New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-08
TIE CROPS, &c.


E'RLr vrGErsrIos-A Florida paper speaks Of
corn in tassel, and bes tomatoes &C, in bloorn scf
head of lettuce six led in circumference.
INCREASING CRoPs-A letter from Morris Co,NJ
says farmers have nearly finished sowing oats, aud
tina; they have put in an unusual number of acre..
They were undoubtedly prompted to this by fndia,
hat oats were selling at IS cents bushe at ,he;r
VERY doors. Buckwheat is much sough, afer for -esd
snGis scarce at 81 25 bashcl. We hope enoars
will Dc grown to reduce this extravagan price. wss,.
OF farm. laborers IS cents a day and boarded.
PEACH TREES DYING IN MIcmcAs.-Tse Dc.no,,
Tribune SAYS the peach trees of that State have been
badly killed and that crop of fruit cannot be q.
pected.
A CR,pryiSy DEsrRorER~-The same nan.
speaks OF a snail stcolcolored bug that is eating ain
and destroying the buds of grape-yin,s. II i IA
same insect that committed depredations five ye.,.
ago.
pRorrH At IHE SoUTH.-A Mississippi correspos.
dent. under date April 25 says no rain has fallen s
five weeks, while the sun has poured down 6ecs
heat parchng the earth like midsummer, til fields Am
as dry as an ash-heap. Early-psnicd corn and CO.
ton-secd cannot fud moisture enough to vegetate o.
grow after the plants are up little way. Springs aad
streams are dried up and stock suffering for ws,e,.
likely 10 suffer for food. Planters err borrowing
money al two per cent month TO buy com and beam,
PRICE, or PorAroEs F,LLNG.-The Phiadelph.
pauers notice the fall of price in potatoes which the
as here have been enormously high this spring They
were selling in quantities at Phiadelphs at - 2ss
bushel and now at about 81 25. The reductions
said TO be occasioncd by the arrival Of supplies iron
Nova Scotia and Bermuda. We have noticed lsts
sales at Boston at 75c., and in Connecticut that is
current price. The Erie papers say that potatoes arc
81 5Odsl IS bushel in that town, which proves tia.
The fall in price at Philadelphia comes from seaward.
The papers of that city boldly charge that prices are
kept up by conspiracy among the potato merchants
by system of speculation, more properly extor-
ton. that has been carried for several yean and
calls for penal enacmcnts to regulate the trade.
We believe the only enaotmsnts that win HAYES
tendency TO reduce the price OF food, viii be such a
will cause more of it 10 be grown If every city, IL
stead of maintaining It's poor in deness in great
amshouse or prison, would send them to culyatng
Tie earth in the country, and give them nothing to
eat but what they produced, it might have some ten
dency to keep the price within the reach Of those who
really work for what they eat in every large town.
There is something needed besides grumblng at tho
protective MONOPOLY" to reduce tie price to the
consumer. Let Us have cheap po.a,oes-cheap 10
those who plant them.
FAMINE IN UPPER GEoRofA.--We have sad &C.
counts from the north part of Georgia The DdLos
Times says that many people are without corn, or any
means TO procure any. And besides there is for
| sale. In some neighborhoods, bushe could not be
obtained for love or money. Poor men are offering 70
work for peck Of corn day. If they plead "sur
"children will starve,' they are answered, 80 viii
mine, if I part with the little have" Horses Ind
mules are turned out into the woods, to wait for gas
or starve. The consequence is, that those who hso
land can only plant what they can with the hoe-th7
cannot pow 1t is seriously argued that, unless ~
sisted soon many Of the poor class ofthat secdOnvJ
persh.