Diverslflea Agriculture.
Coleman Younger, one of the most ex
perienced and successful stock growers
on the Pacific coast, contributes to the
Press the following on the above theme:
The great interest of our farmers should
be to know -what to do and how to do it,
to mako their labor and capital give the
largest return.
They nave tried -wheat and barley;
fn;a; n i i cenerous keei). will
compelled to mortgage their farms. This ! Kexnember, you can t squat
single croppine: can succeed oulv in iso- lieia 11
domestic animals, I would select the
Short Horn Durham to place on the
farm to be certain to get the largest re
turn for money and labor expended,
Most farmers are compelled to keep
cows. Then the first thins: to do is to
buy a Short-Horn bull to grade up. If
you have but a half dozen it -will pay;
and the larger the herd the greater the
pronr. Tiie near secret 01 success in
this business is patience, and good care,
ensure success.
on a large
thout large
Bankrupt Laws.
I
means;
one, an
press of the country, and the text of
a bill on the subject has lor some
time been in course of preparation
. 1 ? i. T- 1
unucr me supervision oi juugo
Lowell of the L. b. Circuit Court of
Massachusetts, lie has consulted
with the leading commercial associa
tions and manv of the Prominent.
i : i Jiem. nor cim vou own uuu wimuuL mrirn . .
uiu crumuiiir cuu sutxueu ouiv in iso
lated instances, and then only -when the
crops are good and prices high. Meat,
bread and vegetables have to bo pro
vided for families, either by raising them
or by purchase. Any farmer in any por
tion of Pacific Coast can produce meat
bread and vegetables in great abundance
for family use; in some sections -with but :
little labor, and m others it will remur
by every farmer on the coast; and the i 4. "J - uIUh-, ou,1,m,uu , ouu, Wl b.....6a ... muu
sooner this course is adopted will pros-; liy? V10 "'o,10 uu luu IJ.m ' "ers, there wouiu oe no necessity ior such
perity follow. The three articles of food i u.ua limsl jeioie V u "-1.8, 11 laws, it has not been lound eonven-
mentioned above will cost a family of six P!10, n'J,m I"-1?, ,ULU R81tlf-'s ient lor the States to regulate the re
in a commendable light. Judire
Lowell mar not Imvn Hurnnndfd in
The question of a bankrupt law is reachino-the hannv mean whieh mi
I. . . . - A I ! .1 It .1 . . O I
ueiiiir extensively uiacusseu dy tne onn M.. ii,m m i.. M
t - 4 ! J
cupy, but lie lias taken a Iunr stndo
toward it. Such defects as this law
UnqueiicliaDl Fires.
The failure of all thetiempts to ex
tinguish the lire which has Keen raging
in the Keeley Enn colliery foveral
weeks, it is 1 eared, will add anotherlo
the perpetual burning mines that now
may be predicted confidently that
they aie not so fatal as to leave the
law unworthy of a fair trial.
but you can, bv patience, grow ,caaI Jind business men ol the ccun
d by 'that time ybu will learn to try, and it is oelieved that a bill will
handle them, while on the other hand, be ready to present to the Congress
starting with a large herd without ex- to meet next week that will obviate
penence, you are most likely to make a Li,c defects of former laws on the
lailure, at least lor a time.
maj have can be discovered only af- exist in the Pennsylvania anthracite re
ter it has been in operation, but it gions. The greatest of these is probably
tuat in tne jugular vein, near uoal uas
tle, this county. This has been burning
since 1885. Louis P. Dougherty opened
this vein in 18u3. The upper drift of the
mine was above water level, and a huge
fire was kept in a grate at the mouth of
the mine in winter to keep the water
from freezing in the gutters. One night
in the above year the timbers of the drift
When it was
Sum ces of Disease.
The ignorance or indifference of house
builders and house buyers is responsible
lor most ol the diseases arising from
The trap alone is no protec-
sewer gas.
caught lire from the grate.
, .!! ' J .. L ' : ' n subject and include new principles tion. us it is oxnosed to snub m.'.m.w n discovered the tire had been carried down
ouppobo luiiuui " a w .-u iiuiu oi . , . . ;t,. . nnrnhinn ltUnu the air hole to the lower drifts and was
common catlie, 1 WOUUl recommeiRl llim . , ' , , : T l1 Ti V ' 7 , bovnnfl pnntvnl Mvn minnr nnfprml fhp
i ii ' i.i i cua u,.ii n I'll is ol both creditors and debtor up. It is a tact. too. that a water trim uojonxi contioi. s.o mmeis enteieutne
e ,u "Va UIU1U,1BV. " l?u"" wi.,-1,.;. 1,1 will tmnsmif. snxvr .iWl.in it mine, hoping to recover their tools.
mum Tirn ninm inucrs ii-uiii !i niiinnin i 11 iiiivj iu 11 uuiu uu wiiyttouiiu hi " n --.w---...f-. iu i - - .
1 1 1. r
nrsflwn iiovcnns fim Mllll fn SfifM) noi' . "lgil gl UllU I1UI L ift
vnni- Tn f.cB f,...iof. r-nn vnir i MOW 111 tllC reach of lllOSt fai'mei'S
1-armors shouiii awaKe totneir interest
them cheaper, and a better article than
can be purchased from other parties.
Tm fiivmnr fm lut ?iii1 t lw inrlnnn1-.
mif. r 7,vnct,n,.r,nC -i,n ,-nfnn fn v..,;nnll 'liy such a county as Santa Clara and
or most, nf Sii.h 'rtiMM of food as :n-ft vn- many other counties in this State should
quired for family use. In doing this the j nfot bo1a!J f0'000 or l001
vmii of fnmilr w mi,,. n good fat beef steers annually? ith
oo.i ; ii m. i,i0fv;n, f f.n, our virgin soil and mild climate can Ave not
io ,,rtvtof wi.nn i,c . equal liny county in Scotland
Iations between the debtor and cred
itor classes without some sort of a
. . t r
iiinl :Ldd this iinnoi-fant industrv to tbnir local substitute in the absence ot a
other farming. Is there anv good reason general la w on the subject. While
each State may and does reirulatc
learn how to handle, to feed, and to man
age all kinds of stock, they learn to love
it. It keeps them at home; it gives them
-constant employment; it teaches them
patience, method and perseverence, and
in a large majority of cases they become
good and prosperous citizens,
"What a jdeasuro to see the farm stock
ed with the highest type of horses, cattle,
heep, hogs and poultry. In breeding,
feeding and cultivating this class of farm
stock in connection with other farming,
to my mind is the most interesting as
well as pleasurable, that men can follow.
It is the parent of good habits; it is the
with her worn-out soil and
cold, and to us inhospitable
climate i AYell, some counties in that
old country export to England 40,000
these relations between its own citi
zcus, it can have no authority out
side of its own territory. A writei
in the American drives a history of tenor of
I C '1
the bankrupt laws which from time of P"'i
1 1 ' ' ! ..IV 1 -TT-.I .
iiiw Juki giving iu on anove. unoui a
large ami perfectly straight pipe extend-
lrom the dram to the top of the
house, giving a free escape for ail
vapors formed in the sewer, no trap will
afford any degree of protection. The
traps are thus relieved from pressure and
made reasonably secure. These are the
commonplaces of sanitary science, but
the number of householders who take
the trouble to inform themselves upon
such matters is exceedingly small.
There is no doubt that any connection
between the street sewer and the in-
the house is a source
even with the "best
to time li;.ve been enacted in this
country and as often repoaled, and
makes a strong argument in favor of
generally approved constructions" to
rni -n
Jiey never came out. Tlic mine was
abandoned. Xo effort was made to mine
any of the coal near the burning vein,
although it was considered tho best coal
in the region, until 1S5G. Then John
McGinnis put in a slope on the east
side of it, below water level. He
struck the vein at a place where the ooal
was so thick that tv;o miners could keep
a large breaker supplied. "When live
hundred yards of gangway had been ex
cavated, the heat from the burning
Dougherty mino began to bother the
miners. iUcuinms attempted to open an
air-hole. The heat became so great that
the men were paid double wages to in
duce them to work. Thev worked
beeves annually, besides supplying their the pussa,re 0f some law of this char
own peop e. Co with me to old England t b Confess. Three times has
and see what the tenant farmers are do- i i t i 1 , i i
ing to make both
ends meet. To aid
'the Short fects and its failure to serve tho pur- J"1 bf properly tupped, and care :
nses. Now pose for which it was enacted. On en.to kcTP -u r
tl.P finosf -l iofi n I V ofifinsive odors will come from it. T
It J April 4, 1S00, Congress passed an act geueral adoption of this plan would
foundation of good living; keeps the lfc fthe; fee(1 .1X ?ontl 111 V10
family together; is interesting in its de- year with fog two miles aeep tucn why
Hc,. ,,?ai i,i onnitinn!-mi.l i,,i can two do tho same in this California
to i)rosperity.
The occupation of the farmer cannot x .
be overrated or overstated. They feed i byhoot
,1 -u. t L li it. . i.. : lmoress
rne millions, jucu luem ceasu tuuir ia -
linvc frt- i :JnTlr vftur nil.l filllMHO Oil- ' OU
IS
a uanKrupt law ueen triea in the
b'litea states, ana as ouon has it
' iw0 -..v. uu.i ""i i . ... .... . . I .,:i : i-i. i i i
rnnf flin cnlo,f 41m loUf hvnil nf oil H'fill VCnCil flfl heCUUSG Ot 1 II llfil'en t. flft. l-CBa'l,il' JU tuu UllA JUKI
-A. Vii t'. kllVy V kllU U U'JU X.riV-V& -S A tfc&AI " w- - - v w -
kinds of stofik. nnd fisnnci:illv the Sborf, fnets :md its fuilure to servo. I he r.nr. n? uu propeuj uipjieti,
Horn, for beef and daily jnirposes
if they can breed and grow
iii. r. l r .1 i. 1...11 i
41UUILJ ui uuui, aim ihuko uuuui iiuu , n .,1. isili n limfm'm Rvst.oiii nV
bankrupicy throughout the United
States which by Us terms was lim
itcd to five 3'cars, but it worked so
badh' that it was repealed in Decem
ber, ISO.'. Its in-eat evil results
t
1111
prevent the entrance of sower poison, entirely naked and were relieved every
These connections should be reduced to on mmutes. lunaliy the heat became so
the smallest possible number, Sinks do inGn that work was abandoned. The
not need to connect with the sewer. The mine was nooiled. Alter being pumped
waste from :ill the sinks in the linne i out men could again work for a few
best disposed of through a pipe discharg- llays- TIlG miue was Hooded nine times,
ing. not into, but over. . well-tanned McGmnis finally failed and the mine was
II 1 1 1 mi tt
Tl' flie ppcq. inen auanuoneci. ne nre nas oeen rag
cheese of good quality, and get rich at
climate and no rent to pay V
1 will give an incident 111 mv small
sues. Prom their ranks the mighty in
tellect is drawn that governs and con
trols the United States in all its depart
ments. All the presidents and most, if
not all, the distinguished statesmen and
generals of this country, irom ltsfounda-
Ijoyhood days to show how easy it is to prejudiced the honest public agains
impress the young mind and shape his .lU ' snch measures, and not unti
uuinu lulu lie: 11 inc. 11 iilii 111 itiiuui I -i o i i .1 I l
Lo-jri, was anotner uaiiKrupi
but
1800.
gentleman-
he
tion mi fo flie nresent time, were at one
-(-iivm f.ivmnv'd l-n-c finil lenvnml tlinir i Ul SOW
Kt.--4- lML.onna iii lifo'e lininot;5 oil t.lio frtvrn
until he took them away. So at
the appointed time he gave me a beauti-
shoto about six months old. I
her such attention as a Inn would
who thought he had a fortune in this lit-
ln time she had ten pigs, eight
rf llinm uriv liirrc 'l'liiv worn 'ill lilim
14 ' 'll. 1 . l 11 - 1 11... 1 1 X
irood foundation for the intellect to grow :wiu u arouu "u """J- -
niwl virion Tl,e eonntrv smndies f,fi ! nave never oeen as proud ol any prop
i. ' :..i ,.o .ifi, i.,.o;u erty since as I was of i
was another
act passed. It , operated
To keen them from 'roinff wild, little better than the law Ot
a cd 1 i
he promised me a sow-shoto if At the time of its pa.sago the eoun
I would feed them twice a dav l.rv was in ji distressed condition, and
purchased a farm that had a large lot of
hogs.
debtors were not slow to take advan
tage ol a law which enabled them to
i i t . i
(ffi I'll) III (H UMIICII
. .!- flirt fnvm lmivfli 'Pliniv nn'invi.
1. ' .1 l.l;i... L nn.trini. ii'rtvl' nytatiY-nci tlC SOW,
tlUli illlll llilUlt ill uul-uuui iiuia vinoinuo
a vigorous constitution. This gives
great commercial centers with brains,
muscle and energy that has astonished
the world in all the departments of in
dustry. It is the daily inquiry where
was so and so from I The time honored
answer is: JBorn in su
such a State; a farmer
wav from small beginnings up
and higher, until the great people seeing
his worth have made him a general,
judge, a senator; and every four years
they select one from among them, and
make him President. Then tako cour
age, farmers. All the world have to draw
their drafts on your ranks. Then make
farmers out of your boys, and if thej
have talent to fill high stations in life,
they will find their way up.
All the improved breeds of stock arc
more or less valuable to breed and raise
on the farm, and especially so in regard
to cattle. They fill a larger space in sup
plying families with the good things of
life than any or all other stock. It may
be said that any class of cattle is valua
ble to the farmer, lhis is true. Jiut
still there is one tribe which is pre
eminent in my opinion, taking beef and
milk of -a superior quality, early matu
rity,, besides other valuable considera
tions. The Short Horn is the grandest
and noblest animal of the bovine tribe.
The history of the Short Horn, for gen
erations back, is full of interest. The
perfection the early breeders brought
them to, by the exercise of common
sense in breeding and feeding them for a
long series of years, until they had estab
lished the perfect type, both in form,
pedigree and color: and that typo has
been maintained by succeeding breeders
with the utmost care up to the present
time. Their early maturity, the quantity
and quality of marbled beef they pro
duce at any age is most en
couraging to farmers; and when they
are bred for the dairy they are
as much esteemed for their milk and but
ter qualities as they are for their juicy
and succulent; beef. They have the qual
ity of crossing to great advantage with
all other breeds to an extent that no
breed of cattle can claim or are entitled
to. It is safe to say that all farmers can
and ought to keep more or less stock in
connection with other farming; and that
class of stock ought to be selected that
will be most suitable to the farm, and
will yield the largest income tphelp sup
port 'the family.
I think it is a safe rule to lay down
that any farmer of ordinary capacity can,
in a reasonable time, learn to manage to
good advantage all kinds of domestic
stock; for the education the farmer gets,
makes him jack of all trades. This being
a fact, then the first consideration is to
select that class of stock that will give
the greatest return.
The trouble with our farmers is to
change their mode of farming; to com
mence adding other industries to single
cropping that will ultimately keep the
sheriff from the door. Now of all the
were pressing
thorn very hcaviK. The courts were
kept bus grinding out bankrupts to
the exclusion almost ot all other
business. As a specimen of the work
ing of the law, it may be stated that
in Massachusetts alone there were
3,3S0 debtors, with aggregate liabili-
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everyday life. Early in tho morning and Llua 01 U1 oow,uuu,wuu, wm meu ap
late in the evening I looked after them, plications to bo adjudicated bank-
attention, runts during the year and a halt that
ty since as I wjus of that sow and pigs.
All my boyish attention was given them;
the became a part and parcel of my
ich a county, and in I fir.ew rapid1 wltJl su"h ftttent.10
Sr's son; worked his I ?hl J-"ea "ew country they require
innings up higher j bufc. Jlttle feeding. 1 hoy increase
od
eased
rapidly, and in less than three
years my father sold his farm to
j move higher up the county, and so my
hogs had to be sold. They were gath
ered up and sold for $100. This was a
great sum of money at that day for boys;
but large as it was, I loved my blue
listed hogs more than money. This early
training, the love I acquired for stock,
has shaped my course through life. No
man can succeed in any business unless
he loves it. My first start as a boy was
in hogs; next, fine horses; and last the
Short Horns. I have been breeding
this noble and useful animal for more
than 20 years. No business that I have
ever done has given me so much real
pleasure. Their beautiful color, massive
and finished form, their noble ancestry,
everything connected with them is interesting.
Tho one unfortunate thing in house
decorations nowadays, in the opinion of
Mr. 1. V. Edis, is the everlasting seek
ing after some novelty in papers, cur
tains, or other hangings. Everybody
wants to have a room different from their
neighbor. Decoration is being done as
a fashion, not from a real love for it. Of
course, we should not like to see room
after room repeating itself in decoration,
but why a few really good papers should
not be the groundwork of true artistic
decoration when the narrowness of
worldly circumstances pre vents the more
e laborate and morb expensive hand deco
ration in paint or distemper and let tho
rest follow from the design, there is no
good reason. If that suggestion should
be adopted there might be hope for real
art decoration instead of the cold form
ality and everlasting interchange of two
or three colors. As a critical writer on
art decoration lias said: ':If the papers
on our walls and the curtains we hang- in
our rooms were,eveu at second hand, but
the record of the fresh impressions and
tho graceful fancies of artists of our day
instead of being incumbered with me
chanical pattern work struggling to be
artistic, it would bo better than all the
present miserable striving after novelty."
Not to have what your neighbor pos
sesses is the bane of decorative art.
A tramp who lmd been badly treated at
Whitchurch "Workhouse, near London,
wrote on the walls, which had just been
whitewashed:
Tho Governor's name is Sutton,
The pauper's diet is mutton,
But you must not be a glutton
When you come here to lodge.
You'd better go to Andover,
Where you may live in clover,
By some far better dodge.
the law was in force. On March 3,
1S-18, the law, which in the meantime
had been declared unconstitutional
by a number of courts, both of the
United States and the several States,
was repealed. For a period of
twenty four years it was loft solely
to the State governments to enact
laws for the protection of insolvent
debtors. On March 2, 1S67, the third
and last bankrupt law was passed by
Congress, and for over eleven years,
until September 1, 1STS, with certain
amendments from time to time, con
tinued in force. While the country
continued in a state ot prosperity,
the law seemed to answer its purpose
in a measure, but with the panic ot
tkou diminution in ; " '
In the most city fet deep. J?l
.s in the main sleep- caVfcll over th.c
1873 there
sprung
up crop of
soon forget the long
but smiling
would-be bankrupts which, until the
repeal of tho law, and even until
now, has kept the courts bus. No
one who witnessed the scenes attend
ing the last davs of the old law will
list of anxious
debtors who waited at
the doors of the courts in every city,
to hie their petitions in bankruptcy
before it was too late. On the last
da) there were filed in New York
City 494 petitions ; in Philadelphia,
09 ; in Brooklyn, 130 ; in Chicago,
400; in Cincinnati, 100; and in
Cleveland, 100, while other cities
added their quota to tho vast army
of debt shirkers. But, continues the
same writer, the evils that were born
of the old bankruptcy laws are not
arguments against a law which will
protect the honest debtor and the
creditor alike. The folly ot the
former laws was in their permitting
rogues to ply their trade with the
stamp of legal it' upon it. Expe
rience should guard against the repe
tition of such folly; and in the case
of Judge Lowell's proposed law it
seems that the objection has been
skilfully avoided. Another evil of
the old bankruptcy acts, which has
been struck at in the one under con
sideration, is the enormous expense
which hitherto has attached to bank
ruptcy proceedings, and which al
ways comes out of the creditors
pocket. An endeavor has been made
also to accelerate tho disposition of
cases involving the settlement of in
solvent debtors' affairs, and in this
J particular the proposed law stands
care be
no
The
I' II 11 1 1 1
ioiiowea y a marioni diminution in
zymotic, diseases
1 t i i
nouses mere are sinks m tne mam sloop
ing-rooms, or in the closots connecting
with them. These sinks invito the
deadly poison to enter tho dwelling and
do it3 work upon the occupants when
their systems are least able to resist its
effects, during the night. All sinks,
whatever their construction, and par
ticularly kitchen sinks, should be often
and thoroughly freed from grease and
decomposing matters.
To any thoughtful person it is amazing
that people in general are so wholly in
different to the commonest sanitary ob
servances. The board of health is a late
product in the development of human
society. The machinery for protecting
life and property from lawless violence
had existed in a highly organized form,
ages before there was such a thing as
saDitarv science, and even nowthat sci
once is understood by few. As for the
masses, they go on heedlessly contami
nating their homes, buying and using
imijure milk, unwholesome meat and
vegetables, and unadulterated food. As
a result of the exertions of a few wiser
ones, we have sanitary officers, but it is
not thought worthwhile to give them the
necessary means of compelling obedience
to the laws. No doubt much has boon
accomplished by tho energy and perse
verence of some of our health otHcersj
but, after all, against many sources of
disease all they can do is to meet and re
solve that any person who shall keep
such a nuisance 'Shall bo euilty of a
misdemeanor." Now York Times.
Picoikvatj Ma:;. Prof. JJawkins has
come ail the way from England to tell
the Boston people, in twelve lectures,
what he thin lis ho knows about the
primeval man in tho eocene ago. He
professes to know something about it,
by a study of the rocks, and tho ilora
and fauna of the world. In the miocene
stage of tho world's history, there was no
place for mau ; but "we will get nearer
and nearer the period of man after a
while, although we may not at first
recognize him as ho originally ap
peared." In this connection the Cura
tor of the Pcabody Museum at Cam
bridge observes, in tho tenth annual re
port: "Dr. Abbott has probably ob
tained data which show that man existed
on our Atlantic coast during the time of,
if not prior to, tho formation of the great
gravel deposit, which extends toward
the coast from the Delaware river, near
Trenton, and is believed to have been
formed by glacial action. Erom a visit
to the locality with Dr. Abbott, I see no
no reason to doubt the general conclu
sion ho has reached in recrard to the ox-
istence of man in glacial tunes on the
Atlantic coast of North America."
The Irish journals recount with glee
that a noble lord in tho neighborhood of
Belfast had announced his intention to
pass the winter in Ireland. The pros
pect was not pleasing to Milady's French
maid, so she forwarded a threatening let
ter to His Lordship, who at once -"ordered
his carriage, drove to the station
and flew off to London," journeying from
his residence to the station "with a re
volver primed, capped and loaded by his
side, two other friends accompanying
him with loaded rifles inside tlie carriage,
while a" gallant colonel, armed to the
teeth, sat on the box by the coachman,"
the French maid in a rumble behind
laughing internally to a degree fatal to
corset laces.
Ix the Senatorial contest in New York
the Conkling faction holls the State
Committee and the machinery of thirty
three counties. Its opponents count on
a majority of two in the nominating cau
cus. Levi P. Morion leads the Conk
lingites. ChaunceyM. Depew, his chief
rival, has for fifteen years managed Van
derbilt's legal and political interests.
mg m the vein ever since. An area of
half a mile in every direction has
been burned. No vegetation grows
on the surface. In places the ground
has caved in, forming chasms a hundred
There is but a thin shell of
pit of fire . At night blue,
sulphurous flames issue from tho ground.
It is dangerous to walk across the si)ot.
Several persons have mysteriously dis
appeared in the vicinity during the past
twenty years. It is believed that in a
majority of the cases they have fallen
into the burning mine. Dougherty, the
original proprietor of the mine, attempt
eel to go across once. He sank to his
armpits through the crust, and was only
saved by courageous friends who ven
tured to his assistance. The stones on
the ground are hot, and snow never rests
there. Rain turns to vapor as fast as it
falls on tho bnrning mine. Millions of
dollars' worth of tho best quality of coal
have been consumed by the fire. The
Summit Hill mine, nearMaunch Chunk,
has been burning for twenty-five years.
It is believed that this mine was
set on fire by discontented
miners. Thousands of dollars have
been expended in fruitless efforts to ex
tinguish the flames. The Butler mine,
near Pittston, has been burning three
years. It was set on fire by a party of
tramps, who built a fire in the mine in
1S77. The lire is in tko upper drifts. It
is confined to an area of forty acres by
an immense ditch forty feet wide, which
was excavated between the burning
drift and connecting ones. The digging
of tho canal cost -j0,000. But for that
obstacle the fire would have communi
cated to some of tho most extensive
mines in tho Lackawanna valley, and a
subterraneous conflagration would have
swept under the whole of West Pittston.
Miners have worked in the lower drift of
the Butler mine since the fire broke out,
and thore are but forty feot of rock be
tween them and the field of the fire
above. Tho wator that trickles through
the roof is scalding hot. The temper
ature is so high that the men can wear
but little clothiticr. N. Y. Sun.
Tiie World's Grain Supply. Every
body is, or ought to be, interested in the
world's supply of bread the farmer, es
pecially, the price of whoso wheat crop
depends on the amount of wheat grown.
For the same reason the consumer has a
like interest in statistics bearing upon
this subject. The following carefully
prepared estimate of the wheat crop of
lbbO is from Bradstrcets statistician, W.
F. Ford. He says that in spite of an ap
parent su rid us of 27,000,000 bushels
over tho world's needs, prices probably
will be well maintained. The gross
yield of this country has been 455,6-10,000
bushels. . of which about 190.000.000
-
bushels will be available for export.
Tho countries most noticeably short are
Great Brtain, 120,000,000 bushels;
France, 12,000,000; Germany, 20,000,000;
Holland and Belgium, 14,500,000; and
Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal,
together, about 11,000,000. The remain
ing Europeon States have small sur
pluses, tho greatest, Austro-Hungary,
reaching about 20,000,000 bushels, while
in no other case does the excess go above
6,000,000 bushels. Russia is credited
with a surplus of 5,000,000 bushels. Mr.
Ford asserts that even this trifling
amount is more apparent than real, since
a Very large import of rye and Indian
corn will be necessary to make good the
failure in these staple crops.
Judge John V. Wright, the defeated
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, has written a manly and
patriotic letter, saying that he bows
without murmur to the verdict of the
people, while he rejoices that so large a
majority of both parties have declared in.
favor of the "strict maintenance of the
public faith, State and National." Ike
hopes for a reunion of the regular and
repudiating wings of the Democratic
party of the State upon a debt-paying
platform.
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