Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-30
From papers by the Cambria.
Prospect Of the Harvest, IS47.

The glorious weather, says Wilmer &
Smiths European Times of the l4th,) to which
we alluded in our last as prevailing in all parts
of the three kingdoms, still continues. The
suns power increases daily, and every thing
progI osticates an early and abundant harvest.
The price of the public securities, under the
genial influence of this gratifying state of
things, is rising, the corn markets are falling,
and money is to be had on more liberal terms.
The corn trade was exceeding active on the
10th ult. Prices were then rapidly advancing
| to what might be termed famine pitch. The
splendid weather which has prevailed during
the fortnight, so exceeding favorable for the
growing crops, has given great confidence as
to an abundant and timely harvest; buyers
therefore, act with great caution, and the bust
ness which is now being transacted is limited
and the prices are receding fast as they ad-
vanced. The consequence, therefore, is, that
there has been considerable reaction in prices
and the business done of a limited character
the fall from the highest point having been a
bout 20s. per quarter; but the market is now
more steady, and tending upwards again.
Flour had declined to 40s. per bbl., but is now
worth AS. to 44s., the latter being the value of
the best Western; sour flour as. to 3Ss. per
barrel; American wheat los cd to lbs Cd per
70 pounds. Indian corn is steady at 52s to
SIS. Indian corn meal is in fair demand at
23s. per barrel for yellow, and Sos. for white.
General Agricultural Report for May, lS47.
Taken as whole, the weather experienced
during the past month has been exceedingly
fine and vegetative; hence the progress of the
growing crops has been both rapid and crafty
ing. Its rapidlty will be best inferred when
we state that, in many of our forward districts
wheat and barely are rapidly coming into ear;
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that harvest work, under the present auspices,
| is likely to be commenced quite as early as the
corresponding period in 1876; consequently,
the wants of the consuming classes are likely
to be met with home-gr produce somewhat
earlier in the season than was anticipated a
month or six weeks ago: the necessity for I'M
usually large importations of foreign corn af
ter the close of July will render unnecessary;
and, father. the prices of most articles are like
ly to assume more moderate range than we
have had to note for some months past.
| These opinions are, of course, offered in the
expectation that the forthcoming crops, not on
ly of corn, but likewise of potatoes, will be good
ones. Should reverse state of things be eX-
perienced of course il wo uld be out of the ques-
tion to expect low or even moderate range
of valne.
| With scarcely single exception, the &C
counts which have reached us from all parts of
England respecting the general appearance of
| the wheats, barleys, or other produce, are very
fiatterng. As to the ravages committed by
the wire-worm and other insects, we may state
generally that they have been to very trfng
extent; and our correspondents, one and all,
speak in the highest terms of the present as
pect of the fields.
Notwithstanding the severe losses which
IF lacf
from the long CONS planned of disease in that
esculen mt, and the very high prices at which it
has been selling in our various markets during
the whole of the present year, we have every
reason to believe that fair average quantity
of land is under potatoe culture this season, not
only in England, but also in Ireland and Scot
land. 1t would, ofcourse, be premature on our
part to offer any po sitve opinion as to the
growth of this year: but the result of the in
quries we have caused to be made lead us to
hope that the disease is presenting itself in
very mitigated form compared with that of the
two preceding years.-.Mark Lane Erpess.
The Crops tn France.
The Presse announces that the brilliant
vegetation observable in the growing corn has
exercised favorable influence on the French
markets. If this warm temperature be pro-
onged for short time, We shall have an addi-
ton to our food in the articles of peas, beans,
milk, butter, and cheese, and laborng classes
will be enabled to reduce their consumption Of
bread. 1t is not surprising, therefore, that the
price of wheat is falling throughout France. In
the neighborhood of Paris the price of wheat
has declined IF. per hectolitre; at Prove, IT, SOC.
at Meaux and Melun, 75c.; at Etampes, If.
&c.; at Chartres, s5c. At Lille, in the de-
partment of the North, wheat fell francs the
hectolitre at last market, and large quantity
offered for sale could find no buyers. At Caen,
Lisieux, Falaise, Mortagne, the decline has a