Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-05-16
A Good Time in the Future The
Coming Crops.

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tone of confidence very many Of the coun-
try journals speak of the growing wheat,
and the prospect of the approaching sum
.mer.
In Cecil County, Nd, farmers have
commenced planting corr with good wealth
er and fair prospect Of getting good
start. The wheat, too, shows fair in that
section.
At Watertown, New York, there is
some prospect that farmers may retrieve
the losses Of the last two or three years.
Grass begins to look green, and forest
trees are unfolding early leaves.
In Wisconsin, the wheat prospect is
quite as. good as last year, and the season
is remarkably fine for putting in spring
crops.
In the Wabash Valley, the prospect is
unusually good for putting in large sum-
mer crop, and farmers all seem determined
to plant zone more acre" The wheat
was somewhat injured by the winter on
the Lower Wabash. On the Upper we
are told that the same spirit prevails to
increase the area of the spring crop, and
that the prospects are equally fattering.
Some Of the papers in the southwestern
portion of Indiana speak rather gloomily
of the prospect of god wheat CROP
1t seems to have suffered badly In the
cold, dry winds of March. The wealth
er Of April, however, has been propitious
for spring crop seeding, and farmers seem
determined to avail themselves of it
Some of the latest accounts represent
winter wheat as improving rapddly-
In Michigan, the accounts generally
concur in representing the prospect of
wheat pretty fair. In fact, some accounts
say that the prospect was never more fat
tering. 1t seems that grass, too, is for
ward, and that will add greatly to the
advantage of putting in spring crops.
Several of the Western Pennsylvania
papers are quite in ecstasy at the prospect
Of being relieved from the present high
price of -four, as soon as the growing crop
is mature.
So, too, speak the papers of Western
New York. Notwithstanding the drouth
last fall, there was good breadth sown.
In the vicinity of Rochester, there seems
to be very strong disposition to increase
the breadth of land usually planted to
spring crops. Around Utica, the spring
preparations of farmers seem to be larger
than ever before, particularly to increase
daily products. Grass is represented as
forward, and fruit prospects good
Recent travellers through Kentucky and
Tennessee, speak ofsthe growing wheat as
wearing most Luxurious appearance, and
that the present prospect is all that could
be desired.
The majority Of accounts from Ohio
represent the prospect as one that should
give farmers hope and cause for thankful
ness. The prospect for apples is good.
and peaches quite the reverse. The West
ern Star says" The prospect for fruit of
all kinds was never better. If no killing
frost comes in May we may confidently
look for the greatest fruit harvest ever
known. We are well assured, from per-
sonal observation and authentic informa-
ETOn, Undu VIC sfIal1 Juu z In0ru rf1an half
crop Of wheat; clover and timothy look
badly, but oats are springing up finely"
The Springfield (Ill) Register says that
more land will be planted to spring crops
in that State than ever before.
The Baltimore Clipper has a very en-
couraging article upon the prospects be-
fore US. It says" Never were there
fairer prospects of an abundant crop of
wheat than at the present moment; and
fruits and vegetables of every kind prom
Use well. Wheat looks remarkably we'll,
and large crops of corn and potatoes will
be put in the ground. The weather has
been remarkably favorable to growing
crops, and farmers generally have put as
much ground as possible under cultivation.
The Trenton IN. J.) Gazette says:-The
farmers in this vicinity universally say,
within the last few days of fine weather,
that they never knew grain to look better
than at present, and that the prospect for
an abundant yield was never more encour-
aging than at the present time"
Another very promising fact may be
mentioned in connexion with prospects of
good crops inNewJ Jersey this season, and
that is the concentrated manures. Guano,
poudrette and city manures are constantly
going into the interior, and we learned
on a recent visit to Mapes's super phos-
plate mandatory, that he is entirely I'M
able to supply the demand. We counted
upwards of 5000 hogsheads, of large size,
filled with dried blood, principally from
a great cattle slaughtering establishment
in Texas. This is ground up and mixed
with the super phosphate and forms a
very valuable fertilizer, and. will proba-
bly, add hundred thousand hogsheads to
the crops of potatoes and other crops it
will be used upon.
The prospect of good peach crop in
Jersey is decidedly good. The buds are
uncommonly backward, which will insure
them against injury from frost 1t is but
fair to remark that everything else is
equally backward
In the central part of New York ac-
counts are not favorable for good yield
of peaches. The Utica Observer says
Old peach trees are, if not killed by the
cold weather, thought to be at least badly
damaged. If a limb is cut black and
sapless wood is seen, instead Of the usual
reddish white color. Young trees that
were lain down and covered up by the
snow, or straw, come out safe and I'M
harmed"
The Pittsburgh Dispatch says that the
peach trees that were reported dead, turn
out only backward, and are now full Of
promise,
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