The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-26
The Crop Prospect.


metropolitan paper, which has taken
great pains to collect accurate crop re.
turns from.every State in the Union,
gives an exhaustive report, from which
we summarize:
In what are ordinarily called the Mid
die States, including New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland, and embracing the territory
between the Alleghanies and the Allan
tic, and between New England and Vir.
ginia, the crops are of n very varied ma
ture. With the exception Of dairy pro-
ducts and fruit, they arc principally i'm
portant as related to the consumption
Of the vast population occupying this
region, and for the most part engaged
in other pursuits. or the cereals it
may be inferred that wheat will be more
largely raised than last year; corn some
what more, and the other crops nearly
the same. The fruit crops, and espe-
cially that Of peaches, promises well,
with some exceptions, end may be set
down as everywhere at least up TO the
average, and in some sections decidedly
larger.
In the Southern States the prospects
are not so strikingly improved as in
some other sections, but the reports are
encouraging. Cotton is reported as up
to the average in Georgia, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee and Arkansas, and as
promising an increase in Virginia,
South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and
Texas. In Mississippi alone a loss is to
be participated. The recent rise in the
price Of cotton came early enough to
stimulate planting, and though there
has been some difficulty on account of
the weather, and some ~replanting has
been required, there is much ground for
anticipating a large crop. Should prices
be sustained, the current year will be
q prosperous IN for the cotton planters
At the same time, it may be remarked
all the Southern States except Arkansas
and Missouri, where there is falling off,
and in South Carolina and Georgia,
where, however, an average crop is ex.
pected. In tobacco, there is a percepti-
BILE, but not large, i lcrease indicated in
the South, anda larger one in the North.
Rice promises poorly in Louisiana and
well in South Carolina and Georgia. In
wool and stock-the staple products of
Texae-there will be q decided increase.
In the New England States, while the
miscellaneous cereal products and fruits
promise well, the grass crop, with its
attendant products of the dairy, has de-
cidedly increased. 1t appears that New
England will contribute at least ten per
cent. more Of hay and butter, cheese and
stock than last year.
In the West and Northwest reports as
to both corn and wheat are fattering
AS to wheat, no probable falling off is
reported in any State except Kansas.
Illinois promises an average crop. Ohio
shows an increase to possibly 80, 600, 900
bushels, and Michigan 81, 000, 900 larger
than the last two years. Minnesota
shows 30, 600, 900 bushels increase. Ne
braska shows an increase of twenty per
cent, and probably a total of Is, 900, 900.
Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin, will have
as large q crop as last year, and may
have o considerable increase as to corn.
All the States of the West promise an
increase, with the exception of Indiana,
where it has been abandoned TO some ex-
tent for wheat.