The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-08-14

Justice to the State, the wheat account
for 1862 will stand as follows:
100000 acres of Spring
Wheat, at II bushels
per acre, lG,6O0, 900 bu.
100 900 acres of Winter
Wheat, at 20 bushels
per acre, 100000 bu
Total IN bushels l8,500,0 GEO
/. would be nearer the truth, perhaps,
to place the total at 90 900, 900 bushels,
which when threshea, lows will have to
export, as she has on hand of past crops,
more than sufficient to supply home
wants until another harvest
The above aggregate is somewhat above
that of 1861, and has been produced with
fewer hands, by at least ten per cent,
than we had IN tiuii year. Many feared
that tic ,net taken from orr farms to sup
rlS tie loyal army, would be seriously felt
inlhc productsot this year but thanks to
he loyal workers at home, the result is
beyond our most sanguine expectations,
and would have been 25 per cent more.
if every element Of success had been as
faithful as the soil We have one advan-
tage this year over that of last, the grain
is well harvested and safely stored in
stacks or barns.
CokN-Never, since the State WIS first
settled, has the prospect for fac yield
of Corn appeared better than il docs now
The seasons is also propitions at the pres
ent writing, tic 7lh Of August, for its
continuation. One month more of such
weather, and the corn fields of Iowa will
yield an average Of not less than silty
bushels per acre. Such are the reports
we have from all parts Of the State, and
Strangers. from tie Eastern States es
pcciaiiy, who are travelling over our pro-
luciise soil. look upon the vast forests II
Corn with wonder, even cxcclling, they
say. the far famed bottoms OF the Sciota.
! in Ohio.
From the same reports alluded to above
IN regard to wheat, tbs same sections Of
the State report for 1869, an average in
creased breadth Of Corn over that of 1861 !.
| of one fourth AS the number Of acres
in 1851 Was 100000, this would give,
if we average for the whole State, that re-
ported for less than one-half. an increase
OF $50, 600 acres. But AS we have taken
but about one-third of this inferred in
crease for wheat, we will add only l25. coo
acres as the increased breadth Of Corn
planted for 1862, which makes total of
! ,h23 600 acres If the season continues
favorable, 30 bushels per acre may safely
be estimated us the average "a pr
acre, which will give IN ag.te- H. ol
76,25o, 900 bushels, beiiig about l6 ,UCO,
600 bushels only over the yield Of 1861.
The yield may reach he enormous amount
amount Of 100000, 600 bushels.
OTHER CRops.-Oats are reported BY
returns to tl.s office to yield better than
usual. The total crop, may, therefore,
be estimated at leas, equal TO that oi last
year, 10000, 600 bushels Rye, during
the present year has been cultivated more
extensively than ever before, principally
as forage crop. We have no data ON
which to estimate the probable amount
harvested. Barley, also, has received
more attention than heretofore, being
grown mora or less in every neighbor-
hood, and in some of the Eastern ooun-
ties, It ranks among the leading crops
Hay, which is principally cut from the
prairies. yields well this year, and We
doubt not that at least 81 ,OO0, 900 tons
Of all varieties of the grasses will be put
up for consumption and expectation, Of
Sorghum, We cannot estimate that the
yield will Be much behind that 81 last year,
which we reported at 100000 gallons.
Potatoes occupy, probably, 80 per cent
more land than was occupied last year.
and the yield will be not less than one
half more per acre. Of these we shall
have abundance, and of the best quality,
which was not the case last year in either
requisi,ion, to any great extent, except
in very few sections Of the State.
CATrLx, - The Assessors returns for
1862 to the Auditor OF State for all the
counties except fourteen, give the aggre-
gate of cattle as 565,352. Estimating
those from which no returns have been
received, including but six counties OF
any consequence, at the ratio OF those
which have returned, those not reported
viii be very near 0,000, making the total
645 1862. We are satisfied that at least
10 per cent should be added to this num-
Der for cattle not returned to the Asses
sors, which win make the total over 70O,-
600 head. As the average reported as
sessed value per head is fraction over
nine dollars. it is fair to presume that at
least three-fourths of the whole are cattle
ready for the market, or milch COWS. At
ter dsduoting 100000 as the probable
number Of COWS, there are left 225, 900
head for the shambles. Deducting, again
$4,000 for home consumption, the prob