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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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by odds the worst Winter since 1 came; it 
would pass very well fora Michigan Winter. 
Wheat is looking quite well; some few spots 
are winter-killed. I think this is a very good 
wheat country. It is the custom here to raise 
wheat on the same land year after year, and 
the last crop seems to be quite as good as the 
first, In 1S82 I raised off 115 acres 3,832 
bushels. I think we have a fiue country. Our 
peaches are all killed; but I think other fruits 
are safe; and, by the way, I think we have a 
very fine fruit country. j. j. 
Missouri. 
Bonanza., Caldwell Co,, March 3.—I think 
the Rural, New Yorker just splendid. Every 
department in my judgment is ably filled, and 
now that it is cut and pasted, and not, half 
finished, 1 like it better than ever. Every de¬ 
partment is interesting, but I appreciate the 
stock and especially the swine essays it con¬ 
tains, and of all its excellent features, there is 
none I prize more highly than that it is strictly 
a farmer’s paper, without any fictitious, sick¬ 
ening. sensational love stories continued from 
week to week. This has been one of the cold¬ 
est Winters in the memory of the oldest 
settler, though stock looks well: feed is abund- 
ant. Prices are low;—corn, 25 cents; hogs, 
$4.50; wheat, 65 cents to 75 cents; beef $4.00 
to $5.00. L. K. T. 
Oregon, 
Tangent, Linn Co., March 2.—Winter 
wheat and oats never looked better, and the 
danger from frost is over. Everything for- 
bodes an curly Spring The Crocus has been 
in full bloom for a week past; the wil i cur¬ 
rant is bursting into bloom, and in my opinion 
it is the most beautiful shrub that grows, and 
I was surprised that the Rural did not in¬ 
clude it among its list of hardy shrnbs, as it 
is perfectly hardy here. Our market for 
butter, eggs, etc., is demoralized. I think the 
low price of wheat has not sent the usual 
amount of coin into circulation, and that has 
spoiled the market for the by-products of the 
farm. Butter. 12 cents; eggs, 12 cents: pork, 
five cents; no sale for potatoes; wheat, 54 
cents; oats, 25 cents. So you see there is not 
much chance for a farmer to be spoiled by 
prosperity. Our Legislature has adjourned 
after a bitter contest over the election of 
U. S. Senator; no one has been elected. That 
is the first check the monied interest has 
had in this State. r. l. s. 
Tennessee, 
Graysville, Rhea Co., March 19.—I am 
living at a place called Brayton in Bledsoe 
County, five raiies from Graysville, a station 
on the Cm Sou. R. R , 36 miles north of Chat¬ 
tanooga. The soil is a mixed one—in some 
places it has a clay subsoil, and in others a 
sandy soil; but the land will produce well for 
a short time without any manure. All kinds 
of vegetables do well; but the Ridge is not the 
place to raise corn or small grains.for it freezes 
and thaws too much, but iu the valleys and 
along the river and streams they do well, but 
they can be raised but not for profit here. 
Fruit do»s splendidly and more pains are taken 
with orchards than with any one thing else. 
Hundreds of trees have been planted iu the 
last two years on i he Ridge. Health is one of 
the main things, and there is very little sick¬ 
ness here. Fevers and contagious diseases we 
know nothing about unless brought to the 
Ridge by some one who is ailing, and then the 
malady soou leaves him. The climate is fine 
in Summer; we ure never without a nice.cool 
breeze; but this Winter has been the coldest 
that I have seen in nme years. We have a 
Northern settlement of 25 families in this vi¬ 
cinity. Schools are not as good as one might 
wish; that is the only drawback that- we have, 
but that is a complaiut throughout the South. 
Land can be bought from $1.50 to $10.00 per 
acre, according to the improvements on it. 
J. T. 8. 
RURAL SEED REPORTS. 
Canada. 
Carlton, Out.—From the Rural seeds we 
had a lot of the finest tomatoes I ever raised. 
The peas grew nicely, but the chickeus took 
most of them; we saved a very fen' for seed. 
The Garden Treasures were beautiful, but the 
frost came so early that no seed ripened. The 
Black Champion Oats are too late for this 
climate. w, h. o. 
Belmont, Portage Co.—The Rural Peas 
grew very nicely, and I saved them all for seed. 
The coru grew big but was rather late for 
this place; my own corn was 10 days earl^r. 
The tomatoes were flue: nothing could be 
better. The Champion Oats grew high, but 
rusted so badly that they did not ripen enough, 
still after 1 cut them they were stoleu from 
me. 1 traced them up and found them a mile 
from home, ami all the good heads had been 
thrashed. The Garden Treasures were thought 
very_much.of among.the women folks, j. y. 
§mplments and 
ROBINSON ifc CO., Richmond. Ind., 
Build Traction and Portable Engines. Threshers, Saw 
Mills, etc. Circulars free. Agents wanted. 
IF YOU DOUBT, TRY IT AND SEE. 
D. M. Dewey, of Rochester, N. Y , Jan. 
25. 1882, wrote, “One of the most prominent 
physicians here found 22 grains of sugar to 
the fluid ounce of my urine; was unable to 
benefit me. I then began using Warner’s 
Safe Diabetes Cure, and W arner’s S.yfe Hits 
Having used five bottles of each, I found my¬ 
self cured." N B.—Mr. Dewey remains well. 
“O, SUFFERING WOMAN!” 
C. F B. Haskell (formerly of Vernon, 
Vt.), now locuting engineer on the BCR 
and N Railroad, Dakota, stated in 1883, that 
his wife was utterly prostrated with nervous 
difficulties, and did not seem to be amenable 
to physicians’ remedies She could not sleep, 
trembled like a leaf, periodically lost her 
reasou. They then began the use of Warner’s 
Safe Cure. Writing in July, 1884, from 
Dakota, Mr. Haskell says, “My wife has never 
seen the slightest inclination of ft return of 
the difficulties Warner's Safe Cure removed." 
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Our profits in 1S84 were about six 
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rangiug iu size from the head of a pin to a 
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