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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
NOV. 14 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Secretary Rusk wants the duty put back 
on hides. 
The French Senate votes to admit Ameri¬ 
can pork. 
Illinois has passed a law giving a bounty 
of two cents on English sparrow scalps. 
The Russian ukase prohibiting the ex¬ 
portation of all cereals excepting wheat, 
took effect November 1. 
The Northwestern Bee Keepers’ Associa¬ 
tion will hold its next annual convention 
in Chicago, November 19 and 20. 
The American Pomological Society will 
make a classified exhibit in the World’s 
Fair Horticultural Department. 
They are shipping California beans East 
by the train-load, one of 25 cars having re¬ 
cently been started from Ventura County. 
An immense quantity of the tobacco seed¬ 
lings in the Vuelta Aba jo, Remedios, Santa 
Clara and Trinidad districts, Cuba, has been 
totally destroyed in consequence of the late 
excessive rains. 
A Pennsylvania farmer put his hand into 
a hog’s mouth to remove an obstruction 
from its throat; he now mourns the loss of 
two fingers and Is threatened with blood 
poisoning in the bargain. 
Remote Canadian settlements are over¬ 
run with wolves which make free with the 
farmers’ pigs, sheep and calves and render 
it dangerous for unprotected persons to 
venture out after nightfall. 
The Customs Committee of the French 
Chamber of Deputies has agreed upon the 
duty, already determined upon by the Sen¬ 
ate, of 25 francs per 200 pounds on American 
salt meats imported into France. 
Florida oranges have already gone for 
ward to Europe, and it is understood that 
a determined effort will be made this year 
to find an outlet in that direction for the 
Florida crop, which is expected to be very 
large. 
Snow has come early to many parts of 
the country. A few flakes fell in this city 
Thursday morning. Washington, Virginia, 
Pennsylvania and other States were also 
visited by squalls at a much earlier period 
than usual. 
The Missouri State Horticultural Society 
will hold its 34th annual meeting at Se- 
dalia, December 1—3. A large display of 
fruit is desired. Premiums will be given. 
An interesting programme will be issued 
soon. L. A. Goodman, Secretary, West- 
port. 
The sale of boxes for the coming horse 
show at Madison Square Garden realized 
$34,960 against $18,000 last year. Some of 
the boxes sold for $400 and $425. Each box 
holds six seats, and the show lasts six days, 
so an estimate may be made of the value 
placed upon a seat. 
J. S. & W. G. Crosby, of Eureka Place, 
Greenville, Mich., write us that they have 
recently sent a car load of fancy Shropshire 
ewes and rams to F. M. Collin, Esq., of 
Benton Center, Yates County, N. Y. Mr. 
Collin will be in shape to supply any reas¬ 
onable demand that may be made on him 
for this fancy stock. 
California is constantly doing something 
to startle the conservative East. She al¬ 
ready has ostrich farms and wonder¬ 
ful and strange animals, but now an en¬ 
thusiast proposes to start an elephant 
farm and anticipates a good demand for 
elephant steaks and chops. The hides, too, 
he expects to utilize in various ways, while 
the tusks are excellent for billiard balls 
and first class jelly. 
Heretofore New York has been the head¬ 
quarters of the importers of Dutch and 
Bermuda bulbs. Philadelphians have now 
engaged in the trade and will not have to 
depend upon this city, hereafter, for their 
supplies. The Washington and Baltimore 
trade will also come through Philadelphia, 
and it is believed that at least three-fourths 
of the dealers in Lily of the Valley, Dutch 
and Bermuda bulbs east of St. Louis will 
be supplied from there. 
From a report made by the Governor of 
Alaska we learn that the products export¬ 
ed and their values were as follows for 
1890 : 688,332 cases of salmon valued at 
$2,753,328 ; 4,150 pounds of ivory worth $9,- 
507; 231,282 pounds of whalebone, $1,503,- 
333; 14,890 gallons of whale oil, $4,467; 
1,138,000 codfish, $569,000 ; 7,300 barrels salt¬ 
ed salmon, $73 000; gold and silver bullion, 
$1,000,000 ; 21,596 fur seals taken under 
lease, $647,880; 60,000 skins taken by poach¬ 
ers, $1,800,000; other furs and skins, $450,- 
000 ; curios, $25,000 ; other products, $106,- 
000; total $8,941,515. 
W. R. StroDg & Co., of San Francisco, 
one of the heaviest fruit shipping houses 
on the Pacific coast, with branches at 
Fresno, Los Angeles Riverside and various 
Eastern cities, recently made an assign¬ 
ment for the benefit of the creditors. It Is 
believed that there will be no suspension, as 
the business of the company had outgrown 
the capital and it was unable to meet the 
sudden demand of its creditors. The com¬ 
pany has vast resources, and Manager 
Platt says that, if they receive a little time, 
they will be able to meet all obligations. 
The company is along established one, and 
its members are men of the highest reputa¬ 
tion. 
The carcass of a diseased sheep was re¬ 
cently found in West Washington Market, 
this city, bearing the inspection tag of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
An examination showed that the carcass 
was rotten and poisonous. Evidently the 
sheep had died from some disease, and the 
carcass was dangerous to handle. It had 
been dressed and trimmed with fat from a 
sound sheep to resemble a freshly killed 
carcass and had been passed by an exam¬ 
iner of the Bureau of Animal Industry be¬ 
fore it was sent to this city. The inspector 
who passed this as healthy meat should be 
summarily dealt with as he undoubtedly 
will be. The Intent of this inspection 
business is good and that it should be in 
any degree nullified by the incompetence or 
carelessness of those who are appointed to 
carry out its provisions is an outrage upon 
every breeder of live stock in the country. 
The following are the appointments so 
far made for New York State Farmers’ In¬ 
stitutes during the fall and winter of 
1891 and 1892: 
Place. 
County. 
Date. 
Gouverneur. 
. Nov. 18-19 
.. Nov. 20-21 
Lowville. Lewis. Nov. 23—24 
Sodus. 
.... Wayne. 
.. Dec. 2— 8 
Honeoye Falls. 
.... Monroe. 
.. Dec. 4— 5 
Orchard Park. 
_ Erie.. 
... Dec. 11—12 
Gowanda. 
.... Cattaraugus_ 
Dec. 14-15 
Mayville. 
.... Chautauqua.... 
.. Dec. 16-17 
.. Dec. 18-19 
Perry. 
.... Wyoming. 
.. Dec. 21-22 
Geneseo. 
.... Livingston. 
.. Dec. 23—24 
Cortland. 
.... Cortland. 
.. Dec. 26 
Lyons. 
... Wayne. 
.. Dec. 28 
Fairport. 
... Monroe. 
.. Dec. 29 
Albion. 
.... Orleans. 
.. Dec. 30-31 
Fort Plain. 
.... Montgomery— 
.. Jan. 4— 5 
Little Falls. 
_ Herkimer. 
... Jan. 6— 7 
Hamilton. 
_ Madison. 
.. Jan. 8— 9 
New Berlin. 
... Chenango. 
.. Jan. 11-12 
Marathon. 
.... Cortland. 
.. Jan. 15—16 
Syracuse. 
... Onondaga. 
.. Jan. 18-19 
Waterville. 
.... Oneida. 
.. Jan. 22-23 
Geneva. 
_ Ontario. 
.. Jan. 25 
Canandaigua. 
.... Ontario. 
.. Jan. 26 
Oneida. 
_ Madison. 
.. Jan. 27-28 
Auburn. 
_ Cayuga. 
.. Jan. 29—30 
Groton. 
.... Tompkins. 
.. Feb. 1- 2 
Penn Yan. 
.... Yates. 
.. Feb. 3 
Watkins. 
.. Feb. 4 
Bath. 
_ Steuben. 
.. Feb. 5- 6 
Andover. 
.... Allegany. 
.. Feb. 8- 9 
Horneilsville. 
.. Feb. 10 
Richford. 
.... Tioga. 
.. Feb. 12 
Nichols. 
_ Tioga. 
... Feb. 13 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Sbneca County, N. Y.—It is years since 
we have had so surprising a season in west¬ 
ern New York. The long spring drought, 
which was not broken In northern Seneca 
until after the middle of June, permitted 
the germination of seeds and corn looked, 
the Fourth of July, as it should look a 
month earlier. Fortunately the seed did 
not rot in the ground and the late, hot 
months were so much in its favor that it is 
but little below an average. There was no 
killing frost until October 11. Fruits of all 
kinds revelled in the dry weather. Such 
long keeping cherries never were known at 
the East, and other fruits developed finely 
and the crop was large with the one excep¬ 
tion of strawberries. Such uniformly fine 
apples have not been produced in this sec¬ 
tion in many years. The crop is largely in 
excess of the expectation of orchardists and 
great difficulty is found in securing barrels 
in which to pack the fruit. Men almost 
fight for a load of barrels. Wagons begin 
to arrive at the shops at one and two o’clock 
In the morning and many wait till a late 
hour at night before securing even a wagon 
load of barrels. Prices of fruit run from $1 
to $1 50 and buyers are kept busy. The 
spring drought .was disastrous to newly 
sown grass seed and a great deal of land in¬ 
tended for meadow has been plowed and 
seeded to wheat. The result makes the 
acreage of wheat sown much larger than it 
has been in many years. The early-sown 
fields begin to look a little yellow. The 
dry, hot time late in September and early 
in October was unfavorable to wheat, 
though it was the salvation of corn. This 
has been a wonderful season for large, fair 
potatoes. Some have been mentioned 
weighing as high as four pounds each. The 
show of potatoes at the Wayne County 
Fair was really wonderful. One side of a 
large tent was taken up entirely with 
samples in half bushel lots. The year has 
been exceedingly productive and the prices 
fair. Surely the farmer may give thanks 
this year, even though the profits do not 
make up the losses suffered during the 
past two seasons. s. A. L. 
Polk County, Iowa.— We are busy gath¬ 
ering in our abundant crops. We have a 
large, fine crop of good, ripe, sound corn. 
The size of the crop has brought the price 
down from 50 to 25 cents. Our late potato 
crop is hardly up to a full average for this 
section, yet it is fine, and potatoes are sell¬ 
ing at from 12>£ to 25 cents. We have an 
unusually large crop of winter apples— 
quality excellent. It was almost impossi¬ 
ble to get apple pickers; in fact, help is not 
to be had even at $1 per day and board. 
Apples are selling at from 40 to 60 cents per 
bushel: some are being shipped. The larger 
part of the crop will be stored at home. Our 
late cabbage crop is just immense, and 
there is no outlet for it so that it is a drug on 
the market at two to three cents per head 
for choice lots. Our onion crop was poor 
and onions sell better than other vegeta¬ 
bles, bringing readily 60 to 75 cents per 
bushel. The squash crop is also light, and 
good Hubbards or Marbleheads bring good 
prices. The turnip crop was good; sweet 
potatoes not so good as usual here. Grass 
for stock fine, and plenty of stock water; 
stock doing finely. Very little fall plowing 
has been done yet, and very little wheat 
or rye has been sown this fall. F. 8. w. 
Niagara County, N. Y.—The apple 
market here and throughout western New 
York is just now at its prime. The excel¬ 
lent weather and good roads have given 
the farmers all opportunity to barrel and 
market their fruit. Niagara County’s 
yield Is in advance of all anticipations, and 
leads any of the fruit counties. It is es¬ 
timated that over 250,000 barrels will be 
marketed, besides thousands sent to the 
large cider mills, which will make in the 
neighborhood of 100,000 barrels. The prices 
are not what the fruit growers desire; 
from $1.25 to $1 50 are the prevailing prices 
on Greenings and Baldwins. The general 
opinion from all quarters is that apples 
and cider will be good and cheap this 
winter. _ X. 
A Dry, Raspino Cough, irritates and endangers the 
Lungs, and greatly debilitates and annoys the pa¬ 
tient. Ur. Jayne’s Expectorant removes constriction 
of the bronchial tubes, promotes easy expectoration, 
heals all inflamed parrs, and brings about a speedy 
cure of the most stubborn Cough or Cold.— Adv. 
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