been well fed and cared for, has stood the 
Winter very well Wheat is looking very bad; 
H great deal of it looks as if it would have to 
lie plowed up and planted in Spring crops. 
Fruit trees are looking all right so far; peach 
buds are not killed yet. Apple orchards in 
bearing are scarce here yet: the young trees 
are looking thrifty. Berry bushes have been 
frozen back somewhat. Markets are: wheat, 
40 to 52 cents; com, 30 cents; potatoes, $1; 
hogs, $3 50 to $3.75; butter, 25 to 30 cents; 
eggs, 12 X cents. k. s. j. 
Minnesota. 
BeavkrCrkek, Rock Co.—Seven years ago 
I first came here, and there was scarcely a 
tree to be seen about a farm house; now there 
are but few bouses or any other buildings that 
are without a number of nice trees. The 
farms will average about 2Wf acres of forest 
trees, through this county. We raise all kinds 
of crops here This last season my crops were: 
wheat, average of bushels to the acre, 17^; 
oats, 45: barlev. 17 Thirty five acres of flax 
on corn stubble yielded 19 hushelsof seeds per 
acre; 40 acres of flax on first plowing (or, as 
it is known here, “breaking’’) yielded 11 bush¬ 
els per acre. Twenty-seven acres of corn av¬ 
eraged 45 bushels per acre. Flaxseed is the 
principal crop here; the average of the county 
is 16 bushels per acre. This is also a dairy 
county. A creamery at the county seat 
(Luverne) has a patronage of about 700 cows 
and there are about 400 other cows in the 
county whose produce is worked up at home. 
I patrom’ze the creamery, and I like it very 
much. I have SO cows that average for the 
cream I sell $27 per head for each year, and I 
use on an average of 10 pounds of butter each 
week in my family, but this is not counted in 
the $27 that I get from each cow. Calves sold 
here last Fall for from $10 to $15 per head.aud 
that would bring the proceeds from each cow 
up to about $40. Now a cow can be kept here 
ore year in good flesh and good milking order 
for $15. and that will leave a clear profit of 
$25. Land is cheap, and plenty of uncultivat¬ 
ed land owned by Eastern speculators can be 
bought for from $7 to $23 per acre. There is 
not much improved land for sale; what there 
is, is held at from $J5 to $25 per acre. Success 
to the R. N.-Y.! A. p. w. 
Nebraska. 
Milford, Seward Co., Feb. 24.—I have 
lived in this State 13 years, and never missed 
but one corn crop, though the yield has been 
less in some years thau in olhers. Last year 
we bad very heavy crops of all kinds of grain, 
fruits and vegetables. Nebraska is adapted 
to anything that a farmer would wish to raise 
for his use and comfort; I think we have 
almost a Garden of Eden, a good climate and 
good people, and they are from almost ull the 
States. j. F h. 
Scotia, Greeley Co., March 3.— Here, in 
Central Nebraska, farmers are very busy; 
seeding has commenced. The vt eather is warm 
and pleasant. Cattle, in fact, stock of all 
kinds, have wintered well. Corn is 25 to 30 
cents; wheat. 45 to 50 cents; hay, $2 to $3: 
hogs, $4 to $4 25; fatsteers. $5 to $5 25. Farm¬ 
ers are ready to turn off large numbers of 
both cattle aad hogs. These latter are the 
most profitable features of Western farming. 
Some of the successful farmers claim that 
their mixed farming—eorn. wheat, rye, beets, 
potatoes, cattle an i hogs—pays 50 per cent, 
every year. Fine mixed farms can be bought, 
partially improved, fair buildings, living 
water, cultivated fields, hay laud, and grazing 
land—for $8 to $12 50 per acre. In past years 
gold aud silver mining were the only branches 
of iudustry that would yield large fortunes 
speedily. To-day hogs aud cattle on the low- 
priced Western farms have superseded min¬ 
ing for rapidly accumulating fortunes. One 
man with $13,000 can soon double his money 
here by judicious investment in land, cattle, 
and hogs, The country is healthful, both for 
man ami beast. The soil is a rich black allu¬ 
vial, very productive. Corn. 40 to 80 bushels 
per acre; wheat, 15 to 34; barley, 20 to 45; 
rye, 20 to 50; potatoes, 250 to 700; beets, 300 to 
up to the'middle of November, long after 
there had been severe frosts. The Rural corn, 
planted the last of May, grew about seven 
feet high without having a single hard ear— 
too latel I had some nice Rural water-mel¬ 
ons. The peas were very early and prolific. 
G. w. G 
Canton, Lincoln Co.—The wheat we re 
ceived last Spring was put in so safe a place 
that we could not find it in time, to plant it 
last Fall. Would it do to sow thin Spring? 
[Yes. Eds.1 We don’t raise Winter wheat 
here, perhaps it wouldn’t do anyway. [It is not 
likely to do well. Eds ] I did not sow the rye 
but gave it to one of my neighbors who raises 
rye to try. The peas were nice—the earliest 
we ever had. The corn was late, some kernels 
bad as many as four stout stalks eight or ten 
feet high, and one ear to every two or three 
stalks. What we want in this country is not 
big but early corn, it is so liable to be caught 
by frost, yet we have raised sound corn from 
early varieties, but there is too much risk with 
late corn. The flower seeds were nice. The 
tomatoes beat every thing; they were the nicest 
I ever saw. j. s. 
Iowa. 
Templeton, Carroll Co.— The Rural Oats 
were late and rusted badly. The corn was a 
good crop, but it is too flinty for this country 
I think The tomatoes were splendid; they 
were large, solid and smooth, and so plentiful 
that bushels of them went to waste. The R 
N.-Y. Peas were as early as any we had. I 
saved them all for seed. The H. M. G. Peas 
mildewed before they were ripe. The Diebl- 
M. Wheat aud Thousand-fold Rye I sowed 
about the middle of Sept.; but this is not a 
winter wheat country, aud I shall be sur¬ 
prised if there is a green root or leaf in the 
Spring. The Garden Treasures were nice, 
some of them quite pretty. j. d s. 
Nebraska. 
Milford, Seward Co , Feb. 24. — I have 
three seedlings of the Niagara Grape; but 
they did not grow very vigorously last year. 
The tomatoes were as fine as any lever saw. 
We sold more than enough to pay for the 
Rural; and the peas were very flue. My 
wife is very proud of the flowers she has 
grown from the Rural seeds. The wheat 
does not do well here, as we raise all spring. 
We prize the Rural above all other papers 
that we take. It gives the very best informa¬ 
tion on every subject, and should be in every 
family. We would be lost without it. 
J. F. H. 
New York. 
Fluvanna, Chautauqua Co. — The White 
Plume Celery was far in advance of my ex 
pectation It tvas perfection itself, bleach¬ 
ing to the extreme tips of the leaves without 
any tailliue. Its flavor was equal, if not su¬ 
perior, to that of the Perfection Heartwell, 
Boston Market or Golden Heart. Its keeping 
quality was good, as it remained sound until 
all was used about Dec. 15. I shall not hesi¬ 
tate to plant it in the future. The Rural 
tomatoes were among the flrn'St I ever saw; 
but the corn carried off the prize. There 
were 78 kernels, which I planted 13 inches 
apart. From the 73 kernels planted I har¬ 
vested 171 stalks over seven feet high, and 123 
ears of corn from 10 to 15 fncnes long; and 
three quarters of a bushel of smalloi, imper¬ 
fect ears. It was all ripe and fit to cut by 
September 20. I am much pleased with it 
thus far. The flower seeds germinated readi¬ 
ly and were a subject much commeuted on 
by my guests. They were among the finest 
flowers in my garden. The peas, which I al¬ 
most forgot,were far in advance of any of the 
other nine kinds I had in my garden. The 
oats were a little late; but had strong, bright 
straw and plump kernel. The rye, sown in 
May, grew about eight inches high,with a scat¬ 
tering stalk that showed a feeble head, but 
none of it ripened. About the middle of 
September it began to grow, aud when Win¬ 
ter set in was looking very promising and 
about 12 jucbes high. I became a subscriber 
to No l.Vol. 1. of Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
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ull its rise and progress it has beeu a weekly 
visitor at my fireside. To say that I would 
miss it very much would represent hardly 
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Wisconsin. 
Berlin, Green Lake.-We took the R. N.-Y. 
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We subscribe for it in connection with two 
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and when it doesn't eouie there are about five 
long faces at our house. We think we can’t 
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will be likely to get. The R. seeds did well 
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with one exception. Our soil is just right for 
them—u suudy loam—but such a mass of red, 
with very little foliage! I was greedy enough 
to plant all the seeds, and it did look wicked 
to see them going to waste; for though I gave 
away all I could, we could not use what was 
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