The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-07-05
THE CROPS.

this is not extensive. The corn crop Is dong we'll
Oats bid fair for good crop. Tobacco looks we'll |
The crop of all kinds of fruit will be light. In Mi
ami county there is favorable prospect for wheat
crop. Oats look well; Rye ditto. The corn crop
promises to be largely deficient.
The prospects for corn crop seem to be blasted
in the Scioto Valley-the chief cOrn-growing sec
ton of the State The farmers have discovered that
all the corn that was up before the freshet has
been killed by sediment deposited between the
leaves, whilst that which not up is generally
rotten. Overlooked wheat fields are dead and rot
ting.
In Owen county, the prospect for corn crop is
bad There is, however, good crop ofwheat, and
oats and grass look WELL As to hogs there will be
average supply.
In Randolph county, there will be about one
half of crop of wheat Early oats are doing well.
Corn sections planted in the latter part ofAprl and
first of May, look fine. There will be large guam
tity of Buckwheat sowed in this county.
In Dearborn county crop prospects are diseour-
aging. Cheat and smut have in ured the wheat,
and there will be only half crop. Corn will be
correspondingly short; hay is also deficient
In Jefferson county, the average number OF acres
of corn have been planted, the most of which is up
and doing well. The wheat and other small grain
were better promised farer, with this sim
gle exception the rains have caused the heavy
wheat to fall which will make it difficult to put.
ILLINOIS.
In Henry county. the wheat fields, which few
weeks ago looked promising, of
them under water; and all, to the farmers practiced
eye are unpromising.
Last year the corn crop light, and large
proportion of it OF too poor quality to keep for
market and this year the crop will be still lighter.
Altogether, the prospects for the crops this
are exceedingly unpromising.
In Jersey county, the prospect for a most abun-
dant yield of wheat continues good. The army
worm is at work. but has done material damage.
There will probably be very good yield of corn
this year, though much of the ground laid out for
the purpose will remain implanted.
hn NyYyo Of ftD,r 1n1o
that the wheat crop is considered to be good and
pretty large amount in; though the rains have in
Jured wheat eyen In many parts, not very serious
lv, however. The corn crop, which is the staple of
the South is unusually late, especially in the large,
level prairies and indeed, the bulk is not yet plant
ed while such is planted and is up is losing fast
on account of the wet. In Jefferson, Hamilton,
Franklin and other counties further South, where
the lands are more unduatng, the prospect is bet
ter as there have seldom been, notwithstanding the
very frequent heavy rains of the past three months,
more than two or three days together during which
farmers could not work more or less. 1t is evident
there will be q considerable amount of corn in
Egypt this year, although the prospect is and has
been gloomy.
There is also great deal of fruit of all kinds and
an uncommon promise of cherries, orchard plums,
and other fancy berries and fruits but not so many
apples peaches, pears. There is also good crop
of woods ''mast,' such nuts, and grapes.
And in respect OF crops, it may be said that from
the alluval, undulating location of lands in Egypt
they have gained a marked advantage over their
brethren north, this rainy season.
Harvest operations commenced on the 10th at
Monticello and in the Piasa regions The grain
stands WELL and the harvest, with this beautiful
weather. promises greatly. The fears of rust, cut
worm, lodging, &C., are mostly groundless, as yet
MISSOURI.
In Galway county, notwithstanding the long
wet term, the crops promise a liberal yield. The
wheat on the fiat land is somewhat injured, and in
some cases is dying out, but on the uplands the
crops are very heavy and indicate larger yield
than for several years The oat crop also promises
WELL and the grass never was heavier or better.
Corn has been very much injured by the rains.
In Jasper county the wheat crop will be much
better yield than anticipated. Many farmers
say they will reach about an average crop. Grass
will be about average. The yield of oats will
be abundant; many farmers say their oat prospects
have not been so fine for several years. Corn
| though not well advanced as usual, looks very
promising.
ARKANSAS.
The present season has been unusually rainy.
Throughout the entire valley of the Arkansas, and
indeed the whole State, the complaint of the back
wardness of the crops has been almost general
The cotton crop will not average more than half
the usual yield. The crop is very backward,
and there is no Judging, at this time, whether it
will be short an average one. Oats, in many
parts, particularly in Saline and the neighboring
countless failure, and many of the farmers
will not even seed. Wheat, from the great
breadth of land sown, may, in the aggregate, come
fully up to the yield of last year, but the product
of each acrewill not probabybe more than half the
amount.
TENNESSEE.
In Jackson county the cotton crop is suffering
from the lice The oat crop is almost an entire
failure, caused by the rust. Corn looks tolerably
well, and the wheat (now harvesing) will turn out
about two-thirds of crop.
KENTUCKY.
The oat crop in Nelson and Washington counties
promises indifferently In the bottoms it is almost
entire failure, while that growing the upands
is running from ravages of rust. The wheat crop
is looked to with great anxiety. The looks
well, and without extraordinary drought there is
no reason to doubt fair crop.
IOWA.
There never was better prospect for crops in
Iowa than at the present time. Wheat, oats and
grass doing frst-rate, and corn, though late,
shows every appearance of coming out well.
MINNESOTA.
The corn is up and growing finely, and with
look well. The promise of an abundant harvest is
everywhere apparent.
Crops between Atlanta and Augusta never
looked more promising. The stands of corn and
cotton good, and the appearance of the plant
healthy.
In the counties of Talbot and Marion the corn
and cotton crops very promising, and some
two or three weeks more forward than last year:
about an average of each planted compared with
the last. Wheat in some localities has yielded
abundantly, while in others it has proved COM
plete failure in consequence of the rust and smut
oats, In the gray lands worthless, having been
| completely ruined by rust, but in red lands they
are some better, and will make seed.