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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Memg xif Jljf XX^.eck. 
HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, February 23, 1889. 
Hail! all Hail!! to the four new members 
added to the glorious sisterhood of States on 
Washington’s Birthday, 1889! Hail, all hail! 
to North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and 
Washington, the lusty new additions to the 
Union one and indivisible. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, February 23, 1889. 
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, has intro¬ 
duced into Congress a bill which proposes to 
establish a system of farm institutes, to be 
held annually in the different States. They 
are to be under the direction of a Super¬ 
intendent of Institutes, with a salary of $6,000 
a year. He is to have two Assistant Superin¬ 
tendents at $4,000 apiece a year,and 15 district 
clerks at $3,000 each per annum. The scheme 
embraces lectures, instructions, experiments, 
illustrations and agricultural discussions, 
and the Superintendent is to have authority 
to hire lecturers at fair rates of compensation 
for the time actually employed. After the 
circuit of Institutes is completed every year, 
the Supeiintendent is to publish reports of the 
proceedings. The circulation of these reports 
is to be limited to 1,000,000 copies a year. 
Exclusive of the cost of maintaining this pub- 
1 ca on, an a sa ary account amounting to 
$59,000 a year, the annual expenses of con¬ 
ducting the Institutes are not to exceed $500, 
000. The system is to be under control of the 
new Department of Agriculture, but it will 
require a strong expression of opinion on the 
part of the farmers of the country to 
secure its establishment. At 
la«t a bill is now' pending before the New 
York legislature providing for an official in¬ 
spection and analysis of all fertilizers offered 
for sale in this State. Of course, it should 
pass. There is considerable trouble 
among the barbed-wire fence monopolists. It 
has lately been discovered that Louis Janin 
took out a patent on barbs for wire fences as 
long ago as 1865, in France. Under our pa¬ 
tent laws no invention or discovery can be 
patended in this country, which was patented 
or published in any other country two years 
before the application for a patent for it was 
made here. The chief patent of the monopo¬ 
lists embraces a “ broad claim,” covering all 
forms of barbed-wire fencing, and the Janin 
patent must be fatal to this. Of course, the 
matter will be contested to the “ bitter end,” 
and owing to the slowness of the law, especi¬ 
ally before the United States Supreme Court, 
it is likely that it will take four or five years 
to obtain a final decision. The “broad claim” 
patent w'ill then have nearly expired. Wash¬ 
burn & Moen, the arch-monopolists, hold 
over 100 other patents on barbs, fencing 
and machinery, so that they are likely 
to have a great advantage over other 
manufacturers for years to come. 
St. Clair county, Missouri, incurred a heavy 
debt some years ago, to aid in railroad build¬ 
ing. It is now trying to get rid of its obliga¬ 
tions. Some time back it refused any longer 
to pay interest on the bonds it issued to pay 
its subscription to the road, and the United 
States Court to which the bond-holders took 
. the case, ordered Judge Peters, of St Clair 
county, to levy a special tax to pav the inter¬ 
est on the bonds. The Judge, backed up by 
the inhabitants,.refused to do so, aud for his re¬ 
fusal he has just been arrested bv United 
States officers for “contempt of court.” 
Such attempts to repudiate debts incurred in 
aiding in the construction of railroads have 
been very frequent of late in many towns and 
counties in the West and Southwest. 
There’s trouble in the beet-sugar business iu 
California Last season Claus Spreckels’s fac¬ 
tory, at Watsonville, paid only 25 cents per 
bushel for beets containing the highest per¬ 
centage of sugar, and only from 10 to 12 cents 
per bushel for the average crop. Land there¬ 
abouts is worth from $300 to $500 per acre, 
and only half the number of farmers who 
grew beets last year are willing to make con¬ 
tracts for this year. Sprecktls threatens 
to close the factory aud take the machinery 
elsewhere. He intends to build his next 
factory in Shasta or Tehama county in 
Northern California, where land is only 
$30 an acre, and where therefore he can 
raise his own beets it necessary.. . 
At a convention of nearly 300 growers of the 
Niagara grape, held at Rochester, N. Y., the 
other day, a stock company was formed, with 
a capital stock of $10,000 in shares of $1 each, 
stock-holders to be allowed one share for each 
acre of Niagaras the3 may grow. 
Prof. F. Lamson Scribner, late Chief of the 
Section of Vegetable Pathology of the Botani¬ 
cal Division of the United States Department 
of Agriculture,is now Director of the National 
Agricultural Experiment Station of the Uni¬ 
versity of Tennessee, at Knoxville. 
The planters of Wayne County, N. C., are 
up in arms to prevent negroes from leaving 
that section to work in other States. All tne 
emigrant agents have been driven away; two 
companies of militia have been called out; 
1,500 negro emigrants who have sold every¬ 
thing, are at the railroad station at Golds¬ 
boro, waiting for the fleeing agents to furnish 
transportation. More trouble is feared as 
the planters are mad at the danger that 
they will be left without help enough to 
take care of their crops...Pro¬ 
fessor A. J. Denton goes direct from post¬ 
graduate w T ork in_the botanical depart¬ 
ment of Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachustts, where he held a Fellowship in 
Science, to take the Chair of Botany in the Colo¬ 
rado Agricultural College at Fort Collins.... 
... Largeshipments of Western corn are be¬ 
ing made into different parts of the South ... 
.. Old-time cattle dealers, with recollections 
of the trade running back 30 years or more, 
say that prices of beef are the lowest within 
that period for the winter seasons . 
.... Philip Armour, the butcher king of 
Chicago, has thrown the meat-market 
men of St. Louis into consternation by 
opening five markets in the busiest part of 
the city, with more to follow. 
The Massachusetts agricultural and finance 
committees have both reported in favor of an 
additional annual appropriation of $10,000 
for a labor fund and new professorships at the 
Agricultural College. Mr. J. William 
Belcher has retired from the firm of B. & J. 
W. Belcher of Chicopee Falls, Mass. The 
business will be continued by Benj. E. and J 
Wilson Belcher under the same firm name. 
The firm will make a speciality of the “ See, 
Bee Won” (formerly known as the Brooks) 
swivel plow with an improved shitting clevis.. 
During the last session of Congress bills were 
introduced in the House “to punish dealing 
in futures in agricultural products” and “to 
prohibit fictitious and gambling transactions 
on the price of articles produced by American 
farm industry.” The bills were referred to 
the Committee on Agriculture, which heard 
arguments in their support Last Wednesday 
the Committee decided to report against both 
bills on the ground that Congress has no jur¬ 
isdiction over the subject; that the limitations 
imposed by the Consitution make it improp¬ 
er for Congress to pass the proposed measure, 
and that it is a matter for State legislation 
exclusively. At the 22nd convention 
of the American Pomological Society which 
opened its sessions last Wednesday, amid 
much local enthusiasm, at Ocala, Fla., Pros¬ 
per J. Berckmans of Georgia, was re-elected 
President; while T. T. Lyons, of Michigan, 
was chosen first Vice-president; B. G. Smith, 
of Massachusetts, Treasurer; and A. A. 
Crozier, of the Iowa Experiment Station, 
Secretary. The French Chamber of 
Commerce has adopted resjlutions urging the 
importance of steps being taken to increase 
the export of Canadian butter to Europe. 
Of late France has been doing a great deal to 
secure the good-will of the French of Lower 
Canada; but Upper Canada would be the 
chief gainer by tne increase of the Dominion’s 
foreign butter trade. Members of the 
Canadian Pork Packers’ Association claim to 
have assurance that the duty on American 
lard is to be increased. If this change is 
made several Canadian firms are prepared 
to furnish a new article composed of 
90 per cent, of the best prime lard and 
10 per cent, of lard stearine, which they 
claim is superior to the “juggled concoction” 
now called American refined lard. 
The “Burlington” is the only line running 
sleeping cars from Chicago to Denver without 
change. It is the only line by which you can 
go from Chicago to Denver and be but one 
night on the road. It is the picturesque line 
to St. Paul and Minneapolis. It runs daily 
“fast trains” to Kansas City, St. Joseph, 
Atchison, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Lincoln, 
Cheyenne, and Denver. 
For rates on the TRY ME, the best hand lever Feed 
Cutter(8 sizes), ad’s G. S.GARTH, Mill Hall, Pa— Adv. 
LATEST MARKETS. 
New York, Saturday, February 28, 1889. 
GRAIN MARKETS 
Wheat.— The market Is slow with light demand 
from millers. Very little export trade. Sales of 
No. 2 red at 99^ cents to $1.01^, aud of No. 8 red at 
91 cents. 
Rve.—T he market Is very dull. Quotations are 55 
to 59 cents for State, 52 to 57 cents for Western. 
Barley. —Quoted at 70 to 72 cents for two-rowed 
State; Canada ungraded, at 78 to 81 cents. 
Corn.— The price has been somewhat lower, but 
prospects are good for an advance. Sales of Steamer 
white at to 43 cents; Steamer yellow i‘2'4 cents; 
ungraded, 40M to 44% cen s. 
Oats —Market firmer; sales of White from 80 to 
89 c.; mixed 23 to 82&c. 
Buckwheat.— 50 to 52 c. 
BE4NS.—Market strong at outside quotations. Mar 
rows, $2.20; Mediums, $1.75 to $1,80; Pea, $1.75 to $1.80. 
Red Kidneys, $2.00 to $2.05; White Kidneys, $2.30 to 
2.35; California Limas, $2 75 to $3.00. 
Fruits.— Fresh. Apples are in good supply, but 
best grades equal or exceed outside quotations. 
Best Spitzenburgs, Spies and Greenings, bring $1.50 
to 12.00 per barrel but common grades range down to 
$1.00, and even lower. Cata •> ba grapes are quoted at 
three to four cents per pound. Cranberries from 75 
cents to $2.00 per box. Florida oranges range from 
$2.25 to $3 25 per box. Strawberries 50 cents to $1.25 
per quart. Dried fruits are very quiet Evaporated 
apples are from four to six cents; raspberries 17 to 19 
cents; peaches from five cents for unpeeled to 18 
cents for best peeled, evaporated. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes and onions continue in 
good supply Onions are unchanged except white, 
which are a trifle higher. Potatoes are quoted from 
80 cents to $2.00 per barrel; Sweets $2.25 to $4 00; 
Cabbage $3 50 to 4.50 per 100: Kale 40 to 80 cents per 
barrel; Sptuach $1 50 to $2.25; and Turnips 3U to 45 
cents per barrel. Red Onions are from 45 cents to 
$1.00 per Darrel, yellow, 80 cents to $1.00, and white 
$2.50 to $3 50. 
Butter.— The market is well supplied with all 
grades, and prices show little change. Pennsylvania 
and Elgin best from 29^ to 81c.; State dairy from 18 
to 27c.; Imitation Creamery from 19 to-3c.: Western 
dairy from 18 to 20c.; while poor butter is sold as low 
as 12c. 
Eggs.— The colder weather has stiffened the market, 
but prices remain low for the time of rear Nearby, 
fresh gathered, 14>^ to 14%c. Fall packed 10 to 11c., 
and limed 9 to il. 
Sheep and Lambs —Heavy receipts have given the 
market a very dull tone, with lower prices. Sheep 
sold at 8% to 5% cents per pound; lambs at 514 to 
7J$ cents. 
Calves,— Moderate receipts, and prices about 
steady, at 6 to cents per pound for veals, and 2% 
to 3% cents for others. 
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