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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
OCT. 17 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Great Britain pays yearly $L25,0C0,00O for 
foreign meat. 
The F ench are manufacturing wines and 
brandy from potatoes. 
It is cl limed that there are 230,000,0C0 
horned cattle in the world. 
Canadian drovers are buying large num¬ 
bers of sheep for the B >ston market. 
It has been reported that the French 
Government is buying grain heavily 
through Its agents in this country. 
A large part of the wheat purchased in 
the Northwest is said to be for direct ex¬ 
port, most of it to the United Kingdom. 
A Philadelphia woman sued the city for 
damages for some flue shade trees which 
were killed by escaping gas from a gas 
pipe along the streets. 
The three Pacific CoastS f ateshave rapid¬ 
ly increased In importance in hop produc¬ 
tion, as follows: 1869 610,971 pounds; 1879, 
2,391,725 ; 1889 13,414 3*4. 
Wisconsin has retrograded in rank as a 
bop-glowing State from a production of 
4 63t) .65 ponn'ta In 1869 and 1 966,827 pounds 
in 1879 to 428 647 pounds in 1889. 
A great wagon road scheme is afloat for 
western Washington. It is to have a pub¬ 
lic highway from the St alt of Facato the 
Columbia River. Tnis movement means a 
coast road of nearly 300 miles in length, 
extending across the State. The result 
would be the immediate settlement of a 
big unoccop ed territory. 
Tne first payments of bonnty under the 
law giving a bounty of two cents per 
pound on sugar produced In the Uuittd 
States were made at the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment last week. Tney were both in favor 
o. the Chino Valley Sugar Company cf 
Chino, Cal., on two claims for tne produc¬ 
tion of 340,000 pounds of beet bugar, and 
amounted to $6,800. 
The American Institute Fair is in full 
blast in the company’s building on Third 
Avenue, this c.ty. The exhibition is said 
to be one of the best ever held. List week 
the special exhibition of flowers occurred 
and was most gratifying both lnextentaud 
individual merit. Daring the present week, 
thespictal fruit exhibit will be held, and 
judging from those of former years will be 
worth a visit. 
The Census Bureau’s hop bulletin gives 
the total yield in 1890 as 36,357,854 pounds, 
being 2,3 j 5,416 pounds less than in 1889. 
The cash realized, however, for tne crop of 
1890 was $11,102,124, while the crop of 1889 
was sold for only $4,056,497. This great 
difference resulted from tne low price in 
1889 aud the high price In 1890. The aver¬ 
age price a pound was about 10 cents in 
1889 and 30 cents in 1890. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has re¬ 
ceived a repoit from Dr. H. W. Wiley, 
Chemist of the Department, from Medicine 
Louge, announcing a succetsiul run with 
the new machinery for sorgnum sugar 
making, and unaer the new aicohol process 
developed in the chemical division last win¬ 
ter. He leporis 156 pounds of sugar a ton 
from tne soignnm can«, and estimates tnat 
the molasses will give about enough more 
to make It an evtn 2t0 pounds a t>>n. 
On account of the wonderful success of 
the trotting horse business in the Biue 
Grass region of Kentucky, a prominent 
bretder proposes to oigauiza a gigantic 
Stock company lor the puipjse of breeding, 
training and racing tne most approved 
strains of irotling noises. Owing to the 
large amount ol capital ntCcssary to suc¬ 
cessfully carr> on tne business, tne pro¬ 
jector nas conceived tne Idea of organ.zing 
an institution of tnis Kind—a Cur oration 
wnicu snail oe pie iieU uVot by a man who 
has made a success of the business. 
The butter makers of the Northwest re¬ 
cently neid a meeting in Cuicago for tne 
purpose oi lorming an association, the main 
Object of whicU is iO raise me standard of 
butlermakers, aud tuus raise tne grade of 
batter. It is expected to accomplisU tnis 
object oy e-taoilauing an examining board 
anU maaing it necessary lor a outlermaktr 
to pass an examination and obtain a cer¬ 
tificate before Ue Will Oe allowed to work 
in any factory. Tnis was only a prelimi¬ 
nary meeting to form a temporary organi¬ 
zation and lay out the work for a general 
meeting to be held at Madison, Wis , In tne 
Winter. 
Corn which was late through nearly all 
the corngrowing States, was forwarded 
by tne extiemtly net weatntr nearly 
ail ihroUgn tne month of September 
and tany October, until nearly all has 
well matured. The extreme heat was, how¬ 
ever, hard on pastures, meadows and fall- 
sown grain, as well as upon the water sup¬ 
ply. The prairie States suffered los»es fnm 
fires in the grain and hay fields and stacks. 
In Wisconsin, large cranberry bogs were 
burned over and much inconvenience was 
experienced by workers exposed to the un¬ 
timely heat. It was a notable month. There 
has, as yet, been no regular old-fashioned 
tquinoctlal, although In some parrs of the 
country some rain has fallen. The usual 
frosts, too, are lacking over large areias of 
country. 
Accord'ng to a bulletin issued by the 
Cent-us B ireau, hops are grown for com- 
rnsrclal purposes In 17 States. In tne year 
1889 50 2o2 acres of land were cultivated, 
prooue ng 39,163,270 pounds. New York 
hearts the list with 36,670 acres, yielrtlng 
20l 63 0i9 bounds. Washington has 5 113 
acres, wlihacropof 8,313 280 pounds; Cali¬ 
fornia 3 974 acres, producing 6 547 338 
pounds; Oregon 3,130 acres and 3.613,726 
pounds; aud Wn-con>in 967 acres, with 428,- 
5i7 pounds. These fire States, known as 
the hop-producing States, produced 99% 
per cent of the entire crop of the United 
States. New York, with 73 per cent of the 
hop acreage, produced 51% per cent of the 
hops grown in the Uulted States. The 
highest average yield per acre was In C *11- 
fornla 1,648 puuuds. Washington averaged 
1,625 pounds per acre, Oregon 1,155 pounds, 
New York 547 pound-*, and Wit-consin 443 
pounds. The Increase since 1830 ia the crop 
of Calif, rala was 5,103 261 pounds, of Ore¬ 
gon 3.369 355 pounds, and of Washington 
7,610,004 pounds. In the same time the de¬ 
crease In the crop of New York was 1 565,- 
902 pounds, and that of Wisconsin 1,538,280 
pounds. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Franklin County, O —Just now we are 
very busy seeding wneat, hulling clover 
and other fall work. 1 have four acres of 
sunflowers yet to gather. The excessively 
hot weather and the drought have de¬ 
layed seeding, and much plowing has 
been abandoued. On the other hand, the 
same causes have been favorable for the 
corn crop, which is very good. F. C. W. 
Hamilton County, Tenn.— Plenty of 
tomatoes are yet selling at 40 cents per 
bnshel, and there is more green corn on tals 
market that 1 have ever before seen at this 
time of year. Green beans are only in a 
moderate supply, not equal to the demand. 
Sweet potatoes are only an ordinary crop, 
but the market is down to 40 or 50 cents per 
bushel. Irish potatoes are mostly North¬ 
ern grown at present. A good many peo¬ 
ple are selling their corn o^t of the field at 
50 and 60 cents. No garden trnck has done 
any good tills fall. The corn crop is very 
good. j G. 
Cortland County, N. Y.—A splendid 
fall for work and to ripen corn, but very 
little rain for some time. For fear of a 
fiostlcut my Rural Tnorougnbred Flint 
Corn on Septemoer 3. It had made a big 
growth, but is ratner late, one stalk wi- h 
two ears weighed pounds. Hay crop 
rather light but of good quality. Oats and 
potatoes good, but some rot In the latter. 
Coin ripened very well. Very little wheat 
raised Here. Fruit p.entlful. w. c. L. 
Hartford County, Conn —There is an 
abunuaut apple or* p In tne Connecticut 
Valley, out me heat and drougUC of sep- 
nmjtr, aud tuus tar In October, nave been 
bucu as to impair tnelr keeping qualities, 
and prices rule low—75 cents to $1 per bar¬ 
rel. Potatoes are abuuUant and Very flue 
in quality ; price, 4j to 5b cents per busael. 
Touacco, tae Suable crop uere, Is of better 
quality tuau u-uai, aud buyers are now in 
tne Reid offering prices 3U to 5U per cent In 
advance of inoce iu past years. J. H. H. 
Clark County, Ky. —Good crops of 
eveiytniug but oats, nave been raised In 
tnis county, tnougn mere has been less 
rainfall since April lhan for 20 years. New 
corn will be worm about $2 ptr barrel, put 
in the crib. A large acreage of wneat will 
be sown, mostly after corn, since that Is me 
principal rotation. Tooacco, of which a 
vast deal is raised, leaves tne grounu in 
good time and condition lor wneat, bat 
me extra fertility ncediul for tooacco, 
causes tne wneat to lodge. The papaw 
grows wild here in profusion. One nas to 
acquire the taste for it jutt as for stewed 
oysters. The trees never fall to produce a 
part of a crop, though this year the 
fruit was killed in Hollows. In fact, 
the frost line Has been more noticeable 
among all fruits tnis season tnau ever be¬ 
fore. Apples anu grapes in low places are 
a failure; on nilisiues tne tops of me tiecs 
only bore fruit, while on high places there 
was a good crop of all fruits. The Ben 
Davis, which took its name from the orig¬ 
inator, near here in Owen C maty, is the 
favorite winter apple for market, and the 
Genet for home use. The drought of the 
past mouth hss been very favorable for 
ripening corn and housing tobacco, but 
has so dried up pasturage that many 
farmers are feeding green corn to stock. 
w. s. 
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Hook. 
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