Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-03
AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

The Savannah Republican announces the re-
ceipt on the 18th, of the first consignment of new
rice at Savannah. The lot consisted of one hun.
dred bags from the plantation of R. G. and 2. 4:
Kettles, of Scriven county.
"A Charleston telegram, dated September 22d,
says: Accounts from Edisto, Wadmalaw, and
other Sea Islands, say the third brood Of caterpi
lars have appeared andare destroying the crop with
great rapidity; it is feared the Sea Island crop will
be an almost total failure"
The reports of the Sea Island crop, on the
coast of Georgia, are more favorable The Savan'
nah Herald states, on the authority Of gentle
man who had recently travelled extensively among
the islands, that good crop has already been
made, and much of it picked out.
Willis & Chisolm's circular, from Charleston,
dated September, estimates the rice crop of Geor.
gia and the Carolinas at $3.50 casks 1t says =
''This crop will undoubtedly be small even should
we be favored with the most propitious weather
the remainder of the season. The rains Of nearly
thirty days. duration have seriously damaged the
growing crop, in many instances causing the rice
already cut to sprout in the fields
The New Orleans Picayune regrets to hear
that several planters in the richer portions Of Lou
isiana and Mississippi purpose abandoning their
present occupation. The reason given is that they
cannot hope to secure labor to carry on their plan,
tations to any large extent, and that the nsolence
and exactions of the freedmen make the business
disagreeable.
The Augusta (Ga.) Republican says: CAL
over the cotton growing districts Of our State the
cotton picking is being pushed forward as rapidly
as possible The present weather opens the bollE
with great facility, and requires more hands than
usual to keep the work we'll along There is now
q most earnest demand for laborers in the country
which demand, from present prospects, Is not like
" to be more than half filed"
The English harvest is reported by the agri
cultural editor of the London Times, to have pro
duced wheat crop under the average, barley
crop ten per cent. over the average, oats, ffteer
per cent over, of beans an average crop, and o.
peas below the average There is an average croI
of potatoes reported, but owing to the excessive
moisture the quality is Inferior while in the wes
and southwest of England the potato disease il
prevalent. The hay crop is the best ever gathered
and pasturage is reported to be most excellent.
"A terrible drought is said to prevail in Ohio
Kentucky and Indiana, and it is reported thai
there will not be more than half the usual corr
crop.
Illinois produces one-sixth Of the whole crol
of Indian corn in the United States. 1t is also
the largest producer of oats, and grows twenty pc
cent of the hay Pennsylvania takes the lead il
the production of rye-nearly one-third of the pro
duct of the whole country, and in buckwheat near
ly forty-two per cent New Jersey produces NOR
rye than any other State, according to population
New York takes the lead in the production of bar
ley, about forty per cent of the whole country
Virginia is ahead in tobacco about thirty per cent
Illinois alone has in corn about 5000 O0O acres, il
wheat @ 10000 acres, in rye 345 900 acres in oat
SS3, 900 acres, in barley Al, 900 acres.
The Raleigh, N. G. Sentinel says, in Meek
lenburg the cotton crop is promising, but late
Early frost would be damaging. The corn crop
better than was looked for some time ago. Il
Chowan the cotton crop is said to be failure, tn
large quantity of rain having injured it. Cor
crop only passable, though late rain would hell
both. In Nash, planters calculate on only half
crop of cotton. In Forsyth corn crops fair.