Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-09-21
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From the New York Tribune.
Tho Crops For 1858.

We have recently travelled thousand miles
Westward from this city to indianapolis, which
may he regarded ns the present center of tho Corn
growing nnd perhaps also of the W Wheat.growing
portion OF our union, Observation fully confirm
ed tho worst accounts We had received of tho def
cheney of the Harvest. We were. of course. OBJ
hged 10 take the testimony of others with regard to
Wheat and Oats but We had tho evidence Of our
own eyes 10 the deplorable meagreness of the
Corn crop. In Western New York. in Central
and south western Ohio, in eastern anu central
Indiana we saw corn thnt will yield less than
over fifteen bushels per acre. while a great den
growing on rich mellow soil will fall below five
bushels. From all pnrts Of Ohio Indiana and H.
lnois except II very narrow belt OF dry, warm
soil IN the shore Of Lake Erle our accounts indi.
cato similar deficiency. Iowa had but II third
of Wheat crop. no Oats nt all, and is likely To
hnyc not mere lhnn half Corn crop. Michigan
and Wisconsin send better accounts; but only
from Minnesota and Kansas have we assurance Of
n tull Harvest, and even in Minnesota the Oats
deficient Tho Slave States participate but
slightly in the general disaster. while New Eng
land Eastern New York. Ncw-Icrscy and Pcnu-
syl,anio have nearly or quito average crops. Ne-
ry little Of the Corn have seen is yet III to cut
np. and n frost within the next week would dam
nge il most seriously, whilea warm growing fort
night would greatly improve It, We consider ev-
cry days general exemption from frost hcnrciorth
~ worth at least Onc Million Dollars 10 the Cuun-
try Aud, making full allowance for the fact that
while failures and disasters nrc hlazoned good
average yields attract no attention aud provoke
II" comment. we nrr confident of being within the
truth in estimating the Wheat aud Corn crops Of
the whole country ns twenty five por ccnt below
the average, while the DAT croris deficient by
thirty to forty per cent.
The Census for 1910 and that for 1880 show tho
Following aggregate production OF cnch OF these
staples:
1910 Busheis 1880. Bushels.
Whrnt.......... ~ S.321.. lWl.435pli
onts.,...........l2307l .3ll ll6,5SilI?
Indian Corn. .377 ,53l sT5 592,o1l loa
OF course these nrc but rough approximations
to tho true aggregates but the proportion main
tanned between the returns of 1910 and those Of
1870 prove that they are within the neighhorhood
uf tho true amounts. Assuming their general ac-
curncy, the following table will Indicate the mag
nitndc of the present deficiency:
lrrar y,,id ls5s. ictnai y'eid.
Wheat, bush. 100 WN.M0 99'no,mo
Oats bush. .l7o0oo.ooo lloooo,Wo
Corn bush - : 30 900 900 10000 900
In other words. our total Harvest Of Wheat
Oats aud Corn for the current ycnr will fall below
what might hn,c been reasonably expected us fol
lows:
Wheat, bushels ....,.......,..,.. 3o,oonooo
Oats bushels commandments. 6n,otnWo
Indian Corn. bushels ......... .oOo, ,oO00o0
Npw the value Of these amounts Ia tho growers
mny not exceed Ono Hundred Millions of Dollars.
hui thclr value To the country IN at lenst d"uhl"
that sum. Our Railroads Canals. forwatders,
shippers. &c, are deprived of business which they
were prepared to do, and in default Of which their
earnings and profits for the next year must suffer
depnrnbly Wo consider the country at least two
hundred millions poorer thnn ii would have been
it onr crops had proved good.
This deficiency is likely to exert n bneful inhu-
not only our Domestic but our already de-
pressed Foreign Trade. The Official Statements
show TINT exported in the years ending on tho
ls of july 1850 and 1857 respectively lthose up
TO last july not having yet been promulgated las
follows: