The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-21
CrOn Proaneef.

~ LEM A0AhN hANGA u /
Some six weeks since we gave a full
statement of the appearance of the grow.
ing crops in all the States North and South,
founded uron the reports communicated
from the Department of Agriculture, and
those received through our exchanges.
RThis statamAnt- presented most en-
coursging prospect for our cereals in
nearly every quarter. Again, taking q
cursory view of the country, after an in
tervsl of a month and a half, we find
that the hopes and expectations then raised
have not been disappointed. In some re-
pions the rust and DISTINCTIVE insects have
made inroads upOn the growing crops, but
as 3 general thing they are yielding and
will continue TO yield all that they give
promise of earlier in the season. No hesvy
and untoward showers have retarded their
growth neither has a lack of sufficient rain
parched and dried up the soil, thereby de-
%priying them of needed nourishment. The
destructive and dreaded weeVl has not
made its temperance, nor have other ene-
mics to the husbsndmAn ~encrosched upon
his substance TO any extent. God has
smiled upon the face of the land, and the
golden horn Of plenty is filed to overflow
ing. .s
The reports received this month at the
Agricultural Bureau from every part of
the country go 10. show that the yield of
potatoes, corn and hay will be more pro-
life than during any preceding season
fully one-third more grass has been cut
than ever before in one single yeaF
CHANGING at the returns of the States indi-
yidusllv, we learn that all the crops sre in
a most fourishing~ condition in New York.
The wheat growing tier of counties have
surpassed the most sRnguine expectations,
and secured abundant fields of grain pnIn-
iured by rust, weevil or nudge Corn, osts,
I. Spring barley and potstoes are represented
as looking superb" The same is true TO
/, a certain extent of Pennsylvania, although
in ~sonecounties, such as Allegheny, insects
have occasioned some destruction. Though
not so encouraging, the reports from the
! other great cereSl producing States further
l West are still highly favorable. An ex-
hibit of the condition ofthe crops in thirty
three counties Of Indiana show that with
the exception of wheat they have yielded
finely. Corn, oats and potatoes are giving
, greater returns than for many years be.
fore. The farmers have also been blessed
with heavy crops of hay and rye, while
barley is looking unusually well. Wheat
> has been considerably damaged.
Carefully prepared reports.of the crops II
Illinois and Iowa show that wheat, though
: injured in some localities, will be NOR
than an average yield, and of a good eusl
ity. Oats, rye snd hay have done remark
2 a6lv we'll. Corn though backward is very
thrifty. Copious showers in Wisconsin
have dispelGd fears Of g drought enter
tsined earlier in the season, and judging
by the reports from ten counties before b
y the Roosier State will present 3 crop rec
ord fully as encouraging as that OF lllmolf
In Michigan all the cereals promise Al
abundant yield, though the interference g
smut and rust may reduce the wheat croT
= which earlier in the season gave promise c
an extraordinary return, to about the aver
: age crop. The farmers, of Ohio hsY
4 feared that their crops would be injured b.
the rain, but the results of the harvest shot
= that such has not been the case.
The returns from the Eastern State
present a most encouraging exhibit Th
potato crop for the year is estimated, j
: Maine alone, at 5000, 900 bushels.S
From nearly ali the Southern States Il
: crop reparts continue favorable Whea
corn and oats, in Tennessee are UNUSUAL
Ane. The same is true of all the cereals
4, Georgia, with the exception of wheat. o.
New Orleans exchanges speak most 81
~coursgingly of the agricultural repor
from Louisiana. The Shreveport Nel
saws that the crop of corn on the Red Ri
ed er will be immense" A Texas jourpi
adds that the wheat crop, though afiecte
: somewhat by rust, will be large, "larg
K perhaps than ever before in that Stai
nd Our Richmond exchanges report very I
~ vorsblv in regard TO the condition OF Il
70. crops in Virginia, North and south Gar
ult H.
The present year will be one OF the mt
- eventful in our history, crowning alike !
lsbors of our soldiers with peace, and thu
= of our ~husbsndmen with bountitul hs
vests.