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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 1? 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
A dull market In dried fruits. 
Neat packages always pay best. 
Freight rates to Europe are higher. 
Canada pease are nominal at 70 cents. 
Huckleberries are plentiful and cheap. 
Eggs have declined under heavy receipts. 
Live poultry is lower under heavy receipts. 
Foreign fruits of all kinds are In good demand. 
Hay Is In large supply, and the market is quiet. 
Frozen poultry shows little change worth noting. 
New South Wales is studying the Irrigation ques¬ 
tion. 
The market for dry beans Is quiet at unchanged 
prices. 
Over 20,000 barrels of potatoes were received \ast 
Monday. 
I.arge areas of crops have been destroyed by floods 
In Austria. 
Don’t send poor poultry to market. Bones don't 
sell well here. „ 
The Philadelphia authorities have discovered 3,000 
pig pens In that city. 
Hops are dull at prices ranging from 17 to 21be 
cents, for fair to choice State. 
Ten car-loads of Western poultry In two days Is a 
pretty good record for hot weather. 
Tnere Is a fair demand for good blackberries, but 
few of the arrivals will All the bill. 
Secretary Mohler of Kansas looks for a crop of 
25,000,000 bushels of wheat In that State. 
The mad dog season Is well under way, and reports 
of rabid canines come lrom all over the country. 
The Missouri State report shows an improvement 
of nine points In the wheat crop since last month. 
Potatoes now arriving are mostly new Southern 
stock. Receipts are liberal, and the market easy. 
Beeswax Is dull with but little doing at 27 to 2 /Hj 
cents for Southern, and 21% to 27 cents for Western. 
Fresh killed dressed poultry is somewhat lower, 
but receipts are light, demand good, and market 
steady. 
During our recent butter famine, California con¬ 
tributed 20 car-loads to grease over the deflclency, 
as it were. 
Better send one barrel of good produce to market 
and throw the other barrel of poor away, than to 
send the two mixed together. 
Some dealers are returning berry crates to nearby 
growers. The majority are not. We shall have 
more to say on this subject later. 
Cheese Is Arm at Hgures slightly below last week’s 
report, though higher than during the week. The 
demand Is good, and the market Arm. 
Receipts of green apples continue fair, but as there 
Is no accumulation of stock, receipts sell promptly 
at goc d prices. Choice fruit Is In demand. 
A philanthropic city gentleman has opened a milk 
market, where milk Is retailed to the poor for the 
actual cost, two cents a pint, lour cents a quart. 
A Wayne County, N. Y. Assemblyman was ar¬ 
rested and flned $ 150 for violation of a Ash and game 
law for which he voted in last year's legislature. 
Receipts of cherries are increasing, and the price 
Is decreasing. Still good stock sells quickly at high 
prlceB, not enough pains are taken In assorting and 
packing this fruit. 
Strawberries are plentiful, but there Is a wide 
range In quality, and consequently, In price. Some 
of the best are coming lrom New Jersey, and sell 
quickly at good prices. 
New Jersey growers evidently have faith In the 
future of peach growing In that State. In Sussex 
County alone, over 150,000 trees are said to have been 
planted the past spring. 
H. K. Van Deman, Pomologist of the Department 
of Agriculture since 188(1, has been asked for his 
resignation to take effect June 15. No reason is 
assigned, but In the Interest of peace and harmony, 
probably. * 
Just notice the range of prices In the quotations of 
green pease and Btrlng beans That difference 
means that much difference In quality, with the best 
grade selling much the most readily. There Isn’t 
that much difference in freight rates, cartage, etc. 
Severe hail storms lately visited some parts of the 
orange growing sections of Louisiana doing a good 
deal of damage. One man reports over $1,000 loss to 
his grove. The leaves and young fruit were nearly 
all beaten off, and the limbs badly skinned In many 
cases. 
Sulmon packing on the Columbia River Is reported 
to be progressing favorably. The Ash are averaging 
of good size, the pack of one day recently recosding 
the average at 225^ pounds per Ash. From April 10 
to May 13 the Columbian River pack is given at 
41,175 cases. 
The Northwest Paclflc Farmer, of Portland, says 
that the Snake River Fruit Growers’ Association has 
increased Its capital stock from $100,000 to $050,000. 
The association controls 2,078 acres of orchard land 
near Wawewai. 400 of which are covered with bear¬ 
ing fruit trees. 
The Michigan crop report just Issued says that the 
average condition of wheat In the State on June 1 
has been lower but once In eight years. In 1888 It 
was C 3 per cent of an average crop. It is now esti¬ 
mated at 79 per cent. Peaches are estimated to be 
90 per cent of an average. 
The Cincinnati Price Current reports corn crop as 
somewhat improved, though there are continued 
drawbacks in various districts. The oat crop has 
been beneflted by recent moisture. The winter wheat 
condition Is maintained, not essentially Improved. 
Spring crop starting well. 
Note these flgures: In the New York market, June 
8, 238,800 bushels of wheat were received, and 145,405 
bushels exported. Cash sales were 190,000 bushels, 
and sales for future delivery, 9,300,000 bushels. How 
much of this future delivery business do you suppose 
is gambling pure and simple? 
The London Times says : “ If conditions do not 
change we will have an agricultural disaster In the 
United Kingdom, the condition of wheat Is 83.3, 
against 88.9 last year; acreage 72.9. against 85.1 last 
year. This means one of the poorest crops England 
has grown In half a century.” 
Butter Is a little higher than at our last report, on 
account of light receipts, but at previous prices 
dealers stocked up pretty well and are buying very 
sparingly at present. The market hasn't found its 
level yet, and as receipts are likely to Increase, lower 
prices are probable at an early date. 
Early tomatoes In the Cahuenga and Eagle Rock 
Valleys, Los Angeles County, were almost wholly 
destroyed by excess of winter rain. The I-os Angeles 
Commercial Bulletin estimates the loss to be In 
many cases as high as $100 per acre. Of course later 
crops were planted, but when they mature tomatoes 
will be no novelty In the market and prices will range 
accordingly. 
The monthly crop report for the Memphis district 
says that a slight reduction of cotton acreage from 
previous estimates Is Indicated, and as revised the 
increased acreage will be only lbj per cent, and It is 
more than probable that the damage from storms 
will reduce the acreage in cultivation to about the 
same as last year. The outlook for a fair yield of 
corn Is promising. 
There are Indications of an extensive fruit crop In 
Washington this year. It appears that the backward 
season prevented the trees from budding, so they 
escaped the blighting effect of the sudden frosts that 
have occurred in different parts of the State. The 
ground Is In excellent condition and with steady sun¬ 
shine magnlflcent crops will be produced this fall. 
Sufficient moisture has been stored to counteract the 
Influence of continued warm weather, which some¬ 
times hangs on with remarkable persistence when It 
comes. 
Last week we stated that, on account of the close 
money market, less butter would be put Into cold 
storage, and more would be thrown on the market. 
The reason Is here: In this city there Is In the neigh¬ 
borhood of 20 per cent ess money on deposit In the 
banks than one year ago. The cold storage compan- • 
les store goods, when desired, and loan money upon 
them. Butter Is considered one of the best forms of 
collateral, and It Is just as desirable now as at any 
previous time; but as there Is less money to be had, 
less can be loaned, and more of the butter that would 
otherwise be put Into cold storage will be put on the 
market. The same Is true of some other classes of 
goods upon which loans are sometimes made. 
The existence of the American Fruit Preservers’ 
Trust, which has a capital stock of $15,000,000, Is en¬ 
dangered by a suit now on trial In Judge McConnell’s 
court In Chicago. The suit Is brought by the trust 
against A. D. Bishop, who formerly conducted a pre¬ 
serving business on Wabash Avenue. Bishop was at 
one time In the trust, but drew out because It was 
illegal. The preserving company Immediately took 
possession of his property, amounting to about 
$13,(K0, on a replevin writ and brought suit against 
him, and Bishop's attorney flled a plea In the case 
setting up that the trust is an Illegal organization 
and as such cannot sue on account. The plaintiff 
demurred and the arguments are now In progress. 
The Louisiana sugar growers are combining to 
check the agitation throughout the North and West 
against the sugar bounty. Planters from all over 
the State assembled at New Iberia and the result 
was the adoption of a motion that the Chair appoint 
a central committee composed of one member from 
every sugar-growing parish of the State, each to be 
chairman of a parish committee to be chosen by him¬ 
self, for the purpose of gathering complete statis¬ 
tics as to the amount of machinery, coal, oil, meat, 
meal, flour and other products purchased and abso¬ 
lutely necessary In the manufacture of sugar, and 
that these statistics be embodied In one general re¬ 
port to be presented to Congress at the September 
session. It was also decided to call an Inter-State 
sugar growers’ convention In Chicago on August 10 
next, and that Louisiana send 25 delegates. 
The Southern papers are awakening to the import¬ 
ance of the dog question. One of them among other 
things recently said that there Is no doubt that a 
plague of worthless dogs exists all over the South, 
to the detriment of everybody, even their owners. 
The great question Is as to how they are to be 
reached. The man who solves the problem satisfac¬ 
torily will be a benefactor to the South. For there 
are In Virginia, the Carollnas, Georgia, Alabama. 
Tennessee and Mississippi thousands of acres of 
pasture lands that could, and would, be devoted to 
sheep raising If the dogs were removed. Until they 
are put out of the way the wool Industry will not 
amount to much In either 8tate. Not long ago, two 
men moved to middle Georgia with the lntentton of 
going into sheep raising. But their flocks were soon 
destroyed by dogs, and they were foiced to abandon 
the attempt. 
Some Southern cotton growers are beginning to 
realize the necessity for engaging In the culture of 
other crops. This necessity is still further empha¬ 
sized by the extension of cotton culture Into new 
territory. Odessa advices state that cotton growing 
Is making such progress In Russian Trans-Caspla 
that the Russian spinners In Moscow, Lodz and the 
other centers will very soon be In a position to discard 
the American product altogether: as It Is only eight 
years since experiments were Inaugurated In this 
quarter, the strides made are nothing short of mar¬ 
velous. At the last meeting of the Manchester 
Chamber of Commerce samples of cotton were shown 
which had been grown, the one at Wltu, in British 
East Africa, and the other at a place near Belize, 
In British Honduras. The latter resembles rough 
Peruvian, and has been valued In Liverpool at 4)^d. 
per pound. Should it. however, as seems likely, 
prove a useful sunsiltute for Peruvian in the adul¬ 
teration of woolen goods, it will easily command Id. 
more per pound. It can never enter into competition 
with the American article. East African cotton, on 
the other hand, will probably prove in time to be a 
formldaole rival to the latter. The yield on the 2UU- 
acre plantation at Wltu was at the rate of 400 pounds 
per acre, and the best average In America is that of 
Louisiana, which Is 223 pounds, while the average 
lor all the cotton Stales is no more than 102 pounds 
per acre. In quality, moreover, the Wltu cotton 
ranks as Sea Island substitute. 
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