Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-06-30
The Growing XYhcnf.

lut HCCOuHtS from NHllOuS sections oil the
country of the condition of the wheat crop,
being generally colored with a sombre hue,
might induce the casual observer TO imag
inc that we are going to have genuine
famine. There is no such prospect In
Fact, It is almost out Of the question for
general famine ever to occur in the United
States, owing 10 the great diversity of Gil.
mate, SOIL and productions, and facilities of
interchange between the various sections.
According to the most careful observa-
tons that we can make by an examination
OF all that is sold by our exchanges and cor
respondents upon the shbject of the crop
now undergoing harvest oralresdy secured
at the South; now ripening in the Middle
States; now beginning to head out in the
Northern ones; now putting on the green
livery of promise to the Canadian farmers
we have come to the conclus on that the
general crop Of the United States will be
fair average one.
In Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. particular
y the southern parts Of those States, the
wheat was injured by winter killing. In
Michigan that vas partially the case yet
in all those States unless the grain is de-
stroyed by rust or blight, Notwithstanding
the fly has committed some ravages, there
will be more wheat raised than will be
needed for home consumption.
In the lower part of Virginia, the wheat
has been seriously destroyed by the Joint.
worm, aided by the fly. in some counties
Fauquier, for instance-the destruction has
been serious; and. if il had prevailed all
over the State to the same extent, we
should have seen very few quotations of
Virginia flour this year.
In several of the Southern States, net
heretofore counted in the wheat-geowinc
ones, they have made great crops this year.
In Iowa and Wisconsin all accounts con-
cur in saying that the prospect of a good
CROP never equaled the present. In North
ern Illinois and Indiana there is not as
much land sown as formerly in winter
wheat, but the prospect is fair, and they
never had finer season to sow spring
wheat, and the farmers improved i; to good
advantage.
In our own State we think we shall
make good average crop at least; and so
will Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and
New Jersey.
A letter just received from an intelligent
gentleman in Vermont says that the far.
mer's prospects are most encouraging; that
high prices have stimulated them TO plant
largely CT everything calculated to increase
the product of human food.
The Eastern States are not wheat grow
ing ones, but such crops as they do grow
are promising, and will save them from
drawing so largely upon the others for
breadstutfs.
1t is true that mllers and spectators
are contracting for new wheat at unusually
high prices-in some places 50 bushel !;
yet that is no sign that they believe the
general crop is short one. They know
that flour is high now, and that new -four
always sells readily, and they expect to
make profit on first purchases at high
price, and bv offering high a: first, induce
farmers to bring the crop early into market.
We do not expect that wheat or -four
will be as low the next fall as it was the
last one, but we do expect fair yield of
wheat, and that the price will come down
We know that farmers have planted an
unusually large number of acres Of corn,
potatoes and other edibles, and we see no
reason yet why we may not expect an
abundant harvest
Of grass we have never had better
prospect of great yield than we have now
all over the country, and that will help to
make good and cheap butchers meat, and
somewhat relieve the pressure upon the
breadstuffs market, if any should occur.
Finally, we are constrained, from the da
Ia before us, to believe that we shall not
suffer any marked dimnulion Of any of the
staple articles of food, notwithstanding the
usual amount Of periodical crop-croaking
and the only article that we fear diminu
ton in is fruit; and of the more substan-
lial kinds Of this. we still hope that some
Of the States. once far off. but not so now
will grow as an ample supply.
AS there is still time to SOW buckweat
rutabagas ard turnips, we again urge far.
mers TO pay attention TO these valuable
auxiliaries of the corn and wheat crops, and
then. with the blessings of Providence, we
shall trust that all now here, and all that
Europe can pour upon our shores of hun
CRY people to feed at our granary, will find
ample stores for the next year-M Y
Tribune.