The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-08
The Weather ANA the Crops,
From FeaI tcateaoo, coanieTcial Erzr

From HellP (Chieago) Commercial E1prcsa.
Country and city have alike been
thrown into great anxiety and excite
ment during the last two weeks by the
wet etweather, and in fact nothing ever
was or could have been worse in that
way than the weather attendant or con-
sequent upon the harvest of the North
west up to the middle of last week.
The telegraph has taken the matter in
hand, and furnished the daily papers
with brief reports from a large section
OF the country. Before the skies clear
ed up last week, the principal grain
markets had been thrown into a panic
IN regard to the poor prospect for wheat,
and prices had advanced from the first
start about SOC. per bushef, bukiwithin
the last few days, a moro quiet and bet
ter assured feeling prevails, and prices
have already receded lja16c. from the
highest point reached.
is not easy to generalize mt once
upon such crop influences us have been
at work in the last five or six years. The
proceeding drouth caused the first few
weeks of rain to be regarded as the
greatest blessing, and the hopes and ex-
pectations of Grain growers all over the
Northwest were greatly enlarged but
with the long continuance of wet. an
prehensions of harm arose, and finally
gave place to certainty. How much
harm has been done, and over how
great an extent of territory, is yet very
much Il matter of conjecture. It is GER
tain, however, that the earlier the har-
vest the greater has been the damage.
and that in sections so fur North that
the harvest was only commenced last
week, no damage ut all has been done
blythe ruins, but, on the contrary, the
weather has been exceedingly propi-
tiOus, while the fine, cool, clear term
now apparently fully established, gives
every assurance Ofsecuring the remains
ing harvest in the best possible condi-
1t is undoubtedly true that the rains
have been heavier and more protracted
through Ohio, Southern Indiana, South
ern Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, than
anywhere North of that stretch of
country, and as the harvests arc earlier
there, and winter wheat almost exclu-
stNely grown, the moderate crops cut
have been sadly diminished and deteri-
GRATED by the wet, the damage also ex-
tending to rye and barley, possibly to
oats. In,portionS of Illinois and Iowa
where the rye, barley and spring wheat
harvests came on early, Hs well as
where winter wheat forms portion of
the crops, some damage has been done,
especially with those farmers unable to
procure necessary help to take aClVnn-
tage of the occasional fine weather, but
in much of these last named sections,
as well MS IN most OF wisconsin, the
harvest has been and bids fair to be nt-
tended by good weather, while in Min
nesota the crops never promised so well
before as now. 'i
Without tho damage of bad harvest
weather, the general Wheat crop of the
Northwest would have been n moderate
one, far less than good or even n fair
average. 1t has had many enemies to
encounter, the early drouth, insects,
and the later rains. All early sOwn
fields, whether of Winter or Spring,
stood light on the ground! NyaeFe. tlsos
g tt y9E Of ,.!6' good quality,
vest damaged it much. Whercth crop
was still growing during the rainy sea-
son, Except that which was too much
beaten and drenched in the blow,) the
heads have filed well and the grain
will Lbe good, though the yield per acre
willSbe right. We do not think that
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa
have had so light n Wheat yield in ten
years as now, excepting, of course, the
almost total failure of the crop last
year. Oats arc good everywhere: Corn
is now doing well, !, though it has suffer-
ed some on low and level lands.