Year: 1871

bacco plants, are such as to create serious
apprehensions to the tobacco crop this
year They have made clean sweep Of
plants in many neighborhoods, and we dc
not know of any that have been exempt.
From the Greeneville Sentinel.
| The fine weather of the past few days
has been very favorable to the wheat crop,
| a few more such and it will be out oil
| danger from rust and the fly. The corn
crop will all be in the ground, that which
is up is looking very WE'LL s' @
| From the Franklin Review. =
We have been at some pains to ascertain
the condition of the wheat crop in this
county, and regret to say that the accounts
are anything but encouraging. During the
past week or so, the rust has made it APP
pearance, attacking not only the blade,
but extending also over the entire stalk.
Colonel John McGavock, whose field is a
large one, reports that at present, the pros
| pect is that his entire crop will be a disas-
trous failure. We have heard many farm
ers speak seriously of plowing up their
wheat fields and planting them down in
corn.


We sincerely hope that these reports are
exaggerated, and that ultimately, the
damage will prove small Our people can
not stand failure in crops this year. Busi-
ness is duller than has ever been known,
and it is almost impossible to collect debts.
The coming wheat crop is looked forward
to as the earliest and speediest relief from
fhaY or. fol th.a
peet will be Il gloomy one. f-.
From the Paris Iptelligencer.
We are glad to be able this week to re-
port more favorable weather, which has
been very unpleasant for the last few days,
and is making a marked improvement in
the appearance of the crop. The rust in
wheat is now apparently doing but little
harm, being confnd almost entirely to the
fats. and only in few localities affecting
the straw.


From the Fayetteville Observer.


The last few days have been more genial
and Spring-like than that experienced for
several. weeks. The cotton prospect is
very blue, the recent cold weather having
had a very injurious effect upon it. The
wheat prospect is less promising than some
weeks ago. The heads are short and the
stalk stunted Corn is better. Apples
will be scarce peaches abundant.


From the Lincoln County News.


The prospect for the wheat crop is not
at all fattering. The rust prevails in every
section of the county; but as yet is only
on the blade. and consequently will not
hurt so badly. Previous to the advent of
tee rust, the wheat seemed to be very much
affected by the fly. There cannot be au
average crop this year in this county.


From the HartsvilIe vidette.


The rust in the wheat crop appears to
threaten serious damage to the wheat.
Many farmers have already given up their
crops-grazed it down and plowed the
gound PREDATORY to planting it in corn.


From the Brownsville Bee.


We are not planting as much wheat in
Haywood as we ought to, but the few
sample crops to be seen. look very well.
We hear less complaint of disasters in
this county and Lauderale than from al
most any portion of the State. We hopo
to see more of it' in future-that is of
the Wheat ai HFo F.


A correspondent writing to the Nash
vile Union and American from William
son county, relative to the crop prospects,
says: [ have been through good portion
of Williamson county lately, and conver-
sed with many of the farmers. and [ am
sorry to state that the wheat crop is almost
failure. 1t is very thin on the ground,
and the rust is beginning to show itself in
many of the fields. The oat crop will be
good, and corn, which is now being plow-
ed the first time. looks well, especially
where the last crop was cotton. Corn al
ways does look well after cotton, and the
ground is easily tended. Tennessee will
certainly be put down, next year. as the
champion of all the States on the corn
question, Judging from the amount plan
tied. " H f17i"e'f


Some of our country friends report an
improvement in the appearance of wheat
within the last eight or ten days. But
aggregating the information from different
portions of lower East Tennessee, we hold
to the opinion expressed last week-that
not more than half crop will be harves-
| ted.-Attens Post 18th.


The wheat prospect. within the past
two weeks, has improved very much in
this section, though not enough to make
anything like an average crop. The rust
has not vet struck the stalk-it being con-
fined to the blades-and it is thought the
crop will not be materially injured from
that cause. All of last week was fine
farming weather and our farmers got their
corn crop in good condition, and it looks
we'll although small for the season. The
clover crop is almost failure. The Irish
potato crop is good.-CteUetand Banner