The American Farmer Volume 1, No. 7; Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture and Rural Life (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...Mechi, in the Mark Lane Express alludes to the superabundance of rain, and adds " I don't feel quite comfortable about British agriculture in consequence "--and the editor of the Express says, that " many others must feel as uneasy over their condition, and with the rain falling at this moment nothing can read more gloomy than the advices from Cambridgeshire, as given in our Agricultural Prospects." 2 he Cotton Crop.--The June report of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, just issued, says that "an increase in the cotton area is reported in every State. A very small proportion of the county returns show a decrease of acreage. Planting was generally retarded by a protracted season of drought, and fields that were planted late occasioned some trouble in obtaining perfect stands, but the recent rains and renewed efforts in replanting have finally secured stands of average completeness. The per centage of increase in area over last year's crop, being the basis of comparison, is as follows: North Carolina 16, South Carolina 9, Georgia 12, Florida 10, Alabama 11, Mississippi 10, Louisiana 11, Texas 18, Arkansas 16, Tennessee 12--average 13 per cent." Mammoth Corn.--"We have complaints concerning the failure to germinate of this corn, advertised in our Feb'y No. by S. R. Bailey, Lima, O. Mr. Turpin, an intelligent young farmer of Queen Anne's Co., Md., who has one of the lest fields of corn in his vicinity, showed us quite a considerable breadth in it entirely bare, where this corn was planted, not a pint out of the bushel planted having come up. We have a similar complaint from subscribers in South Carolina. Agricultural Societies and Glubs. Queen Anne's Co. (md.) Agricultural Society.--This is an association composed entirel...