Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1870 — The Wheat Crop of 1870. [ARTICLE]

The Wheat Crop of 1870.

From the official report of the Department of Agriculture, dated Washington June 17, we extract the following: “ Freezing-out" haa not been general or very serious in ita result*. The winter was mild, and comparatively uniform, during ita earlier montha especially. February and March, the moat critical period for injury by freezing, were stormy and cool, with far more of snow than the preceding months, affording protection against changes. In view of the genflWriildness and openness of the winter, from which severe winter-killing might naturally be expected, the exemption is striking. In many instances this exemption is evidently due to the use of the ddUl, which plants the grain more uniformly than the brush or hrtMr used in broadcast sowing. Abun has this spring been to prove that the wheat. it annually worth militant the agriculture of thia country. Vaining has also been a means or preventing loss by freezing. Whereever winter-killing has occurred it has been in isolated patches, not throughout whole counties or broad belts of country; it has been due more to condition of soil than to extreme or frequent changes of temperature; it has been seen in stiff soils, in hollows where water stands on the surface, in half pulverized soils, and in fields where the seed was scattered upon the surface. Very few good farmershave occasion this spring to complain of the effect of frost, yet there has been some loss, considerable in the aggregate, as there is each year, but scarcely as much as the years will average. Among the great grain fields of the West the severest injury from grain killing was in Illinois. Here, as elsewhere, early drilled wheat on carefully prepared, dry or drained soils, escaped injury. Poisonous and scorched air taken into the lungs is quite aa injurious as bad food taken into the stomach. Parties interested in this subject can obtain a pamphlet describing the best mode of securing an atmosphere in their homes during the winter as pleasant and healthful as that of June by addressing Baker, Smith <fc Co., 151 Greene street, New York, or 127 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111. The apparatus is perfectly safe, can be managed by an ordinary domestic, and is equally adapted to old and new houses. Home Magazine and Children's Houb.—Tho frontispiece In the July number ol Arthur's Home Magazine Is an engraving of a band of Japanese Musicians. A large number of fashion illustrations are given, together with the latest fashion intelligence. “Children in the Country ” is the name ot a spirited wood engraving. A piece of mnsle, several good stories, poetry, useful household recipes, etc. Each subscriber to this magazine, or the Children'e Hour, is entitled to order a copy of the steel engraving “ Bed Time " and also ot “ The Angel of Peace,” for SI.OO each —regular price $2 50. T. B. Abthub & Sows, Philadelphia, at $2.00 a year, with a liberal reduction for clubs. Ths Children's Hour for July is also an entertaining number, and will both please and instruct the young reader. The supscription price of The Hour is $1.25 per year; five copies, $5.00; ten copies, and one extra, $10.(0. Address as above. Every Saturday.— JSTo. 28, for Juiy"s, gives ns an Illustration of the .‘Fourth of July Oratdr” of former times, and alsofull-page engrav ing containing several scenes of the way tho brer* of twenty or thirty years ago used tw oeteorate the glorious Fourth. Tpe other illustrations are ClassDayat Harvard College; Croquet; “Poetry,” from a painting by E. J. Poynter; The Bird of Prey; Portrait of George Grote, Vice-President of the London University. The Mystery ot Edwin Drood is continued, and other chapters will be published in the next number. Fields, Ossood A C»„ Boston, Maas. $5.00 per annum ; ten cents tor single number.