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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
SATURDAY. October 4, 1890. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
Elba, N. Y.—Very wet. Potatoes rot¬ 
ting badly. Beans badly injured, many 
fields ruined. Corn a failure, killing frost 
September 25. Seeding just finished. Good 
crop of pears and qu'nces. Hay low. 
Many buying sheep to feed. Few cattle 
being fed, grain too high. C. F. 
Bozeman. Mon.— Snow in sight all sum¬ 
mer. Irrigate from rivers and creeks. 
Season very dry; crops good on irrigated 
land, poor on unirrigated Wheat averages 
80 bushels, price 75 to 90 cents per bushel. 
Oats 40 to 60 bushels, price $1.30 per hun¬ 
dredweight, Potatoes medium crop, worth 
90 cents per bushel Hay less than an 
average crop, $10 to $12 per ton. Oats have 
frequently yielded 100 and wheat 60 bushels 
per acre. No commercial fertilizer and 
little manure used. Land worth $12 to $20 
per acre. Country healthful, water pure. 
Winters cold but’atmosphere dry. Na 
tional Park 75 miles distant I would not 
change my mountain home for any farm 
east of the Missouri River and be obliged 
to live there. c. H. w. 
Bufordville, VA —Fruit crop light. 
No peaches. Corn good; acreage smaller 
than usual. Wheat light yield, poor qual¬ 
ity. Oats nearly a failure. Hay good. 
Price of cattle low. Farm help scarce. 
Tobacco good, and secured in good condi¬ 
tion. Ck P- L. 
A car-load of corn was recently received 
at a western point, which contained 1,340 
bushels. As an average car-load is 650 
bushels, and was formerly 450 bushels, it is 
evident that the term car-load is an uncer¬ 
tain quantity. 
An Inter-State Hay Palace was opened 
at Momence, Ill., October 1. The building 
is 206 feet in length and 166 feet wide in the 
center. The main ball is a perfect circle 103 
feet in diameter, flanked on the four sides 
with wings. A circular gallery 18 feet wide 
sweeps entirely around the main hall. The 
walls are built entirely of baled hay, with 
just enough baled straw to make a pleasing 
contrast in shading and color. The primary 
object of the exposition is to make a display 
of the varied products of Eastern Illinois 
and Western Indiana, which will include 
products of the farms, factories, forests, 
mines, quarries and of the arts, domestic 
skill, and the accomplishments of the people 
of the district in music, oratory and manual 
training A special feature is the display 
of the latest tools in haying machinery and 
implements for ditching, laying and making 
tile and road machinery. 
There are reports of terrific prairie fires 
in the vicinity of Dickinson, N. D. Many 
farmers have lost all their crops. 
Secretary Rusk visited the Corn Palace 
at Sioux City, la., on Tuesday, and ex- 
E ressed surprise at its proportions and 
eauty. He said that if it could be repro¬ 
duced at the World's Fair in 1893, and in 
connection therewith an exposition of the 
growing and milling of corn and the prep¬ 
aration of food therefrom, it would be one 
of the greatest educators that could be in¬ 
troduced. 
Tacoma, Washington, is much exercised 
over the failure of the Northern Pacific 
Railroad to provide adequate means of trans¬ 
portation for the wheat awaiting shipment. 
Manager Cordin, of the Northern Pacific 
Elevator Company, says the season’s re¬ 
ceipts of that company thus far have 
reached but 50 cars, and Balfour, Guthrie 
& Co., have received only 3,000 tons. 
From various parts of the country re¬ 
ports come to hand of the probable defeat 
of candidates for re election who have 
proved themselves unfit for the position 
they held, or recreant to the farmers whose 
votes placed them In office. These candi¬ 
dates mustered wire-pullers enough to se¬ 
cure a re-nomination, but they are likely 
to receive a shock at election time. 
A contract has been closed at Greeley,Col. 
for 110,000 bushels of potatoes to be shipped 
to Chicago. This is a movement in a new 
direction. Colorado is a great potato¬ 
growing State, and success is due largely 
to her system of irrigation. However 
much Eastern farmers may decry this 
method of growing crops, it certainly 
renders the results more certain in times 
of drought. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Saturday, OctoBER 4,1890. 
The Conference Committee’s report on 
the Tariff Bill was promptly passed by the 
House last Saturday ; but it did not pass 
the Senate till Tuesday. The legislative 
history of this, the most important bill of 
the decade, is briefly summed up here : 
It was reported to the Hou*e by the 
Committee on Ways and Means on April 
16. It passed the House on May 21. On 
May 23 it was referred to the Senate Com¬ 
mittee on Finance. That committee re¬ 
ported it back with amendments on June 
10. Nearly three months were consumed 
before it was voted upon by the Senate on 
September 10. On September 16 it was 
sent to conference, and 10 days later the 
conference report was presented in the 
House. The House adopted the report last 
Saturday and the Senate Tuesday, and 
next day it received the President’s signa¬ 
ture. The whole Democratic party is 
strongly opposed to the policy enforced by 
the measure ; there is a considerable Re¬ 
publican opposition also. While a majority 
of the Democrats favor free trade or a 
tariff for revenue only, a pretty strong 
minority advocate a moderate protective 
tariff. So does a decent Republican minor¬ 
ity ; while the majority coincide with 
McKinley in favor of the strong tariff he 
carried through Tne Republicans say that 
the tariff question has been settled for a 
generation or at least for 10 years; the 
Democrats say the McKinley Bill has 
settled it just about as much as the slavery 
question was settled by the repeal of the 
Missouri Compromise and the passage of 
the Fugitive Slave Law. Business men as 
a rule object to the unsettled condition of 
trade due to constant agitation of the 
matter. 
The new tariff goes into effect on October 
6. Never in 'the history of this country 
have the imports of dutiable goods from 
all parts of the world been so heavy as they 
have been since the passage of the measure 
was assured. All the trans-Atlantic steam¬ 
ers are crammed chockful of the most valu¬ 
able kinds of wares, because the duties are 
highest on these. Freights have gone up 
to fancy figures, and some of the passenger 
steam ship lines have refused to carry 
steerage passengers because they can make 
more money by filling the “steerage” with 
merchandise. Immigration of artisans 
from all the European manufacturing sec¬ 
tions is likely to be quite heavy. A large 
number of English, French, German, Bel¬ 
gian and other European manufacturers 
are reported to be preparing to transfer 
their entire business to this country, or 
open branch establishments here in order 
to take advantage of our high protective 
tariff, and avoid its imposts. Imports from 
Canada have been extraordinarily heavy of 
late. Within the past week every craft 
capable of carrying a cargo has been em¬ 
ployed in transporting goods across the 
line, and steam tugs have been towing 
vessels both ways across the river and lakes 
for the sake of greater speed. The tariff 
against most Canadian agricultural pro¬ 
ducts is almost prohibitory, and is creating 
a great deal of excitement across the bor¬ 
der. Annexation is becoming more and 
more a burning question, though just now, 
in the fiist flush of indignation at their ex¬ 
clusion from our markets, many of our 
friends talk wrathfully against us. 
The late Congressman Randall’s estate 
amounts to only $5,000. 
The Anti-Lottery Law having gone into 
force at once after the President had signed 
it, numerous arrests are being made, here 
and there, of editors and managers of papers 
who have attempted to mail their journals 
containing lottery advertisements. . The 
use of the mails for transmitting lottery 
circulars or letters or money for tickets, or 
for any other lottery purpose is henceforth 
illegal. The new law is certain to greatly 
curtail if it does not altogether kill the 
swindle. The managers, however, are going 
to use the express companies instead of the 
mails, but the expenses, etc., will be greater. 
Many States have anti-lottery laws, and they 
are for the most part, being enforced with 
increased rigor. 
All over the country there is a good deal 
of dissatisfaction with the results of the late 
census. The Democrats charge that in the 
South and other Democratic sections as well 
as centers of population, the figures given 
are purposely much below the reality in 
order to les-en the number of Democratic 
Representatives in Congress. In this city 
the police are now making a recount, and 
it is expected that the result will show a 
population of about 200,000 more than the 
census figures. Several recounts have been 
officially niHde by the census people in other 
places, notably in St Paul and Minneapolis, 
where an over-count of nearly 10,000 had 
been made in the former and one of almost 
35,000 in the latter. Minneapolis, however, 
came out ahead by about 50,000 in the re¬ 
count. 
Work on the Nicaragua Canal is being 
rapidly pushed ahead ; but it cannot be 
opened for business before 1897. The costly 
dredges and other machinery belonging to 
the collapsed Panama Canal have been sold 
to its rival; but there is some talk of reor¬ 
ganizing the French company or rather of 
starting a new one to complete the Big 
Ditch 
As a result of the strike by the Knights 
of Labor on the New York Central Rail¬ 
road, Third Vice President Webb, who de¬ 
feated them, has just issued a proclamation 
that K. of L. are not wanted on that road, 
or of course on the Hudson River Road, 
which is one of its main feeders. It’s 
against the law to discharge men in this 
State because they belong to any labor or¬ 
ganization ; but no more K. of L. will be 
employed, and those on the roads now will 
doubtless be quietly dropped unless they 
abandon the order. The Company’s objec¬ 
tion does not extend to other labor organ¬ 
izations: but many of these feel that it 
may be their turn to get the cold shoulder 
before long. 
The Republicans have just carried Idaho 
by from 1,200 to 2,000 majority. 
The fight between Delainaler, the Repub¬ 
lican candidate for Governor in Peunsyl- 
vania, and Pattison, the Democratic candi¬ 
date, is very fierce. Several grave charges 
are urged against Delamater, while Pat- 
tison’s record is quite clean. The State is 
strongly Republican ; but just now it looks 
as if the usual Republican majority would 
be greatly lessened, if not wiped out al¬ 
together, in this “off” year. Quay and his 
man are fighting a defensive campaign, 
and many of the farmers are turning 
against them, but their forces are well or¬ 
ganized, and doubtless many “kickers” 
will fall into line on election day. 
The Farmers’ Alliance havingswallowed 
the Democratic party of Georgia, has just 
won a signal victory, having elected over 
two-thirds of the State Senate and As¬ 
sembly. General and Ex-Senator Gordon, 
who is a candidate for the U. S. Senate to 
succeed Senator Brown, whose term will 
soon expire, came out strongly against the 
Alliance during the canvass, and in spite 
of his brilliant “war” record and great 
popularity since the war, he is certain of 
defeat, as all the Alliance members elect 
are being instructed against him. 
W. Va. has an iron clad law which for¬ 
bids, under severest penalty, any candidate 
hiring men to work at the polls, paying the 
expenses of delegates to conventions, from 
hiring any one to solicit votes and using 
money in any way except to pay the ex¬ 
penses of public speakers and the circula¬ 
tion of literature. Both the Republican 
and Democratic State Executive Commit¬ 
tees have just warned all the voters that 
they will jointly prosecute all violations of 
the law. 
After multitudinous failures for nearly six 
months, Chicago has at last selected a site 
for the great World’s Fair, and elected a 
number of very high-salaried officers to 
push the thing. There is very little en¬ 
thusiasm any where about it at present; but 
the whole country should honestly aid in 
making it a grand success. The farmers 
were much dissatisfied with the former 
proposed sites ; but have secured all they 
could reasonably ask for in the present 
one. 
The Metropolitan Silver League, whose 
main object is to secure free coinage of 
silver, has just been formed in this city, 
under the auspices of a large number of 
prominent financiers The Silver Law 
lately passed seems to work so well that 
the opposition to it in most parts of the 
East has grea*ly dwindled or disappeared 
entirely. The chief complaint just now is 
that it should have covered the immediate 
free coinage of silver. 
After a conference of several weeks the 
Mormon elders at Salt Lake City have just 
formulated a new Declaration of Faith in 
15 articles. It is rather hazy on the ques¬ 
tion of plural marriages, but takes a de¬ 
cided new departure in the right direction 
by recognizing the supremacy of civil 
rulers in public affairs, and declaring in 
favor of “ obeying, honoring and sustaining 
the laws of the land ” It is believed that 
henceforth all the Mormons in Utah and 
elsewhere can vote under the new dispen¬ 
sation. There are 11,000 of them in Idaho, 
nearly all of whom would have voted 
solidly Democratic at the recent election 
had they not been arrested as they came up 
to register. 
The Democrats are insisting that there’s 
a bitter “ family fight ” between Speaker 
Reed and Congressman Boutelle on one 
side, and Sec. Blame, together with Sena¬ 
tors Fry and Hale, ali of Maine, on the 
other. Blaine’s Reciprocity policy to some 
extent antagonizes the McKinley Reed Pro¬ 
tective policy, and then there’s been a 
struggle over the “loaves and fishes” be¬ 
tween both factions in the State. Hitherto 
it appears to be a case of ‘‘nip and tuck.” 
Reed secured his re-election to Congress by 
a greatly increased majority, without any 
assistance from the Plumed Kuight, and 
the latter’s candidate has been made Col¬ 
lector of the Portat Reed’s home, Portland, 
in spite of the vehement protests of the 
resolute Speaker, who had a man of his 
own for the place. It seems a trifle doubt¬ 
ful who is Maine’s “favorite sou,” but 
Blaine appears to be the Administration’s 
favorite 
Congressman McKinley’s district in Ohio, 
which for years had been strongly Repub¬ 
lican, was so gerrymandered by the late 
Democratic legislature, that a Democratic 
majority of over 2,000 now confronts the 
great Protectionist. Reed and a lot of 
other prominent Republican speakers are 
on the way to help him to overcome this 
majority; and on account of his great 
ability and prominence in public affairs 
many Democrats are likely to help him in 
the up-hill work. 
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