The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-04-07
The Wheat Crop.

Though this crop is not so important TO
! this part of the country as the Corn CROP 1t
is vital element in our prosperity When
it fails to turn out WELL the calamity isst we're
/ ly felt by all classes-farmers, merchants,
mechanics, miners, transportation men, and
laborers. Inquiries, therefore, directed to-
ward just understanding of that, as we'll
as other of the staple productions, their
probable yield, &c, highly necessary;
and the results of these inquiries form the
publisher can give to his readers. 1t is in
! this view of the subject that we have copied
numerous extracts from our exchanges of
late, and made many inquiries Of producers
whom we have been able to see, in reference
To the state of the growing likewise
the tobacco. The latter we have said some
thing about of late: the former now claims
our renewed attention.
We have just been conversing with Mr..
y. Il. WILKINSON. who lives in Gibson
county, near the Vanderhurgh line. He is
an enlightened and experienced farmer, and
II man whose word may be implicitly relied
Oh. He gives us these facts
Out of sixiy-five acres that he put in
wheat last fall, twenty acres will have to be
plowed up and put in corn; twenty acres
will not yield more than enough to pay for
harvesting; and from the remainder of the
ground, he will do well if he gets enough
wheat for bread and seed for next year
So far as he can hear in every direction--in
all his neighborhood-th wheat is not SO
good on an average rs his. There is no
chance for the crop to be saved by favorable
weather. The mischief is done. A great
deal of wheat-land will have to be plowed
up and put in corn, and much of it will be
allowed to remain as it is, with no hope of
yielding sufficient to repay the labor and
seed expended on it. In the country around
him, the farmers will do well if they get
enough of this grain for bread and seed
He considers his prospects rather better than
the average. There can be no surplus.
The injury was DONE Mr. w. thinks, by
two very cold sleets that fell last winter
when there was no snow to protect the
wheat. This froze it out and the diff
Guilty was aggravated toy the drought that
prevailed last month. The late rain has re-
vived that which was not already killed,
but much of it was destroyed. Wheat that
was sowed early in the i,ln has done the
best. There is very little dnlicd wheat
where he lives
Our informant has heard from Belleviile,
H. and the trouble is represented rs worse
there than here.
lie says there is not any great surplus al
old wheat in his neighborhood.
Judging from this and other unfiEvora-
BILE reports we have heard, are satisfied
that the wheat crop must fall seriously short
in this region of country. More than the
usual amount of Corn will have to be raised
to meet the deficiency. This can yet be done,
and as this grain will bring good prices, i'll
consequence of the extent to which corn is
made to give way to cotton in the South
we are yet on the safe side. The excellent
water communication we have with the
cotton-growing regions gives us great ad-
vantages and fair profits ia the raising of
Corn.