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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOV. 7 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Chicago Fat Stock Show, November 11 
to 21. 
Great numbers of windmills are used in 
California. 
Seed growing has not been so profitable 
of late years as formerly. 
An Alliance meeting in Arkansas broke 
up in a riot during which five persons were 
killed. 
And now some wiseacres claim that the 
continued use of Paris-green in spraying 
trees will permanently injure the soil. 
Spanish fever has broken out at the stock- 
yards, Cincinnati, O. Several cattle have 
already died of the disease and many others 
are sick. 
New York State Farmers’ Institutes, 
Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, Novem¬ 
ber 18 to 19; Malone, Franklin County, 
November 20 to 21. 
It is reported that sugar has been made 
from cotton seed, which is 15 times as sweet 
as ordinary cane sugar and 20 times as 
sweet as beet sugar. 
There are 596 farms given over entirely 
to seed-growing, representing a total value 
for farms, implements and buildings of 
$18,325,936, and giving employment to 
13,500 men and 1,441 women. 
Ten buffaloes from Nebraska were ship¬ 
ped on Wednesday from this city to a Liver¬ 
pool banker, who will put them in his 
private park. They cost $1,000 each. Buffalo 
breeding ought to be profitable at these 
prices. 
The health authorities of London have 
been notified of an extensive outbreak of 
pleuro-pneumonia in South London. In 
one dairy alone 50 cows have been killed, 
owing to the fact that they were suffering 
from this disease. 
The retail milk dealers of Chicago have 
combined, claiming that their action was 
made necessary by a rise in prices on the 
part of the farmers, who have formed an 
association and control 15,000 out of 20,000 
cans brought in that city every morning. 
A meeting of the American South Down 
Association will be held in the Grand Pa¬ 
cific Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, on November 
18 at 7:80 o’clock, P. M. This association 
has been rapidly increasing in members, 
and now nearly all of the principal breeders 
of this favorite breed of sheep in the coun¬ 
try are included on its roll. 
Idaho pays a bounty for the ears of rab¬ 
bits, and several live ones have been lately 
discovered minus their ears, showing that 
they had been captured, and after their 
ears had been clipped, again turned loose 
to breed some more bunnies upon which 
future bounties could be collected. If their 
progeny should be minus the ears the 
scheme might not be so profitable to its 
projectors. 
A meeting of the National Swine Breed¬ 
ers’ Association, will be held in Cnicago, 
November 17, and it is desirable that all in¬ 
terested in hog breeding in any way should 
be represented. On account of the constantly 
extending markets for pork, this industry 
is rapidly moving to the front rank in im. 
portance. Action will also be taken at this 
meeting towards securing proper facilities 
for exhibition at the Columbian Exposition. 
Further information of the secretary, John 
G. Springer, Springfield, Ill. 
The American Berkshire Association 
will publish, free, in the current volume of 
its record, the names of all recorded Berk- 
shires that have taken first premiums at 
any regularly organized fair in the coun¬ 
try. Exhibitors wishing a place in this 
list should send the Secretary of the 
American Berkshire Association, Spring- 
field, 111., the names and numbers of the 
animals that have taken such prizes, as 
well as the name and location of the fair, 
and name and post office address of its 
secretary. 
According to a late census bulletin, a 
total of 169,851 acres were devoted exclu¬ 
sively to seed growing during the census 
year, divided as follows: 1,437 acres of 
asparagus, 12,905 of beans, 919 of beets, 
1,268 of cabbage, 569 of carrots, 11 of cauli¬ 
flower, one half of celeriac, 71 of celery, 13 
of collards, IK of corn salad, 15,004 of sweet 
corn, 16,322 of field corn, IK of cress, 10,219 
of cucumbers, 39% of dandelion, 252 of egg. 
plant, 16 of endive, 105 of kale, 19 of kohl¬ 
rabi, 13K of leek, 4S6K of lettuce, 5,149 of 
musk-melons, 3,978 of water-melons, two of 
nasturtium, 13 of okra, 3,560 of onions, 352 
of onion sets, 75 of parsley, 374 of parsnips, 
7,971 of peas, 365 of pepper, 4,105 of pota¬ 
toes, 105 of pumpkins, 662 of radishes, 25 of 
rhubarb, 28 of salsify, 150 of Bpinach, 4,356 
of tomatoes, 885 of turnips, 4,663 of squashes 
and 81 of flower seeds. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Genesee County, N. Y.—Wheat is look¬ 
ing yellow; a great many thought the color 
was due to Insects, but on close examination 
I find it is owing to rust, for the weather 
has been very dry. The apple market has 
taken a sudden drop, contrary to what 
many expected, but the fruit is very nice 
and a reaction is looked for soon; about 
one-third of a crop. Potatoes are fine; but 
few have rotted; the market has just 
opened at 30 cents. Onions are a good 
crop and have sold higher than usual. 
Beans have turned out well and bring a 
fair price; a large quantity has been rushed 
on the market as soon as thrashed. Oats 
yielded well and the price keeps low as 
many are badly colored. Hay is selling 
at a fair figure and will likely go higher. I 
think the time is not far distant when 
western New York, (the garden spot of the 
world) will have to stop raising grain and 
go into dairying; a great many are going 
into the milk business and shipping to the 
cities. They say it pays better and is not 
as hard work. The ground does not pro¬ 
duce crops as it did a few years ago; a farm 
that has been rented a short time shows 
that the owner does not live there, c. F. 
Kent County, Del.—W ith the exception 
of an occasional stormy day we have had 
very fine weather this fall; no frost until 
last week. Corn was cut late; husking has 
just begun; there will be a fair crop. Wheat 
about all sown and mostly up. Late pota 
toes a fair crop; sweet potatoes rather poor. 
Tomatoes were a usual crop; some growers 
claim as high as 16 tons per acre; seven or 
eight are a fair crop. The apple crop has 
been something wonderful and the country 
will be flooded with apple jack for the next 
12 months; very few of our apples will keep 
till Christmas. More apples have gone to 
waste this season than we have grown for 
several years altogether. Old-time people 
tell .us to look out for a hard winter. Our 
State Fair was as usual, good and well at¬ 
tended. Little has been made out of 
fruit, still our farmers generally will be in 
a better position financially than for the 
last three years. Wheat 95 cents; corn 
(new) 46; oats 40; butter 20 to 25; eggs 20; 
apples, potatoes and cabbage are very low; 
indeed there is no demand at any price. 
A. G. s. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
The butter market is dull. 
Apple prices should go higher. 
The cheese market favors buyers. 
Evaporated raspberries are firmer. 
Seckel Pears ars bringing high prices. 
There is a good demand for strictly fresh 
eggs. 
Hop prices are higher in Interior mar¬ 
kets. 
Canvas-back ducks are $2.50 to $3 per 
pair. 
Cauliflowers are mostly of inferior 
quality. 
Western game has much of it arrived in 
poor condition. 
Manitoba reports a big wheat yield from 
all parts of the province. From 40 to 45 
and more bushels per acre are commonly 
reported. 
Southern vegetables are again to the fore 
at prices that must considerably limit their 
consumption. 
Two-thirds as many oats were exported 
during September as during the whole of 
the preceding year. 
Connecticut makes more cider brandy 
than any other State and is reported to be 
outdoing herself this year. 
The Austrians are reported to have a 
process of obtaining sugar from turnips 
which equals any of that produced from 
beets. 
A cargo of 2,500 tons of beet sugar is on 
the way from Austria to the Spreckels re¬ 
finery at Philadelphia. It will be followed 
by others. 
Don’t fill the middle of the barrels with 
small apples and expect to get fancy prices 
for good fruit. It is a contemptible busi¬ 
ness any way and you are sure.to get caught 
at it. 
The New Jersey Cranberry Growers’ As¬ 
sociation held a meeting the other day and 
decided to hold the remainder of their crop 
for higher prices. More than one-half had 
been already shipped West. 
Messrs. J. C. Houghton & Co., Liverpool, 
cable the following prices for American 
apples in their market October, 26. New¬ 
town Pippins $4.36 to 8.25 ; Baldwins, $3.15 
to $3.88; Greenings, $2 42 to $3.39; Spys, 
$2.42 to $3.39; Phenix or Pomeroy, $3.15 to 
$3.39. The demand continues good. 
The shipments of apples from the port of 
New York for the week ending October 24, 
were as follows: To Liverpool, 17,000, to 
Glasgow, 10,000, to London, 200, to Ham¬ 
burg, 400 barrels. Total, 27,600 barrels. 
The total exports for the week from the 
United States and Canada were not so 
heavy as for the previous week. 
Messrs. James Lindsay & Son, Glasgow, 
Edinburgh and Leith, cable that in their 
markets the prices for apples ruling Octo¬ 
ber 26, are as follows: Baldwins, $2.42 to 
$3.40; Greenings, $2.18 to $2 90; Spys, $2 67 
to $3.40; Spitz, $2.18 to $2.90; Kings, $3 39 
to $4.85 ; Yandevere, $2 42 to $3 15 ; Fam- 
euse, $2.18 to $2 90; various others, $2 42 to 
$3.39. They say the market is lower in con¬ 
sequence of heavy arrivals. 
Mr. G. S. Palmer says that there is a 
strong probability of an early advance in 
the price of apples. Recent receipts have 
been large principally from the fact that 
many small growers have hurried their 
crops to market to get them off their hands. 
In some parts of the country farmers have 
sold their fruit at ridiculously low prices 
considering the state of the crop and the 
ruling prices in the markets. 
Large quantities of hay on the Wisconsin 
River bottoms have been destroyed by fire. 
Numbers of farmers cut and stack this hay 
in summer and it forms their chief reliance 
for wintering their live stock; these will 
now be compelled to sell their cattle for 
what they can get. One man who owns 
20,000 acres of this marsh land, which he 
leases in small parcels to the farmers, esti¬ 
mates that 50,000 tons of this hay have been 
destroyed in southern Wisconsin alone. 
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