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MARCH 6 
THE BUBAL HEW-YORKER. 
(Ifrirp&fM. 
KUBAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Cal , Carpentaria, Santa Barbara Co., Feb. 
18. —We have had more fro=t and cold in this 
vicinity the present winter than for many 
years. The former, however, has done little 
or no injury, except cutting down some of the 
early potatoes. Ro?es and other flowers are 
bright and sweet. Early grain and grass are 
a good growth. The farming prospects were 
never brighter at this season. o. n. o. 
Cal., Norwalk, Los Angeles Co., Feb. 2.— 
We aio putting iu a good deal of wheat in this 
section this year of the Odessa variety, which 
is &aid to be rust proof. We arc also organiz¬ 
ing an amber cane association for the manu¬ 
facture of sugar. Corn has been so low we 
are obliged to try something else to help us 
out. J - K - 
Illinois, BaldwlD, Randolph Co., Feb. 18.— 
Unlil the 13th inst., we had an unusually mild 
winter. On that day we had a severe snow 
storm, the first heavy snow this winter, but at 
this time the snow is about all gone, &Dd we 
have indications of rain. The roads are well- 
nigh impassable from the rain that came be¬ 
fore the enow, and afterwards the melting snow 
made them worse. W heat looks well on au aver¬ 
age; but in some places it is turning yellow 
from too much water; it does not look as well 
as it did some time back. The rise in the price 
of pork to five dollars per 100 pounds induced 
most farmers to fatten aud sell all their pigs 
they could prepare for market. We hear less 
complaint of hard times among farmers, and 
there seeuiB a general desire to improve not 
only their stock but their farms aud houses. 
Wheat is BelliDg at $1 0a per bushel; corn, 35 
cents; potatoes, 50c.; oats, 30c.; eggs,9c. per 
dozen. ». J. s- 
III., Canton, Fulton Co., Feb. 27.—The past 
season here has been the driest since I came 
here, 22 years aqo. Still we had a big crop of 
winter wheat, 35 bushels per acre in my neigh¬ 
borhood. Of corn we had per acre over 40 
bushels; hay was half a crop; potatoes nearly 
a total failure. s. j. e. 
III., Buckeye Center, Stephenson Co., Feb. 
19 . —Winter is going out, I suppose, without 
snow. Fall grain looks fine. Our market 
prices are: wheat, $1; corn, 28c.; oats, 30c.; rye, 
70c.; barley, 60c.; eggs, 12£c.; butter, 18c. with 
a prospect of lowerprice; hops, ©3.75. 
s. F. B. 
Iowa, Viola, Linn Co., Feb. 18.—We are 
having an exceedingly mild winter. On Christ¬ 
mas eve, however, the thermometer marked 28 
degrees below zero. Crops are good. Hardly 
a ay wheat is raised here. Last year oats 
yielded about 40 bushels to the acre—a fair 
crop; corn gave us from 50 to 60 bushels, and 
hay two tons to the acre. Oats are worth 30c.; 
corn, 28@30c.; hav, ©7 We do not raise uiauy 
kinds of grain. Dairies aud cheese factories 
are all around us, and dairying is the chief in¬ 
dustry among farmers in lhi6 part of the world. 
K vising fat cattle and hogs is no small item, 
also, iu farm economy, as our country fur¬ 
nishes about lorty thousand hogs for market, 
generally of the best sorts, ranging from 150 to 
600 pounds per bead. They are worth at pres¬ 
ent about ©4.20 pur 100 lbs. Of clover seed there 
are about two bushels to the acre and it is 
worth about ©1 40 per bush. Eggs are selling 
for 12c. per doz.; roll butter, 18s.; milk is sold 
to the factories at ©1 per 100 lbs. at present; 
last summer it was down to 45c. per hundred. 
d. c. w- 
Iowa, Frcdonia, Louisa Co.. Feb. 20.—I 
raised what were called Kentucky beans in 
Mason County, Ill., and brought the seed with 
me and raised them several seasons in Musca¬ 
tine County, Iowa. The cut aud description 
of Cow peas in the Rukal. answer for my Ken¬ 
tucky bean. They were a grayish-brown. I 
planted them three beaus in a hill; hills six 
feet apart each way. The vines completely 
covered the ground. I had about half a bush¬ 
el too old to eat; these 1 boiled and fed to my 
pigs; the old ones would not eat them, but the 
small ones eat them greedily. n. i. k. 
Iowa, Davenport, Feb , 16.—We are hav¬ 
ing a remarkable winter here. The thermome¬ 
ter has not registered zero since Christmas 
eve; roads are very bad, and farmers cannot 
market their last year’s crops, 60 that It is 
going to make it lively for them when roads 
get good. a, w. t. 
Kansas, Black Jack, Douglas Co., Feb. 20.— 
The winter here has been open, and the fruit 
prospects are promising. We had large crops 
last season. Corn sells for 20c. now, but has 
been as high as 25c. A great deal of it is con¬ 
verted into beef and pork. e. o. p. 
Michigan, Watsou, Allegan Co., Feb. 22.— 
Wo have had a very open winter thus far, in 
this part of the State—between two and three 
weeksof sleighing in December and thegronnd 
almost entirely bare the balance of the time. 
At the commencement of winter while the 
sleighing lasted, the busiucss “ boom”increas¬ 
ed; but since then the roads have been so bad 
that the times have been rather dull; and as a 
consequence the prices of farm products have 
been depressed. They rule about as follows: 
—wheat, ©1.15 to ©l 20; buckwheat, 70 to 75c? 
corn, 33 to 40c; oats. 35 to 87c: barley 100 
pounds ©1.30; clover seed ©4 25 to ©4 50; 
timothy seed ©2 00; beaus 75c to ©1.00; pota¬ 
toes 25 to 35c; ouions 75c to ©1 00; butter 13 to 
16c per pound; cheese 12 to 14c: eggs 10 to 
15c; apples per bushel 75c to ©1.00; cranberries 
per bushel ©4 00 to ©5.00; beef dressed, 4 to 
5c; pork, to 5e; chickens dressed per pound 
6 to 8c.; turkeys 6 to 8c. Wheat looks well 
and a large amount has teen sowr.— h e. 
Mien., Three Rivers, St. Joseph Go., Feb. 
20.—We have had a very open winter here— 
only very little snow, but lot9 of rain. Wheat 
was looking nice last month, but the top Is 
looking yellow now. Wheat is worth $1.15 
per bushel; corn runs from 30c. to 40c.,'ac¬ 
cording to demands for feed ; potatoes, 25c. to 
30c. per bushel; eggs, 12Jc. per dozeu; wood 
Is scarce, and the price varies with the con¬ 
dition of the roads—it has been as high as ©4 
per cord. s. m. s. 
Miss , Okolona, Chickasaw Co., Feb. 20—We 
are nearly through sowing here, having put in 
a larger acreage uuder crops than usual. The 
country generally is feeling good over the 
price for cotton, but this very fact is likely to 
prove fatal to the farming interest by stimu¬ 
lating our people too much to the planting of 
cotton to the exclusion of other crops a. m. 
Mo., Oregon, Feb-, 12.—Fruit prospect not 
very promising, but I do hope there are fruit 
buds enough alive to give a good crop during 
1880. We nave no snow here this winter and 
sleighing has been at a discouut. Winter 
wheat of late sowing is killed; that of early 
sowing looks well, but somewhat injured. 
Prices of all kinds of grain are down, but 
most farmers took advantage of good prices 
some time ago. J. w. m. 
Neb., Purple Cane, Dodge, Co., Feb. 19.— 
Our weather is quite cold even for this time of 
the year; roads in grand order, stock in fine 
shape, and farm business going straight on 
without hindrance. Corn, 16c.; butter, 15c.; 
eggs, 12c. Spring coining on fast, but every 
one ready for it. Teams iu good order, work 
enough to prevent them getting soft. No 
grasshopper eggs in the ground this year, 
and consequently no danger from them, ex¬ 
cept we are inundated again as in '74. If we 
escape this year, it will be the first time in 
seven years. 8. s m. 
N. Y., Sherman, Chautauqua Co., Feb. 25.— 
We have been favored with a remarkably mild 
winter with very little snow comparatively. 
Stock appear to be wintering quite well. 
Farmers are feeling better over the prospect of 
receiving better prices for dairy produce, as 
this is almost exclusively a dairy region, with 
the exception of fruit raising. Apples were a 
large crop through this scct.on last fall, bring¬ 
ing on the average about ©1.25 per barrel. 
Tue general belief was if it had not been for 
the ixtremelyhot and unseasonable weather 
during gathering time, they would havebrougbt 
©2 per barrel at least. The scoichiog weather 
impaired their keeping qualities very tuuoh. 
Baldwins stood the ordeal the best with me, 
while my faith iu Koxbury Russet (my favor¬ 
ite heretofore) weakened somewhat. Prices of 
farm produce at present are about as follows: 
hay, ©10 per ton; corn, Western, 60 ceuts; 
oats, 40 ceuts ; butter, 20 to 25 ceuts ; eggs, 14 
cents per dozen; cheese, 15 to 16 cents. A 
great many cheese factories und creameries 
are being built and projected. The Great West, 
with its cheap, rich and virgin soil, is proving 
to be the mighty competitor that is crushing 
the heavily mortgaged farmer of the Ea6t. Of 
those that bought their farms during the high 
aud inflated times during and following the 
war, a great many are throwing up tbeir 
farms, and leaviug for the frontiers to start 
life almost anew. Potatoes, which were a 
splendid crop here last season, are selling 
at 30 cents per bushel, with no market worth 
mentioning at that. One of my neighbors, 
while at the fair last fall, heatd of a plau of 
treating potatoes, when the tops are killed 
by frost, so as to still secure a good crop. lie 
saw a farmer that had a large patch of pota¬ 
toes killed entirely to the grouud by the heavy 
frost that visited this section upon the 10th of 
last June. Everyone kuows that when potato 
tops are killed by fi ost, the roots will Anally 
throw up new tops and bear lots of little 
tubers which will amount to but little. Th*s 
farmer, to try au experiment, set his hired 
man with horse and plow throwing up ridges 
of soil, covering up every veEtige of stalk, the 
result of which was he harvested a flue crop of 
potatoes. A way to stop an unruly cow or 
steer from jumping—nail a common horse¬ 
shoe to one forward foot. This prevents the 
hoof from spreading, and consequently renders 
the animal unable to spring. This is claimed 
to be very effectual. It often happens that the 
best cow of a dairy will get into the habit of 
jumping into the meadow or corn field when 
nobody is around to drive her out. I think if 
we farmers would write about new ways of 
doing thiDgB. that come under our notice, we 
could be a great help to one another. A. b. b. 
N. C., Warren Co., Feb. 18—Two inches of 
enow on the 2d. Good weather for plowing all 
winter; considerable has been done. Wheat 
and rye look well. Sowing oats 18 now the 
order of the day. Saw first peach-bloom to¬ 
day. Prices—corn, 80c.; oats, 75c.; cotton, 
12c ; eggs, 12jc.; tobacco, 2c. to 75c.; fodder 
©1 per hundred; cow peas, ©1 25. m. b. p. 
Ohio, Hillsboro, Highland Co., Feb. 18.— 
We have had an open winter and pleuty of 
rain, only twosnoW6—the last on the 4th inst. 
was eight inches on a level; nextday the mer¬ 
cury stood five degrees above zero, the coldest 
day this winter, but on the Cth it rained again 
and has rained every few days since. Wheat 
looks well, almost loo rank for this season of 
the year; a larger acreage sown than last year. 
Wheat Is worth $1.15; corn, 40c,; oats, 35c.; 
potatoes, 25@50c.; cattle ©2 50<®43: hogs, 
$3.75@$4, nearly all sold. Hay, $10@$12 per 
ton; apples, ©1@©1.50 per bushel—scarce ; 
eggs, 10c.; butter, 16c. Wo have monthly 
stock sales on the first Saturday of the month; 
at the last sale about 100 horses and mules 
were 6old to Cincinnati aud Eastern buyers at 
prices ranging froin_©50 to ©100. Fields and 
mud roads are. very soft, and turnpikes are 
cut through in many places. 
Utah. Salt Lake City. Feb. 15.—I have just 
returned from a trip through the northern 
counties of this Territory, on business for the 
Salt Lake Herald and Utah Farmer. In my 
travels wherever I found the Rural I heard 
it w-ell spoken of. It certainly is the best and 
the cheapest agricultural paper published. 
The winter has been extremely cold and an 
unusual amount of Bnow has fallen, and there 
is a big demand for even wheat straw to feed 
cattle in the north where I have traveled, aud 
a groat many cattle have died of cold and 
hunger. The same causes are almost certain 
to kill great numbers of sheep all through the 
Territory, as vory few sheep raisers iu the 
South aud West take the precaution to provide 
any kind of feed or shelter for their flocks 
during the winter. Several years ago thousands 
of sheep starved to death on account of au un¬ 
usually severe winter. Some sheep raisers and 
sheep herders lost almost every head—a shock 
that even to the present day they have not re¬ 
covered from. The great excitement now in 
Utah is the digging of canals to tako out water 
on to the vacant land that private enterprise 
has not been able to handle. A bill is before 
the Legislature he:e to charter and allow Salt 
Lake City to take out the Jordan River (which 
carries the water of the Utah Lake into the 
Salt Lake) on to the “bench" land cast and 
south of this city; aud also to Issue bonds, etc. 
But there is considerable feeling against the 
enterprise because toe land south of the ditch 
has been “filed on" by wealthy men, who are 
trying to use the city funds and credit for their 
private interests, and because on this account, 
the canal will be no advantage to the majority 
of the inhabitants of the city proper who are 
very heavily taxed already. What the con¬ 
clusion will he 1 am uable to guess, but if the 
land below the canal could bo put into the 
hands of the laboring people to build and make 
improvements on it. the projected canal would 
certainly be a very good move; but if it is to 
enrich speculators, it will no doubt be cried 
down by the people of tec city. There is an¬ 
other large canal being taken out of the Logan 
River in Cache county ; and also one from the 
Snake River, in the south of Idaho, which is 
being opened by the people of Cache county 
for a stock company, and will be used for 
mining aud agricultural purposes. If there 
was a clause in the Land laws, allowing large 
companies to take out canals where private 
people were unable to manage them, but allow¬ 
ing the company to hold a portion of the land 
adjoining as a subsidy, and the balance to be 
open to homestead In 40 or 80-acre claims, and 
allow ing these homesteaders to buy wntei-right 
thereto at a certain price or at a certain per¬ 
centage above the cost of construction, it 
would be a great advantage to a great many 
people, and to the government. 
The grain trade in this Territory is dull just 
now. but people are holding on to their produce 
with the hope that there will be a rise in the 
market in the tpiing; but the merchants 
in the north of the Territory have crowded 
the prices down eiece the deep snows and 
the severe winter put an end to freighting. 
Wheat fell from 85 cts. to 65 cts. in Cache 
county, and other grain dropped in about the 
same proportion, while the prices have risen 
somewhat in the center and southern portions 
of the Territory. On the Sevier wheat now 
briDgs ©1, and is very scarce at that. There is 
a very great amount of snow in the mountains, 
aud it is feared that damaging floods will occur 
in the vicinity of large streams, and the people 
are making arrangements to protect their dams 
and water-gates from being carried away by 
the high watcis. Fanners who have been 
short of water in times gone by, arc happy in 
the belief that they will soon have plenty, and 
consumers are buying broadstuffs in small 
quantities, hoping that food will be cheaper 
when spring opens and the farmers can haul 
tneir grain to market. w. m. o. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Bnrnyord Manure, Gypsum and Ton-bark. 
W. A. X.. Brooklyn, N. Y-, owns a farm that 
has been run down by continued cropping. 
The soil is a sandy loam. He can buy barnyard 
manure for $1 per two-horse load, gypsum at 
©8 per ton, and spent tan bark at five cents a 
bushel. He is thinking of buying the manure 
to plow uuder and then top-dress with gypsum, 
and asks, if tan bark is worth five cents per 
bushel, and if plaster loses its strength by lying 
under cover. 
Ans.—W e would purcliaso all the barnyard 
manure that could be afforded, at the price 
named. At $1 a ton, the nitrogen in half-rotted 
manure will cost six cents a pound, the potash 
two cents and the phosphorm acid three cents. 
No other fertilizer can be procured so cheaply 
as that. Tau bark is wonh nothing in a fresh 
condition and is very difficult to rot. If burned 
to ashes it may be worth about as much as the 
labor of burning, so that it would be dear at 
five cents a load. Plaster is as unchangeable 
as so much 6and, so long as it is kept dry or 
undissolved. It is simply ground gypsum 
which is a permanrtitrock. Gypsum is a valu¬ 
able fertilizer in some cases; what these cases 
are no one can tell uutil ho has tried. All that 
is known of its action is that it very often has 
a good effect on clover and corn on some soils. 
It is a cheap article as but 80 to 100 poandB per 
acre are used, and a trial will cost but little; we 
should expect but littlo effect from it until the 
soil has been improved by using barnyard 
manure. 
Clapp's Favorite Pear. 
B. A., East Leering, Me., set out, last spring, 
6ome 50 standard PearB, selecting Clapp’s Fa¬ 
vorite by the advice of his nurseryman, who 
promised that they would be vigorous, prodi¬ 
gious bearers, aud delicious for eating—fully 
equal to Bartlett. Having seen no mention of 
this variety in the numerous reports of Porno- 
logical Societies in the Bubal, he anxiously 
asks for some information about it. At pres¬ 
ent his trees are doing extremely well. 
Ans.— Clapp’s Favorite is thought to be a 
cross between Bartlett and Flemish Beauty. It 
ripens a week or ten days before the Bartlett. 
It is an excellent pear, juicy and melting, 
though not of the first quality. It sometimes 
rots at the core. Maine, we believe, has not 
reported that it thrives well, for what reason 
we do not know. Our correspondent is mis¬ 
taken. The Kubal has mentioned it many 
times within the past two years. The tree is 
everywhere, 60 far as wo know, strong and 
vigorous. 
Removing the “ Alter-Birlh ” or a Cow. 
W. S. Benderville, Fa., asks what Ehall 
be done to a cow that retains her after-birth 
for several days alter calving; is it safe to 
have it removed, and if to, how should the 
operation be done- 
Ans.— Should a cow not clean within two 
days, it should be removed thus :—take a towel 
in the left hand and with it grasp the placenta 
hanging from the vagina, then with the right 
hand, well oiled, follow the placenta into the 
uterus aud unbutton gently —no force is required. 
It may be held by Irom 10 to 60 cotyledons or 
buttons, and requires considerable patience to 
do it rigUt—afterwards with a syringe wash 
out the uterus with a weak solution of car¬ 
bolic acid and water (1 to 40), aud if the ani¬ 
mal is feverish give i to 1 pound of Epsom 
salts, according to size of cow, 
Lice In Sheep. 
G. W. S., Falls City, Neb., asks how to get 
rid of lice on sheep. 
Ajig._These are generally found on the side 
of the sheep’s neck and the inner parts of the 
thighs and arras. They cause much itching by 
which the sheep is impelled to thrust its head 
between the bars of gates or feuces, or to 
kick and stamp. Occasionally sheep are found 
strangled by becoming fixed in their attempts 
to rub tbeir necks, or with their legs broken 
iu their attempts to rub them upon rails. Lice 
are rarely found on yolky-wooled sheep or 
upon those that are dipped regulavly. To rub 
the infested parts with some of the following 
preparation is generally an easy remedy : Lard 
one pound, flowers of sulphur, two ounces, creo¬ 
sote, 20 drops; one pint of oil may be substi¬ 
tuted for the lard. 
Raspberries for Drying aud Marketing. 
C. E., Sinclairs eille, N. Y., is thinking of 
setting out a Black Raspberry patch, and asks 
which varieties arc likely to prove good mar¬ 
ket berries and good for drying, especially for 
the latter purpose. 
Anb.—T he best Raspberries for the purposes 
are Doolittle’s Improved and Mammoth Clus¬ 
ter. These are both very prolific and “ waste" 
Jcsb in drying than others, the Mammoth being 
