The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-30
The Crops of 1860.

One OF our New York exchanges takes
a very favorable view of the crop pros
pect for 1863. We extract as follows
from its article:
Throughout the West, the States of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, To-
wa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, &C..
q larger breadth of land than usual has
been sown in wheat. In all respects the
winter sown promises well, while q
considerable space of new ground has
been broken up and sown with spring
wheat. In Missouri, there are few
complaints, while from Virginia, Ken
tucky and Tennessee the reports are
most encouraging. In some parts of
North Carolina, as well as in Virginia,
large share of attention is being be-
slowed upon the raising of early gar
den truck for the Northern market, but
not to an extent to interfere with the
great staples of those States--corn, cot
ton and tobacco. From the interior of
New York, as well as from New Jer.
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Ma
ryland, we have satisfactory accounts.
The planters in Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Texas are recuperating
their energies, and from every section,
with the exception of part of Texas,
where the grasshopper pest is again dis
turbing the corn and cotton fields, and
part of Alabama, whence complaints
of damage by unexpected t'rosts reach
us, we have cheering accounts. But
it would seem from all reports that
Georgia gives promise of being more
fortunate the coming than in the past
year. The accounts of the growing
wheat in that State are glowing in the
extreme-one field Of a thousand acres
in fine condition being among the plea
! SAINT sights recently witnessed by a
Georgia contemporary. Larger quanti-
ties of land than usual have been plant
ed in corn and oats, while the cotton
breadth will be fully up to the standard.
1t is estimated that in Georgia fifty per
cent of the land will be planted in cot
ton, forty per cent in corn and ten per
cent in oats. Tennessee will have a
larger breadth Of land in cotton than
ever before. Louisiana is rejoicing in
promising and much augmented
crop of sugar cane, and q generally re.
vived condition of agriculture within
her borders, which NAV be said in truth
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South Carolina begins to express her
self contented with the new order OF
things in regard to labor, and her fields
are showing their wonted fertility. Ir
Florida number of Northerners have
commenced the cultivation of fruit OF
an extensive scale, but Florida is nat
urally q great cotton-growing State
and rs such is destined to become one
Of the richest in the cotton growing
galaxy.
In regard to fruit prospects accounts
are somewhat conflicting, and hear an(
there we hear the note of q croaker.--
1t Is stated that in some sections O
Kansas, and even as far south as Ala
bama, late "1rcezcs" have DESTROYED
most of the peach and apricot blossoms
But while this is the case only in limit
ed sections. from the vast area of lane
devoted to fruit culture we hear nc
complaints. but, Oh the contrary, tiding
both cheering and welcome. This il
our country, from one end to the other
blessed by benign Providence will
the elements of internal wealth and ia
tiOnal prOSperty and Dlcnty