The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-08-03
The Grain Crops.

cheerful reading this Summer. Papers
from East, West, North and South, let
ters from twenty different regions, spec
ial reports from observing travellers,
grave estimates from the Bureau Of Ag-
riculture, all send up loud notes Of joy.
California papers predict an average of
not less than 80 bushels Of wheat to the
acre, the berry plump, bright, clear and
uncommonly heavy to the measured
bushel. In one county the yield is es-
timated at million bushels. In Geor>
gia, the growing corn was never 50
good since 1860. Kansas declares that
the old story of the drouth is dusty
tradition, that the moist constellation of
the Kids has been over them for three
months. The valley of the Upper Mis-
sissippi has suffered from excessive
rains, but the corn, though late, is Of
deep color, and now growing wonder
fully. Iowa has had too much moist
ure, but is now rapidly recovering from
that embarrassment. 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
50 was refused, is now offered for 8 10,
and the hay crop is very large. Ar
kansas says her soil is giving most
oountiful yield Of all kind; wheat and
barley or the green and Marcellus
shales of Western New York show
vigorous and even growth. If there is
anything to fear it is that moist and
cloudy skies may develop more straw
than head; but 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. In
New England the hay crop is very large.
Many fields cut as early as the 25th of
June yielded two tuns and q half to the
acre. Corn made little by the last of
June, put this month the blades have
broadened and taken deeper emerald,
the stalks grown thick, the tassel sprout.
ed at the bottom Of green cups, and in
some fields suggestion of silk appears.
One joyful writer at the West, ia view
of such a wide spread generosity on the
part of Mother Bountiful, thinks that
one grand Thanksgiving jubilee ought
to be sung all over the land.
Were tho agricultural relations of this
country the same as in the jackson and
anti.J Jackson times, this heavy harvest
would load us with plethora of bread
stuffs and make very low prices. Will
the grain quotation go SO low as to rob
the farmer of a. just reward for his toll?
If the foreign crop were as full as ours
this danger would be imminent. But
all over Northern Europe they have had
remarkably cool Summer. In England
fires were lighted nearly every day in
June. The weather was rough and wet
and retained an ungenial character un-
til the 25th, when Summer broke out,
and overcoats at last went into the clos
cts. Such weather can but give Eng
land harvest late and light, and cor
respondents of The Mark Lane Gazette
advise all who have reserved wheat to
hold their own, and have the pleasure
Of putting into their pockets ten shill.
ings or twelve ashillings per quarter
more than they had expected. Some &C.
counts from Southern Russia, Hungary
and France look the other way, but the
harvest in these countries will not be
enough to affect markets. The conclu-
sion is now safe that the European grain
yield will be quite below an average as
much so as the American is above the
average-fN. 7. Tribune.