The New York herald., 1869-04-19
Tie Crops Of 1S68-Briliiant Prospects
for Abundant Yield.

Tie Crops Of IS68-Briliiant Prospects
for an Abundant Yield.
We publish to-day copious extracts from our
exchanges giving accounts of the prospects
of the coming crops in all parts of the coun-
try. 1t will be seen that the farmers in New
England have not yet been able to commence
their spring business on account of the back
wardness of the season, the snow in some
places in New Hampshire being still three
feet on a level. In Connecticut some farmers
have commenced ploughing, but no planting
has been done. But fortunately, it is not to
New England that the people of this country,
and, indeed, large proportion of ''the rest
of mankind" are accustomed to look for
material wherewith to sustain animal life.
If left to herself New England could scarcely
raise sufficient breadstuffs to sustain her own
teeming population. It is to the broad and
gigantic West, the fertile Middle States, the
ever luxuriant South, that our people look,
both for the production of the staple from
which is fabricated the .raiment that in q
great measure covers them and large
part Of foreign humanity, as well as
for the supplies of breadstufs, provisions,
fruits, and nearly everything else that
comes in the way of human con-
sumption. Therefore it is with the high
est satisfaction that we refer to the cheer
ing record given in the published reports of
the coming crops in the sections named.
Throughout the West, the States of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas, Nebraska, &c., larger breadth of
land than usual has been sown in wheat. In
all respects the winter sown promises well,
while considerable space of new ground has
been broken up and sown with spring wheat.
In Missouri there are few complaints, while
from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee the
reports are most encouraging In some parts
of North Carolina, as well as in Virginia,
large share of attention is being bestowed upon
the raising of early garden truck for the
Northern market, but not to an extent to in
terfere with the great staples of those States
corn, cotton and tobacco. From the interior
of New York, as well as from New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, we
have satisfactory accounts. The planters in
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas are
recuperating their energies, and from every
section, with the exception of part of Texas,
where the grasshopper pest is again dis
turbing the corn and cotton fields, and
part of Alabama, whence complaints of
damage by unexpected frosts reach us,
we have cheering accounts. But it would
seem from all reports that Georgia gives
promise of being more fortunate the COM
ing than in the past year. The accounts of the
growing wheat in that State are glowing in the
extreme-one field of thousand acres in fine
condition being among the pleasant sights re-
Gently witnessed by Georgia contemporary.
Larger quantities of land than usual have been
planted in corn and oats, while the cotton
breadth will be fully up to the standard. 1t is
estimated that in Georgia fifty per cent of the
land will be planted in cotton, forty per cent
in corn and ten per cent in oats. Tennessee
will have larger breadth of land in cotton
than ever before. Louisiana is rejoicing in a
promising and much augmented crop Of sugar
cane, and generally revived condition of
agriculture within her borders, which may be
said with truth Of every other Southern State.
Even South Carolina begins to express herself
contented with the new order of things in re-
gard to labor, and her fields are showing their |
wonted fertility. In Florida q number of |
Northerners have commenced the cultivation |
of fruit on an extensive scale, but Florida |
is naturally great cotton-growing |
State, and as such Is destined to |
become one of the richest In the cotton |
growing galaxy. In regard to fruit pros
poets accounts are somewhat conflicting, and |
hear and there we hear the note of croaker.
1t is stated that in some sections of Kansas, |
and even as far south as Alabama late
"freezes" have destroyed most of the peach
and apricot blossoms But while this is the
case only in limited sections, from the vast area
of land devoted to fruit culture we hear no
complaints, but, on the contrary, tidings both
cheering and welcome. Thus is our country,
from one end to the other, blessed by benign
Providence with the elements of internal wealth
and national prosperity and plenty.
FEELING THE PREssURE.-The butchers
complain that they have to pay forty five dol
lars for those stalls in the market that they
used to get for twenty-five. Well, have not
the butchers done their full share in electing to
the city government the men whose plunder-
ing thus reactsp
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