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VHE RURAL WEW-YORKER 
don’t need to try the Rural method,to obtain 
large crop®. The area of grass is about 1,000 
per cent, greater than last year, principally 
Alfalfa. The areas of all kinds of vegetables 
are about 1,000 greater than last year, with the 
most flattering prospects. The only special 
crop is a small acreage of sorghum or Ribbon 
Cane, which a few are trying. The area of 
corn is greatly in excess of that of last year, 
but we cannot tell what it will do, as I know 
of but little that matured last year, which I 
think was owing to the late planting. We will 
this year solve the problem w hethor or not corn 
can be proflably raised in the Umcompahgre 
Valley. There are no fruits yet in bearing, 
but quite an acreage bas been put out last 
Fall and this Spring—mostly looking well. 
My business calls me up and down the valley 
for a distance of 40 miles; this time last year 
only vast fields of sage bush and Bunch Grass, 
with here and there small patches of grain 
aud a few vegetable, met the eye; now 100— 
acre fields are not uncommon and everything 
is looking very encouraging. I consider the 
Rural New Yorker the best friend, the 
best adviser and the most faithful servant the 
farmer has in the whole country. J. G. B. 
Montana. 
Chico, Gallatin, Co., June 29 —There is a 
larger area planted than ever before. We 
have bad unusual rainfalls. Grass is better 
than it has been since ’72 Winter wheat does 
not look as well as usual. Spriug oats and 
wheat look better than they have for years. 
Potatoes are not looking as well as usual on 
account of the cold weather. Root crops are 
also backward. No fruit is raised in this 
locality. Timothy looks well, and is the only 
tame grass we raise. E, h. b. 
Fish Creek, Madison Co, June 28.—We 
have had a very cold, wet Spring; it killed all 
the first bloom on strawberries, aud killed all 
the bloom on apple trees aud currants; but 
there is a good prospect for the best grain 
crops I ever saw; X think wheat will go 25 or 
30 bushels per acre, and oats 40 to 50. Barley 
very little raised. Peas for hogs are our main 
crop, and wo are going to have a big one. 
We can raise only very little early corn and 
no tobacco—too cold. The potato crop is two 
weeks later than last year, and a good deal of 
the seed rotted in the ground. J. p. 
New York. 
Geneva, Ont, Co., June 26.—Although the 
Spring has been very backward, all crops 
were gotten in the ground in good shape, and 
are looking exceptionally well at present. Bar 
ley was looking fine until about a week ago, 
when a large number of plants began to look 
yellow: on examination I discovered that a 
small wire-worm, and a small, brown grub 
were at work at the roots. Corn and potatoes 
are all up; some farmers are cultivating the 
second time. The outlook for wheat is very 
poor at present. The Hessian fly seems de¬ 
termined to destroy a greater part of wbat 
would have been a good crop. w. P. W. 
North Carolina. 
Chestnut, Burke Co., July 8—Wheat is 
about half of the crop of 1884. Good prospects 
for corn. Tobacco good. Grass ditto. Apples 
are abundant. Potatoes good. Oats about 
one-third of the crop of 1884. Rye is a full 
crop. Barley one-half. Gardens very good. 
Cotton is looking well. Broom-corn is good, 
and sorghum very good. Crops generally are 
good. MCC. H. 
Henderson, Vance Co., June 27.—A cold 
and extremely wet May was followed by such 
weather, in June, as to largely make up for 
what our planters thought was irreparably 
lost, aud at this date, though almost every¬ 
thing is two weeks late, the prospect is fair 
for an average yield of all crops except wheat 
and, perhaps, cotton. The acreage of both 
these is very much reduced from that of 
former years. Owing to the drought of last 
Fall many were unable to plow for wheat in 
such a manner as to expect a paying return. 
This, with the severe Winter, makes the 
wheat crop poor euongh. Tobacco is taking 
the place of cotton in this and all adjoining 
counties, this being, so far as yet known, the 
center of production of the genuine “Golden 
Leaf,” which often sells for a dollar per 
pound. Our farmers are getting just a little 
crazy over it, and may overdo the business, 
as they have in cotton; but immense quanti¬ 
ties have been sold in our market this year, 
and prices are well maintained. The crop 
prospect for this immediate vicinity may lie 
summed up as follows: Wheat, acreage, 50; 
condition 50. Oats, acreage 80; condition 
100. Corn, acreage 95; condition 00. Cotton, 
acreage 85; condition 85. Tobacco, acreage 
125: condition 100. Sweet potatoes and gar¬ 
dens. acreage 100; condition 100. Grupes, a 
slight increase; condition 105. Reaches are 
difficult to estimate, as they are so uncertain 
that an average would ha very low, while this 
year, among trees of the same variety and 
near together, one is loaded the other has 
none. They escaped a spring frost, but the 
fruit has dropped badly, aud to make a rough 
guess, the crop is light. It is encouraging to 
note that our farmers are giving more atten¬ 
tion to what they call the “truck” of farming, 
namely: dairying, sheep, poultry, fruit, etc. 
When good butter sells for SO cents per poimd, 
as it has every week for the past three years; 
and eggs, as now, bring 20 cents to 22 cents 
(they have not teen below 15 cents this year), 
we can in time see where the profits in farm¬ 
ing come from We have, at last, a Stock 
Law from which we expect some relief from 
the burden of feuces, and good results in the 
improvement of stock, if not iu numbers. 
Thus reform goes on, but we fear a dog tax is 
a long ways off; still we hope. m, r. p. 
Ohio. 
Payub, Paulding Co., June 27.—Our garden 
is looking fine this year. We have tried the 
R. N.-Y. Pea for the second season, and ii is 
yet our favorite as to quality and early use, 
having used i this year as early as Juue 16th. 
We planted some potatoes as per the R. N.-Y. 
trench mulch system; they do not look as well 
as others planted in the old way, and are one 
and two weeks later. D. P. D. 
Texas. 
Christian, Palo Pinto Co.—Crop prospects 
are very flattering. Wheat will make 15 
bushels to the acre. Oats 40 to 60 bushels per 
acre. Finest prospect for corn we have ever 
had. Millet aud sorghum fine. Grasses and 
fruits, none. H. R. t. 
Sulphur Springs, Hopkins Co., June 27.— 
Crops very good, although the wheat area is 
less; the yield will be from 25 to 50 per cent, 
more per acre than last year. Oats tine; more 
sowed than ever before. Wheat and oats 
in the shock. Corn is fine, and three-fourths 
of it is made; most of it has been in tassel and 
silk three weeks. Peach crop very heavy. 
Small fruits none. Sweet potatoes only toler¬ 
able; but plenty of time to make a good crop 
before frost. All garden truck is plenty; I 
have never seen liner. Sorghum but a little 
sowed; nothing to compare with former 
years. Ten acres of broom-corn close to me. 
the first ever tried in this county, except a 
little for home use. Cotton cultivation in¬ 
creases year after year. Outlook now gloomy, 
owing to a backward Spring and cool nights, 
which have retarded growth. About the 
first of the month a worm struck it, eating 
off whole acres in some fields, while in adjoin¬ 
ing fields it was never touched. The worm is 
now webbed up in cotton and weeds, and 
many of us are afraid that its next attack 
will clean out the crop. It is, however, in 
fine growing condition—never was finer 
weather for growing a crop. R. c. 
Washington Territory. 
Olympic, Thurston Co., June 29.—The area 
of all kinds of crops is as great as for many 
years. The condition is good. The prospect 
for good crops of hay, wheat, oats, potatoes 
and fruits has seldom been better. Western 
Washington is not an agricultural couotry by 
any means. Our main reliance is on lumber 
ar d coal. The country west of the Cascade 
Mountains is one forest of timber, principally 
fir. Lumber and coal, with some hops,are about 
all we expect. So far as 1 know, there has 
beeu no attempt to grow cotton, broom -corn, 
or sorghum. We have the finest harbor in 
the world, a mild but humid climate, some 
excellent land, but a large part of it—much 
more than half—is worthless for agriculture. 
Commerce, manufacturing, lumber, coal,iron, 
lime, etc., will some day make this a prosper¬ 
ous State. D. T. d. 
Pcyallup, Pierce Co., June 25.—Crops of 
all kinds are looking splendid. Grain crops 
of any kind are only raised for local use, and 
vegetables the same, yet the increased acre¬ 
age of the latter, aud the bounteous prospect 
of an excessive yield, will tend to lower prices 
to figures uot before known; yet a special com¬ 
modity for which this little town and valley 
are noted, bids fair to exceed the yield of nil 
previous years—namely, bops. Hops are on 
this corner aud on that, in big fields, and in 
little ones, in every clearing, with few excep¬ 
tions. J ust now most of the v ines are 16 to 20 
feet high; the arms are lapped and interlaced, 
making locomotion, except in u bent posture 
or on “all fours," a task which only interested 
parties care to undertake. An effort is being 
made to start up a new industry here—that of 
beet-sugar making. The same party that has 
done the most to promote the hop interest, is 
engineering the sugar making interest, and 
will without doubt ultimately succeed in util¬ 
izing a crop (sugar-beets) that thrives here in 
its best perfection, Fruits of all kiuds suit¬ 
able for this climate, except grapes, flourish 
here in luxuriance. Apples, pears, prunes, 
plums, cherries and all kinds of small fruits 
are exceptionally thrifty aud prolific. This 
is our “off” year for the larger fruits, yet we 
will have hulf a crop of apples aud prunes; a 
fair showing of blackberries, raspberries and 
strawberries. Fruits not named have been 
caught by the late (unusual) frost. J. M. o. 
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HEAVES IN A HORSE.—SUPPURATING CORNS 
AND QUITTOR. 
O. S., Yonkers, iV. Y .—Wbat is the proper 
treatment for a carriage horse that has con¬ 
tracted, through hard driving or careless 
shoeing, two bad corns, one on the side of the 
foot about three inches up from the edge of 
the hoof, and another which I think will come 
out near the frog of the foot? I have been 
poulticing the foot with oil meal morning and 
night, and the corn on the side has discharged 
some matter this morning, and will probably 
continue to do so some days. What is the 
proper feed for the animal! I have been feed¬ 
ing bran w’ell soaked with water, and oc¬ 
casionally some grass. 2. What should I feed 
to a horse with the heaves? 
ANSWERED BY DR. F. L. KILHORNE. 
If the inflammation is severe, continue the 
poulticing until the inflammation has subsided, 
then into the quittor, which bas been 
formed by the suppuration of the corn and its 
burrowing upward bursting and discharging 
above the hoof wall, inject a weak caustic 
solution, (bichloride of mercury, live grains; 
spirits of wine, one ounce; hydrochloric acid, 
five to ten drops). The injection should be 
made by a small syriuge, and with consider¬ 
able force, so as to reach all parts of the 
quittor. Inject at least three times the (list 
day, twice the second aud once daily there¬ 
after,as long as the discharge continues. Stop 
the injection as soou as the discharge ceases, 
and apply a simple dressing of pine tar. If the 
other abscess has not discharged, pare down 
the heel until the matter escapes, and after re¬ 
moving all horn that has become detached 
from the quick, treat with the caustic* soJutiou 
as in the first case. Do not apply a shoe until 
till tenderness has disappeared, then apply a 
bar shoe with a stuffing of tow and tar. No 
pressure should be allowed on the heel until it 
has regained its natural strength. During 
the treatment, it is well to keep some hoof 
ointment (equal parts of tar aud lard) applied 
to the hoof to keep it from drying from the 
heat of the inflammation. In feeding, it is 
desirable to give a nutritious laxative diet of 
good hay and oats, with occasional mashes, 
roots, or grass, sufficient to keep the bowels 
moving freely. 2. The horse should re¬ 
ceive no clover hay, or dusty or musty 
fodder of any kind. Clean, bright straw 
with plenty of grain is preferable to bay in 
any form. But if hay is fed, it should be of the 
best quality, given only.at night and theu in 
very small quantities. A moderate supply of 
water should be allowed even if the feed is 
moisteued. Much less depends upon the 
amount of water drank, if given frequently 
and never to exceed a small pailful at a time, 
than upon the quantity and quality of the bay. 
When standing idle for a few days the feed 
should be diminished. Never allow the horse 
to go to work immediately after a full feed, 
but give an hour or two of rest after feeding 
before going to work. Always water the 
horse before feeding the grain and not after, 
especially just before being put to work, as is 
the common practice with many. Keep the 
bowels always easy by laxatives or green food, 
ns grass or roots. Daily doses of four or five 
grains of arsenic, continued for several weeks, 
are especially valuable. 
LAMENESS IN A MARE. 
J. R. Jr ., Fort Abraham Lincoln, D. T .—I 
have a valuable five year-old mare, which 
showed lameness nearly a year ago, the hock 
being slightly enlurged. 1 blistered her for 
bone spavin, hut afterward learned she had 
been teased by her gioom and had kicked 
through a window’ behind her stall. The 
swelling disappeared, but she still goes lame. 
When she is walked, she raises the leg as in 
“string-halt;” when trotted fast, the leg 
rather drags and is not raised to the same 
hight or extended as far as the other; when 
she stands, the toe is often twisted inward so 
as to throw the hock outward, and the large 
muscles show clearly uway to the hip joint. 
ANSWERED BY DR. F. L. KlLBORNE. 
It is impossible to diagnose, with any degree 
of certainty, an obscure lameness from a de¬ 
scription. In the present case 1 suspect the 
lameness is in the hip, aud there will probably 
be found some tenderness on pressure upon 
the point of the hip, or when the whole limb 
is drawn well forward. If such tenderness 
does not appear to be present, try extreme 
flexion and extension of each of the other 
joints, first on one limb and then upon the 
other, together with pressure by tbe thumb 
upon every part of each joint of the affected 
limb, to make sure that there is no tenderness 
in either joint below the hip. Apply a can- 
tharides blister (powdered cautharides, two 
drams; fresh lard, one ounce; camphor, five 
grains, to which add five drops of alcohol, aud 
oil of peppermint or lavender, fivedrops; mix 
thoroughly) over the point of the bip, or other 
point of tenderness, if such be found, aud re¬ 
peat the blister when the elTects of the first 
have passed off. In applying, first cut the 
hair from the part, and rub the blister well in 
against the hair for several minutes. Tie the 
animal to a high rack to prevent the mouth 
reaching the blistered surface. When well 
raised, wash off with soap-suds and smear 
with fresh lard or vaseliue daily. 
PESTS OF THE STRAWBERRY. 
J. H. J., Jackson, Rons. —Sends, for name, 
specimens of “worms.” The large dark one, 
No. 1, ate up his strawberry plants after they 
had been set out two or three weeks. The 
second is now busy rolling up the leaves of the 
plants. The third kind, represented by small 
worms, are eating the leaves of the straw 
berries, crowu and all. 
ANSWERED BY PROF. C. V. RILEY. 
The first worm mentioned is one of the com¬ 
mon cut worms (Agrotis tricosa). The second 
worm arrived in tbe form of an injured pupa, 
and is either Bhoxopteris fragariieor Eccopsis 
permundana, both of which are strawberry 
leaf-rollers. The third worm is the larva of 
the strawberry Saw-fly (Empbytus maculatus). 
The best remedy for the first is to kill the 
pests before the crop is planted, or even after¬ 
wards, which can bo easily done by Dr. 
Oemler’s plan v hioh consists in placing over 
the field, about one rod apart, each way, 
hand fuls of clover, cabbage, leaves or anything 
else which the cut-worm will eat. These 
should first he dipped in a solution of a table¬ 
spoon of Paris-green to a bucket of water, or 
they may be first moisteued and then dusted 
with a mixture of one part of Green and 20 
parts of flour. They should be placed out 
just at night, and two or three applications 
will kill all the worms. With the Ltaf rollers 
where they become very destructive, a thor¬ 
ough remedy is to mow the plants after-pick¬ 
ing and then burn them. This will not injure 
the plants,and a new.strong growth will spring 
up by Fall. Against the Saw-fly larvae.IIelle- 
bore should be used uuless the plants are in 
bearing, iu which case they should be dusted 
with Pyretbruin mixed with spoiled Hour in 
the proportion of one part of Pj rethrum to 15 
or 26 parts of flour. 
FERTILIZER FOR WHEAT IN THE SOUTH. 
J.L.McD.,Island Ford, N.C .—I How would 
a mixture of-acid phosphate and kaiiiit, 
100 pounds of each per acre, do for wheat? 2. 
If you uever use a plow iu your corn, what do 
you use,and which do you like best—walking or 
riding cultivators? 
Ans. —We are unacquainted with tbe brand 
you name. A manure for wheat should have 
more or less nitrogen in its composition, and 
we suggest that you should use cottou seed 
meal, if you have any mills handy. Iu 100 
pounds of this you would get six pounds of 
nitrogen, two pounds of potash and three 
pounds of phosphoric acid, and, figuring each 
at its market price and freight added, it would 
be worth $1.55 per 100 pounds. In lOOpouuds 
of kaiuit you get VZ}4 pounds of potash and the 
balance is mostly salt, so you can see how 
much the potash costs. It may be that you 
can buy it cheaper in muriate of potash or in 
sulphate of potash, as the muriate contains 50 
per cent, aud the sulphate 25 per cent, of act¬ 
ual potash. The ashes made by burning cot¬ 
ton-seed hulls at the oil mills, if uo coal is 
used, contain nearly 30 per cent, of actual 
potash; and are a very cheap source of this, 
at the usual price. From these facts aud an 
anulysis of the acid phosphate, you should be 
able to decide what to use. 2. We use some 
form of “cultivator” that works only the up¬ 
per few inches of the soil. In large fields the 
riding cultivators are the best, but in fields of 
only a few acres the smaller “walking” culti¬ 
vators are mostly used. The Acme,by remov¬ 
ing tbe two middle teeth, works splendidly in 
corn, by straddling the rows. 
“EVERGREEN” BLACKBERRIES. 
w. P., Denver, Col .—An agent representing 
a nursery firm in Washington Territory, is 
canvassing here for an “Evergreen Black¬ 
berry,” saying the plants must Vie put 20 feet 
apart, and that the canes grow as large as a 
man’s arm. He asks $10 per dozen for the 
plants. He is selling plants around here at 
the rate of $100 per day. Is it a good berry, 
aud is it really au “evergreen?” 
ANS.— On all blackberries, the leaves are 
quite persisteut uear the Pacific Coast in the 
