The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-04
GEORGIA CROPS.

From the November report OF the Otate
Commissioner of Agriculture:
The yield of sugar com pared to that OF last
year is reported at 81. This very small aver
age is due to two cause.-the loss of seed
cane by an early frost last fall and the drouth
in the cane growing portions of the Safe last
summer The yield of cane syrup compared
to that of last year is 81. The average yield
of syrup per acre is 1872 gallons, which sells at
the average price OF &c. per gallon, giving a
gross income per acre of S13O Sc. The aver
age cost of production of gallon of this syrup
is 2Sc, or $50 rs per acre, which, deducted
from the gross income, $50 56, gives net
profit of $76 80 per acre. Twelve gallons OF
syrup are made from 100 gallons OF cane
Juice. The sugar made in Georgia sells at
the average price of sc. per pound, and the
molassee at 47c per gallon.
The Weld of sorghum compared to that of
last veal is 1923. This is a very large in
crease, due to an increased acreage planted
last spring, and to the unusually favorable
seasons in upper Georgia, where this is be-
coming an important crop. The average
yield of syrup per acre is 70 gallons, which
sells at an average of &C cents per gallon.
This gives gross income of S4S Is per acre,
or assuming the cost of production to be the
same as that of cane syrup, 2o cents-a net
profit of 80 cents per gallon, or SGT "a profit
per acre. Fifteen gallons of sorghum syrup
are obtained from 100 gallons OF juice. This
is three gallons more than the average yield
from cane juice, and probably due to the diff
ference in the thoroughness of boiling, as
shown by the fact that the cane syrup is less
liable to ferment in warm weather than the
sorghum.
Lightweight per cent of the cotton was
gathered on the 18th of November. Some re-
port all gathered. The frost, succeeded by
wet weather, has rendered the pickings from
late cotton of unusually inferior quality. The
| Weld compared to that OF last year, Is report
ed at 734-a slight change from the October
report If this estimate is correct the crop
| of the present year will be little more than
400, 600 bales, which, at II cents pound, the
average cost of production, will cost the pro-
ducers $40, 000, 900 more than it will bring on
the home market. In consequence OF the
unfavorable seasons, the yield of lint from
seed cotton is seven per cent less than that
of last year. The average yield per acre in
seed cotton is 412 pounds the cost, SIG per
| acre.
From the October report we learn that the
average cost OF production of pound OF lint
cotton is IL cents; the cost, therefore, OF a
pound of seed cotton will be 81 cents. The
average product per acre-412 pounds-will
therefore cost SIS As.
| Inc average ylelo VI GULL PEI aoio 40 10
ported at bushels, some of the Northern
counties reporting as high as 3d. while some
in those sections which suffered from drouth
report as low as S bushels per acre. The
average cash price of corn throughout the
State is 81 OS, of peas ST. 10, of fodder, per
100 pounds, 81 10. The average cost OF an
acre in corn and peas is reported at So.
| According to the United States census OF
1870, the average cash value per acre OF Geor-
gia farms is 81 81. Interest on this at per
cent increases the cost to IS 80, leaving a
balance of So profit per acre, or just 100 per
cent on the cost a very different result from
that shown in the production of cotton.
The yield of sweet potatoes as compared to
that of last year is only 67, and the average
yield this year Is only 6o bushels per acre. the
drouths in the spring and summer having in
terferred with securing stand, and that in
September, which was general, seriously cur
failing tho production.