Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-14
A,rERIcAN CRoPs IN 1sos.

The interests of this country are so init
mately interviewer with the prosperity Oi
agriculture that its condition frequently in
dicates the financial prospect of every in
dustrial pursuit As the Agricultural De-
partment Of the Government possesses a
large corps Of correspondents, its monthly
| reports furnish much valuable information,
and its returns for September are peculiarly
interesting because, for the first time since
( 1861, statistical relations with the Southern
States have been re-estabiished. Its state
ment Of the condition Of the crops Of the
country on the first of August and on the
| first of September, as far as heard from, are
highly satisfactory.
The wheat cropof 1866 exceeds that Of
1865 in nearly all the Northern and Pacific
States. In Rhode Island and New York it
will equal last years product. In Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan it will fall slightly, and
in Indiana and Ohio considerably below the
crop Of 1865. The product of the Southern
States will be about one-half their product
in 1860. The wheat crops of England, and
France, and other portions of Europe, are
reported to be unusually light. It's, there
fore, probable that, as our product will be
considerable in excess Of the home demand,
a remunerative foreign market will be
opened. This will be great improvement
on recent years, for the exports of 1865 and
1866 Of breadstuffs to England were of very
trihing amounts, and not one-tenth as large
as in 1854
The present season has been favorable to
the growth Of Indian corn in all the North
em States. The crop is the greatest ever
grown, amounting 70 more than thousand |
million of bushels. The product of oats,
rye, barley, potatoes, pasture lands and fax |
considerably exceeds that Of 1865. There is |
also decided increase in the quantity of |
wool sheared. There is large increase in
the yield of garden products. There is a
product of hay and tobacco in
some sections. B
The estimated product of cotton in the |
Southern States is 1885, ,485 bales of four
hundred pounds each. It's growth has been
attended with many seriousland unusual diff
iculties, arising not merely from the sudden
change in the system Of labor, but from the
scarcity ofgoOd seed the ravages of the ar
my worm, drought in some months and
heavy rains in others, and the bad condition
Of the land. Yet the fact remains, notwith-
Standing these discouraging influences, that
he cotton crop of this year is probably the
most valuable ever grown. In 1860 it was
much larger-amOunting TO more than s.
100000 bales-but the average price was
hen less than eleven cents per pound. In
1866, for the six months ending July 80, we
exported to Great Britain 904, ,704 bales, sold
1t the average price of thiriy-four and a
lalf cents per pound, or Sl26, 349, ,855; and
( such rates are maintained, and present
Of the quantity grown are real
zed, the American cotton crop of 1866 will
,e worth S253, ,296, $50.
In the cultivation of the sugar cane there
ias been an increase in the acreage under
cultivation in Alabama, North Carolina,
Virginia, Missouri and Kentucky over 1859;
Dut great falling off in the acreage of
'ther sugar cane growing States, particularly
n Louisiana, where the product will proba-
,ly not be one-fourth as great as in 1859.
This is owing not merely to the neglect of
ugar estates during the war, but to the rapid
deterioration of the canes, an evil that can
'nly be corrected by importations from for
ign countries, the Java ribbon cane from
ndia being preferred.
One Of the most interesting features of the
eport is a careful estimate Of the diminu-
ion Of live stock in the Southern States.
aused by the ravages of the war. Exposed
lot only to the exorbitant demands of the
luartermaster's Department of the so-called
)onfederacy, but to the raids of our own ar
MES, they suffered heavily, and conn pare
nth the census returns of 1860 as follows:
orses, sixty-eight per cent; mules, seventy
er cent; cattle. sixty-fve per cent; sheep,
ighty per cent; hogs, fifty per cent.
The following table, however, shows that
heir supplies are by no means exhausted:
AnLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF LIVE STOCK IN
THE SOUTHERN STATES IN 1866
tates. Horses. Mules. Cattle. Sheep. Hogs.