The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-29
The Progress of the Harvest.

The Progress of the Harvest.
WHEAT.-Samples of new wheat, from
almost every grain growing State, have
already been exhibited in market, and at
the present time, when the aspect and
progress of the harvest is watched with
intense interest, will afford an indication
of what may be expected from the several
sections which they represent. 1t is gen.
orally believed that the wheat crop Of the
United States, as a whole, will be the lar
gest and best ever garnered. We have
the authority of Mr.. Judd, editor of the
American Agriculturist, who has made a
six weeks tour through the states of Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and
low !, that the harvest in all of these
States will be unprecedented. The Gin
cinuati Commercial Of this week says that
" farmers throughout tho Miami valley
are busily harvesting their wheat. The
crop is excellent"
The Chicago Times of Wednesday re-
ports the first arrival in the city Of 200
bushels of new wheat, from Union county,
which sold for 81, rs. 1t is of remarkable
fine quality. Carbondale, southern Hi
nois, to the Springfield Journal says:
"The crops in this section are beyond
all precedent. Finer grain never was
seen the heads arc we'll filed out, and
the grain plump and full. l have seen
whole fields where the heads would aver
age fve and six inches in length"
The Indianapolis Sentinel, of the 18th
inst, writes -
We learn from Major John p. Dunn,
who has just returned from a trip through
southwestern Indiana, that the crops in
that portion of the. State are in the most
promising condition, far in advance of
Central and Northern Indiana. The
wheat has been harvested in excellent
condition md with large returns"
In most of the Southern Safes the
wheat harvest is nearly completed, and
generally with the most satisfactory re-
suits. Samples have been received from
Virginia, Maryland, North and Seuth
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas.-
In some parts of Virginia tho farmers
have suffered from the ravages of bug,
worm, and fly, which, with the cold sea-
sou have caused a diminution in the crop,
but as a whole, the yield is excellent
The Baltimore Patriot represents the new
wheat of that State as a remarkably fine
article.
The Elizabeth City On. c. Pioneer
says the yield in the State is more abun
dant than it has been for years. The
Natchez (Miss) Courier reports an in
creased yield, of superior quality. An
Alabama correspondent ofthe n. o. Del
says, ''wheat was never better"
New Tennessee and Kentucky wheat
is coming in very freely at Memphis
The Knoxville Wing is confident that
East Tennessee will be able to sell two
millions of bushels of wheat the present
season.
But the reports from Arkansas exceed
all others. The Little Rock Democrat
says:-FWe are happy to be in the re-
of intelligence from almost every
of the State, that there is not on
" in cultivation a greater number of
acres of wheat than any previous years,
but that the actual yield per acre will be
greater than ever produced before. Ar
kansas will, ere long, be one of the best
wheat States in the Union"
From New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, the accounts are conflicting.
A correspondent of the Newark Adrerti-
ser reports the wheat in New Jersey as
'ooking well. The wheat in all these
States would have turned out well, had
a large portion of it been winter
killed.
Corn AND PoTAToEs.-Corn in some
sections looks very poorly but what it
lacks in me quarter is made up in 9th
ers. Potatoes are improving. In New
England, corn, although backward, is
generally very PROMISING. A writer
from New Jersey says =" Corn is mis-
orably backward" The same is true in
Southern Illinois, though it looks heal
The Elizabeth City On. c. Pion-
says the "corn crop looks exceeding
promising"
In alabama, corn is not doing very
we'll on account of the drouth, though it
promises fair in some places. The Ba
ton Rouge (La.) AdUocate says "the corn
is all that our most sanguine plan
ters can wish" The indianapolis Sen
reports corr six feet high and early
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