New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-01
THE WHEAT CROP.

farmer writes from Boone County, ILL.,, July "a, the
following unfayorable news touching the Spring wheat
crop:
"Our prospects for a splendid GRO? Of Spring wheat
are on the wsne. Hundreds and thousands Of acres
are rotting in the head. Parties who expected thirty
bushels per acre ten days ago, would compromise
upon twelve. Corn is getting ON finely"
WBEAT rs WIscoSsrS-A friend writes from Jeffer-
son County Wiz, July 81, that Spring wheat never
was better, ard the Winter wheat good as usual,
with a few exceptions where it was winter killed.
Farmers were then busy harvesting.
In OHIo-Fitehville, Huron County, o., July Do
"Tbe wheat harvest is mostly done, and h generally
fret rate. Other crops look WELL Corn rather late,
but doing fine. Weather very warm, with occasional
showers"
The Ohio Fa,rser gives the following information
touching wheat:
"In Tuscarawas County, July -, wheat cutting has
fairly commenced The amount Of straw on the
ground is not large, and the wcevil has done some
osn age and in localities considerable; but that
not damaged will be Of better quality than have
seen for the last ten years can safely say that
u yer had but field that equaled one of my present
crop. In Preble County the crops are excellent
Corn growing finely; oats and barley never We're 80
heavy; grass coed and potato es look WE'LL the wheat
ia over an average crop The wheat crop In the
Scioto Valley was never better. The yield generally
8 enormous. In Rcbland County the crisis is past
our crops are safe and Rchltbd laughs with bounte-
Gus harvest. More magnificent crops of wheat oats,
rye ard barley were never known. The ground aches
with lis heavy burden Of potatoes; and our corn,
though backward 10 planting, is coming forward
cheeriully."
Generally throughout II Q State, says The Farmer,
we have seldom seeu such fine specimens of wheat as
there are of this year growth All the varieties are
unusually plump of large berry, and the fly seems to
have committee but little damage and that in spots
euly. We Learn that wheat has filtered largely as
many as fifteen to thirty arising from one root.
There has been some smut in Kentucky, and rust in
parts Of Ohio but the reports generally agree that
this Ill be an unusually abundant crop, and of supe-
rior quality.
liz MIcHIGAS-A postscript 10 a letter dated Lam
siry, Mch., July 81, says the prospect is extremely
wood fr an unusually abundant harvest in this aud adj
joining counties.
In CASApA.-Lste accounts from Canada Yves. rep
resent that the expected large crop Of whest in that
egon is yet in danger nom the weevil or other de-
siroyers of grain while rpenDg.
In MISUNDERSTANDING of Western Tennessee,
which is o pretty extensive wheat-growing region,
Memphis paper rays:
Throughout this whole section Of country the
wheat oats and cereal crops were never better yield
ing largely and large amount OF lands IN cultivation,
so that have Tears to indulge In on this score
The corn crop aso promising, and should the weather
be seaeopabe for the next six weeks there VIII De
large yleld ahu on dOuiodhVo vi mas i"P"A'"A' "'
of home consumption"
sNEw-JERsIY.--Sussex County, July 29.--Crops
through the county exceedingly prosperous, except
wheat, which is pretty poor, but there is not much
sowp Corn, rye, oats and buckwheat Will yield
maximum crop. The yield of hay is very large
DESTRUCTION OF wEEvIL IN WHEAr.-The loss Of
wheat in soue of the southwestern States after stor'
ING it in brs is SO great as to deter many persons from
rai,ipg il az general crop. For this evil the French
have drcr yered an Effective, cheap refnedy in anes
tb.c agents, by which oil meets aud larv@ or the
| germs of life in the eggs are destroyed
Experiments hav. been made at giers on the most
OK eusive SCALE 1t was sscetaued that two gramiRes
of chlorofvrm or suphur-t of carbon, per mctrica
auintal Of whe at sufficient to destroy in five
DAYS time all in .ects in wheat with five grdmmes OF
suplurct of carbon per metrcsl quiDa the dostruc-
ton takes place in twentyour bonrs. The action Of
choruf rn is slower in consequence OF the density Of
its yspor, which inpes il downward and keeps 1t 10
the lever porop Of the wheat The actQn OF snpbnre
Of csrbon choroforn may be promp. TO be in
siabtantoUs, if larger proportions be employed. The
mass of grain operated on, so far from being difficulty
rat en- simpfes the opratior, Experiments were made
on II eco hectoltres of barley at once i9o pounds
of the eulphuret of carbon were used, which requnci
twenty minutes to introduce into the mass. These
operations may be made succe ssfuly even when the
heap of grain is simply covered with waterproof
cloth, which is closed with cay near the ground on
every sde The grain operated retains all its ger
ninatpg properties. The fetd odor of the suphuret Of
carbon is soon disspated and after they have been
exposed two or three days to the air. and moved oc
casonaly with shovel trace of it remains. These
grains 20 treated, when ground and made into bread,
cannot be distinguished from grain which has not been
exposed to the influence of apesthetic agents.
1t is highly important to Western farmers to know
that the application can be made to the grain in heaps
on the ground.