The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-01
THE DAILY DISPATCH


The season asd the Crsps.
n h In inallsnabls pssroeasivs Of the Ans~'
Saxon race. supposed TO have bean secures "
Masua Charta, 70 erumbls a every thing unoo'
heaven. converting every spot Of EARN wy -.
py into melancholy frog-pond from WY.
thing 10 heard bat monotonous ana e'e''."a" =,
stream Of croakings. This que.uous !. !.
manifested not only In regard 70 tn'"s'
control Of man, but to those when @'o .A0.'
directed by higher power. Inc
"a q class. are generally OF opinion 'hs', VIC
regulation of the weather were piacso N 'ne'.
hanas n vvouh be much better directed imam ~
nr...at We should like to see-posiuvely TOT
o. a.v onlv-what kind Of weather would pre-
v.,, unon the earth II each man could have his own
go Chaos come again would be nothing to II.
w. do NOT recoliect . spring when the song OF
birds. the ripple of the rejoicing streams, the ira
GRANGE of flowers and blossoms, and the universal
.mils which nantes the face Of Nature when she
escapes from the icy bondage Of winter, were not
msrred BY the distrus,ful mutterings with which
man sives forth the only note Of discord amid the
harmonics of the veruL season. 1t IL always too
we, or too dry, too hot or too cold, 1t Is chinch-
bugs or comets. Last spring, the severe winter
had killed every thing, and this spring the same
story 10 tOlu 1o IL buOoo WHO teil IL WoAS
oblivious Of the glorious harvest which sprang up
last summer, and stopped even their srumohns
mouths for . season. No doubt, many OF 'nese
gloomy reports and predictions are gotten up LOT
. purpose by spectators, but we are TOO ready 10
receive them, and to imagine that things would be
In 4 much safer and more prosperous condition
the administration of the seasons were placed
in our hands. Yet it appears that even the cold.
ness. wetness and back wardness of the present re-
msrkable spring. which have led to 80 many dis
.rus,ful remarks and apprehensions, have done NO
essential harm the grain crops In the country at
large or to the cotton, tobacco and rice crops As
q whole, the effect has been beneficial in three
important respects, thus summed up by the N. Y.
Journal of Commerce:
/. II has secured . magnificent sugar crop
amounting in value to $1,000 600 or Gle 600 0Ou
. crop especially needed At this time, because Of
the failure last year, of the Louisiana sugar CROP
To make the maple sap run freely and abundant.
ly, frequent changes in the temperature are ne.
cessary. At times 1t must be so cold rs to freeze
the ground, and then becomes mild and genial
just such has been the weather this Spring. It
has taxed the trees to their utmost, without dam
aging them, and SO an unprecedented crop of
sugar has been made-probably double what was
ever made before.
A splendid fruit crop. Had the month Of
April been warm, the blossoms would have been
far developed ~ to be destroyed by the cold of
May. But as . kind Providence has ordered it.
the blossoms have been kept back until all danger
of their destruction by frost is past and there is
prospect Of . most abundant crop. All kinds of
fruit trees is loaded with bose oms
3. An excellent hay crop. The wet weather
has iavigorated the grass roots, and they are
shooting forth with much vigor. There is every
prospect of Of an abundant crop. This is closely
connected with the grain crop for, if the farmers
fall short of hay, they must feed out grain to their
cattle.
On the whole we go for the present administra-
tion of the seasons and are opposed to innovation
from any quarter.