The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-25
The Crops.

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Nothing has occurred since last 70 change the
prospect 81 an abundant yield Of all Of grain In
some parts Of the country the wheat actually In the
graneres the merchants hands The prospects Of
the look very gloomy Georgia planter
My wheat has long since been housed and 10 very
both In quantity and quality. | am now cutting oats
which fine though unpromsiDg in the fore part Of
the season The late constant rains have improved
them astonis hingy As to cotton, have had SO
bad stand 1t up well, but looked sic kly
and and continued to die almost up the
present time. old weather lice, and grass hoppers
have done their pretty fairly What has survived
ia bac ward. aud does grow usual for want
hot sun We have had latterly great deal of cloudy
weather and continued rains My crop Is fine
IL can be. 40 far y
reference to the crops:-'The crop is oous-
dered made, and the season havsg been propitious
All our farmers appear to be satisfied that they will
reap sunicency The late rains have been very favo
rabie planting potatoes and Of this crop there is
every prospect Of there being profusion The corn
and cotton look well st augustine Herald
The Oldest inhabitantn recollects such al
we have had in Middle Florida Tor several weeks-we
might say months past. The drought, which usually
IN Way TINS year came no. M rain h"hv sss
sonabls And when summer came instead OF diminu-
ton have increase OF wet There mas been scarce
y dry day for month past-the last week averaged
Our friends abrord viii inquire what is the effect of
all this the orops In regard to corn the venerable
gentleman above mentioned says he has never seen
inner crop And really what have observed In several
counties convipces us that he Is right.
grass has utterly that 1t s extrava-
gsnty fourshngfar too much So for the satsfaction
bos even should there be no caterpillar. which every
one confidently fears not thought the yield OF cot
ton will be large But in regard to corn there can DC no
mistake-an abundant harvest seems certain.
The editor of the Baptist Telegraph and Florida Eai
grant that hundreds Of in Benton county,
Florida will average Of corn thirty bushels per acre
crop in South Florida We are convinced that nothing
but of subsistence prevent that Sec
tion of State from being rapidly popuatsd-1aia'
| hassee Journal, 18th inst
From every quarter hear the most encouraging re-
Of the state Of the corn crop There Is no doubt
countless will be double that Of the last year. and In
Benton county where the last crop entirely failed and
ton 1t immense The Sea Island cotton crop is now
at crisis and we know not whether there will be none
all whether 1t will be unusually good The great
quantity Of rain which has fallen during the last six
weeks has made the plant tender If the wet weather
should suddenly cease, and have period Of drought
the fruit will inevitably fall and the crop will be de-
stroyed On the contrary the weather becomes drsr
dry weather the crop understand will be greater than
any previous The caterpillar fly has appeared and
ysrv hot weather. the worm NAV be very Destructive
This is the state of the cotton crop in this county but
happy to hear that In the other counties of
Florida it Is not subject to similar contingencies The
accounts from Marion, st. Johns, and Aachua are in
the highest degree encouraging. --JacksonriHe News
10Th inst
weld of corn in that region will be greater than has
been known before The cotton crop is backward
but promises to be IN average one.
The grain throughout this and the adjacent counties
says the Madison W. IT, Democrat, looks remarkably
forward and thrifty, as indeed does all other crops
cept corn which has been materially injured II
nearly destroyed by gophers OF every description Of
planting corn, shall, without doubt have more
than average crop, and much of 1t will be harvested
in the of the next two three weeks.-Datiy
Wisconsin.
A gentleman well acquainted in East Tennessee, in
forms that he has the crops in that
ton of the State look promising they do now.
Nashville Unio,i, 18th inst
writer from West Bloomfield New York, says he
has travelled and observed attsntively the fields Of
There are many pieces of poor wheat having suffered
by unfriendy winter. There also many very
Weld fair one But in addition to this the straw Is
thin and thick alike, remarkably bright and clear and
the berry plump and unaffected by blight and all fields
thickened up much within the last six weeks So
that all things considered. the yield will be as good as
the average IN the New York wheat region for the last
years. The yield will bear comparison with the
croakings the subject and therefore famine need
not be apprehended this year
The dry weather has retarded the oat crop, and it
does not promise great return; while the contrary
barley universally most abundant Corn Is also mag
nihc-nt. This crop never looked more luxuriaut
Potatoes have yet to establish their character, but
nothing be- brought against their fair stand
ing thus far. Hay has nothing farther to gain. In
swsth is heavy and fragrant the breath of virgin
With the straw Of other crops well husbanded. there
field and ster all the fears of the tmid there be
lack of the substantals to keep alive and kick
ing until about the middle of June next
In fact hear hardly croak since the harvest has
commenced The visions Of scarcity are fast melting
away, aud in their places seen the realities Of golden
plenty Wheat, Indian corn, barley oats hay and
the tickle crop Of potatoes determined to give
the lie to the groundess forebodngs of the early fright
ened prognostcaors Of want the ready herads OF
Imaginary frost blight, rust ay wev &c The cry is
from the farmers themselves who are calling out
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