Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-03
The CrOpsln western PsnnsylvanAa
and Other Sections.



From the Pfttshu1gh 6Alstss Of yEsteraAS-l
Accounts from this county, and indeed
from All portions of Western Pennsylvania
give the most encouraging accounts of the
crops. The wheat has all been harvested
in the best condition. not having been ex-
posed To the rain sufficiently TO do II the
least injury, This is an important matter,
as the last heavy crop of this cereal (th9t
of SOL was much injured by Wet weather,
aud the country was Hooded with interior
-four. The usual pests of the wheat crop
the Hessian fly. which attack the carly
sown wheat, and the NIdCe or WeevIl,
which Ipfests that sown lSte-have not
done any mischief the present SEASON.
Neither has the grain suffered from rust,
but ii is in every respect bONntitUi CROP
The quality of the wheat is the very best,
and there will certainly be no officially
during the present year in procuring fans
lily -four at moderate prices
Rye in this country is grain of less
importance, II is generally employed for
feeding horses by farmers, who use 1t with
cut straw and thus economic hay, The
crop has been remnnerative and will give
"a handsome yield. In Fayette and some
others of the lower counties, where whisky
is made in considerable quantities, it is
very largely cultivated. From these quar-
and We presume the Philadelphia market
will be well stocked with Rye Whisky dU-
ring next winter.
In every direction the cat crop is repre-
scented as being enormous. In middle and
western New York it IS stated that SINH
lar Weld never was known. In our own
county the yield is large, but the crop is
probably not an extraordinary one. In
great many portions the grain is not har-
vested ret In the course of week most
of it will be cut, even Gy the old fashioned
farmers who prefer 10 let their grain get
dead ripe. and who have no faith in the
opinion that much is lost from the shell
ling out of the oats while they are being
cut, bound and shifted to the barn. 1t is
needles to say anything of hay. as the pri-
ces show that it is very plenty, IS well as
that the farmers ars very needy. Many of
/ them are hauling it seventeen and twenty
miles, which. at the low figure which 1t is
sold, must be ruinous. Horses may surely
( be kept economically this Fall and Win
/ ter Corn is doing we'll. the recent show
/ ers having given it 6ne start for caring.
The crop will be large and the grain prob
ably low, as the most of il is consumed in
feeding stock and horses. There is a wide
difference between this and the Eastern
markets, where this grain can seldom be
purchased forless than dollar per bnshel.
Potatoes, as every housekeeper knows. are
Tery fne The weather has been admira-
bly, adapted to this vegetable and they are
dry. white and mealy, which renders them
both healthy and palatable II Is TO be
hoped the rot will not attack them this
season as it did LAST Il Eqsh t66 %fdf
be taken South. and thus persons engaged
il potato culture would be much better
remunerated.
If ever the people of this section could
participate with feryid feeling in day OF
thanksgiving, they viii assuredly the
present year. Ii is expected the influence
of the large crops on business will be con
siderable. The depression in the Mesi
will probably be at an end, as soon as the
people can realize on their agricultural
products. In our own neighborLood there
VIII probably be much to transport 10 q
distant market. The two, but especially
the former, viii contribute much in Great
ing an increase of trade in Pittsburgh
The coming Fall onEht TO be an unusually
stirling business season.