New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-12
THE CROPS.


necessary consequence, the meadows and pastures
were showing the effects. The grain crops in
New England, generally, promise well; and fruit
of oil kinds, peaches perhaps, excepted, will be
abundant, unless accidents befa within the CON-
ing month.
Rhode Island is suffering for want OF rain, and
the wheat and grass are described as being some
what spindlipg. In Hampshire the same
state of things prevails, and the drouth has e1-
tended to the lrthest parts Of the Western country
whence we have received advces. A CORE
spondent of The Country Gentleman, writing from
Indiana, says that Winter wheat looked well in
Spring but has since suffered both from drouth and
the nudge The growing corn looks remarkably
well, and the prospect for apples, curralts, rusp-
berries, and strawberries, is tolerably good Old
wheat is selling at 81 Is to 81 %, and good old
corn of 81 to 40 cents per bushel.
In Northern Illinois, wheat will be an average
crop. Although scattering and headed rather low
the berry is plump and will be harvested in good
condition. Corn promises finely the weather in
Spring having been favorable for blowing and
D.anting and it is hoped that the losses By reason
of last years seyere frosts may in greatpart be
made up by an abundant harvest. Fruit wi DO
abundant. In the central portions Of the State,
the Spring opened very early, and cont ued SO
clear and pleasant that the farm work vss well
done and in good season. Some who planted their
corn about the first of April were compelled to
replant because Of frost. The accounts from Wis.
ii md in foof fran, fha anfira
Western county, in the main corroborate tho
experience of the districts above referredto In
Missouri, however, the drouth has been % great
as to seriously injure the grass and grain crops,
while the fruit-growers are said to have but
gloomy prospect before them. '
In South Carolina, the stand of cotton is thought
to be an average one, and corn promises wcu, but
oats are failure, and wheat is in an unproInisng
condition throughout the State.
In some parts of North Western Ohio, the
Palmer, or Measuring Worm, is said to bemaking
extraordinary ravsges upon the fruit-tfees and
fruit. When first observed to be making depre-
dations upon tree, the succulent small leaves at
the end of the terminal shoots look if they had
been nipped by the frost; as the Caterpillar grows
larger this appearance extends further down, the
older leaves are attacked, irregular notciies and
holes of various sizes being gnawed into them,
from the size Of pins head to that of halfdol.
lar Young apples arc eatca as well az the leaves,
which shrivel and faq 60 the ground. When very
abundant it is said they change the green foliage
upon the trees in a single day to withered or
brown hue; after continuing for short time they
suddclly disappear, and where hundreds were seen
yesterday, not one is to be found to-day. The
present visitation seems to have been most severe
from the Goth Of May to the lst of June. Nothi1g
has been done to prevent their ravages for the
present year. but it is said that drenching the trees
with diluted Esh.oIii soap VIII enectuaIIy destroy
them aud save the tree.
1t presumed that the wheat harvest 10 Ken
lucky will afford lighter yield than has been
known for several years. A person who recently
passed through Fleming County says, that 80 far
as he was able to ascertain, the wheat crop will
be very light, and where il seems heaviest the in
dcations are that the rust will ruin and destroy a
great portion of it. In Mason County, wheat is
very poor, having been thinned by frost and cold
weather, and lately injured by the Hessian fy and
the rust The wheat raised in that part Of the
State will not supply more than is required by the
farmers and the home demand.
A New Jersey correspondent informs us that
Throughout so much of the State as he had visited
there is prospect of an abundant harvest. Corn
came up well, and under the influence of timely
showers and warm weather is growing vigorously.
Wheat rye, and oats, are all in fine condition. 1t
is to be hoped that railroad may soon be built,
say from Milestone to Hopewell in Mercer County,
to tap the great peach region from which it is now
so difficult to get the crop in good condition to the
New York market.
The peach district is about fifteen miles 10 length
extending from the Delaware River to line drawn
due north from Princeton, and varying from four
to eight miles in width. In this district, there is
scarcely farm without peach-orchard and many
them. The yield will be about half q crop
this season. many orchards having been severely
injured by the heavy rain-storm Of last September
In Western New-York, at no time during the last
twenty years have the crops at this season of the
year looked so universally well. The Spring was
AnVot uhSpi'iVus ioi minus VI uhN thC va
rious Spring grains put in in first rate order.
Winter Wheat, of which much larger breadth |
was seeded last Fall than for the two previous
years, ia looking well, and already beginning TO |
bloom. Except on heavy, undrained clays the stand
ia excellent and the color good 1t is 80 far ad-
sanced that there is little danger from the nudge,
uoless it comes earlier than usual The yield per |
acre will not be so large last year, because the
heads are shorter and will not contain 40 many |