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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEPT. i9 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Batter is booming. 
Tokay grapes from California are In mar¬ 
ket. 
Colored cheese captures the extra quarter 
cent. 
Several different kinds of “ Green Gage” 
Plums are sold in this market. 
The crop bulletin for August of the State 
of Maine Board of Agriculture states that 
the potato crop is a bountiful one without 
exception, and is the largest ever pro¬ 
duced in the State in a single year. 
The statistician of the Department of 
Agriculture reports the September general 
averages of cereal crops as follows: Corn, 
91.1; wheat, 90 8 ; rye, 95.1; oats, 90.7; bar¬ 
ley, 94 3; buckwheat, 96 6. A small advance 
is noted in all, buckwheat alone excepted. 
The average for potatoes is 94 8; for to- 
bacc :>, 87 4. 
The wisdom of the Alliance advice to 
hold a part at least of the wheat is seen in 
the present glutted condition of the mar¬ 
ket. The heavy shipments by those who 
always sell as soon as the crop is ready for 
market have swamped the elevators and 
transportation lines and depressed the mar¬ 
kets. This is only a temporary condition, 
but the wisdom of distributing sales 
throughout the year is emphasized. 
There is a reduction in the condition of 
cotton during the last month of six points, 
from 88 9 to 82.7. The cause on the Atlan¬ 
tic coast has been an excess of rainfall, 
causing overgrowth of the plant and dimin¬ 
ishing the tendency to fruitage. From 
Alabama westward drought was the main 
factor of loss, assisted by the boll-worm 
and caterpiller. Condition is lowest in Ar¬ 
kansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. In a 
few counties or Texas heavy rainfall in the 
morning, followed by hot sunshine in the 
afternoon, caused serious shedding of forms. 
The most serious complaints are of shed¬ 
ding fruit and leaves, rotting of bolls, 
sprouting of seed in the bolls, rust, staining 
of open cotton, except in a few regions, 
where cotton-worms are unusually destruc¬ 
tive. In the area affected with drought, 
rust and shedding also occur. 
From local papers published in the hop 
districts of New York State we learn that 
the hop harvest is progressing fairly, and 
probably more than half the crop has been 
gathered in good shape. At present the in¬ 
dications are that the crop will be harvest¬ 
ed in better shape than usual. The com¬ 
plaint is very general through the valley 
south of Oneida that the yield is coming in 
lighter than was anticipated. As a rule, 
there seems to be a leas number of boxes 
per acre than was picked last season. How¬ 
ever, hops are much more weighty this 
year than last, they now not infrequently 
producing 14 pounds of cured hops to the 
box, whereas last year the average was 
about 11 pounds. Transactions among 
dealers are by no means brisk. There are 
occasional sales of Humphreys, but dealers 
just now, in the absence of foreign orders, 
seem disinclined to operate freely on the 
late crop. Prices are not yet established. 
Bayers are receiving but few orders and 
those not large. Sales of a few lots at 15 
cents. 
The condition of corn, as indicated by the 
September report of the Department of 
Agriculture, is 21 points higher than in 
September of last year, and has been ex¬ 
ceeded only three times in the last 10 years. 
State averages are generally high; the 
lowest are those of Michigan and Wiscon¬ 
sin. In the Eistern and Middle States the 
crop is well grown, is generally earing 
well, but a little late, and recent cool 
nights prevent rapid advancement; frost 
has as yet done no damage. The crop is in 
fine condition in the Southern States. It is 
not so much injured by heavy rains as cot¬ 
ton. In some bottom lands water has 
caused material injury, while on uplands 
the crop is remarkably good. It was some¬ 
what late, but is now generally beyond the 
reach of frost. A fine yield has been made 
west of the Mississippi, though in western 
Texas a little reduced by drought. It is 
above medium throughout the South as a 
whole. In the Ohio Valley corn is heavy 
in stalk, somewhat late in earing from cool 
nights, in some places has been blown down 
by heavy winds, yet is generally promis¬ 
ing. In Indiana and Illinois there was in¬ 
jury from drought in July and early in 
August, which nas been partially repaired 
by. recent rains. In Michigan there has 
been considerable injury from frost. Wis¬ 
consin reports damage from frosts; there 
was also damage from frost in the Dakotas. 
In Iowa and Nebraska the crop is late. In 
Missouri alternate heavy rains and drought 
have been unfavorable. In western Kan¬ 
sas crops suffered from drought; eastern 
counties have a heavy crop. 
According to the Government report, the 
condition of wheat is very high, consider¬ 
ing both winter and spring varieties, in 
soils, latitudes and elevations so widely dif¬ 
fering. The general average has been ex¬ 
ceeded only slightly twice since 1879, in 
1882 and 1884. State averages are quite 
uniform, only 10 falling below 95, and three 
below 90, the lowest being 83 for South 
Carolina, and 84 for North Carolina. The 
figures for the principal wheat growing 
States are as follows : Ohio, 98 ; Michigan, 
98; Indiana, 100; Illinois, 100; Wisconsin, 
90; Minnesota, 100 ; Iowa, 99 ; Missouri, 
94; Kansas, 89; Nebraska, 98; North Da¬ 
kota, 94; South Dakota, 99; California, 
98; Oregon, 97; Washington, 93. East of 
the mountains, New York, 99; Pennsyl¬ 
vania, 99; Maryland, 97 ; Virginia, 95. In 
the Southwest, Texas, 97. In the Middle 
States wheat was generally well filled, har¬ 
vested in good condition, yielding well. 
In a few counties in Pennsylvania, and 
in parts of Maryland and Virginia, there 
has been some injury in the shock. The 
Texas crop was unusually fine, and was 
harvested in May and June. With vari¬ 
able returns in Ohio and Michigan, the 
tenor of remarks as to quality, quantity and 
condition is very favorable. In Indiana 
and Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, thrash¬ 
ing gave yields better than was expected. 
The reports concerning quantity and 
quality of spring wheat in Minnesota are 
extremely favorable, with slight draw¬ 
backs from frost and wet, and nearly as 
favorable in Iowa, Nebraska and the Da¬ 
kotas. Extreme yields of 30 to 40 bushels 
are reported in all these States. The spring 
wheat of the Pacific coast has been some¬ 
what injured by hot and blighting weather. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
A severe frost In portions of Maine Tues 
day night, destroyed hundreds of acres of 
sweet corn. 
There are seven new iron ships on the 
way to San Francisco from foreign ports, 
which will be taken up chiefly for grain 
carrying. 
The Ohio State Horticultural Society 
will hold Its State Fair meeting at the 
Hall of Representatives, Columbus, at 8 
P. M., September 17. 
Secretary Rusk has received appllc itions 
from packers at Boston, South Omaha 
(Neb.) and Kansas City for microscopical 
inspection of pork, and has arranged a 
schedule of the number to be inspected at 
each of these places for export. 
A'i Irrigation Congress will be held at 
Salt Lake City, Utah, September 15, 16 and 
17. The promoters are the officials of Utah 
and Salt Lake City. 
A most destructive storm passed over 
Alliance, Ohio, Sundav, destroying much 
property and several lives; many buildings 
were struck by lightning. 
The United States Minister to Denmark 
cables that the Minister of the Interior has 
issued an order removing the restrictions 
on the importation of American pork, and 
that hereafter all our pork bearing proper 
certification of Inspection will be admitted 
into Denmark. 
A special dispatch says that a large num¬ 
ber of wealthy farmers met at St. Paul on 
Tuesday and Incorporated the Grain Grow¬ 
ers’ Association, with a capital stock of 
$100,000. The object is to destroy the ele¬ 
vator monopoly by building and operating 
its own elevators. 
The Minister of Agriculture announced 
in the the Canadian House of Commons on 
Wednesday that the government, after full 
consideration, had decided to refuse the ap¬ 
plication of a syndicate of American and 
Canadian capitalists to slaughter American 
cattle in bond in Canada for export. 
Reports to the Internal Revenue Bureau 
indicate that the production of sugar from 
beets, sorghum, maple syrup and cane will 
be up to the original estimates of pro¬ 
ducers who filed their applications with 
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
prior to July 1, in order to secure the bene¬ 
fit of bounty. 
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quality and color, and I know of no reason why a 
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••This golden yellow that Is so much admired by 
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several cents above the market price, can be obta'ned 
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and does the most coloring for the same amount of 
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