The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-01
Crops.

The principal unsecured crops VI q
United States out Of the seeded States
are corn, buckwhest, sorghum, tobacco an
potatoes A large section Of the West, !
4 (which these productions are largely grown
was visited BY 4 destructive frost on t6
/ 18th, 29th and 30th Of August. The exac @
amount of the injury sustained is not eve
known but it is claimed that the damag'
in the sections ooyer (which the frost sz
tended, cannot fall short of rs percent; AM
as the extent of the frost was great, EN-
bracing the States of Minnesota, Wiscon
sin, Michigan, Ohio, Indians, Illinois, Iows
and parts of Kentucky, Missouri and Kan
sas-States from which are drawn ouI
principal surplus supplies Of corn, to say
nothing OF cattle and hogs the aggregate
productions of the Union must be seriously
diminished. , ,-.---~--,..-.z-.---s
In the Report of the o. S. Commissioner
of Agriculture, for August, it isstated that
the returns received at the Department,
written between the third and eighth days
of September, from the States visited by
the severe frosts, generally place the injury
to the corn crop at from one.tftM to ons-half
the whole crops; but the average of the
States of Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois
is hree-tenths, and of Indiana four-tentbs.
The tobacco crop is reported as injured to
still greater extent, while sorghum has
suffered less. .o.,.--,--.--.-., D.. ,-..
In the States not seriously affected by
the August frosts--embracing Connecticut,
Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, Maine, New Hampshire,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Vermont-the report
represents the condition Of the crops as
followss 81 t4Eh " G.
% Corn,-In these States this crop is excel
lent. In Maryland and Pennsylvania it is
but one tenth below an average, while the
rest are either an average or above it. The
average of all is 101.
I6bacco.-This, in the same States, is |
within very small fraction of an average
crop. The injuries to it are small. ll 4
Soryhum.-Of the States named, this
crop is grown in but six of them, and in |
hem it is Just an average crop; but the
heavy crop of this product lies within the
frosted States, and hence it is unnecessary
In dwell lonOpr I1non If now
FZdz.-The crop of fax, being uninjured
~ frost, may be considered good for all the
States, except Delaware, New Hampshire
md Rhode Island, which do not produce it
The crop is nearly general average, being
n bushels to the acre; but the States pro
lucing most, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, are
below an average, being 8,3or tive bushels
,elow, and Illinois and Pennsylysnia arsl
!, or one bushsl below, for the yield of an
lverage acre is about 10 bushels. The
Teat amount sown places the actual pro-
iuction far above the crop of 1862. - -
q The Hay Crop.-This great crop Of ALI
'ections of the country has been secured in
much better condition than we anticipat-
ID from the constant rains in the eastern
States during the harvest. In Connecticut
Delaware, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire,
and Rhodelsland, the condition of the hayl
was two-tenths below an average, and in1
Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New JERSEY.
New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, it
was one tenth below. In the remainder of
the States it was of an average condition,
Or above it,
Fuits-The general returns in the col
f,r
Of this delicious fruit. it is 81 in appear
ance, but the returns from the frost are
neagre. The rot, nevertheless, has prevail
ed to considerable extent in many local
tiles.
The peach crop shows great IDEAL of ir-
as is usual with it, but it may
be set down as good crop. That of ap-
Piles possesses much of the same eirregularity.
In Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachu-
setts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and
Ohio. the crop will be light, but in the
other States it will be greater than last
year.
Potatoes.-The continued drouth in many
sections of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, have
lessened this cropin those States,
and the frost of August will DESTROY much
of the late planted Our table shows the
crop as injured by drouth chiefly, and in
those States it is two tenths, of twenty per
cent. below an average.
Gardens-The appearance of the gardens
is not much different from that of the DO.
tato crop. They have suffered from drouth
in the large Western States, of Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, and Iowa, as also in Minnesota
and Nebraska Territory 3
Pastares-In the great grazing States Of
the west, the condition of fall pastures is
not favorable. but in other States it is un :
unusually good, owing to the rains in Au-
gust.
Butter-The amount made is nearly an
average. The drouth in the western States
have caused diminished amount.
Cheese-Without entering into detail, it
! may be said that this product, as to supply
and demand, is in the same condition as
butter.