Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-10-09
The Crops Reports of the Departments of
Agriculture.

The Crops Reports of the Departments of
Agriculture.
! The Department of Agriculture has just
issued its report for August and September
which contains the following statement of
the condition ofthe crops The crop ia
bles for August give the general averages
for the States, made up from approximate
estimate of our correspondents Of the
quantity Of the crop then harvested as com
pared with those of 1886, together with
the current conditions of growing crops
at the date Of return, while the tables for
! September perish chiefly to the state of
the fall crops, in the relation to which
more definite information will be given in
succeeding reports.
I WHEAr.-From August returns there
is uniform reduction IN the general av-
erage of wheat as compared with the July
figures; and the September estimates of
wheat harvested, as compared with the
crops of 1866, drop the figures somewhat
lower in a number Of the States, which is
attributable, to a considerable extent, to
the bad weather while harvesting, as well
as to the fact that in some sections the
grain was found to be shrivelled and
( threshed out less to the acre than anticipa-
ted, The leading wheat-growing States
report the following per centage of in
crease at the close of the harvest; Ohio
l3O per cent; Indiana, so; Michigan. 80:
Wisconsin, Il; Minnesota, q; Illinois.
IL; Iowa, 90 Missouri 40; Kentucky.
"a; West Virginia so; Virginia so -
Tennessee, 40; Georgia 80; Arkansas.
As; New York, IA, and PENNSYLVANIA, 40,
while only Kausasaand Texas show fall
( ing off from last year, when these crops
in those States were very large. The re
| turns due October l will enable US to es.
innate with greater degree of accuracy
the amount of this great crop for the cur.
rent year.
! CORN,-The prospect for corn crop
continue to improve and if the frost holds
off the general crop may be a fair one -
/ While number Of States return low esti-
mates, others, particularly the Southern
States, show marked improvement over
the yield of last year. Georgia promises
to double her crop of 1866; Alabama 70.
ports an increase of rs per cent. r,iissis-
sipi, 50; Tenn 9ssee, 81; Louisin,a Az
South Carolina, 81; and Arkansas 100
Ohio falls 80 per cent, behind last wear
estimating from the condi. i.uon on the first
o. September; indian, Il; Illinois. IA;
kentucky, rs; Vest Virginia, Is and
Virginia 10.
1Ps cot'Jn crop promised well up to
thc frs, instant, when the worms were
max ing their appearance, and much ap-
,,rehensIon was then felt in various sec
tions for the safety of the crop. t..
Under the head of Extracts from Cor
rcspondencr," We give notes flom the sew
eral cotton growing States Georgia prom
fled to yield 53 per cent. beyond her erop
of 1866; South Carolina, 80; Alabama,
AZ; Mississippi, 24; Arkansas, IS, and
Tennessee 9 while louisiana and Texas
show considerable falling off from last
year.
RYE, barley, and oats exhibit no materi.
al change from previous reports, though
oats were seriously injured in some sec
tions by the extreme wet weather during
the harvest but generally the crop appears
superior to that of last year, - ..
BucKwHEAr shows au average acreage,
with prospects OF fair crop. ... -.
/ PoTAToEs are rottng badly in many of
the large potato-growing States, and the
crop will probably fall below the yield of
last year.
SUGAR CANE AND SokGHuM-The lead
Sbou fo;r
over the crops Of last year. Sorghum is
on the decline in most Of the States, with
out sufficient reason. The crop now grow
ing is inu good connition, Apples and
peaches. In few of the States the apple
crop promises well, but in a majority the
crop will be from 10 to 40 per cent, below
the crop Of 1866. Peaches were much in
iured by the rains in July and August,
and orchards which promised we'll early
in the season have proved entire failures.
With the exception of a few States, the
crop is grown for home consumption or To-
cal markets, which, together with the ir.
regularity of the yield in different seasons,
renders it difficult to reduce the various
estimates to the average for States, though
we include the figures. .-
HAY shows an increase in almost every
State, and quite large in many of them,
Pennsylvania returning an increase of
so per cent New York, "a; Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Illinois, 2S; Indiana, 26.
The average will reach from 25 to 80 per
cent, and above the crop of 1866.
The wool clip for 1867 will probably
fall from five to ten per cent. short of the
crop of last attributable to the Sc
we're weather of last winter, and the conse,
J quent exposure and destruction of large
number of sheep.
EE- General Schofeld has issued an
order requiring the whites and blacks in