MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AUG, 7 
“ PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT," 
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SATURDAY, AUG. 7, 1875. 
POSITION OF THE WHEAT MARKET. 
Tbe sudden rise in the price of wheat has 
been temporarily checked, ami the daily jour¬ 
nals, writing in the interest of the commercial 
olasses, renew their advice to farmers to market 
old wheat and contract tbe new crop before t he 
present high (?) price has receded. In this wo 
notice that they urn followed by some agricul¬ 
tural journals which undoubtedly mean to be 
entiiely disinterested and impa'tlai In their 
surm ses. Giving advice to farmers eitbor to 
hold or sell any crop ts at tho best very ticklish 
and unsafe business. A few general facts may 
be stated with propriety and farmors be left 
from these to make their owu deductions. 
This we propose to do. 
What is the present price of wheat of which 
farmers are urged to take advantage? There 
has been «n advance of twenty to thirty-five 
cents per hu-hei on various grades of spring, 
reacting now four or fivo otnts a bushel from 
the extreme prices. Jii winter wheat, of which 
it is conceded everywhere that the crop in this 
country will ho very short, the price has ad¬ 
vanced only eight to iifteen cents within tbe 
past month. N j doubt these advances are 
greatly encouraging to farmers; but they are 
not so extraordinary under all tho circumstan¬ 
ces as many of our exchanges appear to think. 
In the first place these advances have not been 
made on a high or fair y-paying market. They 
follow a season of unusual depression, so long 
continued that the discouragements attending 
the growing of wheat all over the world have 
had time to produce their effect. With the 
present advance In price, wheat is not so high 
as It was u year ago when thorn w as an unusu¬ 
ally huge crop in most wheat-growing coun¬ 
tries. In the face of a good crop at home and 
a surplus in France, England drew on us for 
forty-three millions of bushels, and we export¬ 
ed, on a constantly declining market, about 
five millions of husnels to other countries. This 
more nearly used up our surplus thau has been 
generally supposed. The Mark Lane Express, 
the great English authority on the grain trade 
says the markets of tbe world are bare of wheat’ 
even to the verg^ of exhaustion. This, after a 
year of unprecedented abundance, may sound 
strangely to some. The sufficient explanation Is 
that the low price of wheat all over the world 
has greatly increased its use as u substitute for 
other graios, first for human food and to a very 
considerable extent In soma countries for cat¬ 
tle Till within a very few weeks it has been 
believed that another abundant harvest every¬ 
where except in tbe United States would con¬ 
tinue the low price of wheat. Suddenly and 
unexpectedly tho soene has changed. Bad 
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weather has destroyed the prospect of a gener¬ 
ous harvest. First, drouths were reported in 
Soul hern Russia, Injuring the growing crop. 
Next, destructive floods In France have swept 
away much of the crop and injured the remain¬ 
der so that France must, certainly be a consid¬ 
erable importer of grain. Continued rains in 
England have irreparably injured tbe English 
harvest, and only time can tell what will be tbe 
extent of the injury. English and other foreign 
buyers suddenly appeared In American mar¬ 
kets, and have gobbled up the small remaining 
surplus of 1K74 and contracted at present or 
even lower rat es for tbe unsecured haivcrtof 
1875. Tbe whole commercial world, having 
contracted to deliver abroad more grain than 
the Country will have to spare this year, (in fact, 
we shall have little if any beyond our own 
needs,) is now eagerly urging farmers every¬ 
where to rush their grain to market as speedily 
as possible. We speak advisedly in saying thut. 
we shall have very little wheat to export. There 
is a good crop of spring wheat In the North¬ 
western and t rans-Mississippi Statos, and on « 
small area of winter wheat in some of the 
Southern States. Everywhere else tne wheat 
crop is deficient, and the surplus of tbe locali¬ 
ties having abundance could all be used at 
home. The surplus of California is five millions 
of bushels less than last year, and it is certain 
that all will go to England, diminishing by so 
much the amount for use here. Europe is 
drawing from our deficiency rather thau from 
our surplus, and every bushel exported now in¬ 
creases the certainty of scarcity before another 
harvest. 
Despite all tbe facts above stated, we believe 
the bulk of our grain crop will be marketed 
early this year. Jlard times and low prices 
have made farmers feel poor, and the experi¬ 
ence of the last two or three years, under en¬ 
tirely diffex-ent circumstances, lias been steadily 
against holding for better prices. Thousands 
ui farmers are compelled to sell as soon as their 
crops can be got to.market, and to all such it is 
useless to offer advloe. Tho effect from a rush 
of compulsory sellers will undoubtedly bo, as it 
always is, a depression ol prices. Unless farm¬ 
ers are in position to bold their wheat, possibly 
till midwinter, they may find it to their advan¬ 
tage to sell so Boon as the grain can be thresh¬ 
ed and before the lowest depression in price®, 
which will be apt to come at the time the com¬ 
pulsory sales are being marketed. From that 
depression, which will come no man knows 
when, we confidently ant’eipate an advance In 
tho present less than average wheat crop, to at 
least the average price of that grain during the 
past twenty years. 
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DEATH OF ANDREW JOHNSON. 
Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of 
the United States and its only living ex-Presi- 
dent, died at tne residence of his daughter in 
Tennessee at 8 o'clock, July 31st, from an apo¬ 
plectic stroke. The story of Andrew John¬ 
son's eventful life is familiar to all. Born In 
the humblest circumstance* in Deoetnber, 1808. 
Btid his father dying when lie was only three 
years old, he had no early advantages of educa¬ 
tion. Apprenticed to a tailor at ten, he ran 
away in his teens to the little village of Green¬ 
ville, in East Tennessee, taking with him his 
widowed mother, whom he thenceforth sup¬ 
ported. He taught himself to read when about 
nineteen, to enable him to read political speech¬ 
es, in which he took groat interest. At twenty 
he married, ami hi* wife taught him to write 
and gave him the little other scholastic knowl¬ 
edge he possessed. A« twenty-two he was 
elected Alderman -a little later, Mayor; a*, 
twenty-six ho u'sh a member of the Legislature ; 
from 184.3to 18.54 he served In Congress; theD 
was elected Governor of Tennessee, and In 1857 
elected United States Senator. No more rapid 
advances in political preferment have ever been 
made in this country. The reason was that he 
represented the mojorhy of poorer people—the 
“poor whites'’of East Tennessee—against the 
slaveholding aristocracy of the State. This 
aristocracy Mr. .Johnson always hated, and 
when in 1881 It attempted to take the Southern 
Slates out of the U nion, he alone among South¬ 
ern Senators stood firmly to his place in the 
Senate and made a gallant and abie stand for 
the Union. 
In 1862, a* the Governor of Tennessee had 
turned rebel. President Lincoln appointed 
Mr. Johnson War-Governor of the State, 
which, with characteristic Imperiousness, be 
ruled with an iron hand. In 1804 he wag placed 
on tho Republican ticket, for Vice-President, 
with Abraham Lincoln as President, a.id 
elected, and on the 14r b of April, 1865, by the 
assassination of Lincoln, Johnson became 
President. His administration was a Btormy 
and apparently most unfortunate one. Always 
obstinate and headstrong, his sudden elevation 
to the highest administrative office in the world 
made him still more so. With Auuaham Lin¬ 
coln, on the contrary, Rreater honors and 
powers were felt only as imposing graver duties 
and heavier responsibilities. The difference be¬ 
tween tbe two men was Inherent and strongly 
marked. Yet each played au important part 
In events which an hundred years hence will 
be recognized as all working together for the 
glorious future to which our country is des¬ 
tined. 
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RURAL NOTES AND QUERIES. 
ltuasla and tho English Wheal Market. —Says 
the Boston TranscriptThe sly manner in 
which Greek merchants belonging to New York 
bought up all the available wheat the/ could 
obtain without excltlngsuaplcions, strengthens 
the belief as to the damage the crops have re¬ 
ceived in the granary of Europe. It may not 
be generally known to what extent the import 
of wheat into England from Russia has lncrear- 
ed within a few years. Between 1880 and 1864 
the subjects of Alexander sent to the British 
people 47,876.809 bushels of wheat, whereas the 
Americans furnished during tbesame time 137.- 
047,136 bushels. The gigantic struggle with the 
rebellion d.d not prevont us from shipping near¬ 
ly three times as much wheat as Great Britain 
received from the Russians. An entirely differ¬ 
ent complexion of affairs is shown by later sta¬ 
tistics. From 1808 to 1872, Russia found in the 
British Empr e a customer to the extent of 117,- 
997,033 bushels, while tho United States only 
exported lor the same market 110 463,380 bush¬ 
els, an actual decrease of 10,500,000 bushels from 
the preceding period mentioned." 
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Death of George 11. Mu inford.—A cable dis¬ 
patch from Paris announces the death of Geo. 
Hari Mcmford, which occurred in that city 
Sunday, July 25th. Mr. Mttmford was born in 
Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1840; graduated at 
Harvard, and since 1865 has been in the servloo 
of the Western Union Telegraph Co. of which, 
since 1?71, he has been one or the Vice-Presi¬ 
dents. His business capacity was unsurpassed. 
Mr. Mtjmford left New York for Europe in the 
Cirobria July 8, and landed at Cherbourg, pro¬ 
ceeding thence to Paris, accompanied by his 
sister and brother-in-law, Dr.aud Mrs. Edward 
P. Fowler of New York City, by whom he was 
tttended In hU last moments. He complained 
of no particular malady, but decided on taking 
a few months' relaxation. 
The Fruit Prospect. - Notwithstanding tbe 
extraordinary yield of peaches in Delaware this 
year, it is not likely that there will be more 
than a temporary glut In the market at the time 
when the greatest quantities are marketed. Wo 
look for fair sales and good prices for most of 
the crop. Excepting in the Delaware and adja¬ 
cent region tbe peach crop is generally a failure 
tbla year In all parts of the country. Other 
fruit crops promise poorly, ptrtly from the ef¬ 
fects of the severe winter, and tho apple crop 
seems to be light everywhere, and It is safe to 
say that only the moat perishable fruits will at 
auy time be in over-abundant, supply. 
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The Buffalo Fertilizer Co.-Tbls Arm, which 
tins achieved au excellent reputation In West¬ 
ern New York as manufacturers of honestly- 
made fertilizers, baa dissolved partnership, and 
i he business will hereafter be conducted by L. 
L. Crockkr of Buffulo, to whom all orders or 
inquiries should be addressed. It is our firm 
conviction that In the purchase of pure and re¬ 
liable fertilizers such as those made by Mr. 
Crocker, lies tbe best hope of American Agri¬ 
cultural progress. Wo have uniformly had a 
good report of tho profitableness of the Buffalo 
Co.’s fertilizers, and Mr. C. assures us that the 
standard shall be fully maintained. 
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A “Hurnl" Personal. — £n the Rochester 
Democrat and Chronicle of Jaly 86th we find 
tbe follow lug paragraph, which explains itself: 
Ex-Mayor D. D. T. Moore of the Rural New- 
Yorker is in the city looking as of yore. His 
good nature never deserts him. lie is visiting 
friends and forwarding the interests of his 
paper, the Rochester office of which is at Dab- 
how's book store. 
BUBAL BBEVITIE8. 
u£3e8teSY5£. the c “ lted state * 18 
<tra?“a«fn clffiofSS? 30 , 000,000 
A harood Clark, near Denver, Colorado 
raised 25,<KX) bushels of potatoes last year. ’ 
Of 19,252 acres of assessed farm land In the 
a?eTcom. • 1rtU ° 011 ’ Col °* Co " 111 “ 12,837 acres 
The fruit crop of Ohio this year will not 
amount to much. Delaware and New Jersav 
Will supply the deficiency. -Jersey 
ti T“ “ r . tlcl , e ? ntitl ®d “A Little Farm Well 
ifl 'i a8t » ee * ® Rural, should have 
been credited to the N. Y. Tribune. 
Traps have been contrived In Minnesota, run 
by horse-power, which capture from five to 
twenty bushels of grasshoppers in a day. 
■ G^MBOPPerB .-re quoted at ?1.00 a bushel 
in Minnesota, aud potato bug) at 20 
quurt In New Jersey—caught aud killed in both 
cases, of course. 
mTnii tlSSMMSS. 
J he Johnston Harvesters are winning golden 
opinions and golden medals in recent trial- in 
■SS S$JS2r??t ™ K w*«) 
tales “ adopted these maentnes on his e*- 
HOOFER, a Chicago trotting horse of note 
said to have trotted a half mile lu 1:104 broke 
his leg recently by falling Into a dltoh owing 
mlse?;. U WOdrlVer ’ Jte ' va8 killed °toe 2 d his 
ll<riit K tmfJ ey r Cr °,V of ^®*>«wka Is said to be 
11 nrnn V»5lk K £ POrtS L V<U '>’ “ to half 
does mit the cr °P G better but 
of the Mississippi. 1>6 au aver *« e iU1J tVhere weit 
St AN DISH Rood, a resident of Stockton, 
Chautauqua County. N. Y„ for sixty years, died 
in Wisconsin recently at the advanced age of 
ninety-four. He had gone to that State to take 
up his residence with his son. 
Tub Hudson River Driving Park Association 
announces Its summer meeting for August 3, 4, 
5 and 6. One hundred aud twenty horse3 are 
entered, including Goldsmith’s Maid, Judge 
Fullerton, and others. Thirty-four thousand 
dollars are offered in premiums. 
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