Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-04-26
Drop Prospects.

Tho city of Chicago at the present time
contains within fraction Of 10000, 900 bu-
shells Of grain, the largest amount ever gath
cred togather in one place on this continent.
The warehouses of Milwaukee, La Crosse.
Dubuque, McGrcgor, Winona, ST. Paul, and
indeed all the grain depots OF the Northwest,
were never SO crowded as they are to day I;
yet. notwithstanding the vast stores of grain,
and the still vaster quantities sent east and
south since last September, it is estimated
that to-day rs much grain is in the hands Of
the farmers unsold as the combined product
OF the crops Of 1853 and SO. Thus it is
rendered certain that, even should the crop
OF 1861 be a disastrous failure, there will be
"corn enough in Egypt" to carry US through
to the fan Of 1862.
But what Of the future? Are there any
data BY which we may judge Of the crop pros
poets Of the present year?
Practical agriculturalists say there are, and
their speculations are generally entitled to
some weight. From causes now in operation
it is estimated that the coming crop Of grain
will be the largest this country ever saw
There will not be as many bushels to the acre
as in lS6O--that is not at all probable, but
an immensely larger area OF country will be
put into grain, and it would not surprise those
who are conversant with crop movements il
the yield Of 1862 were twenty five per cent.
heavier than that 1861.
The following, am ng other considerations
have led to this general belief:
l. The failure of the English harvest Of
1860 by the certainty OF short crop this
year by reason of the wet fall and heavy
frosts, and the enormous capcity Of the Liver
pool market to absorb our. breadstuffs, will
naturally stimulate the production Of wheat
and corn in this country, and farmers will
use more land this year, for that purpose,
than in 1861.
Q. The troubles at the South and South
west, which will seriously interfere with the
planting and growth Of cotton, by reason Of
the uncertainty that will attend its sale, will
necessarily lead to heavy seeding Of wheat
and corn. All the southern papers agree in
saying that the coming wheat crop that will
be harvested early in June, will be very large,
while Of corn there will be an abundance
without shipment from the Northwest, If no
disaster such as that Of last year occurs.
8. The disappearance Of the weevl and
other insect pests from the great wheat region
east of the lakes is now generally admitted,
and, as consequence, in western and north
ern New York and Pennsylvania, farmers are
again seeding their long-neglccted wheat fields
and are expecting large crops.
4, The withdrawal Of a very large amount
OF labor from mechanical and other industrial
operations, owing to onr political troubles,
will add to the available force at the disposal
Of the farmer, and help to swell the products
of the farm
This subject is Of great interest just now.
With our commercial machinery at a stand.
still, with a certainty that the cotton crop
will be seriously diminished, and possibility
that we may experience the horrors Of war,
it is comforting to know that our granaries
are full, and that the earth promises to yield
abundantly ~ Y World