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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Peach pickers are wanted in Delaware. 
Portugal has reduced the import duty on 
wheat. 
Texas farmers denounce the Sub-Treas¬ 
ury and land loan schemes. 
An English syndicate is buying the glu¬ 
cose manufactories in this country. 
Again we are told that France will re¬ 
move the embargo on American pork. 
The California Irrigationist is a new ven¬ 
ture devoted entirely to artificial irrigation. 
Articles of incorpoation of the American 
Hackney Horse Society have been filed in 
this county. 
Delaware farmers are finding difficulty 
in getting their wheat thrashed in time 
for the peach harvest. 
A number of Delaware farmers are re¬ 
ported to purpose testing the advantages 
of the “ German Clover.” 
John W. Akin, Sclpio, N. Y., will soon 
return from Europe with a fresh importa¬ 
tion of Percherons and French Coach 
horses. 
II C. Wheeler, just nominated for Gov¬ 
ernor of Iowa, has sent to France and Eng¬ 
land for an importation of Percherons and 
Shires. 
The “ boomers ” threaten to burn the cat¬ 
tle ranges on the Cherokee Strip unless the 
cattlemen remove their cattle within a rea¬ 
sonable time. 
Mohawk Valley Poultry and Kennel Club, 
Fourth Annual Exhibition at Gloversville, 
December 30 to January 2. J. A. Miller, 
Canajoharie, secretary. 
Sandwich Island planters say that sugar- 
producing there is doomed, under the con¬ 
ditions of the McKinley Bill, and that rice 
and coffee will take its place. 
San Francisco chocolate makers have 
been importing German beet sugar at a 
cost of 4% cents per pound, rather than pay 
Spreckels 5>£ cents, his lowest price. 
Grasshoppers are swarming in innumer¬ 
able numbers over eastern Colorado, and 
are said to be destroying everything green 
over an area of about 400 square miles. 
State Entomologist Forbes of Illinois has 
been experimenting with a parasite of the 
Hessian fly imported from Europe and the 
resul s arrived at seem quite satisfactory. 
Indiana Horticultural Society, summer 
meeting at Bloomington, August 13 and 14. 
Programme short, much time to bt> devoted 
to the exhibition of fruits and to sight 
seeing. 
Mr. C. S. Bingham, of The Evergreens, 
Vernon, Mich., is now in Europe making 
personal selections of Shropshire sheep to 
add to his already large herd. He is ex¬ 
pected home about August 1. 
The Philadelphia Poultry and Pigeon 
Club of which W. Atlee Burpee is first 
vice-president has been incorporated. Its 
purpose is to encourage by annual exhibi¬ 
tions the poultry industry of America. 
Efforts are being made to establish a 
water route from some of the peach-grow¬ 
ing districts to Philadelphia, with a view 
of diverting to that city some of the ship¬ 
ments now going to New York and Balti¬ 
more. 
A Jersey fruit grower gave out tin checks 
to his berry pickers to be redeemed on Sat¬ 
urday night. When this was done he found 
that he had taken in about $200 more than 
he had given out some one having manu¬ 
factured some bogus checks. 
The Board of Trade of the State of Cali¬ 
fornia has adopted a resolution claiming 
for California the leadership of the depart¬ 
ment of horticulture of the World’s Fair, 
as a due recognition of her position as the 
chief horticultural State of the Union. 
Exports of oleomargarine oil have doublt d 
in five years, amounting now to 2,500,000 
tubs annually. As this takes the place of 
the inferior grades of butter, it is not diffi¬ 
cult to understand the reason of the decline 
in the European demand for such goods. 
This market can be retained only by a de¬ 
crease in prices. 
Last week the Russian wheat crop was 
a failure. Now “ reliable authorities ” say 
the reports are exaggerated and without 
any effect on wheat markets abroad. It is 
also said that the probable Russian wheat 
surplus for export is likely to be fully 
64,000,010 bushels, or a little more than 
two-thirds of the average annual export 
for the past four years. 
An old section of the United States stat¬ 
utes provides that when any individual or 
corporation shall graze cattle on Indian 
lands without authority they shall be liable 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
JULY 25 
to a fine of $100 per head for all cattle so 
grazed,one-half of the fine to go to the per¬ 
son informing, the other half to the Indian 
tribe owning the lands. Information has 
been filed against cattlemen grazing on the 
Cherokee Strip and the Cheyenne and Ara¬ 
pahoe reservations The cases are filed in 
the United States Courts at Elkens and 
Beaver, Oklahoma, and aggregate $140,000. 
The secretary of the Russian Bacon Com¬ 
pany, which has recently established mar¬ 
kets in London, Hamburg, Havre and Bar¬ 
celona, is reported as saying that the com¬ 
pany is confident that it will oust American 
bacon from the European market. Ger¬ 
many and France, which disfavor the 
American article, not only permit, but 
encourage the sale of Russian bacon within 
their territory. He says that some time 
ago workmen were sent by Russia to Chi¬ 
cago, Omaha and Kansas City, who obtain, 
ed employment in packing houses, and 
managed to learn a good deal about the 
general condition and methods of the busi¬ 
ness in America. Upon the strength of 
their lepresentations the government pro¬ 
ceeded to erect an immense factory near 
Graizi, 200 miles from Moscow, at a cost of 
$150,000, and leased it at a nominal figure 
to the company for 21 years. The govern¬ 
ment also affords the company special rail- 
vi ay facilities, whereby it is able to deliver 
its product in London, in 10 days at 9d. per 
cwt. less than the freight cost from Chi¬ 
cago. Deliveries are made in Hamburg in 
seven daj s. The cost of labor is also less 
than in America. Several Irish dressers re¬ 
ceive £2 per week while most of the un¬ 
skilled laborers are Russians who receive 
only 9d. per day. Graizi commands a pro¬ 
duct of 18,000,100 hogs immediately, with 
doub’e that number in prospect in the near 
future. The company proposes to open 
markets in all the important cities of 
Europe soon. The company’s bacon sold 
in the London markets recently at 41s. per 
cwt. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Oneida County, N. Y.— The long dry 
time ended with such rains as to put a good 
face on the farms. The fear of a dire fail¬ 
ure in grass and the cereals has given place 
to hope of fair crops. Wheat is being har¬ 
vested and oats are filling well. Grass is 
an average crop. Potatoes and corn, which 
were put in well and properly cared for, 
give good promise. The Colorado beetle is 
falling out by the way. w. B. R. 
Parke County, Ind.— We are now suf¬ 
fering from a severe drought; all Nature 
is wrarlng the *’gray.” Wells are drying 
up; pasture would burn, so dry is it. Days 
are hot, nights are cool—nice weather for a 
lazy man. The chances for corn are half a 
crop (which a heavy rain would better.) 
Hay was well cured, about one-half crop. 
Potatoes one half crop only. Gardens are 
suffering for rain, but when in the hands 
of good men, are yet promising. Fruit will 
not exceed one-half crop. Berries were not 
excellent owing to frott Apples are fine, 
but not a full yield. All fruits short ex¬ 
cept cherries, and of them, what a crop 1 
Why there are not more cherries raised, I 
cannot Imagine. The best and finest fruit 
we have. But when you come to wheat, 
old Parke is on hand with an average of 25 
bushels to the acre, and that of the very 
best. The West is having good wheat, and 
is getting good prices for it. All are suf¬ 
fering from want of rain as we are. A. c. B. 
Wyoming County, N. Y.—Hay is an 
average crop, although two weeks later 
than usual. As a sort of experiment about 
300 acres of peas were sown this spring in 
this vicinity under contract to the Frank- 
linville Canning Company. They pay from 
85 cents per bushel for late peas to $1.30 for 
early ones. The vines are mowed or pulled 
and drawn to the railroad station, one mile 
from town, where a thrasher or sheller 
has been erected by the company, which 
does excellent work, shelling them very 
clean from vines and breaking but few 
peas. They are then placed in 10-pound 
baskets and shipped to the factory, 15 miles 
distant. Growers are getting all the way 
from 15 to 45 bushels per acre. My acre 
yielded 30 bushels, Some draw the waste 
home and feed it to their cows, while others 
do not consider it worth the hauling. One 
man is putting his waste in the silo (the 
only one in town) to feed this fall when 
feed gets short. Whether it will pay for 
the labor or not and whether it will keep 
sweet so as to be fit for feed is a question 
yet to be solved. Early-planted potatoes 
look very sickly and spindling, as the frost 
cut some pieces down twice, and it looks as 
though they were discouraged and would 
not try again. For my own part, I drilled 
in corn between the rows, and it lodks hoW 
as though I would get some succotash. I 
shall dig what few potatoes there are as 
soon as possible and give the entire ground 
to the com. Oats as a rule are heading out 
very short; some early sowed look nicely. 
As an experiment I sent to Cortland County 
after some Wh'te Swedish seed oat*. They 
are 3J4 to 4 feet in height and filling very 
nicely. Many have questioned me in regard 
to them, saying they never saw a finer field 
in their lives. What the harvest will be 
time alone can tell. A. B. w. 
La Salle Co , 111—It looks bright for 
stock raising in the Sucker State for years 
to come. There never was a better pros¬ 
pect for an abundant harvest. We are in 
the midst of haying and grain harvest will 
come next. Hay a little short on account 
of a short sharp drought early in the 
spring. Prospects good for wheat, oats, 
barley and rye. That outrage which has 
been perpetrated upon the farmers of corn, 
grain and stock producing States has come 
to an end or nearly so. Small farmers are 
locating all over Uncle Sam’s domains 
wherever they can see a show to make a 
living with the expectation of by and by 
becoming rich. The government is now 
driving out all the stockmen with their 
stock from the Indian reservations and 
why not continue to drive them off of 
all the virgin soil in the Uuited States? 
They pay no taxes on their stock—the land 
they own not—why are they allowed there ? 
One of my neighbors tells me he Is making 
on his cattle and sheep 100 per cent. His 
stock is of the very best. He has lost thous¬ 
ands of dollars in stock raising "for two or 
three years past, but He who made all 
things and sustains all things does not per¬ 
mit man to look into the future but a very 
little way. But with an abundant harvest 
awaiting us, the prospect for extensively 
raising fat cattle for the next two years is 
excellent. o. C. B. 
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. 
CHOLERA IXFANTUM. 
Of the thousands of deaths that occur among chll 
dren every summer, fully nine-tenths are caused by 
cholera Infantum. Think of the poor little creatures 
fading away and dying before the parent’s eyes, and 
the very parent who would willingly give her life for 
the child’s unable to save It. 
This suffering and sorrow could in great measure 
be avoided did parents know of Lactated Fcod, a 
pure fcod that is an actual substitute for mother's 
milk. It has saved thousands of lives, where parents 
and physicians had given up all hope. It makes and 
keeps babies well and strong and should be the fool 
of every little one at this season. Wells, Richardson 
& Co, Burlington, Vt., will mail it for twenty-five 
cents, and no parent should be without some In the 
house. —Adv. 
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