Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-04-27
The Crops

" ulIc tueEc IS S0hSioeTaotc appEcHSu-
sion expressed, the greater number of
the reports from the wheat growing
States of the Yves; regarding the grow
ing crop, are of very cheering charac-
ter. The Chicago Tribgas has the fol.
lowing
son Tuesday We rode over the line OF
the Michigan Southern and Northern
Indiana Railroad, and the fine promising
appearance of the wheat fields was the
theme OF frequent remark. Certainly al
this season we never saw the wheat look
better. Circumstances may yet occur TO
lessen or destroy the crop, but certainly
the farmers in that section were never
cheered by finer promise of an abund-
ant harvest"
The editor of the Humboldt (Tenn.)
COsmos has been over in Indiana and
Illinois, and remarks:
g." From personal observation and dill
gent inquiry through Illinois and Indiana,
we are convinced the prospect for good
crop of wheat in that region was never
better than it is now"
The Alton (Ill) Courier says:
a gentleman from the neighborhood
of Ridgsly, with whom we conversed
yesterday, reports the wheat prospects
as good for just about half cror, he
thinks. Early sown looks much the best.
His business has called him into various
parts o: the country, and this Is his report
on the whole of it. That in timber is
much more promising than that on the
prairie"
A correspondent of the Aurora Ind.)
Commercial writes; The prospect for
a crop of wheat the ensuing season grows
better every day where q few weeks
ago it looked to be badly winter killed, it
now has the appearance of fair yield.
The ground was never in better order
than it will be for ploughing this spring,
so fair is the season we may look for an
abundance"
OF Michigan, the Detroit Adrertiser Of
the 10th inst. says: " The latest advices
from the interior of this State report the
wheat crop as looking finely. AS it now
turns out very few fields have been win
ter killed, and those thought 10 have been
damaged seem to have entirely recover
ed"
Wheat promises equally well in Iowa
The following paragraph from the Du-
buque Herald of the 18th represents the
general tenor OF accounts from that
State
The grain fields in this county are
commencing to look very fine. We have
very brilliant prospects for big crop
next fall. The amount of land cultiva.
ted this year will exceed that of last
year by at least one-haIf."
In Wisconsin, where farmers have
been discouraged in their efforts to grow
winter wheat, unusual effort is making
to get in large crops of spring wheat.
The Evansville (Ia.) Journal of the
10th, says;
We have just been conversing witt
Mr.. Guise, farmer living near Sanders
vile, Scott county, about the wheat crop
The wheat in his neiehborLood is badly
frozen out He does not think it vii
yield, on an average, over a third of ,
crop. This is the prospect through
Scott, Armstrong and German town
ships, and all that portion of the coun
try. Much wheat land is being plowe,
up and put in corn. From what w
can learn, the wheat crop in this count,
and those Immediately adjoining is wors
injured than anywhere in the State
More favorable reports come from tn
northerly portions of the State thai
we get from this vicinity"
In the Southern States, the indication
are that the wheat crop will prove fai
average.