Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-05
TENNESSEE CROP NEWS.

All the reports in our latest exchanges
about the wheat crop are highly favorable.
This is what the Reporter has 10 say about it
in Hawkins county: 'Wheat and oats are
looking extraordinarily well, but corn is a
little backward" comes from Indian creek.
ave were shown" says the Knoxville
Press and Herald, ga very fine specimen Of
Boughden wheat, grown on the farm of
Judge Jones, near this city. The heads
we're very large and we'll filed. The Judge
is successful farmer, as well as an i'm
partial and faithful county officer"
"Mr. Dickinson" says the Knoxville
Chronicle, "has field of very fine rye on
his farm on Williams Island, the stalks of
which are eight feet in height.D Capt. Geo.
S. Rubee has just returned to Chattanooga
from a trip through upper Elst Tennessee
and says the farmers in that section are go
ing to reap much better crop of wheat
than was anticipated few weeks SINCE"
He saw field of wheat near the town of
Philadelphia, cultivated by Mr.. Jones,
that will yield twenty-five to thirty bushels
to the acre. The GAINESVILLE Chronicle says:
ga gentleman who has travelled over most
of the country on the south side of the
river, informs US that the wheat crop there
is more abundant and better than he ever
saw it, and without accident
rich harvest will be gathered. IAN
Athen, McMinn county cores
pOndent says "the promise for good yield
of wheat has not been so good in this sec
ton of the country since 1852" Another
correspondent writing from Henry county
says ''wheat is fine, though there viii be
but little for export" 81 am happy to say"
writes a correspondent of the Memphis
Ledger, t'the farmers are singing for joy
over the bright prospects for crops" "The
prospects for an abundant fruit crop are
good" comes from cambridge. 't.Wheat is
plentiful In almost every locality within
hundred miles of Chattanooga" says the
Chattanooga Times. "The fruit
crop looks promising" says the
Jackson Wing and Tribune. "Wheat
looks well and promises yield above aver
age. "From Washington county we learn
that for the past two weeks the weather
has been favorable to the growth of the
crops there and that if it continues as IA
vorable as it has been the yield will be inn
mense." The crops in Dyer county are all
in a prosperous condition. Some Of the
Stewart county farmers are cutting their
clover, which is fine. The locUsts have not
dDpcdICu lCb " lilo hlNAnAG5 VI
"but when they dos says the ReUie1g. ct
won't be safe to eat wild berries, az it is
knOwn that loeusts poison them" The
editor of the Fayetteville NelGs recently was
the recipient of bluegrass four and half
feet high that had been grown on the
Woody B. Taylor farm one mile and a half
below Lynchburg, Moore county. f. L.
Warner has shipped to Chicago twelve bar
rels of new potatoes raised near Memphis.
The Trenton Nelos is inclined TO think from
the demand llr cotton planters a few weeks
since, and for cotton scrapers now that
heavier crop than usual has been sown this
year, notwithstanding also more grain has
been sown. The lOcusts are doing much
damage to the fruit trees about Memphis.
The Lagrange Reporter reports that ''the
most of our planters have commenced harV-
esting their wheat, and the yield win be
larger than for years past"