JULY 46 
474 
THE RURAL NEW-YORMER. 
and amount to only about one-third of the 
wheat acreage. Very little corn is raised, as 
the climate is not adapted to it. All kinds of 
orchard and small fruits as well as vegetables 
are in abundance. J- *• w. 
Cedar Creek, Whitman Co., July 2. —The 
area under grain.in this neighborhood is about 
8 000 acres, and this is one-fourth more than 
last year. Tbe outlook for wheat is e-cod— 
China Club, Little Club, White Winter, Velvet 
Chaff and Red Chaff. Oats, too, are fine— 
Cayuga. Surprise and white and black. A 
splendid prospect for email fruits; but the 
country hoe not been settled long enough for 
the growth of orchards to bearing condition 
All young orchards, however, are vigorous 
and thrifty. j. L. D. 
here and fed to stock. No corn has yet been 
tried, but doubtless it would do well in some 
places. Fruits are also strangers. J. v. 
IV'ew Vork, 
Htmrods, Tates Co., July 5.— We are having 
some very hot weather at present and are in 
need of some rain. Wheat is growing very 
Blowly and will fall short of a full crop. Heying 
will be quickly done, as it is light and scarce. 
8ome meadows are very good a few miles 
away from here. Oats and barley look good. 
Corn had a bad start; we cannot expect more 
than one-half to two-thirds of a crop—crows, 
cut-worms and wet, cold weather damaged it. 
Some had to plant three times; others plowed 
it up and have used the ground for a late 
crop. &• a. B. 
Ohio. 
CAJfDEu, Preble Co., July 2.—Wheat about 
all cut, and I think it fully one-fourth short of 
an average crop. Oats very short, but will be 
long enough to bind, MeadowB light. Corn 
looking well, but very small for the first of 
July. There will be a light crop of apples : no 
peaches; no blackberries; a few cherries and 
raspberries, My German carp are doing first- 
rate. My Rural Branching Soighum—you 
ought to see it spreading Itself. The White 
Elephant is doing well; so is the asparagus. 
Blount’s Corn is as high as my head—five feet, 
ten Inches. w. m. 
Oregon. 
•Junction Citt, Lane Co., June 20.—The 
crop in this '.valley is almost entirely wheat; 
that is the only crop that will bear shipping to 
foreign markets. We can raise good oats, rye, 
or barley; but if we had more than we need 
for home nse, it would be slow sale. As for 
corn, it does not do well in this part of Oregon ; 
the climate is not warm enough ; it ears well, 
but remains green until the frosts of Winter 
kill it. I have not seen any ripe corn since I 
came to Oregon seven years ago. If we want 
corn meal we are obliged to kiln-dry our corn 
before grinding. The outlook for wheat is 
perhaps a little above an average, but the 
acreage is not as large as last year. The rust 
of two years ago, and the low price of wheat 
this year, caused many farmers to summer- 
fallow portions of their lands, expecting larger 
crops and better prices by next year. A num- f 
ber of varieties of wheat are sown here ; Chili 
Club and Big Club are the kinds mostly bowu 
in this part of the valley; they are both white 
wheats. The fruit crop in this locality will 
not bo an average. Apples will be a fair crop ; 
pears below an average, and plums about half 
a crop. No peaches; this is not a peach coun¬ 
try. Smaller fruits are very light crops—too 
warm and dry in early Spring. w j. d. 
Washlnylon Territory. 
Vancouver, Clarke Co.—The climate is 
temperate; the Winters are not extremely cold 
and the Summers not very hot. Daring the 
hottest season of the year the nights are al¬ 
ways cool enough to make a blanket desirable. 
The rains last five or six months in each year, 
bnt are not continual and always are gentle 
and the settlers lea^rn to look upon them as a 
<* god-send " The average u Webfoot" has a 
distaste for drought. In 11 years’ residence I 
have not Been any seriously droughty weather 
y e t—sometimes two or three months without 
any rain during the dry season. Wood, water 
and game are in abundance. In opening up 
crops of all kinds are late and backward, and 
our acreage is a good deal less than usual. A 
large area of the Missouri River Valley was 
badly flooded and is covered with sand depos¬ 
its, mud and stagnant water yet, and will re¬ 
main unseeded this year; while a good deal of 
onr np-lands, owing to the melted snow and 
excessive rainfall, are covered with water and 
too muddy for cultivation. Wheat wus sown 
late on account of failure for the past two 
not more than a third of tbe usual acre- 
years. 
age was put in, flax being substituted for it. 
While here and there under peculiarly favor¬ 
able circumstances there may be a good piece, j 
the general average is poor—will not make | 
over one-half or one-third of a crop. Corn } 
was planted late in May and, on account of i 
the wet weather, most of it rotted and the . 
ground either remains without a crop or was 
replanted to corn in June, which will make it . 
a matter of difficulty for the late-planted to get 
ripe. An unusually 6mall acreage was plant- 
ed. Oats were sowed late; about the uBual 
acreage ; a fair outlook for a good crop, Po¬ 
tatoes look tolerably well. We have the usual 
number of bugs. A large acreage of flax has 
been sowed, but it is very late—farmers have 
just quit sowing ; looks very well so far; but 
It is almost too soon to tell what it will do. 
Hay is a good crop on the up-lands. Gardens 
are pretty" good where properly tended. So 
far we are free from insect pe6te, with the 
exception of potato bugs. On account of the 
failure of our two principal crops, wheat and 
corn, and the small amount sown, our pros¬ 
pects are not particularly promising, a. w. 
Flandrau, Moody Co.. July 1.— We estimate 
the area under cultivation in this county at 
about 75,000 acres, of which 85 per cent, is in 
wheat; 15 per cent, in oats; 10 per cent., in 
barley and 10 per cent, in corn, flax, truck, 
etc. The principal varieties of wheat are Lost 
Nation and Fife ; a larger proportion of Lost 
Nation was sown this year, as it yields from 
five to seven bushels more per acre. Duly 
sufficient corn is raised for home consumption. 
Very little rye is raised but it does well. As 
the country has ODly been settled three years 
there are not many orchards. Small fruits on 
my place are doing nicely—so well that I am 
encouraged to plant largely. We have had a 
great dead of wet weather, but our rolling 
prairie resists drought and wet equally well. 
Crops are looking splendid and the prospects 
are better than in any season since l have been 
here. w. r. 
Florida. 
Manatee, Manatee Co., Jaly 3—The weath¬ 
er is delightful, very warm ; the thermometer 
registering from 80 to 98 degrees, in the shade 
at noon; but at the same time we have a re¬ 
freshing breeze. The nights are very comfort¬ 
able. It has been very dry with only au occa¬ 
sional shower. No wheat, oats, rye or barley 
raised hereabouts. Corn 1s raised to some 
extent—just enough for home use; it is not 
considered a paying crop. Vegetable raising 
seems to be the coming industry. Farmers 
commenced shipping in January. Fruit is 
looking well, as there was no frost in this sec¬ 
tion last Winter. Strawberries have been in 
bearing 6ince February. Grapes are doing 
well, the Hartford Prolific is now ripe. Our 
great need is quick transportation, b. f. c. 
Idaho. 
Mountain Home, Altura Co., June 24.— 
There are not more than 500 acres of grain in 
this whole county; and oats and barley take 
up the most of this area. Wheat grows well 
bnt none is sown. Corn is a failure—noue 
planted. The acreage under grain has been 
•about the same for the last few years. Most 
kinds of fruit thrive here, but very few trees 
have been planted. Idaho as a farming State 
iB a failure—not one acre in fifty thousand is 
suitable for cultivation. g. b. r. 
Illinois. 
Rook Falls, Whiteside Co., July 1.— Here 
field crops are poor, except potatoes. The 
drought in May was very disastrous to wheat, 
oats and barley, and rye was badly winter- 
killed. The frost and snow prevented sowing 
the usual amount of Spring grain in season ; 
consequently there was a large acreage of 
corn planted on all farms which were not too 
low and wet. But there is great complaint of 
poor Beed, and the incessant rains keep the 
low ground under water, and prevent replant¬ 
ing and working the rest. Where the land 
was in good condition and there is a good 
stand, the corn looks as well as is usual for 
the season. Orchards were injured by the 
severe Winter, and many apple trees have been 
killed and veiy few varieties have any fruit. 
There are no cherries; very few pears, but 
plums promise well- 1 think there will be a 
fair crop of Concord grapes, although many 
vines were killed and all greatly injured by 
the severe Winter. Raspberries look as well 
as usual; both black and red. Bluekbei lies 
area total failure where they were not pro¬ 
tected. Snyder and Taylor Prolific were 
equally injured on my grounds and will only 
have a few scattering berries. Strawberries 
produced enormous crops. Each variety 
AN8WEE8 TO CORRESPONDENTS 
Nanai Catarrh. 
J. O. B. Afton, N. T, has a cow which has 
much trouble in breathing through the nos¬ 
trils which are swollen or partly closed, and 
somewhat sore and inflamed, and from which 
there is a yellowish discharge of a mucous na¬ 
ture. The animal eats well and is otherwise 
in good condition apparently. 
Ans.— Tbe trouble is dne to nasal catarrh, 
which is chiefly caused by sadden alterations 
STEAMING WITH NOSE BAG.—FIG. 341. 
of temperature, bad ventilation, deficient 
drainage and exposure to cold in unsheltered 
situations. The earliest symptoms are a dry¬ 
ness and a redness of the membranes of the 
eyes and nose; but these soon become moist 
and discharge a thin, watery secretion, which 
later on becomes dense, opaque and copious. 
Sneezing, cough and a feverish condition fol¬ 
low, and diarrhoea, also, sometimes occurs. If 
the disease continues and the causes are not 
removed the onteome may be nasal gleet, ma¬ 
lignant catarrh, or sporadic pleuro-pneumonta. 
If diarrbcei is present, administer the follow¬ 
ing :—Infusion of quassia, one pint; tincture 
of opium, one ounce ; aromatic spirits of am¬ 
monia, one ounce—mix. When the bowels are 
constipated administer the following gentle 
laxative:—Epsom salts, 12 to 18 ounces; gin¬ 
ger and gentian, powdered, of each one ounce— 
mix, and give in a quart of ale. The feed 
should consist of bran mashes, roots and green 
food. Steaming is of great benefit in this dis¬ 
ease and may be readily performed In either 
way, here illustrated. In one case a hot, steam¬ 
ing, bran mash, to which a quantity of turpen¬ 
tine or vinegar may be added, is put into a 
nose bag which is fastened as shown at Fig. 841. 
In the other case an India-rubber tube is at¬ 
tached to the spout of a tea-kettle placed over 
a fire, and through it the steam generated is 
conveyed to the nostrils—see Fig. 840. Both 
of these methods should be continued several 
hours. Where the steam Jet is used, care must, 
of course, be taken to avoid too ranch heat 
which would scald the parts. 
A. M. Stone Church, III., asks whether lo¬ 
custs will hurt apples and if it is safe to eat 
the apples on which they have been. 
Ans. —Assuming that the 17-year locusts are 
meant, they have never been reported as injur¬ 
ing fruit. They take but little nourishment in 
the adnlt state, and that little they derive from 
twigs which they pierce with their beaks and 
from which they suck the sap. The principal 
damage for which they are responsible is the in- 
jii- y to the twigs in which their eggs are layed. 
OOMilUNlCATTON8 RECEIVED FOR THE WSXK 4ND- 
ing Saturday, July 9. 
H. W. R.— W. F.—P. B. M.—A. R. C.—S. R. M.—H. 
& S —C. E. P.-T.—J. M. S„ We are always glad 
to gel such items of experience.—G. A. G. r Jr.,— 
J. C. T., thanks.—L F.—W. H.—W. M.—C. A. B.— 
W. J. d.—W. tv A. J. P., we cannot determine 
what the bearded kinds are. —A. K. B. -K. M. L. 
—B. A. C.—W. F. K.—K. P -Sheep Grower—W. 
A. b.—H. A. — A 13.—A Subscriber, Huntington, 
Pa,_W. E. thauks.—U. W. 11.—A. S. G.—A. S 
G.-C. E.-J. A.—T. B. U.—H. A. W.—J. R.-l>. J. 
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J. C.—E. B.—A. B.—D. R. B.—1). F. J—A. E. G- 
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A. L. W.—G. H,—W. E, S. D. 
except corn, which is not a success, Apples, 
plums, cherries, pears, etc., are finer than I 
ever saw anywhere else. Peaches cannot be 
grown successfully except in a few sheltered 
and favorable Bpots. Land here sells from $5 
to 4*50 per acre, according to location and im¬ 
provements. A pretty good farm of li*0 acres, 
half in timber and hall under cultivation, can 
be bought for about $2,000. J - B - 
Walla Walla, Walla Walla Co., June 29 — 
Eastern Oregon and Western Washington Ter¬ 
ritory will ship this year 150.000 bushels oi 
wheat down the Columbia River. The wheat 
crop now looks in first-rate condition. Oats, 
barley and rye are grown only for home nse, 
