The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-13
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.
Letter from Fluvanna County Rain - The
Crops = Fertilizers Needed - General Refec.

Z Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch
Letter from Fluvanna County - Rain - The
Crops Fertilizers Needed = General Reflec-
lions.
.l FLuvANNA COUNTY, October 8, 1866.
We have had an abundance of rain al
last; and though it came too late to do the
corn and tobacco crops much good, still it
has yitalized things generally very much :;
the fall grass especially has become quite
exuberant, and the lands have been put
in fine condition for receiving the crop of
wheat, the season being now at hand when
farmers are usually engaged in seeding this
crop. In fact, the most of them will be
later than usual in seeding their wheat
crops, in consequence of having to remove
the corn and tobacco crops--these being
the main preparations for wheat--as but
little ground had been fallOwed for wheat
during the summer, on account OF dry
weather. The prospect Is that there VIII
be Q small crop seeded compared to the
crops anterior to the war, but larger crop
than last year, as the farmers are making
heroic effort to overcome the many disad-
vantages under which they are laboring,
in having to purchase seed, guano, etc, un-
der the great scarcity of money. What
they need Is start, and have been sur
prised that some arrangement has not been
made by some of your generous and enter
sprising citizens by which all the farmers
might have been supplied, as some have
been. with fertilizers, TO be paid for ont OF
the tobacco crop, which will be ready for
market in . few months. IA friend in
need is q friend indeed" Many will be
kept from seeding anything like the usual
quantity Of wheat, because they have not
the money to purchase fertilizers, and it Is
almost useless to SOW it without them in
these days Of chints bugs and Joint ,Oorm.
Give the farmer start, and every branch
Of trade will receive fresh impetus; for,
after all, he Is the great master wheel in
the commercial machine around which all
other branches Of trade reyolye, and upon
which they are dependent for very life
and motion and any impulse received here
quickly vibrates through the varied rami-
HcatioDs Of every species OF business. Let
tha farming interests sncceed, and every
other interest will soon resume its accus-
toned prosperity.
- The majority Of our farmers are new
convinced of the impracticability of at
tempting TO cultivate large surfaces with
hired labor, and are moro and more i'm
pressed with the importance of contracting
the area Of lands under cultivation, and
Restricting to those. portions only which
are productive, and will endesyor to make
! the AgreateSt possible yield TO- . given
amount Of land, and thus economic in
labor, which b the main item to be looked
at nowadays. The raising Of tobacco
!, with the present system Of labor being an
experiment, the scarcity Of plant and
drought have 70 interfered with the crop of
this year that the resalts hardly furnish .
fsir test Of the profits to DO realized In its
cultivation. OF course this will depend
aenssseay on the price the article will CON-
mand e q present advised, the majority
q sse mspcssd TO continue IL culture :.
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