Profitable Farming de¬ 
pends as much on sell¬ 
ing as on producing. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER’S 
A. crop which is weft 
grown is only half 
way to market. 
MARKET, CROP AND NEWS SPECIAL. 
TRADE WINDS. 
Financial— Money on call loans was 
easy during the week until Thursday when 
some stringency was created by the calling 
in of loans to meet payments of interest, 
dividends, etc., due May 1. The rates rose 
in consequence to 6 per cent and on Friday 
to 9. The average rate for the week was 
about 4 per cent, the lowest early in the 
week being 2% per cent. Time loans were 
freely offered on good Stock Exchange col¬ 
lateral at 4 per cent for 60 to 90 days, 4% to 
5 for four to five months and 5 to 5% for 
six to eight months Commercial paper was 
in good demand. Rates were 5 per cent for 
60 to 90 day indorsed bills receivable, 5% to 
6 for four months’ acceptance, and 6 to 7 
for good single names having from four to 
six months to run. The bank returns 
showed a loss of $278,400 in cash and a gain 
of $468,175 in surplus reserve, which now 
stands at $7,433,300. Exchange was firm 
during the week, with nominal rates for 
long sterling unchanged at $4 86 until 
Wednesday, when one of the drawers ad¬ 
vanced to $4 86 %. The posted figures for 
short sterling were advanced to $4 90 on 
Tuesday, and they so remained to the close. 
Gold to the amount of $4,550,000 was 
shipped during the week, of which $ 200,000 
went to Cuba and the remainder to London 
and the Continent of Europe. The buying 
of stocks by the arbitrarge houses for 
European account was moderately large 
early in the wtek, otherwise the shipments 
of gold would have been heavier. 
Businhss Outlook —The Journal of 
Commerce says that the congested state of 
business with retailers having been greatly 
relieved during the past month, there was a 
good prospect that the channels of trade 
would be well cleared for the succeeding 
season, while the crop outlook afforded 
special ground for confidence in the future. 
But a little while ago the situation was 
very uncertain and very low prices were 
anticipated for cotton goods, especially as 
cotton was quoted lower than for many 
years, but there is a favorable change. 
Lower prices will doubtless be made in 
some goods for the fall, but the movement 
will be a restricted one, with probably 
early reaction. The market is in good con¬ 
dition, with the usual business accom¬ 
plished, although in clothing woolens there 
is more or less disappointment. 
Australian Wools.— The recent report 
of Consul Wallace on Australian wool con¬ 
tains many points of interest to our im¬ 
porters and manufacturers. The increas¬ 
ing consumption of foreign wools in this 
country, and particularly of Australian 
grades, is forcing buyers here to study not 
only the methods prevailing in foreign 
markets, but the character and utility of 
imported wools as they are related to our 
various woolen textile Industries. Our 
tariff excludes many wools which could be 
used by our manufacturers, and hence it 
requires greater care and study to select, 
from the limited assortment, wools which 
will sell readily in our markets. As the 
charater of our textile manufactures is con¬ 
stantly changing, and gradually approach¬ 
ing the standard of the finest fabrics, so 
the demand for materials is Increasing as 
to the superior grades, and falling off as 
to the coarser wools. The Australian wools 
are better fitted to meet the requirements 
of our mills, both in price and quality, than 
the wools of any foreign country. The 
movement in the domestic markets since 
the first of the year would indicate that 
they are becoming more desirable than 
many of our finest American grades, which 
have heretofore been preferred. 
J. B. Dutcher, of MaplecroftStock Farm, 
Pawling, N. Y., on May 1, sold to W. H. 
Wilson, of Abdallah Park, New York Cen¬ 
tral, a five year-old gelding with a four- 
year-old record of 2:23)4, by Simmons; 
an imported French Coach stallion, Figu¬ 
rant; four two and three year-old Coach 
mares; five Coach mares in foal to Figu¬ 
rant, one registered Holstein-Friesian bull 
and six registered Holstein cows, including 
Pietert je Fifth, out of Pieterje Second, the 
latter holding the world’s milK record. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Arbor Day, May 8 . 
The steamship, Queen, last week brought 
over a consignment of 10 well-bred Hack¬ 
ney horses * 
The Clark County, Ohio, Farmers’ Alli¬ 
ance has “ resolved ” to nominate a county 
ticket this fall. 
The wheat boom put millions of dollars 
into the pockets of some operators. 
Whose dollars were they ? 
Many of the seed potatoes furnished to 
the Irish farmers by the English govern¬ 
ment have failed to grow. 
Alabaster, the gray stallion, with a 
record of 2:15, died last week from pneumo¬ 
nia. He was valued at $40,000. 
At Springfield, Ill, on April 28, a corpo¬ 
ration license was issued to the American 
Trotting Register Association. 
A heavy frost throughout northern In¬ 
diana on Wednesday night did great dam¬ 
age to fruits and tender vegetables. 
R. H. Allen, of Chatham, N. J., formerly 
of R. H. Allen & Co., of this city, makes a 
specialty of fine Holstein and Swiss cattle 
for export. 
There is a big fight on between the Chi¬ 
cago packers, who have established inde¬ 
pendent stockyards, and the Union Stock- 
yards Company. 
C. H. Nelson, Sunnyside Farm, Water- 
ville, Maine, has offered to match his 
champion stallion Nelson, 2:10%, against 
any trotter for $ 20,000 a side. 
The F. M. B. A. of Illinois are taking ac¬ 
tion to secure higher prices for the wheat 
crop of the coming harvest. They propose 
to have $1 25 per bushel for the crop. 
Some wretch who deserves a taste of 
lynch law went to a stable in Franklin, Pa., 
cut up the carriages and harnesses and pois¬ 
oned four valuable imported stallions. 
A negro in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 
has paid $25 a year for the use of a $50 
mule for the last 17 years, paying in all 
$425 rent for the mule, which is still in good 
condition. 
The Kansas Farmers’ Alliance is reported 
to have evolved a scheme to build a trunk 
railway about 300 miles long, across the 
State, with branches to reach every im¬ 
portant point in the State. 
John E. Owens, of Parkersburg, Iowa, 
has purchased the chestnut colt Eollan, 
five weeks old, by Nutwood out of Alpha, 
2:33%, paying $7,500. This is said to be the 
highest price ever paid for so young a colt. 
On March 20 the President of Venezuela 
issued an executive decree providing that 
after April 20 all imported cereals shall 
have free entrance into the country. Notice 
is to be given 30 days in advance when the 
decree is to be repealed. 
The wholesale price of beef in Chicago 
has advanced about 33% per cent within 
the last month. The cause of the advance 
is said to be the scarcity not only of good 
cattle, but a general scarcity of all grades 
and the advance in price of corn. 
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says 
that all the cotton-oil mills in the State, 
with the exception of the Southern Oil Mill 
in Little Rock, have formed a pool or con¬ 
solidation, the Little Rock Oil Company 
filing articles of association with a capital 
of $ 2 , 000 , 000 . 
Denmark has reduced the duties on im¬ 
ported petroleum and sugar, the reduction 
to take effect October 1, 1891. A bounty to 
the amount of the duties on the importa¬ 
tion of sugar used in their manufacture, is 
to be paid in conserves made in, and ex¬ 
ported from Denmark. 
Fifty-five head of thoroughbred horses 
and colts were sold at auction at Nashville, 
Tenn., last week, 47 of them being year¬ 
lings. The yearlings brought an average 
of $421.59, while the entire lot averaged 
$413.90. One colt brought $3,500 which 
helped the average on that class. 
The Massachusetts State Board of Agri¬ 
culture met last week and considered the 
act to provide against the depredations of 
the Gypsy Moth, to provide for carrying 
out the provisions of said act, and to con¬ 
sider the necessity of asking the legislature 
for further appropriations therefor. 
The tanning of elephant hides is a new 
industry. The process is very similar to 
that of tanning cow hides, except that 
stronger ingredients are necessary and a 
longer time is taken to complete the work. 
The leather, when finished is very thick, 
and several years’ wear has little effect on 
it. 
The Canadian Government has approved 
regulations respecting the grinding of for¬ 
eign grain in bond. The regulations pro¬ 
vide for the issue of licenses constituting 
the mills of licenses into bonding ware¬ 
houses, and requiring the product of such 
establishments to b 9 ex warehoused before 
it can be taken out, either for home con¬ 
sumption or exportation. 
The chief tin plate manufacturing con¬ 
cerns of the country met in this city last 
week and perfected a temporary organiza¬ 
tion. A committee was appointed to per¬ 
fect a permanent organization. The next 
meeting will be at Pittsburg on May 20. 
It was placed on record that the object of 
the organization was to promote the man¬ 
ufacture of tin and tin plate in the United 
States. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has just 
issued an order relieving Hudson County, 
N. J., from the quarantine on account of 
pleuro pneumonia and other contagious 
diseases, which has been maintained there 
since May 29, 1884. The order takes effect 
from this date, and recites as the cause for 
this relief that “ the disease known as con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia among cattle has 
been exterminated from said county in the 
State of New Jersey and said contagion no 
longer exists therein.” 
‘‘Old Hutch,” the great speculator of 
Chicago has fled but been captured by the 
police of a little Indiana town and released 
by directions of his son. He is said to have 
lost $2,000,COO in the last year or two, and is 
so cranky that he fears his children will 
try to put him in an insane asylum. Some 
years ago report put his wealth at any sum 
from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000. A great part 
of it has been lost in speculation; his chil¬ 
dren have secured a good deal of it, and 
the old man has some yet. 
The Census Office has issued a statement 
of the acreage and yield of tobacco for 1889, 
showing an increase over the last census of 
55,223 acres and 19,052,440 pounds. The 
amount produced in Kentucky has in¬ 
creased over 54,000,000 pounds, and there 
has also been a substantial increase in 
North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, New 
York and Wisconsin. On the other hand, 
there has been a more or less serious falling 
off in Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, 
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Missouri. 
The statement is based upon the returns 
sent in by enumerators, supplemented by 
an extensive correspondence and consider¬ 
able field work. 
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. 
Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.— 
The effects of last year’s drought are caus¬ 
ing untold suffering and distress among 
the farmers all around us. There are fam¬ 
ilies here that have gone for three days 
without a morsel of food, and others have 
been driven to eat slippery elm bark and 
wild onions in order to appease the pangs 
of hunger. These people have no money 
and no credit, and even if they had, the mer¬ 
chants are not financially able to supply 
the wants of all. Notwithstanding these 
things, the people have gone to work to 
raise something to eat. They are “ plow¬ 
ing on the crass,” and living as best they 
can. I am afraid that many an animated 
equine skeleton will be found on the prai¬ 
ries this spring. We are truly thankful for 
the relief that has been sent us by friends 
in the Northeast. But for the assistance 
already received, we hardly know how it 
would have been possible to have pulled 
through the winter. Those who are inter¬ 
esting themselves in behalf of the drought- 
stricken sufferers of the Indian Territory, 
never will b8 able to fully realize what a 
godsend the money and supplies they are 
sending to us will be in relieving the wants 
of a suffering people. A few thrifty Choc¬ 
taws have finished planting. There are 
farmers here, who, by steady methodical 
work, are showing the Indians the capa¬ 
bilities of their country; but these Choc¬ 
taws are standing in their own light. They 
do not build houses or cribs as they should. 
The shabbiest little hut is considered ‘ ‘good 
enough” for a renter, and as for barns or 
anything of the sort, many of them think it 
great presumption for a white man to ex¬ 
pect such. Many changes must take place 
before this country becomes what it should 
be. Some thoughtful men think the region 
will be sold and opened for white settlers In 
a few years. Where there are now ignor¬ 
ance and immorality, intelligence and mor¬ 
ality will be found. The Caoctaws are be¬ 
ginning to realize the value of an education 
most of the men holding public offices are 
educated and are not full-bloods. R. R. 
Van Wert County, Ohio.— The wheat 
crop is very promising. The spring has 
been very wet and backward. No oats had 
been sown till this week. The prospects 
for good fruit crops are very promising. I 
have been experimenting somewhat with 
phosphate on wheat and fruit and 
find profit in its use, as the wheat plant 
comes on much faster in the fall. I think 
wheat sown two weeks later with 200 to 
300 pounds per acre will be better prepared 
for winter than that sown earlier without 
any. Three years ago I sowed two adjoining 
aere3 ; on one I used only 100 pounds of the 
Mapes fertilizer, and on the other 40 bushels 
of unleached wood ashes. There were nine 
bushels more wheat on the ground where 
the fertilizer had been used. A. R. s. 
Seneca County, N. Y.—This is fine, 
growing weather. The trees begin to look 
misty with opening buds. Apricots opened 
their blossoms to-day (April 27) and we ate 
our first asparagus yesterday. There was 
frostSaturday night but we hope it did not 
injure the fruit buds. s. A. L. 
Why the Buggy Broke. 
Owing to poor material in construction, 
and employment of cheap labor. The 
‘‘ Complete Horse Book” tells where to buy 
the best Buggy made for the money. Sent 
for 10 cents, silver or stamps. Pioneer 
Buggy Co., Columbus, O.— Adv. 
CROP AND MA.RKET NOTES. 
Dairy products are high. 
The gift package for berries is coming. 
Cucumbers have been scarce all season. 
Cocoanuts are worth $23 to $38 per 1,000. 
Old cheese maintains its former high 
price. 
Wax beans sell better than the green 
varieties. 
A medium weight fowl sells most readily 
in market. 
Pigeons have been selling for 40 and 50 
cents per pair. 
Broilers haven’t averaged such good 
prices in years. 
The Western hay famine is beginning to 
tell on Eastern prices. 
Dried small fruits are dull with a down¬ 
ward tendency in prices. 
Peen-to Peaches are selling at the Broad¬ 
way fruit stores at two for a quarter. 
The demand for apples has fallen off 
and prices have declined in consequence. 
It is estimated that 60,000 chickens are 
consumed daily in New York and Brook¬ 
lyn. 
California dried fruits are well sold out 
and the market is in good shape for the 
new crop. 
The prospect of an abundance of peaches 
still continues good in spite of rumors of in¬ 
jury by frosts. 
Southern eggs have been scarce. They 
usually bring lower prices and are in de¬ 
mand for a cheaper class of trade. 
