Nebraska advertiser., 1870-07-14
FROM AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR.
nAMBLER's pENcILINGs.
CROPS.


RAMBLER's PENCILINGS.
CROPS. 80
In passing over the line of the
Burlington & Chicago Railroad, be-
tween Galesburg and Aurora, we
noticesiAtbe 'shortuess of the crops,
and pasturage, and were informed'by
a gentleman residing at Aurora. that
there would be = greatfaI aIIure of crops
i'm his State. There had been no rain
there for several weeks, and the re-
suit is that the pastures have oil driec
up, to such an extent that farmers
will be compelled to dispose OF much
of their stock. Wheat is very short,
and Timothy is not more than half
crop, and Oats but little better, while
corn showed a very irregular growth,
and much of failure. The crops
outside of Nebraska and Iowa, L
think, would appear at any time, to a
frontiersman, as only half crops.
HEDGES.
So far as we were able to see and
learn i'm reference to the growth Of
hedges in Illinois, they have proven
failures. In the first place they are
greatly neglected, and permitted to
to grow until they become considera-
bic trees, and after, without being
trimed, and even those which are at
tended to, are not without their fail
ures, in many places. Judging from
the appearance of the hedges general
ly, an observer could not otherwise
than come to the conclusion that the
farmers had lost all confidence and all
hope of succeeding in thoroughly
raising good substantial hedges.
Probably we were expecting too much
of what we had heard of the growth
of hedges IN Illinois. We havehedges
i'm Nebraska which far excel those
seen along this line of road.
FRUITS.
InNorthern Ohio the Apple crop
bids fair to be good, Peach supply,
medium, Cherries, abundant, and re-
tail at from ten to twelve cents per
quart, while Raspberriesp appear in
fair supply, black caps selling at
eighteen cents and the red Raspber-
ries, very fine, retail at twenty-five
cents per quart. There are Chestnut
trees growing numerously here in the
forests, and one, under which 1 am
writing, will measure three feet in
diameter. and has every, prospect of
being heavily laden with fruit.
Blackberries grow wild in the forests
here, and, judging from appearances,
people pay but little attention to them
about their gardens. Currants, of
course, are found here as elsewhere,
looking very fine.
COUNTRY FENCED IN.
To western man who has spent a
life in new country, the fact of the
entire country, in all its length and
breadth, is all under fence and largely
in cultivation, is something of an
oddity, but what is still more surpris-.
ing, the fields are in every manage
able shape, surrounded by old dilap-
idated stone fences and averaging
about Eve acres to-the field. This
state of facts to-a Nebraskian, of.
course produces a contrast.
- SOIL. @S
Lands are cultivated In this portion
of Ohio, and are expected to bear
good crops, which-much resembles
the earth which comes from the bot
tom of our cellars andwells, and mix
ed with cobble and building stone,
which would be excluded and remain
unnoticed, only as an eye sore by
western farmers, until highly fertil-
lied.
The foregoing is written by an cid
contributor of the Advertiser, as far
back as 1857, 49, SO, who, with his ex-
cellentlady, is now on a trip through
the States East. Our renders will
hear from him weekly for q time. The
present letter is from Cleveland, Ohio.
En-