The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-07-23 00:00:00

THE CROPS.

The accounts from Mississippi of the grope of wheat and
cotton are mast favourable. On many cotton farms the
bolls had been formed ; and, altogether, the season was a
most promising one. The above information is from Vicks-
burg and Columbus, under date of the 20th ultimo. The
river was ,very high and. rising.
Citors i s Mississiret.—The Vicksburg papers, of a late
Abdo, mention that the prospect is most auspicious for a
plenteous and excellent crop. From every part of the state
thelmost.cheering accounts have been received. In North
Mississippi, says, the Whig, heavy crops of wheat have been
raised and it is more than probable, that, next winter, our
State be independent of the west " in the pork Ilpe."
COLUMBUS, Miss., JUNE 15.--,--The cotton crop wi'S never
more early or more promising, in this neighbourhood, than it
is: the present year. On many. farms it is beginning to
bloom, and on some bolls have been formed. We were
shown, the other day, a full bloom taken from the farm of
Mr. .1. Connell. He tells us the blooms are fast opening all
over his field. We have also been shown a boll, as large as
a man's thumb, from the field of Mr. Hoskins, a few miles
from town. This is the earliest we ever knew. We believe
it was some three or four weeks .later, last year, before the
bolls were formed.

THE CaoPs.--We are sorry to hear that the late storms
have severely injured the lowland crops about Lincoln. The
hay, in several cases, is scarcely worth mowing, and the
grain has been so beaten down that it will never become of
any value.—Hull Times.

' At the meeting of the English Agricultural Society, held
at Oxford on Tuesday, Earl Spencer read a prize essay, from
Colonel Le COuteur, of Jersay, containing an account of the
most approved varieties of wheat that had been introduced
into England, for which a prize of twenty sovereigns, or a
piece of plate to that value, had been awarded. The first des-
cription referred to was that of the Hoary White, or Velvet-
een, a species formerly existing in Kent, where, however, it
appeared to have been lost. This was described as one of the
most profitable, leavinga balance to the cultivator of £l5 6s 9d.
per acre. The next variety described was the Jersey Dantzic,
which is, however, known in different parts of the country
by several names. It is not so hardy as the former species,
though it sue eeds well in any part of this kingdom, except
the north of k cot! Ind. Like the former, it is not liable to
degenerate, and the straw is useful for bonnet making ; the
estimated profit per acre is £l2 14s. fid. The third descrip-
tion named was the Whittington, the grain of which was
light, firm, and plump, and afforded a straw generally six
feet, and not unfrequently seven feet in height. This variety
is hardy and very productive ; but the straw is to long to he
used for thatching, or for any practical purpose. The fourth
variety was the Talavara Belle Vue, which is hardy and pro-
lific, appearing above the ground in twenty-five, and ripening
muc7.l earlier than any other description of wheat. Numerous
experiments were adduced with respect to other varietiei,
lid tie etder oxiited coutdderablo