THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 15 
484 
Of course 
You are Going 
TO TDK 
WORLDS FAIR? 
And Want to Keep 
Expenses Down? 
Almost everybody and all friends 
want to go to the World’s Fair at Chicago. 
The cost of hotel accommodations quite 
properly deters many from going. We 
have made arrangements with the Hotel 
Epworth (organized by the Epworth 
League) by which our subscribers can 
secure the benefits of its dollar-a-day 
pi ice for rooms. To secure this privilege 
a membership in the hotel organization 
is required, the price of which is$2. The 
R. N.-Y. offers this membership privilege 
to any subscriber who will send us two 
new yearly subscriptions during July; 
or for a renewal of his own subscripr 
tion for another year and a new subscrip¬ 
tion. The restaurant prices at the hotel 
are moderate ; indeed, quite as low as 
could be expected at a hotel situated 
close to the fair grounds. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Potatoes are good property. 
Demand poor for skim cheeses. 
Poultry supply heavier; prices lower. 
Continued good prices for potatoes are looked for. 
California honey has advanced In price on that 
coast. 
Pine He Conte pears have been a late feature of 
the fruit market. 
'I'ne number of calves raised In the far West this 
year is reported light. 
On Wednesday live car-loads of onions were re¬ 
ceived from Kentucky. 
A plague of rose bugs Is reported throughout some 
parts of West Virginia. 
A Western contemporary reports a winged calf as 
being born in South Dakota. 
There is an abundant supply of nearly all fresh 
fruits, and prices are a little lower on most kinds. 
The tlrst bale of new cotton reached Houston, 
Tex., from San Diego, June 30, the earliest arrival 
on record. 
The butter market Is firm at generally unchanged 
prices, demand good, and stocks generally well 
cleaned up. 
Strawberries are about done, and prices are low 
for the few poor ones arriving. Fancy would bring 
good prices. 
Peaches sell slowly, chiefly because of the fact 
that they are so perishable. Dealers buy only In 
small quantities. 
An Ohio woman has an old dash churn that Is esti¬ 
mated to have churned $10,000 worth of butter. What 
a record as a back breaker! 
Large quantities of pineapples and water-melons 
are sold by the street venders at one cent or more 
per slice, “right off the ice." 
The Bahama crop of pineapples is said to be one- 
third short of that of last year, and the canning of 
the fruit will be below the average. 
The first potatoes from Long Island are arriving, 
although It Is not expected they will be plenty 
enough to affect the market for some davs. 
The Florida tomato crop has been fairly large, but 
many arrived here i r poor order, causing prices to 
rule low; the fine slock being affected In price by 
the Inferior grades. 
In Michigan, a lawyer Is reported as making a big 
tight for the position of State Food and Dairy Com¬ 
missioner. Certainly; what are such positions for If 
not for the lawyers and politicians? 
General Lee is the name of a peach which is ar¬ 
riving freely from Georgia this season, although a 
few were received last year. It is of good size, but 
very poor color and not selling readily. 
Last year in Russia, the water-melons of thou¬ 
sands of growers were confiscated on account of the 
cholera, and this year they refrained from planting, 
consequently the luxury of this watery fruit Is only 
a memory. 
The Southern rice crop Is reported to be In the best 
condition. However, owing to the low prices which 
have prevailed ever since the last crop was har¬ 
vested. the acreage has been considerably reduced 
in Louisiana. 
Canners buy a good many currants In this market 
when the price Is low enough to suit. They have 
been paying five cents, but as other buyers paid six 
or more, the canners didn't buy many. They hope 
to get them still lower. 
It Is said that 100,000 head of cattle are fattened 
annually on cotton-seed products. A prominent 
Southerner estimates that the annual product of 
the cotton mills of the South Is sufficient to fatten 
1,000,000 head of cattle. 
The California honey season Is reported as about 
over. The crop is short of that of last year; the 
average quality Is pronounced finer, however, which 
statement Is corroborated by the samples thus far 
received In the New York market. 
The Southern Planter says that the domestic cane 
crop, both plant and stubble, never had a better 
stand, although In size it Is as yet behind tome years 
at this date; but a large sugar crop is now assured, 
unless prevented bv some unusual accident. 
The kick of a cow Ignited some matches In a hired 
man's pocket, setting fire to his clothes and to the 
barn. The barn was saved, but the man may not 
recover. We are not told as to the cow. What busi¬ 
ness had the hired man with matches, anyway ? 
Exports of dried apples from the United States 
during May were only 406,237 pounds, against 1.452,20t> 
in the corresponding month last year. During the 11 
months ending May 31 the exports were 7,557,019 
pounds, against 24,091.987 pounds in t'-e correspond¬ 
ing period last year. 
Arizona sheep growers complain that the Navajo 
Indians are regular sheep thieves. One man alone 
claims that they have stolen 2,000 from him during 
the last few months. They threaten to protect them¬ 
selves unless the government through Its agents puts 
a i top to It very soon. 
The vessel mentioned last week as being chartered 
to carry a cargo of hay to Havre It seems Is not to 
be the first. It Is now reported the first large ship¬ 
ment from the United States to France will be made 
In the German steamship Frellung, which has been 
chartered for the purpose, and will carry a full cargo. 
Last week’s receipts of potatoes foot up to 110,123 
barrels, and during the month of June arrivals were 
352,310 barrels, against 318,851 barrels In June last 
year. This season the demand has been large enough 
to keep the market cleaned up almost dally on a 
basis of from $2 to $3 50, with the average about $2.75 
per barrel. 
Pluero-pneumonla has been found to exist among 
cattle recently landed in England from Canada. 
These cattle were brought from Pilot Mound, North¬ 
west Territories, which points to the possibility of 
the disease having been brought Into the country 
through laxity In enforcing quarantine regulations 
there In admitting settlers’ cattle without examina¬ 
tion. 
In speaking of the cheese market the Utica Herald 
says that the cows are making about as much milk 
as they were a year since, although many factory- 
men declare they are making less cheese than then. 
There has already been some shrinkage from the 
flush, amounting to about one cheese In eleven The 
shrinkage from the flush comes earlier than last 
year, and will tend still further to diminish themak - 
of the season. 
Governor Richards of Montana has forbidden by 
proclamation the Importation of sheep Into Mon¬ 
tana from Oregon, Nevada, California, Washington, 
Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, 
because of the reported prevalence of scab there. 
They may, however, be brought Into Montana upon 
the certificate of the State Veterinarian, or his duly 
authorized deputy, that such sheep have been found 
to be free from scab, or any Infectious or contagious 
disease. 
At present tomatoes are being received from 
Florida, Charleston, Savannah, North Carolina, Nor¬ 
folk and Maryland, and during the last week or so 
several cars have arrived from Mississippi Scarcely 
any of the Florida offerings are fancy, and most of 
the Charleston and North Carolina receipts are poor. 
Norfolk and Maryland are sending very few as yet. 
The Marylanders are of much finer quality and sell 
better than others. Some of the recent arrivals 
from Mississippi have been of very good quality. 
According to the Grand Forks Farmer, there are 
4» flour mills In North Dakota, with a total dally ca¬ 
pacity of (1.075 barrels of flour. The flourmills at 
Lee, Nelson County, and Church’s Ferry, Ramsey 
County, are the smallest mentioned, having a capa¬ 
city of but 30 barrels per day. The largest mills are 
at Fargo and Grand Forks, each place having a 500- 
barrel mill. Twelve mills have a capacity of 200 
barrels or over per day. 15 of between 100 and 200 
barrels, and 13 produce less than 100 barrels of flour 
per day. 
There is now visiting this country a delegation of 
leading French agriculturists to gather information 
and study American ideas of agriculture, but they 
are not meeting with the reception they anticipated 
at the hands of the Government officials. This Is 
because Congress has failed to make any appropria¬ 
tion for their entertainment, and they are being 
entertained principally by the French embassy. 
This isn't the kind of treatment usually accorded 
our representatives by foreign countries, and it Isn’t 
very creditable to us as a nation. 
According to a Hungarian paper, the number of 
sugar manufactories In Hungary will soon be In¬ 
creased by four new establishments, so that In the 
next season there will be 20 completely fitted-up 
sugar factories In that country. The existing estab¬ 
lishments have this year consumed more sugar-beets 
than was to have been expected, owing to the fact of 
last year’s crop having produced an excessive yield, 
and the quality having been especially good. The 
crop yielded some 50 per cent more than the capacity 
of the mills to handle, a part of which has been ex¬ 
ported. 
The weekly crop report of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture states that the weather has been especially 
favorable to the corn crop. Reports from the c tton 
region indicate that the cotton crop Is Improving, 
but that the plant Is small. Wheat harvesting has 
been completed In Tennessee and Kentucky, and 
will begin In Michigan next week. Reports from the 
spring wheat region Indicate improved conditions in 
that section, owing to recent rains. California re¬ 
ports prospects for largest and best yield of grapes 
In years, but the fruit crop is short on the North 
Pacific coast._ 
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weight, crated for shipment 
with two pans, broiler and 
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The oil chamber holds five 
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By removing the top plate 
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