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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
France is the only European country that 
affords a market for horse flesh. 
The Pennsylvania State Fair will beheld 
at Bethlehem, September 21—26. 
Several cattle died from heat on a steam¬ 
er bound from Montreal to England. 
A Pennsylvania farmer found mice nests 
in the long wool on his sheep’s backs. 
The quarantine against American cattle 
in England is said to be only nominal. 
The horse Riley ran a mile at Sheepshead 
Bay, Thursday, in 3 min., 35 1 5 seconds. 
A prune stock company has been formed 
in California, with $500,000 capital in 50,000 
shares. 
The French Government has voted $300,- 
000 for measures against the locust plague 
in Algeria. 
The Western hog-packing for last week 
was 225,000, against 315,000 for the same 
time last year. 
Secretary Rusk hopes to have arrange¬ 
ments completed within 80 days for the 
microscopic examination of pork. 
The United States consumes 100,000,000 
pounds of prunes annually, of which 17,- 
000,000 pounds are produced in California. 
The Department of Agriculture has ar¬ 
ranged for the complete inspection of beef 
both on the hoof and at the slaughter¬ 
houses. 
The steamer Nomadic brought over 
this week 40 valuable brood mares and 
stallions mostly Hackneys, and 200 South 
Down sheep. 
The Saturday Star, published in St. 
Joseph, Mo., has been selected as the official 
organ of the Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union 
in that Congressional district. 
A chicken thief in Union County, N. J., 
was sentenced to 15 years in State Prison 
at hard labor for stealing chickens. It Is 
estimated that he had stolen over 1,200. 
Politicians are hopeful that a year of 
good crops will disintegrate the Farmers’ 
Alliance in Kansas and thus weaken or 
destroy its prospects in the whole country. 
A lot of yearlings, the property of J. B. 
Haggin, brought very satisfactory prices 
at auction in this city. Many of them sold 
for upwards of $1,000, one filly bringing 
$4,600. 
There are said to be 150,000 cattle on the 
Cherokee Strip in violation of the law. 
Measures are to be taken to drive them off; 
but the owners threaten to fight rather 
than vacate. 
The New Jersey State Board of Health 
has begun a movement looking toward the 
regular Inspection of cows furnishing milk 
to the cities with the view of eliminating 
the danger of tuberculosis from this 
source. 
Extensive marl beds have been discovered 
on the shores of White Pond in Warren 
County, N. J. As usual, speculators are 
endeavoring to gain control of the prop¬ 
erty. The beds appear to be almost inex¬ 
haustible. 
It is reported that there are several con¬ 
cerns in and near this city engaged in buy¬ 
ing and fattening broken-down horses and 
afterwards slaughtering and shipping 
them to Europe. Secretary Rusk purposes 
investigating the matter. 
The Canadian Government has imposed 
a quarantine of 15 days on sheep and 
swine imported from Europe, and expects 
this action to be followed by cancellation 
of the quarantine on these animals enter¬ 
ing the United States from Canada. 
The French Chamber of Deputies on Wed¬ 
nesday fixed July 10 as the day on which 
the reduction of grain duties shall take 
effect The Chamber also exempted exotic 
oil seeds from duty, excepting poppy, colza 
and rape seed, on which the duty is four 
francs. 
The charter of the Broom-Corn Growers’ 
Association of Kansas was filed at Topeka 
this week. Its principal place of business 
will be at Sterling. The object is to store 
at Sterling broom-corn and other pro¬ 
ducts. This will probably followed by 
other similar organizations. 
The British Ambassador at St. Peters¬ 
burg has presented official complaints of 
frauds in quantity and quality of the grain 
delivered by Russian exporters. The Rus¬ 
sian Government has promised to appoint 
government agents at the ports from 
which Russian grain is exported and in 
important grain centers, with instructions 
to see that the Russian merchants deliver 
their grain in due weight and of the same 
quality as the samples from which the pur¬ 
chases of grain have been made by the 
agents of the British shippers or importers. 
An Exchange says that extensive inves¬ 
tigation by the Massachusetts Board of 
health Into French canned vegetables has 
resulted in the order prohibiting their sale 
in Boston. In every sample tested, it was 
found that metallic poison existed in the 
form of copper, and 27 out of 37 samples 
showed adulteration. 
New York and the suburban cities which 
are virtually a part of it, consume each 
day, on an average, 3,000 sheep, 5,000 hogs, 
1,600 beeves, 10,000 fowls, 1,700,000 eggs, 10,- 
000 barrels of flour 50,000 pounds of cheese, 
200,000 pounds of butter, besides the hun¬ 
dreds of other odds and ends that go to 
make up the usual bill of fare. 
There is a movement on foot in Italy to 
reduce the wheat duties. They were im¬ 
posed when imports were large with a view 
of producing a revenue, but last year’s 
abundant crop entirely stopped importa¬ 
tion, Impoverishing the government and 
enriching the farmers, the prices of whose 
products rose instead of falling. 
The Entomologist of the California State 
Board of Horticulture who has just re¬ 
turned from examination of the hop-fields 
around Sacramento, repoits that the aphis, 
supposed to be the hop fly, is the common 
grain louse. He also found the cabbage 
louse and the plum louse in the vicinity of 
some of the hop-fields, but none on the vines. 
Shippers of lambs suffered severe losses 
during the extreme heat of the first part 
of the week. Many of these came from 
distances that require three or four days 
for the journey and hardly a car-load 
reached this place without many dead or 
dying lambs in it. Many also died after 
they had reached the stock yards. The 
pens were almost like ovens. 
The first installment of the $250,000 due 
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians has 
arrived at Kingfisher, I. T., and payment 
has begun. It will require nearly a month 
to complete the payment. After this the 
allotment of lands in severalty to these 
Indians will commence. As soon as the 
allotment is completed the balance, em¬ 
bracing some of the finest lands in the Ter¬ 
ritory, consisting of 4,000,000 acres, will be 
thrown open to settlement. 
TO COLORADO VIA 
BURLINGTON ROUTE 
ONLY ONE NIGHT ON THE ROAD. 
Leave Chicago at 1:00 P. M., or St. Louis 
at 8 :25 A. M., and arrive Denver 6:15 P. M. 
the next day. Through Sleepers, Chair 
Cars and Dining Cars. Ail Railways from 
the East connect with these trains and 
with similar trains via Burlington Route 
to Denver, leaving Chicago at 6:10 P. M., 
St. Louis at 8:15 P. M., and Peoria at 3 :20 
P. M. and 8 :00 P. M. All trains daily. 
Tourist tickets are now on sale, and can 
he had of ticket agents of all roads and at 
Burlington Route depots in Chicigo, Peo¬ 
ria and St. Louis. 
There is no better place than Colorado 
for those seeking rest and pleasure.— Adv. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Oat straw is higher. 
Asparagus is on its last legs. 
Receipts of eggs are decreasing. 
Hides are dull and trading is slow. 
Pecans bring 9 to 11 cents per pound. 
Many of the old apples look withered. 
The blackberry crop promises to be large. 
The trade In foreign dried fruits is dull. 
Jersey cabbages will soon suppply the 
market. 
String beans are almost a drug on the 
market. 
The first new apples come from North 
Carolina. 
Rye flour is higher than the straight 
wheat flour. 
There is more trading in foreign than in 
domestic beans. 
Up river strawberries form a large part 
of the supply now. 
State and Pennsylvania creamery butter 
is a point higher than Elgin. 
The Brazilian coffee crop for this year is 
reported as enormously large. 
California is expected to produce 20,000,- 
000 pounds of prunes this year. 
The wool market in Philadelphia is re¬ 
ported quiet and prices nominal. 
The few old potatoes left in market are 
badly withered and of poor quality. 
Some of the Southern green apples sent 
here are enough to disgust a decent hog. 
California cherries are somewhat lower 
though prices are yet beyond the reach of 
the man with a small pocketbook. 
The first large lot of water-melons for 
this season came to this market this week. 
Samples of new barley from California 
are of fine appearance but light in weight. 
Hops are quiet, the reports concerning 
damage to the crop not seeming to affect 
trade. 
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