Corn is poor—won’t be half a crop. Potatoes 
are late, but the farmers here planted plenty 
of them ; beetles are abundant. The hay crop 
will be lisht here. T think fruit will not be 
very plentiful here. Apples and cherries will, 
I think, be good crops, but pears, peaches 
and plums will be light. Times are dull. 
Wages are from 50 cents to 75 cents per day. 
c. F. H. 
Himrod’8, Yates Co.—We have had a cold 
and dry spell here. It has not rained, to do 
much good, in six weeks, although it has been 
raining all around us. Crops look badly. 
Wheat will be a short crop. Spring grain lias 
not started much yet. Corn is ail planted, blit 
it is coming up thin. Clover and grass will 
be short crops. Seed sown in the spring is all 
dried up. We shall have to replow this fall 
unless rain conies soon. o. a. b. 
Fredonia, Chautauqua Co.—During May 
and the last half <<f April it was very dry here, 
which gives us a light grass crop. Most kinds 
of grain look well. Small fruits and grapes 
promise full crops. Apples will lie a full crop 
except where late frosts in the southern part of 
county cut them off. Copious rains during the 
past ten days have relieved the drought, aud 
everything now looks promising. T. s. H. 
Syracuse, Onondaga Co.—Spring very back¬ 
ward. Very poor prospects for winter wheat. 
Spring grains very poor, Corn nothing as yet. 
Barley is sick; so are oats, bruits were in¬ 
jured by frosts. Potatoes are very backward 
but may come on yet. The worst prospects for 
the farmer in 30 years. No rain to amount to 
anything for five weeks. &• 
Addison, Steuben Co.—We had quite a hard 
frost lately, killing all tender plants. Wheat 
is worth 90e. to $1; potatoes. 50c. and 00c.; 
oats. 40c. and 45c.; hay'. $8; butter at grocer¬ 
ies, 9c. to lie. Although the outlook is not 
very good, yet farmers are putting the best 
foot forward. A - M - 
Beskmer’s Depot, Tompkins Co. — On ac¬ 
count ot the backwardness of the spring and a 
drought through the month of May, wheat 
locjks very poorly. Corn and potatoes are 
backward, but we hope for guod yields yet. 
Fruit promises wull, except apples which will 
be a light crop. B - 
Penn Y a x, Yates Co.—The winter wheat 
will be a light crop—not up to the average. 
Spring graiu promises well. It is yet rather 
early to judge of potato aud corn prospects. 
Fruit prospects are good—fully up to the aver¬ 
age. 
E. M. B. 
Pennsylvania. 
ens. 14c. per pound. We have just had two 
heavy rains, and some bail in some sections. 
There will be a few peaches and about a quar¬ 
ter of an apple crop. R. w. n. 
Auburn Center, Susquehanna Co.— The 
winter wheat is in general badly killed out, 
but has picked up a little since the rains. 
Corn is looking very well, but the weather is 
rather cool for rapid growth. A large acreage 
planted. If July and August prove warm, 
good crops are expected. Potatoes look well ; 
if the bug does not destroy them, there will be 
a large crop—a great quantity has been planted. 
Fruit is scarce in this section, it being the non¬ 
bearing year ; for other sections it looks more 
favorable. The hay crop looks well; pastur¬ 
age is better than usual. a. s. 
McLellan’s Corners. Erie Co.—Daring the 
month of May the weather was very dry. We had 
several frosts, but not very damaging to grow¬ 
ing crops. The general complaint among 
farmers iR that their corn does not come up 
evenly. They are using more phosphate than 
usual hereabouts. Potato bugs are numerous. 
Wages are, by the day, for good hands, 75c., 
and $15 a month. Prices for produce are: for 
potatoes, 75c.; beans, $160e.; wheat. $1; corn, 
50c.: oats, 30c.; butter, 10c. to 121c.. ; eggs, 
9c, Quite a number of our young farmers are 
going West. R - R - 
Edgewood, Bucks Co.—The prospect for 
wheat in this section is about an average one; 
it looked badly in the early spring. Corn has 
generally come up well, and is growing nicely. 
Oats must be rather short, ow ing to the dry 
weather. We have had good showers, how¬ 
ever, within the past week, which may save 
the crop. Clover grass is very light. Late 
grass stands well, and is growing fast since 
the rains. Potatoes from good seed look well 
—many patches not half up. Fruit will be 
about an average. J- p- 
Emporium, Cameron Co. — The weather 
through May was mostly cold and dry. We 
had some frost, too. In June also we have 
had two frosts thus far, but neither has done 
much damage. We are now having plenty of 
rain. Wheat promises well. Corn and pota¬ 
toes are in good condition. Fruit prospects 
are extra-fine, especially for pears and peaches. 
M. M. I,. 
Cambridge. Crawford Co.—We have been 
having plenty of rain and fine growing weather, 
but the severe frosts on the nights of the 6th 
aud 7th iust., nipped the corn aud potatoes on 
the’lowlands, which before looked well. Wheat 
and oats will be light crops. Fruit prospects 
are not very good. This is a dairy country. 
Doe Run, Chester Co. — Wheat generally 
looks well iu this county. Some fields, 
however, are quite poor, having been in¬ 
jured by the hard winter and the ily last 
fall, the latter pest having been especially 
hurtful to early sown wheat. About the usual 
area has been sown, 1 believe. Corn is glow¬ 
ing pretty well, and bas not been injured more 
than usual by birds or iusects, but it is yet too 
young to speak confidently about the success 
of the crop—the area under it is abouL au aver¬ 
age one. Of potatoes nearly twice the usual 
quantity has been planted, in many patches 
they came up badly—not ball thick enough. 
The potato beetle is doing considerable injury 
in 6ome places where farmers are either care¬ 
less or too busy to apply a remedy, and. on the 
whole, the prospect for a good potato crop 
hereabouts is not very Battering. The pros¬ 
pect for the hay crop is only middling. As to 
fruit: in this section the prospect for apples 
is not good. The fruit is but thinly set on the 
trees, and of some varieties there are none of 
any account. Although pear trees were full of 
blossom in many places, but few fruits are set. 
In some localities an abundance of cherries 
are set on the trees, while in other places hut 
a few miles distant, thcie are very few on the 
trees, although the latter are young and appear 
to be thriving. Of this failure we cannot 
discover the cause. Peaches appear to be 
plentiful on the trees, but it is too early yet to 
venture on a prophecy about the crop, for last 
year the fruit rotted extensively ou the trees, 
when nearly mature. Currants and goose¬ 
berries are being badly injured by the currant 
worms which appear to be getting more nu¬ 
merous aud destructive every year, eating the 
leaves all off the bushes and in this way pre¬ 
venting the fruit from maturing. t. w. 
Pughtown, Chester Co.—Wheat is looking 
well; the usual area has been sown. Rye looks 
well too, but not a great deal of it is grown 
here. Corn is eight inches high, looks all 
right and came up regularly. Oats are as high 
as corn and the usuul quantity has been sown. 
Clover is coming into bloom. All grasses are 
promising a good hay crop. No barley is 
raised here. Double the usual area has been 
planted to potatoes. The vines are now six 
inches high, aud the Colorado pests are plen¬ 
tiful. Nearly every one uses Paris-green 
against them. Currant and gooseberry worms 
are here for the first time. Prices are : wheat, 
$1 15; rye, 60c.; corn, 50c.; oats, 30c.; old 
potatoes, $1; hay, $8 per ton; butter, 18c. to 
30c. per pound; egg6, 14c. per dozen; chick- 
T. T. R. 
Ohio. 
Bucyrus, Crawford Co.—Taking the aver¬ 
age of crops to be 100, then, according to 
the present prospects, wheat will be 120; corn, 
too soon yet to estimate; potatoes, 100; oats, 
95; fruit, 65. 1 speak for this county only, 
Our rains during the last two weeks will bring 
the corn crop, at tbe start, to 100, without 
doubt. Dry weather caused a great deal of re¬ 
planting. and this is not yet up—hence that 
‘•too soon.” The prospects for oats and pota¬ 
toes are very good, considering the dry weather. 
Just now our fruit looks rather light, but late 
rains may bring it up from 15 to 20 per cent, 
in advance of its present condition. The usual 
acreage of all crops is out. Grass is doing 
splendidly. E - c - 
Chardon, Geauga Co.—May having been 
very dry, the grass and wheat crops will be 
much lighter than was expected last spring. 
Wheat will be an average crop for this section, 
however. Early planted corn is lookiug well 
whore the frost, on tbe night of the 7th, did 
not injure it. A great deal of corn was 
planted late on account of dry weather, but 
the prospects are fair. Potatoes looked well 
until tho morning of the 7th, when they were 
badly frosted on low land, but not enough to 
spoil them. If the season is favorable, pota¬ 
toes will be plentiful. There will be a moder¬ 
ate supply of fruit, but not half so much as 
last year. Everything is doing finely since the 
rain on the 1st of the month. a. t. 
Napoleon, Henry Co.—Wheat never looked 
better—the great yield of last year promises to 
be equaled, if not surpassed. There was a 
large acreage sown last fall. Corn looks quite 
well. A great deal that was planted failed to 
come up, owing to poor seed- I think that 
this spring’s experience will teach farmers to 
pick out their seed in the fall. Grass promises 
to be good; timely rains helped both it and the 
wheat very much. Oats are fair. This is the 
‘■off year” for fruit, but the prospect is that 
there will be enough for home use. Small 
fruits promise a good yield, Strawberries espe¬ 
cially. Prices about as follows: corn. 30c.; 
wheat, 95c. to $1; potatoes, 60c.; butter, 7c.; 
eggs, 8c..; laud, $30 to $70 per acre. v. x. e. 
Millersburg, Holmes Co.—We bad no rain 
for 16 days prior to the 31et ult., but since that 
date we have been unusually favored gener¬ 
ally, which is bringing vegetation on very 
rapidly. Wheat promises a fine crop and a 
larger acreage than usually has been sown to 
it. Corn cannot be a full crop, as much had : 
to be replanted on account of worms or bad 
seed; but that which came on from first plant¬ 
ing is doing finely. Oats are doing well, but 
not ranch was sowed. An unusual amount 
of potatoes was planted, and they are growing 
fiuely ; bugs scarce. Only enough fruit for 
home consumption—quite unlike last year. 
The vintage will be abundant. o. w. m. 
Carrollton. Carroll Co.—We have bad very 
dry weather here this spring, until within the 
past week; since then we have had plenty of 
rain and growing weather. The wheat crop 
will be a very moderate one. It was partly 
winter-killed, and (he dry weather kept it from 
stooling. so that it is pretty thin on the ground. 
A great deal of the seed corn did not grow, and 
what lias grown is being badly damaged by 
the cut-worm. Potatoes will he a good crop 
if the weather is favorable. The prospect for 
fruit of all kinds is very flattering, o. n. a. 
Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga Co.—The pros¬ 
pects are good for large crops of all kinds of 
fruit. Owing to the long-continued spell of 
dry weather, wheat will not he more than half 
a crop, as compared with last year. Corn, too, 
will probably be a light crop, though a very 
extensive area was planted to it, from the 3d 
to the 8th inst. A great breadth ot potatoes 
also was planted; but it is yet too early to pre¬ 
dict how they will turn out. Botli the out and 
grape crops will be light. It has just begun to 
rain, and if it continues a short time, it will 
help all crops wonderfully. E. p. m. 
Omega, Pike Co.—The wheat crop is as good 
as last year—a good crop, Corn is generally 
a bad stand, and there has been much replant¬ 
ing; it is small for the time of the year, but 
looking well. Of Early Rose potatoes a great 
many have been planted, some farmers having 
20 to 50 acres; they are looking well; the sea¬ 
son has been favorable; they are now begin¬ 
ning to bloom. Apples will be a light crop. 
No peaches; the trees generally are badly 
winter-killed. Not many plums or cherries. 
Grapes, where protected, are setting well, but 
many vines have been killed to the ground. 
The blackberry crop is a failure; buds killed. 
.1. B. R. 
Youngstown, Mahoning Co.—The stand of 
wheat was good when the freezing was over, 
but the drought lias very materially injured its 
growth; perhaps there may be half a crop in 
this county. Corn is not coming up well, 
owing to dry weather, and more especially to 
frozen seed; but there may he time to make a 
good crop yet. Fruit was considerably dam¬ 
aged by late frosts, though not as ranch as 
when tbe ground and air are less dry. There 
will be a fair supply of the hardier kiuds of 
fruit. Plenty of time for a good potato crop 
yet. J"- 
Delaware, Delaware Co.—Wheat acreage 
above average years; prospect good, except 
for that sown ou corn stubble. Corn seed 
has been defective, necessitating replanting in 
many eases for a third time; backward on ac¬ 
count of drought aud cut-worms. Potatoes 
much affected by drought. Colorado beetles 
are more harmless than in former years. 
Fruit prospect good for apples and email 
fruits. Peaches a failure. Unprecedented 
drought during April and May. c. m. j. 
Painesville, Lake Co.—Owing to a severe 
drought during the entirerobnth of May, wheat 
is heading very short. Com has not come up 
well for the same reason ; much of it will have 
to be. planted over. Potatoes are looking very 
well. We arc having rain every day now for 
a week. The ground is well wet, so :liat the 
streams begin to rise. Peaches promise a good 
crop. Apples will be about half a crop, from 
present appearances. c. R. s. 
Teduow, Fulton Co.—The prospect for an 
abundant wheat crop in our county is good. 
There is an increased acreage, and wheat is 
heading nicely, with not loo much straw. We 
have had considerable rain for a week past, 
but there, are no signs of rust as yet. Corn is 
looking well, and a full average amount has 
been planted. Oats look well; so do potatoes. 
All kiuds of fruit are fair, but not abundant. 
D. A. 
Findlay, Hancock Co.—The prospects for a 
good wheat crop are the very best. Corn has 
been kept back by drought and failure to 
germinate; very much had to be replanted. 
Potatoes are hardly far enough advanced to 
form an opinion as to their yield. The fruit 
crop will be very short; very few apples or 
cherries and no peaches. Currants and goose¬ 
berries have been destroyed by worms; other 
berries are fair. m b. b. 
Jefferson, Ashtabula Co.—Wheat is 80 per 
cent, of an average crop. It is too early to 
form an idea of the yield of corn : it is back¬ 
ward, however, and about the usual amount 
has been planted. Of early potatoes a light 
amount has been planted; indications of a 
good crop are fair; bugs are not as numerous 
as for the last three or four years. There will 
be more than an average crop of all kinds of 
fruit. E - J - 
McConnelsville, Morgan Co.—The present 
indications are that wheat will be a good crop 
in this county. Fruit is a failure; there may 
be a few apples, however. The prospects for 
corn are not very flattering; a great deal has 
been replanted within a few days; the yield 
will depend something upon the outcome of 
the season. Potatoes are looking well at 
present, and promise a good yield. t. h. 
Wapokonkta, Auglaize Co.—We never had 
finer prospects for wheat. Corn has been a 
little backward on account of drought, but we 
have had enough rain to bring it out all right. 
The same may be said of potatoes, but never 
were more of them planted in our county than 
iu the present year. Fruit prospects are good. 
s. w. m’f. 
Millersburg, Holmes Co.—Wheat moder¬ 
ately good. Corn prospect not flattering, on 
account of worms and dry weather, the latter 
of which has caused so much replanting. Po¬ 
tatoes are good—made so by our recent rains. 
The fruit prospect is poor, except apples, 
which will hardly be au average crop. 
g. w, s. 
Coshocton, Coshocton Co.—The wheat crop 
will be good, but the straw short. Corn is 
coming up nicely; most of this crop had to be 
replanted. Potatoes promise agood yield, aud 
fruit will average about half acrop. Oats will 
be a short crop—all owing to the drought. 
G. M. 
Smjthfield, Jeff. Co.—The wheat crop is 
fair, but not near as good as last year. Corn 
is backward; as a rule, it did not start well. 
Oats and meadows are coming on well—pros¬ 
pects fair. The fruit crop will be light— 
peaches and plums mostly winter-killed. 
B. F. H. 
New Lisbon, Columbiana Co.—Owing to the 
very dry spell during the last month, wheat 
looks bad. Grass is very short. It is too soon 
to calculate ou the corn crop. Early potatoes 
will be a failure. Fruit prospects are good. 
R. A. 
Paulding, Paulding Co.—Wheat is very 
good iu tills county. Corn is backward; we 
won’t have more than half a crop. Potatoes 
are good—a full crop. Fruit also is good—an 
abundance of small fruits. Grass splendid. 
A. D. 
Greenville, Darke Co.—Tbe prospects for 
wheat are as good as for years; those for com 
are not Haltering. It is too early yet to speak 
of the potato crop. The outlook for fruits is 
very poor indeed. W» s. 
Athens, Athens Co.—In this county wheat 
is good and bids fair for more than an average 
crop. Corn is late. Potatoes are a good crop. 
Fruit is a fuilure, except aB to apples, which 
will be about half a crop. j. b. a. 
Marion, Marion Co.—The prospects for the 
wheat crop are good—better than the average. 
Oats will lie a short and light crop. Corn 
prospects are not very good at this time. Fruit 
will be about au average crop. e. c. 
Wei.lstox, Jackson Co.—The peach crop is 
a failure in this section. Corn is being planted 
the third time. Wheat looks splendid. Oats 
were injured by the dry weather. Potatoes 
are doing finely. a. b. w. 
Delaware. 
Camden, Kent Co. — Owing to late frosts 
and dry weather, the strawberry crop will 
not be over one-third. It haB been very 
dry here until last week, when wo had 
copious rains, accompanied by considerable 
hail, but not enough to do any serious damage. 
Blackberries and Raspberries were badly win¬ 
ter-killed, which will cut the crop down below 
tbe average. Grapes are promising. Apples, 
pears and cherries are scarce, but the slugs 
are abundant. Peaches will be an average 
crop. Wheat is looking well, but the fly is 
working on it in some sections; but as it will 
soon be ready for the reaper, no serious dam¬ 
age is anticipated from that quarter. Com is 
standing badly; owiug to the weather having 
been dry when it was plauted, it did not come 
up, so that, a considerable amount had to be 
replanted. The hay crop will be light, owing 
to the drought. This will cause considerable 
corn to be sown for fodder. Prices here are: 
-wheat, $1.10; oats, 35c.; corn, 42c.; butter, 
15c.; eggs, 19c.; potatoes, $1.25; day laborers, 
75c.; by the month, $10 to $12. u. m. d. 
Odessa, New Castle Co.—The prospept for 
the wheat crop is good, but the acreage 1 r not 
large. Corn looks well, and so do potatoes. 
Other crops are good also, all but peaches—of 
these there will be only about a quarter of a 
crop. Raspberries were badly hurt by the 
winter. Strawberries are a very short crop. 
The prospect for hay is fair. We have had 
three days of very rainy weather. e. c. f. 
Milford, Kent Co.—Tlie prospect for wheat 
is the host for ten years. Corn at present is 
looking well. Early potatoes are not so good, 
on account of recent drought. Peaches prom¬ 
ise a fair crop. Apples, pears and cherries 
will not bo so good on account of late frost. 
Apricots, plums and grapes were injured. 
Strawberries and raspberries are Bhort crops 
on account of dry weather. c. c. s. 
