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NEW YORK. JULY 10, 1886 
PRICE FIVE CENTS, 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 188ft. by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 
SPECIAL. 
PROMISE of a GOOD HARVEST 
WHEAT. 
Winter wheat, a good crop on the whole; a consider¬ 
able increase over the area harvested last year; 
little plowing up; poor crop and smaller area 
In the South; best crop in California; poor¬ 
est In Kansas; probable aggregate yield 
Sfifi.UWUXX) bushels against 212,000,000 
In 1885. Decrease In area of spring 
wheat; considerably Injured 
by drought nnd l>!lgbt;pro- 
bablo yield H0.000,000 
against 115,01X1,000 
In 1885. 
Total crop 135,000,000 bushels. 
OATS. 
Slight Increase in acreage; considerably injured bv 
drought and Insect pests; probable yield 6U0,000,000" 
bushels against t>vt*J,000,U>0 In 1885. 
RYE AND BARLEY. 
Slight Increase In acreage of rye; grown chiefly for 
grain in the North and pasture In the South; slight 
Increase In production; considerable Increase 
In area of barley, especially In Kansas, Min¬ 
nesota, and the Pacific Coast. An excel¬ 
lent crop. 
CORN. 
Acreage about the same; a good stand; outlook good 
for a flue crop. 
POTATOES. 
Decrease of area In New England owing to the low 
prices and rot; early potatoes a heavy crop; late 
promising, especially In the West. 
GRASS. 
Large Increase in acreage; supplanting potatoes In 
New England; much greater cultivation of tame 
grasses In the West and South; considerable 
Increase hi clover; u heavy bay crop. Injur¬ 
ed somewhat by drought. 
Pastures good. 
TOBACCO AND HOPS. 
Slight Increase In area of tobacco; prospects fair. 
Decrease In hop area; crop generally excellent; late 
reports of threatened destruction by Insects 
ami "honeydew” lu New York. 
COTTON. 
Slight decrease In old States more than counterbalanc¬ 
ed In the new, mainly In Texas; condition lower 
than In 1885. 
FRUIT. 
Outside New Euglaud apples likely to be only a fair 
crop; young fruit dropping excessively every¬ 
where; generally the "bearing" year; poor crop 
In the South; much Injury to orchards by 
winter cold and spring frosts In the Ohio 
Valley and Northwest. Pears a poor 
crop. Peaches below an average. 
Strawberries too plentiful for 
profit, uther small rrults 
good crops. 
EAST ERN ST ATES. 
Maine. 
Biddeford, York Co.—Hay now promises 
to be a large crop; potatoes show up finely; 
many early planted lots are now in bud. 
About the same quantity put in this year as 
last; garden truck now coming in freely In 
good condition; strawberries now' ripening. 
First pickings to any amount will lie offered 
the first of next week. The apple crop prom¬ 
ises to bo large. j, l. l, 
Dexter, Penobscot Co.—Gruss is looking 
well; a full average crop. Grain of all kinds 
growing rapidly, and a full harvest is autici- 
pated. Potatoes looking well. Corn tin aver¬ 
age, excepting sweet corn, which ilid not come 
up well; two thirds or three-quarters crop is 
all wo can expert, much of it having to lie re¬ 
planted. Fwsi good,and stock doing well. 
K. H. 8. 
Skowhkgan, Somerset Co.— We are having 
a dull spell with some rains, which we hope 
will continue long enough to restore the dam¬ 
age to ull crops by our recent drought. We 
had an early Spring and fine weather up to 
first of last month, since which all crops 
have suffered for ruin. Grass, especially will 
be light on old ground, but may on the whole 
be an average yield. Oats is our principal 
grain crop, and is looking well; wheat and rye 
very little sown; corn did not come up well 
and is backward. The season has been too 
cold thus far. Potatoes, not much planted 
except for home use; they are looking well, 
with fewer bugs than formerly; apples blos¬ 
somed profusely, and have set well and prom¬ 
ise a crop fully equal to last year's. All small 
fruits plentiful. Farmers who patronize the 
butter factory find that then* outputs for 
commercial fertilizers are gradually growing 
less—one of the greatest benefits from the fac¬ 
tory system. j, h. l. 
New Hampshire. 
Haverhill, Grafton Co.—Hay crop heavy. 
Apple crop better than could be expected. 
Small fruits plentiful. Potatoes looking 
well. j. o, g. 
Manchester, Hillsborough Co.—Corn, 
from 75 to IK) per cent,; wheat, but little 
raised here; early oats looking fine, will 
be more than an average crop; rye, most 
raised for fodder, has been mostly cut, a fine 
crop; barley, same as rye; potatoes, pros¬ 
pects for more than average crop, large area 
planted; garden track, early cabbage, badly 
damaged by cut-worms and maggots; beets, 
mostly destroyed by cut-worms; onions, 
started well, but maggots are destroying them 
very fast, small crop in prospect; celery, 
plenty started, and prospects good; apples, few 
and poor; grapes looking well: pears, small 
crop; but few peaches raised here; peas look¬ 
ing finely, large crop; carrots, parsnips and 
turnips looking well and large area; black¬ 
berries and raspberries looking well. 
a. h. w. 
Peterborough, Hillsborough Co.—The ear¬ 
liest season we have had for a number of 
years. Com is backward on account of the 
cool weather, but is looking fully as well as 
last year at this time. Grain of all kinds is 
ahead of last year, and promises a heavy 
yield. Potatoes looking exceptionally fine. 
Apples, the prospect is for the largest crop 
for five years past. On the whole, the pros¬ 
pect for the farmers in this part of the coun¬ 
try is very encouraging. Grass looks fine, 
and a heavy crop of hay is the prospect,which 
has not been the case for three years past. 
C. N. 
Portsmouth, Rockingham Co.—Our staple 
crop is hay, which promises to Ik* more abun¬ 
dant than for several years. Wheat, tobacco, 
sorghum, hops, broom-corn and peaches none 
raised. Oats, rye, barley above the average. 
Potatoes and garden truck better than last 
year at this time. Apples promise well where 
the trees are uot infested with canker worm. 
Peal's below an average. Only a few grapes 
raised, but looking well. Season one or two 
weeks earlier than last year. C. E. T. y. 
Swanzey, Cheshire Co.— Outs, corn, rye, 
potatoes are of the average; garden truck looks 
very well, or would if it wasn’t for the cut¬ 
worms which are working corn badly to the 
north of us. C. H. r. 
Vermont* 
Georgia, ^runkliii Co,— Spring opened un— 
usually early, but for want of seasonable rains 
the frost left the ground very slowly, and the 
surface was, to a large extent, in tillable con¬ 
dition, while there remained a very consider¬ 
able stratum of frozen earth below it. The 
result is that upon all ttudrained lauds the 
growth of nearly all crops has been exception¬ 
ally slow lqr this latitude. As the season has 
advanced, the rains have been quite copious, 
and grass and the small grams have made a 
more vigorous growth. To casual observers 
who base their estimates on what they can see 
from the car windows or their carriages, these 
crops promise a very unusually heavy yield. 
Such observers are looking for a good deal 
more than an average hay crop, and we fre¬ 
quently hear them placing it at double that of 
last season. But farmers who carefully go 
over their meadows and note the sad havoc 
here and there of the summer droughts, and 
the winter freezes among their grass roots, 
and the very large proportion of daisies and 
other foul weeds which are springing up in the 
place of better grasses. sadly shako their heads 
and limit their expectations at a good average 
crop—perhaps 50 per cent, better than last 
year. The small grain crops compare favor¬ 
ably with last year's, but are not notably bet¬ 
ter. The universal testimony is that corn 
never came up so slowly or made so slow a 
growth after it was up. Generally the crop 
stands well, considering its size; but in some 
localities the cut-worm has done some damage. 
I have heard of a few fields being harrowed 
up and sown to barley or oats. With a favor¬ 
able Autumn there is yet time for a good corn 
crop, but the present outlook is not favorable. 
Potatoes and garden truck are doing well. 
Ou the drained gardens in the village of St. 
Albans, they are a week or two more ad¬ 
vanced than a year ago, but such is not gener¬ 
ally the case. My own early peas are not half 
a week earlier, though planted two weeks 
earlier. The three earliest varieties are just 
in bloom. My earb'est snap beans, two vari¬ 
eties, have not grown more than an inch in 
two weeks from the time of planting The 
later plantings promise to outgrow them, 
though they look green and healthy. Fruit 
trees, with the exception of plums, blossomed 
full, but the fruit is mostly blasted, though a 
small crop may be perfected. I have a curi¬ 
osity in the shape of a cherry tree, a large part 
of which is now in bloom. o. s. B. 
Manchester, Bennington Co.—Corn, area, 
104; condition, 110; oats, area, 100; condition, 
105; rye, area, 100; condition, 110; potatoes, 
area. 100; condition, 105; apples, condition, 
l’.’O: (>ears, condition, 110; grapes, condition, 
100; hay, area, 100; condition, 110. g. g. b. 
Newport, Orleans Co.—All crops, including 
fruit, look well. Grass unusuallv heavy and 
forward, and potatoes much in advance. Corn 
is up and looks well, but the weather has uot 
been warm euough to posh it. Rye is head¬ 
ing, wheat looks well, and oats are premising. 
The apple crop will be good if uo accidents 
occur. All gardens look well. Hop culture 
has declined here somewhat, but the prospect 
of a crop is good. Small fruits look well. 
T. h. h. 
North Bennington, Bennington Co. — 
Corn, oats, rye and potatoes look about as 
well as at this time in other years; hay, a bet¬ 
ter crop than last year. c. b. a. 
Williamstown, Windham Co.—Potatoes, 
corn, oats, wheat and barley, also the hay 
erop are looking better than they did last 
year. h, t. e. 
Massachusetts. 
Glendale, Berkshire Co.—Corn, good pros¬ 
pect; about the usual area; wheat very little 
if auy. Oats, rye, potatoes and garden truck, 
good prospects. Potatoes, I think more than 
usual planted; the area increasing every year. 
Apples and pears are about an average of last 
year’s. Peaches and grapes fair; just coming in 
blossom. Grass never looked better, but there 
is danger of it lodging a good deal. j. h. 
Leyden, I'rauklin Co.—Grass is looking 
better than at the same time last yeur. Corn, 
oats, rye and potatoes are looking well. In¬ 
sects very injurious to garden truck. Apples 
tind pears half crops. Mo peuehes this year. 
N. F. 
Rhode Island. 
akren, Bristol Co.—Cora, about the same 
area as last year; condition about the same; 
wheat, very little planted in this section: oats, 
are looking well, and bid fair to be a good 
crop; limited area of rye planted, looking first- 
rate ; about the same area has been planted to 
potatoes, they have not sprouted well. Whole 
fields have been plowed up, thus reducing the 
area planted. Potato bugs out ‘.in full force. 
Apples bid fair for a good crop; yellows and 
cold winters or rather extremes of tempera¬ 
ture have destroyed so many peach trees, that 
the peach is not a profitable crop. Strawber¬ 
ries an abundant crop. Early cabbage very 
much injured by maggot and cut worm. 
J. B. 
Connecticut. 
Bristol, Hartford Co.—Corn, rye and oats 
look well—rather better than usual—but the 
grain crops of this State do not affect the mar¬ 
ket much, for there is no farmer raises any to 
sell, and most farmers have to buy. Buck¬ 
wheat, one-third more than last year; hay, a 
quarter more. The potato crop will be much 
larger than last year. Not much tobacco 
raised along the Connecticut Valley. There 
is not so much set out as last year, owing to 
the low prices. Apples will not be any more 
than a quarter of last year’s crop. Peaches, 
none. Garden truck looks well; only enough 
raised for home market. C. D. p. 
Saugatuck, Fairfield Co.—All wintergrain 
good; oats and potatoes very good; grass 
large; corn rather backward; fruit moderate; 
onions good. g. c. b. 
Terryville, Litchfield Co.—Corn not 
quite up to the average; did not come up well. 
Wheat, none raised about here. Oats, rye, 
potatoes and most garden truck, above aver- 
a SC- Apples, not up to average: the trees over¬ 
bore last year. Pears not up to average. 
Peaches, better than last year, but not very 
promising for a big crop. Plums, up to aver¬ 
age. Grapes and hay above the average. 
c. w. c. 
West Haven, New Haven Co.—Corn back¬ 
ward, but improving fast for the last week. 
Wheat, very little raised, but looking well. 
Rye, a full acreage and forward. Oats and 
barley promising. Potatoes better than an 
average. Grass better than for years. Garden 
truck doing well. Apples not set, except 
Baldwins, and those orchards attacked by 
canker-worms. Season thus far moist and 
rather cool. L. a. b. 
MIDDLE STATES. 
1%’ew York. 
Auburn, Sullivan Co.—Wheat, oats, rye 
and barley are looking fine—too well, if any¬ 
thing, as there is danger that they will lodge 
before time for cutting. Corn is generally 
back wan!, owing to the fact that a large share 
of the fanners have been compelled to plant a 
second time. Potatoes and garden truck 
looking well, and are very early. Hay light 
—weather too dry. Peaches, plums, cherries 
and apples have forsaken us this year. Crops 
are two weeks farther advanced now thau at 
the same time last year. D. p. h. 
Borodino, Onondaga Co.—All crops are in 
advance of hist season, except corn, which is 
uot us good as in ordinary seasons, mainly 
owing to the seed failing to grow on account 
of coldness of soil. Many farmers are plant¬ 
ing bettns tx» fill up the row. Winter wheat is 
much better than last year, while oats and 
barley are fully better than an average. Po¬ 
tatoes are looking flue; strawberries are in ex¬ 
cess, so that Q to 7 cents per quart is the rul¬ 
ing price, instead of 10 cents as in former 
years; pears, apples and plums are set spar¬ 
ingly, although the bloom gave promise of an 
abundant crop; meadows are rather light as a 
whole, and haying will begin 10 days earlier 
thau usual. Grape-vines which were not laid 
down were badly winter-killed, but those who 
