Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-11-08
FOREIGN CROPS

We find in the London farmers jour
nal of Aug. Goth, the following account Of
the crops in the Netherlands and Germa
nv, furnished bv correspondent who
travelled in those countries in July
lN Y. paper.
elm both these countries, the latter part
Of Nav anu all June were even more
gloomy and cold, but not so dry, as in
Eng land About the middle of July were
some hot days, after that thunder show
ers, aud now again frequent and heavy
rains. AS the rye harvest Is begun, and
in the forward situations advanced, the
weather causes uneaslnesS ard !. 1t should
continue. will be inc onveuient and Getrl
mental as it has been already for the late
hay crops. These are for the country
,ood, where they we're preserved IN
spring, bat where eaten Off In April they
are miserable. Owing to the cotness OF
the past and wetncss Of the present wealth
er. not the least hope is left that the vine
yards of the Rhine, Of the Libe. or Of
Switzerland, will afford any return THIS
year.
Ill NSet WuCtC lliC eois -
moist the Enclosures small, and supcra-
oundant shaue, the rye and bearded
wheat, the predoniinatlng sorts "i corn,
run up veiy tall III the straw. How the
yielding may be, cannot yet be Geiermin-
ed. Notwithstanding the great labor be
slowed in handweeding, for want OF fall
lows Tor tn. nips, OF green crops and seeds,
the ground never seems radically clean
Among the corn, there is every where
more or less OF may-weed, blue MOVERS,
and buck wheat, which latter Is sowu,
and afterwards Is with difficulty extrpat-
ed from the ground. Upon the Whole,
neither in the great level II landers, nor
IN the s!oping country east OF 81 ussels,
will either tie crops or the cultivation
bear comparison with the beautiful part
OF Kent about Sitting hOrne.-From ths,
however, must be expected the clover and
flax, which are this year and almost eve
ry year, as perfect as can be imagined. In
the extensive and fertile Hat west OF the
Rhine, between COe,u (Cososne) and
Bonn, and again in the no less favored
Rheingow, between Dtngen and Ment2
lNiayepce,) was the finest wheat, and III
general the Oest appearance of all produce
that is 10 be found in any pat trave'sed
by the writer OF this report. Here, though
the knowled sc and the tools applied in the
most improved husbandry in Eng and are
evidently wanting, yet nature does much
to remedy the deficiency. The soil is
equally rich as friabie, and the climate
the best adapted TO co, n husbandry OF any
in Germany. But on leaving the banks
of the Nayn at uanau, and entering the
more elevated and woody country, all
looks cold, dreary, and starved, and the
produce is such as would not bear out an
English farmer, even in times moe pro
pitIous thar the present ones. IN every
place in the Netherlands and Germany,
the complaint Of low prices Is UNIVERSAL
Around LEIPZIG in every direction, and
PARTICULAR 10 the westward, is an extent
of he finest corn land that can be conceiv-
ed; mostly deep stratum Of black mould,
or rich ioam upon previous substratun.
Valuable and productive as it 10, 1t can
not be viewed with the eye of farmer,
without conviction how much good even
he best soils derive from the modern sys-
ten of improved British husbandry.
Green c,ops there are few, some little
manael wurzel, no turnips, but little tal-
low, almost ps beans OF tarss. .Ee tar