The Portland daily press., 1867-09-18
DAILY PRESS.
> PORTLAND.
Wednesday Morning, September l8, 1867.


est. The tillers of the soil are not alone in
terested, but the consumers also who out
number them, and we regret to be obliged to
add another class made up of speculators,
who feel lively interest in all the
products of the earth, and look for their
annual return with selfish motives. The
numbers of this class have increased within
few years to fearful extent, and their
power is often felt throunhout the length and
breadth of the land. Nothing short of album
dant crops can check their career. We be-
believe the harvests this season all over the
would will greatly check the operations OF
speculators and confine the traffic in produce
within the bounds OF legitimate trade.
The crops this year taken as whole were
unusually large. Our own State has been thus
far sienally favored by good Providence
Our hay crop has been abundant, and for us
this is an important crop, more valuable in
its effects and results than we are apt to think.
prone, naturally, to place less value upon it
than il deserves. The wheat sown in our
State has yielded great increase, and the
great regreG of our farmers now is, as it was
last season, that they had not sown greater
breadth. We hope another year they will
trust more to Providence and fear insects
less, and go into wheat raising with spirit and
confidence. Farmers are too easily wrought
upon and discouraged. This should not be.
Let them remember that they are cared for
more than the sparrow that falls to the ground.
Let them have more faith in those promises
that never fail ..d ...f .. satk
The potatoes in many localities have been
injured by rust and continued wet weather,
but on the whole we believe there will be a
large crop. A large breadth was planted, and
if rust and disease destroy some fields others
will yield an abundant harvest. Corn has
had rapid growth, and if it hardens before
the autumnal frosts come, the crop will be un-
usually large for this region. Oats in many
places have been struck with rust, but in 9TH
ers the yield will be large. Vegetables of all
kinds have grown luxuriantly all over the
State. Apples on the old orchards are scarce,
but young trees with grated fruit have done
better. There win not be half as many dried
this year as there were last, and yet we do not
apprehend there will be a scarcity. Other
States will make up what we lack, and the
facilities for transportation are great
Our neigbbors, the Canadians, have also
been greatly blessed. The French Canadians
are not very scientific farmers, and heed not
the improvements which have been made in
tIn co;anoa of a0r;o,,ltrra vat thau oontriva
to make the earth produce fair crops. They
save but little Tor their own consumption, and
sell all the rest. They will make puddings OF
the swine's blood and sell the rest. We be-
lieve Canada has raised this year more than
an average crop. Grass and grain are abun-
dant and our neighbors seem to be flourish
ing under their new order of government
True, in their recent elections in the "DO-
minion" there have been some riotous pro-
ceedings, but the earth has yielded for them a
In the South the crops are good. In North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, enough of breadstuffs has been
produced to supply the wants of the year
The N. Y. Tribune estimates the cotton crop
= = '.'.'a,,t ana half taking GOOD years before
the war as standard. The Sea Island varle
ty has suffered from wet weather and the
worms, and will probably fall short In Lou
siana and Texas they have raised their bread,
and in sections remote from transportation
corn, no doubt, will be very cheap. The
growing of sugar cane requires large capital
and well organized industry. During the war
| the business was suspended in great degree.
| In some localities there is now some fine cane
but the crop Of sugar must be light In Lou.
| isiana al well as in Mississippi, Arkansas and
| Tennessee, the cotton worm has done consid-
| cradle damage, but later accounts are more
encouraging. The cotton crop will probably
| be double the amount it was last year.
Throughout the West the yield per acre
has net been great, but there was at least one
fourth larger breadth sown than in any pre-
vious year. The price of breadstuffs must be
considerably cheaper than last year. 1t may
surprise our farmers to be told that the aver
age yield of wheat in the West this season
will not exceed twelve bushels to the acre
| We dare say our farmers who had the cour-
| age TO SOW wheat the last two years raised
more per acre than their Western brethren
have 1t is pas sing strange that the cultiva-
ton of wheat has been so much neglected in
our State. We trustit will not be so another
year.
There has been a severe drought at the
| West while we have had loo much rain. The
corn in the West has suffered for the want ol
Tin, and the crop will fall short one quarter
and perhaps more, but then we must remem-
ber that one fourth more corn was planted
which will make up the deficiency occasioned
by the drought. Recently the rains have
come, and corn, being late planted, will re
ceive great henefit from them. The Tribune
thinks that in the great corn belt which in
chdes the whole of Central Illinois and
Southern Iowa. without the recent rains the
total of the corn would have been nearly
equal to good year.
In Georgia the corn crop is particularly
heavy and abundant A large area was
planted and it has already matured and the
people will rejoice in the abundance of corn
cakes which they know so well how to make.
The cotton also looks promising in that
State.
The apple crop is an important one, and it
is unusually good with the exception of a
portion of New England, some parts of New
Jersey, Western New York and Northern
Ohio There will be apples enough, and in
the special iruit-growing districts of the
West and Southwest, peaches are so abun-
dan that this is the first year in which it did
not pay to transport seeding varieties, and
yet the meanest little bitter green ones
here on our fruit stands are sold for a cent
apiece. And we have seen small purple dam
sons marked zone cent EACH" Never before
have so many green and rotten peaches been
sold in our market. Recently there have
been some fine looking ones, but they are
marked very high so that bushel would
amount to several dollars. In the West
where the potato-bug threatened to destroy
every thing, there will be fair supplies, In
the States and Territories west of Missouri
and Iowa, the people are rejoicing in abun-
dant harvests. Kansas-God bless her for
her past histOry-claims an unusual yield