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The Virginian
Lynchburg, Virginia
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Petersburg agricultural report from June 28 details a tolerably abundant wheat harvest despite frosts and floods destroying 100,000 bushels on Appomattox low grounds. Corn, cotton, and oats promising; tobacco less so due to water scarcity.
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Petersburg, June 28. - Our wheat harvest is yearly over. The late crop is tolerably abundant, but the grain, in many places, has been saved by the mow. The rye wheat, we understand, did not produce well owing to the severe frosts which occurred in the early part of April. The crops of corn and cotton are very promising, there having been a scarcity of labor. The oats generally never looked better. The tobacco crop, we understand, is less promising, there having been a scarcity of water. The husbandman an ample reward for his plants.
Upon the whole, had it not been for the destruction on the low grounds, occasioned by the late rise in the water courses of this section of country, by which a vast quantity of wheat was destroyed, the prospects of the farmer, for a plentiful year, have seldom been more pleasing.
We have heard it computed by good judges, that the heavy rains which fell in the early part of the present month, and which completely flooded the low grounds, destroyed not less than one hundred thousand bushels of wheat, on the Appomattox and its tributary streams alone.
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Petersburg
Event Date
June 28
Outcome
destruction of not less than one hundred thousand bushels of wheat on the appomattox and its tributary streams alone
Event Details
Wheat harvest yearly over, tolerably abundant but grain saved by mow in many places. Rye wheat poor due to April frosts. Corn and cotton promising despite labor scarcity. Oats never looked better. Tobacco less promising due to water scarcity. Overall prospects pleasing except for flood destruction on low grounds from heavy rains this month.