THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Canada. 
Dominionville. Ont.—The Rural seeds 
were planted May 14. The Early Orange 
Squash was ripe August 12, and bore quite a 
number of fine squashes, the largest about 
nine inches in diameter; quality excellent. 
The sweet corn was ripe August 20, and bore 
quite a lot of small ears. Longest ear six 
inches. Some of the stalks grew to be five 
feet in hight. The Pond Corn was ripe about 
the last of August, and bore two ears on most 
stalks. The ears were not large, but well 
filled to the top. 1 think it will do well hero, 
as it is much earlier than the common corn. 
Cleveland’s Improved Valentine Bean did not 
fill properly, owing to the drought. All the 
seed* were planted in poor soil, with a pretty 
good dressing of barnyard manure. h. a.m. 
Illinois. 
Pleasant Valley, Jo Daviess Co., March 
10.—We have been enjoying warmer weather 
and rains occasionally for some time, and the 
earth is at least one-t}iird laid bare, and the 
grass is greener than usual. A sort of “Trust” 
among hay press men west of the Mississippi 
River has made hay dear and hard to obtain 
here at any price. Many have failed to get 
what they ordered, from scarcity of cars. It 
is a hard time for the farmer with a mortgage 
to carry, and a great injustice that deserves a 
cartoon, is the law that taxes him as though 
ho was the owner in full; when really he owns 
but one-third, one-half or three-quarters. 
How easy it would bo to require the assessor 
to ascertain all interest bearing indebtedness 
and report it and have it assessed to the real 
owners. As it now stands, if the moneyed 
men are honest, the amount of indebtedness 
is taxed twice—once to debtor, once to credi¬ 
tor. w. s. 
Indiana. 
Pendleton, Madison Co., March 12.—Mild 
winters with little snow, in this climate, are 
hardest on wheat. The past winter has been 
of this kind, with frequent freezing and thaw¬ 
ing. Wheat has not made the usual growth 
and looks feeble and sickly, though not much 
of it is frozen out. There is a growing in¬ 
terest in dairying in this State. For this use 
Jersey cows are most popular; Holsteius are 
next. For beef Shorthorns stand first, fol¬ 
lowed by the Polled and Hereford breeds. 
Clydes are the most popular farm horses, and 
Percherons are held in very nearly as much 
esteem. For general puposes, Cleveland Bays, 
Morgans, and Hambletonians come in the or¬ 
der named. S. w! n. 
Michigan. 
Lansing, Ingham Co., March 15.—Spring 
is opening up with wheat, on the College 
Farm, rather brown, but with a good root. 
None of it is heaved out, and the lower part 
of the stool, with the lower leaves, is green and 
all right. Wheat on the higher ground ap¬ 
pears at a distance to be entirely dead; but on 
closer examination it is found in good condi¬ 
tion. Early-sown wheat is in better condition 
than that which was sown after Sept. 15-20. 
Timothy that was sown last fall is quite badly 
winter-killed. Clover sown on wheat stubble, 
Sept. 10, is heaved out somewhat, but with 
early rains it will furnish a good seeding. 
H. T. F. 
Minnesota. 
Mentor, Polk Co., March 14.—There is 
more snow in sight here than at any other 
time I can remember during the past five 
years. It has been a severe winter in this sec¬ 
tion. Stock seems to be in fair condition 
Most farmers will have plenty of feed. Water 
is plentiful nine to ten feet from the surface. 
Grain about all sold. Wheat is worth ab ;ut 
02 cents; oats 25 cents; hay $3 per ton; cows 
$20 to $30; oxen $00 to $115 per yoke; horses 
$300 to $400 per team. Potatoes are plenty, 
ranging in prices from 20 to 50 cents per 
bushel, depending on distance from railroad 
station. Farmers have plenty to eat and wear, 
but not much cash. Land near the railroad 
can be bought for $10 per acre with some im¬ 
provements such as house, barn and plowing. 
F. A. H. 
Montana. 
Como, Missoula Co., Murch 12.—Notwith¬ 
standing the unprecedentedly cold weather 
during January, farmers were plowing by Feb¬ 
ruary 10, and some wheat has been sown; but 
there has been no rain, and but little snow 
during the winter, and the ground is very 
dry, as much so as it was on June 1 last year; 
consequently the present outlook is not en¬ 
couraging. As a dry spring is followed by short 
crops, two feet of snow coming now would be 
worth tens of thousands of dollars to our 
farmers here. Prices are: ptatoes, 1 to 1)4 
cent per pound; wheat, one cent; oats, 1)4 
cent; butter, fresh, 35 to 49 cents; eggs, 30 to 
85 cents; hay, $5 to $7 per ton. The cold 
weather last week stopped plowing, but it is 
growing warmer again. A. c. 
Nebraska. 
Sweetwater, BulFalo Co., Feb. 28.—I had 
alely the pleasure of a trip by rail to North¬ 
western Nebraska, as the railroad managers 
gave an excursion up to Box Butte County, 
where they had surveyed and plotted a town 
site near the southeastern corner of the 
county. On arriving there at 5 a. m. at the 
present terminus of the road, there being no 
accommodations for the several hundred per¬ 
sons, we remained in the cars until daylight, 
while a team conveyed some of the passengers 
to a small hamlet which had already been 
built up some distance ahead of the end of the 
road. By day we were all taken about three- 
quarters of a mile to the hamlet. It surprised 
the party to find the accommodations so good. 
They were mostly frame, one-story buildings 
of rough lumber. There were from 300 to 400 
inhabitants. The railroad town plot was 
directly north of the terminus and three- 
quarters of a mile from this hamlet. The 
lots were sold at auction. The highest price 
paid was $1,450 for a single corner lot. From 
$35,000 to $40,000 worth were sold. The sur¬ 
rounding country appeared to be a level plain, 
while as far as the eye could reach were 
mounds and tops of the sand-hills. The level 
plain embraced one county. The earth was 
all covered with naught but Buffalo Grass 
which will afford excellent pasture for sheep. 
Hundreds of car-loads of building material 
will be uuloadcd there within from two to 
four weeks. On looking over the plain one 
could see a settler’s dwelling here and there 
quite a distance apart; but in a short time 
this plain will bo among the best of Nebraska’s 
farming counties. We saw a sample of wheat 
which was equal to any. Corn was not up to 
the average. Other cereals were on exhi¬ 
bition which proved to be equal to any grown 
anywhere. Not a building or a stick of lum¬ 
ber was on the new town lots, each of which 
sold from $150 on the ontskirt to $1,450 for 
choice ones in the best locations. West of the 
town there is a nice clear lake, with a spring 
gushing up. A quarter section near this lake 
sold for $1,150, while a great many sell out in 
other localities for $50 to $300. There is 
a vast amount of the land called “the great 
sand hills,” which is unfit for cultivation, but 
larger grass is produced in the valleys between 
the hills than in the level plain in Box Butte 
County. There are numerous lakes but a 
very few feet in depth in many of the valleys. 
In these sandy regions the land should bo 
placed on the market in such a way that 
no one could buy less than one section 
which contains (540 acres; nor should any one 
•bo allowed to purchase more than four sec¬ 
tions. This would place the land in tracts that 
would bo very suitable for stock ranches, as it 
is unfit for farming. h. a. b. 
Wisconsin. 
Friendship, Adams Co., March(5.—Central 
Wisconsin possesses the most equitable cli¬ 
mate that can be fouud in the United States 
oast of the Rocky Mountains. No blizzards 
freezing man or beast, at least for the past 35 
years. It is free from cyclones, and as heal¬ 
thy as any other section. We have never had 
the snow three feet deep at any time, and 
there are thousands of acres of unoccupied 
land that can be had cheap. The person who 
puts half a pound of Paris-green into five gal¬ 
lons of water and mixes it well together, will 
kill whatever he puts it on. There is too 
much Paris green. Wo use only the Strow- 
bridge seeder for sowing everything that re¬ 
quires broadcast sowing. It sows a half cast, 
and all that is required is to drive the wagon 
at the outer edge of the piece one wishes to 
sow, and sow once through with a half cast; 
then follow at a proper distance with the 
whole cast. s. d. f. 
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