VOL. XVIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, JAN. 13,1883.
NO. 3.
Postal Card Correspondence.
WEST V fit (JIM A.
Monroe Co.—land rates nt Si; to id)per ocro;
stock high nnd source, hogs selling at l>c to 10c
net; summer crops, especially corn nnd
Brass,-turned out unusually well; wheat $1;
oorn 50c; potatoes, 40c. W. II. It.
MICtlU.AN.
Cass Co.—Corn yielded well, worth Wo;
wheat looking well; potatoes good,I dug from
one aore more than 200 bushels of Early and
Ijite Rose crafted potatoes, they nre of excellent quality;   stoek of  alt kinds  doing  well.
C. 1*.
KENTUCKY.
McLean Co.—Ijind varies In price from J3
to s*250 per acre; horses from 850 to $250; potatoes are plentiful; corn likewise: youug wheat
doing well; laborers receive 511! to $18 per
month; the farmers here do their work by
main strength, using very little modern farming machinery. S. 1*>.
IOWA.
Oueesk Co.—Porn, our main erop. was
rather light, owing to cold spring; several
on i*inerl< » *itc anming In thN and od.'olulit^
counties" and do a good business; the wet
spring and dry summer have produced the
largest and best orop of wild hay ever known,
and consequently hay Is a drug on the market; lt brings only S3 per ton, while rye straw-
sells for 31. D. S. S.
NKW YOUK.
Oesessee Co.—Have had odry fall with
rain enough to keep wheat growing nicely;
many wells are dry and some farmers aro
troubled for water for stock; crops generally
good, some fields yielding 50 bushels of wheat
nnd -10 bushels of barley; potatoes and corn
' fell rather below a full crop, owing to cold,
late spring and dry season; apples have been
almost an entire failure. W. C. P.
NEBRASKA.
Custer Co.—Wheat produced 30 to 25 bushels per acre; oats WtoTO bushels; corn So bushels; stock nov'erdld better than during the
past season. Some good land Is left yet, but
lt Is being rapidly taken up. J. W. II.
Bi'TLiiP. andSewaiibCo's.- Have had splendid fall weather for gathering corn, which
produced 40 to 00 bushels per acre, and sells at
2Sc; hogs mostly sold; a great many cattle are
being wintered, one firm feeding 800 head;
land lias advanced In value 50 per cent. In the
last two years; a great deal of fall plowing
was done; labor scarce. E. H. II.
<.'Al.IFOI-.MA.
Alpine Co. -This county is located In the
eastern part of California, bordering on Nevada. It Is n succession of mountain ranges
with high peaks Interspersed with numerous
lakes, creeks, rivers and beautiful valleys.
There is bnt little tillable land, and that must
be irrigated to be made productive. Wheat,
barley and oats are our principal crops.
Ranch lands vfiry in price from nothing to
$40 per acre. Cattle arc very scarce and worth
about 8c net; hogs abciut the same price; wheat
is worth 2c per pound. The mountains are
heavily timbered with pine, fir, hemlock and
tamarack. Tlie climate Is mild, considering
the altitude, i.nbout 7,500 feet above tea level),
and very healthful. We have many valuable
mines of gold and silver. One tunnel 6.0W
feet long is being constructed to strike n ledge
2,000 feet from the surface. J- J- Lw
OHIO.
Richland Co.-Crops very good. Stock scarce;
hogs dull.   Health good. A. W.
Lorain Co.—Corn and wheat yields fair; potatoes and hay above the average. Dairy cows
SJ25; horses and hogs dull. II. E. C.
a good work here. Our hogs are mostly all
sold. Present outlook for wheat, good. Hut
few cattle being fed. 8. M.
Van Wkrt Co.—Wheat promises well; corn
averaged 50 bushels per acre; hogs have been
dying of cholera here; cattle high, common
milch cows $10 to $50. . J. It. II.
Belmont Co.—Have had good fall pasture;
corn turned out 25 per cent, better than wus
expected; wlieat In ground looks well; great
demand for Improved stock; money plenty.
J. II. D.
PltKM.E Co.—Corn was hardly ripe beforo
winter frosts, and much of lt was lost; hog
raising Is the principal business of our farmers; wheat looks well; horses high.
W. A. II.
Crawford Co.—Crops generally have been
below the average. Hay and jiotatoes, however, made average yields. Apples scarce.
Clover seed about all sold at $5 per bushel.
Stock high, Good horses worth $200. Fut hogs
nearly all gone. X.
INDIANA.
Knox Co.-Corn whs an excellent orop, sells
ot 80 to Ilk* per bushel; live stock scarce aud In
demand; plenty of land for sale; health good.
J. T. S.
Hoonk Co.—Wheat promises fair, having
gone Into the winter season looking well.
J. S. T.
Kowicsko Co.—Wlieat and ryo In good condition, notwithstanding some destruction ly
fly; enough slock hogs to supply demand;
stock generally tn good condition.
8. B. 8.
Pike Co.—Health fair; crops good and mostly secured before bad weather; some corn out
In the fields yet; wheat Is not promising;
stock is scarce and high, but healthy; roods
very muddy. 8. L. B.
Franklin Co.—Corn Is about all gathered,
and the crop was not a good one, the grain
being somewhat soft; a large acreage of wheat
was sown in this county, but the prospect Is
not very good. F. E. T.
Hl-niinoton Co.—Wheat looking well; potatoes, a fair crop; cattle scarce and lu good
order; hogs dying some here from cholera;
labor not In demand now; health generally
good. I- M. II.
Laporte Co. -Wheat Is not looking very
welt, partly on account of fly; corn In many
plaoesdid not ripen good, and there is much
complaint about "soft corn;'* a large amount
of corn was topped and cut up; stock mostly
looking well. Mks. B. A. D.
Tippecanoe Co.—The recent cold spoil killed
our peach crop; the dry and drained lands
produced a good average corn crop, but lt Is
damp yet and the germ is killed; stock is in
good condition, hogs fatted well; we have a
fair supply of stock hogs and no cholera
among them; gravel roads are being constructed in different parts of this county.
Joel Pevfley.
KI.IN0I8.
Clark Co.—Wheat not very promising,
somewhat injured by the fly; land is worth
from 810 to S40. JI. M.
Johnson Co.—Corn produced 30 to 50 bushels
peracre, wheat 12 to 30; a large acreage of
wheat was sown, but the cold weather has
nearly frozen It all out; stock of all kinds
high, no disease. L. C.
Bureau Co.—Agricultural Interests in good
condition; land is worth from $50 to $100 per
acre; stock of all kinds In good condition,
reasonably plenty and bringing fair prices;
crops generally good. N. B. It.
Fsan'khn Co.—Late sown wheat looks well,
early sown badly damaged by the "fly; hogs
ore scarce but not unreasonably high; cattle,
horses and mules command good prices; people In excellent spirits. J. C. W.
Clay Co.—Corn produced about 45 bushels
per acre here; fat hogs nearly all sold at Si per
nre put up by a local, packing house; stock
looks well; fall pastures put on" winter feeding till about the 10th ult.; the growing wheat
crop looks well except in a few localities
whero the lly has been troublesome.
W. II. J.
Vermillion Co.—Corn yielded 33 to 45 bushels peracre; wheat 18 to 30 bushels; growing
wheat Injured by fly, large acreage sown; land
not In cultivation can be bought for 815 per
acre, improved land, $.*» to $65. A. C.
White Co.—Growing wheat looks well; corn
produced a fair crop; hogs are scarce nndhigh;
the potato crop was about the largest ever
grown lu this county; pecans and hickory
nuts were unusually plenty In the river bottoms this year. Ii Q.
Mason Co.—Corn yielded about half a crop
on high, rolling lands, mid not so much In the
bottoms; oats and wheat produced average
crops; catile are doing nicely; hogs scarce;
horses sell $50 to $150; farm hands are paid $15
Utf-i) per month; wheat acreage largo and
looks will. J. U.
COAL MINING IN OHIO.
In his report for the yoiirended last June,
tin* Stale Inspector of Mines of Ohio states
that thi'iitmual production of coal has Increased ►lnee""!S72 from 5.81531 tons lo 9,450,000
tons In 1x2. The lticr<-m.o *tpon IsSl was over
l.m>).t''si tons. Ihe niulelvcoped coal of the
rstati- is estimated at K5,oon,000,0uu tons. The
umoitnt mined thus far Is about 70,000,000 tons.
The Inspector Is of the opinion that an equal
amount bos been wasted on occount of a lack
of accurate mining plans and engineering
skill.
WHEAT TO GERMANY.
Bradstreets Journal says rtiat In the last
nine months, Germany has imported considerably over 18,000,000 bushels of wheat, against
a little over 9,000,000 in the same time last
year. Tlie imports of wheat and flour Into
the United Kingdom In tho thirteen weeks to
November 25 were ubout 12,000,000 bushels
greater than In the same period of 1831, and In
Ave weeks from October 21 to November 25 the
aggregate stocks of wheat In sjore In the United Kingdom Increased absut 3,000,000 bushels,
bosldes uu Important Increase In the stocks of
flour In the same time. Nevertheless, the
present, also the prospective, increase In the
consumptive demandfor wheat,as the cheapest food In the markets there, is sufficient to
advance priees.notwithstandlngthe increased
Importations and accumulations of stocks of
wheat and flour. It Is not improbable that
the heavy imports would have depressed both
the British and continental markets, but for
unfavorable weather.
CHAIN AND HEAT IN EUROPE.
A paper on Agricultural Statistics, read by
Mr. William Botly at the meeting of tho British Association, contained gome Interesting
facts concerning the food supply of Great
Britain and the Continent, which are thus
summarized in a London Journal:
At present the food supply produced In Europe Is equal to about eleven months'consumption, but in a few years tho deficit will
be, Instead of thirty days, nearer to sixty
days. As matters now stand, the production
and consumption are as follows: Grain, consumption In the United Kingdom, 007,000,000
bushels; Continent, 4,794,000,000 bushels; total,
5,401,000,000 bushels. Production of tlie United
Kingdom, 322,000,000 bushels; Continent, 1,7«0,-
000,000 bushels; total, 6,0.">s,000,000. Meat, consumption in the United Kingdom, 1,740,000;
Continent, 0,372,000 tons; total, 8,112,000 tons.
Production of the United Kingdom, 1,090,000
tons; Continent, (1,229,000 tons; total, 7,319.1)00
tons. It appears that the bulk of the dellcit
■belongs to Ureal Britain, but as the Continent
is unable to feed its own population, we must
ln# future look rather to soraeother hemisphere for the needful supply than to the supposed surplus that Russia, Hungary, Holland,
or Henmark will have for disposal.
Europe paid last year £35,000,000 sterling for
meat from beyond the seas, and £85,000,000
steillngfor grain, together equal to tt tnx of
jE10,Ooo,ooo sterling per month. This may glrsi
some Idea of the magnitude the question of
food supply has assumed In the destinies of
this quarter of the globe. In the United
Kingdom the Importation of meat, Including
cattle, bus risen as follows: 1800, 01,230 tons;
value, £4,390,000; per Inhabitant, seven pounds.
1S70,144,225 tons; value, £7,708,000; per inhabitant, 10 pounds. 1880, 650,300 tons; value, £26,-
612,000; per Inhabitant, 40 pounds.
The consumption of meat in the United
Kingdom Is much larger than in any other
part of Europe. In -fact, our home-grown is
sufficient to give us as much as the average for
Frenchman or Germans, as shown In the following table:
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Beneca Co.—Agrlculturallournals are doing   cwt.;  most of the hogs raised In this vicinity
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS IN EUROPE.
The Report of the Commissioner of Education states that Austria supports no less than
70 schools of agriculture, with 2,200 students,
beside 174 agricultural evening schools, with
5,500 students. Italy has three agricultural
colleges and high schools. Ireland Is tho only
part of the United Kingdom that has a regular system of agricultural education. There
are 115 of the national schools that have a
farm attached, and form national agricultural farm schools. Thers are, beside, 16 na'
tional model agricultural schools, with model
farms attached. The Albert Instltuteat alas
ncven Is the national agricultural college of
Ireland.
France has 13 farm schools, with about 30 or
40 pupils at each. The government pays the
board of each pupil, and allows him 70 francs
a year for clothing. There are also three departmental schools of agriculture, and a National Agricultural Institute (now In Paris).
Germany has at present over 150 schools of
agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, viniculture, etc. Each of these has farms, gardens, etc., attached. The first experimental
agricultural station was established In 1552,
and In 1877 their number was 55. Each of
these is devoted to some special Hue of research.
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
A few years ago Montreal threatened to become a formidable rival to New York and
neighboring American ports in the grain
trade. Millions of dollars were spent on Canadian canals, with the view of making Montreal one of the foremost grain shipping ports
on the continent. But her anticipations are
not being realized. The shlpijtents for this
year will be 4,500,000 bushels b«5low the average
of the last 10 years.
Lands well tile drained are not.only far
more productive, bnt can be plowed and,
planted ten days to two weeks earlier In wet
seasons than undrained lands. In some seasons two weeks time Is ait Important In the
production of a crop.. • ,