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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
more planted than usual and looking extra 
well. Grass, never was better. Corn, oats 
rye and lmrley, merely forage crops. Roots 
not largely planted. Prospect for small fruit 
very good. Apples, about an average. Peas 
look very nice. Strawberries. good. Farm¬ 
ing is not carried on largely here; of the lar¬ 
gest farms not more than four or five acres are 
tilled. The rest grass. B. w. o. 
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MIDDLE STATES. 
New York. 
West Camp, Ulster Co.—Very little wheat 
grown in this section. Rye and oats looking 
fine, especially the former, which indicates a 
larger crop than for ypars past. Corn, al¬ 
though late, is good. Of these, about the 
same area cultivated as of late years. Hay is 
the staple crop in this section, and meadows 
look very fine and promise a large yield, if we 
have rain. Apples will be very scarce. 
Pears, plums, cherries and currants abundant. 
Strawberries largely grown here; promise a 
very large crop. Weather cool. e. f. y. 
Pennsylvania. 
Brookfield, Tioga Co.—W inter wheat the 
principal kind, spring wheat being a failure 
to a more or less extent in nearly every case. 
Corn has an average acreage, and promises a 
fair crop. Barley and potatoes about an 
average; potato bugs numerous. Oats in fine 
condition; area average. Grass is hurt by 
dry weather; will fall far short of the increase 
of last year. Fruit undoubtedly increased 
largely; there has been uo frost to injure it. 
Apples are set finely. w. a. p. 
New Jersey, 
Montclair, Essex Co.—About the usual 
area in corn and potatoes, but condition about 
two weeks late. Hay, light; pastures failing. 
Everything suffering for wantof rain Straw¬ 
berries, from little or nothing on some rows to 
half a crop on others, and failing fast; wilt¬ 
ing daily. Grapes, raspberries and pears pro¬ 
mise fairly well, K, w. 
Delaware. 
Felton, Kent Co.—The area of wheat is 
about the same as of late years, and will prob¬ 
ably have an average yield. Corn and oats 
fully up to an average. More rye than usual. 
Potatoes, grass, etc., up to an average. Have 
had n very good crop of strawberries and 
raspberries. Sweat potatoes and watermelons 
a greater area, and doing well. The peach 
prospect will compare favorably with the last 
two years. Apple crop a little bit lighter 
than last year. A very good showing for 
grapes. In fact we have a good prospect for 
all kinds of fruit, vegetablesand grain. J.W.K. 
Maryland. 
Annapolis, Aune Arundel Co.—Areas of 
wheat, corn, oats and tobacco as usual. Wheat 
about half ; corn, oats and tobacco looking 
well. Roots, little raised. Potatoes an aver¬ 
age crop. Clover was much killed last Win¬ 
ter by frost.. The peach crop promises two- 
thirds of a crop. Berry crop light. j. b. 
Dorsey's, Howard Co,—Wheat acreage as 
compared with previous years, from one-half 
to one-third smaller; general yield is from 15 
to 45 bushels; this year’s yield will be from 5 
to 20. Every thing backward. Corn looking 
well; acreage is larger. More oats than form¬ 
erly. Strawberries, one of our staples, short 
one-half. Fruit trees are well filled, but. are 
suffering terribly from the 17-year locusts. 
The early grasses are being cut, with a short 
crop. Timothy is looking better. Peas short 
one-half. c, s. 
SOUTHERN STATES. 
Vlr*lnlu. 
Abingdon, Washington Co.—Wheat a fail¬ 
ure, not more than a fourth of a crop. A 
portion of wheat area sown to oats and plant¬ 
ed to corn. Oats a good prospect; usual area 
sown. Corn a fine prospect, iu good condi¬ 
tion; u large crop planted fully one-fourth to 
one-third more than usual, Grass good. 
Potatoes and all vegetables good. Apples a 
fair crop. Peaches not a full crop. Bmall 
fruits, good prospects. A good crop of tobac¬ 
co being planted. Pasture good. w. Q. k. 
CkntkuCross, Essex Co.—Wheat crop badly 
winter-killed; loss seeded than usual; yield 
will not exceed 40 per cent, of crop in 1884. 
Corn, not looking well as the season is back¬ 
ward. Oats, good; these are the staple crops. 
Prospect of all sorts of fruit good. G. w, D. 
Nortli Carolina. 
Fayetteville. Cumberland Co.—Area of 
ordinary crops as usual. Maiu crops, cotton 
and corn. Other crops grown in about the fol¬ 
lowing order: wheat, oats, cow-peas, sweet 
potatoes and rye. Tobacco culture just being 
introduced. The condition of all above-named 
rops quite ns good as the average. No grass 
is planted. Hay is gathered quite extensively 
from native grass inferior in quality. Straw¬ 
berries, 75 ; raspberries, 125 ; peaches, 125 ; 
apples. 100; pears, 100; plums. 100; grapes, 
100. Frequent mins have caused grapes and 
early peaches to rot considerably. J. s. B. 
Greenville, Pitt Co.—Crops will compare 
favorably, both as to area and condition, with 
the average of late years. Cotton is the prin¬ 
cipal crop; hurt by rain, but will come out 
all right. Fruit prospect good. l. c. U 
Mkbanks, Alamance Co.—About through 
cutting wheat; one-third of a crop. Weather 
drv. Corn looks very bad. Plenty of peaches, 
apples and cherries, but not as large crops as 
wo had last year. Irish potatoes doing well. 
Tobacco beginning to grow very nicely. 
W. A. M. 
Mooresvillk, Iredell Co.—Compared with 
the throe last years, the area in wheat is about 
90 per cent, of an average; condition 85 per 
cent. Com fully up or above in area and 
condition. Oats 75 per cent, area; condition 
100. Potatoes 100 per cent. Grass and clover 
100. Garden crops fully 100, Cotton 25 per 
cent, above jn area and condition. Tobacco 
slight increase in area. Fruit prospects fully 
100 per cent.. The season has been good for 
all growing crops. w. h. b. 
Nashvtlle, Nash, Co, — Wheat crop very 
poor. Same of oat crop. Little rye and uo 
barley. Corn, cotton and tobacco good, 
the latter extra, but the worms have of late 
made their appearance in uuusually large 
numbers. Little grass, but very good. Irish 
potatoes sown. Sweet potatoes promise well 
so far. Little sorghum. Apples and peach 
cropsgood,especially the peach. Garden crops 
late, but promising. Our principal crops for 
market are cotton and tobacco a good stand 
of both. Wheat aud oats a failure. 
n. w. B. 
Weaverville, Buncombe Co. — Wheat 
smaller acreage, and probable yield 50 per 
cent, under yield of last year. Corn and oats 
acreage larger and crops above last year. 
Potatoes, roots, etc., fair. Tohacco acreage 
very much larger, and outlook fine. Sorg¬ 
hum good. E. f. v. 
South Carolina. 
Aiken, Aiken Co.—Cotton a good stand, 
but later than usual. Corn promising. Oats 
were badly winter-killed. Early varieties of 
peaches have suffered from rot, later kinds 
look better. Grapes not very promising. 
J. H. B. 
Fork Shoals, Greenville Co.—Good rains 
this month. Cottou, corn, peas, etc., in fine 
growing condition, except where overrun 
with grass. Acreage in corn and peas larger 
than in 1883 or ’84. Oats about one-fourth of 
a crop. Wheat one-half. Potatoes look well. 
Fruit crop very light. o. w. s. Jr. 
Hilton Head. Beaufort Co.—The condition 
of crops, as compared with an average yield, 
is cotton 100 per cent; rice, 75; sugar-cme 
80; sweet potatoes, 80; Irish potatoes, 75; 
peaches, 100: small fruits, 75. Grapes are 
doing very well. The prospects are for more 
than average crops of cotton and corn. Irish 
potatoes are all harvested, were small. 
Georgia.. 
Ascalon, Walker Co.—Acreaee, corn 102 
per cent, of an average. Oat, 90. Wheat, 
95. Cotton, 101. Sorghum, 106. Clover and 
cultivated grasses 101. Condition and pros¬ 
pect compared to an average: Wheat, 70. Cot¬ 
ton, 98. Fruit.the per cent, of a full crop that 
has escaped frost is 90. Stock of all kinds 
are generally reported in healthy condition. 
Tho range for stock is unsurpassed. Farming 
is yet in a primitive condition. The crops are 
mainly corn, oats, rye; no wheat, or cotton; 
sorghum, millet, sweet and Irish potatoes; the 
Peaehblow is the money crop. Apples are a 
sure and excellent crop. Pear*, plums and 
cherries are uot quite reliable. All berries 
do remarkably well. Grapes are less affected 
by fuugoids than in lower localities. In this 
section the prospects for field and orchard 
were never better. C. L. h. 
Calhoun, Gordon Co.—Wheat and oat, 
winter-killed; about two-fifths of a crop. 
Rye aud barley good, but little grown. Pota¬ 
toes, Irish, 10 per cent increuso; condition 
good; sweet, average acreage; good. Clover 
and grass about 25 per cent, short, from dry 
weather iu April and May. Gardens looking 
fine; increased interest. About five per cent, 
increase in acreage of cotton; looking well, 
but a little late. Fruit unusually line, espe¬ 
cially peaches. b. m. h. 
Louisiana. 
Greenwood, Caddo Parish.—Cotton is the 
main crop; area same as past three years; 
condition good—40 per cent, better than aver¬ 
age; 60 per cent, better than last year. Corn 
80 per cent, better than last year; area same 
as late years,which is about one-fourth of the 
entire area of crops planted. Oats good. 
Fruit grown only for home use; average crop. 
Hands working well, and farmers hopeful. 
R. M. 
Fort Necessity, Franklin Par.— Cotton 
and corn are the chief products here; both 
better than for some years. A.pples and 
peaches much better than usual; no small 
fruits raised. Area of cotton It) per cent, 
greater than last. Prospect very fair for a 
crop. Corn not doing so well. j. l. m. 
Ramsay. Vermillion Par.—We grow only 
corn, cottou, rice and sugar-cane as crops 
here, as we are on the Gulf, latitude 29 deg. 
48 min., and too far South for any other crop. 
We plant oats for hay, bnt this year, on ac¬ 
count of the cold Spring, it headed out finely, 
as also did a few stocks of wheat. The corn 
crop has nearly all been laid by and, if we get 
rains, will make an average crop—not a good 
stand on account of cut-worms; general aver¬ 
age fr un 18 to 20 bushels per acre. Cotton is a 
month backward, but is a good stand; no 
sign of worms yet, general average one-third 
to one-half bale per acre. Cane is a month 
backward on account of cold Spring, but both 
plant and stubble make a fine stand, and all 
free of grass. Peach, fig and orange crops 
will be very good. c. e. s. 
Thibodaux, La Fourche Parish.—Putting 
100 as representing an average crop: Corn 
area 150: condition 85. Cane plant 125; 
stubble 90. Oats area 125; condition 125. 
Irish potatoes, area 100; condition 125. Rice 
area 125; condition 100. Gardens much hurt 
by late Spring and by a late three-weeks’ 
drought. Prospects fer fruit crop good. 
L. O. 
Waukon, Allamakee Co.— Winter wheat 
and rye more than an average; other small 
grains very fair. Corn late; some frosted con¬ 
siderably. Potatoes good. Cabbage and 
small roots badly damaged by a maggot-like 
insect. Grass very heavy. Very little sorgh¬ 
um raised. Small fruits badly winter-killed. 
Apple trees nearly all ruined last Winter. 
_ J. F. P. 
Florida. 
Milton, Santa Rosa Co.— I suppose there 
are about 2,000 acres in cultivation out of the 
806,500 acres in this county. About one half, 
of that is planted in corn, the rest in oats, 
rice, potatoes, sugar cane and vegetables. 
The yield of corn per acre—when fertilized— 
is 25 to 50 bushels. Rice about the same per 
acre as corn. The rust-proof oat is quite a 
success as a crop, yielding from 10 to 12 
bushels peraere without fertilization. Cotton 
and tobacco do well. Peas and peanuts grow 
finely. Potatoes will yield from 100 to 200 
bushels per acre. Peaches, pears,apples. quin¬ 
ces and figs do well. Strawberries can be 
growu to profit. Broooi-com grows well. 
Almost all kinds of grapes do well; especially 
the Scuppemong. The climate and pasturage 
are adapted to the raising of cattle, sheep and 
goats. Nearly all kinds of domestic fowls are 
raised in abundance. D. T. 
Alabama. 
Malloy’s, Shelby Co.—We have just har¬ 
vested the best crop of wheat we have had 
for 10 years, both as regards quality and 
quantity. No rust or smut—an unusual thing 
for us. Corn, present outlook very promis¬ 
ing for good yield; area planted to this crop 
unusually large. Oats, very fine, but early 
sowings nearlv all winter-killed, and area 
somewhat diminished. Rye good, very little 
planted. No barley. Irish potatoes very 
good. Don’t grow them for market. Sweet 
potatoes promise to be fine; au important 
crop with us; now putting out slips. Gardeu 
crops on a boom. Evcrthing plentiful and 
fine. “Johnson," alias "Guinea,”botanically 
‘‘8orghutn halapense,” is our principal culti¬ 
vated hay gross—verv good. Cotton, our 
money crop, though late—at least three to 
four weeks—is looking unusually well. The 
stand was never better and the fields are be- 
iug cleared of grass and weeds. Area con¬ 
siderably increased. Wild blackberries and 
peaches are very good or promise to be so. 
J. L. w. 
Salem, Lee Co.—Corn—area larger than 
last year, and prospect for a good crop. Oats 
falliug off 50 per cent, as to an average crop. 
Wheat, very good, but small. Cotton, too 
muchraiu; large weeds,and to some an appear¬ 
ance of a large crop, but no fruit is put on 
when going so much to weeds, and no sign 
of a big crop. Peaches are rotting badly, 
especially early varieties, and will be almost 
a failure. Large amouut on trees, j. n. h. 
Mississippi, 
Belmont, Tishomingo Co.—Corn, increased 
acreage, though late; prospect is most en¬ 
couraging. Oats increased area, damaged by 
drought. Potatoes and grasses good. The 
prospect for cotton better than for several 
years. Tobacco good, increased area. Broom- 
corn good. I Sorghum increased area; pros¬ 
pect good. The prospect of apples half a 
crop. Peaches extra fine. Plums good. 
Pears half a crop. a. j. b. 
Texas. 
BEEvrLLE, Bee Co.—Corn about 20 per 
cent, more; condition over an average. Irish 
potatoes best crop ever known. Gardens very 
fine. Cotton very little planted. Sorghum 
300 per cent more than ever before, and doing 
finely. Peaches and plums are all the fruits 
worth mention; good crops. Johnson Grass, 
German Millet and sorgham for hay; there 
will be five times as much made iu the county 
as was ever known. a. c. 
Bernardo Prairie, Colorado Co.—The 
main crops here raised are corn and cotton, 
and depend very much on the weather; if we 
don’t get very soon a sufficient rain, the corn 
crop will be a very light one,other wise as good 
a one as last year. Cotton also needs a rain, it 
has a bad stand and is behind. The grass 
looks well and i3 plentiful. All the garden 
crops have been splendid. Peaches plenty: 
more than many years before. The early 
sorts are gone already. Vineyards not set 
well. Oats and potatoes good. j. j. 
Circlev'ille, Williamson Co.—Wheat 50 
per cent, increase in acreage, compared with 
last three or four years. Oats, rye, barley 
about as heretofore, Small grain never was 
better. Corn 25 per cent, increase in acreage; 
with a rain in 10 days, an abundance will be 
raised. Potatoes and other roots just about 
as heretofore. Grasses, wild and cultivated, 
unusually good. Peaches and plums good. 
J. N. MCF. 
Cleburne, Johnson Co.— A full crop of 
wheat, oats, millet, etc., planted, with an 
extraordinary yield. Corn good average. 
Cotton almost destroyed by Webb worms. 
Some are planting again. We will have full 
crop of fruit. Season good to date. 
* W. D. c. 
Denison, Grayson Co.—The North Texas 
early peach crop, which was unusually heavy, 
is now harvested, but the express companies 
and commission-men have all the money that 
it has been sold for. Later peaches very 
promising, and from them we hope to realize 
something. j, 
Dever’s Woods, Liberty Co.—No wheat, 
rye, or barley grown here. Oat crop fair. 
Corn nearly matured and a good crop. Con¬ 
dition of cotton very promising. Irish pota¬ 
toes have yielded well, and sweet potatoes 
promise an abundant crop. Grass and garden 
crops, good. Peaches, plums, figs and grapes 
abundant. Acreage of field crops about the 
same as in previous years, except cotton, in 
which there is an increase of perhaps 20 per 
cent. s. l. 
Forney, Kaufman Co.—Season is two weeks 
late, the area in cultivation is in excess of last 
year; cotton about the same as iu 1S84; the 
excess is taken up in corn, oats, barley, sor¬ 
ghum ; all ure looking well. Wheat about all 
cut and an extra yield. Oats will turn out SO 
bushels to the acre. Wheat about 30 bushels— 
above the average past years. Fruit crops 
better than ever before. We commenced 
shipping June 1st to the Wide West and Mex¬ 
ico. Vineyards doing splendidly. N. s. 
Leon Springs, Boxar Co.—Area of wheat 
largely reduced; condition good. Area of 
corn largely increased; condition good. Area 
of cotton largely increased; condition back¬ 
ward. Area of oats as usual; condition No. 
1. Area of sorghum as usual; condition good. 
Grass better than for several years. Peaches, 
almost our only fruit; promising an extra 
good crop. _ L. D. h 
Arkansas. 
Arkadelphia, Clark Co.—Cottou. corn and 
oats are the principal field crops in this section. 
The average yield will be about same as last 
year. Sorghum an increase of 10 per cent. 
Prospect of peaches never better. Straw¬ 
berries, raspberries and blackberries over an 
average. Acreage double wbatt it was last 
y e *r. V. MCG. 
Elgin, Jackson Co.—Cottou late on account 
of the cut-worms; the pests cut up about all 
of that first planted, and it is all badly in the 
grass; but if it is cleaned, the prospect Is good 
for a full crop. Corn and fruits will be a full 
average. Potatoes and melons ditto, j. b. s. 
Fort Smith, Sebastian Co.—Compared with 
last year’s crop, cottou has a larger area; but 
is late owing to the cold Spring. Corn, an 
average acreage; outlook fine. Great falling 
off in wheat area—much winter killed. Oats 
have smaller ears than last year, being in¬ 
jured by the cold Spriug; look flue. Increase 
in grass area. Fruit abundant. * * * 
Little Rook, Pulaski Co. — The special 
crops of Arkansas are fruit and cottou. Cot¬ 
ton is king yet. There will be big crops of 
peaches, apples, plums, blackberries, huckle¬ 
berries and raspberries. There was a big crop 
of strawberries. Sweet potatoes are getting 
along fitly. AU kinds of mmry sleek are 
