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including seeding, was 4.21 bushels, and of 
this only 8.11 buBhels for food; while in the 
period from 1871 to 1880 the total consump¬ 
tion was 7.47 bushels per capita, of which 3lx 
bushels per capita were for food. Statistics 
were also given to show that in the period 
from 1853 to 1867 the total consumption for al* 
purposes In Great Britain was 5.9 bushels per 
c ap’ta, and in the whole United Kingdom 5.3 
bushels per capita. Assuming that the in¬ 
crease—as shown by the difference between 
the two periods in Prance—was an index of a 
similar increase in the United Kingdom and 
in the other countries of Europe, and that this 
con8umotion per capita has continued to in¬ 
crease in the same ratio up to the present 
time, it will be seen that with a steadily in¬ 
creasing population in Europe, the difference 
in the greater demand for wheat might be so 
large as even to be felt from year to year. 
There is also still another fact that favors the 
belief in a greater European demand for wheat 
than would at first be expected in view of the 
abundant crops there—namely, meats are 
unusually high, and it is well known that the 
foreign demand for American meats has fallen 
off enormously on that account. On the other 
hand, wheat is unusually cheap, being at pres¬ 
ent prices in New Yo^k about twenty cents 
per bushel below the average price of the last 
four or five years Under these conditions 
Europe is snbsistinvmore upon bread and less 
upon meat, and will probably continue to do 
so until the two kinds of food are more nearly 
equalized by that policy. 
The Wheat Crop op Great Britain and 
Ireland. —The London Times, in a review of 
the wheat crop of the United Kingdom for 
1882, says that the average yield per acre dur¬ 
ing a period nf seventeen years—1856 to 1882— 
has been 26^ bushels. For the first nine years 
of the series the average was 27 8-9 bushels, 
and for the last eight years only 25 bushels. 
The lowest, acreage under wheat was reached 
last year. The average acreage for the 17 
years noticed was 3,516,000 acres per annum. 
The average for the first nine years of the pe¬ 
riod was 3,798.000 acres, and that for the last 
eight years 8.200,000 acres. These figures 
show, it will be perceived, a diminution dur¬ 
ing the latter portion of the period of about 
598.000 acres, or more than one-sixth of the 
former area. The ground under wheat, in 
1882 is estimated at about 3,164,000 acres—less 
than in 1878 but greater than in 1879, 1880 and 
1881. It is expected that the crop of 1882 will 
be about 11 per cent, greater in quantity than 
that of 1881. The average growth available 
for consumption for the 17 years mentioned 
was 10 883,000 quarters, or 87,064,000 bushels 
per annum. Forthe first nine years the aver¬ 
age was 12,278 000 quarters, or 99,224.000 bush¬ 
els. During the last eight years there was a 
considerable falling off . the average being only 
9,315,000 quarters, or 74 520,000 bu, per annum. 
"In the corn plant it is a universal belief 
among farmers, in which I have myself 
shared, that the influence of growing varieties 
together is to be seen in the hybridized ker¬ 
nels on the ears of the same year's yield.” 
The above is from Dr. 8turtevant’s Bu'letin, 
No. XV., Tf the Director has swerved from 
this b'd'ef, we think be wbl return to it. The 
Rural Tborouebbred Flint has been raised in 
the Rural family over 40 successive years, and 
the evidence that it is a pure variety is as 
strikingly shown bv the uniformity of the 
color,size,etc . of the kernels as in any variety 
we have evpr seen. Now this corn was sent 
to over 13.000 applicants, about a dozen of 
whom have sent us ears in response to our 
request. Most of these show, by decided 
differences in color of many kernels that they 
have been grown near other kindB, and that 
crossing has occured. We do not see that any 
better evidence could be given that the influ¬ 
ence of "growing varieties together is to be 
seen in the crossed kernels on the ears of the 
aarrte year’s vield,”.-... 
The Director also speaks of the variations 
which have occurred in the Pod or Wild Corn 
of which the Rural spoke at leceth In its 
issue of Jan. 1, 1881. We raised this corn for 
three vears in succession, and had the oppor¬ 
tunity of noting not only the variations to 
which he refers but also another, viz., that in 
several plants the "tassels” bore either per¬ 
fect flowers or female flowers or both, since 
perfect kernels, and many of them, were ma¬ 
tured. One of these heads of fruit was also 
shown in the number above mentioned. 
Knows What He Rats —Mr. James Maul- 
den, Beaverhead, Montana, one of the largest 
horse-breeders in the Territory, gives his ex¬ 
perience in breeding large sized Percheron- 
Norraan stallions to the small bronchos and 
Indian mares of the West. In 1874 he bought 
some Percheron Btallions weighing from 1,600 
to 1.800 pounds each. He commenced at once 
to breed them to their full capacity to hie 
native mares, some of which weighed less 
than 700 pounds. Many persona considered 
the horses much too large, and prophesied a 
failure. But the result proved a moat remark 
able adaptability of the French stallion for 
this purpose. The great uniformity, superior 
6tyle and muscular build of all the colts pro¬ 
duced by these horses, have convinced the 
most Incredulous persons that they are just 
what are needed as a cross. These horses (and 
subsequently others) were purchased from M. 
W. Dunham, Wayne, Ill., and have led to the 
sale of about 30 stallions to other breeders in 
the Territory. Mr. Dunham has imported 
and bred nearly 1,000, and now has on hand 
about 400 of th6 finest types of the Percheron 
race. 
FINALLY. 
Dr. Hoskins thinks that the work of the 
land-poor farmer is always ahead of him, 
and he always misses the chance of making 
the dollar which his small-farm neighbor has 
time to capture. .. . 
Mr. Fletcher Oar says that, the wide¬ 
awake American farmer of to-day can justly 
be called one of Nature’s noblemen. 
H® further says, speaking of experiment 
stations: "We do not want costly experi¬ 
ments that do no one any good except scien¬ 
tific and theoretical men.” He says many 
other good things in the Husbandman of 
November 1. 
The Cottage Gardener says that we have 
lots of strawberries that have flavor, or size, 
or productiveness. Now, what we want is 
one that has the quality of the Duncan, the 
uniformity of Windsor Chief, averaging in 
size as large as the Sharpless; the vigor of the 
Kentucky and the fruitfulness of the Crescent. 
Again we find it said that there is such a 
thing as hiding cabbages from the cabbage 
butterfly. A writer in the Fruit Recorder 
makes the statement that one of his neighbors 
planted some cabbage plants among his corn 
where the corn missed, and the hutterflies 
did not find them. He has therefore come to 
the conclusion that if the cabbage patch were 
in the middle of the corn field, the butterflies 
would not find them, as they fly low and like 
plain sailing... 
Another writer destroys the cabbage and 
currant worms by sprinkling the plants with 
water (three gallons) in which one pound of 
alum lias been dissolved. He ftrot dissolved 
by heat the alum in a small quantity of 
water and theu added water sufficient to make 
three gallons. With this solution when cold 
he watered by means of a watering pot, hav¬ 
ing a rose spout, his cabbages and cauli¬ 
flowers, sprinkling the plants from the time 
the miller commenced depositing its eggs 
until the plants arrived at maturity. The re¬ 
sult more than exceeded his expectations. 
Wherever the solution touched them the 
worms ceased to develop, and when they re¬ 
ceived the bath they curled up completely 
tanned. He watered them almost every 
evening and his cauliflowers and cabbages 
were as fine as the finest. 
No crop the farmer raises needs such watch¬ 
ful care as his crop of boys. While they are 
growing he is prone to forget that foul weeds 
spring naturally in the virgin soil of tbeir 
minds and manners. So says a writer in the 
good Miataigau Farmer. 
Certain physiological considerations, well 
stated in the Medical Review, sufficiently in¬ 
dicate that, far from beiug profitable to the 
infant, fatty matters, and especially cod-liver 
oil, can odIv injure its health, and gravely 
compromise the integrity of its digestive 
functions................ 
Plant currants, blackberries and raspber¬ 
ries now for this latitude and cover about 
them with straw, potato or tomato haulm. 
The same may be advised as to grape-vines. 
It is better to lay down the canes and hold 
them with an evergreen bough or something 
of the kind than to leave the canes tied to 
trellisses. Thus they escape the drying winds 
of Winter... 
In the United States, as in England, it is 
nothing but want of combination that pre¬ 
vents farmers from having all their just com¬ 
plaints attended to, says the Mark Lane Ex¬ 
press, and 'tis a fact.... 
A writer says in the N. Y. World that the 
cross of the Jersey sire with the Ayrshire 
dam must finally result in the best of all cross¬ 
breeds for general use in the dairy... 
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The Rural New-Yorker will be sent to 
all yearly subscribers from now until Jan. 
1st. 1884 for #2.00. 
(I£v$xym\)sxe. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Illinois. 
Olena, Henderson Co., Nov. 9.—Corn in 
this section is about half a crop—a large acre¬ 
age was drowoed out and made nothing. 
Wheat was good, but little was planted. Oats 
about medium, making about 40 bushels to 
the acre. Potatoes good but not a large 
yield. We have had no cold weather yet; not 
enough of frost to make corn dry fast. 
Meadows are green and growing. J. A. M. 
Russellville, Lawrence Co., Nov. 4.— 
Weather still warm and dry in this region. 
The latest planted corn is safe from frost. 
Crop on high, dry land a good average; on 
low ground about 75 per ceut. of the usual 
crop. Wheat mostly thrashud, aud yields from 
1)4 to 30 bushels per acre are reported—prob¬ 
able average of this county, 14 bushels; more 
than usual amount sown this Fall, but the fly 
is so bad in much of that sown early that 
many are sowing over 8 gain. Potatoes are 
very fine and cheap. Winter apples a fair 
crop, but they feii off badly, and will not 
keep welL Wheat at Vincennes, 90c.; oorn, 
40c.; potatoes, Irish, 25c.; sweet, 50c.; apples, 
25 to 40c; hay, #12 per ton. A. J. h. 
Indiana, 
A villa, Noble Co., Nov 8.—We have had 
a wet Bummer. Winter wheat looks well; 
about an average acreage. Corn is good. 
Potatoes are better thau they have been for 
several years. J. M. H. 
Kansas. 
Parsons, Labette Co.. Nov. 6. —Reasons 
differ continually. To-day we picked off 
green tomatoes. I have seen no ice yet; 
though I have heard of it in farmers’ troughs. 
Rosea are blooming in my garden. Scattered 
corn has reached a foot of growth in our 
fields. Southeastern Kansas has the inside 
track not only of Kansas but any other State. 
Our corn has been in a condition to shell for 
a month. Most of it was not No 2—sound, 
dry corn—but its superior quality caused it 
to briug the price of No. 2 or nearly so. 
Corn here to-day is 41c. and on the 4th there 
were 300 car-loads delivered here. We have 
the inside track because no other place on the 
continent growing corn is enabled to shell 
it on account of immaturity. [Texas corn 
was sold in St Louis five weeks ago; and a 
large part of the surplus crop has been mar¬ 
keted. Arkansas corn has been coming east 
of the Mississippi for the last month. Kan¬ 
sas is a splendid State—especially about Par¬ 
sons—but some of the other States, too, can 
boast of tbeir corn. Eds.] Wheat looks 
splendid. Our apples are superb and you 
may see the yeomau casting away apples as 
large as rutabagas after he has tasted them 
aud found the flavor not to his taste. Ye 
gods ! what a change 1 Blue Grass is fine. 
We are happy. We can, if mortals can, hon 
estly give thanks on the 30th day of Novem¬ 
ber. J. B. 
[It is pleasant to read such accounts from 
Kansas. Eds.] 
Ohio. 
Richfield Center, Lucas Co., Nov. 3.— 
Crops generally good. Corn much better than 
expected early in the season. Grain very 
good. Wheat averaged 15 bushels; oats, 45; 
corn 75 of ears; potatoes, 110. o. t. 
Camden, Preble Co., Nov. 3.—The fly is 
working badly on early-sown wheat. Our 
corn is curing nicely. The Fall has been very 
favorable. W. M. 
Bristol, Trumbull Co., Oct. 27.—The past 
season has been very wet in this part of the 
country. It was so wet during May and the 
fore part of June that many farmers did not 
get their corn planted until nearly or quite 
the middle of June, and many could not work 
their corn very much after it was planted. 
Corn is a pretty good crop, however, where 
the ground was not too wet for it. Grass was 
a very heavy crop, but a great deal of hay 
was damaged by rains. Wheat is a good crop, 
'averaging from 20 to 25 bushels to the acre, 
some fields eveu going 30 bushels and over. 
Oats are good and are turning out well. There 
has not been as heavy a growth of wheat and 
oat straw around here for a good many years 
as there was this year. Potatoes are a light 
crop, especially the late sorts, as they were 
injured by blight. J. S. B. 
PcnOBJ'lVRUlOL. 
Carpenter, Lycoming Co,, Nov. 5. —“The 
harvest is past, the Summer is ended,” and 
now comes the time to gather in the green¬ 
backs; and right here let me say that, thanks 
to the Rural’8 information, I have obtained 
better prices than my neighbors, some of 
whom take no paper. The apple crop has 
been small, although there never was such a 
show of blossoms as there was last Spring; 
price, 50a. Potatoes a fair crop, but owing 
to a demand from Philadelphia and Balti¬ 
more the price is 40 to 45c. Wheat good; #1.10. 
Corn a fair average. Oats good; 40c. Buck¬ 
wheat good; 60c. Hayjs being pressed and 
sold to ship at #8 to #10 per ton. D. w. L. 
Newcastle, Lawrence Co., Nov. 4.—I am 
r very much interested in improving seeds and 
crops, and got a great many first premiums at 
our fairs this Fall, where I showed nine dis¬ 
tinct varieties of corn, etc., etc. Noticing the 
number of grains of corn reported on the two 
Rural varieties, I counted some ears of my 
own sort, and I found one with 1,470 grains. 
There are some very large vields of corn per 
acre in our county. One is as high as 168 
bushels of ears on an average of 11 acres. 
Others average away above 100 bushels. My 
owu five acres gave 617 bushels, being the 
second crop in corn. Crofts were splendid in 
general; but this is one of the best counties in 
the State, all things considered, agricultural 
and mineral. Weather very fine. Winter 
wheat is looking splendid. J. w. c. 
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RURAL SEED REPORTS. 
Illinois. 
Russellville, Lawrence Co., Nov. 4.— I 
planted my Rural Dent corn May 4th. We 
had 10 days of cold, wet weather after that, 
and out of 170 kernels I got a stand of 100. I 
thought the chance of a premium on that 
would be small, and gave it no manure and 
only good ordinary cultivation, going through 
it twice with a double shovel aud once with a 
light harrow; weeds hoed out twice. Cn Au¬ 
gust 4th the cows got iu aud broke down one 
stalk and took the lower ears off of some 
more, leaving me 120 ears which will make a 
good bushel of corn. The Rural squash gave 
us two dozen small squashes, but they were 
the finest I ever tasted. Celery was not 
planted until too late to do much. I have 
about a dozen of the hollyhocks and a splendid 
bed of the China pinks. N. J. h. 
Philo, Champaign Co., Nov. 8.—Of the 
Flint corn only 94 seeds germinated out of 148 
I planted the 10th of May. i used no ferti¬ 
lizer, but had second sod. Owing to wet and 
cold weather the corn did not make a fast 
growth at first, but it finally did well, produc^ 
ing some fine ears, one weighing one and-one. 
quarter pound, a>id several measuring 15 
inches. I husked it on October 9th and ricked 
it up to dry. Of the Lima Beans two grew 
and produced some pods, but the beans are 
not so large as those 1 planted. Celery did 
well. Of the Gem Squash three grew and pro_ 
duced 40 little gems. Hollyhocks, 7; cata’- 
pas, 13, about 12 inches high. t. e. o. 
Wayne, Du Page Co., Nov. 6.—Twelve 
Little Gem squash seeds were planted in four 
hills; only three grew, and from these I picked 
76 ripe squashes. My wife likes them better 
than the Hubbard, as they bake very quickly 
and are fine-grained and tender. Of hollyhocks 
we have one lonely plant. I raised five-and- 
one-half bushels of White Elephant potatoes, 
would have had at least one-and-one-half 
bushel more if they had not rotted—most of 
the largest tubes were rotten. I was surprised 
at that, as I understood they were rot-proof. 
[We have never thought it, nor said so that 
we remember. E Is ] A. f, k. 
Monticello, Piatt Co., Nov. 6.—The Rural 
Heavy Dent corn was planted in a plot 33 feet 
square on sandy loam. No manure had been 
used for two years on the land, which pro., 
duced cubbuge lost year. The ground wus 
plowed, then ruked and divided into 10 rows, 
with 15 grains in a row, of which about 110 
grew. The stalks averaged from 10 to 13 feet 
in bight. The corn ripened the last week in 
October; there were 216 ears and a few nub¬ 
bins, and the weight in the ear was a little 
more than 200 pounds, and the shelled corn 
weighed 154 pounds. P. h. c. 
Indiana. 
Darlington, Montgomery Co.—Of the 
Rural heavy Dent corn 1 planted 165 grains* 
two to the hilL It nearly all came up; but 
the wire-worms killed nearly half of it. The 
rest of it grew very finely and produced some 
excellent ears. The Thoroughbred Flint is 
simply immense. I had 185 grains which I 
planted at the same time aud in the same way 
as the Dent. Nearly all came up, bub the 
wire-worms again ate fully one-balf of it; but 
I shall have about one half bushel of each to 
plant next year. I had ears of the Flint 15^j 
and 16 inches in kngth. The Perfect Gem 
Squashes are simply immense. I had seed 
enough to plant eight hills from which 1 
gathered 150 perfect and ripe squashes and 
there were several green ones on the viues. 
They are all you claim for them. The celery 
ia tip-top. M. B. 
Iowa. 
Iowa Falls, Hardin Co., Nov. 5.—Owing 
to a mistake I didn’t get my com until May 
24, when it was at once planted on an already 
prepared piece of clay loam which had been 
broken up last year. There were 162 grains 
which were put iu eight rows 83 feet long, 
four feet apart, there being 20 grains in each 
row. Twenty-three kernels germinated. No 
fertilizer whatever was used. Some stalks 
were 10 feet and others 13 feet high. Several 
measured seven-and-three-quarter inches in 
circumference. The ears weighed 105 pounds 
on October 24. I shelled it November 4, and 
the Bhelled com weighed 72 pounds and the 
cobs 28 pounds. I saved four ears that I did 
not shell for folks to look at. They measured 
11)4 inches in length, are filled out full at the 
end and measure eight inehea in circumfer* 
ence. I saved 40 pounds of the best for 
seed. N. 8. o. 
Renwick, Humboldt Co., Nov. 8.— Tne Gem 
Squash grew rank and bore a heavy crop; it 
