Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-06-11
TEER Crops.

There are favorable reports from all quar-
tiers of the country in reference to the pres
cnt condition of agricultural products. The
grass crop of New England was certainly
never more promising. From the West
the news is generally very good. Illinois
has an immense amount of oats and corn
started and her fruit orchards promise
splendid returns. Kansas will yield mag
nficent crop of spring and winter wheat
The same news comes from Iowa. Wis
consin will have a large return of wheat
and Indian corn. Fruit in Tennessee has
suffered somewhat from frosts but the grain
fields are unrivalled.
From remote portions Of our vast coun-
try, the Mercantile journal furnishes the
following hopeful account:
From the cotton and sugar growing
States the news is generally very good. The
great increase of quantity in crops is al
ready conceded, and it is believed that the
quality will be equally improved From
Alabama there are some disagreeable re-
ports of damage done to cotton BY rain, but
il is hoped that the loss Is confined to a few
localities. Some of the upland crop in
South Carolina has been hurt by late frosls,
but the Sea Island is doing finely.
The fruits, berries, and early vegetables,
for which the demand is now so enormous
at the North, are raised in immense guam
titles, and Of the finest quality, this season.
Our markets are well supplied with them,
and yet the demand is continually for more.
Strawberries have become quite staple,
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trade in that iavorite berry, which sells
for three months fresh; and canned all the
year round.
Near Santa Clara 700 acres are planted in
Strawberries, and will yield 4, 100000 lbs. OF
the article. Last year the product was in
| some cases 1000 lbs per acre, in that reg
| ion. Delaware and Jersey fruits and veg
| etablcs promise abundanuy, and of the
| best. Tomatoes particularly, are likely "a
be fine and plentiful. The cattle product
of Texas is enormous. Late papers from
that State mention the passage Of intermin
able drovos. for two or three weeks past or
their way to the North.
Texas reports a new feature in her agri
culture; it is the production of the castol
bean in which hundreds of acres have beer
planted, this year in that State The soil
there is found t. be favorable for it, sixty
bushels of the bean per acre having been
raised and there will be considerable i'm
portaton of machinery for preparing thu
oil. Texas is, also, cmbarking to some ex
tent, in the culture Of Rdmic, which is re
garded rs an available article for the man
ulacturc of cordage, in addition to its othe
acknowledged uses.
Intelligence from our young States ant
territories is gratifying. The tide of set
tlemont is steadily gaining volume, and tb
new arrivals push the more experience
pioneers farther out into the country, on al
sides of them, on much better terms, an
with far completer equipment than the
had at their command when they first camt
The base Of operation is, so TO speak
brought close up to them, and supplies in
! iinitoly better, more varied, moro abund
ant, and cheaper than they were ten @
even five years ago il thr rew -+lis,s-sl
f This process is remarkably noticeable i
Montana, where, through increased enter
PRISE a wider range of exploration and n
doubled labor supply, the product of pre-
ious metal is expected to be one-half large
, than the fine yield of 1868.