The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-11

was not followed whefhcr dry winter followed by
an unusually rainy May and june, spoiled the crops,
which IN May promised fairly that the Minister OF
Agriculture announced the prospect Of good harvest
L not yet clear Certain t Is that The home supply falls
lAr short or the demand
BREADsrUPPs MARKKr-ruE RArEs YoR WHEAT
AZ the present moment wheat IL quoted inEthe market
OF Milan at 25t Doc per hectoitrei and It must be
borne in mind that only small farmers proprctors in
want OF ready money sell instead Of storing the newly
gathered gram and also that the incessant rain damages
large quantities yet unthroshod because previous rains
had already damaged IL lay on the ground after
reaping At Padua wheat has already risen 27f and
Isl per hcctore in Genoa 10 27E At Naples IL stands
The telegraph announces also a rise in tho French
markets. In 1873 the yield in France was so 600 900
heotohtres In 1874 ia 600 600 this year the same
causes thai affect the italian crops affect the French
heavy rains, producing mldew, &C Belgium, Holland
week maize stood at half tho price OF wheat owing
10 the abundance Of last years harvest and the extraor
binary promise for the coming September, and this IS
unusual AS maize has hitherto stood at two thirds the
price Of wheat In fact yesterdays list shows
siderable rise. IN Milan it is quoted at 1871
and In Padvn and VenetA in general
Austria and Central Italy prices are rising This
crop which forms the staple and in parts the solo
seriously menaced by the heavy rains; the corn crops
that looked so splendid month since, suffer
'sacharine" and starch" elements viii be found want
ing Ut the harvest
THE VINEYARDS
As you drive through the vine countries the heavy
loaded branches reioice the eye but close
ton, rs the rain has washed on the sulphur,
you see the grapes spotted and shrunken In many
parts they have burst and this also is due to the heavy
rains TO say nothing of the hastorms which in certain
districts have the punches from the branches and
the branches from the stem.
HEMP
AS yet the hemp crop promises fairly especially in
the southern Palermo, Ferrarese and Boognese prov
inoes 1t is tall green, fine and strong too green, in
deed for the end Of Juno, but weeks sunshine would
mellow it for the scythei and the weatherwse, who
have been but too prophetic in their representations
hitherto Ane weather dating from to-dsythe
25th In fact the sky liz cioudless and the atmosphere
serene; the sorocco has ceased May the fair promise
last
THE SITUATION SICILY
The agitation in Sicily seems calming down under the
Deputies who returned TO their respective seats
and the conchatory adopted by the govern
ment While the Minister Of the Interior increases the
tax be pd by the other communes for the ddzto and
CONSUME Palermo is relieved of Il, 600 france
THE AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION.
In August an Agrarian Exposition and the Scientific
Congress be held there and besides the usual sub
sidy the Minister of Public Instruction has sent II 600
francs 10 the Commission so that the excavations NAV
be completed and the museum set In order There will
DO grand doings there, without doubt Meanwhile the
monster trial of the supposed perpetrato of the robbery
OF the Monte di Pet in Palermo, Is coming of at Milan,
it being impossible TO find jury induce witnesses
to come forward in the island itself
ANGELO CENTENNIAL.
In Florence grand preparations being made for the
celebration Of the Michael Angelo centenary which s to
be held in September-et MS hope not at the moment
when the Pope holds his Consisory in Rome else cor
respondents will be in the plight of the donkey between
two bundles Of hay even as will be the should tho
Emperor of Germany accompanied he is reported 10
be, by Motke and Bismarck-lift up the light OF his
countenance Italy in Milan during the Palermo cele
bratona
AQUATIC SPORTS IN GENOA.
Genoa to-day is presenting to her assembled guests
the spectacle of the gandest regatta yet held in Italy
Venetian gondoliers, Neapolitan sailors Leghorn and
Pzan boatmen fare to take part IN the and river
races and royalty is TO be extensively represented
THK UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
Bologna and her time honored university are at war
with the Minister OF Public Instruction, who to the
Of his predecessors has added still ia
grant and unless prompt remedies be applied viii he
soon detected by students.
THE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL
Protests pouring in from all parts OF Italy against
the ministerial decision that the nation shall not be
represented at the Philadelphia Exhibition and private
similar dshonor.