FARMING PROSPECTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

Southland Times, Issue 963, 5 June 1868, Page 3

FARMING PROSPECTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The New York "Herald" publishes reports of wheat growing and other crops throughout the States the present season : — Although rather early to form a positive estimate of the ultimate amount of production, sufficient indications are afforded to warrant the belief that the abundance of the yield of breads tuffs the present year will exceed that of any previous year for a long period. The past winter has been a remarkable one so far as the winter planted cereals are concerned. Notwithstanding the long and biting spells of cold weather in some parts, the snow defended the roots of the grain from sudden and sharp frosts, and when the genial rays of the spring sun, accompanied by the warm rains, came, the snow was gradually melted and the young shoots began to sprout and grow until they finally became, as it were frost proof, and are now beyond danger. In other parts of the country, particularly the "West, the winter sown wheat was somewhat damaged, but in these localities the farmers have planted a goodly extent of spring wheat, which at la3t accounts was flourishing in an unexampled degree. The floods and other phenomena usually attendant upon the breaking up of a hard winter have had but trifling effect, comparatively, upon the river bottoms, where the spring cereals are in the highest degree of vegetation at this season in the "West. In some parts of Western New York there are complaints even of a too " plentiful lack " of water ; so there need be but little apprehensions of the planted seeds or the young sprouts being drowned out. Throughout the South and Southwest the wheat fields have been blessed with favors to an extraordinary extent. The papers in Tennessee already boast of champion stalks of wheat, and are exulting in the hopes or an unprecedented harvest. In Missouri we have reports of wheat being sowed in the ratio of ten acres to every one acre planted last fall, while the amount of land given up to tobacco is diminished. Louisiana papers give glowing accounts of the productiveness of vegetation, and pronounce the indications surpassingly favorable for a bountiful yield of all the staples of that luxuriant region. We repeat, that it is f rather early to be able to prognosticate

what the season's products may eventually j be, but sufficient is known to put the j people, the consuming masses, on their guard against the periodical cries of croakers and the schemes of speculators upon the baseless plea of bad crops.