Wheat Harvest (1872)
Some few of our farmers have cut their early wheat crops this week, and we learn that the yield will exceed their expectations. Next week, in this section, wheat harvest will set in in good earnest, and as no rust or other disease has struck the crop, we look for something over an average yield in quantity and a very superior article in quality. Mr. P. M. CRAIGMILES, upon his farm three miles north of this place, has a crop of some fifty acres which he thinks will make at least 1000 bushels of as good wheat as was ever produced. We hear equally as favorable reports from other portions of the county, where the land is good. (page 3, col 1)
Source: Cleveland Banner (Cleveland, TN); 7 June 1872. Available online at Google News Archive.