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SEPT. 5 
AGRICULTURAL, NEWS. 
Too col.d for wheat In Manitoba. 
Potatoes are rotting badly on heavy soil 
Great Britain has about 58,000 acres in 
hops. 
Frost in North Dakota and Manitoba 
Thursday morning. 
Maryland reports corn on the peninsula 
14 feet 7 inches tall. 
Onecattlesteamer from Montreal to Dun¬ 
dee lost 121 head on the voyage. 
The next meeting of the Society of Amer¬ 
ican Florists will be held in Washington, 
D. C. 
The New York and New England Agri¬ 
cultural Society’s fair opened at Albany, 
Wednesday. 
A Texas farmer was killed by lightning 
which struck a wire fence against which he 
was leaning. 
The directors of the Milk Exchange here 
have fixed the price of milk at 2% cents a 
quart net to the farmers. 
Otto G. Mayer & Co., 7, 9 and 11 Bridge 
St., New York, are large exporters of ap¬ 
ples to England and Scotland. 
A tomato root louse has been discovered 
in New Mexico. The insect causes the plants 
to die soon aiter they are attacked. 
A Philadelphia man discovered, in a 
water-melon he was eating sprouts, two 
inches long upon some of the seeds. 
The stallion Nelson has lowered the trot¬ 
ting stallion record, 2 10%, made by him¬ 
self at Cambridge City, Ind., last October, 
to 2.10. 
The first flouring mill to be erected in 
the United States by the Farmers’ Alliance 
is now in course of construction at San 
Miguel, Cal. 
A California cherry grower claims that 
bees are necessary to grow a successful crop 
of cherries and says that the question is, to 
bee or not to bee. 
The government of Ecuador is studying 
proposals to put prohibitory taxes on cattle 
and to forbid the exportation of flour, pota¬ 
toes and cereals. 
Many Eastern firms are advertising Cali¬ 
fornia peach pits claiming that they are 
better than Eastern pits because California 
trees are free from yellows. 
The Oregonian says: “ Eastern Oregon 
and Washington this year report a yield 
of 30,000,000 bushels of wheat—a large in¬ 
crease in the production of this crop.” 
Large crowds attended the farmers’ en¬ 
campment at Williams Grove, Pa., and 
were addressed by prominent men of all 
parties and of all shades of political belief. 
The first bale of new cotton to be mar¬ 
keted in Tallahassee was brought in by a 
colored farmer. This is the third year in 
succession that he has brought in the first 
bale. 
Reports from registers of deeds in 60 
counties of Kansas for July show a reduc¬ 
tion of $381,458 in mortgage indebtedness. 
It is believed there will be a reduction of 
$10,000,000 in the State this year. 
The work of organizing Alliances in all 
the large cities of the United States is re¬ 
ported to have been inaugurated in Chi¬ 
cago by the officials of the Citizens’ Na¬ 
tional Alliance and Industrial Union. 
The French wine growers have formed a 
syndicate with the object of insuring its 
members against individual losses through 
the ravages of phylloxera by compensating 
the losses through mutual subscriptions. 
The California Agricultural (?) Fair at 
Agricultural (?) Park, Sacramento, will 
include 11 days of horse races, at which it 
is predicted that “ some big records ” will 
be made for the benefit of Agriculture (?). 
The American Berkshire Association has 
appointed a committee to make a classifica¬ 
tion for Berkshire swine to be shown at the 
Columbian Exposition. The premiums to 
be offered by the association will be in cash 
and aggregate $1,000. 
Wm. B. Harvey, West Grove, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, has recently recorded in the Ameri¬ 
can Berkshire Record, a number of animals 
that he has sold to Berkshire breeders in 
Mexico. The names given these animals 
indicate their future place of usefulness. 
In parts of Minnesota, North Dakota, 
South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin there 
were more or less severe frosts last Sunday 
and Monday mornings. In southwestern 
Iowa the thermometer fell from 90 degrees 
to 35 degrees in less than 24 hours. Consid¬ 
erable damage was done to immature crops. 
The South Down sheep breeders of Amer¬ 
ica, have for a long-time felt the need of a 
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public record for the breed of sheep in 
Great Britain, and through the American 
South Down Association have pressed the 
matter until an association for the publi¬ 
cation of a Flock Book in England has been 
established. 
Cranberries, according to the American 
Cranberry Growers’ Association, will be 
17 per cent short of a full crop. Cause of 
shortage, frosts, both spring and fall, grass¬ 
hoppers and rot. Of this decrease New 
England sustained about 15 per cent, the 
West eight, while New Jersey shows an in¬ 
crease of about six per cent. Complete re¬ 
turns or further exigencies of the season 
may change the figures. 
In the If wer Rio Grande Valley, Texas, 
it is reported that there has been little 
rain in 18 months, the ranchmen are all in 
debt, and the farmers have been unable to 
raise enough for their actual needs. At 
Roma recently the scarcity of money 
was shown by the sale of 278 fat and 
healthy sheep, capable of growing four 
pounds of wool annually, for 33 cents 
apiece, though how sheep could be fat and 
healthy under such conditions is not ex¬ 
plained. 
The National Farmers’ Alliance has se¬ 
cured statistics from the Census Office in 
regard to mortgage indebtedness in Kan¬ 
sas. These statistics show, that the real 
estate mortgages of Kansas, independent 
of all other forms of obligation for debt, 
amounted during the past 10 years to $482- 
700,000, of which $235,000,000 still remain. 
The per capita debt in such mortgages is 
$160. Seventy-one per cent of mortgages 
are on farms, 28 per cent are subject to 10 
per cent interest, 7 per cent to 12 per cent 
interest, and some, they say, to 40 per cent 
interest. The number of mortgages repre¬ 
senting this debt is 620,000. 
The American South Down Association 
has decided to inaugurate the plan of 
holding annual shows in connection with 
the State and district fairs of the United 
States. The first of these will be held in 
connection with the Springfield Exposition 
and Sangamon Fair at Springfield, Illinois, 
September 7 to 11, 1891, where cash premi¬ 
ums, in addition to the regular prizes 
offered by the fair association, will be of¬ 
fered for the best and second best rams 
two years old or over, one year old and 
under two, and under one year old; and for 
the best and second best ewes two years 
old or over, one year old and under two, and 
under one year old. Also a flock prize for 
the best and largest display of South Down 
sheep to consist of not less than two rams 
and five ewes. 
The United States Consul at Beyrout has 
transmitted some notes on the means used 
in Arabia of destroying locusts. He says 
that two years’ experience and close obser¬ 
vation have demonstrated the fact that 
locu3ts voraciously devour a plant known as 
giant larkspur (Delphinium peregrinum) 
and that the smallest quantity proves fatal 
to them. Another plant with which suc¬ 
cessful experiments for destroying locusts 
have been made is the castor oil plant, 
(Palma Christ!) which seems to have proven 
an infallible destroyer of the insects. As 
both of these plants could easily be propa¬ 
gated in many parts of the United States, 
their cultivation in years when locusts 
make their appearance on lands near roads 
or along tracks they are known to take 
would seem, the consul thinks, to commend 
itself as of the utmost utility. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Jo. Daviess County, III.—We have had 
plenty of rain except early this spring. Hay 
one-third crop. Corn and potatoes promise 
heavy yields. Oats are a good yield and of 
extra weight. A strip two miles wide was 
damaged by hail one-half the value of the 
crops nearly the whole length of our county 
on June 30. Corn was pounded off so close 
that one could scarcely tell what had occu¬ 
pied the ground. Yet the latest pieces will 
make some corn if frost holds off. Oats 
were broken off as though cut by a har¬ 
vester and have produced a sort of second 
crop from root suckers. There was a hard 
wind with the hall. No other storms that 
Injured crops. Fruits of all kinds are aver¬ 
age crops. w. 8. s. 
Ontario, Canada.— Never before have 
the farmers in this county reaped so large 
a crop of fall wheat, many having over 40 
bushels per acre. The apple crop will not 
be large, nor will the pear. Plums will 
be a good crop where they were carefully 
sprayed. c. J. F. 
Central Station, Iowa - Com has made 
rapid growth, and a month of favorable 
weather will mature the greater part of the 
crop. The pasturage of the State is as 
abundant and as green as in June, and po¬ 
tatoes will yield immensely. Despite all 
drawbacks of heavy storms and incidental 
local damage, the season will bring abun¬ 
dant rewards to the producers of food. 
Warren County, O.-We have been 
having fine rains, and our corn is booming. 
Potatoes are a fine crop. I have the best 
Hebrons I have ever raised. Not quite so 
large as the Early Ohio, but the yield will 
be nearly twice as much. I have not dug 
my Rural No. 2 yet, but the vines promise 
a large yield. There Is an immense crop of 
fruit in this neighborhood, many of the trees 
breaking down. We expect to dry most of 
our pears. J - D - 
Franklin County, Mo.—The R. N.-Y. 
wheats are too late for our climate, but I 
shall try them again this fall. Crops are 
good. Wheat made from 20 to 30 bushels 
and corn promises to make 50 bushels per 
acre. Hay never was better. The same 
can be said of garden truck; but apples are 
going to be scarce. K - 
Leelanaw County, Mich.— When I 
plowed for late potatoes the sod ground 
was as dry as ashes, but when ready to 
plant—June 6—we had a shower that soaked 
the ground for the depth of the plow. Since 
then we have had but one shower that 
moistened the ground two inches deep. 
Consequently there is little, and on some 
farms, no hay. Were it not for the forest 
leaves the stock would perish. I have planted 
carrots, rutabagas, fodder corn and Hun¬ 
garian Grass, all in due time; but there 
has not yet been rain enough to germinate 
the seed of either. Winter wheat good; 
spring wheat and oats light. Corn looks 
well so far. Early potatoes are a light 
crop; late look well; the yield will depend 
on the future. I- 
Wayne County, N. Y.—The prospects 
are for barley and oats three fourths of a 
crop, corn about the same; apples one-third 
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