Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-28
Agricultural Report.
WAsInNeroN. octol

WAsrnNoroN, October, 21.
THE Department of Agriculture has pre-
pared q digest of the reports upon the con
dition of the crops for October, from which
the following is extmcted: * ~ ~ 7
The wheat crop Of 1870, in majority Of
States, and especially in those IN which
this cereal is Ilannoint, Is less in lo,nntity
than the crop of 1869, which was very
large one, Notwithstanding the assertion
by some croakers to the contrary. The re-
ductionis due first, to the loss Of plants by
an unpropitious season for termination and
early growth of the winter variety, follow
ed by an open and somewhat variable win
ter and, second, 10 the drought whichpre-
vailed with great severity in the Northern
and Eastern States. This reduction, asayer-
aged from our local returns appears TO be
about IA per cent The average quality of
the crop is better than that of 1869. The
Pacific coast reports are variable. Some
counties in California make the quality SUI
perior, while. others report injury from
rust, and inieriority from the maturity of
grain blightedby drought. The early sown
fall and spring grain of Oregon is good,
while that late sown was injured by tile ex-
cessive heat of summer. Among the win
ter varieties which have succeeded best, the
Tappahannock prominently named. II
Is favorably mentioned throughout the
South and West, and has done well among
the mountains of Utah. fNj ~
The corn crop of 1870 unlike those of
the two years preceding, is full one, and
the best one of the past ten years. The
States of the great corn region, including
those bordering on the great lakes,and on the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, have, without
exception, made rather fuller crop. Intel
ligent men estimate the total product at
250, 900, 900 bushels
In Illinois, rye gives a somewhat smaller
yield than in 1869. Oats are not generally
so productive as last year, except in the
South.
In Michigan and New Jersey, the aggre-
gate product of barley appears less than in
1869. The only States yielding full crops
of buckwheat are Tennessee, Kentucky,
Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Kan
sas and Nebraska. The aggregates are less
than usual. IHtl.G
Reports about beans and peas indicate an
average production in quantity and in
quality, with some local variability. The
pea CROP which is one of great importance
to the South, has occupied larger acreage
! than formerly in North Carolina, Georgia
and Tennessee but has been somewhat
tatoes exhibit considerable reduction i'm
yield, which is below an average in all the
Atlantic States to Virginia, inclusive, and
in all the Western States north of the
Ohio River the depreciation ranging from
10 to Al per cent.
! The sweet potato cropis comparatively a
large one while the average of sorghum Is
not very large. The crop is in superior
| condition, and promises a yield of syrup of
fine quality. The increase in the breadth of
cotton was estimated in July at 1 2 per cent
Combining the elements ofaCreage planted
and its condition ON the 1st of October, the
natural expectation, other circumstances be-
| ingequal, wouldleadtO to an increase by COM
| parison with last yemas follows: North Car
olina, 10 per cent South Carolina, 9 Geor-
| gia, D; Florida, o; Alabama 8 Mississippi,
! 10; Louisiana, 10; Texts, 30; Arkansas, IL;
! Tennessee l. This would give a crop eX.
| ceeding three and million bales But
the indications of the season titus far since
October /, and the probabilities ofa favon-
BILE autumn for maturing and picking the
top crop, do not prognosticate return of
the remarkably favorable experience of the
season. The present crop vigorous in early
growth, running to weed rather than boil,
! then burned with drought in August, and
!
| Der, has endured vicissitudes unfavoable to
continued fruitirlness, as general shedding
of forms and occasional Totting of the boil
at last. The boil worms and army worm
have been at work in places, and rust is
more or less prevalent in all the cotton
States. The opening of the later bolls is
unusually welfadvanced in most places, and
! the last picking promises TO be light. These
indications, instead of pointing to an in
crease of third of million bales, render
/ it probable that the present crop will be no
| larger than the last, and, if the remainder Of
the season should be very unpTopitious, a
reduction of quarter of a million bales
might result. Another month or two will
determine whether the present crop shall be
limited to three million bales, or rise to
three and half millions, as predicted early
! i'll the season. The present area in cultiva-
ton has reduced the price to fifteen cents
/ per pound, or TO the very verge of profitable
cultivation, and correspondents are already
reporting the ruin of planters, who grow
cotton exclusively, and buy all their agricul-
/ tunl supplies
a large increase in the produce of cane
| sugar is regarded rs certain.
There is, comparatively, a large surplus of
! early wheat in Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa,
| Kansas, and Nebraska and rs much as usual
| in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and the
small States There is no evidence of any
| large surplus TO add materially to the sup
/ plies of the year
The supply of fattening cattle is some
what in excess of former years, with great
! local variation.