Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-20
The CROPS i'm europe.

The Chamber Of agriculture Journal
discusses the probable yield Of wheat IN
this years havest. It says:
Until full and detailed reports are be-
fore us-which can only be the:result of an
elaborate collection of opinions from the
growers themselves-we anticipate some
thing like an average yield of wheat as the
due effect of glorious season upon q de-
fective plant. And when we say IAN aver
age, we mean so-the term signifying a
moderate crop, half way between the full
yield of some years and the failing pro-
duce of others; and not the very nice crop,
Just short of being excessive, which some
farmers call an average" Barley, we
fear, is in much the same case as wheat,
Oats, we expect, viii be considerably be-
low an average. Peas may be an average;
beans must be very much under an aver
age. The principal deduction tfom the his
tory of the crop and the season Is that We
are reaping in England moderate yield Of
wheat.
France, we learn, is in the same pre-
iicament. Harvesting is well forward, and
thrashing is busily proceeding in the
principal corn growing districts of that
country. In portions Of the Southwest, on
the Swiss frontier, in the basin of the Ga
rome, in parts of Normandy, Beauce, Brie
and other northern departments, the wheat
is abundant and of fine quality. But in
the remainder of France, excepting favor
| able spots, the harvest is deficient, and a
bad yield partly compensated for by good
quality. As Italy, Spain, Belgium, HOl-
land, North and South Germany, Poland,
| the Danubian provinces, and Russia have
also suffered, although in varying degrees,
| from the same causes which have afflicted
| England and France, it is not surprising
| that i'll reports of the harvest arrive from
| those countries. And when, in the face OF
an evident European deficiency, we receive
| the official estimate of a short wheat crop
/ in the United States, We take for granted
that our home farmers should be IN no
| hurry to market their new wheat, for
prices must inevitably rise.
A Frankfort letter of July 80, to the
London NecS. says:
A more unfortunate time for the out
break of hostilities could hardly have been
selected. The crops are nearly ready for
the sickle, and there is but a scanty supply
of labor. Throughout the vast tract OF
country have traversed, from the fertile
valleys of the Rhine and Moselle to the
| sandy plains which encompass Berlin, the
sight of waving cornfelds was the one
| which uniformly met the eye. Here and
| there a few women were cutting down the
ripe grain, yet, in the majority of the fields
there were no signs of the husbandman
plying his necessary task.
In the vicinity of the Rhine the crops ap-
pear to be unusually luxuriant. The
drought, of which complaints are made
here as well as elsewhere, does not seem
to have proved very injurious. 1t is ex'
pected that the vintage will be unexception-
ally good, provided an opportunity Is at.
forded for peaoeably plucking the grapes.
When gazing upon the glorious promises
of the prolific earth, it is almost impossible
to realize the fact that tremendous effort
is being made to undo the work which has
been accomplished with much toll, and tC
convert the smiling cornfelds and vine.
yards into barren and blackened battle
ground.