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MARKET, CROP AND NEWS SPECIAL. 
THE OUTLOOK. 
While the financial disturbances in New 
York and London have unsettled business 
to a great extent everywhere, trading in 
provisions and farm produce, the neces¬ 
saries of life, is in a fairly prosperous con¬ 
dition. 
The grain market is recovering from its 
recent decline. Prices have advanced ma¬ 
terially and prospects are good for still 
further advances. No extreme high prices 
•are to be looked for, as the present advance 
has checked export business to some ex¬ 
tent. Receipts are light at this port. 
The situation in cattle, hogs and meat 
products is a peculiar one. Short crops of 
corn have compelled many farmers, es¬ 
pecially in the West and Northwest, to 
rush their animals to market in poor con¬ 
dition, with the result that the market is 
depressed. The probabilities are that, later, 
prime stock will be considerably higher, 
though the cost of feeding must be consid¬ 
erably increased. The weather has been 
exceptionally favorable for the handling of 
Thanksgiving poultry, and the result must 
be satisfactory both as to condition of 
stock and sales. Receipts thus far have 
been liberal, and the market is well sup¬ 
plied. 
Dairy products have reached prices that 
ought to be satisfactory to producers of 
fancy goods, and it is improbable that 
prices will go much higher. The increas¬ 
ing practice of winter dairying and the 
preference of consumers for fresh-made 
butter tend to larger supplies of and bet¬ 
ter prices for the latter. There will be a 
continued good demand and fair prices for 
the best butter and cheese. 
Eggs are not likely to be much lower, 
uuless the winter should prove as open and 
favorable to egg production as the last. 
Canada eggs sell for so much less than the 
domestic product that it is difficult to see 
much profit in sending them here after the 
duty is paid; then, besides, our Canadian 
friends have taken to sending them to 
England, so the future of the American 
hen seems brighter. 
Fruits of good quality, well packed and 
arriving in sound condition are likely to 
meet with ready sale at good prices. 
The vegetables that most interest farm¬ 
ers at a distance from this market are pota¬ 
toes and onions. Potatoes are somewhat 
lower at present, but it is quite probable 
that they will be higher as soon as cold 
weather renders shipping them risky. The 
increased duty will restrict importations 
and will tend to raise the price to some ex¬ 
tent. Then, again, if the price advances 
beyond a certain point, consumption will 
be largely decreased. Complaints of ex¬ 
tensive loss from rot are made in many 
places, and persons having fears of this are 
likely to hurry their potatoes to market. 
While a higher price is imminent, a con¬ 
siderable margin must be allowed for loss 
from decay, frost, shrinkage, and the ex¬ 
pense of handling and storing, as well as 
loss of the use of the money. As for on¬ 
ions, one year ago red onions were $2 to $3 
per barrel; yellow, §1.75 to $2. March 15, 
1890, red onfons were §3 to $4 50 per barrel; 
yellow, $3.50 to $4.25. To-day red and yel¬ 
low onions of good quality range from $2.50 
to $3 per barrel. The supply in the country 
at large is probably no larger, if so large, as 
one year ago. It remains to be seen 
whether the same ratio of increase will hold 
good for the next three mouths. There will 
undoubtedly be an increase. Onions to be 
held must be well grown, well cured, hard 
and nice. The probability is that it will 
pay to hold such, but we would not take the 
responsibility of advising it. Excessive 
prices must not be expected, for Bermuda 
and the South furnish so many onions in 
the early spring. The frosts South last 
wiuter probably had some effect on the 
prices of held stock here, as they did upon 
other products. They don’t have such dis¬ 
astrous frosts every year. 
Thk total export shipments of American 
apples from all ports, to November 15, were 
192,000 barrels against 305,000 barrels to the 
same date last year. Baldwins sold last 
week in Liverpool for 17s. to 19s., and Ben 
Davis from 15s. 6t l. to 17s. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Lemons come mostly from Malaga and 
many of them are quite green. 
At A meeting of the Montreal Chamber 
of Commerce it was decided to send a depu¬ 
tation to urge the government to place an 
import duty on American eggs. 
An Italian colony near Ocala, Fla., are 
reported to have sold their crop of 1,500 
bushels of peanuts for $1.25 per bushel, and 
to have a contract to grow 5,000 bushels 
next year. 
California wheat has been finding its 
way eastward to quite a largo extent the 
present season. It sells fora little less than 
the eastern grown wheat, but millers who 
have tested it are well satisfied with its 
quality. 
Sir J. B. Lawes contributes to the Mark 
Lane Express his 39th annual estimate of 
the wheat crop of Eugland for 1890. His 
figures are given from data at Rothamsted, 
and are said by good authorities to be 
altogether too high for the country at large. 
This is unfortunate as coming from one 
whose authority in such matters is usually 
unquestioned. 
The greatest raisin county in California 
is Fresno, where the soil is peculiarly ad¬ 
apted for grape culture. That county last 
year produced about 625,000 boxes of rasins 
of the best quality. Riverside came next 
with 225,000 boxes. Twenty years ago there 
were less than 1,500 grape vines in all San 
Diego County. Now there are 3,000,000. 
Yolo was the scene of some of the earliest 
raisin-making, and its output last year was 
130,000 boxes. Statistics show the entire 
raisin product of the State to have been in 
various years as follows: 1S75, 222,000 
pounds; 1880,2,500,000; 18S5,9 500,000 pounds, 
and in 1889, 32,678,000 pounds. The yield of 
the present year cannot be estimated as yet 
with any accuracy, but it will probably 
reach 45,000,000 pounds, for the increase in 
acreage is very great. Last year there were 
less than 60,000 acres of vines in bearing, 
but planting was carried on extensively. 
Perhaps 10,000 acres of new vineyards are 
in bearing this year, and the next year 
nearly 95,000 acres will be in full bearing. 
This should swell the output in 1S91 to at 
least 55,000,000 pounds. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
There are 157 farmers in the new Ver¬ 
mont Legislature. 
An agricultural experiment station has 
been established at Santa Clara, Cuba. 
An effort is being made to create a sugar 
school at Audubon Park Sugar Experiment 
Station, La. 
It is said that 25 Northern farmers have 
bought 3,000 acres in Alabama and will be¬ 
gin cooperative farming. 
The Vermont House has passed the bill 
authorizing the establishment of an agri¬ 
cultural college separate from the Univer¬ 
sity of Vermont. 
The Wilmington Abattoir and Cold Stor¬ 
age Company has been organized in Wil¬ 
mington, Del., for the purpose of slaugh¬ 
tering cattle. 
The New York Land and Irrigation 
Company has been organized at Aberdeen, 
S. D., with a capital of $100,000,000 to buy 
lands and sink artesian wells for irrigation 
In the James River Valley. 
What is said to be the largest market 
house in the world is being erected in 
Philadelphia at the corner of Thirtieth and 
Market Streets, for the use of wholesale and 
retail dealers. 
The Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange 
has made arrangements for an excursion 
to California in February, and has sent in¬ 
vitations to similar organizations in New 
York to join them. 
The Treasury Department has denied an 
application made ou behalf of the citizens 
of Trout River, N. Y., for permission to 
take grain from the United States to Can¬ 
ada to be ground and then returned to the 
United States free of duty, on the ground 
that there is no authority of law for the 
granting of such a privilege. 
The American Harvester Company was 
organized in Chicago last week with a 
capital of $35,000,000. It is the largest cor¬ 
poration of its kind in the world. It will 
manufacture harvesting machinery. The 
directors are Cyrus H. McCormick, Wm. 
Deering, Hon. Walter A. Wood, Lewis 
Miller, Col. A. L. Conger and Gen. A. S. 
Bushnell, all well known manufacturers. 
A decision has been rendered by Assist¬ 
ant Secretary Spalding that while no ob¬ 
jection is perceived to the practice of pass¬ 
ing free of duty cattle of undoubted domes¬ 
tic origin which may have strayed into 
Mexican territory, there is serious objection 
to the extension of the same privileges to 
the increase of such cattle (calves) which 
may have occurred during their absence in 
foreign territory. Collectors are instructed 
to enforce the payment of duty on all such 
animals crossing the line. 
The eighth annual meeting of the Cider 
and Cider Vinegar Makers’ Association of 
the Northwest, will be held at the Laclede 
Hotel, St. Lonis, December 16 and 17, 1890. 
The programme will be issued about De¬ 
cember 1, and sent to all cider makers on 
the secretary’s list, and to others who re¬ 
quest it. This promises to be a very inter¬ 
esting meeting. Papers will be read and 
discussed. An exhibit of cider-making 
machinery and appliances will be made. 
The testing of samples of vinegar will be 
an interesting feature of the meeting. L. 
R. Bryant, Secretary, Princeton, Ill. 
Agricultural Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations. 
An effort is being made to establish a 
second A. & M. college in North Texas. 
P. D. Hinebauch, Veterinarian at the 
Indiana Station, goes to North Dakota. 
The North Dakota Agricultural College 
offers a short winter course in agriculture. 
The transactions of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society have been published. 
W. I. Chamberlain has resigned the 
presidency of the Iowa Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. 
The Arizona Station has been organized 
with F. A. Gulley, director, and C. B. Col- 
lingwood, chemist. 
The Tennessee and Alabama Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Stations have issued 
bulletins ou road-making. 
The Geneva Experiment Station sends 
out a statement of what is being done and 
what is to be done there. Not much done 
yet. 
Cornell Experiment Station issues Bulle¬ 
tins 21 and 22 — Tomatoes and on The 
Effect of Grain Rations for Cows at Past¬ 
ure. 
The Vermont Station issues Bulletin 21, 
containing A New Milk Test, Testing 
Milk at Creameries, and Notes for the 
Laboratory. 
At the late meeting of the representa¬ 
tives of the agricultural colleges and ex¬ 
periment stations, 87 States were repre¬ 
sented by 103 delegates. 
A dairy school in Wales has just gradu¬ 
ated 29 young ladies and four young men, 
who were obliged to pass an oral examina¬ 
tion in butter and cheese making. 
Purdue University, La Fayette, Indiana, 
will hold a special winter course in agri¬ 
culture, commencing Tuesday, January 
13, 1891. Write to Prof. C S. Plumb. 
The alumni of the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College have formed au alumni 
club. The officers are: President, W. C. 
Parker; treasurer, C. L. Flint; clerk, F. 
H. Fowler; directors, Dr. Austin Peters, 
Fred G. May, W. H. Bowker. 
The chemist of the South Dakota Station 
states that one ton of pine straw contains 
the fertility found in a mixture of 300 
pounds of cotton seed meal and 100 pounds 
of kainit, or 150 pounds of nitrate of soda 
100 pounds of kainit and 50 pounds of su¬ 
perphosphate. 
The Michigan Station issues Bulletins 65 
aud 66, Planting for Honey and The 
Plum Curculio. In the first Prof. Cook 
describes three plants, the Chapman Honey 
Plant, the Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, 
aud the Melissa, which he is growing in 
an experimental way for bee food. The 
second tells all about the curculio aud 
the methods of fighting it. 
The Mississippi Station issues Bulletin 
13, Feeding for Milk and Butter. It 
was found that for milk a ration of Lespe- 
deza (Japan Clover) and cotton seed was 
the most economical for that part of Mis¬ 
sissippi. Corn meal is too expensive for 
use in that State and cotton seed is cheaper 
than cotton seed meal. It is also claimed 
that, the cheapest milk ration is also the 
cheapest butter ration—if no consideration 
be given to the quality of the butter. 
Who wants to make poor butter ? 
Farmers’ Meetings. 
New York farmers’ institutes will be 
held at Granville, December 1—2; Sandy 
Hill, December 3—4; Quaker Street, Decem¬ 
ber 5—6. 
Wisconsin farmers’ institutes will be held 
at Clear Lake and Bloomer, December 1—2; 
New Richmond and Chetek, December 3— 
4; Knapp and Rice Lake, December 5—6. 
The Massachusetts State Board of Agri¬ 
culture will hold a public winter meeting 
at Worcester, December 2—4. Noted 
speakers from several States will parti¬ 
cipate. 
Farmers’ institutes in Indiana will be 
held at Angola, December 1—2; Tobinsport, 
December 2—3; Auburn, December 3—4; 
Evansville, December, 4—5 ; Kendallville, 
December 5—6. 
The Michigan State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety will hold its 20th annual meeting at 
Kalamazoo, December2—4. The programme 
covers a wide range of topics. An exhibi¬ 
tion of winter fruits, flowers and vegetables 
will be made. 
The 14th annual convention of the New 
York State Dairymen’s Association will be 
held at Walton, Delaware County, Decem¬ 
ber 9—11. An interesting programme is 
offered. Premiums will be offered for but¬ 
ter and cheese. 
The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the 
New York State Cane Growers’ Association 
will couvene at the Fairport Grange Hall 
on Tuesday, December 9. to continue two 
days. Ladies especially are invited. 
Samples of this year’s product will be ex¬ 
hibited. 
The 24th annual meeting of the Kansas 
State Horticultural Society will be held at 
Topeka, December 2—4. A feature of the 
meeting will be free entertainment provided 
by the citizens. Exhibitions of fruits, 
flowers aud garden vegetables are desired. 
An interesting programme is offered. G. C. 
Brackett, secretary, Lawrence. 
Condensed Correspondence. 
W est Mill Creek, Pa. —Crops not very 
good; farmers discouraged. Wheat, fair 
yield. Barley, half crop or less. Corn, 
fair. Oats, half crop and light weight. 
Hay good, but not much clover seed. No 
apples near the Lake Shore ; few of poor 
quality further south. Potatoes, large 
yield, but rotted badly ; whole fields not 
worth digging. Other vegetables plentiful. 
Grapes, an immense yield ; as high as six 
tons per acre. No pears, peaches, plums or 
quinces to speak of. Wheat, $1; barley, 
75 to 90 cents; oats, 50 cents; corn in ear, 50 
cents; hay, $5 to $8 per ton; potatoes, 90 
cents to $1.10 per bushel; grapes about $55 
per ton; cabbages, 4 to 8 cents per head. 
c. w. z. 
Wango, N. Y r .—The wettest fall ever 
known. Wheat lookingiwell. Pastures and 
meadows never in better condition, espec¬ 
ially the newly seeded. Mice are making 
havoc with meadows where the aftermath 
has not been mowed or fed off. Potatoes 
scarce and sell quickly at $1. Some farmers 
are selling their butter to grocers for 18 to 
20 cents; some are getting 25^cents. Apples 
are mostly sold at $3 to $4 per barrel. Will 
hay be higher in spring? There is but little 
corn fodder in the country. It is best to be 
saviug, even in times of plenty, c. H. F. 
Dover, Del.— Unfavorable fall for seed¬ 
ing; too much rain. Crops mostly short. 
Corn a lighter crop than was expected. Pota¬ 
toes nearly a failure, owing to rot. Sweet 
potatoes aud tomatoes only good crops 
grown. Wheat has a fine start, though 
sown late. Stock still on pasture. Times 
are hard, aud, thanks to the McKinley Bill, 
likely to be still harder. Little change in 
markets. a. g. s. 
