664 
SEPT. i2 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
California cans fruit by electricity. 
The Buffalo fly Is rampant In some parts 
of Pennsylvania. 
The New York and New England Fair 
closed Wednesday, 
The New York State Fair opens at Syra¬ 
cuse, September 10. 
Deer hunting with hounds is lawful In 
New York since September 1. 
Secretary Noble decides that no beer may 
be sold in the Indian Territory. 
The Georgia courts have decided that 
railroads in that State must pay county 
taxes. 
The admission of American cattle to 
Canada may yet be revoked by the Home 
Government. 
The third annual fall exhibition of the 
California State Floral Society will be held 
on October 28, 29 and 80. 
President Diaz, of Mexico, has appointed 
a commission to arrange a reciprocity 
treaty with the United States. 
Six car-loads of cattle said to be affected 
with Texas fever have been shipped from 
Indian Territory to Buffalo, N. Y. 
Farmers near Orange, N. J., fear pleuro¬ 
pneumonia has attacked a herd of cows 
there. Every precaution is being taken to 
prevent its spread. 
A strip 20 miles wide and said to be 50 
miles long was burned over in the north¬ 
western part of Faulk County, South Da¬ 
kota, and many farmers are ruined. 
Paris green has been found scattered 
around pasture fields, near brooks, among 
feed, hay in barns and in other places acces¬ 
sible to cittle near Lime Rock, R. I. 
The month of August was the busiest 
ever known in the Chicago grain inspection 
department. Fully 43,000 cars were receiv¬ 
ed and 17,000,000 bushels of grain shipped 
out. 
About 800,000 acres of land in Oklahoma 
and about 8,000,000 acres in Indian Terri¬ 
tory west of Oklahoma, which have recently 
been ceded to the government by different 
Indian tribes, will be thrown open to set¬ 
tlement in the near future. 
The receipts of wheat at St. Louis for the 
month of August were the heaviest for one 
month in the history of the city, being 
5,194,505 bushels, an increase over August 
last year of 3,035,013 and an increase over 
the highest previous record of 718,235. 
The Secretary of War, upon the request 
of Secretary Rusk, has issued orders that 
no cattle from the Cherokee Strip shall be 
permitted to be driven north of the quaran¬ 
tine line, but that all such cattle must go 
south on the line established by the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
It is said that a considerable portion of 
the wheat grown in the Grand Forks and 
adjoining counties of North Dakota will be 
handled through the Northwestern Farm¬ 
ers’ Protective Association. The organiza¬ 
tion now has upward of 800 members, with 
large accessions expected. 
Twenty gaudily decorated freight cars, 
carrying 25,000 bushels of wheat, not to 
mention a lot of water-melons, arrived at 
Chicago, from Oklahoma on Wednesday. 
The consignment was sent by the Guthrie 
Board of Trade as an advertisement. The 
wheat is of a very high grade. 
A scheme was inaugurated at Mt. Gretna 
for an educational institution similar to 
the Chautauqua plan of study, but more 
nearly adapted to the needs of farmers’ sons 
and daughters. All the branches of scien¬ 
tific farming, the beautifying of rural 
homes and making country life attractive, 
as well as general educational subjects, 
will be taught. 
The German Government has issued an 
order to the effect that the prohibition of 
the importation of swine, pork and sausages 
of American origin shall no longer be en¬ 
forced when such live pigs or hog products 
are furnished with official certificates stat¬ 
ing that they have been examined in ac¬ 
cordance with American regulations and 
found free from qualities dangerous to 
health. 
Reciprocity went into effect between this 
country and San Domingo and provision¬ 
ally with the islands of Cuba and Porto 
Rico, September 1. By the provisional 
treaty with Spain sugar, molasses, coffee 
and hides from Cuba and Porto Rico are to 
be admitted into this country free of duty, 
and in return these articles, among others, 
are to be admitted duty-free into these is¬ 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
lands: Salted or smoked meats, lard, tallow, 
oats, barley, rye and buckwheat, starch, 
cotton seed and oil, hay, fruits, vegetables, 
wagons, sewing machines, petroleum, coal, 
ice, woods in trucks or logs, and in manu¬ 
factured form. In addition to these, corn 
and corn meal are to be admitted at a duty 
of 25 cents per 100 kilogrammes, or 224 
pounds, and after January 1, 1892, wheat at 
30 cents per 100 kilogrammes, and wheat 
flour at $1 per 100 kilogrammes. Under the 
full treaty the list of articles to be admitted 
free or at reduced rates of duty is very 
much larger. 
The Census Office has Issued a bulletin 
showing that on farms of three acres or 
over there were on band June 1, 1890, 14,- 
976,017 horses, 2 246,936 mules and 41,109 
asses; that in 1889 there were foaled 1,814,- 
404 horses, 157,105 mules and 7,957 asses ; 
that there were sold in the same year 1,309,- 
557 horses, 829,995 mules and 7,271 asses, 
and that there died from all causes 765 211 
horses mules and asses during the same 
period. The increase of horses from 1880 
to 1890 Is shown to be 44 59 per cent 
as against 44 59 per cent between 1870 
and 1880 and 14.84 per cent between 1860 
and 1870. The increase of mules from 1880 
to 1890 was 26,66 per cent; between 1870 and 
1880 the increase was 61.08 per cent, while 
from 1860 to 1870 there was a decrease of 
2.24 per cent. Of the aggregate number of 
horses and mules in the whole country on 
June 1, 1890, 86 95 per cent were horses and 
13.05 per cent were mules. The South At¬ 
lantic group had the largest proportion, 
32.04 per cent, as against 67.96 per cent of 
horses. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Westmoreland Count* - , Pa.— Wheat 
was good ; oats not an average crop on ac¬ 
count of grasshoppers. They cut off about 
one-third. They were never known to be 
so ruinous before. On account of the 
drought in the spring young clover did not 
get a good start. The hoppers have almost 
destroyed it. They eat the young grass as 
It comes up, and the silk of the corn, pota¬ 
to tops, cabbages and everything that is 
green. Corn will not be an average on ac¬ 
count of cool, dry weather. Hay on old 
meadows poor; on new, pretty good. Fruit 
plenty. w. s. 
Kent County, Del. —The present season 
is one to be long remembered. Probably 
never before have we had such a crop of 
fruits of all kinds. The prices realized for 
peaches have been low since the fro3t and 
the later ones have little more than paid 
freight; in many Instances shippers have 
been compelled to forward checks for pars 
of the expenses. A number of buyers are at 
Wyoming (the peach center) and growers 
sell if they can. Good yellow fruit has often 
sold as low as 20 cents per basket and white 
as low as 10 cents. Very little fruit has 
brought over 85 cents for the last two weeks. 
The baskets cost from five to eight cents, 
so after the expenses of packing and haul¬ 
ing are deducted little is left. Thousands 
of bushels of apples are going to waste. 
Every tree is or has been loaded. Pears are 
a full crop and bring very low prices. The 
prevailing condition of the weather has had 
more to do with the prices than the quan¬ 
tity of fruit; we have had but very few 
days of good fruit weather since the season 
began and have had a great amount of rain 
aside from heavy, foggy weather, and when 
it is clear it is intensely hot. All this 
affects the condition of fruit and prices: 
3,453 car loads were shipped from the pen¬ 
insula up to the 26th ult. The glut is over; 
for some unaccountable reason the hun¬ 
dreds of driers scattered through the State 
are doing but little work; some few of the 
packing-houses are putting up peaches, but 
at present the majority are running on to¬ 
matoes of which many are grown. The 
wheat crop was not as heavv as was ex¬ 
pected before harvest. Cjrn in this section 
promises a fair average crop, although 
damaged to some extent by the continuous 
wet weather. Hay very short; lots of Scar¬ 
let Clover have been sown to splice out with 
in the spring. Quite a large acreage of fal¬ 
low has been turned. Corn cutting begun. 
The outlook for farmers is somewhat 
brighter than it has been for a couple of 
years past. Wheat, 93 cents; corn, 78; oats, 
40; butter, 15 and 25; eggs, 10; potatoes, 
white, 40; sweet, 50. A. G. s. 
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. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Rye is being marketed freely. 
Old com is being rushed to market. 
The Maryland tomato crop is reported to 
be nearly a failure. 
In five week3 Baltimore received 1,200,000 
packages of peaches. 
Alabama reports a full corn crop, but a 
cotton crop 25 per cent short. 
It is reported that Dakota farmers will 
sell most of their wheat at once. 
The corn crop of the northern part of the 
country is about two weeks late. 
North Dakota’s wheat crop is officially 
reported as upwards of 50,000,000 bushels. 
The crop of early rice has been damaged 
to some extent by rains which prevented 
harvesting. 
The damage to the North Dakota wheat 
crop by frost is reported to be only two to 
three per cent. 
The Southern farmers are urged by many 
of the Alliances to withhold half of this 
year’s cotton crop from the market. 
Reports from the Pacific coast hop crop say 
that in Washington and Oregon lice have 
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MOTHER’S NEW DRESS. 
It cost less than a dollar, yet you would have 
thought It the most expensive costume In our little 
town. Mother had a lilac silk that was handsome 
once, when she and the silk were younger, and we 
girls dyed It a rich black with Diamond Dye Fast 
Black for silk and feathers. What was left of the 
dye was used to color three ostrich feathers black for 
her bonnet, With new buttons, that dress was the 
pride of the family. 
We also colored half a dozen pairs of cotton stock¬ 
ings a black that never crocked, with one ten cent 
package of Diamond Dye Fast Stocking Black, and a 
wool jacket was dyed beautifully with Diamond Dye 
Fast Black for Wool. Wells, Richardson & Co., Bur¬ 
lington. Vt., send a free book on home dying that 
tells how any one can do as well as we did. Stella 
Etheridge, In Ladles’ Home Journal .— Adv. 
CONDITION POWDER 
If You Can’t Get it Near Home, Send to Us. Ask first. 
It is absolutely pure. Highly concentrated. Most economical because small doses. No other one fourth as strong. 
Strictly a medicine, not a food. You can buy or raise food as cheap ns we can. Prevents and cures diseases of poul¬ 
try. Worth its weight in gold when hens are moulting. “ One large can saved me $40: send six more to prevent 
Roup ” says a customer. Sold by druggists, grocers, general store and feed dealers. We send post-paid a Poultry 
Raising Guido (price 25c.; contains Poultry accounts worth the price), and two packs of powder for 50c ; or five 
packs $1. One 2 1-4 lb. can and Guide $1.20. Six large cans exnress paid $5; stamps or cash. In quantity costs less 
than one tenth cent a day per hen. Testimonials free. I. S. JOH5 
CO., 22 Custom House St., Boston, Mass. 
THERE IS NO BETTER 
nor more economical feed for 
LIVE STOCK 
THAN 
LINSEED OIL MEAL 
If you get It from the 
DETROIT LINSEED OIL WORKS, 
DETROIT. MICHIGAN. 
The Manurlal Value of the offal from animals fed 
upon Oil Meal is an Important factor also to be 
considered The columns of The Rural New-Yorker 
at times have valuable information in this respect. 
C3T" Correspondence Solicited. 
POULTRY MEN 
It has been 
proved that 
the greatest 
and most economical egg producing 
food in the world is 
CREEN CUT BONE 
fresh from market. Send stamp for catalogue 
and bonaiide letters .. . _ . 
ofa A fwnlf^ e drr s ce iVIann s Bone Cutter. 
Always address 
F. W. MANN, Box 4-, 
Milford, Mass. 
POULTRY SUPPLIES, 
Such as Beer Scraps. Oyster Shel's, Granulated Bone, 
Animal Meal, Dessicated Fish, etc. Also In sea-on 
(Winter) FHE»H BONE AND MEAT ground 
fine. Send for Special Price Lists of the above. 
Address C. A. BARTLETT, Worcester, Mass. 
SAVE 
YOUR 
COW! 
Don’t lose the use of a valuable Cow from Caked 
Udder or Garget, wnen a half pound box of 
Scotts’ Hoof Paste 
Is GUARANTEED TO CURE If directions are fol¬ 
lowed, or money refunded. 
Mr. E. Dillon writes (see page 9): “ My best Jersey 
cow had teat cur on wire fence. Teat fcealed and left 
cake In udder. Tried several remedies. Nothing re¬ 
duced it, until I tried Hcott’s Hoof Paste, one box 
of whicn reduced the swelling entirely, ani, as I 
believe saved the use of my cow.” 
Cures contracted coronet, quarter cracks, scratches, 
sore should-rs, and other sores on horses. Nothing 
equals It In curing sores caused by barb wire and old 
nails. It is used with equal results on ail domestic 
anl Dais. 
One-half pound box, 50 cents , one pound box, $1.00. 
Sent by mall. Ask your Dealer for It, 
Send postal card for circulars, testimonials, etc. 
MANUFACTURED BY 
SCOTT’S HOOF PASTE CO. 
ROCHESTER, IV. Y. 
L T> Jersey Red and Poland Chin» 
r 'PIGS. Jersey, Guernsey and 
Holstein Cattle. Thoroughbred 
Sheep. Fancy Poultry. Hunting 
6. ^MITU^frun^Chcurr cS‘*$S£.. 
PUCCIIIDCC all ages, for sale. Prices moderate, 
uncomncd) Write for what you want. 
A. W. CRANDALL, Wellsville, Allegany Co., N. Y. 
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
Lectures will begin October 1, 1891. For Circular 
address SECRETARY, 88: hast 2Jtli St., N. Y. City. 
Imported Shropshires! 
We offer uothlng but choice, imported Shropshires 
from the best English Hocks. Stock sheep constantly 
on sale. Amiunl Auction Sale Sept. 29, 1891. 
THE WILLOWS, Paw Paw, Mich. 
Just Drive ’Em In and CLINCH ’Em. 
THEY’LL DO THE REST. 
Rapid HARNESS A\ENDER5. 
WILL MEND 
Any Harness, Halter or Strap in less time, 
and do the work better than any Harness 
maker can, AND 
C05TS ONLY HALF A CENT 
Sold by Grocers and Hardware Dealers. Cost 
only 25c per box of one gross (three sizes.) 
NO TOOL5 
REQUIRED 
BUFFALO SPECIALTY MFG. CO., 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
REGISTERED 
LEICEISTER AND 
WE SB SOUTHDOWN 
RAMS AND RAM 
LAMBS. Bates’s Short horn Cattle and Chester White 
Hogs. W. A. McCOY & SONS, Mercer, Pa. 
southdown, CUDflDCUlDC 
cots wold, onnurdniftCa 
OXFORD DOWN and MERINO SHEEP and 
LAMBS of the very best blood obtainable An extra 
good lot of Lambs of all breeds; also a few good 
Yearlings, some of which are prize winners. Write 
at once for prices and full particulars. 
W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 
DAIRY COWS FOR SALE 
40 Jersey Grade Cows and Heifers. 
Bred for winter dairy; will calve during October 
and after. Can ship in car lots. Foundation Stock 
Short-horn and Ayrshire. Three crosses. Jersey Sire. 
L. S. FITCH, Oakwood, Ind. 
HORSES Lakeside Stock Farm, 
SMITHS & PUWELL. Syracuse, n. y. 
FRENCH COACH .—The evenest. best colored, finest bred of any importation yet. 
TROTTING BRED HORSES.- Fine representatives of several of the most noted trotting strains 
including descendants of “Electioneer,” “George Wilkes.” “ Alcazar,” “Whips,” “ Administrator.” etc. 
CLYDESDALES.— The largest and most noted stud In the Eastern States. 
PERCHERONS.— A fine stock of the various ages. 
Also the Celebrated Herd of Milk and Butter Producing Holstein-Friesians. 
BERKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE SWINE. 
Separate Catalogues of Houses and Cattle sent on applicatilon. Mention this paper when writing. 
