The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1867-05-22
A Year of Great Plenty Before Us..-
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:
Caffornia.-In this State the agricultural pros
poets are excellent. The grain crops in the val
leys of the Sacramento, San joaquin, and Tullare,
are generally in fine condition. much greater
breadth of land is sown to wheat than last year.
Conuecticm-A smaller area than usual will be
devoted to tobacco. Grain crops are looking
well. Fruits beyond the reach Improbable frost.
Minois-The breadth of wheat sown is unusu-
ally large, and it is growing magnitcently. All
other crops are in iiourishing condition. Fruit
of all kinds promises to be abundant.
Io,ca.-Wheat promises an average yield. Fruit
is in favorable condition.
Indidna-In 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.
of corn and wheat in the State unless the grass.
hoppers interfere with it.
Maine.-The small amount of winter wheat
sown looks well. A large amount of ground will
be planted with spring crops of all kinds.
Observation-Disclosures winter wheat was sown
orally sown Fruit Indications are favorable.
Hichigdn.-Wheat prospects are good, the
plants look green and vigorous, and there is every
prospect of a bounteous yield.
MiasneSotd.-The breadth of land that will be
larger than ever, and, as failure was never
known in this Safe, we may calculate upon large
| harvest.
Neb, aska.-This State has one of the finest
| prospects for good crops ever known.
Neag Hdmpstire.-The winter wheat is not in
| jured, and the farmers are planting and sowing
| largely.
New Jersy-The season is backward, but all
crops are looking finely throughout the State
The fruit WILL as usual, be very fine.
New York.-The wheat is vigorous, growing
finely, and gives promise of more abundant
harvest than for several years. Fruit is generally
good, but peaches have been winter killed in
| some sections.
Negada-Reports 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.
Oreqon.-The winter wheat qas not been injur-
ed, and all kinds of grain will be planted literally
| this spring.
Rnnsylgania-Itis is said that no news is good
news. We have few reports from this State,
but those few are all favorable Of the growing
| crops.
Rhode Iaand-There will be an unusually large
| yield of grain and fruit
Vermoflt-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 fresh and vigorus ap
pearance, and the breadth sown will probably bt
one-third larger than usual.