New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-10
THE CROPS.

en-. THE wheat culture, as q generai
.h,.. s. introduced into South Aaoama more snsd
sen Years ago and p, not even coiI, ,,i,a Iii
,fnformly certain and sau'actoy' eo, came ms,
49, exception of 1851, when severe ros, Sae luz
- he wbess was heading and almost ennrey destroyeo
n no casualty Of importance has happened W III Io
rnst hiss rarely shown itseli and smut nAr1iy oesn
Lpown during all this time. so certain, hueeo nas VIC
cron beeu considered that the culture bias rapidly eA
ssudcd during the last four or five years: Wnen we
fahe into view the slovenly mode OF culture ana to
little lsho- bestowed H. we doubt whether tne nos,
ssre norton of the West gives better result In all
Minds Of soil-sandy uplands, river and creek gooS'
red lands and prairies has succeeded eqoay wen,
te General product being from ten to heen ousus W
Ale srre The latter description OF land, containing
barge amount of calcareous matter, seems Pgculity
sdsutf 10 The grow tn OF this cereal AS toe cu1e
comes better understood and planters &c. sn'o Iii
of more pains taking large portion OF hn region WIN
donb.Iess be devoted 10 wheat. We may menuon' IA
shs connection that bss been found that good South
Alabama wheat Is several pounds heavier per ousnei
than the best Western. l~ooio Ai'
" The Athens CTenn.l Post says:
eve can safely say upon reliable information that tne
rosnects for corn and have not been brighter ia
Fast Tennessee for several years than At present
The farming interest is evidently stmuls'ea W uie %
veopments Of the past few months as SHOWN oy ',ie
Operations of the Railroad. COrDfeids were never IN
better culture and the general face OF the couoy pears
evident marks Of improvement In all branches "a %
cuture No one doubts TO remuneratng prices ia al
fine 10 come Is true, are subject 10 iaures III
some Of the crops, but me season tna a
lures one growth almost nfahbiy dement's announcer we
have been shut up in the mountains so long ana nave
been compeed TO raise all that we needed or expected
10 get so that s part of economy 10 have va
riefy Of crops This Is the policy for East tennessee
We have heretofore been the most independent DOT
the richest people 10 the Union, and we should adhere
from choice to that system of variety in crops which
heretofore was followed from necessity. we are
more advent people than be found elsewhere Our
merchants have better credit produce commands
better price our climate s BETTER our soldiers PRAYER,
and our women handsomer, than can be found In any
part of the planetary system Pst, mana US inc Spy
glass" =,
~ The Curculio, that curse of all
mum trees has taxed the ingenuity of hortculturss In
securing immunity from It's ravages for many years ana
new plans for their destruction are constantly being
proposed. The following we take from the correspo1
dence of The Boston Journal: A gentleman In READ
ing says cotton batting, put three circles SIX 70
twelve inches apart around your pumtrees lie eaugn
sixty In the first circle in twenty four hours In the sec
opd circle but few had got high He found this sure
preventive aud got lots of fine plums last year. the hs
time for many years My practice has been TO pay the
children six quart for all the wtDdalls ana Keep
the ground clean The windfals contain the maggot,
IA with apples and all other fruts from which they 60
into the ground and the curcuo is propagated found
this course be of service and got large quantities OF
plums Combine the practices, and 1t Will be found
better than all the heoresof the Horticultural Doctors
The Guernsey Times, Of Cambridge,
Ohio, complains that the past month has been wet
time and very unfayorabe for planting corn, sowing
OATS &C great deal of corn Is yet TO plant. Some
fields have been replanted the first planting having rot
ted In the ground The wheat crop quite promising
and now, think free from all harm except from rust
OF blight Should IL escape this evil we shall have the
third good crop in succession result within TWEEN
ty years In this section of country The cool and wei
win give US fine grass crop In the way OF irui
we shall have abundance Of apples plums, cherries
ounces summer small fruits and lew peaches Inc
S. =, @ nss S long and Intensely
we're winter and coc cherries and wet spring. takeF
altogether yet we all have 10 be reOiced at tho
abundance of good things The season owpronses to us
tY' The Louisiana Courier says: The
fruit crop everywhere has failed save in lew favored
Iocales The West will send few apples or peaches
sh ses,op owing 10 the severity OF the winter but the
rreaf orchard OF Gen. Felix Huston, Port Hudson,
Louisiana will contribute largely TO the demand Forty
thousand trees, embracing one hundred varieties OF
peaches from every quarter OF the globe are IN iui
bearing They are Just beginning to npen Next week
his regular shipments will commence, and VIII arrive
here in six hours from the trees, every day until the
ooh of October They will be sent hers In their natu'
raj state stewed for tarts, preserved In sugar and in
their juice, and extensive drying house has been
built TO prepare them for winter use"
The Lancaster, Is. CO. Ledger says
that the fears entertained about month sin with res
pect 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Corn and Cotton crops
have IN great been removed by the very Ia
voabe seasons that have since been thai
district and that at present an abundant harvest may
be anticipated Cotton however, as we learn from the
Ledger IL not forward The rains, 80 necessary 70
the growth Of cultivated plants have proved equally be-
nefcisl to weeds and the farmers are now ousily em
poyed to prevent the grass and weeds from obtaining
the mastery The star states that Marion district had
been visited during the past week with abundant rains
and the crops begin TO assume promising appearance
B The Columbus papers say that they
have Just now, In that locality, abundance OF rain
For days previously there copous showers
and Sunday morning took afresh start and poured
down for twentyfour consecutive hours, as II the bot
Bonn bad drcpt of the clouds From present appear
snces we should think there plenty more OF The
came sort Corn fields begin TO look fairly black, but
feared that the rains viii inure the cotton ana the SINAI
grain.