The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-16
DEPARTMENT OF AeErcuLrrRE.

DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE.
September Is. 1881.
Cotton Reports OF September l 10 tbis
Department show n very beayY decline in
The cOnaiiiOn % cotton since the last re-
port. owing 10 the prOtraeted drought
which has preysiled Ia All sections OF the
cotton beif. The condition as reported Is
y, n .deer6ase Of Is per cent. during the
month Of August, and as compared with
the returns at same date list year Is 10 per
cent. les. Reports are IN from $50 cOun-
ties a the cnti0n section, and are somewhat
less ia number than are usually received.
The number OF counties and State ave-
RACES are as follows: North CIrollna-42
counties reporting average y South Caro-
lina-22 counties average IS; Georgia So
counties average Il; Florida-l4 counties
average 81; Alsbsma-33 eonaties average
so; Mississippi-37 counties average "A;
LOuisiana-l6 counties averago 20; Texas
so counties %ayersge6j; Arkansas-3l
ties average So; Tenuesse-2l counties ave-
rage 81.
Corn.-Tbe general average condition o.
tbs corn crop on September lst was co,
being l. per cent. lower than The month
previous, and 81 per cent. lower than a year
ago az same date. The cause Of The low
NUNNNAltu NAA~tanA AM atA-N0l NNfAf fNfiN
Of the country is drought. New England
bss been less effected by II than any other
section east OF Mississippi, and reports an
average Of 90. 10 Wisconsin, Minnesota,
and most OF the Territories there has been
more seasonable weather, and the condition
Of the crop Is c0rrespoudiugly better. bat
IN an other sections reports slow the elects
ot an unusually dry season. From Illinois.
Missouri and Kansas come serious COM
plains OF rayages by chinch-Dugs. added 10
prevailing drought, aud tho injury TO cs0p
prospects j. SHOWN by state averages, which
are IS, A, and 65, reSpfctiyClv.
I0bQccO.-RcturNs from correspondents
show a very serious decline IN the pros
poets for q crop, being sIme 20 per cent.
less than the month previous, with The cx-
captions Of the states north Of the Della
ware river aud Wisconsin in the West. The
universal complaint Is drought. Kentucky
and Illinois report ! little over hall a crop,
while Tennessee and Missouri report less
than twO-thirds. The average for the
whole country is only 6j against = last
month. and 81 al this date last wear.
L. 4. CARMEN,
Acting Commissioned.
THE KENTUCKY CROPS.
LOUISVILLE. September Ij-The State
Commissioner Of Agriculture. IN bis report
for August, just issued, says The rains were
in time 20 greatly benefit the late corn.
Reports from all quarters bear a more
cheerful face, not only as regards late corn,
but the entire crop Of the Stale. In most
localities where an early stand was OBJ
tanned pretty fair crops nave been raised.
some counties have suffered much more
than Others indeed, IN many OF them the
crop appears a total failure, while in others
fair crops have been raised. The mountain
counties have ben exempted 10 a large
degree from the effects Of the drought.
There are fair crops also in GarTard, Msdi-
son, Mercer, and Boyle, and along the
waters Of Green river, and IN some other
localities.
The rains have worked 4 marvellous
change in tobacco. The crops however, 10
gny event can but be light and inferior.
So FAR the indications are not favorable for
a large fail crop Of gras.. Il is time enough
set, II blessed ~with.abuudant raiufalls. for
a fuIl crop 20 be grown. The complaint j.
general that clover sOwn Last spring sue
cumbed TO the drought. There was not d
much hemp sown this year as last. and Of
course. much Of it was 30 checked in It's
growth by The drought that il Is below The
average beigut.