New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-04
THE CROPS.


con,;noes and the barvests already gathered IN the
warmer a,itudes are spoken of fully equal 10 the
AVERAGE Weld; while ia many quarters where the
o. ain ia ioss ready for the reaper an extraordinary re-
sn, il expsc,ed Periods of great commercial depres
sion are u,ually folloSed by the planting of much
more than average breadth Of land, perhaps because
,h uuhic mind Is tbus attracted % the stable if small
nrof,. of fsrming and hence notice, since 1857,
especay in the great region of cheap and fertile land,
large Increase in productive acreage if not in acre
able product. The terrible tornado which swept
Eastern Iowa ard We-tern Illinois utterly destroyed
the crops which came in It's course; but that course
being very narrow the aggregate loss 10 farm prod
ucts small. Missouri papers confirm the good
dpgs Of rain having fallen on the pare red district of
that Stare ana il is ssd that 10 Fayette County hemp,
corn barley, buck heat grgss potatoes and garden
vegetables, are now RAJ Idly advancing, and If the
au,umnal frosts do not c,me TOO soon, there will be
abundance for home consumption, and some 10 spare
The serious forebodDgs of last week dspslled.
There will be enough wheat harvested for seed, AID
-four may be ob AIMED from St. Louis IN exchange for
hemp and fst cattle. The crop in Cas- County
promises to be an unusually heavy one, and Spring
wheat will be full half crop. Oats and grass have
improved sinse the rans In Adaif County The pros
poets were better az this season of the year for
corr. The wheat crop in The upper part Of Schuyler
County looks well. Mum sofa farmers are generally
as copffens Of reapiDg full crop as those in Iowa,
illinois and Michigan. RE- in mat Ssate is very fore
ward; Winter whrat is promising and Spring wheat
uiu ualy good The prices for Western prodace too,
promise to be very god; fact CT lmmense slgnih-
canoe to the whole country. Inc last advices from
London represent The wheat crop OF Eogland as very
unpromisipg, and Of Europe as only fair H. there
fore, American farmtrs are not only to reap iul
crop, but ge the bee; prices as well, prosperity must
Isign throughout much Of the Western eo1otry III
which mortgages have been torec1sed, interest aod
principal payments been unsettled aud farms uuinl-
proved for three yess past. Western railroad stocks
nn,t feel the effect very sensibly and Western mer-
chants impart 10 our metropolitan traders the goh
they the receive from the farmers. The cond-
on Of rhings in the great exchange OF the world
may be cen in this from the market report OF
TIE Mark Lane tLoDdon) Express for Jane 49,
THE past week being oy cold and ramy very .tls no,
Wheat ore especially decide unfavor.be e an average
yili All Spring Corn. excepting Oats which still ae prois'
ipg begin to and the which sprung up
suddenly the ht supply Of rain followed By weeks me
with good the to get It up hay wiz De hight
Though the northern departments Of France are bsek%srd tne
favorable than would TO 10 icae As the Bar
iesdy soon seIwaTd and Wheat Midsnmnerday, if not
soOnt likely to follow The ,hef comp amt = made OF tae
adverse reports OF moment come rom N9neIn Europe oS.
Oar ali been rising, less, the average
gain beo IT, to 2 but whatever De the crop we have
rs,seiins u.t be determined BY weather France
especially Paris has been very excited Belgium and Holland
have fell the influences and this coupled with Engh orde
bsd made price. se in HSEeIo and the Baltic But with
and weather ODESSA shows lower quotations"
shonld no nlea ed N that all of Indiana
Kentucky, AID Tennessee, destined TO share 10
our general good fortune, ont It is beyond question
thai what with drouth, rust and midge injuries, tae
crops will be much inferior the average In Indiana
the dis ric,s about shel5yvlle Huntington and T-rre
Haute will yield average crops, perhaps rie more;
and IN Madison County the harvest of wheat which lie
jut reaped win 60 abour eleven b1shelsto the acre.
Bot near JscksoD and in some other quarters preei
ousy Indicated by u.s. the crop VIII fall much short Of
a fun yield Tie humber Of acres sown in wheat is
larger Than ususl; but the nudge has walked with
such devastation through the fields that there wcer-
tainy he no increased aggregate OF yield if indeed,
there is not decided reduction.
Judging from all accounts received from Illinois, the
Cent 81 Railroad will have all il reasonably attend
10 in carrying the corn crop market, and especially
the present sate of things in Europe continues un-
changed until harvest the business viii come with
rush. Wheat quite generally outofdauger itbeiDg bar
vested at the southern and well Tiled aud rpening in
the northern part Of the State Corn which after all liz
the great staple Of the country especially Of the West
is not yet beyond peril by fros that even with the
fa'teripg promise Of early July early August may
show our hope nipp'd j. ths bud or the whiiered
cofneaves cracking IL the genial sun Of md-Septen-
Der. II Boreau County, it is estimated tina. 1910
acres of wheat arc sOwn. Al the probable average
of fifteen bushels, the County win harvest about
10000 bushels, with $4,000 TO $3.50 600
more than the average. Perhaps enough of surpl1s
will be left pay for Of those scores upon scores
Of farm mpliments-reapeIs, mowers, headers, horse
powers cornnills po 80, etc.wh oh have been lying
about all the railway stations 20 ourcertan knowledge
for several years past.
correspondent writes from Carbondale ILL.,, ira;
there is great diversity il wheat fields in Southern
Illinois now being harvested The berry is excellent,
the heads full OF grain, but the stand is generally vary
light. There will be- however, full half crop OF ex-
cellept wheat. Corn looks well. The peach aud
apple trees are fll of fruit
Ohio hts every reason TO he satisfied with her agri-
cultural prospects this year we may credit that ex-
cellent authority The ohio Farmer TIE wheat har.
vest is earlier thar usual and the average aud aggre-
gate YIELDS viii doubtless DC unusual As The crop last
yearin the fost- mi ten district small, and through
out the State about half large as usual an exemp
ZION from frost aud comparative escape from the nudge
would cause much rejoicing. So far as we can learn,
rye oas barley, and potatoes viii give full crop,
aud may be at least far-thanks to genial showers and
warm weather of late.
Bad husbapdry in Virginia works out iss legitimate
results as elsewhere, and on heavy clays the rust,
A &. in ala
for thorough draiDege "J. G." writes TO The
~. a.. C,,,,J.,.o, from Mont,onarv Counfv that