New-York tribune., 1867-08-08
TIE CROPS or THE World.

Commencing at nome, anu on INC hIo uidhuo,
we find that Texas has a large corn, a good
| wheat, and a medium cotton crop. The same
| is to be said of Louisiana and parts OF hllssls-
sippi, with some considerable deduction arising
from the ravages of the cotton worm and the
devastations of late Spring floods. Around the
| Gulf States, all supplies of food VIII be
abundant, but cotton is not likely to yield
| more than two-thrds of an average OF former
good years. Of rice, and cane sugar, there are
| no good reports. These staples require large
capital, and a certain kind of labor which DIS
appeared during tho war. In the rest OF the
| Southern States with the exception OF some
| portions of North Carolina, and on badly-wOrn
soils elsewhere, the yield of grain exceeds any
| former year, and it is stated that in great
measure they will make no demands on the
North for bread. Tobacco, generally, will be
deficient. Owing TO the great amount oil labor
bestowed on the growing of grain, cotton
could not receive the usual undivided atten-
ton, and it is generally conceded that it will
not excel the unfavorable yield of last year by
more than quarter. Generally the freedmen
are performing their contracts with fidelity,
and outrages upon them are less frequent
| By latest advices from the heart of the great
| grain BIONluB IfBlouH VI NIt NtStJ We hhuob
conclude t1at the yield of wheat, corn, and
oats will be unprccedentedly 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 brcadstuifs can be sold at current
rates, so prevalent is the opinion that prices
must rcccde; and yet. through the whole West,
there il m absolute scarcity. In estimating
! prices for the future this last fact should not
be overlooked. and the amount absolutely
necessary TO feed the people, whose 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
| Ere, rs well as in other water climates, little
or 10 mildow has yet appeared. Apples are
abundant and thence the East can be supplied.
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 moro wheat is now
grown than formerly, and with such gratify-
ing results that its culture is likely still more
10 be extended From nn parts of Canada tho
! haryests now commencing are more than usu-
ally promising, but danger is apprehended
from the weeyil. However, its mvages arc not
| likely TO be more than local. North westward,
toward 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
! NewMcxicO, 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 they are growing excellent wheat. Thi,
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 dscouraging report from
Oregon or Washington Territory. The Terri
tory adjoining this has been so recently ac-
CURED and the means of communication are
SO inlrequent, that we must pass it 10y in oul
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 breadstuils were high. This vcal
the halyests haye been abundant, and prices
have faiidTl tw6,tlirds. Southern and Central
Russia, which for many years have contributed
so much to the grain markets of Western
Europe, will furnish m unusual quantity OF
brcadstuils. In Poland there will be some
din,inut;ou o,vinO ia an ovcrfnw of the wotpr.
of the Vistula, for even houses were carried
away. Through Austria, Prussia, and in Norway
and Sweden, there is n 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 unfavorablC
rs seriously to injurc the grapes. What may
have been the yield of grain in Spain and
France, the dry weather was doing considcra-
bic damage. England more immediately con-
Germs us In the southern part the oat harvest
commenced about the Goth ult., and was large
! This includes the Counties of Middlesex. Surrey
Berks, and Bucks. In Yorkshire the weather
had been highly favorable for three weeks, dur
ing 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 t1.snipa. Our last account
is up to the cath ult. The showers had con-
tinued, and in places the standing grain was
beaten about considerable still, there was no
reason for believing that any permanent dam
age had been done. On tho contrary, the rain
had been Of great advantage TO barley, oats, peas
andbeans which had suffered during the long dry
weather in hay harvest At the date mentioned