The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-05-17

The wheat prospect in Southern
Illinois WAS never better.
Z Columbia County, Wis.,, farmers
are plowing up their winter wheat.
About 10000 acres OF wheat
were Gown in O'Brien County, Ind.
peach trees are in bloom, with q
fair crop in prospect.
Wheat 10 90 badly winter killed
in some parts # Potter County.
Ind. that farmers are blowing the
ground for some other crop.
A correspondent writes from
Carbondale that the peach crop in
Southern Illinois 10 . failure, and
that oil small fruit is destroyed.
There will be about one-half q
crop Of peaches in Marshall Coun-
ty Kansas. Wheat never looked
more promising, end - great
breadth was sowp.
A correspondent, L. A., writing
from Davenport, says that there
will be no Iowa peaches, only two
thirds Of q crop Of apples, and .
great diminution in the yield Of
small fruits.
9 Farmers are backward in getting
in their crops. OF oats CON-
paratively small quantity OF ground
was soWn. Wheat looks very
| promising. There is q good pres
pect, 50 far, Of IN average apple
crop. The beaches, together with
portion Of the trees, were killed
| last winter. fremont, Clark coun.
~, O., Correspondence.
A partial report Of the fruit MP
on the hills northeast of Reading
Hamilton County, O., shows q
almost total, failure Of pears and
cheries; there is still q good eros
pect for apples, save where they
had no protection, or but little
from the west winds. Plums ar,
doing well. Meadows look vel
and winter wheat about the came
But little oats have been sown.
/ From Cabell County w. v: .Th
prospect for . good wheat crop i
very promising. There IL not
great deal sown but it looks veil
The average Of oats IL large, bu
mostly sown late on, account Of
wet weather. The prospect 70
fruit 10 good. We think there vii
be hall crop Of peaches. Al
other kinds in abundance, limo
killed By late frosts this moath.
A correspondent has recent
been through More an, Greene, M.
coupin, and Jersey Counties. I'LL
J Dois. and 10 glad to report that til
winter wheat throughout the thre,
7, last named districts, owing to tn
late copi0us and seasonahle rain
look exceedingly promising. Niue
OF 1t that was thought to be winter
killed looks as we'll o. she best an
the prospect now is that with q
-unforseen accident the usual Gro
will be harvested the coming sum
mer.
. Peaches killed. A good prospe,
fUr apples. Pears and cherries q
right. Wheat half crop. Sprin
. backward. Oats not all sown ye
: No grass. Several oranges in th
county. Health good. Cold 10
i, sfoggy.
]. N. THOMPSON,
IL Bethlehem Township, Cass cou
ty Ind.
PENNv1LLE. ND, May 10.
Wheat looks we'll general,
rather more sown than usual A
: Piles, prospect good. Pears not |
fair. Peaches none; my trees Z
+ winter killed, most of the bearir
trees we're killed, so far as CT
learn. Spring late. No col
). planted, and but very little fax {
oats sowed Excessively wet. Mo-
d and deeper mud than the Oldest il
} habitant can remember 81, an
b mudding away.
d The spring here has been Gel
o and vegetation is not as forwal
. as in some seasons. Peaches we
killed by the cold winter. Apple
pears, and small fruit are at pre-
. ent very promising. Wheat
It badly winter killed on some farm
a still there are some fields of whe
n IN this locality that look We
promising.- Davis County, In'
May 10.
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