Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-06-09
GRAIN CROP OF THE SOUTH.

1t is now generally understood that the grain pros
pect Of the country is good, though OF course all
entirely premature. The present weather, if some
what cool for the season. cannot be said to be other
wise than very favorable. Alternate ehower and
sunshine will be excellent for the maize, and has GER
tany restored much of the injury threatened to the
wheat by the severe winter and backward spring.-
This, 1t is admitted is almost every where apparent
and throughout the great graingrowDg States OF the
North, Northwest and West, where the prospect was
at no time during the season so discouraglng as IN
the South there can be little fear henceforth,
oept from TOO continued moisture. The wheat crop
there may be said to be an accomplished fact with
the assistance only Of an average OF sunshine, and
embracing little for the invasions of insect depre
dators and similar incidents. Nothing, however,
seems to render it at all probable that there will not
be an immense yield, much above an average, on &C.
count Of the great extent Of land seeded in the Saee
spoken of.
prospect in the South. In this quarter there appear
cd much reason in April to fear a deficiency. This,
of course would not very greatly affect the general
supply in the country the Southern States except
in two or three instances, are not mainly dependent
upon their grain product. But it could have pro-
duoed permanent evil, in our Judgment, in direc-
ton where find most reason to deplore such re-
suit. The tide Of grain culture has been gradually
flowing southwark for some years past. This year
particularly it Is stated the seeded has been un
usually large, induced by the success which has al.
ready made Georgia competitor in the race and the
port of Charleston Of Spanish supply.
disastrous check then, at the outset, upon this grow.
ing resource Of Southern prosperity and enterprise,
might be felt for long time to come. The South
ward tide of grain culture bears too much OF hope
upon lts biow. for the prospect of its encounerng
an adverse current not to excite alarm. There IS VI
eor and regeneration in its progress, and the phan.
thropist no less than the political economist finds
reason to rejoice in it. 1t is the gradual operation OF
law whose effects will be bene6cent to society Is
upon the products of the SOIL Interlying the ener'
vste luxures Of the tropics and the hardy necessa'
res Of the temperate is q region whose reclama-
ton from tobacco, and barely lfe-sustaning com
promise between cotton and corn, is a desideratum
This region is now perhaps TO be found between Ma
ryand and the Southern line of the Carolinas. There
seems reason to infer it may contibde an almost In.
perceptble tendency towards the native meridian OF
the legro and the uxuries proper which liz be-
You'd the great staples of cotton rice and sugar as at
present defined
In this view Of the case, it is an additional source
Of to remark that the grain prospect OF the South
has recovered in general view from the disaster
which menaced it. and is now emnently promising.
There few districts, Of course always, where
local adverse causes have operated unfavorably.-
These appear to be principally in Virginia and are OF
very limited extent 10 that State the prospect
10 very good. But in North Carolina, Georgia, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, and such portions of the States
south of them favorable for the culture, the
prospect is not only pronounced good, blu: the unu
susi area seeded it Is said, will make the yield very
large. Earnestly do ws irust that no adverse infu
ance AMI eryeue-l BALTIMORE American.