Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

FAIRHAVEN, (Vermont) July 25.

Most of the papers pronounce the highest appearance of plentiful crops of grain and hay.

At no time since the settlement of this country, has the earth borne so rich a burthen in these parts.

Indian corn has a promising aspect. Grass and wheat were never better. The great price which wheat has been sold at since the last harvest, induced every farmer to lay about him, and sow as much wheat as possible. In many towns the zeal ran so high, that there were more than twice the number of acres sowed, that ever were at any time before.

Fresh evidence that Oats will produce Rye.

Col. David Irwin, of this town, has two acres of rye now standing in the field, which it is supposed will yield fifteen bushels per acre, without a single grain of rye ever having been sown or scattered on the ground. The land bore a crop of corn the year before last, and last year it was sown for oats; and produced a good crop which was cut early. The remainder of the field was left fallow, and the last fall sown with wheat, so that the oats stubble was not ploughed. There appeared a great plenty of sprouts from the oat stubble this spring. Col. Irwin meant to have ploughed the ground again; but the moisture of the soil, and the wetness of the season, prevented it, until it became too late. It was however, covered with verdure, which was taken to be grass, chess, or weeds, until the largeness of the growth provoked a closer examination, when the rye appeared.

Mr. During, a farmer near by, observing this strange metamorphosis, now accounts for land where his corn grows, being full of rye this year- it never was cultivated till the last year, when it bore oats.