New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-17

tn with their reighbors and serd us facts instead OF
fancy. Our appeal has beer scrsS by seyera su1
scrbers smopg them Mr. 0rHRr Cca o. Port Washing-
ton Wisconsin who sends the folio wing interesting
etstisiics:
- attended the State Fsir at Msdison last week
ard took good deal Of pairs - inquire Ct farmers
from different psIs of the state aud to ge information
10 be relied on and here let cay net on account OF
the great harvest TO be gathered snd as farmers gen
orally intended to thrash soOn. many OF them did not
take proper pains in ack,ng, and succession OF
showers Immediately thereafter wet into their stacks
and being fearful that they would grow or become
muity hy stsndipg OF the fsrmers thtashed ont
their wheat at and marketed IT, therefore could
&c. facts respecting their crops from s'fua measure
uent and weight. ID. l. Powers OF Tire UtSconsla
Farmer has farm of bet Seen 700 and 800 acres in
Dane Comfy. He told me that what ne had thrashed
had turned ont te over 30 bushels to the acre, aud
that BIS crop of wheat this would be about 500
bushels. Another farmer in Dane County said far
as he had thrsshsd bis yield full 80 bushels per
and hi estimated crop Of whsat Was SOOO bushels
He mas large farm.
Mr. Runkie large farmer Beloit, save wheat
thrsshsd in hs vicinity has averaged over 80 bushel
per acre and some has gone as high as 20, and come
10. MIR. HolDts of GAINESVILLE lsc 20 acres, the yield
Of which was % bushels 10 the acre. A farmer from
Rock County said he trashed 2f6 bushels from acres
Al bushels rer acre. F. b Stuart, from Eagle Prairie,
thrashed IS bushels per acre golden drop, from sd
OF % acres. Silas Wright from Pierce County, had
thrsshed from 20 81 bushels 60 the acre aud had
Of it on exhibition, which was very fine lie
had also oats that weighed al pounds to the bushsl
ard said field of Is of the kind turned 80
bushels per acre. ! have inquired Of but one farmer,
whose weld was less than 30 bushels his, from IL
acres but y buFhsls per acre. bat all have esti-
mated tie average crop of the state at folly 81 bushels,
and many have figured higher. The ground tor wheat
wss principally plowed last Fall the weather was
prOpicus for getting IN seed as SPRING there was
great breadth sown. The season has been favorable,
sud Wsccrsin has reaped an abundant crop OF all
binds; and l was told by man who tad been selling
IespeTs and trasbeTs in Iowa and Minnesota the past
seasOn that crops there were equally good and doubt
if in any country OF cline, save perhaps the seven
years of Egyptian plenty the earth has yielded her IN
crease in greater abundance. One farmer had husksd
an acre of corn from which he got 80 bushels Of ears
lie had full wagon load q it on exhibition; The
ears were large and sound and as three habushes OF
ears she'll bufhel the acre would yield 100 bushels
The corp-crop is generally estimated st from % to 30
bushels THE season. 1t is fully rpened and sound
Mr. Coe was formerly farmer il the Genessee
Valley but mas readed in Wisconsin for many years
past.
A correspondent at Magnolia, Iowa, says that the
fret frost visited his section the night Of Sept. '
Int was net strong enough to do aoy harm. The
wheat crop he remarks, sis remarkably good in this
section of tie country yielding p to 30 bushels per
sore. The corn crop is net an average one owing 30
tbs exceeding droutb."
Al the Marion County Fair, Mr.. A. b. Miller writes
j
The premium, was thirty.two bushels OF Spring per
acre, for three acres.
" There were several competitors for the premium
on corn. Ibe premium for corn was awarded TO Mr..
Brownfeld Long who proved bs atidevlts Of disin'
terestd persons he raised hundred and seventy
nine bushels Of corn per acre, on three acres
| Also premium OF $40 was awarded to son OF MT
/ Opp bOy under fourteen years OF age Tor having
/ raised uinety-four bushels and fifty pounds OF
/ corn OF one-half acre of ground.
"The farmers all agree IN saying that they never
raised in any before this any crop even approx
imstinQ TO the crop of this season They all say thai
there enough wheat ana raised 70 last Tor two
wears In fact, the crops in this and the adjoining
/ counties are enormous, and any persons wishing to
emiQrae West could not come 70 Iowa, IN any more
| favorable time thsn the present season.
Thomas Sherin Of Mayyille, Dodge County, Wis,
writes us that he raised $50 bushels Fife wheat on
| three acres.
James Huntington of Dundee, Yates County, n. y,
says. Sept. 30: We had the first killing frost last
night Sept o. All crops are good and out Of danger.
Potatoes considerably injured by rot but the crop is
large"
From Nebraska we have the following letter
PLATTE VALLEY, NEBRASKA, Sept. ID, 1860.
We can estimate with tolerable certainty now the
c7ops of last season. as well the unharvssed corn
crop. Complaint hss been made from come parts OF
TIE Tsrritory and q very dark picture given. There
cal he no doubt that the Territory whole has sui
tered from dry Benson but think there eau also be
! TO doubt that we have an abundance for home cen
sumption and il is hardly possible that there can be
much suffering during the next Winter from this cause
in THE part of Nebr 4ska the Valley Of the Plato
Tie ground vas unwet by Tain or snow tue previous
Eli srd Winter, consequently IN the Spring thing
ucheard Of ref re- the coil actually too dry 70
veqetqte the aesd sjwn. This dry weather Contained
until tie small gains were sewfst damaged. About
the month Of Nav il began TO ram, and there was
gcO5 prospect for a crop. ehoud say during z
large rar Of the Summer we had good supply OF rain,
but the land being 60 dry required more than wba. IN
other years would have been abundance. As il t.,
we nave q fair crop Of wheat and Osts-much more
ban we can consume; the corn crop IL average one,
| snd we can cas- 10 all who wish 10 em'grate % Ne
braeka on viii find enough 10 oat and more 20 DO
il the Platte Vslleyi not at very low prices however,
tloroughfare 20 the gold mines ard the gold mines
very active market for much than wecan 81 ply.
- J. j. II