The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-01
RATES OF ADVERTIsING.
THE CONDIrION OF THE CROPs.
Report OF commiAsloner newton.

congratulates the country upon the
prospect of year of average fruitful.
ness. Wheat, the bread crop of the
country, was, in 1865, less in quantity
and quality than that of 1854.
The greater portion of the seed used
last Autumn was of inferior quality,
producing plants of low vitality; the
Winter following was in most districts
variable, freezing and tina wing, with
but little snow and much moisture
and to add the chances against the life
of the plants, the Spring was cold,
with frequent and severe freezing.
This was the case particularly in the
Ohio Valley. and to some extent
| throughout the country east of the
Mississippi. But the States west OF
| that river promise an unusually abun-
dant crop of superior qualify, The
fine weather of the later Spring and
early Summer has wonderfully devel-
! oped the remaining grain of the injur.
| ed Districts. -7s eSzr -lfssls =,
There has been an unsual exemption
from ravages of insect tribes; neither
rust nor storms have done it material
| injury; and, If IL escapes sproutinp
from wet weather, the promise is of a
| crop nearly as large as last year, and
far better in quality. The present in
dications, as marked by correspondents.
ROAAS W oA Va hDOul oI9-l6uluS
in quantity, and of a quality that will
makeitequal inyaluet to last years crop.
The testimony from all quarters rem
ders it certain that the quality will be
| excellent. In Jersey county, Illinois,
the grain is unusually fine and large,
and will compare favorably with the
grain of 1864. A correspondent in n
Dlighted district, who calculates upon a
half crop in his county, acknowledges
that its quality is SUPERIOR and admits
that there will be sufficiency for seed
and bread for the home population,
with ordinary prices, but that, under
the stimulus of extra high prices, there
will be some to send abroad: This su-
pertor excellence will not only goitar to
make up the difference in quantity be-
| tween the crop of this year and that of
1865, (Which difference is far less than
was expected on the 1st of June, but it
will, 1t Is believed, make even more
good bread and prove of greater value
than the crop of last year. Besides,
which will help to swell the prospective
| supply. The poor quality OF last years
| wheat and the high price of flour, in
connection with the superior quality of
last years corn, has had its legitimate
effect in causing largely increased use
OF corn bread, which has been for three
years past in certain districts almost
entirely unknown, wheat having been
actually cheaper than corn. --.-.--T
The winter barley crop is in very
nearly the same condition as the wheat,
Taken together, the average of the fall
sown will reach nearly nine.tenths, and
the spring-sown exceeds an average by
nearly tenth.
The crop of. oats has been unusually
good, almost beyond precedent. In no
State will there be less than an average
crop, and in one, at least, (KRnsas) the
returns give promise, of twenty five per
cent more than an average. Rarely is
the country, in its length and breadth,
blessed with crop so uniformly Iiber-
al in its yield, and of such excellent
quality. A remarkable exemption from
disease is apparent, though cores
pondent in Green county, Kentucky.
writes that there is but an ordinary
crop quite low, with occasionally an
appearance OF rust.
The condition ofpastures is generally
above the average. Kansas and Me-
braska are more than two -tenths above
Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri from
one to two@tenths above; Michigan and
Wisconsin between ten and eleven
tenths; Vermont, Rhode Island, New
York and Ohio, an average; the other
States slightly below. E
Glover suffered from winter-killIng,
except in the trans Mississippi States.
The loss varies from one to four-tenths,
as will be disclosed by an examination
of the tables. A correspondent from
the small white clover, the greatest de-
pendence for milch COWS, is entirely
gone. The month of May was the dri-
est and coldest ever known.
With the exceptions of Maine and
New Hampshire, every State reports a
greater breadth of corn than usual.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota,
Kansas and West Virginia have each
Increased their average about ten per
lIcent. Iowa has nearly as great an in
crease. In several of the States the
condition of the crops is an average.
In most of them, however, as the tables
| indicate, the cool weather of the spring
| gave the crop bad start, from which
II had not fully recovered up to the first
week in July. @
1t is generally reported low in alti-
| tude owing to the cold Spring, but in
Vigorous condition, and of a deep green
color. There is yet ample time, with
1 favorable conditions to mature pro-
ductive yield of fine quality, in which
case the extra breadth planted would
| give very large crop, 1t is too early
in the season toarrive at estimates.
a somewhat diminished average OF
sorghum is indicated. Little is grown
in the Eastern States, but that little is
4 increased this, season. A material in
crease in New York is shown; but New
Jersey and Maryland report slight
decrease. The esorghum-growing States
Indiana and Illinois, show consider
able dimInution; so also do Wisconsin
and Minnesota. The season thus far
has not been very propitious for sor-
ghum, ana the reports represent the
i average condition about one-tenth be.
low the standard OF ordinary excel
lence. s1t
Some portions of the State of Ken
tucky are not yet supplied with manu-
/ featuring machinery. In Graves coun.
| " not half as much was. sown this
/ Spring as last year, when quantities o.
/ it were destroyed by frost for the lack
of ofmanufacturing apparatus. The peo'
/ pie have nothing but the ordinary
L wooden mills.
of fax this season. In condition It is
ten.tenths in most of the States, though
In some of the hax-growing States o
the West Il Is slightly under an average
In every State there were more pota-
toes planted than usual. In Ohio II
per cent. more; in Kentucky, 20 pei
cent; in Missouri, 25 per cent; in Kan
saS, so per cent. In condition, no States
l except Illinois and Minnesota are re-
ported At less than ten tenths; and il
these States the increased average in
dicates a prospect for full averag,
crop. sstfe .ri.T
fuVeFy nearly an average of bean!
beans Is reported In slightly better thar
average condition.
The fruit crop promises to be small
and it Is believed that the peach croI
will be limited in the Eastern States
thu1gh the reports from the West ar
more encouraging. stf.,.
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