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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 26 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Batter Is booming. 
Cheese continues climbing. 
Cabbages are In light supply. 
Po atoes are scarce and high. 
Onions are firm at good prices. 
Lima beans are more plentiful. 
Cucumbers for pickles are scarce. 
Egg plant Is dull, and the price low. 
Receipts of eggs are heavy, and the market dull. 
Hop picking Is now In order with the early varieties. 
Texas Is bragging of the fine rice Its soil will pro¬ 
duce. 
The German sugar-beet crop Is not so promising as 
usual 
8weet potatoes are mostly small and of poor 
quality. 
There Is Bald to be no old pork of any account In 
Cblcag i. 
Green corn Is In good demand for large, but dull 
for small. 
The Georgia Farmers’ Alliance has been In session 
at Griffin. 
Tomatoes are extremely dull, though the supply is 
not large. 
8ome California Bartletts sold below the price of 
up-river stock. 
The range cattle In South Dakota are reported In 
good condition. 
The Board of Health Is after the venders of unripe 
and decayed fruit. 
Italns have visited some parts of the corn-growing 
regions of the West. 
And now the Connecticut tobacco farmers will try 
the rain making business. 
The value of the eggs produced In this country far 
exceeds the value of the silver output. 
A Nova Scotia farmer claims that peach growing 
can be made profltaoie In that province. 
Grasshoppers which eat cotton are making llfej a 
burden to the growers nesr Pine Bluff, Ark. 
Bmall lots of State and Jersey celery have arrived, 
but not enough to make quotations reliable. 
A California paper Illustrates a tomato plant 19 
feet high and 25 feet wide. Great country, that. 
Lard exports last week exceeded exports of cor¬ 
responding period last year by over 190,000 pounds. 
The tighter the money market, the more anxious 
are the shippers of produce for prompt remittances. 
The heavy receipts of Delaware and Maryland 
peaches have badly injured the trade In California 
peaches. 
Receivers of musk-melons state that they should 
not be sent In baskets when the price of barreled 
stock Is so low. 
The longest fence In the world is In Australia— 
1,236 miles. It is made of wire netting, and Its object 
Is to keep out rabbits. 
Another, and still another cargo of bananas at 
auction. Two this week, and all apparently satis¬ 
factory to all concerned. 
It Is said that Niagara County, N. Y., will produce 
this year, 750,000 baskets of peaches, besides a full 
crop of pears, plums and quinces. 
The apple shortage In the West has made high 
prices, and has tended to draw supplies away from 
New Yoik and other Eastern markets. 
The Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College is 
looking for a location for an experiment station, to 
be a branch of the college, near Waxabachle. 
Hay Is extremely dull, owing to large receipts. 
Reports from the other side show lower prices. Very 
little new hay has arrived, and should not for some 
time to come. 
Another big 6tock farm fire, this time the buildings 
on the Brookside Stock Farm near Troy, Pa. A large 
number cf valuable horses and a valuable bull 
burned. Said to be of Incendiary origin. 
It Is reported that some business has been done 
with Europe in evaporated apples for future deliv¬ 
ery. r ,be figures quoted are 6% to 7)$ cents f. 0. b. 
here for prime fruit, October and November ship¬ 
ment. 
Peaches have arrived far In excess of the demand, 
and prices are consequently depressed. The lower 
prices, have, however, largely increased consump¬ 
tion, and the trult is moving out rapidly If of desir¬ 
able quality. 
A Berlin paper announces that after August 25 the 
Importation of hay and straw from Russia into Ger¬ 
many will be prohibited. This is a sanitary measure 
taken to prevent tne spread of cholera across the 
Russo-German border. 
The troops of United States cavalry which have 
been driving out intruders from the Cherokee Strip, 
preparatory to the opening ot that country to settle¬ 
ment. have completed their work. Every one on the 
Strip has been compelled to move out. 
Goodland, Kan., should change its name judging 
from the reports of a recent hail storm. Hailstones 
the size of base balls, which malm and kill cattle as 
well as human beings, destroy solid buildings, etc., 
are not what one would expect from such a name. 
It Is estimated that the orange trees now planted 
in America should yield, five years hence, If the sea¬ 
son is favorable, about) 30.000,000 boxes. Our home 
consumption is about 11,000,000 boxes. We’ll have 
to eat more oranges, or increase the export trade. 
The low prices of some farm products are due to 
the fact that scarcity of money has led holders to 
market their produce earlier and on a larger scale 
than ordinarily; there Is almost a glut in some lines, 
and prices have gone lower than the state of the 
crops would warrant. 
Wheat shipments are likely to cease In Washing¬ 
ton on account of a snortage of sacks. A vessel with 
6,000,000 on board Is long overdue. There are 1,250,000 
sacks In the penitentiary, but the commissioners are 
prohibited from selling except for caBh, and the lat¬ 
ter is a scarce article. 
The pigeon and poultry exhibit at the Columbian 
Exposition, occurs October 16 to 21. Entries for 
poultry closed August 15, but those for pigeons are 
held open until September 1. Precisely why pigeons 
should have precedence In the naming of this ex¬ 
hibit, or why the entries for them should be held 
open two w eeks longer than for poultry, we are not 
told. 
Under an ordinance recently adopted, Denver, 
Colo., dealers In meat are required to pay a license 
fee of $50. Precisely why a meat dealer should have 
to pay for selling his stock in trade Is not clear to 
the average mind. With the wholesalers bleeding 
the retailers on the one hand, and the city authori¬ 
ties on the other, meats are likely to come high to 
the consumers. 
One of the prominent sidewalk ornaments In front 
of most commission houses dealing In farm products 
Is a barrel Into which rotten or worthless fruits, veg¬ 
etables, etc., are thrown. Nowadays the large num¬ 
ber of decayed musk-melons 1 i these barrels Is very 
noticeable. Such ripe, or, rather, over-ripe Btuff 
should not be sent to market. It Is a loss to the pro¬ 
ducer, an annoyance to the handler, and of no 
benefit to anybody. 
The Consul-General of the United States at 
Vienna, has informed the State Department that the 
Hungarian Ministry has entered into an agreement 
with the Austrian Government to forbid the further 
exportation of hay, straw and other fodder, because 
of the rapid advance In the price of the articles 
affected. The enormous exportation led to a big de¬ 
ficiency in the Army bill, and as it was feared that 
the prices would still further advance, the govern¬ 
ment deemed some measure necessary. 
The Augusta, Ga., Exchange has epitomized cot¬ 
ton reports from 120 correspondents in counties In 
Georgia and South Carolina tributary to Augusta. 
Ninety-nine reply condition more favorable than 
last year, 19 not so good; 100 report suflacient rain, 
20 that cotton Is shedding on account of too much 
rain; 87 that the yield will exceed last year’s; 12 that 
It will equal It, and 20 report a tailing off of 20 to 60 per 
cent. In reply to questions to state expliclty the 
opinion formed of the growing crop in the neighbor¬ 
hood and deduction therefrom, the consensus of 
opinion, with the exception of a few localities, 
seems to Indicate a very flattering crop condition, 
and. with no disaster from now on, that section wll 1 
be blessed with an abundant harvest this season, 
and with a big crop of cotton, con , peas and oats. 
The second annual report of the work of the Gov¬ 
ernment Sugar Beet Experiment Station, at Schuy¬ 
ler, Neb., has been published. The person in charge 
thus summarizes the results: “The first attempts 
made for the production of home grown seed were 
successful. The yield and quality of tbe seed were 
satisfactory, and yet the l iclcationB were that in a 
season of normal climatic conditions the results of 
production would be notably greater. The cultural 
season was marked by extreme departures from the 
normal In respect of climatic conditions. Great 
drought and high temperature prevailed during the 
period of maximum growth, which caused a smaller 
weight of beets per acre than would generally be 
produced. The dry period and high temperature, 
however, caused a great richness of sugar on the 
beet and a satisfactory yield of sugar to the acre. 
An Insect attack wrought great ravage to the crop, 
which reduced very notably the results of produc¬ 
tion per acre. The experiments conducted In order 
to determine the cause of decomposition and loss 
of sugar In the beets In storage indicated that the 
primary cause of loss was high temperature, and that 
a system of cold storage siloing would prevent the 
loss. The cost of production per acre of beets was 
$52.28, and the mean value per acre of all the varie¬ 
ties $63.20. giving a profit of $10.92.” 
California proposes to place upon the market this 
season one of the heaviest crops of honey that the 
State has ever produced. The demand has already 
set In, and purchases have been made for export to 
Europe. The European harvest this year will be 
small. The first contracts were made at 5*^ cents f. 
o. b. for white but with continued free offerings and 
a reported heavy yield, the price broke to five cents, 
and the goods can now be put in this market at 594 
cents. The crop Is not only abundant in quantUy, 
but is also of superior quality, the greater portion 
consisting of white sage, the reports to hand advls- 
1 g a very small percentage of amber or light amber. 
This country is a large consumer of the bee product, 
but European countries during the past few years 
have been attracted to the article, and the drafts 
made upon the stock have at times proved quite 
heavy. The bulk of the goods shipped to the other 
side have gone into England, Germany and the 
Netherlands, and It will only be a question of a short 
time when other European markets will find it to 
their advantage to handle the stock from the distant 
Pacific coast markets. Some in the trade express 
the belief that present low prices will not stand for 
any length of time; that the active demand now de¬ 
veloping will shorten materially the aval able sup¬ 
ply and bring about a reduction. The bee culturlsts 
claim that at to-day’s values the crop cannot be 
produced, and that to encourage them In the lndus- 
*try more remunerative returns must be obtained. 
The National Swine Breeders' Association an¬ 
nounces tue following programme for theireleventh 
annual meeting to be held in Assembly Hall, World's 
Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., October 13,1893: 
Address. S. E. Morton, President, Camden, Ohio. 
Reports. John G Springer, Secretary and Treasurer. 
8prlngfield, Ill. The Swine Industry, Hon. J. Sterling 
Morton, Secretary of Agriculture. Care of Boar, 
Charlts J. Stuckey, Atlanta, Ill. Discussion, led 
by 1. N. Barker. Thornton, Ind. Care of Sow, 
George F. Davis. Dyer, Ind. Discussion, led by J. B. 
Cunningham, Kola, Ill. Swine Feeding, Theodore 
Louis, LouiBvllle, Wis. The Breeding Pen, Geo. 8. 
Prlhe, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Discussion, led by A. J. 
Lovejoy, Roscoe, Ill. Necessity for Thorough Organi¬ 
zation, W. W. McCiung. Waterloo. Iowa Discussion, 
led by S. H. Todd, Wakeman. Ohio. This meeting 
occurring during the Swine Exhibit of the World’s 
Columbian Exposition, will be very largely attenaedi 
and its proceedings will be of unusual interest and 
benefit. By the payment of $1 for membership fee 
names of breeders will be placed on and published 
among the roll of members, and they will be entitled 
to a copy of the proceedlrgs of the comlDg meeting 
when printed, and in addition there will be at once 
sent to them the proceedings for five preceding meet¬ 
ings of the association. These proceedings of past 
meetings contain most excellent papers, addresses 
and discussions on matters of vital Interest to the 
swine industry. 
In- Paint 
the best is cheapest. Strictly Pure White 
Lead is best; properly^ applied it will not 
scale, chip, chalk, or rub off; it firmly adheres 
to the wood and forms a permanent base for 
repainting. Paints which peel or scale have to be removed by scraping or 
burning before satisfactory repainting can be done. When buying it is im¬ 
portant to obtain 
Strictly Pure hite Lead 
properly made. Time has proven that white lead made by the “Old Dutch” 
process of slow corrosion possesses qualities that cannot be obtained by any 
other method of manufacture. This process consumes four to six months time 
and produces the brands that have given White Lead its character as the 
standard paint. 
“ANCHOR” (Cincinnati) 
“ARMSTRONG & McKELVY ” (Pittsb’gh) 
“ ATLANTIC ” (New York) 
“ BEYMER-BAUMAN ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ BRADLEY ” (New York) 
“ BROOKLYN "'(New York) 
“ COLLIER ” (St. Louis) 
“CORNELL” (Buffalo) 
“ DAVIS-CHAMBERS ” (Pittsburgh) 
“ ECKSTEIN ” (Cincinnati) 
“ JEWETT ” (New York) 
“ KENTUCKY ” (Louisville) 
“FAHNESTOCK" (Pittsburgh) 
“LEWIS” (Philadelphia) 
“ MORLEY ” (Cleveland) 
“RED SEAL” (St. Louis) 
“ SALEM ” (Salem, Mass.) 
“ SHIPMAN ” (Chicago) 
“ SOUTHERN ” (St. Louis and Chicago) 
“ ULSTER ” (New York) 
“ UNION ” (New York) 
are standard brands of strictly pure Lead made by the “ Old Dutch” process. 
You get the best in buying them. You can produce any desired color by 
tinting these brands of white lead with National Lead Co.’s Pure White 
Lead Tinting Colors. 
For sale by the most reliable dealers in Paints everywhere. 
If you are going to paint, it will pay you to send to us for a book containing informa¬ 
tion that may save you many a dollar; it will only cost you a postal card to do so. 
NATIONAL LEAD CO., 
i Broadway, New York, 
• THE TUBULAR CARRIAGE LAMP. 
o further need for the inconvenient and inefficient lantern when driving on 
Dietz 
tubular lamp is convenient, “will not blow out, 
gives a clear, white 
light; its power¬ 
ful reflector, like a 
locomotive headlight, 
throws all the light 
straight ahead 200 to 
400 feet. It burns kero¬ 
sene. It has a strong 
spring attachment for 
attaching to the dasher 
at any point, in an in¬ 
stant. Price $2.50, by 
express, not ‘prepaid ; 
with a year’s subscrip¬ 
tion, $3 25 ; with a renewal and a new subscription, $4. 
Given free for a club of nine new subscriptions. 
THE CHRISTY KNIVES. 
These knives are well named “ Wonderful,” as they are far and away the best 
things in kitchen and carving knives that we have seen. Use in our own house has 
demonstrated their quality. There are three in a set: a bread knife, sharpened 
only on one side so that, with its reflex curves, it cuts even warm bread in thin 
slices without crumbling ; a cake knife cuts the finest frosting, and a paring knife 
that is perfect in paring or cutting fruits and vegetables. All are nickel-plated and. 
handsomely finished. Price of the set $1, express prepaid. With a year’s subscrip¬ 
tion, $1.75. Given as a premium for a club of four new subscriptions. 
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 
U. S. Cook Stove Fruit Drier fills the 
bill. It has been thoroughly tested 
and approved. It is the latest, cheapest, 
best. A veritable little bread winner. 
Weight, 25 pounds. Metal base. Can 
be used on any kind of stove. Dimen¬ 
sions : Base, 22x16 inches; Height, 26 
inches. Eight galvanized wire-cloth 
trays, containing 12 square feet of tray 
surface. No extra fire. Always ready 
for use. Its capacity ample for domestic 
use, up to two bushels ot fresh fruit 
per day. Price of the drier alone, $7. 
Special price to our subscribers only 
$5; or, better still, together with a 
three years’ subscription, $7. This will 
pay your own subscription for three 
years from the date of expiration of 
time already paid for. New subscrip¬ 
tions may be substituted if preferred. 
Shipped by freight at purchaser’s ex¬ 
pense; cost 50 cents to about $1, accord¬ 
ing to distance. THE RURAL PUB¬ 
LISHING COMPANY, Cor. Chambers 
and Pearl Streets, New York. 
