The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-23
MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMERS
TIE CROPS.


"After war comes famine is an accepted axiom,
we believe, but we hope that that calamity will not
follow our present national troubles and it will
tanly not occur if the crops realize at harvest what
they promise now. We CLEAN the following "crop"
notices from our exchanges:
The Charlotte Democrat has cheering accounts of
the wheat crop in that section, and portions of the
State further west. In CASTOR, Catawba and
Cleaveand, assured the prospect was never
better for large crop OF the best quality. The
same NAV be said of this county. If Providence
besses the South with good crops this year, she
will be able, not only to whip and subdue the van
dals and vampires of the North, but support her
own people in independence and comparative ai-
fuence. With plenty ofbread and meat, our peO-
pie can get along very well, if a ship never enters
or leaves Southern port for the next two years.
An esteemed frind of ours, merchant Of this
city, has just returned from visit to the interior,
and reports most iavorably upon the prospects of
the bread crops. lie brought a specimen of
wheat from field of one hundred acres, now in
course of harvesting, the property of Mr.. Louis D.
Moore near Selma, and says that both in quantity
and quality, the harvest this wear will be superior
to any previous experience. Flour of good quality
has already been made from new wheat. The corn
crop also promises to yield very abundantly, and
thousands of acres extra have been planted So,
it will BE- seen that, blockade blockade, none
of likely to suffer for want of bread-the
staff of life. Mobile Adrertiser.
Our railroad routes do not afford fair exhibi
ton of the crops of South Carolina TO a traveller,
nevertheless they give good criterion of the con-
dition and prospects of the growing crops far as
the season and weather are concerned. Recent re
ports from friends who have passed over the rail-
roads and branches of upper country, state
that the prospects for the provision crops very
encouraging. Wheat was very promising and
Tn good.
We repeat the advice which has been uttered
through many exchanges, that all Southern plant
and farmers should begin at once to- ecOnomse
provisions, and to prepare fully for state of war.
-ChdrlestOn Courier.
Our exchanges from all parts of Tennessee, as
well our letters and verbal messages, all 60 to
show that the prospects for wheat never bet
ter. Indeed, throughout ali the graiu-growing
States the earth never did Weld such crop of
wheat, unless Providence shall yet interfere to cut
it short. In our State, there never was as
great a breadth of land s0wn in wheat The stand
was never better, the winter never more favor
able while the spring has been all that could be de-
sired Harvest will be on in fifty days and l~sS, and
Tennessee will be blessed with millions of bushels
OF wheat, mare than home consumption can dispose
Of God be praised for prosperity, in the midst
of our many troubles = Nashville Gazette.
With no.future drawback in the way of drought, |
our agricultural friends expect rnormous crops of
wheat and grass For these the spring has thus
far been extremely auspciOus. Corn planting is
now in progress In the suburbs we find potatoes
peeping above the ground, while vegetables Of all
kinds rapidly advancing to maturity. -Phiia-
dc'phio North American, 17h
The farm RS Of Ohio putting in seed of the
Chinese sugar cane, tor the purpose of having a
supply of molasses and sugar independent of the
South. Now is the time to try what can be done
with the Chinese sugar The experiments
which have hitherto been made when sugar
cheap, showed that it might be protaby cultivated
for molasses.
A very intelligent planter, who has heen
"around" recently, informs US that the heaviest
crop of corn, by far, he has known planted in
any one season, has been put in the ground the
present, and is now looking extremely well. Cot
ton, though small on account OF cool weather, is
hanlt fl,-l
that good crop will be made.-ColumbuS (NisS.)
RepHblic
The Jay (Ind.) TorchIight of May says: The
prospect for good wheat crop in this county is
unusually promising. In most fields the wheat
has come forward rapidly is thick the ground
and of an excellent color. There but few fields
of poor wheat. The indications that the
wheat crop will be abundant as it was last year.
But if the very vet weather now having
should continue long, it will kill much of it before
harvest. For spring crops the prospect is not
very cheering. We are having a BACKYARD spring.
A few fields of oats have been sown But little has
been done yet toward corn planting. very few
have planted corn, with prospect that it will rot
without coming up.
The war excitement of the past month, and the
very wet weather combined, have thrown the far
mers of Ohio very much behindhand with their
spring work. The amount of land prepared for
corn, thus far is unusually small, and the lateness
of the season renders it quite certain that there
will be great falling off in the bread h of acres
which will be planted. Columbus (Ohio) States
man, 18Th.
The New Orleans Picoy,me, of Sunday last, says:
From all points in the cotton growing region we
have glowing reports of the growing crop of
great staple. In few localities, the heavy
rains have somewhat injured the crop; but even
there the injury is not irremediabe, and where re-
| planting has been necessary, the work has been
| energetically undertaken and accomplished with
out delay. From all we gather in regard to
| the growing crop, feel confident that with
favorable season henceforth until it is gathered,
the cotton crop of 1861 will be as large, or nearly