The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-05-26
Agricultural.

The exhibition Of live stock will
be prominent feature of the centcn.
nial * x!osition at Philadelphia next
year.
An Indiana short horn breeder
announces that he has bull call
which weighed G80 pounds when six
months old.
In Wisconsin, winter wheat is
slightly injured. Spring wheat is
now being sown. Fruit is somewhat
injured.
In Ohio, peaches will be com.
plete failure. Apples arc slightly
injured. The wheat crop is cut short
"ncthird or more.
In Kansas, the season has been
favorable. The large areas Of wheat
and oats sown arc in fine condition.
Fruit looks remarkably we'll,
In Minnesota the season is back.
ward. The average breadth of
spring VIII 'at is sown. Winter wheat
is uninjurcd. Small fruit promises
we'll.
A two.lcgged horse has been on
exhibition at Tcrrc lIante, Ind. 1t
is said to be we'll formed. It's kept
on its feet by means of pully aud
straps.
In the vicinity Of Chattanooga,
the wheat crop is not materially
injured. The fruit crop is reduced
one hale. Mountain fruits have not
been injured.
The Wisconsin Grangcrs have
already established forty.one CO.
operative associations for selling
goods and manufacturing, and 20
insurance companies, all tlourishing,
and representing capital to the
amount of $4,000, 900.
a large willow tree in Sullivan
county, New York, was completely
shattered by the f; ost, with loud
report, during the recent cold. The
tree WAS over twelve feet in circum-
florence at tho root.
In Michigan, the season is back
ward. Wheat has been badly in
jurcd by frost, and in many locaIi
ties the farmers arc turning it out.
Oats and corn, as we'll us most small
fruits, are killed.
In Iowa, little more than tho
average amount Of spring wheat is
sown, and will yield we'll. Little
winter wheat is sown, and that is
uninjurcd. Oats aud barley are bad
ly injured. Fruits will be an aver
age crop.
10 Indiana, wheat has been badly
injured by the cold weathcr.-Ryc
and barley will also be short crops.
Oats will not yield more than half
a crop. Fruit will be almost a
failure, Corn planting is delayed on
account of the frost.
Reports from nearly four hundred
towns in the North h>wcst give ac.
counts of the condition of the crops
~ summary of the reports shows that
in Missouri wheat and oats are badly
eaten by grasshoppcrs, and fears are
entertained that in the large breadth
planted, much grain will be destroy.
cd by them. Fruit is uninjured.
The cold weather has done dam
age IN Virginia. In Richmond the
buds and blossoms on the cherry,
apricot and peach trees are all kill
ed. The young clover is much in
jurcl. Cabbage plants which had
stood the winter, look as if hot water
had been poured over them.
Through the State, the damage to
fruit crops is immense. In two
counties alone, in the vicinity of
Richmond, the damage is estimated
at over 81 100000.
In Jefferson county, KY, tho
freeze of the lGsh ultimo killed all
kinds q fruit. The mercury sank
as low as ten degrees, at Fern Creek,
near Louisville. Every apple
peach, pear, plumb, currant, cherry,
and all strawberries, the blooms Of
which were above the ground wcro
killed. One pear orchard Of thousand
trees, which few days ago afforded a
pleasant sight, looks as though filo
had gone through it.
There died in Stroudsburg, Pa.
last week, stage driver named,
David St.rncr. lie drove the stage
for forty years between Easton and
Port Jcrvis, and missed his first trip
SIX years ago, when he was stricken
with paralysis on his stage nine miles
below the latter place. Lilo had
driven $4,000 miles up to that
time. Starncr could neither read
nor write, but never came to Port
Jcrvis with less than dozen letters
to deliver to different persons, and
he never was known to make o wrong
delivery. No matter how many
errands or verbal messages he had
for people along his route, and they