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cured by giving them salt and water to drink. ¥ * * The fruit 
buds of the apple tree are covered with a very small green bug, having six legs 
and two antenne. 
CROP PROSPECTS IN GEORGIA. 
Homer, Georgia.—The prospects were never more flattering in this section 
for a bountiful yield of wheat and corn, though the rust has made its appearance 
in the wheat in some places. Don’t you think that it would be an advantage 
if our farmers would order their seed wheat from the north, say from the valley 
of Virginia, to sow next fall? I think so, from the fact that there has not been 
a change in seven or eight years; the same wheat has been sown every year, 
and rust and smut have appeared in it annually. Please give your opinion in 
the Monthly Report. 
[A change of seed would undoubtedly be beneficial; and as the wheat zone 
extends far north of Georgia, seed from a more northern locality, say Maryland 
or Virginia, would prove an advantage. Our correspondents uniformly report 
favorably of the Tappahannock wheat distributed from this office —Eps. | 
PEACHES IN DELAWARE AND MARYLAND. 
A letter from the venerable John Jones, of Middletown, Delaware, says: 
The season has now arrived when fair estimates may be made of the growing 
crops; and I am glad to inform you that the apple crop of Delaware, as well as 
peaches, wheat, oats, and hay, never looked more promising. I attended a ¢on- 
vention of peach growers of Delaware a few days since, at Dover, and from the 
best estimate that could be arrived at the peach crop of Delaware and the eastern 
shore of Maryland was placed at 3,000,000 baskets. 
CROP ITEMS. 
A correspondent writing from Greensboro, Georgia, says: ‘Some of our 
planters have been compelled to cut their wheat to feed their horses and mules, 
which I deeply regret, as we want all the cereals to feed our half-starved and 
suffering people.” 
Another correspondent, writing from Milledgeville, Georgia, writes that the 
corn crop of his locality is very unfavorable, the “bud worm” being unusually 
destructive to the young plant, it striking through the centre of the bud and 
destroying it. 
De Vail’s Bluff, Arkansas.—W heat, rye, and oats are nearly a total failure 
here, from the rust, caused by the excessive wet spring, much rain having fallen 
since January, and everything is very backward; and should it be followed by 
drought as usual, there will be great destitution. 
