The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-15

with the exception of an occasional
CROKER Sare4 still sanguine in their
expectations of an abundant harvest.
Wheat looks fine and promises a
heavier yield than for several previ-
Gus years, notwithstanding the slight
appearance of rust In some localities.
The season of corn planting has been
| planted, and most of it is growing
rapidly. The prospective fruit crop
! is decidedly better than lit has been
for six or seven years. But few peo-
/ Die outside of our county seem to be
aware of the gross amount of farm
ers' products shipped from Spencer
County annually have taken some
pains TO ascertain the amount of sur
plus product raised in this county last
year, and the following estimates of
the leading products are believed to
he very nearly accurate: ya.sl 80
Two million two hundred thousand
pounds of tobacco. Ass- sicsazDsi -
Four thousand five hundred tons of
hay. fFss ri Szsesf ag7s.i s q sesl iiiH I 1s -
Forty thousand bushels of Wheat,
1.-Two hundred and twenty thousand
bushels of corn. -~7enia1s@s no 30 ~ 81
e 1t is expected that the aggregate of
the above mentioned products will be
largely increased the present year,
and especially so of the Wheat, as
there was a somewhat larger breadth
sown last FaH than the previous year.
and If the present prospect OF the,
wheat crop is fully realized. there viii
be over 100000 bushels for export
the coming Fall and Winter. .a ~
. Ssf1 PIKE couNrY. s~0 e
From Pike County we have the fol-
lowing information: nI
Wheat still looks we'll some rust
not enough to hurt. Large amount of
fruit of all kinds, more than has been
for years. Grass looks well. Corn
rather backward, and looks sickly;.
bot very large crop planted The
cold, wet spring kept farmers from
planting extensively. Farmers in the
eastern and southern part of the coun-
ty are preparing to plant large crop
of tobacco. The large crop of tobac-
ca. for 1866 was takenin BY merchants,
and prettyowell all boughtup. White
River isin ood stage. There is lit-
tie, railroad fever i bat zsymytems of
convalescense. The foundation of
the Court House Is being laid. Health
good. "A
PERRY COUNTY. A
A correspondent writing from Can.
peltop, under date ofTtAef 18th, gays:
Corn is quite backward-in fact.
some persons are still planting on
new ground. The warm weather is
bringing it forward rapidly, and, with |
a late Fall to allow it to ripen, farm
ers hope to get an average crop of |
corn. = afe issa eza5ao 1egf. n
s -" Wheat has been more promising |
than usual, but owing to the high i
price af seed last FAN, great many |
were deferred from planting as large
ly as they would have done, with /
wheat at lower prices. The high, |
price of seed, and somewhat smaller
breadth of land sown, caused a great
er amount of care inrputting it in, and
we have been Id hopes of more than
an average yield. The rust, however,
is beginning to make its appearance,
and will, no doubt, spoil great many t
bushels Of wheat. Harvest will com
menee In a few weeks, and it will then
De eaSicrf 10 make estimates In thesl
wheat crop. At present everything
looks fayqfa bic, except the rust max 4.
Ing Its .appeara Dce.ais d31ow eGgst III
Tobacco il not much raised in the
river townships. but back from the
river there is more attention paid to
it. The crop, however, is not sufi-
GENTLY advanced to give any particn-
lar assurance as to the crop to bel
raised. E8# +
We have prospects for an abundant
supply of peaches and apples and
small fruits in profusion are now in
bur market, such as cherries, cur
rants, gooseberries and strawberries.
We have one farmer who has 1,5OO
peach trees all in full bearing this
and will be likely to- have
!, 900 bushels of peaches to sell. The
anne man has 3,500 more trees that
viii be bearing fruit in the next two
II three years, He has also a large :
lumber of apple trees and lgother
ruits, including two thousand Con-
ord grape vines and agariety Of 9TH
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