The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-09-30
The Crops--Business Prospects.

The frosts that have visited some
parts of the west and northwest do
not seem to have done any material
harm. The fine warm weather of the
first twenty days of this month seems
to have rushed the beIated corn along
to such a condition of maturity as to
take it out of harms way before the
frosts occurred. Moreover, the frosts
haye not been heavy over any great
extent of country, and so far as dam
age to the corn has been done at all it
is perhaps more to the fodder than to
the ear. The Cincinnati Commercial.
of Sunday, speaking of the frosts,
said:
The suspicion Of frost in the air is
not unreasonable or unreasonable,
but rather stimulating. The corn is
made; the grass is growing; the po-
tatOes are abundant and delicious.
The wheat is a mOnstrOuS stream Of
gold. Cotton is coming out. Hail,
Columbia happy land.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch of yester-
day referring to crop and business
prospects, said:
Reports from financial circles all in
dictate tirst.cass prospects OF great
revival of trade just at hand, which
will make the country, and especially
our own busy hive of industry, the
scene of more activity than has for
long time been the case.
The New York HGdld of Sunday,
discussing the business and crop Situa-
ton, said:
The first frosts in autumn are late
in falling, and no disastrous and
widespread rainfals or drOughts have
been reported either to mar the grow
ing crops or to impede the work of
harvesting and other agricultural
operations. So recently as the 18th
instant the Signal service reported
morning temperatures of 60 TO 70 de-
grees in the Upper Mississippi Val
ley, and its reports of the tempera
lures with which the September days
up to the 10Th inst. opened as far up
in the Northwest as Lacrosse, Dulut
and st. Paul indicate a mean tenn
perature for that period in this region
rather above the normal. On the
middle Atlantic coast the average
temperature of September so far has
also been unusually high. The pro-
traCted summer will therefore help
forward all belated crops, especially
the corn, which was backward, and
the fears of a seriously deficient corn
crop expressed in July must be dis
PEELED. Although June and July
were generally cooler than these
months usually are the subsequent
part of the warm season has made
apparently ample compensation for
their heat Deficiencies. With the
abundant harvests in the United
States and the highly encouraging
crop reports from twelve foreign c0un-
tries, recently co lected and published
by NJ. Etienne, in France, to the
effect that "neVer before. during the
time that these reports have been
collected, has the worlds harvest in
the Northern Hemisphere been so
good all around" the time has surely
come for large reduction in the
prices of articles of food, which have
long ranged so abnOrmally high.
Advices to the Chicago Times of
Sunday from Kansas, are to the fol-
lowing effect:
Kansas will be able to pay all its
back Indebtedness this year, and be
in position to buy freely. Her ag
ricultural products this season are
estimated to be worth, at present
prices, S13S, 3S5,315. and the other
products of the farm, garden, and
pasture, including live stock, will
bring the total up to SIG 600, 900, or
an average of SIG for every man,
woman and child in the State.