i89o 
393 
hard work to pick up a few car-loads of 
good draft horses. - 
Which Creeds are best adapted for city 
work and which for farm work ? We would 
say that the English Shire and Clydesdale- 
are best adapted for city work, and in a 
great many cases we consider them best 
adapted for farm work. We do not recom¬ 
mend breeding to a draft stallion merely 
because be is large. We consider that the 
medium-sized draft horse, weighing from 
1,700 to 1,900 pounds, smooth in all his pro- 
E ortions and compactly built, with good, 
eavy, flat bones, and good feet, gives the 
most satisfaction. In many localities the 
larger classes of Cleveland Bay horses 
answer the purpose of producing horses for 
farm work very well. The progeny is well 
adapted for working on the farm and can 
then be hitched up and driven to town. The 
Cleveland Bay horses are all bays in color 
and are very uniform, being pretty much 
of the same type. They are easily matched 
and, if a proper selection is made, produce 
very good carriage horses that will bring 
good prices in the city, for driving. 
We have been breeding to draft horses 
in this neighborhood for 18 or 20 years and 
have supplied buyers from the East with a 
great many heavy horses. We believe that 
there are more draft horses in Illinois than 
in any other State in the Union. Years 
ago the farmers bred to small horses and 
did not pay dearly so much attention as 
they do now to breeding to better classes. 
Since they have begun breeding to draft 
horses and given the business the atten¬ 
tion it deserves, they have made a great 
deal of money. We have sold a great 
many Clydesdale, English Shire and 
Cleveland Bay horses in Michigan and 
Indiana. In many parts of Michigan the 
tendency seems to be to breed to the Cleve¬ 
land Bay horse. In localities where we 
have sold draft horses the results have 
been very satisfactory and very profitable 
to those who engage in it. Indiana seems 
to require a great many draft horses. In 
our opinion the horses best adapted for 
these two States would be the English 
Shire and Clydesdale. We have tried them 
successfully now for 14 years and they 
have invariably given satisfaction where- 
ever they have gone. It is only a few years 
since the first English Shire horses were in¬ 
troduced into this country, and a few years 
ago only a few dealers were importing 
them. Now almost all the dealers and 
breeders in the country are importing these 
horses. They have come to the front very 
fast and now stand pre-eminently at the 
head of draft horses. When we consider 
that they have attained their present popu¬ 
larity in the face of strong opposition from 
the other draft breeds which have been 
known so much longer, it will be plainly 
seen that they have attained their popular 
position through merit. Wherever a Shire 
stallion has been introduced into a neigh¬ 
borhood, other sales have followed as soon 
as the colts began to appear. The Shire 
horse has come to stay and is. beyond all 
doubt, the future draft horse of America.” 
I = 
A Few Words on Indigestion. 
It is not our intention to give the history 
of the Canadian, Alexis St. Martin, to whom 
a shot through the stomach brought fame, 
nor to tell yon how long it takes to digest 
Strassburg pie or sourkrout. No doubt 
you know by experience. It has been well 
said: “ Some men never seem to know they 
have a stomach.” However, we do not 
write for this fortunate class. 
The celebrated Purdon thoroughly “ di¬ 
gested” the Laws of Pennsylvania. But 
there are few Pnrdons. The old Romans 
do not seem to have suffered from indiges¬ 
tion. The gastronomic feats of our Teu¬ 
tonic fore-fathers are almost incredible, 
and we read the accounts of “ Homeric 
Banquets,” with a feeling approaching to 
incredulity. 
Our manner of life has impaired our 
digestive powers. We do not spend enough 
time in the open air ; we rise early and re¬ 
tire late to rest. We bolt our food, and do 
not rest afterward. To these and other in¬ 
cidents of a high degree of civilization is to 
be traced one of our most common maladies, 
Dyspepsia. We shall not attempt to por¬ 
tray the mental or bodily condition of its 
victims. We shall simply point out a way 
of escape and refer you to a work, giving a 
full account of many cures, with abundant 
testimonials, which you can verify by writ¬ 
ing to the patients themselves. 
Write for our treatise on Compound 
Oxygen. It is a carefully written medical 
work, giving the mode of action, nature, 
results, and, in short, a full account of this 
great vitalizing agent. No other genuine. 
Address Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1529 Arch 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa., or 120 Sutter 
Street, San Francisco, Cal.— Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
SATURDAY, June 7, 1890. 
The peach outlook on the Delaware and 
Maryland Peniusula is a gloomy one. Last 
year it was nearly a failure, and this year 
the most hopeful of the growers do not pre¬ 
dict over one-fourth of a crop. Repeated 
failures are telling upon the finances of the 
farmers and the value of farms in that 
region. Many have about decided to aban¬ 
don the business. The rot has also affected 
the apples, pears and plums. More en- 
couragiug reports come from the new peach 
section of Maryland, on the mountain side, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
in Washington County. Last year there 
was a good crop from the orchards planted 
some years ago. This season they promise 
to produce a fine crop. The fruit is larger 
and more succulent than the Eastern Shore 
peach. Some of the peninsula growers are 
investing in mountain orchards, with the 
ultimate intention of abandoning the 
lower counties. 
Baltimore and Richmond for more than 
60 years have exported 70 per cent, of all the 
flour that Brazil consumes. Upon this 
flour there is a duty of about 70 cents a 
barrel, and at the present juncture there is 
an effort on the part of the Brazilian mills 
to emphasize this discrimination against us 
by buying wheat in Russia, California and 
Buenos Ayres, which is admitted, if not 
free, at so slight a duty as to make the dis¬ 
crimination a serious one in ordinary times. 
When it is considered that $ 70 , 009,000 worth 
of coffee was imported into this country 
free, and 700,000 barrels of flour paid $500,000 
import duty, then the international relation 
is so lacking in the feature of reciprocity 
that it seems some arrangement ought to 
be made whereby Americans could reap 
some benefit from the Brazilian trade. 
A delegation from Scotland visited the 
British Minister of Agriculture, recently, 
and asked him to modify the restriction 
against the importation of American 
cattle. The chief arguments of the depu¬ 
tation in support of their request were the 
scarify of store cattle in Great Britain and 
the absence of pleuro-pneumonia in Amer¬ 
ica. In reply to the request the Minister 
said that the bulk of the farmers of Great 
Britain favored restriction. He was un¬ 
able, he declared, to hold out the slightest 
hope of any modification of the present 
regulation governing the importation of 
cattle, even if cattle in America were en¬ 
tirely free from the disease. 
The Secretary of Agriculture sent an 
official stenographer to the Interstate Cat¬ 
tlemen’s convention at Fort Worth, Texas, 
last March, and the proceedings were of 
such interest to cattlemen generally that 
the Secretary has concluded to issue a full 
report of the proceedings in the form of a 
special Bulletin of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry. The report is now in the hands 
of the Public Printer, and will soon be 
ready for distribution among those inter- 
The Philadelphia Milk Exchange in¬ 
dulged in a milk wagon race the other day. 
Each contestant was stationed at the wire, 
the driver to load two 30 quart milk cans, 
shut up the tail-board, and get in his wagon 
and drive a mile, the first horse in to be de¬ 
clared the winner. The winner made the 
mile in 3:21)£. 
An international competition has been 
authorized by the Italian Government, to 
be opened at Foggia, October 20, to con¬ 
tinue until November 30, 1890, for the pur¬ 
pose of bringing into use the best seeding 
or sowing machines. Machine to drill or 
broadcast seed, and machines intended to 
sow seed and distribute fertilizers will be 
admitted to the competitive trials. This 
movement on the part of the Italian Gov¬ 
ernment is worthy the attention of our ag¬ 
ricultural implement makers, who stand 
confessedly in advance of all others, both 
as to the number and quality of their 
various labor-saving devices. 
Beecham’s Pills cure Bilious and Nervous Ills. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PEICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Saturday, June 7 , 1890 
Beans.—M arrows—New, 82 87@$2 40; New Mediums 
choice, $1 9U@81 95; Pea, 81 90@81 95; Red Kidney, 84 . 0 ; 
White Kidney, choice,$2 35@82 40; Foreign Mediums, 
$1 50@$1 65; California Lima. $3 60@8S 70; Italian, $1 60 
@81 75. Green Peas. $1 00@81 to. 
Butter— New—Elgin, best, 14@-—c; Western, best 
13V4@14c; do prime, 12al8c: do good, 10@ll- do poor. 
6W10; State. Dairy, half-flrklns. tubs. best. 14@'.5e; do 
prime. 12@13; do line, 10@U; Welsh tubs. Hue, 12®18e; 
do good, !0@Ue. Western Imitation Creamery, best, 
10@11; do One, 839; Western dairy, tine, 10@—c; 
do fair 839c: do poor. 6@&54e; do factory, fresn. best. 
9@l0c, do prime, S@9o, do good. 7«S; do poor, 5 
@654e. 
New Cheese.—F ancy White, 894® 874: fancy colored, 
S54&S98 - , fair, 3® light skims, 7@—; skims, 2@3. 
Eoas,—Near by. fresn. 1494 &15c; Canadian. 1454®—; 
Southern, 14@—c; Western, best. U54@1454e. 
Fbuits.—Fresh.— Apples, per bbl. 83 25@87 00; Lem¬ 
ons, per box, $2 50@$4 50; Oranges. Florida. 82 50@8< OO. 
Strawberries, S@15o. Cherries, Virginia, 5@2Uc. 
Domestic Dried -Apples — Evaporated, old, 7@954c. 
do choice, new. ll@V2e; prime, 10@lo5se; sliced, new, 
454@Yc; do old, 35&(2S84e; Chopped, 4&454e, Cores and 
skins, 2@254c. Cherries, new, S@12c; do, old, S@10e. 
Raspberries, new. 25@30c ; Blackberries, 4<2454e. 
Peaches, Delaware,evaporated, peeled, 15@22c; dodo, 
unpeeled. 7@i0e; Georgia, evaporated, peeled, new, 13 
@15c; do do do, uupeeled,7@9‘*c; do do, sundrled, S@ 
1054c. Huckleberries, new,Ub$@llc. Plums, new, 554® 
654c- 
Game.— Plover, per dox, 81 O0@*l 75 ; Snipe do do, 
$1 00@$2 00. 
Hay and Straw.— Timothy, best, 80@S5c; do good, 
60@70 o: do medium. 50c@60; Clover, mixed. 45@55e; 
shipping. 35@40c. Straw—N o. 1 rye, 81.00@$110; short 
rye, 40@50c, oat and wheat, 30@40c. 
Honey— In one-pound boxes. White Clover ll@l2c; 
Buckwheat, 10@lie: Beeswax 22@23o. 
Hops.— State. New, !9@20e; do, good, 18@19c; do 
eommon,14@15c; do 1888, 0esi.ll@12c; dodo, prime,10@ 
11c; do do, common, 7@3c; California, New, best, 18® 
19c; do good to prime, 16@17e do Old, best, ll@12c; 
do common and fair, 7@9c. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are quiet. Fancy,hand-picked,quoted 
8H@8Wc, and farmers’ grades at 7@794e, Pecans, 9@ 
10c. Chestnuts, 84 00@86 90 per bushel; Hickory Nuts, 
$1 50®$2 00 per bushel. 
Poultry. Dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 9® 
16c; Fowls, western, choice, 10®—c; do common to, 
good, 8@9e; Ducks, spring, good, 16@1S; Squab; 
white, per doxen, |3 l'0@SS 25; do dark, do. 81 JO@82 00: 
Chickens, spring, 204126c: Fowls, near by, U)@1054e ; 
Capons, 16@22c; Slips, I6@l8c. Broilers, heavy, 25@32e; 
do. light, S5@S7e. 
Poultry-Live.— Chickens—Spring, per lb, 14@l7e; 
Fowls near-by,per lb,!0'.@llc. do Western,per lb, 914 
@10e: roosters, per lb, 65,@7e : Turkeys, per lb, 8® 
10c; Ducks, Western, per pair, 70@$0 85; Geese,West¬ 
ern. per pair, $1 00@$i 25. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes—Maine per bbl. 81 75@$2 00; 
New Brunswick. $ 75m$2: State do. 75c@8I 50; do New 
Orleans, 82U0@$3; Charleston do, 82 50@$275, Western, 
do, 75c.®81 50; Bermuda, do, $2 C0@88 00; Florida, do, 
$2 00@$3 00; Scotch Magnum, per 168-lb. sack, $1 00 
@81 85, Sweets do, 82 60@$4 00. Cabbage, per 100, 
810 00(2815 00. Turnips, per bbl, $150@8175; Onions— 
Bermuda, per crate, 82 00; Havana, do do, 8' 75(282 25; 
Tomatoes, per crate. 81 50@83 50. Beets per crate, 
81 00@8> 50; Asparagus, per drzen, *0 50(281 (5: Egg 
Plant, per bbl., $3 i»iC 2 $ 8 1>0; Peas, per crate. *1 00® 
81 .’it); String Beans, per crate, $0 45(2 8 2 50; Cabbages, 
Florida, per bbl.. 8 K*. 82 00 do Charleston. 82 U>@82 50; 
Cucumbers, per crate, 80 50@$1 50; Squash, per crate, 
25c.@l 25. 
WHEAT. Ree ipts were larger; clearances con¬ 
tinued small. Safes—Ungraded Winter Red at 8844® 
9284 c; No. 2 Red, 9544c. store, 9'c. afloat: No. 1 Hard 
Spring, «10284@8103; No. 2 June, 95 S-16@9594c.; do 
July, 94%'e 9'94c.; do August, 94J4@9544C.; do Septem¬ 
ber, 94!*,@9n44r. do December, 9n^(a,97 7 lHc RYE.— 
Dull and heavy, sales—Western, 6894 c. delivered for 
export. Western In boatloads quated at 58@585tc. 
Canada, 58@585® - .; State, 59@6ic. COKN-Was rela¬ 
tively stronger than wheat, and (he general market 
close 1 atanadvance. For prompt delivery prices gain¬ 
ed on light receipts and restricted offerings Sales — 
Ungraded Mixed and White, 40:o43ke.; Steamer Mix¬ 
ed, 41444 84 c. afloat, 4284c. f. o. r>.; New York Yellow, 
43e. delivered ; No. 2 While quoted 4fi(«46j4C., No 2 
June 4 540 .: do July. 4;Vfc®4254c. OATS—Sales—No. 8 
Mixed. 33HC. elevatur ; No. 3 White, 8844(2 88940 . eleva¬ 
tor No. 2 Mixed, 345tc. elevator. 3544c. delivered ; No. 
2 White, 34 ^( 334940 . elevator, 85}4®85HC. delivered; 
No. 1 W’ntte, 37c elevator; Ungraded Mixed Western, 
32®36.; White do., 34(*40c.: No. 2 June, 83V6®33?4c.; do 
July, 3-94® 3354o ; do August, 3154c.; do September, 
30>4@3u44c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—Feeling weak. City dressed beef slow at 
59412654 c. for Texas sides, and 656@794 for ordinary 
to choice Native carcasses. Chicago dressed in mode¬ 
rate request at 654@744C. Cable advices show an Im¬ 
provement in the London and Liverpool markets. 
Refrigerated beef - sold at 4d. or about Sc. per pound, 
and American steers at lo@1154c. (tops 12c.) estimated 
dressed weight, sinking the offal. These figures will 
not pay by ariy means ; but to lose 85 to $10 per head 
Is not so bad as losing $25@30. 
CALVES—“Cull ” veals sold at 4c.: medium to prime 
at 49i@554c.; and choice and selected at 85 60® 85 75 per 
100 lbs. Dressed calves opened weak and closed 54c. 
lower than yesterday. Quotations 6@?44e. for country 
dressed veals ; 7@9c for city dressed, with not many 
sales above 854c.; dressed buttermilks 5@6c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Sheep ruled extremely dull, 
and a small fraction lower; prime lambs held up 
fairly well, but the general market was rated 54c. off 
at the close. Common to choice sheep ranged in 
price from $4 50 to |5 85 per 10;i lbs.; poorest to best 
lambs soid 694 @8c. per lb., including three carloads of 
Marylauds. a deck load of Virginias, and a little 
bunch of Jerseys at the outside figure. The dead 
market continues slow and prices are weak. The 
extreme heat and the high cost of ice deter shop 
butchers from laying In stock except for Immediate 
needs. Dressed mutton sold at 9@Ue.; dressed lambs 
at ll@Hc., with general sales of the latter at I2@l8c. 
HOGS.—Market extremely dull and 10@15c. lower. 
Quotations are 83 9 j® 84 5. One carload of Western 
hogs on sale, which would not bring probably over 84. 
Country dressed lower at 494® 654 c. for heavy to light. 
BURLINGTON ROUTE. 
BUT ONE NIGHT CHICAGO TO DENVER. 
“The Burlington’s Number One” daily 
vestibule express leaves Chicago at 1:00 
p. m. and arrives at Denver at 6:30 p. m. the 
next day. Quicker time than by any other 
route. Direct connection with this train 
from Peoria. Additional express trains, 
making as quick time as those of any other 
road, from Chicago, St. Louis and Peoria 
to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Council Bluffs, 
Omaha, Cheyenne, Denver, Atchison, 
Kansas City, Houston and all points West, 
Northwest and Southwest.— Adv. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Hops are higher. 
Norfolk is sending good cabbages. 
Hay has declined in price somewhat. 
Beets now come in bunches at $2.50 to 
$4 per 100. 
Asparagus is very plentiful and the 
market is weak. 
ing. In some localities rains have been so 
copious and long-continued that seeding 
has been utterly impossible. Cold weather 
has also prevailed quite generally up to 
the beginning of the present month. 
Throughout the Northwest the lack of 
sunshine, as well as a low degree of tem¬ 
perature, has been one of the most striking 
conditions of the spring months which 
have just closed. There has also been no 
uniformity whatever in the fall of rain. 
For example, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Ten¬ 
nessee and Kentucky have had an excess; 
Dakota and Minnesota a very great defici¬ 
ency, and more or less dry weather in 
Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. 
Up to a very recent date, in the spring 
wheat areas, the drought and high 
winds had reduced crop prospects greatly. 
This outlook, however, has been changed 
favorably for the time being by rains, 
nothing like, however, to the extent re¬ 
ported by the wires. There are no reserves 
of moisture this spring in the far Northwest. 
Copious rains and timely ones never were 
more essential to the success of the spring 
seeded crops in Minnesota and Dakota than 
during the next 30 days. The corn 
crop with the ample moisture which exists 
at present in the southern portion of the 
corn belt, is now doing very well. In 
Nebraska and Iowa corn is a little back¬ 
ward. In Kansas and Missouri, however, 
with the present conditions, we ought to 
see by the 15th inst. the corn crop of the 
country brought up to a fairly good average. 
Oats have improved considerably during 
the last two weeks. This is owing to the 
cool, cloudy, moist weather which on the 
one hand makes the corn crop backward, 
but has just the opposite effect on the oats. 
There will be no winter wheat cut to 
amount to anything much before the first 
of July. Every week sees a lower average 
condition than the previous one. 
Readers of R. N.-Y. will please the ad¬ 
vertisers and benefit the paper by always 
mentioning it when writing to advertisers. 
YOU WANT “THE TOWER YOU 
DON'T HAVE TO CLIMB, AND 
THE WIND-MILL THAT RUNS 
WHEN ALL OTHERS STAND 
STILL,** send for our primed mat¬ 
ter showing everv conceivable 
phase of wind-mill work. Our 
,,an lasting Steel Wheel 
considered) co*ts only one- 
a wooden one does.u h ile 
the Tilling Tower is not expensive. 
AERMOTOR CO. 
110 and 112 S. Jefferson Street, 
Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. 
will Send a Sample 
Huggy, Road Cart 
OR HARNESS 
to one person at each post-office 
who will show to others who we 
may send to see It, Many people 
will buy if they can see for 
themselves, therefore we give 
a bargain to get samples of our 
work in a neighborhood. 
Will You Have One or All? 
Don’t miss this bargain, you may never 
have another We guarantee our work 
to be tlrst class In every particular. 
Send 6 cents In stamps for catalogu-s to select from, 
and get testimonials 
from those who have had 
our bargains. 
DUINECO,, 
Carriage Dept. No. 7, 
PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
Poultry of all kinds sells slowly and 
prices are lower. 
Cherries from Yirginia have reached here 
during thQ week. 
Eggs have dropped in price although re¬ 
ceipts are not heavy. 
Gooseberries have appeared and are 
quoted at 10 cents per quart. 
Strawberries fromNewJersey bring best 
prices. Some very good ones are in market. 
Sharpless brings highest prices. 
The receipts of potatoes continue good 
both with new and old. The best stock 
sells readily, while poor lots are dull. 
Very few apples are arriving and prices 
are well sustained. Choice Michigan 
Northern Spy bring $6 to $7 while Russets 
are $4.50 to $6. 
The butter market is quiet, there being 
no demand for any but the best grades, 
which are firm iu price. At Elgin sales 
were made at 13>£ to 14 cents. At Utica 
14^£ to 19 cents were realized. 
The cheese market is stronger, exporters 
being free buyers. This is said to be on 
account of decreased freight rates. At 
Utica, prices ranged from 8> s to 3M cents. 
At Little Falls 7% to 8% cents were ob¬ 
tained. 
The horse market is brisk with a good de¬ 
mand, brisk sales and satisfactory prices for 
best carriage and fancy teams and single 
horses. At the same time there are many 
sales of common or inferior horses, or those 
badly broken at low prices. If one is not very 
particular about style, speed or weight a 
little money will buy a very serviceable 
animal. 
Recent advices state that the weather 
has been unfavorable to the growth of peas 
in France, and advices from Bordeaux say 
the packing will be late. Prices are now 
very light, but a little warm weather 
would change the views of holders. Mush¬ 
rooms are in good demand and prices have 
advanced. The glass-makers’ strike at 
Bordeaux is likely to interfere with the 
packing of olives. The asparagus now be¬ 
ing packed is of a fine quality, but the crop 
is small. 
Throughout extended areas of the coun¬ 
try crop prospects are decidedly discourag- 
I’lmtform Wagon, 
2i°- The Elkhart Carriage 
Harness Mfg. Co. 
| For 16 Years W 
have sold to 
, consumer* at 
I OLE SALK PRI( KS, sating them the 
tiers* profit. Ship anywhere for ex- 
lnatlon before baying. Par freight 
trges 1 f not satisfactory* Warranted 
■ 2 y ears. 64-page Catalogue FREE* 
rldreai W R. PRATT. 8ee*T. 
JU9MS 
DESKS. 
Chairs, 
Office Furniture 
SEND FOR OATALOQUE. 
k KILMER DESK CO. 
Salesroom*, 
opp. Lowell Depot, 
93 Causeway St., Boitoa 
