The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1865-08-02
The Crops.

In this section the apple crop will be
next thing to failure, and such is the
general complaint except in New York
and New Jersey. The wheat crop ofthe
country has now been generally harvest.
cd, and, contrary to the general expecta'
tion and the promise of early spring, is,
10 many cases, a partial or entire failure.
In New York and in Northern, Western
and Southern Ohio the crop is good both
in quantity and quality, but in some
parts of Illinois and Missouri the yield
is very small and hardly pays for har-
vesting. The rust has caused the fail
ure, and fields that, two months ago,
promised twenty bushels Of nice grain
to the acre now give only six or eight
bushels of shriyeled kernels, almost
worthless. In Indiana late frosts and
the weevil have also injured the wheat,
and the crop of this year will be from
a third to q half less than in 1864. The
oats and hay crops in Indiana arc very
much better than usual, enough 80 to
balance all the pccuniary loss occasioned
by the partial failure ofwheat. In Mich.
igan and Wisconsin all tho crops promise
we'll, and in Iowa the yield Of wheat will
be above the average. The cereal crops
in most of the Southern Statcs will be
good. A very large wheat crop has just
been harvested, and good corn crop is
promised unless it is injured by the
drouth which now prevails there. In
Louisiana and Georgia there will be
abundant crops Of coru.
So great has been the damage to the
wheat crop in many parts Of Illinois and
Missouri that the farmers have not cut
the wheat at oil, nor deemed it worth
the trouble. There is, however, suf6-
cient old wheat Of good quality in those
States to supply any deficiency occasion
ed by short crop this year. The pros
poets for corn are generally very good
ln Minnesota and further west the grass.
hoppers have proved terrible and de-
structivc plague. In many Of the coun.
ties Of Minnesota they have destroyed
more than half of all the crops, and have
hardly left Vegetables enough for seed
Wheat has suffered the most from their
ravages, and corn the least. When they
have finished up their work in one coun'
ty they fly away through the forests to
some other spot, filling the air and al
most obscuring the light Of the sun, sc
numerous are they. Grain, vegetables
currant bushes and young fruit trees art
their favoritc food, and no devise tha
the turner's have employed has been eff
fectusl in preventing their ravages. In
some wheat fields they have cut through
straight swath Of several rods width
leaving tho ground as clean as If th
harvcsters had cut and removed th'
grain.
In New England and the middle States
there is no large deficiency reported il
any crop, save in apples in New England
The hay crop will be very large, as viii
oats and other grains, and the prospect:
for potatoes and other root crops are un.
usually good for tho season. On the
whole, the crops of the country for 1869
will probably DO fully equal to those Of
1864 and then, too, we are at peace
which will add considerable to the feed
ing power of what We raise, as the waste
and loss incident to army life will bt
avoided Wheeling Lntctiigencer.