The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-21
A Year of Great Plenty Before Us---
Cheering Accounts from all Sections


Cheering Accounts from all Sections.
As the crops are now looked forward to with
more than usual anxiety, the following crop news
from all sections of the country will be read with
interest. In Maryland our country exchanges
predict an extraordinary yield of grain and fruit
Cdtf0T7siG.-In this State the agricultural Dros-
poets are excellent. The grain crops in the val
legs of the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Tullare,
are generally in fine condition A much greater
breadth of land is sown to wheat than last year
COnnecticaH-A smaller area than usual will be
devoted to tobacco. Grain crops are looking
well. Fruits beyond the reach of probable frost
Iainois.-The breadth of wheat sown is unusu-
ally large, and it is growing magnifcently. All
other crops are in f1ourishing condition. Fruit
of all kinds promises to be abundant.
IoacG-Wheat promises an average WELD Fruit
is in favorable condition.
lndtdnd.-ln the southern and central portions
of the State wheat is in excellent condition but
there is some complaint of its being frozen out in
some localities further north. Frost has injured
some OF the most tender fruit, but the yield gen.
orally will be good.
Kdnsds-There will be unusually large crop
of corn and wheat in the State unless the grass
hoppers interfere with it.
Mdi1e.-The small amount of winter wheat
sown looks well. large amount of ground will
be planted with spring crops of all kinds
Observation-Disclosures winter wheat was sown
last fall than usual, and spring wheat will be gen
orally sown. Fruit indications are favorable
LHtcUtydn--W neat prospects good, the
plants look green and vigorous and there is every
prospect of bounteous yield.
Mi,snesota.-The breadth of land that will he
larger than ever, and, as failure was never
known in this Safe, we may calculate upon large
harvest
Nebraska.-This State has one of the finest
prospects for good crops ever known.
Neeo Hdnlosh5re.-The winter wheat is not in
largely.
New Jersey.-The season is backward but all
crops are looking finely throughout the State
The fruit will, as usual, be very fine.
MeD York.The wheat is vigorous, growing
finely, and gives promise of a more abundant
harvest than for several years. Fruit is generally
good, but peaches have been winter Killed in
some sections.
Acknowledgements from this part of the conn
try are favorable, though meagre.
OhiO.-Winter wheat is doing better than for
several years. but the failure for several seasons
has discouraged farmers, and the amount sown
was not as large as usual. Other kinds of grain
and all varieties of fruit promise well.
O1egon.-The winter wheat qas not been injur-
ed and all kinds of grain will be planted literally
this spring. -| -
R,sssyzsania- is said that no news is good
news. We have few reports from this State,
crops. = ~ '-- ~ ~
Rhode Zsland-There will be an unusually large
yield of grain and fruit
Ve,mont.-The farmers are tired of paying enor-
nous prices for wheat and flour, and are making
unusual exertions to raise their own wheat, with
good prospects of success.
Wisconsin, wheat has q fresh and vigorous ap-
pearance, and the breadth sown will probably be
one-third larger than usual