Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-27
The Wheat CroD.

The wheat crop in Huron county, Ohio, is said to
be half killed. Many farmers blowing up their
soil.
The Tuscarawas county (0hio) Advocate says:
From conversation with intelligent and observing
farmers from different parts of the couHty. led
to the conclusion that there will not be than
one-third the usual wheat crop.
The GAINESVILLE (Obio) Courier says:
A great deal of alarm exists among the farming
community Of this county in relation to the pros
poets OF the wheat crop for the present year 1t is
said that there will not be over one-fOurth of an
average crop; that the wheat is not in the ground TO
produce more having been frozen and killed by the
cold weather OF the past winter The winter of 1866
66 was undoubtedly hard one for the wheat crop.
The absence Of snow, Joined with severe cold at
times, no doubt rendered the prospective CROP in
part failure, but not to the extent which farmers
seem to think. The amount of wheat sown last II
perhaps larger than for several years past and
should it. owing to freezing out, stand little thin on
the ground this spring; should some fields be en-
trelg destroyed, We have but little doubt but that
the coming harvest will develop the fact that the
yield IN the county will not fall much behind that of
former years.
Some farmers are so much alarmed in regard to
what they consider prospectively, total failure of
the crop that they buying of mllers flour in
considerable quantities to keep the gaunt wolf hun
piowed their wheat fields and are putting in other
grain The result of the scare is. millers have ad-
vanced -four fifty cents per barrel, with prospect for
a still further advance.
The st. Louis Democrat says:
We begin to receive information already from
various sections OF the Northwest in relation to fruit
and grain prospects. If plants or buds of the
vegetable kingdom give any indications of matured
crops, we should suppose from the accounts which
reach US that the next harvest will be a medium one
as regards its amount. As usual throughout this
widely extended country the fruit buds are entirely
killed in some sections while in others but little if
any injury has been inflicted Wheat in one locality
is totally destroyed and in another it is in the most
fiourshing condition. Even within the limits of a
single state these differences exist. About Quincy
IN illinois. well known fruit grower and agricui-
informs the public, the orchards and fields are
tar IRON promising He says that fall wheat is badly
injured SO much so that fully one-half of all that was
I killed. - 1-
On the other hand, the Alton Telegraph gives us
the pleasing report that the prospect of an abundant
crop OF wheat was better than it is this spring
IN that part OF the state Down about Shawuee own
the fruit has suffered but little if any from the re-
cent cold weather Out ofseyen localities in Indiana
we regret TO say that five report unfayorahIy
Around Logansport the wheat may yield an average
crop, and such is the language used in regard to the
others, constituting the majority of the bad cases
| The huntington democrat observes that diversity
OF opinion is noticed among farmers whether the
wheat has sustained any serious injury or moi: and
the Evansville journal states that the prospect for
an abundance OF fruit in the vicinity of JeersonyiIle
is quite favorable. NV
1t is probable that the year in crop yields will bs
good average one giving enough for home consnmp-
ton and all export demands -F