1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
61 
Agricultural News. 
( Continued .) 
It Is said that Ireland sends to England every year 
about 40,000 tons of eggs; at the average weight of 
eggs, this would amount to upwards of 53,000,000 
dozen. 
On the Daniel Webster farm at Marshfield, Mass., 
there are 340 Baldwin apple trees planted by Mr. 
Webster, which this year produced about 900 barrels 
of apples. 
The great New York and Pennsylvania Inter-State 
Fair will be held at Elmira, N. Y., from August 28 to 
September 9, Inclusive. The New York State Fair 
will open at Syracuse on September 14. 
Austin Corbin’s game preserve on Croyden Moun¬ 
tain, N. H., contains a herd of 33 buffaloes, 10 of 
wblch were added the other day from “Buffalo 
Jones's ” herd at Garden City, Kansas. 
A resolution favorlngthe Anti-Option bill has been 
referred by the Illinois Legislature to a committee 
which never meet. Those jokers should at next 
election be kept to play pranks at home. 
The Orange Judd Farmer of Chicago, will con¬ 
tinue to be conducted under the management of Mr. 
James Strong Judd, son of the late Orange Judd, who 
for some time has had control of the paper. 
The Cheviot Sheep Breeders’ Association of the 
United States and Canada will hold its second annual 
meeting and banquet at Oneonta, N. Y., on January 
25-26. There will be a grand exhibit of Cheviot rams. 
A sugar refining company with $1,000,000 capital 
and a capacity of 3,000 barrels a day, has been 
formed In New York to butt against the Sugar Trust 
with a capital of $54,000,000 and a limitless capacity. 
The following officers of the Illinois Sheep 
Breeders’ Association were elected at Springfield on 
January 11: President, C. I. Pulliam, Chatham; 
Vice President, W. T. Potts, Jacksonville; Secretary 
and Treasurer, John G. Springer, Springfield. 
The collapse of the Liberator Building Society In 
England has caused great and widespread suffering, 
Including several deaths by starvation. Some of the 
wretches who wrecked the concern are being prose 
cuted In the courts; others have escaped to foreign 
countries. 
Master Workman Dempsey has Just been con¬ 
victed at Pittsburg, of bribing the cooks In the Car¬ 
negie buildings at Homestead, to put In the food of 
the non-Unlon men poison which he gave them. 
Thirty-two deaths resulted at the village and sev¬ 
eral others after the ailing men had left the place 
The latest crop estimates of the English Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture are, per acre; wheat, 26.38 
bushels, against 31.26 bushels for 1891; barley, 34,61, 
against 34.14; oats, 38.08; against 38.77. The average 
In this country, according to the latest Department 
reports, are: wheat, 13.4 bushels; corn, 23.1; oats, 24.4. 
The world's visible supply of lard at the opening 
of this year Is estimated by the Cincinnati Price 
Current at only 111,400 tierces, showing the enormous 
decrease of 182,000 tierces over the estimates of 
January, 1892. The present stocks are also 108,000 
tierces below the average for the 11 years previous 
to this 
At the annual meeting of the Illinois Short-horn 
Breeders’Association, at Springfield on January 11, 
the following officers were elected for the ensuing 
year: President, C. I. Pulliam, Chatham; Secretary, 
J. D. Smith, Jr., New Berlin; Treasurer, W. T. Potts, 
Jacksonville. January 9, 1894, was selected for the 
next annual meeting of the association. 
Over three thousand acres of land In four town¬ 
ships of the State of Washington are held by women, 
and five or six more women are holding claims in the 
same region waiting a favorable time to prove up on 
them and acquire patents. Some of the land is under 
cultivation, and the ranches bring In a comfortable 
income to the plucky women who own and run them. 
The National Association of Woolen Manufactur¬ 
ers at its annual meeting in this city the other day, 
protested against any legislation putting wool on the 
free list. A short time back the Association chuckled 
at the prospect that the sheep raisers of the country 
would be deprived of protection’s pap. Now the 
likelihood that farmers will insist on free woolens as 
well as free wool, makes them drone and drivel. 
In Hyattsville, one of Washington’s oldest and 
largest suburbs, not only is the single tax system in 
practice, but it is now strongly sustained by the 
property owners who at first protested against It. 
Grand Master Powderly of the Knights of Labor, has 
bought a farm Of 72 acres there for himself and a 
syndicate of workmen, with a view of establishing a 
group of cooperative factories and building up a 
workingmen’s town there. 
A Cincinnati man is engaged In a novel industry, 
that of curing and packing dog meat. He Is said to 
kill the dogs In November and December only, and 
to cure the meat In the same manner as pork Is 
cured. Healthy dogs of any breed are used. The 
man and Ills family use the dog meat throughout the 
year, and he sells it to many Invalids. He claims 
that It will prevent many diseases. The horde of 
disreputable curs in the country may yet serve some 
good purpose—a la Chinoise. 
A transfer of real estate and stock of the largest 
flour mills In North Dakota and three In northwest¬ 
ern Minnesota has been made to a new corporation 
known as the North Dakota Milling Association, 
which has a paid-up capital of $750,000. The entire 
business will be done from the corporation's head¬ 
quarters at Grand Forks, N ; D. The mills will have a 
combtned dally capacity of 3,100 barrels. Agencies 
for the sale of the flour will be established In New 
York, London and Paris. 
The opponents of the Anti-Option Bill boast that 
even If It Is passed by the Senate during the present 
session, they have secured such a strong support In 
the House that when It Is returned to that body for 
concurrence in the Senate amendments, It will be 
either killed or pigeon-holed by being referred to 
the antagonistic Committee on Ways and Means, 
instead of the C immlttee on Agriculture, where It 
originated and which had charge of It last session 
when It was passed by an overwhelming majority of 
the House. The supporters of the bill should take 
prompt and vigorous action by writing at once to 
SAMPLES 
AND 
Full Particulars 
BY MAIL. 
A Positive Necessity for Success. 
NEPONSET WATER-PROOF FARRICS 
To All Growers of Flowers, All 
Poultrymen, All Farmers, and 
All Owners of Buildings. 
F. S. BIRD & SON, Sole Manufacturers, 
EAST WALPOLE, MASS. 
their Representatives against such outrageous jug¬ 
glery with a measure so seriously affecting their In¬ 
terests. 
“ The coldest weather ever known in this section,’’ 
has been the report day after day for upwards of a 
fortnight from this place and that, including at least 
half tne towns reporting between the Canadian fron¬ 
tier and the southern line of Tennessee and here and 
there below It. Fearful sufferings of man and beast 
from the Intense cold and scarcity of fuel are wide¬ 
spread.' Even large cities like New York, Philadel¬ 
phia and Chicago, are scrimped for coals which are 
veritable “black diamonds” In price. Numerous 
deaths of people from the zero and far under zero 
temperature are reported everywhere—four are 
known to have occurred In New York city where the 
temperature has ranged from zero to 25 above for 18 
days. It has been much colder and more snowy and 
stormy farther South. Railroads have been blocked, 
rivers frozen as far south as the Ohio, Cumberland 
and Tennessee. Even the Father of Waters has been 
shackled and bound so that steamboats have had to 
be laid up. The Improvident crews, driven to It by 
starvation, have turned highwaymen below the 
Ohio, and committed many robberies and outrages. 
Live stock have suffered severely even In the old 
States and on the plains the mortality among them 
must be fearful. Some of the Icy snow-storms 
here have approached closely to that of Blizzard 
Monday, March 12,1888, and worse reports come from 
hundreds of other sections. Wild birds of all kinds 
and small game have perished by the thousands. 
In Europe, too, the cold is either more Intense than 
here or the people are less accustomed to such 
frigidity. Great mortality among the poor Is re¬ 
ported : trains are stopped, rivers and harbors 
frozen; wolves and other wild animals roam around 
the towns and villages and often commit depreda¬ 
tions within their bounds. God help the poor In such 
weather everywhere! 
HARKETS. 
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BEANS AND PEASE. 
Beans, marrow, choice, per bush.2 30 @2 32 
Medium, choice, per bush.1 90 @1 95 
Foreign, Medium.1 55 @1 65 
Foreign, 1’ea.165 @170 
Pea, choice.1 85 @1 90 
Red Kidney, choice.2 50 @2 60 
Lima, California (60 lbs).2 00 @2 10 
Green pease, bbls., per bush.1 70 @1 75 
Bags, per bush.165 @170 
Scotch green pease, per bush.1 80 @1 85 
BUTTER. 
CREAMERY AND FACTORY. 
Creamery, State, tubs, fall made, extra.29 @30 
State, tubs, common to good.25 @29 
Western, separator, extra.34 @35 
Western, tlrBts.31 @33 
Western, seconds.25 @29 
Western, June, extras.24 @25 
Western, June, firsts.21 @23 
Western, June, seconds.19 @20 
Western Imitation creamery, firsts.25 @27 
Western Imitation creamery, seconds.. .20 @23 
Western factory, June firkins, extras_17 @19 
June firkins, seconds to firsts.16 @17 
June tubs, extras.16 @17 
Fresh, small tubs.23 @24 
Fresh firsts.20 @22 
Fresh seconds.-7 @18 
Thirds.16 @16)4 
DAIRY. 
State, half tubs and palls, extras.27 @28 
Half tubs and pails, firsts.23 @25 
Half tubs and palls, seconds.20 @22 
Firkins and tubs, extras. 26 @27 
Firkins and tubs, firsts.21 @23 
Tubs, seconds.19 @20 
Firkins, extra.25 @26 
Firkins, firsts.21 @23 
Firkins, seconds.19 @20 
Welsh tubs, extras.— @— 
Welsh tubs. flrstB.22 @25 
Welsh tubs, seconds.20 @22 
Western, firsts.22 @24 
Seconds.19 @20 
Thirds .15 @16 
Rolls, fresh.16 @22 
CHEESE. 
State factory, full cream, fall made, colored. 
fancy.UM@J2 
Full cream, white, fall made, fancy.11M@12 
Full cream, choice.1 l)4@ll)4 
Full cream, good to prime.10)4@11 
Full cream, common to fair.9!4@10 
Part cream, Chenango and neighboring 
counties, small size, choice. 9J4@10 
Part skims, small size, fair to prime. 8 @ 9 
Part skims, choice . 9 @914 
Part skims, prime. 8 @8)4 
Part skims, fair to good. G)4@ 7)4 
Part skims, common.3 @ 4 
Full skims. 1)4@ 2)4 
FRUITS-DRIED 
Apples, evaporated, fancy. 
Choice. 
Prime. 
N. Y. State, sun-dried, sliced... 
N. Y. State, quartered. 
N. C., sun-dried, fancy. 
N. C., sun-dried, sliced, choice. 
N. C., sliced, prime. 
Chopped. 
Cores and skins. 
Peaches, Ga.. peeled, fancy. 
Ga., peeled, choice. 
Ga., peeled, fair to prime. 
Ga., peeled, common. .... 
Raspberries, evaporated. 
Sun-dried.. 
Cherries . 
Huckleberries. 
Blackberries. 
1891. 
Apricots. California. 
Peaches, California, unpeeled. 
Prunes, California, per lb. 
Plums, State, per lb. 
Damson. 
11 @12 
10 @ 10)4 
9)4@10 
6 @— 
5M@- 
6 @ 6)4 
59i@ 6 
5 )4@— 
2 @ 2 X 
1)4 @ 1% 
12J4@13 
11 @12 
9 @10 
6 @ 8)4 
20)4 @21 
18 @20 
18 @19 
11 @12 
6J4@ 7 
5fc @ 6)4 
12 @16 
10 @15 
10 @14 
12 @— 
12 @— 
FRUITS—GREEN. 
Apples, N. Spy, prime to fancy, per bbl. 2 25@3 00 
N. Spy, up-river, small bbl.1 76@2 25 
Spltzenburg, extra fancy.3 50@3 75 
Good to prime.2 50@3 00 
Common to fair, small bbl.1 76@2 25 
Greenings, extra fancy.3 50@4 00 
Good to prime.2 50@3 25 
Up-river, small bbl .2 00@3 00 
Baldwins, extra fancy.2 75@3 00 
Good to prime.2 00@2 50 
Up-river, small bbl.1 50@200 
Cranberries, Cape Cod, Early Black, fancy. 9 00@9 50 
Cape Cod, late kinds, fair to choice_8 50010 00 
Cape Cod, Inferior, per bbl.5 00@7 50 
Cape Cod, prime to fancy, per crate.2 250 2 76 
Cape Cod. fair quality, per crate.2 00@2 26 
Jersey, prime, dark, per crate.2 26@2 75 
Jersey, fair to good, per crate.1 75@2 00 
grapes.—W estern New York. 
Concord, per 5-lb basket. 7 @10 
Isabella, per 5-lb basket. 7 @8 
Catawba, per 5-lb basket. 7 @10 
FLORIDA FRUIT. 
Oranges, Indian River.2 75@3 25 
Bright fancy, 176 to 200s per box. .2 60@2 75 
Bright straight lines, per box.2 00@2 26 
Bright Inferior per box.1 50@2 00 
Russet, per box.1 75@2 00 
Grape fruit, choice, per box.1 75@2 25 
Tangerines, per box.2 00@3 60 
Mandarins, per box.1 00@2 50 
EGGS. 
State and Pennsylvania, new laid, choice... 40 @— 
Western, fresh gathered, extra.39 @39)4 
Fresh collections, good to prime.36 @38 
Fall packed.31 @36 
Early Icehouse, good to prime.29 @30 
Icehouse, fair quality. 25 @29 
Limed eggs, State, per dozen.31 @32 
Canadian, per dozen.31 @32 
Western, per dozen.31 @32 
MEATS AND STOCK. 
Beeves, live—Best native steers.5 00 @6 60 
Poor.3 15 @3 50 
Texans.3 00 @4 40 
Bulls and dry cows.1 50 @3 25 
Live veal calves, prime, per lb. 8 @9 
Fair to good, per lb. 7 @7)4 
Common to medium, per lb. 3 @7 
Live Calves, Western, per lb. 3 @3% 
Buttermilk, per lb. 2 @ 2ts 
Grassers, per lb. 3 @3)4 
Calves, city dressed, per lb. 9 @13 
Country dressed, prime . 10 @11 
Country dressed, fair to good. 9 @10 
Country dressed, common to medium.. 7)4@ 9 
Dressed butttermllk, per lb. 4 @6 
Dressed grassers, per lb. 5 @6 
Cows, Milch, choice.50 00 @ — 
Poor to fair.20 00 @40 00 
Lambs, dressed, near-by per lb. 9)4@10)4 
Alive, poor to good, per lb. 6 @ 7)4 
Sheep, alive, good to prime, per lb. 5 @6 
Alive, poor to fair, per lb. 4 @ 5 
Hogs, country dressed, light, per lb. 10 @11 
Country dressed, medium, per lb. 9!4@ 994 
Country dressed, heavy. 8)4@9 
Live, per 100 lbs.7 40 @7 85 
Roasting Pigs, dressed, 10 to 26 lbs., per lb. 12 @ 15 
Pork Tenderloins, per lb. 18 @ 20 
POULTRY-LIVE. 
Fowls, nearby. 14 @ 15 
Western, per lb. 14 @ 14)4 
Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 13 @ 14 
Ducks, Western, per pair. 75 @1 00 
Eastern, per pair.1 00 0 — 
Geese, Western, per pair.1 50 @2 00 
Eastern.2 25 @2 50 
Roosters, old, per lb. 8 @ 8)4 
Western spring chickens, per lb. 11)4@ 12 
Local spring chickens per lb. 12 @ — 
Live pigeons, per pair. 30 @ 85 
DRESSED POULTRY—DRY PACKED. 
Turkeys, Jersey, fancy, per lb. 16 @17 
Up-river, fancy, per lb.16 @17 
Maryland and Del., prime to fancy.15 @16 
State and Pa., fancy, per lb.I4)4@ 16 
State and Pa., good, per lb.13 @ 14)4 
Western, dry picked, fancy, per lb.!4)4@ 15 
Western, scalded, fancy, per lb.14 @ 14)4 
Western, fair to good, per lb. 14 @15 
Chickens, Phila., selected large, per lb.18 @ — 
Pblla., mixed weights, per lb.16 @17 
Pblla., fair quality, per lb. 15 @16 
Clear, Jersey, per lb.13 @15 
Clear, State and Pa., per lb.12 @14 
Clear, Ohio and Mich., per lb.12 @13 
Western, Inferior. 9 @ 10 
Fowls, clear, Jersey, per lb.12 @13 
Clear, State and Penn, per lb.11J4@ 12 
Clear, Ohio and Mich., per lb.11)4@ 12 
Western, Inferior. 9 @ 10 
Old roosters. 8 @ — 
Capons, Philadelphia, large.21 @22 
Capons, Philadelphia, medium.19 @20 
Capons, small and slips.17 @18 
Capons, western, mixed weights.17 @ 18 
Ducks, Jersey choice, per lb.15 @16 
Md. and Del., per lb.15 @16 
State and Pa., per lb.13 @15 
Western, per lb. 9 @ 16 
Geese, Md. and Del., per lb.13 @15 
Western, per lb.10 @12 
POTATOES. 
Scotch Magnums, per sack.2 50 @ 2 75 
Irish and English, per sack.175 @ 2 40 
Bermuda, per bbl.4 00 @ 6 00 
Long Island. Rose, per bbl.2 50 @ 3 00 
Northern New York, per bbl.2 25 @ 2 75 
Western New York, per bbl. . ...200 @ 2 25 
Jersey, good to choice.2 25 @ 2 50 
Inferior.125 @ 175 
Virginia sweet.3 00 @ — 
Jersey sweet .3 50 @ 4 00 
Vineland sweet... ..4 50 @5 00 
VEGETABLES. 
Cauliflower, fancy, per bbl.4 00@7 00 
Poor to fair, per bbl.1 00@8 00 
Celery, Western, per dozen roots. 20@ 40 
State, per dozen roots. 25® 30 
Cabbage, fancy and L. I. Dutch, per 100.5 00@8 00 
Egg plant, Southern, per bbl.2 10@6 00 
Onions, Connecticut, white, best.3 00@4 (i0 
State, yellow, per bbl.2 50@8 00 
Connecticut red, per bbl.2 75@3 00 
Orange County, yellow, per bbl.2 50@2 75 
Orange County, red.2 00@2 25 
Turnips.1 00@ — 
Norfolk spinach, per bbl.2 00@3 00 
Norfolk kale, per bbl.1 50@1 75 
GRAIN. 
Wheat.74 @89 
Rye.57 @64 
Barley.57 @85 
Buckwheat.51 @54 
Corn...51 @53 
Oats.38 @46)4 
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