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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AUG. i 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Cincinnati has shipped the first melons to 
the European market. 
A Pennsylvania hog made a vicious at¬ 
tack upon the hired man. 
And now a trust among the tomato can- 
ners is among the possibilities. 
A destructive hailstorm near St. Peter, 
Minn., did $100,000 damage to crops. 
Heavy rains in North Dakota encourage 
farmers to expsct a bountiful harvest. 
The shipment of currency to the West to 
move the crops has begun from Washing¬ 
ton. 
And now the yellows threaten to seriously 
decrease the peach crop of the Delaware 
Peninsula. 
A peach exchange has been organized at 
Easton, Md., and will begin operations 
about August 1. 
Explorers claim to have found the In¬ 
terior of Alaska fertile In vegetation and 
rich in minerals. 
Manufactured milk is being made and 
sold in Dallas, Texas, and the authorities 
are after the makers. 
A couple of bad breaks in the Erie Canal 
have had the effect of increasing prices of 
wheat in this market. 
Five car-loads of horses, valued at $10,000, 
were stolen from a ranch in Washington 
and shipped to Chicago. 
Numerous horses have been badly injured 
in the streets of Wilmington, Del., by step¬ 
ping on old nails, wires, etc. 
It is estimated that it will require 10 
trains daily for seven months to move the 
Manitoba crops to the seaboard. 
Connecticut farmers are excited over the 
depredations upon poultry and pigs of some 
animal supposed to be a wildcat. 
A disease pronounced by the State In¬ 
spector to be tuberculosis has broken out 
among the cows near Hainesville, Sussex 
County, N. J. Several animals have been 
killed. 
According to a report read at the Kent 
County, Del., Farmers' Institute, the Penn¬ 
sylvania Railroad is charging 15 times the 
general rate for transporting green fruit on 
its lines. 
A mad wolf has been terrorizing the resi¬ 
dents of Everet, Mo.; several cows, horses 
and dogs were bitten before the animal was 
killed and now fears of hydrophobia are 
entertained. 
The estimaled production of sugar from 
sorghum cane is divided between Kansas, 
with a production from 4.934 acres of 2,500,- 
000 pounds, and Missouri, with 26 acres, 
producing 10,000 pounds 
The celebrated Blue Grass Farm of Mr. 
W. H. Crawford, near Lexington, Ky., con¬ 
taining 200 acres, has been sold to Bower- 
man Bros, for $40,000. It is one of the most 
complete stock farms in Kentucky. 
The law enacted by the last Kansas Leg¬ 
islature forbidding aliens to hold land in 
the State has created great consternation 
among unnaturalized landholders, many of 
whom are fearful of losing their holdings. 
Numerous insects found In different parts 
of Iowa are reported by the Entomologist 
of the Agricultural College to be Wheat 
Aphis, which has been quite abundant but 
its parasites have increased so rapidly as to 
keep it in check. 
The number of applicants for licenses by 
producers of maple sugar is 8,932, and esti¬ 
mating the production at 2,000 pounds 
each, the estimated quantity of maple sugar 
upon which bounty will be claimed will be 
7,864,000 pounds. 
The production of sugar from sugar cane 
is distributed as follows: Louisiana, with 
704 factories, 552,132,200 pounds; Texas, 
with 15 factories, 14,807,000 pounds ; Florida, 
with 11 factories, 3,591,500 pounds, making 
a total of 570,520,700 pounds. 
In the Dominion House of Commons a 
petition was presented signed by 15,000 
members of the Order of Patrons of Indus¬ 
try, praying for the removal of the import 
duty on binder twine, salt and sugar and 
the placing of these articles on the free 
list. 
More fruit-brandy stills will be in oper¬ 
ation on the Delaware Peninsula this year 
than at any time during the last 20 years. 
There are said to bs about 100 between the 
Delaware and Chesapeake Bays. Only 
peaches, apples and grapes are used in these 
stills. 
The French Senate must ratify the bill 
removing the restrictions upon the impor¬ 
tation of American pork before it can be¬ 
come a law. Owing to the political crisis 
at present existing, it is feared that the 
ratification of the bill will not be accom¬ 
plished without difficulty. 
The Bavarians are reported to have de¬ 
vised a suction fan, worked by electricity 
in connection with the electric lights, which 
draws in the swarms of insects which those 
lights attract and feeds them into mills, 
where they are ground up fine and after¬ 
ward mixed with flour to make poultry 
feed. 
Near Joliet, Ill., an exhibition of im¬ 
proved binding machines was made last 
week. Two machines were successfully 
operated for several hours, one of which 
uses a straw band and the other prairie 
grass. The general adoption of these ma¬ 
chines would settle the question of binding 
twine trusts. 
The Higganum Manufacturing Company 
is in financial difficulties caused by the 
failure of one of its heaviest indorsers. 
The company did a large business and con¬ 
trolled the patents of several valuable im¬ 
plements. It is expected that arrangements 
will be made which will enable it to re¬ 
sume operations. 
A young farmer in the vicinity of Colum¬ 
bus, Ind., is reported to be unable to get 
his wheat thrashed because he refuses to 
join the Farmers’ Alliance. His neighbors 
will neither help him nor allow a machine 
to go on his farm. This sort of tactics will 
bring the order into disrepute with all 
self-respecting people. 
And now the partisan political papers are 
excited over the formation of a gigantic 
wheat trust embracing nearly all the wheat 
growers of the United States, by which it 
is proposed to hold back 80 per cent of the 
wheat crop until prices have advanced to 
a satisfactory figure. The headquarters 
are said to be in St. Paul, Minn. 
The first cargo of new American wheat 
was shipped from Galveston, Texas, last 
week. It consisted of 8,350 bushels all 
grown in Texas, and is the beginning of 
what is expected to be in the near future a 
great export business. The grain will come 
not only from Texas, but from Missouri, 
Kansas,Nebraska and other Western States 
The Alliance judge who was elected in 
Kansas last fall was summoned before 
the Supreme Court of the State to show 
cause why he should not be punished for 
contempt. He apologized, and the court 
deferred further consideration of the case 
till September, when, if he conducts him¬ 
self properly meanwhile, no further action 
will be taken. 
Peru has imposed a specific duty of 1L 
cents a kilogramme (about 2 15 pounds) 
upon Imported lard. It has been decreed 
that all packages shipped, discharged or 
reembarked at ports of the republic shall 
be marked with the gross weight. Cases, 
barrels and crates must also be marked 
with the measurement of their three 
dimensions according to the metric system, 
and fines are imposed for non-compliance 
with this law. 
The following is a table by States of the 
number of sugar producers in the United 
States whose estimated production for the 
year ending June 30,1891, Is 1,000,000 pounds 
or more each: Louisiana, 193; California, 3; 
Texes, 4; Nebraska, 2; Kansas, 2; Utah, 1; 
Florida, 1. Total, 206. The largest esti¬ 
mated production at one factory—the Caf- 
frey Central Sugar Refinery and Railroad 
Company, St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana—is 
12,000,000 pounds. 
The amount of duty collected on 2,607,- 
113,114 pounds of sugar for the fiscal year 
ended June 80, 1890, was $53,985,873. The 
duty collected on 1,835,114,163 pounds of 
sugar for the nine months ended March 
31, 1891, amounted to $37,986,863. Since 
April 1, 1891, to May 31, 1891, there has been 
imported, free of duty under the new tariff, 
2,169,158 pounds of beet sugar and 732,504 
pounds of cane and other sugars, making a 
total of 2,901,662 pounds. 
The production of sugar from beets, so 
far as the issue of licenses is concerned, is 
confined to California, Nebraska, Utah and 
Virginia. There are three producers in 
California, with an estimated production 
from 6,000 acres of 16,000,000 pounds, one- 
half of which is attributed to the Western 
Beet Sugar Company of San Francisco, 
whose factory is located at Watsonville, 
Santa Cruz County. The Virginia produc¬ 
tion is estimated at 10,000 pounds. 
A peculiar affection of the wheat, called 
by some of the farmers honey dew, has an¬ 
noyed the growers in some parts of Bucks 
and Montgomery Counties, Penn. The 
lower parts of the stalks were filled with a 
mucilaginous substance which clogged the 
knives and impeded the binders. More¬ 
over, it refused to dry, and many farmers 
were afraid to put the wheat in the barns 
for fear of spontaneous combustion, and 
the problem now is how to thrash the sticky 
stuff. Old farmers say this phenomenon 
occurs about once in 20 years, but no one 
seems able to account for it. 
GOLD MEDAL BUTTER. 
“ It should be remembered that It was a firm of 
Jersey breeders, Moulton Bros , of Randolph, Vt., 
who by their enterprise saved the credit of Amer 
lean butter at the late Paris Exposition,” writes the 
editor of Hoard’s Dairyman. 
In making the butter that took the gold medal, 
Wells, Richardson & Co.’s Improved Butter Color 
was used, and investigation has shown that the rich 
golden yellow of most of the prize butter at the dif¬ 
ferent fairs, etc. is due to this same color. It is 
strange that any butter maker in this age of pro¬ 
gress should make uncol ored butter or use anything 
but Wells, Rlc-iardson & Co.’s Improved, for this 
color is the strongest, and hence the most econom¬ 
ical, while it always gives the same natural June 
shale, and Its presence in the butter cannot be 
detected — Adv. 
FOR SALE CHEAP. 
The G. W. Pottes Ebtate-Aii extra good farm of 
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THAN 
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