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THE RURAL WEW-YORKER, 
each of the four years I have been here. Up¬ 
land grass is good, but as there have been no 
heavy rains (only showers) to All pools, it can 
not boused for grazing to any advantage. In 
area I hc uplands are 20 per cent., of the grass 
lands of the Territory, and if the Government" 
would encourage the boring of artesian wells 
by giving land in each township to any party 
who would sink due, wherever water might 
bo struck, what is now a desolate waste for 
want of a regular supply of water for cattle, 
would he a source of wealth to citizens and 
the nation, and in many cases water would bo 
foun 1 from 200 to 400 feet down. D. P. H. 
New York. 
Waterloo, Seneca Co., July 5. —Corn ou 
about an average area is a good stand; pros¬ 
pect favorable. Wheat less than an average 
and a little late. Oats a full average; look 
well; will be short on uccount of the weather. 
Rye more than an average. Potatoes a full 
average; look well; bugs plenty. Apples 
al out an average. Peaches a full crop for 
this place. Pasture good. Hay a little short. 
Weather very warm and dry. s. a. t. 
Ohio. 
Zanesville, Muskingum Co., July 8.— 
Wheat is not an average crop; the fly has 
caused it to straw-fall badly. Corn, potatoes 
and grass are good; oats extra good. Almost 
no fruit except pears and tierries. N. M. 
Oregon. 
Faihview, Coos Co., Juno 30.—No Corn. 
Wheat 95 percent, of an average; oats, 75; 
potatoes, 75; garden vegetables, 80; orchards, 
25; hay and grass, 100. w. B. 
Grant’s Pass, Josephine Co., July 2.— 
Wheat, oats, barley,^rye and corn have in¬ 
creased aroait and an averagu prospect. Hay 
and pasture above an average, Buckwheat, 
tobacco uud broom-corn are but little raised, 
hut the crops are above an average. Clover 
and Alfalfa have an increased area and are 
better than usual, Potatoes, root crops and 
garden vegetables above an average aud in¬ 
creased area. Generally our crops are later 
than for years. We are not bothered with 
any kind of insects; our women have too much 
sense to wear dead birds on their hats; hence 
lots of soug birds keep down iusect pests. 
Fruits of all kinds below an average. 
_ J. s. MCE. 
Petiuavlvaula. 
Bath, Northampton Co., July 10.—Wheat 
three-fourths of a full average crop for the 
last five years; corn a full crop as far as it may 
be determined at this time. Rye a whole crop. 
Huy ditto, aud hotter than for five years. 
Barley a full crop in every way. Buckwheat 
three-fourths of a crop us far as can bo judged 
now. Potatoes promise to be uu extra-good 
crop. Garden vegetables a good crop. Ap¬ 
ples, pears, poaches, plums, quinces, etc., are 
very good crops. What little llax is grown i 9 
very fine. Pasture grass aud clover seed are 
excellent. Broom corn is nearly a complete 
failure, for after it was planted the ground 
became baked and the seed could not germi¬ 
nate. Tobacco is a good crop. II. I. k. 
Tennessee. 
RicEviLr.E.McMmu Co., July 0. —The area in 
corn and the small'graius uud grasses is about 
an average compared with the last, five years. 
Taking UK) as the average, the yield of wheat 
will be 125; corn, 100; oats, 72; clover, 50; 
grass and bay, 75; garden vegetables, 100; po¬ 
tatoes, 110; apples, 10; peaches, none; pears, 
20. Prices are as follows: corn, GO cents; 
wheat 75; oats, 25; potatoes, 50; butter, 15; 
eggs, 10. _ w. C. D. 
Texan, 
Austin, Travis Co., July 2.—I estimate 
our corn crop at 30 bushels; cotton half l>ale; 
hay, three tons; oats 49 bushels per acre. 
Fruit crop almost a failure. Green fruits 
very fine. The cotton crop may bo increased 
to three-fourths of a bale if the season is 
favorable. P. b. 
Caldwell, Burleson Co., July 4. —Corn the 
best for 19 years. Oats, half crop, 20 bushels 
per ucre. Barley a very poor crop. Garden 
vegetables lino. Poaches aud plums line. 
Apples no good. Prairie hay, half tou per 
acre. Grass tine. w, w. s. 
Dayton, Columbia Co , July 4 —Wheat, 
oats and barley, good averages. Corn, pota¬ 
toes uud garden vegetables look healthy, but 
are late. Orchard and small fruits are about 
an average. Pasture aud meadows are fair. 
The arcus are about the Seville ns last year. 
W. 8. c. 
Van Ai.styne, Grayson Co., July 3.—Com¬ 
pared with uu average for the last five 
years, cotton, corn ami oats this year 
are as follows: 139 represents the area of 
cotton; and the prospect is 110; corn area, 
150, prospect, 120; oats are already harvested; 
area, 125, prospect, 80. Wheat is uot raised 
much here. The area is 150, prospect, 125. 
It is running up to 35 bushels per aero in some 
places. Potatoes, garden vegetables and or¬ 
chard fruits are only raised to a small extent; 
they are full average crops. Although this 
part of Texas can produce every crop that is 
raised in temperate zones, the people stick to 
cotton as their main dependence. This dis¬ 
trict includes Grayson and Collin Counties, 
which are called the best portion of the State. 
_ P. A. R. 
Washington Territory, 
ELLENSBURGH, Kittitass Co., July 3.— 
Wheat, oats and barley are one-third hotter 
than usual. But little fruit. Potatoes good. 
Hay light. No corn. Gardens poor. Rye 
good. Cattle on the range look well. Grain 
and bay crops will he two weeks later than 
usual this year. r. d. t. 
Advantages of Soiling. —The N. Y. 
Times reasons that if, as is claimed for soiling, 
oue cow can be kept ou one acre the year 
round, and a cow can be made to bring 350 
a year of gross iucomo, the proceeds of au 
acre of laud may then be made to reuch this 
sum, w hich is more thau three times as 
much as the average yield of ordinary 
farm crops. The advantage of soiling 
is, then, apparently so great that every 
farmer who can should certainly make a prac¬ 
tice of it whenever circumstances are favora¬ 
ble. But it is labor which conquers all things; 
aud lubor is necessary for successful practice 
of soiliug. This is the great bugbear which 
frightens people who forget or ignore the 
fact that if 10 cows are kept ou 100 acres of 
land farmed in the ordinary manner with an 
expenditure of a certain amount of labor, if 
by soiling 100 cows can be kept on the same 
100 acres, there must be 10 times as much labor 
expended. Of-course, the profit will be in¬ 
creased iu the same ratio, if the labor is as 
effective iu the larger business as iu the 
smaller. 
Choosing Sheep —Henry Stewart says that 
more mistakes are made iu choosing sheep 
thau in any other business in agriculture. 
This is chiefly because of our hot summer 
climate and the ill adaptation of the most 
popular sheep for the excessive heats of our 
summers. Most people like big things: big 
horses, big cows, and big sheep, and the big 
stories told of these are oftcu delusive. Cer¬ 
tainly this is true of the largo English breeds 
which have been quite profitable in their own 
country—to the breeders, who have found 
profitable markets for t heir rams and lambs. 
These sheep have heavy bodies, heavy, loose, 
o;am fleeces of long, coarse wool, and are ex¬ 
cessively given to making fat. To thrive 
they require most liberal feeding upon fodder 
crops, roots, gram, and oil cakes. But when 
brought from the moist climate of England, 
with the rape, mangels, American com, and 
cotton-seed meal, and subjected to our exces¬ 
sive winter cold, the dry hay and spare liv¬ 
ing, the poor pasture and the intolerable sum¬ 
mer heats they fall victims to all the ills 
which make sheep “au unhappy flock.” And 
yet thousaudM of farmers are misled by the 
pictures iu agricultural papers to give large 
prices for these sheep, which are wholly un¬ 
fitted for our climate aud keeping, except for 
the sole purpose of crossiug upou our more 
hardy natives. 
WIDE-AWAKE ITEMS. 
Modesty is a great virtue among the edi¬ 
tors of agricultural papers, says Editor 
Stiles... 
The Weekly Press Editor has just seen a 
Igi France Rose that has stood unprotected for 
throe yours ou the wiudy summit of Bergen 
Hill, opposite New York. It has yielded 
roses ©very day for a mouth, aud is breaking 
out still with young wood. I.4Wt year it kept 
constantly iu bloom till frost. La Franco is a 
grand rose—the sweetest of roses. We wish 
we had L’ Americana to equal it. 
The Rural knows of a case occurring with¬ 
in two weeks where, at its suggestion, some 50 
1 ice-infested chicks were cleansed in au hour 
by the use of pyrethruin powder. It is a safe, 
positive, cleanly and easily-applied remedy. 
Try it, readers, but be suro you get fresh 
powder...... 
Now is the time to cultivate and weed the 
strawberry beds. .Spado up between the rows 
ami keep this space mellow aud free from 
weeds until frost. Then mulch. 
“Extremes meet” and show us that a mid¬ 
dle course is best. Diligently has tho Rural 
tried every method of celery raising it could 
hear of, and its conclusion is that a six- : nch 
trench is better than auy other method. 
No strong drinks—no gambling at the agri¬ 
cultural fairs. Ho say we all—all who have 
the farmer’s good name at heart. 
A new noezto called “Climax” is advertised 
for spraying orchards and gardens. 
The Puritan Rose is called an ever-blooming 
hybrid perpetual. It is said to l>e absolute 
perfection iu every way... 
Uncle Esek has some wise things to say in 
the last Century. Here are a few: Vanity 
perhaps has made more people polite, and 
even endurable, than has any on© of the vir¬ 
tues. Mau may not. reach perfection, but he 
can reach for it: this is all that is required of 
him. Be a mau first, and then you cau be a 
gentleman at your leisure? If a mau has real 
merit, there is nothing that will bring him 
into notice so well us abuse. The man who is 
vain of his wealth only proves that he thinks 
more of his money than of himself. Beware 
of the still man; he is getting your size, and 
concealing his own. The wisdom of the past 
has come to us iu sentences, not pages. 
Thoroughly wash the udders, wipe with a 
towel aud milk with dry hands. It is very 
important to do so if gilt-edged butter be 
desired, says the Dairyman. 
A. S. Fi ller, oue of our best grape author¬ 
ities, says that Moore’s Diamond is far supe¬ 
rior in quality to tho Niagara or Martha. 
The law establishing the new College of 
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in North 
Carolina says, according to the Industrialist: 
“Every student iu this college . . . shall be re¬ 
quired to take a course of manual training or 
labor.”...... 
The Mass. Ploughman says that a “new 
tomato, introduced under the name of “Ital¬ 
ian Wonder," is a distinct variety. It is pear- 
shaped ; the Hash is thick aud nearly wanting 
in seeds. It is dwarf in growth anil quite pro¬ 
lific of large, fine-colored fruit." We raised 
several plants of a variety by the above name 
two years ago. It proved to be about the 
same as the old Pear-shaped Tomato. 
Our contributor of other yours, Prof. J. M. 
McBryde, will accept tho presidency' of the 
Tennessee University, where he was a profes¬ 
sor prior to his acceptance of the presidency 
of the South Carolina College... .. 
It has been found In the United States, says 
the Loudon Live Stock Journal, that iu tho 
testing of cows for milk and butter, the feed¬ 
ing of the animals has such an important 
bearing as to make the present system of pri¬ 
vate tests almost useless. “Hark Comstock,” 
a well known authority, says he had always 
advocated the widest liberty as to food during 
the tests, only stipulating that milk should not 
bo fed. But he uow declares that the unex¬ 
pected interpolation of the influence of special 
feeding upon tho butter test lists has shaken 
previous public estimate of comparative 
values, and led to a perplexing complication 
of tbe question. The questou is now asked: 
What proportion of the test is due to tho real 
superiority of the cow, aud what proportion 
to unusual skill in preparatory feeding aud 
special rations ?.. 
“Hark Comstock” remarks that if a satis¬ 
factory testing system could be established, at 
stations chartered aud maintained exclusively 
for that purpose, whore auy owner could send 
a cow for a ststudurd test of 250 to 300 days 
with tiio certainty of responsible care and 
scientific handling, just as they can now send 
a trotting colt to a truck aud have him 
trained or trotted, there would be any amount 
of competition, aud gieat prices would 
quickly be paid for cows that could w iu...... 
Tuk subject, he says, will never expand 
greatly iu this wuy with no better reliance 
thau tho private test system; uor is the Official 
inspection of a private test by' a committee 
appointed by the club a satisfactory war¬ 
rantee; nor is u seveu days’ tost a satisfactory 
basis of computing value. “A sweepstakes 
race between cows all under one management 
and with equal chances—all to come fresh 
within a specified period of time—would be 
the most lutorestiug subject that ever ani¬ 
mated the community of Jersey breeders. 
Competition thus defiuitely shaped aud con¬ 
trolled would quickly draw' atteutiou from 
outside the preseut circle of butter-cow fnu- 
ciers.”. 
CoMMiiKie vtio.ns Rkckivkd rou tub Wkek Ending 
July 16, las?. 
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