The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-30

luS sustained comparatively little dam !
age. Between this place and Newborn .
there are humorous fields that present !
an unfnvorable appearance. Favorable
may improve its condition |
where the roots may not be |
yet from present indi- |
the prospect for am abundant
crop in this county is not very encour-
aging.
MICHIGAN.-Ncryo extensive prepara-
tons are being made around Grand
Haven to enlarge truitcries ana plant
out new and extensive ones hereanOutS
this spring. One thing is specially
worthy of note, that while the fruit
buds of peaches and other varieties OF
fruit have been killed during the last
winter in the central portions of our
State, and mt ''St. Jo." even, all matters
Herewith seem right here,
and Il bountiful crop of every variety
is looked for.
Wheat on the ground, in our county,
as general thing, is nothing to boast
of. Many pieces that looked well on
the first fall of snow, show badly ut
present; but many improve rapidly
under the influence of warm rains and
genial sun. The insect damaged
large number of early sown fields i'll
the fall.
The growing crop of wheat in the
neighborhCOd of Albion docs not look
very promising, owing to the cold and
dry weather. y warm rain would DO
something toward determining more
definitely the real condition of this sta
Pile product of the farmer.
OTTAWA COUNTY, ILL.-The Port Gin
ton Union says: The wheat prospects
in this country are rather poor. We
have not, as yet, seen or heard of but
one good field of wheat, and this we
observed on last Sabbath, at Plaster
Bed, which belongs TO MesSrS. Marsh
a. Co. The cause of this crop being so
nice is owing to accidental causes, that
are worthy of consideration. Last sea-
son the same field was in oats, and be-
coming over ripe Shelled out consider
ably. The field was plOwed and sowed
into winter wheat; the oats came up,
grew thriftilY, and frost came. 1t kill
ed them, when they fell over and be
came IL mating and protection 10 the
wheat. From what we see here, we
believe that if bushel of oats was
sown to the acre, with winter wheat,
where liable to be winter killed, 1t
would prove great benefit.
FLORA, CLAY COUNTY, ILL.-We have
fair prospect for about u half crop OF
peaches. Apples and cherries will be
abundant. The wheat is looking bad;
= few fields look we'll, but great many
are entirely dead, and the farmers are
plowing them up and putting i'll other
crops. Castor beans and flax seem to
be The most important crops with the
farmers i'll this and Wayne county this
season.
FROM NORTHERN I$DIASA.-We have
the following from the Goshen Times,
April 24:
\ ride of some twenty miles over the
country last week, on purpose to ascer-
tain the exact condition of the wheat,
satisfied us that the crop this season
was next thing to IL total failure. On
the prairie several pieces were being
plowed up and barley sowed, while
other pieces, save eight or ten feet next
to the fence, might as well be treated in
Il like manner. In the timber land it
was not quite as bad, but prospects are
very Sloomy-not half IL crop can be
counted on even in the timber. Some
pieces on rolling ground where water
and ice did not collect during the late
severe winter, will yield from one-hnlf
to two-thirds of Il crop, but these pieces
are few and far between. Five bushels
per acre is more than will be realized
from the land sown to wheat in this
county the present season.
The South Bend Qnd.) Register says:
" From all parts of this and adjoining
counties we hear but one thing concern
ing the wheat crop, and that is that it
is failure-that there will not be
enough for seed and bread. We hope,
however, that II few warm rains may
yet change the prospect somewhat for
the better"
The Tuscarawas Chronicle says the
wheat cropin Tuscarawas county is not
in a very promising condition. Farm
crs who have called at the Chronicle Of
flee inform us that at least one-half of
the grain in the ground was killed by
the severe cold of the past winter.
Says the Warren Chronicle: "The
wheat crops look very promising, and
the farmers are happily disappointed.
Fields that had the appearance of being
entirely winterkilled are sprOuting up,
showing conclusively that the plants re-
ceived very little, if any, injury the past
winter"
The wheat crop in Darke county APP
pears in good condition. 1t is estima-
led that Fairfield county will yield
about three-fourths of n crop. In some
parts of the Miami valley it is repre-
scented of fair average. The recent rains
have helped it much.
TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIo.-The crop
looks promising; fields that seemed
killed are sProuting, and farmers are
happily disappointed. 4 similar re-
mort comes from Jefferson, Harrison
and Pickaway.
FROM GRIFFIN, Gave have taken |
some rides into the country, and from
personal observation predict the best |
crop of wheat this year that has been |
made in ten years. This will help the |
farmers amazingly. They are sompell- !
ed to buy a great many things this sum
mer, and those who did not have cotton,
in particular, are needing n thousand |
things which the war deprived them of.
A few bushels of wheat thrown on the |
will help them along till fall.
We shall not be surprised TO see from
p, 900 to 10000 bushels of wheat sold in
the months of July and August.
LANCASTER, OHIo.-Having just re-
turned from n trip through the coun-
lies of Hooking, Athens, Perry and
PiCkaway, l wish to give my observa-
ton as TO the prospect of the wheat and
fruit crop the coming season.
In the county of Hooking there will
be perhaps a third of a crop of wheat;
and as to the fruit, there will be an
abundant crop of all kinds, unless kill
ed by frost from this time on.
The county of Athens will give but
a poor yield of wheat, but n large crop
Of fruit-that is, from present appear
lnces.
Perry county will give full half
crop. Of wheat, Notwithstanding w. l..
D., in Yesterdays Commercial, says
that there is hardly u good field of
wheat in either Perry or Fairchild
There will be very large
crop ofall kinds of fruit in the hilIy.
county of Perry.
Pickaway county presents very fair
prospect for wheat this year; from
lalf to n two-thirds crop will be the
yield of this county. The fruit will not
De as large as in either of the foregoing
but will be sufficient for all
purposes. a better feeling exists among
he farmers than in most of the coun1
les.
Fairfield county will produce about