Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-12

From the New York Tribune May Z.
OF winter wheat we have favorable ac-
count from Tennessee. Kentucky, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York. There is, however, some winter
killing on old ground, and with late SOW
ing, in Missouri, Southern Illinois, indi-
ana and Ohio. More was soWn last fall
than usual, and, at present, the prospect is
that we will have large yield. Ii is con-
ceded that of spring wheat fully one-lhird
more has been sown than ever before, and
all through the West it is coming mp with
great promise. In Nebraska and Iowa the
grasshoppers have appeared in some local
tiles in great numbers, and some farmers
are withholding their hands, in fear of
their ravages but it should be under
stood that their continuance is limited TO
a period of n few weeks, and, 80 they have
come unusually early, they will disappear,
in all probability, before the time for plant
ing passes. Last year they were in Kansas
in June, and in places swept fields and
gardens, yet they who replants / raised fine
crops, and the damage was inconsiderable
Notwithstanding heavy fcOsts and sleet
last month through the fruit regions of the
West, and particularly in Southern Illinois
and Missouri, where large districts are
specially devoted to orchards and straw
berry fields, when it was estimated that
more than half of the buds were killed, it
is now certain that the damage extended
to blossoms prematurely developed. We
learn from Trustworthy source that in
Southern Illinois the loss of strawberries
will not exceed One-seyenth, which is no
more than the average annual destruction
Grs,t., L
than any other fruit Peaches at present
promise abundantly. Apples are safe, and
grapes are blossoming bright. Still, there
are some localities where the damage is Sc
rious, and this on high ground, which
hitherto has been almost always exempt,
but this has resulted from blasting winds,
which once in seven or eight years do the
work of frost. Owing 10 the uncommonly
dry season Of last year, we might naturally
expect this 10 be a bOuntiful one for fruit,
since the growth of wood was very slow,
and the buds matured with an inten-
sity and hardness that give them great
power in withstanding frost and sleet.
Even in interior regions remote from
the favorable Influences of a water
climate peach-buds are reported sound.
The condition with reference to alb.
sence of moisture applies to the country
west of the Allegheneys, and TO New y ork
and New England, except along the sea-
board la the last locality their was a long
period Of rainfall, which undoubtedly gave
much soft wood and a large proportion OF
immature buds but the winter following
was one remarkable for steady tempera-
ture and for absence of freezing and thaw-
ing; and the spring has also been retarded.
For these reasons the fruit-bnds have been
| unexpectedly preserved In the Delaware,
| Maryland and Virginia peach regions
prospects are good. TIE rainfall of last
| autumn along the seaboaTd has been re-
| sumed this spring, and the delay Of farm.
| ing operations has been so great that very
! little blowing has been done. Dolly those
/ farmers who had teams and implements in
| complete readiness we're able TO SOW oats
during April, while they hope to do this
| ia March This shows a large amount of
work 10 be done within brief period
In Europe the spring has been uncOm-
| monty favorable, though in France fruit is
| reported much injured by frost. The
| growing wheat is in fine condition, and an
early harvest is both predicted and hoped
/ for. Ii has been many years since so little
| grain Of previous years growth has been
on hand az this zprlng. Spain and France
are importing, and, for the FIRST time, grain
| Is taken into the interior OF the latter coun-
| try. Famine continues an Algeria, and
constant shipments are made thence from
| Marseilles, with wheat from Southern Rus
sia, The stocks at Odessa aud at the Rus
sian aud Hungarian stations are light. Ia
| England prices have been 50 well main
tanned that the farmers have sold freely 10
the millers, and it is predicted that lay next
harvest the majority will not have a bushel
of surplus grain on hand. Little depend
enoe is placed on arrivals from the United
States, because prices are higher with ms
| than with them.