Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-12
THE CROPS.

NORTH LOUISIANA IS growing g good deal
of wheat this year
DENIsoN, Tex, will ship $4,000 qua Is Of
| strawberries this season,
/ INDICATIONS from sll parts OF Kentucky
| point to good fruit crop.
The oat crop oil East Feiicianl parish,
| La, promises TO be abundant and excellent this
year.
The tobscco plants 10 some portions of
Allen county, Ky, have nearly all been destroyed
| by the fly.
| BOLIVAR (Tenn.) Bulletin, 10Th: "Crops
are promising; there IS good prospect for fruit;
| the weather is favorable -
CHARLESTON (Mi.. Scafinsl, Oh: "Our
| farmers have been making good Roadway for the
/ past ten days of pretty weather"
PRATTviLLE, Ala The cotton on sandy
lands is dying ont to a considerable extent, caused
| by the cool nights and mornings"
| THELox n-ton (Ni.7) Baletin of the 9th
instant, reports corn abOut there so nipped with
frost that s-nlc replanti"g was necessary.
The ciiiz.ns Of Tx rkans are very much
encouraged over tn pro pect ofhsving two cotton
seed oil mills at that point ready to utilize the
next crop Of cotton-seed. ------
- Ptor-rr1-osus-ty. Af3,: The grape crop
around Garden City is very promising and the
cultivation ofIrish potatoes in tue vicipity prom
Uses to be remunerauye."
LIE peach farm Of Mr.. ParnelI, brother of
Charles il stewars , Fsrnel the IIish six
and has 10000 peach ana a number of other tres
BELLS DEPOT (Tenn.( PrOoress. IOlh: Gre
port strawberries fine with lively business doing
aud many EXPRESSING intention to go into the bus
mess. Rain wsnted. Bells shipped seventy crates
in two days, Gadsdcp, up TO wednesday, 917
crates"
MERIDIAN (Miss) Observer, 10,h: "Tbe
present cool and dry weather is proving iniurious
TO vegetables, and especially TO the Irish potato
crop. II II continues ten days longer the potato
crop Will be cut off one-half. The season is fully
two weeks behind last year, ana few potatoes will
be ready for market before the 10th Of Nav. and
some not before the LIST Of June"
The Nashville AmeYicda, of the Din, re-
ports strawberries short crop from cold and want
ing rain; the acreage below that OF last wear:
WIN rain there may be three-iOurths Of a CROP:
the berries are two weeks behind last year Cab
Oag an ent6e allure Beans promising Peas
onions and beans show a falling off Irish pOta-
toes WI be plenty acreage three times more than
early rose; they lOok WELL bat are also late early
rose generally planted for the first crop barrels
road to Cincinnati, 81 so; Louisville, 81,
ATLANTA fGa) Coasiif,tiiaa, 10 h. AYR
Aehea, OF NalGosta, reports the melon and truck
acreage Of Lowndes county is about $500 acres.
vegetables, which ought to net US $3.50 COO. Our
net Cash receipts last year from truck was not less
freight The crop this year is much more Than
doubled" Judge Peoples Of valdosta, is ex-
permenting in garden stuff he reports: u have
is acres in Irish potatoes 10 in cucumbers IL in
cabbage, ITO in melons, and 10 in oats Much Of
THIS iau VIII plant IN Other crops to succeed the
truck, for example, shall plant corn on the Is
acres in potatoes, planting the corn Just before /
am ready to dig the potatoes. l will also follow
the cumbers with corn. And so or.'
COLUMBIA (Tenn.) Democrat, 10Th: "The
report of the farmers on the wheat crop is very
atteIing but some fear is ex pressed that the Hes
sian fly is doing damage in some sections Prom
the best information get, there will not be
over half crop OF apples aud peaches in the
county this year. A large crop OF Irish potatoes
is being planted IN this county this year. The
Democrat IS Concord correspondent reports: The
prospect for another abundant crop is bright with
tue exception Of wheat, which appears TO be
thin. We hope more wheat per acre viii be
s0wn next season." The southport core
spondent Wheat crops look fine and If
nothing happens there will be an average crop
made" The Lasea correspondent: Farmers are
plowing corn with vim and talking OF the com
ing wheat crop; our neighbor, W. T. Altman has
a field that is heading" The Wuliamsport cor
respondent: Farmers have had somewhat Of an
up Mill time, owing to the want of rain which has
retarded planting 10 some extent though trey
have continued on. Cotton is coming up, looking
well. Early planted corn is also looking we'll
We fear the sorghum crop win be short d, as few
have planted yet. We hear that the Hessian fl
has been found in T. J. Dorselt's wheat and he
will plow up"