The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-07-27
The Crops.

Ience III the crops. Ihe wheat harvest
has already commenced in New York
There is neither rust nor midge. Oats
and barley promise we'll, while the apple
crop IN the western part of the State will
be unprecedented. The harvest is rapidly
progressing in Pennsylvania prospects
good. Corn and oats look we'll in Mary
land, but wheat will be light. Reports
from the southern part of Virginia show
a promising year. Grass is uncommonly
fine. In Illinois, the Chicago Times
says:
"Wheat and oats have been sown con-
siderably in excess of last year, and yield,
especially Of the latter, promises to be
very abundant. Chintz bugs and grubs
have made their appearance in some To-
calities, but few sections have suffered
seriously from them. Corn planting was
delayed in many parts of the State from
one to three weeks, by heavy, cold, last
spring rains, and its growth was after
wards delayed from the same cause, and
later by drought; but at later advices it
was generally looking we'll and promising
average crop. Barley and rye are not SO
extensively cultivated, but the crops gen.
orally compare favorably with last years
The fruit crops will be light on account
of late and heavy spring frosts."
The same authority, of Iowa, says =
''In most of the counties from which
Iadvices have been received bountiful
harvest is promised. The spring was
generally backward on account of cold,
late rains, but the seed came up readily
and the crops did well, Notwithstanding
a severe drought prevailed in many Sec
tions between the middle of May and
10th of June. Since the latter date
heavy thunder storms have been of COM
paratively frequent occurrence, and brid-
ges have washed away, and fences blown
down an extensive scale, but no serious
damage is reported to have been sustained
by the crops from this cause until the
9th and 2Sth Of June, when the serverest
storms within the memory of citizens
swept over the northwestern and perhaps
other sections of the State, very severely
damaging the crops in many localities,
though the extent of the loss is not re-
ported. Before the storm wheat, oats,
corn, and nearly every species of small
grain were doing finely. The potato crop,
however, has suffered very severely and
in many localities it is feared it will prove
failure"
In Wisconsin there are few excep-
tions to the promise of the best crop raised
for years. In few instances only oats
and wheat are failures. Michigan, so far
as heard from, presents the same pros
porous appearance. The first new wheat
of Ohio was exhibited on change at
Cleveland on the 29th ult The berry
was plump and large, and the yield in
the valley plentiful. Harvest is about
week earlier than usual. The Cincinnati
Commercial says -
"The wheat harvest in Southern In
diana has commenced. Our exchanges
from that section speak of the yield as
enormous, and the quality as unsurpassed
by the crop of any previous year. To
add to the satisfaction Of the farmers, the
weather has been as favorable as they
could desire, and the new crop has been
harvested in the very best condition"
In Kentucky the wheat is quite poor
crop. Oats, grass and corn are quite
abundant. The appearance of the grape
crop is said to be quite unf;vorable, es-
pecially of the Catawba. Of Tennessee
the correspondent of the paper last quoted
says -
GAS to the wheat crop, the prospect is
not so fair as for corn. AS it was neces-
sary to sow last fall, when the country as
still swept by the whirlwind of war, the
breadth of country sown was nearly so
great as what it was formerly in time of
peace. The winter among the mountains,
too, was severe good many fields were
frozen out, and of those which escaped
the ordeal of the frost, some have suffered
severely for want of rain. Notwithstand-
ing all these drawbacks, there are far
mers who will harvest good crops; but
the yield, generally speaking, will be
small
"Of the corn crop, almost the exact op-
posite may be said. From Chattanooga
to Bulls Gap, twenty-five miles west of
Greenville, the appearance of the grow
ing crop was invariably good"
Corn only appears to promise we'll in
Georgia, an extensive drought destroying
the prospects of all other crops. Cotton
is said to be coming into market in small
quantities. In Louisiana. the Picayune
saws. accounts from the country report
chat crop prospects are very encourag-
ing. The rains have been plenteous and
fructifying. Sugar, cotton, corn and rice
are looking we'll. Thus far, too, that
dreadful enemy, which cast such blight
last season over the cotton fields, the army
worm or caterpillar, has not heralded his
appearance. The sugar crop will proba
bly exceed that of last year thirty thou
sand hogsheads against eleven thousand
is the estimated product
With the exception of apples, all Eas-
tern crops at this time promise well, and
the hay crop will be one third larger than
that Of last year.
Horace Greeley had his watch stolen