THE RURAL WEW-YORKIR, 
been organized to complete the canal in two 
years and a half. “SoiTy for Minneapolis!” 
exclaims the Chicago Tribune, which sees in 
the impossibility of a lack of power at any 
time a basis for the belief that the wheat now 
ground in the Flour City will be ground in 
transit at Sault, where water transportation 
is available for eight months in the year, and 
the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific will 
compete when navigation on the lakes is 
closed. 
Cncnjuiljcrf. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Canada. 
Roxton Falls. P. Q. —The weather, during 
the past two months has been very hot and 
dry th rough the western part of the Province 
of Quebec. The hay crop is better than we 
expected. Corn was splendid three weeks 
ago, but it is now drying. The potato crop 
will be light. Peas are good. Barley and 
wheat not so good as last year. Oats will av¬ 
erage 90. The apple crop is good in the Mon¬ 
treal section, and light in our part. The Ru¬ 
ral watermelons and tomatoes are splendid. 
Cheese factories doing well. Last sale for 
June, nine cents, July 10 cents. Farmers are 
talkiug commercial union with our neighbors, 
and stick for it. There will be a meeting of 
the leading farmers of the county at Sbefford 
Mountain to make arrangements for a com¬ 
mercial picnic there in August. The people 
in the county are taking a deep interest in the 
proposed picnic. j. L. L. 
Colorado. 
Canon City, Fremont Co.—One of our 
most profitable crops is steers, fed on Uncle 
Sam’s free pasture, which is ahead of average 
years in most parts of this and Custer Count¬ 
ies. The Beckwith Brothers whose range is 
in these two counties recently told me they 
would have 700 to 800 three-year-olds to turn 
off this year. The next best crop is Alfalfa, 
which comes to blossom aud yields three full 
crops and a small fourth one each season, aud 
yield ing an average,on the best niauaged farms, 
of six tous per acre. This is au exceptionally 
favorable season so far for it, as also for corn 
and vegetable crops. Gardening for mountain 
markets is a tine industry in this county. 
The fruit interests of this locality are year by 
year increasing. This is much better than an 
average year. In berries some marvelous 
yields have been gathered. Editor Felton's 
ten-acre orchard only six years set, is loaded 
down with fruit so that tne branches have to 
be propped up. He sold *7tiU worth of straw¬ 
berries this year from au acre and a half, and 
part of that atuoug trees. His Snyder Black¬ 
berries are so loaded with luscious berries that 
there is hardly room for leaves on the canes. 
One of the marvels of this region is, that 
though a mile high, the different fruits ripen 
as early in the season as w ith you. The spri ug 
was much frostier than common, and the won¬ 
der is that there is any fruit at all,thin ice being 
formed near trees two or three times when they 
were in bloom, yet they are Loaded. Our 
Early Harvest apples were ripe for the Fourth 
of July, aud tuey as well as the Red Astra- 
chaus were all gone about the loth. There are 
several orchards and vineyards iu this county 
of from 10 to 40 ueres, w hile nearly every im¬ 
proved lot iu this place is full to overflowing 
with trees and vines. The collieries iu this 
county are turning out much more coal this 
summer than iu any season before—about 750 
tons per day, which is beiug sold and stored 
up for winter use in Kansas markets, besides 
what the Colorado towns take as well as the 
Nebraska market and the railroads. The 
yield of coal oil from the Florence wells aud 
two refineries, has,increased fifty fold from 
former production, and already Fremont 
County oil supplies the State of Colorado, 
The Royal George Hot Springs recently im¬ 
proved for u winter resort near Canon City, is 
nearly filled by summer resort guests from 
Boston. o. f. n. 
Kalina*. 
Labktha, Nemaha Co., August 1.—No rain 
siuce July H. Ground very dry. Corn wilt¬ 
ing. Thermometer from 90° to 108°. it. u. 
PARSONS, Labette Co., Aug. 2. —Since my 
last, u couple of weeks ago, we have had half 
an inch of rain. The heat has been continu¬ 
ous, ranging from 85 to 94 degrees at 12 m. 
We had heavy dews, all the season, till a week 
ago, when they suddenly ceased. Low, sternly 
barometer continuously. Wheat and oats 
continue to prove good crops. Apples are fall¬ 
ing off. Regarding the great staple, corn, 
1 report that the crop is made. Rains and 
drought now will not affect it. The early 
sorts, or early planting, or good soil, or good 
tillage, will give a very good crop, while the 
reverse will give from a poor to a middling 
crop. j. h. 
Strong City, Chase Co., July 31.—The 
weather has been very dry since July 1. 
Small grains nearly a failure. Corn about 
half a crop. Irish potatoes are about an av¬ 
erage where early varieties were planted. 
Grass about half a crop. Chinch bugs very 
bad. Pastures are drying up fast. The Ru¬ 
ral is above par. N. a. h. 
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Michigan. 
TtrORNViLLK, Aug. 4. —The most valuable 
thing in this year’s Rural Free Seed Distri¬ 
bution is the Red Valentine Bean, its good 
points being earliness aud productiveness. 
Planted May 1, it was dead-ripe August 1, 
having from 30 to 40 pods on a bush. North¬ 
ern Pedigree Sweet Corn is too dwarfish. It 
was planted in good soil and well eared for; 
but the tallest stalk is only 3j^ feet high. It 
is hardly as early as the Cory, aud the ears 
are smaller, hut there are a great many of 
them. It might do better in a good season. 
We are having the worst drought that has 
ever been in Michigan at this time of the year. 
There are no good crops except wheat aud 
bay, everything being more or less injured. 
The greatest damage is to corn and potatoes; 
these, if rain falls immediately, may be half 
crops. There is no pasturage on uplands. 
Gardens, where not kept well cultivated, are 
nothing. Young seeding is pretty much 
dead and June clover seed is a total failure. 
Fires are doing a good deal of damage, espe¬ 
cially along the railroads. This has been the 
hottest summer in the 3»3 years during which I 
have lived in Michigan, the thermometer hav¬ 
ing been 90° or upwards on 10 days—hottest, 
98° on the 17th ult. This morning there are 
great hopes that the drought will soon be 
broken. D. c. 
Minnesota. 
Mentor, Polk Co., July 29.—Wheat is about 
ready to harvest. It is singular, but a fact 
that the crop on the poorest laud is ahead of 
that on our good land in appearance of the 
grain this year. The latest spring frosts did 
not seem to do so much damage on the light 
soil; while our best land was so badly frozen 
that the wheat that was left has had a hard 
struggle to keep ahead of the weeds. Oats 
will be a light crop in this section. Potatoes 
good. Fruits almost an entire failure. Vege¬ 
tables poor. Hay is not very good and owing 
to damp, cloudy and muggy weather, it is 
almost impossible to gather it. Last season 
was so dry that a good many of us had our 
hay all burnt up. This season it is so wet I 
am afraid the result will be nearly the same 
as last year—no bay in winter. Some of the 
farmers have cut the hay and raked it up 
when there were two inches of water on the 
ground. Unless the weather changes soon we 
will have a good deal of trouble to save our 
grain, as there is so little sunshine that the 
wheat will have a tendency to sprout in the 
shock. F. A. H. 
Montana. 
Coma, Missaula Co., July 27.—The outlook 
for crops of all kinds never was better. The 
exceptionally heavy snowfall last winter fur¬ 
nished an abundant supply of water, and 
melting slowly last spriug left the ground iu 
splendid condition for seeding. Wheat and 
oats are the leading crops. Considerable in¬ 
crease in acreage over last year, and the grain 
is in an unusually fine condition. Root crops 
arc quite promising. Garden vegetables, 
always good, are simply immense, although 
some of the bottom-lands were overflowed, 
yet I thiuk the hay crop shows a considerable 
increase. Small fruits are abundant, while 
the apple crop on the few orchards in bearing, 
is very promising. But little barley or buck¬ 
wheat sown. a. c. 
New Mexico. 
Aztec, San Juau Co., July 20.—This county 
is a corner iu Northwestern New Mexico, 
which has a very healthful climate aud a fer¬ 
tile soil. The country has been settled only 
about eight years, but there are already some 
nice farms and small orchards. The climate 
seems to be perfectly adapted to fruit grow¬ 
ing, although wo will not have much fruit this 
year on account of late frosts, w hich killed 
nearly all the blossoms. Grapes do extra well 
here, atul there will lie a good crop this season. 
Small fruits have not been tried to any extent 
yet, but what have been set out are doing 
well. About the only hay crop raised is Al¬ 
falfa, and it grows extra well ou our soil. 
After the first year it makes three or four 
crops a year aud \ ieltls from a ton to a ton and 
a half to the acre, aud there seems to be no 
limit to the number uf years it will last. Corn 
is about the only grain raised, and t he outlook 
for a good crop is favorable. Vegetables 
grow to perfection w ithout the aid of auy fer¬ 
tilizer. Farming is done altogether by irriga¬ 
tion, uud the Animas River has a good fall 
and plenty of water, so we don't have much 
trouble with our ditches. Cattle raisiug (or 
rather letting cattle raise themselves) has been 
u paying business for some time, but the range 
is so overstocked that stock w ill have to be fed 
iu winter pretty soon, and that does not suit a 
Western stockman. s. e. k. 
Ohio. 
Oxford, Butler Co., August 5.—The weath¬ 
er is still fearfully dry here—less than an inch 
of rain in eight weeks. There has not been a 
time since June when there was moisture 
enough so that we could plant or transplant. 
Corn will make less than 50 per cent, of a 
crop ou an average, and on many farms not 
over 10 per cent. Potatoes not over 15 per 
cent, of an average. w. f. b. 
Oregon. 
Eagle Point, Jackson Co., July 20.—Acre¬ 
age of wheat 20 per cent, short; yield an aver¬ 
age. Oats, barley and hay good averages. 
Corn will lie 40 per cent, short. Potatoes an 
average. Root crop 50 per cent, short. Garden 
vegetables 50 per cent, short Apples half a 
crop. Peaches none. Scarcely any pears, 
and plums an average. Small fruits 50 per 
cent, short. Pasture grass an average. The 
season has been unusually dry; no rain to 
benefit crops since early in May. l. r. 
Tennessee, 
Flat Creek, Bedford Co., July 25.— Crops 
are badly damaged owing to the want of rain. 
I don't thiuk corn can make over half a crop. 
Wheat was very good—quality the best we 
have had for several years. Oats short on 
account of the drought. Hay aud pastures 
the shortest I ever saw for this time of the 
year. Rye about an average. I thiuk clover 
seed will be a failure. Apples are very good 
for the off year. Peaches none on account of 
the late frost. Garden vegetables damaged 
very badly by the dry weather. w. t. 
Teiu. 
San Antonio, Bexar Co., July 22.—We had 
no rain from September 12 till May 10, so all 
crops are very late. Corn very little planted; 
it did well for a short time, but was soon 
burned up, and is now dead. Cotton was 
planted six weeks late; it did well till 10 days 
ago, but it is now suffering for want of rain. 
More than double the average area was plant¬ 
ed, but unless it rains soon—which cannot be 
expected here at this time of the year—it will 
be as bad a failure as last year. No fruits, 
vegetables, or hay. Grass burned up. Corn 
and cotton are about the only crops that we 
expect to make anything of. and they often 
faiL Sometimes we get a few of the quick¬ 
growing, early vegetables east of here on the 
sandy land. They do better on this black 
land, but they do not arnouut to much with¬ 
out irrigation. This is too far west for suc¬ 
cessful farming. East it is better; only 20 
miles east of us they have good crops, while to 
the west they are worse than here. j. m. 
Utah. 
Ashley, Uintah Co., July 24.—Crops poor 
all on account of no rains up to 1st of July, 
but we have had some fine rains since. All 
crops have to be irrigated. A large amount 
of fruit was set last spring, and there is more 
to come this fall and next spring. s. 
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Barron, Barron Co., Aug. 8. —The princi¬ 
pal crops in this portion of Northwestern 
W isconsin are huy and potatoes. The pros- 
jiects for a good potato crop are excellent. 
W ild hay ou marshes is heavy aud a large 
quantity is being cut. The tame hay ou the 
uplands is a fair crop, but has been considera¬ 
bly diminished by the excessively dry season. 
Wheat is almost a total failure on account of 
the chinch bugs, which also have done much 
damage to oats, although this crop will still be 
a good one. Although this is considered by 
no means much of a corn country, yet the 
present stand is one to attract attention. 
This county is exceptionally well situated for 
farmers and their products, being the nearest 
county to the lumber and mining regions 
north and east, which is capable of being 
farmed. There is scarcely any good farming 
laud iu the couuties north and east of us, the 
country beiug mainly a wilderness of saud 
and rock interspersed with hemlock and 
tamarack swamps, with occasional ridges of 
hard wood. This county is almost altogether 
made up of well-wooded lands covered with 
sugar maple, ash, birch, red and white 
oak, basswood, etc., and contains but very 
little sand, swauip, or hilly laud. The soil is 
mainly a gravelly loam and is first-class. It 
is well watered with beautiful rapid streams 
flowing iu beds of gravel, with water pure 
and clear as crystal, and abundantly stocked 
with brook trout, pike, bass and other game- 
fish. The sluggish, muddy streams of the 
limestone region are unknown iu Barron 
County. It is traversed by t hree great rail¬ 
way lines: the M. S. Ste M. & A.., and two 
branches of the Omaha road: still other roads 
are rumored, Barron, the county seat, is nicely 
situated on Yellow River, iu the geographical 
center of the county, and surrounded by ex¬ 
cellent land, as good as any iu the State, w hich 
can be bought for #5 to $10 per acre. We are 
ou the great ** Soo” railway line, only four 
hours distant from St. 1'aul, Minneapolis and 
Eau Claire, and but little further from the 
ports on Lake Superior. Two saw-mills cut¬ 
ting 60,000 feet per day, two stave factories, a 
woolen mill running three looms and a first- 
class roller grist mill running night and day 
and then unable to keep up with orders, are 
among our local industries The “Soo” 
road east of us, 300 miles to the Sault Ste. 
Marie, passes through an almost unbroken 
wilderness of a lumbering and mining 
country, which is worthless for farming 
purposes, and for many years to come will 
afford a first-class market at extra prices, for 
all that the farmers of this country can 
produce. All the extra hay for 20 miles 
ai’ouud, was shipped from here to log¬ 
ging camps on the line, last winter, at an 
average figure to the farmer (after baling) of 
$11 per ton. Timothy seems almost indigenous 
here, old roads whereon it has beeu hauled in 
past winters, showing everywhere a fine 
growth of the grass springing up from the 
seed so scattered; it is often sown without 
plowing the ground, simply harrowed in, and 
produces ordinarily from one and one-half to 
three tons per acre. Notwithstanding our 
many advantages, land is cheap and abund- 
aut at present, which is accounted for by our 
being out of the way of ordinary travel, aud 
by the fact that the odd-numbered sectious 
here were a part of a disputed land grant un¬ 
til 1878, when the legislature settled the mat¬ 
ter and the lauds were put upon the market. 
Although we have never had a boom, yet our 
growth has been large and constant, as shown 
by the census. In 1870 the population of Bar¬ 
ron County was 538; in 1875, 3,737; in 1880, 
7,023; and in 1885,13,596. t. w. p. 
Communications Received for the Week Ending 
August 13,1887. 
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