Wheat Crop Prospect

The more recent reporta of the condition of the wheat erop in various parta of the country indícate a more favorable prospect than was indulged a few days ago. Previous to the late rainB there was a general apprehension that the yield this season would be unusually small in many of the wheatgrowing sections, and that the harvest would show a considerably diminished product compared with that of former years. During the the ftrgt of the present month, the Department of Agriculture at Washington obtained statements of the condition of the erop in most of the States where wheat is produced, and the result of the collation of these reporta was not as promising as could be wished, especially in the belt of country reaching from the Oreat Lakes to Kansas. Seven States, Michigan, Ohio, íentnoky, Indiana, Illionois, Missouri and Kansas, which together produce sixty per cent, of the wheat erop raised n the United States, gave the promise of only about five-eights of the custoraary yield, unless the season should prove more favorable than it had boen up to the time of making the report. In Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, there was a better promise, and the erop was regarded as quite cqual to the average, while soine portions of the State of New York presented an nn'avorable outlook. The reports indícate hat an average of fourteen per cent. of ;he ground planted in the Western Slates would require replanting. The erop in Missouri appears to have suffered moat from the severity of the winter, more than a quarter of it being so unpromising as to be obliged to give way to other crops. Since these government reports, which were not altogether cheering, the weather has been more propitious in nearly every part of the grain-producing región of the country, and there is in all quarters a changed aspect, very much for the better. In western New York, in particular, since the rains, the prospect is reported to be different from that given about the iirst of the month ; and there is a confident anticipation that a good yield will be realized. Throughout the other States the same cause has been producing a similar change in the appearance of the erop, and if there shall be no untoward circumstances intervening between this and harvost time, there will be at least, taking the country together, threefourths of the usual erop.