The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-09
AGRICULTURAL IMPORTATION.

ANOTHER GREAT KxHIBirIoSWhlo the exhibition of th
United States Agricultural Society at Louisville will Ia
great centre OF attraction for the agiculturis of ths mia
die western, and southwestern States the Massaehu,,
State Board of Agriculture propose to hold grand e,h
biton at Boston few weeks later where the finest so
OF New England be exhibited The chief mover In ~
matter the Hon Marshall p Wilder who ever read,
project and what is better carry these riumpb
agricultural festivals which among the few REMAINING
national gatherings where the sectional strife has not y
entered Tie time fixed upon by the Massachusetts Sta
Board is the 10th, 2s 22d and 23d Of October The 6
lowing officers appointed to take charge Of and max,
all necessary arrangements for the exhibition
Presien Marshall p Wilder Of Dorchester sscrst,,v
Chas L. Flint of Boston treasurer, VIM G. Lewis Of Fra
mingham committee of arrangements, Marshall P VIII
der OF Dorchester Samuel Chandler OF Lexington John
Brooks, of Princeton George Marston, of Barnstabs
VIM. g. Lewis, of birmingham Moses Newell Of Wsst
Newbury Thomas j. Field, of North6eld
Other important business was transacted.
Caors rRur.Up the ist of April the prospect,
10 the and northwestern States for good cros Of
wheat we're very encouraging especially in Illinois
The excessive severity OF the winter unattended az II wh,
by any considerable quantity Of snow, which might have
protected the young blades from the FROST had told DANA
gug the crop 10 many parts Of the State In sangs
county many fields it is said had been entirely de-
stroyed though from the great breadth Of ground sowp
was hoped that the yield will fall considerably below
condition Of things reported Some farmers had lo
their crops and abandoned all hope of reapng anything
from their fields In Marion county further SOUTH thnQs
better aspect The crop said to be in -four.
shng condition. and the prospect for the yield to be unu
sually large quite promising.
The fruit crop expected, would be rich though
not peueous Peaches had been wholly killed ia
the bud in localities in the Ohio Valley, while in
Others very little damage DONE and in few hardly
fan Vail Of oe tl,a
spots Ia this, not only there fine prospect for
peaches but pears cherries pums grapes apples asp.
berries Strawberries gooseserries and currant all bid fair
be abundant Ia several sections Of Kentucky and Ten
nessee only had the fruit germ of the peach been de-
stroyed but the themselves had been killed to hs
ground Take the Ohio Valley ia its extent however
aud it evidently the opinion Of The fruitmea that
there good prospect for good crop Tho follow.
ing Geographic dispatches show that it does answet
to count early fruit crop aud that orchards
like every other part Of farm, always be relied
upon:
LoUEylLE, April 8.--Despatches from Nashville ssy
that three inches fell there yesterday The thermom
eter at o'clock this morning. % degrees in this city
Much damage to the has been occaaioned, and the
fruit crop, 1t Is feared is entirely destroyed. Snow fell
here also yesterday afternoon and the tobacco crop Ten
and Kentucky has doubtless been very seriously in
jured. E#
CIScIsNATI, April 6--The weather is cold and cloudy
It raned steadily and quite heavily all day; turned 10
in the evening commenced freezing about 10 o'clock
p. aud frozs hard al night The peaches reported
by the hortcnltura,s all killed in the vicinity Of this
city"
GRAPE cyL1uaE--We every reason TO believe that
grape culture is TO become productive branch ofur
agricultural industry The billy slopes OF the Aeghanis
evidently peculiarly adapted to the growth Of tbs vine
and the experiments that have bsen made have demon
straled that il may be made very profitable:
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growers Of Cooper that the grape is unnjured, and
moderate calculation there will be manufactured fsm
eight thousand gallons of wine there, and 10 the i'm
mediate vicinity this season There about five thou
sand gallons OF Catawba wine manufactured there in the
fall of 1885, and the increased age and number Of bearing
vines will probably double that product
g In the neghborhood Of Chattanooga considerable at
tenton is given to the cultivation OF the Caawba gsa
1t is said Samuel J. Boyce esq, IL planting about thirty
acres and Col ]. A. Wheside and Col Reese B. Babsou
three each We have heard of several other gentle
in East and Middle Tennessee who paying much
attention to this branch OF culture
Mr. Longworth, Of Cincinnati, who is experienced
grapegrowe urges the raising OF seedlings from our best
native grapes, without cross with European grspsj
thereby he thinks shall equal their best table pa
surpass their wine grapes aud supply them with wine
The Catawba first produced by Col. Murray Buncombe
North Carolina ia 1902 is rapidly extending over hu
whole South and West
WooL GROWING IN THE SouTH.--A gentleman who has
been in the wool growing business in Tennessee
and who has recently raversed northern Alabama informs
the Mobile Tribune that the raising of sheep in that State
would be profitable than the culture of cotton Thou
sands of acres ct for nothing else but sheep pastures
could be bad for l24 cents per acre.
SUGAR IN ILLINois--E s. Baker, Of Wabash county,
Illinois, writes The Bellevile Advocate that be shall
plant Twenty-Five with the Chinese sugar cane tho
present q" convinced" he say SHAT The State
of Illinois will in FIVE years make her own sugar. and
have luck shall make this seasoa enough sugar and
certainly enough nolasses to supply my little town Az
all events shall try Mr.. Krob OF Wabash county, who
time ago made Of the result Of his expert
ment with the last year. offers to bet the skeP
teal editor of the Charleston Courier five hundred dollars
that be will manufacture from acre, "paned with tho
Chinese seed five hundred gallons of molasses superior
article to any IN the South and sold by he
merchants Ia Coles county in 1876 for sevsnty6ve cents
per gallon and further, that he will manufacture 1t Of
the cost of ten cents per gallon.
FARNERs THE aRsATEsT PEDESTRIANS IN THE COUNTRY
The practical farmer is says the st Louis Republican I'M
doubtedy the greatest walking citizen in the republic Our
readers be skeptcal about this But let any one
them follow the track Of cuvaor of hundred acres
OF duripg the coming summer and he will travel
distance that measured with surveyors chain, would
scarcely fall short of five thousand Diles There IL 10 a
before the farmer who determines planting one hundred
of journey Of than four thousand miles
Every farmer who cutivate3 thiry-aere field Journeys
twelve fifteen hundred miles There more than Two
miles OF rows In OF planted four feet apart
acre. four rods wide by forty long there are sixteen
ing four burrows 10 each row, there eight miles .,
poughing in breaking up II takes two miles
poughing to lay of way aud two miles the other Two
miles walking drop and two miles hoeing poughns
to cover eight miles travel TO lay OF and plant an acre
Then there four miles OF poughng In cu!tiyatng m
first time, going round each four miles the sec
ond six the third where the middle is broken out ana w
the fourth or twenty miles poughing in cutvaung one
acre Sometimes the corn is poughed less than THIS oS
II is poughed So far have thirty-siI miles d
travel in the breaking up, planting, and cuuvahng on