Martinsburg Gazette

From the New York Journal of Commerce.

THE WHEAT CROP OF 1838.

ONTARIO Co., March 31st.

It is now a good while since I addressed you respecting the crops, and as my former predictions proved nearly correct, I will now venture my opinion on the coming wheat crop. Wheat in almost all situations in this section looks uncommonly well; better, I think, than it ever was known at this season of the year, and better than ever I saw it. Indeed, it is more forward than it was at the end of May last year. Therefore, we may safely calculate on an early and abundant harvest. Early undoubtedly it will be; and I never saw a bad crop of wheat when early. I never knew the rusting dews come before 12th July, and from all appearance we shall have harvest by that time. I saw you advised importation last fall, although you and others calculated (about harvest) an exportation of ten million of dollars' worth of breadstuffs. Now I would advise those engaged in importing to be cautious how they do it. If we are ever to raise enough and to spare, this will undoubtedly be the season; especially if the prospect is as good in all the wheat growing States as it is in ours. The weather is as fine as we could wish; ploughing proceeding rapidly; farmers, many of them, buying additional teams, and seemingly the prospect of one good crop, after two failures, is encouraging them to go on a larger scale this season. Now mind, tell the importers to bring no more grain than they can dispose of before harvest. Depend upon it, if there is a great crop, of which I have little doubt, the farmers will thrash rapidly as soon as the wheat is cut. Yours, &c.

A. FARMER.

This is good news, coming as it does from a source which is not likely to over-rate the favorable appearance of the crops. We did think last summer and fall, that the writer was a little bit of a croaker; but it turned out that he was pretty nearly right in his predictions. We trust it will prove so in the present instance.