The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-04-16
CONCERNING FARMERS.

0N'N 80 N-SSf mtg 1"Soi - '"7'i -
thirteen barren heifers. $3.50; 100
hogs at So to 81.
Louisiana is 10 have a State fair as
ISOLATION, with Gen William J. BehaD,
leading citizen. as president. The
capital stock, $4,000, has been sGbscri-
bed. grounds at Baton Rouge have been
purchsed, and efficient agents are push
ing ahead their work TO be in readiness
for a grand State fair in October next
Each parish will be given handsome
building lots on the association grounds
free OF charge, on which to build houses
for parish exhibits and headquarters.
The COurieT-JOnrnal has published
reports on the growing wheat crop
from one hundred and fifty of its cor
respondents in Kentucky, Tennessee.
Southern Indiana and North Alabama.
The outlook in Kentucky and Ala
bsma is for a nearly average crop;
while across the Ohio and in Tonnes
see the prospects are not so good. This
is especially the case 10 the border
counties of Indiana, where cold and
wet weather has played havoc with
the grain.
Col. J. E. DELPHI reports land sales in
This county duller than ever known
before and prices as having declined
from 10 to 25 per cent. within the past
twelve months. The few sales being
made are to horse breeders, and even
that class Of buyers are scarcer than
usual. Colonel DELPHI thinks that an
upward movement in farming lands is
not likely to take place this spring, as
he has anticipated. He is probably the
hest autority on Bluegrass lands in the
State.-Trades Journal.
The Department of Agriculture has
just issued its annual report on the
number OF farm animals 10 the United
States on January 1. The sheep in the
country have increased in numbers,
probably because of the comparatively
high prices ruling for wool in 1899
The total increase in sheep is a little
short Of 1000. 900, the increase in value
$4,000, 900. The clip for 1889 was 262,-
100000 pounds; the clip of 1890 there
fore may be set down roughly at 272,-
1000 pounds, an increase Of about
per cent.
The Farmers Alliance of Kansas, in
convention at Topeka, passed the fol-
lowing resolution Notwithstanding
the fact that John J. Ingalls, has repre-
sented Kansas for is years in the
United States Senate, it is a difficult
matter for his constituents to point to
single measure be has ever champion
ed in the interest Of the great agricul-
tural and labOring element of Kansas,
and we will not support, by our vote
or influence, any candidate for the
Legislature who favors his reelection
to the United States Senate.
The Department of Agriculture has
just Issued its annual report on the
number of farm animals in the United
States on Januaryl. The sheep in the
country have increased in numbers,
probably because of the comparatively
high prices ruling for wool in 1889.
The total increase in sheep is a little
short of 100000, the increase in value
slO,0OO.OOO. The clip for 1889 was
262, OOO,OC) pounds; the clip of 1890
therefore may be set down roughly at
$4,000, 600 pounds on increase Of about
4 per ceDt.-Trades Journal.
In central Europe the fields have
been freer than usual from snow
which, however, has now fallen ex-
tensively on both sides OF the Alpine
and Carpathian ranges. The Deem
Der Ploughing and sowing of wheat
were larger than usual in Germany
and Bohemia, aud were up to an aver
age in Austria and Hungary. The
weather of January was dry from
Zanzig to Trieste; that of February
being marked by a moderate but not
excessive rain aud SNOW fall. The
rapeseed at The end of February was
of very good promise, but since March
came in the frOsts have amounted to
Is deg, on the plains, and the seed
lings have lost color. The agricultural
outlook in Hungary has been darkened
some by frOsts, as in the open country
there has not existed enough snow to
adequately protect the sowing of 1889.
The days are so sunny that there is
thawing under the solar heat for four
or five hours, but as night falls the
temperature goes down from perhaps
40 deg. to 20 deg, or even lower. The
effects are naturally disastrous.-Mark
Lane Express.
It is q circumstance worth noting
that cotton still sells at pretty good
price, so that the farmers Of the cotton
States are upon the whole faring bet
ter in the present crisis than those Of
New England OF the West, where corn
and wheat are the main crops. They
are besides enjoying in come sections
an enhancement Of their property
values by reason Of an industrial boom.
For the most part this prosperity, such
as II is, is founded on hard labor alone,
with a plain way of living. The hard
days of the war and of the reconstruc.
ton period prepared them well for the
present tug with hard times, and the
results are now showing themselves.
There is not so much luxury, fine llv-
ing aud display as in the old time, but
there is substantial comfort and abund-
ance. Even in those reconstructed
States where cotton is not much grown
u plain mode of life and hard work
have placed the farmers as q rule in
position of independence. There are
mortgages here and there. but they are
not as frequent as in the Northwest
Baltimore Sun.
There is evidently no danger of a
coal famine. The supplies Of the
United States are of almost unlimited
duration while China alone has 400
600 square miles Of coal lands Swift
erlaDd, Germany, Bohemia, tie low
countries and Denmark, 5000 square
miles; Russia. $4,000: the island Of
Formosa, 10,OOO-some Of The veins
Icing SO feet deep, the rest of Europe
and Asia, $4,000 square miles; India.
$4,000, and Japan, 5000 square miles.
Two hundred fboDssnd souara railee