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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 8 
INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES. 
Kerosene Emulsion.— Kerosene, two gallons; 
whale-oil soap, one-half pound; water, one gallon. 
Dissolve the soap by heating In the water, when 
boiling hot remove from the fire and add the kero¬ 
sene. Churn or stir It thoroughly for 5 tola minutes; 
this Is best done by one 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. 
W hite Hei.lehore.— 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 50 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 nil up 
with water. Wooden vessels are best, as these 
chemicals corrode ordinary metals. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Dried fruits are dull. 
Fresh fruits are flush. 
Pears are not so plentiful. 
Cherries are In larger supply. 
Green apples are mostly poor 
Blackberries are a trifle lower. 
Asparagus will soon be retired. 
The early fruit catches the price. 
Choice muBk-melons are In demand. 
Cabbages are coming In from nearby. 
Currants are more plentiful and lower. 
Cucumbers are very plentiful and dull 
Butter has slid up about a cent a pound. 
Texas Is shipping water-melons to Colorado. 
Heavy receipts of potatoes make lower prices. 
Grapes are In light supply, and choice sell readily. 
Huckleberries are In good demand at steady prices. 
Southern cabbages are falling off; season nearly 
over. 
ltecelpts of tomatoes are Increasing ; quality 
Irregular. 
About 75,000 water-melons were put on this market 
Wednesday. 
The Colorado potato beetle Is reported worse than 
ever before. 
The Missouri apple crop Is reported as not very 
promising this year. 
Hothouse grapes sell for 50 cents to $1 per pound, 
according to quality. 
Peaches have come through from Georgia to New 
York by rail in 49 hours. 
Onljns are In heavier supply and weaker, without 
material change In price. 
Apples and pears are reported to be dropping badly 
throughout New York State. 
Raspberries are coming In more rapidly from all 
points, and the market Is dull. 
Strawberries are about out of market. This week 
will practically close the market. 
Newcastle Is the only county in Delaware that has 
a decrease In the peach crop from 1891. 
If the commission-merchant Is such a fraud as 
some seem to think him, tvhy ship to him ? 
Samples of the new pack of California canned 
cherries have been received In this market. 
Some fine Japan plums have been received here 
from Florida, and have sold for high prices. 
Eggs are a trifle higher, but have been still higher 
during the past week. Heavy receipts have de¬ 
pressed prices. 
A few very choice Georgia peaches of the Amelia 
and St. John varieties have sold as high as 84 to $4.50 
per slx-tlll carrier. 
On Monday the season opened at 10 and 12 cents 
per pound for currants; first arrivals were of very 
good color and size. 
The cattle In Arizona are reported to have suffered 
considerably for want of water, and hundreds to 
have died from this cause. 
A few dried cherries and blackberries have been 
received from North Carolina, the firBt new fruit of 
the season. Prices not established. 
Dealers say that during the last 10 years the in 
crease In fish consumption has largely exceeded the 
proportion due to Increase of population. 
The custom of selling potatoes and onions by 
weight has been Inaugurated In St. Louis through 
the efforts of the Produce Exchange of that city. 
Eatest reports Indicate that this season’s crop of 
figs m California will be heavy and that some pro¬ 
gressive packers will put goods up In Smyrna style. 
On Monday morning the first raspberries from the 
Hudson River Valley were in market and sold at six 
to eight cents per cup holding one-third of a quart. 
Chicago and some other markets have been paying 
more for live poultry than New York, consequently 
large quantities have been diverted from this 
market. 
The first Delaware blackberries were shipped June 
22. The yield will be very light, while there Is every 
assurance of the largest peach and apple yield on 
record. 
Many of the water-melons received are too small 
and green. A car In this week of 1,400 melons was 
offered at $150, without attracting attention even 
from cheap buyers. 
The hop louse has made its appearance In many 
yards of Franklin and Otsego Counties, while in 
- builders use only the best materials—lumber, 
r I ' < L«fc i. brick, lime, cement, sand—whatever goes into 
1 the construction of a building; they employ 
only the best workmen and pay the best 
wages; they get better prices for their work than their less careful competi¬ 
tors, and always get the best contracts ; they paint their work with 
southern Dutchess County it is reported that hops 
are ruined by them 
The States which to-day give the best promise for 
a full even crop of com are Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois 
> nd Indiana, The oat crop Is doing well also. It Is 
just beginning to head out. 
A dispatch from Kentucky says that the harvest is 
In progress In that -tate, and as line wheat as ever 
was raised Is being gathered, which the farmers are 
selling for 50 cents a bushel. 
An extract from a letter from Antwerp says that 
America can count on Europe reducing Its visible 
supply of wheat before the new crop, while torrid 
heat Is destroying the feed crop. 
The develepments of the present week, so far as 
winter wheat Is concerned, fairly Indicate a crop 
very Irregular In yield and quality. As to Its move¬ 
ment, the reports are conflicting. 
Increased shipments of grapes from Florida are 
expected soon, but It Is hoped that the quality will 
Improve. Many of those received drop from the 
stems badly, and such And slow sale. 
The first car of Hale’s Early peaches from North 
Carolina came In Monday. They were a trifle small 
and hard, but of very fine color, and part of the fruit 
sold at $1.50 to $1.75 a crate, the rest being held over 
Retail meat prices In France seem to keep up the 
same as here In spite of the fact that the wholesale 
markets are glutted with cattle sold at any price 
they will bring. Farmers are compelled to sell their 
cattle because of the shortage of fodder. 
Complaint Is made that the new statistician of the 
Department of Agriculture has, in his latest report, 
devoted considerable space to the question of sheep 
and cattle raising in the Caucasus, Instead of giving 
light upon these Industries In the United States. 
The Vermo t maple sugar laboratory, closed for 
the season, has weighed for Inspection 4,759,762 
pounds. The amount of bounty will be in the vicin¬ 
ity of $72,500. This covers the product of all the 
New England States. The Vermont bounty will be 
close to $70,000. 
Reports come from various points in New York 
State of failure of the cherry crop. California tells 
a very different story. On the coast the supply is so 
heavy that canners have latterly been able to buy 
at two cents per pound, against about six cents paid 
at the beginning of the season. 
Shipments of truck from Norfolk, Va., to the West 
by rail have been unusually large this season, while 
extra steamers are being run by other transporta¬ 
tion lines. The entire movement for the season is 
expected to show a large Increase over last year 
when Anal returns are made up. 
It Is said that the Georgia fruit growers contem¬ 
plate forming an association for mutual benefit and 
protection. Many of them have lost heavily on sales 
to Irresponsible parties, and it Is thought that a 
fruit exchange with several t uyers located In Macon 
will greatly improve the present system. 
The Inter-State Commerce Commission has de¬ 
cided that celery Is a vegetable and not a fruit. Any 
farmer could have told them as much’ but a certain 
railroad has been classlfylng.lt with fruits, and car¬ 
rying It at fruit rates, which were higher. Now it 
must go at the same rates as other vegetables. 
Reports from Florida and Louisiana Indicate a 
large Increase In the area devoted to tobacco grow¬ 
ing. Some estimates put the acreage as much as 
four times greater than last vear, while In Lou lslana 
about 25 per cent more farmers have engaged In 
tobacco cultivation. The outlook In both States Is 
said to be excellent. 
The Macon, Ga , Fruit Grower says that both the 
peach and melon crops will be short to medium. 
The quality of both bids fair to be good. The peach 
crop cannot possibly exceed 300 cars, probably not 
over 250. The melon crop will not exceed 7,000 cars, 
about the same as It was last year; but the melons 
will be larger, earlier In the season at any rate. 
The receipts of Southern new potatoes Friday, Sat¬ 
urday and Monday footed up to 76,973 barrels, which 
were nearly all sold, at $2 to $2.50 per barrel. The 
large outlet Is due to the very healthy markets 
drawing their supply from here, and receivers have 
been able to sell prime stock as fast as the transpor¬ 
tation companies could unload It on the docks. 
From the Northwest comes the report that there is 
no crop to-day In the country which Is giving better 
promise for a full average yield than the corn crop. 
The last 20 days have been almost perfect ones for 
Its cultivation. Corn has been thoroughly worked 
and not for many years have the corn fields at this 
season of the year been as clean as they are now. 
The crop has fully regained all that It lost during 
the month of May. 
The Florida Fruit Grower says of the Le Conte 
pear crop: “ Last vear middle and western Florida 
had a much heavier crop of pears than eastern 
Florida, but this year the conditions are reversed. In 
Baker, Bradford, Alachua, Clay and Duval Counties, 
so far as we can learn, the yield will be the heaviest 
yet harvested. Most of the trees are younger than 
those In middle Florida and have suffered much less 
from the blight scarcely any, in fact—though their 
turn may come next.” 
The following Is a marketman’s report on the gift 
berry crates from western New York: “The gift 
cases used by many western New York shippers are 
not popular. The berries do not receive enough 
air, many being sealed tight, with no chance what¬ 
ever for ventilation, and such berries are apt to ar¬ 
rive soft and poor, and, even when In good order, 
buyers show a preference for fruit In packages ar¬ 
ranged to allow the air to circulate through them. 
Borry packages must have good ventilation." 
An unusual occurrence, in fact, an unprecedented 
one, is the charter of an ocean vessel to carry a full 
cargo of hay to Havre. Hay has been exported to 
that and other European ports In small quantities 
on some former occasions, when the forage crops 
were, as at present, very short. Steamers have been 
carrying hay to Havre and London for some little 
time past, but the advance In the freight rates to $15 
and 55s respectively to these ports led to the charter 
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