Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-09
CORN, WHEAT AND TOBACCO.

COxN, WHEAT AND IObACCUs
WE copy the following from the
Agricultural Report for August and
September, on the subject of corn and
wheat
The corn crop of the present season
covers an immense area, and its
growth is very heavy. Could it be
thoroughly ripened its aggregate would
exceed any previous crop, and the yield
per acre would be one Of the best, not
withstanding the losses by overflow of
bottoms and saturation of fiat heavy
soils, such losses proving less than the
usual damages by drought and insects.
while the rains have greatly benefited
the crop on drier and higher soils.
Nearly everywhere corn is late in ma
turing, from one to two weeks, render
ing more vital the necessity of warm
September, free from trosts to its close,
to insure immunity from the partial
destruction of the crop. Frosts have
occurred in Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and in Northern Illinois and Iowa, on
the 2lst and 22d of August, aud again
on the 18th and 29th, but the damage
is slight except in few counties of the
States first named.
The August returns made no change
in the general average condition for
the whole country, which was So in
July and August, though there we're
local changes. In the rainy belts the
benefits to the poorer uplands were
more than counterbalanced by the in
juries from submersiou of the bottom
lands.
WHEAT.
Excepting ia the New England
States and in those of the Gulf region
and the Pacific coast, the damage to
the crop, between the periods of ripen-
ing and thrashing, by frequent and
heavy storms, has been very general.
Within the wet area, the continuous
rains visited in July the portions in
which wheat ripens early, and in Au-
gust the ATTITUDES where it is harvested
later, so that over the whole region the
crop was very generally caught either
in harvest or in the stack. In Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, I'm
which the yield was extraordinary
and in the Middle States, the rainy
season was in progress at the time of
reporting, and therefore the extent of
the damage was yet undetermined. A
considerable portion Of the crop in
Maryland, and larger portion in the
Cult States, were secured in good con-
dition before the rainy season came on.
The damage from wet IN Kansas and
Nebraska, though. extensive, appears
to have been less than in the valleys of
the Mississippi and Ohio.
In Iowa, injury from blight or rust,
reducing both quantity and quality,
was very general. Most of the States
report local injuries to condition from
the same cause. Local injuries by the
weevil are noted in Maine and In
diana; by ohiuches, in Indiana, Wis
consin, aud Missouri and by grass
hoppers. in Kansas, Nebraska, Mis-
souri,, and throughout the grasshopper
region of the Northwest. In Califor-
MIA the crop, though reduced in yield
and in some localities affected in guam
tity by rust, was generally harvested
10 superior condition while in Oregon
an extraordinary yield appears to have
been secured without serious damage.
TOBACCO.
The tobacco crop has greatly fallen
off since the last report. From con-
dition 20 per cent. above average in
July our September returns indicate q
reduction to 10 per cent below average.
East of the Allegheny Mountains
there has been, on the whole, an i'm
provement Massachusetts and Con-
necticut show great advance upon the
July condition and are 2 per cent.
above average, but this is about coun-
terbalanced by decline to 2 per cent.
below average in Maryland, produced
by the excessive rains of August. New
York and Pennsylvania report some
IMPROVEMENT, but are still below aver
age. Virginia returns Indicate great
Improvement and a condition II per
cent. above average. Further down
the coast the continued rains have
uniformly depressed the condition of
the crop. Florida is full average. The
Cuba tobacco of Gadsden county is
superior to any crop since the war,
both in quantity and quality. The
small crops of the Gulf States and Ark
ansas show improvement, and, on the
whole, a condition above average. The
great tobacco region between the Al
Ierhapy Mountains and the Mississippi,
producing about two-thirds of the
census crop of 1869, shows rapid de-
cline since July. and condition great
lv below average. The flooding rains
that visited this region have inflicted
very serious damage upon tobacco as
well as other crops. Tennessee has re-
duced her July average of log to 81;
Kentucky has fallen from l34 to 81
Ohio, from So to &c; Indiana, from
lO2 to 81; Illinois, from ga to 70; West
Virgiuian, from 81 to 81; Wisconsin,
from 80 to 60. West of the Mississippi
River. Missouri, the only large tobacco
producing State, showsa condition .
per cent. above average, gain OF three
Der cent. since July, Notwithstanding
some local injuries by storms: The
other States of this section, yielding
but small crops, show some improve
mant but are below average. Insect
injuries are rarely mentloped Ia our
reports Of this crop.