The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-10
CANADIAN CROPS.
Excellent Harvest Prospects.

Excellent Harvest Prospects.
The Toronto tCanada) telegraph of August Z
prints exhaustive statement in detail. respecting
the harvest prospects throughout the Dominion, and
refers to it editorlally as foliows:-
Until the whole harvest Is garnered there must
necessarily be something left to conjecture the
absolute product OF our agricultural industry for the
season. But we have deemed it well to cOate In
the harvest crisis the fullest possible STATISTICS at
first hand. SO that all VINO are interested tand who
not interested y should nave something definite by
which TO form their estimates.
Speaking summary, the general conclusion must
be that never before has the yield In grains ROOFS
fruits and hay throughout Canada bsen equalled.
But this general estimate needs to be supplemented
by some gratifying statements. While in such great
wheat growing counties as Durham Eigin, Card
well, Peel, Middlesex, Waterloo, huron, Bruce, &C.,
We have estimates OF twenty-five thirty. thirty five
and forty bushels TO the acre, 1t viii he that
there Is very considerable subtraction to be made
no: only in these counties but In every district re-
ported on. from nudge or rust either actual or APP
pretended And yet. from the general tone of the
reports, there Is full enough assurance OF wheat
harvest greatly beyond the average while the yield
OF oats anu barley, az to the ripening and In the
we should Judge anything known to Canadian hus-
Dandry. Fifty and sixty bushels OF oats to the acre,
VIII De seen = very cpmmSh essm 1a ~ Ia every
One feature In our coiated statements will partic
usriy arrest attention. It'll the extraordinary
turns of the wheat crop from such counties az Rus
sell Carleton and Lanark. In this part OF the Upper
Canada peninsula we have been accustomed to think
and speak Of these lower districts as OF second rate
importance IN the production OF grain. But let our
readers look at the return from Russell and they
VIII md wheat In one township put down &C forty
bushels per acre and Oats at from forty to sixty
bushels per acre. In Lanark, IL will be SEEN the
yield Is placed as high, IN some instances as thirty
bushels per acre, and IN Carleton thirty bushels
per acre. These are remarkable facts, facts which
must tend greatly TO modify opinions prevalent
here, founded probably more on prejudice than any.
thing more substantial.
There Is but one side TO the testimony OF our host
OF correspondents ~ TO the superabundance OF both
the hay and root crops. Kent sends report OF 2s0
bushels Of potatoes 10 the acre; Argenteui lin Lower
Canadal 2S0 bushels. From Compton in the Eastern
Townships, we have the yield OF nay reported at
three tons per acre-whIch, we may say however
Is greatly IN excess OF the average returns from orr
western counties IN ontario. Huron Rfves al niCh
an estimate as two and half TONS but great MANY
other rich districts are placed a low as one and
nal TONS per acre. c0unty-that OF Lennox-
which we are not accustomed to rank very nigh In
an agricultural point OF view, reports i've tons OF
max 70 the acre; potatoes 1875 bushels carrots I75
bushels; turnips, from 200 to 400 bushels
Inere VIII De persons OF discOntented turn of
MIND who Will see not little disbursement in the
placements referring to the rust and nudge In the
wheat-t0 the heaviness OF the straw and the lodg-
ing OF the crops here and there; but we venture to
say tnat these drawbacks are more than c0mpen-
stated for by the assurance which we have that the
yield u 80 greatly In excess OF ordinary years that
we could anord loss OF at least from ten to fteen
per cent ~ rust, nudge and Judgment and still have
our arsuaries nled beyond all ordinary expectation.