The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-27

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| THE CRoPs IN ERGNIA.-The Editor of the Rich
mond Eranaiaer, writing from Goochland, makes
the following statement concerning the crops:
! The effects of the severe drought Of the present
distinctly visible in all the counties tn at
| | have visited. The crop has been materially
diminished by it: perhaps fifty per cent orcrnqe
embracing both high land and low ground. This
however, is mere conjecture of mine, or what the
farmers Familiarity call trough guess" The to-
bacco crop also considerably reduced by the same
cause, but the reports of total failure or of ga
near approximation to failure, must not be taken
for granted. have seen some goo9 crops of tobac-
co, many passable, many indifferent, and some
''dead failures, but, upon the whole, think the
crop will not fall than twenty-five per cent
below the average This opinion is founded upon
my observation of the crops in some four or five
counties in the tobacco growing region.
The wheat crop unquestionablv short one
in all parts of Virginia, sad realization of as
bright promise as the farmers of the State ever
had in the month of May. But must present no
more of the dark side of the picture, or | shall be
classed among the croakers We have an abundant
consolation in the assurance that the actual produc-
tiOns of our State more than ample for all ne
cessary purposes.
A correspondent Of the Petersburg Express says:
In passing through the upper part of Greensvillc
and the lower part of Brunswick, several crops of
various kinds came under my observation, consist
ing of Tobacco, Corn and Cotton. The Tobacco
crop, owing to the drought in the latter part of
August and the first of September, has commenced
to dry up at the bottom, which will cause the farm
ers to cut it before it can ripen it should d.
There will, | think be an average crop of very good
Tobacco made. The Corn crop, now that the fod-
der has been pulled, can be judged with tolerable
correctness The late Corn, on river and creek low
grounds, is very well Cured indeed; but the poor
highlands present sorry prospect, and should say
that the drought cut them Oft third, il not more.
do not think there will be any great quantity of
corn sold in this section, every farmer viii rake
nearly enough to supply himself, except those who
tend three times too much poor worn out old fields
instead of improving one small field and tending it
good. have seen farmers who are not quite up to
their keen calculating brethren who buy fertilizers
for their crops and when they come to gather their
crops the fields present perfect eye sore, after
hard all the year. The Cotton crop, far
as have seen, is slightly injured with the rust,
which, of course, will cut it off shorter than it
would have been. The farmers have commenced
picking out that they can have it off hand before
cold weather sets in. 1t is crop that's getting to
be much neglected about here, as the seasons for
the last year or two have been very uniayorable.
THE GRAPE CRoP.-Within radius of twenty
live miles from Cincinnati it is computed there
twenty-five hundred acres of land devoted to the
culture of the grape In favorable seasons the ave-
rage crop OF wine per acre may be set down at two
hundred gallons. This would be equal to half
million of gallons the whole crop for the section
described. And the wine is worth fresh from
the press at least dollar per gallon, the value
of the crop, when good, would amount to $500 600
The failure, therefore, of the grape CROP affects very
seriously the pecuniary condition of our immediate
rural neighborhood.
The crop this season may be designated as almost
an entire failure. Some few vineyards will have
something of crop, but, in the aggregate all the
wine produced will not pay the expenses of tending
the CROP Ohio Valley Farmer, Sept, 1858.
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