Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-08-18

rain towards Cn0 CLOSE Ol GIl0 IllOllIU.
The crops along water courses and
in basins were materially injured.
OF the counties reporting, Y were
seasOnable and wet.
THE WHEAT CROP.
Considerable disappointment has
been expressed as to the previous
estimates, they having been reduced
froms10 to Is per cent. This falling
off is still greater in many of the
leading wheat growing counties,
notably so in Montgomery, Robert
sson, Rutherford, Bedford and
Maury. In many parts of West
Tennessee a similar disappointment
as to yield has been experienced.
The yield in East Tennessee has
gone beyond expectation. COmpar-
ing the June with the July reports
we have:
June. July.
Average for East Tennessee. "A s.
50 for Middle Tennessee 1875 -
% West Tennessee. ll9 lOl
:" for the eState............... IO213 Sy13
Reports from threshers show the
average yield per acre for
East Tennessee. 81 bushels.
Middle Tennessee. ...........-....... 10
West Tennessee LA
These results are likely to be mod
flied by future returns.
The largest yields have invaria-
bly, come from clover sod which has
been turned over in July, August or
September, and the wheat soWn
from the 1st to the 10Th of October.
The next best returns are from wheat
sown after tobacco. Much of the
grain is small and shriVelled, and
this is particularly the case with the
Fultz wheat, variety that has here
tofore done remarkably well, both
in the yield per acre and in the
quality of the berry. The shrink
age of the grain is due to the rust
that attacked the latter varieties a
week or two before ripening. Seed
wheat, it is thought, will be scarce
and dear.
TOBACCO.
This crop never had fairer pros
poets. 1t is clean and well cultivated
and recent rains have caused a
healthy growth. There was scarce
ly any topped on the 30th of July.
Tobacco worms have never known
to be so scarce and this has given
the farmers in the tobacco growing
regions abundant opportunities for
threshing their wheat. The report
shows 942, but this percentage is
owing to the lateneSs of the crop,
not to its bad condition or to re-
duced acreage. 1t is quite probable
that a large portion Of the crop will
be topped to seven and eight leaves.
Some of it is beginning to " french"
from excessive rains in some lGCali-
ties.
The acreage for the crop on the
30th of July was 873 as against 92I
in the June report. Considerable
injury was done to the crop by the
dry weather in the first part of the
growth. The stalk was hardened
and the blades parched up for sever
al feet from the ground. There can
not be, with the best seasons from
now onward, a good crop of corn.
The three divisions of the State
show about the same condition.
COTTON.
The condition of the cotton crop
is not as favorable as it was In June,
1t is now reported at 738 as cOmpar=
ed with 80 in the June report. The
excessive rains in West Tennessee
particularly have seriously damaged
the crop in all low, flat lands, Much
of it is grassy and badly cultivated.
A most favorable sign is the substi-
tuition of grain and grass in many
parts of the State for cotton, The
acreage is less by 20 per cent. than
it has been for years. A few open
ed bolls are reported from West
Tennessee.
The hay crop shows an increased
average, being 805 against rs in
June. The weather early in July
was most favorable for taking care
of the clover, herds grass and timO-
thy crops, while the rains in the lat
ter part of the month greatly in-
proved the German millet and
Hungarian grass soWn for hay.
OATS,
Oats rather surpassed eXpecta-
tiOns. They are reported at 81, The
winter oats continue to call forth
favorable expressions from CORES
pOndentS, 1t is claimed that those
oats soWn in September viii furnish
a large amount Of grazing during
the winter and spring months and
still make a larger yield than the
summer oats.
PEANUTS.
This crop has been much neglected
in the counties hitherto growing
it for market. 1t is now. doubted
whether a three-fOurths crop will be
raised. Last years crop was about
5000 bushels but 100000 bushels is
considered large estimate for this
wear. Stimulated by the high prices
then prevailing, the crop of 1879
reached 6SO,O00 bushels. This enor-
NOUS crop reduced the price to such
an extent that only 10000 bushels
were raised the following year.
Since that period the production has
varied from 10000 to 100000 BUSH
els per year.
FRUIT.
Apples are reported as about the
same as for June. The season for
making apple brandy has begun,
and in those counties where this ar
ticle forms an article of export,
millions of bushels are consumed in
this way, For a gallon af brandy
from three to four bushels Of sinf-
mer apples are required and from
II to : bushels of winter apples.
A large quantity of this fruit is dried
throughout East Tennessee and