New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-31
THE CROPS.

wos.-s now upon the very threshold Of the most
,,;oo, .eas m of the year. and one except in
,to most vague and unr liable manner, prognosticate
h the Weld # crops their probable value in the
vou August is regarded in Grea, Britain of all
,hs mcst critical month"; and its temperature and
.neeoroogy depend the aggregate yield of cereals and
their market prce. For this reason, over there the
moist climate d. es permit of housing the grain as
soon az cut so the sheaves left in cock for long
time perfect caring They then built upinto
large stocks in the field which are we'll matched,
and from which the grain is usually threshed d.
rect August is the harvest month and of course
If tie cutting is delayed-as it is this year
for q fortnight, three weeks, or even
month, the shocked grain is expo,ed to all the cold
damp nights sudden showers, or long cold storms OF
an English September. Tnus it Of en- happens that De-
fore really rst-rate wheat crop can be threshed and
housed it win have been damaged ten, twenty OF, IN
extreme cases, Hfy per cent. Apply this rule to the
whole kingdom and il will be seen that to enter into
speculation as TO the British grain crop before at least
the Goth of August, is sheer nonsense.
There are however certain fundamental principles,
bv study of which we can gain general ideas upon
this suffice. For Instance: know that there has
been in Great Britain bad Winter, bad Spring, and
q very unfavorable June. An unusual amount of .n
has fallen, and great damage has been d,ne to grain
and grass by this and the many successive weeks of
cold weather. 1t is fair 10 count Oh a diminished
yield; for although there bad ben favorable change
In the weather at last sdvices it has too late to
cave the crop from much loss. "Tbe soi," says The
Marx Lane Express, especially heavy land ID low
places, is comparatively water-logged, though bound
on the surface Potatoes have strength neither
mapgel-wurzel. Wheat very slowly advances on the
best soils ano looks hopeless the worst as is the
ease with barley andthere is no time for sring
or increase But this makes il the more important that
the fine weather should last till harvest is over
abundant yield, under the most favorable circum-
stances, lie impossible"
England must, therefore, make up her deficiency by
importations Where she get the grain she needs
Not from France for France has less than an average
crop and no grain TO spare. Not from Germany; nor
from the Danube. She may get some from Southern
Russia for learn that the story of locust ravages
was much exsggerat d, and unusually fine crop is
expected. But che get all and more thar she wants
from the United States, if may credit our accounts
from every quarter of the country. How much grain
we will have TO spare, she will need mortal man
can tell Just now with all respect be it spoken to the
elaborators Of formidable satisfied and must wait
until SIP .mber know whether it will pay to chip
from Chicago to Liverpool
Farmers should remember these general laws of
demand and supply. England is our great customer
for breadsus If England has very short crop, and
we avery sboIt one too famine prices will prevail lfshe
has very short crop and very large one, average
prices rule. If both have very large crops, prices go
down. Ard they 60 lower aud lover as the harvests
Of both countries are exuberant The whole thing
lies in mitchell; and if farmers will only remember
tha uu
ppontment BY looking at the advices received by
zach incoming steamer, and the reports in American
agricultural aud commercial papers they can always
make shire wd guess TO their oable income. We
.pesk of course all country readers took at
east one agricultural paper for farmer without a
srmers paper is Ike coach without wheels-incapa-
lie fproper progress.
Perl APPS as good proof of the unusual bad weather
IN June, as we could give, is the following diagram
from The Mdrk-Lane Express
FLUCTUATIONS AVERAGE OF WHEAT.