The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-10
ADDITIONAL CROP REPORTS.
AN ENCOURAGING EXHIBIT.
Letters from Abbeville, Anderson. Barn.
well, Colleton, Darlington, Kershaw,
Orangeburg, Richland, and
Spartanburg.

Laurens, N e.w b. cry, Oconee,
Orangeburg, Richland, and
spartanburg.
The following additional crop reports frou
the different parts of the State have bee
specially prepared for The News by our CORES
p,ndents and friends. They will be foun'
both trustworthy and interesting
Abbeville.
Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken has favored us will
the following clear and comprehensive sum
mary of the crop prospects in Abbeville. Th
letter is dated CokesbuIy, June Z:
While in Abbeville Village to-day. I lnterro
gated planters from all parts Of Abbeville rela
| tive to the growing cotton crop, and the labor
&C., and met very generally with replies sucf
as the following:
LIST. The area planted in tho northern half o
the district is no greater than that planted
| last year.
I'd. This area is very materially reduced By
hundreds of acres being killed out by late
frosts. recent freshets, and in some instances
| BY being replanted in corn.
Sd. 10 the western and southwestern por
tions more cotton was planted, but less mus
be made in consequence OF the effects o.
| late frosts.
4th. In the southern, southeastern, and
eastern. about the same area was planted az
was in 1868, but the late frosts have had theiI
effect there two, though in less degree thar
elsewhere, as this ls the red section OF the dis.
trict, and the trosts we're most destructive or
gray lands. -,
9Th. The general impression is, Abbeville
will make leas cotton than 1t did last year.
9Th, The freedmen are working about as well
| ss freedmen can be made to work, attempting
IN loose way to do in five days what the
employer thinks can scarcely be done IN six.
Most OF the freedmen stop work Saturday by
10A. NJ.
7th. Our corn crop looks healthy, but is very
small and back ward; wheat is fine; oats, fair
average; barley, comparative failure, &c.
Anderson.
Our correspondent, P. b. e. g., writing from
Pendletop, on June 2, says:
The condition of the crops is much more
favorable thau ten days since cotton especial.
II, such as has been spared by the frosts, and
the plough iDjudicioasly applied, much having
been plou2he up which would have recovered
and made fine stand.
OWING to the high price and the seducin0
accounts Of the productions from the use Of
GU AMOS aud other fertilizers, much larger
breadth OF land has been devoted TO cotton
than probably ever before in our district. But
the unfavorab'e prospects ofa good stand has
greatly reduced that breadth and given 1t 10
corn, which has been much stinted in it's prop
er proportions in our up-country, and we now
have prospect of an AVERAGE crop Of both cot
ton and corn, the great staple which we feared
had been overlooked. Hundreds OF acres OF
land hrst devoted to cotton has been changed
to the production of corn.
Our wheat crops are unusually fattering at
this time; some rust, but not enough to mate
rally affect the general crop; but OWING to the
scarcity and high price Of seed at our last SOW.
ing, the breadth Of land in wheat is not equal
to that Of form ,r years.
Oats are promising q fair crop, and clover
patches, for We have nothing but patches yet,
which We predict will not be the case long, are
greatly encouraging to the culture Of the
grasses in the upper sections OF our State in-
stead of cotton.
AS to the work Of. the colored people gene.
rally, we cannot say anything favorable. IL
you get good work out OF them, you must take
the "fore row." Many have rented lands and
procured old broken down mules and horses.
and without the adequate means OF support OF
themselves and work animals, are endeavoring
to make CROPS; but their prospects are any
thing but fatteripg.
Colleton, Barnwell and Orangeburg.
The following letter from our correspondent
8. gives an account Of the condition Of the
crops in the extreme upper part OF Colleton
and the lower part Of Barnwel and Orange
burg:
The crops of every kind are at least three
or four weeks behind last yeaF'ss s in grcTtn aa
the protracted drought they have just passed
through. A fine rain fell on last Friday, the
first in about four or five weeks, which has in
vigorated everything very much.
From wha; can learn. there is about the
same amount Of corn planted this year that
was planted last, and notwithstanding it ii
much smaller at this time than usual, the PR
liabilities are that the yield will be much great.
or, from the fact that last year, owing to the
very wet season and poor culture, in many in'
stances the grass got the start OF the crop,
whereas this season it has been kept clean, and
with good seasons from now out, il only half
worked, the yield must certainly be better.
The area of cotton planted this year Is some
thing greater than that OF last, but it is 30 much
smaller, and the stand so very bad, that it is q
very difficult matter to arrive at any definite
conclusion as yet in regard to that plant; still.
/ think that might safely say, that with favor
able season and no unforeseen disaster, the
cotton crop (Which ia never very large in this
section, will equal that Of last year, as the area
plan ed in excess Of last year will about make
up for the deficiency in the stand.
The freedmen, so far, are working very we'll,
especially those who are receiving wages.
Those farming on their own account, with but
few exceptions, never have made o sufficiency
for themselves and family, and fear never
will I notice one encouraging feature IN the
colored people, that elections do not take them
off from their work as it did year ago.
Colleton.
Our correspondent R., writing from St.
Georges on the Oh instant, gives the follow
ing information:
Corn is very small for the season, needing
rain very much. The weather has at last TURF
ed warm, apd II we can get rain there is every
prospect OF o good yield. Cotton ID looking
finely, but farmers generally complain OF bad
stands. It has been so cold that great deal
OF the cotton has died out, and there has not
been enough rain to bring up the replants; but
with the present stand, should the season con-
tinue favorable, I think thera will be q much
better yield than last year. owing to manurlng
and more thorough cultivation. The area OF
cotton and corn seem TO be near the same as
last year (eay one.thlrd cotton the balance
corn.) The great aim seems to be to make
enough corn hrsl, and after that all the cotton
they can.
The colorcd people are working better than
last year, and seem to be taking some interest
IN the crop, and not devoing their whole at
tention 10 politics. There Is still room for i'm
proyement, and I believe they baein TO SEQ
that it ls necessary TO work TO live. Stealing
still continues. great many OF the color od
people have settled off 20 themse. YES, and are
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