The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-26
The Crop Prospect.

Cheering reports of the fruit and
crop prospect continue to reach us from
all quarters, and the people have every
reason to be encouraged. The Indus
trial american says: There will doubt
less be u larger crop of wheat than for
many years past, or perhaps ever before,
as the amount of acreage devoted to
this staple is stated to be greater than
usual and its appearance at this time
exceedingly hattering.
There has also been marked increase
in the quantity of corn planted in the
Southern States over that Of previous
wears, aud il is to be presumed the
farmers of the Northern, Western aud
Middle States will not neglect to devote
their usual attention to this important
product.
Correspondents writing from LivingS
ton county, Missouri, estimate that ten
acres of wheat were .sown last fall in
that county to ose in former years, and
state that the planting would have ex-
ceeded that amount but for the difficult
ty in obtaining seed.
From almost iunumerable counties
and towns in each of the Western and
Southwestern States encouraging re-
ports are to hand concerning the quan-
tity sown and the appearance OF the
crop. An experienced Tennessee farmer
confidently expects from present indi-
cations for that State one of the heavi-
est yields ever gathered there. Ac-
counts are equally gratifying from the
States still father South. The quantity
sowu in Texas last fall was less than
usual, and was commenced late to avoid
grasshOppers; the blades, however, are
all looking well.
Throughout Mississippi the cereals
are all developing rapidly and finely.
In Louisiana the prospect of the cane
crop was never better.
The Lawrence (Pa.) Journal reports
that there was never a more favorable
prospect of q good crop of grain than
now, in that State. Oats, wheat and
rye are all well up, and growing rapid
ly.
A recent number of the New Orleans
Picayune says: We are glad to record
that the news from every quarter coli
tiuues to betoken the reaping OF large
crops during the year lSO5. Cotton Is
always so precariOus, and beset with so
many dangers, from the seed y the re-
ceptiou of the cash balances, that it is
hard to predict anything respecting it,;
but corn, and such fruits az we have
planted and in bearing, will this year
yield beautifully, beyond nything We
have enjoy eel for years.
Nearly all at our Ohio exchanges
bring good tidiugS, especially of the
wheat prospect. Fruit i'll most parts of
this State has escaped Injury by frost,
save peaches, and in many localities
there will be a good crop of that deli
cious fruit, unless it receives Injury in
future.
We learn from tie Hillsborough
(Highland Coz Ness that there will lie
more corn planted this season than
usual. The prospect for good wheat
crop is flatterlng; there has not been as
good . prospect for wheat for several
years. Fruits Of most kinds are yet safe,
10 spite of ice aud snow, which We re-
oeived so literally during last month.
and without some future damage we
will yet enjoy these delicacies around
our fresides next winter.
The jackson county Standard says:
We have taken great pains to aScer-
tain the condition of the fruit, aud fluid
that there will be an abundance, with
the exception of cherries. The peach
trees are generally full, aud so aTeapple
and pear trees. Small fruits will be
abundant.
The wheat locks pretty well. Farmers
are backw in getting in their corn,
on account of the wet weather, but a
large crop of corn will be planted in
this county. The Wooster Wayne Co..
Republican, states that in "a short run
through the country wheat fields were
found looking promisingly, and all
kinds of fruit trees, except the peach,
are giving abundant signs of good
crop.
The wheat crop in Green county is
locking splendidly.-OhiO Farmer.