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JUNE 25 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
most an entire failure except on very high 
land. On low and level landB there will be no 
peaches, and in many places the trees are 
badly damaged by the severe Winter. Apples 
were very full of bloom; but in this section 
half or more dropped, and what are loft are 
poor, knotty, wormy things that never can 
amount to much. Small fruits are not grown 
much : they do not succeed well here. Grapes 
do well and promise a fair crop; pears half a 
crop; plums not grown much, except the Wild 
Goose, which is always fine. o. l. a, 
Halifax, Halifax Co.—Very little wheat 
sown. Oats not good on account of dry weather 
in May ; no barley; very little rye; what rye 
was sown is very good. Twenty per cent, 
more cotton planted this year than last. Pros¬ 
pect very good. Less corn planted than usual 
Fruit crops very good In most sections, b f. o. 
Lowell, Gaston Co.—Small grains—wheat 
oats, rye only — outlook very good. Acreage 
about one-eighth more than last year—fair for 
the county. Corn outlooK good. Acreage 10 
per cent, more than usual. Very little Spring 
oats. Peaches, none; small fruits awfully 
short. All fruits hurt by frost except grapes 
and apples; these abundant. An increase ot 
25 per cent, under cotton; It looks well. 
Weather dry. k. d. 
Mouth Carolina. 
Aiken, Aiken Co —Acreage in wheat small, 
but quality good. Large acreage of oats ; com¬ 
parative failure of crop from the very dry 
Bpring. Rye only in small quantities. Barky, 
none. Almost exclusively the small red rust¬ 
proof oats and small red wheat. Prospect 
of growing corn crop very good so far; acre¬ 
age at least 25 per cent, less than last year. 
Outlook for fruit, fair. Peaches Injured by late 
frosts, but enough left for a fair crop. Straw¬ 
berries abundant; season over. Promise of 
grapes good. h. w. b. 
Georgia. 
Atlanta, Fulton Co.—The acreage of wheat 
is somewhat below that of last vear; but the 
outlook is good—no rust or blight—principally 
Dallas wheat (rust-proof.) Area under oats 
about nine per cent less than last year. Fall- 
bowe grain, where not winter-killed, is very 
fine. Spring-sown grain cut off considerably by 
drougnt—Red, or Mexican Rust-proof, and 
Burt's Extra Early Rust-proof almost exclu¬ 
sively sown. Of barley and rye only a piece 
here and there for pasture. The acreage of 
earn is 102 to 100 last year. Bad weather 
caused late planting. Prospect ordinary; 
stand not very good. Pears Fhort; peaches not 
over a quarter of a crop; apples an average one; 
grapes, flue ; blackberries, abundant, m. 3 . 
Washington, Wilkes Co.—Wheat acreage 
one halt as much as nsnal. Barley about an 
average. Oat acreage about as large as in the 
past year, but tbe crop is injured by dry 
weather in May. Rust-proof wheat and oats 
sown almost entirely ; not known by other 
names. Prospect for corn is lair; about the 
usual acreage Apple crop abundant; peaches 
about half a crop; strawberries were cut off 
one-halt by the dry May; raspberries a full 
crop ; wild blackberries a heavy crop. i. c. d. 
Alabama. 
Selma, Dallas Co. -Corn, I think, will bean 
average crop, though many complain that the 
dry weather is cutting It short. Last year’s 
crop was a failure here. I have about five 
acres of ihe Blount Prolific, alt from the seed I 
got from the Rural a year ago. It looks well, 
considering ihed.y weather we have had. Cot¬ 
ton is looking well, and If it is not set back 
we shall have a fail average crop. I think as 
a rule the prospect for all crops, except oats, is 
better this i ear than last. Irish potatoes are 
not much raised here; they are nearly a failure 
this season, the gardens being nearly burned 
up. Peaches are a total failure. Apples will 
possibly be a half crop. Strawberries were a 
short crop. J. M. 
Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Co.—Very little 
wheat, rye or barley. Prospect for oats is 
poor — mostly red rust-proof. Prospect for 
corn is a shade better than last year. No 
peaches and very few apples or pears, w. o. b. 
Woodstock, Bibb Co.—Acreage of wheat 
smaller but prospects for good crop better 
than last year. Oat acreage much larger than 
last year and a splendid prospect. Corn 
acreage much larger and outlook very good. 
No barley and little rye. Cotton acreage 
about the same as last year, but outlook much 
better. m. y. a. 
MlmilMlppl. 
Bbookhavsn, Lincoln Co.—No wheat, bar¬ 
ley, or rye raised. Some oats which are doing 
tolerably well—are short and about ready 
for the cradle. Corn looks well in some places. 
The stand iB poor owing to worms—acreage 
about the same as last year. No peaches; a 
few apples; cotton doing well. h. f. t. 
Lawkenob, Newton Co. Oat acreage far 
below an average on account of unfavorable 
weather for sowing; one-half a crop. Red 
rnst-proof sort. Rye, barley and wheat, none. 
Corn looks very well and the acreage is about 
the same as last year. Some apples and plnms, 
No other orchard fruit. Berry crop tolerably 
good. f. b. u. 
Okolona. Chickasaw Co.—The acreage under 
wheat here is very small—mostly Bine Stem, 
Early and Lite May and Golden Chaff. Of 
oats the acreage Is large, and the prospects are 
for a good average. Of rye and barley there is 
none. Early-planted corn iB not good; late- 
planted is a fair average—acreage less than 
lattyear. Froltof all sorts will be veiy short, t. 
Scooba. Kemper Co.—But little wheat and 
oats and no barley or rye, the sowing season 
having been so bad. The prospect for corn is 
good and the acreage will exceed that of last 
year. There is scarcely any fruit of any kind 
—all killed by cola weather. The orchard and 
small frnit business does not get much atten¬ 
tion here; people are satisfied if they can get 
a little for home consumption. J, a. m. 
Louisiana. 
Gbeensbcrg, St. Helena. — No wheat, 
barley or lye Is raised in this section. Most 
farmers sow oats (red rust-proof) and the out¬ 
look for it is fair. The outlook for corn is 
fine; the acreage an average one. There is an 
Increase In the area of cotton. More attention 
is given to orchard and small fruits. J. s. d. 
Texas. 
College Station, Brazos Co.—No small grain 
of any account is raised in this section. Corn 
prospects are good ; acreage probably some¬ 
what smaller than last year by reason of the 
late Spring. Cotton is doing well. The fruit 
crop was injured by late frost, especially 
poaches. Apples but little grown. Pears and 
grapes good. C. 0. G, 
New Philadelphia, Wharton Co.—Corn 
and cotton are the principal crops grown here. 
Corn will be an average crop, although in 
places a little irregular; the blackbirds de¬ 
stroyed it when it came up and many people 
have had to plant two or three times. Cotton 
Is rather late on account of the first planting 
having been destroyed by the frost; but it will 
make a fair average crop. We want rain very 
badly; all kinds of vegetation are dried up, 
the thermometeiwSor Lhelast three weeks has 
ranged from 50 to 95 deg^fn the Bhade. Pota¬ 
toes are not more than half a crop ; the coun¬ 
try is Infested with millions of potato bogs, 
which have nearly destroyed the crop, and now 
the dry weather has finished it. Peaches are 
a good crop; and we have been using ripe 
pumpkins and watermelons (Gipsey and 
Peerless) for more than a week. The Rural 
Branching Sorghum is looking splendid; 
plenty of roots with ten and twelve branches ; 
it is far ahead of other sorghums planted side 
by side with it. B. b. 
Arkinuu. 
Hot Springs, Garland Co.—Very little wheat 
sown—only two picayune grist mills In the 
county. Oat acreage small, but the crop looks 
well; 25 to 50 bushels is the usual yield per 
acre. Rye is Bown only for Winter pasture. 
Ot t^rnegrasses we have scarcely any, but they 
do well. Corn is looking flue, but it is terribly 
in the grass; acreage increased, bnt not enough 
raised to supply this market, there being as yet 
but a small portion of the land in this imme¬ 
diate vicinity in cultivation, and a large part 
of that is devoted to trucking and dairy¬ 
ing. There are a good many orchards, and 
there will be about one-third of a crop of 
apples and peaches; plnms, a full crop of 
the Chickasaws; peaches, some; pears, none. 
Strawberries, the fineBt crop ever grown; 
grapes, blackberries, raspberries are good 
crops. F. i. B. 
Kentucky, 
Elkton, Todd Co.—Wheat acreage about 70 
per cent, of an average; prospect70 per cent.— 
Boughton and White May. Oats an average 
crop. Com acreage 100 per cent.; prospect 
good, but later than usual. Outlook for small 
fruits and peaches good. Apples scarce, b. b. b. 
Henderson, Henderson Co.—The outlook 
for wheat is promising; acreage 10 per cent. 
Increase, and the prospect for yield and qual¬ 
ity fully 20 per cent, better than last year. 
The crop promises to be the best one raised in 
the county. Oar stiff river bottom lands, 
which have been cultivated for years In com, 
are now proved to be the best wheat lands in 
the country, the ^ield. being 30 to 35 bushels, 
and sometimes more of grain over the stan¬ 
dard weight. Oats a failure and bar¬ 
ley not worth mentioning. The varieties 
chiefly Bown are Fultz 50 to 00 per cent, and 
the remainder White Winter and Mediterranean 
about equally divided. The latter is consid¬ 
ered the beat of all, being hardier and the yield 
much greater. The prospect for corn Is de¬ 
cidedly bad. The acreage is as large aB last 
year or larger; but It has come up very badly 
owing to the fact that in nine tenthB of the 
crop last year the germ was frozen and killed 
and unfit tor seed, which fact was not known 
to the farmers until after trial. The crop is 
very late and many are still planting, and un¬ 
less the season is unusually favorable the indi¬ 
cations now are that the yield will be from 20 
to 25 per cent, short. The outlook for or¬ 
chards Is not good. Peaches generally killed, 
except seedlings or in very favorable localities. 
The apple crop is generally a failure and the 
pear little better. Blackberries and raspberries 
are killed, but the strawberries were never bet¬ 
ter. The varieties succeeding best are Sharp- 
less. Chas. Downing, Longfellow and Warren. 
The Crescent Seedling is enormously produc¬ 
tive when fertilized. Grapes are badly dam¬ 
aged, except iron-clad varieties, such as Elvira, 
Warden, etc. Even the Concord is seriously 
injured. Other small fruits will give a fair 
crop. j. C. A. 
Tennessee. 
Adair’s Creek, Koox Co.—The acreage for 
wheat If 20 per cent, more and the yield per acre 
will be 30 per cent, les* than last year—beard¬ 
ed, locally called Swamp-Bearded, Fnllz and 
Boughton. Corn backward but looking well; 
about ten per cent more than usual planted. 
Oats will be very short. But little rye and no 
barky is raised. Orchard frnitsgood; small 
fruits veiy poor. t. b. 
Morristown. Hamblen Co.—The outlook 
for all wheat is not promising. The yield per 
acre will probably not exceed half that of last 
year’s crop and the acreage is 25 per cent. less. 
Fultz, 8ilver Chaff and Quaker. Rye, barley 
and oats are mongrel, bnt little pains having 
been taken about seed ; prospect fair for half 
crop. Early planted corn looks well; late 
planted has, owing to the late drought, failed 
to come up well and looks very unpromising. 
Acreage about same as last year. There will 
be an average crop of apples and peaches. 
Small fruits are mostly a failure. w. g. t. 
Victoria, Marion Co.—Outlook for wheat 
flue, acreage average—Mediterranean, Fultz, 
Harris. Corn outlook good; rattier more put 
in than last year. Orchard and small fiults 
prospect about as usual. w. w. f. 
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WESTERN STATES. 
Ohio. 
Atwater, Port9ge Co.— The acreage of 
wheat and oats is about the same as last year, 
with a fair prospect of a large yield. Wheat 
is beginning to lodge, which may prevent its 
filling well—Fultz, Wicks Eirly White and 
Blue Stem: a little of the Silver Chaff sown 
here last Fall. Corn has come up and Is gen¬ 
erally standing well, with an acreage about 
the same as last year, There Is a fair prospect 
for apples, but not as many as last year. 
Grapes and other small fruits are looking well 
where the vines were not killed by the Winter. 
Potato beetles plentiful. o. m. 
Bellevue. Huron Co.—Wheat is our prin¬ 
cipal crop, and that which was sowed early is 
good, but the late-sown amounts to nothing. 
Tbe acreage Is about the same as last year, 
bnt it will fall a little short of an average crop. 
O wing to Ihe late Spring but little barley was 
sown. Oats are short, and corn small. Our 
fruit crop will be almost a failure. s. d. s. 
Bennington, Morrow Co.—Wheat acreage 
the same as last year; yield, three-quarters as 
much—Fultz and Lancaster. Oats three- 
fourths of last year’s area; prospect of yield 
per acre, quite as good. Acreage of corn the 
same as last year; outlook poor owing to bad 
seed and unfavorable weather. Grass very 
good. Orchards injured by hard winter— 
about one-fourth of a crop. Blackberry bushes 
killed ; grapes badly winter-killed. All insect 
pests abundant and active. T. w. 
Bloomington, Clinton Co.—Acreage of 
wheat in this section about three-foarths of 
last year's average; stands thin and straw 
is very short. Mediterranean, Egyptian, 
Fultz and some Clawson. Small acreage of 
oats and prospect very poor owing to three 
weeks of drought in May. No barley or rye. 
The acreage for corn and the outlook are 
about the same as last year, only It is a little 
later, it is our principal crop. Meadows will 
be very light owing to drought in May—the 
month that makes the hay crop. Wool Is sel¬ 
ling for from 33 to 35 cents per pound washed- 
The crop of apples will only be fair—not an 
average. Peaches will be an average yield. 
Hardly auy pears. A fair prosi ect for cherries. 
The raspberry vines were badly winter-killed; 
yield will be light. The outlook for eariy po¬ 
tatoes is not good on account of potato 
beetles, which are very troublesome. Live 
hog6 are worth $5 50 per 100 pounds; cattle 
about $5 ; mutton about 43.50. f. o. d. 
Bowling Green, Wood Co.—No rain this 
Spring till June 1; Bince then plenty and to 
spare. This county is mostly very flat, black, 
sandy and gravelly soil underlaid with lime¬ 
stone. The drainage has been quite thorough 
lu Bomo parts of the county and elsewhere 
tiling is being pressed forward, and the land 
is as productive as can be found anywhere. 
The acreage under wheat is greater than last 
year. It is very short and thin, however, but 
it has been improving rapidly since rain began 
to fall. We shall probably have about 75 per 
cent, of a crop. Oats are improving finely. 
No barley or rye to speak of. Fultz is the only 
variety sown here, except a few pieces of Claw 
son. Corn came up badly on account of the 
drought. It has improved somewhat since 
rain fell; but little cultivation has been done 
yet. A decrease of acreage. Poor prospect 
for all kinds of fruit; not enough for home 
consumption. J. b. 
Brighton, Lorain Co.—The prospect for 
wheat is about the same as last year, with 
a small increase in acreage Lancaster, Fultz 
and Red. Oat prospect and acreage about 
the Fame as last year ; a fair crop. The 
prospect for corn is poor; much Becond 
planting has had to be done, and it all looks 
backward; acreage about the same as last 
year. The outlook for orchards is about half a 
crop. There will be a good crop of small 
fruits. E. A. F. 
Buovrus, Crawford Co.—Wheat acreage 10 
per cent, above last year’s; probable yield, 75 
per cent, of last year’s—Fultz, Mediterranean, 
Todd and a little Clawson. Oat acreage three- 
quarters of last year’s; sown late and kept 
back by dry weather. Corn acreage less than 
last year’s; it is very backward. A. a. 
Camden, Preble Co.—Late rains are helping, 
but there’s a good deal of wheat beyond re¬ 
demption, owing to drought and the fly. Oats, 
flax and meadows may recover somewhat, but 
at beBt they will be Injured considerably Corn 
that wasn’t planted till the dry weather set in 
didn’t come up well, and many are planting a 
second time. Bad seed, dry weather and cut¬ 
worms have been the causes of failure in the 
first attempt. w. m. 
Kingston, Ross Co.—The acreage of wheat 
is one-fourth greater than last year; but the 
yield per acre will not be more than one-half 
what it was in 1880. Very few fields are 
sufficiently high to be cut with machines, and 
a great deal Is not iDfcre than one foot high 
and It is now heading. Our chief varieties are, 
Gipsey and Fultz, with some Clawson and 
Michigan Amber aBd a nameless sort called 
" white bearded.” Oats, barley and rye are 
little sown in Central Ohio, What little bar¬ 
ley there is looks well. Prospects for corn 
are not flattering owing to a late Spring, bad 
seed and dry weather. Acreage aoout one- 
fourth less than last year. Plenty of fruit for 
home use with Borne to spare. o. p. g. 
Hudson, Summit Co.—The acreage of wheat 
Is larger than last year, and all early-sown 
wheat looks &s well as it did a year ago; late- 
sown looks poorly. The crop of this county 
will be about 85 per cent. We are getting some 
fine showers, and cool weather now and wheat 
and oats are doing splendidly. Not as much 
oats were sown here this Spring as last, and 
they were looking very poor until the show¬ 
ers of the last three days started them. No 
barley, and only a little lye ; but that looks 
well. Not as much corn as a year ago. In 
fact, some farmers sowed so much wheat 
that they have very little room for other crops. 
Corn is lookiug well. The apple crop will be 
very small; so will the cherry and pear. The 
hay crop will be ehort unless we get plenty 
of rain the rest of June. e. a. s. 
Mecca, Trumbull Co.—The acreage of wheat 
and oats is about the same as last year; they 
look first-rate. Barley and rye are not raised 
here. Varieties of oats, White Russian, Prob- 
steier, Surprise; and of wheat, Clawson, Fultz, 
Democrat. The last variety takes the lead 
here. Millers will pay 15 cents a bushel more 
for it than for the others. The acreage of 
corn is lesB than last year; it looks poorly. 
Orchards are medium; not as good as last 
year. Peaches, none ; grapes and other small 
fruits about half a crop. h. l. 
Men don, Mercer Co. — Wheat acreage of 
this year equal to that of last and the present 
prospect is that we will have a good average 
crop ; on bottom lands it is heavier than last 
year ; on uplands it Is shorter and thinner but 
heavier in the head—mostly Fultz. The pros¬ 
pect for corn is fair if the Fall Is favorable 
for maturing. The acreage-is fully equal to 
that of last year. Orchards are badly iujured 
by the Winter—fully one-third both old and 
young. Blackberries are killed to the ground. 
Black-cap raspberries not killed; full of 
fruit. T- *• «• 
Mentor, Lake Co.—The acreage of wheat is 
about the same as last year j the drought has 
hurt it very much, but rain has come just in 
time and I think we shall have an average 
crop—mostly Clawson and Full/.. Oats look 
very well and there is about the same acreage 
aB last year. Corn is very backward, most of 
it is only just up; about the same acreage as 
last year. There will be some peaches; ber¬ 
ries are plentiful- h. d. g. 
New Lisbon, Columbiana Co.—The acre¬ 
age of wheat is 25 per cent, less than last year, 
and the probable yield fully 33 per cent less. 
Fultz, Clawson, Old Blue Stem. Oats in acre¬ 
age fully up to last year and in outlook 50 per 
cent better; from present appearances they 
will lodge badly. Corn looks pretty well; 
