New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-09
CROPS IN CONNECTICUT.

Tx Hay CRoP In Come Cticut the hay crop IL
coming in much lighter than was expected. The
dropth Of June has shortened the yield very materially,
and it Is now believed that the hard Winner killed
some of the roos. 1t is 10 wonder that drouth cuts
short grass upon land that was never ,plowed six
incl es deep, and i. Fever broken up while it yields
enough to steady the scythe. We were quite
pitd the other day in one of the oldest towns of the
State TO find that moving machines are almost un-
hown-not one far ner in a hundred has one, and
many never cav one in operation. The average yield
of timothy IL ab ut one and half tuns per acre on
the best FARMS ana one tun on the poorest. cores
pendent writing from Tully Onondsga County, N. Y,
July s, FAYE:
1.-THE hay crop in this vicinity, which In tho begin.
ming of June thought would be heavy, will not
exceed an average crop, ard perhaps fall below even
that. The dry weather which has prevailed abOTt
tire weeks, and which among farmers geserally is
thought to have materially shortened the crop, evil
Certly not the sole couse.
Timothy grass m mainly relied on for meadow hay,
and notwithstanding it came up iuey in the Spring,
and looked well till june IS now Uncovered TO have
sadly failed. The old mplaint-" The timothy does
not bead outs revived. The failure Of this par
ticular gra,s is TIE main cause Of disappointment in
the hay crop.
last of May, when the grass six inches high
culty it is proposed to keep back the growth or feed
down the grass after the frost has injured it..
This will answer good purpose, and so it will TO
SOW orchard grass to take the place OF Timothy 10
some measure But all farmers shoald SOW miet for
hay, and cow in drills or broadcast Irdian for
Winter fodder Redtop is good grass for all moist
land, and clover is good for all dry land, and makes
gooa hay if cut green and well CURED. White d.ises
tI,.to J;r, IL
about half the Connecticut crop.
RYE-We saw O good deal of ryo In Connecticut in
the first days of July and it looks very well, par
ticulaly the Sea coast, where it usually yields 25
to IS bushels an acre. The great in the cutva'
ton is that the land not generally seeded to grass
VIXEN the grain is sown.
PoTAroEs look rank and full OF vigor. The early
kinds alor the Sound are in bloom. The best field
we sew are of the variety known as mammoth nut.
megs.
INDIAN Corn is backward and small for the season,
but exhibits dark, green color. Facners busly
engaged in the foolish operation Of scratching the
earth up around the stalks with hand hoes. When
will they learn to cultivate with horses Some of
the fields give out very "ancent and l,hike
smell" where the moss bunkers spread at the rate
of ten thousand to the upn the surface to waste
one half their value upon the air.
FRuIT-Only medium crop Of apples are promised
in Connecticut, and in places they dropping
from the trees in great quantities. Pears will not be
plenty, but probably very good. Some peach trees
are loaded with frut-entirely too thick for profit
Curians, gooseberes raspbcrries, and blackberries
oil give good promise.
Wheat has been grown to some extent i'll Connect-
cut within few years, and is now very PROMISING
1t does not yet begin to turn yellow though we saw
few pieces of rye that looked ripe enough to cut
Oats are short and backward and but for the showers
Of July and would have headed f. inches from
the ground. Connecticut farmers have been 'pestered
tbis season with bugs that eat up the pumpkin vines
Some think they have saved them by putting plaster
on the plants 1t would be sad loss to the State if
the pumpkin crop should fail. No pumpkin pie no
thanksgiving fcstivel, when the crop of all crops is
gathered in-.thc crop of Yankee boys and girls