Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-05-11
Promises Of the Crops.
PROSPECT FOR AN ABUNDANT YIELD ALL OVER
TIE LAND


The Now York Times publishes detailed
crop rerorts from thirty,scvon States and
four Tcrritorioe. which it AYERS have boon
collected with the most pains-tahing care,
and which represent the results of recently
collated Information from over fifteen hun,
dred centres Of agricultural activity. The
showing on tho whole is encouraging The
present prospect is that tho crop Of staples
will be something above tho average, with n
reasonable hope of decline at an onrly day
in tho cost Of nccossaries Of life, which is
just now excessively high. partly from natural
and partly from artificial causes.
Tho small grains despite bnd spring
weather. promise well. Winter wheat will
give on increased yiold in nearly oyery State
except Indiana, Ohio and Now York. The
last named only will produce much less than
tho average. Spring wheat is much more
6at,cring in its promise. In the groat grain
States West Of tho Mississippi the increase is
| especially marked, in some caaos as much as
| fifty per cent In somo of the old grain
States other grains are replacing wheat
barley. oats and rye especially In MI these
large increase in acreage is reported and
| promise large crop. Insects and rust are
| reported in some places, but only in Tennes-
| see is much alarm felt. Corn shows q very
lnrge increase in nearly every State wherc it
! is cultivated at all. In the North it shares
to some extent in the displacement of winter
| wheat and in the South it is replacing cot.
ton to scmc extent. Emigration and tho
pushing of railroad construction are promi-
ncnt factors in the increase of the grain
fields.
Cotton is expected to give Mt least an
average crop. Tho area dcsoted TO it is much
smaller; floods. q partial abandonment Of
the call cotton" system and tho inability Of
planters to obtain sufficient supplies work
together to this result. Tho free use Of
| fertilizers, however, is expected to keep the
yield up to the average. Tho planters
throughout the South have been much ham
pcrcd, also, by the difficulty in obtaining
laborcrs. The sugar-cano crop is looking
splendidly, except in few cases. in some of
tho flooded districts where it has been killed.
The cultivation Of rice is receiving more at~
tcntion and probably tho average crop will
be secured. Tobacco does not show much
change; an increased acreage will be planted
in some Of the middle and Northern States.
Hay aud grass crops have been much injured
throughout tho country, and generally q
light yield is expected. The high prico Of
potatoes has led farmers to dcvoto an in.
crcnsodacrcagc 10 that vegetable this year.
The fruit crops have been the chief sufferers.
Fross hnvo about destroyed peaches and
small fruit in Virginia. Maryland md Della
ware ard tho Hudson Valley. Other fruits
will girc an average yield, except perhaps
cherries. The dairy in the North and East
nre receiving more attention, and, with
fruit-raisng, replacing tho cultivation Of
grain. The great cattle growing interests
OF the West are most flourishing, the mild
winter on the plains having been favorable.
The substance Of the Times report from
South Carolina is as follows: "Cutton looks
vol with q slightly diminished acreage
Winter wheat and Data show very large
increase. Rice promises not moro than half
the usual crop"