ge 500 THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 17, 1 
; agi fruit, A mons prenh measiired just below 166 inches Of course this diminution in size is due to the warm 
circumference, h 
was said to wéigh 1901b. | dry summer weather which continued up to the 
French, i gutter io s y Spee a Ib. E ens a | time of the ripening of the crops, so that the grain 
welch’ repeta e Se a: | did not properly swell; but against this we may set 
pie ho f: BAe mee sy t i 5 s cg me tie the fact, that for the most part Wheat eat has been har- 
Swi Hen and a koledrion of Gourds, many of | vested in good condition, and so’ the weight of this 
them grown for show merely—very curious and | small grain per bushel is this year found to be some: 
what above the average ; hence, then, good br 
will be made, but we much doubt if corn will continue 
so cheap as it is at present. 
Should it do so, much will be consumed for > 
; of 
pretty. 
The collection sent by the market gardeners of the 
Gennevi ea 
temi of lied with sewage, 
t e 
z tables 
ginal broug a cake of all kinds is at a maximum 
there in two years. The nig feo - Chinese | price 
Tgnamnes ( (Fans), Sweet Potatos, 
espec 
Pump- Th howe st that at the 
is wever, a curious circumstance 
wan ii Ens yt Ag neng and $ some sam present moment Wheat, for its jha and genih is 
"Thet evilliers’ wasa combined exhibition, but | ©S*P& any other sae “Ta thi ray iv 
really included some hundreds of exhibitors, for there | Which we never before recollect. In this 
were 108 entri d some of these represented entire | things Wheat is reco feed as 
villages devoting themselves to one particular but the position is so anomalous that we are persu 
of cultivatio: is has certainly turned a a of | it cannot last, and we therefore advise a little atit, 
as much will depend upon the kind of winter which 
ñ. 
er sewage to admirable and economical accou 
= may be before us. Should the winter be mild there 
THE FARM. 
Foop Prospects,—Now that harvest is not only 
over, but much work has beén accomplished a 
the future in food production for man and the animals 
n below an 
means y hie at the 
low price which at present prevails. 
under h is charge, it will be Well to look to our present 
THE HARVEST tase pce Fong Ott. 5 
_—The com in the Nort 
two-thirds of ving alread 
cumbed to the fell disease, and the cry is still they 
© 
rt 
it 
> 
d t propitious 
go; a fact which should n oubly anxious to | weather for the ingathering of the crops, advantage of 
- duly estimate the probable yield of the Wheat crop. | which was fully taken to secure as as possible 
Now, as a this latter, we must confess to a | in the best sero order. Latterly, “however, the 
large di intment, which ma one er ney nsett 1 
be put in the aa jeran forth when cus OF plang of fa n, but almost Pae sf accom- 
panied i cold winds, ea i me wed by fine, drying, 
any evil results, 
y 
that our deficiency from the estimate when growing breezes, ntd a 
and in bot the cole oOo of any fields of 
ranges from one to eh nage an acre, thi eripe 
white and red Wheats—e.g., we estimated the pr Barley then outstanding. 
bable yield at harve ta as reaching ten sacks per acre WueEAT.—In point i quality and yield per acre it is, 
hs Ky infallible touchstone, the bushel, tells us that undoubtedly, the best crop of the season, and the aver- 
me is over om sacks, ze that eight sacks age yield will be considerably in 1872-73 
will be for us a goo 
for this we ` 
te n looking into the free ofsi out o: emish, riers 
ao Slieig i to be the i aa 
y trade vate arket ei millers is anticipated. A 
eats of 1 nig an thick- ia of te tee oun at we ices, farme ill a 
n prices, rs Wi 
. set, as wats bg ik ee oe the grains Of | most unwilling to do gy later on the pari must 
ae corn prove to receive its ordinary supplies, 
a Tatts bers soma EN destructive, BARLEY.—This cro 
nd to be 
With regard to the latter evil, as affecti 
ckyard. vary very consider erably, an it 
> feared that the greater portion will be deficient in the 
desiderated by the mi 
spr 
i of 
pan ge gene 
e great bulk of 
i EOT having 
as | See tl a eae re is TA 
yers of the 
yet deere. week as 41 to pe b 
meal from 
and yielc 
z RAE ne Vea, ee 
that after it is garnered the grain is even more liable 
to destructi For the present, then, as Boe this 
of the United States, as shown by ou 
x 93) or 2 per ĉ 
873. The increased acreage, howeve 
r cent., raises the © prospective vidas to nearly 
upon last year’s actea 
ATS.—In New En 
Maine, from W i 
cént. less than the average m 
wi i 
other States fall below average, rangin from 
gon to 47 in Kentucky. The tep 
educed condition aré: New York, 88, drou 
rust; New Jersey, 72, rust ; Pennsylvania, 8, 
nd grasshoppe Throughout -e pers Atl 
Gulf States both drought and ru 
vail e same is true of An oy: 
ness . In the States wes 
the Mississippi 
ought uiid ih chinches to re 
cro The average for the 
is a condition of 86. a 
RYE.It is above averagé in all of the New 
and Middle States except V 
matter, we may say that we think we are to 
the full extent bit Thsëtt even 
n èrop. 
te eee full: “SU ranch aout llent crop, and the quality good. 
é tae of disease having made ts ppearan ni got 
ss parts: country are not without foundation, but the 
o of the smallness of the tubers are now advancement that, it is 
vi S E me. tar daniy, frym manah urther 
asmall berry | 
with regard te 
s see them so small ; 
cite differences in samples, thus :-— 
O a. f averag r above, fosa aen ; 
: a Yogettier, Mie a aha i 
And again, as repatis Vetches, it is hpi, ss: | tame , thah re Re BP gy 9 
Ro full-sized V. Vetch seed i is to be met with at market, WHEAT.—The average condition of the Wheat ie 
arley rae 92 per cent. of a full 
bate? little is rey south of Kentucky, ae 
ew England and Middle 
about average. In the north-west it is 
cent., and on the Pacific coast a lit e 
The late crops in the north-west were i 
tities in ginia 
ü x 
cant. I 
satisfactory. I as the grasshoppers red 
average to 
ToBACC ur returns foreshadow that less 
halfac Tobacco will be gathered ‘this 
n 
Kansas strikes the base-note at 20 
West the ept vaili ht is Sufficient tó 
e w , which, in con 
general 
the Teduced acrea; é 
droughts, Colora ise beetles, grasshoppers, 
either singly or co ace fp a ‘preyed on 
reater or less &xten ese have tom 
reduce the condition tn. Kans 
ravages m4 the Colorados have been m 
Che Villa = | 
co) potting H 
simple enough, and quite within we 
y any one versed in gard ening, 
| frequently occur, and the blame is ig ok 
or rather the person who supplied them. 
decorative p 
the base of the 
to swell if desirous of making a quar 
Then the oa mere hen potted, 
the — and form a dense healthy mass 
