New-York tribune., 1867-09-13
TILE HARTESTS.

TIE HARVES1S.
So much wet weather from April TO ocpiem-
Der seldom has been known as III this year
along the Atlantic coast. AS consequence
tbe hay crop, though abundant could not be
saved in good order, nor could wheat ana
oats. and this condition prevails from Long
Island Sound 10 Florida Peninsula. OF the
Southern States, North Carolina, to consider
able extent inland, and South Carolina in the
rice and Sea Island regions, seem to have sui
fered most Where work was applied to corn
in season the crop is usually good, bat potatoes
have rotled badly This root seems to have
decayed most in the nciehboIhood oi
large cities, or wherever largo guam
titles Tof manure were applied that
there might I've q forced growth. Tho tobacco
crop Of Virginia and North Carolina IL by no
means promising, and we have the same unfa-
vor,blo accounts from Kentucky. In the Con-
nccticut Valley the business IS depressed by low
prices and not long ago some growers had the
stock OF two years on hand. In North and S0lth
Carolina Georgia Alabama, and Mississippi
whatever makes bread has bcea produced IN
quantities sufficient ior the coming years supply.
Cotton is generally cGtimated at about hall
crop, taking good years before the war ~
standard The Sea Island variety has suffered
from the wet weather aud worms ana can but
DO short. OF rico we hear no favorable
accounts. In Louisiana and Texas they
have raised their bread, and in sections
remote from transportation com is expected
to be very cheap The growing of sugar cane
requires large capital and well-organzcd in
duStry during the war the business was sus-
pended, and only on few plantations do we
hear Of such favorable industrial and financial
conditions as formerly existed. Still, in some
few localities we have reports of fine cane
showing that if the plar tatiOns had been
ready foI operation last Fall, we might have
had a good sugar crop; though in tho over
flowed sections there wOuid have been an cx-
ceptiOn. Here, as well as in Mississippi, ATkan
sas, and Tennessee, the cotton worm has done
considerable damage, but Of latest accounts this
pest was disappearing, or expected soon to dis
appear. On the whole thc cotton crop is est-
mated at double the amount OF last year. and
at half of full crop in most favorable
years.
Within a region embracing q circuit of 100
miles south and 80 miles north of the Ohio
River, corn has suffered from dry weather, and
the same is the case, to less extent through
Northern Missouri and Illinois but the cond-
tons have been most favorable for thrashing
and taking care of wheat. The extreme wet of
last year during this period did great damage
to wheat in shock, WHICH, addqa to the short
supply, sensibly affected the Market, and made
It almYs impossible, in any Section, to get first
quality 6ouf. For the coming ycS, we may
expect better material for making bread than
we have had for Several years. That wheat 10
not turning out as well generally through the
West as was expected, must be conceded.
1t will be safe to say that the
average will not exceed twelve bushels to
the acre. At the same time the
amount sown was perhaps one fourth larger
than in any former year. AS to the question
OF cheap breadstufs, we are decidedly of the
opinion that they will be considerably cheaper
than last year. Still, railroads need not expect
that they will have very heavy business in
carrying grain, for the reasons that deficiency
existed all through the West which must be
filled, and the West, more and more, with each
year, is adding to the number of her manufac-
turing people, making homo market. In
present and in all future calculations, this
condition must be taken into account Cities
and towns are growing rapidly, and there is
now, west of the State of Ohio, an industrial
population, not engaged in growing bread, as
numerous as there is in all the New England
States.
Within q few weeks the corn prospect has
certainly become gloomy The severe drOuth
at the West has cut the crop short by at least
one-quaIter of what it would have been had
there been seasonable rains, and prices have
advanced. but we are convinced that, to some
extent, the advance is purely speculative and
cannot be sustained. In addition it must be
granted that one-fOurth more corn was planted
the last year Recently there have been good
rains, and late corn will receive great benefit
from them, in the Illinois River bottom, around
ST. Louis. and in the Rock River country In
the great corn belt, which includes the whole
Of Central Illinois and Southern Iowa, we
gather that even without these mins the total
Of t,io cC-u crop would have been nearly equal