Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-06-17
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CRops IN UPPER GEoRGIA-Ex Extract Of . let
ter from gentleman in Marietta, to the editor
of the Sumter Republican, dated, - 500;
MARIETTA, May 26, lS57.-But the best
news can tell you is, that the wheat crop of
upper Georgia is the mosto promising ;wetaye
had in many years. Indeed We have never had
a more fattering prospectif reports be reliedon.
The oat crop, too, is represented as being unf
commonly gpod, and both crops unusually large.
This isrcrtainE gotd news ats tiaesso suck
scarcity as we are now experiencing. : ;;sssSt
The lagrange Reporter learns from letter,
that the crops in Madison county1are looking
very fine, and that the wheat crop will be oil
that can be desired. 1t learns from the same:
source that corn is very scarce in that county,
and Is selling at 81. .25 per bushel & 9q#T Iii,:;
ARKANsAs:--EXtrnctof Ola letter dated Browns
vile, Ark, May l4th: ,s3 ;;is-e.;t.lF;,E
|, After q circuit of fifty miles in the State Of;
Arkansas, have arrived at this place. The
crops here are very good-wheat has recovered
fromits drawback, rye very fine,. oats good,.s
corn late but fair, with good stands and impro-
wing every day. 4.at
MrssIssIppI.-The jackson (Miss.) Union, in
the midst Of the cotton-growing region, thinks
the injury to tho cotton crop is over-estimated:
1t says the main loss will arise from the lntenessg
of the planting season, and deficiency Of seed
In some localities. larger amount ofcground;'
however, has been planted this year thansfast,
which will make some compensation fqrsthe
shortness of the growing season. The sBhion
anticipates an average crop. 9; IN e; -.
The PRospEcT BEIGnTEN1Nc.-Thec cry of
short crops which was set aaoat q few weeksago,
is becoming exceedingly faint as more favorable
reports come crowding in from the grain growing
regions in all di.ections. Even from Illinois,
where the cry was first started, and where's d to.
tai failure Of the wheat crop was predicted, ,iin-
telliIence is received giving quite different!
color to the picture. The local press Through
out the State, with few exceptions, speakOf tLei
grain prospects as most Encouraging. a gentle-.
man who has travelled quite extensively over
the Western States, writes to the Cincinnati
Gazette, that in his judgment, in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Kentucky, there will be a larger
crop Of wheat harvested the coming harvest than
ever before.
Corn AND CorroN.-The New Orleans Cres-
cent OF the Goth May, says: The receipts at this
port yesterday were IL bales. The correspond
ing day last year they were 1880 bales.
We learn that all the corn in market las
been purchased for rise. In fact there has
been several operations during the past two
months in hay, oats and articles of breadstuffs,
provender and provisions generally. Well, We
supp Sc it is all right. Each item, one and all,
are legitimate objects Of commerce, and if spec
ulators desire to make consumers pay high pri-
ces, there ought to be a corresponding increase
in the returns of industry and occupations.
There is one thing, coal and wood at this mo-
ment would not pay, and we shall undoubtedly
in few weeks have AZ, abundance of green food,
but that will not answer for distant markets,
and planters may have 10 pay one dollar and
fifty cents to one dollar and seventy-fivo cents
per ousLc for corn in the market before many
DAYS. There is en- enormous demand for Ala
bama, Florida and Texas; also for some sec
tions of our own State, and higher prices than
for years past are inevitable Under the present
prices for pork, bacon and corn, our lanters
ought to realize fully twenty cents per lb. for
cotton to enable them 10 balance accounts at the
close Of the year.