New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-13
SUPREME COURT-CITY and COUNTY Of
aetpNork daily gribm,re
THE CROPS.

Eew that the season of vegetable growth has gone,
snd the crops are mainly gathered propose make
our weekly column especially record Of stats
sc and TO this end ask the aid Of our subscribers We
have already indicated the manner in which they can
bender assistance in the important work. viz: in send
ing us the statistics of the crops actually raised by them.
selves and their neighbOrs and emitting all high-co
cred speCuatiOns Few farmers realize the vast differ
ence there lie between average crop Of a county
State and the general or special results in their imme-
date vicinity Because farmer gets 100 bushels Of
sozn acre, and there are 10000 acres in the
Bounty, proof to that the crop Of that county
sbould be called million bushels; but this system Of
Figuring is too frequently resorted 10 by our Western
friends For part think so bushels of
corn large crop for man TO average on a farm
Of hundred acres, and the instances where
better result than this has been obtained are fewer
shan the opposite, by very long way. Now we pre-
sumo that if nine farmers out Of every in Minnesota
were asked what had been the average crop of corn
throughout the whole State last year, they would
swer forty fifty bushels whereas the fact is that it
was only twenU-three bushels This year the Mime
botans, like al Of their neigbbors, have given free
rein to their fancy, and set down their State wheat
srop at sixteen to twenty millions bushels, when in
truth i; win not exceed six millions The cooling in
6nenee of statistics exuberant arithmeteal fancy
b wonderful. But statistics not yet rated in this
country at onehundredh par Of their real value and
we doubt if they ever Will be until our Census and
Statistical Bureanx are managed with more
Now, we should like from State Commissioners of Sta
tiscs officers of Agricultural Societies, and intelligent
tamers such statements Of crops in detail as would en-
able as to place before our bafmilhon subscribers
faithful picture Of our agricultural condition AS
mere method of attracting attention TO their several
States OF counties none efeacious could be de-
Sised for beyond our own immense circulation, such
information reaches the world through those Of the
multitude Of our exchanges which would copy IT.
Now. gentlemen, 70 whom shall TaE TRIBuEE be IN
nebtedi
A5ortnight ago we discredited the computation Oh
div cotemporary, that the wheat crop OF Minneso@
would exceed Ii, 600 600 bushels. We are now In
,st;o 10 prove the correctness Of our views, thanks
k most excellent First Report Of the Commissioner
Al St,isties in Minnesota" The Office was not created
pui February 1860 but the industrious Commissioner
Mr. Joseph A. Wheelock has already issued Report
,vbieh comprises us pages Svo Of valuable statistics
IN the Departments Of Finance, Government, Com
perce. Clmatology, Geology Agriculture, metal,
ip,Uv &c. The Report evidently prepared with all
DE- care which the time at Mr.. Wheelocks disposal
permitted and will be found invaluable as reference
f those who are interested in the condition OF one Oh
che most prosperous and progressive States oil the
NorthWest From this we learn that 1t was sscer-
ka;ned from the official retQrns by Counties, that In
fS59 the ,,.oo,
Whole number Of acres cultivated vas......''<@2 S
sopOeI S a. Of sexes tied In each hrm..