Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-12
Crop ana Market Reports.
WHEAT.

-E+.t E#-F & WHEAT. d
The American Rural Home hears dis
eouraging reports as to the condition OF
wheat in Western New York, and says
it has not made so poor'a showing In
MANY wears. The editor of the Michigan
Farmer has been travelling in Michigan,
and saws the wheat looks very promising,
Int the winter has been severe III most
localitiesseen. There is large area OF
wheat destroyed; it is thought fully one
eiphth TO one-tenth--a farmer who has
sown twenty acres cannot rely ON getting
a crop from more than eighteen. The
ST. Louis Democrat prints number OF
letters from various parts of the North
west, which reports partial failures III
some sections, but the general average IS
better than last years, with more sown
and the crop looking well. The San
Francisco Bulletin says:
at now looks as though the present.
fleet of ships in port would about close
up the season. There are still several
cargoes. of wheat to spare, but they are
generally held too high for export. The
condition of the crop is now better UNI
derstood We know of no estimate above
300, 900 tons for export, and some think
we will do well If we export $50, 600
tons; the last named amount is as much
as we ever exported prior to last year,
From crop reports in the New York
Weekly Journal of Commerce, i ind
that in Virginia, FARMERS of the lower
Northern Neck counties agree in report
ing the wheat crop more promising than
il has been since the war" From Kan
sas, reports are very favorable. From
Missouri, not so much so; nor are they
in regard to winter wheat in Wisconsin.
In Michigan, in some sections, wheat Is
looking well-in others it is considera-
bly, injured bycold weather and ice.
As to market prospects, the New York
Produce Erch0nge Reporter says the
stock of understandable spring wheat is
exhausted in New York, and there is
very little winter wheat Still, larger
supplies are expected, though tits thought
the supply in farmers hands is over es-
timated. Intelligent merchants and mil
lers from Minnesota assure us that the
millers will require nearly all the sur
plus wheat in that State for their own
use up TO the next harvest. Winter
wheat is very scarce and wanted at adj
vancing prices, and the prospects are
now that we shall not have anything
like. the quantity of tide water during
the summer that we had last year.
In Europe the Mark Lane EgpreSS,
May 5, reports very cold weather, with
some injury to crops. In Northern Ger.
many the effect was disastrous; in Bel
gium and Holland the grain was par
tally injured. In France rye was in.
iured, but wheat has escaped. There is
not much improvement in the prospects
of the wheat crop in England and it i:
said the English have special need .ot {
good season to sustain the moderate
promise now on the land, sit is pretty
certain they will have no old wheat tC
begin the next harvest year with:
Belgium has followed France in the
advance Of prices, as well as HOLLAND
and Hungary, and the German markets
have tended that way; indeed, a cont
mental demand has sprungup for floating
cargoes, large cargo of California
wheat being placed for Havre at sos
Cd. (per quarter), with higher rates sub
sequently demanded" .t
Burbohm' s.Londoh Grain Trade List
after referring to the condition of the
trade, the light stocks on hand and mod
crate receipts, says theprospect becomes
more anG more confirmed that from
other principal and accustomed sources
the supplies will be unusually small,
while the British wants will be unusu
ally large. From Russia the deficiency
in supplies will be largest, though but
limited supplies can be expected from
Germany, as some of her ports are draw
ing wheat from England. The demand
from France has also become tangible
fact and having set in so long before
ic 1iffia11lt IN foil 1ubat m a%
be its future extent and consequent effect
on the English market.
COARSE GRAINS.
The general average of reports from
nearly all the corn sections in the north
ern States is very unfavorable for that
crop. Little corn is planted, and very
moderate amount of land plowed for the
crop. 1t now looks as though not over
two4thirds of the usual area will be. put
in corn The cold, wet, backward
weather is no doubt the principal trouble
though the low prices have considerable
influence. The Chicago Tribune says
that in many, sections corn is bought W
and held back, in anticipation of higher
prices.
The st. Louis Democrat says that il
the heaviest oat-producing States of the
West not over two-thirds as much lanC
is sowp to oats as was put in last year
The principle cause of this is the wei
weather heavy lands could not be pre-
pared for the crop. The most oats, it i!
said, are sown in Minnesota, Iowa anC
Wisconsin, but in the greater part Of
those States oats are. not largely grown
for market 1t is said oats are still
abundant, but the lar4er amount used Ii