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Wheat  and  oats  have  all  heen  bar-  ones.  Cheek-rowing  is  not  practical  in 
vested,  and  most  of  the  oats  thrashed,  many  cases.  The  soil  is  productive,  espe- 
Farmcrs  are  busy  hauling  manure  and  dally  fitted  for  a  good  crop  of  witch 
plowing  for  the  Fall  sowing.  Hay  was  a  grass,  which  springs  up  luxuriantly  when- 
very  good  crop  in  Southeastern  1'ennsyl-  ever  the  land  is  broken  and  by  the  second 
vauia.  Wheat  was  good  in  Lebanon  year  of  ordinary  corn  and  potato  cultiva- 
Oounty,  and  only  fair  in  Lancaster  and  tion  is  thoroughly  and  evenly  distributed 
Lerka.  Oats  were  only  fair.  Fruit  of  all  in  every  part,  of  the  field  and  will  choke 
kinds  plentiful.  Wheat  is  selling  at  $1.25  out  clover  or  gracs  seed  to  a  considerable 
per  bushel,  corn,  $1.85 ;  and  oats,  45  extent. 
cents  per  bushel.  Some  hay  is  being  sold  #  Not  a  few  of  the  older  farmers  have 
at  $10  per  ton.  Not  muck  live  stock  be-  given  up  the  cultivation  of  some  of  their 
ing  sold  at  present.  Milk  is  quoted  $1.55  best  fields,  driven  out  by  the  rampant 
for  August'  by  Ilershey.  Others  pay  $1.50  growth  of  witch  grass.  A  top-dressing  of 
per  hundred.  Eggs  are  20  Cents  per  manure,  especially  the  dressing  from  poul- 
dozen  ;  live  poultry  10  to  17  ;  broilers,  20e  try-houses  on  such,  usually  moist,  fields, 
per  pound.  Farm  labor  is  somewhat  produces  bountiful  crops  of  coarse  grass 
scarce,  but  not  acutely  so.  Farmers  are  year  after  year.  Field  crops  of  all  sorts 
paying  $2  per  day  and  board  during  bar-  are  much  injured  by  the-  presence  of  the 
vest.  r..  F.  8.  robber  grass.  In  not  a  few  instances  the 
Sheridan,  Pa.  crops  of  corn,  potatoes  und  small  grains 
,  ,  are  but  half  crops  and  the  acreage  is  of 
Apples  will  be  about  one-half  crop  ;  po-  necessity  reduced.  The  present  season 
tatoes  nearly  a  failure.  The  bay  crop  has  been  especially  favorable  to  the  pest 
was  extra  large  and  harvested  in  fine  con-  whioh  overran  the  ground  while  the  crop 
dition.  \\ i  heat  is  good.  Oats  and  barley  was  unplauted  or  slowly  germinating, 
did  not  fill  well  on  aeoount  of  dry  weath-  The  introduction  of  small  silos  and  rais- 
r,‘-  *  orxT1Sx?  ls  lort  crol>*  c-  T-  ir-  ing  of  silage  corn  has  helped  out  on  a 
Cato,  -N.  Y.  few  farms;  toll  and  thickly  set  corn 
Apples  are  about  one-half  crop  with  yoar  after  year  is  not  as  favorable  to  the 
considerable  fungus  showing.  Potato  Brass  as  was  the  smaller  flints.  Rut  there 
acreage  about  one-half,  with  poor  stand,  arc  yet  remaining  the.  bulk  of  oar  lands 
some  late  pieces  showing  up  well.  Corn  in  the  condition  described.  Other  and 
poorest  I  ever  saw  with  small  acreage,  dmerent  systems  of  cropping  must  come. 
Hay  large  crop  mainly  well  cured,  some  Our  farmers  nave  too  long  been  liberal 
over-ripe  w  G  \  purchasers  of  small  gram.  Much  of  this 
Canandaigua  NY  '  ought  to  be  Taised  at  home,  but  there  are 
’  no  thrashing  machines,  no  reapers,  not 
Crops  of  apples  will  he  very  short  here,  even  an  old-fashioned  grain  cradle  in 
this  being  the  off  year.  This  affects  all  many  neighborhood^.  Few  so  called  far- 
leading  varieties  with  the  possible  excep-  mers  COllId  properly  tie  a  bundle  of  grain, 
tion  of  the  Spy.  Greenings  were  a  mass  yet  hundreds  of  acres  of  rye,  barley, 
of  bloom,  but:  scarcely  any  fruit  set,  al-  wheat  and  oats,  could  and  in  the  writer's 
though  1  under  stand  along  the  Wallkill  opinion  would  be  i*aised,  if  ouee  the  land 
Valley,  where  a  larger  variety  is  grown,  were  free  of  the  witch  grass  pest,  and  a 
there  will  be  a  fair  crop.  Peaches  are  a  system  of  grain  farming  introduced.  Here 
total  failure,  Hie  buds  freezing,  and  the  is  work  for  the  farm  bureaus.  As  to  the 
cold  weather  injured  the  trees  to  a  large  methods  for  extermination  of  witch  grass, 
extent.  Blackcaps  mid  raspberry  bushes  The  It.  N.-Y.  recently  published  an  arti- 
were  frozen  1o  within  a  couple  of  feet  ole  on  rye  which  was  in  line.  Millet, 
from  the  ground,  but  they  branched  out  buckwheat,  or  Indian  wheat  and  oats,  are 
and  we  have  the  largest  crop  we  have  all  good  to  shade  out  other  crops.  These 
had  in  some  years,  all  berries,  both  enlfi-  followed  h.v  others  like  clover,  potatoes, 
rated  and  wild,  are  large  and  plentiful,  etc*.,  or  Fall  plowing  and  more  smother 
(’berries  gave  a  good  yield,  but  the  con-  crop  if  needed,  are  bound  to  effect  a  cure, 
tinned  wet  weather  rotted  a  good  per-  ('lover  following  corn  seedel  at,  last  cul- 
eenjtage.  Plums  are  very  promising,  all  tivation  and  hogged  off  the  following 
fruit  and  berries  except  apples  are  sold  year  will  do  much  toward  tho  end;  in 
to  local  customers.  Farmers  are  about  fact,  the  witch  grass  itself  is  a  delicacy 
one  month  behind  in  their  work,  owing  to  often  preferred  by  the  hog  in  preference 
the  great  amount  of  rain  could  not  .work  to  any  of  the  clovers,  and  he  likes  to  dig 
crops.  Corn  looks  well,  hut  will  have  for  the  Toots  and  eat  the  succulent  blades 
to  grow  rapidly  to  escape  frost.  Oats  and  which  are  especially  nutritious  during 
wheat  and  rye  are  a  good  yield.  We  their  early  growth.  obsebvek. 
never  had  such  a  yield  of  hay  and  never  . _ 
clover  in  such  abundance,  it.  seems  to  be 
springing  up  everywhere;  it  lias  fallen  Local  Poultry  Clubs 
down  badly  and  makes  cutting  very  diffi-  a  •  t-  u  ,  .  ,  . 
cult.  Help  to  gather  crops  is  the  great  0nfi  ,n,  Iva”8aB  Poultry  clubs  are  being 
problem  if  we  are  to  continue  farming.  organized  The  object  is  to  encourage 
Dwaarkill,  N.  Y.  k.  j.  t  uniform  breeding  so  that  poultry  of  a 
*  v  *  rwiiu’hhrkr  hnnri  olio  (  >iAr  Ita  rAo  va/I 
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