Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-07-09

Statistics Of the Wheat Cron.

Complete returns for the month of June to the
Statistical Division of the agricultural Department
corroborate and tOrtiGy the statements relative to
wheat prospects, which we have heretofore given.
careful analysis of information from all the States
shows that the total &c in wheat is ten to ff
Teen per cent. greater than lagt year. In majority
OF the States the breadth of winter wheat is quite "a
wide as usual, and that of spring wheat much great
or. In the Ohio Valley the acreage of winter wheat
Is less by twelve or fifteen per cent with heavy
increase in spring sowing. The States showing
any material decrease OF acreage of winter wheat
are Ohio, Indiana, Kansas and Texas, A large in
crease is indicated IN Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas
and Tennessee, and in the South generally, and
slight advance is shown in the New England and
Middle States. The increase in breadth Of spring
wheat in certain SIatea is as follows:
Ohio, 81 per cent. Michigan, I6 oer cent
Indiana IS per cent. Missouri, -. 81 her cent
Illinois % per cent. Iowa, ........ .2s per cent
Wrsc'sin Is per cent. Nebraska :. 80 Der cent:
The facts indicating the condition of the crop are
still more encouraging. The following table shows
the average improvement upon last year:
Ohio. 81 per cent. Missouri. . 80 per cent.
Michigan. so per cent. Virginia. :. . 100 Der cent.
Wisscsin'' % per cent \. Car'Ina. 40 per cent.
The other States, excepting Texas, make a favor
able comparison with last year 1t is too carly to
estimate the final result Of the harvest; but with
an average success in ripening the crop ought not
to be less than 2OJ,O0O,OOO bushels An average
acreage of winter barley has been sown in n ma
JoTity OF the States. decrease OF five per cent is
estimated for New York; Ohio, eight per cent In.
diana, three per cent; an increase in Tennessee of
ten per cent, and in Arkansas Of twenty-five per
cent On the whole, there is a very slightly dimu.
ished breadth of winter barley, but the increase of
the spring sowing will compensate for the defcien.
cy The condition of clover is good thrOugho the
cOuntry-unusually fine in Onion and the Middle
and New England States. In Pennsylvania it is
somewhat better than in New York and in Maine
and Massachusetts, more comparatively flourishing
as compared with last year, tnan in the remainder
of New England. The acreage OF oats is larger than
usual in the West. Ohio is the only State which
cannot show an increase. The crop is somewhat
variable in condition; in the South. far above an
average; in New York, ten per cent. below in
Pennsylvania, six per cent; in Kentucky, fourteen
per cent. In the West, generally, the prospect ia
better than last yeaI.-RiehHaOnd E,qmineT.
Mayor Monroe, in an address to a meeting of
citizens ON his recent return New Orleans iron,
the North, stated that he had met a single man
at the North who approved the course of General
Sheridan, and that radicalism virtually dead
The people OF the North, he said, were tremb-
ling lest they too, should have the rights OF their
States OverthrOwn and military rule put over them
-Peddlers are perambuIating the State of Geor-
gia selling what they style ." land scrip" to the
cOlored people. They inform the latter that the
Government will il few days cOnfscate the lands
OF the whites and give them to the recent slaves
Ceruhcates OF land to be entered upon ire sold at
prices ranging nom one to three dollars each.
-SDeaEinB of tho uooDDor - ,,L:oI H-o.G