The Outlook For Farmers

The márket for baled hay growe and spreads rapudly. i Winter prices for the producís of the dairy and poultry yard have been such as to encourage everybody who can do eo to increase the supply. The lig fruit erop of 1891 niay not be repeated in Í892. 'Let im take care of the orchards 'and vineyards this yeair; be prepared to fight insecte and blights. i With ïaiir to good drait horses solling in Chicago at $135 to $200, and in good teams at $225 to $237 each, it appears that there is still money to Tue made in raisinig good horses. It is said that .Gernia.n soap makers we likely rto use thirty to forty million bushels of corn annually liereafter. Tlicy "n'ill extract the oil and use it In the manufacture of soap. The Bupply of hogs has been bo 'abundant that the high prices so genferally expected have not prevailed, önd the outlook lor an advance is unftertain. Abont eight and a haH ■million hogs %veire received in Chifcago alone last year. ' A íoreign fruit dealer reeently came to thls country to sell primes, but failed to niake sales. Upom inquiry he liearned that the quality of the California prunes was superior to, and the price lower than tho goods he offer'ed. Inetead of selling primes, he bought of one deaier in Philadelphia five loads of !the California fruit tind shipped them to London. We mentdon this incident to show the drift oí things, and the possibilities of fruit growing and selling in the United States. The price of farm land is going to be liigher. The nnoccupied lands of Uncle Sam's domain will soon be used up, and the people are growing land hungry. Tliose who can hold on had better not eacrifice in order to sell. This is true in a general way; of course it is not of universal application.