The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-06-28
TKxE WILMINGTONTANT-
AND
DELAWARE ADVERTISER.
Thursday, June %, 1927.

TIE SEASON.--Present appearance
lu9t'hes the opinion that our harvest will be
abundant this year. Wheat, Rye, Oats and
Barley are remarkably fine. The crop Of
grass, upland and meadow, is uncommonly
heavy. Corn begins to thrive, but has been
very backward, owing to the cool weather.
Our farmers will, withstandng the Rat.
tcring prospect of having full garners, still
have something to complain ot--low prices
for produce is a grievous thing We hear
them already, in our market-(where they
are offering their last years crop Of oats at
IS cents, which a month or two ago they
could have got 40 cents bushel for) while
their fields are groanng beneath their bur-
dens, complaining Of low prices. We would
advise man. always TO sell his grain when he
can get fair price for it, and never wait for
speculating breeze to raise it above its val
use. When crops are good prices will be
low, and when not so good will be proper
tionably higher; thus we believe by proper
management but little inconvenience is felt
~ the farmer in either case. Management
IS one halt If a farmer can make his cal
culatiuns properly, and dispose OF his pro
duce at q suitable time, which is to be as
cegtained by watching the market, his gain
over his thoughtless neighbour, will be at
least fifteen or twenty per cent Consider.
able gain may be realized by retailing Ger
tain crops; what we mean by this is, with
your butter and eggs, send a few bushels Of
corn oats, potatoes, &c. which will always
bring extra prices.
Our section Of country is not the only one
enjoying the prospect Of am abundant har.
vest. In Pennsylvania, and particularly in
the neighborhood of the county of Bucks, in
that state, the prospect appears erceeding
ilne We observe in late number of the
Bucks County Patriot, printed at Doyles,
town, communication to the Editor from
person who sends him stalk of rye, taken
from the field of one Joseph Matthews, az
the 5, F. end of buckingham Mountain,
measuring feet g. inches in length. Ano-
ther correspondent, who modestly signs him
self ".Hoderation," aifirms that he has one
stalk growing in his field which approaches
the heavens, upan all average, l8 inches
day. The writer promises to send it to the
Editor before harvest There is no date to
this communication, therefore we DO not
know at what time it was written, but we
may say at least three weeks before harvest
50 that when we calculate the growth OF THIS
stalk for three weeks at eighteen inches per
day, we find it, at the expiration Of that time
to be 378 inches, or Sli feet high. We think
a few acres of such rye would, by harves'
think no ordinary sickle would be able 20
reap i. Donot let this stagger your credhi-
ity, brother farmers, for there is one more
yet to be told CT, which this same Editor re-
ceived. twined nineteen times round the lia'
of his postiider; (and how many yards we're
slowed into his suiky box, we are not to!uJ
Let us, for curiosity, measure this:--lhc
post riders hat, if as large as other people
hats, must have been about eight incnes III
diameter-well. 10 times the diameter os
the post-rider's hat would in that case oc
l52 riches; this multiplied by 5, whith :
believe is the usual way to come at the CIR
cumference, would make the length oi tl's
prodigious stalk of rye 45G inches, of .
teetM But there seems to have le.n iits'S
deception in this case, for it was thouallS
trick was discovered, wrought by the ia'f
hand Of lady, in which two stalks were ~
geniously sewed gether--each ~ feet sohb
Now we would advise ladies to have no manu-
in such tricks-a stalk of rye, - ieet ions'
should satisfy any ordinary adm,er OF 10.
ture; but we suppose she wished tbs s.a,@
to exceed that OF 4l}oder2.toa, w
have heard of Jack the Giant killers oca",
which grew - thc moon IN a fortaishf, a'''