Daily Ohio Statesman

Agricultural Prospects in Connecticut.

The present season is the most backward and unfavorable for farming operations which has been experienced in New England for many years. Nearly two months ago, in the last week in March, the farmers in some of the adjoining towns were sowing their early peas, which are now hardly two or three inches out of the ground. Very few farmers have finished planting corn, and tobacco plants are only just up. The apple trees are beginning to blossom, but the peach and quince trees are badly killed from the effects of the past winter, and the Isabella grapevines have suffered severely, many of them being completely killed. The lateness of the season has put back the farming work two or three weeks, and unless warm weather comes soon, some of the crops must necessarily suffer. During the whole of this week we have had damp, cloudy, threatening weather, and on Wednesday evening it began to rain in good earnest, and continued so almost unremittingly for about twenty four hours, completely drenching and soaking the ground, and perhaps doing serious injury to the fruit blossoms. In New London and Windham counties the farmers have hardly began to plant their corn yet. Most farmers have their potatoes under ground, but it is feared that some of the tubers will rot before the warmth of the sun penetrates the cold, wet earth. The rye crop on wet land looks bad. It seems to be very thin, either from causes that come of its being covered so long with snow, or else the cold and wet of the spring. Grass looks quite well, and there is promise of a good bottom for the hay crop.--Hartford Courant, May 22.