Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-08-03
The Crops.
From the New York tTi1,.,..e.

important instrument is tho barometer. AS
rainy day succeeds rainy day, and shower
follows shower, its indications are watched
with the greatest interest by all classes of
society. An accounts agree in stating that
this year is remarkably unpropitious for. the
crops, and even pasturage, which in Great
Britain is usually SO abundant, is so scanty
that thousands Of animals have actually per-
islred from starvation. IAN editorial in the
number Of The Mark Lane, Express just at
hand, states that /" in Scotland and Ireland,
and in the North Of England, the sheep and
lambs have perished by thousands; and in
Ireland, the cattle by hundreds, from positive
starvation" Unlike ordinary years, when
any undue scarcity at home would be met by
a correspondent increase in importation Of
foreign cattle, the number of beasts sent to
England from the Continent is less than usu-
al. As natural consequences, butchers
meat is selling at very high prices, and meet
,ngs of laboring men have been held in Lon
don and elsewhere to secure pledge OF abb
stinence from meat-eating until SUMMER times
arrive. Although rather favorable turn in
the weather had arrived, yet The present
prospect. for the, grain and grass crop is
gloomy. Says The Mark Lane Erpress -
+" The season is altogether an exceptional one,
and, so far as it has at present progressed, a
calamitous one for the production of cattle
food. In all the early districts where the
hay has been cut, it is pershing on the
ground, and in some Of the low meadows is
floating about. Where not yet mown, the
bottomsis wtting from the continual preserice
ofsurface water, and the crop in many quar-
ters will be worth little for feeding purposes,
except for lean stock So that, although the
quantity on the ground is large, the quality
will be as bad as that of 1853. No relief,
either, is likely to be afforded by thcIcrops Of
Spring grain, which are suffering equally
with those of grass The state of the grain
markets. thus described IN The leading Rarti-
Gle: :frAT2 u."etaE HgtT 70 rIEgrs7H4 HUa
The past week as respects woaher, was little more
than adall repetition ofsmans that proceeded 10, rain
still being in the ascendant and not without its sad nii-
ence The temperature has certainly been in reased
and the grass has grown in consequence while few hay
farmers have been bold enough to commence cutting but
with what remains TO he seen Subscriptions have
IS truly eporabe but all they hiv reazctf hitherto
has been scanty allowance of bread. II is, perhaps
well the Corn that II Is late, would have been eS
cessvey rank Some little progress appears In the Wheat
but the young Barley oyerpowered With wet being
yellow, and amos, pas, as respects crop. Ahonr
look fair No yet remembers good crop OF Corn In
such trying and protracted Winter. But let hope
that change Isl hand and that our worst apprehen
sons will not be realized. Since writing the above, with
the weather altered much, grass has been cut with irer
prospects '.'4S.,' --..... t-'atF4tA a'-a1
Turning I'd our own country we find the
assurance of previous weeks made doiibly
sure by the past seven days. The Western
country is decidedly in luck and great i'm
pctus will undoubtedly be given to its devel-
opemcnt. We are not of those, however,
who regard this years crop as a balm for all
the wounds inflicted by the short harvcsts OF
The, past three years. Illinois farmers, and
those in other States, owe a grsit dehf of
money, and while thcyswill undoubtedly feel
much easier this Fall, it will require more
than one crop to square up all their back ac-
counts and get them fairly on their feet
The state of things in Illinois is thus accn-
rately portrayed in a private letter from. the
Land Office of the Central Railroad recently
received: ''
"a few words in rcference to crops. Our great staple
Is Corn Tisis furnish the bulk Of material for rams
poration in the form Of grain beef, pork, afd, hams
alcohol ana whisky which will penetrate every quarter
Of the globe There is State where all the Conditions
Of soil and climate admirably concur TO produce tins
cereal q Illinois aud s grodet vii Pc graa,1S ,a Gd ha
bushels The breadth planted is unprecedented, and the
yield per acre viii exceed ffty bushels When II rs con-
sdered that the actual cost of cultivation does not
ceed ten cents per bushei will be perceived that an
amount Of money soon to be einpted from
this source into the lap q Illinois In The southern part
the central, II will be prodsious in the northern,
above the avarage. "L' -. -'+
.Tbe Wheat crop has been gathered In Southern Illi
nois The berry is plump but the average yield win not
exceed ten bushels per In Central Illinoia the
breadth soYn vas less than usual The farmers haying
years, but the yield will be good. In Northern Illinois
the yield will be enormous exceeding probably % bush