The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-09
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wheat, and medium cotton crop. The same
is to be said of Louisiana and parts of Missis-
sippi, with some considerable deduction
arising from the ravages of the ootton-worm
and the devastations of late spring floods.
Around the Gulf States all supplies Of food
will be abundant but cotton Is not likely to
yield more than two-thirds of an average of
former good years. OF rice and cane sugar
there are no good reports. These staples
require large capital, and certain kind of
labor which disappeared during the war. In
the rest of the Southern States, with the eX-
ception of some portions of North Carolina, o
and on badly-worn soils elsewhere the yield
of grain exceeds any former year, and it is
stated that in a great measure they will make
no demands on the North for bread. Tobacco
generally will be deficient. Owing to the
great amount of labor bestowed on the grow
ing of grain, cotton could not receive the
usual undivided attention, and it is generally
conceded that it will not excel the unfavorable
yield of last year by more than a quarter.
Generally, the freedmen are performing their
contracts with fidelity, andioutrages upon them
are less frequent.
By latest advices from the heart of the great
grain-growing regions of the West, we must
conclude that the yield of wheat, corn, and
oats will be unprecedentedly large. Dealers
who never carry less than hundreds of barrels
of flour have worked their stocks down as low
as ten barrels. At the present time no large
quantity of breadstuffs can be sold at current
rates, so prevalent is the opinion that prices
must recede and yet, through the wholeWest,
there is an absolute scarcity. In estimating
prices for the future this last fact should not
be overlooked, and the amount absolutely ne
cessary to feed the people, whese bread
hitherto has been as cheap as fuel, will be
taken into account. The various fruits are in
excess of former years. Grapes, however, are
doing badly through interior sections. On the
islands and along the southern shore of Lake
Erie, as well as in other water climates, little
or no mildew has yet appeared. Apples are
abundant, and thence the East can be sup
piled.
In the Eastern States considerable damage
has been done hay and grain by the frequent
showers. Still, in various localities these crops
have been secured in good order, and corn
will yield heavily. Much more wheat is now
grown than formerly, and with such crafty
ing results that its culture is still more to be
extended. From all parts of Canada the har-
vests now commencing are more than usually
promising, but danger is apprehended from
the weevil. However, its ravages are not
likely to be more than local. Northwestward,
towards the British Possessions, westward to
our new Territories, we have the same general
cheering accounts of large yields of grain.
Though the damage done by the grasshopper
was considerable, the effects will be slight,
even in the States where for time it threat
ened to destroy everything, and whence it has
departed, no one knowing whittier. We have
the general statement in the Territories of
New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, that they
will raise their own bread, and perhaps Ari-
zona should be included. In the valleys of
Nevada some fine farms have been opened,
and fhau ara pubo
year promises to equal the last in California
in all the fruits and grains produced in that
! remarkably and now highly prosperous
State; nor do we have any discouraging report
from Oregon or Washington Territory. The
Territory adjoining this has been so recently
| acquired, and the means of communication
are so infrequent, that we must pass it by in
our review.
Last year that country which long was the
granary of the world owing to the fertilizing
waters of the Nile, had short crop of grain,
though the yield of cotton was large, and the
prices of breadstufs were high. This year
| the harvests have been abundant, and prices
have fallen two-thirds Southern and Central
Russia, which for many years have contributed
so much to the grain markets of Western
Europe, will furnish an unusual quantity of
| breadstuffs. In Poland there will be some
! diminution owing to an overflow of the waters
| of the Vistula for even houses were carried
| away. Through Austria, Prussia, and in Nor
way and Sweden, there is prospect of average
! yields of grain, and the same is to be said of
Turkey in Europe and of North Italy. In
! Portugal the weather has been so unfavorabe
as seriously to injure the grapes. What may
have been the yield of grain in Spain and
France the dry weather was doing consider
able damage. England more Immediately
concerns US. In the southern part the oat
harvest commenced about the Goth ultimo, and
was large.
This includes the counties of Middlesex,
! Surrey, Berks and Bucks. In Yorkshire the
weather had been highly favorable for three
weeks, during which time large hay crop
was secured. This being followed by showers,
helped the barley, which was short, kept up
the growth of clover and grass pastures, and
rapidly brought forward early some turnips.
| Our last account is up to the Oath ult. The
showers had continued and in places the
standing grain was beaten about considerable;
still, there was no reason for believing that
any permanent damage had been done, On
the contrary, the rain had been of great ad-
vantage to barley oats, peas, and beans,
which had suffered during the long dry
weather in hay harvest. At the date men
toned the wheat was only beginning to
change color. To the hop-grower, these
rains, accompanied by high winds, were not
so acceptable, for in exposed situations the
young shoots were terrible battered. In
Kent, owing to the attack of insects, the hop
prospect is very gloomy. Generally the
season is from ten days to two weeks late.
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