The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-05

in Lincoln county, and the wheat crol
is very good.
In Smith county the weather ha
been dry, and all vegetation is suffer
ing for want OF rain. Most of tn,
wheat is injured, and, where sown OF
THU soil, is nearly an entire failure
Much complaint has been made o
sheep-killing dogs during the past tive
weeks.
The weather has been generally dry
/ in DeKalb, with only occasional rains
Prospect for the wheat crop is good
! Crops generally are looking well.
Dry weather has prevailed in Sc
qual"hie county, and will make wheat
oats and grass crops short. The pros,
pect for the corn crop is fair, but there
has been unusual trouble With cut
worms and insects.
The weather in Bledsoe county has
beer fair. The wheat is heading very
slow. The stand, owing to the cold
spring, is thin.
In Giles county tie weather has not
been altogether unfavorable: The
peach crop is almost an entire failure.
Apples are scarce. The strawberry
cropisshort. The wheat stand is thin,
but is looking well. The Irish potato
crop has beel. greatly injured by worms
and bugs. The corn crop has been
much damaged by cut-worms, but it is
now growing rapidly and is looking
well.
The weather has been rather dry
and cool i'll Washington county;
in scme localities it has been sufficient
ly seasonable. The general wheat
prospects are not fattering, but the in
dicati"ns are that the quality of the
grain will be very fine. The general
outlook seems to be unusually cheer
ing.
In Montgomery county the weather
has Leen sea>onable. Not so large a
crop IF wheat was planted as last year,
but OH all good lands looks promising.
Clover and grasses will probably be Il
short crop.
Haywood county reports the wealth
er very favorable. The yield of wheat
will he equal to that of last year and Il
better grade. The cotton stand is fine
and has healthy growth. Corn pros
poets are good. The outlook for ali
crops is good.
The Weather has been seas0nable in
Bedford county. Wheat prospects
are good. The crop looks well and
the heads ore large and healthy. The
stand is thin. All the crops are well
worked.
Willie the reports from all points
Of the State are to the effect that
wheat does not show 50 heavy stand
in stalk, occasioned by the freezes of
an unusual hard winter, yet the grain
is larger than usual and will make IL
very superior quality Of flour. In fact,
Notwithstanding the cries of Il failure
Of the crop, the wheat, when threshed,
will show Il fair average crop, and will
certainly he of IA very superior quality.
While it has been reported that the
cut worms have been very bad Oh
corn, they have hot done so much
damage TO this crop as usual. They
seem to have attacked everything else
in preference to corn. The bad stand
of the early corn was owing to the
cold weather which prevailed in April.
Since the replanting and the rains the
prospects have been very materially
improved, and, with a few more time
ly rains, the crops will be pretty well
secured.
Grasses and clover have also come
out very much since the rain, but
farmers are again beginning to com>
plain Of dry weather.
1t is not thought by those of con,
views that the wheat crop of
the State will fall much, if any, short
Of II, ,000,0 900 bushels