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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



three weeks later than last season. Of 

 late we have had warm weather, and ve- 

 getation is advancing rapidly and gaining 

 upon time, yet it is backward still. Not- 

 withstanding the cold, backward season, 

 the weather has generally been favorable 

 to most crops, and while we have had a 

 good supply of rain, coming frequently 

 in the night, there has generally been a 

 very favorable opportunity for the ^culti- 

 vator to plant and sow ; and farmers have 

 been unusually diligent and have planted j 

 to a greater extent than usual, stimulated ' 

 by the great demand for produce, or per- 

 haps feeling their great responsibility, as 

 millions of the human race have been 

 looking to this country to feed them, lest 

 they die of starvation. Grass is remark- 

 ably promising." 



In New York they seem to have the highest 

 expectations of a large grain crop. An im- 

 mense deal of corn and wheat have been 

 seeded and the Farmer and Mechanic thus 

 speaks of their prospects : 



" We could scarcely imagine a more j 

 delightful or promising indication of the ' 

 coming crops than the Resent encouraging 

 season affords. With copious showers 

 and a genial sunshine, our farmers and 

 gardeners are enjoying the fruits and 

 bright anticipations of their labors. Our 

 markets are well stored with the fruits 

 and vegetables of the season, and every 

 thing now bidsfairfor an abundant harvest. 



" Throughout the State, good farmers 

 say that they have seldom known the 

 crops to look better than they now do. — 

 The weather has been the very best to 

 bring forward every species of vegetation. 

 Every thing indicates a bountiful harvest. 

 The Lyons Argus says the wheat fields 

 look as promising in that region as they 

 were ever known." 



In New Jersey there has been a great in- 

 crease in the seeded crop, and a good yield is 

 expected. The Trenton News says, 



« That in every part of New Jersey, 

 the earth will be taxed to its utmost— that 

 every inch of ground has been put under 

 contribution— that thefarmers are laboring 



day and night to get in as large crops as 

 possible. One man, who usually plants 

 five acres of potatoes, has put in sixteen ; 

 another has doubled his usual quantity of 

 wheat, and a third has cultivated four or 

 five times the usual quantity of corn 

 planted. If the season should prove to 

 be favorable, the crops of the present year 

 will far exceed those of the last. 



" It is estimated that the surface planted 

 with corn this year in the State, exceeds 

 that of last year by one hundred thousand 

 acres, which ought to yield three or four 

 million bushels." 



In Pennsylvania, the wheat crop suffered 

 almost as much as in Maryland, and a large 

 part of it was destroyed. But the farmers in- 

 dustriously set to work and planted the ground 

 anew in corn, and as things have been gra- 

 dually improving under the late rains, the 

 average crop is looked for. The Reading 

 Gazette says, 



" In that neighborhood everything is 

 growing finely, and the grain crops which 

 but a week ago looked most unpromising^ 

 now T present a very fair appearance, and 

 betoken a plentiful yield. 



"The Lancaster Farmer says: 'Now 

 we believe, (and we speak from personal 

 observation, having traversed a considera- 

 ble portion of the country within a few 

 weeks by-gone,) that matters are not in 

 reality so bad as represented ; but, on the 

 contrary, we feel safe in saying that the 

 crop, taken together, will be nearly of 

 quite an average one.' " 



In the whole of the North-West, the pros- 

 pects have been for a long time worse than 

 have been ever known before. But even there, 

 it seems the anticipations of the farmers were 

 far darker than they ought to have been. Still, 

 it does not even now seem probable that much 

 more than the average crop will be produced f 

 while much more than the average crop ought 

 to have been produced, considering the large 

 amount of grain seeded. A letter of the I2t& 

 instant, to the New York Commercial Adver- 

 tiser, repeats the intelligence that there will 

 be a very short crop of wheat in Indiana and 

 central Ohio. Many fields have been ploughed 



