JULY 10 
THE RURAL 
447 
tremely dry this Spring. Corn and wheat are the 
principal crops. b. f. t. 
Elms, Ellis Co.—Wheat Is a failure here, hut 
few pieces will be cut. The variety sown was Red 
May. Acreage In corn la small—the Army worm 
Is eating it. i’here have been no potatoes or any 
vegetables grown here tor the last two years on 
account of drought. The gardens are all burnt 
up. No rye or barley grown, A few have planted 
sorghum but It Is not planted to auy extent yet. 
There Is a large acreage under rice corn. No fruit 
grown here yet, the country is too new. j. n. 
Fkbdonia, WUson Co.—Wheat Is mostly In the 
stack; some that has been thrashed turns out 
poor. Oats are short. Potatoes are poor. It has 
been very dry all the season until June 25, when 
we had a big rain. Then the chinch bugs have 
been had; they took the oats the Rural sent me. 
There la a pretty good prospect lor corn now, 
although we hive mostly a poor stand on account 
of the dry weather. i. 8 . l. 
Freedom, Butler Co.—The crop prospects are 
good. Wheat Is all harvested In a good, dry time 
and Is a fair crop, Fultz takes the lead la yield 
Gold Drop coming next. Corn looks line and Is 
commencing to tassel. Some chinch hugs are 
working In It, but we have had two nice 
showers which checked them somewhat. I 
am growing on trial, King Phillip, Chester 
County Mammoth, Kansas Yellow Dent, Brown’s 
Improved Yellow Dent, White-flower Dent and 
Bipunt's White Proliflc, besides live kinds of 
sweet corn. Blount’s and Brown’s are taking 
the lead. Oats are a medium crop. My Ennobled 
oats are splendid. Klnver’s Globe mangels are 
doing wonders. 1 have one Cuthbert raspberry 
alive after all the bad luck imaginaDle. 1 And this 
a hard climate in which to germinate small seeds, 
on account, of the abundance of weeds tuat make 
their appearance on the approach ol the flrst warm 
day. There la no market to speak of: butter, 12><,' 
cents; eggs, 1234 cents; wheat,so cents; com, 25 
cents; potatoes, $i. All green stuXI sells high and 
Is scarce. Peas, $2.50 per bushel; beans, $2 to 
$2.50; corn, 25 cents per dozen ears. Peaches are 
ripe, but the crop Is small, having been cut off by 
hard and laic rrosts. On the whole we can say, 
“ Bully lor Kansas!” w. o. b. 
Larneo, Pawnee Co.—Our wheat harvest Is very 
short; there will not be over 60 ,uoo busnels of 
wheat harvested In the county, and this will not 
average one bushel per acre. Corn Is good except 
where the worm has eaten It up. Pace corn Is 
good and a big acreage planted. No oats or rye. 
Potatoes look well; bugs are trying to eat them 
all up. No fruit of auy kind; wild plums were 
killed by late frosts. Over l,ooo acres of sorghum 
planted <Amber cane), and sugar works will be 
erected here. Lots of rain lu the past two weeks. 
Lots or people leaving to get work. s. s. d. 
McPherson Centre, McPherson CO.. The wheat 
In this county will make a good half crop. The 
berry is somewhat shriveled. The com will make 
an average crop If we get two or three showers at 
the right lime. The potato crop will he light. 
Hay (prairie hay Is what we depend upon) will be 
short and thin. We have had a very dry season 
up to this date. c. d. a. 
Parsons, Labette Co.—The days are on the wane 
The i, heat harvest is reaped, and in shock, i he 
weather till this has been propuitous but now we 
are having slow but continuous rains. They are 
quite desirable for everything but the unslaeked 
wheat. The season lu many portions of the West 
is very similar to that of ’ey-one of the w ettest 
seasons known; but Lu that season Kansas pro¬ 
duced the greatest number oi bushels ol wheat, 
com and oats per acre ol any oi the states lu the 
Union—this, by reason ol sandy mams and nat¬ 
ural drainage. Our seasou, though ary on the 
whole, has been cool. The thermometer has not 
been above 9U ueg.and blankets aud a comtorter are 
required at night. Com is coming into Lttssel and 
should the present rain end now, and we get two 
Inches more in 26 days, we shall have onu of the 
best corn crops ever raised In spite of the chinch 
bugs which have been operating In Isolated 
places. Vegetables and fruits are more than an 
average in quantity aud quality'. “The Osage 
Ceded Lands,” &o miles by ao, on which we are 
located, wore flrst settled In 1867, so that this Is 
almost our nrst season for the bearing of 
the apple trees, which promise well for quantity 
and quality. Grass promises excellently, home 
new wheat has been received here aud sold at lac. 
The crop is good. 1 have to report a matter of 
precocity and productiveness on the poultry' de¬ 
partment of tuis ranche. The good wife who 
superintends the department reports that In Sep¬ 
tember last a hen produced a brood of chickens, 
some of which commenced laying before New- 
Year’s. One of the brood laid 25 consecutive days. 
Another one hatched chickens and one or these 
chickens has on June 26 , laid the twelfth egg in la 
consecutive days. The brood Is of a mixed kind, 
but doolie and healthy. t. u. 
Nebraska. 
Brown villb, Nemaha Co.—The Spring was un¬ 
usually dry, aud winds have prevailed to auix- 
tent before unknown. For tnese reasons the 
farmer, as a rule, complains. And yet, "ail In 
all.” there la really no good cause for complaint. 
Take all the crops—all the rariu products—and 
there Is more than an average, on account of the 
dry season referred to, small grain la what we 
call ** short about a quarter short as compared 
with averuge seasons, com could not give a bet¬ 
ter promise man at date of writing. The acreage 
of au ciops is greater this season man over before. 
Sorghum la becoming quite a factor In our agricul¬ 
tural products, and Will become more so the more 
mat is kuown of It, and Gie more it Is experi¬ 
mented with. Apples are good. Many were 
blown off the trees two weeks ago. No peacUes 
thin season worm naming. Small fruits are all 
excellent. TUe grape crop will be very large and 
fine, where the vines have been cared lor, and 
kept In shape. Farmers iced their corn principally, 
and put It Into market In cattle and hogs. This 
mode of disposing of this product “ pays ” much 
better than any other. Railroads, for a time hack, 
have not been able to furnlsn cars a8 required to 
put our products Into market, particularly live 
stock. Wo have shipped as high as twenty-six 
car-loads of cattle from this place In one day. 
r. w. f. 
Cyclone, Folk co.—Wheat will run lrom 10 to 
20 bushels per acre where It. is a good stand. Some 
few fields will not go over five bushels per acre, and 
some fields will not be cut. We had no rain until 
June sth that did any good. Corn Is good, It 
averages from 40 to 75 bushels per acre. Potatoes 
are good at present; there arc new potatoes on 
the maTket, me striped bug did them some harm 
before the rain. They will average 275 bushels 
per acre. Oats are almost a failure: many fields 
will not be cut. When good they will yield from 
40 to 90 bushels per acre, or Dariey but Utile Is 
Bown—fair to good; SO to 60 bushels per acre. 
Rye, shore—from la to 20 bushels per acre. Of 
wheat we grow the Hudson River, China Tea, 
Scotch Fife, Blue Imperial, and Odessa. Of oats 
the common white and black. Of potatoes, Early 
Rose, Peachblow, Peerless and Russet. Very little 
fruit grown here; fruit does well here. Sorghum 
will not yield largely. Crop prospects are good 
at present, and people are In good spirits, b c. 
Db Soto, Washington Co.—Wheat, oats, rye and 
barley will not make more than half crops this 
year; but what there Is will be of good quality— 
tho grain is well headed and the berry plump, 
our corn crop at present Is very promising and 
will be a full crop. Corn In the field stands over 
five feet high planted on the 22 a of April. Corn 
planted the first aud second week of May la from 
three to four foot high and has a fine dark green 
color. The potato la a very promising crop. We 
shall have early potatoes fit for market by the first 
of July. Borghum has been cultivated In this 
county for the past ten years. For the last year 
the Amber cane Is taking tho place of other cane 
seeds. The prospect of the fruit crop this year Is 
not good. We shall have not more than half a 
crop. The varieties of grain grown here are:— 
Wheat, White Hamburgh, Odessa, Golden Drop, 
Scotch Fife, Mammoth, Canada Club, China 
Tea, Italian. Oats—English white and black, 
German white oats, Scotch Potato oats. Barley— 
four-rowed and common. Rye—Winter rye. Po¬ 
tatoes-Early Rose, Snowdrop, Peachblow, Victor, 
Peerless. Peaches—Dumnore Seedling, Burbank 
Seedling. Apples—Red Astraehan, Red June, 
Malden’s Blush, Rambo, Rawle’s Genet, Wlnesap, 
Ben Davis, WUlow Twig, Jon am an, Grime’s 
Golden, t. moo. 
Keene, Kearney Co.—The wheat crop of South¬ 
ern Nebraska will not be more than one-third of 
the crop. Grass-wheat Is the principal kind. 
There are also the Odessa, Lost. Nation, While Ital¬ 
ian and other sorts too numerous to mention. 
Corn bids fair to be a tuU crop; ol oats but Uttle Is 
raised here. Barley Is very short. Potatoes are 
looking well. Rye Is a failure. Sugar-cane la 
raised somewhat extensively. There are no bear¬ 
ing fruit trees here yet. a. h. b. 
Lincoln, Lancaster Co.—The harvest of wheat is 
rather below the average. Rye, oats and barley, 
very Uttle sown, and that light, corn is about the 
average. Potatoes are about an average crop. 
Acreage of wheat, 10 per cent, below average, and 
of corn 25 per cent, above. Varieties of wheat, Grass 
and China Tea; corn, white and yellow Dent. 
Sorghum Is cultivated to a limited extent. Fruit 
Is not much raised In this vicinity yet. s. b. f. 
Pai’illion, Sarpy Co.-This Spring has been the 
driest for years. Small grains suffered badly, 
but the late rains have revived them so we shall 
have me two-thirds of a crop. Not much Winter 
wheat is grown here. Of Spring wheat me vari¬ 
eties are Golden Drop, Grass and Scotch Club. 
The acreage of small grains Is small; that of corn 
Is larger man usual. Corn looks very promising, 
although backward. 1 never saw fruit trees bloom 
so heavily; but the dry Spring has caused the 
fruit to fall off. There is enough left, however, 
for a good crop of apples. There are not many 
peaches on account of early frosts, nor are there 
many currants or gooseberries. Almost all kinds 
of fruit do well here except peara, which are sub¬ 
ject to .blight. currants, too, do not bear well. 
Amber sugar cane Is grown with good success tor 
home use. Flax does well, and Is grown lor tho 
seed only. Farmers are losing many hogs by 
hog cholera. Fat hogs ure almost all sold. 
Prices: hogs, live $ 3 . 40 ; corn per bushel, 2uc.; 
wheat, so to ooc; oats, 25 ; potatoes, 40 ; butter, 
15o: eggs, 15c. k. k. s. 
Plum Ckhbk, Dawson Co.—There will he no har¬ 
vest of small grain In this couniy, owing to the 
loujjjcantinued drought. 1 do not know of oue 
single acre that will be cut, nearly all has been 
plowed and piauted to corn; the rest Is being pas¬ 
tured; me sort sown was Grass wheat, corn 
will be about hall a crop, If we have rain from now 
on. We cannot teU about potatoes yet; but u we 
get one potato to each bug there will be a big-crop. 
There is considerable talk about Early Amber 
caue aud some small lots nave been plan led, but 
there is no mill hero to work It. 1 think this a 
good locality lor fruits, but there has been very 
little attempt to plant any as yet. Of tho plowed 
ground corn has about ao per cent.; potatoes, two; 
barley, 10 ; wheat, 25; oats, 13. Wheat yields per 
acre irorn 20 to 30 bushels In a good season; corn, 
75 to 100 ; rye, 60 to rs; barley, 40 to so; potatoes, 
about 800. I have been hero but two years and 
have not got In shape to do much In farming yet, 
owing to some hurry. w. w. 
Seward, Seward Co.—The harvest of wheat, 
corn aud potatoes la promising, oats and barley 
are failures on account or drought early In the 
Spring. Where wheat was put la deep It stood 
me drought and looks well, but where It was not 
the ground was plowed op and planted with corn, 
so that the acreage of wheat Is small, while that 
of corn Is very large. Of wheat we have the Odes 
sa, sandal, Sea island, etc. Corn Is highly mixed. 
Among potatoes we still hold to the Early Rose 
and Peachblow. sorghum Is not raised to a very 
great extent; but does well here. In regard to 
fruit, we shall have little or none this year. This 
county has had a hard struggle to get orchards to 
thrive so as to bear fruit. The top grows fast 
enough, but the sun and hot south winds crack 
the bark and thus spoil the tree. The Russian 
and hardy fruits or that klud are mostly called for 
for growing trees. Snyder blackberries are proli¬ 
fic here. Grapes of all kinds do well; the Con¬ 
cord takes the precedence. p. m. c. 
TJnadjlla, Oteo Co.-The outlook for a harvest Is 
good In this part of Nebraska. I have never seen 
corn looklDg so well. Potatoes are good. Oats 
are looking fine where they were sown thick 
enough. Rye Is excellent, hut, owing to the open 
and dry Winter, all Fall-sown grain Is very thin. 
Wheat Is a failure In some localities, hut we shall 
have enough for home use. Barley Is an entire 
failure. Sugar-cane la grown to some extent tor 
sirup. Of corn there are ten acres to one of other 
grains. Fruit will not be a large crop, owing to 
dry and hard winds. a. j. p. 
Colorado. 
Hustbd, El Paso co.—Wheat and corn are not 
grown here; potatoes very seldom. Oats, rye, 
and barley ditto. Various varieties of each are 
successfully raised In favorable seasons. No sor¬ 
ghum la raised In this county. Fruit—that Is to 
say, canned fruit—we have In abundance. We 
have all kinds that are canned In America. 
J. B. R. 
Texas Creek, Fremont Co.—This southern part 
of Colorado is better adapted to the raising of 
slock than tanning ; but very Uttle farming la 
done, and that only where water cun be had for 
irrigation. Very Uttle fruit Is raised ; but It does 
well In some parts where it has been tried. Crops 
of all kinds promise an average yield where there 
Is water enough to Irrigate. Wheat, corn, oats, 
barley and potatoes are grown here, but there Is no 
rye or sugar cane In this locality. On Texas 
Creek and its tributaries there are not over 100 
acres of wheat a*id about the same of oats; of 
barley ten aores, and probably 30 to 40 acres of 
potatoes. The acreage of hay Is three times that 
of all the grains. n. m. l. 
Missouri. 
avilla, Jasper Co.—Wheat will average 25 
bushels per acre; It Is well headed and filled out, 
the grain being fuller aud plumper than any I 
have ever seen. 1 have 76 acres that will yield 
40 bushels per acre, and a neighbor has 1,100 acres 
Horn which he expects 23,ouu bushels. Corn Is 
tasseled and In fine condition ; the crop is so heavy 
mat corn will sell here for 123 *- cents per bushel 
lu Fall. Flax is a large crop here and is excel¬ 
lent. Potatoes are flue. All kinds 01 fruit are 
splendid, me treeB are breaking down under their 
loads, aud the market is overstocked. Oats are 
as fine as I have ever seen. Vegetable gardens 
are In prime condition. All sorts of stock are 
well. A. B. B. 
Colombia, Boone Co. — Wheat harvest nearly 
through. Both yield and acreage nearly 10 per 
cent, above those of 1379. Fultz, Smooth Mediter¬ 
ranean, Clawson aud Zimmerman are the leading 
varieties, oats promise au unusually large yield, 
but the acreage is small Black Egyptian and Rust¬ 
proof are the principal sorts. The corn prospect 
la fine, but it Is too early to predict the yield. 
Evans, a large, yellow Dent variety, la the leading 
sort growu here. Potatoes are unusually good; 
but are grown only tor home use. Early Vermont, 
Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron are the leading 
sorts, borghum la grown very Uttle at present, 
but the agricultural college, located in this 
county, expects to erect steam works for sugar 
making next year. Apples will give a heavy crop; 
peaches, half a crop; pears, a lull one; but mere 
are very tow trees. Grapes are very rull aud 
healthy. Grapes and apples are our leading rrult 
crops, 8. M, T. 
Fulton, Callaway Co. Wheat all harvested and 
mostly lu stack; me crop is good, some flelds 
wUl make 30 bushels per acre—Fultz la most com¬ 
mon. I raised a good crop of Jennings. Oat crop 
Is heavy. Hay crop heavy, the best for several 
years. Prospects for corn good. Pastures good. 
Seasonable rains. J. h. s, 
Glassvillk, Caldwell co.—Very Uttle wheat 
grown here. Corn Is me principal crop and It never 
looked better. It will average, about 40 busnels 
per acre. Potatoes will be a dght yield, it Is too 
dry. of oats, rye ana barley mere la none; they 
are a failure mis season. Nearly every farmer 
grows trow two to tour acres of sorghum. It dues 
well. Peaches do \vell. I have Auisden and 
Alexandria ripening In my nursery now. We 
grow all the leading varieties, of apples, Mis¬ 
souri Pippin, Ben Davis, aud Jannet are the lead¬ 
ing varieties for Winter, and Early Harvest, Red 
June, Golden Sweet, and Red Astraehan for Sum¬ 
mer, a. 3 ‘ w - 
SPRiNdFiKLD, Greene Co —Greene county has 
never before had so uiuoh wheat to harvest us mis 
time, and it Is uniformly good. The weather for 
harvest was never better—fair and cool. Nor 
was it ever better utiflted. The wheat all dpeuea 
so nearly at the same time mat all available help 
was in requisition. Never oetoro have we heard 
such agricultural music as filled our ears from 
busy reapers, of almost everybody s make, run¬ 
ning like things of life in every body ’s Helds, and 
some of them ran all ulght several times by the 
clear light of a full raoou. Even good Luna smiled 
upon me harvest, it Is over, and now the rain 
comes Just as we heed it for our corn, lor a full 
crop of which the prospect ts really good, oats, 
now nearly mature, are also very good. Pastures 
have held up finely and are now to be renewed and 
brightened up by me rains. Fruit Is abundant. 
Amsden peacnes are ripe; ao are Red June and 
Prince’s Harvest apples and Doyenne d’Ete pears. 
J, O. T. 
SOUTHERN STATES. 
-Virginia. 
Dunnsville, Essex Co,—There Is not over half a 
crop of wheat, but the quality is good. Crop of 
corn is looking well, hut It Is late. Fruit crop 
rather poor. Gardens are very poor. Pasturage 
lean, clover very short. No hay. Wire grass the 
only crop that stood the excessive drought. We 
have had a little rain In June, none in April or 
May. 0 . b. 
New market, Shenandoah Co.—We have had a 
dry season until the last two weeks. Now It is 
very seasonable for growing crops. Harvest Is 
over; farmers are thrashing. Wheat Is wel 
filled, and turns out well, except In places where 
the Army worm was at work. The hay crop is not 
very good, owing to drought. Vegetables are 
plentiful. Small fruit ditto. Apples, etc. will he 
enough for home use. Wheat Is worth 96c. to $ 1 ; 
corn, 60 to esc; rye, goc ; oats, 35 to 40c; bacon, 
n to sc; chickens, 15c each; butter. 12 to 1234 c; 
eggs 10 c ; potatoes, soc. We have the best corn 
growing weather, alternate rain and sunshine, all 
this week. Farmers are busy and times lively. 
Early potatoes are an average crop r. i. w. 
Swoopk’s Depot, Augusta Co.—Wheat in this 
section is harvested, and Is very Inferior to last 
year's crop, being damaged greatly by late frosts. 
Fultz seems to have suffered moat. Some fields 
of that sort will not produce over a third of a crop 
ALl is more or less shriveled—oats show badly 
Late rains have brought out grass considerably. 
Corn promises fairly. 8. c. b. 
West Virginia. 
West Liberty, Ohio Co.—Wheat never was so 
good In the memory of the “ otdeBt citizen ”— 
variety principally Fultz; acreage 40 per cent, 
more than last year. Of rye not much Is grown. 
Barley, acreage small, but yield good. Oats, av¬ 
erage In yield and acreage. Corn, acreage 10 per 
cent, of lacrease; prospect very fine. Potatoes, 
prospect good to very good. Meadows, yield not 
exceeding 75 per cent. Apples, a fine crop; pears 
nearly a failure; peaches abundant; grapes, the 
largest crop ever known here, cherries, plums 
and quinces abundant, and all small fruits plenti¬ 
ful. of 39 varieties of grapes I prefer Rodgers’s N 0 . 
9 . All sorts of apples do well. Of 18 varieties of 
pears I prefer Buffum, vicar of Wlnkfleld and 
BeUe Lucrative for bearing and quality. Sorghum 
'not grown much, »t. m. d. 
Kentucky. 
Owenton, Owen Co.—Wheat, grain good; yield, 
20 per cent, below average. Corn is fine. Pota¬ 
toes, large yield for early, late not matured. Oats, 
rye and barley good. Varieties of wheat, Fultz 
and Blue Stem. Swamp wheat was formely most 
popular. Early Rose and Peachblow potatoes are 
esteemed highly. Sorghum Is raised only by peo¬ 
ple not able to buy molasses. Fruit crop not large. 
j. w. w. 
Tennessee. 
Church Grovb, Knox Co.—The wheat In this 
district Is on an average with other years. A larger 
acreage was sown than ever before. Varieties are 
Bowden, Walker, Fultz, Swamp; the last-named 
Is the Burest crop. Corn will be very light on ac¬ 
count of the dry weather. Potatoes are a fair 
crop owing to early rains. Varieties planted are 
Russet, Early Rose and Snowfiake, oats are 
very short; drilled oats are best. Of rye a small 
acreage was sown; yield good. Barley the same. 
Sorghum is grown for home use alone. Fruit Is 
about one-fourth of a crop owing to late trost. 
Limber Twigs and Never-fallers are the most suc- 
ceastul apples In this section, j. a. c. 
Church Hill, Hawkins Co.—Wheat la an aver¬ 
age crop; rust and drought have Injured it. We 
do not make more than is bushels on our best 
land. Corn has suffered from the dry weather; 
on our upland we make 15 to 90 bushels to the 
acre; on our river bottoms we make 66 to SO; not 
much attention Is given to the potato crop; 
scarcely any one plants over three bushels—enough 
for home use. The sou la well adapted to Irish 
and sweet potatoes. Ol late years it hits not been 
profitable to sow oats, particularly Spring oats. 
Our mild winters cause winter oats to yield better; 
of the latter kind we frequently make 25 bushels 
to the acre. As to barley and rye there is little or 
none raised la the county. Sorghum (Northern 
sugar-cane) la planted extensively, and yields 
well; every one has his patch; yet it is only grown 
for home consumption. I made 53 gallons of sirup 
from a quarter ot an acre last year. The peach 
crop wUl be short in East Tennessee la conse¬ 
quence of frost; apples will bean average crop. ‘ 
But little attention is paid to rrult. We are 30 
miles from Bristol and 20 from Kogersvllle, the 
nearest depot and eounty seat—Altogether too far 
from market to make farming profitable. Land 
and property generally are lower than ever betore 
j. a. a. 
Hohbnwald, Lewis Co.—Four-filths of the land 
In this county are wild lands—poor land, although 
covered with Umber and grass. Wheat is one- 
third or a crop, hurt very much by rust. Prospect 
for corn Is good for a full average crop. Potatoes, 
early ones, were hurt somewhat by drought; late 
ones axe not all planted, oats half a crop, dam¬ 
aged by rust. Of rye and barley none Is raised, 
sorghum Is only raised lor home consumption ; it 
does well. Fruit prospects are good. Wild Goose 
and Chickasaw plums are ripe; so are Early 
Beatrice peaches, and June and Early Red Mar¬ 
garet apples. No pears are raised in this locality. 
Wild fruit la In abundance—blackberries, huckle¬ 
berries and grapes. The most important crop in 
thiM county Is corn. Peanuts come next; then 
wheat and cotton about the same; peanuts are 
Che export cash crop. They yield lrom 40 toeo 
bushels per acre, and bring more money Into the 
county than all the rest, of tho crops. German 
Millet does weU and an Increased acreage Is being 
sown this year. The acreage of wheat Is less than 
that of peanuts, but more than last year, other 
crops are about the same as usual. a, p. a. 
