The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-13
THE CROPS.
THE WEST.


now full of promise. The reports from Eng
land are favorable, and according to the la
test advices from France the weather contln
ues fine and the accounts from the depart
ments respecting the crops are most salts
factory. In the Great West this is also true
The st. Paul Press predicts for Minnesota &
heavy Weld of wheat in that State this sea
son. Like othe States it has made extraor
dina1y efforts to plant large crops. The
area of land in wheat in Minnesota frontier
settlements, where the scarcity of seed pre-
vails is four times us much as was sown to
wheat last year, and the harvest is expected
to Weld IL, 100000 of bushels. The spring
weather has been exceedingly suspicious.
An Ohio paper says:
"The prospect of a great wheat crop has
not been finer for years. From all parts OF
Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, the reports are
exceedingly favorable for an abundant har,
vest. The continuous showery wheather
keeps back spring crops, but notwithstand
ing the wet of the last fortnight, more corn
has been planted than last year, and fully as
much oats and barley have been sown. No
apprehension is felt in respect to crops
The corn may be troubled with weeds, but
patent cultivators are invented and express
" made for the purpose of cleaning them
out, and help and horse powers are plenty.
A few weeks hence new wheat Will be COM
ing into market from Kentucky, where a
surplus of several million bushels, according
to present prospects. may be looked for
Ohio will probably have larger surplus of
wheat this year than any season since 1860.
Indiana ditto. The prospect for an abun
dance of all kinds OF fruit is very fiattering
Apples peaches, strawberries and cherries
promise first rate. A good crop of bread
stuffS and staple vegetables will materially
reduce the price of things, and bring the
cost of living within the means of city peo-
pie. In four months from now it is not I'M
reasonable to anticipate that flour will be
selling for one-half the present price, and
that beet, pork, butter, corn, oats and hay,
will decline in nearly as great degree
There is every prospect of an enormous yield
of hay, and that means cheap beef, mutton
and butter Much of the present stagnation
of trade results from the short crops of last
season. A revival of business will certainly
follow an abundant harvest more especially
if the cotton crop should prove to be good
one, as present reports would indicate"
lNissouri-The Louisiana Journal says:
1--WE are happy to be able to state that
the fears SO long entertained in regard to
the fruit crop in this county are about dis
PEELED. If no unforeseen disaster overtakes
the fruit, it will, in all its varieties, be more
abundant and delicious than for years past.
The item of fruit in this county is no neon
siderable one, and is fast taking rank among
our staple and valuable products We have
not the data at present to estimate the value
of the crop, should it meet with no disaster,
but leaving out of view its invaluable fea-
ture as luxury, and the amount used for
home consumption, we think we were safe
in saying the 100000. The prospect for a
fine crop of wheat and the various grasses
continues but the cold wet weather is quite
unfavorable for corn. Much of that which
has been planted has rotted in the ground,
and the fields will have to be gone over and re-
planted. There is time enough for corn yet
and should June prove warm dry month
there will be heavy crop raised"
Kansas.-The Kansas City 4dcertiser says
the wheat crop looks finely in all portions of
the State. Where the Fall wheat was de-
stroyed by grasshoppers Spring wheat was
substituted, and is in fine condition.
Nebrasku.-Papers south of the Platte,
where the grasshopper plague was threaten
ed, announce that the recent storm has
cleaned the pest out wherever it prevailed.
The Nemcha (Nebraska) Courier states that
the great number OF blackbirds, plovers and
other varieties, are gulping down the grass
hoppers by wholesale quantities.
THE SOUTH.
Georgia-Much of the corn raised in the
counties of Terrell, Calhoun, Webster, and
Lee will be required for home consump tion.
A larger portion of land than common has
been devoted to this crop. Cotton looks
very promising, though much has had to be
replanted. The Cherokee Georgian Dalton,
says the wheat crop is unusually fine, but
we are sorry to hear complaints of rust in
some quarters. We trust, however, large
yield will yet reward the labors of the farm
ers of this destitute portion of the South.
The Rome Courier says:
A bunch of wheat has been placed on our
table by Mr.. Jones, sown on his farm (bank
of the Oostanula,) formerly owned by Judge
Wright. in the vicinity of our city, which
measures more than six feet in height, with
large, perfectly filed heads. MI. Jones is
practical Virginia farmer, and the superior
ity of his wheat crop this year over that of
his neighbor, demonstrates the great advan-
tage of deep-plowing and thorough tillage,
over the Georgia bull-tongue, surface-scratch
ing system of farming. We have heard it
said that MIR. Jones would make 80 bushels
of wheat to the acre.
Advices from Talbot, Pike, Laurens, and
Berrien counties, Ga, report the wheat and
corn crop as unusually promising, and the
cotton stand is also tolelable in all but the
last named. In Dooly county rain is much
needed. In Baker county corn and cotton
are both very promising.
A correspondent estimates the cotton crop
of this State at 100000 or 100000 bales
more than double that of last year.
The complaint that provisions will net be
sufficient to feed the hands until the crop is
made is alarmingly prevalent. A gentle
man planting in Calhoun county, informed
US that his bacon would not last longer than
the list of July, and yet he had 1900 acres
of land in cotton, and large number of
hands employed. Nor has he dollar to
buy meat with. Another large planter in
Mitchell made similar statement to U.S.
Such deplorable state of things requires no
comment. The cotton mania is next to
cholera in its effects upon the country. Corn
in this section, will average from knee to
waist high; some of it is five feet. Cotton
is young and small, but the stand is most
excellent. Oats, which have been largely
planted, are free from rust and smut, and as
good as we remember ever to have seen
them. The only patch of wheat we have
noticed is a total failure. Nor do we regard
southwestern Georgia as a wheat country