Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-16
T riE CROPS.

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Reports Of the crops from all section;
aofths country are most favorable, and
there is every reason to believe, says the
New York Herald, the present season
will be the most abundant in all the
cereals and in hay and fruit that was
ever known, in this country. And even
with regard to cotton, sugar and tobacco
there is much better prospect than the
|, PROSTATE condition and difficulties Of the
South had led us to believe
o. IL has been estimated that there were
planted over three millions of acres Of
corn more this year than last year in the
United States. While the area is some~
thing less in most of the New England
States, Now y rk, New Jersey and Mary
land, it has been much greater in all the
Western and Southern States Among
the States where the greatest increase OF
cultivation has taken place may be men-
ton louisiana, where the increased area
has been three hundred and ninety-seven
Thousand acres Arkansas, three hum
dred and seventy-six thousand acres
Missouri, four hundred and seven thou-
sand acres; Illinois, three hundred and
sixty six thousand acres, and SO on
through all the South and West. In
the whole Of the States there have
been planted more than thirty>six mil
lions of acres-an advance of nine per
cent. over last year. But the geld will
be in a much greater proportion-proba-
bly, fifteen to twenty percent-on account
Of the favorable season and fine appear
anee of the crops As to wheat, the
universal opinion is that the crop will be
the largest ever grown and produced in
this country In the most famous wheat
producing sections of Ohio, Missouri,
Michigan, Kansas and other States it is
believed that theamountwill be Threshold
what it was in 1867. Notwithstanding
less favorable reports from q few sections
whore the nudge, extreme heat, rust or
other causes have affected the crops, there
is no doubt that the general average will
be greater than in any previous season
The same remarks will apply torye, oats,
barley and potatoes With regard to
cotton, there has been a less NUNS
Der of acres planted, probably, esti-
mated by some at ten per cent less on
the whole than last year, but the
crop generally promises well, and in
yield may be greater than that of
last year. There is reason to expect
this. AT anything like the present price
this would be equal in value to the full
crop OF former years. Two millions Of
bales at twentySnine to thirty cents a
pOund-which is the present quotation
Of middling--would be worth as much
in money as the four millions ibefore the
war at ten to twelve cents a pound. To-
baceo may not cover quite as large an
area as heretofore, but the crop promises
very well, and the price will make up for
the smaller quantity. In Louisiana
planters are turning their attention again
to the cultivation of sugar, and it is esti-
mated by some that hundred thousand
hossheads will be produced this year.
The hay crop everywhere is enormously
large, and from tho scarcity in Europe
we are now exporting it at most rcmu-
nerative price. SGch is the demand and
price abroad that shippers can afford to
send it by steamships, and almost every
steamer that leaves New York carries a
quantity as freight. Such is the happy
condition of this great country and graS
nary of the world with regard to all the
productions necessary to sustain life and
to stimulate commerce. .t. ..