§23 THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. SEPT. 2 ? 
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NEBRASKA NOTES. 
Kearney, Buffalo Co., Neb. Sept. 3. 
There are no variegated forests with their 
leaves of every line imaginable, no falling 
leaves to tell U6 of the near approach of autumn 
out here od these vast plains, hut the busy hum 
of thrashing machines, the silent, slow change 
of the beautiful greeu flower-clad prairies to 
brown, barren-looking plains—the innumer¬ 
able grain stacks tell you they are not barren— 
tell us that the summer is past and autunm is 
surely at baud. And a glorious autumn we 
are having here. Although some are com¬ 
plaining that it is too dry, yet it is splendid 
weather for saving grain, of which there is a 
large crop, and the homesteaders—we are 
homesteaders here, not., farmers—are in the 
midst of an abundant thrashing season. Small 
grain is nut turning out as well per acre as it 
has for the past two years, but there was a 
great deal more sown, and our county has 
probably raised more wheat this year than it 
has done the past two years together. 
Although a now railroad has cut off the mar¬ 
keting, in Kearney, of grain from the southern 
portion of this Slate and northern Kansas, 
the streets are more crowded with teams 
loaded with wheat than ever before, and 
buyers can scarce!}' handle the quantity 
brought in. Corn is an immense success hero 
this year, and will yield from 40 to 80 bushels, 
per acre. Sod corn will yield from 40 to 50 bush¬ 
els. We raised apples, pears, peaches, plums, 
cherries, grapes, raspberries, gooseberries, 
currants and strawberries in our county this 
year, aud all have done well. Of course our 
orchards, vineyards aud fruit gardens are 
young yet, the country being settled only five 
or six years, so we cannot yet expect a large 
crop of fruits. Along the streams a great 
many wild plums are growiug, of which there 
is au immense crop, aud some are as nice fruit 
as I ever saw anywhere, aud I have seeu some 
pretty nice plums, too. 
Vegetables? Oh my! of all countries for 
growiug vegetables this beats auy in my iauge 
of travel. Only think of watermelons planted 
on wild sod broken up this year, without auy 
manure or cultivation whatever, not even hoe¬ 
ing, yet weighing from 30 to 50 pounds! 
The Pearl Millet sent me by the Rural, 1 
guess, I planted too early, and it did not all 
come up, but it has gone to seed, aud if frost 
holds off another week or two, I think it will 
get ripe; but we do not have much use for a 
forage plant out here, as we have greeu grass 
the year rouud. The Acme tomato is a com¬ 
plete success, and has done better than any 
other kind we have ever planted. It will sell 
at from 25 to 50 cents more per bushel in mar¬ 
ket. The Defiance Wheat shriveled pretty 
badly, but it was probably from having been 
sown late. The flower Beeds did not come up 
with the exception of the Japan Cockscomb, 
which is very nice. The Beauty of Hebron 
potatoes I have not dug yet; but think they 
have done very well. 
Wheat, highest, new, 75 cts.; lowest, 50 cts.; 
present price about 63 ets.; corn, 20 to 25 cts.; 
oats, 15 to 18 ctfci rye, 30 cts.; barley, 15 to 
40 cts.; potatoes, 15 etE.; butter, 20 cts. per 
pound; eggs, 8 to 10 cts. per doz.; flour, $2.50 
per cwt.; hams, 10 cts*; shoulders, 7 cts.; ba¬ 
con, 8 cts. per pound ; corn meal, $1.20 per 
cwt.; onions, 50 cts.; beaus, $2 per bushel. 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Mass., North Raynham, Bristol Co., Sept. 11. 
—Potatoes rotting somewhat hereabouts; but 
ours are looking well, aud will, most likely, 
escape frost, liav crop light. Apples scarce. 
Cranberries below au average. Grapes a good 
crop. T. G. L. 
N. Y., Rome, Oneida Co., Sept. 8.—We have 
had the most severe and long-continued 
drought that we ever knew. It Commenced iu 
early spriug and there has not been rain enough 
since to raise the streams but a trifle. We 
never saw them so low as they have been the 
past week. Pastures ou dry land look almost 
as though a fire had run over them; and the 
after feed iu meadows is very scant. The 
result is that dairymen are getting but little 
milk ; and as cheese nets them ouly about four 
cents per pound, it makes them wear long 
laces. Newly-seeded ground will nearly all 
require to be seeded over iu this section. Coru 
ears have not tilled out at the end very well; 
but some fields are ready to be cut up. Potatoes 
are excellent in quuhLy, but the yield is not 
more than au average one. They are beginning 
decay in some fields. Wheat yields ou an 
average about 18 to 30 bushels per acre ; oats, 
about 40 bushels. Pear trees huugfull; but 
apples are uot very plenty. Plum trees are 
loaded. We picked the first ripe Golden Rural 
tomato, Aug- 14th. We think theta very uice. 
We distributed all but eight plants among the 
members of our “ Grange,” but have not heard 
how they are liked. My Blount’s corn is still 
the “ great attraction” to all passers-by. Some 
of it is over fourteen feet high with the lowest 
ear eight feet from the grouud. One stalk has 
ten ears, all Bet with com; but I still fear that 
the. season is not long enough here for it to 
ripen, as it is very green yet. One of the city 
subscribers to the Rural iu our Club, gave me 
his Beauty of Hebron, and that made six 
ounces of seed which I cut into 17 pieces and 
put one pieee in a hill, the hills 18 inches apart. 
I selected the same 6ize aud weight of Early 
Rose, and cut them iu the same way, planting 
them side by side on gravelly soil on April 16th. 
I applied one small shovelful of old stable 
mauure oil top of each hill, aud covered the 
manure. Each kind got the same care, aud I 
could not see any difference iu the .growth 
through the summer, nor an hour’s difference 
in the time of ripening. We had 17 2-16 
pounds of Beauty of Hebron, and 19 7-16 
of Early Rose. They averaged about the same 
iu size. We have two Voorhis watermelons 
about the size of a two-quart bowl. Defiance 
wheat was a failure. f, ». r. 
N. Y.. Ericville, Madison Co., Sept. 8th — 
We have uot had any rain to wet the grouud 
iu six weeks aud the corn is drying up. so the 
the ears will be short and uot filled out. My 
Blount's corn is a wonder to everybody that 
sees it. People 6top to look at it. and waut to 
know where I got it. I planted 125 kernels, 
115 came up ; the cut-worm ate off two stalks, 
and the rest of it is from 13 to 14 feet high aud 
has from seven to nine ears set on a stalk, and 
if we don't have frost this month, I think I will 
get part of it ripe. I manured with hog 
manure. I had very bad luck with my Beauty 
of Hebron potato; it had eight eyes aud I 
made eight hills, and when they came up the 
bugs ate off the tops and spoilt five, and the 
cut-worm spoilt two hills, so all I saved was 
one hill. I tended that faithfully, and the 4th 
of this month I dug them, and it was a hill of 
potatoes worth having, one tuber weighed one 
pound aud nine ounces aud there were six 
pounds and a half in all from one eye. Who 
cau beat that ? The Acme tomato you sent me 
is all it was claimed to bo. I planted part of 
the seed you sent me aud I had plauts enough 
for myself and my neighbors, and they are uil 
delighted with them. I trained mine to a stake 
aud trimmed from the bottom, aud the viues 
are some six feet high and are loaded with 
fruit. These are large and smooth and ripened 
uniformly all through, aud of very nice 
flavor. The beets are looking fine My De¬ 
fiance wheat I sowed in drills, but the dry 
weather we had the fore-part of the season hurt 
it very severely, so I dou’t expect to get much. 
Of my flower seeds three or four only came up. 
I am very much pleased with my Rural seeds; 
the corn is worth the price of the paper just to 
sec what cultivation can do. Potatoes arc rotting 
somewhat in this section ; but there is a large 
yield. Butter is 12 to 14 cts. per pound ; eggs, 
II cts. per doz.; wheat, $1.10 per bushel; corn, 
50 cts.; oats, 30 cts. Apples are not plentiful. 
s. j. v. c 
N. Y., Fuller’s Station, Guilderlaud, Albany 
Co., Sept. 8.—Fine growiug weather; sowing 
wheat aud rye; apples scarce—more in my 
orchard than in ten neighboring ones, because I 
kept the ground well worked and manured, 
and trees well trimmed, so that all about here 
own that my fruit is the largest and finest in 
this section. I have about 40 kinds aud my 
trees bear every year about equally well. 1 
don’t think people trim their trees enough. I 
trim mine every year and get the highest price 
for my apples. My Blount corn is the wonder 
and admiration of all who look at it. I 
planted it. May 13; now it is from 10 to 13$ 
feet high, averaging 11$ feet, with from two to 
nine ears on a stalk; some stalks are eight 
inches in circumference. I put no manure or 
fertilizer on it. but planted it on a good sandy 
loam, as I wanted to see what it could do in a 
practical way in our section. My opiuiou is 
that the season is too short for it here. My 
ordinary corn—the King Phillip—is a splendid 
crop this year. Buckwheat is extra-good ; oats 
middling; hay fair; rye half a crop. a. m. i, 
N. Y., Hamilton, Madison Co , Sept. 9. —The 
Beauty of Hebron sent me weighed two 
ouuees, aud from it I raised 11 pounds of 
good-sized potatoes, although the “bugs” 
troubled them all the summer. As to their 
earliuess, I think them a little earlier than the 
Early Rose. j. a. y. 
N. Y., Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence Co., Sept. 
8.—Our Beauty of Hebron potato yielded sixty 
nice tubers, of which there arc but few small 
ones. We are keeping them very carefully to 
plant next year. Ouly five kinds of the seeds 
came up. j. a. 
Ohio, Bremen, Fairfield Co., Sept. 12.— 
Wheal crop excellent, and grain superior. 
Fultz has the preference with those who pre- 
pare the ground well. A large acreage will 
he sown this fall. Oats medium. Corn very 
good on good land, when the seed was sound. 
On thin laud the light with grub worms and 
much re-planting have resulted in a very light 
crop. Potatoes suffered from both Uolorados 
and Cautharides. Paris-green is effectual in 
both cases. It needs care, however, to put iu 
enough of the mixing material (sifted road 
dust is as good as any) to prevent pure Paris- 
green from injuring the tops. Beauty of He¬ 
bron promises well. Not extra-large, but of 
fair size, and nearly every potato marketable; 
quality very good. Teabody sweet potato, 
very early, but hardly as sweet fts Nanseiuond 
wheu of the same size. Tried only this sea¬ 
son. Apples almost a total failure after the 
great crop last year. Pears, better. Peaches 
and plums all killed, and most of the cher¬ 
ries. Dyehouse, however, is an exception, 
passing safely through the extreme cold of 
last winter and hearing a full crop of its fine 
fruit. Grapes have done better than for seve¬ 
ral seasons past. Sheep market very active ; 
cattle slightly less so ; hogs least. The dozen 
or more iron furnaces a fc\v miles cast and 
south, in Perry and Stocking counties, furnish 
au excellent market for fruits, vegetables and 
farm truck generally. R. J. H- 
Pa., Brookfield, Tioga Co, Sept. 7. — My 
White Prolific corn is doing its “ level best,” 
but I think it’s too late to ripen. It has from 
two to five ears to a stalk, and in one place I 
noticed 12 ears, the product of a single kerneX. 
My Beauty of Hebron potato had 14 eyes. I 
removed the first sot of sprouts and put the 
eyes to work to produce a new crop, which 
they industriously did. From these 14 eyes I 
harvested 47 pounds of tubers, about 40 pounds 
of which were of marketable size. e. h. 
III., St. Charles. Kane Co., Sept. 8.—Timothy 
meadows and high pastures are eateu very 
badly by the large white grub, being in many 
instances nearly destroyed. Grazing for cattle 
only ou low giound.or clover meadows. Hay 
aud oats are average crops. The prospects 
were good for au immense corn crop, but the 
grubs and dry, hot weather have injured it 
to some extent: some say 10 percent, and some 
put the loss higher. I think it will uot be 
greater than 10, if 60 great. Potatoes a fair 
crop ; we had frost on Sept. 5tli, but it did no 
injury to vines. The returns for our milk per 
hundred pouuds delivered at the factories are 
very low, the highest being 40 cents, with one 
or two exceptions for June milk. Most factories 
are running below this, and the prices all the 
past months have been proportionately low. 
The manufacturers are charging two cents for 
cheese aud four cents for butter. Where butter 
alone is manufactured they lukclivc eouts, aud 
the producers of milk in this county claim 
that the manufacturers have had all the profit 
there was in the milk, and wish them to reduce 
the price for making, but so far, I believe, all 
refuse, claiming two and four ccuts to be 
the lowest possible price for which they can 
afford to manufacture. Unless some change 
takes place for the better in behalf of the pro¬ 
ducer, mauy will go out of the business from 
necessity. 
Ills., Dover, Bureau Co., Sept. 5.—Thrash¬ 
ing is nearly over, aud wheat is above the 
average in yield aud quality. Oats yield from 
45 to <35 bushels per acre. Hay was light— 
about one-third short on account of dry 
weather early in the season. Corn is largo and 
looks fair for a large crop. Early Rose pota¬ 
toes are good; Peach-blows and all late po¬ 
tatoes will be small, unless we have rain soon. 
My Blount corn is tall, too tall for U6 iu this 
country. The wind breaks it down too much. 
<r. b. 
Ills , Sparland, Marshall Co., Sept. 12.—We 
have had a very dry season. Wheat and oats 
are light crops. Coru stood the drought well, 
aud late rains will make it a fine crop. Pota¬ 
toes will be scarce. Planted my Beauty of 
Hebrou April 22; it contained six eyes and 
yielded 40 potatoes; am well pleased with it. 
The Golden Rural tomato is very nice and of 
fine flavor. k. w. 
Mion., Litchfield, Hillsdale Co., Sept. 3.— 
No one reports the Blount’s coru so high as 
mine, for some of mine stands Hi feet six 
inches, and 10 feet six inches to the top of Ihe 
upper ear; it has only two fuil ears, the other 
shoots not having come to perfection, perhaps 
on account of drought, for it has been very- 
dry aud hot for the last two woeks. My Pearl 
Millet will average six feet and is coming our 
in beads from six to eight inches long. If 
frost will stay away ten days or two weeks, I 
will save some seed. I cut some off wheu 
about three feet high—it is now 18 inches high 
agaiu. Neither the corn nor the millet was 
planted in very rich soil; it was a sandy, 
gravelly soil, without any manure. The Blount 
coru is a little late, though I have some that is 
ripe, so that I have gathered some for sued. I 
planted it on the 31st of ApriL It also grows 
too tall iu the stalk ; it would he a killing job 
to cut 10 to 20 acres of such corn. Then again, 
the ears are Loo small, it being uu eight-rowed 
corn aud from six to ten inches long. If the 
stalk could be reduced one-third or one-lourtli 
and the cars enlarged in that proportion, then 
it would suit me better. 1 now have a yellow 
Dent, called the Queen of the West, which I 
like better. My tomato seeds that the Ruraj,. 
sent me did uot all come up. I got a lew 
stalks that bear well, and that are now ripen¬ 
ing as nice a fruit as ever I saw. I sowed 
some El Dorado and Russian spring wheat; ^Ue 
El Dorado was a failure; the white Russian has 
a beautiful white straw, a large, smooth head 
and a very nice, plump berry. I intend to 
give it another trial; the cold, backward 
spring caused it to stand thin. The people 
have about finished thrashing here; wheat has 
turned out beyond all expectations. Corn lias 
been ripening up fast for the last ten days, oil 
account ol the dry. hoi weather; but ii is now 
raining, and that will stop its ripening. I 
never saw corn ear better; a great many stalks 
have two large ears. Potatoes are rolling out 
big; I take from 20 to 35 out of oach hill, all 
fair potatoes. I have also got TOO hills of the 
Early Amber sugar eaue planted, which is be¬ 
ginning to ripen; it is from eight to ten feet 
high. Wheat is selling for 92(a)95c.; oats, 20@ 
23c.; live hogs, $3 per 100 pounds. o. K. 
Midi,. Memphis, Macomb Co.. Sept. 8.—Tbe 
seeds the Rural sent me were of more value 
than the price of the paper. It has been so ex¬ 
tremely dry hero that it seems a wonder that 
vegetables have lived with the grouud as dry as 
ashes two feet deep, but we bare just had a 
splendid rain and hope is revived. I have been 
a little unfortunate with Blount’s corn, as the 
chipmunks dug out eight hills, aud a neighbor's 
cow broke in aud injured several others; but 
as I planted only one kernel in a hill, there are 
about one huudrod left that have done splendid¬ 
ly. The stalks arc ten to twelve feet high, with 
from three to ten sets on a stalk; the suckers 
are eight feet high with ears. The Millet stands 
about seven feet high, a wonder to all who see 
it: its heads arc twelve and fourteen inches 
long. I think some of the seed will get ripe. 
The Defiance wheat went with that old cow, 
except a few heads which I shall try another 
year. It promised very finely. The little po¬ 
tato I cut iuto 13 siugle eyes; two failed to 
grow, aud three were destroyed by ground 
moles. 1 have just dug the the eight remaining 
hills, aud the tubers weigh twelve pounds, some 
of them being four times as largo as the one J 
jilauted. 1 selected au Early Rose of the same 
size and plauted it iu the same, way, side and 
side; also a Snow-flake iu the same way; the 
Snow-lluke is uot worth talking about. The 
Early Rose got ripe a few days the first. I 
have dug the same number of hills, eight, uud 
they weigh 14| pouuds. b. s. 
Mich., Belmont, Kent Co., Sept. 9.—We dug 
our Beauty of Hebron last week and they were 
beauties, both iu size and number. We had 
more than we could pile on a peek measure, 
all taken from seven hills which wc made from 
the potato sent us. K. s. D. 
Wis., Lavelle, Sauk Co., Sept. 11.—The sea¬ 
son has been favorable to the growth of nearly 
all crops. A dry spell of nearly six weeks, 
however, injured late potatoes aud caused 
com to ripen prematurely. Wlieal was a good 
crop, except here and there where it rusted. 
Blount’s corn is from 10 to 13 feet high with 
from one to nine cars to the stalk, but little, ii 
auy, will mature. On the 5th iusl. we had a 
frost which scorched the outside leaves. The 
Beauty of Hebron potatoes are nice-looking, 
but I've not dug them yet. Wheat is wiling 
for 65 cents per bushel. w. 8. a. 
Wis., Oeonomowoc, Waukesha Co., Aug. 
Sth.~The Rural flower seeds didn’t come up; 
Pinus edulis sprouted, but then thought it had 
done enough. Defiance wheat was good and 
Pearl Millet beyond my expectation. It's whut 
every farmer should have. That Blouut corn 
was planted May 10, and is now about 12 feet 
high, with au average of four ears to a stalk. 
The Beauty of Hebron did well and is a good- 
potato. J * B - 
Minn., Howard Lake, Wright Co., Sept. 14.— 
The Golden Rural Tomato ripeued with me a 
little earlier than the Acme although the latter 
was planted a week sooner. The Acme how¬ 
ever, is a nice sort; but 1 find more decayed 
fruit than ever before. 1 have been hoping 
that this was due to the heavy rains wo had.iu 
July aud not to any fault of the variety. From 
one small Beauty of Hebron potato I got over 
twenty sprouts while planted iu a box. Then 
I set the pieces iu the ground aud continued to 
take the potatoes from the sprouts until the 
pieces decayed, so that I have a fine crop from 
so small a beginning. The first potatoes 1 
*• fingered out" for a trial before they were 
ripe and thought them better than the Early 
Rose of the same age, but, like many other 
new varieties, 1 now find them poor or not, 
mealy at one end, though this may be due to this- 
locality. Some of this variety were iu bloom 
when not more than ten inches high, and the 
vines do uot have so rank a growth us must 
other sorts wheu grown on iich soil. The 
Voorhis watermelon is good so far us the vine 
is concerned, but the first melon that set, 
dropped off and few others have set. ihu 
seeds sent me have afforded much pleasure to 
my neighbors and friends as well as lu myself, 
fur 1 have shared them with others. Farmers 
are jubilunt over their fine crops of grain, 
nearly all of which roue and matured after 
having been badly lodged in the first part ol 
July. Some ary uow busy thrashing, aud a 
good deal of tlm grain ranks No. 1. s. a. m. 
Iowa, Davenport, Scott Co.. Septembei 5.— 
I enclose you a slip e,ut front the Davenport 
Gazette, which will give you some idea of 
