The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-05-31
Crop Prospects.

The question, What is the prospect for
our next CROP is on almost every mans
tongue. On that account every authent-
ic report of the state of the weather, ap-
pearance of the growing grain, or extent
of land planted, becomes unusually inter
esting this season.
From all that We can gather from ex-
changes and a mass Of private correspon-
dence, we arc led to indulge in pleasing
anticipations, all present appearances
indicating a good wheat harvest and a.
bundance of fruit. Of other grains far
mers have planted 'one acre more almost
universally. We shall need it all. The
crops of England and Western Europe
were very large at the last harvest, new
ertheless they did not suffice to meet the
increasing scale of consumption in face Of
diminished or rather absence of all stocks,
together with tho Withholding of the
Black Sea supplies.
In this country our supply Of grain has
never been so low as it is now. Our stock
of meat-producing animals has also been
SO drawn upon that We are consuming the
next years supply in advance,
In this City beef cattle have been Sl3'
and SIS per cwt. net for weeks. Sheep
average about s. head and hogs lit
tie under 6 cents a pound, live weight
Nothing but good crops of grain, grass
and roots can materially reduce the price
of breadstuHs and meat, which at present
rates are almost beyond the reach of City
laborers.
There is still time in all the Northern
States to plant corn. Then come beans +,
pumpkins, rutabagas, buckwhcat, cor n
for fodder and turnips. Let no one wh 0
has the means neglect to grow some Of
these to sell-N Y. Tribune.
IL So much for the prospect North
and West. In the South, however, the
crops are not so promising.
The Daily Dispatch of Richmond, Va,
May l9, says there are alarming fore
bodings of famine on account Of the Sc
we're drouth now prevailing in the South
In several of the other States South
they have had copious rains in sections Of
the country, while others remain too dry
for any kind of vegetation to 60 forward
At st. Louis there has been a severe
drouth, but the papers of the 18th speak
of heavy rains and most cncoura ging
prospects.
In North Alabama the drouth has been
very severe, and some of the wise negro.
drivers have been pulling down the tele-
graph wires under the belief that they
were the sole cause Of the drouth.
! In Texas the drouth prevails TO great
er extent than any other State in the T.
MON. 1t cannot be said that telegraph
wires produce the drouth there
Delaware is very dry. We hope our
great rain of Sunday reached there.
i The Rice crop, it is stated in some Of
the Southern papers, is not doing we'll
Some attribute it to an overflow of the
rice lands last fall with salt water at
time when the earth was very dgyy and
that it absorbed a8d retained so much Of
the saline matter that it now affects the
young plants. This is very probable, for
slight degree of salt in the water of the
river when it is let on the field is enough
TO destroy the crop.
THE TOBACCO CRoP.-The Raleigh
| On. c. Standard speaks discouI agingly
of the tobacco planters prospects. Theirs
is great lack of plants, and those that
have been planted out are not growing on
account of the dry weather.
A London paper states the consump-
ton of tobacco in England at over one
pound for every man, woman and child
in the United Kingdom, and that the con-
sumption is on the increase. In Den
mark the consumption is given at seven
ty ounces per head \ short crop will
affect these tobacco eaters.
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