The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-26
BY TELEGRAPH.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Aug. u.s. Condition of CROPS
on the 1st of August reported to the Depart
ment of Agriculture:
| During July there were no general condi-
tions of weather affecting crops unfavorabIv
in the Eastern and Middle States or MARYLAND,
Drouths prevailed generally in Michigan.
Wisconsin and Minnesota, also in the South
Atlantic and Gulf States.
In Texas, Alabama, Florida and GEORGIA thew
extended through almost every county. and
were attended with intense heat. Louisiana.
| Mississippi and South Carolina report consid-
cradle drouth in some sections, with more
favorable weather and excessive rains in other
localities In North Carolina, Virginia,
Arkansas and Nebraska an area of excessive
rains prevailed, with alterations of favor
able weather and dronth. In the remaining
States east of the Pacific slope rains were
almost incessant and very disastrous to cereals
and hay.
They also occasioned extensive rotting of
potatoes in the grouud. Along many of the
tributaries of the Mississippi and Ohio, the
bottom lands, have been overfowed for weeks.
In not a few localities devastating floods are
reported, which have swept awAy vast quanti-
ties of small grain in the shock The injury
done by the moulding, rotting, sprouting
and growing of grain in the shock or stack is
very great, but to what extent it is impossi-
BILE to estimate before the return of dry
weather.
Whea-The average condition of spring
wheat in the States producing it to any ex-
tent, not including California is 81. The ex-
tremes of range are SO in Wisconsin and Min
nesota and &C IN Nebraska. The condition of
winter wheat is not reported after the first of
July, but in all the States in which excessive
rains prevailed in July, our correspondents
in their foot notes have very generally volun-
teered statements that vast quantities before
threshed or housed we're overtaken by the
rains and swept away by the floods, or dam
aged in degrees ranging from serious injury to
utter ruin.
Corn-The average condition for all the
States is ABOUT 96. It would be over 100 were
it not for the damage on the low lands by the
excessive rains. The injury from that cause
Is quite liable to be overestimated The
highest averages reported are in Kansas 1l9,
Tennessee ia. Missouri 112 Mississippi III,
New Jersey and Arkansas 100, Virginia 108,
West Virginia 106, Connecticut, Maryland
and Nebraska 1O5, Pennsylvania and North
Carolina l03, Kentucky l02, Oregon 1Ol,
Delaware aud Alabama 100, Illinois 80, New
York IS, Onio 81, Iowa 81, Wisconsin 80,
Indiana and Minnesota SO, Georgia So.
Owing to the droush Texas is reduced to So;
by the same cause other States range between
SO in South Carolina and 90 in New Hamp-
shire and Michigan.
Odts.-The average condition for the coun-
try is 81. The reduction by rains and floods
in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio was
very great The States above average in
conditlon are: Mississippi, 1l9; Texas, Ar
kansas and Wisconsin, Ill; Vermont, 1906;
Connecticut, New York and California, lO4
Oregon, 1903; Michigan, 10l; New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Iowa are at the
average; Kentucky, Indiana and Nebraska are
down to 60; Kansas is 66; South Carolina and
Delaware, 70; Tennessee, II; Virginia. rs;
Illinois, 70. The other States range between
80 in Maryland and SO in West Virginia, Ohio
being 81.
Potatoes promise an extraordinary crop,
the average condition for all the States ex-
elusive of Nevada beirg about 104. In the
States visited by the unprecedented rains, in
dications of rotting in the ground are ex-
tensively reported, which may yet seriously
affect the promised result. The States re-
porting the highest average condition are: IL
linois 13l, Ohio III. Iowa lis, Kentucky 112,
Tennessee ITO, West Virginia, Missouri and
Kansas 1O7, Connecticut, Texas and Arkansas
LOG, New Jersey 1O4 Maine and Pennsyl-
vania l03, Vermont, New York and Missis-
sippi 102, Rhode Island and Michigan 10l;
Mary land is down to rs. The remaining
States range between 81 and 100.
Iobacco-The incessant rains have oc-
casioned extensive frenching, and injured the
crop otherwise, to some extent, on the low
land, particularly in Kentucky and Tennessee.
but reports indicate that the injury has been
less than was feared. Mary land, Virginia,
North Carolina, Florida and Mississippi re-
port condition considerably above the aver
age; West Virginia shows about an average,
Tennessee per cent, and Kentucky below.
WASHINGTON, Aug 25.-The payment Of
September interest commences tomorrow
without rebate.
Prof. J. E. Nourse, of the Naval OBSERVE
tory, delegate to the Paris Geographical Soci-
ETY., who was instructed by the Navy Depart
ment to make a special investigation regard
ing the Suez Canal, and inform the Society
concerning the surveys for the D ,r;en Canal,
reports that he had every facility for obtain
ing information and was a.tentively heard by
eight hundred geographers from all parts of
the world. Prot. Nourse hopes he made .
favorable impression. He excited great in
terest in the canal.
The President has accepted the sixth Sec
ton comprising twenty miles of the Southern
Pacific Railroad of California.