The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-20
COTTON AND CORN.
NORTHWEST VERY DIsCOURAGING.
The following returns to October L,
have been ceived at the Department
of Agriculture at Washington

The following returns to October l
have been ceived at the Department
of Agriculture at Washington
COTTON.
The returns give the condition as
only 6S, decline of per cent. since
the returns of September 1. Compar.
ed with the returns of the same time
last year there is a decrease of Is pei
cent. The following is a summary
of the reports by States:
North CarOlina.-FOrty-five coun-
ties, average 90.
South Carohna.-Eighteen counties,
average 90.
Georgia.-SixtY-three countise, av-
erage 70.
Florida Fifteen counties, 50.
Alabama.-Thirty-o counties, 70.
Mississippi.-Thirty- eight counties,
LOuisiana.-Fourteen counties, 70.
TeXas.-Sixty-tw counties, go.
Observation-Disclosures counties, 80.
Tennessee.-Twenty-five counties,
Weather generally reported favora-
BILE, although in some sections drouth
Is still prevailing. In almost all sec
tons the failure of top crops, together
with much shedding of the bolls, is
reported.
CORN.
Complete telegraphic reports from
the great corn belt in the Northwest
show the crop TO be in very unsatis-
factory condition. With due allow
ance for exceptional localities, the
stock of old corn on hand, held by
farmers and local shippers in this
State, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska, is unusually light, being
in many places only One-haIf, and in
some but One-fifth. or less, of the
amount ordinarily held at this season.
Almost everywhere the corn crop
shows falling off as compared with
last year. A shortage, as compared
with last year, of 30 or 40 per cent. is
reported from a long list of repre-
sentative points, and while few re-
port corn a good average, or even
something more than an average,
other reports show reduction of two
thirds or three-quarters in the crop.
The result of this scarcity of the old
crop, and relatively poor prospect for
the new crop, is large failing of in the
number of hogs being fattened for
market. The official statistics of IL
| diana report ], l,7S0,2I2 hogs this year,
against 2,03,923 last year, a falling of
of IL per cent. ;<but reports received
from the pOrk-producing region gen.
| orally indicate a considerably larger
reduction. The number of hogs be-
| ing fattened is from % to 80 per cent.
less than last year in large portion
of the corn and hay-raising States.
/ In a few places recent rains benefited
the corn, but for the most part these
are localities where a few weeks ago
| the prospect was peculiarly bad
| Several dispatches say that the rain
/ has improved the corn, but they &c
on to show that in spite of the i'm
! provement the crop is short, as com.
| pared with that of lSS0,20 or 80 pei
cent. For the most part the rain ha:
done damage rather than good. Il
came too late to repair the harm
wrought by the dry weather, and
when it did come there was too much
of it. Corn is sprouting in many
| places as the result of it. In the cen,
tral part of this State rains have seri
Ously injured the corn crop. Reports
from Kansas and Nebraska are gener.
ally better than those from this State
and Iowa, though some of these re,
ports from Kansas are particularly
bad. In Missouri there is a reduction
in both corn and hogs, and report.
from Indiana differ widely, most oi
them indicating reduced yields of corr
and large reductions i'm the number Oi
hogs. Several localities where the
number of hogs is not materially
changed, report that the hogs arc
much lighter than last year, SO tha
there is a larger falling off in the
number of pounds of pork than il
the number of hogs.