New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-28
THE CROPS.

affsi,e n Great hhadn B"'o uS o'o'y iea'Ou WA
pect hisa prices for our produce, as well The las
steamer bngs sd,ices which are not 80 nattering To-
us. TIE we Stler which all through June bad beer
unusually bad for the growing crops, had at last taker
favorable turn and under the influence OF Sunshine
and equable tenn ysrature the grain and grass were
pulling forward with wonderful ylgor. The whea'
crop of the County OF Norfolk, although not an aoun
dsnt one is expected to 30 nearly up 10 average
except. perhaps, on igfs lands, where tie crop a.
ways liz first to feel remarkable vicsstudes of weather.
At the great grain markets Tho tone VI the trade
by DO meeDs actye at prices II favor Of the buyer but
feeling Of distrust get med to exist lest fair grain
crop might after az be respct and thas with the
large foreign imports, over-supply the market Tho
state Of things at ReaaDg is THIS described in Tie
Ismes:
ZIP to the prevent time month Of JuIy ia. bee, remark
ably eTorse for the operations Of the fss and E she last
week neat breath Of grass has been movv haymskns was
sns 90 N, ,e now sszions 70 ais Of
weather secure gs crop which 90 I0 ee
Increased in value about e: tun few nsnths ss 70
SIS and though appears . be abundant hoers o. ss
belief that much teg has been inpIed * The raa ,,
70 euSe he erop led 10 small aendsnce the market
here on Saturday and e supply Of wheat Wa much below
sss oysr he rsde the sellers not Hang sccet the
offered By the maen and deaer being much below what
srpess on tie part OF buyers tho prices trey would
give hat manifest decline eyen upon lat We. re-
during the wees together WITH the hne weaver when
ns Sns pTodTc.d "a, that tre was no alternative
but to submit to The terms Of ouyers"
and the burmese done was generally at a decline OF
Elk TO nine cents per bushel This Is the general state
of things throughout the kingdom, bat the market is
in very unsettled state yet and the advces OF the
coming few weeks will be looked for with the greatest
interest by our Western farmers. Even If war prices
do not rule for cur breadstufs the yield which the
country will obtain is large that great ABUNDANCE
of money must be poured into the Golfers of the farm
ers.
In France as we learn from the Echo Agricole, the
cool temperature of June and early July would delay
the ritening of grain, but not affect it njgriously
Old Egypt, like the region of mental obscurity in
Southern Illinois which bears its name, viii reap q
bountful harvest it seems, for we learn by last az
counts from the Valley of the Nle that the river bad
risen twelve feet-an even. highly satisfactory for the
crops
OF the drouth in the Southern States we have pre-
viously spoken but in addition present the follow
ing extract from private letter recently received from
one of the largest South Carolina planters He says:
owe are in q terrible drouth and heat here. IL il
settled that the corn crop OF the South will be Uery
" short. AS to cotton greatly damaged now, no one
a" can cay for month TO come what it may do. am
4" now mainly a corn-planter. Six weeks ago ex-
"pected to make 10000 bushels will now compound
"for 10000. / expected also, 600 bales Of cotton,
"but now only count on 4O0 but may make a little
more"
In regard to East Tennessee 2 correspondent OF
Tie Savannah Republican, writing from Knoxville
on the 18th inst, says:
Tho whes. crophe great .sple Of Fast Tenns.'eesss
feuTe least Shef o. tut n aV coseSnene the
Savannah market win be deprived of large quantity Of the
PuIca.es in that market The crop to the
planted Owing the scarcity of seed the planting was Limited
sSoyd droal now peF over large portion
Try. The already damaged and continuation Of DRY
weather Is intensely hot for this latituie"
Texas has been so much beputted as great agrcul-
!ural State and such numbers of Industrious German
immigrants are induced to settle there by reason of the
glowing accounts from interested sources, that we
cheerfully give place to the following letter fcom
Prof Buckley, of Dresden, Navarro County, to TIE
Country Gentleman, of last week:
EDIioRs COUNTRY GEsrIsaAs largo porto, Of Texss-
embracing western aud central pat subject 70 extreme
summer drOuths ghieh have more especially peysed during
season extending large part the st and now seems
Il a.s NAN S are Sf @ ssG
ing then attention to the cultivation q cats barley re saa
bring these grains to maturity they pea Il this climate about
the LIST OF June II appears to Dc pretty We'll established ,ss -
mrwth Of cotton and com Grain Of knds commands s
price a present in this stae and Is probable aa Pcei VI
higher during the next cye months Corn hss sold az
Aassn ts Spring high Ss s 20 per oIhe On: ~ general
o 81 81 50 per bushe the latter price being most prev
aent. -. GU, ,r,,s la.
crks some being ID least ten feet dep Thsae drotS cracks
raise aid depress the earth, forming what IL called the hog
or potato heidb
Add to this, that the Texas rettler lie not sur
rounded with the most civilized, honest, engaging
society in the world and do BOT see that the pros
pect is hattering to our New England boys.
correspon lent in Indiana who Objects to the pub
lie estimate of the crops in that State writes Us ifom
Lagrange County, on the 18th inst, that however
much of barren -agriculturally speahng-the
State may be tits year. his county at least must be con-
sidered green SCOT " Our Wheat crop says he,
il good corn never looked better cats are not as
good az usual and wehad apoor tune to cure clover
hay" n"
Another correspondent at Anderson, more enthu-
enslic than he last writer, says, with misguided
warmth, that the Wheat crop of Central Indiana now
harvested !" is far better than tie most sanguine ex
"pected and the best Wheat crop Of the State for
" many years. Large quantities have already been
" sold at 81 per bushsl." He adds: Apples were
" much injured and the peaches destroyed by heavy
Spring rosts We will have half crop Of the for
mer and none of the latter fruit"
Tie last issue of The Mchigon Farmer speaks very
eneouragipely of the qusity and quantity of the
wheat crop of the State. 1t estimates thu yield at the
large Average of sixteen bushels to the
to over Two bushels per than the best crop
that has ever been raised in the SAFE" After esti-
mating the number Of seres sown, yield, &C., in
former years and also the number of bushels that will
be requredfor seeding j62 0oaeree next year. wei