The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-07-14
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

n very heavy shower OF rain attended with light
ming and thunder, came up on Thursday afternoon,
and continued in the night succeeding. The atmos-
phere was very much cooled yesterday morning.
the thermometer being at least 10 or ~ degrees
lower than the previous day.
The country about us had become excessively dry,
and many crops were suffering for want Of rain
The farmers are cutting their grain and grass,
and the yield seems to be most every where salsfae-
tory and abundant.
Maryland The Grain Crop.--A friend Just re-
turned from visit TO the Eastern Shore assures us
that he has never seen the crops fine in that
tion as at the present harvest The wheat Is gene
rally in, and the quality and quantity far exceeds the
usual yield As proof, he states that the produce
of the farm Of Edward Lloyd Esq. on Wye river, 1t
is supposed will amount to $1,000 bushels Wheat and
5000 bushels Corn and that OF James Lloyd Esq,
to about 10000 bushels Wheat; with proporlionaie
quantity OF Coma larger yield by several thousand
bushels than has ever come from the same land
Who will think Of hard times, with such prospects
before usa He noticed, as curiosity, a machine in
operation on the farm of of the best agricutu-
ralists in Talbot county which cuts the grain as fast
as ten men could bind-doing the work Of ten "cra-
dies as close and clear reapers had passed
the field We should call this rapid work.-San.
THE WHEAT CROP IN VIRGINIA
The Farmers Register Of June %. says
present wheat crop throughout Virginia, and other
adjacent States far have heard is the best in
quantity and quality combined, that has grown for many
years-ifnot the best that has ever been made Some
partial disasters, particular FARMS have been suffer-
ed, from chnch bug, hessan fly, but nothing
worth naming affecting the general crop Of Virginia
more considerable Of diminuton will be found
IN the circumstance that there less surface now UNI
der wheat than few years ago the repeated losses
and failures OF wheat have caused almost every farmer
to withdraw portion Of his field the part promising
the least product from wheat CULTURE and substituting
oats or rye The crop now SO far advanced in lower
Virginia, that it might be considered out Of danger
cept from continued wet weather during the time of
harvest, by which cause we have known one crop lin
ls2l nearly lost after it ripe enough to be reaped
The weather now (June 25th) is very favorable.
Harvest was begun on some Of the most HIGHLY
| improved marbled land on James River on the 18th
inst with purple straw wbeat--which was as early as
what called May wheat elsewhere, ready for the
scythe. There has been predominance Of cold wea-
Their for the time Of the year, through the last sixty
days. or more, and the growth and rpening Of wheat
were every where more backward than usual. If the
| crop should prove as abundant expect, it
will be most important means Of restoring the COM
mercal prosperity Of the United States and especially
Of Virginia, which has attery been wofully echpsed
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
AccoMAc Co. Virginia, July I, 1898.
write TO inform you that our wheat crop is material
ly injured by rust and midew and yesterday, to
pe,e its destruction, visited with Of the
most alarming gales Of wind from E. s. E. that have
had for many years. It has beaten down and done
great damage to the wheat Taking all these things
into consideration, and also, the very small quantity
last fall shall not have the quantity Of last
year. Corn looks well and so does oats.
Crops-Tne fiopkinsviiic fKy. Gszetto Of the Goth
says" Our farmers have been busily engaged during
the past week in cutting the wheat harvest The ruler
Of the seasons has blessed their labor The crop, we
believe, is abundant without parallel"