Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
The Grain Crop.

| Reports upon the coming cropa
are cheerful reading this summer.
Papers from East, West, North and
| South, letters from twenty different
regions, special reports from observ>
ing travellers, grave estimates from
the Bureau of Agriculture, all send
up loud notes of joy. California pa
perS predict an average of net less
than 30 bushels to the acre the her..
ry plump, bright, clear. and uno,Ia-
monty heaVy 10 the measured bushel.
In one county the yield il estimated
at million bushels. In. Georgia the
growing corn was never so rood
since 1860. Kansas declares that
the old story of drouth in their State
is a dusty tradition, that the moist
constellation of Kids has been over
them for three months. Tho valley
of the Upper Mississippi has suffered
little from excessive rains, but the
corn, though late, is of deep color
and growing wonderfully. Iowa has
had too much moisture, but is now
rapidly recovering from that embar~
rassment. Indiana thinks she will
cut twenty bushels OF wheat to the
acre; her corn is little backward,
but good. In Ohio, old wheat, for
which 81 was refused, is now offered
at S1.10, and the hay crop is very
large. Arkansas says her soil is giy.
ing a most beautiful yield of all
kinds. Wheat and barley on the
green and Marcellus shales Of Vests
ern New York show vigorous and
even growth. Iii there is anything
to fear, it is that moist and cloudy
skies may develope more straw than
head; bat we have seen wheat q
little west of Syracuse that will not
fall much short of forty bushels to
the acre, and barley that will yield
full fifty. IL New England the hay
crop is very large Many fields cut
as early as tho 25th Of June yielded
two tuns and half to the acre.
Corn made little show by the last of
June, but this month the blades have
broadened and taken on deep en-
erald, the stalks grow thick, the tas>
sells sprouted at the bottom Of green
cups, and in some fields suggestion
of silk appears. One joyful writer at
the West, in view of such wide.
spread generosity on the part of old
Mother Bountiful, thinks that one
grand thanksgiving jubilee ought to
be sung all over the land.
Were the agricultural relations Of
this country the same that existed in
Jackson and ante.Jackson times
these heavy harvests would load us
with plethora Of breadstuffs and
make very low prices. Will the
grain quotation go so low as to rob
the farmer of just reward for his
toll? If the foreign crop were as full
as ours, this danger would be immi-
nent. But all over Northern Europe
they have had remarkable late, cool
summer. In England fires were
lighted nearly every day in June.
The weather was rough and wet, and
an ungenial character till
the 18th, when Summer broke out,
and overcoats at last went into
closets. Such weather can but give
England q harvest late and light, and
of The Mark Lane
Gazette are advising all who have re-
served theirlwheat 70 hold their own,
and have the pleasure Of putting in
TO their pockets ten shillings or
twelve shillings per quarter more
than they had expected. Some ac-
counts from Southern Russia Huns
gary, and France look the other way,
but the harvest in these countries
will probably not be enough to effect
markets much. The conclusion is
now safe that the European grain
yield will be quite below an average,
as much SO as the American is above
the average.-N Y. Tribune.