, 1875-07-21
THE CROPS.
Special Reference to the Large
Yield Of Cereals at
the South.
A Larger Acreage Of Wheat and
Corn than Was Ever Be-
fore Planted.
Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and
Mississippi will Hare q Sur.
plus 10 Dispose Of.
Cotton.Raisers Boast that They
Will Sell the Staple for
Gold This Year.
Damage to Ripening Grain
by Heavy storms
in Iowa.
The Situation in Nebraska.-.
Reports from Various
Sections.
Grasshopper Losses Throughout the
State Not Above s Per Cent.
Twenty Per Cent Increase Over last
Year in Cultivated Acreage.
The Present Crop Prospects Described
as Magnificent.
Encouraging Reports from Other
Localities.
Grassbopper Losses Throughout fhe
State Not Above 5 Per Cent.
Twenty Per Gent Increase Over last
Year in Cultivated Acreage.
The Present Crop Prospects Described
as Magnificent.
Encouraging Reports from Other
Localities,


6ptetnl D9spatos ia m chtea0o Tribune.
MEMl111s, Tenn, July 20.-prospocts Within
tho radius Of tho Memphis Department, cotl-
priaing West Tennessee, North Misslssippt1
North Alabama, and Arkansas have not boon rs
favorable sinoo 1861, aa Ia shown in the monthly
report at tho Cotton Exchange, laaued June 70,
and in correspondence and country exchanges
received since that daso, those reports being 80
universally favorable, aud doeming crops Of Ill
kinds safo from my possible damage BY rain or
drought. The Cotton Exchange did not issue
calls for July reports, aud will not isaue nn
aggregate report for sthe present month 80 that
no autheutio statistics Of the condition Of the
crops Al tho present tino Atn at hand, Tho fol-
loving aggregate ana~ors to questions bearing
upon tho condition OF tho crops At that time arc
contained In tho Cotton E1ohsngs report for
Juno:
Present condition Of crpp-Rooeived 145 re-
sponaes, of uhioh a wora very good, % good,
and 4 moderate. Ono hundsed aud thirty
sight reported FREQ from grass and weod and
we'll cultivated, 18 Is that squares are forming
freely, aud II report blooms dating from tho
18th TO Tho ed Of Juno. Cool nights wafe CON-
planned OF IN vesy few instances, but their eQoots
upon the cotton crop have been coun.eracted by
tho subsequent favorable soaaons. and It may
bo said mp to the prosent urne since the cotton
Has planted, no weathsr has prevailed to Ms
teri5lly rotard tte growth. Amount IN hoseaEo
planted about one-tli,nl fu excess Of last year.
CITIZEN caors: ,
Up to tho present time. information received
from private soutces land your aor1orPondent
has daily acceee 10 communications on tlle sub
1cct) Of the crops from ali parts Of tho country
Ii to tho effect that c1ops Of al knda have stea1-
uy prospeted slnce tho farmers began work. OF
tho wheat orop tho Juns report Of the Cotton
Exchange also 8avs tho moat fattering account,
both "a 10 condition and increased acreage Gown,
And intelligence received Binoo continuea In tho
aa,no tono. except that In aomo faw localities 10
cont rain~Htorrns have prevailed, and caught
many hRrgesters In tho act OF harvesting their
wheat, which did considerable damage, but in
thu aggregate Of wheat raised in this depart
ment, CON pared with other aeAeons, thia viii not
he materially felt. other than above stated. The
yield Of wheat ip the Memphis department IL
moro abundant 'thau eyer before, and Ia all
now harvested and safe from any possibility oi
damage from any source
Tho corn crop, Of which there mas An In
creased acreage plantod. It IL claimed to be
equally pEcPitlous ~ that Of cotson, aud, under
tho influence Of Beasoaable weather, will mature
TO the most abundant yleld ever noted bofore il
the department.
Other smRll grains, ~ vol n grasaos Aso 70.
ported 10 tho aarne condition; also that farmers