Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-24
The Crops in Essxopa.

t We are now upon the very threshold Of the
most critical sess9n Of the year, and no one
can expect in The post vague and unreliable
manner, progaosticafe e;iber the yield of crops
or their probable vaue in the Fall. August
IS regarded in Great Britain as Of all the most
critical month; and upal its temperature and
lneteoroicgy depend the aggregate y;elG of ce-
reals, and their market price. For this rca-
son, over there, the moist cli,nate does not per-
! nit Of housing the gaain az soon Us cut, SO the
J sheaves are left in cpck for long TING 70 en-
sure perfect curing. They are then built up
into large stocks III the field which are well
tliached, and from which the grain is usually
threshed direct. August il the harvest month,
,and of course if the cutting is delayed--as it is
this year for fortnight, three weeks, or even
month, the shocked grain is exposed to all
The cold, damp nights, sudden showers, or long
cold storms Of all English September Thus
it often happens that before really frst-rate
wheat crop can be thrcsIed and housed It will
have been damaged ten, twenty, or, il extreme
cases, fi!ly pei cent. Apply this rule to the
r loo Kingdom, aud it will be seen that to ell
ter into speculation a5 10 the British grain
crop, before at least the 20th of August is
sheer nonsense.
There are, however, certain fundamental
principles, by study Of which we can gain
general ideas upon the subject. For instance:
We know that there has been i'll Treat Brit
ain bad Winter, bad Spring, and u very
unfavorable June. An unusual amount Of
rain has fallen, and great damage LAS been
done to grain and grass by this and many suc-
ccessive weeks of cold weather. 1t is fair TO
count on diminished yield; for although there
had been a favorable change in the weather,
at last adrices, it has come too late to save the
crop from much loss. The soil, says The
Mark Lane Express, especially heavy land in
low places, is comparatively watter-!ogged,
though bound On the surface. Potatoes have
no strength; neither lnangle wurzei Wheat
very slowly advances on the btst soils, and
looks hopeless on the worst, as is the case with
barley; and ttsre is no time note for tdtsr5ug
or increase. But this makes it the more i'm
portant that the fine weather should last till
harvest is over, az an abundant yield, under
the most favorable circumstances, il inposs-
ble"
England mast, therefore, make up her def
cheney by importations. Where can she get
the grain she needs? Not from France; for
France has less than au average crop, and no
grain to spare. Not from Germany; nor from
he Danube. She may get some from Soath-
ern Russia, for we learn that the story of To-
e1st rayages was HGchsexaggerated, and an un-
usually fine crop is expected. But she can get
all and more than she wants from the United
States, if We may credit cur accounts from
every quarter of the country. How much
grain we will have to spare or she will need,
10 mortal man can tell just now with all re-
spect to the ejaborators of formidable statist-
icsl and we must wait until September to
know whether it will pay US to ship from Chi
cago to Liverpool
Farmers should remember the general laws
of demand and supply. England is our great
customer for Breadstuffs If England has a
very short crop and we a very short one too
famine prices viii prevail. If she has very
sbor. crop, and we very large one, average
prices rule. If both have very large crops,
plces go down. And they go lower aud low
or as the harvests of both countries are exhu-
berant. The whole thing lies in nutshell;
and if farmers will only remember these sim
pie rules, they will save themselves much dis
appointment. By looking at the advices re-
ceived by each incoming steamer, and the re-
ports in American agricultural and CONNER
ciai papers, they can always make shrewd
guess as to their probable income NY. Tri
bune, July 81.