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THE RURAL NEW-V0RK*f« 
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of lf)£ With, 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
feATURDAT, March 30, 1889. 
’1 he .President has just Issued an order 
throwing; open a part of the proposed Okla¬ 
homa Territory to homestead settlement—to 
go into effect on April 22. The extent of the 
area affected by the proclamation is rather 
doubtful, the estimates varying from 1,800 
000 to 8,000,000 acres. Th9 first was tele¬ 
graphed from Washington yesterday morn¬ 
ing as coming from the Department of the In¬ 
terior. The general opinion is, however, that 
it amounts to about 4,000,000 acres which 
have been ceded by the Creek and Seminole 
tribes. There are also about 0,000.000 acres 
in the Cherokee Strip or Outlet, and 11,000,000 
acres more held by various tribes whose title 
would have been extinguished by the bill 
creating the new Territory of Oklahoma, 
which failed to pass the last Congress. It is 
estimated that about 50,000 persons are ready 
to occupy the “opened” land. Thousands 
have gathered along the Kansas, Arkansas 
and Texas borders as well as in different parts 
of the Indian Territory ready to rush in as 
soon as the country should be opened. Hun¬ 
dreds of these have already swept in from all 
sides, and large numbers were already there 
before the issue of the expected proclamation. 
Telegrams from different points in the ter¬ 
ritory and adjacent country tell us that all 
the most eligible locations have already been 
taken up. Some have had their “ claims” 
staked out for years, and a good deal of fight¬ 
ing and several deaths are already reported 
arising from disputes about possession. The 
President warns all that anybody taking up 
land before April 22, will never be allowed to 
make an entry in the territory, and General 
Schofield has ordered the troops to make a 
list of those who offend in this way, but still 
claims are being marked out on all sides. 
The troops at Fort Reno in the country are 
netting ready to enforce order after the land 
has been legal lv opened. 
New Mexico and Colorado having passed laws 
providing that all meat sold within their bor¬ 
ders must first have been inspected alive,thus 
prohibiting the importation ot beef dressed 
in other places, the Solicitor-General of 
New Mexico has just ruled that dressed meat 
from outside sections cannot be stopped and 
turned back on the border of the Territory. 
A bill providing for a similar object is now 
causing some pretty violent discussion before 
the New York legislature. The dressed-meat 
interests are very active and pretty persua¬ 
sive before all the legislatures in which simi¬ 
lar laws have been introduced.The 
largest creamery in the State has recently 
been established at Claremont, N. H., and the 
neighboring farmers have pledged the pro¬ 
duce from 1,000 cows to support it... A law to 
prevent the adulteration of wheat flour has 
just been signed by the Governor of Maine.. 
. The New England Milk-producers’ 
Union has decided upon the price of 32 cents 
per SJ^-quart can for milk delivered in Bos¬ 
ton from April first to October first. If con¬ 
tractors refuse to agree to these terms, no 
milk will be delivered after March 31st. The 
net average price to the farmer after deduct¬ 
ing freight to Boston, etc., would be only 2% 
ceDts per quart.Various local Milk- 
producers’ Associations in New York State 
are joining ‘ The Union of Milk-producers for 
the 'Supply of the New York Market.” The 
Milk Exchange of this city composed of local 
milk dealers, are strongly opposed to the 
Milk-producers’ Union, and claim that inter¬ 
nal disorder will soon disrupt it; but 
there are few signs of such a mishap. 
.The earnest efforts of the “oleo” men 
have failed to secure the repeal of 
the auti-oko legislation m Pennsylvania.... 
It is estimated that at least 100,000,000 pounds 
of binder-twine will be needed for the har¬ 
vest of 1889, and that the recent increase in 
price by the binder-twine Trust or syndicate 
would give the manufacturers from §7,000,(XX) 
to §12,000,000 more than their usual profits— 
all of which must, of course, come out of the 
pockets of our farmers. It’s certain that 
much grain in the West will be harvested un¬ 
bound or bound by hand, and self-binders will 
be extensively converted into headers. The cul¬ 
ture of jute and hemp in this country is likely 
to be stimulated by the extortion of the 
Trust, as both make binding twine as good, 
according to several who have used it, as that 
made from sisal and manila which cannot be 
grown here.Last year’s bagging 
Ti ust, is to be revived once more by the same 
parties, with headquarters at St. Souis. This 
is likely to be the last opportunity for doing 
so, as it is probable factories will soon be 
established for makiug a sai isfactory substi¬ 
tute at a lower price from pine needles 
and other domestic products ... 
A considerable number of representatives of 
manutacturers of and dealers in agricultural 
implements in different sections of the coun¬ 
try met in convention at St. Louis, last 
Tbuisday. The objects of the meeting are to 
determine a schedule of rates and prevent 
disastrous cutting, and also to devise plans to 
extend trade into the Southern and Southwes¬ 
tern States, where farm machinery is now 
but little u#ed_The March statistical re- 
p: rt of the Department ot Agriculture,issued 
Thursday,gives the result of the investigation, 
through its correspondents and agents and the 
merchant millers and the records of commer¬ 
cial inspeci ion, of the average weight of wheat 
by States. Tne general average is 56.5 pounds, 
the lowest average of six years. Ip the 
spring-wheat regiou the range is from 53.5 in 
Dakota to 55 pounds in Nebraska. It makes 
the crop equivalent to 391,000,000 bushels 
of 60 pounds each—less by nearly 25,600,000 
bushels than the quantity in measured bushels. 
. ..The Chicago “ Big Four ” who buy half the 
cattle that arrive in Kansas City, and two- 
thirds of those that reach Chicago—the two 
greatest cattle markets in the country—say 
that they will boycott cattle from all the 
States or Territories that may pass laws 
hostile to their dressed-meat trade. New 
Mexico and Colorado, which have already 
passed such laws, are now under ban; the mo¬ 
nopoly won’t buy a head from either place. ... 
The members of the State Legislatures, that 
met the other day in St. Louis to devise some 
means of counteracting the evil effects of the 
“Big Four’s” monopoly, accomplished little, 
and the meeting was very discordant. A bill, 
however, was adopted by a good majority, 
looking to the suppression of Trusts, and a 
bill providing for the inspection of meat in 
each State at the place ot slaughter and pro¬ 
hibiting the importation of dressed m at from 
other States, was adopted by a slender ma- 
joritv. These bills are to be recommended to 
the legislatures of the States represented at 
the meeting. An “inspection bill.” called the 
“ Cantor bill,” is now before the New 
York legislature, but it will hardly pass 
unless the farmers of the State speak out 
emphatically in its favor. 
Henry W. Raymond, editor and proprietor 
of the Germantown Telegraph, and son of 
Henry J. Raymond, founder of the New York 
Times, has been appointed Private Secretary 
to his long-time friend, Secretary of the Navy 
Tracy.The strong recommendation of 
Governor Beaver to the Pennsylvania legisla 
ture urging the adoption of much needed 
changes in the road laws of the State, is pretty 
certain to be unheeded, and several of the 
papers are justly indignant.The pres¬ 
ent duty on hops is eight cents per pound; but 
16,000,000 pounds were imported last year. 
Little wonder that there is a movement on 
foot for an increase of duty for the adequate 
protection of American hop-growers. 
That great American Meat Company will 
soon offer for investment £4,0x0,000 of stock 
the par value of which is put at §100 per^ 
share, though the shares will be offered at 
§75 apiece; §7,000,000 of its §15,000,000 
capital have already been subscribed and 
paid for mainly in lands, cattle and other 
property, and it is proposed to keep the 
remaining §4,000,000 in the treasury for some 
time so as not to depress the market. 
Owing to fear of failure of the wheat crop 
from frosted seed and consequent loss of 
traffic after harvest, the Northern .Pacific 
railroad Infs arranged with the owners of the 
numerous elevators along the line to furnish 
good seed to the farmers who cannot afford to 
pay cash for it, throughout the “frosted sec¬ 
tion”—nearly the whole territory north of 
the Northern Pacific, in Minnesota and Dako¬ 
ta. In return, the farmers agree, when the 
crop is harvested, to pay the price of the 
wheat and 10 per cent, interest thereon. 
CALVES.—Market steady, with rather a firm feel¬ 
ing for good stock. Prices ranged from 5c to 8c per 
lb. Dressed Calves unchanged at 5® 10c for Country- 
Dressed Veals, with little Calves bringing 2%'®4c. 
State and Pennsylvania Calves rarely exceeded 9c. 
City Dressed sold at 6®llc. Choice at ll%@12c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Sheep sold at $5ra*5 60 per 
100 lb Vearling Lambs at $6 50-3$7, and Spring 
Lambs were in good demand at $3@*6 50 per head. 
Dressed Mutton slow but firm at 6%(<o7%c for Chicago 
Dressed and 6®8<- for City Dressed (Choice bringing 
8%c). Dressed Yearling Lambs sold at 9S10%c and 
Dressed Spring Lambs at $2 50 -a $6 50 per carcass. 
Sales of State Sheep, 74 lb average, at $5 per 100 lb; 
State Lambs, 66 lb. at *6 50; Western Sheep. 99-M lb at 
$5 60; Minneapolis Fed Sheep, 129 lb, at *5 87%; Ohio 
do, 98 lb. at $5 564f; Michigan Lambs. 66*4 lb, at $7; 
Jersey Spring Lambs, at $4<a$6 50 per head. 
HOGS.—Market just about steady at $5 k$ 5 50 per 100 
lb Country Dre-sed Hogs easier for Heavy and Me¬ 
dium, but steady for Light Lean Pigs Quotations 
are 5@5%c for Heavy. 6(3.69.;e for Medium: 644W744C 
for Light States and Lower Jerseys; and 7%@8%c for 
Light Upper Jerseys. 
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Communications Kkcbivkd for thr Week Ending 
March SO, 1889. 
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The Warren Republican, of Williamsport, 
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in August, 1885 : 
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In a letter, dated September 2, 1885, Mrs. 
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Earliest Potato In Market. Grown with Early Rose, 
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LATEST MARKETS. 
New York, Saturday, March 30,1889. 
Cotton Is l-16c higher on all grades, than last week. 
Pout.try is in moderate receipt, and prices rule 
firm for good stock. 
Hops quiet aRd unchanged. 
Hay Is In moderate demand, with no change In 
prices. 
Brans.— The market Is active, with slight change in 
prices 
Nuts.— Peanuts are held firmly at former quota¬ 
tions. Hickory nuts and peanuts are unchanged. 
Vegetable.— The potato market Is weak and prices 
are somewhat lower. Some very nice Bermudas 
were held at $9. The market is literally swamped 
with onions and turnips. Very fine red onions are 
offered for 75c per barrel while they are retailed In 
Washington Market for 85c per bush* 1. No sale for 
turnips. Fresh vegetables from Bermuda and Florida 
are in good supply, but both quality and prices show 
a wide range. 
Fruits.— Fresh. Apples are in full supply, and 
qualities under fancy are slow of sale at low prices, 
urnnges are plenty and cheap. Cranberries are 
plenty and lower. Strawberries are dropping in 
price, ranging from SO to 50 cents. Evaporated fruits 
are slow of sale, with slight change in prices. 
Butter is in full supply, and the demand Is limited 
except for best grades of fresh butter, for which full 
prices are asked 
Cheese is slow and unchanged. 
Eggs are in heavy supply, and prices are lower, 
fresh gathered nearby being quoted at 11% cents. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
New York, Saturday, March 30,1889. 
BEEVES.-Dressed beef slow, with the bulk of the 
sales at 5%<5.6%c per lb. although strictly prime and 
choice quality goes as high as 6%@7c. 
MILCH COWS.—Receipts this week to date 127 
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