The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-07-28
WASHINGTON.
The French Policy Report from III,
Agricultural HsurcHu-Miss00ri Kan
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WASHINGTON, July 2l--Biron GerOlt this
evening received the following answer from
the French Government; '.Ihe French
Government refuses to exempt the North
German steamers from capture, except thOse
At sea ignorant of war, which may enter
French ports. The Baron Immediately tel
egraphcd hack to the Consul General of
Germany, at New York. . -...-
The following is from the report Of the
Department IF Agriculture for July. just IS
sued: Tho condition of wheat is above tl6
average in the following States: Maine,
spring, per cent; n. H. ,; Va, wiuter,
u; n. 4. 10; Ala. 6; Tenn. d; West Va. J;
NY. 3; Kansas :, Neb. 2; Oregon ). An
average crop is indicates in S. G.
and Ark. The following States fall
below an average: VT. spring, . per cent. !;
Mass. 3; N: Y. II; n. J. winter, 20; Pa.
winter, .; Del. So; Md. 80; Miss. 2; Texas
Is; Mo. Is; Ill winter, 3, spring %; Ind.
winter, ); Ohio winter, o; Mich. Is; Wis.
winter, Is, spring %: MINI. Is; Iowa Is;
Cal. ). The great wheat growing districts
all show reduction in their condition, rem
dering it certain that the crop of this year
will be materially less than that of 1869.
The average depreciation of Is per cent. and
the dinlinution in breadth Of about 6 per
cent, would make the present estimate about
30, O0O, 900 bushels, the decrease being at
least As, OOO, 600 bushels.
The increase in the breadth Of corn Is
greater than the decrease in wheat. 1t may
be placed at per cent, or about 40, 100
acres. There appears to lie very slight in
crease in New England, about , per cent in
the Middle States, a decrease in the cotton
States east Of the Mississippi, and still
larger increase in the heart Of the West. 1t
IL estimated at ten per cent. in Illinois,
ten in Indiana, five in Ohio, ten in Michigan,
eight I'm Wisconsin, twenty in Minnesota,
fifteen in Iowa, TWENTY-FIVE in Nebraska, and
fifteen in Kansas. Throughout the west the in
dicatiOn If good crops have never been So
general since the Inauguration of the Official
crop returns, and increase Of average cotton
a. indicated BY returns average IL per cent,
and aggregates nearly one million acre..
The condition Of crops il favorable, neither
the caterpllars or bull worms has vet aP-
pearcd. With average season the present
average should give nearly - million acres.
The oat crop is looking better than expected.
it, condition is full average in about one
half Of the States including all new Eng
land, except Vermoant, New Jersay, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, n. Carolina,
Ala, Miss, Tenn, West Va, n.y., and
Oregon. Ii is less promising in \. ", S.
c., Ga, Fla, Texas, and all Western
States in which deficit ranges from D to g
per cent. There Is an increase Of an aver
age of tobacco in Va. and n. &. Our re-
turns show an average increase Of D per cent.
The prospect Of the apple crop is unusually
good. Peaches are good except in Illinois
and Mich. where the Prospec, is D and 10
l,er Cc;,. below the average. Grape prom
Use abundantly all over the country.
The President has approved decision oi
Secretary Cox thu, the Missouri kanS'i
aud Texas K. Il. has the sole right TO con-
struct railroad from ksnsas acres, the
Indian Territory To- Texas.