The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-13
KING WILLIAM COUNTY.
r,,orresnondenee Of the Richmond Dispa,ch.l

TCorrcspordepce of the Richmond Dispatch.I
JUNE II, 1878.
The wheat crop il mostly harvested at this
writing, and the universal report is that this
Is the shortest crop made In this county
since the war. Some report theirs Will
make less than five bushels for one seeded.
and on the same land that yielded about
twenty last time. One large crop OF Lam
caster bearded wheat observed by writer,
which. las very promising and unusually
luxurIant in the latter part OF the winter,
was attacked. by Dlade-rust" early in
spring, and by the sFscab" on the heads
shortly after heading, md when ready for
the reaper was found TO be hardly worth
cutting. Farmers will have little money
to lay out in your beautiful city this
fall, which is unfortunate for the mer-
chants as well as for the purchasers, for
the latter need many things they
must perforce forego, and the former are
anxious to realize on their stock OF wares,
&c. They always 10 ok SO pleasing when the
successful wheat-grower makes his appear.
ance IN their stores, with his well-tanned
complexion but plethoric purse. Well, bet
ter luck next time: and so look out for a
big crop to be sown this fall, for they are
already "putting in peas for a fall fallow
for wheat more generally hereabouts than
ever before observed at this season, which
shows that they are nothing daunted by
non-success this time. and, like the old
hunter, mean to pick the flint and try again.
1t is to he hoped, at least, that we shall hear
no more Of that talk about the FultZ wheat,
so rife last season, and which was used so
dexterously against the unfortunate grow
ers OF that excellent yariety-a good, relia-
BILE, hardy wheat, its defamers to the con.
trary notwithstanding. 1t Is decidedly the
best wheat made this season hereabouts, an
has been much less affected by the severe
test of this spring than any other, beating
the great and mighty Lancaster side by side,
showing plumper and heavier berry on
shorter straw, though the yield is small by
reason OF lack Of heading out, but yet the
best wheat we have for grinding this year.
The writer was so unfortunate us not to SOW
the FultZ last fall.
Mr.. Howard Miller, of Pennsylvania, in
his reply to Colonel Ruffin says that his in
formation about farms and farming in Vir-
ginia was mostly obtained from others, and
cites letter from native VirSinian-man-
ufacturer Of implements-in confederation
of his structures, or, rather, remarks, in his
letter about things in Virginia. We sus-
pect that "the native" is a bad witness,
for he has no doubt been away from his
native State so long that he knows very lit
tie about it., and probably looks through
Yankee specs, which accounts for his being so
swift to help decry his old mother. The pic
ture drawn by Mr.. Miller does not apply to
the valley of the Pamunkey at least; for. on
the contrary, there are many signs of thrift
and rapid recuperation to be seen in this
old county and neigbboring ones.
This is the coolest June ever known
cold enough for fires morning and evening.
Vegetation has almost stopped growing.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett can have a
Polar wave without gong north after il. II
this continues long, shall look for an ice
burg off the CapeS.