Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-23

THE GREAT WEsT.-During the last four
weeks, the senior editor of the Spy has travelled
distance of between three and four thousand
miles, in the course of which he traversed the
whole length of the States ofNew York and Penn.
sylvania passed across the States Of Ohio, Indi-
ana, and Illinois, East and West, from Pennsyl.
vania to Missouri, and also each of them, separ-
ately, North and South from the Lakes to the
Ohio river. We also visited Central Ken
lucky, and crossed the States of New Jer-
sey and Connecticut, in going and returning.
We visited, and stopped, for longer or
shorter period, in all the principal cities of the
States we have named above. In this extended
journey, we made it a leading object, wherever we
went, to ascertain, by personal observation and
inquiry. the present state of the crops, and the
prospect of the coming harvest. The result of
this observation and inquiry is, that the crop of
wheat will in the average of all the States be
greater than any former crop ever raised in the
country.
In Illinois and Missouri and the Western por-
ton ofIndiana, the Winter wheat was consider
ably WinteI-killed, but the favorable weather of
the Spring has thickened it up finely, and great
portion of the fields give promise of about fair
average crop But the extent of Spring wheat
which has been sown in these localities, far ex-
ceeds that of the Winter wheat, or that of any
former year, and Spring wheat never gave bet.
ter promise of bountiful crop. A gentleman
of Western Illinois, who was fsr many years in
the milling business and the wheat trade, gives it
as his opinion, that even in that State which suf.
fered more than any other from the Winter, the
crop of the present year will be the largest that
ever was garnered. In large portion of Indi-
ana, and the whole of Pennsylvania Ohio, and
Kentucky, with the exception of little appear
ance of smut in some localities in the latter State
both the Winter and Spring grain exhibit the
most promising aspect, while the amount under
cultivation far exceeds anything heretofore
known. Barring, therefore, the chances, which
are small, of future injury, there is good reason
to expect crop of wheat the present year, large
ly above the average yield, and probably larger
than any former one
OF Indian corn, it is yet too early to predict
with any degree of confidence the probable char.
acter of the harvest 1t is, on an average. from
one to two weeks more backward than usual
This, however, is no cause for apprehension, if
July and August should be warm and favorable
especially as the plant has strong and healthy
look. Our impression is, that the breadth devo.
ted to this culture, the present season, in the
States above men toned, is SO large as in some
former years-a greater portion having been given
to wheat-but this falling off will probably be
compensated by the increased culture of the arti.
Gle in Iowa, Wisconsin &c
With these favorable prospects before them, the
people of that wide region expect to be soon in a
condition to meet their Eastern engagements,
and again to bring up to its former standard, the
trade with their sister States, which, in conse.
quence Of the large investments in real estate,
has SO pereeptibly fallen off, the present season.