Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-01
CROPS. Markets. WOOL AND FARM.
ING ITEMS GENERALLY.

AS correspondent of the Agrieultur-
al Department, the writer of this has
had nothing but favorable reports to
make this season. At this writing, the
dry weather, if of much longer duration,
is likely to be disastrous to corn and
pasturage. The other crops are mostly
made, excepting it be late potatoes. In
the meadows the growth of timothy is
very tall. In fact all vegetation has
been very luxuriant, wheat and oats
growing taller than usual. There
should be enough hay and straw to put
us through hard and long winter.
GRAIN MARKETs.-The condition of
the grain markets at this time is very
uncertain. Wheat is higher in some
places, lower in others, and unsettled
everywhere. The immense yield OF
this grain gives the market downward
tendency, while some,strength is gained
by the prospect of a European war.
Prices cannot, under the circumstances,
be relied on. Corn is also very much
unsettled, in consequence of the con-
fiicting reports as to the prospects of the
new crop. Values are not materially
changed. Oats may be reported as
sympathizing to some extent with these
other grains, but prices are generally
weaker.-RHsboTg StOckn'an.
WOOL.-The growers in this section
have as yet not realized their 4Oc for
wool. The buying is slowly advancing
toward them, but not thy4Oc, except in
some sections where bI Ms have more
grit than here, although some excep-
tional clips have brought 4Oc and even
SOC, quite number Of fancy clips in
this county bringing that price. The
Washington Reporter says:
Robt. Wylie has bought about ., 900
pounds of wool in Washington and
Fayette counties, at prices ranging from
30 to 80 cents per pound. He purchased
of John G.. Clark, of Franklin, his clip
of about thousand fleeces, for so cents,
and of Asbury Struble, of McClelland
township, Fayette county, about 1000
fleeces, at 50 Gents. This wool is pur-
chased for q. ID. Workman, of Wool
cottville, Conn.
Help in the harvest field has been
more abundant than usual this season.
Last year it was difficult to get help and
crops suffered by getting over ripe. This
year everything is being put up in good
order, and since the rains ceased farm
ers all seem to be in good humor, and
immense crops are being gathered.
d.,
a recent meeting of the Elmira Farm
ers' Club nearly the entire session was
taken up by discussion of how to get
rid of sprouts and bushes. A members
field had been cleared, but the roots of
the stamps would sprout and sprout,
grub as they would. Any Ohio, Penn
sylvania or West Virginia farmer would
have acted as if he were sitting on net
ties, listening to such a discussion, in
anxiety to tell the inquirer after inform
alton, who was none other than w. A.
Armstrong, editor of the Husb0ndmaR,
one of the best agricultural papers pub
liShed. '"rurn sheep and calves on the
field; they Will kill the sprouts"
THE BIBLE VS.. GLUCOSE AND OLEO-
MARGARINE-ln an essay read before
the Chautauqua Pomona Grange, the
writer quotes the Bible against these
latter day articles of food. How could
there be promised land flowing with
milk and honey when glucose and oleo-
margarine were on the table? And
furthermore the Bible says: Butter
and honey shall be eat, that he may
know good from evil" The esssyist
winds up rs follows:
And finally the only effeetual rene
dy is to be sought in stringent laws
against selling anything for what it is
not, and the people have got to take.
this matter in hand and urge upon
Congress q general law that shall put
an effeetual quietus upon these nefari-
practices.
There is the point We need laws
that viii compel everything to be sold
for what it is.
JERSEY CATTLE IMPoRTATIoNs.-
Cattle are still being imported from the
little island of Jersey, although like the
american" Merino sheep of to-day,
which are better than their ancestors Of
1872, or any that can now be imported,
so may the Jerseys that we have in
America to-day be better than any that