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The Crops--flattering Prospects

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
May
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York Timen of the 8d inet. prints dispatches from twenty-ninc Stiltes acd ouc Territory, giving the conditioii and prospecta of the crops of the wholo country. The eorrenpondents, almost without exoeption, seud good news. The tirst week in Alay has uot for years seen the general erops of the country in so advanced a condition. An exceeoMngly open winter, followedby nn early spring-, has set forward planting nud sowing by from thrte to flvo weeks. In the New England and Middle States the spring is three weeks earlier tluin usual. Tlie grass is well up. The apple trees prornise an unusnal (Top. More corn will be plauted than lait year, but fewer potatoes. Tlie Southern and Southwestern States n port a larger aereage and better oondition of graius than last year, and au i euormous cotton erop is predictor!. Frow all the Western States como the most I encouraging reporta im to the grrat staples. Tlie dispatches cover parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Miohignn, and Minnesota, and how :m inoreaBed aoreago of Irom 10 to 30 per cent, nnd a bouooiol promisc of lftrgo UarvPflt. braska, Missouri, Kentncky, Tennessee, Kansas, and Arkausas expect about 15 per cent, more tliaii their usual yield of cereal s. Kansas espects a erop ef nearly 20,000,000 -bushc-ls of wheat lor export. Tho Tndian Territory roportö tlio, promise of unusual yields in wheat, cotton, and tobáooo. Colorado cultivates onotliird more lantl than in most previous 'care.

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Michigan Argus