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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AUG. i5 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Pennsylvania milk dairymen are organ¬ 
izing. 
Belle Hamlin trotted a quarter mile at 
Cleveland in 31% seconds. 
The stock of hides in this country is 10 
per cent greater than one year ago. 
Philadelphia milk dealers seem to be as 
tricky as their New York brethren. 
Some of the Delaware farmers will try 
shipping sweet potatoes to Denver, Col. 
A Norristown, Pa., dealer has been held 
to answer to the charge of watering milk. 
The Farmers’ Alliance officers disagree as 
to the responsibility of the wheat circular. 
Maud S. has been bred to Ansel by Rob¬ 
ert Brnner. Mr. Bonner paid $10,000 for 
Ansel. 
The mule trade is dull this year on ac¬ 
count of the depression of business on the 
canals. 
Experiments with inoculated chinch bugs 
in Dane County, Wis., resulted in the 
death of millions of bugs. 
An Indiana farmer died from wounds 
inflicted by muskrats which attacked him 
in large numbers while fishing. 
The Jewett stock farm two-year-old colt, 
Turco, is starting out at a lively gait, mak¬ 
ing the record of 2:29% on a half mile track. 
The quarantine regulations respecting 
North Carolina and Tennessee cattle have 
been modified by the Department of Agri¬ 
culture. 
The Ohio rain maker will go to Death 
Valley in California, and to the Sahara, 
and endeavor to convert these deserts into 
great lakes and fertile valleys. 
The Patrons of Industry of Lake County, 
Ill , hold their first annual picnic Septem¬ 
ber 7, on the banks of Gray’s Lake. All 
other farmers’ organizations are invited. 
A Philadelphia produce dealer was 
charged as much for a dish of tomatoes in 
a restaurant as he had charged the restau¬ 
rant keeper per basket for the same toma¬ 
toes. 
Ths Japanese Government is buying up 
blooded stock throughout the world, and 
recently bought some fine horses at Emin¬ 
ence, Ky., Including drivers, trotters and 
runners. 
California farmers last year made a good 
profit growing cabbages and shipping them 
to the middle West. Tnis year they have 
overdone the matter and many of them will 
go to waste. 
Spondulix, the Australian high jumper, 
cleared six feet and 6% inches at the Mel¬ 
bourne Royal Agricultural Show. This is 
eight inches less than Filemaker’s record at 
Chicago last year. 
A Seventh-day Adventist was fined in 
Tennessee for plowing on Sunday, and the 
United States Court has upheld the decis¬ 
ion. We had a Constitution in this country 
once. Where is it ? 
An Illinois thief stole about 200 hogs by 
applying chloroform to them in their pens 
by meaus of a long pole, after which they 
were taken quietly away and killed. A 
large quantity of pork was discovered 
buried in the ground. 
The stringent law governing grain eleva¬ 
tors in North Dakota will have the tend¬ 
ency to drive them into private hands, in 
which case they will be unavailable for the 
storage of grain by farmers wishing to hold 
for higher prices. 
Advices from Grenada, Miss., state that 
along the Yalobusha River whole farms are 
entirely inundated, some of them having 
been under water for 60 hours. Entire fields 
of corn and cotton were washed down and 
covered with mud. The river there has now 
reached its height and is falling. 
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Kan., 
says Texas fever has broken out among the 
cattle in that county, and over two score 
have already died. The people are greatly 
excited and have taken steps to establish a 
quarantine. A number of small stock rais¬ 
ers and farmers will lose everything. 
Notwithstanding the report of State 
Veterinary Surgeon Stalker, of Iowa, which 
was based upon the report of his assistant, 
Dr. Niles, stating that the cattle disease 
near Emmettsburg is not contagious or 
dangerous, the disease continues to spread 
and the farmers are greatly alarmed. 
The report of the Maine State Board of 
Agriculture says that the fears that the hay 
crop might be cut short by drought have 
been dissipated, and that the failing off in 
the crop will not amount to a quarter of a 
million tons, leaving a harvest of from one 
and a quarter to one and two-fifths million 
of tons for the State. 
It is now reported from Chicago that 
Armour, Swift and Morris, who have been 
reported as about to remove their business 
from the Chicago stock yards to Tolleston, 
have secured such terms from the stock 
yards company as they desired, and will 
continue tbelr business at Chicago. The 
result is that the smaller packers will be 
squeezed out. 
A report from Chattanooga, Tenn., says 
that the millers of that place have formed 
a league to purchase wheat from the West. 
They say this is done in self-defense against 
the farmers of middle Tennessee, who, 
backed by the Alliance, are holding their 
wheat for a higher price, with the result 
that it has risen in the past week from 82% 
to 90 cents. East Tennessee grain will run 
the mills fora time until a Western supply 
can be procured. 
A prominent butter dealer is reported as 
saying that the improved export demand 
for the lower grades of butter is largely due 
to the singular and unexpected fact that 
oleomargarine oil has steadily advanced 
this season until it is now higher in Europe 
than it has been in the last eight years, and 
while the lower grades of butter have been 
weak, oleomargarine has been advancing 
and has now reached a point that makes 
it possible to ship some of our butter, such 
as we very much need an outlet for. 
From the Sandwich Islands during the 
first six months of the present year there 
was an increase in exports of sugar from 
the islands of 24,000 tons over the same 
period in 1890. The total production of 
sugar for 1891 is estimated at about 230,0C0 
tons. An average reduction of 25 per 
cent of the taxes on the sugar plantations 
has been granted by the Cabinet as the re¬ 
sult of a conference with the planters, who 
complain of the depreciation in the value 
of sugar, owing to the tariff measure of the 
United States. 
After all, the farmers have carried Ken¬ 
tucky, though the Third Party, generally 
backed up by the Alliance, failed to do so. 
There are only 16 Third Party members in 
the Legislature, while there are 124 farmers 
out of a possible 224. Of the non-Alliance 
farmers a few are Republicans, the rest 
Democrats. Hitherto the farmers in that 
State have either fought outside of party 
lines or neglected to push representatives 
of their own vocation within those lines for 
office; this year they’ve adopted a wiser 
policy, and, lo I they’ve captured the State 1 
Whatever may be said or thought of the 
origin of the advice to farmers to hold their 
wheat for higher prices, the reports from 
the West, particularly from Kansas, indi¬ 
cate that a large part of the crop will be 
held. The State Secretary of the Kansas 
Alliance is reported as saying that they are 
prepared, if necessary, to store one-half of 
the wheat crop of Kansas. Arrangements 
have been made with the big elevators at 
Kansas City, St. Louis, Baltimore and 
other cities to hold wheat forwarded by 
the Alliance and advance 75 per cent on it. 
This report comes via Chicago, so it may 
be taken for what it is worth. 
The Gardeners’ and Florists’ Club of Bos¬ 
ton, offers prizes of $100 and $50, respec¬ 
tively for the best and second best mantel 
decorations to be exhibited at the Annual 
Exhibition of plants and flowers of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Horticultural Society, Septem¬ 
ber 1 to 4. At the Chrj santhemum Show, 
November 3 to 6, the club offers $75 and 
$50 for the best and second best 10 vases of 
chrysanthemums of 10 named varieties. 
The prizes will be awarded by specially 
appointed judges outside of Boston. No 
names will be placed on the exhibits until 
after the awards are made. Persons in¬ 
tending to compete for either of these 
prizes are requested to give notice as early 
as possible to Patrick Norton, Chairman 
Committee of Arrangements, Horticultural 
Hall, Boston. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Jefferson County, Wis.—We have had 
plenty of rain this summer. The hay crop 
was very good. The wheat, oats and rye 
crops were never better; barley is rather a 
slim crop. The prospect for corn is good; 
some of it having formed grains. The po¬ 
tato crop is also good. Grapes were cut 
short by frost in the spring, but what are 
left are looking fine. Strawberries were a 
fair crop ranging in price from 5 to 15 
cents per quart. Raspberries were an im¬ 
mense crop, and sold for 8 and 15 cents per 
quart. Not many cherries are raised but 
what trees there are were loaded with de¬ 
licious fruit. o. w. H. 
Montrose County, Col.— Winter wheat 
a good crop. Spring wheat, prospect good. 
Oats coming on splendidly. Potatoes have 
a good prospect. First crop Alfalfa heavy; 
second crop being cut and is very good. 
Small fruit crops good. Other fruits good 
where the trees are old enough to bear. 
Our orchards are young. The Indians were 
removed from here only in 1881. So far as 
tried, fruits do splendidly. Cattle are doing 
well. R. D. D. 
Dairymen 
West Upton,Mass.,T - 
please send your address 
_ to FI. L. HILL, 
for .891 'Catalogue ofHlLL’S MILK AERATOR 
for freeing milk of odors of animal or feed, without use 
of ICE or WATER. 
VIAIRYIIEII Send for Circulars of most 
I#HI II I III kill Simple. Cheap and Effective 
Aerator, to J. D. POWELL, Golden’s Bridge, N. Y. 
Windham County, Vt.— Hay two-thirds 
crop, of fine quality, secured in best condi¬ 
tion. Rye is being harvested, with long 
heads and plump grains. Corn and pota¬ 
toes looking fine. A better crop of apples 
in this vicinity than last year. No wheat 
grown, but more buckwheat sown than 
usual. E. P. J. 
>11 FT T1T7IVHYO The only bit made that can 
lW-I.V. be used on a gentle horse or 
D IT the most vicious horse with 
■ 1 ' equal and entire success. 
50,000 sold in 1889. 
75,000 sold in 1890. 
THEY ARE KING. 
Sample mailed X C for » 1 no 
Nickel $1.50. >t> I «UU 
Stallion Hits Fifty cents extra. 
RACINE MALLEABLE IRON 
Strafford County, N. H.—The farmers 
have about finished haying and there Is a 
better crop than was expected; it was light 
on high ground, in some cases, not half as 
much as last year, but of good quality. 
Other crops are looking well, but more rain 
would have been a benefit. Potato beetles 
have been plentiful. My R. N.-Y. Potatoes 
are looking nice and so is the R. N.-Y. corn. 
w. E. R. 
Polk County, Iowa.— July has been un¬ 
usually cool; there have been but few nights 
in which one could not sleep under a quilt 
with comfort. The weather has been en¬ 
tirely too cool for most crops. Corn is 
making a slow growth, and is very back¬ 
ward and must have favorable hot weather 
through the remainder of the season to 
make an average crop. We had a fine rain 
on July 21st, and on July 22nd a heavy wind 
and rain storm which greatly damaged all 
crops and especially corn and unharvested 
oats and hay. We hope to have more hot 
weather after it. Oats have made a good 
crop and harvest has just commenced. Hay 
good and nearly all made and put up in fine 
condition. Potato crop splendid. Vege¬ 
tables of most kinds in abundance, and 
bringing remunerative prices. Fruit of all 
kinds in great abundance, that is, such as 
can be produced here. Sweet corn and cu¬ 
cumbers seem to be our scarcest articles, 
and are likely to be scarce and bring good 
prices all the season. Our melon crop will 
be light owing to our cool weather. Pas¬ 
turage and stock water good and plenty. 
Stock doing well. Onr condition better 
generally than for some years. F. s. w. 
THE MOTHER’S RESPONSIBILITY. 
In Now York alone over 100,000 children die every 
summer. This Is all wrong; it is all needless. The 
greater number of these deaths are caused by im¬ 
proper care and food, and mothers ought to realize 
more than they do the grave responsibility that the 
little life has brought them. 
More than one half the sickness and deaths among 
children during the summer could be avoided were 
Laciated Food used continually. This wonderful 
preparation is not a medicine, but a pure food and 
an actual substitute for mother's milk that keeps the 
child healthy and happy, niakes solid flesh, and 
causes teething to be easy. 
If your dealer has none, send 25 cents at once to 
Wells, Richardson & Co„ Burlington, Vt., for a can. 
It may he the means of saving your child’s life, and 
mothers who know of It and do not use It, are guilty 
of serious neglect.—Ada. 
THERE 18 NO BETTER 
nor more economical feed for 
LIVE STOCK 
THAN 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
If you get It from the 
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