Litchfield enquirer., 1858-08-05
HARVEST PROSPECTS.

ueepiy nueDGed, ana so prepOnderantly agri- cultural as ours, is a subject of the deepest general interest Not merely are good crops essential to the adjustment of balances be- tween the farming regions and the seapcrts, but they assure activity and thrift to railways, to canals, &c., while laying foundation for 8 healthy future trade. A failure of crops in other countries, other districts, or even en oth- CT farms, may seem advantageous to the na. tion, section or cultivator who escapes such disaster but this is a narrow, short-sighted 1 view, and the prosperity of all best accords with and promotes the true interest of each. And, as we are now past mid-sumner, the ex- isting promise of the ensuing Harvest may be regarded as affordng tolerably safe grounds of estimate. From large mass of local state ments furnished by the correspondence and re- ports of our own and other journals, we con- pile the following summary:
 Grass has yielded largely in 1858, through out the United States and the Canadas There are of course local exceptions but we cannot Ee mistaken in our conclusion that there will be more Butter, Cheese and Beef made this year, and more Hay cured than ever before on this continent. The consequences of this abundance are already exhibited in our mark cts
 Rye has yielded fairly on the average
 As to Wheat, we have the most conflicting accounts, even from adjoining localities. From one County in almost any Wheat growing State, we are positively assured that the in sect (generaly the midge, not the weeviD has taken near the whole, or that rust has reduced the crop one-half while from the next we have assurances of fair average yield. It is impossible to reconcile these contradictory bull letins. Our final conclusion is that the loss is serious, especially in Illinois, Iowa, Virginia and this State, and that the average yield of the whole country per acre will be below that of last year but we think there was larger area sown for this years harvest than ever be- fore, and that there will be at least as much threshed out as ever before That this years growth of straw is extraordinary, no one ap- pears to Goubt.
 Oats are and will be poor. In some locali- ties, even the straw is short and light from no quarter do we hear of heavy yield of grain. Rust prevails extensively, especially in Illinois and adjoining States, while the cold, ground OF scasonable sowing We estimate than half Q crop.
 1Ao tO LWuCCCW CO/U, Wo udVe COLuiCLlIiS dC- counts. Throughout this State and New-Eng- land, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, there will be more Corn harvested this year than ever be- fore and we believe it will be so throughout the South. Though May was remarkably cold and rainy, postponing planting to late day and often rotting the seed first planted, an av- craze area was nevertheless got in, and the in- tensely hot weather of the week succeeding June 10th brought the plant forward with wonderful rapdity. In this vicinity, on Long Island, in New-Jersey, and generally through out the old Free States, we have had just about rain enough for six weeks past, and it has fallen very opportunely, so that Corn has nothing to do but grow, and it has done that with will. Probably the crop is week la- ter than usual-we think not more-but it never before looked So rank and black at this season. Two months more to frost, with an average dispensation of sun and rain, would ensure the largest Corn crop ever grown in the East. Half that term would probably suffice for the South. In the West, the case is diff ferent, mainly because much of the best Corn land was flooded just after it was or just when it should have been planted, so that smaller area than usual was planted and much of this entirely too late. With hot, genial weather, and no frost till October (and the prairie bree- zes are admirable protectors from frosty, there may yet be full crop in the great Corn-gfow- ing valleys of the Scioto, Missouri, Wabash, Illinois, Des Moines, &c., but we anticipate the lightest yield per acre for many years. Yet at the worst we shall have surplus to export either as Grain, Mealor Meat
 Cotton, though late, seems to be doing we'll, and to promise fair average yield. But it is too early yet to speak of this plant with con idence.
 Came is of course still further back. We do not hear much from the Sorghum of this years growth, which leads us to apprehend that it came up badly and is not looking well. It . slow and feeble plant at the start, but great at growing after it has become knee high. We doubt, however it's maturing it's seed north of Cincinnati and Washington this year, while the stalk is not sweet when cut before it is ripe. The late, wet Spring gave this plant no fair chance this year, while last season was even less favorable One of our old-fashioned clear, hot summers, with little or no rain from the middle of July to the first of September, is needed to develop the properties of Sorg- hum.
 Potatoes were largely planted and have so Tar OOne well. we near OI very HtIie rOC. There is now prospect of very large ave rage crop.
 Frna was extensively blighted by the cold rains and winds of May. Cherries were few i; Peaches promise very little; of Apples, there will not be more than half an average yield, though the average has been seriously lowered of late years We advise farmers who have Apples that can be dried to send very few to the cider-mill this year.
 1 From Minnesota and Kansas, we have es- pecially cheering accounts of the growing Crops. These have hitherto been buyers of Food they will probably grow their own this