Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-12


nudl production of Grain-7he
Crops in England, France, and
Russia not Promising.
IFrom the New York Tribune June 81
The facts i'm regard to the growing
Winter wheat throughout the coun-
try have been hard to ascertain, but
it may now be stated that i'm some
of the Eastern States and in ONO,
| Michigan, Indiana, and limos,
much was Winter killed and Spring
wheat has been sown instead. ms
is to be said, however, OF the plant
of loamy and rather wet soil; ON
higher and drier soils, the stand is
good, and on the whole, it looks as
though there would be an average
crop. Spring wheat has been sown
largely, and the prospect is fair. In
the great corn region of the West
the greater part of the crop was
planted before May 20, by which
time it certainly should be planted if
there is to be an average yield. 1t
is probably safe TO say hat seven
Fights of it was planted by the 18th,
which certainly indicates most fav-
orable progress. In Central Illinois
a great deal was well above ground
AT that date, and by this time cul-
tivation is well begun. In some
sections there were extremely
heavy rains, causing delay for
three to six days. 1t may be well
to note that the rains We're so con-
slant last year that the greater part
of the corn i'm the corn section was
not planted till after the last days of
May. In Wisconsin, Northern
Iowa, and Minnesota the late spring
| prevented planting before May 20,
but the wheat crop was growing
finely. 1t is evident from the
above hat we are to have a large
corn crop this year, and if no acct
dent befall it will be the largest yet
grown in America, for the area is
somewhat increased i'm the old corn
growing States. while immense
breadths i'm Iowa, Nebraska, and
Kansas are to be added. The wheat
crop i'm these States will also be in
creased.
The prospect for potatoes is not
encouraging, for there seems to be a
greater number of its enemy, the
Colorado beetle, than ever before,
and it is already on hand, waiting
for the leaves to appear. The use of
Paris green is general, but it is not
always a preventive, while being a
deadly poison, great care in its use
is required. Hand picking, though
a slow end repugnant process, is
sure, and it is resOrted to where
cheap labor can be procured. If this
pest continues yearly to increase,
potatOe culture must certainly de-
cline. In some sections of the west
the chinch bug, that great enemy of
small grain, has made its appear
ance, and is much dreaded; but on
the other hand, the reports from
a great many counties make no
mention of its appearance. In
Northwestern Iowa, and ill South
western Minnesota, that scourge,
the grasshopper, has appeared in
the young state, in untold millions,
and it is destroying all vegetation.
So soon, however, as It's wings are
grown, which will be by the last of
July, it will away, and after this
various crops can be raised. 1t is to
be understood that this pest never
covers the whole of the country it
visits, for while some fields are
made bare, others in the vicinity
are untouched. These are the only
influences reported that adversely
affect the prospects of the coming
harvest; that is, through that belt of
country between. the seaboard and
the plains, and north of an east and
west line that touches the mouth of
the Ohio river, in 80 latitude.
The fruit prospects in this whole
region are represented as uncOm-
monty good, and i'm those sections
especially devoted to fruit the most
ample preparations have been made
by the f~ruit-raisers and the railroads
to promptly send the fruit to mar
ket. In Southerhn Illinois a wide
range of fruit will be produced i'm
abundance. The first shipments of
strawberries were made on May
18th, and soon after they We're sent
to various northern cities by the car
load. Even i'm the prairie regions
of Illinois, Missouri and Kansas,
the peach crop is to be large, which
is remarkable, considering that last
year probably not hundred bushels
were produced. Now that the yield
of fruit is destined to be so album
dant, pains should be taken to pre-
serve all that is possible by canning,
drying or other processes, for it is
not possible that it shall all find a
market i'm the natural ripened state.
In the States south of the Ohio
low lands have suffered immensely
by high water, and even on trihu-
taries, such as the Tennessee, fences
have been carried away and newly
planted corn fields ruined. In the
lower valleys the water began to
abate sometime ago, and corn and
cotton may yet be planted, and
abundant vegetables grown. Many
of the planters, however, need
prompt assistance in the way of
seed and provisions. While these
submerged lands are certainly the
richest, they form only a small por-
ton of the whole, and on the up
lands work goes forward as of old,
The rainfall has been less oontinu-
Gus than last year, and cotton has
been planted in due season. 1t is
positively stated that more corn
and less cotton has been planted
this year than ere planted last
year, but while the cornfields may
he many and large, it is doubt
full whether less cotton is grow
ing. Last year was certainly
unfavorable for cotton, and the cost
of working it was excessive, and
yet the cotton crop of 1894 eX-
celled that of 1928 by about
600, 900 bales. On favorable soil
cotton is growing finely, and speci-
mems of the plant have been sent
to the north from Florida that were
Is inches high. No destructive in
scots have Yet been reported.
In California the large amount of