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JULY JO 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
the leading sorts for late. With regard to the 
acreage under the various crops, takiug six as 
the standard lor wheat, then there will be four 
of corn; two of rye ; four of oats aud one of 
potatoes. No sorghum is grown here. Apples 
are scarce in some parts of the county, while 
other parts have half a crop. Of cherries and 
peaches, too, there will hardly be more than 
half a crop. There seems to be little differ¬ 
ence about the kind of fruii here; all seem to 
thrive about the same. h. l. 
Kentucky. 
Milton, Trimble Co.—Wheat is now in the 
shock, and 1 may safely say that 15 per cent, 
was lost by the fly, and the crop is not so good 
by 10 per cent, as we all thought it would be. 
Corn, oats and potatoes are doing splendidly. 
Peaches will be half a crop, notwithstanding 
the frost while they were in bloom. Black¬ 
berries will be in overwhelming abundance. 
8. e. n. 
Tennessee. 
Humboldt, Gibson Co.—Geographically, we 
are about the center of West Tennessee. 
Wheat is very nearly a failure—not one-fourth 
of a crop. Fortunately, the acreage sown was 
very small. Oats are sorry ; rusted like wheat. 
Corn and cow-peas now look promising; for¬ 
ward corn is tasseling and shooting; it needs 
rain, though we have had slight showers. 
Cotton looks flue ; it is fruiting aud blossom¬ 
ing earlier than usual; the Fall months will 
determine the yield with us. Potatoes are 
good. Clover, Herd's grass, and Orchard grass, 
millet, etc., are all good. Hay, both in qual¬ 
ity and quantity is above the average ; it was 
about all saved during the past few weekB of 
dry weather. Our gardens furnish in abund¬ 
ance cabbage, “ roasting ears," beans, cucum¬ 
bers, squash, tomatoes, etc., etc. The qual¬ 
ity of our fruits is good ; we have had straw¬ 
berries all along from May to the middle of 
June. Raspberries and blackberries are plen¬ 
tiful. There is nearly half a crop of cherries, 
peaches and plums. May and Early Harvest 
apples are now about gone. Rod June, High 
Top, and Astraehan are coming in. There 
are but few of the late varieties, owing to se¬ 
vere frosts during March and April. If we 
have rain by the Fourth of July, and the *‘ la¬ 
ter rains," we shall he blessed, aud our harvest 
will be plenteous. The health of our country is 
good, aud now we may report our prospects 
bright. b. v. t. 
North Carolina. 
Brookston, Warren Co.—" What will the 
harvest be?” Judging from the present 
standpoint it will be most excellent. Of wheat 
the Fultr. and a variety kuown here as “ LUtle 
Red’’arc generally grown ; all harvested and 
mostly thrashed. Acreage, 100; yield, 100. 
Corn never gave bettor promise at this date 
than now—variety, a general mixture uuder 
the name of *' Southern White;" acreage, 100; 
present prospect, 105; cotton, ditto. Too 
early to have any idea of the yield of Sweet 
potatoes. Oats are injured by drought in 
April—acreage, 100 ; condition, 50. Taking It all 
in all the fruit prospect is about an average- 
very few peaches but more apples and pears 
than for several years. We shall have our 
usual full crop of grapes. As yet I hear of no 
rot or other casualty. All varieties of Ameri¬ 
can origin thrive, though we have yet to find 
the one that pays as well for shipping as the 
Ives. Although we had a backward and quite 
dry spring, vegetation is now far in advance 
of the same time la6t year; wheat ripened 
nearly a week earlier. We have watermelons 
as large as a half gallon measure. Cotton 
blooms will be found in many fluids at least a 
week before the regular time of their first ap¬ 
pearance—July 4. M. b. p. 
Flinty Branch, Mitchell Co.—Wheat is the 
best for years; one-fourth more acreage has 
been sown to it than last year or ever before. 
There is about the same area of corn as of 
wheat. This, too, is looking very well. We 
grow common varieties of wheat and corn that 
have been raised here for years. Rye looks 
well. Buckwheat is not sown yet. No barley 
is raised here. No cotton is grown here, as it 
is too high up in the mouutaius. Irish potatoes 
look well. The most common, aud that which 
yields the best, is called Shady. Early Rose is 
used for garden purposes. The apple crop is 
the best for years. 8. w. 
Henderson, Granville Co.—Owing to 
drought Fall wheat will not average over seven 
bushels per acre. Potatoes, oats, rye and 
barley are less than hall a crop. The acreage 
uuder all these is very small— about one to 50 
of cotton. Cotton is looking very well aud 
the acreage under it is about 30 per cent, more 
thau last year. Corn, too, is very promising; 
acreage about the same as last year. Budded 
peaches are nearly an entire failure owing to 
our Mareh frosts. Pears are mostly a full 
crop, especially Bartletls. Grapes are also 
mostly a full crop; very healthy, having been 
troubled by no insect enemies. Those are the 
best aud surest fruit crop iu this section, and 
next to them come pears, which are generally 
very good. Peaches, too, do finely when not 
injured or destroyed by Spring frosts. In 
some places apples, also, turn out very well 
this year. English cherries blight a great deal, 
aud raspberries aud cherries are worthless, 
but strawberries do well, although they have 
failed nearly entirely this season from drought. 
n. s. 
Island Ford, Rutherford Co.—Wheat half 
a crop; causes of failure, fly and rust. One- 
fifth less was planted than last year. Corn will 
be much better than for years, if the season 
continues good. Three-tenths more planted. 
Cotton is looking well now. One-third more 
was planted than last year. Oats are a com¬ 
plete failure—White Winter, Spring, Black, 
and Rust-proof. Onc-half less ground was 
seeded this year than last. Rye, half crop— 
the black, or common rye of the country. No 
barley is ever 6cenhere. Potatoes—Irish—only 
euough for family use; almost a complete 
failure caused by drought. Two-fifths more 
Sweet potatoes were planted thau usual. Fruit 
a failure; only a few peaches, apples, pears, or 
small fruits—injured by late frosts. Apples: 
House, Sweet Pearmain, Limber Twig and 
June. Pears—Sugar, Harvest and Belle, aud 
another sweet pear that ripens in November. 
J. L. MC D. 
Georgia. 
Herndon, Burke Co.—Wheat and barley 
enter very little into the aggregate of our pro¬ 
ducts. Cotton, corn, oats, aud potatoes are 
now suffering intensely from the drought, 
which has been prevailing for three weeks 
with intense hot suns and winds that evapo¬ 
rate aLL moisture. Rains, however, before this 
month is out, will secure a large yield of those 
crops. As the wet May and previous Spring 
months had started a rich crop of weeds and 
grass, which are now being eradicated, the 
cultivated crops will be in good condition for 
rain. An inferior oat crop has been harvested. 
There was a general destruction of grain crops 
by rust, with no exception, save where the 
land was filled with rich plant food and the 
seed put iu last Fall aud Winter with the utmost 
care on finely prepared grouud. Occasional 
exceptions occur in oats, but ouly with the 
Mexican bearded, red rust-proof oats—all 
Northern aud Western grain failed here com¬ 
pletely. Our seeds do better apparently when 
acclimated from south tq north, more espe¬ 
cially the cereals, as in case of the rough 
Mexican oats and Nicaragua wheat. The same 
is true of the grapes that withstand our cli¬ 
mate and become, as it were, indigenous. The 
acreage under cotton and corn aud oats is 
about the same aB last year, aud it is yet too 
soon to estimate the yield. w. b. j. 
Marietta, Cobb Co.—Wheat ii one quarter 
of a crop, oats a failure, except rust-proof, 
fall-sown oats. Of cotton a large crop has been 
planted, but owing to a wet May and great 
scarcity of help much of the crop is late and 
poorly worked. About five to ten per cent, of 
it lias been abandoned. The prOBpect for it 
is not as good by ten per cent, as last year. 
Upland corn is good. Bottom corn is late; 
some very poor, and some has been abandoned. 
Fruit, a light crop, though apples are belter 
than peaches. Wages 75e to SI per day and 
dinner with some “ blockade” whiskey now and 
then. Fifty cents per day and dinner has been 
the best price since the war ; everything dales 
here since the war. The negro is gelling more 
and more independent and lazy, and is by na¬ 
ture thievish, with few exceptions, though 
he takes to books more ikan the low class of 
whites. j. i. o. 
Wakthen, Washington Co.—Wheat is one- 
third of a crop. The prospects for corn are 
very poor. Unless we have rain soon, it will 
not make one-thud of a crop. Cqilon is suf¬ 
fering from lack of rain. Very few potatoes 
have been set out as yet—too dry. Oats and rye 
will he half crops. Of lruits we have none; 
all kinds do well here, but they are neglected 
for cotton. • G. I. a. 
Alabama. 
Talabsee, Elmore Co.—The wheat crop 
in our section is almost an entire failure from 
rust. The corn crop will also fall 6hoit of ex¬ 
pectations. As to cotton, it is too early to 
form any thing like a correct idea as to the 
yie.d; indications, though, are all quite lavor- 
able. w. E. s. 
Mississippi. 
Okolona, Chickasaw Co.—The wheat, rye 
and barley harvest is very light and the acreage 
small. Corn aud cotton acreage about the 
Bame as last year with worse labor to cultivate 
them. In consequence of the indilferent labor 
system, and too much dry weather through 
the latter part of May aud all Juue, neither of 
the crops can be eouuied on to give an average 
yield, without unprecedented seasons, includ¬ 
ing a late open Fall. Potatoes are very good 
but a small planting. Fruit promises well so 
far. Peaches, apples, plums, pears, figs, cher¬ 
ries, etc., are grown successfully iu our section, 
T. J. B. 
Louisiana, 
Clinton, East Feliciana Parish.—Of wheat 
none is grown here. Corn will give from 15 to 
30 bushels per acre. Cotton will average one 
bale—400 pounds—to two acres. Potatoes, 
Irish, a good crop—say 150 bushels per acre. 
They will not keep well in this climate. Pota¬ 
toes, 8weet, 200 bushels per acre. These are 
the best. Of oats not much is grown. It will 
yield about 20 bushels per acre. Rye none. 
Apples, peaches and pears are not good this 
year. Figs are always good, Plums of all 
kinds are good aud do well—not much variety, 
however. h. s. 
Texas. 
Dallas, Dallas Co.—Wheat a failure. It 
will average only from six to eight bushels per 
acre and that of poor quality. Corn has a 
larger acreage and better prospect than ever 
before. Cotton ditto—splendid, a week ahead 
of last year. Potatoes—Early Rose a good 
crop. Oats, generally very good, large acre¬ 
age. Rye, good, only a little sowed. Barley 
very good; small acreage. Of fruits there is 
very little except Chickasaw aud Wild Goose 
plums aud peach trees are doing very well. 
Apples not so well. Vegetables of every kind 
very abundant. The Army worms have ruin¬ 
ed the wheat. J. R. 
Dayton, Liberty Co.—The prospects for 
corn, cotton and Sweet potatoes are very fine 
—they could not be better. We have had an 
abundance of seasonable rain, just the reverse 
of last Summer. Wheat and barley are not 
grown here, and bnt little oat6 or rye. In fact, 
this is not much of a farming or fruit country; 
it it mostly a stock raising 6eclion. Colton 
grows better than anything else; it flourishes 
like a weed. I think there is double the 
acreage of the staple growing this year, 
compared with last season. I have gathered 
my patch of Mold’s Ennobled oats and will 
replant in September or October. The yield 
was nothing extra, though I ana not much of a 
judge iu the matter. The mangels are doing 
finely. It lias been quite cool for about a 
wuek ; this is something astonishing for Sum¬ 
mer iu this latitude, aud I have had a fire in 
the sitting-room two or three times. Usually 
from May until October fires are dispensed 
with, except iu the kitchen stove. Something 
strange is always turning up in this country, 
aud during my residence of a third of a cen¬ 
tury here, I do not remember a like occur¬ 
rence. G. G. 
Elgin, Bastrop Co.—Crop prospects in this 
county were never known to be better. The corn 
crop is made, aud the yield will be enormous. 
All of it is now in full roasting ears, some of 
which are getting hard. The cotton crop bids 
fair to make a bale per acre, provided the 
worm does not iufest it before September or 
October. Tho wheat and oat crops have been 
the beat known for years, wheat making from 
20 to 30 bushels per acre, and oats from 75 to 
100 bushels. e. e. b. 
Jefferson, Marion Co. — In this section 
of our great State we do not grow wheat; 
but out iu the prairies it is grown to perfection. 
There wheat y it Ids from 20 to 30 bushels per 
acre; oate, 40 to 50 bushels. We grow oats, 
barley, rye, and our yield is moderate, and not 
much of each is raised. This Northeastern 
Texas is a cotton and com country. Cotton 
gives half a bale per acre; com 20 bushels per 
acre. This is a flue fruit country ; but this 
year the fruit crop has failed, owing to the 
hard Winter and late frost. Tho berry and 
grape crops, however, are fine Urn year. We 
have pine forests, rich iron ore, fine water and 
good health. /. r. b. 
Lawrence. Kaufman Co.—Wheat is a fair 
crop here this season. The acreage is not large, 
but the grain Is good. Corn and oats are both 
good, and tho acreage uuder each is larger 
thau usual. Cotton is looking well, aud under 
It there is an acreage much larger thau ever 
before In this county. What ffrit there is 
growing here is doing well. Grapes aud black¬ 
berries are good. Peaches, however, are a 
short crop. J. r. 
Lockhart, Caldwell Co.—Crops look well 
but are beginning to suffer from drought. 
s. ». M. 
Nbchbsville, Anderson Co. — No wheat 
raised hero, and no rye or barley of any ac¬ 
count. There is an increased acreage of about 
10 per cent, of cotton and the prospects for a 
full crop have not been so good for 10 years. 
Potato crop, both of sweet and Irish is good. 
Fruit crop in this section iB almost a total fail¬ 
ure this year, owing to the late freeze, though 
thiB is* one of the best fruit counties iu the 
State. Peaches grow to the greatest perfec¬ 
tion. m. a. a. 
CANADA. 
Chateaguay Basin, Province of Quebec.— 
The season is too backward to state what the 
promise of the harvest is iu this locality. 
Wheat is not extensively grown, and there is 
no rye ; barley aud oats forming our staple 
cereal crops. Potatoes, too, are largely grown 
and promise well. Farmers here found Lon¬ 
don-purple successful last season mixed with 
plaster, the latter being a useful fertilizer, and 
in this respect haying the advantage over coal 
ashes. Early Rose, Brownell’s Beauty, Early 
Vermont and Chili are the varieties most in 
favor. Corn looks well. The principal kinds 
are: Yellow, Pop and Minnesota, the latter 
being our earliest sweet corn, generally ready 
for tbe table the last week of July. Sorghum 
is not grown at all. The prospects for fruit 
were never so poor, the winter, owing to its 
lack of steady severity, constantly freeziug 
and thawing having done great iujury not only 
to fruit, but to trees of certain kinds. The 
small fruits arc badly killed and apples are a 
total failure—even our favorite aud most suc¬ 
cessful kind, the Fameuse. this season has 
Buffered both in wood and fruit. Wild straw¬ 
berries are plentiful; but raspberries, both 
wild and cultivated, had the bearing canes 
killed. Of grapes our old stand-by, the Con¬ 
cord, has succumbed in many Instances, es¬ 
pecially old viues that could not be so well 
covered iu the Autumn. Hay needs rain, 
otherwise it looks fair, and early-sown grain 
has a promising appearance. a. l. j. 
Cornwallis, Kings Co., Nova Scotia.—The 
small quantity of winter wheat sowu here is 
looking very well aDd is now in full head. 
Spring wheat is much more cultivated than 
heretofore, owing to the disappearance of the 
weevil, and it also has a very favorable ap¬ 
pearance. The same may be suid of oats, 
barley and rye. Corn is not much cultivated. 
Potatoes, one of our principal crops, have been 
largely planted this year, aud, so far as I can 
judge, are likely to be a good yield. Tbey sel¬ 
dom fail in Nova Scotia. The potato is the 
leadiug crop here ; next I may mention oats, 
and wheat. Sorghum is uot cul tivated with us. 
I do not sec why it would not succeed, as corn 
in most seasons -ripens well and .is a good 
crop ; but it is not considered as profitable as 
potatoes. As regards fruit, it is rather soon to 
predict what it may be, I never saw tbe trees 
mako a better appearance, as far as blossom¬ 
ing, but our weather has been rather cold and 
dry so far. We are now having showers which 
are reviving all kinds of crops. As far as I 
can judge at present, our apple crop may be 
considered au average one. We have but few 
Canker worms or caterpillars this season. 
Tho kinds of apples mostly cultivated aud 
which are considered the most profitable are : 
Gravenstein, Yellow Bellflower, Rlbstou Pip¬ 
pin, Baldwin aud Nonpareil. Many other sorts 
are cultivated, however. Pears are being much 
more largely cultivated thau formerly. Cher¬ 
ries aud plums are aluioBl a failure this season. 
c. o. n. 
Lower Kingsland, New Brunswick Co.— 
Crops are beginning to look up, after having 
been ble66ed with the rain we had on 8unday 
last. Jf the drought had continued mueh 
longer I think there would be a failure in most 
of the crops. Hay is going to be very light. 
c. E. M. 
Peterborough, Out.—Fall wheat, with few 
exceptions, has been winter-killed. Spring 
wheat, if not injured iu any way, will he about 
an average crop—about 25 bushels per acre. 
The following are the varieties grown iu this 
district: Fultz, Clawson, Soule aud Treadwell; 
Spring, Club, China or Beardy, and RioGrunde, 
Scotch, or Fife, Red Chaff, Wild-goose. Of 
corn not much grown here. Potatoes, judg¬ 
ing by present appearances, will be an abun¬ 
dant Crop. Aehleaf, Kidney, Imperial aud 
Early aud Late Rose are largely grown in this 
neighborhood. The Colorado beetle is very 
troublesome. Oats and barley will be abun¬ 
dant crops. Our varieties of oatB, aro; Cali¬ 
fornia, White Tartarian, Black Tartarian, White 
Scotch and some other varieties with no 
names. Rye will be an excellent crop. Neither 
sorghum nor any sort of sugar cane is grown 
In this district. The fiuit prospects are good, 
though not so good as last year. The Codling 
moth aud the borer are very destructive iu this 
section. Plums are a very precarious crop on ac- 
countof thecurcullo. Peais don’t fruit well here, 
though there are a great number of successful 
growers. Strawberries grow well and are 
wonderfully productive. The varieties grown 
in this section are: Bishop's No. 2 Seedling, 
Triomphe de Gaud, Early Scarlet, Walker’s 
Seedling, Boston Pine and Hovey's Seedling. 
The Wilsou, Black Prince, iowa, Hooker’s 
Seedling, GencBsee, Hudson, Crlmsou Cone and 
some others, the names of which I don't recol¬ 
lect. The following are tho best varieties of 
apples grown in this district: Winter apples— 
King ot Tompkins C'ouuty, Roxbury Russet, 
Northern Spy, Fameuso, KibBtou Pippin, Gold¬ 
en Pippin, Pineapple, Yellow Bellflower, 
Rawlea Genet, Americau Golden Russet, Red 
Canada: Summer apples—American Summer 
Pearmain, Tetofaky, Summer Quccu, Red As- 
trachan ; Autumn apples—Beauty of the West, 
Gravenstein, Duchess of Oldenburg, St. Law¬ 
rence, Culvert, Sherwood's Favorite, Fall Pip- 
piu, Splee Sweet. Some very line specimens 
of the above are grown in lias county. There 
will be a large crop of small fruits. Large 
crops of Mangel-wurzel and carrots in this 
Beciion, as well as of turnips and parsnips. To 
got up this report I took a short run through 
the couutry, and found everywhere I went 
evidence that there is a fair prospect of uu 
abundaut harvest of everything. A, 0, D. 
St. Catharine, Out.—Wheat in this locality 
is good. Corn Is looking prclty good. Pota¬ 
toes, good. Oats very good. 1 don't know of 
any rye in this neighborhood. Barley is good. 
Hay is above the average. Tho kuid of wheat 
sowu most is Diehl; the acreage G rather 
larger than usual. 1 don’t think tno.e is uuy 
eorghum grown here. The prospect for 
apples Is only middling. PeacheB are very 
good. Strawberries aud raspberries are very 
line—the Wilson le alwayB the best, j. b. 
