The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-23
COUNTY HARVEST
PROSPECT BRIGHT
Good Yields of Everything
Except Fruit-Haying
Well Under Way
TEN TIMES USUAL
AMOUNT OF WHEAT
Good Year for All Grain Crops-Tobac-
CO in Vernon and Westminster AL
ready Sold for So and 40 Cents-No
Peaches This Year.

One almost can hear the crops sing for
JOY these days if he listens after sundown,
for it is during the night that crops do
the most of their growing. The past few
days have been the most favorable thus
far this season, and each morning some OF
the crops are inches taller than they were
the evening before The fields surely are
cooperating with the boys across the sea
in rolling back the Huns.
\ talk with County Agent A. W. Sweet
on reveals the fact that he has the whole
situation in mind and at his tongues end.
He has been all over the county many
times and knows where the bright spots
are, or rather where the dali spots are, for
the outlook is bright practically all over
the county, except as to fruit.
Haying is well advanced, about half
done on the average. Some farmers are
getting in their last loads while others
have Just gotten fairly well started. The
yield this year will be an average one,
but viii be less than last year, when the
| crop was unusually heavy. Old hay fields
| are not yielding as heavily as usual, prob
past two seasons, but the new seeded
| pieces are fine In most places enough
| help has been secured to harvest the crop,
volunteer haymakers helping out materi-
ally in this regard, but there has been a
shortage in few places although not more
so than usual
| This Is a good grain year, and the high
| price of wheat and scarcity of flour caused
l
| acres Of wheat as previously. 1t also was
put In earlier and fertilized better, and
| in consequence it is looking better than
| the crop year ago. There are about ,
acres of winter wheat in the county, as
against four or five a year ago, and it is
about ready to harvest. More than 70t
acres of spring wheat are being grown as
against IS last year. 1t has headed wei
and is Of good growth. c. w. Plimptor
of Wardsboro has flour mill, where white
flour is made, and 4. Crosby Co. o
Brattleboro expect to have their mill IL
operation by Nov /.
u Corn is backward, but it is booming
at the present time, and the indication
are that there will be a fair crop. Th
acreage is as much in Windham count!
i. as it was in 1917, which was more than OF
: dinarily.
Oats are looking fine and promise goo,
$ yield. They are heading well and in onl
, few spots have they lodged In this re
!. spect the weather conditions have bee
n favorable thus far Smut has appeare
: in few places, but not badly. Not a
many oats are allowed to ripen in thi
+ county as in some of the northern eouI
D ties, many farmers preferring to cut theI
e for hay
V There is an increased acreage of bucl
# wheat this year, and it looks promisin!
& This is a catch crop that can be plante
( late with reasonable assurance that
L will mature.
S In some localities the frosts cut dow
the beans and many growers planted the
fields over. They are mostly of the yello
eye variety and are coming along we'll
Conditions thus far have been especial
favorable for the tobacco fields in Verne
: and Westminster, where the Havana SET
variety is grown If nothing happens
destroy or damage the crop the grove
y ought to clean up some money as tht
c. have sold the crop for 35 and 40 cents
II pound, mostly at the first mentioned fl
er ure. Some of the fields are expected
$ yield l500 pounds to the acre.
g Potato fields are promising, althou'
some of them were set back by the ha
n frosts. Thus far no blight has been d
n covered.
Id So far as fruit is concerned, this seas
will go down practically as a failure. a
De pies viii be scarce, probably not over o
fourth an average yield. Many Baldw
Sc trees died during the long cold wint'
tie It is thought also that the shortage
ak apples is due in part to the fact that the
&C. was little transfer of pollen, due to t
'r- death of many swarms of honey bees. Il
winter was especially severe on bees.
IS: one place, not in this county, only Q
Is, swarm out of eight survived.
lg, No peaches will be harvested in t
nd county this season. In Dummerston Il
les year Dwight Miller harvested about IL
of baskets Many of Mr.. Miller's trees w
le- winter killed. and neither he nor otl
ed growers in this section will harvest pea
es this year.