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the drought, except fall wheat, which was 
short only in the straw. I had a good crop of 
fall wheat, however, with long straw; it was 
lodged in some places c mstderably, but the 
grain turned out about SO bushels to the acre. 
Cows pay the best with those that had green 
feed to cut for them, and 1 had four acres of 
Western corn, aud peas and oats. j. l. 
Delaware. 
Dover, Kent Co., Nov. 23 —This week the 
weather is quite like winter, freezing hard at 
night, and farmers have begun to butcher 
porkers. In some sections corn is not nearly 
all husked; it is a fair crop. What an aver¬ 
age would be I cannot say; some farmers re¬ 
port their crops as high as 00 to 70 bushels per 
acre, hut this is only on the very best soil in 
the State Wheat has got a splendid start and 
is all that could be wished. Stock is still 
on pasture. Fanners that have their fall 
work doue are now hauling out manure or 
plowing sod ground, for spring planting. 
Poultry canning will bpgin here next week 
and will continue as long as poultry can be 
bought. Oysters and fish in abundance. 
Gunning is rather poor sport here this fall as 
game is scarce except on the marshes along 
the coast. Corn is being marketed in small 
quantities at -K) cents. Late potatoes and 
cabbage almost a total failure. Wheat 73 
cents; oats 30 cents; corn (old) 50 cents; 
pork $0 per cwt.; beef eight cents to Hi cents: 
turkeys 10 cents to 11 cents; chickens and 
ducks 9 cents to 10 cents: eggs 22; butter 25; 
wages on farm 50 cents and board, a. g. s. 
England. 
Pile, Barnstaple, Devon, Nov. 9,—We have 
had a very dry season here, hut; the crops of 
wheat are exceptionally good in this district, 
mine being about 40 bushels per acre. The 
barley, and oats and roots are much below the 
average, but liny is generally an average and of 
first-rate quality. Potatoes are a good crop 
and bring a fair price. Prime Devon beef. 
11s. per 20 pounds (13'. cents per pound): 
inferior Devon beef, I Os. per 20 pounds (12’j 
cents per pound); good fresh cows, about £14 
each ($68.13); good wether mutton, fid per 
pound (12 cents); ewe mutton, 5d. per pound 
(10 cents); wheat, about 4s. per bushel fits 
cert'); barley and oats. 2s. fid. (61 Va cents). 
Hogs are uot raised Here to any great extent, 
and only for home consumption. A good 
deal of the winter wheat has been sowed, and 
in first-rate order: what is up is looking well. 
Straw is a most valuable crop bore—now £3 
per ton ($14.66). Hay ts worth £5 per ton 
($24.33). 1 am growing some American pota¬ 
toes and they have turned out splendid. I 
have 56 bushels from about 30 rods of land. 
R. H. p. 
IlltnoU. 
Champaign, Champaign Co , Nov. 22.—We 
are having unusually bright and flue Iudian 
summer days and nights, and have had them 
for several weeks, with rare interruptions of 
either rain or sharp frosts. So far. the drought 
continues and water is scarcer than ever. In 
many, perhaps a majority of cases, the extra 
cost ot feeding and watering stock, and the 
expense of digging common wells and sinking 
those of iron tubing this year of drought, 
will more than equal the profits on crop or 
stock sold, and the year’s work will be a loss 
to all, and in some cases a large one. lu addi¬ 
tion to these outgoings we have others for po¬ 
tatoes, vegetables and fruit, und the spectacle 
is presented in our market towns of car-load 
after car-load of potatoes coming in. while in 
former yews an equal number were loaded 
and went out. For Central Illinois east of the 
90th meridian, south of Kankakee aud uorth 
of Mattoou, where there was a very heavy 
corn crop iu IHSfi, a great deal of the old corn 
is still in farmers' hands,and will be held for 50 
cents. The new crop is not only poor m qual¬ 
ity but light—not 10 bushels per acre for the 
total acreage planted. Wheat made a fair 
stand and got a good start, but the long-con¬ 
tinued dry weather is bogiuning to tell ou ex¬ 
posed surfaces, knolls aud ridges, with the 
fear that should we have a dry, bare ground 
in winter the crop will be seriously damaged, 
if not lost. B. f. j. 
Morrison vi i, le, Christian Co., Nov. HI.— 
Not enough rain to lay the dust has fallen since 
SeptemlH'r 30. We are liuviug a dry blizzard 
to day—a terrible nortwest hurricane and 
dust Hying like snow. We’ve been dried up 
and now we are blowing away. In many 
parts of this sectiou cattle are suffering severe¬ 
ly for want of water, and even human beiugs 
are exposed to typhoid fever and other ail¬ 
ments from the bad character of what they 
can get to drink. F. G. 
Kansas. 
Peabody, Murion Co.. Nov. Hi. The Rural 
seeds were failures with me, as the drought 
aud chinch bugs got away with everything. 
Crops were tolerably good, Home pieces of 
corn will make hi bushels to the acre, while 
others are a failure. Oats fair—as high as 50 
bushels to the acre. Wheat, little sowu aud 
yepy poor, J )jke,tbo R Y .well. j. u, z, 
Advantages ok Fast-Wat,king Horses. 
—Profits are small ou the farm arid all waste 
must be prevented “to make both ends 
meet.” Waste of time is one of the things to 
be looked after as closely as anything else, 
and with it the kind of horses that are kept 
has considerable to do Compare the distance 
traveled in a day by a strong, sturdy, fast¬ 
walking team, says the English Agricultural 
Gazette, with that which a slow, creeping 
team will travel, and the difference will be 
surprising. If this difference of a day is so 
noticeable, what must that of a year or the 
average lifetime of a horse be? If the slow 
team pulls a plow or draws a load but20 miles 
per day, while the other covers 25 miles with 
as little fatigue, it is easy to calculate what 
the differeuce would be m a year, and how 
long it. would take to gain a whole year’s time 
by using the active instead of the slothful 
horses. As the most of farm work is done at 
the walking gait, it is then the duty of the 
farmer to look after the walking qualities of 
the horses lie breeds, as much as it is for those 
who breed fast horses to look after the speed- 
producing qualities of the horses they rear. 
While much depends upon the training of a 
horse as to whether he is a fast walker or not, 
there is a great deal iu the breeding. Home 
horses are naturally fast walkers, and, like 
natural fast trotters or pacers, can stand to 
work at their natural gait much better than 
those which acquired the habit of walking fast 
by being pushed. Active, energetic horses, 
with au inclination for getting over the ground 
with a strong, square walk, will be more apt 
to produce colts that will be a success in this 
direction, than clumsy horses with sleepy dis¬ 
positions. and these points should be consid- 
ered when selecting for breeding purposes. 
Drawbacks in Sorghum Sugar-Making. 
—Granting that sugar making is the certain 
success claimed by the managers of the Fort 
Scott factory, says Prof. Shelton in the In¬ 
dustrialist. it yet remains true (1) that the 
sorghum factory can be no great advantage 
to the town iu which it is located, for the rea¬ 
son that necessarily it must be idle during a 
large part.—probably three-fourths—of every 
year, and (2) at the price now paid for sorghum 
cane at the factor} - , $2. (Hi per ton—a figure 
which, by the way, is more likely to be re¬ 
duced than increased—the business of sor¬ 
ghum-raising, even for those who live near 
the factory, will bring the farmer to bank¬ 
ruptcy a little faster aud with greater eer- 
taiuty than any other branch of the art of 
agriculture of which we know anything. It 
is true that sugar-making in Louisiana has 
been a losing business for years; while in the 
West Indies, where ribbon cane is indigenous, 
growing with the certainty and luxuriance of 
a weed, this same business of sugar-making 
has reduced many of those beautiful islauds 
to a condition bordering ou savagery. 
Early Breeding.— No farmer should un¬ 
dertake early breediug with the hope that the 
March winds will lie tempered to save his pigs, 
if they are farrowed in a fence coru.-r. The 
coming March may be as quiet aud gentle as 
a lamb, favoring the improvident pig grower. 
While there is always a possibility of this con¬ 
dition of affairs, it is entirely safe to prepare 
for the worst. If you cannot shed against the 
fiercest wiuds, you had better uot allow the 
pigs to come at that time, says the National 
Stockman. 
FINALLY. 
Pres. Chamberlain expresses himself, in 
the Albany Cultivator, as iu favor of discard¬ 
ing grain sacks iu favor of bushel boxes. He 
ordered 125 for the college farm, and the fore¬ 
man says they will pay their cost this year in 
the saviug of labor iu haudliug about 10 acres 
of experiment potatoes—some 90 kinds. 
The boxes are made of bass-wood, half-inch 
thick, bound with light galvanized hoop iron. 
The edge is grooved a little, aud the binding is 
fitted on by machinery as neatly as a tailor 
would bind a coat edge and press it. On ar¬ 
rival the boxes are nailed together and a band 
is nailed entirely around each end. A hand¬ 
hole is cut at the place of manufacture by 
machinery, near the upper edge of each end 
of each box. The boxes are about lfi inches 
square, and are light, strong, durable, cheap 
ami most convenient. 
They may he shipped to any part of the 
United states “iu kuock down’ by freight 
cheaper than they can be made iuauy locality 
except by special machinery aud in quantity. 
They cost about 20 cents each. 
The National Stockman saysthat with some 
farmers crossing breeds is a stroug hobby— 
stropgej> t hpi) it should lie, we are convinced 
The conditions that have made this belief so 
stroug with so many farmers are that when 
they get a good breed of hogs they in-breed 
till they fail in quality: and any infn'ion of 
new blood will improve their quality, and 
from this they spring to the conclusion that 
the crossing of all breeds is beneficial, and 
that, a cross-bred animal is better than a pure 
one ... 
Take a half-inch or three-eighths rope, 
double it, pass it around the body of the cow 
forward of the udder, bringing the ends 
through the loop, draw tight and make fast 
with a slip-knot, and the cow will not kick, 
says a friend of Mr. Coburn’s Indicator, be¬ 
cause she can’t arch her back. A cow does 
not kick unless she gets her back up. 
Experiments conducted at the Experiment 
Station at Uniontown, Ala., according to a 
bulletin just received, show that the average 
yield of corn on drained laud was 36.84 bush¬ 
els to the acre. The average yield without 
drainage was 24.02 bushels per acre. Drain¬ 
age therefore caused an increase of 53.4 per 
cent. There was neither excessive rainfall 
nor drought during the season. 
Another series of experiments was con- I 
ducted to compare the effects of shallow with 
deep cultivation. A loss of 86 pounds of seed 
cotton pier aero in one year aud 109 pounds 
the next, aud four bushels of corn per acre, as 
the result of root-prumng, had already beeu 
reported iu previous bulletins. Ou the drained 
plat they find a gain, by shallow cultivation 
throughout over deep culture first ami second 
plowiugs, of 4.95 bushels per acre, or 4G.fi per¬ 
cent. On the undraiued plat a gaiu of 4.45 
bushels per acre is shown, or 21.7 pier cent, 
gain upon the deepi mlture. 
We believe it to be quite true, as the Amer¬ 
ican Cultivator says,that the less capital a far¬ 
mer has, the greater the necessity of confin¬ 
ing his operations within a limited area. 
Many a farmer ueeds to sell half his farm 
to secure means for properly cultivating the 
other half. It is uot the number of acre-- 
one owns ihut determines his wealth, but the 
productive capacity of each acre is the true 
test of real prosperity. 
The London Garden, speakiug of the new 
Puritan Rose so liberally advertised here, says 
that the liberal dash of yellow which the 
flowers show is apt to give those iu search of 
new white roses the “blues” at first sight. The 
form aud fragrance are well-uigh all that 
could be desired, it is not only one of the 
most fragraut, but one of the most distinct 
smelling roses we possess. 
The Puritan is said to be a cross between 
the Mabel Morrison and Devouiensis. if so. 
the Tea variety seems to have been the most 
potent factor iu its production, impressing a 
good deal of its form, aud yet more of its 
fragrance.... 
Texas paper: The chinch-bug eatsthe far¬ 
mer’s grain, the bee-moth spoils his honey, 
the bed-bug fills him full of pain, the humbug 
scoops his money. . 
Our trade iu mutton for Great Britain is 
at a very low ebb, and the business of this 
country iu exporting live sheep now practic¬ 
ally amounts to little or nothiug. A few 
years ago sheep were sent out on the hoof in 
considerable numbers, and the trade looked 
rather promising. However, if exporters are 
to be believed, there never was any money iu 
it. The experience of South American ex¬ 
porters has been very similar . 
Tuere are few plants that, so far as bloom 
is coucerued, give more satisfaction than 
bouvardias. Plumbago eapeusis is another 
plant that will be sure to please in the wiu- 
dow or conservatory. Its flowers of delicate 
lilac are borue in umbels abundantly produced. 
The plaut is an incessant bloomer. 
Mr. H. B. Parsons says that Bhododeudrou 
grandiflorum is the best variety for this cli¬ 
mate. Ten years ago the Rural selected a 
dozen ot those catalogued as the best and 
hardiest. But two now are alive. One is the 
above aud the other R. speeiosum. 
TheN. E. Farmer says that Mr. Seth Davis 
of Newton, Muss., who recently celebrated his 
100th birthday, has made milk a chief article 
of food for a large part of his life Crackers 
and miflt for breakfast and bread and milk 
for supper have beeu his simple diet. Milk is 
one of the liest and cheapest forms of animal 
food known and Mr. Davis’s experience is a 
pretty good proof of it.... 
Mr. Hoard is convinced that there are ten 
good judges ot a horse auioug the farmers 
where there is ouo who is a good judge of a 
dairy cow or bull. 
It is just as important to the dairy farmer, 
says Hoard’s Dairyman, that he has a good 
cow, as it is that he should have a good crop 
of auy thing he t ries to raise, aud it is just as 
important to him that he get rid of a poor opw 
as that he should get rid of the chinch-bug or 
l)og cholera. 
WORD FOR WORD. 
Country Home: “A little win'' does won¬ 
der* lor a little while; finally it is whisky; at 
last any kind of liquid fire, and the man or 
woman is completely wrecked.”-Connec¬ 
ticut Farmer: “Farmers suffer enough at all 
times from the raids of a certain class of so- 
called sportsmen, who break down fences, 
frighteu stock, and do other mischief of vari¬ 
ous sorts, but they have a particular right and 
duty to enforce the law against those who 
desecrate the Habhath in this respect.”- 
Ohio Farmer: “One might as well try to get 
along without improied implements of culti¬ 
vation as to do without the current literature 
ou horticulture if that is his business. I do 
do not know of a successful horticulturist who 
does not take several papers in his line of 
work.”-American Garden: “It is a pity 
that people do not know that the ordinary 
wild smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) is one of the 
most attractive of decorative plants when 
mown to the ground each year or two and 
allowed to send up its fresh palm-like shoots.” 
-Albany Cultivator: “Too much care iu 
the selection of the ice can not be exercised 
Some people have the erroneous idea that 
freezing purifies water. After a very droughty 
summer like this, it is no easy matter to get fit 
ice. Typhoid fever is almost au epidemic in 
many places, and almost throughout the 
drought region is widely prevalent, showing 
that the water is unwholesome and likely 
to remaiu so for some time."-Hus¬ 
bandman: “If farm ditches are to be dug, 
now is the time to do the work. Where drought 
has prevailed, wells should now be dug.”- 
Colorado Field aud Farm: “An inexperi¬ 
enced farm hand turned a bunch of pure-bred 
Galloways on a clover aftermath. The stock 
was uot used to such richness and as a result 
six or seven of the best animals turned up their 
heels to the stars aud died.”-Farmers’ 
Review; “ The prejudice against white Short¬ 
horns is slowly dying out in this country.” 
-Kansas City Live-Htock Indicator: “W. 
W. Kurtz, of Elmdale, Kan., says he dehorned 
all his yearlings last fall and bis calves this 
fall at weaning lime. 4 1 would not have the 
horns ou again for two dollars, or in fact any 
mouev per head.’ ”-Puck: The citizens 
of New York, as a body, care more for party 
than for probity,”—:-Claus Sprockets, the 
California sugar king, recently addressed 600 
farmers on ihe question of raising sugar beets. 
He said that tbev could net from $50 to $75 
aa acre for beets: that he would put up a fac¬ 
tory to make beet sugar, that would consume 
350 tons of beets each 24 hours, providing the 
farmers guaranteed to cultivate a certain 
number of acres in beets each year. If one 
factory wasu't enough, he’d build another, or 
give $ 100,000 toward one if the farmers wanted 
to build it themselves. He said in conclu¬ 
sion: “I am uow in my sixtieth year, and it 
would kill me to fail in what I undertake to 
do. It is uot money that is an object to me, 
bub I want the people of California to be able 
to show that Claus Hpi eckels has done some¬ 
thing for this State when his bones are at 
rest. If my life is spared, I want to see all 
the sugar that is used iu the United States 
grown here, and I want to see tnis country 
export it.”- 
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