Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-23
TENNESSEE CROP NOTES.
Effects OF the Freeze on Fruits, Veg
efables and Wheat.


Effects OF the Freeze on Fruits, Veg
efables and wheat.
Cleveland Herald.
The recent cold weather has played havoc
with the frait crop. Some say it has in
| jUred wheat c0nsiderably-but Mr.. Ed.
LsnestOn has shown US some of his wheat
that was jOinted, and he says it is not hurt.
MorristoEn Gazette.
Much injury has been done to fruit, veg
etables, early wheat and grass. So far as
we have heard, all the peaches and cher
In the aggregate is undoubtedly much
greater than that caused by the February
rains.
Milan Exchange.
The ground was frozen in this section
last Saturday morning. The fruit is
thought to be all killed, though we hope it
will not be so bad as that. Wheat IS con-
siderably damaged where it was very for
ward, but we don't think much Of it was
far enough advanced to be badly hurt.
Early vegetables are badly nipped.
Lebanon Herald.
From information obtained from friends
in all parts Of Wilson county, we are Of the
opinion that the wheat is not nearly so
seriously injured as was at first thought.
Comparatively little wheat was iOinted,
and this is all that has been damaged by
the freeze. The peach crop was seriously
injured.
New Market News.
The severe cold weather last Friday
night, and on UP to Sunday night, has
played sad havoc with the fruit crop in
jefferson county. Farmers tell us that not
a live peach can be found on a tree. Very
few fields Of wheat in this neighbOrhcod
were forward enough to be seriously dam
aged, but early vegetation was totally de-
stroyed.
Springfield Record.
The fruit in this section was destroyed
by the cold snap last week. That the
wheat crop Of Robertson is damaged more
or less is a conceded fact-but TO what ex-
tent is not known. Some Of our farmers
think it very materially, whilst Others
think it but meager. The tobacco plants
are also cut short, but to what extent we
are unable to learn.
Knoxville Press and Herald.
The cool, moist weather is having a IA
yorable effect on the fruit, most of which,
It was thought, was killed by the recent
freeze. 1t is safe TO say that at least one
half the fruit in the city gardens is all
right, and the reports from the country are
TO the same effect. The wheat does not
seem to have been much injured, and the
prospects for large crop continue favora-
bic.
Bristol News.
The magnificent prospect for a peach
crop is wholly destroyed, all the pears,
cherries and apples that had bloomed or
were in half bloom fwere killed. Glover
was cut to the ground and much of the
forward wheat ruined. Tobacco plant beds
will have to be resOWn in many instances.
Capt. Lindsay, one mile from town, had
i've acres Of prize wheat which is ruined.
The full extent Of the disaster cannot be
known for several DAYS, but it was increased
by a slight fall Ofsnow on Sunday morning.
Chattanooga Commercial.
The late frosts have done little OF no
general damage in this neighborhoOd.
Peaches, pears, apples, grapes and straw
berries are pretty much all killed on the
eastern slope Of Cameron hill, while in the
valley, none Of the fruit has been seriously
hurt. Farmers say wheat has not been
perceptibly injured. No accident happen
ing, fruit will yet be an average crop, and
wheat promises even better than it did last
year, which was the best and largest crop
ever harvested in this country. Our infOr-
nation is that the cherries and straWber-
ries in this vicinity are not injured.
Winchester Home Journal.
The late frosts and fleeing weather have
played havoc with our hopes of fruit crop.
Vegetation far and near is scOrehed as if
the most dreadful simeon of all Arabia had
been sent for the especial purpose. Some
people estimate the loss to our county at
from fifty TO one hundred thousand dollars,
but We Opiue that this is an exaggerated
expression Of disappointed hope. We learn
from ESQ. ". B. GOssage, Of Estill Springs,
THAT The fruit in all his section is dead. We
regret 20 learn from several farmers that the
early wheat has suffered considerable in
jury.
Fayetteville Observer.
Last Friday night was fearfully cOld-ice
formed in exposed places, and tender vege-
tatiOn was killed. Peaches, apples, plums
and pears were almost annihilated-a few
may have escaped, but not many. Beans,
tomatoes, lettuce and other tender garden
productions were wholly or partially de-
strOyed. The most important item Of all,
the growing wheat, does not seem to have
been materially damaged. Fields that
were very forward may have been injured,
but the great bulk is yet safe. The freeze
nipped the corn, but farmers say it will
come out again, with no material damage.
Franklin Review and Journal.
The fruit has all been killed, and the
wheat has not been hurt as badly as at first
thought. The rain fall at the house of
DR.. Samuel Henderson, four miles south
of Franklin, from Jan. to April 20 inclU-
sive, was Is GIG. The rain fall as report
ed at Nashville, from Jan. to April 20,
1874, inclusive, was upwards Of % inches.
During the same months of the present
year the rain fall, as shown above, is but
Is GIG inches, making the great difference
Of about l6 inches more rain last spring
than the present. We may look out fO-
good crop this year TO the industrious
farmer.
MGAIinnviHe New Era.
Almost the entire peach and apple crop
Of Warren county is destroyed, and cOnsid-
erable Of the early wheat; all that which
was beginning to joint has been damaged.
By parties well posted in the value Of the
fruit crop Of our county, it is estimated
that the county has been damaged fully
100000 in this single item. The freeze
also damaged the young trees, IN many
cases freezing them so tightly as TO break
the bark, and when the weather was mod
Grated, bleeding them to death. Fruit Of
all kind has been killed, saving only the
blackberry crop, which has never been af-
| fected by theweaLher.
Pulaski Gazette.
On Saturday morning ice was plentiful
everywhere, and great alarm was felt for
the wheat crop, which in this section is
very large and promising. Almost double
the acreage was sOwn last fall, and our ex-
expectations were not only great as to the
result, but our bread and almost our pecuni-
aIy salvation depended upon it. The alarm,
therefore, amounted to CONSERVATION when
it was understood that the early wheat was
| all killed. For the time fruits and garden
vegetables were lost sight Of in the general
alarm for the wheat crop. Thorough in
| vestigatiOn, however, on Sunday and Mon
dav. revealed the fact that the damage was
not near so great as was at first apprehend-
ed. The crop is not damaged perhaps more
than one-teuth. The early wheat in some
locations was damaged One-fOurth, while
in Others only slightly, while the great bulk