The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-24
The National Big BONANZA.

By the reports given in another column of
the condition of the various crops OF the
country it will be seen that with some abate-
ments such as we have already referred to In
the hay crop, the general product Is one that
would be satisfactory in any year, but must
be cause for rejoicing in year when the
markets Of the world seem open to US. Our
twelve hundred million bushels Of cereals
viii find the world in want, and the farmers
will no longer have occasion to grumble at
the insuficiency of money. There is always
plenty of money for him who has some valu-
able commodity with which to buy money;
and the farmer of the West, prosperous in the
possession of what the world must pay him
for, will be in a position TO see clearly through
the shallow devices of the politicians who
have pretended TO explain his poverty on the
theory of the want of money 10 effect the
exchanges; when, in fact, the trouble was
that there were no exchanges to be effected.
With all Europe clamoring for his grain he
will see that the pretended want of money
"to move the crops is snare, and that the
currency in circulation is ample for our
wants. This burst of prosperity will prob
ably whip the democrats in Ohio and may
srartle them like an earthquake in some other
places. In many States wheat, oats and
barley are already harvested, and the
returns have been unusually abundant.
Farther north, where the harvest of
these grains is just beginning, the
promise is unusually good. In some parts OF
New York, Ohio and Indiana the wheat is
light, the hard winter having killed the win
ter sown seed But take the whole country
through, and we find that not only is the yield
very great and the area sown greater than last
year, but the quality of the grain is surpris-
ingly good From Texas to Minnesota and
Dakota, and from Maine to the Rocky Noun
tains, the farmers are made happy by full
crops and even California, which has
suffered somewhat from drought, promises to
send out TO the Eastern world surplus of
three hundred thousand tons Of wheat.
As for the South, its planters have this year
given more attention than ever before to grain
and meat, and with q result which will make
them happy and put money in their pockets.
The cotton crop is looking well everywhere,
and though it is not yet entirely out of danger
from the worm, which may appear as late as
the 10th of August, it promises remarkably
we'll. We doubt if the area planted in cotton
is much greater than last year; but SO much
corn and meat will be raised at home that the
net return of this years crop will be greater,
both to the planters and to the laborers who
cultivate on shares, than ever before since the
war.
Unless, therefore, unexpected misfortunes
should overtake us, we have before us year
of general abundance and the material for O
revival of prosperity. And this comes to us
just at time when the country seems to be
slowly but certainly recovering from the
prostration of its industries, and when we
may expect it to do the most good.
All the reports of the condition of the wheat
crop touch the winter wheat, which is gen.
orally somewhat over half the whole crop; but
of the spring wheat we cannot have trust
worthy news for two weeks to come, and it is,
therefore, not quite too late yet for US to have
in common with the people of Europe our
own taste of calamity. Our supply is there
fore, not yet certain, but all the indications
as to what we may anticipate are excellent
If England and France must buy this year
more than the usual proportion of their bread
stuffs as is now pretty certain, on account of
floods aud untimely rains, it is as fortunate for
them as for US that our crops promise har-
vest so abundant