SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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Chester' Standard, the general impression now is, 
that we will make plenty of food for both man and beast. 
Very few complaints are heard, says the Darlington 
Friend, since the abundant rains. 
The Corn crop, says the Abbeville Independent Press, 
generally, is very flourishing, and promises an abundant 
harvest; the Cotton is healthy, but very backward. 
We are happy to be able to report a very decided im- 
portant improvement in the crops in this District, says 
the Fcarfield Herald. 
The Crops. — The Corn crops in Madison, Yazoo, and 
Holmes, from what we observed, are indeed promising. 
The late rains w& have had, ha.s greatly benefitted them. 
The Cotton crop, though, is far behind, and will un- 
doubtedly be small. The Cotton of Holmes, from what 
we could observe, is doing better than that of either Mad- 
isyn or Yazoo. — Lexington {Miss.) Advertiser, July 24. 
Tire weather is ivei — the streets are wet — nothing 
is dry but onr exchanges, and thxy are very dry. 
We never did see so m.uch and so heavy rain, if it can be 
called rain. It don’t rain — it pours — it runs right cut. 
The moon is a wet moon. Her horns don’t turn up 
enough to hold water. It comes down from the clouds 
in sheets, and it comes down in right smart showers, 
without any clouds at all. We must be getting the rain 
intended for the w'hole State. Evidently the middle and 
western counties have not had their share. There is no 
red water in the Cape Fear. 
We don’t want our sand hill to float off, as we think it 
will, unless the rain “ holds up,” therefore do we anxious- 
ly desire its holding up. There is a medium in all things. 
A quart among one isn’t much, but a gallon or so might 
make a man somewhat tight. 
The grass g'-ows very well. It is also said to be a good 
" season ” for young ducks. — Wilmington {N. C.) Daily 
Journal, July 24. 
The rains have been so abundant that all the de- 
mands of the growing crops have been answered. V/^ 
fear the Cotton has been already injured, especially on 
low lands. The country is generally healthy. — Albany 
{Ga.) Patriot, July 30. 
We have been favored recently with fine showers, 
which have rep'eniahed our cisterns, revived vegetation, 
and infused throughout our community a general confi- 
dence in the wisdom of an over ruling Providence. 
The Wheat crop of this county, which is already har- 
vested, was fine. Corn and Cotton look well, and with- 
out some sudden di.saster, they will produce good yields. 
Tha former crop may now be considered safe. — Victoria 
{Texas) Advocate, July 18. 
Or.D Time R.^int.-?. — It seems that we have once more 
struck up with the good old times and the good old fash- 
ioned rains that used to refresh the earth and cause it pro- 
duce abundantly. There is no want for rain in all this 
section of country — as far as we can learn the ground is 
thoroughly wet — and the prospect is novv for good Corn 
crops, notwithstanding the disadvantages and drawbacks 
of the early part of the season, 
well, and even with a late fall and the most favorable cir- 
cumstances attending its growth and maturity, a short 
crop generally, in this section, must be anticipated.— 
jWewnan{Ga.) Banner, July 3J. 
The Crops. — The planters from every section of the 
Southwest, with the exception cf a few localities, incon- 
siderable in extent, concur irt the opinion, that the Corn 
and Cotton crops, of 1857, will exceed largely that of last 
year. The quantity of Wheat raised this year in Ten- 
nessee and •IMi.'^sissippi is more than double that of 1856. 
— Memphis Eagle. 
In the northern portion of Louisiana the Corn and 
Colton crops look flourishing and promising. Two or 
three seasonable rains will insure an abundant yield. 
The Cane crop is doing remarkably well. 
The Jejferson Herald, speaks of partial rains in Eastern 
Texas. With good seasons, that paper says, heavy crops 
will be mads in that section. 
In portions of Mississippi the crops are said to be doing 
finely. The Yazoo Banner looks forward to a maximum 
yield of both Cotton and Corn. 
In Missouri, the Corn, Hemp, Oat, and Clover crops, 
are more promising than four v/eeks ago, owing to the 
.%!! of late rates. 
From Middle Tennessee our accounts represent the 
grain crops in a flourishing condition. The people are 
rejoicing over the promise of abundant harvests. 
In North Carolina, the Charlotte Whig reports that the 
farmers in that vicinity have begun to harvest their Wheat, 
and there is a prospect of a very large yield. 
The newspapers report that the crops in Ohio, Illinois, 
and Indiana, are late, but very promising. 
Grand Times in East Tennessee. — The editor of the 
Knoxville Register is happy over the accounts lately re- 
ceived in regard to the crops. Hear him ; 
“ ‘Hard times’ will have to surrender now. Never in 
the history of East Tennessee have our farmers gathered 
such a harvest as they have been blessed with this season. 
Wherever we see a farmer we see a cheerful countenance. 
The Wheat crop in quality and quantity, is by flir the best 
ever grown in this part of the State. The Oat crop seems 
to be nearly as good; and Corn, although small for the 
time of year, nevertheless has a good color, and, with a 
fair season, will yield abundantly. This is truly the far- 
mer’s ‘year of jubilee.’ ” 
Cotton and Corn. — A correspondent writing to the 
Montgomery {Ala.) AIoAl, under date of Butler County, 
July 24, says: “The terrible complaints of sorry crops, 
which have been rung for some weeks past, are turning 
out to be ‘much ado about nothing,’ except in some locali- 
ties in this county, where they have had no rain, the 
crops, both of Cotton and Corn are doing ‘indifferently 
well ;’ but generally the farmer will reap a generous re- 
turn for his year’s labor. I heard an intelligent planter 
say, yesterdiy, that he had seen Cotton with a crop of 
bolls and blooms that would make one thousand pounds 
per acre, and that he never saw a finer weed. Wherever 
the rains have been general, the crops were never better. 
This county will send more Cotton to market this year 
than ever before. Since last Monday copious showers 
have refreshed perishing vegetation, and, as the bro.kers 
say, everything looks buoyant.” 
Crops. — Promise a fair yield, up to this time. Th« 
rain which we have had during the last three days has 
rather helped than hurt them. — Red River American^ 
July 25. 
The Crops and the Rains.— We fear some considera- 
ble injury to the Corn crops of this section, from the ex- 
cessive rains with which we have been visited during the 
last few weeks. We hear a good deal of complaint from 
Duplin, and Onslow. — WiL 
Cotton is not doing so I portions of New Hanover 
mington {N. C.) July 31. 
Cotton and Sugar Cane.— A friend on Flint River, 
Dooly county, Georgia, writes us July 24th; 
“The prospect for the cotton crop is poor— five-eighths 
of a crop is all that we can now with safety expect to 
make Now, after a two months drouth, we have an ex- 
cess of rain. 
“I have a fair crop of Chinese Sugar Cane, about tea 
acres. 1 selected six diffcient Kinds of soil to plant it cii, 
and succeeded best on light gray sandy soil, somewLa^t 
i manured.” 
