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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Dakota. 
Raymond, Clark Co., Dec. 8.— We have 
had beautiful weather up to this week and 
the ground has been fit to plow nearly all the 
time. This has delayed thrashing somewhat, 
but another week will finish it all around 
here. Wheat averaged 18 bushels to the 
acre; but with the advanced price it has been 
a paying crop. Quite a large area was put 
into flax, but it has not been a very remuner¬ 
ative crop here. The average was about six 
bushels to the acre, and although the price 
paid was from 80 to 00cents, there was always 
a large percentage taken off for dirt, in some 
cases as high as 40 per cent. The feeling here 
is now against flax and in favor of the wheat, 
so I presume there will not be the same 
amount put in next year. Oats and barley 
were average crops. Corn was a failure and 
has brought hog raising to a stand still, all 
they are worth just now being four cents per 
pound, dressed. T, mca. 
Illinois. 
Bourbon, Douglas Co., Dec. 11.—More rain 
has fallen this season than the oldest inhab¬ 
itant ever beard tell of. On well tilled land, 
corn is a good crop; but poor where on un¬ 
drained land. The mixed Rural Corn has 
been a failure with me; not a single stalk 
showed any trait as good as our native kinds. 
I have saved all of the Prince of Woles Peas 
They are very productive and rank growers. 
The Stratagems did not come up well, and the 
Plymouth Rocks appeared to think they were 
too good to keep, so they devoured all of 
them. My 10 beans must have produced a 
gallon or more. The potato crop is the 
poorest I have known for years. Corn, 28 
cents per 75 pounds; butter. 15 cents; eggs, 13 
cents per dozen; oats, 25 cents per bushel; 
wheat, 90 cents per bushel; hogs, three cents 
per pound; beef cattle, two to three cents per 
pound. Shippers say a man can’t steal cattle 
and ship to Chicago, with any prospect of 
comiDg out even H. a. C. 
Michigan. 
Eaton Rapids, Eaton Co., Dec. 1L—The 
Cleveland R. N. Y. Pea is a prolific bearer 
and of excellent flavor and early. The Prince 
of Wales did not mature; seemed to mildew 
and die in spite of all the care I could give. 
The Strntegem is splendid and yielded large¬ 
ly. The Flageolet Bean was nice and very 
prolific. The tomatoes grew large vines, but 
gave no fruit. Of the corn there were seven 
distil et varieties, but one only may prove 
good for this section. The Garden Treasures 
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were cared for by my daughter and much 
admired. 8. R. F. 
Hobart, Wexford Co., Dec. 8.— Carter’s 
Stratagem was a splendid looking pea. I 
saved all mine for seed. A neighbor tried 
some of bis and says they are as nice as they 
look. I saved the Prince of Wales after try¬ 
ing a few; it is a very good pea. The John¬ 
son Grass came up very thinly and was about 
a foot high when the frost took it. I do not 
think it would be good for anything here. 
The King Humbert Tomato would be nice 
for preserving. The crossed corn was a sight 
to behold—some of the stalks were 15 feet 
high, and if the frost had given it a chance l 
am not certain but it might have grown 20 
feet. I had one ear of yellow flint (8 rowed) 
that measured 15 inches in length; also one 
very nice ear of yellow dent; but none of it 
got ripe enough to grow, I planted Early 
Rose Potato on a piece of pine stump land. I 
cut all good sized potatoes into two pieces and 
all large ones into four. I plowed the land 
and then cross-furrowed it, running a one- 
horse plow across the plot and back again, 
making a ditch the width of two furrows,and 
in the center of this I dropped the pieces, a 
siDgle piece in a place, and as nearly one foot 
apart as the eye could measure. The ditches 
were made three feet apart from center to 
The Flageolet Beans came up splendidly and 
were heavy with fine beans. Owing to ex¬ 
cessively wet weather, a good many farmers 
have not finished seeding wheat, and the area 
seeded will not be as large as last year. 
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center, across the plot. After the potatoes 
were dropped, they were covered with about 
one inch of earth, and then about two inches 
of barn-yard manure were put on top of that: 
then about two inches of old hay and straw 
and all the remaining earth was leveled over 
the plot. They were slow in coming up. and 
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frost to cut them down. They soon came on, 
however, and were given good cultivation 
and nothing more until they were dug, and I 
found that the plot yielded at the rate of 373 
33 100 bushels to the acre, and this ha3 been a 
very frosty bad season in this section. I think 
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Cambrige, Furnas Co., Deo. 12.—Nebraska 
farmers have bad another good harvest of all 
crops. Prices, however, sire way down. The 
weather up to the 4th in t. was very fine; 
since that time we have had solid Winter. I 
followed the Rural’s potato culture plan, 
omitting the manure, and am satisfied it is 
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tivating corn. The Rnral mixed corn did 
not amount to much. Other seeds were satis¬ 
factory. w. H. T. 
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Mooresvillk, Iredell Co., Dec. 10.—Crops 
are about all gathered. Cotton is better than 
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Oregon. 
Salem, Marion Co., Dec. 4 —Of the Rural 
seeds the tomatoes, beans and Carter’s Strat¬ 
agem Peas did well. I did not like the Prince 
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Johnson Grass has not come up yet. Eggs 
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