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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JUNE 21 
CROP REPORTS. 
(Continued from page 394.) 
Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Glito. — The wheat 
acreage Is equal to that of 1878, and the crop ex¬ 
cellent, though a shade leas than that ol last year 
—say, seven-eights of last year’s crop. The corn 
prospect was never poorer; the seven-eights acre¬ 
age under it being about an average one. Much or 
the present crop has been replanted twice—as, 
the seed corn of the two first sowings was frozen 
and would not germinate. It is not likely to be 
more than halt to two-tlfirds of the usual yield. 
Many Insects are at work on corn. Early potatoes 
are fair; there Is less trouble with Colorado hugs 
than last year. Late potatoes are not far enough 
advanced to estimate how they will turn out. 
Much depends on the balance of the season. 
Small fruits, berries, etc., are very light, except 
strawberries, which are abundant. No peaches. 
Half to two-thirds or a crop of apples. w. n. 
Felicity, Clermont Co., O.,— We have just had 
a “tremendous" season tor setting and handling 
tobacco. Wheat, looks tolerably well, oats are 
very bad. Farmers in tills vicinity have had a 
great deal of trouble in getting seed corn to grow. 
Some planted the crop t hree limes and then did 
not get a good stand. Last year's corn does not 
grow well. There was no rain of any consequence 
In May. The drought and the temperance cause 
together, have thinned the ranks of the topers in 
this county. c. l. a. 
Moorefield, Harrison Co., Ohio.—We had a very 
dry spring, and wheat will be short In straw, but 
the heads are of a good length. We shall have an 
average crop. On account of bad seed, corn Is 
small, but doing well now, and the prospects are 
.fair. Oats are very short. Potatoes arc good, taut 
only a few are planted. There will probably be 
sufficient apples for home use, but scarcely any 
peaches or cherries. The worms have destroyed a 
great many of the cun-ants. The late rains are 
making plenty of grass. J. n. i.. 
Petersburoh, Lawrence Co,, O.—Wheat Is very 
discouraging In Lawrence county. I think It aver¬ 
ages about 12 or 14 bushels per acre. The corn is 
not. promising In this section of the country; on 
account of the frosts and cut-worms, it had to be 
nearly all replanted. Oats are a very promising 
crop. J- a. s. 
Gallipolis, Gallia Co., O.—The long drought In 
April and May has been very disastrous to hay 
and corn. Some are now planting corn for the 
third time, the seed having rotted In the ground. 
Wheat will be 75 per cent, of an average crop; corn. 
60; potatoes, 90; fruit, 80. j. c. v. 
Valley Mills, Marlon C’o.. Ind.—A very large 
area of wheat promises an abundant harvest. There 
Is a broader acreage than usual of oats and, tho’ 
late, It is looking fair. There Is a vast acreage 
under corn. Ir Is mostly small. Much replanting 
has been done, As July and August are the 
moDths to bring out corn, no reliable prediction of 
the crop can now be made. Early potatoes have 
been flourishing, but are now receiving a sad check 
from the beetles. Many- acres of late ones are just 
planted, and many yet to be planted. There may 
be half a crop of apples and only a few pears. 
w. B. T, 
Pleasant Lake, Steuben Co., Jnd.—Wheat looks 
well In this section—never better. Com will be 
backward on account of having had to be replanted 
from one to three times. Oats bid fair to be a good 
crop. Apples will be very scarce, but there will be 
a tew in some orchards. Of peaches there will be 
only a few. We shall ha ve some of late red cher¬ 
ries. There are more potatoes planted than last 
year; but that bug Is on haud as usual, ready for 
Its share of potatoes and Paris-green. We are 
having plenty of rain now for the late grass. The 
hay crop will be light. h. b. n. 
La Grange, La Grange Co., Ind.—Prospects for 
wheat are good; It is In bloom. Corn Is small; lots 
of farmers bad to replant; but a larger acreage 
was planted this spring than usual. Potatoes 
look well; bugs are not very numerous. There 
will be fair crops of apples and cherries—peaches 
all gone. Raspberries and strawberries, plentiful. 
I . K 
Dowagiac, Cass co., Mich.—Corn Is looking well, 
though some had to be replanted. Wheat rather 
thin, but bids fair for an average crop. Potatoes 
look as well as I ever saw them, our old enemy, 
the beetle, has come again, but has done no Injury 
as yet. Fruit trees blossomed very full and still 
appear all right, small fruits In abundance. 
r. k. c. 
Delafikld, Waukesha Co —The winter wheat, 
of which there Is a large area sown, promises well. 
Say. 25 bushels to the acre. Spring wheat Is a 
medium crop. Oats will be heavy. Harley, good. 
Potatoes anti com, an even stand, doing well. 
Meadows are about half a crop. All grain has a 
good healthy color. h. f. s. 
River Falls, Pierce Co., Wls.—A very dry spring 
without rain till May 9. affected our wheat and 
oat crop very much. Drilled wheat Is generally 
good; broadcast sowing, which comprises most of 
our grain, Is thin, and consequently light. What 
Is growing now looks well. Liberal estimates, 
with the remainder of the season favorable, antici¬ 
pate two-thirds of a crop. Corn is doing well. 
Potatoes are in line condition—with plenty ot bugs. 
Fruit will generally be scarce, except strawberries, 
which promise abundance. Late frosts have de¬ 
stroyed the fruit. r. j. w. 
Enterprise. Winona Co., Minn.—spring wheat 
Is looking well, but thin on the ground, because 
poor, rejected spring wheat was used for seed, 
com is about the average ror this time of year. 
Potatoes look promising; a larger acreage is 
planted than usual. Fruit Is poor—about half a 
crop, oats and barley are above the average. 
J. G. 
Letts, Louisa Co., Iowa—Fall wheat looks very 
promising; spring wheat Is tliln on the ground and 
just heading; the heads are long, and It will 
probably be an average crop. Rye Is thin on the 
ground—a light crop Is anticipated. Oats are 
coming on fast, and will be an average yield. 
Corn looks fine; It Is being plowed the second 
time. Apples are a poor crop. Peaches, none. 
Cherries plentiful, and the same can be said of 
grapes, gooseberries and other small fruit. 
Weather delightful. w. st. n„ 
Davtd City, Butler Co., Nebraska.—Our wheat 
crop In this immediate locality is very materially 
Injured by the continued dry weather, and Is be¬ 
ing injured also by grasshoppers. Our corn and 
potatoes are looking fine. and. should we have 
seasonable weather, both will be good. Fruit, has 
been damaged somewhat, by late frosts or cold 
weather. Some think our wheat cannot make more 
than a half crop. J. t. h. 
Red Croup. Webster Co., Neb.—Wheat has been 
damaged lu the last ten days, but still the prospect. 
Is good for an average crop. Coni Is in first-rate 
condition—a good stand, with an Increase of acre¬ 
age of about 25 per cent, over last year. Potatoes 
are looking well. Only a small amount, of fruit is 
yet grown In this section, but enough to establish 
the fact that It can be grown successfully here. 
The prospects for good crops arc better than a 
year ago. e. h. j. 
Junction CUty, Davis Co., Kan.,—It was 
thought In early spring that winter wheal, es¬ 
pecially t*e late sown, would be an almost total 
failure on account of the prolonged drought. The 
rains ot April and May saved It. from that, how¬ 
ever, though the crop will he light. Harvest has 
begun. It Is estimated that, the early sown wheat 
will yield from twelve to fifteen bushels per acre. 
Spring wheat will also be a light crop. So will 
oats. Corn promises well. Potatoes are good. 
Fruit of most kinds will be scarce. Peaches, of 
which there was a superabundance last year, 
were winter-killed to a groat extent, though bi 
some localities It Is claimed tbe damage done is 
not so severe. Apples are not. grown hero as much 
as they mlglit.be, it would seem, for wHerever the. 
trees are planted they appear to do well, a.e.s. 
Smith Centre, Smith Co.. Kan.,—We have a 
fine prospect, for corn, wheat and potatoes; also 
for fruit. The cultivation of this, however, Is 
rather limited owing to the newness of our coun¬ 
try ; but as far as tested It is evident that we have 
a good fruit country, and farmers are in good 
spirits l. o. v. 
Eureka, Greenwood Co., Kan.,—Wheat, Is now 
being harvested In this section and tbe weather 
being dry and fine. It, goes up In good shape. The 
yield will be large, some yields will probably aver¬ 
age as high as 35 bushels to the aero with a pro¬ 
bable average of 18 or 20 bushels to the acre gen¬ 
erally. Corn is in excellent condition. A good 
stand has been uniformly attained and the season 
has been exceptionally fine. The prospect, for 
a heavy yield is at the present time good. The 
yield of early potatoes will not be large. The 
late ones promise well. Fruit, prospects are fair 
except peaches, which were generally killed by 
late frosts. J. w. k. 
Phillipsbfro, Phillips Co., Kan.,—Winter 
wheat In tbls county Is about 65 per cent of an 
average crop; spring wheat, bo per cent; com, 
100 and potatoes 100. This being a new county 
we have no fruit of consequence. f. s. 
-Jewell Center, Jewel Co., Kan.—The wheat 
prospect is below the average—acreage large. The 
The corn prospect Js at present good. Potatoes 
are good. Peaches and small fruits, the only kind 
we yet have, are good also. j. r. 
Arheryille, Mitchell Co., Kan.—The prospect 
here for fall wheat Is good; spring wheat will be a 
short crop—unless we have rain soon, It will be 
nearly a failure. Corn and potatoes are looking 
nicely. The fruit prospects were never better In 
tbls locality. m. s. c. 
Wichita, Sedgwick Co., Kansas.—Prospects for 
wheat, corn, potatoes and fruit, are good. 
w. p. s. 
Wellsvili.k, Montgomery Co., Mo.,—The pros¬ 
pects for good crops are very encouraging, ex¬ 
cept for hay and oats, which owlDg to dry weather 
all spring (broken now by fine rains) will be only 
half crops. Wheat looks well and is heading 
finely. Cora promises well, Is very free from weeds 
and growing fast. Potatoes are nearly ready for 
use, and free from bugs. Fruit Is mostly winter¬ 
killed, except apples and grapeB, which seem to 
promise to be quite a fair yield. The outlook for 
us Is very encouraging, recent rains have dis¬ 
pelled all fears for the corn crop—our main crop 
at present m. a. e. 
Bucklin, Linn Co., Mo.—There was no rain In 
this vicinity, to do any good, through April or 
May. Grass, oats, and spring wheat are very 
poor. Winter wheat and rye are good—now ripe. 
Peaches were all killed by the past hard winter. 
Apples are below an average crop. Grapes prom¬ 
ise well. Corn—our principal crop—never looked 
better; an immense acreage has been planted. 
If the seasonable rains we are now having con¬ 
tinue, we shall harvest one of the largest crops of 
corn known. Potatoes are looking fair; but little 
tobacco has been planted. f. m. b. 
Longmont, Boulder Co., Colo.—Tbe outlook for 
tbe wheat crop In this section is on an average 
equal to last year's, where water can be obtained 
forfrrigatlng purposes. Where this cannot, be had 
the wheat Is burning up. Early corn looks well, 
late, Is taken by cut-worms. Potatoes do well In 
the mountains; In the valleys It Is too warm for 
them. The season is somewhat later than com¬ 
mon. Wheat, as a general thing. Is Just commenc¬ 
ing to head. iYutt In this country as yet la a 
limited product, though It promises to do well in 
future. Vegetables of all kinds look well now, and 
grow In abundance In Mils country. a. m. a. 
Augusta. Woodruff co.. Ark.—The early part of 
the growing season was wet. throwing fanners In 
the grass, but at this date crops ore clean and 
looking vigorous. Woodruff county never falls in 
acorn crop. Wheat and other small grains are 
raised to a limited extent only and for home con¬ 
sumption ; this Is not, strictly speaking, a wheat 
county—the soli Is too heavy. Early potatoes were 
a complete failure, the vines being literally strip¬ 
ped of every vestige of foliage and the potatoes 
small and few. We use Early Rose or Early Good¬ 
rich for early and Peach Blow for late. Late 
frosts have ruined the fruit crop. Of is peach and 
other fruit trees on my plaoce only two peach 
trees, directly against the house on the south, 
have any fruit. s. l. d. 
Van Buren, Crawford Co., Ark.— Wheat will 
yield a fair average crop, In excellent condition 
and of fair quality. Corn looks promising. Pota¬ 
toes, Trish, suffer for want of rains—Sweet., are In 
good condition. Fruits of all kinds are a good 
average, as now promised. In fact, all crops are 
fair to good in this section. Cotton was never 
better. Hay short, for want of early rains. 
l. c. w. 
Cleveland, Bradley co. — We are now In the 
midst, ot wheat harvest. The crop ts above an 
average one. Corn Is very small, but In fine con¬ 
dition. and a good crop ts looked for. The continu¬ 
ed drought has caused an entire failure In the po¬ 
tato and spring oat crops. Winter oats were 
badly frozen, and about one-third of what we 
have left Is cheat. Fruit of all Kinds, a failure- 
all killed In April. J. h. p. 
Wavkrlv, Humphrey’s Co., Tone.—Wheat In 
this section Is below an average as to stand and 
acreage, buttbequalltylsunusually good. Thecorn 
prospects are good for better than an average crop. 
The potato crop promises well. The fruit crop is 
a failure, generally speaktng, and the quality of 
what, little there Is, Is Inferior. Business here Is 
cheerful. .t. w. s. 
Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tenn.,—The 
crops in this section are generally good for the 
season, wheat Is now about ready to harvest. 
Corn Is looktng blue. Very few potatoes are raised 
hero for shipment,. There Is no fruit, of any con¬ 
sequence. Our principal crop for sale Is cotton, 
we have good stands, all worked out, and In fair 
condition. r. h. 
Vanderbilt, Knlcol Co., Tenn.—Wheat In this 
sectlOD will he light, on account of dry weather 
and rust.. Corn looks well. Potatoes are good, 
especially the late planted. Peaches are good on 
uplands; all lowland fruit, was killed by a late 
frost. Apples are falling badly. Small fruits are 
good. J. b. 
Fern Creek, Jefferson Co., Ky.—Cora Is not 
up to an average In quality, but Is about an aver¬ 
age In acreage. The grain of wheat Is good, but 
the growth Is not so rank on the ground as last 
year. Tho quantity of potatoes put In Is about as 
usual, and the prospects since last rains are fair 
for a good crop. Peaches are a failure. Apples, 
pears and cherries are average crops, but tbe fruit 
Is not good. Some very hard wind, rain and hall 
Btorms have passed over and done a great, deal of 
damage to wheat and young corn. w. a. a. 
Bennett’s Mill, Montgomery Co., Va.,—The 
wheat in this section can’t make a half crop; 
some say not more than one-thtrd. Corn Is look¬ 
ing fine and bids lair to be a good crop. Oats are 
very short and will not be a full crop. Potatoes 
are looking well and promise to turn out well. 
Fruits ot all kinds are a failure In this section. 
In May we had a frost that killed almost all fruit. 
Grass for mowing Is short; we shall have but a 
small crop of hay, m. d. b. 
Franrlin, Pendleton Co., W. Va.—The prospects 
for crops are very unpromising. There has not 
been rain sufficient to wet tbe ground since the 
1st of April. Of course, all vegetation Is suffering. 
Late In May and on the iBt of June there was a 
succession of freezing nights and some frosts, that 
destroyed nearly all the fruit of every kind. 
w. M’C. 
Henderson, Granville Co., N. C.—The wheat, 
harvest has Just commenced. The crop, on the 
whole, will be Inferior to last season’s, a vast 
amount of rust and blight being prevalent. Where, 
however, good culture has been given with about 
40 bushels of cotton-seeds to the acre as manure, 
the wheat Is very fine In all respects, and promises 
from 20 to so bushels to the acre. About the same 
may be said ot that grown on land tn tobacco last 
season, whilst that grown In tbe but too often 
careless North Carolina fashion, will not turn out 
more than from three to five bushels to the acre, 
and mostot It will not pay for harvesting at all. 
Oats will be a thin and short crop, the season, on 
the whole, having been too dry for that cereal. 
Rye and barley are but Utile cultivated around 
here. Both look promising whore grown, corn 
and cotton promise well, and the late small rise In 
the price of the latter has stimulated a much 
greater degree of culture than was given to It last 
season, Tobacco, Golden Leaf, Is at present be¬ 
coming the aJl-absorhlng crop wherever plots of 
land are suitable for it, and many persons are. 
realizing handsome returns. Henderson, Its mar¬ 
ket center. Is fast becoming a big town of fine and 
and rather colossal tobacco warehouses and facto¬ 
ries. Granville Golden Leaf Tobacco, through 
London chemical analytical reports, Is becoming 
celebrated as about the best In the world, and 
often brings at tho auction rooms from one to two 
dollars per pound, and from 16 to 20 thousand dol¬ 
lars’worth Is often sold dally In the season. Chu- 
fas are attracting considerable attention, and 
promise to be a valuable crop, especially In con¬ 
junction with the railing fruits Of the large Eng¬ 
lish Black Mulberry, for the fat tening of swine at a 
cheap rate. Bilk worm and slllc raising are new 
Industries here. Not far from here is commenced 
the planting of White Mulberry trees for raising 
worms for the French and oilier markets, and so 
far, tiie thing has proved very successful and 
profitable, and the near future will, no doubt, see 
North Carolina a allk-ralalng and manufacturing 
State. China Tea Is also commencing to be suc¬ 
cessfully grown, and In quality It. Is equal to that 
of the Celestials, and It only remains for some kind 
of machinery to be invented for picking It, to ren¬ 
der It an Industry of no mean Importance. Al¬ 
though In the spring there was never a better 
prospect for an abundance of every fruit grown 
here, yet It may now be said, upon the whole, that 
with the exceptions of the promised abundant 
yield of grapes, all other kinds of fruit are com¬ 
plete. failures. Apples and pears were fully ex¬ 
pected to be a fine crop, from their having escaped 
frosts disastrous to all other fruits on the 3d and 
4th of April; but mildew and Insects have totally 
ruined them. In some places contiguous to this, 
the peach crop, either wholly or partially, escaped 
the aforementioned frost; but the curculloes have 
already destroyed about two-thirds In those sec¬ 
tions, and I think but few marketable peaches will 
be found In North Carolina this season. From some 
portions of the eastern sections of this state, 
and especially around Albemarle Sound, where 
It appears from recent experiments peaches never 
are hurt, by frosts or Insects, some fine speci¬ 
mens of early peaches will most likely grace the 
northern market. h. s. 
Brookston, Warren Co., North Carolina.—Tak¬ 
ing 10 as the average ot last year's crop, the pros¬ 
pects for 1879 are about as follows: 
Acreage 
Present 
Condition. 
Wheat. 
9 
9 
Oats, winter. 
10 
0 
" spring. 
10 
9 
Corn. 
10 
12 
Cotton. 
Tobacco. 
12 
12 
12 
10 
Rye. 
10 
10 
Potaotoeu, Irish. 
10 
7 
Grapes. 
10 
13 
Peaches... 
10 
1 
Farmers' Gardens. 
in 
10 
We have had tt pretty dry In this Immediate 
vicinity, but are having a fine, rain to-night,. We 
have had no heavy beating rains this spring, con¬ 
sequently cotton came up firmly. The rise In 
price will encourage planters to give It thorough 
cult ivation, though just now labor Is not abundant, 
and probably some have planted more than they 
can properly manage, unless the weather proves 
particularly favorable for the destruction of grass. 
The wheat harvest has commenced. Oats are In 
full head. Early Rose potatoes are nearly ripe. 
Corn Is In all stages from six Inches to four feet 
high. M. B. p. 
Mbzula Plantation, Aiken, South Carolina — 
Wheat, com and potatoes are good In tills section. 
The prospect for fruit is very bad. Peaches were 
cut, off by late frosts. All small grains are good. 
The prospects for cotton are also excellent. 
j. F. M’L. 
Starke Co., Fla.—It seems so odd to read 
that with you Pearl Millet Is Just appearing 
above the ground, and that watermelons are only 
putting out the second leaves, while we have 
Pearl Millet eight feet high, with heads of seed 
16 inches in length. One bunch which we trans¬ 
planted has 31 large stocks, all from one seed. We 
have Iceland watermelons measuring 23 inches 
around, voorhls are about hail as large; the. 
latter, however, we planted considerably later, as 
we did not receive the seed In time to plant as 
early. Our Blunt corn is, some of It, badly Injured 
by the drought. We have some of the native corn, 
with stocks 11 feet high, all tasseled and Bilked. 
The Blunt corn, being planted later, did not get as 
good a start before it became so dry, and therefore 
could not stand the drought as well. The Acme 
tomatoes are doing finely; the vines are full of 
large tomatoes, which are looking much bettor 
than General Grants. They have both had the 
same care and cultivation. I have them trained 
on trellises, and think It the best way I have ever 
tried, to keep them from the ground We have 
not watered them at all, as our flower garden, tea 
plants, newly-set trees and the choice cuttings 
we are starting are all we felt able to water, espe¬ 
cially as we had no other way of doing it than 
with a common garden watering pot; and as we 
have not. had a drop of rain for over a month until 
yesterday, the 7t.h, we must have had hard work 
to keep some things alive, to say nothlDg about 
their growing; but., by dint of shading from the 
hot sun through the day, with a sprinkling and 
the dews at night, we have kept things looking 
remarkably well. In many gardens about here 
everything Is completely dried up. One man has 
ten acres of corn, which Is entirely spoiled. Our 
rice has suffered more than anything we have; 
some of it has all died down, but we are In hopes 
It will come up from the roots again. Neither 
sugar cane nor cotton are hurt at all. we think. 
There are many families here who came from the 
North last year with so little means that they 
have had a very hard time so far, and If their crops 
fall them this year they will be utterly discour¬ 
aged. i. s. 
Courtney, Grimes t o.. Texas.—'Tills section Is 
a cotton and corn country, though fruit., such as 
Peaches and Grapes grow here In abundance, but 
we have no market, for them. Potatoes are nearly 
a failure this year; but for five years back we 
have bad fine crops; the yield Is, say, 15 barrels to 
one barrel planted. We have had no rain tor 
2>j months yet, cotton is fine. Cora may suffer a 
little unless It rains soon. w. w. 
San Antonio. Bexar Co., Texas.—Owing to the 
long-continued drought all our crops are cut at 
least one-third. The fruit product amounts to 
nothing. Wheat Is a little better, and oats are 
on a par with the other things. We have had 
only one,rain since May 22nd. Corn looks so-so. 
I. E. L. 
Canton, Madison Co., Miss.—This county Im¬ 
ports more than one-half of all the grain that Is 
consumed; everything Is subordinated to cotton, 
and cotton alone. There are probably not so acres 
ot wheat sown In the county. Ot oats there Is a 
little—now being harvested. More corn has been 
planted than usual this season, which has been 
very tavoruble, thus far, for both these crops. 
Potatoes, In family gardens and for home consump¬ 
tion, are unusually fine, but. there are none ror 
export—It there were, the railroads would not 
permit tbe trade. J. J. o. 
Houston, Chickesaw Co.—The wheat crop Is very 
good for this county, averages from eight to 12 
bushels per acres—not a great deal sowed. The 
