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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
SEPT. i3 
Publisher s Desk. 
There’s No Time Like To-day. 
NEW WHEAT PRIZES. 
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iest weight of grains ; not less than three 
heads of a kind to be selected and forwarded 
to this office before August 15, 1891. 
THE FAIRS AGAIN. 
The work of our friends at the fairs for 
The Rural and The American Garden 
is progressing beautifully, and we are con¬ 
siderably nearer to that big figure than we 
were two weeks ago. There is room for 
more workers, though. If you, kind reader, 
want to make some dollars, or at least 
your expenses at the fair, and help your 
neighbors to good reading, just send to us 
for specimen copies and name the fair you 
will attend. We will send you terms by 
return mail.__ 
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Live Stock Notes. 
W. W. Farnsworth suggests that 
fruit-men should try to secure a repeal of 
the law prohibiting the killing of rabbits 
with ferrets. 
Exmoor ponies are becoming almost as 
popular as Shetlands. 
Pile Leghorn poultry seem to be creat¬ 
ing an unusual excitement in Europe. We 
also hear of tri-colored Leghorns—red, 
white and black evenly distributed. This 
breed ought to take well in Germany. 
Mr. Vanderbilt’s big mastiff badly in¬ 
jured a man named Myers. Mr. V. paid 
Myers $5,000 and his expenses while sick. 
T. FARRER Rackham, Superintendent of 
the New York Poultry Show, wants all 
who are interested in tests of incubators to 
send him suggestions as to the best rules 
for comparing these machines. 
We are informed that Dr. Billings and 
those interested with him in business have 
lately purchased 10 acres of land at Du¬ 
buque, Iowa, adjacent to the glucose works 
in that city. Suitable buildings for the 
feeding of thousands of hogs at one time 
are to be erected at once; pipes for carrying 
food from the works to the feeding troughs 
are to be laid in; a contract has been made 
for the supply of sufficient food to feed 
40,000 hogs during the year. A trust¬ 
worthy agent is at present busily engaged 
in buying and inoculating 4,000 hogs with 
which to commence business. From all 
this it becomes very apparent that inocula¬ 
tion as a preventive against hog cholera is 
not by any means defunct. 
New York Fair.— The largest number 
of entries ever before made for a New York 
State Fair was: Cattle, 743 ; horses, 440 ; 
sheep, 586; swine, 236 ; poultry, 970. There 
are entered for the State Fair at Syracuse, 
September 11 to 18, 1,220 cattle; 600 horses; 
670 sheep; 350 swine ; 1,050 poultry. As large 
as are the new buildings, they will be 
acked like sardines in a box. This will be 
y far the largest and best show ever 
made by this honorable society. Its semi¬ 
centennial shows it in the full vigor of 
manhood. With the very low excursion 
rates on the railroads there ought to be an 
immense attendance. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY. September 6,1890. 
Condensed Correspondence.— An Iowa 
correspondent who has traveled over a large 
portioh of that State does not share in the 
gloomy views expressed by a previous re¬ 
port. He says the drought-resisting char¬ 
acter of the soil is wonderful and that all 
grain crops are fair. Hay was a heavy 
crop, and fruits are plentiful and selling at 
low prices compared with Eastern prices. 
He also says that Iowa has never failed to 
raise a surplus since the State was settled 
and will not fail this year. A Kansas cor¬ 
respondent reports no rain for 60 days 
prior to August 14, but showers since. 
Wheat yielded from eight to 20 bushels per 
acre. Corn very poor and oats a fair crop. 
Butler County, Pa. reports a good wheat 
crop, oats a half crop, corn less than half, 
hay good, potatoes poor and no fruit. Cana¬ 
dian reports indicate a more favorable 
season and better crops for farmers there 
than on this side the line. An Ontario 
correspondent reports a season favorable 
to the growth of crops resulting in heavy 
yields, but frequent rains have delayed har¬ 
vesting. Potatoes good but a light crop. 
Ontario County, N. Y., reports yields of 30 
bushels and upwards per acre of wheat, 
but the average is less, while barley, oats 
and corn are less than half crops. Hay 
good. Potatoes promising well. No apples, 
few pears and quinces. Usual amount of 
wheat being sown. 
Crawford County, Pa., has the best yield 
of wheat in years. Oats a failure. Corn 
late. Hay, large crop, but not best quality. 
Potatoes good, but few in hill. No fruit 
except grapes. Wheat in Wythe County, 
Va., is about one-third of last year’s crop. 
Oats a short crop. Corn good. Hay light. 
Few apples. Potatoes a light crop. A cor¬ 
respondent from Denmark reports a con¬ 
dition of things very similar to that here. 
“No apples; few pears; potatoes bad; rye 
gives but little grain.” Cayuga County, 
N. Y., reports barley 40 per cent, of a full 
crop, wheat 100 per cent., oats poor, and 
hay extra, but price low. There was a 
light frost near Baltimore and in parts of 
Virginia Sunday night. Little damage 
done. 
The President has signed the Meat In¬ 
spection bill and the Agricultural College 
bill. 
The French are making paper from hop 
vines and it is claimed that the fiber se¬ 
cured is the best substitute yet obtained 
for rags, as it possesses great length, 
strength, flexibility and delicacy. 
it is claimed that there are more than 
1,000 beet-sugar factories in Europe that 
consume some 20,000,000 tons of beets every 
year. The annual sugar product is placed 
at 2,000,000 tons. 
Some of the small Texas cotton-seed oil 
mills have been compelled to close for the 
present on account of the stiff prices held 
for seed, while no improvement in the price 
of oil takes place. 
Representatives of the milk producers 
have been in session at Middletown, N. Y., 
discussing a plan for forming a stock com¬ 
pany to regulate the supply of milk for the 
New York market. A committee was ap¬ 
pointed to formulate a plan for a company 
with $500,000 capital stock. 
Champagne, France, from which come the 
wines of that name, is threatened with a 
visitation of the phylloxera and the govern¬ 
ment has adopted stringent measures to 
avert the disease. 
Minister Phelps is confident that the re¬ 
strictions imposed upon American pork by 
the German government will ultimately be 
removed. While the population is rapidly 
increasing, imports of pork have been de¬ 
creasing and the people are becoming anx¬ 
ious for more pork. Russia and America 
are the only countries now suffering from 
the restriction. 
The time for the removal of the cattle 
from the Cherokee Strip islikely to be ex¬ 
tended by the President. It is said that on 
account of the drought large numbers of 
the cattle are unfit for market and to throw 
them on the market at once would result 
disastrously to all parties. The President 
has signified his willingness to extend the 
time if proper assurances are given that the 
cattle will then be removed. 
Letters from 43 district court clerks of 
Kansas show the number of foreclosures of 
farm mortgages in their respective counties 
during the first six months of 1890 to be 
1,103, about 25 to each county. The total 
for the 106 counties of the State, on the 
same basis, would be 2,650, or probably about 
$2,000,000. A significant feature of the re¬ 
port is the fact that a large portion of the 
foreclosures are on unoccupied lands, 
bought up and mortgaged for what they 
would bring by speculators. 
Bkeciiam’s Pills act like magic on a Weak Stomach 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Reports from the West and Northwest 
are to the effect that those who, by force of 
circumstances, have been compelled to sell 
their wheat, have about all sold, and that 
the remainder is held by those abundantly 
able to hold it. Many of them propose to 
do this until something is known of pros 
pects of the crop now being sown. The 
stocks of millers are reported low. The 
prospect is good for an increased acreage, 
and the conditions have been very favorable 
for seeding. Corn shows a slight improve¬ 
ment, but is far from being past danger of 
injury from frost. Potatoes are scarce and 
selling for high prices. 
The Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton 
Exchange has just issued the official report 
of the crop of the United States for the year 
ending with August. The report states 
that the total crop amounts to 7,211,322 
bales, exceeding the largest crop ever 
grown by 265,489 bales, and the crop of last 
year by 373,032. The leading feature of the 
report is a census of the Southern mills. 
The secretary has obtained reports from 
every mill in the South, and claims that his 
statement does not contain a single element 
of the estimate. The total Southern con¬ 
sumption for the past year is reported at 
546,863 bales, against 481,235 bales last year. 
(Crop Notes continued on next page.) 
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mentioning it when writing to advertisers. 
New Jersey State Agricultural Society. 
32nd Annual Exhibition, September 22 to 27 In¬ 
clusive. Entry books open the 1st and close Septem¬ 
ber 13th. Liberal premiums ottered for Horses, Cattle, 
Sheep. Swine and Poultry. Manufacturers of Farm 
Implements and Machinery, are specially invited to 
make exhibits. Space for exhibitions free. For pre¬ 
mium lists address P. T. QUINN, Cor. Sec., 
H. H ISHAM, Pres. 7(11 Broad St„ Newark, N.J. 
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ENGLISH SHIRK. 
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Why buy your imported and 
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Warranted sure breeders. Terms 
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J ASON ELLARS, BOOKWALTER. OHIO, has 
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F OR SALE.—N. C. W. Pigs, eligible to registry; 
five boars and four sows, eight weeks old ; also 
16 younger oues. Farmers’ prices. Correspondence 
solicited GEO KUNTZE, Georgetown, Conn. 
J IGHT BRAHMAS.—Early hatch; large chicks for 
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A Large Collection of Hot-Ilouse and Green- 
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Orchids—a very extensive stock—East Indian. Mexi¬ 
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Roses, Clematis and Dutch Bulbs. Large Importu 
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Use with your other feed at least One- 
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Also Berkshire and Cheshire Swine. 
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