The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-21


CNor-TmE WHEAT uAKyESr-LlrrLE I>TE-
REST IN NATIONAL ruLIrICS-THE LIrliIA
~rRINGS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MADE
-INCE LAST YEAK-ARRlvAL OF VISITORS.
Correspondence Of The Richmond Dislatchl
BUFFALO LIruIA SPRINGS
MECkLENBrRG COUNTY. VA,
June Il, 1876.
From recent "trip over large portions OF
N-ckl-nburg. Charlotte. and Halifax feel
,>Surcd that | can give some information
With reference To the prospective tobacco
rgup of these counties. There has been Il
widespread apprehension among the PLAN
r.rs Of an entire failure in this staple, but
more cncoura"in" views are now enter
tlincd than one month ago. My conc!u-
,on> are derived from personal observation
and conversations with some oi the iarTesl
add most reliable planters. Ihefe are some
who will not plant any tobacco, Others VINO
will cultivate about one fifth OF the cllsto-
mary surface, and others, still, whose llS!Ell
crop would be from TO- 900 TO 100000 hills
will only be 4J,U0D to 10000. The Small
planters. who make from three to four hogs
heads Will generally h.. able to plant enough
~ produce about one half that quantity; the
lAr-cr ones, who swell the aggregate OF our
Inspections, and have from ten to twenty
hug>headS. will not make more than one
thrd Of their usual number. Near Roam
okc depot in Charlotte, where | ascertain
cd from one large planter, DR.. +. -, that
his plants were sufficient for his crop; con-
.crscd with another substantial planter,
Mr.. T.. j. D., Il few miles below the same
Place, whose opportunities for giving dcti-
mite information were good, who SAID that
within radius Of four miles from his
plantation he had made an estimate OF the
usual crop. and asserted unhesitatingly that
II was impossible to plant over this large
and productive area, extending TO the fer
Nle lands of the Siaunton river, more than
one fourth OF il crop under the most fayora-
hlc circumstances. These predictions were
cp9irmcd by inquiries Of others in differ
int localities. Where you find one
with enough, you Will see othcfs
who, combined, cultivate ten times
the surface with about one fourth OF sum
cheney OF plants. A similar state OF things
exists in the three counties. The young
plants are not in the beds to come, and some
beds are as clear OF plants rs the pockets OF
the owners are of new silver. The land
planted is selected as the most productive,
and with favorable seasons, whatever crop
is made will undoubtedly be OF superior
quality. The weather so far has been, with
The exception Of Il few hot days, cool and eN-
ccssirely dry. 1t would be safe TO estimate,
even with propitious seasons, the tobacco
product OF these three counties the present
year will not exceed one third OF the guam
tity in pounds raised ordinarily. My OBJ
oervations were through the portions OF
Halifax and Charlotte lying east of and
along the Danyilie railroad and the adioin-
lug section of Mccklenburg to these coun-
lies as far below the railroad as GAINESVILLE.
The wheat harvest has been nearly com
pieted, and the yield per acre and fine quail
~ will surpass any crop since the war.
Winter oats looking splendid, but spring
Indifferent. A large surface has been
planted in corn, made much greater than