THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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up, and others will not yield a fourth of a 

 crop. Michigan is said to be less seriously 

 affected. The Nile's (Michigan) Republican 

 of the 12th instant, says that notwithstanding 

 much wheat has been injured by the fly, still 

 the prospect is that the surplus will be a quar- 

 ter more than last year. But latterly, things, 

 begin to look much better than they did in 

 those North-West States generally, as the 

 following excerpts will show: 



"A letter from Toledo, Ohio, to the N. 

 York Journal of Commerce, states that 

 the surface this year planted in wheat and 

 com is greatly larger than it was last. 

 The writer states that in Western Penn- 

 sylvania, Ohio and Indiana, the wheat 

 crop has been extensively winter-killed^ but 

 he thinks the extent of the injury has 

 been greatly overrated,. Even where the 

 crop has been thinned, he is satisfied the 

 yield will be larger than is commonly 

 supposed. 



" The Cincinnati Gazette has no faith 

 in the croaking voices sent forth from that 

 region. Wheat, it admits, has had hard 

 weather to stand against, and is now trou- 

 bled in some sections by a destructive 

 insect ; but it is quite certain, it adds, that 

 the re-ploughing and planting of spring 

 wheat, and immense quantities of com 

 put in under the stimulus of high prices, 

 to say nothing of increased crops of beans, 

 and the exertions that will be made to ob- 

 tain large yields of potatoes, will more 

 than make up any probable or possible 

 deficiency in the yield of wheat. 



"A letter from Cleveland states that the 

 fly is making sad work with the wheat in 

 that part of Ohio. Some fields will hardly 

 return the wheat sown. 



"A letter from Kalamazoo, (Michigan,) 

 says, wheat looks well in that county, but 

 adds that West and South one half of the 

 crop has been destroyed by the fly. 



"Ohio. — The New Lisbon Palladium 

 gives good accounts of the prospect of 

 the crops in that vicinity. The German- 

 town Advertiser states that the recent rains 

 have greatly renovated vegetables in that 

 section of the State. The wheat crop 

 promises more than an average one. 



"The Editor of the Cleveland Demo- 

 crat states from the observation of a late 

 trip through Northern Ohio, he is satisfied 

 that the wheat crop and crops generally 

 look full as well as is usual at this season 

 of the year. 



"Indiana. — We have no recent relia- 

 ble accounts from this State. A corres- 

 pondent writes, the crops in the vicinity 

 of Wabash county, on the Wabash and 

 Erie Canal, look much more favorable 

 than a month since, and we anticipate a 

 good wheat crop. Corn, we can tell noth- 

 ing about yet, only our farmers are making 

 great preparations, and are putting in more 

 than usual. 



" Wisconsin. — The Milwaukie Senti- 

 nel says, we are happy to hear good ac- 

 counts of the wheat crop from a very large 

 proportion of our Territory. In the south- 

 ern portions of Racine and Walworth 

 counties, a good many fields have been 

 seriously injured, but all through the mid- 

 dle, northern and western sections of the 

 Territory, the wheat promises luxuriantly. 

 The number of acres planted too, is very 

 greatly increased over last year, and there 

 is every prospect that the surplus for ex- 

 port next fall will show a proportionate 

 augmentation. 



"Michigan. — The Detroit Advertise? 

 of the 24th, gives favorable accounts from 

 parts of the State of Michigan, with re- 

 gard to the. prospects of the coming wheat 

 crop. It says : At the early opening of 

 spring there were many apprehensions of 

 a severe winter-kill, but the favorable wea- 

 'ther for the last three weeks has allayed 

 all fears, and the crop is coming on 

 finely. n 



It is very much to be feared from all that 

 we can learn,, that in Virginia not much more 

 than the average crop will be raised, although 

 a far greater amount of grain has been seeded 

 than usual. Until lately the season has not; 

 been at all favorable. But it is now still too. 

 early to form any definite judgement on the 

 probable corn crop. In the Western Valley 

 of Virginia wheat seems to be better than in 

 our part of the State. Wheat is doing well % 

 there, some of it it is said, as well as has been 



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