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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 5 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Proper packing pays. 
Cheese shows little change. 
Southern tomatoes are nearly unsalable. 
California dried fruits are extremely dull. 
Corn Is suffering for rain in the central West. 
The Cuban sugar crop prospect Is very encourag 
lng. 
Butter Is lower, there being least decline In lowest 
grades. 
Choice Georgia peaches are In good demand at 
high prices. 
One product that promises to bring good prices is 
canned tomatoes. 
New hay In small quat titles sells for 75 cents to 85 
cents per 100 pounds. 
Dry weather has materially shortened the supply 
of berries of all kinds. 
Receipts of tomatoes from Charleston and Savan¬ 
nah have nearly ceased. 
New evaporated raspberries are held at 18 to 19 
cents with the tendency downward. 
Le Conte pears were largely over-ripe and sold 
low. In some cases for barely enough to pay freight. 
Receipts of Jersey peachs are becoming larger, and 
arrivals from Maryland and Delaware are also In¬ 
creasing. 
The stocks of wheat In Western elevators are de¬ 
creasing, but are yet fa> in excess of last year at 
this time. 
The first shipment of Delaware musk-melons was 
received Tuesday in baskets. Prices obtained ranged 
from $1.50 to *1.75. 
Most of the up-rtver apples come In the small- 
sized barrels as Is usual from that section, and sell 
slowly In consequence. 
There Is a big corn crop In Mexico, and the duty 
on corn from the United States, which had been sus¬ 
pended, will be enforced. 
Mexico’s export tax on coffee took effect Julv 1, and 
in consequence all possible was rushed out of the 
country previous to that date. 
The first shipment of Golden Gem musk-melons 
from New Jersey arrived Wednesday morning, the 
melons bringing $3 50 per barrel. 
From Maryland and Delaware there are more re¬ 
ports to the effect that the growing crop of tomatoes 
Is being seriously affected by drought. 
There were 53 cases of lumpy jawincattle reported 
at the Btock yards In Chicago for the month of June, 
and two cases of glanders in Cook County. 
The Illinois oat crop is reported to be about har¬ 
vested, having riper ed prematurely, and in many 
places being more or less affected with rust. 
A large quantity Of rough rice Is said to have been 
used at the South this season for stock feeding 
purposes, because It was cheaper than oats. 
From one town In New York spring pigs were re¬ 
ported as selling for $7 per pair; or about 35 cents 
per pound. The pig crop is evidently short. 
A notable Instance of the decline In value of farm 
lands In England Is In the sale two weeks ago of a 
farm in Essex for £4,500 which 16 years ago brought 
£14,700. 
The season for Georgia peaches Is nearly at an 
end, and a week or two more will see the last ship¬ 
ment. At present there is only a light supply on the 
market. 
Complaints of the scarcity and high price of 
farm labor are heard from all over the country, and 
yet the cities are full of idle and sometimes starving 
people. 
Exports of pork since November 1, 1892, are 16,691,- 
800 pounds less than the same time last year; of 
bacon and hams, 141,324,689 pounds; of lard, 123,949,684 
pounds. 
Many Jersey apples are now coming Into market 
The varieties are principally Astrachans, Sweet, and 
Sour Boughs. The apples come mostly in boxes and 
d. h. barrels. 
The best Pearl pop-corn comes from Dong Island; 
the best Rice from Iowa. The latter variety Is the 
best to grow, as It is In greatest demand and sells for 
highest prices. 
Reports of the foreign wheat yield are very con¬ 
flicting, but taken as a whole, on the average of the 
different countries, there doesn’t seem to be much 
difference between this and last year’s crop. 
A quantity of DeConte pears which were delayed 
on the road arrived In bad condition and sold for 
about one-third the price of good stock A little 
delay often results disastrously to perishable stock. 
A report comes from Berlin that the Minister of 
War has decided that the handles of all axes, hatch¬ 
ets and besieging material of the German army 
must hereafter be manufactured of American hick¬ 
ory wood. 
From Wyoming the thermometer was reported at 
112 degrees Fahrenheit In the shade and 130 to 150 
degrees In the sun last week. No rain for weeks; 
ranges all dried up, and destructive fires raging on 
every hand. 
A correspondent of a local paper reports a swarm 
of bees as having taken possession of the vacant 
space between the clapboards and plaster in the 
side of his house, settling down to work as though 
perfectly at home. 
From different parts of the country come reports of 
poisoning of the consumers of milk and cheese. This 
Is not a case of one man’s meat being another man’s 
poison, but rather of that which is meat in one con¬ 
dition becoming poison In another condition. 
The drst cotton charter of the season has just been 
effected. Steamer Hampton,1,383 tons, from Savan¬ 
nah or Brunswick, at 32s. Od. per ton net; register to 
Dlverpool; option of Havre or Bremen, 33s. 9d.; last 
half of September or first half of October loading. 
A Kansas apple grower reports that with a spray¬ 
ing outfit worked by a gearing attachment to the 
wheel of a two-horse wagon, a boy to drive, and two 
men with spraying nozzles, he sprayed a OOO-acro 
apple orchard with Paris-green at an expense of 15 
cents per acre last season, and he expects to reduce 
this cost this year. 
At a recent meeting of California fruit growers, a 
prominent orchardist took the ground that apples 
must not be sun-dried. “Sun-dried apples cut no 
figure In the market,” said he. “Peaches may be 
successfully sun-dried, but apples, never.” A better 
article, he contended, could be produced In the 
evaporator than in the sun. 
The growth of the orange Industry In Florida has 
Increased from a production of 600,000 boxes In 1885 
to 3,900,000 for the season Just closed, and, accord¬ 
ing to conservative estimates, the coming crop will 
be fully 5,000.000 boxes, of which 4,000,000 will be mar¬ 
keted. The average price received by growers the 
past season was $1.31 per box. 
“ How much better are the Ives zrapes than the 
Champion?” was asked of a commission merchant 
who had a stack of baskets of the former variety 
begging for customers. “No better; neither Is any 
good. As soon as I received these, I telegraphed the 
shipper not to send me any more. Nobody wants the 
miserable things at any decent price, and they kill 
the demand for better grapes.” 
The shrewd Dairy and Food Commissioner of Ohio 
has evolved from his Inner, or outer, consciousness 
a theory for the recent cheese poisoning In that 
State He Is inclined to believe that the cheese 
farmers have carelessly placed fly paper around 
their cheese-making apparatus, which has thus 
evolved a product almost as deadly for human be¬ 
ings as the fly paper Is for files. 
The health authorities of Cleveland, O., have be¬ 
come convinced of the need of a microscopical In¬ 
spection of all pork killed for consumption In that 
city, in order to detect trichinae, and the health offi¬ 
cer Is already taking steps toward organizing a Bys- 
tem of Inspection. At present the United States Gov¬ 
ernment inspects pork for export, but refuses to 
look alter the meat used by American citizens at 
home. 
Phosphate rock freights from South Carolina and 
Florida to Europe are on a basis more satisfactory 
to steamers, which are exclusively employed In this 
trade than they have been in two or three years. As 
the phosphate deposits are nearly all controlled by 
English syndicates, the charters are mostly effected 
on the other side of the Atlantic. Our ship brokers, 
therefore, derive very little benefit from the busi¬ 
ness. 
At a recent meeting of the Egg Commute of the 
New York Mercantile Exchange, resolutions were 
passed changing the rules for selling. All eggs 
offered under the ruleB hereafter will be fresh 
gathered unless otherwise specified, Instead of new 
laid as heretofore. Under the grading of new laid, 
eggs must contain 90 per cent of new laid ejgs; but 
under grading of fresh gathered, there need be only 
75 per cent of new laid, and they can contain 25 per 
cent of good sweet held or salt eggs. 
English agriculture Is In a bad way. From January 
1 to July 1 the number of failures among farmers was 
40 per cent larger than In the corresponding months 
last year. In England and Wales more than 16,000 
persons engaged in agriculture are living 1-. sheds, 
barns, tents, vans and In the open fields. Thousands 
of unemployed agricultural laborers are hovering In 
the outskirts of London. In the same volume of sta¬ 
tistics 52,484 persons are reported to be living now on 
coasting merchant vessels and Inland barges. 
It is announced that the Cherokee Strip will be 
thrown open for settlement not later than September 
10, thus adding 8,000 square miles to the available 
area of Oklahoma. The Indications are, however, 
that there will be no such rush of " boomers ” as on 
previous occasions, either to preempt farms or town 
sites. There Is some excellent land in the Cherokee 
Strip, but much of it lies too far west to be desirable 
for farming purposes until the value of farm prod¬ 
ucts Is much greater than it Is now. Crop failures 
are also frequent. 
It Is reported that the Texas cotton crop Is In the 
most critical condition for years. In the central 
portion, where over one-third of the crop Is pro¬ 
duced, cotton has suffered from drought and other 
causes, and grasshoppers and other Insects have 
ruined the crop In the northern portion. Worms 
have proved fatal In the southern portion, and in 
northern Texas the crop is badly spotted. In south¬ 
western Texas, it Is uniformly bad; the eastern dis¬ 
trict needs rain, but is In fair condition. Worms are 
thick everywhere, and farmers are busy killing them. 
A long drought In western Texas has parched every¬ 
thing, and good rains will not even right matters. If 
it does not rain soon cropB will be totally ruined. 
The Commissioners of Agriculture of the Southern 
States who have been holding a conference at 
Atlanta, Ga., are of the opinion that a uniform sys¬ 
tem of control and regulation of the manufacture 
and sale of commercial fertilizers in the Southern 
States Is important to both parties interested in the 
use of fertilizers, equally to the manufacturer and 
dealer aB to the planter and farmer. They therefore 
resolved that Hon. R. T. Nesblt, Commissioner of 
Agriculture of Georgia, be appointed a committee to 
draft a bill based upon the principles of the Georgia 
statute upon consultation and correspondence with 
the Commissioners of the several States and an ex¬ 
amination of the statutes of said 8tates, and that he 
Is authorized to call a convention of the Commis¬ 
sioners of said States for the purpose of having the 
said bill, when perfected, adopted by the legislatures 
of the several States. And.fuither, that the Com¬ 
missioners of the several States forward to Com¬ 
missioner Nesblt as soon as practicable copies of the 
acts of their States and the rules and regulations of 
their departments. 
And now there are rumors, cold rumors, of course. 
In the air, of the formation away off in South Dakota 
of the International Cold Wave Company, a concern 
whose good intentions will certainly be appreciated 
these days. The company proposes, we are told, to 
counteract the effect of the hot winds by turning on 
a counter-current from the frozen north, much the 
same, we take it, as a man tempers the hot water In 
his bath tub by a stream from the cold water faucet. 
Moreover, this boom Is not to be monopolized, but Is 
to be sold to every township and county in the coun¬ 
try, provided, of course, the residents are prepared 
to pay the price. What a great and glorious country 
we live In, to be sure! With rainmakers furnishing 
us water on demand, when they don’t overdo the 
matter and drown us, and now a company to furnish 
us cooling breezes when needed, there would seem 
to be but one thing more needed to make this a para¬ 
dise, and that Is a company to furnish us hot waves 
on demand, but It Is too warm to discuss that now. 
One little difficulty might suggest Itself, and that Is 
the possibility that while some people might want It 
hot, like the proverbial man In winter, others might 
want the cold-air flood gates opened wide, but any 
company which can furnish us cold waves on demand 
can doubtless arrange any such minor details satis¬ 
factorily to all. Meanwhile, let the cold wave come; 
now Is the time to try It. 
What are designated as the "Ohio Shepherds” 
have issued a call which we give without comment: 
" On September 28 and 29,1893, at Assembly Hall, on 
the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 
at Chicago, a mass meeting of the wool growers, the 
sheep breeders, the wool dealers, the cotton planters, 
the farmers and members of Grange organizations 
In the United States, will be held to devise measures 
to promote the Interests of the people engaged in 
those Industries. Every county and township will 
be represented. We are threatened with free wool. 
It will ruin the American wool Industry. It will 
drive men engaged In producing wool and rearing 
sheep Into the production of wheat and other farm 
products, thus further depressing the existing low 
prices. It will destroy the demand now made by 
sheep for pasture, hay. corn ar.d oats, and thus aid 
In depressing the market for these products. If the 
farmers of the country will assert their power they 
can prevent free wool. Cotton planters are invited 
to unite In demanding protective duties for both 
wool and cotton. The Imports of foreign cotton are 
Injurious to the cotton planters of the United States. 
On October 5, at the same place above mentioned, a 
meeting of the National Association of Wool Grow¬ 
ers will be held to reorganize the Association, elect 
a president, a vice-president from each State and 
Territory, and other officers. Every wool growers' 
and sheep breeders’ association, and wool growers 
all over the country are urged to be In attendance.” 
Special Agent Dodge has been busying himself In 
getting out a special report on the leaf fibers of the 
United States. It details the results of recent In¬ 
vestigations relating to Florida sisal hemp, the false 
sisal hemp plant of Florida and other fiber-produc¬ 
ing agaves: bowstring hemp, plnepple fiber, New 
Zealand flax and bear grass. Mr. Dodge says that 
this country annually Imports $8,000,000 worth of leaf 
fibers, a large proportion of which should and could 
be grown In this country. Details are given of ex¬ 
periments in the culture of sisal hemp In Florida, 
together with a full description and history of the 
false sisal hemp plant, which was found to be a new 
species, though allied to the plant from which the 
commercial fiber is obtained. He describes several 
species of fiber-producing agaves that flourish In 
extreme southern poitions of the United States, In¬ 
cluding that which furnishes the lxtle or Tampico 
hemp of commerce, of which the United States Im¬ 
ported more than $ 00,000 worth In 1892. The results 
of the Department’s experiments with pineapple 
fiber and bowstring hemp at Cocoanut Grove furnish 
the material for two chapters The pineapple In¬ 
dustry in the United States Is Increasing each year, 
a d it is believed that If the fiber contained in the 
leaves of the plant can be successfully-extracted 
after the fruit has been gathered It will add largely 
to the profltaoleness of this tndustry. The Interest¬ 
ing experiments with bowstring hemp, Mr. Dodge 
says, warrant the belief that this culture may be 
made a profitable Industry In Florida. The report 
concludes with chapters of the New Zealand flax 
and bear grass fiber. Of the first named, which is 
already growing In California, the United States 
recently exported 76.000 bales In a single year. The 
latter species covers large areas In the West and 
South and is suitable for the manufacture of binding 
twine and cotton bagging. 
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These knives are well named “ Wonderful,” as they are far and away the best 
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A BIG FRUIT CROP REQUIRES PROPER HANDLING. 
A big crop on any one farm demands a big evaporator if evaporated. The 
small farm with a big crop demands a way to use the surplus and waste fruit. The 
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per day. Price of the drier alone, $7. 
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LISHING COMPANY, Cor. Chambers 
and Pearl Streets, New York. 
