Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-07-29

come, and hence we may expect a
large crop from Minnesota. In all
other portions of the Northwest the
harvest is equally abundant, and
that large section of the Union will
pour It's millions of bushels of
wheat, rye and corn into the gran
airy Of the nation, to feed tire hun
CRY Of this and other countries.
Although the South has not been
SO highly favored as the Northwest,
there will be SO large yield as to
obviate the necessity of purchasing
TO any great extent. The tobacco,
cotton, sugar and rice planters will
this year be in a condition to realise
handsome profits on these staples
since they will raise very good sup
plies of breadstuffs and other ar
ticles offood. The statistician Of the
| Department Of Agriculture at
Washington, in his report for june,
says the cotton crop promises much
better than in the early spring, a
great Improvement having been
wrought by the warm suns and
| genial showers of the season. A
total acreage of eight million acres
is given as the cotton field of 1869,
there having been a diminution in
the quantity of land planted with
cotton in Tennessee, Virginia, Ken
lucky and Missouri, States which
produce comparatively little of the
staple, and a considerable increass
in the other cotton growing States,
of from eight to thirty-two per
cent. s- .HH COS. .a.- ~
The San Francisco Alta, of the
18th inst, has the following report
upon the wheat crop in California /:
"The wheat harvest is in full progress,
and mon, heading machines and thresh-
ers are in demand in all the grain dis
tricts of the State. Cinnamon are ex>
tensively employed, and we do not hear
that the farmers anywhere refuse to EN-
ploy them, or that the white farm labor
ors object to working on farms where
there are Cinnamon. The harvest shows
that the injury by rust was greater in
Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo
than the farmers supposed several weeks
ago. The San Leandro Gazette says
that from Oakland to the Mission Of San
Jose there is scarcely piece Of wheat
worth harvesting. On the other hand
the crop is large between the San Joa-
quin river and the Diablo Ridge, place
which it was generally supposed, few
years since, would not produce grain
at all. The Tuolumne City News estim'
ates the average at 80 bushels, or 2OO,.
600 bushels for that district. About
six years ago, man who had a lot o
cattle in the valley plowed up a piece o
land on the plain at the foot of the main
coast ridge and sowed barley, which cams
up so luxuriantly that he boosted of it
and advised other cattle men to follow
his example. They told him he must
turn his cattle in and let them eat up the
grain without delay, for if it was known
that the plain would yield wheat ant
barley it would be taken up by the grain
farmers and the cattle would be driver
I off. He followed their advice, persisted
| in breeding cattle, and other men, few
/ years later, bought up the land and mad'
fortunes on it. In Placer county tn
[ yield OF wheat is good. Ia part of COntri
Costa county the crop is good on the fall
} low land; the unfallOw land sown early
! turns out about half crop, and the lat
| sown from oneethird to one-fOurth. From
Tulare county we hear that the whea
on falIow yields twice as well as tina
SOWn late"