Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-05-04
THE CROPS.
PROSPECTS OF THE GRAIN AND FRUIT CROPS
THRoueHouT THE COUNTRY.

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| THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
Fruit reports from Southern Illinois are
| good. There will be more than fair av-
eragc crop of peaches. No injury is done by
the cold to the apples, and the grape buds
are general perfect. 7r.7u q"
The st. Genevieve (Mo.) Representative
| says: The trees are very full of blossoms,
| thus proving our statement of last week,
that the peach crop in this section was un-
| injured by the cold weather. The fruit crop
promises large yield in this section the
| present season.
prospect that an extensive crop of wheat
will be harvested in Upper Georgia this
season. An unusually large amount was
| sown, and the fields give every indication
of large yield. U L...
| The winter in Wisconsin has been very
| favorable for all sown wheat, and fortunate
| is the farmer in that State who had the con-
| fdence to SOW winter crop of wheat.
! In Central Illinois the winter wheat is re-
| ported in the best possible condition, and
correspondents write that, if no further mis-
fortune befals it, it will be the best for years.
1t neve. presented q better stand. An usual
breadth of spring wheat is being sowed.
The Charleston Is. o. Times speaks en-
couragingly of the wheat crop. 1t has never
presented more promising appearance
More than an average breadth has been sown,
the stand is remarkably good, and the stock
green and vigorous. 1t has not advanced
far enough to be injured by the late unpar-
alleled weather.
| The growing wheat in the lower end of
Chester and Lancaster counties, Penn, and
the northern part of Cecil county, Maryland,
makes fine appearance now, and never
gave promise of a better crop.
The Ohio wheat crop promises splendid!y.
| The Writer, to be sure has been cold, but
| the fall sowings have been protected by the
heavy SHOWS, and have weathered the winter
we'll.
An Ohio exchange says: "We expect this
year to see the heaviest wheat crop ever
raised in this country" The prospect of
the spring planted crops is not SO good.
| The Cincinnati Commercial says the farmers
| are delayed in their spring work by pro-
! tracted wet weather. "Planting throughout
this section of the country has rarely been
so late, and there is beginning to de serious
cause for uneasiness as is its effect in short
ening the production of Oats, Spring Barley
! and Spring Wheat Sowing of the latter in
| this climate is unusual, but many farmers
were unable to plant THAR desired breadth
of land last autumn, and the high prices
which have been attained have necessarily
made it desirable to increase the crop.
OF the crops in Michigan, the Detroit
Free Press says "Our correspondents are
unanimous in the assertion that wheat never
looked better at any corresponding season
than now. The winter proved very favor
able up to last week, when warm rain set
! in throughout the wheat-growing sections
of the State, Which seemed to change the
appearance of the entire face of the land:
| The backwardness of the season insures that
no frost can interfere which would damage
the fruit buds; and the prospect was never
better than at present, that we shall realize
good crop of wheat and fruit"
( The Gait &C. W. Reporter says: "We re-
joice to hear from all the farm with whom
we have conversed, that the wheat appears
to have come out of its winter trials in capi-
tai condition. There appears to have been
no winter killing at ALL and should we be
favored for the balance of the month with
anything like genial weather, the wheat will
afford a strong contrast to what was exhibit
ted last spring. We trust the hopes Of our
farmers in this respect may fully be realiz-
ed"