THE RURAL WEW-YORXER. 
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Oats a failure. Potatoes aud garden truck 
very good. Apples not more than half a crop. 
G. N. 
Emporia, Lyon Co.—Corn prospects are 
now better than they have been in years. 
Last year this time our corn was very poor 
and sickly, lu 1885 J finished replanting on 
the 30th of June. This year some of the corn 
is already pushing out tassels, and the crop as 
a whole is looking very promising. There are 
hardly any missing hills. The recent rains 
will carry the corn way into the ear, if we 
don’t have another rain. Wheat is not as 
good as it was last year. G rent deal of it was 
winter-lulled; others have been ruined by the 
chinch-bug. The bugs are now working badly 
in the corn, and will do considerable damage. 
Oats will be a little short. The straw is short, 
but is headed out nicely. Some oats will be 
cut. this week. Rye not much sown here only 
as pasturage. I sowed eight acres for feed, 
but as we had such a dry Fall last year, a good 
deal of it ditl not germinate. Theu the Winter 
killed considerable. Potatoes are very fine. 
I have Beauty of Hebron, Early Ohio and 
Earl}' Watson Seedling, a new potato from 
Iowa, all ready for use now, and I dig a good 
many large tubers. Every indication poiuts 
to a bountiful crop. Garden truck is very 
plentiful. The cabbages are being eaten by 
worms, but they are growing so fast it does 
not hurt them badly. Apples will not be up 
to the average, as many of the trees are suf¬ 
fering from a blight almost similar to the 
pear blight. Pears are also suffering from 
blight. The standard pears have very little 
fruit on, and the dwarfs about three-quarters 
of a crop. Grapes will be a very large crop 
from all indications. Hay—the prairie grass 
is very fine, and as strong in nutriment ns I 
have ever seen it. Cattle have done better on 
it in the same time than I ha ve seen in six 
years. Taking all in all. the prospects for 
bountiful crops are as bright as one could wish 
for- w. n. d. B. 
Fredonia, Wilson Co.—Corn at least 75 per 
cent, better than the average last year, and 
three weeks earlier. Wheat 50 less, but quality 
of grain better. Oats 50 less, and quality of 
grain poor. Rye 25 less, and quality of grain 
poor. Potatoes—early, 25 better; late, 50 bet- 
ter. Garden truck 25 less; apples 50 lass, ex¬ 
tra quality; pears 50 less; grapes 50 better, of 
excellent quality; broom-corn 50 better. Area 
of planting: Corn 15 per cent, more than last 
year; wheat 25 less; oats 25 less; rye about (he 
same: potatoes 50 more; broom-corn 75 more 
—a craze among farmers produced by last 
year’s prices. Hay crop 50 less than last year. 
The outlook for corn is simply immense at this 
time. Wheat and rye about all in shocks. 
Never, to my knowledge, have we had a better 
season for cultivating growing crops. Corn 
nearly all “ laid by,” and 75 per cent, of it 
has been cultivated four times, which is un¬ 
usual among Kansas farmers. j. n. 
Geneva, Allen Co.—Corn, 125; wheat, 60; 
oats, 90; potatoes, 100; garden stutr of all 
kinds, 100; apples, 100; peare, 80; small fruit, 
1M. w. Mcu. 
GiRAun, Crawford Co.—Cora better by far 
than last year; wheat the same as lost yeur; 
oats a good crop; potatoes good; an abundance 
of all garden track: Apples lighter crop than 
usual. Pears the same. Not a peach in this 
vicinity. Small fruit an excellent crop. 
Grapes better than usual—vines loaded. Huy 
below the average. Castor beaus a!>ove the 
average aud a larger acreage. Sorghum 
about ns usual. No cotton planted. c. h. 
Harvey villk, Wabaunsee Co.—In this 
part wheat is good. Rye, very small acreage. 
Oats good. Corn in fine condition. Orchard 
fruits, 30 per cent, of crop. j. j. 
Hazleton, Barber Co.—Corn, 00; wheat, 
100; oats, 50; potatoes, 50; garden track, 40. 
Peaches an entire failure. Country too new 
for apples undpears. Nofchingbut prairie hay 
cut in this part of the State. Oats, 85 cents; 
corn, 25 cents; wheat, 00 cents; new potatoes’ 
$2 per bushel. w K 
Lawrence, Douglas Co.—Average condi- 
tiou as compared with last year; Cora, 125; 
wheat, 80; oats, 90; rye, uone raised; pota¬ 
toes aud garden truck, 100; apples, 100; pears, 
75. Poaches, none either last year or this. 
Grapes, 125; hay aud sorghum, 100. Crops of 
all kinds need rain badly. Chinch bugs very 
thick. j p 
Oswego, Osage Co.—Wheat ami oats will 
be au average crop. Hay, both tame aud 
wild, ver} T lair. Potatoes and garden truck 
g°° d - F. R. S. 
I oplar Hill, Dickinson Co.—Owing to a 
very severe winter, dry weather in May anti 
June, and lastly the chinch-bugs, not more 
than halt of the wheat will be harvested, and 
that is of very poor quality. Early planted 
• oin is looking very finely. The ground is free 
from weeds, uud the coru is from three to four 
feet high. A great deal of the corn that was 
listed iu the wheat ground is dead, and all 
covered with chinch-bugs. Before the late 
rain, oats looked very poor. They are now 
looking a little better, and will yield about 
half a crop. Potatoes are doing finely, aud 
have been ready for use for the past two 
weeks. Peas have dried on the vines, but cab¬ 
bage, tomatoes and other garden track are 
doing well. There are very few apple trees iu 
bearing, but those few will yield an average 
crop. Small fruits, especially strawberries 
and raspberries, did well, but were not nearly 
as large as they would have been if it were 
not so dry. As compared with last year, 
everything, excepting corn and potatoes, is 
poorer. p. w, t. 
Strong City, Clare Co. —Cora never looked 
better at this date. Oats not so good as last 
year, and will not make more than half a 
crop. Potatoes and garden truck splendid, 
and better thau last year. Apples and pears 
not so good: peaches none; a few last year. 
Plums abundant, especially wild; grapes about 
au average—perhaps a little better than last 
year; hay about an average: raspberries good, 
and better than last year; hardy blackberries 
better; wheat, little sown, and that.about as 
poor as can be. Of rye, barley, cotton, broom- 
corn and sorghum little or none is growm. 
J. 8. 
Wichita. Sedgowick Co.—Wheat is about 
all harvested, but will uot be more than half 
au average crop. Oats very short on account 
of dry weather all the Spring—not half a crop. 
Cora in good condition, clean aud a good 
stand; prospects good for a large crop. Pota¬ 
toes not very good, too dry; but they have 
been making a second growth since the rain 
on June 1st. Garden truck good. Apples a 
fair crop. Peaches and cherries nearly all 
winter-killed. Plums good. Grapes pleutiful. 
But very little tame grass grown here; nearly 
all wild hay as yet. j. j. a. 
Willis, Brown Co.—Corn, 110; wheat 
acreage less; quality and yield, 115; rye about 
the same; barley little sown; potatoes and 
other garden truck splendid; apples 60. 
_ H, F. Y. 
Nebraska. 
Cambridge, Furnas Co.—Crops of all kinds 
are looking well, with a few exceptions. 
Grain looks better than a year ago. Fruit is 
iu its infancy here. Trees and small fruit put 
out last spring are making a flue growth. 
C. C. N. 
Davenport, Thayer Co.—Corn, 100; wheat, 
75; oats, 80; rye, 110; barley, 75; potatoes, 100. 
A. M. M. 
Exeter, Fillmore Co.—Wheat heading, 
thin, rusty; 00 per cent, of average. Cora 
backward, mostly replanted; 90 per cent. 
Oats, 100; barley, 80; flax, 110; rye not much 
raised, 80; millet, 120; potatoes, 90; garden 
truck, 100; hay, 100; grapes, 100; small fruit, 
115; orchard fruits, 40. Cherries a failure. 
Peaches winter-killed. Late, backward spring 
iu this section. Hot and wet with violent 
thunder showers. j. a. j. 
Hastings, Adams Co.—The season has been 
more backward than usual. Duriug the 
early part of the Spring rain was very abun¬ 
dant, and it was difficult for farmers to got in 
their small grain in first-class condition. 
Small grain grew well and was looking fair 
until about 10 days since, when the weather 
became rather dry, and spring wheat has been 
somewhat injured; but refreshing showers 
during the last three or four days will tend to 
help. Prospects now are that small grams 
will be fair crops. Coru is looking well and 
bids fair to be a good crop. Unless some uu- 
exjieeted calamity occurs, this section of Neb¬ 
raska will be up to the average, all things 
considered. j, b. h. 
Hornervillk, Gosper Co.—Compared with 
last year, corn is better; wheat about the 
same; greater acreage. Oats better; rye very 
good; potatoes the same as last year; garden 
truck very good, as is usual; grass vary good; 
broom-corn good; great amount planted; 
sorghum good, not much planted. This being 
a newly settled country, there are not many 
bearing orchards. j. h. k. 
Nebraska City, Otoe Co.—Crops are good. 
Wheat, coru, oats, rye, barley and . garden 
truck, fron 15 to 20 per ceut. better thau last 
year; apples, about the same; berries of all 
kinds are 50 per cent, better; grapes and hay 
a very heavy crop, b. f. h. 
Picxnell, Gage Co.—Corn shows 110; 
wheat, 80; oats, 80; rye, 100; barley, potatoes, 
100; garden truck, above 110; apples, about 
50; hay good, 100; flax 800 area. s. k, t. 
Plato 1’. O., Saline Co.—Small grains all 
look well, except the wheat, which will not 
moke much more than a half crop; oats, bar¬ 
ley and rye are looking splendid; corn is much 
advanced; fruit of all kinds will be pleutiful; 
as to garden truck of all kiuds, it never was 
better. Everything looks promising. 
J. A. B. 
Schuyler, Colfax Co.—Crops look w'ell. 
There is a large acreage of small grain. 
Wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley and potatoes 
are good. Fruit a success in some localities. 
Broom corn and sorghum good; garden truck 
excellent. e. j. d. 
Willowdale, Antelope Co.—As compared 
with crops last year: corn is 110; wheat, 110; 
oats, 98; rye, 100; barley, 105; potatoes, 115; 
garden track, 120; hay, 120; sorghum, 90. 
_ A. K. F. 
Dakota. 
Arlington, Kingsbury Co.—Wheat com¬ 
pared with last year’s, will average only one- 
half crop; short, thin and uneven. Corn good 
and well advanced, but acreage low; oats 
headiug too close to the ground and very light; 
rye not much growm here; barley poor and 
only half the usual acreage; flax 15 per cent 
more acreage, but small; still the chances are 
good for clean fields. Potatoes are better than 
a year ago; garden truck always good here; 
orchards are yet too small to bear much; tame 
hay light; wild grass good; hops look good, 
but are raised only for household purposes; 
trees are puttiug out an extra good growth. 
Acreage of trees planted here this Spring 50 
per cent, more than last year. w. a. p, 
De Smet, Kingsbury Co.—Crops of all kinds 
looking well and growing very fast. We are 
having warm weather with plenty of rain, but 
I do not think wheat will yield as well as it 
did last year, being somewhat thinner; but 
everything else, such as oats, barley, flax, rye, 
potatoes and garden track. I think will be 
fully as good, aud corn is doing a great deal 
better than last year. It looks as though we 
would get a big crop. Hay about the same as 
lost year. f. j. p. 
Grand View, Douglas Co.—Wheat, oats, 
barley and corn at this time promise full 
crops. Flax looks well. H. a. s. 
Huron, Beadle Co.—Corn looks 150; wheat, 
60; oats, 109; barley, 100; potatoes and garden 
stuff about 125. w. a. b. 
Midway, Moody Co.—It was quite dry 
here during May, and it will shorten the 
yields of wheat, oats and barley at least 25 
per cent below last year’s crops. I think one- 
third of the tilled land is in flax. The early- 
sown flax is looking exceedingly fine; but the 
late flax came up very unevenly, and will be 
a short crop. Coru is better than at this time 
last year. Potatoes never looked better. 
Small fruits doing well Strawberries in 
abundance ; never better. j. w. d. 
Rockervtlle, Pennington Co.—Wheat 
yielded 35 bushels per acre last year; oats 75 
bushels; barley +4, and a prospect for a better 
yield this year. e, s. g. 
Plymouth, RansomCo.—Corn, 100; wheat, 
105; oats, good; rye, none; barley, extra; po¬ 
tatoes good; garden track good; small fruits 
good; hay, good. j. g. 
Colorado. 
Fort Collins, Larimer Co.—The crops as 
a whole this year look much more promising 
than last—wheat, 100; oats, rye, barley, per¬ 
haps crop uot quite as good. Lust year all 
fruits, such as apples, grapes, etc., were killed. 
This year there will be a full crop. Small 
fruits, strawberries, etc., will be a full crop. 
Hay is average. Cora uot as good as last 
year. Other crops look well. * * * 
Wray, Weld Co.—This is a new country 
and there is nothiug but sod crops to report. 
Sod com lookB well, where not cut down with 
hail. Millet and Alfalfa good. Pumpkins 
and melons cut down by hail. j. b. 
California. 
Cottonwood, Shnsta’Co.—Crops are better 
than they were last year. About the same 
acreage sown. All fruits in abundance, ex¬ 
cept peaches, which will be a light crop iu 
some places. j. o. s. 
Newcastle, Placer Co.—No small grains 
are raised here except for hay. Potatoes and 
garden truck (except tomatoes) only in a 
small way. Tomatoes are grown quite largely 
—crop good. Apples, fair: pears, good; 
peaches, one-third qf a crop; plums aud 
prunes fair lots. Poor grapes. Very large 
Held crops. c. m. s. 
Pknryn, Placer Co.—This place is particu¬ 
larly devoted to the growing of fruit, and we 
think there is no place in this State where the 
varieties adapted to this climate are produced 
iu a higher degree of excellence. Strawber¬ 
ries and raspberries are nearly all marketed, 
and while the crop is much less than last year, 
prices have been so much higher that more net 
money will be male this season, Blackberries 
are now lieitig picked; crop about the same as 
last year, but prices are better. Craps of 
peaches und plums will not be half so large as 
last season in old orehunis, but as there are 
many new orchards just coming into bearing, 
more than half as much will be sold, aud 
prices so far have been more than double those 
of last year, with the prospect of being good 
throughout the season, as all our surplus can 
now be sent East through the California Fruit 
Union at a low rate of freight Crop of hay 
unusually large and prices low—$8 to 810 per 
ton. Wheat, barley and oats yielding heavily. 
Corn and rye are grown only to quite a lim¬ 
ited extent. The total amount of fruit ship¬ 
ped from the towns of Penryn and Newcastle 
last season was 283Vi cars of 20,000 pounds 
each, and but a small proportion of our or¬ 
chards are as yet in bearing. p. w. b. 
Indian Territory. 
Oak Lodge, Choctaw Nation.—Corn and 
cotton much above the average of last year. 
Oats a half crop; prairie hay short; garden 
truck good. G. w. b. 
Washington Territory. 
Port Townsend, Jefferson Co.—Wheat, 100. 
Oats, barley, garden truck aud potatoes some¬ 
what short, on account of drought. Hops 
looking splendid, about 125 per cent, of an 
average.. A good many raised in the valleys 
here. No corn raised; fruits, 100; no grapes 
grown here; hay, 75. j. c. c. 
Puyallup, Pierce Co.—Everything is two 
or more weeks late. Compared with this date 
for 1885. all kinds of graius look fully as well 
with greater acreage—could not be better. 
Potatoes and all vegetables are looking fine, 
but owing to u cold, wet Spring, a good many 
seeds failed to come up, and the stand is at 
least 25 per cent, short in most cases. For 
some reason fruits will uot be a big yield, 
though for size aud quality they cannot be ex¬ 
celled. Small fruits are, and will be, abund¬ 
ant. The bushes are simpR groaning under 
their immense loads of big berries, such as 
only Washington Territory can produce. Spe¬ 
cialties are hops, looking as they always do, A 
1, but later. Of specialties, many kinds of 
pears; prunes and all kinds of berries will 
soon have a pre-eminent place, and be as noted 
the world over as are to-day Washington Ter¬ 
ritory hops. j. M . F . 
Canada. 
Brampton, Peel Co.—Fall wheat badly win¬ 
ter-killed; about half a crap. Spring crops 
sown when the ground was too wet,rather poor 
prospect, but they may improve. Barley 
looks much more promising than wheat. 
Apples promise an extra crop; other fruits not 
extensively grown, except berries, which 
promise well. Hay generally good. Every¬ 
thing earlier than last year. The very best 
we can hope for is 75 per cent, of last year’s 
crops all round. d. j. m’k. 
Brighton, Ontario.—Corn poor; wheat, 
fall, extra: spring, fair; oats, good; rye, 
extra; barley, good: potat<:>os not so good as 
last year; truck very good; apples not as good 
as last year; pears and plums none; grapes 
good; bay ext ra; hops looking well. All crops 
are looking better than last year. Had it not 
been for last week’s rain things would have 
been poor. a. p. j. 
Ellesmere, York Co., Ont.—Spring wheat, 
oats and barley are looking well, with pros¬ 
pects of good average yields. Three-fourths 
of fall wheat winter-killed. Hay below an 
average. Potatoes looking well. j. w. 
Hawkinsburry, Ontario.—Have had an 
early favorable Spring, with seasonable rains. 
Wheat, oats, barley, com, peas and potatoes 
look promising; apples and small traits grown 
to a limited extent only; but will be full crops; 
hay, new meadows, good; old, only fair. 
J. G. H. 
Granton, Out.—Fall wheat looks well and 
is more forward than at this date last year, 
but late sown won’t average half a crop, more 
having been put in. than otherwise would, 
owing to the failure of spring wheat last year. 
Oats aud barley look well and there will be 
a full average. No corn of any accoimt sown 
in our locality. Hay will lie ubout two-thirds 
the crop of last year. The frost, of May 15th 
and 16th in most localities here injured tosome 
extent apples, grapes, strawberries and early 
garden stuff. Potatoes are doing well, and 
not as many of the Bug familv as formerly. 
J. L. 
Komoka, Ontario.—Fall wheat, 66 per cent.; 
oats, 90; corn, 100; barley, 80; spring wheat, 
70; rye very little sown; potatoes. 110; apples, 
85; cherries 200; pears and peaches, very few 
grown; hay. 50. We have had several show- 
era in the last few days which may increase 
the percentage. a. d. mcl. 
Lloydtown, Ont.—As compared with last 
year, winter wheat is one-half crop; spring 
wheat, barley, oats and peas about the same. 
Orchard fruits one-half better. Potatoes better, 
but bugs worse than ever before. Garden 
truck better; hay a good crop, about the same 
as last year. Prices are very poor for ail kinds 
of produce. Wheat 75 cents, aud other grains 
In proportion. u. a. 
Manchester, N. S.—Hay promises more 
than an average crap; ooru is uot raised here 
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