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Millet and Hungarian largely sown, and look 
splendid. The hard Winter of the pa3t has 
taught many a lesson that will not be lost- 
one being to provide more bay for stock. 
Many sheep are kept bare, and to see the dead 
carcasses around the straw stacks last Spring 
one would think sheep were not worth winter¬ 
ing; 270 were sold last week for 50 cents a 
head—good, fair, well-graded stock, SO or 00 
good three-year-old wethers among them, 
and 100 ewes, and only 35 lambs. d. v. n. 
Brown's Grove, Pawnee Co.—Wheat area 
oue-tenth of last year’s; the yield will be one- 
tenth of usual average. Rye good; not much 
sown. Corn very large area; present pros¬ 
pects very good. Oats and barley will be 
short stemmed and very light. Potatoes a fair 
prospect. Root crops are not grown in this 
regiou for feed. But very little tame fruit. 
Plums a big crop. Broom-corn and sorghum 
will be average crops. I. n. 
Cawkkr City, Mitchell Co.—Oats poor; 
about half as much as last year’s crop, owing 
to dry weather for the past mouth. Rains 
within the past four days may help wheat. 
Rye is good, and corn looks well. Potatoes 
look well. Wild grass is used for hay; but 
little clover or tame grass, end little broom- 
corn or sorghum. Gardens look well. Late 
strawberries spoiled by dry weather; early 
ones did well. Raspberries, gooseberries, 
black currants and cherries promise to be 
good. Peaches a failure, the trees being badly 
winter killed. Grape-vines were much in¬ 
jured by the severe Winter. Wheat will be 
light; perhaps half a crop; shortage caused 
by drought, and we hear of some reports of 
trouble with the Hessian fly. e. s. w. 
13 8 PORI A., Lyon Co.—Wheat will be 40 to 50 
percent, short. Prospect for corn not good; 
many haviug failed to get a stand are planting 
yet. Oats a full average in acresand prospec¬ 
tive yield. Millet and Hungarian are our 
principal grasses; more will be sown on ac- 
couutof failure of wheat. Corn generally good. 
Fruit of all kinds, except peaches, will be 
above average. o. d. h. 
Hazklton, Barber Co.—Wheat area this 
year more than five times greater than ever 
before, as the country has been settled but 
two years. Crop just being harvested and is 
as flue as I ever saw, variously estimated at 
from 25 to 45 bushels to the acre. Corn, oats, 
rye and potatoes about the same proportion, 
and all have prospects of bountiful crops at 
present. Clover and tame grasses, where 
sowed this Spring, look well. Sorghum does 
remarkably well and is raised largely for fod¬ 
der. Cotton matures fully here, as does also 
broom-corn. An excellent fruit country. 
Peaches make full crops every year. 
L. G. p. 
Holton, Jackson Co.—Wheat area not half 
crop; about 75 per cent, plowed up and put in 
corn. Corn a little backward; about three- 
fourths of the lields hud to be planted two or 
three times. Oats, nothing extra. Potatoes, 
grass und other crops look w ell. Tobacco aud 
sorghum do well, but very little raised; noue 
for market. Pruits of all kinds,except peaches, 
promise good crops, h. h. 
Humboldt, Allen Co.—Wheat area, 60 per 
cent.; condition, 25 per cent, decrease per 
acre. Corn area, 250 per cent.; backward on 
account of wet. Oats area, UK) percent ; con¬ 
dition, 25 per cent increase. Rye area, 200 
per cent.; condition, 25 per ceut, decrease. 
Barley area, 300 per ceut; experimental, but 
promises well; third year. Potatoes, area, 
100 per cent., condition 100 per cent. Gross, 
wild, 100 per cent.; condition 200 per cent, 
Grass, cultivated, area, 300 per cent.; con¬ 
dition 100 per cent. Flax area, 100 per ceut.; 
condition, 100 per ceut. Broom-eoru is usu¬ 
ally u heavy crop, but, owing to the unusually 
low price last year, the acreage will be re¬ 
duced 25 per cent., with fair prospects for a 
good crop. Sorghum area 100 per cent.; con- 
diton 100 per cent. Castor beans urea 300 
per cent.; condition. 200 per ceut. Pea ches 
none. Apples, prospects of an abundant crop. 
Strawberries, gooseberries, aud raspberries 
splendid. J. A. 
Kirwin, Phillips Co.—Winter wheat area 
about 50 per ceut. of uu uverage, aud a good 
share of that plowed up and planted to spring 
crops; outlook very poor. Oats, large acre¬ 
age sown, but badly damaged by hot weather. 
Rye, small area sown, and generally light and 
thin on the ground; is now tilling; a lino rain 
helps it much, Barley seems to have been 
more generally sown than usual. Some fields 
look well, but the crop does not promise to be 
heavy. Potato area not as great as usual: 
late, but looking fair to good. Our late cold 
Spring set the corn crop back, though in some 
fields, planted in April, the stand stretches up 
waist-high. More corn planted this year than 
ever before—double the area of last year. 
Root crops scarce. Peach trees all killed or 
badly injured by the hard Wiuter. Goose¬ 
berries good. Grapes promise to be good. 
More fruit trees have been set out this Spriug 
han ever before. w. w. C, i 
Nebraska. 
Ashland, Saunders Co.—Not more than 
one tenth the usual amount of wheat is raised; 
mostly spring wheat; prospects of this year’s 
crop very unfavorable. Corn looks favor¬ 
able. Oats more promising than last year. 
Rye looks well. Potatoes look promising. 
Grass, main dependence is on native, but each 
year shows an increase of area of the tame 
grasses. The fruit trees are for most part yet 
too youug for fruit, but some orchards have 
come into bearing and of flue promise. Quality 
superior. c. 8. 
Cedar Rapids, Boone Co.—A third less 
wheat sown here this Spring than for two or 
three years past. It is heading and promises 
a heavy yield. Usual area of oats; a very 
heavy growth. A larger acreage in corn 
than ever before; looking the best I ever saw 
at this time of the year. But little Timothy 
and clover grown here yet. I have a piece 
that looks splendid. Potatoes and garden 
crops good. w. H. R. 
Central Citv, Merrie Co.—Spring wheat, 
oats, corn, rye, barley, broom-corn, flax, mil¬ 
let, etc., are raised. All are looking well and 
promise a full average yield. All kinds of 
small fruit yield well; also apples, plums, 
cherries aud apricots. Vegetables of all kinds 
do well. H. C. P. 
ExETKR.Fillmore Co.—Wheat acreage about 
one sixth less than an average: condition 
about an average. Oats, about an average 
in area and condit ion. Rye,area one-third less; 
condition good. Barley, very little sown. 
Corn, acreage one-fourth more and better 
stand than for last two years. Potatoes, area 
about an average; condition good. Three- 
fourths more grass sown than before. Fruit 
very nearly a failure, except grapes; prospect 
for a full crop. l. l 
Fremont, Dodge Co.—Area of wheat, oats 
aud rye largely increased over the average. 
All small grains looking remarkably well. 
Corn about as usual in area and condition. 
Area of potatoes somewhat increased aud 
looking well. But few root crops raised. 
Much more attention than usual is being paid 
to tame grasses. Timothy, clover and Red 
Top are principally sown, with here and there 
more valuable mixtures, with Orchard Grass 
as a basis. There promises to be a heavy crop 
of prairie hay. Not as mucb sorghum as 
usual has been put in. The first attempt to 
raise a large crop of tobacco is being made 
this year, 10 acres having been set out within 
uioe miles of this place. Fruit, which prom¬ 
ised well in early Spring, has been very badly 
damaged by a late frost, and we hear of a few 
orchards where the trees seem to be dying. 
E. E. K. 
Fullerton, Nance Co.—Crops of ull kiuds 
look well and promise a large yield. Area of 
corn about the average. Wheat aud oats 
about the same. No fruits iu this vicinity, 
the country being too new. Stock of all 
kiuds is healthy and doing well. Pleuty of 
rain has given us an excellent stand of grass. 
A. F. K. 
Homer, Dakota Co.—Acreage of wheat aud 
oats is 15 per ceut. greater thau last year, and 
looking well. Corn area is greater than in 
former years; looking well, but backward. 
The acreage of potatoes and rye about as 
usual; condition fair. Potato bugs terrible- 
Grass, usual area, looking tine. Fruit is very 
promising. f. l. d. 
Macon, Franklin Co.—The area of wheat, 
oats and corn is more than last year, ltyo not 
so mucb. Barley and potatoes about the same; 
the condition same as of late years. Not 
much fruit, yet what there is, is fine. Wild 
grass is good; not much tame grass j et. w.u.u. 
Dakota. 
Bathgate, Pembina Co.—The area of 
wheat iu this county is probably one-third 
larger thau last year; put in, iu much better 
shape, and looking exceeding well. No corn 
of auy consequence. Oats, barley, potatoes, 
and vegetables generally do very well; but 
are not much raised for export. Wild prairie 
hay has been amply sufficient, so far, for fod¬ 
der, and little attention is paid to tame grasses. 
There are no special crops unless some slight 
attention to tlax, and no fruit except native 
such as plums, cranberries, currants, etc. 
R. l. 
Beaver, Miner Co.—Wheat, corn, rye, bar¬ 
ley, potatoes, roots, grass, and other field and 
garden crops looking very well, with the ex¬ 
ception of oats. Borne fields are devastated 
by heavy winds, hail, aud floods of rain. A 
larger acreage of corn aud double of flax. 
Wheat about the same. K. n. b. 
Grand Rapids, La Moure Co. — Wheat, 
oats aud barley looking better than for a 
number of years; larger area. Peas not much 
sown. Considerable flax sown, aud it looks 
goods. Potatoes good. A frost on the 3th aud 
9th of July hurt garden stuffs, but they are 
coming along again. Corn is doing nicely, 
but not much sown. w. j. r. 
Ipswich, Edmunds Co.—Wheat, as com¬ 
pared with last year, 200. Oats, 225. Corn, 
90. Wheat promises easily 30, probably 35, 
bushels per acre; oats 70 to 90, but the con¬ 
tinual rains and mists make a little danger 
from rust, if it should suddenly turn warm. 
c. F. c. 
Theodore, Walworth Co.—Spring wheat, 
oats and flax, the staple crops in this section, 
more than twice the acreage of last season; 
appearance of an abundant harvest. Sod 
corn is all that is put in here, as this is a new 
country, only two years since the first settlers 
came in. No fruit, only what grows wild 
along the banks of the Big Muddy, g. c. 8. 
Watertown, Codington Co.—This county 
was an unbroken prairie six years ago, so 
that the area increased very fast. I will call 
1U0 for good. Wheat area 125; condition 
110 per cent. Corn, area 100; condition, 85. 
Oats area, 125; condition 100. Rye none to 
speak of. Barley, area 150; condition, 115. 
Potatoes, area 125: condition S5. Roots, area 
about 100. Grass, wild, 100; tame, area, 150; 
condition 100. Flax area 125; condition 115. 
W hat fruit we have, such as crab apples, cur¬ 
rants, raspberries, strawberries, and goose¬ 
berries, are looking well, G. w. c. 
Yankton, Yankton Co.—The acreage of 
wheat is about the same as last year, with 
prospects of much larger average yield. The 
acreage of corn is something larger, with 
prospeet of a better average than last year. 
Oats, acreage about the same. The acreage 
of potatoes is not quite as large, with pros¬ 
pects of a very large yield. Small fruits never 
better. w. f, k. 
California. 
Antioch, Contra Costa Co.—Area of fol¬ 
lowing crops about an average. Wheat, con¬ 
dition one-fourth. Barley, condition one- 
fourth. Potatoes, condition two-thirds. Roots, 
condition two-thirds. Grass and other field 
aud garden crops, condition one-th ird. Peaches 
good. Apricots, condition one-half. Grapes, 
condition three-fourths. Apples, pears, and 
plums, condition one-half. This ls one of our 
dry seasons; hence the falling off. M. c. P. 
Carpentshia, Santa Barbara Co.—Season 
dry, all kinds of grain crops light. Hay light, 
but of fine quality. Main crops this year are 
beans, flax aud corn. More acreage in small 
beans, flax and corn than last year. Not as 
many acres of Lima beaus planted. Too early 
for a fair estimate of crops. Much depends 
on the weather, but present indications not 
most favorable. Some kinds of fruit very 
plenty, especially apricots, which are being 
delivered to the driers at $20 per ton, or one 
cent per pound. Plums and peaches scarce. 
o. n. c. 
Newcastle, Placer Co.—This is a great 
fruit growing section. An area of about six 
miles square here grows the most and best 
fruit iu the county; peaches, pears, plums, 
apricots, cherries, oranges, grapes, and all 
kinds of berries, and, in fact, all kinds of fruit 
are grown here and increasing every year. 
Wheat, corn, barley, oats, etc., are raised only 
for home use. r. n. p. 
WiLLirs, Mendocino Co, — Small grain 
about two-thirds of a crop. Potatoes, fruits, 
etc., very small crops on account of frost. 
The weather is very cool and damp, greatly 
favoring crops, which will be much better 
than anticipated. w. a. b. 
Colorado. 
Denver, Arapahoe Co.—This section is de¬ 
voted to vegetable raising; area of gardens 
larger than last year; condition and prospect 
good. Appearances of berries in early Spring 
were gloomy, but there is to be a large crop. 
Strawberries are 10 cents per quart box; best, 
12} a ' to 15 cents; at 10 cents a box there is no 
profit in growing them. Raspberries, fair. 
Blackberries are one mass of bloom; it does not 
seem possible to ripen such a crop as promised 1 
Not mauy currants or gooseberries. No tree 
fruits—a large crop last year. For alfal fa huy 
the first crop cut will be a ton and a half 
per acre; we will probably' get three or four 
cuttings this seasou; worth #10 to #13 per ton. 
Land is worth #76 to #200 per acre, so we have 
to grow crops accordingly, near Denver. 
w. p. 
Hayden, Routt Co.—We have no raihoad 
or mill nearer than 115 miles; hence but little 
wheat is raised. Oats and barley 100 per 
cent, increase in area, and looking fine. Po¬ 
tatoes ditto. Our section is par ticularly adapt¬ 
ed to root crops of all kinds, which grow fine¬ 
ly and are of superior quality. No fruit tress 
in bearing yet; county only settled about 
four years. Altitude ;6,400 feet) too great for 
corn. We have the fittest grass country in the 
world. Cattle, the greatest industry. Thou¬ 
sands of elks, deer, and autelopes. Also 
plenty of bears and mountain lions. e. s. 
Nevada* 
Austin, Lander Co.—Crop prospect encour¬ 
aging. Wheat, oats, barley, Irish potatoes, 
roots, and native grass promise over an aver¬ 
age crop. Alfalfa is promising. Our Spring 
has been wet, cold and backward, but now the 
weather is warm. The ranges never were bet¬ 
ter in this section, and cattle and horses are 
basking by clear water in waving Bunch-grass 
and sunshine. No fruit. w. d. j. 
New Mexico, 
Kingston, Sierra Co.—Anew section as far 
as white men are concerned. This is at an ele¬ 
vation of 6,500 feet.aud will grow about what 
is grown in Virginia and Tennessee, On the 
Rio Grande, 25 to 100 miles, everything grows 
except tropical fruits and extreme Northern 
crops, as oats and potatoes. Peaches are now 
ripening, and with grapes and apples cannot 
be excelled. Whenever fruit trees are plant¬ 
ed here they do well. The cattle-men have 
the best of the country, and anyone wanting 
to farm must “nest” in where he can. One 
acre in 10,000 is under cultivation here. Two 
years ago only one in ltH 1,000. This year’s pro¬ 
duction will be no greater than last on ac¬ 
count of the Apache Indian raid. j. d. w. 
Montana. 
Etchetah, Custer Co.—This is a new and 
sparsely settled country, and the greater 
portion of the settlers are engaged in the stock 
business. Some of us, however, are doing 
what we can at farming. Wheat, oats, corn 
barley, potatoes and different kinds of roots, 
such as beets, carrots, etc., asalsomany kinds 
of garden vegetables, all do well. The areas 
are fully up to the areas and condition of any 
previous year. In spite of frost on May 7, and 
drought from then to June 4, we shall make 
about average crops. Alfalfa looks well, and 
it will be the best crop we can raise here for 
hay, as this is a very dry climate. Goose¬ 
berries, currants, etc., do well so far as tested, 
though on account of late frost, they will yield 
very little fruit this season. j. c. G. 
Idaho. 
Chalus, Custer Co.—The area of crops 
will average 25 per cent, over late years. 
Wheat, oats, rye, barley, potatoes, roots and 
grasses will yield 10 per cent, over late years. 
The prospects for fruit all over the Territory 
where fruit is grown, an average of late 
years. n. j. s. 
Indian Territory. 
Muscogee, Creek Nation.—Corn slight in¬ 
crease in area; condition average, but late on 
account of late wet Spring. Oats slight in¬ 
crease in area; condition above average. Po¬ 
tatoes average condition and area. Grass 
average area; condition never better. Cot¬ 
ton slight increase in area. The past 10 days 
a worm resembling the grape-leaf folder, un¬ 
known here before, has been destroying whole 
fields. Fruits of all kinds promise a full crop. 
_ M. C. M. 
Washington Territory. 
Dixie, Walla Walla Co.—Wheat acreage 
90; prospect 110. Oats and barley acreage 
115; prospect 120. Corn acreage 100; prospect 
70. Very little rye, about the same area as 
last year. Potato area 60; prospect 120. Grass 
area 100 ; prospect 80. In some localities 
fruit will be an average crop, but in most 
spring freezes nearly ruined the fruit, except 
plums and prunes, which perhaps will be 50 
per cent, of an average crop. Apples and 
pears nearly a failure. Small fruits 20 per 
cent, better than last year. h. s. e. 
Puyallup, Pierce Co.—Corn but little 
raised. Wheat, oata, barley and all kinds of 
grain, grass aud garden crops looking splen¬ 
did; yield 30 to 10 per cent, greater than last 
year from increased yield and acreage. Hops 
a special crop: average for 15 years 1,600 
pounds per acre, running to 4,000, which some 
fields bid fair to yield this seasou. Only 
apples, blackberries and raspberries escaped 
the late frosts of May; other small fruits have 
only exceedingly light crops. j. m. o. 
Sprague, Lincoln Co.—Potatoes or any¬ 
thing else we plant, we let alone until time to 
harvest. Potatoes were #2,50 per ton until a 
few days ago, when they went up to #5. Now 
we have new ones. Oats about 15 cents per 
bushel; wheat about 40 cents, so we must 
raise them with but little expense, w. a t d. 
Oregon. 
Amity, Yam Hill Co.—Acreage of Fall 
wheat as usual; yield as good as last year’s. 
Prospect for spring grain fair; late sown will 
be better than the earlier, as the drought in 
March aud April stunted the former. Oat 
crop will equal last year’s. Barley, good. 
Hay, not plentiful. Potatoes doing finely. 
Never have 1 seen gardens look better, as we 
are having plenty of rain. Johnson Grass is 
no good here. Stock of all kinds are healthy. 
Fruit, plentiful. j. c. k. 
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