JULY 40 
450 THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Davenport, Scott Co.—Barley, 75; wheat, 
80; oats, 60; corn, 75; potatoes, 50; meadow, 
90. C. w. Ei. 
Dubuque, Dubuque Co.-We have had no rain 
for over four weeks, and oats and wheat look 
bad: corn has been planted twice in many 
cases, but holds its own; hay will bo but half 
a crop; potatoes will be short if no rain comes 
soon; straw bo tries less than half a crop; rasp¬ 
berries are full of blossoms and buds, but will 
be short, of half a crop; grapes did look well in 
blossom, but it being so dry lots of the blos¬ 
soms are blighted; grass in pasture is poor for 
stock ; everybody prayiug for rain. H. R. 
Eddyville, Wafello Co.—The average 
yield of corn, oats, spring wheat, potatoes and 
garden truck will be very much below the 
average of last year, on account of drought for 
the past three weeks and too much rain in 
April and the first half of May. Winter 
wheat, rye aud hay may be average crops 
compared with last year’s. d. d. m. 
Emerson, Mills Co.—Com prospect good; 
wheat and outs light; rye good; potatoes and 
garden truck fine ; apple prospect good; 
pears and poaches, none; hay good; crops 10 
days to two weeks ahead. Prices: corn, 16 to 
18 cents; wheat, 40 to 50 cents; oftts, 20 cents; 
butter, 7 cents; eggs, 7 cents; hogs, $3.35. 
W. G. 
Grundy Center, Grundy Co.—Corn is in 
better condition than last year, and is earlier; 
wheat is not raised in this section; oats look 
well, but the straw will be short because of a 
very wet Spring and a very dry spell since, 
barley is good on upland, but short on low 
land; potatoes look well, but it is too dry for 
a full crop; garden truck is ahead of last 
year, and less weeds than usual; hay an Un¬ 
usually heavy crop; raspberries, blackberries, 
grapes, cherries, currants, strawberries, etc., 
are good crops; orchards nearly all killed out. 
Haying has already begun; some are finishing 
their corn plowing, and barley harvest will 
soon hurry everything along; oats are head¬ 
ing; everything earlier than last year; pros¬ 
pects good. J- L. B. 
Hamburg. Atchison Co.—Corn, average bet- 
* ter, acreage smaller; Wheat, average not so 
good, acreage about the same; oats average 
good, acreage larger; rye, average good, acre¬ 
age smaller; barley, average poor, acreage 
about the same; potatoes aud garden truck 
about the same; apples, present prospect 
about half crop; hay, one-half bettor than last 
year; sorghum alxmt the same as last year. 
a. M. 
Le Mars, Plymouth Co.—Wheat, oats, bar¬ 
ley, flax, potatoes, etc., are all doing nicely, 
and are a week or 10 days iu advance of last 
year, with good prospects of much better 
yield than last year: should think from 10 per 
cent, to lo per eeut. advance. M. v. 
New Sharon, Mahaska Co.—Corn is about 
an average; wheat aud oafs light and short; 
hay, average; potatoes and garden truck, 
poor; apples and grapes, light. J. l, h. 
Ren wick, Humboldt Co.—Com prospects 
the best for five years; pretty dry for wheat, 
oats and potatoes; gardens that, are well tend¬ 
ed are good; small fruits good; no apples; 
Timothy and clover light: wild grass is our 
principal hay; barley fair. o. E. F. 
Rock Falls, Cerro Gordo Co.—The acre¬ 
age of corn is somewhat less than last year, 
but it is fully two weeks ahead of the corn 
last year. Wheat, and barley well, and there 
is more sown than last year. No rye is raised 
around here, and them is less flux sown than 
for several years past. Oats is the principal 
small grain grown in this section, and the out¬ 
look is as good as the average. Potatoes look 
well, but the bugs were never so numerous. 
Garden track looks about the same as last year. 
There are but few apples or other orchard 
fruits. Hay is better than the average, and 
the acreage has l>een increased a great deal 
the last year. w. W. W. 
Union, Hardin Co.— As compared with last 
year, the average condition is as follows: 
corn, 100; clean and well worked; wheat, 75; 
straw, short; oats, 50; rye and barley, none; 
potatoes and garden track, average crops; 
hay, somewhat shorter from lack of rain; 
sorghum, a full average crop. a. a. l. 
Wisconsin. 
Arcadia, Trempealeau Co.—Com, 80 per 
cent.; winter wheat, 90; spring do., 75; oats, 
80; rye, 90; barley, 80: potatoes and garden 
truck, 90: apples, 50; hay, 80. G. c. 
Beloit, Rock Co.—Cora looking well; oats, 
good; barLey and rye, good and larger quan¬ 
tity sown than iu ’85; potatoes not looking 
well; fruits, except cherries, fair; tobacco, 
just being planted, not so large an acreage 
by about one-third, as last year; hay, a large 
crop. B. C. H. 
Cascade, Sheboygan Co.—No rain since 
May 1, with the exception of a couple of light 
showers, scarcely enough to lay the dust. 
Corn planted over five weeks is drier thau 
when plauted. Not one-third of the usual 
area of corn planted; pastures arc as if a fire 
had run over them; hay, new seeding, fair; 
old would hardly pay for cutting. Winter 
w heat, and rye about the usual area, a good 
stand, all getting dried up, Spring wheat 
over an average—about worthless at present; 
barley about the same as lust year, heading 
out a foot high and yellow; some fields worth¬ 
less; oats in the same condition; potatoes 
stand the best; apples good: cheese. 6 cents; 
butter, 10 cents. If rain doesn’t come soon, 
all crops will be failures. o. f. 
Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co.—Corn is bet¬ 
ter than last year, and as much was planted. 
Oats, wheat, rye and potatoes look well. 
Garden truck earlier and good. Hay on old 
meadows very light; on new seeding, not over 
half a crop. But few apples; no pears or 
peaches grown. Very dry; unless rain comes 
soon, all will be changed. ' h. n. 
Green Bay. Brown Co.—Corn has a good 
stand; wheat, oats, rye and barley, favorable 
with last year; potatoes and garden truck, 
good. Apples much ahead of last year, to¬ 
gether with small fruit; also wild fruits prom¬ 
ise good. Grajws are setting well. Hay in 
old meadows is about half a crop; late seeded 
meadow's are a little better. The average is a 
little more than half of last year’s. Stock looks 
well. Season eight or ten days earlier than 
last year. t. b. 
Greenbush, Sheyboygau Co.—The grain 
crop in this section, as compared with last 
year, is very poor. Late frosts spoiled the 
apples aud cherries. Fears, peaches and 
grapes are not grown here to any extent. 
Corn and sorghum may be half crops. Pas¬ 
tures, except on low land, are all dried up. 
Potatoes and garden truck are far below the 
average. a. m. s. 
Lamartine, Fond du Lac.—Grain of all 
kinds has but little growth as compared 
with last year; but looks favorable for as 
good a crop: hay is short on old meadows. 
Garden truck about the same as last year; 
fruits of all kinds look as though they might 
be average crops. c. 8. N. 
Livingston, Grant Co.—Corn is good, and 
will probably exceed that of last year by 15 
or 20 per cent; wheat, small in acreage, 
quality equal to last year’s; oats, short in straw, 
equal to 100 per cent, ingrain; potatoes, early, 
less 25 per cent.; late, 100 per cent.; apples, 
but few; peaches and pears, none; grapes on 
upland, full crop, and all small fruits good; on 
low' laud badly injured by late frost. W. F. 
Marshall, Dane Co.—No rain since April 
16 Crops look about as well as they did last 
year at this time. Wheat, oats, barley, rye, 
potatoes aud all garden truck not half crops, 
on account of the drought. No tobacco set 
out yet. Not over a third of a crop of hay. 
Cherries almost a failure. Sorghum poor. 
No apples to amount to anything. Cheese, six 
cents a pound, ami butter 12>i cents, r. c. 
Monroe, Green Co.—Corn, 114; wheat, 100; 
oats, 90; rye, 75; barley SO; potatoes, 110; 
garden truck, 110; clover hay, 100; Timothy 
hay 80. n, h. 
North Greenfield, Milwaukee Co.—Cora, 
w'lieat, oats, ryo, aud barley, good. Potatoes, 
early, good, late coming on, too dry. Garden 
truck good, but late. Apples good; cherries 
good. Hay crop first-rate. A. L. s. 
Omro, Winnebago Co.—Corn a full average; 
spring w'heat, oats and barley 50 per cent.; 
winter wheat an average; hay about 40 per 
cent, of a full crop; potatoes 50 per cent. No 
apples last year. Small fruits a full crop. 
Have had two mouths’ drought; first rain last 
week. Wool from 22 to 29 cents. E. it. n. 
Portage, Columbia Co.—Early planted 
corn compares well with last year’s crop; late 
plauted failed to get up on account of a 
dorught; now’in the sixth week; wheat ami 
oats will be very short in straw' and grain. 
Rye must lie a jjoor crop, as it has been filling 
during this heated term; barley not raised; 
potatoes aud garden truck look well where 
they have been well tended; orchard fruits 
will be light, on account of late frosts; hay 
will be very light. Many pieces of above 
are too short to cut. D. B. P. 
Ripon, Fond du Lae Co.—We are having 
the severest drought we have ever known. 
Outlook for all kinds of crops discouraging. 
Pastures and meadows suffering for want of 
rain. With the most favorable weather, 
crops will be very light. n. m. 
Samem, Kenosha Co.—Wheat looks unusual¬ 
ly well; sorghum, good; corn, oats, rye, bar¬ 
ley, potatoes and garden truck withered for 
want of rain; hay, extra heavy. r. h. 
Sheyboygan Falls, Sheyboygau Co.—The 
dry weather has pinched crops severely. The 
growth of straw will be less; so will that of 
hay. Corn hardly up yet. Apples a double 
crop; small last year. Pastures dried up. 
Not as much milk as last year. f. h. p. 
Town of Herruson, Calumet Co.—Crops 
for this part of the country are little or no 
better than a year ago. Winter w’heat and 
rye full crops, not much sown. Spring wheat 
about two-thirds of a crop. Barley one-half a 
crop. Oats, three-fourths of a cr< >p. Potatoes 
and garden truck suffered for want of rain. 
Hay, one-half a crop. p. n. l. 
West Point, Columbia Co.—Cora, 110; 
winter w'heat, 115; oats and barley short. 
Potatoes fair. Hay very short. B. m. s. 
Minnesota. 
Campbell, Watkins Co.—Future outlook ns 
compared with last year, we think about 15 
per cent, better. Crops raised are wheat, 
oats, rye, barley, potatoes aud garden truck, 
hay, etc. n. n. t. 
Hastings, Dakota Co.—The early Spring 
was unusually favorable for seeding and 
planting. A very severe drought in May con¬ 
tinued until it nearly ruined meadows and 
late-sown grain. At present the outlook may 
be summed up as as follows; Wheat, no hope 
for more than one-half average crop; oats, 
somewhat better, perhaps two-thirds crop; 
corn, all that sprouted before tlio dry time (and 
that is most of it), promises to be much better 
thau the average, say 125; ryo good; barley 
poor; potatoes, never saw them looking bet¬ 
ter; hay, about 60 per cent, of a verage crop. 
Chinch bugs innumerable. Every creeping 
post possible is let loose upon us. w. G. l. n. 
Janesville. Waseca Co.—We had a wet 
April. Crops were put in when ground was 
in poor condition. May was dry, but we 
expect fair average crops of grain. Grass 
is good. Fruits are fair. a. p. w. 
Mankato, Blue Earth Co.—Corn, good ; 
wheat, 75; oats, good: rye, light.: barley,good; 
potatoes, good.; tame hay, very light; flax, 
good. H. 0. a. 
Sauk Center, Sterns Co.—In the latter 
part of May, a severe drought began, and 
continued until about the middle of June, 
which seriously injured the crops. As com¬ 
pared with last, year, there will be a decrease 
of one-third; the corn aud potato crops may 
be much improved by future favorable 
weather; but wheat, oats, aud barley are too 
far advanced to be greatly changed now. 
Hay is generally a light crop. This section 
is not much given to fruit raising. I. c. 
Waseca, Waseca C-o.— Corn better than 
last year; wheat fully as good; oats and bar¬ 
ley about the same; potatoes, fair; strawber¬ 
ries hurt by the hot, dry weather; other small 
fruits as good; apples, very few raised here; 
hay, good. d. p. 
Winona, Winona Co. — The outlook for 
crops is decidedly unfavorable, with the ex¬ 
ception of corn, which never looked more 
favorable. Wheat, oats aud barley are short 
and thin—not more than half crops. Hay 
very short and tliiu—all for the want of rain. 
Have lived for 21 years in this county, and 
never saw as little rain iu April, May aud 
June. E. T. H. 
Missouri. 
Afton, St. Louis Co.—Wheat, not much 
raised, but what there is of it is good. Oats, 
grass aud clover, abundant. Early potatoes a 
full crop. Corn in good condition. Fruits, 
average crops, except peaches—all killed. 
Grapes rot badly, except those growing on 
poor land; Virginia Seedling free from rot. 
p. M. 
Bethany, Harrison Co.—Wheat acreage 
always small; 50 per cent, increase over last 
year; prospects 50 per cent better. Corn fully 
as good as last. year. Oats very badly injured 
by drought; rye good; apples good; hay short, 
ou account of drought s. w. 
Blue Springs, Jackson Co.—Corn is 25 per 
cent, better. Wheat an average crop. Rye, 
not grown here; barley not growu. Potatoes 
and gardeu truck the same os last season. 
Apples, 50 per cent, in excess of last season. 
Hay, 20 per cent, less than last year. Tobacco 
and sorghum about au average condition. 
Hops, broom coru and cotton not grown here. 
J. H. L. 
Carthage, Jasper Co.—Ou a basis of 100 
for last year’s crops, corn is 125; wheat, 60; 
oats, 50; potatoes 100; gardeu truck, 100; ap¬ 
ples, 120; pears, peaches and grapes, 100; hay, 
70; sorghum, broom-corn, all berries aud 
cherries, 100. W. C. D. 
Eldon, Miller Co.—Prospects for coru very 
good. Wo have had sullieiout rain to secure 
u good steady growth, aud it was nearly all 
planted in'good season, and was well cultivated 
rather better than otherwise. Wheat is about 
all harvested uud will make a full average 
crop. Oats are good, not us high perhaps as 
usual, but thick enough and well headed out. 
Potatoes uud garden truck in good condition; 
sorghum fully up to the average. Plenty of 
grass. Meadows and clover stood the Winter 
well, and as considerable of both lias already 
been cut, we are reasonably sure of a full 
supply of hay. A full supply of fruits of all 
kinds except peaches. N. J. s. 
Fulton, Callaway Co.—Wheat, about ten 
bushels on the average; oats, medium; corn, 
good. Tlit* hay crop short; potatoes and truck, 
good; small fruit, fair; tobacco promises well. 
H. C. M‘C. 
Mobkrlv, Randolph Co.—Wheat, first-rate; 
oats, pool - ; ryo and barley, none; potatoes and 
garden truck, good; apples, ditto; no peaches; 
grapes, fair; hay, tobacco and sorghum, good. 
8. L. A. 
Rye, Adair Co.—Cora did not come up well 
about here, looks bad, will hardly be an aver¬ 
age; rye and oats, great growth of straw, 
fear it will fall, in which case hardly an aver¬ 
age; potatoes look bad, want more sun, hard¬ 
ly an average crop; apple crop will be short, 
pears an average crop; peaches not grown much 
here, but what few trees 1 have seen will pro¬ 
duce a partial crop; grapes, very abundant, 
more thau an average. b. m. 
Springfield, Greene Co.—Wheat, good to 
very good, but not more than 40 per cent, of 
the usual number of acres on account of two 
years’ failures. Not much rye, barley, or 
oats sown here; what there is looks well. 
Corn is the great crop here this year iu acres, 
and in quality of the crop, it is 100 per cent, 
bettor than last, year at this time, and much 
cleaner. Potatoes, some early kinds are now 
being dug for market; quality good, yield 
light. Late* varieties look very promising. 
Garden truck aud vines are very good, much 
better than last year at this time. Apples a 
full crop. Pears uliout half a crop. Grapes 
are very full, and no rot at present; it was 
about, t he first of July they began to rot last 
year. The hay crop is good where the stock 
was kept off iu the Spring, but too many farm¬ 
ers leave their stock on the meadows too late, 
and iu every case there is no hay worth cutting. 
G. W. 
Trenton, Grundy Co.—Corn, 150; wheat, 
150; oats, 100; flax, 100; rye, 100; potatoes, 
120; gardeu and truck, 120; apples, 130; 
grapes, 150; hay, 100. w. u. s. 
Kansas. 
Alden, Rice Co.—Wheat will make from 10 
to 20 bushels; quality better than last year— 
hurt some by chinch bugs. Corn waist-high; 
oats nearly a failure; a few plowed, in are 
good. Potatoes as good as last, year; some 
ready to eat now. Not many bearing fruit 
trees around hero; but what there are, are 
full; small fruits hurt by three weeks of dry 
weather. lb M. 
Beattie, Marshall Co.,—Corn, 100; wheat, 
7.5; oats, about one-half a crop: potatoes look 
very well, yield, 90; garden truck looks flue; 
full crop of apples, and many grai«.*s; no 
poaches; many trees frozen to the ground. 
G, H. 
Belvue, Pottawatomie Co.—Coru, more 
planted, but more backward than last year; 
wheat, four-fifths winter-killed iu this vicinity; 
rye, about the same as last year; potatoes look 
well at present; apples about as last year, a 
full crop; peaches, uone at all; grapevines 
are loaded with clusters; hay, not as good as 
last year; oats look remarkably well. 
a. s. w. 
CLAY Center, Clay Co.—Wheat, 100; corn, 
good; oats, 50; rye, good; potatoes, average 
crop. Garden truck, grapes, small fruits, 
good; apples, fair; hay, good. J. a. w. 
Cokkkyville, Montgomery Co.—Wheat all 
cut and thrashing commenced. It will aver¬ 
age about half a crop. OaLs, clover and grass 
half crops. Corn the best we have had for 
years; beginning to tassel. Some chinch bugs. 
Average crops of apples aud grains ; no 
peaches. m. d. 
Columbus, Cherokee Co.—We are having 
very dry weather. About half the wheat is 
cut; will average three bushels per acre, bal¬ 
ance not worth cutting. Less thau half the 
staud of oats will be cut; a great many are 
pasturing them down. Chinch bugs destroy¬ 
ing corn aud millet: coru ground generally 
clean. Garden truck badly dried up. No 
peaches; prospect good for large crops of ap¬ 
ples, pears, plums and grapes. Sorghum t he 
only field crop that is growing 14 miles east on 
the river, where there has been plenty of 
rain. F. h. p. 
Edgerton, Jackson Co.—Weather very 
favorable for corn; largo acreage planted; 
prospect never better; condition, 100. Wheat 
harvest all done. The State Board of Agri¬ 
culture places wheat at 59 per cent. In my 
opinion it will not reach 23 per cent. Injured 
a great deal by chinch bugs. Oats never looked 
better; large acreage sowed; harvest begins in 
a week. No rye or barley sown. Potatoes 
aud garden truck in splendid condition. Ap¬ 
ples, good; pooches,none; abundance Of small 
fruit of all kinds.* J. R. 
Elk Falls, Elk Co.—Wheat not good. 
