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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 1 
INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES. 
Kerosene Emulsion.— Kerosene, two Rations; 
whale-oil soap, one-half pound; water, one gallon. 
Dissolve the soap by^ieatlng In the water, when 
boiling hot remove from the fire and add the kero¬ 
sene. Churn or stir It thoroughly for 5 to 15 minuses; 
this Is best done by ohe of the small pumps. This 
will keep for a long time. When used, dilute accord¬ 
ing to the plants upon which It Is used. For tender 
plants, one part to 25 or 30 of water. For hardier 
plants, use stronger. One part to 10 of water makes 
a strong wash. 
White Hellebore.— Used principally for the cur¬ 
rant and similar worms. Dust on dry, either pure or 
diluted, or used In water, one ounce to two gallons. 
Bordeaux Mixture.— There are several form¬ 
ulas, varying In strength. One strong enough for 
most purposes Is one-quarter pound each of copper 
sulphate and lime to each gallon of water. For 
potatoes, Paris-green may be mixed with this at the 
rate of one-half pound to 60 gallons. To make the 
Bordeaux Mixture, suspend the copper and lime In 
separate casks of water In coarse gunny sacks and 
allow them to remain Immersed for several hours, 
or for an entire day. When ready to mix pour the 
liquid from each Into a 50-gallon cask, and 1U1 up 
with water. Wooden vessels are best, as these 
chemicals corrode ordinary metals. 
CROP AND MARKET ROTES. 
Poultry prices are lower. 
Cheese prices are less firm. 
Best grades of butter are scarce. 
California Limas are selling well. 
Potato prices are lowering slowly. 
Old apples are practically a back number. 
The French wheat crop Is now reported good. 
String beans are now arriving from Maryland. 
On Monday. 31 car-loads of water-melons arrived. 
We are nearing the end of the strawberry season. 
Some fine musk-melons have come In from New 
Orleans. 
Norfolk steamers brought over 12,000 barrels of po¬ 
tatoes Friday. 
The hot, dry weather seriously shortened the up¬ 
river strawberry crop. 
There has been quite a large accumulation of 
Egyptian onions In this market. 
The New Orleans sugar market Is strong, the hold¬ 
ers asking full New York prices. 
It Is reported that rom 15,000 to 20,000 tons of hay 
have been engaged lorOreat Britain. 
The quantity and quality of Marrow peas are be¬ 
low the average, and the pack Is likely to be a light 
one. 
The Terry vineyards on the East coast of Florida 
are expected to yield 135,000 pounds of grapes this 
year. . 
Wheat exports from India last week were (140,000 
bushels against 1,280,000 bushels the corresponding 
week labt year. 
The President of the Bank of Montreal recom¬ 
mends Canadian farmers to pay more attention to 
hay exporting. 
lteports Indicate heavy losses among young pigs. 
This in connection with the short crop of hogs should 
favor the farmer. 
Sheep and lambs are selling for low prices, but the 
consumer pays just as much aB ever for his meat. It 
should be cheaper. 
Orders have been received on this market for 
about 1,000 bags of clover seed for export on account 
of drought In England. 
Latest advices state that the prospects for the 
French prune crop are very favorable, and that 
prices will likely open low. 
A Chicago report says that not only will they not 
get many range cattle before August 1, bat that they 
will not need them before. 
Judging from the Inquiries we receive about In¬ 
secticides and fungicides, there Is more spraying 
being done than ever before. 
The first Niagara grapes came June 10, from 
Florida, and were of very good quality. A large 
yield Is expected In that State. 
A dispatch says three cars of new wheat arrived at 
Galveston, weighing 02 pounds to the bushel, and 
the linest ever raised In the State. 
Early In the week small shipments of green corn 
were received from the South, and sales were made 
at $2 to $3 per barrel for average stock. 
A report from Dutchess County. N. Y., says a black 
louse has attacked the grape vines, and that fruit 
trees are generally suffering from lice and Insects. 
There has been a great scarcity of huckleberries. 
Receipts have decreased, and the pie bakers have 
commenced using them, thus lncreaslngthe demand. 
As many as three steamers of the Old Dominion 
Line have arrived in one day. They have frequently 
been behind time lately, causing the loss of the 
early trade. 
A few crates of strawberries came In Tuesday from 
western New York, which were the first received this 
season from that section. The fruit was small and 
poor and worth little. 
The first arrivals of Le Conte pears from Georgia 
came lnJunelti. The fruit was green and small, 
but clear and free from defects, and was offered at 
$2.25 to $2.50 per crate. 
The first raspberries of the season arrived from 
Maryland and De.aware. Extreme prices were real¬ 
ized for fancv, but. as a rule, the berries were soft 
and sealing rather low. 
A Memphis man has patented an “ electrical vege¬ 
tation exterminator,” which Is designed to kill the 
rank vegetation which grows along railroad beds 
and highways In tropical countries. 
There seems to be delay In the action of the French 
government In the removal of the duties on hay and 
feed stuffs, yet considerable quantities of the former 
have been engaged for that market. 
Reports as to the condition of the crowing crop of 
tomatoes In Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey are 
very unfavorable. The drought Is said to have In¬ 
jured the plants to a greater extent than usual. 
it Is estimated that Australia contains about 11,- 
000,000 kangaroos. Over 1,000,000 skins are shipped to 
the United States for use In boot making. Each skin 
will make about four pairs of ordlnary-slzed shoes. 
From Berlin comes the report that the recent 
drought caused such a scarcity of farm produce and 
so blighted the young crops that the Minister of 
Trade will propose a suspension of the duties on 
wheat and maize. 
A beet sugar factory Is proposed at Eugene, Ore., 
and experiments on a considerable scale are, It Is 
said, to be made this year in the surrounding coun¬ 
try to more fully test the district as to yield per 
acre and quality of product. 
The present cotton-seed oil product Is estimated to 
be worth about $16,000,000 a year, the oil cake brings 
In about $8,000 000 more, and the lint and hulls pro¬ 
duce about $1,003,000. Thirty years ago the whole 
seed crop was thrown away as refuse. 
Much of the produce received from the South this 
season has been delayed, and the quality has been 
Impaired In consequence. Sometimes a shipment 
has been divided, a part arriving a day late, and 
selling for a much lower price. 
Last week the receipts of Southern new potatoes 
were about 67,000 barrels; price, $3 to $3.50. Corre¬ 
sponding week last year, the receipts were about 
110,000 barrels, with $1 to $1.50 the ruling price for 
prime, and the market completely demoralized. 
Bakers complain that the abundance and cheap¬ 
ness of fruit Injures their trade; that the people eat 
fruit instead of bread and cake. Not even straw¬ 
berry pies and tarts capture them for they prefer 
the fruits In their natural state. Well, who Is the 
loser ? 
Peaches Increase In supply from North Carolina, 
and fruit Is not only poor, but packed In very Irregu¬ 
lar packages. A good many small baskets have come 
In, holding about 10 pounds. Tney sold fairly at 75 
cents per basket, and some small crates went from 
$1 to $1.25 each. 
Dealer.- say that never before In the history of the 
fruit trade In New Yort has there been such a 
variety as Is now displayed. All the summer fruits 
are here, and nearly all of the winter varieties are 
still lingering in the market. However, the latter 
will soon disappear. 
The Bermuda steamer this week had less than 
5,000 packages of produce, which will close the sea¬ 
son, as no other Important arrivals are expected. On 
the whole the season has been very satisfactory to 
those Interested here. Reasonably high prices have 
prevailed, and there have been no serious breaks. 
We are told in a prominent provision trade paper 
that Woonsocket, R. I. butchers have Increased the 
retail price of beef and mutton, upon the advice 
of the monopolistic packers. This is In the face 
of the fact that the live stock trade is depressed and 
prices lower. The advice of these wholesale robbers 
Is practically a command. 
During the week sales at auction were made of 
California fruit at the following prices: Royal apri¬ 
cots, $2 55 to $195; seedling do, $2.45 to $2; Royal 
Anne cherries, $2 to 65c.; Black Republican, $1.40 to 
75c.; Centennial, 96 to 85c.; Black Tartarian, $2.05 to 
85c; Blgarreaus, $1.20; Oxheart, $2.10; Cherry plums, 
$1.15; Alexander peaches, $2.15. 
The attempt to create an oyster farming Industry 
in the Wilmington River. Georgia, has been given 
up, the Oemler Oyster Company, the largest concern 
of the kind In the State, going out of business. Three 
years ago over 111,000 bushels of seed were planted, 
but the oysters Instead of multiplying have from 
some unknown cause died off rapidly. 
Great Interest Is felt In the suit mentioned last 
week as having been brought against several har¬ 
vester manufacturers by J. G Richardson. It Is said 
to be practically a suit against the harvester com¬ 
bine, and has been In progress of preparation nine 
years. It Is said that success for the plaintiff may 
mean brnkruptcy for a number of other firms con¬ 
cerned. 
And now It Is reported that the phylloxera In France 
has at last been subdued. From the ravages of this 
pest the quantity of wine produced In that country, 
after averaging nearly f00.000,000 gallons annually 
from 1850 to 1859, fell from 1860 to 1879 to a little more 
than 132,500,000 gallons a year. For the last few 
years the annual wine product In France has been 
over70S,5'0,000 gallons, so that the wine Industry has 
practically recovered. 
The London Grocer, In a recent article reviewing 
the cheese trade, takes a hopeful view of the general 
prospects for the season, owing to reduced stockB to 
commence with, and the generally conservative 
methods of operators. It also says that Canadian 
and American cheese are unquestionably the favor¬ 
ite descriptions with a great portion of the public, 
and while they are supplied In abundance and at 
moderate prices, they will nearly always find ready 
purchasers. 
The California Fruit Grower says that prospects of 
a large crop of raisins are still good, though grapes 
are dropping badly in some sections, and unusual 
efforts will be made this year to suppress the second 
crop or to utilize It In some other way than la trying 
to convert It Into raising Reports have lately come 
East from California that the prune crop In that 
State will reach 40,000,000 pounds this year. The 
present aspect of the crop does not justify so high 
an estimate by some millions of pounds. The favor¬ 
able outlook of a few weeks ago even has not con¬ 
tinued, and «he usual dropping which has occurred 
has shattered the hope of a remarkably heavy crop 
this year. 
The Ithaca crop bulletin says that In the vicinity 
of the central lakes, the upper Hudson and on Long 
Island the protracted drought is beginning seriously 
to affect the crops. Grass, especially In old meadows, 
needs rain badly; and the realization of an unusu¬ 
ally large hay crop Is not nearly so promising as It 
was a week or two ago. In the Northern part of the 
States, and in counties bordering on Lakes Erie and 
Ontario, the rainfall has been generally sufficient 
and vegetation has sustained a rapid and wholesome 
growth. Most reports Indicate that fruits and ber¬ 
ries are unusually promising, with the exeeptlon of 
cherries and apples; although the prospect for 
apples Is Improving In parts of Chautauqua and 
Allegany Counties. Cherries are reported “drop¬ 
ping” badly, and the promise of a fall yield fast 
diminishes. Much complaint Is made of the ravages 
of the potato bug, and cut worms have done con¬ 
siderable damage to beans, grass and grains In 
Wyoming County and elsewhere. 
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