The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-18
HORTICULTURAL.

Nelghborhood - An Early Harvest
wool Matters and General Notes.
TaR following quotations prevail in this
city: Wheat Is quoted at 81 GOAL o5; corn,
i5a5Oc; oats, SIC; hay, sl6 0Oale 90 per
ton; wool, choice washed, 4Oc.
Harvest is already upon the farmers OF
Greene county, Pa. The waynesburg
ReD,blicau hears that there will be wheat
mt in shock this week. This is early
harvest, truly, AT this rate wheat will
all be garnered by the 18th OF July. The
same paper says the long hot intervals be-
tween showers this season has very sadly
affected the meadows oil this region. There
will not be half crop Of hay. The late
rain was Just In time 10 save the oats ana
early potatoes.
TaR rains Of the past few days, says the
steubenyille Herald, have raised the wat
-ers Of wills creek till they have overflow
ed the valley in number Of places, DO
ing considerable damage TO growing crops
the corn especially suffering. on sGtul
day q storm Of wind passed over various
portions Of the county, In some places
blowing over sheep houses, laying OUT
fences and doing other damage.
The farmers have begun to cut the
wheat along the river between Clarington
and Bellaire, and had it not been for the
late raining spell they would have been
done by Saturday.
TnE GAINESVILLE Enisrprie remarks that
the early cherries were never better than
this wear. Fine specimensof all the fancy
varieties were on exhibition at the iate
meeting Of the horticultural society.
TaE wheat harvest over in Belmont
county will commence in a few days, and
be comnleted next week. The crop will
be exoellent-the largest for many years.
ONE Of the great industries of Barnes
Vile, Ohio, the strawberry business, is this
year a comparative failure, there not being
halfa crop. The Enterprise says the sea-
son will be over in few days. The first
shipment OF berries was made on the 2sth
Of May, by VIM. Bryant, and consisted OF
only one bushel OF berries. From that
time until the 9Th Of this month, the ship
ments steadily increased, and on that day
the largest shipment, 1853 bushels, was
made. Up to the present time only about
eleven hundred bushels OF berries have
been shipped, and 1t is not probable that
the entire shipments will amount to more
than fifteen hundred bushels. There are
several causes for the short crop. Ihe
rinter was uniayorable, the spring late,
and there was too much dry weather just
when rain was needed to ripen the ber-
ries.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Belmont
Chronicle, writing from Uniontown that
county, says the army worm has appeared
in vast numbers on the pasture Gelds
about town and also on the farm Of Mr..
VIM. NJ. BrOkaw. They devour rye,
wheat, corn, or anything eatable, that is
in the line OF march, and can destroy
field OF corn or other grain in 3 short
time. The most efficient protection Is to
plow q ditch around the field with the
vertical side toward the grain, and when
the worms fall in the ditch to sprinkle
with petroleum, which is sure death.
A GENTLEMAN Of this city who has been
visiting near sandhill, Marshall county,
reports that one farmer commenced to
cradle his wheat last Tuesday, the earliest
harvest known in that part otthe country.
Tie oats and corn are little behind. but
the late rains will bring them up. There
is spleudid prospect for a large crop oil
apples and blackberries in this section.
THE Tuscarawas Advocate says the wheat
harvest in that county Carroll opened up
last Saturday. A considerable quantity
was cut in the southern end Of the county
and some on upper 0ldtown. The harvest
will open in dead earnest all over the
comfy about next Monday.
A1ARaE part Of the wool in Westmore-
land county, Pa, where long-wools pre-
dominate, has been sold, at SoaS5c for I'M
washed, and 4Oa45c for washed aeeces. A
few sales made early in the season were
at SOC.
THE Monroe, Ohio, Gazette says that no
wool has yet been sold in that county.
The farmers want AZ to so cents.
THR Greene County, Pa, Messenger says:
Not single clip in the county bought or
sold that we know Of. All the growers
that we know want so cents for their
wool, while none Of the buyers that we
know OF are offering over 40 cents.
A Brooke county correspondent Of the
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