THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Maine, Dixmont Center, Penobscot Co., Juue 
33.—The wheat crop in this scctiou bids fair 
to be a full average one. Corn is very small 
and backward. This has been a poor spring 
for corn—cold rain, with frosts on the 8th and 
Oth, which did some damage to beaus and ten¬ 
der plants. About the usual amount of pota¬ 
toes was planted. The bugs are quite plenti¬ 
ful on some farms, aud may damage the crop. 
The hay crop is quite good—especially on new 
ground. The fruit crop will not ho very good, 
Last season wo had an unusually full crop, 
which is one cause why trees did not bloom 
fuller this season. s. n. 
New Hampshire, Dunbarton. Merrimack 
Co., June 23d.—Wheat and potatoes in this 
section are looking well. The Beauty 
of Ilebron -which the Rural sent me, 
is in blossom. Corn is not looking as well 
as usual, on account of so much cold weather. 
There will probably not be more than half a 
crop of apples. o. o. w. 
Mass., Greenfield, Franklin Co.. June 22.— 
Corn looks badly. Potatoes are poor, but the 
“bugs” arc abundant. Oats look well. Not 
much wheat is raised here. The hay crop is 
good; I have one field of orchard-grass that 
will average five feet. Apples will be an aver¬ 
age crop. Quinces set well; so did pear trees, 
but they blighted afterwards. Cows are plen¬ 
tiful here, and arc selling for from $35 to $45. 
Butter is low—18c.; eggs. 12e. Peach trees 
were almost all killed last winter, as was a 
large Concord grape viue on my house. The 
weather has been cold, wet aud frosty all 
through May and June. a. n. 
New York. Corning, Steuben Co., June 26.— 
According to present appearances, the hay 
crop will not be nearly as good as last year, 
owing to the drought, in May. Spring grain is 
also injured to some extent from the same 
cause, as well as winter wheat and rye; but 
winter wheat, as a general thing, was not sown 
early enough last year in this section. Many 
delayed sowing till late, helping thereby to 
defeat the Hessian IIy, and consequently will 
defeat their own interests by harvesting a short 
crop. If wheat cannot be sown early, it had 
better not be sown. Just now tt is a line grow¬ 
ing time, with frequent showers keeping the 
ground moist and in good condition. The 
apple crop will be short in some localities, by 
reason of the frosts, which were quite severe 
in some places, on the 6th and 7th of this 
month. There seem to have been many colo¬ 
nies of bees lost in tills vicinity the past spring 
from some disease. Nearly all who keep bees 
have lost more or less, aud in some cases their 
whole stock, and this while they were we)I 
supplied with honey. A great many more 
potatoes have been plan fed than in many years 
before, aud they are looking well. The Colo¬ 
rado beetles as yet have been lar less trouble¬ 
some than formerly, and we hope their number 
will not again be so numerous. Straw berries, 
also, were much injured by the late frosts; but 
the prospect is fair for au abundant crop of 
wild raspberries, as well as of blackberries, 
huckleberries and blueberries. The corn crop 
is behind time; but, as a general thing, there 
is a good stand on the ground, and of excel¬ 
lent color, so that if the season is now favora¬ 
ble, it will be likely to eoiue out all right at 
the cud of the season. 1 find 1 planted my 
Pearl Millet too early, consequently it did not 
come up as well as I could wish, and now it is 
notof so good a color us l like. AVool is a good 
product to turn off this year, aud. as butter is 
low, it will be strange if many do not reduce 
their uumher of cows and get more sheep, 
which will be a poor change to make, I believe, 
for then probably the price of wool will be low 
and that of butter high. 1 am very much 
pleased with the Willows received from the 
Rural Grounds last year. They are making a 
good growth and the foliage is nice. AVool is 
selling for 35®37c.; eggs, 12e., and butter, 10@ 
14c. v. n. u. 
N. J., Harhourton, Mercer Co., June 23.— 
The hay and wheat crops are a little below the 
average. Coru is short, owing to cool nights. 
Potatoes look well, although there are plenty 
of “ hugs.” All kinds ot fruit are scarce, ex¬ 
cept Smith’s Cider apples, here aud there. 
e. h. n. 
Penn.. Darlington, Beaver Co., June 21.— 
AVheat is about half a crop. Corn is very 
backward. Potaloes are good. Oats, the 
same. Fruit is about one-fourth of a crop. 
Meadows are short. it. j. is. 
Onto, Duncan's Falls, Muskingum Co., June 
25.—Wheat is about half a crop ; the eur6 are 
well filled, but the growth is light on the 
ground. Corn came up badly; much of it had 
to be replanted, and it has been injured by 
wire and cut-worms; very cohl -weather causes 
it to be small. “Bugs” and potatoes have 
a hard fight for the mastery, but Paris-green 
settles the former. The fruit crop is very 
light, except small fruits, which are doing 
pretty well. Grass is not more than one-third 
of what it was last year. Our dry weather 
seems to be confined to the vicinity of Zanes¬ 
ville, as good showers have been quite frequent 
south and east of us in this county, w. a. c. 
Ohio, Martinsville, Clinton Co., June 23.— 
Spring is late. Corn is backward, with a poor 
stand. Oats are short. Wheat is fine—will be 
mostly harvested this week. There is not so 
much straw as last year, but the wheat is cvener 
ou tlie ground aud better headed. Small fruits 
are in abundance, bluckberries excepted. No 
peaches, no plums. Grape-vines were badly 
winter-killed—will give about a fourth of a 
crop. No cherries of any consequence. The 
prospect for apples is very good—plenty of 
summer apples. We canuot tell about pota¬ 
toes yet. A larger acreage than usual is 
planted. h. b. 
Onio, Gallon, Crawford Co., June 20.—June 
so far, has been wet, but the month of May 
was very dry. The wheat crop looks splendid. 
Corn is a little backward on account of the 
cold, dry weather in May; we had to do a good 
deal of replanting, but I tliiuk the warm rains 
uow will bring it out all right. Potatoes look 
well. The apple crop will be poor this fall, 
as there are but few trees that have any at all. 
No peaches. Small fruits are abundant. The 
hay crop will be a little light. Wheat is selling 
for $1.06 per bushel; oats, 33c.; hay, $6 a 
ton; wool, 35c. per pound; butter, 10c. per 
pound; eggs, 10c. a doz. b. f. h. 
Ohio, Atlanta, Pickaway Co., June 22.—This 
has been the latest season ever known here. 
Corn not all up yet. Some farmers have 
planted the fourth time. AVheat is a fair aver¬ 
age crop; it will be fit to cut in about a few 
days. Oats are a short crop. Grass is good. 
Potatoes are fine and there is a large acreage 
of them. All the grass sown this spring was 
lost. Apples will be a good crop ; cherries, a 
light one. Peaches and plums are total fail¬ 
ures. A. L. 
Ohio, Port Cliutou, Ottawa Co., June 20.— 
AVheat looks fiue—corn is backward. Spring 
grain Is coming forward since the ruius. Ow¬ 
ing to the dry weather in May hay will make 
l less than a crop. Late rams are making the 
potato crop a success. AVool is selling freely 
at 35 aud 36 cents. Apples will be a quarter of 
what we hud last year. Peaches are half a 
crop. Small fruit plentiful. l. m. 
Ohio, St. Clairsville, Belmont Co., June 23.— 
AVheat has been injured considerably by late 
frosts and drought; but will yield a moderate 
crop. Corn and potatoes arc doing very well. 
The fruit crop lias been greatly injured by a 
severe winter, most of the smaller varieties 
having been killed entirely. Oats aud hay are 
badly injured by the cold, dry weather of May 
and June. s. u. 
Ind., Pcnnville, Jay Co., Juue 23.—\\ r e have 
had wet weather during the last six weeks, 
but April and the first part of May were very 
dry. Wc had au uncommonly cool spring. 
The prospect for corn is as poor as 1 ever saw 
it at this time of the year. It was a difficult 
matter to find corn that would grow. There 
is a good crop of wheat—nearly us good as 
last year’s. It will be ready for harvesting 
about the first of July. Potatoes look well. 
The potato bugs are not doing much damage. 
Grass is good. There has been too much ra in 
for flax. Oats look well ou high ground. Ap¬ 
ples and cherries are plentiful, and there is a 
good prospect for grapes. No peaches. Goose¬ 
berries and currants ure abundant where they 
have not been destroyed by worms. a. t. 
Ini>., Hall’s Corners, Allen Co., June 20.— 
The prospect for wheat in tills county was 
never better, and more tliau an average acreage 
was sown last fall. Corn is backward in eon- 
sequence of poor seed, yet au average crop 
is expected. Oats look well—not as much 
sown as last year. Potatoes bid fair for a 
good crop. Fiuit is not as plentiful as last 
year, except small fruits, which are in great 
abundance. This is the “oft year” for apples 
in this part of this county. w. u. u. 
Ills., Buckeye Center, Stephenson Co., Juue 
20 . —Small fruits in this part of the State are 
a good c rop ; other fruit, a medium oue. 
b. F. B. 
Mich., Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., June 
21 . —The prospect for wheat in this eouuty is 
good. Corn is backward and small. Potatoes 
promise better than usual. Fruit will be about 
half a crop. j. t. c. 
AA r ts., Freedom, Outagamie Co., June 20.— 
The prospect for a full wheat crop, both of 
wiuter and spring wheat, is good in this part 
of the State. The cool, dry weather, though 
favorable to the growth of wheat, has not been 
so good for corn. A frost on the night of Juue 
17th, cut much of the corn to the ground. Po¬ 
tatoes and other tender crops were similarly 
injured. AVe have not had rain enough to 
make a good hay crop. AVe shall have a par¬ 
tial crop of fruit. Small fruits are coming on 
finely. Oats promise well. The army-worm 
or caterpillar (?) is doing some damage to fruit 
and forest trees—this is the second year we 
have had them with us. There is a slight im¬ 
provement in prices of most kinds of farm 
produce compared with the figures at this time 
last year. AVages of farm hands are low— 
from $10 to $16 per month and board. All 
crops now are needing rain badly. E. n. 
Minn., Ciiauiplin, Hennepin Co , June 23.— 
We have had an abundance of rain this spring 
and early summer, so far. AVheat, oats, and 
all kinds of small grain promise fair for a 
bonntiful harvest Coru and potatoes are do¬ 
ing well. Small fruit will be quite plentiful, 
but apples, plums, and the like, will be scarce, 
as they were inju red by frost. 0. n. l. 
Minn., Preble, Filmorc Co., Juue 31.—All 
kinds of grain are looking first-rate. Potatoes 
I never saw looking better for this time of 
year. Fruit is rather poor—some trees arc 
badly aifeeted with blight. s. s. s. 
Iowa, Washington, A\ r ashington Co., June 
22.—AVe have a fair prospect for crops of all 
kinds. Fruit was much damaged by late 
frosts. M. s. w. 
Colo.. Bent Canyon, Douglas Co., June 21.— 
The wheat crop of Colorado looks most prom¬ 
ising. Corn and potatoes arc side-show crops 
in this State; but all crops are looking splen¬ 
did, and farmers are all feeling in good spirits. 
There is no fruit to speak ol grown in Colo¬ 
rado. u. T. s. 
Va., AVellville, Nottoway Co., June 23.— 
AVheat is an average crop. Corn is rather 
backward, but 6tauds very woll; a large area 
has been planted. Early potatoes are almost 
a failure, on account of dry weather; late po¬ 
tatoes are suffering from the same cause. The 
peach aud apple crop prospects are good. 
Small fruits are not much cultivated. 
o. c. D. 
Ky., Oweusborough, Daviess Co., June 21.— 
The wheat harvest is nearly over ; the quality 
of the grain is very good so far as I have seeu. 
The weather is very cool for the season. 
Planters are backward in getting out tobacco 
on account of the lack of suitable sets in the 
early pari of the season aud of a suitable season 
now. j. w. s. 
Tenn., Humboldt, Gibson Co., June 21.—We 
are uow having cool dry weather, very fiue 
for thrashing wheat and hay-making, both of 
which occupations have been very lively for 
the past week. The acreage, yield and quality 
are above an average—cotton, corn, oats, to¬ 
bacco aud all growing crops look well, and it 
there are sufficient raius in July aud August, 
all will be good. All have been well cultivated 
aud ure clean and soaeouable up to the first of 
this month. A dry June almost always insures 
a good Crop in our State, provided we have the 
later raius. The spring was backward, aud 
cut-worms troublesome, but uow crops have 
about caught up, and look as well as we could 
wish. Strawberries and raspberries are half a 
crop, but the amount the shipments realized 
was nearly equal to the prices for a full crop. 
Blackberries are very promising, natives not 
cultivated. Tons could be gathered from every 
waste place not in cultivation. Enough arc 
gathered and put up in various ways for homo 
use, only, and arc very fine. They arc put up 
in almost any way. If wofiiad more North Caro- 
linans, large quantities would be dried for 
market. Garden truck and potatoes arc good. 
The cautharides, or striped bug, commenced 
stripping the vines, and generally stop their 
growth. Does any one know how to get rid 
of them or a remedy for them ? [The only 
remedy we know of is to shake or brush the 
insects off the vines into a broad tin pan, or to 
catch them by sweeping the plants thoy frequent 
with a deep muslin bag-net. They should be 
killed by throwing them into scalding water 
for a few miuutes ; then, if they arc spread 
out on sheets of paper to dry, they may be 
sold to apothecaries for medical purposes, as 
it is found that our native species of canthar- 
ides are as effective for blistering purposes as 
the Spanish fly ?— Eds.) Every few years our 
crops are badly damaged by the pests. AVe 
always succeed well with the sweet potato, 
however. Apples, peaches, plums, <fce.. amount 
to almost nothing with us. Grapes look un- 
usuallyfiue uow; but, as with every thing else, 
we can’t tell what the future will be. b. f t. 
Miss., Scooba, Kemper (Jo., June 14, 1879.— 
AVe might have had some of the Beauty of 
Hebrou potatoes ou the table one month ago, 
but I wished to save the seed and have let 
them fully mature. I dug them to-day. aud 
intend planting them again for a fall crop, and 
if they do well. I will advise you. The Pearl 
Millei loaks fine and would do to cut now, but 
as I wish to save (lie seed I will not cut it. The 
Defiance AA r beat is rusting badly, as all the 
white wheat does in this country. The birds 
aud rust are the great enemies wc have to 
eouteud with. The Blunt coru promises fair¬ 
ly. J. A. M. 
Fla., Rixford, Suwannee Do. June 20th.— 
The general outlook for crops is good. Corn 
generally is doing well. Cotton is rather 
backward, but licaltli 3 r —the long staple is 
mostly grown here. The vegetable business 
has proved a success, though it had to be 
learned. The transportation companies have 
given better facilities than heretofore but they 
are yet far from perfect. Florida will soon 
be the spring garden of the United States. 
The orange crop is promising, but 1 judge the 
trees are not as heavily fruited as last year. 
o. c. R. 
Texas, Caldwell, Burleson Co., June 18.—If 
it doesu't rain soon, corn will be beyond help. 
A neighbor and myself are plowing cotton; 
and although it is not growing much, it looks 
fresh aud greeu and holds its fruit, while those 
who follow the Texau plan of waiting for rain 
before plowing, have slckly-looking cotton 
which is shedding its fruit. The Rural has 
already saved me $100, owing to my taking 
advantage of hints contained here and there in 
it. The children b&ve some iiowers planted at 
the ends of my cotton rows in sand three feet 
deep. I have plowed the ground five times. 
Tlie rows are ij feet apart, and I plow 14 
inches from the row and the last time, 18 inches 
deep. The flowers thus treated are the scarlet 
Cypress vine, the indigo and sky-blue Morn¬ 
ing-glory, the Balsam vine, white and red 
Kiciuus, Cbater’s Hollyhock, Mignonette, and 
Touc.h-rac-not. It is only necessary to look 
ten stepB away to where the same flowers are 
cultivated by deep digging, to see how super¬ 
ior frequent and deep plowing is to hoeing, 
however well done. d. n. h. 
Texas, Circlevillc, Williamson Co., Juue 
19.—Our section of Texas lias suffered from a 
severe drought; consequently, crops are short. 
AVheat and oats will not average more than 
half a crop—say from five to ten bushels per 
acre. I suppose oats will yield some more, 
but the grain is light and the ears not well 
filled. Corn is very much injured. AVcgrow 
potatoes in this part of Texas only for early 
use, and the yield was small. Fruits likewise 
turn out to be scarce; they arc quite scatter¬ 
ing on the trees and kept back by the drought. 
Crops are better in other sections, but we can 
not tell exactly yet what they will be, but 
there is a slim prospect for good crops in 
Texas. j. e. 
Texas, Salado, Bell Co., June 17.—AVe are 
having a severe drought, this year, in all this 
part of Texas, wc have had but one good rain 
since January. The yield of wheat is fully an 
average one iu spite of the dry weather. Oats 
are a fair yield. Potatoes are fiue, where (he 
right sort and good seed were planted. The 
fruit crop is inferior on account of dry, cool 
weather in spring, and uuless the raius come 
very, very soon, corn will be a failure. 
E. L. M. 
Texas, Lockhart, Caldwell Co., Juue 18.— 
Wheat is being thrashed out, aud is turning 
out from two to fifteen bushels per acre, ft 
will average seven or eight—loss than half a 
crop. Dry weather caused the shortage. Corn 
will average about twenty bushels per acre— 
injured by chinch bugs aud dry weather. Po¬ 
tatoes have matured and have been eaten up— 
a 6orry crop. Fruit, hull a crop. s. k. m. 
Canada, Cornwall, Out., Juue 22. —Crops 
arc doing well here. Hay promises to he 
heavy. Corn is very backward ou account of 
frost. Early potatoes were killed by the same 
cause. The potato “ hugs” arc not so bad 
this year as last. w. 8. t. 
PREMIUM LISTS RECEIVED. 
Wc have received premium lists of the 
following fairs: 
Fortieth Annual Cattle Show and Fair of the 
Fraukliu County Agricultural Society, to be 
held at Farmiugton, Me., Oct. 7-9. V. L. 
Craig, See. 
Twentieth Annual Cattle Show and Fair of 
the Iloosae Valley Agricultural Society, to be 
held at North Adams, Mass., Sept. 16-18. H. 
Clay Bliss, Sec., North Adams. 
Thirty-eighth Annual Exhibition of the Hou- 
satonie Agricultural Society, to be held at 
Great Barrington, Mass., Sept. 21 26. H. T. 
Robbins, Sec., Great Barrington. 
Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Natick Far¬ 
mers’ aud Mechanics’ Association, to be held 
at the above town, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. C. If. 
Mansfield, Sec., Natick., Mass. 
Fifth Annual Fair of the Washington County 
Agricultural Society, to he held at West Kings¬ 
ton, R. I., Sept. 16 18. J. G. Clark, Sec. 
Eighth Annual Horse, Cattle and Poultry 
Show and Fair of the Meriden Agricultural 
Society, to lie held at Meriden. Conn., Sept. 
17 19. Levi C. Coo. Sec., AVest Meriden. 
Cattle Show aud Exhibition of the Windam 
County Agricultural Soeioty, to be held at 
Brooklyn, Conn, Sept. 33-21. Frauk Day Cor., 
Sue. I laniolsonvillc. 
Exhibition of the New Haven County Ag¬ 
ricultural Society, to bo held at New Haven, 
Conn., Oct., 1-3. C. II. Augur, Sec, Whitney- 
ville. 
Thirty-ninth Annual Fair of the New Vork 
State Agricultural Society, to lie held at 
Utica, Sept., 8 to 12. T. L. Harrison, Cor. 
Sec., Albany. 
Twenty-fourth Annual Fair of the Otsego 
County Agricultural Society, to be held at 
