Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1888-10-26
october Crop Report.-The October

October Crop RepOrt.-The Octebei
crop report of the Department Of Agricui.
ture says: "There will be an unusual guam
tity of corn in the South, but some Of it will
be of poor quality, affected by smut and
rotted by wet weather. Even in Texas,
often regarded as the land of drought, there
has been no little injury from excessive
moisture. The abundance of the supply is
frequently referred to by correspondents.
1t is said in Bastrop, Texas, that enough
corn has been raised to dast the county for
two or three years
considerable production are: New York,
AL; Pennsylvania, 1877; Maryland, 145;
Vagina, 81; Texas, 11.2; Tennessee, 90;
Kentucky, liz; Ohio, 112 Michigan, 145 !;
Indiana, 11.3; Illinois, 13; Missouri, 1876;
Kansas, 147; California, 1877; Oregon, 1913
The spring wheat averages are Wiscon-
sin, 11.S bushels; Minnesota, 81; Iowa, 1913 ;
Nebraska, 1913; Colorado, IFS; Dakota, 90;
Montana, 1866; Washington, 1876; Utah,
1873. The spring wheat OF the New Eng
land States ranges from IA to IS bushels
In Northern New England some wheat
sprouted in the shock. Yield and quality
were quite variable in New York, some fields
producing 80 bushels per acre and Others
very light yields. Some grain that lacked
plumpness is reported as making very good
-four. Many fields in Chester county, Pa,
are estimated at 80 bushels per acre. Some
of the best yields in Washington cou nty,
Some on the Eastern Shore are counted at
Is to 30 bushels. Throughout the middle belt
of States, however, there was much low pro-
-daction and often reduced a4.rSIty7;- a differ
ence due to careless methods too common
in American agriculture as yet. The best
results show that our low averages of yield
are unnecessary"
Successful Peanut Culture-Mr. J.
F. Barrow yesterday exhibited at the Sun
Office a vine of peanuts which would excite
the envy of the great peanut raisers of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. The vine con.
tanned nearly quart of large, clean pea
nuts, and was sample from an acre and
a.half which Mr.. Barrow cultivated on his
farm near Parole, two miles from Annapolis,
Md. The crop was not planted until June,
one month later than it should have been
put in the ground, and it also hal the dis,
advantage OF drought of several weeks
following the planting. But despite these
drawbacks Mr.. Barrow says his crop will
yield at the rate of at least rs bushels of
peanuts to the acre, and Baltimore dealers
pronounce them first class in quality. Next
year Mr.. Barrow proposes to cultivate pea
nuts on an extensive scale, being satisfied
that Anne Arundel soil is peculiarly adapted
for their successful growth.-Balto Sun of
Saturday last.
Sentence Commuted.-Gov Jackson
last week committed the death sentence of
Henry j. Spencer, who was to have been
hung at Cumberland on the Goth for killing
Winfield Scott Dawson, to imprisonment in
the penitentiary for life. The Governors
reason for Communication was given as fol-
lows: "There is an accumulation Of unre-
futed testimony proving hereditary insanity
and evidence of responsibility in Spencer.
His constant brooding over the assault upon
the woman whom he afterwards married
doubtless prompted him to commit the decd
l have never been able to find any other
motive Spencer could have had for taking
Dawsons life" The Governor added that
the additional testimony brought before him
and the large number OF resp0psibe people
who signed the petition with the
almost universal sent aor of com
mutation, had much 90 his action
in the case