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nearly all killed. When the mercury gets 
below zoFo it Ls rough on them. Wheat is 
looking fine. Stock is wintering in good con¬ 
dition. Working horses from 820 to *150; 
cows, 820 to 870; wheat, 80 to 00 cents; corn, 
38 to 40 cents; oats, 35; potatoes, 50 cents per 
bushel; clover seed, 10 to 12 cents per pound; 
beef, 8 to 10 cents; butter, 25 cents; eggs 25 
cents, and other produce in proportion. 
111 inoiff. 
Georgetown, Vermillion Co., Feb. 22.— 
Wheat looks pretty well—better than ex¬ 
pected. Only enough for seed and bread 
raised here lost year. Prices for wheat about 
80 cents per bushel. Corn was a good crop, 
selling for 27 cents; hay about two-thirds of 
a crop, selling at 815. Timas very close. At 
least three-fourths of the hogs died last Fall 
from swine plague. Every known remedy 
was tried without success. w. p r. 
Kansas. 
Fairmount, Leavenworth Co., Feb. 10,— 
We have had some very cold weather this 
Winter; the “oldest inhabitant” never saw it 
colder. However, the cold spells do not last 
as long as further north. I plowed as late as 
December 31st. and now the frost is nearly 
out of the ground so that we can plow. Win¬ 
ter wheat was pretty well covered with snow, 
that is, for this latitude, until the last ten 
days, and up to that time was all right. But 
now the snow is all goue, and continued freez¬ 
ing and thawing, as we are now having, are 
liable to injure it. Considerable old wheat 
(crop of ’84) is still in the hands of farmers, 
and a great deal has become musty and will 
bring only 40 cents per bushel, for distilling 
purposes. Wheat suitable for milling pur¬ 
poses is worth 85 cents. Corn was a fair crop 
and some Ls yet in the field—worth 32 cents. 
But little attention is paid to potatoes, except 
ueav the cities, some farmers buying for 
their own use. A neighbor who is farming 
320 acres buys bis potatoes, and now when 
there is noue to spare they are worth 75 cents 
per bushel. Peach buds are killed. A neigh¬ 
bor reports at least, one-half of his apple* trees 
standing on a northern slope winter-killed. 
The dairy interest receives but little attention 
here, and slaughter-house hog and bull butter 
reigns supreme. j. m. 
Parsons, Laliette Co., Feb. 19.—The tem¬ 
perature of January was 11 88-1UO degrees 
lower than the average of the preceding 19 
yeai-s; so far this month the weather Ls sea¬ 
sonable. Snow has disapjieared and the frost 
in some places is out of the ground. Half 
crops of most grains, low prices of stock and 
hog eholora make farmers poor. No losses 
from blizzards. The monster trunk roads 
are stretching out their feeders all through 
the State and the eagerness of townships and 
cities in voting bonds is alarming. We shall 
have to support the roads when built. J. b. 
Kent ticky. 
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Ky., raises leaf and hurley tobacco, the 
prices for which rauge from 111 to 20 cents per 
pound. Southern Kentucky grows a large, 
dark kind known ns regie, which is purchased 
mostly for foreign markets, where the Gov¬ 
ernment monopolizes its manufacture and 
fixes the price of the product. This sort is 
raised mostly by negroes and does not, there¬ 
fore, get the attention bestowed on that in 
the northern part, of the State. The crop, 
therefore, is generally light in weight aud in¬ 
ferior iu quality. Creameries are springing 
up all over Kentucky and Tennessee. The 
Jersey craze of some years ago brought many 
fine animals into the State and these have, to 
a great extent, graded tip our native stock; 
but the establishment of creameries has given 
a great boom to Holland cattle, which are in 
greatest, favor at present. Several two-year- 
old registered heifers sold last Spring for 8800 
apiece, and calves brought *d00 each. Farm¬ 
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equipped with all eonvenieucios for fine stock. 
Great advance iu dairying is exported from 
the present attention to the business. Great 
improvements are also being made in home 
architecture and adornment. Even iu Ken¬ 
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for with whiskey it is found that our taxes are 
increasing, crime is becoming rampant, our 
prisons are overcrowded, our asylums multi¬ 
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their dockets, and idleness, vice and misery 
increasing. 
‘GARDENER. 
>1 IrtiiKtin. 
Dowagiac, Cass Co.—The Rural corn did 
not ripen. Beaus and peas nice. Our corn 
crop was damaged more or less by frost. Fall 
late aud wet. Some corn still in the tield. 
A. F. J. 
HubharustoN, Iouia Co.—Some of the 
Rural cross-bred corn was quite early. To- 
inato vines abundant; fruit scarce. Bad 
weather rusted the beans. Peas very fluey I 
have four acres of Fultzo-Clawson Wheat 
grown from the Rural seed sent two years 
ago; one acre of Surprise Wheat and a small 
plot of Diehl-Mediterranean. All are fine 
sorts, especially the last. Rural Blush Potato 
a fine yielder and free from rot. It is quite 
red inside, however, which is objectionable in 
a table potato, G. a. s. 
Manestiqite, Schoolcraft Co.— The north¬ 
ern part of this State is nearly “new” land, a 
fine clay loam, very rich. Nearly all the 
“new” farms are homesteads. Most of them 
are now assuming a home-like appearance. 
The fine, hard-wood timber from thousands 
of acres will be burnt in log heaps, as there is 
no other way to dispose of it. T. c. 
Three Rivers, St.. Joseph Co., Feb. 22.— 
Wheat hasn’t a good color for this time of the 
year. Snow on the ground nearly all Winter, 
and hardly any frost iu it now. Wheat is 
worth 85 cents to 90 cents per bushel; hay, 88 
to 812per ton; wood. $3.50 to 84.00 per cord; 
oats, 25 cents; corn in the ear, 3" cents; but¬ 
ter, 14 cents; eggs, 10 cents; onions, 50 cents 
to 75 cents: peppermint, $3.90; dressed pork, 
84; dressed beef, 85. j. h. s. 
Webrerville, tngham Co.—The Rural 
Tomatoes were not half as good as those sent 
out in ’84—those others were splendid. The 
peas were all taken by the hens. We have 
peas of the previous distribution, however, 
and are very well satisfied. The other seeds 
we have kept for the new place on to which 
we have just moved. The weather now is 
very changeable and very hard on the 
wheat. d. c. 
Minnesota. 
New York Mills, Otter Tail Co.— The 
Flageolet Beans came up finely; but a frost 
about June 15 killed every one. The Strata¬ 
gem and Prince of Wales Peas were also some¬ 
what injured, but recovered—very large and 
fine-looking. Cora too late. Garden Treas¬ 
ures fine. w. b. m. 
Nebraska. 
Crete, Saline Co., Feb. 17.—Of 15 varieties 
of potatoes the Rural Blush and White Ele¬ 
phant are the best. The Rural peas did well. 
Weather warm; snow going off very fast. 
Lots of corn to be picked yet. Corn 18 cents; 
wheat, 45 cents to <i5 cents; rye, 35 cents; po¬ 
tatoes 30 to 40 cents. e. mci. 
New Hampshire. 
Askworth, Sullivan Co.—The Rural corn 
matured sufficiently for seed—season short. 
Tomatoes very fine, but late; vines five feet 
high. Peas very fair. Garden Treasures 
very tine, ornamental and attractive. 
J. s. G. 
New Jersey. 
Maine Avenue, Cumberland Co.. Feb. 20. 
—Weather is warm anti spring-like. The Ru¬ 
ral seeds all did well, except the Johnson Grass 
and Garden Treasures, which did not come 
up well. Don't think much of the Flageolet 
Bean—too small. The Prince of Wales Pea 
did well and the Stratagem was just splendid. 
The Tlmusand-fold Rye did extra well; aL«o 
the wheat. The corn was not very good. 
The Shoe-Peg Cora is away ahead of anything 
I have had yet. D. L. 
Ohio. 
I* ranklin, Warren Co.—Rural Peas excel¬ 
lent aud very prolific. Tomatoes very nice. 
Beans also very prolific, but of inferior qual¬ 
ity, the pods licing very woody. The Garden 
Treasures did very well. d. l. c. 
Texas. 
Sherman, Grayson Co., Feb. 24.—Farmers 
have nearly finished sowing oats. A large 
area will be planted to corn. Early sown fall 
wheat looks well; late sown nearly all killed 
out. Livestock not so well off as usual. Wo 
should have less but better stock, aud better 
means of transportation. j. h. mcg. 
Oregon. 
Eagle Point, Jackson Co., Feb. 18.—Win¬ 
ter very mild; no snow and only two weeks 
of freezing weather—24 degrees above zero 
was the coldest . The Diehl-Mediterranean 
Wheat aud the Thousand-fold Rye did very 
well, and the cross-bred corn reasonably so. 
The peas were the finest I ever raised. The 
beans did poorly. The Garden Treasures 
were fine. I tun much pleased with the Rural 
Union Cora. L. r. 
Althouse, Josephine Co.—I like the B-B. 
Centenial Wheat better than any variety I 
have ever tried. It makes fine flour. Ani¬ 
mals are very fond of it and eat the straw 
greedily. The Rural Blush I consider t he liest 
potato I have. The corn didn’t ripen. Mar¬ 
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hi the ground by a heavy snow storm; u sec¬ 
ond growth produced three pounds of each 
sort Fruit scarce and dear. Flour 820 per 
tou; but tor, 30 cents; beef, 10 cents; pork, 10 
cents; mutton, eight cents; potatoes, l l -.j cent 
per pound. Producers complain of low 
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