Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-08-16
Condition of Wheat Crops in July.

The condition of wheat is above an average
in the following States: Maine, (spring,
per cent. New Hampshire, 3; Virginia, Twin
ter,) l /; North Carolina, Georgia, 10; Ala
bama, 8; Tennessee, 6; West Virginia, 8;
Kentucky, 81 Kansas, 2; Nebraska, 2; Ore
gon, 3 an average is indicated in South Car
DINA and Arkansas; and the following States
fall below an average prospect: Vermont,
(spring,) per cent. Massachusetts,, 3; New
sylvania, (winter,) 9; Delaware, 35; Mary
land, 80; Mississippi, 2; Texas, IS; Mis-
souri,, Is; Illinois, (winter,) and (spring,)
25; Indiana, (winter,1 1O Ohio, winter, 9;
Michigan, Is; Wisconsin. (wnter,) Is and
(spriag,) 26; Minnesota, 10: Iowa, 10; Cali
fornia, 5; Oregon, 4.
The great wheat growing districts all show
reduction in condition, rendering it certain that
the crop of the year will be materially less
than that Of 1869. Future reports of condi-
ton at and after harvesting are still elements
OF the ultimate estimate, but the average de-
probation of l 3 per cent, and the diminution
in breadth Of about 6 per cent, would make
the present estimate about 210 900, 900 BUSH
els the decrease being at least 4S 100000
In New Jersey change for the worse came
with the hot, moist weather of June. Much
of the crop was blighted in Burlington County,
and foggy weather On the sea-coast wrought
great injury.
The reports from Illinois indicate a short
crop of excellent quality. As specimens, Per-
ry returns less than an average yield per acre,
but the quality enough above the average to
make full crop Stephenson expects about
two-thirds of crop in quantity thin on the
ground in Alexander; quality superior in
Fayette in St Clair although thin on the
ground, the grain is perfect in Marshall
County, where little rain has fallen in three
months, the straw of winter wheat is short and
the heads long, and spring wheat Is thin but
the kernel is good one-third less acreage re-
duces the quantity In Bureau the quality is so
much better than usual in Stark, that an av-
erage crop is expected Large and we'll filled
on thinly set plant" is reported of Jersey; in
Hancock, as good as last year, but less in acre
age in Williamson, "a good yield, free from
smut or rust in Randolph, two-thirds of
if not severe, is quite general in this State.
The tenor of Indiana returns is similar, with
somewhat less of the respondent clement
The returns are more variable in character than
those OF Illinois. La some counties, as Ran
dolph and Delaware, but half crop is expec-
ted while in Bartholomew the claim is for "a
full average, as compared with the last five
years, in quantity, and above the average in
quality, and in Vanderburg ''the yield is fully
One-tentn ABOVE the usual average. 1he ny
committed some depredations In Morrison, and
few fields 'were injured by the midge" in
Washington.
COUGHING A BULLET OUT OF HIS HEAD
The Greenvie South Carolina Mountaineer
chronicles a singular case. Mr.. William Beattie,
young gentleman OF that town, was shot In the
eye during the war, the. bullet lodged in his
head-internally. The most eminent surgical
skill failed tn extract this hall and Mr. Roott;o
has from time to time suffered much from it.
A few nights ago, MIR. Beattie was seized with
fit of coughing, during which he felt some
thing fall into his mouth. 1t proved to be the
bullet, which bad been hidden in his head five
or six years This bullet, which weighs half an
ounce, had worked its way slowly into the
channel of the larynx, and the convulsive effort
of coughing releasing its hold, it fell, by its
gravity, through the said channel.