Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-06

and thawing weather, has seriously injured the wheat and rye. We are yet to learn what injury this grain has to suffer from the Hes- sian fly. If we add to this, that the grain worm may be expected to extend its ravages south and west, probably into Duchess and Ontario, we shall have little cause to expect better wheat crop than we had in 1636.- To show that the crop of 1886, fell far short of our consumption, it is only necessary to state, that there was imported into New York alone, from Europe, in 1886, half a million bushels of wheat and in the current year, up to the 18th of April, eight hundred and fifty seven thousand bushels, making in the ag- gregate about one million three hundred and seventy thousand bushels of wheat, besides rye and other grain-thus drawing from the country some millions of dollars for bread- stuffs, our great staples, which we have been in the habit of exporting to large amount. Much of this grain came from the Baltic and Black seas.
 Admonished by these startling facts, and by the general commercial distress of our country, which has hardly begun to develop its worst features, it behoves the farmer to husband all his labor, and his means, and diligently employ them in augmenting his summer crops, of grain and roots. The price ot meats have been so high, and the scarcity o1 forage so great, that our live stock has been greatly diminished, and prudence and good management are necessary to replen- ish our herds and flocks. Much, in the pres ent and coming years, will depend upon the industry, sagacity and frmness of the yeo- manry ot our country.-Albony Cult.
 The Crops.-The Norfolk Herald says " The farmers are now busy with their scythes. It is the beginning of the wheat hn .Hxvn nelghboring counties of North Carolina Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, &c. have fine wheat grounds and industrious husbandmen. They calculate on 50 per cent above an average crop. From Penn sylvania, Maryland, Western Virginia-in short generally throughout the wheat grow ing country, the report is not less favorable. So much for the predictions of the acrop croakerS."
 Season of Plemy.-It is expected that if the weather is ordinarily favorable during the succeeding summer, that many articles of ag- ricultural produce will be uncommonly pleR- tiful. In the first place, very many young men, originally from the country, who have been lately turned out of employment at the factories, will return to their paternal dwell ling, and become tillers of the soil. Hence they will not only improve their health, but cause the harvest to be greater than usual, just in proportion to this amount of additional labor. Hay, grain and all the products of the earth will be proportionably augmented. Fin the second place, thousands of young girls, who, to the great grief of their mothers, in many instances, formerly left their homes to labor in factory, being lately turned out of days at home-assisting in dairy affairs, ma king butter and cheese, growing plump and healthy. and becoming productive laborers both for themselves and community. Many of them will get married to the young mon above spoken of, and they will conclude, af- ter settling on snug little farm, that the far mcr's life is the most independent, and tho happicst that can be found.-A1ethuen Gag.
 The following amusing anecdotc is extract ed from forcible article of the N. Y. Eve ming Post, designed to arrest the late preva- lent rage for speculation:
 A traveller once, in the West, on setting out early one morning from the place he had pas sed the night, consulted his map of the coun- try, and finding that very considerable town, called Venice or Verona, or Vienna, or by the name of some other European city begin ming with V. occupied point on his road but some 12 or 15 miles off, concluded to journey
 
 CT equally extensive town, bearing as sound ing name, was laid down at convenient distance for his afternoon stage; and there he proposed halting for the night. He con- tnued to travel at good round pace until the sun had attained great height in the heav- ems, and until he computed he had accom- plished more than twice or thrice the distance which he proposed to himself in the outset.- His stomach had long since warned him that it was time to halt, and his horse gave indica- tons which plainly showed that he was of the same opinion. Still he saw no town before him, even of the humblest kind, much less such magnificent one as his map had pre- pared him to look for. At length meeting a solitary woodchoppcr emerging from the for est, he accosted him, and inquired how far 1t was to Vienna. "Vienna!" exclaimed the man; why, you passed it five and twenty miles back. Did you notice stick of hewn timber and blazed tree beside the road That was Vienna" The dismayed traveller then inquired how far it was to the other place, at which he designed to pass the night. "Why you arc right on that place now," re- turned the man {" it begins just the other side of yon ravine, and runs down to clump of girdIed trees, which you will see about mile further OH the road.'' And are there no houses built 2" faltered out the traveller. " Oh, no houses whatsomcver," returned the woodman they hewed and hauled logs for a blacksmith's shop, but, before they raised 1t, the town lots were all disposed of in the East ern states; and every thing has been leftjust as you now sec it ever since."
 MT. WEBSTER has been invited by large meeting of citizens of Cleaveland, Ohio, to partake of a public dinner on his arrival in