Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-24
THE CROPS.
The Condition of the Crops I'm Geergia
--Prosueet for a Large Yield.

O. prospect Ior LARGE AtetU- i
We close the week with univeri
sally good accounts from the grow
ing crops in Georgia. Warm and
wet weather have given a powerful
impetus both to cotton and corn,
and if there is at this time any jus-
tice in the complaints Of backward
ness (Which we doubt it is not
likely long to exist. Both corn and
cotton either are now, or, with Q
continuance of this weather, soon
will be, quite up to the mark, in
point of development, ct the same
period of last year "Fi'
Referring to our file just a year
ago, we find in fact a universal
complaint of backwardness and
drouth. Letters from Houston,
Pulaski and Dooly told us that corn
was whitening beneath the parch-
ing rays of the sun. The cotton in
the neighborhood of Perry was
said to be about knee high, and we
have no doubt it is equally or more
advanced there this year. A writer
yesterday told us ofcotton IMP utnam
knee high. The cotton in Pulaski
and Dooly was said last year to be
"sorry" and farmers discouraged.
Editorially we spoke of the condi-
ton in and all around Macon as
" dry-dryer-dryest." In Craw
ford, Mr.. Aultman wrote Us that
the crops in that county and HOus-
ton were beyond a doubt the small
est they had been for the last
twenty years.
Thus we doubt whether the crops
are not generally more forward
than they were last year at this
time, and we think the promise is
much better. Corn is everywhere
in good condition, and the weather
exceedingly favorable TO the devel-
opment of the grain. A highly in
telligent friend, who returned from
southwestern Georgia on Friday,
says this crop is splendid through
out that section--and he thinks
enough of it has been planted to
supply the wants of the farmers for
a year We hope he is not mis-
taken. ....... +
In respect to the cotton crop, We
believe the stands are generally bet
ter than they were last year, and
the plant uniformly healthy. Some
few lost portion of their stands
during the cold weather in May,
but the damage was lighter than
was anticipated at that time, and
we believe, on the whole, the plant
never was in better condition for q
crop than it is now The lands
have been much better handled than
heretofore = manures have been
moro freely used-the dry, cold
weather of May, if it retarded the
development of the cotton, also
gave the hands fine opportunity
to eradicate the grass and weeds,
and the fresh genial showers, the
sultry, muggy atmosphere, and the
occasional bright sunshine of the
last fortnight, are thrice welcome
from the fact that our crops were
all ready for them in every partieu
lar. ...... ..tGr .....i
Such is the condition-the hopes
and the prospects with which we
approach the crisis months in the
cotton crop. We say unhesitating-
ly that in twenty years observation
we have never known such a uni
versally good and cheerful report
from the plantations, and we cannot
help pleasing ourselves with the
anticipation that the luck viii con-
tinue through the season, and our
Georgia planters make in 1863, by
far the best years operations in
planting they have made since the
war.-Hacon Telegraph, June 20