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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AUG. 8 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Light frost about Winsted, Ct., July 28. 
Hail damaged crops In Milne, Nebraska 
and South Dakota. 
Hog cholera is decimating the herds in 
Black Hawk County, Iowa. 
About 8,200 clerks have been employed in 
the Census Office at Washington. 
Bread is high In Peru on account of the 
prohibition of wheat shipments from Chili. 
Some Delaware peach growers claim to 
have discovered that the yellows is caused 
by insects. 
A mysterious disease which proves speed¬ 
ily fatal is alarming the stockmen in Law¬ 
rence County, Ill. 
The pink eye so prevalent among horses 
several years ago, has made its appearance 
at Germantown, Pa. 
A “mysterious and fatal cattle disease’' 
is destroying large numbers of cattle in 
Palo Alto County. Iowa. 
The steamship Nomadic which arrived 
last Monday, brought 10 race horses, eight 
Hackneys and 579 Shropshire Sheep. 
Various localities of California have be¬ 
come infested by the Hessian Fly, said to be 
the result of importing seed from the East. 
Some of the dairymen In Sussex County, 
N. J., whose herds were said to be affiicted 
with tuberculosis, indignantly deny the re¬ 
port. 
In Covington, Ky., during a recent storm> 
so many English sparrows were drowned 
as to clog the sewer openings and Hood the 
streets. 
Burlington County, N. J., milk shippers 
are organizing in order to secure a share of 
the profits which are now all absorbed by 
middlemen. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, Mid- 
Summer Meeting, August 18 and 19 at 
Catawba Island. W. W. Farnsworth, 
Secretary, Watervllle. 
There is a movement among the manu¬ 
facturers of farm machinery to do away 
with exhibitions at fairs, which have be¬ 
come a source of great expense. 
Inspectors of the Oregon Board of Horti¬ 
culture are on the lookout for infected fruit 
from outside the State. Under the law the 
Board has authority to condemn i ifected 
fruit and to prosecute dealers who persist in 
selling it. 
The great East Street Reaper Works, 
Springfield, O., the largest agricultural 
reaper works in the world, covering 46 
acres, have been sold to the Central Car and 
Repair Manufacturing Co., for $300,000. 
The buildings and machinery cost $1,500,000. 
Once more—the barbed wire manufact¬ 
urers of the U. S. have combined in a trust 
that will eclipse all other combinations. 
The first move will be to advance the royalty 
on the manufacturers of wire 200 per cent. 
Headquarters, Chicago. “Nominal” cap¬ 
ital, $2,500,000. 
A New Jersey farm hand was milking 
one of six cows fastened in a row under a 
shed, when lightning struck the building 
and killed him and five of the cows, leav¬ 
ing the other uninjured. The one that es¬ 
caped was tied with a rope, while the 
others were fastened with chains. 
In 38 Kansas counties investigated by 
the Topeka Capital, the total of farm- 
mortgage indebtedness incurred during 
the last three months is $473,644; the total 
of such indebtedness paid off in the same 
time is $784,352—that is, in these 38 counties 
$310,708 more of mortgage indebtedness was 
paid off than was incurred. There are 105 
counties in Kansas. 
Secretary Gilbert, of the State Board of 
Agriculture of Maine, is to make an ex¬ 
tended tour of observation in August, go¬ 
ing to Canada West, New York and Ver¬ 
mont for the purpose of inspecting some of 
the modern work among the noted opera¬ 
tors in stock and dairy matters. The mut¬ 
ton sheep Industry of Canada will be a 
special subject of investigation. 
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
has prepared a statement of the probable 
production of sugar during the current 
fiscal year, of which the followingis a sum¬ 
mary : Number of producers of sugar from 
cane, 730; from beets, 7 ; from sorghum, 3 ; 
from maple sap, 3,932—total, 4,672. Estimate 
of amount of sugar which will be produced : 
Cane sugar, 500,000,100 pounds; beet sugar, 
29,210,000; sorghum sugar, 2,500,000 ; maple 
sugar, 8,000,000—total, 539,710,000 pounds. 
Estimate of amount of bounty to be paid : 
On cane sugar, $10,350,000; on beet sugar, 
$584,200; on sorghum sugar, $50,000; on 
maple sugar, $150,000—total, $11,184,200. 
Association of American Colleges and Ex¬ 
periment Stations, Annual Delegate Con¬ 
vention, Washington, D. C., August 12 to 
18. The first course of lectures in America, 
under the Rothamsted Trust, established 
by Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., to be de¬ 
livered by Mr. R. Warington, F. C. S., 
Chemist and accredited representative of 
Rothamsted, under the auspices of this 
Association, and upon its special invitation, 
will constitute the salient feature of this 
convention. 
A dispatch from Sioux City, la., says that 
about 25 northwestern Iowa firms engaged 
in shipping grain and cattle, at a meeting 
held there decided to Institute suits against 
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad to 
recover money paid as discriminating rates 
during a series of years. The Federal 
courts have decided that they can recover 
the difference between what they paid and 
the lowest rates for the same haul. In thou¬ 
sands of cases the rebate was as much as 
$40 per car. It is merely a question of legal 
evidence. Shippers on the Chicago and 
Northwestern pooled six months ago and 
employed counsel. The cases are now ready 
for court, and the meeting ordered a vigor¬ 
ous prosecution. The shippers on all the 
other lines in Iowa are preparing to file 
suits to recover rebates. It will cost the 
different companies over $1,000,000. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Hamilton County, O.—A statement in 
the issue of July 4th mentions a worm as 
very disastrous to the onion crop in Madi¬ 
son County, N. Y. I have noticed this sea¬ 
son, for the first time, a yellow worm with 
black markings, in length not over half an 
inch, eating onion tops, as in the article 
above mentioned. Is this a new pest ? Has 
the reported failure in that section been 
verified? Here we grow from sets, and 
while the dry weather in May was greatly 
against the crop, the suitable weather since 
has made fairly good crops, which will be 
ready to gather in a week. Potatoes were 
in many instances plowed up, having come 
up so poorly. Those standing are looking 
very well; all early verieties. Meadows 
are a little short. Wheat a good yield. 
Corn looks exceedingly well, though most 
of it is about two weeks late. This has 
been a potato section for 40 years perhaps. 
Our dependence has been for years on clover 
as a fertilizer. I. E. E. 
R. N.-Y.—From available sources of in¬ 
formation we cannot say whether this is a 
new pest or not. Will any one having in¬ 
formation in regard to this or the condition 
of the onion crop referred to, communicate 
such Information ? 
Steuben County, Indiana.— Crops are 
good. I have iust thrashed 10 acrts 
of corn ground wheat that went 30 bush¬ 
els per acre. Corn looks well. Oats are 
a little thin on the ground. Potatoes 
and vegetables were never better. Hay 
good. A little dry at present. The berry 
crop has been wonderful, considering the 
two very heavy frosts we had when the 
vines were full of blossoms. The last one 
froze ice half an inch thick; berries that 
were half an inch long froze solid and 
turned black as soon as the sun shone on 
them. I picked 4,210 quarts of strawberries 
on a few rods less than 1)4 acre. We made 
our last picking July 16. I have about 30 
varieties on my place. I will name them 
according to rank, as they bore for me, and 
star them as I think they should be, as they 
bore this year: Bubach * * *, Haver- 
land * * *, Dutter * *, best in flavor ex¬ 
cept Jessie ; Crawford * *, Jewell *, Cres¬ 
cent * *, but too small for our market; 
Cumberland * *, Warfield * *, small for 
market; Jessie *, frosted the worst of any; 
Parry * *. Monmouth, Cloud, Mammoth 
and many others I will discard after three 
years’ trial. Of my new varieties, Parker 
Earle, Lady Rusk, Mrs. Cleveland and 
Pacific seem all right, as they seem inclined 
to bear right along, especially Parker 
Earle, which I think has come to stay. I 
shall set of it largely. I have had a nice 
crop of raspberries. The Gregg, consider¬ 
ing the few mild winters we have had, is 
the best of all for a late berry; Johnston 
Sweet and Souhegan for early; Hilborn 
and Nemaha good ; Shaffer at the top for 
red, and Golden Queen for yellow. Just 
commenced to pick my blackberries, and of 
all big berries give me Erie. In gooseber¬ 
ries there can’t be anything better than 
Downing, Smith and Industry, and for 
currants give me Fay and White Grape. 
I got 10 cents per quart for everything I 
have sold yet, and I am a little inclined to 
think I will stick to it. The Dutter Seed¬ 
ling is a cross from Jersey Queen and Sharp¬ 
less, instead of Jessie, as stated, and origi¬ 
nated with me in Angola, Stueben, Co., 
Indiana. J. D. 
Mifflin County, Pa.—H arvest is about 
over, and wheat was a good crop and of 
good quality. Hay an average crop. Oats 
good. Com Is backward but is growing 
nicely. Potatoes are doing well. Apples 
and all kinds of fruits are plentiful. New 
wheat 85 cents; corn, old, 65; oats 35; new 
potatoes 40 to 50; butter 10 to 15; eggs 14 to 
15. D. A. H. 
Sangamon County, III.—The central 
Illinois water famine is still with us, though 
recently relieved by two inches of rain 
which was the heaviest downpour we have 
had this season; still crops are good—an av¬ 
erage all around I think, though I must 
except the hay crop which is light. It has 
been too cool for corn for some time. Our 
rains have been light—just enough to keep 
crops going, but yet not enough for grass 
or to make any change in the stock water 
situation. J. C. T. 
Chittenden County, Yt.—T his has been 
a season of encouragement to farmers from 
the beginning. We had what old farmers 
called an old-fashioned winter—ground 
frozen quite deep followed by a goodly 
supply of snow. Crops were put in in good 
season and in consequence are looking well, 
better than they have for some years past. 
This would pass for what is called a dry 
season; but there has been rain often enough 
to keep crops in a good growing condition. 
Oats and barley promise large yields. Po¬ 
tatoes are looking well, although the tops 
have not attained the growth they did last 
season, with little or no signs of rust. Corn 
is backward, there being but very few good 
looking fields in this locality. The hay 
crop is about harvested, and of fine quality, 
the quantity falling short of last year’s; but 
all farmers admit that the quality will more 
than offset the lack in quantity. The apple 
crop can be called a failure again: large or¬ 
chards are very thinly set; while pears and 
plums are in abundance. Cherries were a 
good crop and brought good prices. 
w. H. H. 
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THEY ALL 1)0 IT. 
J. G. G. Barnes, Allegany County, N. Y.—Yes 
we know that there are some who do not use butter 
color, simply because their fathers didn’t, but their 
number Is growing beautifully less every year. 
There Is no more harm in using a good butter color 
than In adding salt-one pleases the eye, the other, 
the taste. The best brand, In our opinion. Is the Im¬ 
proved, male by Wells. Richardson & Co., Burling¬ 
ton, Vt. Ou receipt of six cents they will send you ( 
postpaid, a sample sufficient to color about 60 pounds 
of butter. 
The best dairymen use this color, although some of 
them are quiet about it, but such men as A. W 
Cheever, editor of the New England Farmer, Geo. 
Jackson, at one time editor of the Dairy Department 
Jersey Bulletin, and Ches. Robinson & Son. the 
famous breeders use it and gladly endorse It.— Adv. 
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