Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-08-26
The Crops i'm Bucks Countrywide
Field Wcevil-.The Pastures---
Grub in the Oats CrOp.-A Fine
Corn CrOp---Eall MaiRasring
from the Stables.

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Corn CrOp---Eall Maisasrimf
from the Stables.
! To the Editor If tie Gernaantoacn 1ele.'
DEAR SIR-At your request l maxi
the following statement in reference t.
the crops of this county, SO far as [ have
been able to ascertain the facts.
l. The Wheat crop is more than two
thirds of the usual average yield at har
vest. In many cases the wheat was very
fine and the yield good one; but there
was much poor wheat in this county the
present year. My early seeded wheat
was quite equal to that of last year, and
will yield upward of thirty bushels to the
acre; but that portion which was seeded
later will not yield half that amont. Last
winter was hard on wheat, and much grain
was acinter killed. Notwithstanding the
severity of the winter, much of our grain
looked we'll until some time in March,
when after three days of quite warm wealth
er, (Which started the wheat growing,
the cold became intense and froze the
ground very hard. This was in many
locations so severe, that wheat never re-
covered from its effects-grew slowly, RI
pened late, and was finally attacked by
the field weevil, or orance-colored gnat-
(cecidomyaa tratica) which destroyed near
ly all left by the chills of winter and the
devastations of the Hessian fly.
2. Although the spring and summer
have furnished quite plentiful supply of
rain, still the Hay crop is short one
certainly not equal to last year, notwith-
standing the dryness of the season, and
farmers will have to use economy, in some
sections of our county, to make their hay
last through the winter. Our pastures
now are not equal to what ought to be ex-
pected from the favorable state of the
season. The grass fields were no doubt
much injured by the severe drought of
last year, and have not yet entirely re-
covered from the drawback occasioned by
it.
8. Oats promises an abundant crop, and
waSabout to say would be the finest we
have had for many years. l regret how
ever, to mention that the yield upon some
farms will be much lessened by the un-
expected attack of a worm. about an inch
in length, resembling somewhat the grub
or cut worm, which usually attacks the
young corn in the spring. incline, how
ever, to the opinion that it is the same
worm which prays upon the upper part of
5he ear of corn just before the grain be-
comes hardened. Some parts of my oats
fields are SO filled with this worm that in
some places, in foot square, you might
count more than a dozen. They climb
up the stalk and cut off the grains princi-
oally while in an unr1pe state. Much of
ny oats was unusually heavy, and in many
places so much lodged, that we were COM
oeled to cut it with the naked scythe.-
IN all this portion of the grain, the at
acks of the worm were disastrous, in ma
ny cases hardly leaving grain on stalk.
rhe ground is literally covered with grains,
more than sufficient to seed the fields
hree times over. [ cannot perceive that
he grain, and | am unable to discover
whether it is the grain or the stalk they
eed upon. AT any rate they seem to de-
light in threshing out the grain before
he farmer wishes it. l understand
hat in some fields which were seeded
ate, and of course are late ripening this
year, the injury is so great from the
lepredations of the worms referred to, as
o render it almost useless to harvest what
S left. I'had about thirty-six acres in
'ats, and | can safely say that my loss
annot be. less than two hundre bushels!
do not know to what extent the ravages
# this worm have proceeded; and one OBJ
ect now have, in referring to this fact,
5 to induce farmers, in different sections
# the country, to communicate any infor-
nation they may have upon subject,
trough your useful journal. {
A. Corn and Potatoes in this section look
Eell, particularly the early planted corn.
have one field of about twenty acres,
lanted early, that think uncommonly
me. have occasion to travel this seas
n as far north as Canada, and as far
outh as Washington City, and in all my
quincy met with none that | consid-
red better, and [ saw many fields of
blended corn. have another field, plan
ed a week or ten days later than the one
eferred to although good, that does not
ook so well. This is partly owing to the
act, that severe hail and rain storm