to prepare 
for the worst. In 1889 and ’90 abundance 
of corn was placed on the market at 10 and 
12 cents per bushel and beans at two cents 
per pound, and theie is hardly a farmer 
who could not have afforded to carry over 
from 100 to 500 bushels of corn and 100 to 
1,000 pounds of beans, etc. Now the experi¬ 
ences of past years should demonstrate that 
there is always a time before harvest when 
prices advance in this country; and it is easy 
