Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-07-05
rCorrespond.nce of the Baltimore Sum-.

NORTHERN NtSh Or NlhuiNIt, culJ i 1890
Great Injury 10 The Wheat Crop in Lorer Virgj.
nta-1he Prospects for Corn, &c.
NV last letter bailed from Lancaster, and was
rather a more specific statement Of the affairs Of TINT
county generally than | shall be able TO give of the
remaining counties of this peninsula. l reported the
wheat crop, you will ememb as presenting a most
encouraging complexion. Since the date of that let
ter the ~circumjscent counties through which l have
travelled have been mOst sadly visited with the rust
and blight, and | presume, of course, have extended
to Laeoa.ter. Ii so. the product of that county, "a
of Richmond and Northumberland. cannot be safely
estimated at more than half a crop. This is y most
melancholy fact, when considered in connection with
the general financial embarrassments of the country,
and the reliance which has been entertained of the
coming crop of wheat az the means, partially at leRst,
of relieving that embarrassment.
The wheat crop of Westmnreland, in common with
all thu other counties of the Neck. in the early part Of
The season indicated a most abundant promise. The
terrific hail storm of May-some of the particulars OF
which we're given in The papers-however utterly de-
stroyed a large proportion OF the crop ot that county,
doing damage, il is estimated by judicious minds, of
between one hundred and one hundred and fifty nous
and dollars. Fields holding out the promise OF two
and three thousand bushels have been completely de
solaied, burying, for the season at least, the song of the
reaper, and tine hopes and anxisties end calculations
of the husblndman. To those fields not visited by
this storm, chlnch bug and rust and blight have come,
and reduced the prospect to the estimate already inade
of other counties, IL wit: 0aeh0V.
" CuIu cup 'h'puSHuui Tx oitho 49," -
now, the lateness of lie planting from unpropitious
causes considered, presenting a very fine appearance.
With the continuance OF genial seasons II nust coma
in beautifully. and mitigate, in some degree, the dis
tres,ing consequences of the partial failure OF the
wheat crop.
In Essex county | regret to bs under the nacessify
of representing the wheat crop IA in very much the
same condition hail storms %excepted) with the coun
ties of tho Northern Neck. Here, II SCENE, the
largest combination of Disasters and drawbacks 10
which this cereal ia liable, get in and worked out their
hur,ful consequences. Successfully, fY, joint worm,
chinch bug. blight and rust have assaulted. The plant,
narrowing down the probable yield TO what has al
ready been stated Of the other counties referred TO
about Que half. Essex county, however, from the
recuperative energies OF the wealth distributed
throughout ito area. cannot be materially thrown
back Ivy the diminution OF the crop. BY the way,
most OPPORTUNITY for the comparative relief OF the
neighboring counties on either side Of the Kappa
hammock that are embarrassed from the shortening
of The crops, there will, it is confidently ascertain
cd, be established and opened at Tsppahanpock,
1.-THE county seat OF Essex iu a short time, Il bank
10 he known a. the "Rappsbannock Bank" Think
i, u most eligible point for such an institution.