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That any new subscriber 
for 1891 will receive the paper 
the rest of this year free. 
That all yearly subscribers 
will participate in our Dis¬ 
tribution of Seeds of new 
varieties originated on the 
Rural Grounds and worth $2 
to $3 to each subscriber at 
ordinary market rates. 
DON’T FORGET! 
(Crop and Market Notes cont'd from 610.) 
The number of mills in operation is 270, 
with 1,665,191 spindles. Thirty-nine new 
mills, with 241,864 spindles have com¬ 
menced working during the year and 15 
new mills have been completed and will De 
at work this fall. Forty-four mills are idle, 
a number of which expect to startup again 
at an early date. The total number of 
mills in the South is now 336, with 40,S19 
looms and 1,819,291 spindles. 
ABUNDANT rains have recently fallen 
quite generally throughout the West. Iu 
Illinois the rains came too late to 
help the early corn, and only that 
growing on bottoms or very late 
has been benefited. Fruit prospects are 
very bad indeed, with the exception of 
grapes, which promise an unusually good 
yield. In Wisconsin there has been an 
abundance of rain, but frost is feared, as 
in many parts of the State the weather has 
been too cool for this time of the year. 
Apples are a poor crop; grapes good; pas¬ 
tures in very fair condition. Indiana has 
suffered very severely from drought, but 
rains have recently improved pastures, 
also potatoes iu a few places. Fruit is 
almost a total failure, peaches especially. 
Fruit prospects, while not good iu Mich¬ 
igan, are much better than iu Indiana, and 
prices are pleasing the growers. In Ohio 
fruit is less than a half crop. Missouri 
makes a good report on fruit compared 
with the other States named. Apples area 
half crop, berries have yielded well, and 
grapes about an average. In Iowa chinch 
bugs have done much damage in Bremer 
County. Throughout the State apples are 
very scarce, and grapes are only a fair crop. 
In Minnesota frost has done damage to 
corn and potatoes in Polk, Henuepin, and 
Stevens Counties. Fruit prospects are very 
poor. 
Reports from the South are very 
ilatteriug aud promise a prosperous year 
for the farmers. Not only are the old-time 
staple crops very promising, but grains, 
fruits, etc., are being more largely grown 
than ever before. 
The flax crop of the Northwest is short 
and prices of seed promise to be good. The 
oil mills of the West have depended chiefly 
upon Minnesota and the Dakotas for their 
supply of seed, which is of extra quality. 
There is little demand for the fiber so that 
a shortage in the yield of seed is a serious 
matter for the growers. As illustrating 
the importance of the crop iu this section, it 
may be stated that the Dakotas last season 
roduced 3,28S,115 bushels of flax, aud 
Minnesota 2,485,880, a total of 5,773,995 
bushels, while all the rest of the United 
States produced only 4,877,901. On the in¬ 
creased acreage this year the Dakotas would 
have turned out a crop of 4,500,000 bush¬ 
els had not the drought blighted it. Local 
dealers predict that the bulk of the flax 
crop will be marketed at about $1.25 per 
bushel, notwithstanding the depreciation 
in quality. _ 
LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
New York, Saturday, September 6, 1890 
Beans.— Marrows—New. 8*2 70082 75; New Mediums 
choice. (2 30: Pea, 82 8!); Red Kidney, S3 9')@$4; White 
Kidney choice, $2 40082 50 • Foreign Mediums, $2 000 
*2 10 ; Green Peas. Si 0508’ 10. 
Butter—Creamery.— Elgin. best.: State and 
Pennsylvania, 18 025c; Western, best, 23J4S24C do 
prime. 20@22c; do cool. 17019c; do poor, 120'fic ; 
Western Imitation Creamrrv, prime lfiejiTc- do fine, 
12414c; do iio r, loaile Dairy.—S tate, best,—0 ; 
do prime, 20e: do good 16018c: do poor. 140Pe 
Western, prime, 13014c ; do fair, ll@12c ; do poor 946 
0Rmc- do factory, best, )2sS13; do prime 11012c; do 
good, 7J60U)4aC. 
Cheese.— Fancy White, 946c : fancy colored. 946e ; 
fair. 7®8c; light skims, 596@6*!£c; skims, 2@‘2 1 -60.; 
Ohio, Flat, 6»7Mc. 
Egos.— Near by, fresh, 21@214sc ; Canadian, 19 0 
21c.; Southern, 17019c: Western, nest. 20321c. 
Fruits.—Fresh.— Apples, Gravenstefn, perbbl. 83 50 
0*4 00; iPIppin, *2 500 *3 50; Blush, $3 50@$4 ; Alex 
ander, *3 50®$4; King. $3084; Baldwin, $2 5U(a$3: 
Green. 82 50a$3 25 . Duchess of Oldenburg, *4@$4.‘0: 
common t > good, — 0 ; Lemons, per box. $5 50089 00; 
Peaches, 812508250 per basket; Water melons, 8708 5 
per 100: Musk-melons, 50c 0*2 50 per bbl.: Pears, Cook¬ 
ing. do, $3 00 va *4 00 ; Bartlett, do, $50*7 ; Clapp's 
Favorite, ccr keg, $2®$3 ; Seckel. per bbi., S6 si0; 
Cranberries, Cape Cod. 87 500*8 50 per bbl.; *2 50@*3 
per crate; Grapes, up-river, 10@75c per basket. Plums, 
25075c per basket. 
Domestic DRIED-Apples—Evaporated, old, U@13c.; 
do choice, new. 14015c; prime, 12@1316e: sliced, new, 
71609c; do old, 3460391c; Chopped, 4@4^c; Cores and 
skins, 19(02c. Cherries. new.-24028c: do, old. 8@loc 
Raspberries. 28032c; Blackberries, 7Aa@9c; Huckle¬ 
berries, new, 8010c ; Plums, new, 10@12c.. 
game.— English snipe, per doz.. 81 75@$2; Large yel¬ 
low-leg snipe p“rdoz„ $2®$2 50; Golden plover, prime, 
p°r doz„ *1 75«$2 : Gra«s clover. Western, prime. p°r 
doz.. 81081 24 ; Sand snipe, per doz. 30c: Dowblros, 
We tern, per doz.. 83 500*4 Cariew and Marlin, per 
doz., 8150; Partridges, State per pair. 81 250*1 50; 
do Western, p r pa r, 8l«*l 25; Grouse, Western, per 
pair, 50®yoc; Woodcock, per pair, $]0$1 25. 
Hay and Straw.— Timothy, best, 80@85c; do good, 
65075c: do medium. 40c@55; Clover, mixed. 30@40c; 
shipping, 30035c. Straw—N o. 1 rye, 70075c.; short rye, 
35040c. oat and wheat, SO08oc. 
Honey—I n one-pound boxes. White Clover 11012c. 
Buckwheat, 10011c: Beeswax 22023c. 
Hops.— State—Choice-’S9. 28a32c; do, good, 26027c, 
do common, 23024c; do 1888, best. 20a22c; dodo, prime, 
19 0 20c, do do, common, 16@lSc; California, New, best, 
24@30c; do good to prime, 19023c. 
Nuts.— Peanuts are string. Fancy, hand-picked, 
quoted at 10c, and farmers’ grades at9@9>ac; Pecans, 
11012c. 
Poultry.—Dressed— Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 140 
15c; Fowls, western, choice, 11012c; do common to, 
good, 10011c; Ducks, spring, good, 11015; Squab: 
white, per dozen, 8225082 50; do dark, do, 82 00; 
Chickens, spring, Philadelphia. 16019c.; Western, 70 
14c; Fowls, near by, 13c. 
Poultry—Live.— Chickens—Spring, per lb, 10012c 
Fowls near-by, per lb, 1146012c. do Western, per lb. 
1146@12c; roosters, per lb, 607c ; Turkeys, per lb, 110 
12c46; Ducks, Western, per pair, 50070c ; Geese, West 
ern, per pair. 81 250*1 50. 
Vegetables— Potatoes-Long Island, per bbl. *2 150 
$2 25 : Jersey, per do., 82 00@*2 25; Sweets, do., 82 25 
082 50. Onions—Western New York. 82 25, Con¬ 
necticut Red,do, *2 75 do White, do, *300083 50; West 
ern, 82 75083 00; Jersey, do, $2 500*3; Cabbage, L. 
I., per 100, $30*4 10; Corn, per 100, 75c@$l 50; Toma¬ 
toes, per crate. 25@85c.: Cucumbers, per 1,000, 550 
65c; Squash, per bbl, 75e0$l 00; Turnips, per bbl. 
810*125. Egg Plant, perbbl., 75c.0*1; Lima Beans, 
per bag, SI 250$l 75. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—The early advance was based on reports 
that t e Russian harvest was •'O’ making such a 
fav uable showing as it di i a short time ago and the 
reaction in prices that subsequently ionk place re- 
pre-ented to a c nslderable Jegree a disbelief in the 
reliability f the report, inasmuch as the European 
markets failed to respon 1 to it. Iu eel, the cable 
acc unts, both public and private, were easier, and 
where any changes In quotitl ns were anouucjd, 
they wer-> to a lower level The spot market was 
»eak In sympathy with options. Sales—Ungraded 
Red, $l 01-7 i 04 ; No. 2 Red, quoted at »1 030*1 0< 
instore, *10344081 0% afloat, $1 03%9*i 01?i f. o. m; 
no. 3 Red 99c; No. lNortneru Spriur, 81 )7>6 No 1 
Hard Spring. *121; No.-2 September, $1 OteSl c55j; 
do October, $1 0146*081 06V6; do November, 81 05460 
81 0796; do December, 81 06>4 vSl 0S$* ; do January, 
$10-54: do February *1 0-96; do May, $1 io$f Si 1215 
16 RYE.—Dull and nominal. Western, iu boatloads, 
quoted 66065c.: State, 67069c. BARLEY MALT.— 
Oul t at recent quotations. Canada quoted St®9 c 
• ountry and city made COHN.-Speculative values 
were lower, in sympathy with wheat and also iu 
keeping wi h favorable crop reports aud 1< wer able 
advices. The cash market als • closed a shade lower. 
Sales-No. 2 mixed, 5 i 1405344c. elevator, 5396'a 51 He. 
alloat; steam >r mixed53H*53He.; Ungraded mixed, 
51 34'4C; No. September. 404404096c; do October, 
4ii 4 46C do Wnlte. October, 41 He. OATS.—The sp >t 
market was steady and mod rately active. Sales— 
No l While at 45c . No. 2 white, 42e.elevator, 34c. de¬ 
livers i; No. 8 white, 4O04U4«e ; No. 2 mixed, 4d*c. e le 
vator: 4l*c. delivered; Ungraded mixed, 8846042c: 
do while, 4’** Sue.: No. 2 September, 5 4405396c; do 
October, .>294053V do November, 534605346c; do De¬ 
cember, 53H054C ; do May, 5496055c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVES.—The dress>1 be f market is lower ana a 
slow trade is reporte . Chicago dressed Texas sides 
were selling at 44i*546c. per pound, native carca ses 
at hu,7^c. City dressed native sides ranged iu price 
from 6 io7*e, but only a little choice beef found 
buyers at the outside figure : city dressed Texas beef 
su'd at 494059*0 (tops 6c). Private cable advices report 
British mu-kets unchanged at scant ?Hc far refrig r- 
ated i eef. an > SMlO^e for America a steers, estimated 
dressed weight. 
MILCH COWS.—Dealers report a dull traie this 
week, with most of the arrivals common, aud good 
cows are not e xi eed tug $ le per head. 
CALVES.—Grassers sold at 2529*e, mixed with fed 
calves at 22603c, Westerns at 346 " 49s<\ fed calves at 
H4£ 4c aud mixed with veals at 4 4$jc common to 
choice veals at 5.'7c. Dre-scd calves dull and lower 
at 10.5c for dressed grassers, 5 • 6c or the few dressed 
butter nilks offering, 6 0»c for dr. ssed Westerns. Sa> 
lie or city dressed veals and 7*me (few 10460 for 
country dressed. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Slow aud unchanged for 
sheep, aud lambs oarely held the r own. Reported 
sales were at $4 25 <,85 10 f r common to good sh ep, 
and *5 75 *$6 6 2 54 for fair to prime lambs. Culls sell¬ 
ing at lx>c. There «as a light trade at the uptown 
yards Dresser, mutton In mo lerat* request at .440 
aHe (p-inte Wethers bringing 0c); aud dressed lambs, 
slow at 9 udlc. 
HOGS.—Good hogs are scarce and firm, but the 
heavy arrivals of inferior Western keep prices of 
State hogs below their normal values. Cubs sold at 
*3 10, light Western hogs and pigs at *3 60a*3 9 >, fair 
Ohio hogs at S i 35®s4 40. States at $40*1 65, and a 
buueh of very prime pigs at 84 ;5. 
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IND. PAINT & ROOF CO., 
42 West Broadway, N. Y. 
ROOFING 
A MOWING MACHINE GIVEN AWAY 
TO ADVERTISE THE 
JAMES MEANS’ FARMER SHOE. 
In order to attract attention to our James Means’ Farmer Shoe, we make the following offer. Please 
n >tice that we do not ask you to risk anything, and that you have now an opportunity to get the best mowing 
machine that money can buy entirely free of cost. Your children can win the prize for you, if they are 
industrious. 
OUR OFFER: 
Whoever before Christmas Day, 1990, sends to us the longest list of Eng¬ 
lish words made from the letters contained in the following phrase, 
“James Means' Celebrated Farmer Shoe.” shall receive from us, entirely free of cost, a mowing ma¬ 
chine of the best make, with all freight charges prepaid by us to any railroad station in any State or Territory 
in the United States. The machine will be the best made by any manufacturer the winner may choose, pro¬ 
vided the retail price of the machine does not exceed $75.00. All the words must be contained In Webster’s 
Unabridged Dictionary. Proper names not to be included. 
Notice.— No application for the prize will be considered good unless made out on blanks which we will im¬ 
mediately mail to any address if you drop us a postal card. Please mention this paper. Cut this out. 
Boots and Shoes from JAMES MEANS & CO.’S celebrated factory have had 
for many years the h'ghest reputation for general excellence. 
Ask your shoe retailer or country storekeeper for 
JAMES MEANS’ 
FARMER SHOE. 
Made of best English Grain Leather, Creedmore pattern. 
Extra Heavy soles, standard fastened and soles stitched 
aloft. Positively none genuine unless stamped plainly on 
1 he soles as follows : “ James Means’Farmer Shoe.” Beware 
of Inferior imitations. These goods are retailed all over the 
United States at 82.50 and upwards, according to locality. 
No matter in what State or Territory you live these goods 
are easily within vour reach if you will go to work in the 
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go to your local shoe-retailer or country storekeeper, and 
tell him that you wans a pair of shoes bearing this stamp 
on the soles, “ James Means’ Farmer Shoe.” If he is an enter¬ 
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vou. ’• I haven’t got any of those, but here is something better 
for the same price. ’ Then he will show you some Inferior 
upon which three or four profits have been paid, 
rou with the “James Means' Farmer Shoe.” or else you 
_ 0 _ _ „__ _ _ -an buy the goods at wholesale of James Means & Co., 
Boston. M’ass., and that he can make a fair business profit on them after ail the freight bills have been paid, even 
if he is on the borders of the Pacific Ocean. Some of our largest customers are on the Pacific Coast. Tell your 
retailer that you are tired of buying shoes made of inferior leather. Tell him also that an investment of less 
than eleven dollars will enable him to carry an assortment of sizes of these goods in his stock. Then if the man 
has any enterprise he will write 10 us, and in a week or two he will be able to furnish you with the shoes. If 
not, please write to us, and we will see that you are supplied with the shoes you need. We originate, while 
others copy. We lead, while others follow. 
All you have to do is to tell him that he must 
will give your order to another dealer. Tell him 
JAMES MEANS & CO., 41 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass. 
A. B. FARQUHAR, Manufacturer, York, Pa. 
bend fob ^ mQUHAR'S IMPROVED SEELEY PATES? 
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tion. 
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PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York, Pa 
Farqahar’g Standard Engines and Saw Kills. 
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circulars or other 
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WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES 
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Order one. KING & CO., Mfrs. Owego, N.Y. 
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It saves your hands, time and 
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'over all kinds of the most service¬ 
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KAUFMAN BROS. Bloomington, UL i 
WHY ARE THESE FARMERS SO HAPPY ? 
B' l-amc, like 40,000 other farmers, they read THE 
NATIONAL STOCKMAN AND FARMER every week, 
and are therefore well posted on the breeding, feeding and 
marketinggf all kinds of lire stock, the management of 
the dairy and the farm, tmd the doings of fanners' 
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nf the very best live stuck, agricultural and home litera¬ 
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Our agents outside of Pennsylvania and Ohio last year 
received W per cent, of all the subscription money they 
sent us, and of course they were well pleasetl. One 
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AXTELL, RUSH 4 CO.. PUBLISHERS, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
a GsmmmoME Hcnm 
FOR SALE. 
C OMPLETE In every detail; adjacent to the village 
of Moravia, 18 miles south of Auburn. N. Y.; 100 
acres of the beautiful Moravia ' alley and about 1UU 
more of side hill and limber. Stables aud barns cost 
$13,000, aud everything is in keeping ; house lately re¬ 
built and well arranged; park about premises sup¬ 
plied with water, fountain. &c. About 50 thorough 
bred registered Jerseys will be sold with farm if 
desired. Same manager employed by the late Geo. J. 
Letehworth continues in charge; possession given 
any day. Inspection of premises urged. For further 
particulars address or call upon. 
A. W. LAWTON, Auburn. N. Y. 
TYJI >T T C!TT TT'L! for cleaning MILK BOT- 
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