JULY 47 
THE BUBAL 
464 
WEW-YOBKEB. 
LATEST CROP REPORTS. 
(Continued from page 46*>.) 
Colo., Golden, Jefferson Co.-The crops In this 
county arc veryrfroor. The Winter and Spring 
were too dry for getting In crops or for starting 
the seed after It was In the ground. Spring wheat: 
Is our principal crop and averages about 85 bushels 
per acre In ordinary years; but this year It will 
not average 10. The acreage compared with other 
years is about 75 per cent., but per cent, of 
that is a total loss by reason of the drought. We 
depend on irrigation to make the crop after It 
Is up; but when we have to Irrigate it up, it's a 
losing business. The most popular variety of 
wheat raised here Is called “ White .Siberian.” 1 
never heard of It before I came here; but It is an 
excellent wheat and about all the kind our millers 
will grind. It Is a hard white sort and makes 
about 42 pounds of flour to the bushel; wheat la 
all dampened befort^grlndlng here. We raise some 
barley and oats, but the acreage Is small this 
year. Corn Is a faffure this season; we raise the 
Btnall varieties. Potatoes are growu extensively 
in the mountains and In the valleys In some parts 
of the State, but not In tills county. 1 understand 
the prospect is favorable lor the crop. Some sor¬ 
ghum was raised last year of tho Early Amber 
variety, and succeeded remarkably well, more 
was planted this year, but the drought “got 
away” with It. Fruit-growing Is In Its Infancy, 
but small fruits succeed very well; Doolittle’s 
Improved raspberry Is loaded with fruit. Goose¬ 
berries do well; and so do strawberries. Grapes 
do well, but are Injured by drought this year. 
t. w. 
Ga„ Du Pont, Clinch Co.-No wheat Is grown In 
this county. Oats are not an average crop. Very 
little barley or rye. Corn is bushels per acre. 
Cotton promises to be above an average yield. 
Rice fine. Very few kinds of fruit are grown here. 
Peaches would do well If they were lnlroduced. 
Scuppernong grapes do finely. Plums, Pears, 
apricots and oranges, grow well; apples will not 
do. Strawberries ripen in March. Potatoes and 
all roots do well. ». v. 
Ino., Pleasant Lake, Steuben Co.—Wheat is 
being harvested now; I think we shall have an 
average crop, although some kinds have been 
blighted. We have had very wet weather all the 
Spring and Summer. There Is not so large an 
acreage of corn and oats as usual, and the contin¬ 
ued wet nas made tho growth uneven. Hay Is 
good; 1 think It will average one and a half ton to 
the acre, 't he wet weather has Injured all the pota¬ 
toes-drowned them out. Of Early Amber cane 
there has been a good deal planted. u. a. i>, 
Illinois, Bailey vUle, Ogle Co.—The weather has 
been very wet and unfavorable lor haying and 
harvesting since the 84th ult. We had a heavy 
rain on 4tn Inst—but It Is fair now. The harvest 
Is progressing rapidly. Some commenced cutting 
rye and winter wheat before the Fourth. Kye Is 
good; Winter wheat variable—some good and 
some thin—will average a light yield. Spring 
wheat Is somewhat Injured by rust aud will not 
be a large crop. Oats are heavy. Barley, fair It It 
can be harvested without Its spoiling. Corn and 
potatoes were never better at this time of year. 
Grass has improved greatly of late; but a consid¬ 
erable amount of hay has been spoiled by the wet 
weather. w * D - 
III., Milo, Bureau Co.—Wheat Is almost a total 
failure In tiffs section; but little was sown this 
year as It Is not. a sure crop. The prospect for corn 
Is good; this Is the principal, crop In tiffs local¬ 
ity. Potatoes—Peach blow, Early and I,ate Rose- 
prospect good. Oats—mostly white sorts—pros¬ 
pect good. Rye good, but not very much Is raised 
in this section. Mo barley is grown around here. 
Sorghum Is not cultivated to any great extent of 
late years. Grain has not been harvested, so I 
cannot state now large the yield will be. The 
fruit crop Is very abundant thl3 year. Berries of 
all kinds, except strawberries, are very plentiful. 
Some peaches are raised hut this fruit is liable 10 
be winter-killed. Grapes are abundant. Apples— 
Ben Davis, Jonathan, Willow Twig, snow and 
Malden’s Blush—a large crop. a. o. 
Iowa. Unlonvllle, Appanoos Co.—The change¬ 
able Winter and rough Spring entirely killed Fall 
wheat. .Spring wheat Is somewhat roasted and 
will make only halt a crop, oats will be a full 
crop. Grass very light, not half a crop. Corn 
promises to be very good; It Is clean and the 
ground well pulverized; we arc having showers, 
too, to keep It a- grow I ug. Small fruits of all kinds 
are plentiful. Apples are enough to make a good 
crop of rulr size. Potatoes and all hoed crops 
promise well Vi e began using new potatoes on 
June nth. They are of good size and good in 
quality. Pastures are short, but the rains we are 
having now will revive thorn. Hogs are healthier 
at present than they have been for several years. 
f, x. 
Kansas, Crooked creek Valley, Clarke Co.— 
This county Is uew, but comparatively few 
settlers having been here previous to 1379. Many 
of these came from towns and were unused to 
farming, and especially to prairie farming, as a 
natural result many have lelt disgusted; others 
have gone on a long visit to f heir “wives’ folks,” 
while those who rornnlu are trying to see what 
this once-called “American Desert" will pro¬ 
duce. But little wheat wus sown last faff and 
that little Is a total failure. No oats, and uo 
Indian corn worth notice. Tne lew formers here 
depend on the Egyptian Klee corn, sugar cane 
and millet for their chief productions in grain. 
Up to May io It w as extremely dry; but plentiful 
rains, commencing then gave a chance for break¬ 
ing, plowing and planting. Bugs took the early 
gardens; not the potato bug alone but along, 
black bug very destructive aud greedy of every 
green thing. At present the prospect Is that the 
Rice corn, sugar eaue aud millet will produce good 
crops—we hope enough for homo consumption. 
The rains of last week have brought up the second 
planting of vines and beans which though flourish¬ 
ing nicely to-day may disappear before to-mor¬ 
row’s bug army. The valley Is covered with a 
peculiarly nutritious grass, so that horses and 
cattle are fat; while the Buffalo grass Is rapidly 
growing green at last, giving good promise of 
splendid Winter feed for the flocks and herds 
which find pasturage here. There is no doubt 
but the hay crop will be sufficient for the wants 
of the horses and cattle, and If the railroads were 
nearer, a good deal might be shipped. There are 
no fruit trees bearing, and but few started, and 
only here and there fruit vines of any kind. 
A. V. N. 
Kan., Harlan, Smith Co.—A very unusal drought 
prevailed in the early part of the season. Since 
June 12th we have had plenty of rain. Small 
grains are more nearly a failure than ever before. 
Corn looks exceedingly flue, and we look for a 
large crop. Potatoes look well where the bugs are 
kept off. This la a flue country, and Is rapidly 
settling up. f. b. h. 
Ky„ Milton, Trimble Co.—Wheat la now sprout¬ 
ing in the shock owing to tho frequent rains .and 
warm weather. It Is still raining and warm. Not 
more than live per cent. Is thrashed, averaging 
12 t-5 bushels per acre. Corn, potatoes and tobacco 
are “ booming.” Wheat la worth S7«,90c. s. k. h. 
Neb,, Rising City, Butler Co.—Wheat will not 
be more than half a crop at best. We did not 
have any rain to wet the ground until May 30, and 
consequently all grain suffered. Com Is looking 
well; the ground Is generally clean. Oats poor ; 
barley ditto; rye very light. Potatoes are bacK- 
ward and did not come well. Our varieties of 
wheat arc: Odessa, Grass Wheat, Blue Imperial, 
Polish, Peru ami White Russian. Odessa is look¬ 
ing much the best this season. The comparative 
acreage, putting wheat at loo, is: corn, 30; oats, 
20; barley, live; rye, live; potatoes, two. Sorgnum 
Is not raised to any extent; there la no way ol 
extracting the sirup. It does well when planted. 
We have hut very little fruit as yet; 'hoppers de¬ 
stroyed the trees In ~4 and ’75, and we are just 
getting started In fruit trees again. f. a. b. 
Neb., Orleans, Harlan Co.—The rainy season 
began extremely late. East of the 99th meridian, 
in southern Nebraska, crops are good. Between 
the 99th and tooth wheat is poor; but corn is com¬ 
ing on finely. West of the 100th cattle, sheep and 
grass are the only crops to depend on this year. 
The Immigration wave rolled In’too far and Is 
slightly receding. Abundant rains all over the 
State at pr esenc. k.h. c. 
New Mexico, Cimarron, Colfax Co.—The har¬ 
vest for New Mexico will not he abundant, as the 
whole of the year so far has been marked by a 
drought. No crops are raised except along the 
streams where water can be taken out In ditches 
for irrigating purposes; some of the smaller 
streams have In consequence of the light fall of 
snow In the mountains, and the general drought, 
had such a small amount of water that farmers 
have not been able to irrigate their crops Buffi, 
clently, though If the “ rainy season " should set 
In soon, a fair crop might yet be reaped. About^ 
the only grains raised worthy of notice are Spring* 
wheat, oats and corn. A small amount of pota¬ 
toes too are raised In the mountains and valleys 
of nigh altitude. Barley seems to do well also In 
mountains and valleys. Rye and many others of 
the ordinary Eastern crops are not cultivated 
here. The acreage under either of these crops Is 
very smalL There are In all of the counties of the 
Territory a few streams with narrow valleys; these 
little valleys are cultivated about as high as water 
can be turned Into ditches. This county of Colfax 
Is about 8,000 square miles—as large as some 
Slates—and I think I can safely say there Is not 
over 3,000 acres in all under tillage. The amount 
usually under cultivation la about the same as the 
past few years, v\ heat being the staple crop. We 
buy almost all our breadstuffs, horse reed, etc., 
from tho East, mostly from Kansas, some from 
Missouri, Illinois and other States There are not 
10 aores of sorghum In the whole Territory, I 
think, there might be a few acres along the 
kio Grande River, but I tnink not. There will be 
some fruit this year, and this must be very small 
since there are very few orchards. In this county 
there are scarcely BOO truit trees, and they are, 
with tew exceptions, very small. It Is mostly so, 
too. in adjoining counties. There Is, In this county, 
a small orchard owned by a German who has a 
hundred or so of German prunes that have done 
well lor young trees. The drawbacks to 
fruit ralslug are, In the mountain districts, a few 
severe winds that destroy more delicate fruit 
buds In Spring, and also, occasionally during 
summer there are late frosts that kill blossoms, 
in the counties more to the south, and particu¬ 
larly along the Rio Grande, there are some small 
orchards and some good-sized vineyards. There 
no Winter is severe enough to Injure fruit; only 
occasionally a Spring frost does harm. There 
some vineyards are largo enougn to manufac¬ 
ture large quantities of mostly wine, which Is sold 
throughout the Territory at from $5 to $s a bar. 
reL The grape approximates a native variety, 
though it la claimed to have been brought here in 
an early day by missionaries of the Catholic 
Church from Spain or some European country. 
It Isa small but very delicious grape, a little larger 
than the Delaware, and wo think better flavored. 
It la not grown on a trellis but allowed to grow 
ou a stem, cut back and covered up in Winter, as 
It is very tender. The varieties of fruit are al¬ 
most altogether brought rrom Eastern nurseries, 
and, as a rule, are very poorly selected for the 
climate. Some also cultivate very Ignorantly 
In many respects, one especial difficulty being 
the process ol proper irrigation, which seems to 
be little understood. There Is quite a quantity ol 
native fruit tvees, such as apples and apricots, the 
latter being a little small, rancid early apricot, 
and the former being a little oblong, wnite sweet 
apple, almost worthless, the peculiarity being 
that the seed of this variety always germinates 
the same worthless variety. m. w. m. 
N. Y., North Hector, Schuyler Co.—We are hav¬ 
ing a severe drought; everything Is drying up. 
The hay crop 1s very light, and so will be oats and 
barley. Corn Is rolling up very badly. Potatoes 
are very small and badly Injured by the bugs. 
Grapes are looking very good; peaches, rather 
scarce. Pears are looking flue, and so are apples, 
with a prospect of a full crop. a. m. 
N. C., ;Greensboro, Guilford Co.—Wheat on well 
tilled and manured ground Is good; but there are 
many complaints about rust, and t hear It is not 
thrashing our. as well as expected when grown on 
old fleld3 that have been cropped for years with¬ 
out rest or manure. Fall oats and barley are 
very good on good ground. Spring oats aod hay 
are rather light on account of dry weather. Corn 
is rather late, but looks well. Potatoes, beth 
Sweet and Irish, look well, especially the former; 
so does cotton. Of these three there Is an unusual 
area planted. Apples, pears aud peaches are 
plentiful here, but In some sections there are 
hardly any. The Ennobled oats are just ripe— 
they have done well. I shall have a flue lot to 
sow next Spring. I sowed them too thick; but 
they stand three feet live Inches and are well 
headed, though they were sown a month too late 
for this climate. I expect a great yield from them 
next year. The Telephone pea Is ripe ; It, too, did 
well. The mangels are splendid—one measures 
12 Inches around. The willows have grown finely. 
0. K. 
Nova Scotia, Cornwallis.—Our season is muefi 
later than tfiat of tfie United States, and It la too 
soon to judge closely of some of our crops. Grain 
at tho present time Is looking well, and with 
favorable weather will be a good crop. Wheat, 
oats and buckwheat are the principal grains sown. 
Lost Nation Is the chief wheat grown Here. Our 
winter Wheat Is a white variety. What was 
sown Is looking well. Potatoes are our staple 
crop. In tho township there la a large acreage 
planted, but It Is too soon to tell how they will 
turn out, as they are only now being hoed the first 
time. 1 expect to have several bushels ol tfie 
Beauty of Hebron from tfie potato tfie Rural 
sent me last year. They are doing finely. Early 
Rose, Breezee’s Prolific and Chill Reds are the 
•principal kinds grown. I do not know of any 
sorghum being tried here as yet. Our hay crop 
will be below an average on account of the dry 
weather. Our fruit prospects ara good. Apples 
are our principal fruit, of which the following are 
most successful: Fall-Bough, Gravensteln ; Win¬ 
ter—Baldwin, R. I. Greening, Koxbury Russet, 
Nonpareil, Northern Spy, King of Tompkins 
County. J. e. e. 
Nova Scotia, Belmont St., Colchester Co.—In 
this northern country we can hardly tell yet what 
the harvest will be. Wheat looks well, the kinds 
sown are Lost Nation, Red Fern, Golden Drop, 
scotch and White Russian. Potatoes are doing 
well this dry weather. Hay will be below the 
average crop, unless we have wet weather this 
week. Oats, barley and buckwheat are ralr. 
Roots or all kinds look well, unions grow well 
here We nave only raised small quantities until 
tfie last two years; we have grown them to weigh 
la ounces, but they are Injured by a small mag¬ 
got or worm that eats the top off close to the bulb. 
The oats Bind mangels of the Rural’s Seed Dis¬ 
tribution are doing splendidly; tne melons came 
up all right but the ants spoiled them. j. o. k. 
Ohio, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson Co.—Harvest 
commenced In this section more than two weeks 
ago. probably the earliest known for years. The 
wheat is all in shock, well filled, and In excellent 
condition. The acreage exceeds that of last year 
by at least one-third; but with no better yield, a 
great many farmers claim from as to 89 bushels 
per acre. Price of old wheat $u>5, with a prospect 
ol some decrease when the new crop goes Into 
market. The hay and clover crops are short, but 
good In quality. The scarcity Is owing to an early 
drought when stoollng, and the price of hay will 
be as high as last year—$is to | 20 —If not more. 
The corn crop In general looks well, and In fine 
growing condition, but needs work, which It lacks 
owing to the early harvest, oats arc short, but 
are filling well, and bid fair to make a liberal yield 
If the grasshoppers do not injure them, as they 
are growing very thick. The season since the 
Opening of Spring, with the exception of a short 
drought which came quite early, has heeu a grow¬ 
ing one. g. E- s. 
Utah, Glenwood, Sevier Co.-Crops are below the 
average in thrift; they have a large acreage. Late 
frosts damaged almost all kinds of crops. Grass¬ 
hoppers are doing some injury in this valley and 
adjoining ones, old grain is scarce, and sells at 
90 cents to $l 25. Beef and mutton stock has not 
come into market to any extent, though animals 
seem to have recovered from the hard wluter. A 
great many lambs—at least one-hail, died rrom a 
cold, snowy, late Spnug. >ome sheep-raisers lost 
as many as auo head each during the Winter. 
Weather now very hot aud dry; no rains. Eggs, 
10 cents; good butter, 25 cents, scarce; oleomar¬ 
garine or swlneogreasenno has taken lus place In 
moat families. w. a. c. 
West Va., Lewlsburg, Greenbrier Co.—wneat, 
acreage about a third larger than usual—about 40 
acres to the square mile; kinds grown—Lancaster, 
Fultz, Philadelphia Amber and wick’s. Although 
the acreage is larger, the crop will be but an aver¬ 
age. The Lancaster has proven to be the surest 
ami best. 1'he Amber is good, but there has beeu 
but little of it growu yet. The Fultz has been giv¬ 
ing the largest yield, but not riffs year. The Wick's 
Is uncertain, corn, acreage about the same as 
that 01 wheat. Oats about the same. Kye, but 
little grown. Barley, hone grown. Potatoes, noue 
growu except lor home use. Sorghum, but little 
grown. The prospects tor fruit are fair; very ut¬ 
ile grown besides apples. All kinds do well as this 
is a trull country. s. o. 
Wyoming Ter., Lander, Sweetwater Co.—This Is 
not as much Of a farming as It Is of a stock coun¬ 
try: there arv not over 1,990 acres under culllva- 
Uon In tho valley. The past was a very cold spring. 
The potato crop will be short on account of the 
seed rot ting in the ground. Oats do not look as 
well as last j ear at tins time. The acreage Under 
wheat is about the same as last year -not large. 
Wheat has not done very well so lar. Corn is not 
cultivated except tu gardens for roasting ears. No 
bariej Is grown here. I nless we. have an uncorn- 
cominonly favorable Faff some ol the crops of 
grain will get frozen and harvest will extend into 
October, inese crops, therefore, will not be as large 
as last year ; grain ranges from 25 to so bushels 
per acre. j. j. t. 
.#or ®omm. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS RAY CLARK. 
YES OR NO. 
You ask to-night my daughter’s hand. 
As you’d rnqimtt u toy— 
Do you know the weight of your demand 
Ou a mother's heart, my boy ? 
You say you love her wildly; well. 
Will it last to the end of time, 
Or will the ring of the wedding bell 
Resound its dyiug chime ! 
The heart you crave is a holy thing. 
So tender, trusting, true, 
Can you to her devotion bring 
As warm as hers to yon ? 
Will you Jove her through the changing years 
As tenderly as now, 
When ilia shall pale, or sorrow’s tears 
Beeload her sunny brow ? 
When age shall bow her gracefid form, 
And bleach her jetty hair, 
Will you protect her through each storm 
And shelter her from care ? 
When time shall dim her sparkling eye. 
And wiuter furrows show. 
Will your love be the last to die? 
If not, I answer. No. 
Remember that her future life 
Would every day be yours , 
A loving woman when a wife, 
To one whom she adores. 
Has uo existence of her own 
Apart from him Bhe loves; 
She lives henceforth for him alone, 
And in his orbit moves. 
She molds her wishes to his will, 
Her ways to his desires -, 
He leads her by love’s willing web 
Through life’s refining fires; 
She walks with him through thorny fields 
And o’er life’s rugged road. 
He is her idol and ideal. 
Her guide and household god. 
So if your love will live and burn 
And bless her future years. 
If you will give her in return 
The trust her life endears; 
If you wifi guide her destiny, 
And shield her from distress, 
Will always live adoring her. 
Why then, I answer, 1 es. 
A MOSS PICTURE FRAME. 
Most of tfie directions given for home decora¬ 
tion in tfie magazines of tfie present day, profess 
to nave the advantage of cheapness, but I confess 
I do not find tfiem so. 
I therefore give the following directions tor a 
frame that I think suitable for a chromo or some¬ 
thing bright. 
We have all noticed In our walks through the 
woods, In the Fall of the year or Winter months, 
how many 9hades of green the different patenes 
of moss display. Some a light velvety corn color, 
others an apple-green, and then again nearer the 
water’s edge we find the rich green patches still 
more like velvet. 
The time to collect It is when the earth la dry; 
select the most velvet-llke varieties you can find, 
and pull the fibers apart, separating each shade 
Into bundles, Just as you would sort colored silks 
before working a pattern. 
Take a flat sheet of thick card-board, and cut an 
oval piece from the center, leaving a hole the 
exact size of the picture. Next turn the sheet on 
the wrong side, lay a glass over the hole and 
draw a line around It with a pencil, then cut tour 
strips of card-board the length of these lines, and 
after piercing them with an awl fasten firmly with 
cords to the lrame. Place the glass In the square 
lormed by these strips, and oh that lay your pic¬ 
ture ; if this proves to be a perfect tit, cut a piece 
of card-board to cover the picture, place It over 
the back ol It, and fix It securely In place by means 
of small tacks driven Into the strips that form the 
case at the back of tne picture. 
After seeing that each part ot your frame 18 an 
exact fit, take two short hair-pins, and pierce the 
board on the under side some distance from the 
top with the hair-pins, one on either side of the 
picture. The heads of the hair-pins should be left 
sufficiently above the surface to pass a cord 
through, and the points that pierce the upper side, 
should be pressed flatly to the face of the board. 
The different parts or the frame being fitted and 
ready for use, you can put them all by, but the 
large square piece. After looking carefully to be 
certain that you can begin on the right side, which 
Is Indicated by the points of the hair-pins, sew a 
regular row ot the darkest moss around the oval 
center of your frame; the second row should be 
the next darkest shade, and so on until the light¬ 
est shade comes next the edge that rests against 
the wall. 
In sewing the moss on, care should be taken to 
let the velvety portion of each row cover the 
stems ot the one above. 
When this Is finished, fit all the parts of your 
frame together, and hang where It will catch the 
evening light. You will have a cheap, and l think, 
a pretty frame. Eulai.ie. 
--- 
To select the young as teachers for the young 
Is one of the experiments of modern times that 
has proved eminently successful. The fresh in¬ 
terest and enthusiasm of the Instructor Infuses 
itself into the pupils, who feel a reliance upon the 
sympathy and appreciation of a teacher who still 
vividly remembers the difficulties of her own 
schooldays. Frequently the elder teachers, al¬ 
though probably better furnished with patience 
and experience, have become the slaves of rout ine, 
bowed beneath the grievous burden of a weariness 
ol their work. 
Mrs. Hayes discourages wearing low-neck 
dresses almost as much as drinking wine. 
