THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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fertilized. Clover seed, area, 10 per cent.; 
The weevil and root beetle doing great injury; 
not more than half as much clover sown as 
formerly. I. p. it. 
Dunkirk, Chautauqua Co., July 14. —The 
outlook for harvest has greatly changed in 
this neighborhood since the middle of June, 
in consequence of drought. Trees, shrubsaud 
grape vines uuule a stronger growth this year 
than 1 remember having seen iu 20 years. 
Corn made a good start, but suffers now from 
drought. Wheat is very little grown here,but is 
good, what there is Oats plenty sown; will not 
probably (ill well for want of rain. Barley 
good. Potatoes are suffering terribly from 
drought: will be a small crop of small pota¬ 
toes; would probably be somewhat better if 
cultivated on the level, which, alas! no farmer 
around here practices. Grapes doing well; 
peach and pear trees are more heavily loaded 
than l have ever seen them. Apple trees were 
well loaded, but the fruit is dropping badly 
now. Plum trees well loaded. Quince aud 
some apple-trees half dead with blight. Hay 
a very good crop,but half of the meadows was 
winter-killed. Pastures are poor now. 
J. a. w. 
Raisin, Lenawee Co., July 8.—Wheat on 
sandy soils good. Corn fair, but wants rain. 
Spring rye good; oats fair; hay crop good; 
early potatoes poor, and unless it rains the 
late ones will not be half a crop. The wheat 
on clay or muck is very poor. Wheat all cut 
aud mostly drawn. C. b. 
West Virginia. 
Charleston, Kanawha Co., July 15.—In 
the Kanawha Valley grass, wheat, rye, oats, 
etc., are a little below the average. Early 
potatoes very good. Apples, pears, cherries, 
plums, small fruits iu general, are almost au 
entire failure. Peaches more than an average, 
but small in size. Blackberries, raspberries 
and grapes unusually large crops. Corn looking 
well at present. We had au unusually dry, 
hot June, and July is about the same so far— 
a little rain the 5th aud 0th. k. t. t. 
Wisconsin. 
Reeve, Langlade County, July 11.—Crops 
through this northern section of Wis¬ 
consin are better than au average. Oats, 
barley, rye aud peas have a larger acreage 
than ever before, aud all look good and prom¬ 
ise au unusual harvest. Wheat not much 
grown, ow'iug to lack of facilities for flouring. 
Grass is better tlmn for several years, and 
farmers are just commencing haying. Pota¬ 
toes look well. Blueberries and red raspber¬ 
ries are now becoming plentiful. Orchard 
fruits not much grown, but farmers are com- 
meuciug in a small way. Plenty of rain siueo 
the middle of May, and pretty wann weather, 
so that stock running out have good feed in 
the timber. b. t. &. 
Ketch am, Fond du Lac Co., July 9.—Corn 
never looked better at this season. Worms 
have been very destructive. Wheat half a 
crop. Chinch bugs very bad. Oats a full av¬ 
erage. Barley three-quarters of a crop, in¬ 
jured by chinch bugs. Potatoes lookiug well, 
but damaged by drought. Gardens fair. 
Apples a total failure. Hay 80 per cent. Pas¬ 
tures very short. Drought very bad through 
May and June, Some nice rains since July. 
Grasshoppers very bad, also chinch bugs. 
H. d. p. 
Little Elk, Benton Co , July 11.—This is a 
new country. I have been here but one year. 
Old settlers report it the driest season ever 
known. Potatoes, root crops and garden 
vegetables, from half to two-thirds of an av¬ 
erage. Orchards thrifty, but cold rains, when 
iu blossom, killed fully half the fruit. Ilay 
atul clover very light. Grass fairly good. 
Stock doing well. Oats half a crop. R. 0 . 
PLUMS. —John J. Thomas says, in Green’s 
Fruit Grower, that among the plums which 
are hardy and most reliable are Lombard, 
Prince’s Yellow Gage, Imperial Gage, Bavay, 
Monroe, and Bradshaw. Of slower growth 
and not so hardy, but of excellent quality, 
are Jefferson, MeLaugbliu, Green Gage aud 
Red Draper. Coe’s Golden Drop is an admira¬ 
ble fruit whore it ripens well. Coe’s l<nte Rod 
comes long after all the ot her sorts, or early 
in November, and is worth raisiug in localities 
where there is no freezing weather till ma¬ 
ture, as for instance, along the borders of our 
lakes. There uro two mortal enemies of the 
plum, mortal because easily vanquished, 
these are the black-knot and the cureulio. 
1 be black-knot visits him every year, but 
prompt excision prevents harm. Some culti¬ 
vators fail with this remedy because they do 
not apply it in time. Mr. Thomas has been 
acquainted with the cureulio 50 years, and 
has had iu that time no difficulty iu meeting 
it by the jarring aud tbumb-and-fimror pro¬ 
cess, Mauy years ago, however, a crowd of 
other business caused him to neglect for a few 
seasons a fine young plum orchatd, which as 
a consequence gave him scarcely a peck of 
fruit. Afterwards he resolved to do hetter, 
but was confined by chronic illness, and had 
a raw hand for the work. He called him to 
his room, and asked him if he ever saw a eur- 
culio'f “Yes, sir.” “What does it look like?" 
“It looks just like an elephant:” was the re¬ 
ply. He referred to its long beak resembling 
tho elephant’s trunk. Mr. Thomas gave him 
directions iu detail, and he took entire charge. 
The result was trees bearing rich crops of 
purple and golden fruit. Many persons who 
attempt to catch the pests fail from awkward 
appliances aud intermitting work. Mr. 
Thomas’s hired man carried a stiffened sheet 
on his left arm, and tho hammer in tho right 
hand, a blow from which on an iron plug 
brings down every insect. It rolls down the 
curved sheet,and the thumb aud finger quickly 
dispatch it. It requires 15 or 20 minutes to 
go over SO trees. As the pests become fewer, 
less time is required. He catches about a 
thousand more or less, each season. The ag¬ 
gregate time required to protect a crop is 
about equal to one day, which makes the en¬ 
tire cost about five or six eouts a tree. 
Mr. Charles A. Green asks a question aud 
answers it; Can a man pay too high a price 
for a tree that fruits bountifully year after 
year iu his garden? No, not ordinarily; 
though be should buy as cheap as he earn 
Suppose he has a farm on which there are 12 
plum trees, 12 cherry. 12 apple, 12 pear, all in 
bearing, and a buyer comes to buy the farm, 
aud ho tells him he can have the farm without 
the fruit trees f<Sr 49,500, or with the fruit 
trees for ? 10,000; which offer would the buyer 
be apt to accept ? He would not want the 
farm without the fruit. He would pay the 
#10,000 or buy ehewhere. Now those 48 trees 
cost the planter say 410, or J§, or 45. The 
cost of planting and caring for them might be 
410 or 420 more, yet at the date of bearing 
they add to the salable value of the farm hun¬ 
dreds of dollars, or far more than the total 
value of the fruit would be in market, for 
they beautify the place aud make it appear 
home-like. 
As au experience, Mr. Green once threw a 
six-foot seedling pear-tree into a coruer of the 
barn where it lay, root and branch, wholly un¬ 
covered for six weeks, then planted it with 
care and it grew well. He has found apple 
trees overlooked on the field, that had been ex¬ 
posed, roots and branches, for two weeks- to 
the sun and wind, and planted them as an ex¬ 
periment after the tops had been cut back 
closely, and they ’grew and made productive 
trees. Such misused trees do not start growth 
at once. Here is a point for the novice. Trees 
and plants sent loug distances may not begin 
to show signs of life for weeks after planting, 
aud yet come on and grow vigorously later. 
Grapes, blackl>errios, red raspberries, peaches, 
etc., ofteu begin growth a mouth or six weeks 
after planting, yet most people might become 
impatient aud destroy them before the resur¬ 
rection came. Nevertheless, let us uot forget 
that these are exceptional cases, and give our 
trees immediate care, protecting the roots 
every minute from sun and wind. 
Agricultural Statistics of Nebraska. 
—The report of the State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture of Nebraska shows that the total area of 
improved laud m that State in lssti was 
7,810,Oss acres and of unimproved land 9,974,- 
481 acres. The number of farms was 119,897. 
Corn is the principal crop of Nebraska, with 
an area planted of 8,808,848 acres and a yield 
of 10-1,814,744 bushels. The area iu wheat was 
1,097,150acres aud the yield 17,521,734 bushels. 
The potato crop covered 59,777 acres and 
amounted to 0,898,905 bushels. Tho number 
of horses and mules iu the State was 404,878; 
cattle, 1,173,929; sheep,323,140; hogs, 1,054,158. 
There were in the State iu lsSO 3,005,808 fruit- 
trees. 
Fort Worth as a Wool Market. —The 
project to make Fort Worth a center for re¬ 
ceiving and preparing wool is attracting at¬ 
tention. The Gazette claims that Fort Worth 
is tho natural outlet iu that! region. Im¬ 
mense quantities of wool pass through the 
city to Boston aud Philadelphia. It is in the 
raw state and full of grease and dirt. It is 
claimed that Fort Worth possesses the only 
water available for scouring wool iu Texas. 
It is proposed to make Fort Worth a wool and 
sheep depot, with stock-yards aud scouring 
establishments. Freight on grease and dirt 
at the rate of 41.43 per 100 pounds will be 
saved, aud only the finished raw product will 
be shipped. It is also proposed to secure laud 
near the city aud sink artesian wells to fur¬ 
nish water. The paper uamed says: “If Fort 
Worth will establish these scouring plants she 
will become the greatest wool market south of 
Philadelphia, and that means great pros¬ 
perity.” 
Remedy for the Chinch Bug.— Any ef 
fective remedy for this pest must be a bless 
responsible correspondents of the North Caro¬ 
lina Progressive Farmer vouch for the efficacy 
of the following emulsion: Dissolve one-half 
pound of common soap in one gallon of water. 
Boil it, and while boiling hot. pour it into two 
gallons of kerosene oil. Churn it ami stir aud 
beat it until thoroughly mixed. Put one part 
of this to six parts of cold water and sprinkle 
or spray the bugs by using a common tin 
water sprinkler, which you can get at any tin 
shop. Fromaspecial Bulletinof the State Agri¬ 
cultural Department, we see that Prof. Atkin¬ 
son, of the University, has tried it with very 
happy results. He also says that a Mr. Wil¬ 
liam F. Stroud, of Chapel Hill, had a field of 
wheat which was infested with the pests. 
When the wheat was harvested, they imnifr- 
diately betook themselves to the corn, which 
was adjacent. Some of the corn-stalks, for a 
foot or eighteen inches above ground, were 
literally black with the mass of insects, and 
sometimes, when they could not be seen out 
side they were found in great numbers 
between the sheath of the blade and the stalk. 
Here, too, the above remedy proved a complete 
success. This is a cheap remedy within the 
reach of all. Several parties say that by 
means of it, they have saved their corn fields 
of from 20 to 50 acres. Use it at once if the 
bugs are about; if not, keep this for reference 
when they put iu an appearauce. 
TRUE INWARDNESS. 
My husband, says a lady writer in the 
Press, has paintings that cost thousands of dol¬ 
lars which he takes pleasure in showing to his 
friends. Why, she asks, should not we try to 
make on our lawus pictures that cost less, but 
are quite as beautiful i Yes. wo should say 
quite as beautiful, unless we assume that pic¬ 
tures of nature are prettier than nature her¬ 
self. 
Stephen Beale regards the Black Minorca 
as the best layer and altogether one of the 
most valuable of Euglish breeds. An objec¬ 
tion to them is their immense combs, which 
are larger than those of the Leghorn. 
The prettiest, eunuingest little chicks that 
the Rural knowsof are the Downy Plymouth 
Rocks. They are as downy, as Huffy as possi¬ 
ble. How they will look aud act when olde-, 
we shall tell our readers when the time comes. 
Our advice to readers repeated for the 
fourth year, is not to buy “ potted ” straw¬ 
berry plants... 
The editor of the Mirror aud Farmer says 
that the farmers of New Hampshire have not 
made a dollar Tor the last five years. Their 
farms are constantly depreciating in value 
aud every year they find it more difficult to 
make the ends meet. 
Prof. Tracy, of Detroit, tells us that the 
Norway Spruce is one of the best and most en¬ 
during ornamental trees for Michigan . 
Dr. Beal, ui a late Speculum, published by 
the students of tho Mich. Ag. College, says 
that to take out the Norway Spruce would de¬ 
prive us of oue of the best, if not the most 
desirable, evergreens, at least so far as he eau 
judge for 30 years. He knows of no conifer 
to take its place. The Balsam Fir, he says, is 
very handsome for 10 or 12 years, when it 
begins to dwindle. The American Arbor-vita) 
does well in damp places, but on dry ground, 
if left to itself, it soon dies in places and looks 
had.. 
Prof. Cook, the Speculum says, has dis¬ 
covered that a queen bee will lay over twice 
her own weight of eggs each day. 
The Orange County Farmer says that Prof. 
Arnold’s article on koumiss is uot kiudly re¬ 
ceived by that class of people who are ever on 
the alert for some new form of stimulation or 
for some means of popularizing old methods. 
It matters not how vile a eompound may be, 
there are always people and “Professors” 
found ready to give it a certificate of good 
character .......... 
The Husbandman says that the farmer who 
picks out his fat test aud best sheep aud lambs 
to sell will fiud, after a time, his tloek so far 
run down that nobody will care to buy. 
The fault on many so-called “woru-out” 
farms is not that the soil is too thiu, but the 
labor put upon it .. 
Mr. Armstrong says that if farmers could 
be persuaded to act together with the purpose 
of securing honest and economical administra¬ 
tion of government, t he effect would be most 
beneficent, taxes would be reduced, general 
thrift promoted aud politics purified.. 
Among the many excellent cherries which 
the veteran John J. Thomas would choose, he 
mentions, iu Green’s Fruit Grower, Coe’s 
Transparent, Early Richmond, Dyehouse 
and the large English Morcllo. 
What agriculture needs is moro horticul¬ 
ture, and that intensive farming is simply 
gardening on a large scale, says the Garden. 
The best size to seek for in the dairy cow, 
says Silas Betts in Hoard’s Dairyman, is the 
size that gives the most butter or cheese in 
proportion to cost of feed. Tin? largest cow 
of any breed is rarely, if ever, that cow. The 
medium or average size, for the breed, will 
more certainly reproduce herself in size, qual¬ 
ity and capacity to earn a profit above the 
cost of her living thau one abnormal in size. 
Neither dwarfs nor giants ure the best for the 
dairy... ... 
Sir J. B. Lawes states, iu the Mark Lane 
Express, that during most of his life he lias 
seen efforts made to prove the supreme value 
of nitrogenous elements of food, and every 
few years a grand effort is made to show that 
the laboring classes are fools for preferring 
white to brown bread. The linseed cake mak¬ 
ers, when they have pressed out the last drop 
of oil, assure us that the cake is more valuable 
as food than when it contained a large pro¬ 
portion of oil. But if he had a hag contain¬ 
ing gold, silver and copper, he would be very 
skeptical as to his receiving any advantage 
by giving one of the gold coins in exchange 
for one of the silver or copper coins. 
Here are some things not to do, as suggested 
by a writer in Hoard's Dairyman: Don’t 
think because cows will drink out of a mud 
puddle it is good enough for them.—Don’t set 
your milk in shallow pans or crocks; get a 
portable creamery, or if you can’t afford that 
just yet, have some deep, flat cans (20 inches) 
made, and set them in a tank of cold water. 
Time, labor and cream saved will soon enable 
you to buy a creamery.—Don’t let your bull 
get as fat as a seal or half starve him. Take 
the middle course.—Don’t chum after the but¬ 
ter globules are the sizeof a pin’s head.—Don’t 
lie afraid of glutting the market with No. 1 
butter.—Don’t let the calf suck the cow more 
than three days. Two are better, one best.— 
Don’t be afraid to try a small silo, or a large 
one.—Don’t use a churn with a dash in it.— 
Don’t waste your time looking for a general- 
purpose cow.—Don’t milk at six '’o’clock 
to-day, seven to-morrow, and half-past seven 
the day after.—Don’t think the cow will be 
insulted if you give her a friendly pat every 
time you ore within reach of her. Such pats 
are returned in pate of batter.... . 
There is throughout the East, says the 
Rocky Mountain Husbandman, a large num¬ 
ber of young men who desire to conic West to 
lead the life of cowboys. They have been 
reading the newspaper stories of their doings, 
and thirst for the experience. But if thev 
really knew what it was they would certainly 
cease their longings. There are at. best but few 
months work in the year, and the wages are 
not sufficient to support one the year round, 
aud then there is no demaud for this class of 
labor. And last, but uot least, the business is 
going to the wail, and it is poor policy to 
adopt a trade the palmy days of which are 
over. It is well enough for the young Mon- 
tanian to spend a few months on the range if 
he wishes, but it would be a poor thing for 
young America to leave a comfortable home 
and mine West for a l ife of so little promise.. 
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