JULY 23 
487 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
is veiy good for apples and pears, raspberries, 
blackberries and strawberries. More corn has 
been planted and more interest felt in the crop 
than formerly. Potatoes look well, but the 
bugs are very plentiful. The prospect is good 
for fin i crops of almost all kinds of farmers’ 
prodnce. It has been very cold thus far with 
frosts on low lands, cold and dry. n A. 0. 
Nebraska. 
Woojjlawn, Lancaster Co., July 7—All 
small grains, especially oats, are looking well. 
Chinch bugs are operating in wheat quite 
badly. I have seen some quite fine pieces of 
rye now being harvested. Not very much is 
raised here. Bat very little barley also. The 
principal varieties of wheat sown arc China 
Tea, Grass and White Russian, the last men¬ 
tioned is not much thought of in this section. 
Corn is king in Nebraska; the outlook at pres¬ 
ent is very good. I know of some pieces 
planted the 1st day of June which are now too 
large to work with the double cultivator. 
There was considerable trouble in getting seed 
corn to grow in the Spring and a great many 
farmers who had two-'.hlrds of a stand let it 
go at that, which will bring down the yield 
per acre somewhat. The acreage will coin- 
pars favorably with that of other years. Small 
fruits in abundance—wild. But very few or¬ 
chards In bearing in this section. No apples 
of any account. “ n ’’ 
New llnmpwhlre. 
Keene. Cheshire Co., July 13—Wheat and 
barley are but little grown iu this county. 
Rye and oats are looking fine. Corn Is very 
backward, but is of good color and a warm 
July and August will give us agood crop ; acre¬ 
age about the same os last year. Apples a 
very light crop; pears good; of strawberries 
wo have had an abundance. Grapes have not 
set well and are mildewing somewhat. Rasp¬ 
berries and currants heavily loaded, w. l. r>. 
Ohio. 
Camden, Preble Co., July 3.—My Washing¬ 
ton Oats are doing very well, considering the 
drought. My Mold's Ennobled O its l thought 
would be a failure, but they are now looking 
better; but neither of them is us good as our 
Joway Oats, all sown on the same field—bottom 
land. 
4 ; siaii 
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1, Washington; 3, Mold’s; 3, selected side 
oats that I cut out of common oats ; 4, 4 4, 
Joway Oats which are much the best, w. m. 
Ottovii.i-e, Putnam Co., July 3—Acreage 
of wheat abont the same as last year; it is 
about ripe—some have commenced cutting. It 
is rather short (owing to May drought) but 
well filled—mostly Fultz and Clawson. We 
have some eatly ripe oats ; not much sown this 
season on account of the late Spring. Harvest 
Is about a week late this year. Corn looks 
well, but late on account of replanting—too 
much bud seed was planted. Potatoes look 
well, but there are lots of potato bugs. Few 
apples and not much small fruit. Ilay is 
short and thin. s. B. r. 
Hnutli Carolina. 
Clio, Marlborough Co., July 4—Wheat, 
an average crop with an average acreage- 
mostly Red May, Fultz and Baltimore White. 
A considerable falling off In yield of oats in 
consequence of late sowing aud a dry Spring— 
mostly Rust-proof, White Winter and Black 
Norway. Com prospect fair, with a decline 
in acreage. Orchard fruits almost a failure; 
small fruits about a fair yield. .i. b w. 
Texas. 
Waco, McLennan Co., July 4.— On Friday 
night last we had the first rain in six weeks, 
and the continued drought hascut off our corn 
crop. We cannot make half a corn crop in 
any eveut, but cotton la looking very well. 
Those that raised small grain havu had u fine 
time for harvesting and saving it, and the yield 
of wheat and oats will be over an average. 
Owing to the want of rain, the potato crop 1 b 
short, and they are now selling at $3 50 per 
bushel. 1 have had a hard time to keep iny 
BtrawberriCB alive, and also my young grapes ; 
many of each did succumb, although I watered 
the latter regularly, but I attribute tbe loss of 
them to the heat of the ground about the roots, 
and if I had placed around them a thick mulch 
1 might have saved them. My raspberries and 
old grapes have suffered comparatively little 
and look green and fresh. From the seeds 
received frotu the Ruual this Spring, I have a 
fine supply of pinks of ull colors and styles, 
some of the handsomest lever saw. My aspar¬ 
agus came up well, but 1 lost suine of them 
from the drought. My White Elephant potato 
did not do well, but 1 have seed enough to 
make a good trial for another year. a. s. 8. 
Vermont. 
Suklbornk, Chittenden Co., July 7.— It 
Is quite dry ugaiu although wo had a rain a 
week or ten days ago, which gave crops quite 
u start. Corn and potatoes are very small, 
owing to the cold weather we had soon after 
they came np. Farmers are in the mid-t of 
haying, but are getting a light crop. Batter 
is selling at 18 to 80c. w. u. p. 
Washington Territory. 
Bteilacoom, Pierce Co., July 5.—The crops 
are looking well. There is very little barley 
or rye raised iu this section and no corn aB a 
field crop. Our climate is not warm enough 
to mature corn well except In the valltys. No 
better crops of wheat, oats ami grass are 
raised in any portion of the United States than 
in Western Washington Territory. Orchards 
immediately around Puget Sound are looking 
fine, but away from the Sound the frost has in¬ 
jured fruits generally I planted about tlO 
plum trees two years ago last Spring and tbink 
I shall have five bushels of fruit from them 
this season. They were threc-year-old trees 
when planted. I have never seen a section 
where fruit is so easily produced us around 
the Sound. Small fruit is doing well this sea¬ 
son. I have been on the Sound only two 
years ; have cleared my laud of heavy logs 
and stumps and planted iny fruit since my ar¬ 
rival. Strawber ies atd raspberries are fine. 
From young plants 1 raised Sharpless straw¬ 
berries this season that were six inches in cir¬ 
cumference around the base of the berries. 
The Cuihbert R ispberry is doing remarkably 
well. 1 think I received the first on the 
S aund of all the best new varieties of berries. 
I am sure they will thrive well here if any¬ 
where. My raspberries grow all Winter, never 
shedding their leaves. W« never have to 
cover any of our fruit. Iu the Charles River 
Valley, about sixty miles from here, 1 pur¬ 
chased, in 1874, a farm about 40 acres of 
which had been cropped upwards of 20 years 
without manure. The second year after my 
purchaee I raised 3D Umbels per acre of splen¬ 
did wheat, upou un average, on the whole tract. 
In one instance, upon new land, 1 raised 45 
bushels of wheat, and for oats and Hsrd’s-Orass 
there i« no belter laud In the world. But Bo¬ 
und lately around the Sound the soil Is poor 
compared with that In ihe valleys. Still, with 
the energy that it requires iu thu Now England 
States to make a success of farming, this would 
besupeiior to that section on account of the 
mildness of the climate. I think the climate of 
Western Washington Territory as healthful as 
any in the world and the soil quite as fertile as 
the average. c. t. f. 
West Virginia. 
Ltjmuerport, Harrison Co , July 11.—The 
acreage of wheat is eq ml to, if not greater 
than. laBt year’s, and, generally speaking, the 
yield is heavier and the quality better. The 
wheat harvest Is nearly over and has been 
nicely saved, it having been fine weather all 
through harvest. The varieties sown are 
Lancaster Red, Fultz, Clawson, Mediterra¬ 
nean.[some Red Chaff and Zimmerman; but the 
leading varieties are Lancaster and Fultz. 
The aeruugo of oats is not largo, the farmers 
giving more attention to the cultivation of 
wheat, but the present prospect is good, and if 
no accident befalls the crop it will be much 
heavier than for some years past. Barley, but 
little or none is cultivated. Of iye the acreage 
is small, hut what little was sown is said to 
he good. The acreage for corn is said to be 
not so great as last year, but I think, taking 
the county over, it will foot up about the 
Same. Owing to the lateness of the season 
and the ditllmlty of getting the first planting 
to stand, the crop does not give indications of 
being anything like equal to last year's crop, 
and wheat haiveet corning on so soon, farmeis 
have not had a chance to give the crop the at¬ 
tention it should have had. Generally speak¬ 
ing, corn is short and does not look well. 
Apples will not average half a crop. There 
will be a few peaches in favored localities. 
Pears and quinces but few. Cherries are a 
failure except in some favored localities, and 
other small fruits are equally scarce. 1 will 
just add here, meadows are unusually heavy, 
and potatoes and other garden vegetables are 
looking flue. We are having extremely hot 
weather, the mercury denoting 1)8 to 102 in tbe 
shade for the last two weeks, interspersed 
with heavy thunder, wind and rain, sweeping 
timber, unroofing and blowing down houses, 
scattering fences, etc. w. u. 
Wisconsin, 
Wiota, La Fayette Co., July 4—Business 
calls iu various portions of this county have 
given me good opportunities for sampling the 
crops, and 1 can now confidently report as to 
their condition and promise. The bulk of the 
crops consists ot com, oats and flax. Corn is 
backward, but is hurrying np as fast as 1 ever 
saw it, to make up for time lost by late plant¬ 
ing, rather poor seed, and many long, cold 
rain storms and very cool uights as a rale. 
Oats aud flax covor a very large area and are 
magnificent—never hotter. Very little Spring 
wheat wus sown and the Whiter wheat, though 
of considerable area, is generally thin on the 
ground, though, taking tho comity altogether, 
probably oiic-thlrdpromised a very good yield, 
till within a few days. On pumpling a field a 
few days ago, of luxuriant growth and very 
promising appearance, then lu the mills state, 
I found it badly rusted on the blade, and this 
probably is, or will be, general. Clover fields 
of large extent, have become general within 
two or three years, and clover was very heavy 
universally and is now all in stack, well cured. 
This week the buying will be commenced and 
the prospect of a heavy yield was never more 
satisfactory. Owing to a scarcity of geed, 
probably not more than one-half as many 
potatoes wore planted as usual, but 1 have not 
seen or heard of any bugs, and us wbat there 
are never looked better, we shall probably 
have enough for ourselves, but none to spare. 
As for fruit. I think I have never known so 
general a failure as to orchard products which 
consist, here, entirely of apples with a very 
few plums and cherries. Even the wild plums 
and crab apples have failed to a very great 
extent. w. f. 
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AN8WER8 TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Green-Manuring for Wheat. 
“ Young Farmer," Yorkshire, N. Y., says 
that at writing he was plowing under a crop of 
clover and Intending to sow buckwheat to he 
also plowed under when in blossom as a prepa¬ 
ration for sowing Winter wheat, and he asks, 
1 whether such a plan is advisable ; 3, why 
does barley turn yellow. 
Anh —1. Tbe plowing under of the clover is an 
excellent preparation for the wheat to follow 
but the sowing of buckwheat and the plowing 
under of that crop is by no means a judicious 
one for tbe following reasons: wheat re¬ 
quires a firm, compact seed-bed, aud thu loose 
buckwheat plowed uuder soou before sowing 
the wheat will completely prevent this requis¬ 
ite condition of the soil; wheat also requires 
decomposed or mineralized food, and while 
the clover will provide this because there is 
time for it to decay before the wheat is sown, 
there will not bo time to gel tho buckwheat in 
good condition for the wheat. But if you 
think the ground really requires the buck¬ 
wheat to help it, the disadvantages of plowing 
it in may be avoided by spreading quicklime 
upon the surface as soon as the buckwheat is 
plowed in and thoroughly harrowing tho 
ground. Then the ground should be rolled to 
pack tho soil and again harrowed to mellow 
ihe surface Just before the wheat is Bown. 
This will prodnce the proper condition for 
wheat, viz decomposed and mineralized plant- 
food, a compact btd for the seed and a mellow 
soil on the surface above the seid; the necer- 
saiy absence of weeds will also be secured. 8. 
B trley turns yellow from various causes ; too 
much wet or too dry a state of the soil; an ex¬ 
cess ot heat; the attacks of the8 ltntner brood 
of the Hessian fly and want of tulli lent fertil¬ 
ity In the soil ; which of these cau-es is at 
work can only be discovered by a study of the 
particular circumstances in this case. 
Hedge Plant* for the South. 
(i S 11 , Austin, Terns, asks, 1, what decid¬ 
uous hedge plants make the best ornamen¬ 
tal hedge for city grounds iu that climate; 3, 
what cvergtcen; 3 what is the best time to 
gather the seeds of cvergreeus, such us Arbor- 
vilie and R>:d Cedar; 4 should they be gath¬ 
ered while tho seed pod is green; 5, what is 
the best time to plant them. 
Ans.- 1, Of deciduous hedge plants, the Osage 
O.ange and some species of CraBngus (Thorn) 
would probably behest adapted to yout- latitude. 
3. For evergreen hedges, there is nothing su¬ 
perior to Euonymus Japonica. Tl grows rap¬ 
idly, and is very vigorous and hardy and takes 
the Bhears well. The bright, glossy leaves 
make it one of the most desirable. The Tree- 
box is also very ornamental and In a rich, 
moist soil makes a fiue hedge. Tl e Red C-’dar 
and Arbor-vita* are also used with flue effect. 
3 and 4 Seed should bo gathered only when 
fully matured. Those of A bur-vital when 
about opening the cones ; those of R :d Cedar 
about mid-winter Tbe latter should be al¬ 
lowed to dty off the resinous pulp before sow¬ 
ing ; or, what is still better, collect, uuder the 
trees, the 6eeds which have passed through 
the crops of birds. 5. Plant in early Spring, 
in a somewhat damp and shaded place and 
cover lightly with a mnlch of rotted leaves, 
to keep the surface damp and prevent the 
young plants from being scorched by the sun. 
Forcing 8trnwl>errlc*. 
L, F., Columbus, Ohio, asks, 1, whether a 
small, tight shed at the back of the house, 
with wludows at the east and west sides, 
would do for forcing strawberries lu Wluter If 
heated bv the passage through It of the tl le from 
tho stove in the kitchen and hot water pipes 
connected with “back of the stove;” 8 is it 
better to plant the strawberries in troughs or 
crocks. 
Ans — 1, A shed at the hack ot the house, with 
wludows only on the east and west ends, would 
not be a suitable place for forcing straw berries 
lu Winter. Nothing less than a glass roof 
would meet the requirements of the strawberry. 
It might be heated very well by hot-water 
pipes connected with a water-back in Ihe 
kitchen range or stove. A hot-air flue would 
be a very dangerous thing to nse In a honse 
attached to (be dwelling. In anything you do 
in this way yon must keep lu mind that the 
strawberry Is not an eaey plant to force, and 
involves a good deal of trouble, especially If 
you waiit the fruit very early. 2 Pots will be 
better for yon. 
Bio© Gram*. 
“ Subscriber ,” Huntingdon, Pa , asks whether 
Kentucky Bine Grass would he likely to thrive 
in that latitude; the best time to sow It; how 
much seed should be used per acre, and what 
would be the yield and quality of the hay. 
An 3.—Yes; tt thrives well even farther 
north. A very decided advantage, not suffi¬ 
ciently dwelt upon, which this grass possesses 
over many others. Is that though eaten off close 
to the ground it is not seriously inj irod, but 
soon springs np fresh and green. This lu often 
called at the N >rth “June Gass ” It may he 
sown in early Spring or early Fill—or upon 
the snow in Winter. Sow broadcast at the 
rate of one bushel per acre, and harrow light¬ 
ly. During th<* first year stock should not he 
permitted on the field. Tho next year it may 
he pastured a« soon as tho seed stalks Bbow 
themselves. It is not suited for cultivation 
where short rotations are followed. The yield 
is light compared to Timothy and to many 
other grasses, though ihe herbage Is fine. For 
hay it should he cut while in bloom. It is less 
nutritious than Timothy. 
Treatment. of Olenintl*. 
IT A , Georgetown, Mick., asks, 1, whether 
a covering of straw in Winter would benefit 
perennial fl >wers; 2, how to propagate cle¬ 
matis ; 3 where can seeds bo bought. 
Am.—1. Straw would have the effect of pre¬ 
venting the frost from heaving the ground, 
while successive freezings and thawings in ex¬ 
tremes of weather would tff :ct less harm. 3, 
The improved varieties of clematis are best 
grafted upon some of the strong growing 
species. Cuttings, however, of the half- 
ripened wood root quite freely They may 
also be propagat' d, of course, by layering. 
They should be layered now. 3 Many of the 
seedsmen sell clematis peeds. T iey do not 
germinate freely—some requiring to lie in the 
eoll two years. 
Miscellaneous, 
(l L M , Lodge, Til, has sprouted some 
1 200 peach seeds and they arc growing In a 
nursery, being now about a foot high. Wish¬ 
ing to bnd them In S •pternber and plant them 
in the orchard a year from next S iring, he 
asks whether the following varieties would he 
good to bnd on them, as he wishes to have 
half a dozen good sorts.- Alexander, Crawford 
F.vlyand C Lut\ Foder, Old Mixon Free 
and O M Cling, D iwniug and King of Ches¬ 
ter. 
Ans —We do not know anything abont King 
of Chester. Downing is a new peach origi¬ 
nating in Penn. It resembles Amsden and 
Alexander, ripening about the same time. It 
is of fair quality. We doubt It Foster will 
succeed in I litiois. O d Mixon Free and Cling 
will probably thrive well there—Alexander aud 
Crawford’s Eirly aud Late moderately well. 
A Subscriber, Lewiston, Me., asks, 1. what 
sort of grapes are tbe Niagara and White 
null; 3 when to plantthe tips of Gregg and 
Caroline Raspberries. 
Ans —We do not know the White Hull. The 
Niagara is a productive white grape, ripeu- 
ing after the II wtford Prolific. Do not think 
you can purchase vines at present. 2. The 
tips muy be covered in August and Septem¬ 
ber. 
I. F. W . Platte City Mo., asks the best way 
to kill ont R d Clover which grows in the 
Court-house iquare, but for which it is desiied 
to substitute Biue G ass. 
Ans —The blossoms must be cut off for two 
or possibly three years. 
IT. S .. Ttainbridge, Mich., say6 that from the 
seed sent out by the Rural a small tree is 
growing, and he wishes to know whether it is 
a locust which it resembles. 
Ans.—W e have never sent out any locust 
seed. 
J. W. C., Hillsborough, Col, asks whin 
must competitors tor the Rural wheat pren - 
ium make their entries. 
Ans.—A ny time before August the first—or 
a little later, 
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