Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-30
The Grain Crops.

Much anxiety is felt for the growing
crops, all over the country. The backward
season is general in its prevalence, and Is
not only injuring the winter crops, but IS
preventing the planting of spring crops
From a Circular issued in Chicago We ex-
tract the following:
eThe letters addressed to our Reaper
Manufacturers and Commission Merchants
from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Illinois and Iowa, represent the winter
wheat as generally killed, and farmers are
putting in spring crops when weather will
admit of their doing so. The season is so
backward, not more than two-thirds of the
usual number of acres can be got ready, and
being so late the prospect for what they
SOW is rather gloomy. We are still having
continued cold, bad weather. If it does
not shortly change for the better we shall
not raise enough wheat to feed our people.
The immense emigration to Kansas, Ne
braske, Iowa and Minnesota is consuming
a large amount in the West. The stock
of winter wheat in the country is less than
il has been for years. Millers have been
paying extreme rates for itin this city TO
take back to the interior.
In New York the stock is much reduc-
ed; probably not over $4,000 bushels in
the city. The Millers in the State have
light supplies. Receipts of wheat now av-
erage four thousand bushels per day.
We give an extract from a letter dated
Peru, April sth:-"Last year all the spring
ploughing was done before this, and spring
wheat, barley and oats sown before the
goth March. Now nothing is sown, and
ground has not admitted of one-fourth the
necessa y blowing. You can rely on this.
Also, if the next ten days are not very ia
vorable, there is not one chance in ten for
either spring wheat, oats or barley the
coming harvest. The winter wheat is all
killed in this vicinity" This is the tone
of letters from all parts of the State. AL
so, dated Davenport, April 18th:-"In
Rock Island there is nc wheat and no stock
of flour. AS to the stock of grain held on
this River it is extremely light, the greater
portion of it having been shipped South.
As to the growing crop, a small amount of
winter wheat is growing in this section of
Iowa, and what little there is in the ground
appears poor indeed. Little or nothing has
yet been done towards putting out the
spring crop, the weather having been I'M
favorable. Fully t~wo-thirds of last years
crop has already been marketed"
In Michigan the prospects for winter
wheat are represented to be better than in
any other State.
The same Circular states that the mount
of corn in all the Northwestern ports and
along the I%llinoise roads is 9s5,OOO bush
els against 2,15s,OOO bushels at the same
time last year; and that all along the west
ern railroads corn is not only scarce, but
is going westward and southwark instead
of eastward.
The amount of wheat in store in lake
ports, at this time, is 2,17O,OO0 bushels
1t is reported scarce along the lines of all
the railroads.
We take with many grains of allowance
the statements of Circulars issued by grain
merchants in the northwest; but it is not
to be concealed that the present prospects
of crops, all over the country, is any thing
huf favorable