Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20
CROPS IN THE STATE.

The following is condensation of the report
of the Commissioner of Agriculture, giving
the condition Of the crops in the State for the
month of June. The estimates given are based
upon 1872 replies, covering every county in the
State:
One hundred and sixty:three correspondents
report the weather favorable nineteen unfa-
yoral
CoTTON.-There has been decided i'm.
provement in the condition of cotton since the
1st of June, owing to the unfayorable seasons
| for the past month. The plant has not fully
| recovered from the effects of the cool Spring
and the stand is generally reported us below an
average. Some correspondents report that
cotton has improved Is per cent. since the
middle of June. In some counties it could
not he kept free of grass Oh account of the
labor necessary TO harvest the grain crop. In
| those sections it is needing work badly
Where labor is plentiful the crop is in fine con
| dition.
Some damage is reported in Aiken, Darling
| ton, Edgefield, KershaW, Sumter and Marion
counties, from cut worms.
| In Marlboro county the correspondents OF
the department say that the plant is growing
we'll but not fruiting proportionately
The correspondents throughout the State
are, with few exceptions, of the opinion that
Notwithstanding the injury the plant has sus'
tanned by the cool Spring and the defective
stands, that with favorable seasons the CROP
will be an average one.
The condition is reported in Northern Caro-
lima at S. middle Carolina, % lower Carroll
IA, 90. This is an average for the State of %,
against 81 on the first of June of this year and
81 for the 1st of July, 1881.
CoRN.-The corn crop, with scarcely al eX-
ception, is reported in fine condition. The
seasons have been remarkably favorable fo1
this crop and large yield is santicipated. The
condition for the State is reported at lO4
against IS for the corresponding period last
year.
PEAs.-The acreage in peas has been in
creased II per cent. over last year. The con.
lition is reported as 1O5, against 81 OH the lst
of July, 1881.
The report concludes:
The outlook is indeed encouraging. The
farmers are more hopeful than for several
years. The wheat and oat crops have been
safely harvested and housed and the yield OF
both has been bountiful. One correspondent
in Laurens county says: 1.-The yield of small
grain is the best ever known. We have oats
and wheat enough to feed all our stock and
people for twelve months, and if we do not
make bushe of corn we will not suffer for
the necessaries of life." Another correspon-
dent in Marlboro says: GA farmer in this
locality threshed 525 bushels of oats from four
acres of upland" Another in the same county
reports that 125 bushels of oats per acre were
threshed from a number of acres of common
pine land The cotton crop promises to be
an average one at least, the corn crop gives
promise of an abundant yield and the rice has
so far sustained no serious injury. The small
er crops, sorghum, sugar cane, peas, potatoes,
&c., are all promising. The farmers have
worked hard to overcome the failures of last
year. and from the present indications their
efforts will be crowned with success.