The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
Fruits and Frost.

Danbury Reporter: From the infor
nation we can gather fruit has not beer
injured to any great extent in this Sec
ton.
The Elizabeth City Economist reports
the farmers of the north counties busy
and hopeful. Frost has not hurt them
so far.
Durham Plant: Cold weather last
week. The frosts were not heavy, but
ice was plentiful, the ground was frozen
and it is feared the fruit is killed.
Statesville Asqerirun: Peaches, cher
ries, pears, if not apples, in this region,
have been very effectua!ly killed by the
late cold weather. Wheat, rye and
oats not materially injured.
Warren Gazette There are conflict
ing reports as to the fruit crop.
Peaches, pears, plums, etc, have un-
doubtedly been seriously, if not fatally,
injured. Apples seem to have escaped.
Newbern Nut Shell: The crops of
peas around Newbern look green and
prosperous. With several more such
days as yesterday it can hardly be told
that they run the gauntlet of a severe
cold snap.
Some of the farmers in this vicinity
inform us that the peach crop has prob
ably been materially injured, it being
their opinion that when warm weather
sets in the most of them will drop off
the trees.-Wil. Star,
Greensboro State: There seems to be
great difference of opinion as to whether
the fruit has been killed or not. Where
the learned entertain opinions SO widely
different we may be permitted to hope
that at least a portion of it has escaped
unhurt.
Reriem A private letter received in
this city from Pittsboro W. the in
in that section has been killed, even to
the strawberry vines which, in some in
stances, an endeavor had been made to
preserve from the cold by covering them
Charlotte Democrat: The ice and
frost III this section on the morning of
the 4th and 9Th ~instants, Stayed vegeta-
ton and the fruit generally, except in a
few localities. We are glad to hear
some Of our country friends say that the
fruit is not all killed in their neighbor-
hoods.
Chatham Record One day last week
some person shot and killed a valuable
mule belonging to Nj. l.. j. Haughton,
of this place.-The fruit crop has
been destroyed, which is a great affic-
ton to our people. On many farms in
the county there will be no fruit at all,
and but little on any except on a few
spots.
Winston Republican: The opinion
among our fruit growers and the far
mers of this section is very general that
the improved varieties of early fruit
have been killed by the late trosts.
are not yet injured, but the
pears and strawberries are
The fruit crop in this section
IS worth more to u people and trade
any other one staple, except, per-
haps, tobacco, and its injury is a matter
Of serious detriment to this community
commercially.
The Bakersville Republican says that
The firm of Wallace Brothers, of States
vile, sold last year nearly half a million
dollars worth Of medicinal plants, roots
md herbs of Western North Carolina
and that the firm of Hyams
Brothers, of Bakersville, sold So, 900 last
year, and have received one order for
5000 worth to be filled the coming
,eason. Not only the greater number
IF known medicinal plants in common
Use are found in the State, but some of
he rarest and most costly.