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Experiments with Seed Corn.

Correspondence Country Gentleman.
The majority of farmers in Smelling their seed
corn preparatory to planting in the spring gem
orally discard the tip and butt grams. This is
done under the impression that these, for some
unknown reason are not as good as the rest of
the ear.
Three years ago, DIR. Sturtevant, director of
the New York Experiment Station, called atten-
ton to this fact gave the result of his expert
ment, and asked farmers generally to test tho
matter as fully as possible, and just what
difference there would be. Along vita many
others, | tested it. the first year selecting one
hundred grains from each portion of the ear,
and planting them by themselves, giving as
nearly as possible the same kind of soil and
cultivation. The first year the difference in the
yield was greater than would naturally occur
in three different plats of corn. There was some
difference, however in the ripening. the corn
that was planted from the tips ripening first and
that from the butts last.
have kept up the same experiment for three
successive years, believing that the first trial
was hardly sufficient to fairly test the matter.
AS result of three years testing as fairly
could, can but confirm the first years test.
lifc-and this year planted in addition plat
with Southern Pride. with the same result. The
seed was of my own selection having had the
same kind of corn ever since IL was sent out, six
or seven years ago. l selected only the very besl
each year. with the idea of at least keeping it up
to the standard. The corn from the tips of the
ears will ripen first. that from the middle next,
and that from the butt last From experiments
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Elsewhere,

ST. LOUIS. Oct % Cattle - Receipts $50;
shipments, 1.4o0. The market was slow, and the
bulk of the supply of inferior quay native shipping
steers ranged at $405.25; native butcherng steers
So 25 al; mixed lots of butehering stuff s. 3. so;
stockers and feeders, $2.2503.5O; grassfed Texas
Hogs Receipts. $500; shipments, $500 The
market was active; packing grades, So. 2O03.45;
Workers, $3.45 $3.50; butchering grades, $3.50
3.65.
Sheep and Lambs - Receipts, 11OO shipments,
500. The market better, and firm for best
grades; common to medium native sheep. $202. so;
good to choice muttons, S2. 6O0315 lambs, So. % a
$50; Texas sneep, $l.75025O.
CHICAGO, Oct 29.-The Drovers' Journal reports:
Cattle-Receipts $500; shipments, 5000. The
market steady and Is head of fancy steers sold
for $500; shipping steers $50. 5O05.7O stockers
and feeders active; cows bulls and mixed ST. so a.
$780, through Texas cattle dull at $22503 West
ern rangers steady natives and half-breeds, 1925 a
Hogs-Receipts, $4,000; shipments 1900 The
market was strong; rough and mixed, $3. 2O03. As;
ga1ss53g and 5 s sps light weights
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts. $1,000 shipments, L.
0OO The market steady: natives, $203.7O:
Western. ST :750325; Texans. $1.7503; lambs, per
head, $404.75.
KANSAS CITY Oct. 29.-The Live Stock Indi.
Gator reports Catte-Receipts, 3,437; shipments,
lO,92s The market was active for feeders others
closed steady; exporters 1O054O; good to choice
shipping steers. $4.7505.o5; common to medium.
$4.4O04.7O; stockers and feeders, So. So 03. 90:
cows, 81 80; grass Texas steers $2.4O03.1O.
dOgS-hecelpCS, SOoU; shipments Z,ISO. The
market opened weak and closed stronger; good to
choice $3.3O03.4O; common to medium, SD. 100
1926.
Sheep-Receipts, 493; shipments none. The mar
ket was steady: fair to good muttons, $2.5O03;
common to medium. 81. 500225.
NEW YORK Oct. 20. - Beeves-None received;
for sale; dressed eef slow at Chase " cwt for
natives 5s07c for Texas and Colorado natives; ex.
ports. go cattle $50 quarters of beef, and rs
carcasses of mutton.
Sheep and Lambs-Recepts, 9, 300; dull and lower.
with bad finish and number of carloads to carry
over sales in lots at So. $3.50 ~ cwt. for sheep
and 81 so 05.65 for lambs. An exporter paid 81 rs
as ~ cwt for small lot of wethers
Hogs-Receipts, $500; steady for live hogs at
$3. 7004.20 " cwt.
EAST LIBERTY. Oct 29.-Cattle-The market
was slow: PRIME $5 $3.50; fair to good $45O05
common $4,000. Receipts, 60S head shipments,
437 head.
Hogs-The market was dull: Philadelphias So. rs
1885; Workers.. S3.6O03.75. Receipts, 400
head; shipments, 200 head
Sheap--The market dull and unchanged. Re-
ceipts, l, 200 head; shipments 500 head.
CINCINNATI. Oct 29.-Hogs firm; common and
light, $2.7503.70; packing and butchers, So. 400
$40. Receipts 1898; shipments, 1868.
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According to the Medical World every farmer
wears ont, on the average, TWO wives and halk
agriculture cannot be carried out by any rigid
RUE. Inc son OF no two fields is precisely alike.
or oenehu by the same treatment
There are said to be carried off from tho .o;y
nine pounds of lime in twenty Il We bushels Of
oats and fifteen pounds to thirtyeight bushels Of
barley. There are thirty-fve pounds of lime in
two tons of clover, lao pounds in twentv-svs
tons of turnps and go pounds in nine tons Of
potatoes. Some soils contain al abundance of
lime for thousand years. while other soils re-
quire an occasional application of lime as ferti-
liZer.
Extensive reports to the New England Home
stead from seven hundred correspondents ndi-
cate that the potato crop of New England and
New York is fully onethird below the average.
and trifle smaller than last year The average
is about the in 1884, when it was Is per
cent below full average. Late potatoes have
rotted to large extent in western and northern
Vermont and the shipping counties of New York.
Washington county, N. Y, which is one of tina
greatest potato counties in the country is so az
hicted with rot that whole fields are being
plowed under and some large growers will not
have enough tubers for family use. vast
quantity of potatoes are being worked up at
starch mills, the product of which will be-
greater than for three years past
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Foreign Stock and Money Markets.

LONDON. Oct 29-5P. M-Government bonds
Observation-Disclosures & Great Western irsts.
1864; Atlantic s. Great Western seconds 1105
Canadian Pacific, 1911 Erie, ll244; Erie seconds,
s5s; Illinois Central, 1873; Mexican ordinary,
23a; st. Paul common 90s; New York Central,
I05s;Pennsylvania, 157; Reading 111s. The bull
hon in the Bank Of Egiand increased fl734 AL
during the past week. The proportion of the
banks reserve reliability is now 80 3-l6 per cent.
PARIS, Oct 29.-Three per cent rentes. sOf
I25c for account The weekly statement of the
Bank Of France shows increase of 685, 000f
h gold and decrease of |, 581. 000f in silver.
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INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
Trade q Little Dull, Yet Ahead of the Cor
responding Period Last Year.

Trade Little Dull, Yet Ahead of the Cor
responding Period Last Year.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct 90
For a few days past trade has fallen in volume
below that Of the early Part of the month, yet
averages considerably in excess of the CORE
spending period in 1884 in nearly all depart
ments. Grocers seem quite we'll satisfied with
the business of this month. The demand for su
CARS has fallen off somewhat, and prices are
shaded some on our quotations. Coffees are
steady but not in strong position. Boston
commercial papers say of teas In greens, the
prices Of extra gunpowder were lower all around
and first young hysons were easier. while other
grades sold fairly Pingsueys showed good
strength. The better grades of Japans were
hardly up to last week, but otherwise the prices
were unchanged. The Offering of Formosas was
the largest on record, and naturally opened
rather timidly. but grew stronger and prices
were fairly maintained. Amoys were easier on
the finer grades, and Congous were barely up to
last week. Florida oranges are in rather short
supply but the demand is good. Lemons are in
fair supply and in good demand The demand
for nuts is good and improving at steady prices
The produce markets are fairly active. Arthur
Jordan, in his Price Current of to-day
says In poultry little improvement
may be noted in the market to-day,
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extending over thirty years, have come to the
conclusion that If tits desired to secure early
maturing corn. it should be done by selecting
the tip grains for seed
have always been very careful in the selec-
ton of seed corn, taking pains in the fall to Sc
lect only the very best, and securing it before
there was even chance of its being injured by
frost This plan have always found to be .
profitable one, and, if followed up closely, will
keep mp the quality Of the corn. 1t was not for
the purpose of securing better grade of seed
corn that the experiments were made, but
simply to see what difference there would be i'm
the yield, the quality and the time of maturing.
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LOWER PRICES FOR WHEAT.
The Market Closes at the Lowest Fig.
ures of the Day.
Corn Also Closes Lower. in Sympathy with
Wheat-Provisions Quiet and Steady,
with No Marked Change
MONEY. BONDS AND STOCKS.

Active Inquiry fog Bonds for Investment
The Stock Market Dull.
NEW YORK, Oct 29.-Money on call was
easy at "a per cent
Prime mercantile paper, 405 per cent.
Foreign exchange was quiet and unchanged.
The total sales of stocks to-day were 297, 2S2
shares, including the following: Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western, 1885, Erie, q, $50;
Lake Shore, Al, 268; Northwestern, 1886; New
York Central, IL, 1893; Pacific Mail, 1928;
Reading. 24.770; ST. Paul, 45,038; Western
Union, IL, 900; Northern Pacific preferred, S,3l9;
Oregon e. Transcontinentai, 500.
Government bonds wero dull and strong.
State bonds quiet and weak.
The demand for railway bonds for investment
continues active, at advancing quotations, and a
large number of issues were traded in to day.
generally in small amounts The sales aggre-
gated So 365 900, of which Erie seconds contrib
uted 1913. 900. The stock market to-day was
dull, hesitating feverish and irregular. and, tax
ing the day as whole, weak. The total reported
sales were less than 10000 shares. St Paul
and Lake Shore, with transactions aggreSating
II. 600 and 45,000 shares, respectively, and Erie,
with 81 200 shares, and Reading, with %, 600
shares contributed over 46 per cent of the
days business. The market which was
AFTcGuldf al the OpeuluR, duU OutiuS hOoV VI ehC
forenoon, became somewhat steady, and so con
tinued until about o'clock. During the last
hour. it was weak, and closed. as compared with
last evening with net losses of ! to I, and with
exceptional losses of / per cent. in New York
Central and II in Lake Shore. Norfolk e. West
ern and Canadian Pacific are also down II
PEORIA Decatur & Evansville is per cents
lower. St. Paul opened unchanged, at SO, and
in the forenoon rose per cent, but
lost the advance, and more later
in the day. and closed at the lowest
figure reached. Northwestern is also down g. at
the lowest price of the day but the fluctuations
in this stock were only per cent. Lake Shores
first price showed loss of !, and it declined in
were limited to ! per cent, but the decline in
tho last hour was per cent, and it closed at
S08. Reading rose per cent. in the forenoon,
but lost all the advance and ] more by P. NJ
The other coal shares are down to ! per cent
The fluctuations in Louisville q Nashville were
per cent, and the decline, as compared with
last evening" is !.
The parties who are working for decline
were aided to-day by rumOrs that there was
cutting in both passenger and freight rates
again in the West. The report that Commits
sioner Fink had called meeting of the trunk
line presidents for tomorrow is denied. 1t is
not known when they will meet again.
Oregon Navigation earnings for the third week
of October show an increase over the same week
last year of $41, 1893. Illinois Central earnings
for the same time are off 49, 653
The market closed with the following prices
bid:
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It will be remembered that Mr. Woodward,
who resided in Lawrenceburg, Ind, was sent to
Paris; that he remained there for some years,
and returned as professor of art to Cincinnati;
that in few years he returned to Paris and con-
tinued his studies until the consuming hand Of
death was laid upon him, when he back to
his aged parents. who had in the interim re-
moved to Indianapolis to die. His fate was a
sad one. for his eminent abilities we'll fitted him
for high place among the artists of the world,
and but the commencement of his ambition was
realized when he was taken home
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good Com quiet but steady. Beef-Extra Inds
mess, SIS per tierce Cumberland cut, 3Ss
per cwt. Lard-Prime Western, 3ls Cd per cwt
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 29.-Corn dull and lower;
mixed, 49c; white and yellow, 4905Oc. Other arti-
cles nchanged. The market very quiet.
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Rye-No. g. nominal
Bran-Easier; $1,000 bid; held at Sill rs o. t.
Hay-Quet: choice Timothy, $12 bid; No.
Timothy, SLIPS bid; No. 2 timothy, $40 12a bid,
held at $10.75
RECEIPTS BY RAIL PAST TWENTY -FOUR HOURS.
Wneab, bushels H. ZOO
GRAIN IN STORE.
Oct. % 1885,
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the receipts having cleaned up we'll, and
| prices are firm. But no substantial advance can
| be expected from present rates. Don't hold back
| the turkeys. There are great many OF them to
come In TINS season, and prices now fully as
| good as they are likely to be. Coarse and heavy
| young roosters same as old now. The egg
market is active and firm at lie loss off. Butter
| Good, fresh stock, has had better sale, and
there is no surplus of table butter the market.
The provision market is still under cloud and
packers talk low prices for hogs.
GRAIN.
The position of the local market is much the
same as Wednesday. The attendance on
Change to-day was small, ard bidding tame. The
Board of Trade Price Current says of wheat:
In local circles we note about the same condition
of strength and activity as yesterday No. 2 red
is &c higher, and the general tone, in sympathy
with other markets. is steady Futures quiet.
We quote:
No. Mediterranean. o. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90
NO. 8 Mediterranean, O. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 91A
tso. reu % -
No. red, o. t. -------.---.---....------- S9I2
Unmerchantahle o. t.--..-....--..--.- 90
Corn-The feeling is little better than yester-
day, but prices about the same. Receipts
fair, with offerings more free. Future delivery
OF new corn has "A better demand Eastern mar
kets &C lower We quote:
No. white, o. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ala
No. white, o. Observation-Disclosures. 4212
No. 3 white, O.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 40
No. yellow, O. AZ
No. yellow, 0. 411e
New No. yellow O. t.-..-.-..----- 81 Ii
Old No. yellow, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 40
New No. yellow, O. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 80
No. 2 mixed O. t.. Al
New No mixed, o. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3312
Old No. mixed o. t.-.--...--..-...-.. 40
New No. A mixed o. Observation-Disclosures. 81
New sound ear o. 80
New October O. 81
October new No. mixed o. t 33
New November, o. 3212
Oats-Firm with a fair local demand. Re-
ceipts very light. We quote:
No. white o. %
Light mixed, o. t. Observation-Disclosures. 25
Mixed o. Observation-Disclosures. 2514
Rejected o. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 231e
Understandable, o. 20
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29-The market is unchanged
in any respect and the demand and movement are of
the moderate proportions usual to this period of the
season.
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Cotton,

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Cotton-The Post. in its
cotton review Future deliveries lost 800 a
$1,000, reacted 1-10OO2-l0Oc and sold at the third
CALL 100 bales of November at 9.44c; 100 bales of
March, 9.78c; 100 bales of April, 9.99c and 500
bales of May at 10000. Futures closed steady,
5-1OO03- 1000 lower than yesterday"
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 20. Cotton easy; net re-
cepts, 1857 bales gross receipts, 14,2S7 bales;
exports to the continent 5000 bales sales, 5000
bales; stock on hand. 1853, O9S bales
GALVESTON Oct 29.-Cotton easy net and
gross receipts 1912 baes exports to the continent
1904 bales sales, 1852 bales; stock on hand, "a,
455 bales.
MEMPHIS, Oct. %. - Cotton dull; riddnp.
1-16c: receipts, 3,71O bales shipments, 4 962
bales; stock on hand. 49,453 bales; sales, 5000
bales.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 29-Cotton steady; middline.
9lec sales 500 bales shipments, q 831 bales stock
on hand, ,613 bales
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Oils.

NEW YORK, Oct 29.-The petroleum market
was much more quiet, and with downward tendency.
1t opened at $110io remained comparatively steady
during most of the day at $1.1Oss01.105s, with an
occasional sale as high 81 lO7s, and at 81
from which it broke late in the afternoon to 81 O93s
rallied to S11O1s. broke to 81 O95s and closed at
$l.O97s bid The sales z, ISL. 900 brls.
BRADFORD Oct 29.-National Transit Company
certificates opened at $1.1012, and closed at
$1O97s: highest price, 81 IL; lowest price, SI.O94;
runs, 6S, l42 brls total shipments. 80,722 brls;
charters, Al, 81 brls; clearances. 3e220oO brls.
OIL CITY, Oct 29.-National Transit Company
certificates opened at ST. 104 and closed at 81 90 s
highest price, 81. 1O7s lowest price, $1O96s; sales,
Z665 600 brls clearances 772 900 brls; charters
Al, 81 brls shipments, 80, 718.
PITrSBURG, Oct. 29.-Petroleurn fairly active
and irregular. National Transit Company certificates
opened at $1.103s and closed at l097s; highest
price, 81 1913; lowest price, $1.09ss.
TITUSVILLE, Oct. EDUCATIONAL Transit Com
pany certificates opened at 81 1Ol4, and closed at
SlO97s highest price, $11O lowest price ST. 09l2
ANTWERP, Oct. 29.-Petroleum 19f SOC paid
and 19f 62i2c sellers for. fine pale American.
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Export grades. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1905. 40
Good to choice shippers 45OO5.O 90
Fair to medium shippers --.----..... 1864. 25
Common shippers and feeders. -......-. 800 03. 60
Stockers- Observation-Disclosures. 2.5003.OO
Good to choice heifers- Observation-Disclosures. 34O03.SO
Good to choice Observation-Disclosures. 32O03 60
Fair to medium and heifers. ...... 25O03. 90
Common COWS and heifers. ..-.-.....-.. 1902. 25
Veals common to good 3OO04.75
Bulls. common to good --..---------- 17502.75
Mixers common to good. 90 90 045.0
HoGs-Recepts, 1850; shipments, 1880.
Quality fair. Market opened steady at yester-
days close; packers and shippers free buyers;
closing firm; all sold.
Select lights S3 5503. go
Select heavy and medium .---.--...-. 3.4503.55
Mixed loads straight. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3300345
Heavy roughs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 27oU3.2O
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Receipts none; shipments,
none. Quality only fair; market dull; prices
about the same.
Good to choice grades. So 1903 10
Common to medium grades ..---.------. 1902. so
Scalawags, per head 250 rs
Lambs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 27503. SO
Bucks per head ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1908. 90
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LIVE STOCK.

cal SuppIy-HOgs Firm-Sheep Dull.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. %.
CATTLE-Receipts, 100; shipments. 200 Local
supply light-mostly butcher grades-and quail
ity generally common. Market steady at un-
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