658 
oct. a 
THE BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
thus far offered for sale, will thrive in some 
places. Well, if there is but one ehance in 20 
that sneh beauties &b Lady Washington or 
Excelsior or Jefferson would do well—we 
should take the risk. We are having several 
of the kinds left by Mr. Ricketts eDgraved for 
our readers.Dr. Bailey, of Winning 
Farm, does not reply to our charges against 
him.We are sowing over 50 varie¬ 
ties of wheat.Chester County Mam¬ 
moth Corn is well named. We pulled one ear 
a few days since that measured 18J inches in 
length, with 20 rows and 60 kernels in a row— 
making 1,200 kernels. No doubt there are 
larger ears than this in the field. It requires 
about the same length of season as Blount’s. 
Both are now (Sept. 18) nearly ready to cut. . 
.... We have bushels of cow-peas. What 
better proof i6 needed that they will ripen in 
this climate The cost of the plain 
paper alone upon which the Fair Number of 
the Rural New-Yorker is printed will be, 
when completed, $3,300, in round numbers. . 
. . . . But the compliments the Fair Number 
has thus far received are worth to us more 
than tongue cau tell I.Honest words 
of praise are ever gratefully received. But 
we hope our friends will criticise the Rural 
with entire lreedora. How cau we hope to 
improve it if they do not tell ns wherein we 
could please them better ? . . . , The pear 
Louise Bonne de Jersey is now in the fruit 
markets in large quantities. This is a showy 
pear with its red bronze cheek. But often 
there is an astringency about it and a thick¬ 
ness of skin that are not agreeable. This is 
one of the kinds that do well on the quince. . . 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
John Saul, Washington D. C., Descriptive 
catologue of Dutch and other bulbous flower 
roots. Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crown 
Imperials, Irises, Crocuses, Snow-drops, Ane¬ 
mones, Ranunculus, Sciilas and Lilies. 
Barr & Sugden, 12 aud 13 King St., Covent 
Garden, London, W. C.. England. One of the 
most complete catalogues of Spring bulbs pub¬ 
lished. _ 
•• How to Keep Boys on the Farm,” by Geo. 
D. Hunt, Salem, Ohio, a little book of 48 pages. 
Price 20 cents. 
Geo. S. Wales, Rochester N. Y.. Catalogue 
of all small fruits—shrubs, vines, roses. Sent 
gratis. 
-- 
NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL EXPERI¬ 
MENT STATION. 
vni. 
The following samples of fertilizers are from 
the stock Intended foi this year’s use. They 
have been sent iu by farmers and dealers, and 
are now, September 4, just completed : 
52. Orcbilla Guano. From Snmmerill & 
Hires, South Penns Grove, 8alem County. In 
very good condition. 
56. Rotten Bone. Manufactured by G. W. 
Baker, Williamsburg, L. 1. From stock of 
Azariak Duuham, Metuchen. 
57. Corena Settlings. Made by Geo. W. 
Baker, Williamsburg, L. 1. Sampled and sent 
by Azariak Dunham, Metuchen. 
60. Raw Bone. Manufactured by Thompson 
& Edwards, Chicago, Ill. Sent by J. W. Pan- 
coast, Sharpstown, Salem County. In good 
condition. 
61. Pare Fine Ground Bone. Manufactured 
by Thompson & Edwards, Chicago, Ill. Sam¬ 
pled and sent by J. W. Pancoast, Sharpstown, 
Salem County. 
64. Atkinson & Pettit’s Phosphate of Potash, 
Philadelphia. Sampled and sent by Wyatt W. 
Miller, Salem. N. J. In good condition ; like 
fine ashes. 
87. Pure Bone Phosphate. Manufactured 
by J. S. Yarnell, Media, Pa. Sampled andsent 
by I. W. Nicholson, Camden. 
53. Swift-sure Fertilizer. Manufactured by 
M. L. Shoemaker & Co., Philadelphia, and 
sold by Enoch Dudley, Moorestown. Sampled 
and sent by Joshua R Evans, of Hartford, 
Burlington Couuty. 
58. Dissolved Bone Meal. Manufactured by 
Thompson & Edwards, Chicago. Ill. Sampled 
and sent by J. W. Pancoast, Sharpstown, Salem 
County. 
59. Ammoniated Bone Superphosphate. 
Manufactured by Thompson & Edwards, Chi¬ 
cago, Ill. Sampled and sent by J. W. Pan- 
coast, Sharpstown, Salem County. 
63. Ammoniated Phosphate. Manufactured 
by G. W. Baker, Williamsburg, L. I. Sampled 
by Azanah Dunham, Metuchen. 
65. Lobos Peruvian Guano, from stock of S 
A. Willetts, Haddonfleld. Sent by I. W. 
Nicholson, Camden. 
66. Raw Bone Phosphate (Plow Brand). 
Manufactured by Walton, Wbaun <fe Co., Wil¬ 
mington, Delaware. Sent oy I. W. Nicholson, 
Camden. Geo. H. Cook, Director. 
New Brunswick, ^ept. 6,16S0. 
cfr&frBfo&m. 
RURAL SPECIAL REF0RT8. 
Ala , Sand Spring, Limestone Co , Sept. 13. 
—In the Rural P’air Number I see W, H. Wat¬ 
kins, N. Y. asks, in Querists’ Department, 
“What State In the South is best adapted to 
sheep husbandry, and what, part of that 
State ?” I would like to say, through the 
Rural, to W B., or any of its numerous read¬ 
ers, that Northern Alabama la a good place for 
sheep husbandry, and anyone wishing to go 
into that business would do well to come and 
see this part of Alabama. In this township, 
the northeastern corner of Limestone Co., 
there are no high hillB or swamps; the land 
is rolling, with plenty of fall to carry off sur¬ 
face water, while there are good soft-water 
springs and brooks. The timber Ib principally 
oak, but there are chestnut, poplar, hickory, 
beech, black and sweet gum, dogwood, and 
persimmon, and a large growth of wild grass 
all over the country where not cultivated, on 
which stock of all kinds feed and get fat in 
Summer. I have seen sheep live all Winter 
here in the woods without any food whatever 
except this grass and what they could browse 
from low bushes; but, of course, it was a poor 
living. The country is new in point of im¬ 
provements, though there are some settle¬ 
ments 75 years old in the vicinity. Within the 
past two years over 20 Northern families have 
settled in this township, and there is not a 
negro living in the place. The west line of 
the township is five miles east of the Louisville 
Nashville, aud Great Southern Railroad, and 
the North line joins Tennessee. 
I came from Northern Indiana here two 
years ago last Spring, and have had better 
health here than there. Improved land sells 
at from $2 to f 10 per acre, and there is con¬ 
siderable goverenment land at $1.25 per acre, 
or it can be taken up under the homestead 
law. The wheat in thiB and adjacent counties 
was a failure this year on account of the rust, 
but the cotton, corn, ?weet potatoes, and cow- 
peas are good. Apples, peaches, pears, plums 
and grapes do well here when properly at¬ 
tended ; but they have been very much neg¬ 
lected since the war. Clover, Timothy, Red 
Top and Blue Grass do well. Wheat sells at 
$1; corn, 35c.; sweet potatoes, 50c.; cow- 
peas, 75c., cotton, 9Je.; butter, 15c. ; eggs, 10c. 
Warren Mason. 
Canada, Belmont, N. 8., Sept. 10.—Hay crop 
better than last year; wheat, not so good- 
weevil-eaten ; oats, fair to good; barley, an 
average; buckwheat, ditto; potatoes, very 
good, no bugs or blight, Roots of all kinds 
are Buffering from drought; we have had no 
rain for three weeks. The Golden Mangold 
keepB ahead of all others. Pearl Millet and 
cow-peas are no good for this place. L. d. 
Dakota, Herman, Lake Co M Sept. U.—The 
prairie here is very rolliug. with many natural 
meadows, but no wet depressions. There are 
several pretty lakes, ail supplied with fish. 
Antelopes feed along the streams. Wheat was 
a splendid crop; but oats were a complete 
failure hereabouts, owing to rust. Com is 
poor; but potatoes arc flue. The country 
is too newly settled yet for fruit, as most of 
the settlers have come here within the last two 
yeat'6. 8. s. s. 
Florida, Starke, Bradford Co., Sept. 13.— 
The storm mentioned in my last proved much 
worse in the counties south of us and on the 
Gulf Coa6t than here. In this county the loss 
on cotton is estimated at 25 per cent. In Leon 
county to the west of us there will be a loss 
of 600 bales They raise a short staple in all 
the southerly counties and the loss there must 
be very heavy. Iu Orange, Volusia, Sumpter 
and Brevard counties, the loss on the orauge 
crop is fully 50 per cent., the heavy wind 
having blown the fruit against the long thorns 
with which the trees are covered, and injured 
them so that they will drop off beiore they are 
ripe The weather is now very warm with 
frequent showers. i. 8. 
III., ChampaigD, Champaign Co., Sept., 10.— 
Heavy rains on the night of 1st, and rams 
equally heavy with a great deal of thunder, 
lightning and wind, on the afternoon of the 
3rd, have put au end to the drought, and put 
the soil to soak in fully six inches of pre¬ 
cipitation. Preparation for Fall wheat seeding 
will now go on with a rush, aud pastures and 
meadows will resume their wonted color. 
B. F. J. 
Iowa, Davenport. Sept. 12.—Business is very 
lively here, although late rains have made the 
roads very muddy, so farmers have not brought 
in their produce as lively as they would have 
done had the roads been in not so bad a condi¬ 
tion. We have bad a bountiful harvest, how¬ 
ever, aud the country is full of grain, and that 
of a good quality. Corn looks splendid, aud 
bids fair to be the finest crop ever raised in 
this country. The following are about tbe 
ruling prices:—Wheat firm, with au average 
demand; No. 2 Spring, 85@90c. ; barley, 55@ 
66c.; oats in demand at 37@28c,; corn in de¬ 
mand at 32(&35c. ; flour, from $5 60 to 8.10; 
butter, 20c.; eggs, 10c.; onions, 65@70c.; po¬ 
tatoes, 80@45c.; apples, 50c.; grapes—the 
market is overstocked at 3@3c. per lb. 
G. w. 8. 
Kan., Everett, WoodBon Co., Sept., 11.— We 
have been having quite heavy rains of late 
and the ground is In fine condition for sow¬ 
ing Winter wheat and there has been a con¬ 
siderable area sown already, and other farm¬ 
ers are busy getting ready to sow. Nearly all 
of the corn in this vicinity has been cut for 
fodder. It did not ear well on account ol the 
dry weather. Fruit Is plentiful and cheap. 
Apples are selling at 40c. and 50c. per bushel. 
Potatoes are good but not a heavy yield. 
j. j. P. 
Mich., Lichfield, Hillsdale Co., Sept. 18.— 
Well, the Blount corn is not all dead yet. I 
had two patches planted, the first on April 21, 
the other on May 6. All is ripe and cut, and * 1 
some husked ont. I cut two stalks, with four 
eara on each, which weighed 11 pounds, 
measured 13 feet—six feet 10 inches to the top 
of the lower ear, and nine feet 11 inches to the 
top of the upper ear. All were sound : but I 
find it was planted too thick to do well. I 
think we have to learn how to plant and culti¬ 
vate this corn in order to he successful and 
raise a good crop. I also had two different 
kinds of white Ohio Dent, two kinds of yellow 
Dent, and two kinds of speckled Dent. One 
of these 1 got up by mixing three different 
kinds of corn together. It is a great improve¬ 
ment on all. I also had six different klnos of 
Flint or eight-rowed, called 8mnt-nose, Large 
White Flint. Yellow Eight-rowed, Large Red 
Blaze, and the Improved King Philip. The 
kinds best adapted to this country are the 
White Ohio, Yellow and Speckled Dent, and 
all the flinty or eight-rowed sorts. The cow- 
peas are getting ripe. I find three different 
kinds, one a light brown, one a speckled, and 
one a jet black—a very nice bean. We have 
had a Beason very favorable to the growth of 
cropB. Wheat was a fair crop. Corn is com¬ 
ing out well. Potatoes are good. Apples are 
plentiful, so that they are selling for from 25 
to 50 centB a barrel. Pasture is abundant at 
this time. g. k. 
Missouri, Carthage, Jasper Co., Sept. 19.— 
This has been one of tbe most propitious sea¬ 
sons for the farmers ever known in this sec¬ 
tion of Missouri. Oar wheat crop was very 
large, averaging from 10 to 80 bushels per 
acre. Corn is nearly always good and this 
year it Is better than the average. Potatoes 
have done remarkably well, while oats have 
been rather above the average. The drought 
which prevailed in KansaB did not extend to 
Missouri. We are now suffering with a cattle 
plague which is making sad havoc among our 
herds. The writer has lost 82 head out of a 
herd of 100, while others have lost a greater 
percentage, some losing four-fifths of their 
number. One dealer has purchased 4,000 hides 
since June 1st. Some think it is Texas fever 
while others call it murrain. As soon as taken, 
cattle begin to droop their heads and ears, 
stop eating, have some fever, leave the herd 
and try to be alone. Their water becomes of 
a dark color and frequently their stomachs be¬ 
come perfectly dry. Milch cows dry up im¬ 
mediately after being taken, and nothing seems 
to cure them if severely affected. w. n p. 
Minn., Howard Lake, Wright Co., Sept. 11. 
—We have had very good crops, in general, of 
cereals, fruits and vegetables of all sorts raised 
so far north. There has been a little diminu¬ 
tion in the yield of No. 1 wheat owing to long- 
continued rains while a good deal of the wheat 
was left in the Shocks awaiting to be thrashed, 
in order to avoid the labor of stacking. This 
shocked wheat sprouted sufficiently to reduce 
its grade from No. 1 to No. 2. There was 
scarcely any No. 3, however. Some was not 
in jured at all, and all of it was better than was 
expected. Within a few miles of thi6 place a 
hail storm toward the end of August did much 
damage to the crop, some having lost all their 
wheat, owing to its being completely riddled 
by hailstones as large as an egg. The storm 
did not extend as far South as this place fortu¬ 
nately. Wheat is worth bere?0c per bushel; 
corn, 50e; beaf steak, 8 to 10c. Wild plums 
are abundant and delicious. Wild cranberries 
and grapes are now ripe and abundant. 
8 . A. M. 
New Jersey, Tom’s River, OeeaD Co., Sept. 
12.—The cranberry crop is unusually early. 
Picking began here ou Sept. 5. There have 
been less scald, insects, and other causes of 
injury than usual. The average crop will be 
pretty fair. A. w, a. 
N. Y , Syracuse, Onondaga Co., Sept. 17.— 
The last six weeks have been rather cool. 
Slight frosts occurred ou the 16th and 17th ult. 
and again some days since, only notable as 
showing a difference of 60° in the tempera¬ 
ture of a single day. Of all the farmer’s staple 
crops, hay sustained the most injury. There is 
a large acreage of corn iu this section, and I 
never saw it look so well. It has been mostly 
cut up and utooked. Ot fruit, strawberries were 
moBt deficient; grapes are plentiful and hard¬ 
ly pay for cultivation. The most enormous 
crop of apples ever produced load the orchards 
this year. Not a third of them will be used 
for any purpose. A large sowing of wheat will 
be made in this county this Fall; the new fer¬ 
tilizers which are extensively used, rendering 
crops of 30 to 40 bushels per acre reasonably 
certain. Onondaga. 
N. C., Lynn P. O., Polk Co., Sept. 10.—The 
season has proved more moist than is usual 
here. This affected the corn crop very favor¬ 
ably; but not bo with the fruit, the rain and 
the natural ripening process caused many 
peaches to fall, which, if not used at once, are 
of no value. Pears are doing well just now. 
The Bartletts are very large and sweet. The 
Seekel and other small varieties are just 
coming In. The cotton crop is good, just 
opening ; too much raiu causes the plant to 
“ shed” its fruit os the blossom falls. Flour 
and meal are lower iu view of a good coming 
crop just in 6ighl. The superior and abundant 
crop of fruit on the Thermal Belt of Tryon 
Mountain, has induced quite a number of men 
of capital to examine tbe situation this Sum¬ 
mer and the result is, a large fruit farm Is to 
be planted out at once—2,000 pear trees, 3,000 
peach trees and other fruits. The land was 
bought for $8 per acre. The same parties 
propose to try the strawberry as a crop for 
the Eastern markets. Ordinary varieties ma¬ 
ture on the South side of the mouutain early 
in April. L. b m. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
[Every query must be accompanied by the name and 
address of the writer to Insure attention.] 
Queries about Fertilizers. 
L. Zb, Belmont , N. 8., asks 1, whether oat 
and buckwheat hulls are of any value for ma¬ 
nure ; If it would pay to haul them two miles, 
and which would be the better plan—to com¬ 
post them with black muck, lime and potash, 
or to use them for bedding; 2, are leather cut¬ 
tings and scraps from shoe factories and tan¬ 
neries and the waste of wool from woolen fac¬ 
tories of any use for manure: and if so, how 
should they be used for that purpose; 3, would 
a liquid of lime, salt, potash and water be a 
good fertilizer, and in what proportion should 
they be mixed. 
Anb.— 1, Oat hulls are excellent feed and too 
valuable to be used for manure. Tbe writer 
h»B fouud them to increase the milk consider¬ 
ably when fed in place of good hay. It would 
certainly pay to haul them two miles. Buck¬ 
wheat hulls may be thrown into barn-yards 
and will be useful as an absorbent, but are in- 
