Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-08-15


Commencing at home, and on the Rio
Grande, we find that Texas has u large corn,
good wheat, and a medium cotton crop.
The same is to be said of Louisiana and parts
of Mississippi, with some considerable de-
duction arising from the ravages of the cot
ton 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 All
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 exception of some portions of N.
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 of labor bestow-
ed on the growing of grain, cotton could
not receive the usual undivided attention,
and it is generally conceded that it will not
excel the unfayorable yield of last year by
more than quarter. Generally, the freed
me, are performing their contracts with
fidelity, and outrages upon them are less
frequent.
BY the latest atyices 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 unprecedented.y large.
Dealers who never carry less than hundreds
OF barrels Of -four have worked their stocks
down as low as ten barrels. AT the present
4 time no large quantities of breadsiuffs can be
sold at current rates, so prevalent is the
/ opinion that prices must recede; and yet,
through The whole west, there is an absolute
,s,itx
this fact should not be overlooked, and the
amount absolutely necessary 10 feed the
people, whose bread hitherto has been as
cheap as fuel, viii he taken into account.
The various fruits are in excess of former
years. Grapes, however, are doing badly
through interior sections. On the island:
and along the southern shore Of Lake Erie
as well as in other water climates, little Of
no mildew has yet appeared. Apples ar,
abundant, and thence the East can be sup
| piled.
In the Eastern States considerable dam
age has been done hay and grain by the fire.
quent showers. Still, in various localities
these crops have been secured in good order
and corn will yield heavily. Much NOR,
wheat is now grown than formerly, ant
with such gratifying resultsthat its cultur
is likely still more to be extended.
From all parts of Canada the harvest
now commencing are more than usually pro
missing but danger is apprehended from tn
weeyil. However, its ravages are not likel,
to be more than local. North-westward, to
ward the British Possessions westward, t
our new Territories, we have the same gen
+ eral cheering accounts Of large yields {
, grain. Though the damage done by til
grasshoppcr was considerable, the efIect
. will be slight, even in the States where for
: time it threatened to destroy everything, ain
whence it has departed, no one KNOWN
9 whittier. We have the general statement /
t the Territories of New Mexico, Utah, an
Colorado that they will raise their ow
bread, and perhaps Arizona should be inclr
dcd. In the valleys of Nevada some fin
, farms have been opened, and they are grow
e ing excellent wheat. This year promises t
i equal the last in California in all the frui
n and grains produced in that remarkably an
+ now highly prosperous State; nor do "
j, have any discouraging report from Orcgo
or Washington Territory The Territor
| adjoining this has been so recently acquire,
and the means of communication are SO il
frequent, that we must pass it by in our r
l view