THE BUBAL fSEW-YOBBIR. 
JULY 9 
with vines slim and unhealthy, owing to de¬ 
cayed roots, due to last year’s damage by lice. 
Last winter was hard on bees, and only those 
wintered well, which were kept by those who 
knew bow to take proper care of them. n. W 
Fluvanna, Chautauqua Co.—Since May 1, 
our rains have been timely aud quite abund 
aut. The outlook for grass, which is the sta¬ 
ple of our section of this county, is fully up 
to the average for five years past. Pastures 
as well as meadows nro good. I have seen 
many pieces of clover already badly lodged, 
and not a bloom to be seen. Corn is far in ad¬ 
vance of any year for more than 10 years past, 
being fully equal in size or color to last year’s 
crop on July 15. Wheat is fully up to an av¬ 
erage, though we are not, practically speak¬ 
ing, in the wheat belt. General average 
about IS bushels per acre; area not huge. 
Oats fully up to au average; area larger than 
for several years past. Rye very seldom 
sowu. Barley is promising, though sown un¬ 
usually late to escape frosts; most of it is Mans- 
bury, and bids fair to give a good yield. 
Buckwheat very little sown as yet; but a good 
deal of inquiry for Silver Hull seed. Usually 
a good crop and a large area. A larger Hrea 
is under potatoes which are lookiug very 
promising. Bugs plentiful, but a constant 
war ou them keeps them iu check. Root crops 
are growing in favor. Where oue acre was 
raised five years ago, 10 acres are raised now. 
Farmers are beginning to see the benefit and 
economy of roots for feed. Our soil is well 
adapted to all kinds, and large crops are antic¬ 
ipated. Small fruits are very promising: just 
jn midst of strawberries. Raspberries are 
promising an abundant crop if rains continue. 
Apples a full crop; pears arc generally over¬ 
loaded; plums almost a failure. Very little 
clover seed was raised until within five or six 
years, and that always from second cutting. 
Upon the whole, this bids fair to be a year of 
abundance and prosperity, fully equul to any 
for the past five or more years. Butter aud 
cheese are our principal staples, backed by 
bay and fruit. Butter, creamery, is selling at 
20cents; cheese, 12’& cents: dairy butter, IS 
cents for best; bay, old, #12 per ton. Old po¬ 
tatoes have been abuudant at 45 cents per 
bushel. No new ones in market. Strawber¬ 
ries, six cents. H. a. w. 
Lockport, Niagara Co.—We have had 
one of the most favorable springs in many 
years for everything except, possibly, barley. 
Winter wheat suffered some from the absence 
of snow in the latter part of February and in 
March, but on rich ground it now stands well 
and promises a good crop, say, a full average 
of five years. But never before did manure 
or fertilizers show moie advantageously. I 
have one field of 24 acres good for 40 bushels 
per acre. Corn was got. in early iu very good 
shape, came up well aud is now nearly as large 
as it usually is by the Fourth of July. It has 
been well worked and is pretty dean. Scarce¬ 
ly an average acreage is planted, as we find 
we can buy it as cheaply as we can grow it, 
except for the fodder, aud then it is a good 
crop, when well worked, to clean the laud, 
but, alas! it is too often only half worked or 
less. About the usual amount of bailey is 
sowed, but the weather was very dry for two 
or three weeks al ter it came up and, as a con¬ 
sequence, it is thin, and though of good color 
aud growing well, it must be a light crop— 
not over 75 per cent of a full one. Oats are iu 
similar condition, ouly having a longer jieriod 
of growth the dry weather did not injure 
them so much, ami the warm, wet weather 
now is pushing them rapidly forward, and we 
shall get an average crop. We do not raise 
rye as a crop; iu fact, I don’t know of 20 acres 
iu the county, The same is the case with 
buckwheat. Potatoes are planted ou more 
than an average acreage and are looking well, 
but I never saw the bugs more numerous aud 
many acres will be ruined. Unless Providence 
(the Lady Bug) comes to the help of the farm¬ 
ers we shall uot get 75 per cent, of a full crop, 
because there are so many careless and sloven¬ 
ly farmers who will uot fight. Root crops 
are not as largely sowu as usual. The price 
of potatoes was so high as to cause them to be 
planted ou laud intended earlier for mangels. 
Strawberries aro abundant, of good size and 
selliug well. Other small fruits promise full 
average crops now. Apples will be ouly a 
moderate crop, but of good quality and free 
from worms. Greenings blossomed full, but 
as usual on such occasions, set only a fair 
crop. Baldwins, iu most orchards, are devoid 
of fruit, hut occasionally an orchard has a 
fair crop. Maiden Blushes arc full, us usual. 
Kings have a fair crop. Russets are bare, 
and we have but few other sorts. Pours vari¬ 
able. Bartletts usually a full crop aud very 
nice. Guchesse a fan- crop in some orchards; 
in others none. Hay will be u light crop, but 
of good quality. Old aud Timothy meadows 
are quite light. Clover, where uewly seeded 
aud uot pastured last fall, is a heavy crop, but 
where fall pastured it is nearly all heaved-out. 
It would seem as though a few such lessons as 
were offered by the past, winter would con¬ 
vince farmers of the folly of pasturing new 
seeding in the fall There will be uo clover 
seed, as the midges are so plentiful that not a 
blossom shows in a square rod of ground. It 
is to be hoped that these' insects will some 
time pass away. Pastures are in good condi¬ 
tion and the grass never grew faster; but 
little stock is kept, and much of what we have 
is in the stables, as most of us think it pays 
best to cut the grass and feed it iu the barns— 
at least this practice is growing rapidly, 
j. s. w. 
Lyons, Wayne Co. — Area of wheat, 
80; com, 50; potatoes, 75; oats, 00; barley, 
100; apples, Greenings, 100; outlook for all, 
good. Grass, 100; peppermint, 125; berries, 
100; peaches, 100: small fruits of all kinds, 
100; all have au excellent prospect. J B. 
Salt Springs, Safina Co.—The area and 
condition of crops in this county are above an 
average; wheat, oats and hay will rate 120; 
small fruits and peaches, 100; apples, 50; po¬ 
tatoes and pasture grass, 100; corn, 120. The 
above are the only crops raised here to any 
extent. J. a. o. 
SHORTSVILLE, Ontario Co. —Acreage of corn 
and wheat, same as usual: oats and potatoes, 20 
to 25 per cent, more; barley, 15 to 20 percent, 
less; hay, 10 to 20 per cent. more. Peach 
trees are loaded down; apples are fair. The 
whole country is iu fine condition, and the 
crops were never better. k. d. 
Rome, Oneida Co.—This being a dairy 
county, only small areas of corn, wheat, and 
oats are grown; and of rye, barley, ami 
buckwheat still less. Potatoes are liberally 
grown, wh’le grass for pasturage and bay is 
of the greatest importance. Clover seed, 
tobacco aud flax, as well as broom corn, are 
not cultivated to any extent iu this section. 
Orcharding has failed badly the past few 
years, the trees dying badly. Small fruits 
of medium quality; drought supposed to bo 
the cause. Other crops mentioned about au 
average for the past live years. Hay aud pas¬ 
tures weedy. J. t. 
Spring Valley, Rockland Co. — The 
Crops look well. The prospect for a full hay 
crop is not as good as usual, owing to a very 
dry May, but it has been improved by late 
rains; not much wheat raised in this section, 
rye beiug the priucipal cereal crop on ac¬ 
count of the straw having a market value 
nearly equal to that of hay. Coni aud oats 
have a good stand and are in fine condition. 
Potatoes iu splendid condition, v ith prospects 
of a large crop. Apples or pears are of no 
account: one-third of a crop. Cherries are 
rotting badly, on account of rain and hot sun. 
w. i>. 
Watertown, Jefferson Co. — Ours is a 
dairy county. About the usual amount of 
farm crops planted; the season is t wo weeks 
earlier than usual. AU crops look well; much 
freer from insects than last year. Farmers 
are turning milk into veal more than ever, 
and keep it up later in the season. Many 
orchards have been nearly killed out. Pears 
are doing batter than apples. Grapes are al¬ 
ready set full, while they are usually in full 
blossom at this time. With winter protection 
this is our surest fruit crop; it. never fails us. 
Design for usu in cold climates is seen in the 
flexibility of the trunk. d. s. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
Bramans, Wayne Co.—Corn small but 
looking good; area about an average, aud 
about 15 days later than for the last three 
years. Oats good but. as late as corn; area 
fully as large as in any season; color good. 
Potatoes look fine; area larger than iu any 
previous year, but also 15 days later than 
usual. Rye, a failure. Fruits of all kinds 
will be very abundant. All garden vegetables 
late und uot up to an average. Pastures splen¬ 
did. Grass, clover aud Timothy extra-good, 
fully up to any year since 18S1, and fully for¬ 
ward. From now until July 4 is the sowing 
time for buckwheat. J. a. h. 
Chamhkusbcrg, Fraukliu Co.—Wheat 
about 40 pel* cent, of au average for last five 
years; area about the same. Corn area a 
slight increase; looks well. Oat area about 
five per cent, increase on account of reseeding 
bare wheat fields; are bouding now, and the 
outlook is very promising. Hay never better, 
and we are now harvesting it. Pastures iu 
excellent condition. Potatoes, average area. 
Orchard fruits below the average. Small 
l'ruits above the average. Vegetables looking 
very well. T. G, z. 
Fair VIEW, Erie Co.—Wheat, coni, barley, 
oats, rye, hay and grass, as compared with 
the lust live years, acreage 100; outlook 100; 
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, 100; 
peaches aud grapes, 100; pears, 80; apples, 50; 
cherries uud plums, 50; potatoes and garden 
truck, 100; onions, large increase iu acreage 
and prospect, 100. Fine showers and remarka¬ 
ble growing time, aud crops are a week to 10 
days more forward than usual. T. M. R. 
Saltsburg, Indiana Co.—Wheat crop is 
good and above the average; so are corn and 
oats. Potatoes have an excellent appearance. 
Hay, clover and pasture good. From May 20 
to June 11, we had rain almost every day: as 
it was warm it. made everything grow. Ap¬ 
ples, cherries and plums arc almost a failure; 
there was plenty of bloom and no frost to kill 
it, I don’t see why there was no fruit. Straw- 
bery one-half crop: pears and quinces, good 
average crops. There will be plenty of wild 
blackberries and raspberries w. S. 
SlirBEMANSTOWN, Cumb. Co.—The wheat 
will be above au average of the last, five years. 
Under the system of farming here, the acre¬ 
age does not vary much from year to year. 
Corn and potatoes are looking well where ad¬ 
vantage was taken of the few opportunities 
for cultivating. Fields that were neglected 
owing to the continued rain during the latter 
part of May aud beginning of June, will of 
course suffer from weeds and the poor 
mechanical condition of the soil. The grass 
crop is above the average. Oats are very 
promising, just coming in head; with favor¬ 
able conditions will likely be above the aver¬ 
age of past five years. Owing to the wot 
season, however, there is great danger of in¬ 
jury from smut. n. r. m. 
Westchester, Chester Co.—All spring 
crops are fully up to the average of past 
years. This is a dairy and grass couutry, 
and our principal crops are wheat, com aud 
oats. Wheat, is fully one-quarter short., prin¬ 
cipally on account of the exceedingly dry 
weather last fall at seeding time ami long 
after; beuoeuiuch of the graiu never came 
up. Some fields promise a full crop and 
where there is a good stand there will be 
a good crop. It is now beginning to look 
quite yellow. Fultz is the principal and 
best variety. Apples a small crop, last season 
was the bearing year. Pears will be more of 
a crop. B. s. 
West Mill Creek, Erie Co.—The past has 
been a tine, warm, growing spring, but now 
we are having a little too much rain. The 
weeds get the start of the farmer. Wheat is 
poor; outs and spring rye look good. Barley 
is not an average crop. Garden vegetables 
are growing nicely. Hay and potatoes as 
well as small and orchard fruits are all good. 
Corn ditto, _ g. W. H. 
Maryland. 
Carool, Texas Co.—Corn is very good. 
Wheat better than farmers have ever raised 
before in the county; all harvested. Oats very 
poor. Rye au average crop. We do not raise 
barley or buckwheat. Potatoes are as good 
as we ever knew them here. Garden vegeta¬ 
bles are good. Grasses are good. Orchards 
and small fruit badly injured by the hard 
freezes iu spring. j. w. J. 
Denton, Caroline Co.—Wheat and rye, 
acreage and condition full average. Corn, 
acreage full average, but not quite up to 
average at this time, owing to unfavorable 
weather; improving rapidly now. Ilay above 
average iu acreage; quality aud yield good, 
mostly secured at this time. Potatoes, full 
average. Small fruits average. Orchard 
fruits, especially peaches, have a greatly in¬ 
creased acreage. The present crop is not 
nearly so large as generally reported earlier 
in season. Sweet potatoes above an average. 
Clover seed, do. Oats, increased area; con¬ 
dition fair. A. w. K. 
Fedkralsburg, Caroline Co.—l ittle or no 
wheat was raised here twenty years ago, but 
it is fast becoming noted for its fine wheat 
fields. Harvest is in full blast now, and from 
every appearance the crop will be an average 
one. In acreage it is rather more than an 
average. With rare exceptions corn is small 
and backward. Acreage rather more than 
the average. Early potatoes are likely to 
be light unless we are favored with a good, 
soaking rain soon. Peaches, our main fruit, 
will be about half a crop. Apples a failure. 
H. F. 8. 
GUILFORD, Howard Co.—Wheat iu this 
county will be about half the usual crop. 
Corn aud grass are fail*. We don’t raise many 
oats or potatoes. Potatoes are just planted. 
Wheat harvest will commence June 27. 
J. L. G. 
Sbarptown, Wicomico Co.—As compared 
with the crops of the last five years, the pros¬ 
pects for corn aud wheat arc good. Oats are 
not much grown; what we have good. 
Among rye my two acres of the Ruhal 
Thousandfold take the lead. Potatoes and 
garden vegetables are above an average. 
We hud strawberries in abundance; shipped 
about, half the crop aud they cleared ouly 
about two cents per quart. Blackberries one- 
fourth of a crop. Not many peaches except 
early varieties. Whort.lelsjrrles plentiful. 
Fruit is our main dependence aud wo see no 
prospect of getting anything this year. It is 
s o very rainy here and we are afraid that 
wheat will mould in the shock, and grass will 
take the growing crops. j. t. e. 
Westovek, Somerset Co.—We had a dry 
spell during the latter part of May and early 
part of June, which seriously damaged Ihe 
strawberry crop. The Crystal Cities, the 
earliest variety of berry grown here, were 
almost a complete failure. Peas, too, were 
unprofitable, and there was ouly a little mon¬ 
ey iu beaus. Grass, a fair crop. Clover all 
cut. About one half of the wheat crop cut. 
Don't think wheat will turn out well. Corn 
und oats looking well. Wo had heavy rains 
last week, which were very beneficial, s. c. s. 
SOUTHERN STATES. 
Virginia. 
Charlemont, Bedford Co.—The area for 
corn and oats has increased and the outlook is 
good. Wheat and rye area decreased; outlook 
bad. Potato area the same as last year; out¬ 
look good. Both orchard and small fruits 
very short crops. Tobacco area reduced a 
third; outlook only fair. We are at present 
much in need of rain. e. l. m. 
Fakmville, Prince Edward Co.—The usual 
quantity of corn, oats and wheat has been 
seeded. Corn and oats are particularly pro¬ 
mising The wheat harvest is altont over, and 
we have an average yield of potatoes, Irish 
and sweet, and all garden vegetables are un¬ 
usually good. The fruit crop is small. Clover 
and grass very fine; good prospect for clover- 
seed. Two-thirds of the tobacco crop planted; 
outlook not very promising for this season of 
the year. n. r. h. 
Fredericksburg, Spottsylvnnia Co—A 
larger area of corn, oats and rye were seeded 
iu this section aud less wheat. All looking 
well for the season and wheat aud rye mostly 
harvested, and full average crops where fer¬ 
tilizer were used. Pastures are looking well, 
and an average crop of hay will lie saved. 
Within the last, two or three years we have 
lieen raising our own clover seed and a con¬ 
siderable quantity for sale iu some sections. 
Farmers are turning their attention more to 
stock and getting their lauds in grass, and do¬ 
ing much more of what is called “intensive 
farming” than formerly. Japan Clover is 
spreading through this section and affords 
profitable grazing on our waste uoplowed 
lands, that were heretofore considered of little 
value. It will grow and form a dense sod ou 
the poorest lands we have. a. p. r. 
Hallsboho, Chesterfield Co.—The condition 
of corn is better than it has been at any time 
since three years ago, when I came to this 
place to live. Wheat is also better. Oats 
pcor. Potatoes, both Irish aud sweet, good. 
Garden vegetables fair to good. More clover 
sown than usual. Tobacco acreage small and 
stand poor. w. w. c. 
Newport, Warwick Co.—The corn crop is 
a fair average, about. ‘.>5 per cent, as compared 
with the past five years, and about 100 in com¬ 
parison with last year’s crop. Oats good—a 
little rust. No wheat or other grain raised 
here. Garden vegetables Hue. Irish potatoes, 
a large crop planted, and the condition aver¬ 
ages over 100 as compared with the five years 
past, except last year when it was as good as 
this, except in low lands. Strawberries good, 
with small acreage. Apples, pears, peaches 
and cherries, arc nearly total failures. This 
section is devoted to early truck, and uo at¬ 
tention is paid to hay aud other forage crops. 
Garden pens were a big crop, but did not pay 
expenses. e t. 
Marion, Smyth Co.—Counting 100an aver¬ 
age for area and condition at this time during 
the last five years, our crops are now as fol¬ 
lows: Corn, area, 100; outlook, 90; wheat, 
area, 80; outlook, 80; oats, area, 100; outlook, 
75; rye, area, 50; outlook, 50; buckwheat, 
area, 100; outlook, 75; potatoes, urea, 100; 
outlook, 100; garden vegetables, area, 100; 
outlook, 100; tiay and pasture grass, area, 
100; outlook, 75; tobacco, area, 10; outlook, 
50. Binall and orchard fruits very poor. We 
have u drought now and if uot checked iu a 
few <lays it will do a great deal of damage to 
crops. J. n. s. 
Snowville, Pulaski Co.—Wheat about 25 
per cent, below an average. Corn about an 
average, lookiug well. Oats 40 and rye ‘25 
per cent, below average. Potatoes aud gar¬ 
den vegetables about an average. Orchard 
fruits 75 percent, below an average: small 
fruits are also below. Tobacco area about 80 
jier ceut. below. Buckwheat area about au 
average. Late frosts iu this seetiou killed 
fruit. Area of wheat small ou account of 
fall drought, late sowiug aud unfavorable 
winter. W. b. b. 
West Virginia. 
Clarksburg, Harrisou Co.—The area of 
corn as compared with the past live years is 
a good average, aud it is looking better thau 
usual at this season. More wheat was sowu 
