Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-05-08
CROP Prospects.

roi nfahy years TIC crop prospects,
at this period of the season, have not
been near SO favorable as at the pre-
sent time, Last fall the weather was
exceedingly favorable for planting
wheat. Crops were put in early, and
owing to the lateness of the season,
the plants obtained a vigorous growth
before cold weather set in. This saved
the crop from the usual mishaps of
winter, and complaints of freezing
out" have consequently been rare.-
The late spring has also been favora-
BILE, the cold wet weather having pre-
vented n too rapid growth. The pros
pect, therefore, as already stated, for
an abundant wheat harvest, are all
that could be desired. Fall barley
also promises well,
Owing to the wet weather in March
very. little field work was done, but
for two weeks farmers have been able
! to work out of doors, and fine pro-
gress has been made i'm getting in
small grain and potatoes and making
the ground ready for corn. In this
respect the country is far i'm advance
of last season, and with continu-
ance OF good weather corn planting
viii, in the main, be completed by
the middle of May whereas, last year
very little corn was in the ground as
early as that period, and planting
was not completed until in June.
The fruit prospect is also very good
in this section, and if we escape an
untimely frost, the yield of all kinds
Will be very large. Cincinnati En-
quirer april 80.
THE Jonesboro Illinois) Gazette
says: " 1t may now be safely calcu-
lated that all weather likely to injure
the fruit crop has passed, and we are
left with much better prospects for a
good yield of peaches than was at one
time supposed. In our immediate
vicinity the seedlings are well load
ed; in fact, all they can bear without
injury to the trees; but the budded
fruit, which embraces perhaps three
fourths of the crop, will yield but a
poor return. The apple crop will be
full, and the cherry trees are white
with bloom. With good yield from
these fruits, and the fiattering pros
poets for one of the largest wheat
crops ever harvested in our country,
we may consider that tillers of our
soil will be fully compensated for the
INJURY to the peaches"
THE st. Louis Republican of the
Goth says: "The wheat-fields of South
ern Illinois look remarkably promis-
ing. Farmers say that for thirty
years they have not seen the wheat
standing better at the same season.
1t is'well stocked, has the dark. green
color which shows slow and healthy
growth; and so propitious was the
winter that the wheat on the poorer
fields look very nearly as well as that
on the best ground. Should there not
be too much rain to make the straw
heavy, there will be very abundant
yield in Southern Illinois. The
wheat crop in st. Clair, Monroe and
Madison counties will not fail again,
as it did the preceding two years, il
the weather is reasonably propitious
for the next two months"
THE Columbia Herald says: Gar.
mers from all parts of the county are
highly elated at the wheat prospect
They say the crop so far promises to be
the finest raised in Maury county foi
a great many years. 1t has met with
no damaging accident so far, and we
hope its future history will be like its
past. Corn is up, and looking well
considering the unfavorable state Of
the weather during the past two
weeks. The corn crop has ceased tC
be the most important IN our county
Nearly, if not the entire cotton croI
II rIre'srountI nau not been in unfaV.
orable condition. Cotton is decidedly
opposed to cold rains and damp days
THE Jackson Mich citizen saws
Ihe line, warm rain of the past few
days has extended over the who'll,
country, and has still more improved
the appearance of the already fine
~ growing wheat and grass, giving
to both rich, dark-green appear.
ance. Farmers are generally busy
preparing their grounds for summer
crops. Some few have their oats and
barley sown. The fruit trees are ali
right; the fruit buds have not been
injured by the cold of the last winter,
and the backward spring has kent
them from coming forward to be in
Jured by the late frosts. There is
every indication now that there will
be large crop of fruit :"
A RECENT letter from South Caro-
INA says: 1.-THE recent cold snap,
about the 18th instant, has seriously
injured the fruit crop and the early
vegetables In York County, which
Is far north, it is said that very little
injury has been done to either fruits
or vegetables, but in Newberry, Alb
beville, and Greenville reports repre-
sent that the failure of fruits this
summer may may be counted as al
most certain, especially the peaches"
HEAVY RAINS IN ALABAMA.-The
Montgomery Mail OF April 25, saws
the heavy rains on Friday evening
and Friday night will not only inter.
iere with farming operations general
~, but they will cause the Alabama
river TO overflow all the lowlands sub
Ject To inundation that were not al
ready under water from previous
rains. A good deal of damage to
young crops, besides extra work, will
be the result.
ACCORDING to letter in the Still
water minnesota Republican, from
the pen of an intelligent farmer, it
costs Sl6 % to grow an acre of wheat.
Allowing twenty bushels to the acre,
the FARMER must receive n trifle over
eighty-one cents per pushed for his
wheat in order to bring him out even;
all over that is profit out there.
TIE Supreme Court of the United