The Wheat crop in this county, espcially in the earlier sorts, is a complete failure; a great many farmers being unable to gather more than one or two bushels to the acre; and in some cases they did not reap the fields at all.
The Hay crop is good, and we have had remarkable fine weather for securing it.
Winter oats are extraordinarily fine. The Spring sowed, however, suffered by rust and the wet weather,so that it failed to be an average yield.
Upon the whole, the crops in this section promise now to fail considerably short of an average — such being the opinion of farmers; though according to our experience they are most apt to see the unfavorable side of the subject.
Salisbury Watchman
Source: Fayetteville Observer, July 3, 1862 as found on www.digitalnc.org
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