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THE SOtJTHEHN WOkLD, JtjKfe i5, 1862. 9 POSTAL CARD CORRESPONDENCE. Klmore County, Alabama. “Good pros pect for a corn crop; cotton is not so good, the cold weather in May killing out a great deal. The present cool nights retard its growth. Oat crop line ; will average 20bush els per acre." I)an 8wivt. Pink Gbovk, Appling County, Gkoroia. “The oat crop of this county fully harvest ed ; yield 70 percent or more better than last year. Growing crops all fine; corn excel lent. Cane and sweet potatoes promising. Peaches scarce; apples not done blooming." J. B. Johnson, Jr. Laurens County, South Carolina. “Wheat and oats better than at any time since the war, corn small for the time of the year. Cotton growing hut little owing to cool nights. Vegetation apparently at a stand still. The outlook for corn and cot ton gloomy." Oscar Jones. Gkkknwood, South Carolina. “Oats very fine. Have many heads of the red rust proof with from 120 to 140 double seed to the stalk. Oats is the redemption of this coun try.” Mrs. G. M. Jordan. Notes from Hie Field Oats.—A. M. Fulltton of Leo county, Ala bama, averaged 80 bushels of oats |>er acre. J. J. Duke, of Oglethorpe county, Georgia, secured a yield of 125 bushels of oats per acre. Capt. J. M. King, of Lonoke, Arkansas, obtained 50 bushels of oats per acre. Dr. M. W. Havis, of Houston county,Geor gia, averaged 55 bushels of oats per acre; R. J. Smith 45)4 and G. G. Potter 00M. The oat club of Milledgeville, Georgia, ob tained the following yield on one acre in oats: J. A. Orme 101 bushels and 20 pounds;' W. A. Cook 103 bushels; J. B. Pound, 03 bushels and G pounds; H. C. Vinson, 8-1 bush els and 28 pounds; E. C. Ramsey, 80 bushels and 20 pounds; Sol Barret 75 bushels; P. J. Cline 03 bushels—nn avernge of over 80 bush els. Messrs. Ivey of Marion, county, Georgia, harvested 250 bushels of oats from IK acres. The oat crop near San Marcos, and Texas will average between 50 and 80 bush els per acre. B. M. Bateman, of Byron, Georgia, harves ted COO bushels of oats from G acres. Thomas Bryan, of Lee county, Georgia, cut oats May 15th averaging over 50 bushels per acre. Robert Thornton, of Lebanon, S. C., ob tained over 7000 bushels of oats on 75 acres. L. C Beuchan, of Dublin, Georgia, aver aged 50 bushels of oats per acre. Ben. Kimbrough, of Harris county, Geor gia harvested 70 bushels of oats per acre. Wheat.—Capt. J. M. King, Lonoke, Ar kansas, harvested 20 bushels of wheat per acre, Allie Nisbet. of Milledgeville, Georgia, made 150 bushels of “Bill Dallas" wheat on 0 acres. Capt. John Perry, near Clarksville, Tenn„ averaged 20 bushels per acre of Mediterrane an and Walker wheat. John Booker, of Harris county, Georgia, harvested 430 bushels of wheat from 0 acres. M. J. Patrick, of Gritfin, Ga., secured 150 bushels of Bill Dallas wheat from three acres. Wheat harvested near San Marcos, Texas, averaged twenty bushels per acre. Reuben Miller, of Morgan county, Ga., harvested over 3,000 bushels of wheat. Mr. Brown, agent of the Georgia railroad at Covington, Ga., secured an average of 33 bushels per acre, of Bill Dallas wheat. Hon. W. L. Peck, of Conyers, Ga., har vested 1,200 bushels of wheat. Wheat was threshed in Wilkinson county, Ga., May 15th. C H. Tidwell, in Giles county, Tennessee, cut wheat May 13th. OrowiiiR Crops in Georgia. The May report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for Georgia shows that the con dition of the growing crops, June 1st, in the whole State is 100, or nine per cent better. In North Georgia, 101; Middle Georgia, 10!); Southwest and East Georgia each 110; in Southeast Georgia, 107. The oat crop,so far as harvested,is 121,com pared to an average crop, and those not har vested 115. The crop is a very large one, perhaps the best ever grown in the State, although injured 0 per cent by rust. The yield of wheat where harvested is reported at 121.5 in the Stale as compared to an average crop, and where not harvested at 100. The crop has been injured by rust 15 percent. The stand of cotton June 1st is 01.G in the state. The condition of the plants June 1st was 01 in the whole state. The cold weather has not only impaired the stand but retarded the growth. Peaches are put down in the state at 85; apples 60; pears 73.6; grapes 09. G; melons 1.00; sorghum, sugar cane and sweet potatoes above the avernge; rice, 07. Ksuhih Crops. A summary of reports received by the Secretary of Kansas State Board of Agricul ture for the week ending .Tuno 10, is very encouraging. The present is good for all kinds of crops, fruits and farm animals. The wheat crop is now out of the way of any l>ossible contingency of harm, and will har vest not under eighteen bushels per acre, which, for a 8tate average, is vory large. This will give for the acreage reduced from 1881—twenty-five per cent.—25,000,000 bush els of wheat. The rye acreage has increased from last year about 300 per cent., and is in an unus ually promising condition. Both the corn and oats acreage have in creased over 1881, and no adverse reports have been recivcd concerning them. The last three days of the week have been warm, and com that had been retarded by cool weather is now showing finely. Farm ani mals are in fine condition and have increas ed in numbers largely over 1881. MISNOiirl'M Harvests. Reports on the condition of wheat throughout the West continue flattering, and, with anything like favorable linrvest weather, largo receipts of new wheat are an ticipated this month; 250,000 bushels at the least are expected from Southern Illinois and Southern Missouri, where the harvest ing is going on steadily now. A gentleman connected with one of the largest grain houses here 1ms jnst returned from a trip through Missouri. He says he never saw such magnificent prospects. The wheat is turning yellow ami the general harvest will commence in this State by a week from next Wednesday. In many fields the har vesting machines are already in position ready to begin operations, Tennessee Crops The Tennessee Agricultural Bureau has estimates of the crops for May based on an swers from ninety-three counties. Wheat is not injured by rust any where; much of the crop is already harvested, and yields better than previous estimates. Increased acreage for the present over last year, forty-three per cent., and the crop is thirty-one per cent, above last year, making a yield for the present year of 11,091,578 bushels. The weather the past month was unfavor able for cotton, and in some localities cotton land was replowed and planted in corn. The oat crop is very promising. Clover and grass acreage is diminished, owing to last summer’s drouth. Corn looks reasona bly well. Growing; Crops in Kentucky. Tub Commissioner of Agriculture of Ken tucky in his May report shows that on June 1st the oat crop larger by 10 per cent, than last year; wheat promising a fair yield; larger acreage in corn, and perfect stand; larger acreage in sorghum; fruit crop fair. The Original Home or the Horae. There is no doubt that the original home of the horse is not Europe, but Central Asia; for since the horse in its natural state depends upon grass for its nourishment and fleetness for its weapon, it could not in the beginning have thriven and multiplied in the thick forest-grown territory of Eurojte. Much rather should its place of propagation be sought in those steppes where it still roams about in a wild state. Here, too, arose the first nations of riders of which we have his toric knowledge, the Mongolians and the Turks, whose existence even nt this day is as it were combined with that of the horse. From these regions the horse spread in all directions, especially into the steppes of Southern and Southeastern Russia and into Thrace, until it finally found entrance into the other parts of Europe, but not until after the immigration of the people. This as. sumption is, at least, strongly favored by the fact that the farther a district of Europe is from those Asiatic steppes, i. c., from tho original home of the horse, the luter does the tamed horse seem to have made its his toric appearance in it. Tho sup(H>sition is further confirmed by the fact Unit horse raising among almost every tribe nppeara as an art derived from neighboring tribes in the East or Northeast. Even in Homer the ox appears exclusively as the draught-animal in land operations at home and in the field, while tho horse was used for purposes of war only. Us employment in military op erations was determined by swiftness alone. That the value of the horse must originally have depended on its fleetness, can easily be inferred from the name which is repeated in all the branches of the Indo-European lan guage, and signifies nearly “hastening," “quick." The same fact is exemplified by tho descriptions of the oldest poets, who, next to its courage, speak most of its swift ness.—I\om “The Introduction of Dome.tic Animah," in Popular Science Monthly for June. A Cur* For Swkknky.—Judge C. H. McCall has cured a large number of horses affected with the sweeney, in the following manner. Cut a small orifice about the cen ter of the shrunk place, and insert a piece of copperas about the size of a ]>ea—not larger for too much is dangerous. The hide will become puffed up ami matter will run freely from tho orifice. Inn short time the horse will bo well and sound. The remedy is cheap and simple but none tho less effective in results, if there is nothing ail the horse but sweeney. 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