The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-07-04
Monthly Report Of the Commits :
sionsr Of Agriculture, Eorti-
b culture, and Statistics.

iee culture, ana StatlstloS. T..
The questions Of paramount iwpoY-
aDce of the hour are, what will the
1852 wheat crop be, and what is like
ly to be the prices 1t will bear? They
are questions that equally affect both
continents. As affecting the price
favorable, whatever the present crop
may b., it will be thrown upon
comparatively bare market. A sin.
gle brief quotation from letter from
fhos, s. CLARK u Sons, Baltimore, OF
IJupe 18th, expresses the condition of
the foreign crops, viz: "rhc general
outlook of foreign crops is very fine"
Letters of recent date from Liver
pool and Glasgow make sirnilar state
nents. A Liverpool letter of the 7tll
inst states: Tho condition OF the
Egrowing crops here, as well as on the
continent ol Europe, continues prom
sing Indeed, tile latest intelligence
from all countries coming in compe.
iitiOn with our own in the markets is
to tho effect that the prospect is IN.
usually fair for full harvest.
Whether these promises viii fipen
into realities depends OF course OH
whether any other conditions. In
Great Britain particularly, where
the crops are so dependent On the
state of the weather for their proper
maturity. the weather conditions hayc
been unusually favorable. The
promise OF an extraordinary crop in
The United States may be said to be
universal, excepting. perhaps in States
east of the Aleghaney Mountains.
The prospects III these are hot quite
70 favorable
| Tho general crop will have been
somewhat damaged by storms aud
by the ARMY worm (as IL is calcd,)
from whose invasions 10 parts OF the
country have been exempt. IL mas
made lis appearance north, south,
east, and west, but the damage from
these causes will be but trific when
compared to the general crops aid
will in no pcrceptible sense affect
general results have before me
responses TO circulars from every part
OF tile State, and there 10 not single
exception TO note in which the out
look is not unusuilly htttering. II
may be remarked that the crop il 50
nearly maltred that correspondents
cannot be thistakrn as TO an estimate.
When harvested and secured, the
question recurs, what Is best TO do
with il? Nothing is moro clear than
that the general crop will be SO large
TINT it Will be beyond the power Of
rings aud combinations to fix "A ticti-
tIous value OH II, either depressing il
below or lifting il above its real
value, as may best suit their purposes.
The danger is that in the eagerness TO
sell, SO much of il will be thrown OIL
TO The market ut once that 1t will de-
press il below the price II ought to
bear. Whether to stack and hold, or
lhresh and sell il, is II question that
each one must settle Tor himself.
Eleyen million bushels Is the largest
estimated crop Kentucky has ever
raised, With certainly not less than
Ten per cent. more inacreage to wheat
than any previous year, and The as
surance OF an extra yietd in every
section of the State, it cannot be far
wrong TO place the present crop at
l21s to l3,000,009 bushels. 1t may
reach beyond this. Those who may
choose to hold will find itwise TO
stack until ready to sell. II is the
nature of wheat 10 undergo. u sweat,
aud II is safer TO have it do SO in the
stack, where thehry straw can alb.
soro the moisture, that would
spoil the wheat in bulk in bins.
Indeed In auch weather as we
haye had It would inevitably funk
and spoil ii put up in bulk.
Bartey-The barley crop has suf.
fcred from the depredations of the
worm much more than any other
small grain crop, both in this and
other States. In the barley counties
in Kentucky the losses from this pest
Cannot fail shortof twenty-five per
cent. One of my most intelligent
correspondents puts 1t at from twen-
Ity-five to seventy-five per cent, aud il
the character OF weather, we have had
continues, express tho opinion that
the whole crop may be lost. To save
II from the ravages ofthe worm much
OF II has been cut too green, and 1t "a
impossible for It TO cure III the shock
unless there should be settled weather
very soon. Of course the barley
crops north OF us are subject to like
conditions with our own.
The Wo,.m-In a statement made
from gthis office the other day, the
opinion was expressed that the worm
that has played such havoc with the
barley, meadows, and some corn
ilelds Is noswhat has hitherto been
Known as the army worm, and rea-
sons were assigned for tue opinion
expressed. When 1t makes It's ap-
pearance in wheat fields that Were
either Killed or badly damaged by
The out of time freeze in April, and
IN meadows they were Damaged
from the same cause land those tha,
werea not so damsged are. inAagreal
measure exempt from ~, 1t would
seem TO demonstrate that the worm
. somehow, has its origin in or iron
thpEa eOtlrcea. ~