Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-08-26
THECROPs.

The wheat crop of Georgia and Tennessee is
fast coming into market On Monday of this
week, fifty car loads arrived on the Macon and
Western Railroad. The receipts by that road
now are daily about nine thousand bushels, near.
ly all of which is forwarded to Savannah and
then to Northern markets. In July, 80, 400 bush
els were received. In the first fourteen days IN
the month, lO3,49O. Of this 2,72S were sent to
our city mill. The weather has, for few days,
been very favorable for its transportation, and it
arrives in good order. The supply Of wheat on
our railroad lines is now so great that they can
scarcely furnish means for its transportation
and without their aid what would all this surplus
grain be worth to the producers? The prices
are declining, but we are unable to give reliable
quotations. Over one hundred car loads arrive
daily at Atlanta. he receipts of one day was
$4,000 bushels.-INac0n Journal and Messenger.
WEATHER AND CRops IN ALABANA.-The La.
fayette Chambers county, Herald, of the 9Th
instant, says:
I" For the last two weeks We have had copious
showers every day, and the signs at present indi.
cate still more. The corn crop in this section
has been vastly benefited, but the rains came too
late to make full crop"
The Montgomery Mail, ofthe 10th inst, says
'"1ntelligent planters tell US, that with q favo.
rable fall the crop of oil this section Of Alabama
will be very large indeed Somehow or other,
although cotton got poor start, and apparently
q very bad stand, yet it has caught up amazing,
ly. Even the long continued rains, usually very
injurious, have so far proved to be highly adyan,
tageous. The weed has got the size it needed,
and the shedding, which usually follows wet
weather, seems likely to be missed There is,
we are told by one of our largest planters, an
immensity of fruit on the weed, and q large
amount might be dropped, and leave more than
all arerage crop.
"Taking the opinion and accounts Of the most
intelligent cotton raisers, as the basis of our cal
culations, We cannot avoid the belief that the
crop is likely to exceed an average, considerably
No part of the country was more affected by
the disasters Of the spring than this, and yet We
are bound to admit prospects are now highly
favorable.
WEATHER AND CRops IN ARKANsAs.-The
Camden Herald, of the 9th inst, says:
We have had rain in great abundance within
the last day or two, and from present appearances
we should Judge that it will continue for several
days to come. Taking everything into consde.
ration, the crops are much more promising than
could have been anticipated. We shall make
corn enough to supply the present inhabitants,
and have considerable quantity left to meet
the wants Of emigrants.
Illinois, this season, will produce two hundred
and eighty millions bushels of grain-lnore than
ten bushels for every man, woman and child in
the United States. This knocks the Corn Tx
change spectators into the middle of next year.
CRop CALCULATIoN.-The New Orleans Cres'
cent of the Sth inst. says:
The sugar cane is doing we'll, very well, but
the high antcipations, and still higher figures
sent to the West-say crop of $4,000 hogs
heads-will not be realized. The maximum
now is, with good fall, 100000 hogsheads.
We desire to check the reports which have been
circulated for and near, that the crop this season
would be much larger than any ever before raised
Those persons who have been giving currency to
such figures or such views are altogether igno'
rant of the case-in fact they are like those
veracious writers in New York Oh cotton, who
pretend to know more about the culture and the
results of the staple than the planter does himself
The tobacco crop in some parts of Maryland
and Virginia is said to be very poor, on account
of the wctness of the season. This has caused
the stalks to grow very rank, without proper
tionate growth Of leaves.