The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-07-23
what it Is worth, which we fancy is
not much ED.
The Grain Crop.

Reports upon the coming crops are
cheerful reading this Summer. Pa
pers 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
papers predict an average of not less
than 80 bushels of wheat to the acre,
the berry plump, bright and clear,
and uncommonly heavy to the meas
ured bushel. In one county the
yield is estimated at million bush
els. In Georgia, the growing corn
was never so good since 1860. Kan
sas declares that the old story OF
drouth in their State is a dusty ira
dition, that the moist constellation OF
the Kids has been over them for three
months. The valley of the Upper
Mississippi has suffered a-little from
excessive rains, but the corn, though
late, Is of deep color and now grow
ing wonderfully. Iowa has had too
much moisture, but is now rapidly
recovering from that embarrassment.
Indiana thinks she will cut twenty
bushels of wheat to the acre her
corn is a little backward, but good.
In Ohio, old wheat, for which 81 was
refused, is now offered at 81 10, and
the hay crop is very large. Arkansas
says her soil is giving most boun-
tiful yield of all kinds ; wheat and
barley on the green and Marcellus
shales of Western New York show a
vigorous and even growth. II there
is anything to fear, it is that moist
air and cloudy skies may develop
more straw than head but we have
seen wheat 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 half to the
acre. Corn made little show by the
last of June, but this month the
blades have broadened and taken on
a deeper emerald, the stalks grown
thick, the tassels 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 widespread 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 anti-J ackson times,
these heavy harvests would load Us
with a plethora of breadstuffs aud
make very low prices. Will the
grain quotation 60 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 a remarkably
late, cool Summer. In England fires
were lighted nearly every day in
June. The weather was rough and
wet, and retained an ungenial char
acter till the 25th, when Summer
broke out, and overcoats at last went
into closets. Such weather can but
give England harvest late and
light, and correspondents of The
Mark Lane Gazette are advising all
who have reserved their wheat to
hold their own, and have the pleas
ure of putting into their pockets ten
or twelve shillings per quarter more
than they had expected. Some ac-
counts from Southern Russia, Hunga-
ry, and France look the other way,
but the harvest in these countries
will probably not be enough to affect
markets much. The conclusion is
now safe that the European grain
yield will be quite below an average,
as much sn as The American is above
the average.