Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-05
AGRTCULTURAL.

- IN@A1s
The CRoPs ABRoAD-The best authorities
support the opinion that the wheat crop of Eng
land will reach full average this year. Atthe
same time it is not by any means anticipated
that prices will be depressed much below their
present level The crop in France Is below the
average and evidently much of the grain ship
ped from the sea Of Azof viii lind its way to
Marseilles instead of Liverpool. The only conn
try in position to ship largely is America, and
we presume our farmers may expect demand
for whatever they are able TO export Very I'M
favorable accounts have been received of the
potato crop in England, though as yet the actual
losses from disease said to be triHing-cer-
tainly not in excess of last year. The yield OF
barley is good, though some is unfit for malt
ing on account of the harvest rains Oats,
beans ard peas are large growth, both as to
quantity and quality. The second crop of hay
fi.; turned out large and as the first cut was by
far the largest ever recollected there viii be
want of good feed during the next eight months
As to Ireland and Scotland, the greater portion
Of the crops had been secured at our last adyi-
ces, and report speaks fayorabiy Of this yield =
Country GentlsEaGlt.
PREsssyArioS or PuMPxISs.-Pumpkins are
valuable as food for cattle, hogs, DC, and are pc
culiarly grateful 10 mich cows IN winter season;
but the great difficulty is to prevent the rot at
lacking them. Without preSuming to have set
tied the question, VIC venture the following sug-
gestions: Before your pumpkins have been FROST
bitten, haul them to an open shed or barn floor;
keep them in a dry, cool place until there is
danger of their being frozen when either cover
them thoroughly with straw, or, what would be
perhaps safer, remove them to = well ventilated
cellar, and keep them through the very cold
weather. They should be placed upon boards
or shelves, and examined from time to time, and
all those that have become infected should be in-
stantly made use of Ifthese instructions should
be obliged to him to communicate to us his plan
of keeping pumpkins through the winter. 1t
is a shame that farmers are not more willing TO
communicate knowledge which thcS have learn
ed often by dear bought experience. Otirs
Branch.
WHAT BRINGS THE CLOVER ?-Alr. Editor In
a recent number of the Farmer Inotice an arti-
Gle in which is the question, where have the
clover come from ?" and the question seems to
be yet open for discussion
There is no doubt but this has been an extra
ordinary year for the production of clover
Some of our fields have yielded two crops this
season, and there is a good growth standing
One field which we never plough, owing to its
liability to wash, and which seldom produced
clover, this year was covered with atine crop,
and every farm in this region has been more
than usually prolific in the production ofcloYer.
One theory presented as to the cause of this
is, that it is owing to the effects of previous
droughts, which cause the moisture to rise from
below, bringing with it many minerals adapted
/ to the growth of clover. If this is the reason,
why is 1t that its effects cannot be other
crops? A few advance the opinion that ''the
produce of clover is usually very great after a
severe winter and inferior after mild winter. ="
| Last fall the ground did not freeze very hard
before it was covered with snow, which remain
ed on until spring Owing to the porous ma
ture of snow, it is a very bad conductor of cal
oric, and when the ground is thoroughly asaIch-
ed with it, it is kept at uniform rate of tenn
perature.
Now it appears to me that the extra quantity
of clover this season is owing to the protecting
Influence of the deep SHOWS of last winter. 1t
! is well known that clover does not succeed SO
well when sown in fall as whel sown in spring.
yet think it would if protected by deep snow.
have conversed with several intelligent farm
ers this subject, and they concur in this opin-
ion, yet it may be error j. S. C.-uxbridge,
| October, 1S56.-Neao Eaglan9 Farmer.
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