, 1869-07-03
1HE WEATHER ann the cRops.
Prospects Of the Harvest
:61aree Yield OF Wheat and Oats
:. average Crop Of Corn
Other Staplea
The Movement In Breadstufts-
Prices.

wora ya|nt' II snoWered With terrible pesE4-
tenee ye1te.day afteluooo7 aa u fha Hlnao"& o.
heaven were upenet, hud the buckets osef1nfneo,
though 1t ID difficult to underHtAnd Mnefn III tne
water comes frou, atreE the dcf1sss9 Of ne past
TWO month"; But II dId rain cop4ousht reTcttae-
lsss, and not only In Chicago, but oTrr fa1se pos
tim Of The slate, And Of 1owa- The enezt vaa OBJ
ss{yshle In q lowering of real eatsse tposttng II
under rats1,t and ratang Of prices IL gEato,
ibis repetition Of tzA weather being EcSrEeliy
looked upon With TezJ gloomy tJe-
It Is impossible 10 suezs at the uuth with e.
Epect 10 the harvest thiz year, now that the p5se
Jubilee, wh!eh re bad persaa4led ourselves wou!n
probably constnae for several weeks, is thus rude
u broken Ia upon By the clash and roar Of COL
tepding elements So far AA has promised well
for The crops particularly the sna grstna. AID a-
vices from all parts Of the country bear uniform
testtcp5 to the following statements Of facts and
conditions:
The crop Of wheat IA quoted large IN Pennsyf-
yanIa; FeTy heayy In West Flrgtnin but with
q slight tendency 10 rust: Grst-class In KANSAS
aud Setrasta; promises . most abundant EfeId In
Iowa, with absolute freedom from The insect
pests Of the past equal to the yield OF any former
yeas in Wisconsin,; tn Missouri three uuaea
Larger as 0o0 900 bn} than the crop Of auy ptesons
year; Ia slight daager OF rust tn Illinois, but other
x1se proutAsns we'll; very large and ane tn lua!-
sna, Ohio and Michigan; and remarkably 1ne aud
pltNl1ul III Tue SDutItIu SkA1css NNtlI *4E S4pp u
ueat'y all harvested and safe from future Injury
by the s,o11n. Texas, Arkansas, Aahatas, Ter.
ressee and Kentucky, hare all united 70 pFoAace
magnificent wheat yield, while California has
Put IN lnsgels Increased breadth The wheat
crop viii be At least per cent larger than that
OF 1se3, un1eas the harvest operations Of the oFe
Northern States be lnlenerrd with BY bad
weather.
Tho sama Is t1ue, in less degree, OF oats. They
are promising well, though rank In places FROM
the continued EalLs, but the crop ts nowhere re-
ported - failure It a1ust, however. be teMem-
bered that ne hare Light 8tocl to consume up 10
sne time Of harvest, and sha1i have tut very
small surplus to lap over Into the consumption o1
the crops Of 1863. Hence prices Will probably rule
comparatively aru3, though we can SCARCELY e1-
pect .he1n 10 touch the higher quotations Of 1865,
The Srea,esf deficiency viii be in corn The
tEcaIth sow1 is somewhat less than that Of last
year in the Southern States, and in the Eest the
gTS~tA t1s scta seriously insefftrtd With By the
rain, ~hlc.. has rendered repAuttu8 necesss-J
over large areas Of the county. But Il IL not too
late jet tos q fAs czopt auless tic weather cca-
Times tad. The deficiency can scarcely e1ceed
one-e.ghth oh The entlre crop, and that wilt ba
largely compensated by the Increased, yis1d in
wheat, and 10 some extent by the nne crops Of re
and barley, both Of which grains Promise really
veil
We are aware thst great deal OF annoyance,
and some expense has been caused BY the t1in,
but II must be remembered that even though the
farmer Is seriously hinIered By the wet and the
weeds, there Ia q compensation II taa entire at
se1ce Of the chtnch bug. the graaahopper; the
Amy worn, de-, which In 30 tnany former years
have laid was.. hundreds Of fertile nels End lcfr
The farmer to mourn oser an absolute nothing
ness-uot enough Of crop to replace the seed.
Other crops also promise well Large btea4Iths
have been soHn With cotton aud tobacco and both
~tl Jleld rery large returns on the planters toll
Apr:es and peaches, with tho smaller fruits, pro
mise 10 BE- AZ abundant as the strawberries hare
altra1y proven to be, while potatoes ana The
grasses promise lAzges czops thar AZ. known for
several years.
Altogether, she etops Of 1863 arc mere abundant
than those Of my year during the past decade,
Unless the present condition Of thtr1a Is spoiled
by continued rain which Is scarcely possible.
Aost people e1iect q dry time during the latter
part of the present summer and the coming
autumn, and the expectation Is lulJ Justified by
the law Of sequences-
The prediction OF corn ard wheat IN the United
States IN 1865 was about $50, 100000 Bushels or IS
bushels per head. Only t1o per cent Of this, or
10000 c1o bu was exported to foreign countries,
but the West sent s., oo0, ,o0u bu Eas. during the
5eaf, Of which e. So 100 bu was cons uned BY the
East.
The Financial Chronicle thus ststes tho differ
ence between the East aud West In the matter Of
breadstut1s: "The total population Of the stx Wow
England States md Of New York And rennsJr
vanla Is E,s6s, ts3. The quantity aud value Of the
CON and wheat produced tu them Is As folloxa:
While PennsJ lvAnR produces corn anI wheat to
the Faluc OF S13 for each Of It's inhabitants, and
New York to the value Of $la, Massachusetts pro
1uces only as.2o, and Rhode Island S..sa Vernon
produces s1e, Maine t4.so. New Hampshire, *
and Connecticut. 10 Turn now to SAINT Of the
great producing St1tes-loHa, illinois, Ono aad
Michigan. These Stascs have u populauon to-
gether OF 6,lsd, sos. The value Of their corn and
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