APRIL 12 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
237 
Canada. 
Chatham, Ontario, March 26.—This is the 
southern part of Ontario. We had a fine steady 
Winter, with not much snow; but nearly all 
Winter we had good sleighing. Fall wheat 
is coming out all right. This Spring we have 
had only one sleet storm. I think the fruit 
crop will be all right. So far the last part of 
March has been fine and spring-like. We 
have begun to plow for seeding. a. m. d. 
Connecticut. 
Ljmk Rock, Litchfield Co., March 21.—We 
had a very heavy ice storm here lately; many 
trees broke down. The Winter throughout 
was very rainy and warm, with intervals of 
extreme cold. Not much snow has fallen. 
Cattle are in fair condition, and prices are 
high. Butter is 85c.; eggs, 25c; pork, 12c. per 
pound. B. l. g. 
Dnkotn. 
Mandon, Morton Co., March 12.—On March 
11 we had a real blizzard. To-day the 
weather is very worm and pleasant. There 
are about 15 iuches of snow. The Missouri 
River is about breaking up. The past Winter 
CONTINUOUS CORN CROWING 
WITH THE 
[From the Connecticut Farmer , Feb. 9, 1884.] 
Corn Growing* in Connecticut 
2088 bushels (ears) of Corn on 16 acres. 
C0BW Cost less than 31>£ cents per bushel of shelled 
The follo wing is an accurate account of the crop of corn raised the past Summer on sixteen 
acres of land on the farm of Mr. G. P. Brinley. Newington. Eleven acres of this field was 
in corn the year previous, and the only manure used was the Mapes Corn Manure Adioinimr 
was five acres m orchard which had become worthless in consequence of the ravages of the 
canker-worm, ihe apple trees were grubbed up. and the land ploughed and planted with 
corn along with the eleven acres in corn the year previous; below are the expenses of raisins 
and harvesting said crop of 2,038 bushels of ears of corn: s 
Ploughing 16 acres. Harrowing, Rolling and Marking. *62 no 
Fertilizer, Mapes’s Corn Manure. .290 00 
Applying ditto..*.”* 12*00 
Planting, Seed and Cultivating. * 45 79 
Husking, Hauling, Cutting and Stooking .. 
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Estimate of corn stalks 32 tons at $8, Cr.256 00 
Making cost of crop.............. $820 36 
, ,„-? 1 l er V v , ere blusllG l- s nubbins and soft corn, which deducted from 2,038 bushels leaves 
l,(ob bushels of ears of good sound corn, of which *2 bushels shelled yielded 59 pounds 
corn, which gives 891 bushels and 29 pounds of corn, and makes the cost price a trifle over 36 
cents per bushel. Allowing the 362 bushels of nubbins and soft corn to be worth 12*< cents 
per bushel for feed, which will come to 345 25. reduces the cost price of the crop to a little less 
than 31). cents per bushel. This crop never had a hoe in it. and there were not as many weeds 
m the field at the time the corn was cut as would have filled the box of abusiness wagon._ j.b b 
»Ir. G P. Brinley lias purchased ten tons ot the MAPES CORN MANURE, aud will 
use it again the present season without other manure, but increasing the urea to 25 
ACRES OF CORN iSuO ibs. per acre of the MAPES CORN MANURE.i 
Michigan. 
Athens, Calhoun Co., March 21.—Com was 
cut short by the frost on September 9 and 10 . 
The yield was not a quarter crop. Many have 
had to buy corn to fatten their hogs. The 
first corn shipped in cost 57 cents at the sta¬ 
tion in the Fall, aud could be bought for 60 
cents all Winter, aud is that price at present. 
Wheat sells at from 90 to 95 cents. About 
half the crop is in the farmers’ hands. Hay 
a heavy crop and well secured. Oats a fair 
crop. J. MC. L. 
Bangor, VanBurenCo., March 21.—Coni 
is selling at 64 cents; wheat, 95 cents for the 
best; oats, 40 cents. G. c. 
Nebraska. 
Bazile Mills, Knox Co., March 24.—Wiu- 
ter has gone and Spring has come; the prairie 
schooner has started on its westward voyage. 
Our part of the country is pretty well settled. 
All the first, class laud is taken. People have 
begun seediug. We have still a few snow 
drifts on the north and south sides of the 
bluffs. No winter wheat sown here. Some 
rye appeal’s to be alive and all right. Corn 
was a light crop last season. Wheat is worth 
68 c.; corn. 22c.; barley, 30c.; oats, 22c. The 
acreage under small grains will be fully one- 
fourth more than last year; but our country 
is best for corn aud hogs, flogs are worth 
$5.25 per 100 pounds; fat steers, #4. j. p. 
Virginia. 
Philmont, London Co., March 2-1.—Farm 
work in this section has been very much re¬ 
tarded by the continued rains. No plowing 
for corn has been done yet, and roads are next 
to impassable, which is very vexatious to those 
who have grain to haul. I have about-con¬ 
cluded it is better to sell wheat as soon as 
thrashed. One year with another, prices are 
about as good at thrashing time as later in the 
season, and a considerable amount is saved 
that would be lost in shrinkage aud by ver¬ 
min. s. T. p. 
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[.from the Eighth Annual Report of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture.] 
l nave grown three consecutive corn cropson the some field and shall grow a fourth newt 
season, and expect the uext crop to surpass any of the three former ones, I have grown a crop 
equal to one hundred and fifty bushels and forty-eight pounds per acre of shelled corn on 
a potato stall hie, and one hundred aud eighty-nine bushels of shelled com on 
two acres of oat stubble. So that witu my new experience Of late years I look hack on my old 
experience of more than a dozen years ago os obsolete and belonging to a past time as indeed 
it must necessarily be if we are to live by farm mg. For if we cannot grow corn, what shall 
we grow; YVe may aud should grow roots, but our cattle cannot live by mote alone, and we 
should have com to sell as well as to feed, if we want. I am growing corn wholly by artifi¬ 
cial fertilizing From my first experience, four years ago, with artificial fertilizers, when 
twenty-five bushels and eight pounds of dry shelled com was measured from a plot of exactly 
one-sixth of an acre, 1 have believed in artificial fertilizers. This corn was o-rowu with one 
hundred pounds of MAPES’ COMPLETE CORN MANURE, or at the rate'of six hundred 
pounds per acre- The one hundred aud eightv-mne bushels of corn was grown on a Dart of a 
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Arcadia, Manistee Co.—My two Blush Po¬ 
tatoes had 10 eyes, were cut in 10 pieces, plant¬ 
ed in 10 places, aud yielded 44 pounds of the 
finest potatoes I ever saw. The Shoe peg 
Corn did not ripen—too late for this section. 
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New York. 
Columbia, Herkimer Co.—My two little 
Blush Potatoes, planted in eight hills, yielded 
22 pounds of nice tubers. The Shoe-peg Corn 
grew 14 feet high, eared nicely, but failed to 
ripen. The B-b Centennial Wheat all failed 
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Wisconsin. 
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