Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-14
TENNESSEE CROPS.
A gentleman writing to US from Jordan's
Valley. Rutherford county, says:

A gentleman writing to US from Jordan's
Valley, Rutherford county, says:
The prospect for good cotton crop is
very gloomy think itwould be extrava-
giant to calculate on more than half crop
Many of the planters have not more than
half stand, and what there is looks very
unpromising am now sixty years ole,
have been raising cotton from boyhood, and
do not remember ever seeing worse pros
pect. Forward corn that escaped the cut
worm looks we'll but much has been re-
planted. and is very late Wheat will proba-
bly, reach half crop.
The freedmen are working tolerably well.
l employ them on shares, (as most OF my
neichbors are but entirely under my supre-
vision and direction. They would do but
little without some white man 10 direct and
push them forward. They arc complaining
ycrv much of the five cents on cotton. They
say it is hard and unfair to give one half TOR
the land, and then fourth or more Of the
balance for tax. So do |?
Speaking of the wheat crop, the Chatta-
nooga Union says:
"As harvest is close at hand, the cry
about the wheat crop being destroyed In
| creases. No doubt the wheat crop has been
considerably injured in some sections, but
we don't quite believe everything we hear,
| or even read in the papers, on that subject.
We have heard them things" before, and
| will wait for further advices before ordering
another years supply of flour. We don't
believe there is danger Of anybody starving
| in this part of the country, In proportion
| to the breadth of land sown in wheat last
fall. there will be at least half crop made,
! and that is near about as well as they ever dc
in this region Ii rarely happens that there
is universal failure of the crops There Is
always corn in Egypt when there is fam
inc in Palestine"
The Paris West Tennessee) Latelligencer
of the 1st-the latest number received
" IUI several uays past mas
been remarkably cool for the season, anc
doubtless has been quite injurious in its eff
fects ON the growing crops. Cotton, we fear
has been severely damaged in fact, the
season so far, ehas been unusually backward
and unfavorable for that plant, and if oul
farmers succeed in getting good stand, i
will be in spite of bad weather, &c.
Corn seems to be generally small and I'M
thrifty, and has suffered greatly from the
ravages of the cut worm, resulting, in very
many instances, in bad stands.
Wheat from the best information we have
been able to get. will not average in thi,
county much, if any more, than half 4;
crop"
A correspondent of the Memphis Ar
gus, writing from Humboldt, observes:
"The large amount Of rain which hal
fallen during the past season has materially
injured the prospects for this year. Corr
begins to look better. Cotton is having :
better showing during the past few days o
extremely warm weather. The wheat crol
is just now being harvested, andisvery light
it having been very seriously injured by the
"rust" But few oats were sown this season
the amount being too small for special men
ton. Formerly this was one of the best to
bacco growing regions in the country, The
farmers being largely engaged in planting
that crop previous to the war. Since tn,
high rates at which cotton has been selling
it has afforded an inducement to its cultur,
not to be resisted; the cultivation of tobacco
has very materially fallen of, very littl,
having been planted this season.