New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-04
CROP PROSPECTS.

CRorS AT The WEsT.-We are in possession Of
Numerous letters from the West giving facts and
many opinions about the crops There is no doubt OF
the fact that the wheat crop of Illinois and Iowa. aud
some degree in adjoining States is miserable failure
The grand cause of failure wac rust, which also dss
troyed the osts, though some Of correspondents
attribute their failure to the chinch bug.
WIscoNsIS.-A writer in Columbia county, Wiscon.
sin, gives hs opinion that wheat oats and barley in
that county will Tot give oDefourth the ususl
yield. Gass is gooi potatoes not; generally
dull though not as much planted as usua ana that i,
late.
a letter dated Green Lake Wis, Aug. 81, says
1--WE have had dry cool weather for the last sixteen
days, and grain is nearly all in stack Thrasnng ms
chimes have commenced their busy hum on every side
Three varieties of Spring Wheat are grown here;
Csrada Club, Fyte Wheat and Rio Grande. Probably
than hall of all Gown is ofthat kind al of whioh
is badly damaged BY rust. Many fields are not cut,
some are cut tbat will not pay for cutting and
threshing, Cthers will produce half Drop and few,
Eearly q full crop. Ire other kinds named will yield
nearly average crop 30 that on the whole think
twothiIds as much wheat will go to market from this
vicinity, as last year. This will prove true Of the
west half Of Fond du Lac county and the county Of
Green Lake, presume, many Will not agree with me
iu this estimate, but place it much lower This town
Green Lske) in 1857 produced SO,SE bushels OF
wheat, from O69 acres, ayersge OF nearly twenty
bushels per acre.
A coriespo.de in Richmond County says il has
been generally eded anopg farmers that the wheat
crop not above half the average and ths os. crop
but little better ard the thrashng machines prov.
rg that even this estimate full high. Tns mum.
Der Of bushels TO the acre ia small and the grain very
Ight Some farmers have tod me that their oats do
rot weigh more than from IL to % ID per bushel.
TIE dry westAer Of July prevented corn from caring
WELL still il was hoped that the ccrn shd backwheat
would prove to be fair crops but this hope has been
etleciuslly dispelled by killing frost which osne
upon Us Aug. 2S which has killed corn while 10 the
roasting ear and buckwheat just as the kernel wn
| forming. | have ridden to-day through the fertile
valleys Of Willow and Bear Creeks, ard should judge
that but little sound corn would go into the crib tins
Fsl, and that scarcely field of buckwhest would pay
| for harvesting. Possibly in the northern tmbered
porors Of the county the injury has been ess severe
but IN all the southern part and IN tue southwestern
| edge OF Sark County, where have been, the frost
has been black Even our vine crop is failure.
Another letter from Green Lake Co. says that the
| Glib Wheat which is the kind mos. sown viii not
yield fifteen bushels at best and mostly not over
ten bushels, ard some fields not harvested. Ons
reghbOr leaves 100 acres unhsrvestsd another 4O and
many ,nsler parcels are uncut; from which it may be
irired tbst much that is cut will be vary poor But
little thrashrg i, done, ss harvest is not entirely
completed. Tie Mediterranean and Fyis varieties, of
which coupNaiivey small qusntities were sowed, are
better BY far than the Club. Oats early sowed are
fair late osts Iusted. Com promises fair Potatoes
ditto. Appie', in orchards come to bssriDg are 6ns.
Pums the red Wild our only variety for the 6rst tine
il ten yesis, ere totsl failure.
lie Ilirois the present prospect about Corn is tha.
there Will be about two thirds O; crop if the ftost
holds eff org enough for il to iipeo.
GKAssHoPPERs-In this State vast amount Of in
iuIy VIII be dors by the grasshoppeys. Ia 0swsgO
County some fsinsrs have been obliged to feed c,tts
cut Of it, Winter stores in consequence Of destruc.
ten Of pssiuIss by these little pests. A letter from
Nswbmgh, Orarge County says;
"The corn crop in this region being materially To-
ured by that troublesome nsect tie grasshoppsr.
Some pieces will probably be injured to the extent OF
thlIo others 10 one half the crop. During the
| season Of hsyrg and harvesting they were driven
from the fe!ds OF grain ard grass and took refuge IN
swasns Snorg the cen iust as the young ears oeg,a
TO chow the elk aud the chief injury oonsss n ths
destruoiop it preventing Of oo1rss tbs fcrmat'on OF
the kere.'s. The grssebopfer eats oe the elk acd