AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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will make a small fortune. The wheat crop in 
particular looks extraordinarily flourishing. 
Some of our farmers have had much of their 
corn cut up by the cut-worm, but that which is 
put in on a stubble looks very well. Crows 
and blackbirds being very scarce, some persons 
are cutting clover, which I think with tim¬ 
othy will make a fine yield, generally speaking. 
Oats look very well considering what a wet 
spring we have had with us. I think we shall 
have an abundant supply of fruit the coming 
season, such as apples, peaches, pears, etc. 
June 7, 1854. W. D. T. 
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For the American Agriculturist. 
WILL THERE BE A GREAT DROUTH THE 
COMING SUMMER? 
The above caption is from yours of the 17th, 
to which you append very valuable remarks, 
and such as should have due impress upon all 
your readers. To which permit me to add, by 
giving facts as to this region, a few miles east of 
Vicksburg, or a mile or so south of a line from 
Vicksburg to Jackson. 
We have more cold weather and later in the 
month of April, than I have notes of for 25 
years. In reference to my note-book, I find 
“Ice on the 17th,” “frost on 18th,” “frost on 
29th and 30th.” “ Ice said to be seen at Mr. 
Watson’s. Thermometer 368 at Mr. Montgom¬ 
ery’s.” My thermometer being broken. 
We have had more rain in May than I have 
seen, perhaps not in quantity, remembering the 
water which fell May 7th, 1840, but so much 
that plowing cannot be done without plowing 
in water. Since the 21st inclusive, we have had 
a copious rain—nine days of storm—a heavy 
washing rain. How far these rains extended I 
know not, but Big Black has sustained its 
height of water for fifteen days, and I have 
seen a strip of country 40 miles wide, east and 
west; have heard from a traveler who left here 
fifteen days since, and he had heavy rains at 
least to near Louisville, Ky. 
The demand for corn now is great, price being 
85 cents per bushel in Vicksburg, and 100 cents 
in the country; this, with wet weather and 
grass, will cause short crops, dry summer or 
not. Because, in this country, we neglect every 
thing when cotton needs cleaning, the short crop 
will cause an early resort to the growing crop, 
and corn growing here when April and May is 
wet, being very succulent, and withal apt to be 
grassy, is sure to fail under an ordinary drouth. 
Thus do I argue for short crop of corn. 
I have heard from one planter, who has been 
following the plow forty-five years, so “ he will 
have to turn out a part of his cropanother, 
quite a pushing man, has already thrown out 
100 acres ; another, I am told, is about to give 
up that “ Gen. Green” conquers; and every 
body I meet complains of grass and rain. Yet, 
if “ a great drouth,” our cotton which stood 
the frosts of April, is sure to give a large yield. 
I planted some 20 acres more to corn this 
than last year, yet I set my figures at 1000 
bushels less, but then ample for the plantation. 
■ -. I know no substitute to corn sown broad-cast; 
next in value millet, next oats. In your cli¬ 
mate, oats may rank first. I have cut 30,000 
lbs. of green corn per acre, (eighteen tons,) and 
8000 lbs. (four tons) of cured millet per acre; 
oats at 25 bushels will do to sow here. 
M. W. Philips. 
Edwards, Miss., May 30, 1854. 
From the Mark Lane Express, Monday, May 22. 
upward movement has thus far not been aided 
by speculation, circumstances having been of a 
character to discourage investments. 
The sowing season was so auspicious as to 
induce farmers to cultivate a greater breadth of 
land than usual with Wheat. The spring 
proved favorable; and up to the present period 
the reports from the agricultural districts have 
been, and continue to be, of a satisfactory na¬ 
ture ; hence there is nothing, in reference to the 
probable result of the next harvest, to tempt 
merchants to meet the new crop with large 
stocks on hand. The increasing stringency of 
the Money Market is also against speculation; 
and, further, it may be added that the magni¬ 
tude of the foreign supplies has had the effect 
of shaking the confidence of those who were of 
opinion that it would prove difficult to cover 
the deficiency in the produce of the last crop 
by importations from abroad. The present po¬ 
sition of affairs appears, however, to warrant 
the supposition that the latter view was not ill- 
founded, inasmuch as it is now tolerably plain 
that the immense arrivals of foreign Breadstuffs 
have only sufficed to check an advance. Con¬ 
sumption has been so great, that by far the 
larger part of what has been received has 
melted away almost imperceptibly ; and unless 
importations are continued on the same exten¬ 
sive scale, something like scarcity may yet over¬ 
take us before the new crop can, under the most 
favorable circumstances, be rendered available. 
Harluts. 
Remarks. — There has been quite a tumble in 
Flour since our last—a fall of at least $1 per 
bbl. Corn has advanced 2 to 3 cts. per bushel. 
Pork has declined a trifle, while Beef has ad¬ 
vanced. 
Cotton is a little lower; no change in other 
Southern products. 
The Weather is fine now for all kinds of crops. 
Grass is very abundant, and the Hay crop will 
be large. Wheat and Rye with a few excep¬ 
tions are uncommonly promising. They have 
already begun to harvest these crops south of 
us. Corn, Potatoes, and other things are so 
backward we cannot yet speak of them with 
any degree of certainty. An unusual breadth 
of land is planted in all kinds of grain and root 
crops. 
By the steamer Pacific we have news from 
Europe to the 31st May. The weather was very 
fine in Great Britain and on the continent, and 
the Wheat and other crops promising. This 
had a slightly depressing effect on the Corn 
market, and Wheat, Flour, &c., were a little 
lower. 
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PRODUCE MARKET. 
Saturday, June 10, 1854. 
Carter and Mercer Potatoes are worth $4@$4 25, $ bbl.; 
Reds, $3@$3 25 ; Common, $3 ; Bermuda, new, §6 50; 
Beets, Turnips, Onions, Carrots, and Parsneps, $3 ip bbl.; 
Spinach, S3 ; Green Peas, $3 25@$3 75; Radishes, 75c.@ 
$1 tg hundred bunches; Lettuce, $2; Asparagus, $14® 
$16 ; Gooseberries, $3 bushel; Strawberries, $3 50@s6 
(p hundred baskets ; J>9@$12 $ hundred bowls ; Cucum¬ 
bers, $1@$1 50 $ doz. ; Watermelons, 50c.@75c. piece ; 
Butter, 18@21c. lb. ; Eggs, 14@15c ; Cheese, 8@llc. 
There is not much change from last week. This has been 
essentially a strawberry week. For some remarks on these 
number of cattle on the way here, will probably keep down 
the prices for a few weeks, and there will then be another 
rise. We think there is not a large supply in any part of 
the country, and that the price of beef as with everything 
else, will continue pretty well up. 
The quality of the cattle in market to-day is very good, 
there being comparatively few poor one. Some were very 
fine ; one lot especially, of 224, owned by Mr. S. M. Baker, 
of Ohio ; part of them were fed by himself. Mr. Gwin, also 
of Ohio, had some very superior cattle, and also Mr. Frank 
Ford, of Kentucky. Tile butchers put the price of beef 
rather higher than we quote. 
Beeves are worth from 8@10 cts. per pound. 
$25@$65 
$3@$8, mostly sheared now. 
$2 50@$5 
4%@5 cts. per pound. 
4c. 
Cows & calves, 
Sheep, 
Lambs, 
Corn fed swine, 
Mast fed “ 
Veals, 4@6c, 
Washington Yards, Forty-fourth street. 
A. M. Allerton, Proprietor, 
RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. IN MARKET TO-DAY 
Beeves, 3,065 3,065 
Cows and Calves, 22 
Veals, 762 
Sheep, 764 
Swine, 138 
The Hudson River R. R., brought 1400 Beeves ; Hudson 
River Boats, 220; Erie R. R., 900 beeves and 138 Swine; 
Harlem RaTroad, 8 Beeves, 22 Cows and Calves, 762 Veals, 
and 764 Sheep. Beeves from New-York State number 220 ; 
Ohio, by cars, 1024 ; on foot, 493 ; Kentucky, 408 ; Illinois, 
723 ; Virginia, 91; and Iowa, 9S. 
Chamberlin’s, Robinson street. 
RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. IN MARKET TO-DAY. 
Beeves, 
50 
Veals, 
210 
Cows and Calves 
, 35 
Sheep, wooled 
500 
Sheep, sheared, 
1,500 
Lambs, 
500 
Browning’s, 
, Sixth street. 
Beeves, 
167 
Sheep, 
2987 
Cows, 
100 
O’Brien’s, 
Sixth street. 
Beeves, 
50 
Cows, 
125 
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PRICES CURRENT. 
Produce, Groceries, Provisions, Lumber, Src. 
Ashes. 
Pot, 1st sort, 1653 ... 
Pearl, 1st sort, 1852, 
.$ 100 lbs. 5 87%® 6 06 
Beeswax. 
American Yellow... 
.f lb. — 29 @ 30 
Bristles. 
American, Gray and White. 
.— 40 @— 45 
Coal. 
Liverpool Orrel.... 
chaldron, 10 50 @ 11 — 
Sidney. 
Pictou. 
Anthracite_: ... 
.... $ 2,000 lb. 6 @6 50 
Cotton. 
Upland. Florida. Mobile. N.O. <$- Texas. 
Ordinary. 8 8 8 8 
Middling. 9% 9% 9% 9% 
Middling Fair, 10% 10% 10% 11 
Fair. 11 11% 11% 12% 
Cotton Bagging. 
Gunny Cloth. 
American Kentucky 
- . a 
Coffee. 
Java, White. 
Mocha. 
Brazil. 
Maracaibo. 
St. Domingo.. 
(cast 1 ).. 
.— 13%@—14 
.— 10%@ 12 
.— 12 @—12% 
.- 9% @-10% 
Cordage. 
Bale Rope. 
Boit Rope.. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
From the general tenor of our remarks for 
some time past, it may have been gathered that 
we were not unprepared for the improvement 
which the tone of the Wheat trade has under¬ 
gone within the last week or two, and though 
we do not anticipate any very important rise in 
quotations unless, unhapily, any thing should 
hereafter occur to give rise to uneasiness in re¬ 
gard to the growing crop, still we deem a fur¬ 
ther advance by no means improbable. The 
see article on first page, headed “ Editor's Farm Notes.” 
Watermelons begin to come. 
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NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 
Monday, June 12,1854. 
The great demand and consequent high prices of the past 
few weeks, have produced their legitimate effect upon the 
markets. An over supply has been rushed in, and just now 
buyers have it all their own way. The prices to-day are 
almost a fourth lower than one week ago. Drovers com¬ 
plain of not| getting first cost for cattle, to say nothing of 
transportation, commission, and other expenses. The 
Corks. 
Velvet, Quarts.$ gro. — 35 @—45 
Velvet, Pints....— 20 @—28 
Phials.— 4 @—16 
Flax. 
Jersey.$lb. — 8 @— 9 
Feathers. 
Live Geese, prime....tg? lb. — 47 @— 49 
Hair. 
Rio Giande, Mixed.tg! lb. — 23 @ — 23% 
Buenos Ayres, Mixed.— 21 @ — 23 
Hay, for shipping : 
North River, in bales.$ 100 lbs. — 87%@— 90 
