Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-05-04

Though the wheat crop in this State
will doubtless be far below the usual
average, the accounts from other portions
of the wheat growing sections of the
Union are such as to warrant the belief
that in the general aggregate there viii
be very little if any diminution. The
following, from Illinois papers, show a
fattering prospect in that State
The Mt. C1rmeJ Democrat says the
wheat crop along the line of the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad, east Of Vincenues
is looking uncOmmOnly promising, and
the prospects are most fattering for
splendid crop this coming season. The
late sowing, however, does not promise
we'll The 4ALfOR Telegraph says The
prospect for an abundant crop of wheat
was never better than it is this spring,
in this part of Illinois. We have made
inquiries of parties from all directions,
and have received but one answer that
the young crop never looked better at
this season of the year than 1t does now
The season, although nearly a month la
ter than usual in this latitude, has thus
far been very favorable for getting the
spring grain into the ground and prepar-
ing the soil for corn.
Speaking of the great wheat-growing
region embraced in the States of Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Delaware, the
New York Evening Post says
A newspaper correspondent who has
travelled over several hundred miles in +
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland,
reports that, excepting perhaps one field
in twenty-five, the wheat is in fine eOndj-
ton
Nor is the prospect in Ohio so discour-
aging as many imagine. The Cincinnati
Gazette has the.following
a private letter from parties fully pest
ed, to a merchant Of this city, says The
plOWing up of wheat fields has already
played out, although some farmers did it
two weeks ago they now say they will S
probably have a fair crop. Some fields
are doubtless injured badly but most ;
of them will yield One-half an average
crop, and take the country through I
three-fOurths of full crop may be safely i
anticipated there were % per cent, more
acres sOWn than last year. Some say
they will have as large a crop as last
year. Q
The Sandusky Register has the follow b
ing on the prospect in that region:
Notwithstanding the numerous COM
plants which have reached us Of the fail
1re OF the wheat crop, we are reliably in
formed that the prospect for an average :
yield in this immediate vicinity, the :
coming harvest, is good. Much of the 8
wheat which a few days since was pro ):
lounced frozen out is now looking well !.
and has sustained but little damage from I
the severe weather Of the past winter.
MUsKINGUM CoUNTY.-The ZauesDiILe +
Courier says Ii
The winter Of '64- -'66 was undoubtedly d
4 hard one for the wheat crop. The ab- 2
lence Of snow, Joined with severe cold at e
,imes, no doubt rendered the prospective j,
,rop, in part, failure, but not to me ex- y
ent which farmers seem to think. The Il
amount of wheat sOWn last fall was per d
laps larger than for severl years past. q
nd should 1t, owing to freezing out. stand IS
little thin on the fields should some to
!elds be entirely destroyed, we have but to
title doubt the coming harvest will de- pl
elop the fact that the yield In the coun- d
y viii not fall much behind that of for su
ner years. ra
WABASH VALLEY.-The Laf1aette "a
Courier says tn
The area Of ground in the Wabash wi
alley soWn to wheat is large, and even
he third Ofa crop, if it turns out we'll.
TIll realize more than last year, and in 9al
he, aggregate may possible reach the gen n
raj average of the past ten years. ~