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bit the market is weak Seeds are mod
erately acfIve, at prices quoted. The wool
market continues in an unsatisfactory condirlOn,
both East ana West. Boston paper says of
last weeks business: "rhe past has been the
dallcst week in the wool market we have had to
notice for some months. 1t is evident that
manufacturers are we'll supplied for the present
and are holding off. IL would he much better
for the interests OF the trade generally II they
would make clean sweep OF all the desirable
wool now Oh the market, and give the business a
rest some weeks at least before the new clip puts
i'll an appearance. A failure in the trade also
had an untavOrahle influence on the market, and
these facts combined have had a tendency to
depress prices for the time being. Some few
forced sales have been made at lower figures,
but generally speaking the market remains
about the same as previously noticed, and good
lines of feeces are held at previous prices, AZ
holders are confident that every pound of 1t Will
he wanted before the new clip is available"
GRAIN.
The local wheat market shows little signs OF
Improvement Receipts are meager and the de-
mGnd light; bidding on Change is of such n
character as 10 Indicate that dealers are at sea
regards the future of this cereal. 81 .0Sl9 was
BID for No. red track; 81. II for No. 2 Mediter-
fanean.
Corn-Immediate delivery is in good demand;
sic track hid for No. . white, soc track high
mixed, ana 1913 track for mixed; receipts fair.
Oats are active, prices tirmer. offerings light.
4Sc track bid for No. white; 4314c for mixed.
Hav-For prime timothy $1,000 bid. Bran
S1370 track. MduliDgs $1S.
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are natives of hot climates very early in the
season, so that they will have a long time in
which to mature They gain nothing by the
practice, but, on the other hand, generally
fail in raising crop. Many of the seeds do
not terminate, and the plants that appear re-
main stunted during the entire season.
Farmers should also follow the practice of
undergraduates in cultivating vegetables
when they require it. They should not
neglect them because field crops require at
tenton. Good vegetables cannot be pro-
duced on land partly occupied by weeds and
grass. A garden must be kept clean, or it
will not be profitable. The growth of garden
vegetables must be FASTENED in every way
practicable. The quicker they grow the bet
ter will be their quality, and the growth of
them will be rapid according to the cultiva-
ton given. Many vegetables, like cabbage,
caulitiower and radish, are of very little
value unless they are grown quickly.
Ordinarily it is better to locate vegetable
garden at considerable distance from the
farm buildings. The only objection to hav-
ing it several rods from the house consists in
the trouble in walking to it for the purpose
of doing work or procuring vegetables for the
table. The advantage of having it at a suita-
bic distance from the farm buildings consists
in freedom from shade and the visits of
fowls There is no more necessity of having
fence around plat of land planted to veg
etables than one planted to potatoes or corn.
There are many advantages in having gar
den-plat surrounded by grassland, for, using
the pillow, cultivator, or harrow on it, the
horse can turn on the grassland. The grass
can be kept short for the distance of a rod on
each side. Nearly all vegetables can be raised
in drills to the best advantage. The drills, or
rows should run north and south, so that
all the plants will have fair amount of sun
light. The rows should be straight SO the
soil can be stirred with horseshoe without
injuring the plants Beds are only desirable
for raising herbs and other small plants.
Walks are unnecessary and their care calls
for a large amount of labor.
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President Barry, of the Western New York
Horticultural Society says the cultivation
of the ground in pear orchards must be con-
fined to near the surface and without much
depth.
Experiments made with cypress and wal
nut, and cypress and cedar. all prove that
they will rot each otter while Joined to-
gether, but on separation the rot will cease,
and the timbers remain perfectly sound for q
long period.
In many parts of Spain farming opera
tions have made little or no progress since
the expulsion of the Moors. The same sort
OF piow is used now as then, oxen tread out
the corn after the ancient Oriental fashion,
and women separate the chaff from the corn
by tossing the grain up in the air during a
breeze of wind.
COW will give more milk and make more
butter on a bright snnshiny day than during
one of a dull. dark character. The animal
eats more heartily, digests better, while the
vital forces are active during the pleasant
day. These facts are not ID themselves very
important, yet they suggest the query
whether close stabling of COWS in winter or
summer is better than giving them the run
of yard or pasture lot
The English farmers work their wheat
lands several times over in order to pulverize
them and admit air. As a result wheat an
nually averages over twenty-eight bushels
per acre, and this, too, on soils that have
been constantly cultivated for centuries.
While they are thus careful in cultivation,
they are not neglectful of manure. the crop
always paying for whatever ga pense may
have been incurred, as well as profit,
w. f. Brown, in the Rural New Yorker,
says: Il find more profit from the cows that
come in fresh in the fall than from those that
are fresh in spring Not only does butter
bring better price, but think the cows
give more milk in year under this manage
ment, for just when they come to the time
when they would naturally begin to shrink
largely in their milk they go on fresh pas
ture and increase the flow, while COW that
is fresh in the spring begins to shrink just at
the season of failing pastures, and the transit
ton from green TO dry feed and great fall
ing off of milk is unavoidable"
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Chicago Times.

Chicago Times.
Farmers will not succeed in rendering the
production of vegetables very profitable till
they adopt some OF the practices OF market
gardeners. They will be wise if they follow
their example in rendering the soil they de-
vote to the production of vegetables very
rich by the application of manure. Soil may
be too rich for the production of small grain,
but the chances of making soil too rich for
the growth of garden vegetables are very
small. They will also find it beneficial to
initiate professional gardeners in sowing
seed at the time that is best suited for its
germination and the production of plants.
Onions, lettuce, parsley, spinach celery and
peas designed for early use should he planted
as soon as the frost is out OF the ground and
the soil is in condition to work. Beets, car
rots and parsnips should be sown as early as
the soil and air become tolerably warm ana
the cold rains of spring are over. Lima and
bush beans, sweet corn, melons, squashes
and cucumbers should not be planted in this
latitude before the middle of May, and the
planting may often be delayed to good adj
vantage till the middle of June. Radishes
turnips and other plants mature
so quickly, and remain in good condition for
so Short a time. that their seed should be
planted at several times during the season.
As rule the seeds of plants of tropical or
senli-tropical origin should be planted much
later than those that originated in cold
climate. Many take contrary view of this
matter, and plant the seeds of vegetables that
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Farming North and South.
Springfield tMass. Republican,

SprihgheId (ala5sJ republican,
The Southern farmer is now being told
that the remedy for all his hardships lies in
variety of crops. If nothing but cotton is
raised, of course corn and wheat and meat
and hay must be bought; as a matter OF fact
they are bought from the North, and the
North has achieved prosperity with mixed
farming, while the South with its single crop
is poor and in debt So the planters are
urged to raise more grain and pigs and less
cotton, and an increase in the acreage of
wheat and corn is paraded as the surest sign
of States prosperity.
But in the North the tendency is directly
the other way. The old plan here Was for
the farmer to raise upon his own land almost
everything. he required, and for
with their own hands almost everything
they used and wore as well, but this rule has
been more and more departed from, until in
recent years special farming has come in
which furnishes counterparts to the "all cot
ton" plantations. Take the New England
dairymen. They buy wheat and corn from
the West, often ali they use, and one man in
an out-of- Jhe-way Vermont town has profit
ably devoted his acres to grass, and bought
potatoes for his own table. There is a grow
ing feeling here that mixed farming is profit
less except i'll 4 degree necessary for econ
omical management, and that in the compe-
| tltion which has come with railroads and
modern appliances, there is little chance of
success without taking advantage of the di-
vision of labor, in the wider sense, which is
brought about by ''specialties."
| The fact is that, North and South, the
question is merely one of economy and not
of principle 1t is certain that some Yer
mont farmers who feed Illinois corn TO their
cows make more money than others who
raise their own and plainly more than the
farmer could by raising it himself and that
ends the argument. 1t costs money to carry
corn from Chicago to New England or
Georgia, and each section and each farmer
must determine whether it is cheaper to
raise it, or to raise something to buy it with.
Because the cotton-planters are not generally
prosperous it is not necessary to blindly
adopt farming as a cure-all. The South has
a change in progress akin to that which has
left the old-fashioned farmers in our own
chill towns" wondering that the old methods
do not bring the old profit. How do l make
both ends meet?' said substantial North
Carolina farmer the other day, II use inn
proved machinery, manure heavily and pay
cash.
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COMMERCE..
Review OF the Local Grain, Produce, and
Provision Markets

Review OF the Local Grain, Produce, and
Provision Markets
INDIANAPOLIS. April 3.
There Is no lodging the fact that general trade
thus far this year has been slow in developing,
but the weather for sixty days past has been I'M
favorable to even fair trade. Our oldest Iner-
chants, however, have little doubt that a few
warm spring days will create brisk trade. The
most seriously adverse feature Of business is the
increase shown in the numbers and aggregates
OF business failures. The statistics of these dis
asters show the ebh and flow OF true prosperity
more clearly, perhaps, than any other signs and
the failures OF the past quarter have heen more
numerous than during any corresponding period
since the great cataclysm of five years ago The
Brcastreet statis.!cs show 2.s9 failures dnrng
the quarter, with liabilities of ~ 325, 900. Both
in number and amount this is a very serious in
crease of about so per cent on the totals for the
same time last year. and about double those of
two years ago. The grain of comfort to be ex-
traeted from the reports is that The proportion
Of assets to liabilities is So per cent against SO
for the first quarter of 1892, and so for
TIE same time in 1881 To the credit of
indianapolis the per cent. of failures as com
pared with the number OF business men has
been less proportioDa:ely than in any other city
whichtnakes pfetehslohs even or being Grade
center. In faer, not Ole of the more prominent
houses is shown in the list of failures.
With the cheerful sun business frightened up
considerably to-day. The Gry goods men, who
have a large and complete stock had n good
trade. and groeers talked more eheerfuy. No
change in prices. The produce men are having
matters mueh their own wav, Int prices well
sustained, and nigh for this season of the year
The egg market is firmer. There 10 nothing new
10 report in connection with the buttrr market.
f.iaa b rf ffrtna htt
J""r stock ia as dun as ever, ana in large supply
Potatoes continue fairly active IN small way,
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Produce AIarkeSs.

NEW YORK, April 3.-Cotton easier futures
steady: April. So; MAY, 10000; June, 10.l Sc:
July, 10 7c: August, 10.3Sc; September, Be;
October, o SOC; November, 9.79c; December,
8 Soc January, 90c. Flour dull receipts,
81, 900 brls; exports, $50 brls; good TO choice.
81 6007. Wheat-Cash lots Il a l9e lower: OPP
tons 81 pic lower closing weak; receipts, SO, 900
In: exporIs. 10000 In; ungraded winter red.
S1.O401. 24le: No. red $l.1s; Steamer No. .
red, Sl.lsQl.l8la; No, red. Sl.2I l40l 81 lo;
certificates, 81 y isd .22S4 delivered; Si.I9Is
+. o. H.; ungraded white, S1.o1 "a; M. /
white, sales of 500 bu Mt SLIP; M. red, April.
sales of 20S,000 bu mt S1.1aO1.l97s, closing aJ
$l.19; May, sales OF l,036,000 hu at 81 81 le0
l22, closing at 81 81 ls; June, sales of 204, 900
bu at al .22le0l %, closing vt 22ls; July,
sales of l2S,000 hu at 81. 0l2Ol. 81 u, closing
at 81 ,2Ota; September, sales OF $1,000 bu at
II. 20 a .2Oss, closing at LEO. Corn unsettled
and i20lc lower; receipts, 1000 bn; exports,
$4,000 bu; ungraded, 90 966ioc; No. 8. GA a
90 lac; steamer, 64&063c; M, ., 65l9866sc;
ungraded WHIT, 65c; steamer white 90 lsc; No. .
April, 657s0664c, closing ut 63 7sc: May, 667s0
67l4c. closing at 667sc; July. 90 l90 694c, clos
ing at GO Zoe: August, 69ls 170lsc Oats opened
lee higher, hut closed with the advance
pretty well lost; receipts, $4,000 bu; exports,
rome: mixed Western, 51855e; white Western,
53l2G57c. Hay firmcr Coffee quiet and shade
higher. Sugar quiet and unchanged. Monsses
duh and unchanged. Rice quiet. Petroleum
steady; united certificates, 95i4c. Tal0w quiet
at s48s 7-l5c, Resin steady at $l.70Ql75
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and TX 12x12. SO 25 &c, 14x20 roofing tin, Sc. .;
&c, 20x2S, l350a 4; block Tin. in pigs, 29c; in
bars, SOC, Iron-27 B iron. &C. p G iron, 7c gal
vanized. 331s y cent. discount. Sheet zinc, Sc.
C0pper bottoms, Sic. Panshed copper, 39c,
Solder Is 017e. Wire. 40 y cent. off list
LEATHER. HIDES AND rALLOW.
LEATHER-Oak sole. $50 tlc; hemiocl1 SOLE %
033c; harness. 33 940c skirting, 40 43e; black
bride. p doz, S60O65 fair bride, SCOTS p
doz; city kip, 60DSOc; French kip S0c0S 20
city calfskins, s5e0$l.25; French calfskins,
HlDEs-Green. 6la07c; heavy steers, 7lsc;
green salt, S0S4c; green saited calf lie; dry
third of the above prices.
SHEEPSKINS-$l a %.
TALLOw-Prime, a. l9c.
GRbAsE-Brown, 005Iac.
white, SOSl2c.
BUTTER Creamery. fancy, 81 033c; dairy. &C.
lected. 1S020e; choice country roll, 150l6c;
poor to fair, lO012c.
EeGs-snppers paying 15c p doz; se.,ing from
store at &c.
FEATHERS-Prime geese, SOC " ID; mixed duck,
25030c p 10.
HoNEY-New. % 025c in and 2fb cans
PoULTRY-Hens, lie p II: ROSTERS. &c " 10,
ducks, 81 p doz geese, 1920 p doz; turkeys, lac
Y 10 for TOMS l5c for hens.
SEEDs-WhOesale prices Glover, 1925: timo-
thy, -; bluegrass, 81 40; orchard grass, So 20
WooL-ru6-washed aud picked, 33035c; un-
washed. medium and common grades, if III good
order, 22023c uuwashed fine, 1o020c; fleece
washed. II light well-wasned, ana IN good
order, % 03Oc; coarse and coarse Cotswold IL
1sc; bury and unmerchanta0e according to
their value.
PROVISIONS.
WHOLESALE PRICEs-Prime steam lari, IL Lee.
Short ribs, Zoe. Sweet picked hams, IL l4ci
shoulders, 7l4c.
JoBBING PRICEs-Sugar-cured Hams-Ten to
II lbs average, l3a4c 10 TBS DO, 13L9c; l7l9 TBS
do 3l4c; 20 lbs do. 13c Breakfast bacon, 13 l9c.
Spced rolls, lie. Shoulders, 9loc. California
hams. loo. Bacon-Clear sides, lie, clear backs
or bellies, lie Dried beef, 1712c; II. Porter X
Co.'S, &c. Picked Meats-Bean or Clear pork,
P brl 200 lbs, S23; extra mess do, $40; family
beef do. $2l. Lard-kettle rendered, in tlerces
13c; in half brls, l3lsc Sausage-Bolosna, IN
cloth, &c. IN skin, Sl2c.
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Oils.

PTFTsBURG, April 3.-The petroleum mar
ket was dun; united certificates closed stronger
at 9A3sc; refined. gle 0Sl4c, Philadelphia deiiv-
cry. AT the afternoon session the market con-
timed without anlinatiOn; opened at 94c ad-
vanced and closed at 90 3sc. Sales were made of
sos, 900 bils.
BRADFORD, Pa, April 3.-Petrolenm was
firmer; opened ut 9414c; lowest 90 7sc; highest
95s4c; closed at 95asc. Sales were made of
Monday, 9s,937 brls. Charters, Is, 254 bris ""
TITUSVILLE, Pa, April 3.-On opened at
94iec highest, 95sic; lowest, 935sc; closed at
95Sc Shipments, 1sJ ana I'd, 85,562 brls
Charters, LIST and I'd, none Runs, LIST and I'd,
1894 brls.
ANTWERP, April 3.--Petroleum, 19l4f
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FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
FINANCE.

The New York Money Market-Stock Trans
acknowledging Prices of Government Sc
neutrality-suspicious. of General Stocks.
NEW York. April 3.-Money sails per cent,
closing offered at l Q per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 607le per cent.
Produce exports for the week, S5.754,0 600.
Government bonds, extended tives. lac higher;
four and n halls, registered, 1ec lower Other
wise unchanged.
Railroad bonds quiet, but strong.
State securities duh and featureless.
The advance in stocks. which began about IL
this morning with Northwestern, has been main
tanned through the day. In the last hour the
market was less active, and prices declined Ice
to So from the prices at q but closed firm, leav-
ing n net advance for the day of Il to IA on
the general list, the latter on st. Paul e. Oregon
and Transcontinental. But aside from this,
there were exceptional advances of 15s in
Rochester Il Pittsburgh and East Tennessee nre-
ferred, 2 in Colorado Coal, and 3's and 34 In
North tern.
Tho Post saws: "The unexpected upward
tnrn In the stock market TODAY shows that there
is underfnne Of strength which may develop
any day INTO a more important advance. and
that. ihnush the advance of to-day may he
partly or wholly lost tomorrow there is less dis
pOsitiOn to sell stock short. II is we'll under
stood that there is large short interest ont al
ready, ana that n great many loans OF stocks are
being rene wed each day, especially in Union Pa
cifr, New York Central, Michigan Central, and
several others"
The transnctions Mt the Stool; Exchange to-
day aggregated 10000 shares. to-wit 5000
e. Western, 6,00O Denver IL Rio Grande 5000
Luke Shore. $4,000 Northwestern, 13,ono
Northern Pacific, 1000 ST. PAM, 1000
Union Prritic, 5000 Wabash, 6.ooO East Ten
nPssee. Virginia g. GEORGIA. 5000 Oregon e
Transcontinental, and $4,000 Rochester e.
Pittshurg.
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ANTWERP, Aprll s.-Petroleum, l9l4f.


NEW YORK April 3.-The exports of do
nestle cottons for the past week were 2,742
packages; making for the expired portion of the
year total of 39903 packages, against &c. 5S
package for the corresponding week last year.
39,414 packages for the same time IN 8Sl and
29,S97 packages for the same time in 1880. The
COTTON goods market is very quiet. Something
is doing in good styles of prints and ginghams.
WOolens are very quiet in demand, Int good
movement is in progress through deliveries on
orders,
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ST. LOUIS, April 3.-Cotton active and firm;
mlddng, 9lac; sales. 900 bales; receipts, 1, 100
bales shipments, 500 bales; stock on hand,
90, 800 bales,
MEMPHIS, April 3.-Cotton quiet at 93sc. Re-
ceipIR, 500 bales; shipments, 1875 bales; stock
on hand, 65,746 bales; sales LOO bales.
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Wool.

PHILADELPHIA, April 3,-Wool quiet and
unchanged.
BOSTON. April 3.-wool quiet and unchanged.
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.Foreicn Money and stocl. Mnrl.e.

LONDON. April 3-Government bonds-Con-
fols. for money 1O2 3-16. Railroad bonds
Illinois Central. 15ll4; Pennsylvania Central.
GAS New York Central, 79la; Erie, 13s ls;
Reading, 1878
PARIS, April 3-Rentes. eof 42Iae,
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Miss NELLIE MCGUIRE, 27 South New Jersey
street, Indianapolis, says: Browns Iron Bit
tiers cured me of nervousness"
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The Vegetable Garden.

NETWORK. April 3-Lead dun and heavy;
others unchanged
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NATIONAL BANK
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The Evening critic., 1883-02-03
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

Mr.. John Boyer, who fell and badly in
.iured himsefa short time ago, is still con-
fined to his bed.
At n called meeting of the City School
Board, held at the Braddock House yester-
day, Mr.. Edgar Snowden was reelected
chairman and Mr.. Herbert Snowden clerk.
The search-warrant that was issued by
the Mayor on Thursday to j. H.Wilkerson,
who claimed that during his recent incar-
ceration his wife had disposed of all his fur
nlture, was yesterday served and the goods
recovered, and the Mayor decided yester
day that the articles recovered were the
property of j. II, Wilkerson, and turned
the same over to him.
There were two dodgers and no prisoners
at the station-house last night.
The market this morning was better sup
piled with country produce than it has been
for some time, and prices were shade
lower.
An enthusiastic meeting Of the Reform
Club was held last night, with q: W.
Francis presiding. Speeches were made by
several members.
The attachment case of H. o. Claughton
against the city, to satisfy a claim of 800,
Corporation Court.
The alarm of fire about $3.50 last night
was caused by the explosion of coal oil
lamp in a house ON South Washington
street. The fire department was out, but
did not so into service.
Mr. b. f. Baggett had his hand badly
mashed yesterday by it being caught in
sausage machine.