New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-15
THY CROPS.

After being satirfed that 10 Wh reaP III """noans
harvest the farmer naturally looks 10 see what prices
bis produce will bring and, as Autumn approaches
bis attention ia not more given 70 the weahersiass at
htme than to that great barometer the Market which
tells him what pecunisry clouds or sunshine porend'
In the early articles Of this seriee, we have gwen
sketch Of the agricultural prospects Of all sections OF
this country and lattery have opened each week with
glance at the progress Of things in Great Britain
ibis plan we propose to continue until the close Of the
seasoD or at any rate until we have our present
certaDties as to prices dispelled.
In England the prospects Of the crops have not been
materially improved during the week ending july 3Oh.
Ii is almost morally certain that the harvest will be
delayed three weeks possibly four, and il would than
be thrown into the last week of August or the frat of
September. This of course expoes it TO the uofayor
able condition of lees heat and shorter days, as well
as to the sudden dfenching showers for which Abions
Isle is famous. That the crop is in precarous state
no one can doubt but If by fortunate chance the
farmers should be favored with fine dry weather In
the period indicated they may yet secure an almost
average crop. Last year at this time, the papers re-
ported the ncement Of harvest work in many To-
calities; but now, we learn from The Mark Lane
Erpress that in all quarters the crops are as green
ar grass in the best dstrictsin point OF fact
they are more back gard than they have been for ten
years.
The stock of wheat in the hands of British farmers
IL considerably less than last season. and the result is
that in the face of large importatons from foreign
countries, high prices have been maintained, and, no
doubt will rule until the end of the In regard
to the potato CROP we find very conflicting accounts
but it seems pretty well settled that nothing short OF
forcing weather will bring the crop to maturity, and
produce good keeping root for winter use.
TIE latest market article in The Marx Lane En-
press opens thus:
pest week with truly unavorabe opening closed more
5 1 .s sy ad ausy s
the heavy rain at the o. the has aid muc
best leaves less prospect Of hue sample with utoas
westterhsresf The light lands nnus to look the best.
a. regard. the ear and STEM which we hope win eIag
gerated The atens's the season with reduced Stock
tent 600 to6 900 @ bushels 81 the mt
Of imports has produced no market notwhand
The markets gepey have been supplied with
prices ouy per bnsbe Accounts from the Continent
vary Prices III France lave been sustained
soc u hsctoles le9ua to about 81 80 per bpshe9 The
% and Ss Sbs .iS Es %
expected which has given tone to sill the markets Of the Interior
In the countries well as the Baltic there very tt
charge prospects prices but Odessa notes decnen wheat
Of fully cents per bushel."
An intelligent correspondent writing from Hull 10
the paper estimates the amount of whea. which
England viii need until harvest 900 900 bushels.
Accordi to this writer the yearly consumption of the
United Kingdom is about 12S 900, 900 bushels, and the
W. ole amount in hand at the present time is not above
II 900 900 10 00O 900 bushels so that there woud
be needed the above quantity from foreign countries to
supply the natural demands of July aud August. He
regards it morally certain that high prices will reign
until and through harvest and that the probability Of
importing the grain which is needed ia not very great.
For ourselves, we do lot advice Western farmers TO
extra large of wheat for European market,
for experience has taught that it is but uncertain
staff TO lean upon Wheat is the great staple Of Ed
rope corn our own and what with our high prices Of
labor the cost of Transporting grain to the sea5oard
and the often sudden fluctuations of prices abroad other
crops will generally pay better than wheat. The
consumption of wheat in the United States does not
keep pace with the increase of population, may
be by reference to the folio wing statistical table,
which We cut from The Press and Tribune Of Chicago:
Bush Wheat Bushels Consumed Bush.
.sad sr fsR1 sS s 9S%s ps5 iSp
isss:::ss IsSsis iSsssssT sssSsS ,sssssiis s+iS
in tie IN the Whole Month West va. about half
fen an equally large are, Of contiguous European stoy
II would have produced gievous famine there people
merely sold less wheat than usual and consumed and
pork
That Illinois will have very large surplus of corn
and wheat to sell is certain and notice that each of
several counties already claiming the right to carry
the banner. A correspondent at st.. Charles Kane
County sends the folo wing estimate of the harvest
in Kane, which will be read with interest. We think
they should be taken with grain or of salt as the
es,in ates have strong of California guessing.
Old Jacob Strawn told last year that he considered
30 and 90 busbes to tie large crop Of corn; and
considering that the average whest crrp of well tillsd
Scotland in 1861 was only 27 bushels per acre. and
Of fertile South Australia only 70 bushels the same
year. aud remembering the sbfless lazy and wasteful
farming which we have seen in the prsiris country.
we look supciousy upon estimates of so bushels of
corn, so Of oats, aud % Of wheat to the acre. But
we let our correspondent speak for himself
have made good inquiries and examined for my
se among the farmers this heghbcrhood and have dducsd
theiefroIn the following estimates:
Kane Co., Is townships, six miles square, at 23Oa0
ns acre eacn !, equs GO acres
peuIot io Ves aLo footO acres
Leaving IN round numbers 800 900 acres
Estimating one-hteenh part In wheat. 30 COO acres
ersse Sisa per 70 bush
5OO,OOObush
Estimate fer com onetnth making. ..... 10000 acres
Average yield per 50 bush.
80 so, 900 bush.
Ettin ate 10Y oats 80 900 acres
Average yield 50bush
i5cO.O0obu.h
Barley and rye 100 900 bush
RECAPiTULArI0h
uoo''''''''''''''''.' ''''''...'''.'s'..... SoOWo
10000
Barley and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100000
q 900 bush
These figures may large but the measured grain from
several heds already hrehed fully bears the calculation
nus Swedish farmer from of wheat measured 2l3
bushels gentleman in the west the