Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-09
The Harvest in England.

! The London Teicgrdph of October / > saws:
The general results Of this strangely
checkered year may De summed up as fol-
| lows: W heat is deficient both in quantity
and quality; barley is heavy crop, but sadly
| injured, and mailing barley has suffered
most Of all; while oats have sustained least
! damage sAll three are below an average to
| the extent Of at least a fifth. On the other
| hand the moisture which injured the grain
benefited the root crops and the pastures;
turrTps and uaDgolds sWelled prodigiouSly
under its influence, and the grass Is heavy
and luxuriant. Potatoes we're beginning to
show symptoms Of the old disease, but tie
dryuess Of the last fortnight has materially
checked the ugly indications; and as the
fubers are strong and well grown. it may be
hoped they have now passed the stage OF Sc
rious danger.
NThe quality of the three kinds of grain
presents the widest possible variety. In the
earliest English counties, Kent, Oxfordshire
Berkshire, and one or two others, some
wheat which had ripened under the glowing
sun Of lastJuIy, was cut and garneled before
the weather broke; and that grain, We be
lic9e Is superlatiye IN quality, though not
very heavy in yield. Still the quantity is
not large, and ii tells but little on the gross
results.
Son the whole we are much less fortunate
than last year, the harvest of which was
singuarly abundant; or than the previous
year, when the crops, if not very rich, were
excellent in qualify But we have not suf-
fered so much as some of our neighbors. The
summer aud autumn have been wet every
where. In France the harvest is very def
cient and the vintageis among the worst
ever known. In Germany the grain Is rot
tingin the fields In the United States Sc
rious injury has been done, which the bril-
lance of the Indian summer may be too late
to rcnair. And in Canada the crops have
Just esca ped one Of the greatest calamities.
Both in Europe and IN America there ap-
pears to have been something like dcluge
from the heavily laden clouds, such as the
earth could scarcely absorb. La France and
the United States rivers have burst their
banks and inundated the valleys, sweeping
before them household treasures and the
produce of the fields.
"a comparative scarcity, then, will in
crease the demand for such supplies as the
markets of the world can collect, and we may
expect the average prices to be higher than
last year AS set-off, we have ample re-
serves of food for cattle, and should there
be no return of the plague we shall find some
compensation for the deficiency Of cereals
At the worst there is no fear of real
scarcity, French buyers may come to our
markets, and purchase to their satisfaction
and our profit; both nations may compete
in the great eorn-producing regions border
ing on the Baltic and the Black Seas; but
there viii ssill be plenty for ALL
Thanks 20 our more rapid and perfect
communication, we now seldom witness glut
and disastrous lowness Of Brice in one country
or scarcity and famine prices in another.
The supplies Of the whole world are taken,
and fair average in value is the result,
showing as the grand result moderate
uniformity in price and fair regularity in
supply Even now an order can be flashed
across the Atlantic through that little wire
which is suspended in its rayless depths, and
relief can be sent with a rapidity never be-
fore known from regions whose resources are 4
practically inexhaustible As to the future
indeed, there is no room for the slightest
anxiety. The dry weather of the last fort
night has enabled our farmers not only to
save the last of their grain from ruin, but
TO make good start towards next year 3
CROP