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THE 80RAS. NEW-YORKER. 
of the seed failed to germinate. Apples, fair 
prospect; peaches, not so good. Small fruits 
mostly above the average. The lateness of 
Spring prevented early gardening and the 
present drought is cutting the vegetables 
short. J. H. s. 
Limestone, Marshall Co.—Tho wheat crop 
is very short; it will hardly yield the seed 
sown. v 'eadows are light and short; oats 
look well, but short; corn is short, for the 
time of year. There were lots of wheat fields 
plowed up this Spring and sown in oats and 
planted to corn and buckwheat. L. C. 
Little Georgetown. Berkeley Co.—We 
have about the usual acreage in wheat, but 
there will uot be more than half a crop. The 
usual area is iu corn; it is getting a good 
start. Oats, rye and barley are like the 
wheat, Potatoes and roots about as usual. 
Not half a crop of grass. The prospects for 
all kinds of fruit is good, excepting peaches. 
L. R. 
Lockhart’s Run, Wood Co.— Wheat nearly 
a failure, not more than five per ceDt. Most 
of the wheat grouud has been put iuto oats 
and corn. The acreage of oats is about double, 
and they look well. There is an unusually large 
crop of corn; at least a fourth more than 
usual, and never looked better. Grass is very 
poor. Peaches are a failure. Other fruits 
promise well. Fair crops of potatoes and 
vegetables are looked for. J. F. M. 
Short Creek, Brooke Co.—Wheat almost a 
failure. Corn, oats and barley very good. 
Pasture and berries good. Peaches none. 
Plums and apples below the average. J. B. 
Tannery, Preston Co.—Winter grain bad¬ 
ly frozen out. Potatoes grass and oats look¬ 
ing well. Corn looking fairly well, but late. 
Apples promise a full crop. Cherries, almost 
a failure. Small garden fruits not raised 
extensively in our neighborhood. J. T. 
Wkllsbuko, Brooke Co.—The wheat crop 
is an entire failure; most of it has been 
plowed under, aud oats sown. The prospects 
of corn and oats are above the average, both 
iu area and appearance. A large area of po¬ 
tatoes was planted, although seed was high 
and scarce. Meadows light, owing to 
drought. At best the fruit crop will be light. 
J. D, s, 
West, Wetzel Co.—Area of wheat about as 
usual, but there will not be more than one- 
third of a crop in this and some adjoining 
counties. Corn stand was never known to 
be more uniform, and it looks well. Gats, 
potatoes and grass will probably make full 
average crops, as tb6y look well and the 
weather is very favorable. Very few 
peaches, but apples will make an average 
crop. A tolerably good prospect for a tobac¬ 
co crop; the plants are yet small. Not half 
the usual quantity of sorghum is cultivated 
here that was 10 years ago. J. h. 
North Curoiina. 
Concord, Cabarrus Co.—Wheat is uotover 
half a crop as compared with last year; area 
about 90 per cent. Corn looking better than 
usual at this season; area large. Oats almost 
an entire failure. Rye, barley, potatoes aud 
root crops not much grown. Cotton is look¬ 
ing well; worked well; and a full area has 
been planted. Tobacco is being introduced 
1 his season for the first in our county. Know¬ 
ing ones say we have a splendid start, and 
with a fair season will make a good crop. 
Frait is not plentiful, although farmers are 
making a big effort for orchards. Straw¬ 
berries are being introduced for the first,with 
a good prospect of success. J. a . c . 
Goldsboro, Wayne Co.—Corn good; usual 
acreage. Cotton good where well worked; 
increased acreage. Oats, wheat and rye, not 
average crops. Sweet potatoes have nice 
prospects. Tobacco too small yet to tell 
much about; acreage small, but increasing, 
as crop promises to be profitable. Peas, beans 
and potatoes fair crops; but unprofitable this 
season; prices too low. Strawberries the 
same. Prospects for fruit good. T. B. p. 
Henderson, Granville Co.—Tobacco full 
crop; good stand. Cotton fair; stand aver¬ 
age. Good wheat; half crop. Oats, total 
failure. Rye fair crop. Corn, mediam crop. 
Fruits of all kinds, fair crops. J. mc’m. 
Highlands, Macon Co.—Wheat froze out; 
almost a total failure. Rye to a great degree 
as above—a very poor crop. Potatoes, roots, 
grass, and garden crops excellent. A little 
tobacco; its cultivation increasing. The same 
can be said of sorghum; we make nearly 
enough sirup for home consumption. Fruits 
promise an average crop, although many or¬ 
chards were iujured by frost. c. L, f, 
Scotland Neck, Halifax Co.—There is a 
slight increase in area of most crops. W^eat 
is half a crop. Owing to an unusually wet and 
cold May, all crops are a little backward. 
Prospect for corn, cotton and potatoes, good. 
Apples, half a crop. Peaches and pears al¬ 
most a failure; fruit drops off. A good grape 
country. i.m.s. 
Shore, Yadkin Co.—Wheat not more than 
two-thirds of usual crop. Corn crop grand, 
the earliest is now being laid by. Winter oats 
almost an entire failure. Spring oats are late 
and uot promising. Potatoes fine. Garden 
vegetables uousually good. Grass very short. 
Tobacco area the largest ever known. All 
kinds of fruit plentiful. Early peaches be¬ 
ginning to color, n. w. c. 
Woodsdalk, Person Co.—Com area usual 
acreage; condition average. Wheat, two- 
thirds of an average, very much mixed with 
cheat. Tobacco, an average area; stand 
good. Oats, area an average; two-thirds 
sown in Fall; two thirds of a stand; mixed 
with cheat: one-third sown in SpriDg, condi¬ 
tion good. Rye, a littlesown to be cut in Spring 
to feed stock: not good. Potatoes good. Grass 
but little sown. Fruit two-thirds of a full 
t. t. h. 
South Carolina. 
Cash's Depot, Chesterfield Co.—Wheat, 
corn, oats, rye and barley areas increased; 
condition medium, except oats, one-third 
acreage under; potatoes aud turnips increased 
and condition fair. No cultivated grass. 
Spontaneous grasses on low lands are fine 
where prepared. Cotton area increased and 
condition of plant an average. Field peas 
greatly on the increase. Fruit, where culti¬ 
vated, does well. G. w. c. 
James Island, Charleston Co.—Our crops 
here are Sea Island cotton and truck crops 
for Northern markets. Area of cotton very 
much reduced, as the low prices of last season 
offer no inducements to make a crop. Area 
of truck farming very much increased. The 
yield of truck this season has been fair, but 
markets have been so overstocked that not 
much profit has been realized; condition of 
cotton is only fair—not an average. J. r. 
Pendleton, Anderson Co.—Cotton a good 
stand and in good condition, 20 per cent, less 
area than last year. Small grain harvest in 
full blest; acreage same as last year. Oats, 
one-fourth of a crop. Wheat 00 per cent.; 
rye and barley but little planted; com badly 
damaged by cut-worms, and 10 days late. 
Whole townships have no peaches, and other 
spots have fair crops; apples a poor crop the 
county over. No small fruits worth men¬ 
tioning. Grapes good. J. c. s. 
Winnsboro, Fairfield Co.—Wheat, area 
80; condition 75. Corn, area 105; condition 
110. Oats, area 05; condition 00. Cotton, 
area 105; condition 110. Fruit badly injured 
by frosts. Wheat badly winter-killed. Oats 
a failure. Corn and cotton doing finely. 
J. M. s. 
Georgia. 
Americus, Sumter Co. — The area of 
wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, cotton and other 
field crops is fully up to the average. In yield 
the wheat, which is now harvested, is much 
above the average. Corn and oats are better 
than usual; early potatoes are cut short by 
drought, but late varieties are very fine. 
Garden crops good. Cotton lias been culti¬ 
vated so tar at less expense than for years, 
and is in much better condition. Peaches and 
melons promise large yields and fine quality. 
Large crops of sweet potatoes are now being 
planted under fine conditions. a. w. S. 
Atlanta Fulton Co. — Wheat outlook 85. 
Corn outlook 100. Oat outlook 105. Rye 
outlook 90. Barley outlook 70. Potato out¬ 
look 100. Root outlook 110. Grass outlook 
90. Garden crop outlook 110. Millet outlook 
100. Fruit outlook 105. m e. b. p. 
Augusta, Richmond Co.—Crops in general 
are doing well. The yield in grain will not 
be more than the averuge. Strawberries very 
short indeed, and they have not paid the 
raiser this year. All other fruits will be in 
large quantity. Peaches plenty in the mar¬ 
ket, and June lOtn were $1.40 per bushel. 
Watermelons said to be dropping. Corn 
already on the market. We have had no 
cabbage; the frost killed all, and the new ones 
are eaten by a fly or young caterpillar. Will be 
large crop of grapes. We have had good rains 
which make the crops grow; but what will be 
the result? Cherries in large quantity. 
L. M. 
Acworth, Cobb Co.—Wheat area 100; con¬ 
dition 70. Corn area 105; condition 100. Oat 
area 100; condition 100. Our principal crop 
here is cotton; usual area aud prospect good. 
Fruits of all kinds very promising. 
G.w. MCM. 
Cole City, Dade Co.—Wheat almost a 
failure. Corn very good; usual area and aver¬ 
age. Oats two-thirds of au average. Pota¬ 
toes an average. Garden crops good. Cot¬ 
ton, tobacco, broom-corn and sorghum uot 
much planted iu this section. Small fruits 
good. Apple and poach crops will be enor¬ 
mous. Melon crop looks well. Grass an 
average, except clover, which is short, caused 
by drought; and everything is about one 
month later than usual. The farmers are 
generally pretty well up with their work. 
Grapes look very well. Upon the whole, tho 
outlook is very good. k. h. d. 
Gaddistown, Union Co.—Wheat will not 
more than make the seed sown; rye ditto. 
Corn more than an average in area, much 
better than usual at this time. Potatoes bet¬ 
ter than an average; look well. Fruit all a 
good average, tame aud wild. Tobacco good. 
Garden vegetables not so good as usual. Cut¬ 
worms plenty. w. s. 
Macon. Bibb Co.—But little wheat is grown 
in this section, and barley and rye only for 
soiling and pasturing. About the usual area 
was sowed in oats. Crops all harvested and 
very light; not more than three-fifths of an 
average. Average area in corn and cotton. 
Coin never looked more promising. Cotton, 
when clean, looks well, but we are having a 
superabundance of rain and much of it is 
overgrown with grass. A week or two of 
dry, sunny weather are needed to get it in 
good condition. The prospect for a grass 
crop is good. Vegetables of all kinds are 
plentiful and cheap. Potatoes are a good 
yield and selling at $1 per bushel. Peach and 
plum trees are heavily loaded; peaches are 
rotting badly. Pears and apples, fair crops. 
Grapes very fiue, and as yet but little rot. 
Raspberries and blackberries are good crops. 
The strawberry crop was very short, owing 
to the severe drought of last Fall, which came 
very near destroying all the plants. D. M. 
Norwood, Warren Co.—Wheat 20 per cent, 
below an average. Oats a full average and 
acreage. Corn 20 to 15 days late and poor. Rye 
and barley are grown only in patches. Cotton 
a full crop; 15 days late and very grassy—too 
much rain. Fruits of all kinds very promis¬ 
ing, but very late. n. w. s. 
Louisiana. 
Jennings, Calcasieu Parish.—Our country 
is new; our colony (nearly all from Iowa) is 
only two years old. Rice, the principal 
small grain crop, both up land and low¬ 
land, looks very promising; yield, from 
10 to 20 barrels per acre; price per 
barred $3.50. Corn is a good stand, and 
large growth; average yield per acre, 80 bush; 
price $1 per bushel. Potatoes—Irish, two 
crops a year; first crop, being gathered; yield 
about 100 bushels per acre; price 75 cents a 
bushel. Sweet potatoes growing finely; this 
crop never fails; yield about 200 bushels per 
acre; price 30 cents per bushel. Oats are har¬ 
vested; average yield 35 bushels per acre; 
price 60 cents per bushel. Cotton, very prom¬ 
ising, yield seven eights of a bale per acre. 
Sugar (Louisiana Cane) hogshead per 
acre. Our prairies are covered, with a tine 
growth of nutritous native grasses. The best 
of these is the Gayzon. Thousands of head of 
cattle feed on our prairies the year around. 
This is the home of the peach; trees 40 years 
old yield full crops every year of large, lus¬ 
cious fruit. They commence bearing two 
years from the seed, aud are free from disease. 
Figs, same, only some varieties yield two 
crops each season. Pears, nectarines, apricots, 
Japan Persimmons, quinces and plums prom¬ 
ise a large yield. The Chassellas, Black Ham¬ 
burg, aud the California raisin grapes thrive 
particularly well in our parish. Bunches and 
berries, very large. Soil easily worked, sandy 
loam, clay sub-soil, especially adapted to the 
growth of .fruits which can be propagated 
from cuttings. k. k. s. 
Millhaven, Ouachita Parish—Cotton sup¬ 
posed to be king iu this section, consequently 
not much attention paid to ot her crops. Pros¬ 
pects have not been better for years at this 
season for cotton and corn. The acreage is 
about as usual. All kinds of fruit grown in 
this section are good; gardens ditto, a. e. m. 
New Iberia, Iberia Par.—Corn area larger 
than usual and the best promise for years. 
Oats few, but fine. Rye and barley, none. 
Potatoes abundaut. Cotton, not a large crop, 
but looks well. Corn small, but promisiug. 
Prospects for fruit very flattering. Wild 
fruit in abundance. All garden vegetables 
in large quantities. J. E. R. 
N. of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge 
Par.—Oats harvested; good to extra. Irish 
potatoes not half a crop, all complain of too 
much vine. Corn burning up for want of 
rain. Cotton late, but holding its own; caue 
not growing for want of rain. Peaches give 
good promise. Cattle suffering for water 
and short pasturage. B. G. B. 
Fort Jessup, Sabine Parish.—Wheat none. 
Corn,averuge. Oats good crop. Potatoes good, 
above an average. Beets and onions good. 
Grass, none. Gardens, fine. Cotton looks 
sorry, bare shank dying out; prospects poor. 
Not much tobacco raised, looks well. Broom 
corn very little planted. Sorghum and sugar¬ 
cane not doing well, owing to wet weather. 
Good crop of apples and peaches where raised. 
Not much attention given to fruita generally. 
Spring was cold and backward, rather wet. 
Pasturage good. R. A. F. 
St. Joseph, Tensas Par.—Cotton is about 
two or three weeks late, owing to the cold 
and backward Spring, but the stand is fine 
and the cultivation perfect. Corn will be a 
good crop owing to recent rains. Oats, for 
hay, will be a full crop. Gardens are fine. 
D. H. c. 
Florida. 
Boardman, Marion Co.—Corn and potatoes 
do very well. Tomatoes and cucumbers are 
special crops here; so are beaus, though rab¬ 
bits eat nearly one-half of the latter. Cotton 
does well, it is now blooming. Strawberries 
are in perfection. Egg-plants grow well. .t.h. 
Crescent City, Putnam Co.—Corn an 
average crop. Cotton and corn are giving 
way to orange groves. The latter crop is an 
average one in this vicinity, but reported 
light in the western part of the county. Other 
fruits about as usual. An unusually late 
season. I. N. 
Lloyd, Jefferson Ccl —Corn area the same 
as usual; prospect 20 per cent, better than for 
two years back. Oats grown to some extent 
for stock feed; harvest now progressing; yield 
10 per cent, under average. Rye but little 
grown; what there is, isgood Irish potatoes, 
acreage 75 per cent, less than usual; yield 
average; first shipments sold at 89 per barrel 
in New York; later barely paid expenses. 
Cotton, our grand crop, acreage slightly in¬ 
creased. Development of plant 10 days back¬ 
ward. Prospect of crop better than for 15 
years. F. b. t. 
Alabama. 
Athens, Limestone Co.— Owing to the 
drought last Fall, wheat was sown too late, 
and did not get a sufficient fall growth to 
stand the freezes of the last hard Winter, and 
many acres were plowed up this Spring and 
put iuto other crops; bur the quality of that 
left is good, and the yield will be fair. It is 
now being harvested. We have bad more 
rain than usual this month so far, and all 
crops are much in the grass. Apples, peaches, 
and all kinds of small fruits, both tame and 
wild, are more plentiful than usual. Irish 
and sweet potatoes now’ promise a big yield, 
and the acreage is nearly one-third greater 
than last year. All kiuds of grasses are good, 
but the wild grasses have the lead in acreage 
iu this country. The area in cotton is consid¬ 
erably less than last year; average condition, 
a trifle better. The increase in the area of 
corn, is twice the decrease of that in cotton; 
stand a good deal better than in 1884. Oats 
are still further ahead, aud much better. 
W. M. 
Germania, Calhoun Co.—The areas of 
wheat, oats, corn and cotton are fully equal 
to those of last year, and all, except wheat, 
are a far superior stand. Cottou is two 
weeks late. Some fine sorghum. All kinds 
of fruit excellent. c. f. g. 
Greenville, Butler Co.—In this sec¬ 
tion of the State our principal field crops are 
corn and cotton. The condition of these is 
good and the acreage above the average. 
The oat crop has the usual acreage and con¬ 
dition. The fruit prospects are good. 
J. O. R. 
Valley Head, DeKalb Co.—Wheat will 
probably make one third of usual crop. A 
great deal was killed by the frost. Oats about 
an average, but badly damaged by frost. Bar¬ 
ley very little sown. There seems to be more 
than usual energy displayed in putting iu 
corn, aud a greater area planted than usual, 
and the stand looks well. Irish and sweet 
potatoes about average crops. Rye about the 
average. Grass for hay is on tho increase, and 
there will he more hay made this year than 
formerly. Sorghum is also getting more than 
usual attention, aud there will be about 
double the average crop. Cotton about au 
average. Tobacco has enlarged its acreage. 
Fruit very plentiful; trees generally over¬ 
loaded. Gaidens well filled. w. G. t. 
Mississippi, 
Corinth, Alcorn Co.—Corn and cotton a 
little late, but, aside from that, prospects 
never better. Garden vegetables tine. Oats 
only moderate. Farmers at work aud in good 
spirits. s * D - °* 
Crystal Springs, Copiah Co.—Wheat, rye, 
barley aud tobacco are not planted; nor grass, 
except Johnson, Broom-Sedge and Bermuda. 
The last is the greatest curse that grows in 
this county. Laud set in it is worthless. The 
main crop for money is cottou. At this place 
there is much gardening for tho North. Crops 
poor. Fruit good. Have shipped my early 
peaches. Beason late. Corn and cotton small 
acreage, p. D. H. 
Grenada, Grenada Co.—Prospects of tine 
crops in this section are unusually encourag¬ 
ing. There is a largely increased acreage in 
corn, oats, cotton, millet, and other grains aud 
