The weekly Butte record., 1858-10-23
The Wheat Crop Of 1858.

1t appears by the Assessor reports from :
counties, already published, that more acres oil
wheat have been harvested in those counties
this year tnan in 1857, though considerably
less than in 1856.
In Alameda county, the crop is estimated
by the Assessor to yield 20 bushels to the acre
which is q trife above last years estimate
when the crop was seriously damaged, but un
der the reported yield for 1856.
In Amador county the crop was injured by
smut, and estimated by the Assessor TO yield
but l5 bushels per acre. Heretofore the Off
cially reported yield has been from 20 to 81
bushels to the acre.
In Calaveras the Assessor estimates the yield
at ten bushels per acre, while last year and in
1856 no official report was made. The forego-
ing estimates for 1861 are from the State
Register, the figures having been supplied by
the Calavares Legislative Delegation. They
are doubtless too high.
In Colus the Assessors estimate is 10 bush
els. Last year it was 20, and III '56 70 bush
els per acre.
I'll Dorado is estimated at fraction over 10
bushels per acre. the lowest ever made for that
county.
In Fresno the estimate this year, is 20 bush
els per acre, against 40 last year. This does
not include 300 acres on the Indian reserya-
tion which the Agent reports as good crop,
probably exceeding 10000 bushels Last year
the wheat crop on the reservation failed en-
tirely.
In Merced the Assessor estimates at ~
bushels, which IS considerably higher than he
placed it last year, although in Sc the esti
mate was placed at 25 bushels per acre.
In Napa there has been fne and exten-
sive wheat crop, estimated by the Assessor
at fraction over 80 bushels per acre, which
is about the usual estimate for that county.
In Plumas, Is bushels per acre.
In Placer the number OF acres is not given.
Tn Sacramento the Assessors estimate is Is
bushels per acre.
Shasta is estimated at twenty bushels per
acre.
In Trinity the Assessor gives the number oI
acres. but no estimate of the yield. We
nlace it at 20 bushels, the same as Shasta
| Last wear the Assessor reported the wheat
| crop of Trinity at 600 but his successor
states that the four grist mills of that county
ground 26,75O bushels. 1t is probable W.
have never yet had full estimate Of the amour
of Wheat raised in the extreme northern
counties.
In TuIare, the Assessors estimate is y
bushels per acre. There are three grlst mill
in this county, which ground 10000 bushels
grain last year; although no wheat crop wa
officially reported.
In Yolo, it is stated that there has pee
about as productive a crop IS that oi looo
and in the absence of any estimated yieid Pc
acre by the Assessor we place it at 70 bu shei;
that being the estimated yield in 1896 Las
wear the wheat cropof Yolo was failure
The report of the Assessor OF Nevada cour
ty has been partially published by the ioca
paper, but no mention is made oil the whea
, crop. We have good authority for statin
that more than 100000 bushels have bee
grown in that county this season. Cnohci'
reports have also been received from Contr
/. Costra, Solano and Mendocino, San Mate
: Santa Cruz, klamath, and Yuba, in nearly a
! of which counties there has been larger ha
vest than ever before. Altogether, the indie
> tons are that the wheat crop this year hi
been less extravaganty estimated than forme
t ly, and that it will fully equal, if it does n
J. exceed, that of 1856.-San Francisco Pric
lCuyrsni.