Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-06-18
CROP NOTES.

Oats and hay will be short In High
land. soifarlaiar
Wheat is finding a lively market at
Clyde. .ye .3as s.si
Lawrence county wheat is being at
tackled by weeyil. eu
The growing wheat of Central Ohio
generally looks well. as.
Short crops of hay and oats are prob
able in Noble county.
Ross county corn and wheat have
been suffering from drought.
In all parts of Miami county fruit of
all kinds promises abundantly.
Wheat and rye look finely in Adams
county, but oats and grass do not.
From all parts of Ottawa county
there are reports of an abundant peach
crop.
The drought has put the fax and oat
crop beyond redemption in Greene
county. ~
More acres of corn have been plant
ed in Monroe county this season than
for several years past. The tobacco
crop will not be large.
Ross county peach growers have ap-
pointed committee to investigate as
to the easiest and cheapest method of
conveying the fruit to market.
The Allen county, papers complain
that the cut-worm is injuring the corn,
the potato bug the potatoes, and now
comes a small specimen of grasshop-
per and pitches into the clover.
The pro-pects for bountiful fruit
year have never been better in Rich
land county. The peach trees were
badly injured by the ice last winter,
but what are left promises an abun-
dance for home consumption.
GENERAL.
The Delaware peach crop will be fair.
Wheat harvest has begun in East
Tennessee.
There is q prospect of a large apple
crop in Vermont.
The prospect for good crops in Eng
land is not favorable.
All East Tennessee crops promise to
be above the sveTage.
Sweet potatoes will fall below aver
age in Central Tennessee
In the State of Delaware there is 3
pear orchard containing 10000 trees.
Strawberries arearriving at San Fran
cisco at the rate of thirty tons per day.
Some East Tennessee farmers think
they will get forty bushels Of wheat
per acre.
The high price of corn In Kansas has
brought down the price Of hogs all
ever the State.
The Northern Texas wheat crop,
now being harvested, averages twenty
bushels per acre.
1t is estimated that 40 per cent. OF
the wheat in Miami county, Kansas,
has been winter killed.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Ne
braska promise nearly hundred mill
lion bushels of wheat this year.
In Kentucky, Central Tennessee and
other portions of the South, growing
crops are being irremediably damaged
by dry weather.
Reports from the cranberry marshes
in Wisconsin are to the effect that there
never was better prospect for heavy
,rop than at this time.
The Secretary of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture estimates that
4, ,3s1 head of cattle perished In the
State this spring for want want OF food.
Part of the San Joaquin Valley, in
has been transformed by
irrigation from desert into one Of the
most fertile districts in the country.
An order for $1,000 bushels Of corn
mas been received by Kansas City
nan from firm in Liverpool, and the
grain Is to be shipped direct via Ga
weston.
Tobacco Is rising at Lynchburg, Va,
n view of the disheartsning news from
Virginia, Kentucky and elsewhere In
.egard to prospects for the next crop.
In Northeastern Iowa the crops ara
n excellent condition, and prospect fer !.
yield Is superior to that Of last yezir.-
The grasshoppers have done no dam
,ge as yet and are fiying south.
SHOCKS was advised to get his lie