AUCKLAND CATTLE SHOW.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2681, 9 November 1882, Page 3

AUCKLAND CATTLE SHOW.

["PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] AUCKLAND, November 8. The Auckland Cattle Show opened today. The attendance was not large, the people’s day being to-morrow. The show of blood horse stock was limited, but good. The Auckland Stud Company took most o" the judges’ awards. In shorthorn stock Messrs A. and B. Isaacs, T. and S. Morrin, Morrin and Studholme are the successful exhibitors. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Prize Cup lies between Mr James Wallace and Messrs A. and J. Anderson, the decision being by points, and only one or two between them. It will not be known till to-morrow. In the agri' cultural implements there were splendid exhibits. Bold and Gray, of Dunedin, exhibited from their Auckland branch promises a collection which obtained nine first prizes, three second prizes, and three highly commcndeds, and one commended. For the best collection of woollen goods the first prize was awarded to the Kaiapoi Woollen Company. The local industries were well represented.

THE CROPS IN TILE UNITED STATES. The Chicago correspondent of the Missouri Land Company of Scotland, ■writing on August 7th, says : At this time in the year wo can usually form a pretty correct idea of the grain crop yields for the current year, and 18S2 will probably bo no exception to the general rule. It is true that bad weather may cause local injury to spring wheat, most of which is still in the fields, but the breadth of country in which this crop is grown has become so great that general injury is improbable. A very early hard frost may damage the Indian corn, but such frosts are of unusual occurrence. The season as a whole has been exceptional throughout the western, or more properly. Upper Mississippi Valley States, in respect of the enormous rainfall previous to July, the unusually mild winter fol lowed by as cool, if not the coolest, summer we have' ever known, and the frequency of rain, hail, wind storms. The winter wheat crop of the whole country is large, and of excellent quality. Spring wheat bids fair to be an average crop, and the entire wheat crop of the United States will probably not be far from 500,000,000 bushels, or about 10,000,000 bushels greater than any former crop. Oats will be more than an average, hay a full average, and potatoes above an average crop. It is more difficult to determine the probable yield of Indian corn, which is our largest and far the most important crop. All the states and territories but two grow more or less corn, but the chief production is in the ten upper Mississippi Valley states, which in the census year of 1880 produced 1,282,305,107 bushels of the 1,75-1,851,535 bushels produced in the United States, and as three of these ten States—lllinois, Missouri, and lowa—produced 803,302,531 bushels, or nearly one-half of the total product, the condition of the crop in these states is highly important. In Illinois, the leading corn as well as wheat State, the crop will at best be a poor one, owing to the large proportion of rich flat corn land which is still undrained, and upon which corn will be very poor this year, and in no considerable district of the State will the crop be up to an ordinary average.. lowa is not quite so badly off, and can probably be relied,upon for from two-thirds to three-fourths of an average crop; while in Missouri the prospect is good for nearly or quite an average yield. Kansas and Nebraska each have a large crop, and in most of the other States fair to large prospective crops are reported. The prospect now is that the Indian com crop of the United States will be a fair one, but not large. In Kansas and Nebraska all the principal crops are reported large ; while in South-West Missouri, in which your company’s land is located, the principal crops are unusually large. This last-named locality is noted for its even yields, seldom very large and scarcely ever very small; but this year the crops of all kinds are very large, and many cases have been reported of wheat yielding an average of from -10 to over 50 bushels per acre, where ordinary good farmers get an average of about 20 bushels per acre. As early as the middle of July the principal railway leading east from this locality was overcrowded with freight, and was compelled to put on more rolling stock. The yields of this year must be regarded as exceptionally large.

Pastures and open ranges have been generally good, and cattle will go into winter in fine condition. The supply of swine does not appear to be up to an ordinary average, and owing to last year’s small corn crop, there were fewer pigs bred for the coming winter’s market than usual.