The crops.
From different quarters of the Confederacy we receive encouraging accounts of the prospects of the growing crops of wheat. The Rome (Ga.) Courier says"from what it has seen and heard, the wheat crop is looking fine, and promised well."A farmer of long experience and observation, writes to the Chattanooga Rebel, from Middle Tennessee, as follows: "There has never been in my recollection, a session which afforded us so much hope. The wheat is coming up beautifully, fresh and lively. I calculate to raise a large overplus beyond last year."Others verbally and by letter confirm this statement. The editor add!: "The gentle rains of spring now coming with April weather, will, by the goodness of God, give us barns loaded to over flowing next fall. We have only to collect our crop."
The papers state that the wheat crop in Mississippi locks very promising — in fact, it could not look better. There is a large surface of soil in wheat, promising flour in abundance after the May harvest. If there are no more frosts the opinion is expressed that Mississippi will furnish wheat enough to supply half the Confederacy in flour for the next year.
