The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-19
THE CROPS.
THE WEST.

The harvest Of two hemispheres are Just |
now full of promise. The reports from Eng
land are favorable, and according to the Ia
test adyices from France the weather contin-
ues fine, and the accounts from the depart |
ments respecting the crops are most satis-
factory. In the Great West this is also true.
The st. Paul Press predicts for Minnesota a
heavy yield of wheat in that State this sea-
son. Like othe States it has made extraor-
dinary efforts to plant large crops. The
area of land in wheat in Minnesota frontier
settlements, where the scarcity of seed pre-
walls, is four times as much as was sown to
wheat last year, and the harvest is expected |
to yield 10, 600, 900 of bushels The spring
weather has been exceedingly suspicious.
An Ohio paper says.
"The prospect of great wheat crop has
not been finer for years. From all parts of
Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, the reports are
exceedingly favorable for an abundant har-
vest. The continuous slowery wheather
keeps back spring crops, but notwithstand
ing the wet of the last fortnight, more corn
has been planted than last year, and fully as
much oats and barley have been sown. No
apprehension is felt in respect to crops
The corn may be troubled with weeds, but .
patent cultivators are invented and express I
ly made for the purpose of cleaning them
out, and help and horse-powers are plenty.
A few weeks hence new wheat will be COM
ing into market from Kentucky, where
surplus of several million bushels, according
to present prospects, may be looked for
Ohio will probably have larger surplus of
wheat this year than any season since 1860.
Indiana ditto. The prospect for an abun
dance of all kinds of fruit is very fattering.
Apples, peaches Strawberries and cherries
promise first rate A good crop of bread
stuffs and staple vegetables will materially
reduce the price of things and bring the
cost of living within the means Of city peo-
Pile. In four months from now it is not un-
reasonable to anticipate that -four will be
selling for one-half the present price, and
that beef, pork, butter, corn, oats and hay,
will decline in nearly as great degree
There is every prospect of an enormous yield
of hay, and that means cheap beef, mutton
and butter. Much of the present stagnation
of trade results from the short crops of last
season. A revival of business will certainly
follow an abundant harvest, more especially
if the cotton crop should prove to be good
one, as present reports would Indicate"
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| "We are happy to be able to state that
the fears SO long entertained in regard to
the fruit crop in this county are about dis.
PEELED. If no unforeseen disaster overtakes
the fruit, it will, in all its varieties, be more
abundant and delicious than for years past.
The item of fruit in this county is no lncon-
siderable one. and is fast taking rank among
our staple and valuable products. We have
not the data at present to estimate the value
of the crop, should it meet with no disaster,
but leaving out of view its invaluable fea-
turc as luxury, and the amount used for
home consumption, we think we were safe
in saying the 100000 The prospect for a
fine crop of wheat and the various grasses
continues, but the cold wet weather is quite
unfavorable for corn Much of that which
has been planted has rotted in the ground,
and thefields will have to be goneover and re-
planted. There is time enough for corn yet
and should June prove warm dry month
there will be heavy crop raised"
Kansas.-The Kansas City -4drertiser says
the wheat crop looks finely in all portions Of
the State Where the Fall wheat was de-
stroyed by grasshoppers Spring wheat was
substituted, and is in fine condition.
| Nebraska south of the Platte
where the grasshopper plague was threaten
ed, announce that the recent storm has
cleaned the pest out wherever it prevailed
The Nemcha (Nebraska) Courier states thai
the great number OF blackbirds, plovers and
other varieties, are gulping down the grass
hoppers hy wholesale quantities
i THE SOUTH.
l. Georgia.-Much of the corn raised in the
counties of Terrell, Calhoun, Webster, and
Lee will be required for home consumption
A larger portion of land than common has
been devoted to this crop. Cotton looks
very promising, though much has had to be
replanted. The Cherokee Georgian, Dalton
says the wheat crop is unusually fine, but
we are sorry to hear complaints of rust in
some quarters. We trust, however, largt
yield will yet reward the labors of the farm
ers of this destitute portion of the South.
The Rome Courier says: 3.
i A bunch of wheat has been placed on oul
table by Mr.. Jones, sown on his farm (bank
of the Oostanula.) formerly owned by Judge
Wright, in the vicinity of our city, which
measures more than six feet in height, will
large perfectly filed heads. Mr.. Jones is .
practical Virginia farmer, and the superior
ity of his wheat crop this year over that O
his neighbor, demonstrates the great advan
tage of deep-plowing and thorough tillage
over the Georgia bull-tongue, surface scratch
ing system of farming. We have heard i
said that Mr. Jones would make 80 bushel
of wheat to the acre.
Advices from Talbot, Pike, Laurens, ani
Berrien counties, Ga, report the wheat an(
corn crop as unusually promising, and tn,
cotton stand is also tolelable in all but tn
+ last named. In Dooly county rain is mucl
needed. In Baker county corn and cottol
are both very promising.
A correspondent estimates the cotton crol
of this State at 100000 or 100000 bales
more than double that of last year.
The complaint that provisions will net b
sufficient to feed the hands until the crop i
made is alarmingly prevalent A gentle
man planting in Calhoun county, Informed
! us that his bacon would not last longer thar
the 1st of July, and yet he had 1900 acre
of land in cotton, and large number o
hands employed. Nor has he q dollar Il
buy meat with. Another large planter il
Mitchell made similar statement to u.s.
Such a deplorable state of things requires nj
comment. The cotton mania is next Il
: cholera in its effects upon the country. Corr
in this section, will average from knee t
waist high some Of it is FIVE feet. Cottol
is Young and small, but the stand is mos
excellent. Oats, which have been largel
planted. are free from rust and smut, and q
good as we remember ever to have seel
/ them. The only patch Of wheat we hay
noticed ia total failure. Nor do we regar'
south-western Georgia as wheat country
Some localities will produce it, but they ar
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