Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-12
Grain Crnn of the South.

II il now generally understood that the grain
prospect of the country Is good, though of course
all estimates in regard to the Indian product
are vet entirely premature. The present weather,
if somew what cool for the season, cannot be said
be otherwise than very favorable Alternate shower
and sunshine will be excellent for the maize and
has certainly restored much Of the injury threaten
I'd to the wheat by the severe winter and back
ward sprng. This, it il admitted, is almost every
where apparent, and throughout the great grain
growing States Of the North, Northwest, ard West,
where the prospect was at no lime during the sea-
son so discouragng "a in the South, there can be
little to fear henceforth except from too continued
moisture. Toe wheat crop there may be said to
be an accomplsed fact with the assistance only Of
an average of sunshine, and sutstractiDg little
for the nvasions of insect depredators and similar
| incidents. Nothing, however, seems to render il
at all probable that there will not be an immense
yield much above an average, on account of the
great extent Of land seeded in the States spoken
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But we designed more particularly to refer to the
| prospect in the South. In this quarter there APP
! peared 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 10 two or three instances, are not
mainly dependent upon their grain product. But
It could have produced permanent evil in our jadg-
| II
! deplore such a result. The tide Of grain culture
has been gradually flowing southward for some years
past. This year particularly, il is stated, the
seeded has been unusually large, induced by the
success which has already de'Georgia compet-
tor in the and the port Of Charleston q source
Of Spanish supply
A disastrous check then at the outset, upon this
growing resource Of Southern prosperity and en-
ierprise, might be felt for long time to come. The
southward tide of grain culture bears too much OF
hope upon its pillows for the prospect Its encouu-
tering adverse current NOS 10 excite alarm. There
| is vgor and regeneration IN its progress, and
the phihhthropist no less than the political econo-
mist finds reason to rejoice in il. IL the gradual
operation Of a law whose effects will be as benef-
cent to society as upon the products Of the sci.
Interlying the enervate uxuries of the tropics and
the hardy necessares OF the temperate zone is a
| region whose reclamation from tobacco and bare
| " ne-sustainng compromise between cotton and
corn, is a desideratum.-This region is now per-
haps TO be found between Maryland aud the south
! ern line Of the Caronas. There seems reason to
infer il may continue an almost imperceptble ten
dency toward the native meridian OF the negrOFa
and the Injuries proper which lie bey ond the great
stspes OF cotton, rice ndsOgr as at present dehn-
| ed.
In this view Of the case tie an additional
of joy TO remark that the grain prospect az the
South has recovered, in general view, from the
disaster which menseed H. and IL nov eminently
promising There are few districts Of course, as ale
ways where local adverse causes have operated un-
iavorably These spp ar TO De principally in Vir-
GINA and OF very limited extent, even IN thst
State the prospect Is very good. But in North Ca
rollins. Georgia, Tennessee, Kentu Ky, and such
portions Of TIE States south OF them favorA-
be for the culture, the prospects is not Only pro-
nouneed good, but the unusual srea seeded, u il
said. Will make the yield very large. Earnestly DO
80 uust that no sdEerse influence may supsrvene.
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