Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1836-07-21
VIRGINIA.

JTheat. Rue. Oats. Corn.
Dinwiddic,
very bad fair very good good
Chesterfield,
the seed small crop very good uncertain
Powhatan,
very bad none very good uncertair
Nsnsemond,
Indifferent little sown very good average
Fairfield,
IL crop little sown abundant promising
Wayne,
good little sown good uncertain
Ross,
Indifferent average good promising
no wheat co little sown good uncertain
Columbian,
very good good very good middrng
Clinton,
average good very good promising
p 8 ola crop little sown promising uncertain
very good very good very good bad
ILLINOIS.
Salem,
indifferent average good gently late
Respecting the crops n Virginia, we have She
following account in the Farmers Register; pub
lished at Fredericksburg. This account is up
to the 9th Of June, and il is likely that the ia.
fotaDiG WtatltE SINCE experienced NAV nave
improved The crops. The statements here Civ
en- are confirmed by numerous letters Published
in the Register:
From all the accounts before US. public and
private, il is I'M erred that the wheat crop
throughout Virginia, will fall far short Of au
average crop--and that the whole wheat crop
the United States will be not much better
than that Of Virginia alone. We subJoin in ex-
tracts from private letters, many Of the facts
that have reached US I: bat none Of these, except
the one from Halifax, Va, even refer o the la
test and worst calamities, caused by the inun
dation Of most of the rich and extensive river
bottoms of Virginia and North Carolina. The
great source OF injury 10 the wheat, and which
was anticipated AZ far back as last October, aud
expected then to be unusually destructive, was
the Hessan fly. In addition 20 this and other
minor evils, the very wet season latieriy has
done great damage, either by fl ling the soil
with alter, or entirely overlooking its surface
In the latter part of May, and first half Of June,
there were q days in succession, or which more
or less rain feli-and some of these rains came
in floods and even since the close Of this unin-
terrupted series, there has been an unusual
quantity Of rain. On high land, the usual est.
mates of crops expected vary from one fourth to
three fouFihs OF an average. In some fewer ca
ses they are worse and better than these ordi
nary extremes, varying from nothing worth rea-
ping, 10 nearly fair product Olthe latter ca
SEES very few have been heard of--and those net
very lately. From the newspapers, we learn
that in Buckingham and the nearest adjacent
counties, the wheat was tolerably fair, and near
Wheeling still better if so these are the only
parts Of Virginia as much favored of which we
have heard. On our wn farm, we cannot est
mate the crcp of wheat at more than the fourth
Of what the land could produce and where the
damages from the fly was the least, and the ge-
neral growth the best, there the damage was
greatest from seab, empty dead parts Of
heads. The quality Of the grain will be very
bad.
But the rich bottom lands on our rivers Fave
suffered most. They have all been covered by
ireshcts and to very unusual depths. The Roam
oke bottom lands have suffered most. The wheat
there is almos; entirely destroyed, as well as
ther crops and the soil itself, in many parts,
has been carried of by the floods, so that the
damage to the land Is even of more amount than
the entire loss Of the years crops
Two more days (the 25th and 26th) have pas
sed since the foregoing remarks were written, &
on both ram has fallen profusely and heavily
the consequent increase Of damage TO the wheat
will be necessarily great Where ready for the
scythe, il must be much beaten down and tan
glcd By the heavy rain Of last night and where
still green, there is danger of the rust coming to
destroy much OF the quantity aud value Of the
small product previously expected.