The Kanzas news., 1857-07-04
The Wheat and Cotton Crops.

Ihere IS no occasion tor any alarm or
anxiety about either the wheat harvest or
the cotton crop in the United States, the
present year. Both will be large-certain-
" up to full average, with fair chance
that both viii be the largest ever made in
the United States The land laid down to
wheat and cotton is much larger in extent
than at any former season. As to wheat,
with the exception of strip of country of
moderate dimensisns through Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, where it was partially winter
killed, we have abundant evidence that a
luxurient harvest is reasonably sure, because
the ground is so well soaked that the great
est danger of the crop, that of pinching
drought while the grain is forming, cannot
now happen. A cold and wet spring is al
ways favorable TO the wheat harvest, and we
may rely upon good crop this year, in all
sections OF the country where it has not
been badly winter-killed, and even there
it viii turn out better than was anticipated
early in the season; for though thin on the
ground the plants which have survived viii
bear abundantly, and much spring wheat
has been sown to make up for the defcien-
cy of winter grain.
The last Chicago Journal says, ''the game
of the short crop croakers is being fast play
ed out. The local press throughout Illinois
and the neighboring States, is giving quite
different color to the picture
A correspondents of the Cincinnati Ga
zefe, who has travelled over the Western
States quite extensively, says in Ohio, In-
diana, Illinois and Kentucky, there win be
larger crop of wheat the coming harvest
than ever before.
The Chicago Times of May 10 says, .'the
prospect of fine cgop of wheat during the
present season, are not only excellent, but
rapidly improving. In Illinois, the guam
tity of wheat that viii be raised on lands In
as the last year crop, leaving the new lands
to add their first crop in the aggregate
amount. In many places, fields in which
the wheat has been regarded as killed, have
pus on the green coats, and are heurshing.
Others, which escaped the frost, viii yield
greater than an average"
The New Albany, Indiana, Ledger, says,
over the large portion of that State from
which it has accounts, the growing wheat is
in excellent condition, giving promise of an
abundant crop.
As far as cotton is concerned, it requires
longer season, and is consequently sub
ject to more contingencies than wheat. An
unusual quantity of new land has been laid
down, and strong force of white men has
been employed during the winter and spring
IN draining and preparing lands for Its cul-
tiyation; while the slave force has been In
creased to the utmost extent possible, and
carefully hept through the winter, so as To
be in good condition for field service. a
portion of the crop viii be somewhat late,
but, with a favorable autumn, we have a
fair probability of large crop, perhaps the
largest ever grown. Some of the planters,
IN their anxiety to seed down large surface,
planted too early, and where tie plant was
up during the frests of April and the early
part OF May, it was cut down; but where
the Planting was not performed too early, il
will be as forward as usual, and for that which
was cut down there was ample time to re-
SOW. There is nothing, as yet, to cause
doubtof avery large erop.-Bostoa 1rapeler