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THE BUBAL HEW-YOBKEB. 
JULY 34 
hills of China corn. I planted one peck of the 
Beauty of Hebron potato for a trial. R. b. 
Conn., Greenwich, Fairfield Co., July 12.— 
Wheat and rye have been harvested in good 
condition. The former is very good; the ker¬ 
nel is plump, but the head iB not extra-long; 
the acreage is about seven times as large as 
usual. Rye is very poor in the kernel, but the 
straw is extra heavy; the acreage Is large. 
Barley is not raised to auy extent. Oats are 
not a good crop this year; the grain will be 
very light. Corn never looked better at thU 
season of the year. Au old farmer, 79 years 
old, one who has always lived in this town, 
says he never saw corn as forward as it is this 
year, nor has he seen as dry' a season a6 the 
past Spring since 1824. Potatoes have looked 
very well all the season, but I hardly think we 
shall have any crop, unless it may be some 
pieces planted extra-late. The hay crop with 
some has been very light indeed ; others say 
they have never had more hay on the same 
number of acres than they had la&t year. Hay 
will go a good way this Winter on account of 
the quality being so good. Many farmers have 
made and are making provisions for the defi¬ 
cient hay crop by planting late corn for fodder 
to be cut and cured, cars and stalks. Hay is at 
this writing bringing $25 per ton ; oats, 45c. 
per bushel; corn 57c. f and corn meal, $21 per 
ton. Small fruits were ia abundance at their 
season. Blackberries are very promising, but 
everything is in want of rain. Wells and 
springs are very low ; brooks are all dry and 
have been for two months. Apples look very 
well indeed, yet the crop will not he large. 
Pears are the poorest crop 1 ever saw in this 
place. Onions are not raised much here, yet 
further east, towards Bridgeport, they are a 
special crop and are drying up and are nearly 
a failure. We have had some showers of late, 
but it will take a great quantity of rain to fill 
the ground with water. Milk is selling for 
three cents per quart, and butter from 20 to 
30 cents per pound. Cow6 and other stock are 
very cheap. Some farmers are selling their 
fat cattle for just what they had offered for 
them in the Spring per head. The Army worm 
did very little damage here. s. j. c. 
Conn.. Danbury, Fairfield Co., July 19th.— 
Oats a fair crop; straw short. No barley 
raised. Wheat all harvested; a good crop. 
Corn looks well; acreage small, about the same 
as in former years—eight-rowed yellow, mostly. 
Potatoes, usual acreage; will be light owing 
to drought and hugs—Early and Late Rose, 
Beauty of Ileoron, and seedlings of different 
varieties. Cherries a good crop ; strawberries, 
blackberries and raspberries heavy crops, but 
fruit small owing to dry weather. Hay, hardly 
half a crop, but heavy and good what there is 
of it. Of sorghum none is raised. Apples 
a very good crop, but falling from high wind. 
R. I. Greening, Northern Spy, Roxbury Rus¬ 
set are the leading varieties. Grapes in abun¬ 
dance. E. tv. B. 
Dakota T’y.. Rock port, Hanson Co.—The 
crops of wheat, oats and barley grown In this 
locality promise very well, and will average 
as well as any I have ever seen grown in Can¬ 
ada, Michigan, or Wisconsin. Potatoes and 
corn are choice. Amber cane is the only va¬ 
riety planted here, and promises well. Wheat 
and oats are the principal crops growing in 
this neighborhood—two-ihirde wheat and one- 
third oats is about the ratio in general. This is 
the fir&t general harvest gathered in this coun¬ 
ty ; hence we have no fruit, as few settlers 
were iu this seciiou previous to 1878. When 
the proper time elapses I hope to be able to 
report on fruits. 1 am growing 28 acres of 
wheat, 27 of oats, four of corn, three of barley 
and three of potatoes on last year’s breaking. 
On new breaking I have 50 acres of 6eed-com, 
nine of beans, three of Amber cane, and one of 
melons. j. & mc'm. 
Dakota, Deadwood, Lawrence Co.—Since 
May 15, the rains have made the crup6 look 
good. A very large acreage of wheat, oats aud 
corn, has been sown; all look well. The same 
can be said of vegetables of all kinds. Sor¬ 
ghum has been raised here, but while present 
pricesprevail itwillnotreceivemuch attention, 
as other crops pay so much better. Fruit is 
being tried, and from what 1 can learn, it will 
be a success. A few people are Lryiug apples, 
cherries, plums, peaches, pears, blackberries, 
aud strawberries, and grapes, and it is believed 
that all but apple, peach aud pear will do splen¬ 
didly. Hay tills season is going to be light lor 
want of early rains. h. a. r. 
Florida, Waldo, Aluchan Co.—Wheat is 
not grown here. Cotton will he a good crop, 
belter than it has been for years ; potatoes 
(sweet) will also be a good crop. Oats this 
year nave been almost a failure. Barley is not 
grown here. Fruits are not grown to auy ex¬ 
tent. This year tne peaches are a failure; 
oraugeB look promising, and there will be a 
good yield. Tobacco, both Cuba and Connec¬ 
ticut Seed Leaf, is beiug grown here, aud both 
do well; the same may be said of sugar cane. 
W. B. 
Ga., Sheltonville, Forsyth Co.—Wheat in 
this section is almost an entire failure, owing 
to the rust and fly ; some farmers are not cut¬ 
ting any at all, and what is cut will not aver¬ 
age more than one-fifth of a crop. The fall 
oats rnsted badly, and will not do for seed. 
Rust- proof oats are tolerably good, they were 
injured very little by rust, and will make ihe 
average yield about a half crop. Corn and 
cottou are looking well now, but It Is too soon 
to make any estimate as to the probable 
yield, as a drought In July or August would 
injure the crops so much. Farmers here¬ 
abouts are just now finishing laying by, and 
crop6 are all In good growing condition. The 
peach crop is a failure but we shall have about 
half a crop of apples. e. u. r. 
Idaho, Orangeville, Idaho Co., July 9.—Fall 
grain was partially winter killed—late SpriDg, 
late grain. Early sown grain looks well; late 
eowa is beginning to suffer for raiu. Weather 
not and dry. Clnb wheat is the only variety 
here. Imperial and Egyptian aud some Hop¬ 
kins oats are grown here, aud have the largest 
acreage; wheat comeB next and barley last; 
this Is grown for hog feed. Early Rose Pink 
Eyes, Mechanic and one or two other varieties 
constitute the potato crop, which is very good. 
No sorghum here. Apples ure the ouly fruit 
grown here at present, aud there is a very 
good prospect for a crop. This is anew coun¬ 
try ; few orchards, but any fruit would grow 
here, except peaches. Timothy i6 not good 
this year. a. c. 
Idaho, Squarn Creek, Bois Co., July 10.— 
Wheat will yield from 25 to 30 bushels per 
acre—not as good as last year owing to its 
having been too cold and wet iu Spring. No 
corn is grown here except sweet, and that is 
good. So are potatoes. Oats are a fine crop- 
40 to 50 bushels per acre. Barley is the main 
crop here and averages from 40 to 60 bushels 
to the acre. We raise chiefly Australian wheat; 
Evergreen sweet corn ; Mechanic, E irly Rose 
and PeerlesB potatoes; small white oats; 
black aud Egyptian rye; six-rowed barley. 
Sorghum sugar cane does well, but only a 
little is grown. The prospect for fruit was 
never better. Several kiuds of apples, peaches 
and plums thrive here. We are plagued by 
neither borers nor worms. w. s. 
Iowa. Dakota, Humboldt Co.—The pros¬ 
pects for big crops were never better than at 
the present tune. Rye iB a fair crop and mostly 
harvested, hut the acreage is small. Barley is 
a good yield, but not much is raised here,. 
Wheat and oats are the grains mostly grown 
here; the acreage is about one-third more than 
last year and mostly sowed on last year's 
breaking. Oat6 do better ou old land ; on new 
land we get the most and best wheat. There 
is more breaking done this year than for any 
three years before, which will be mostly put 
into wheat next Spring. The corn crop looks 
better Lhan it ever did, bo the old settlers tell 
me—about one-fourth more planted than last 
year. Potatoes are a good crop, but there is 
not a large amount planted on account of the 
huge, which have been very bad till this year. 
We do not raise much Timothy and clover bore 
on account of having so much prairie grass 
for fodder, whieh is claimed to he better to 
feed. Fruit is more of an experiment than 
anything else; but we are getting into it now 
and hope to be able to raise enough for our 
own use soon. We shall get the largest yield 
of wheat that ever was raised in these parts, 
if It does not get scalded by the sun. The 
trouble is that after showers the hot sun bakes 
the graiD when it is in the dough. o. L, H. 
Kansas, Meadow Brook, Johnson Co.—We 
commenced harvesting wheat on the 9th. The 
yield is a good average ; over 20 bushels per 
acre. May, Fultz, Walker aud Clawson are 
the principal sorts grown here. The May is 
from eight to ten days earlier than the other 
varietlas, and on rich ground gives the best 
yield. The other kinds, too, are more liable 
to be winter-killed. The acreage was 60 per 
cent, over that of last year. Iu quality aud 
coloi wheat is very floe. Corn, where well 
cultivated, looks very fine; area not as large 
as last year. Flax iB good, aud has a large 
acreage. Oats are fair, but not much grown. 
Potatoes look flue, what little there is of them. 
Not enough sorghum is raised for home use; 
some sugar will be made fiornit this year. 
Meadows will not give more than two-thirds 
of a crop. Fruit of all kiuds is plentiful; ap¬ 
ples beiug the best crop I have Been here iu 10 
years; Early Harvest is now ripe. We had 
some showers iu April; wiudy and unpleasant 
weather in May; a dry June, and plenty of 
heavy rain in July. h. s. 
Kansas, Logau, Phillips Co.—The drought 
whicU has been troubling this section ha6 been 
broken aud good rains have lately rejoiced the 
land. They came too late, however, to save 
our crops, and quite a large number of settlers 
have left this place, and those who remain are 
very destitute and must suffer severely uuless 
helped. A drive of three hours to the south¬ 
east, however, would bring one iulo a region 
where the crops are fair, so Ihut the drought 
has here only affected a comparatively narrow 
belt. We may get some late corn, as some of 
us are still planting. j. d. s. 
Ky., Cynthiana, Harrison Co., July 15.— 
Wheat is pretty well thrashed and secured at 
this date and is a light yield per acre, averag¬ 
ing about 10 bushels; a greater acreage than 
ever before was harvested in the Blue-grass 
region, wheat being our main crop this year. 
Of rye almost none was harvested ; what little 
was bowu wub pastured until 1st of June; then 
plowed and planted with corn. Barley is a 
fair crop—not much sowed. Corn is a fair 
average and never looked more promising. It 
has been much neglected during the heavy 
wheat harvest and would be sadly injured by 
a little drought iu the latter part of July and 
August. Potatoes, both sweet and Irish, are 
very fine. It is questionable which is the more 
profitable to raise with us, and it is certain 
that neither, as a crop tor profit, is properly 
appreciated by onr people. In our long sea¬ 
sons either may be made one ol a double crop. 
Last year I raised GO bushels ot corn to the 
acre by drilling it in between my potato rows 
after they were fairly made. Sweet potatoes 
may be planted after a crop of barley or even 
wheat Is taken from the giound. The pros¬ 
pect for fruit was never better in Central Ken¬ 
tucky than thi6 year. Apples aro a fine crop; 
they commenced ripening 1st of J une. Poaches 
are about naif a crop and commenced ripen¬ 
ing at the middle of June and will luet until 
Noveinhcr. Strawberries were an abundant 
crop ; commenced ripening May 4th, and con¬ 
tinued until 1st of July. Grapes ure an 
abundant crop and never promised better. 
They commence ripening here about 25th of 
July, and hang on the viues until middle of 
December. We raise both figs and persim¬ 
mons and a fair crop of almost anything that 
requires but little work or attention. No 
tobacco is grown in tbe Blue-grass region. 
Kentucky is the finest couutry in the world 
for pleasant homes, aud the only country 
where a man can farm successfully on horse¬ 
back. 3. A. M. 
La., New Iberia, July 12 —Of wheat, oats, rye 
and barley we raise none, aud of fruit very 
little. Sugar-cane and cottou take up all our 
cure aud labor. The cane crop was very prom¬ 
ising, but has suffered during the last few 
weeks, and is not laid by in as good order as 
usual. Cotton is very fine, hut every one ex¬ 
pects the worm. The corn crop is splendid. 
A. E. G. 
La., Plaqnemine Brulee, 8t. Landry Parish, 
July 10—The crops in general are uncommon¬ 
ly good, corn especially. No fruit is grown 
here, except peaches and they were killed by 
frost or cold winds. w. w. o. 
Minn. Stewart, Me. Leod Co.,—The prospects 
of wheat, oats and barley are very promising. 
But little rye is raised here. Com was lately 
considerably damaged by hail stones measur¬ 
ing seven inches in circumference. Tbe Fife 
wheat alone is grown here. Oar oats are the 
Norway White and common black. The acreage 
of wheat increases every year; that of oats 
and barley is about the same as last year. 
Sorghum isgrown to a large extent, mostly the 
Early Amber. No fruit to speak of—damaged 
by hall and heavy rains. Uyslop and Trans¬ 
cendent crabs have proven the most success¬ 
ful. Potatoes will be an average yield. No. 2 
wheat is worth 90c; oats, 20 to 80c; eggs, 
10c ; butter 10 to 15c ; wool 18 to 28c. j. c. 
Mo., Wheatland, Hickory Co.—Wheat har¬ 
vest over; acreage above an average—say 15 
per cent. The yield will be large, probably 25 
to 30 pei cent over the average of all years. 
Many farmers have thrashed, and the yield is 
from 18 to 25 bushels per acre ; quality excel¬ 
lent. Corn never looked better; the acreage 
is about an average, aud the prospect for a yield 
above an average, is quite flattering. Many 
fields are tasselliug and some in “roasting 
ears.” Potatoes are but little raised here, bat 
what are planted are good—probably as great 
in quantity aud flue iu quality aB we ever find 
in Southwestern Missouri. Oats are above au 
average yield, but lute iamB have damaged the 
crop. No rye or barley iB raised. The kinds 
of wheat raised here arc Red Sea, Fultz, May, 
Walker aud Gipsey. Ot corn, the large yellow 
and largo whUe are the principal varieties. 
Potatoes principally are Early Rose, Buckeye, 
Ru6Bet and Peachblow. The frnit prospect is 
excellent; peaches, pears, plums, apples, aud, 
in fact, large aud small fruits, are loaded. 
Fiuits of all kinds are naturally at home here ; 
failures are scarcely ever kuown. I he prin¬ 
cipal apples are Janet, Wiuesap, Ben Davis, 
Red Astruchau, llatubo, Red June, Early Har¬ 
vest, Bellflower. e. p. 
Montana T., Gallatin Valley, Gallatin Co., 
July 10.—We had a wet, backward Spring. 
Wheat, oats aud barley do well here; wheat 
yields from 25 to GO bushels per acre; oats 40 
to 100; barley 40 to 75 ; potatoes from 309 to 
GOO. The vadey alone is farmed—a small por¬ 
tion of the Territory. This ia no corn couutry. 
But little fiuilis raised. This Is one of the 
best grazing countries. Mtuiug is the only 
business iu the mountains. We have had a 
large immigration this year. C. fl w. 
New Jersey, ltoselle, Union Co.—I send 
you herewith some specimens of hollyhocks 
raised from the seed furnished by •' Rural Free 
Seed Distribution.” I think they are lovely. 
I am sorry I did not think to send some before, 
as I have had larger and handsomer ones than 
I have now, but a shower of yesterday has in¬ 
jured them. I wish you could see the spikes 
of tbe dark purple ones; they are a dense mass 
of bloom. Considering the drought, I think 
they have done wonderfully, and I am much 
pleaded. I have had some of the salmon-pink 
more double than the one I send, and think 
they are the handsomest hollyhocks I over saw. 
I was not very successful with the seed fur¬ 
nished last year. I planted it out-of-doors in 
May just before the dry, hot spell we had, and 
then left for a visit East. I had nothing from 
them, exceptthe hollyhocks. This year I have 
12 nice roots of aquilegia and five of double 
hibiscus. I planted doable pentstemonsand a 
part of the iris in boxes in the house, but not a 
seed came up. The rest I have given to a 
friend who ha6 a greenhonse; he said he 
would Iry and start them for me aud then give 
me roots. Two years ago we had some cut¬ 
tings from you of a willow—Salix pentandra. 
Two of them rooted well; one we gave to a 
neighbor: the other is growing finely, and 
gives promise of being a beautiful tree. 
L. A. R. 
[The box of hollyhocks was received. They 
are, Indeed, beautiful. One is nearly black, an¬ 
other a dark maioon, two bright red, one 
white, one a floBh color or pinkish-salmon. 
The seeds of the hybrid pefitsturnons and irises 
are really so valuable that we ure disappointed 
whenever we hear of failure lu their germina¬ 
tion. They aie all of them seeds of last year’s 
growth—we guarantee it—and any failure is 
owin- to too much, too little or to Improper 
care.— Eds ] 
N. Y., Nunda, Livingston Co., July 11.—Our 
crops are good except hay. Wheat was never 
better. Corn and potatoes promise well, but 
need rain. j. m. 
N. C , Greensboro, Guilford Co.—Wheat is 
all harvested and is thrashing out not very 
good on account of ru6l. Winter oats are 
good; spring oats very poor. Corn is looking 
well. But little rye or barley i6 grown here. 
Potatoes are good but are only grown for 
family use. The acreage of wheat is above 
the average; so Is that of Spring oats. The 
fruit crop ib mostly a failure; yet there are 
some peaches of rather poor quality. Apples 
are scarce but not good. Pears promise a 
tolerable crop but not mauy are grown for 
market — trees small and not half enough 
planted. o. o. a. 
Ohio, Liberty Center, Henry Co.—The wheat 
harvest is mostly done, commencing about 
June 20th, with a larger acreage than ever be¬ 
fore, and a good growth; but hot, showery 
weather caused it to ripen too rapidly to pro¬ 
duce the most favorublo results. The crop is 
already being thrashed from the shock. Corn 
has a mammoth growth, and is very forward, 
early pieces standing eight to 10 feet high, aud in 
silk. I never saw a better prospect for th is crop. 
Oats are heavy and somewhat lodged by the 
frequent showers; they grow here too rapidly 
and large to stand in moist seasons like the 
present, bo that the number of bushels and 
weight ot the grain are reduced. Hay is a fair 
crop; some heavy fields of Timothy are about 
half secured. The potato bug commenced its 
ravages early aud in great force, everybody 
predicting a general destruction of the potato 
crop; buL owing to the frequent rains all Sum¬ 
mer (or for other reasons) the pests have dis¬ 
appeared, aud the potato growth isvery thrifty 
at present; we are promised au abundant yield. 
Very little rye or barley Is grown iu this part 
of tha State. A new kind of sorghum called 
the Early Amber has lakeu precedence over 
other kinds in this neighborhood, and looks 
splendid, as far as heard from, Sorghum rais¬ 
ing i6 on the increase in this section; some 
specimens of sugar were produced from sorg¬ 
hum here last Beasou. The apple crop is 
promising, but will not be over an average 
crop. Ii- 1. Greening, Baldwin, Tompkins 
County King and Rusiet are generally lull 
and fair. The early varieties are failing badly 
(especially the Sweet Boughs) owiug to au in¬ 
sect or worm that bores the Unit to the core. 
The new shoots of limbs oa moat orchards 
have been more or less affected aud died to 
quite a large extent from parasites llviug ou 
tbe sap between the outer bark aud wood. The 
pear trees are blighllug considerably, we think, 
lrorn tbe same cause, aud it is feared that the 
pear crop Iu this section is destined to become 
extinct. Tbe common red aud black tame 
cherry produced a large aud exeelleu t crop. The 
cabbage-worm also comes iu the catalogue of 
pests, aud all kinds of experiments aro tried, 
aud generally with very limited success. One 
man tells me that, to kill the worms, through 
his desperation, expecting to kill tbe cabbage 
also, he took strong, unleaChed wood ashes 
from his stove and literally covered his cab¬ 
bage with It, using a stove-shovel lull to each 
plant after they had beguu to bead, throwing 
the ashes on top, so that the rains and dews 
would cause the lye to penetrate every crevice 
between the leaves. To his astonishment his 
cabbage beat any he had ever before raised, 
the ashes having effectually destroyed every 
