Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-27
Agricultural Items.

Nearly all the battle. helds aronnd
Richmond are now sown with grain.
The apple crop in the vicinity OF
Northampton, Mass, will be an almost
total failure this year, on account of the
weather, or some other unexplained rea-
son.
"A farm devoted to grass and apples
will bring the most money. Rightly
managed these crops are, like grace and
faith, growing better through the whole
of ones life.
Col. Gideon Dowse of Burke county,
Ca, has strawberries OF the Peabody va
riety, 40 OF which weigh pound. He
gathers three pecks of them every other
day.
of the thirteen million bottles OF
champagne sent annually to market
from Rheims and neighboripg towns,
the United States takes at least two mil.
lions. And it is the poorest of all that
is made too.
Rye, which sold for 1857 In May,
wanted purchasers in June at 81 OPS
cents difference. Wheat, No. 2 Spring,
which was quoted at 1886 per bushel in
May, sold as low as $l.90 in June-a de-
cline of 80 cents.
The crops in lows are coming for
ward rapidly and look finely. The corn
crop, which at one time it was feared
would prove a failure, is now most
promising. The fruit crop will be the
heaviest known for years.
The Augusta (Ga. Chronicle of the
18th inst. notices the receipt of new -four
of an extra quality, and remarks that
"from all sections of the State come the
most cheering accounts of an unprece-
dented large wheat CROP" In several
Southern States, harvesting has already
made good progress, and with bountiful
return.
"A Chicago paper thinks that the es.
Inmates of from fifteen to twenty mil
lion pounds as the yield OF the North
western wool crop is excessive. 1t states
that the clip is lighter on the same num-
Der Of sheep than last year. The cold,
wet spring has prevented the secretion
OF the usual amount of oil.
According to the Portland Argus
farmers say that the rain on Saturday
night makes sure of a good hay crop
in that section. The grass had started
finely, but without more rain it would
have run up too thin for large crop.
The rain has come, however, just in the
niche of time, and there is how GER
tainty of heavy crop, nor will it be
much later than usual, it has grown
with such astonishing rapidity.
1.-THE agricultural statistics of France
for 1866 are not very brilliant. The
corn crop is below the average. Wine
will be abundant, but of very ordinary
quality. Potatoes are rotting in the
storehouses in many instances fears
are entertained of not being able to
preserve sufficient for the next planting.
Olives will furnish better crop than
was expected. Tobacco is affected with
the rot. Walnuts and chestnuts have
produced the ordinary quantity. The
disasters OF the silkworm culture add
darker shadows to the picture. The CT
der fruits offer valuable resource and
several special crops, such as hemp and
COLA, had been good. There is, there
fore, some compensation for the evil, and
above all, hope for the future"
The Rochester Express says, that
withstanding the backwardness of |
the Spring, everything seems to be al |
most as far advanced as iQ previous sea.
sons at this time Of the year. The late
planted corn ia coming up finely, and |
promises well. Grape vines sre doing
we'll Garden giants never looked bet. |
ter or grew more rapidly. The striped |
bug has done little or no injury, and the |
squash bug has not made its appearance,
owing probably to the coldness of the
Spring. Fruit promises 20 be abundant
apples. Cherries and pears
will not be as plenty as at first antici-
pated, although there will be good
supply. The pear is badly bitten by
some insect. Peaches will be very scarce
in this section. The strawberry crop
promises to be abundant. The weather
Is represented as very warm.