Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — The Crops. [ARTICLE]

The Crops.

Although the fruit crop is very irregular—unusually good in some places, and nearly a failure in average yield will certainly be above an average crop. Up to this time, the temperature has been so low that the fruit ia unusually small for the season or for the time elapsed since blossoming. If the latter part of the season should be as dry as the Spring has been vvet, the quality Of the fruit will, of course, be good. The corn crop is now the great matter or solicitude; and many express the opinion that corn cannot now be planted in time to mature.’ Such remarks are neither founded on common sense nor common observation. We havetiever seen, por have we ever conversed with a man who ever did see, a late Spring and an early Fall come together. It is not in the economy of Nature to act so. Let every farmer do his duty, as the weather will allow,, an 4 Nature will quit r.lining in time to do up all her work before frost. In 1843,when the sun, from contemplating the long-tailed comet, or from some other cause, forgot to bring Spring on North America until Summer time, farmers were much more discouraged than they are noyj;_"yet we remember that in the Fall of that year the crops were so abundant that corn and oats sold in Cincinnati, from wagons, at eight and ten cents a bushel. At all events, those farmers who do their tluty to their fare s, will have good crops, comparatively, and that will always bring the dimes. If the weather continues wet, plant the corn on top of tha ground, and then plow in the middle. The absence of hot weather has saved the small grains and grasses from scalding by the water that floods the country. If our crops ;ail at all, it will be from luture causes, and not from the past. — Indiana Fanper.