The Crops In General

Relativo to the öróp i fchet States, we gather the following information tïom a recent article in tho New ■ ... ; [n MainO, ftiestaple pro uetion, Imy, is likoly to bo n full average, ííew -hire seems to be afflii ted with Jrouth, and pteeent prospeta thoro are ,11 fiattering. Massachusetts and eticut need raio badly, but moist tields, wbiitliorcom, snnill grain, or graás, are not sufEering. Vi i Mand are the only Ni and States whieb seem to prori; A. general arrd severo dronth prevails from Nuw EngJand to Western New 5Tork, MKfiudmg all ot' New Jersey, all of K;is l'ennsylvania, aiul most i' Marylarid and Delaware. Last week light ghowenfoll over tliis whole Brea, and tho graas was' tliereby enabled tü hold its own, but the uffeet on plowed land was Bcarcely perceptible, for a few hours uiterward tho ground was apparentiy tis pnrehed aa before. Coni is ({enerally ot' a siokly yellow, a fact which ia moro disoouraging than ks stunted growth, t'or with gooil sliowera it Vould soon coase to be etunted, but deficiënt yitality is a more serious dact. Potatuos are searoely Biift'ering, aml if the ground is kept iuoso thoy will do well without rain for several weeks. Oat need ruin, but not so much as corn. Wheat ia iti fair condition, and the alight showers holpod it vory greatly. Where wheat avh.s suwii on good ground, woll preparad, it is doing fully as well as if rain hiul been abundant. Hay will bo light all through the región referrcd to, and the general estiliiato ia that thero caimot bo more than Aalf au averugo yinld, but the quality will be excellent. Fasaing westward, beyond tliis dry region, AVestern New York and Pennsylvania have more rain and generally all kinds of farm producís promise extremely well. We liear few complaints from Ohio, and an average yield of tLo wholc line of producís is expeoted. In Illinois, from 39 degrees latitude to the north line of the State a gi n ra] b ickwardness and defioiency is reported, especially in corn, though the liock Eiver región is less uilliotod. Thegreat corn belt on parálisis with Chaiupaign, Deoatur and Springfield, cannot, by all the aocouuts produco iui.ru than half a erop. South of 3(J i coru is uot planted so largely, orit does not yield so well, tiud wheat is regardedes the payiug erop. This grain has now bt-en harvested, and the yield ia unoommonly goud, whilo the quality, whioh is always high, is abovo the average. It is this Wheat i'rom which the high grade of St. Louis flour is made. it sliould be said hore, that Southern Indiana, Southern Missouri and parts of Arkansas, Keatueky and Tennessee raite the game kind of wheat usually oalled " May wheat;" that this year it s eTerywhere equally good, and that the ïuai'ket tor ali of it is St. Louis. Wiseoasin bas had less rain, and cora, wheat, barley, oatís and vegetables gonerally will yield a full average. Minneeo t. will hve fttll crops and her wheat promiics uncommonly well. Kansas has had just about raiu ouougli ; oom will be heavy, and the wheat erop, whioh was in si unifican t last year, is likely to be full this year. In some parts rains have been heavy, but the soil of the uplauds absorbs moist.ure so rapidly that littlo injury is reported. Northern Missouri has gener ally fino pro&pectá. Iowá would seeui to bo in a more favorable comlition tban any other Htate, butit has tho drawbaok ;io of tho northwestern eouni erasshoppers, whieh are sweeping things .. In Nebraska, owiog to the great r of new farms oponed, tiie a prodüction willbe greater than ever before. ïs'ubraska is ono of the coru States, and these tho winter wh poer, on account of winter-kil lin g ; but spring wheat is highly prornising: It would soem frora tUis ruviow that wheat through the North ia likeiy to bo ft full average, and that. com is not iikely to reach moro thau half a erop, though pussibly it muy reach three-t'ourths. But it Is to bo reuiöinbered that so much of last. yoar's growth and of tha yoar befóre is ou hand, that there will be no doficiency. Siill, as thero ia to be an active Europönn demand, prices seem likeiy to advanco. In the Soütliorn States corn compiises a good yield goncally. Wheat, of wbish jut littlü ij r.used, wiu D8 a lair erop. California and Oregon will havo good crops oí' wheat. In the hitter State it will be bettyr tlian last year. In the ter■ilories there will bo increaaed erops of all leading staples, ospeoially of %vheat. On tha whole the grain erop of the country is likeiy to bo elightly in excese oflastyoar. For fruit the wintor everywhere was uneoininouly severo. A quarter, perhaps a half of tho peach treet of :ha country, wore killed. Young niirsery stock was injured imiuensely. Even Bearing apple trees of hardy sorta have been killed. Sraall fruits havo suffeied, and thpro is not more than half a erop of strawberries. Delavan orchards uffered last, and the peaeh erop from the tidewattr rc-gion it is eai'd will be full though nows recently from Delaware makea the case doubtful. Westward large orchards are dead. Fruit growors and rmrseryraen all over the country, witli a í'ew excoptions, havo suffered. Thero has beon no such loss in this generation.