New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-15
Tile CLOPS OF 1os3.

To-day we give extensive reports OF the con-
dition and prospect of the crops from the grain
growing regions of the West. These reports,
coming from experienced and careful men, viii
be examined with great interest. OF late years
it has come to pass that the commerce and
trad. of the country, its industries and its
finances depend TO a considerable degree upon
the Weld of wheat Not only is this product one
of the first Importance III the cost OF IIEnS
and consequently of production; it gives to
transporting companies a large share OF their
tonnage each year, and in years of iul yield the
value of wheat exported, fl0ur included, has
been larger than that OF any other one
article liking Cotton not excepted. The
great change in the balance of trade, which
had been SO long unfavOrable to this country,
the payment of the enormous debt which the
nation formerly owed abroad, the reduction oil
interest on the public debt, the restoration OF
the nations credit and the resumption Of sprcic
paymcnts, have all been due III large measure
10 the increasing cultivation and bOuntliul yield
of wheat. Hence great interest Is ielt every
wear in all information as to h prospects OF
this great crop, not only by farmers and dealers
in grain, but 10y transporters and those she
bankers, by manufacturers aud by statesmen.
The returns which we give to-day, though
they do not promise a repetition of the nnprecc-
dentcd yield of 1852, are decidedly more
favorable than those received earlier in the
season. 1t will he found, too, by those who
examine them closely, that they point to a
more favorable result than WAS promised by The
MAY report Of the Agricultural Bureau, which
has lust been published. Being OF later date
bv some days. they Indicate that the fine
weather which has generally prevailed III the
wheat. growing regions has caused con-
tinuance of the improvement i'll condition
which was noticed in the Bureau report
Serious harm was done to the winter wheat
in several States, there is no Doubt by the I'M
favorable winter weather, and the yield III
those States will be reduced III spite OF the
recent Improvement In condition. But good
weather at this season has materially lowered
the estimates of injury sustained. According
| TO The Agricultural Bureau, the condition Apr
was only about 50, and ii had RISEN May tC
$50 the reports now given indicate further
| improycment, aud warrant higher estimates OF
| Weld in several of the States.
Another feature of great importance is thai
the weather has been almost everywhere favor
able for the sowing of spring wheat, so that
even in far-off Dakota and in Minnesota, in spite
of much difficulty and delay the seeding hat
| been substantially completed. The Bureau
reports OF acreage of spring wheat will not b,
| published before June l, but the opinion Is ex
pressed by the Bureau that the increase in area
will not more than make good the loss in acre
age of winter wheat The reports given today
from the far Northwest seem to promise more
| favorable result The gain in Dakota, es-
pecaly, will be large-so large that yield o
| 2O,O00,000 to 100000 bushels is ex
pected whereas the yield in all the Tcrritorie
was supposed to be less than 100000
| bushels last year. In Minnesota 1t is Thought
that the decrease In acreage will he not NOR
than will De balanced by more careful and in
| tellgent cultivation. In Nebraska a great in