, 1870-08-11
t.ROPI

A cumberland County farmer, the other dag,
wan1est to engage to deliver his crop Of new corn
on the 10th Of Sepsember-a 1nontn earle. thsn
corn vas ripe last year.
"A letter from Harrisburg to the Springfield
Reyiat1 saya: Crops In Saline are pronounced nts-
rate. Wheat is not grown In this COUNTY to any
great extent, but there Ia something more thsn
enough To supply home demand, aud Is Of much
liner quality than that Of former {eara A greater
breadth Of ground Was soWu In oats this ycaf and
the crop Is large and Of excellent quality The to-
bacco crop promises well, and should no ruIsfus-
tune beiall II between this and cutt,ng time, will
turn out double that Of last years. tlcid Tobacco
seems 10 be the farmers principal standby, down
here. The peach crop was almost entirely cut OF
By the spring ftosts. Apples, however, viii turn
out pretty literally. Corn. beyond question. is
finer than has ever before been tnowu, and the
field viii be heavy"
George Wells has farm OF 5000 ac1es In Gzun-
dy County, which will yield this year $4,000 bnsh-
els Of wheat, bettdes heavy crops Of com, oats,
and barley. LIZ harvest force Is twenty rcapey1
and one hundred men.
The Des MoInes R<gister at the sth says:
t'Sinee the issue of our last weekly tuptesslou,
spondcnce snd the locs| press nas been Visited hy
frequent .. Ana sopons showers 9t 1An which bare
| the Euin toward which tue drought was hastenlng
II. The farmers Of this region say that while the
| process of maturity to lie much benefited, The
later 1elds hare been greatly revived, aud wil bc
greatly increased IN y1e1d- As they have it, the
two.thinis, il moi three-fouFtha. Nc a:e "a inclined
10 believe, from what VIC hare seen by passing
inc result win be even better than .hia. We Be-
w p5oss agss q l., tesse~toaf1as n yls!ta I'D
| bt LaA
tour weeks agc, was the nnest this or any other
State ever hid: And as Il Ia rtlday. parched
lest that anT Of the Great corn.E1ow1ng states
xiu have This 5eaz. The writer Of this has within
two weeks passed oyer the great coru-telt Of tho
thence through 10 Philadelphia, by ray Of Intla-
hapolis, Columbus. and plttsbufg, md returning
tnIongn vlrxtnis, ParkersourR: and Marietta, x e
cage, aud along the whole route the 1owa cosu
was lmmeasurahly the best In Indiana
while there are some ne1ds that are ,nnt
aud heasy. aud must yield immensely. there
thin- We noticed thousands Of acres In iha
sta,e and Otto. that on the Isl Of August ven
| not tasseled cut From Cincinnati to Chicago
and especially along the Whitewater Valley II
lpdihnn. the crup was good, and nearly As goot
as that Vf Iowa. hut With this exception, our cepT
i fsr superior to that along the s2mewhat exten
de<I route We hare mentioned. Ia tho pol1t C
small grain, too, Iowa has better foEane than th
slant complain. OF light wheat and poor oata
Through Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA We saW thousand
nj OF acres OF wheat and OF oats that wcra bein
not worth citing. RI oantra, IN our State. on
wheat, utter all our grooming and croscklnE, II til
hest VIC ever had-tha. Is u gay, the best ia qna
| Ii tuning out Detier th1u he expected, both /
bnshfis anh class We hear of plenty Of whea
; NeiEhinE sixty, and some as high as s'xty-ave
| Der that Iowa wheat generally WetKa5 ntly-Si
nnI afs5.sercn and frequently lower. is 600