South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-05-10
Good Crop Prospects all around.

No seed time in twenty years has
been 80 promising of boun,irul harves,s
as the present. An unusually open
winter, pressed hard by an early spring
has set forward planting and sowing by
from three to five weeks, SO that the first
week in May has not for years seen the
country's crops so advanced. Kindly
rains have favored; destructive storms
and frosts have been withheld from
most sections, and the insect pests
which have been SO injurious to the
farmers prosperity for few years are
less active. In short, the reports which
the New York Times has collected from
all over the country are almost uniform.
ly encouraging. The New Hampshire
hay crop will be a third greater than
usual. and is sample OF the crops
general promise; the Granite State will
plant moro ,rn aud less potatoes than
last year. Connecticut, while plan ting
a larger era OF corn. will raise large
tobacco crop. contrary to the course
chosen by Kentucky. where more corn
and less tobacco will be the wiser rule.
Connecticut's pastures are i'm fine con.
ditlon. rs is the universal experience.
and down there potatoes are in the
ground. with the bugs already in the
field on still hunt for them. New
York rye headed the goth OF April, and
for three weeks the cows have toasted
Oh tho fresh spring grass. which is Two
and half feet high in some meadows.
The Jersey peaches. apples and grapes
give luscious anticipation. hut Della
ware, as usual, fears that frost and 9th.
or causes will have her last years peach
crop. Pennsylvania rye is headed and
all hei grains will yield above the aver
age; while fruit will be too plenty to
be given away. The fruits and easily
vegetables OH Virginia's low lands wore
blighted by untimely frosts, but higher
portions OF the State escaped and have
only the potato-bug to fear. North Ca
rolina expects enormous cotton and
corn crops; spring oats are the only
failure in Georgia; Ohio counts Oh S5.-
O00.000 bushels OF wheat aud large
yield of grapes; Indiana means TO beat
any year since 1858; northwestern IL
iinois doubles its wheat area. and Min.
nesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Mis-
souri, also largely increase theirs, which
is the case all through The West and
Northwest; Kansas hopes for almost
2O,OOO,O0O bushels Of wheat to export,
Nebraska is rapidly extending the area
of her cultivated lands this spring. and
Colorado occupies one-third more of
her territory. No grasshopers are re
ported from these States. -Er.
A RELIABLE MAN WANTED. reli-
able man wanted to take charge of q
farm'--'A reliable man wanted in n
counting-housc'-'A reliable man want
ed 10 superintcnd mill 49,. a re-
liable man wanted as teller in a bark
so the advertisement reads. What de.
mand there is for reliable men! Young
women want them for husbands fathers
and mothers want them for sons in-law.
People in trouble inquire anxiously for
a reliable lawyer whom they can consult;
the sick want reliable physician the
waht reliable man for min
lstcr, although they do not advertise
their wants in newspaper.
There seems TO be no end 10 the de-
mands for reliable men. Are reliable
men so scarce that so much poirt is
made Of getting them?
We apprehend that they are not as
plenty as they should be. Reliable ar.
chitects and contractors and engineers
are not to be founl in every place. or
here would not be so many railway
and bridge accidents cashiers and 9th
er bank officers are not always reliable
DR. there would not DC deralcations. TIE
same may he said OF trustees or lnsur.
'nce officers. In truth, reliable men
10 not crowd one an5ther in any class
Or occupation.
Young man, it Is for you to determine
you will be reliable man or
not. 1t all depends upon yourself.
Nothing is easier, only resolve that
You will be reliable man and stick
10 it through every temptation.
V ALUABLE INVENTION Messrs. ID.
II. Harms aud John Ream. Of williams
NJ