The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-11-11


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! A VETERAN OBSERVER.
Condition of the Crops In October.
The monthly report of the Commissioner
of Agriculture, just issued.ssays:
The full promise of the early summer has
not been realized in the wheat harvest. The
increase of area over that of last year, in
its effect upon the aggregate production, is
nearly ncutralized by small diminution in
some of the principal wheat growing States,
in the yield per acre; so that the increase in
the total quantity, as shown by our October
returns, is scarcely more than three per cent.
and that is obtained mainly from the Pa
cific coast. The progress of wheat culture
westward is somewhat remarkable, and its
history is not altogether unlike that of cot
ton, in its occupancy of new lands, and
their desertion after few years use, not
indeed to grow up in sedge or forest, but to
be laid down in grass or employed ina more
varied range of production. The averages
| for October appear to show decrease in
production in Maine, New Hampshire, Mas
| sachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, North
! Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
| bama, and Texas, the latter having only
half crop. The other States indicate an
increase, in most of those east of the Missis-
sippi very slight in Minnesota, 10 per cent:
in Iowa, 6; in Missouri, 8; inNebraska, 13;
in Kansas, 2 and in California 20 per cent.
Many places in different parts of the coun-
try, especially in Maryland and Wisconsin,
report disappointment in the yield of grain
in threshing.
The oat crop is light in the eastern, the
middle and southern Atlantic States; is not
full average in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa; in the other States the product is
above the average, the largest increase be-
ing 81 per cent. in Nebraska. ~ T'A
Rye, in most of these States, is marked
by figures very similar to those which show
the relative product of cats. -.
The barley crop is somewhat deficient in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and in
most of the Atlantic States. 1t will scarcely
make so large an aggregate in bushels
as last year.
Considerable injury to corn from frost re-
ported in Northern Indiana, Illinois, Iowa
and more northern ATTITUDES. Yet the ave-
rage is undeniabiy large in most of the
States, and nowhere is there very serious
failure. The total product will be, not what
was hoped in the early season, or what is
needed for a country with q rapidly in
creasing population, but somewhat larger
quantity than last year, which was a sea-
son peculiarly adverse to corn production.
How to get the Boys to stay on the Farm.
The boys catch new ideas much more rap
idly than their fathers. and, with the i'm
pulsivencss Of youth, want to test them.
They go to the fairs and see the fine stock,
the new tools. the premium fruits and vege
tables. They read the papers, if they have
them at home, and if they have not them at
home, they borrow them.
People, who read at all, cannot very well
keep themselves in the dark in regard to the
changes that are coming over husbandry.
They do not want to break their backs over
the scythc, when moving machine can do
the work better, and at 1.-THE of the ex-
pense. They want subsoil plows tile drains.
and barn cellars. They want blood stock in
the stable, and in the sty. They want to
move little faster and to do business on
little larger scale. The boys have the facts
and the arguments on their side, and if you
want to retain them upon the farm, you must
keep up with the times, and make farming
a live business. ul
Another thing. the boys want an interest
in the business, and the sooner you give them
an investment IN the farm or its stock, the
more likely you will be to make farmers of
them. 1t is true, the law gives you a right
to the avails of their labors until they reach
their majority. 1t may he true that these
services are no more than a fair compensa-
ton for the expenses of their childhood.
The intercourse of parents and children
should not always be graduated by the legal
scale. You do not want your son for ser
want, but for companion, and support in
your declining years. You want to attach him
by affection and interest to the soil that he
cultivates. Begin, then, early to identify
his interests with your business as if he was
under no obligations to you. If he fancies
stock. give him what he likes, and let the
increase be his. Especially encourage him
| to plant orchards or vineyards of the finest
varieties of fruits. Teach him to bud, graft,
prune, ripen, and market all the fruits of
| your climate Furnish him with all the
books and facilities that he needs to study
| and to practice pomology and horticulture.
If properly encouraged, he will take an in
terest in these things very early, and before
| he is old enough to think Of leaving your
roof, his tastes will be formed, and his course
in life will be determined. His heart will
60 down into the soil with the roots of every
fruit tree that he plants, and the orchards
and gardens of the old homestead, or of an
other close by, will be his paradise from
which nothing but necessity can drive him.
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