The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-02-18
Results of Last Years Farming.

The price for wheat as returned De-
cember l by the producer is Sill,
making total value of S499, ,OOs, 1903 for
1879, against total value in 1878 Of
1926, ,346, 900 ut the same date. The last
report from the department at Wash
ington calls attention to the enlargement
of area devoted to this cereal in many
of the large winter wheat States-New
York, West Virginia, Ohio and Michi-
gan, each seven per cent; Texas and
Tennessee, each ten per cent; Kentucky
and Indiana, each fourteen per cent;
Missouri, sixteen per cent; Kansas and
Oregon, each twenty per cent g; Illinois,
twenty-five rer cent. There are quite
general complaints of the ravages of the
Hessian fly in early.sown crops, and of
drought retarding termination in the
later sown. Yet the crops start out on
the whole under prospects considerably
above the average.
| The area in winter rye has fallen off
about three per cent. from last year.
The New England States, the States
north of the Ohio river and the Pacific
States, equal or slightly enlarge their
last years acreage; Texas, the only one
of the gulf States in which this crop is
of, sufficient Importance to attract at
tention, reports an increase of nineteen
per cent. The other sections report a
diminished breadth; the falling off in
the Southern inland States is fully one
! fifth. The condition of the crop is
about on the average.
! A decline of twelve per cent. is noted
in the oat crop. The price as returned
in the December report averages 33.2
cents per busAel, against 24.6 last year
at the same time.
The average yield Of corn per acre of
the whole country, according to the last
returns, is 29.l bushels, against 26.9
bushels in 1878. This average was ex-
ceeded in only one previous year-l975
wien it was 1914 bushels. The average
price ofthe crop obtained by the farmers
up to the December return was 81 6 cents
per bushel, against 3l.6 in 1873. The
increase is general in all sections of the
country. The only States showing q
decline are: Mississippi, two cents;
Tennessee, three cents; Kentucky, three
cents; Nib nesota, two cents, and Mis-
souri,. one cent.
The total product of buckwheat for
the countryl is estimated at l3, l45,600
bushels, which, at the average price re-
turned by the producer. fifty-nine cents
per bushel, gives $7,s60,c0O in round
numbers as the value Of this crop,
against Sc, 454, 900 in 1878.
The hay crop is about ten per cent.
less than that or 1878. The average
price Of hay is about 1924 per ton,
against S72l in 1878.
The last estimate Of the cotton crop
gives 5,020,387 bales of $50 pounds each.
The price returned by the producer is
an average of 1919 cents per pound.
The total product of the country in
tobacco is within small per cent. of
that of 1878. AS whole the quality is
but slightly better than that of .ast
years crop, although an improvement
is quite marked in several States. The
price on the farm remains about the
same rs last year; it has not kept pace
with the improved prices in wheat and
cotton. More attention to the cultiva-
tion and after management of the crop
is suggested. The denartmcnt estimates
the total crop at 1884 ,059, ,659 pounds, val
ued at $2l, ,54 ,59l. against 392. 546. 700
pounds, valued at S22, l37, ,i28. in 1878.
The potato crop Of the country for
1879 is estimated at l6l. 1865, 900 bushels,
which at the price returned, 43.5 cents
us the average, makes in round numbers
| S79. .00O,0 900, against valuation in 1878
of S73, ,05O.O00.
1t must be remembered that the aver
age prices here given are as returned by
the farmers of the whole country, and
not the prices in the great markets.
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