The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-09
Gbe dolnliIp Clarion.
SHORT coKs CROP.


From the August reports OF the grow
ing crops, received at the department. ol
Agriculture, it appears that New jersey
PENNSYLVANIA and Delaware, IN the East;
Vest tirginia, Kansas and Nebraska In
the West and Arkansas, Alabama Lou
isana. FIoroida and Texas in the South,
are the only states which claim an aver
age OF more, in condition, OF the corn
crop. as compared with the same date
last year, with a slightly increased acre
age in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
SIX per cent In Kansas, seven per cent.
in Iexas, and ten per cent ID Florida,
and a somewhat decreased acreage in Ar
kansas. Louisiana, and Delaware. In the
great corn producing State Of Illinois, the
average estimate Of condition in about
sixty counties fall fully thirty per cent.
below last season at same date; Indiana,
the second State in production, puts the
figures nearly as low; Michigan, Wiseon-
sin and Minnesota rate twenty to thirty
per cent below last year; Ohio twenty
per cent. below; Iowa twenty per cent;
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee ten
per cent. The New England States range
from 10 to Is per cent. below; New York
twenty to twenty-five per cent; Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee ten per cent, and
South Carolina thirty per cent. below.
Texas promises twenty per cent. better
yield than last year, with an increased
acreage as noted and Kansas and Arkan-
sas 10 per cent. better than last year
In few Of the larger States will the in
crease Of acreage make up for the de-
crease in general condition, while in sew
eral of the largest corn-growing States the
acreage has been reduced from last year,
owing to the very unfavorable spring
hence it seems hardly possible that crop
equallIng that Of last year can now be
made under the most favorable future,
while the indications are that the yield of
the season will fall considerably below
that of 90. Drought has done much dam
age in some sections, succeeding the ex-
cessive rains which had previously retar-
died the growth of the crop. Favorable
weather henceforth, with late fall, may
do much for the general yield, but a short
crop appears inevitable. Illinois and In
diana produced about one-fourth of the
crop Of the whole country last year, and
now threaten to reduce their product %
to So per cent. Ohio, Iowa, Missouri,
Kentucky and Tennessee, which raised
one-third of the cropOf 1868, promise a
decreased yield of from 10 to 20 per cent.
The season, which has been unpropitious
for this great national crop, has however,
proved favorable to most others, and
though the corn be cut short there must be
abundance in the land.
INCREASED COTTON CROP.
While all the cotton States except
Georgia and Florida reported the condi-
ton of the cotton crop in July as consid-
erably below the average of the crop of
1868 at corresponding date, nearly all
now report an improvement upon these
estimates, and several of the more i'm
portant cotton regions report the condition
as better than in August of last year, the
weather having been generally propitious
and the injury by the worm comparative
" inconsiderable, though there is no lack
of apprehension of damage from the lat
ter. Mississippi, the largest producer of
this staple, with an increase of ten per
cent. in acreage, reports the condition
fully up to that of last season at that date.
Georgia, condition equal to last year with
lana, ten per cent. better in condition,
and fifteen per cent. increase in acreage /;
Arkansas and Texas report condition
above average, with twenty per cent. in
crease of acreage in the former and thir-
ty per cent. in the latter State; and Flor
ida, condition above average, with twenty
five per cent. increase in average. On
the other hand, North Carolina reports
the condition FIVE to ten per cent. below
last year, though the increase of acreage,
ten per cent, balances the loss; Tennes-
see alone reports decreased acreage, and
also reports condition ten per cent. below
last year; Alabama, with eight per cent
increase in acreage, places the condition
of the crop ten per cent. below that of
last year; South Carolina makes the worst
showing, reporting the condition twenty
five per cent. below the crop Of last year,
but with an increase Of seven or ten cent.
in acreage. In view of the uncertainties
of weather and danger of damage by in
sects to which the crop is subject, it is yet
too early to estimate the production of the
year with any degree of certainty; but it
is reasonable to anticipate, with an aver
age increased of acreage equal to fifteen
per cent, a yield fully up to the figures
of 1868, which reached $500, 900 bales,
and there is nothing in the present pros
pect to discourage the present expectation
ola considerable increase, which can alone
be prevented by some signal disaster from
weather or destructive insects.
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KILL THE WEEDS. farmers are
opposed to weeds, but many of them are
not as earnest in their opposition as they
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