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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Canby, Clackamas Co.—Area under cul¬ 
tivation about the average. Crops of all 
kinds, including fruit, will be immense, both 
in the Willamette Valley from where I write 
and Eastern Oregon. Potatoes will not be 
quite up to last year, but with that exception, 
everything is lovely in the crop line. j. s. 
Corvallis, Benton Co.—Crops in this 
neighborhood are about as follows: area sown 
of wheat, oats and barley 75 per cent, of last 
year’s; condition 75 per cent. Potatoes about 
an average crop planted, and condition 90 per 
cent. Timothy very poor. Gardens general¬ 
ly not good. Fruit of all kinds an extra heavy 
crop. p. r. 
Grant’s Pass, Jackson Co.—Wheat, oats, 
barley and grass a good average. Coru prom¬ 
ises an average. Potatoes a little above an 
average. Garden crops, a good prospect for 
full average. Prospects for abundant crops 
of fruit of all kinds. j. p. 
McCoy, Polk Co.—Wheat, area 90 per 
cent, of last year’s; condition 75. Corn, area 
100; condition 80. Oats, Area 75; condition 
90. Rye, area 100; condition 80. Barley, 
area 100; condition 75. Potatoes, area 90; 
condition 100. Roots, area 75; condition 90. 
Grass, area 100; condition 90. Garden crops, 
area 100; condition 85. All small fruits full 
crops. Pears, average. Apples, three-quarters 
of a crop. Peaches, a full crop. Hops acre¬ 
age 30 to 35 per cent, increase; condition 
good. j. k. D. 
Oakland, Douglas Co.—Wheat area about 
the same as usual. Oats, barley and potatoes, 
acreage larger, with excellent prospects. 
Fruits of all kinds abundaut. Grass abun¬ 
dant; has been good all Winter. Gardens 
good; in fact, everything is as good as, or 
better than, for many years. H. c. w. 
Utah. 
North Ogden, Weber Co.—Wheat, barley 
and rye are excellent on up land; on low-land, 
not very good, owing to so much cold rains in 
Spring. In Ogden Valley, six miles east of 
here, oats promise to be fine all over, and 
average more than in past years. Corn fine. 
Potatoes and all tender crops were injured by 
frost in May, but are fast improving. Beets 
and other roots are looking excellent. Grass 
and Lucerne or Alfalfa are very heavy; never 
heavier. I have full average crops of peaches, 
apricots, plums, peas and apples; a great many 
of our peaches were destroyed by a green louse 
that covered the under part of the leaf, but 
the pests have left now. g. B. 
Canada. 
Appin, Ont.—Fall wheat about the same in 
area and condition as last year. Oats, peas, 
barley and spring wheat promise well with an 
increased area of the last. Pastures, splen¬ 
did; good prospect for a large hay crop. Not 
much corn planted; backward. Apple crop 
large. Not mauy cherries. Strawberries 
promise to be a full crop. Potatoes doing well, 
but bugs very plentiful. j. d. mco. 
Arkona, Ont.— Wheat, oats, barley and 
grass are all good average crops on about the 
usual area. Potatoes very poor—much of the 
seed rotted in the ground. Corn below the 
average. Apples promise about an average 
crop. Cherries very scarce. Not many plums 
or pears. No peaches. Strawberries are an 
extra fine crop, with more than the average 
area planted. Raspberries, currants and 
gooseberries are average crops, or perhaps a 
little above. w. w. h. 
Brewster, Ontario.—A very favorable, 
though late Spring, and crops are looking 
very well. Taking 100 as a basis for average 
area and condition of a full crop, here are the 
figures: Fall wheat, area 90; condition 100 
percent. Spring wheat, area 100; condition 
100. Oats, area 100; condition 100. Barley, 
area 75; condition 100. Peas, area 95; condi¬ 
tion 100. Potatoes, area 100; hardly up. 
Corn not much grown. Sorghum just for 
homo use. Apples promise well. Strawber¬ 
ries, currants and gooseberries very well. 
Peach trees budly frozen. Grapes, all below 
the snow-line all right and promise good crop. 
w. T. 
Cornwall, Ont.—Prospects for fall wheat 
very poor; nearly all winter-killed. Spring 
wheat very good. Corn not much grown, 
but good, considering the backward Spring. 
Oats very good. Rye not much grown. Bar¬ 
ley good. Potatoes very good, though the 
“bug” is as busy as ever. All roots promise 
well, spring very late, but growth has been 
something extraordinary since, so that crop 
prospects are very good with the exception of 
fall wheat. w. 8. T. 
Duntroon, Out.—Prospects good for all 
crops of Spring grain, such as wheat, oats, 
barley and peas. Our main crop is spring 
wheat, of which a larger breadth is sown than 
usual. Fall wheat will not be an average 
crop. Hay will be light. Root crops^not 
much grown. About the usual amount of 
potatoes planted. Prospects good for all kinds 
of fruit, especially apples and plums which are 
■our main fruit crops. j. mcd. 
Grimsby, Ont.—Ai-ea and condition of 
wheat about an average. Oats, average. 
Corn not an average. More peas raised. Rye 
not much grown. Barley average. Potatoes 
principally for home consumption Roots and 
grass average. Other crops as usual. Fruit 
prospects good. Prospects in grain and fruit 
past few weeks have improved greatly. T. s. 
Harrow, Ont.—Wheat about the same as 
last year; an average crop. Corn area more 
than last year, but owing to the cold, wet 
Spring, nearly all had to be replanted; look¬ 
ing well. Oats promise a large crop. Very 
little rye sown; but it looks well. Barley a 
fair average area; looking well. Potatoes 
uot very largely grown. Few roots. Farmers 
are sowing grass, clover and Timothy quite 
largely. Some farmers raise from 75 to 100 
tous of Timothy hay. Tobacco not as much 
grown as formerly. Broom-corn very con¬ 
siderably raised about 10 miles east from 
here. Almost every farmer raises enough 
sorghum to make sirup for his own use. 
Apples an average crop; not many pears and 
very few cherries. Peaches all killed by the 
hard Winter. Garden crops look well. A 
few quinces. Very few plums. w. j. Q. 
Kaga Wong, Ont.—Wheat and oat area3 
one- ha If larger and prospects 20 per cent, 
better than usual. Potato area increased and 
prospects rather better. Grass below the 
average. Garden crops above. Fruit does 
not thrive in this county. Bees do well; will 
be a success this season. w. A. p. 
Oxford Centre, Ontario.—Fall wheat, 
compared with other years, is very fair. 
Spring wheat, barley oats, and peas are good. 
Roots and potatoes fair, Pears promise to be 
a large crop. Strawberries and all other 
small fruits in abundauce. Apples a failure, 
W. V. 
Sarnia, Ont.—In Western Ontario, the 
reason is eight days later than last year, with 
very rapid growth at the present time. Heavy 
rains last month; frequent showers this; 
average temperature since May 15th, 58 5 10°. 
Wheat, as compared with last 10 years, acre¬ 
age 70 per cent.; standing 90 per cent. There 
is assurance of a heavy crop of hay. Spring 
grains very promisin g, except barley, which 
was somewhat damaged by heavy rains last 
month. Many of the old meadows which 
failed last year have been sown with millet 
and Hungarian Grass. Apples and pears very 
promising. Peaches, grapes, currauts and 
strawberries somewhat damaged by the late 
frosts and severe Winter. Proportion of 
acreage of tilled land and yield,in the various 
grains and grasses for the three, western 
counties about as follows: old meadows, acre¬ 
age 16 per cent; yield 1}± ton. New meadows, 
clover, millet, Hungarian acreage,12 percent.; 
yield 1% ton. Winter wbeatacreage uine per 
cent, yield 13 bushels. Spring wheat acreage 
eight per cent.; yield HRj bushels. Oats acre¬ 
age 10 per cent.; yield 32 bushels. Barley 
acreage $}£ per cent. ; yield IS bushels. Peas 
acreage seven per ceut.; yield 20 bushels. 
Corn acreage eight per ceut.; yield SO bushels. 
Rye acreage three per ceut.; yield 11 bushels. 
Buckwheat acreage 2% per cent.; yield nine 
bushels. Potato acreage six per cent.; yield 
80 bushels. Mangles, turnips, beets acreage 
one per cent. Woodland acreage nine per 
cent. There i3 a decided improvement in the 
condition and purity of cattle, sheep, pigs, 
and poultry in this section over the last de¬ 
cade. Three-fourths of the milk produced in 
this country is made iuto cheese. c. v. d. 
Tallauoma, Coffee Co.—Wheat area 80; 
condition 20. Corn area 110; condition 90. 
Oat area 100; condition lOO. Clover area 100; 
condition 99. Millet area 130; condition 100. 
There will be a full crop of appleis, pears, 
plums and peaches. w. b. 
Tiny, Ontario.—Fall wheat a larger acre¬ 
age than usual; crop in flrst-classlcoudition. 
Spring wheat about an average area and 
condition. Oats, peas and barley about 
average areas; look well. Hay crop SO per 
cent, better than last season. The fruit crop 
promises to be very large. Altogether things 
look well. Potatoes and root crops are just 
coming up. G. b. 
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L1TEST CROP REPORTS. 
MAINE. 
Calais, Washington Co.—The areas of 
wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and roots are au 
averago with late years. Garden crops fully 
up to the average. Grass looks well. Apples, 
plums, strawberries, gooseberries, currants, 
and other small fruits promise large yields. 
J. M. H. 
DAKOTA. 
Leola, McPherson Co.—This is our second 
crop iu this section of country; the average 
last year was 16 bushels per acre for wheat, 
35 for oats. But little corn raised. Flax seven 
bushel per acre. This year the acreage is 
more than five to one of last year. Wheat is 
looking fine, and has every indication of 20 to 
25 bushels per acre; It is just beginning to 
head out, and stands to three feet high. 
Oats were touched by late frosts, which put 
them back very much, but are coming on 
finely. Corn is very backward. Flax is look¬ 
ing fine, and bids fair for an average crop. 
Field peas bid fair to be a good crop. Potatoes 
are fine, and early ones are in blossom. Pota¬ 
toes here far excel those raised in the Eastern 
and Western States: flavor fine; and mealy up 
to the last. Garden vegetables are all grow¬ 
ing very fast. Some sorghum planted this 
year, but can’t say what the result will be. 
Barley is beaded ont and stands three feet 
high, and is looking well. Some farmers 
have commenced cutting hay in the bills. 
Tame grasses have been sown, but will not 
afford any hay this season. Clover grows 
very large and is very hardy. Timothy very 
large and fine. We have one of the finest 
stock countries in the West. The plains af¬ 
ford pasture for thousands of stock, which 
feed out all Winter on Buffalo Grass, and will 
not eat hay unless confined. O. J. R. 
Canton, Lincoln Co.—More ground broken 
this year than usual. Crops of all kinds are 
looking well. More flax than usual. Potato 
bugs are too plenty. Wheat and oats are 
splendid. Corn looking very well. 
W. M. D. 
Corrington, Foster Co.— Owing to the low 
price of wheat last year, there is a disposition 
on the part of farmers to rely less on it 
as a main crop. Nearly every one is getting 
more or less stock. Some have extensive 
herds and will raise no grain, only as they 
need it for their own feeding. Very little new 
ground has been broken this year, and the 
most of that by late comers. There is a much 
larger area of peas and barley sown this year 
than last. For the first time, considerable 
flax has been put in, and may become here¬ 
after one of the regular crops. Less oats and 
potatoes will be raised this season. The new 
ground put in wheat this year will equal the 
old ground put in flax, barley and peas, so 
that about the same acreage of wheat will be 
harvested. On account of the little snow the 
past Winter, hay will not be so abundant, 
though there will be plenty for onr own use. 
Everything is growing finely, and the present 
prospect is an abundant yield of each. 
J. x. w. 
WISCONSIN. 
Shawano, Shawano Co.—The area of win¬ 
ter wheat 10 per cent. less than last year, ow¬ 
ing to unfavorable fall sowing: condition 
good. Spring wheat increase of 20 per cent.; 
condition good. Area of corn, oats, barley, 
rye, potatoes and root crops an increase over 
former years, but grass and nearly all crops 
are suffering now for lack of rain, Gardeu 
crops generally doing well. Sorghnm and 
tobacco are new crops here this year as a vent¬ 
ure, and promise fair. All fruit crops prom¬ 
ise abundant yields, especially the small berry 
crops such as blue, black, and raspberries, 
strawberries, etc., indigenous to the soil: these 
grow wild and yield well; also the cranberry. 
w. s. w. 
KANSAS. 
Beloit, Mitchell Co.—The area of wheat is 
about the same as usual; condition not as 
good as last year. Area of corn and oats 
about an average. Corn rather small, but is 
in splendid condition; the prospect of both 
are fully an average. Rye an average crop. 
Potato prospect an average. Wild grass 
more than an average. Tame grass more 
sown than usual and a fine crop. Broom-corn 
much less planted than usual. Fruit is a 
light crop. g. w. g. 
TEXAS. 
Abilene, Taylor Co.—All crops are good. 
Wheat will average 20 bushels; oats 40 to 50 
bushels, and corn 80 to 40 bushels. The other 
crops are principally sorghum, rye and millet, 
all of which are doing well. c. R., jr. 
Aquilla, Hill Co.—'The area of wheat and 
oats is larger than former years.and the crops 
the best ever grown in Central Texas. The 
yield of oats is immense, very little winter¬ 
killed. Potatoes have rotted in the ground 
from excessive moisture during May. Other 
gardeu crops are abundant, but have suffered 
from a four weeks’ drought. Has rained pret¬ 
ty generally, however, during this week all 
over this part of State. Corn is in full roast¬ 
ing ear, and will compare with Tast year, 
which was best ever raised. The bottom 
farms along the Brazos uud its tributaries, 
have been inundated and corn destroyed. 
With the exception of coru. cotton is our spec¬ 
ial crop. The crop is badly damaged from 
rust and the Careless Worm. This pest made 
its appearance all throughout Central Texas, 
two weeks ago, and in a few days destroyed 
50 per cent, of the cotton; in many localities 
the entire crop is destroyed. The cotton crop 
prospect is gloomy indeed. But with late 
rains and late frost a cotton crop may yet be 
made. All kinds of fruit are excellent. 
Peaches, plums, apples and grapes are fine. 
T. j. w. 
Gainsville, Cooke Co.—Wheat and oat 
crop unusually large, oats yielding from 50 to 
110 bushels per acre, wheat from 25 to 40 
bushels. Outlook for corn is favorable. Rye 
yields heavy; considerable sown in corn for 
winter feed. Small grains nearly harvested 
More Johnson grass and alfalfa clover sown 
—bids fair to be the coming feed crop for 
Northern Texas. Potatoesin large quantities. 
Garden truck is immense. Very fine water¬ 
melons in market—raised here. Rural Toma¬ 
toes beginning to ripen. Had peas and Irish 
potatoes the eighth of May. All kinds of frnit 
in large quantities and of fine flavor. Cotton 
very large crop. f. a. d. 
NEBRASKA. 
Laird. Frontier Co.—Eighteen months since 
this land belonged to U. S. Now it nearly all 
belongs to others. We have had as fine 
a growing season as I ever saw. Hence corn 
oats, potatoes and all garden vegetables are 
growing luxuriantly in this semi-tropical 
country. j. l. mca. 
Weligh, Antelope Co.—One-third more 
corn in this year than ever before. Wheat 20 
per cent. gain. Oats 30 per cent. gain. Rye 
about the same as usual. Barley, no gain. 
Potatoes 15 per cent. gain. Sorghum 10 per 
cent, gain. Buckwheat 5 per cent. gain. All 
crops are looking better than ever before. 
Fruit is gaining ground very slowly.but there 
is a good show for strawberries and rasp¬ 
berries. A. K. F. 
NEVADA. 
Dtjckwater, Nye Co.—This is not much of 
an agricultural country, but the crops are well 
up to an average. Wheat, oats and barley 
are doing well. Potatoes, corn, melons and 
squashes were injured by frost June 6. A 
large yield of apples, peaches, plums, currants 
and gooseberries; but the orchard business is 
young. Peaches are not sure here, the buds 
kill in Winter. Sorghum won’t ripen. Broom- 
corn not doing well. j. b. 
WYOMING TERRITORY. 
Big Horn, Johnson Co.—This is a newly 
settled county; until within five years the 
stockmen held undisputed sway, this being 
one of the best grazing counties West of the 
Missouri. Thousands of head of cattle and 
horses find pasture the year round and appear 
fat and sleek at the spring “round-up.” 
Sheep winter nicely on the native grass, which 
cares, aDd retains all its nutritive properties; 
but as yet there are only a few hundred head 
in the county. Farming is yet iu its infancy. 
All small grains yield well; wheat averages 
from 20 to 40 bushels per acre; oats. 40 to 50 
bushels. Rye and fall’wheat do well without 
irrigation, but little has been sown as yet. 
People have been experimenting to find out 
what thrives best. Garden vegetables of all 
kinds, except tomatoes, mature and are of 
larger growth than I ever saw in any other 
locality. Owing to our short seasons, field 
corn will not mature, and only some very 
early varieties of sweet corn are cultivated 
for table nse. There are no bearing orchards 
yet. Wild fruit, such as plums, cherries, 
currants, raspberries aod'service-berries, have 
supplied our wants in that direction very 
abundantly since I came here (two years ago). 
I am satisfied that small fruits will do well. 
M. L. MCK. 
CANADA. 
Westminster, Ont.—Crop prospects very 
good. Oats are fully up to the average. 
Wheat, fall and spring, good; quantity sown 
above the average of Spring; fall about as 
usual. Com up to the average in quantity 
and appearance. Rye and barley very little 
sown. Potatoes an average. Turnips above 
the average quantity sown. Roots about an 
average. Grass very good, rather above the 
average. Fruit about an average. j. l. 
Whitby, Ontario.—Fall wheat is very lit¬ 
tle sown, averaging six acres to the 100 in 
other crops; condition oue-half compared 
with last year. Com very little sown—two 
acres to the hundred—many failures from bad 
seed or cold. Barley, oats, peas, spring wheat 
about same acreage as last year; condition 
very good, same as last year. Potatoes 1}4 
acre to the 100; only nicely above ground. 
Roots, carrots, mangels and turnips about six 
acres to the 100. Grass a good average. 
Fruit a good average. o. c. 
Wolf Island, Ontario. — Spring wheat, 
area more than average; condition good. 
Corn, area very small; condition poor. Bar. 
ley, area less than average; condition fair- 
Potatoes, area less thau average; condition 
good. Roots, area small few grown; average 
condition poor. Grass, area more than aver¬ 
age; condition poor. 5 Clover, area less than 
