New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-06-29
TILE HIRrESTS.


north latitude. or of 81. Louis and Cincinnati,
distance of about $50 miles, the Wheat has
been put in shock. The yield was good, the
quality excellent, and undoubtedly there was a
larger breadth than ever was sown before.
But through much of this region, particularly
within the influence of the Atlantic and below
the Blue Ridge. there have been heavy and
protracted rains. and rs barns are uncommon,
the wheat must have suffered some damage,
but how great has not yet been reported.
Southern wheat il decidedly superior to that
generally grown in the North, and usually is a
surer crop.
The condition Of the cotton plant is varous.
In some of the Louisiana parishes the overflow
has destroyed it, and when the waters
subsidized it was too late for anything but com.
I'm other sections, the cold, wet weather III
April made much replanting necessary; while,
where the soil is rich and light, the moisture has
given the gnack grass start and much labor
will be requredto eradicate H. still, the planters
have met these adverse conditions with energy.
and now all the cotton-fclds are cleared, and
the plant is pushing forward with great rapid
ity. In the extreme South bolls are already
formed, and the fields are gray with the broad
green leaves and the white and pink blossoms.
OF course corn is backward for the same
reasons but as il is tougher plant, and
can stand much, it has received its last
blowing, and is laid by. In Kentucky it is
knee high. Everywhere it is a good color, and
large yield may be expected. In many places
there is "a complaint that the tobacco plants
are small OF other crops, such as field peas,
beans sweet potatoes, and the like there was
full planting, for it was desirable that every
thing that could make food should be tried.
Garden patches are larger, and will yield more
than ever before. This is owing to the new
condition of the freedmen. In most cases the
colored women have taken this branch upon
themselves. and already they have good sup
plies of Irish potatoes, beans and some roast
ing ears.
North Of 30 degrees, for 60 miles. and from
Kansas to Southern Maryland the farmers
are in the midst of the wheat harvest. The
last four days of almost continuous rain will
be likely to do much damage if it extended
thither. The quality of the wheat grown there
is next to the very best and it is liable to be
injured in the shock, for there are few barns
With few exceptions, the yield will be
fair, but as the soil is not very rich,
and as much of it has become thin from
frequent cropping, the amount per acre will
not be large. The corn here is very good,
and i'm the warm, damp weather, is making a
good growth. Fruit is reported better than in
many sections further South. Peach and apple
trees are very full. The strawberry crop
suffered greatly through the picking season
from several rainy days, and much of the fruit
rotted.
Between 30 to ii degrees lies the great corn
region. The protracted wet weather was n for
midable obstacle, and up to the first week In
June, thousands of acres were completed. BY
the use of two-borse sulky cultivators, very
large fields were prepared and the. corn planter
followed. Here, that is to say in Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, and Iowa, very little Winter wheat
is raised. In regions east, including Indiana,
Ohio Pennsylvania, and a part Of New-York
and New England, the wheat still is promising;
fruit is abundant and the corn crop is coming
on well. Still, on heavy clay soils favorable
for grass, il has been almost impossible to
work the CROP On dryer soils it has been
plowed and hoed and it is in fine or
der Through this whole belt there will
be more peaches than for several years. Even
in the prairie regions, where they raise the
tree for fuel, not expecting much fruit, they
will have fair supplies. In Illinois and Iowa,
the potato bug is making frightful ravages,
and unless the farmer either catches, or with
brush drives the pest from the fields this crop
will be ruined. In other sections the potato
promises well as yet, but of late years so
uncertain has this root become, that it is too
early to predict much. In Kansas, Southern
Nebraska, and Western Missouri, the grass
hopper is making clean sweep in many fields;
still, this is not to be said of the whole
face of the sections named, for there are many
counties unvsited. In Idaho aud Colorado We