New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-22

corn or wheat to sell this year. Since last week We
have received letters from at least twenty counes
whose Weld of corn is set wn at an even milioh'
WHY Va not our farmer correspondents go sensoiy 70
work and give really fair estimate OF their co1ntiee
Jftbis we're only done, might make these crop ar-
cles Of ours possess great statistical value and mu-
tual benefit 10 all sections of the coautry.
The week before last Substantially closed the har-
vest of small grains in Minnesota and the weather
throughout was most auspcious. A correspondent
who had inst returned from tour through the coun-
ties of Ramsey, Hennepin Anoka, Sherburne Wright,
stearns, Meeker, Mcleod. Sibey, lie Sueur, and
Scott writes us that, excepting some badye fields,
and few very sandy ones in Anoka and Sherburne
Counties, he " saw no field of wheat seeming to be
good for less than thirty bushels per acre. and few
fields of oats apparently bearing less than City TO sixty
bushels per acre. Barley and Rye reported equal
" good but had generally been harvested before my
trip"
have had considerable experience in farming and have
observed csIsf The thick tan ss' S q 0TT wheat t the
ever saw the entire absence OF rust and VIZ, small amount o.
over 30 b. per than win fall snort of that E1uavgan
a. Il may deliberately believe that yield will
pIn Of this ye. RS Wheat crop for shipment
100 bushels Up to September 1882 this State was importing
Nebraska correspondent kindly suggests TO the peo
pie in the drouthparcbed districts of Kansas that they
should migrate for the Winter to that portion of Ne
braska north of the Big Nemaha River which stretches
to Omaha in Douglas County. " There" he remarks,
for over 100 miles the drouth has not been seriously
felt, and especially it has done little damage in the
country adjoining the Missouri River. The Wheat
crop never was better; oats a fair average and
corn the same potatoes not very hourishing but
of melons and pumpkins there is enough and to spare
There is grass enough to Craze double number of
cattle; and enough hay, corn-fodder and straw will
be secured to meet any reasonable demand. Wewould
therefore cordially invite our distressed and suffering
neighbors in Kansas to and stop with in South
ern Nebraska this Fall and Winter, bringing with
them all that Jacob did when he sojourned in Egypt.
There are a great number Of unOccupied rooms and
houses which could be hired for small rents az their
ter ants have gone the gold region. Any who is
willing TO labor for moderate compensation find
employment; and they pay for foraging their cat
tie through the Winter by leaving a reasonable
Der of animals behind them when they CO."
This invitation is certainly expressed in great kidd
ness, and we bopeit may do good to the people TO
whom it is addressed.
To the Eastward things look generally promising,
although The Homestead seems TO think that in New
England, the hay crop and butter and cheese produc
ton will fall short two.thrds. The wheat in Maine
seems to be good to inspire the editor of The
Farmer with hope that s culture may be fully
reestablished in that State He speaks recently of OF
crop which very promising and another editor as
serts that Mr.. Cary, in Aroostook county has rty
five acres OF Spring wheat, which may yield thirty
bushels to the acre. Perhaps. Whether or not
Maine can do as well as this one thing ia certau. Her
pressed hay brings large price in the markets of
the Southern States and the greatest care should be
given to improving the yield Of her meadows and the
quality of the crop. The Hcmestead Of Hartford, Ct
says that it learns from good authority that pressed
hay from the state of Maine was sold in Mobile last
Winter in large quantities for $50 per ton and ia Ber
muda at $l2 per ton.
Massachusetts, has not yet ridden herself of the
nudge it seems. The New England Farmer states that
the wheat crop in Ashby is badly injured, some say
entirely destroyed by the nudge. So destructive have
been its ravages that the farmers are cutting their
wheat for fodder 1t has also made it's appearance in
but has not proved equally destructive.
A correspondent at Windsoryle, Conn.,, anticipates
that crop of potatoes of remarkable excellence will
be cent from that district TO market. The early
crop thereabouts, he says, must have yielded 2OO
bushels to the acre good land. Owing to the favor
BILE season Indian exhibited finer staud
it's Deep dark green color gives evidence to the farmer
that he will have full and probably, very large
crop. The oat crop is estimated at from thirty to fifty
bushels TO the acre. Rye showed full berry and
large yield on good lands. Spring wheat did WELL
The grain of Winter wheat plump, but there was
a general complaint of Wiuter.killing. We caunot
succeed with Winter wheat more than two years out
of three"
We are of those who believe that Winter-killng Of
wheat is not 50 much an inscrutabe Providence as
an evidence of bad farming. Put good tile drains in
heavy clay SOIL and the risk of Winterking is very
essentially diminished.