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SEC’Y WILSON’S OPINION.
Does Not Take So Gloomy a View of the Prospects as Some So-Called Experts.
HOPEFUL OF AN AVERAGE CORN CROP.
If Farmers Would Extend the Period Of Corn Cultivation Two Weeks We Could Look for a Big Crop—Says Farmers Will “Lay By” Their Corn Too Soon.
New York, July 24.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington, says: Mr. Wilson, secretary of agriculture, has favored the Tribune with a talk on the effects of the long-continued drought on the growing crops of the west. He does not take so gloomy a view of the agricultural prospect between the Allegheny and the Rocky mountains, as do some of the so-called experts who are not connected with the government service. Nor yet does Mr. Wilson attempt to minimize the injury already done and that will increase unless there is a great precipitation of moisture during the next few weeks in the vast stretch of country between the continental mountain ranges. While he acknowledged that the hard wheat belt of the northwest has been damaged, he does not yet despair of an average yield of corn in the corn belt, which he defines as extending east from the Missouri river to the Alleghenies, embracing the states of Iowa, Wisconsin, the northern part of Missouri and all of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
A Regretable Loss.
The most regretable loss from the view point of the department, declares the secretary, is that of the macaroni wheat crop. For the first time an experiment had been made this year in the production of this variety of wheat on a large scale in the United States. Secretary Wilson has been encouraging this experiment ever since he has been at the head of the agricultural department, and imported the seed from northern Africa, where most of the wheat is produced which supplies Europe and the world with macaroni.