Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1858 — Farmer's Department. [ARTICLE]

Farmer's Department.

CONDUCTED BY AN AGRICULTURIST.

THE CROPS IN OHIO.

Oir’The wheat crop thisyear has every appearance of being a good one. VVe have heard of no complaining from our farmers in regard to it, Which we take as , a sign that the yield will be large unless some unexpected calamity soon befalls it. The only trouble now is in regard to the corn. The most of our farmers planted during the past three weeks, and not being generally-pos-sessed of an early kind for seed, unless the fall Beason is unusually favorable, but a small crop can be expected. A failureTn the corn crop would be more generally felt in this section than a failure in wheat, on account of last year’s crop not being generally sound and very little remaining in ■tore. — Celina (Mercer Co.) Standard. A fide through parts of this county and Clermont, enabled us to see the various kinds of grain. Wheat in the low lands in these counties is not worth much; at least, one-fourth is cheat. Oats looks well on rolling land. The rust has struck some fields ia Franklin township, Clermont county, and entirely-ruined the crop. The best wheat we have seen is upon Air. Harvey Chapman’s farm. It was sowed early, and in the dark of the moon. There is little cheat in it. Corn lo.oks well.— Brown Co. Democrat. in various parts of the county have commenced cutting their wheat. The hot, dry weather is ripening the grain rapidly, and during the next week the.wheat crop of this county will probably all be cut. From various sources wo learn that the damage by the weevil and rust is immaterial compared with what was some days ago anticipated, and a fair average crop is calculated upon. An observing, intelligent farmer of Washington township, and an excellent judge of grain, informed us to-day that in the region of country running, through from thi* city to Otjsego, the product of wheat will be fully tivice as great as it was last year, and that the quality of the grain ia excellent. —Zanesville Tinvs.