Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-07-09

He drops, ,CoTTON-CORN-IOBAcC WHEAT.
We understand the crops are uncommonly promising
throughout the county. Under the new stimulus im-
parted to Agriculture-within the last few years
Edgecombe is rapidly rising to the position she is
destined in great while to attain, that Of the first
agrie"N.sraleounty in The State. An improved system
OF farming is visible every where. Emigration has
almost wholly ceased and lands have appreciated in
value.
The Gallon crop, we learn, was scarcely ever better.
The stands good and the recent hot and dry at
mosphere, though deleerious to other Geld products,
has been the natural ament Of the cotton crop. The
than planted before. The census of 1910 gives
the product Of Edgecombe two millions four hun
dred and forty-Gv thousand pounds (2,445.OOt) Of
seed cotton. This-according to the usual calcula-
tion-woud make one thousand five hundred and
twenty eight q .525) bales-weighing four hundred
(4O0) pounds each. In 1910 Edgecombe stood fifth
in the calendar Of cotton producing coun,ies-Anson,
northampton, Columbus and Halifax Tin the order of
their names) ranking above her. The census of '5O
we learn, shows production Of thiry-hree hundred
(33O0) bales. or more than one hundred per cent.
With favorable seasons from this time forward, we
belie7e the crop will reach four thousand
Corn looks we'll Especially in Cone,o) though suf
ferng generally from dry weather. The quantity
planted is probably less than last season-and will
continue to bear good price throughout the year.
We believe Edgecombe will make little or none for
expectation.
1obacco is crop in this county-,hough plan
ted heretofore in limited quantities. Two enterpri-
sing gentlemen in Coneto (the Messrs HowelN have
pertinent promises well. Should it succeed, it may
hereafter enter as an important element in the aggre.
gate of our products.
Wheat-though not staple, is planted in consider.
able @ qnant'ty-mcre or less throughout the county
We are in the middle Of the harvest, and although
the CROP several weeks ago promised well, the grair
has peen greatly injured by the dry weather
We were shown yesterday very fine specimen o
wheat, grown at Strabane, by William F. Dancy
ESQ., 1t is Of the variety known as the Long lslant
Long Head" and in point of whi,eness and size o
grain we have seen none to compare withit. A spe
cicmen Of this wheat [both sheaf and gran) may b.
seen at our Office. Iard0rough Press.
AGAIN IN THE FIELD. We have not received ii,
Goldsbcrough Newberne papers, and therefor
have no official information upon the subject, bu
learn, from undoubted private authority, that M
Stanly is again in the field the Whig candidate IL
r Congress in the Eighth District. being, no doub
drawn from his retirement by the following '' wish
an article upon this State, the Atlas says there is
strong wish expressed for Mr. Stanly to run agai
: but of this we have no hope. The whole counts
i does not contain more honorable and high mindJ
man than Edward Sianly, or one more amiabe az
= kind hearted. We hope there are yet higher homo
; in store for this gallant and noble hearted son
I, North Carolina. In another part Of the same ar
1t Gle, the .Atlas says: Mr.. Sanly is Just such
y Whig as we want to make up strong and :riumpha
party" So that, in fact, MIR. Stanly is just the M
the Boston ALIAS wants to " make up strong al
" triumphant party," and for whose running again
n expresses strong wish. However MIR. Stanly mig
as have acted towards his friends in the Eighth Disr
ID he could not withstand the appeal from Boston,
h. now appears the candidate OF the Alias, par
he which denounced Mr. Webster iercely for his spec
'g in the Senate, in March. 1850, in which he took
Oh tional grounds upon parts Of the slavery qs,
n tion. How do our Whig friends like their Bos
he candidate, and bis Free Soil endorser?
vn Wilmington Journal