Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-03

heid was plUwed and sowed into winter wheat the
came up grew thrittily and when frost came If
killed them. when they fell over and become mat
ting and protection to 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 CO., Hive have fair prospect for
will be- abundant The wheat IS IIookinr b had few
fields look well, but great many are entirely dead,
and the farmers are plowing them up. and putting in
other crops. Castor beans and 1axseed seem to be the
most important crop with the farmers in this and
Wayne county this season.
The WHEAT CROP IN NORTHERN INDIAS4-The
Goshen Times of yesterday says:
A ride of some twenty miles over the country last
week on purpose to ascertain the exact condition of
the wheat satisfied that the crop this season
next thing to total failure. On the prairie several
pieces were being ploughed up and barley sowed.
while other pieces, eight ten pieces next to
the fence might well be treated in like manner
In the timber land not quite as bad but pros
poets are very gloomynot half crop can be count
ground where water and ice did not collect during
the late severe winter will yield from one-half
wo-thlrds OF crop, but these pieces are few and
far between Five bushels per acre is more than will
be realized from the land to wheat in this coun-
ty the present season.
The WHEAT CsoP--The South Bend Qnd0 Register
says: From all parts of this and adjoining coun-
ties we hear hut thing concerning tho wheat
CROP and that that it is tailure-that there will
ever that few warm rains may yet change the pros
rect somewhat for the BETTER
Inc IuScaraWhS ChTOHtcte says the WnOat
Iusrarawas county is not In very promising condi-
ton: Farmers who nave called at the Chroaicle of
fee inform us that at least one half of the grain in
the ground was killed by the severe cold of tho past
winter.
Says the Warren Chronicle. The wheat crop looks
very promising; and the farmers are happily disap-
pointed. Fields that had the appearance of being
entirely winter killed. are sprouting up, showing
conclusivey that the plants received very little, il
any injury the past winter.
The wheat crop in Darke county appears in good
condition It IS estimated that Fairfield county viii
yield ABOUT three Itourths of crop. In some part
The recent rains have helped it much.
CRoPs IN THE SouTH.-The Wincester VaD Tine
says:
The late rains havo so improved the wheat crop
that there is every prospect of there being mucL
arger yield than was anticipated fortnight since
Fields that looked hopeless at that time now presen
the appearance of an ordoary crop, while the opin
ion Of farmers generally is that but few of the past
years Will exceed the amount of corn that will b
planted or raised.
The Lynchburg Firgnion says the wheat in south
western Virginia promises WELL being especially fine
in the counties of Bedford, Roanoke, Montgomery
Pulaski, Wythe, Smythe and Washington.
A letter from Connersvlle. Tenn, says:
Our grasses are doing welI-farmers busy planting
soil generally well prepared late wheat failure
early looking very well; oats up and looking well
Ihsre vii be more cotton planted in this end Of thu
this week, the weather permitting.
The Wilson county Uenn.) HeraH says;
The corn is up in great many places in the coun
ty and ypromising. The wheat is average. anc
the fruit crop is very promising, Without pro
yidential interposition. look forward to gooC
harvest and a fat time next fall.
The South Carolina Spartan says tho wheat crop o
that district Will be an average one.
The Rome (Ga.) Courier says:
There has seldom been better prospect for whea
and corn crops IN PIPER Georgia than the present
The wheat has some times been moro forward, bu
thrifty Nearly ali of the best lands in this section
% the state having been well prepared, will be un
der cultivation this year.. The oat crop has beer
materially injured-the fruit crop promises finely
A gentleman just from tho interior of Florida re-
ports that State IN tiouriShng condition. CottoI
hs beGu planted largely to the neglect Of provisions
which latter will not be raised in quantities suicien
70 support the home demand. lie thinks Florid;
has suffered less than any other State from the war
- The. wheat crops in Eastern Alabama and Nortt
de0rgla are SAID to be very promising.
The editor of the Easton (Md) Star has been sloyr
stalks taken from the lot OF Mr.; A. A Pascault nea
Easton which measures IS inches in height and 81
far maturcd that tho head is in course Of develop
ment. 1t Is variety of early white, smooth head
known as the Dell wheat.
THE PRICE OF Ice In another column viii bt
found the price list of the Boston Ice Company ol
the present year. In looking it we fail to SEE
why the public should be so alarmed as articles il
some Of the newspapers would seem to Indicate We
lind the prices for the season to be ten, fifteen and
twenty dollars for, nine, fifteen and twenty-foui
pounds OF ice per day from May l to October !, OF
about seven, ten and thirteen cents per day for the
respective quantities., while the yearly prices are
about SIX, seven and ten cents per day for tho same
quantities. These prices scarcely twenty-five pei
cent more than the rates before the wGr, durins
which there was no increase in price, owing to thu
large stocks each year, with the demand lesSened by
the closing OF the southern ports, In 1868, however
when tho entirely failed in this vicinity the
rates were somewhat advanced
This year, with stock SSevsrty.fvo thousand tons
below the average, with the shipping demand dou.
bled, the dealers here only ask such an. increased
price as the advance in all materials and labor CON
nected with the business demands. We understand
that wagon that formerly cost two hind I'D
dollars now costs five hundred and fifty dollars and
Government tax; pair of horses that could be
bought before the war for three four hundred dol
lars now cost seven to eight hundred dollars while
the wages of the men employed are doubled.
The capacity for storage of ice has been consdera
bly, reduced during the war; many buildings have
been taken down from decay. several destroyed by
fire, while not single house has been erected fol
FIVE years from tho fact that building materials have
been high that the demands of the trade have not
warranted the large outlay. The Boston Ice Com
pany contemplate largely increasing their storage
cold winters, the supply is not likely be short
again. If the company supply the public at the
prices advertised, we see reason for the clem0r
that has been raised.-Boston Transcript.
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The WONDERS OF A WATCH.-Very few of the
many who carry watches ever think of the complex.
ty of its delicate mechanism, of the extraordinary
and upcsasng labor it pertorms' and how astonish-
ingly well it bears mp and does its duty under VIII
would be considered very shabby treatment in almost
any other machinery. There are many who think a
watch ought to run and keep good time for gear!
without even drop of oil, who would not think o.
running 2 common piece of machinery day without
oiling the wheels of which do but fraction of the
service. We were fOrcibly struck with this thought
the other day, upon hearing person remark thai
by w93 Of grst thy s curo he had made
American watch make in a day and year. The re-
suit of this calculation is suggestive it is inter
esting. For example: tho main wheel makes foul
revolutions in twenty four hours. or 400 in year
the second, centre wheel twenty four revolution,
in twenty four hours, or $3.50 ia a year the thrG
WI md nj met -fyUn Co.,
hours or 59,GSO in years the fourth wheel. (Which
carries the second hand, 40 in twenty four hours
twentyfour hours, or 472S 400 revolutions in year
while the beats or vibrations. made in twenty-fou
hours are S8S,S0O OF 4lSl2,O0O in year.
WELLINGTON AND NAPoLRoE-"Lord Wellington
was here few days; HI dukedom met him on his ar
rival. He was received in manner that could not
but give pleasure to every Englishman. II seem
quite unspot by success. He has not even contract
ed that habit Of silence and which so Otter
accompanies dignity and favor, when they pro
duce no more unfavorabe change. But he is Just n
be was-gay. frank and ready to converse Icountet
myself lucky in meeting him one of the days he wa
here. at Aberdeen's, with Schwartzenberg, stadon
and Prince Maurice of Lichtenstein. Stallion re
marked that he believed that he had never been en-
gagged against Bonaparte in person. The Duke of w
answered instantly: No. and | am very glad | neve
was, would rather at any time have heard that
reinforcement Of forty thousand men had Joined tn
French army. than that he had arrived TO take tn
Command had heard tho opinion ascribed to hin
before but was glad to find that he had tho liberal
ty to repeat it after Bonapartes -luiss Berry
Journal.
oSoRGarN SrGAE.-The editor ofthe McConnelsvi
tOhio) Herald says: THE profitable manufacture o
sugar from Northern cane has at length become ;
fixed and notable fact. and the question placed be
yond doubt. We were shown specimens of an ex.
eellent quality, by Mr.. Corner of Malta. Ohio who
has seen and thoroughly understands the process
and his statements can be relied upon. In the pro
cess of manufacturing sugar from sorghum the vast
Is less than one per cent. and the average yield
about six pounds osugar to every gallon of molasses
and the residuum is nolasses still The process o
granuston is simple and attended with SO little ex
peDse that the manufacture of this sacharine pro
duction can be made profitable beyond doubt. 3,
this discovery inestimable wealth has been added t
the great Northwest, and the agricultural communit
have been infinitely benefited thereby The farmer
in growing districts of this and adjoining coun
ties will find the manufacture of sugar more profit
able than moiasSes."
MAIL REGULATIONS.
Tine Of Arrival and Closing of Moils at the Poe
Office. Bsltimors Md.
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